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mercy_n	lord_n	soul_n	wait_v	5,279	5	9.2073	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85371	Jacob raised: or, The means of making a nation happy both in spiritual and temporal priviledges. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Peeres in the Abby Church at Westminster, at the late solemne monthly fast, Decemb. 30. 1646. / By Willam [sic] Goode, B.D. and Pastor of Denton in Norfolk. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Goode, William, b. 1599 or 1600.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1094; Thomason E369_3; ESTC R201278	27,277	38

a yet greater judgement arise upon us Though our dangers yet be great because of our intestine divisions and the unwearied plots of our enemies and which is worst of all Reformation of Religion with a hedge about it is not yet perfected but Prophanesse Heresies and Blasphemies in many places abound more then ever Yet let us not murmure To be kept long in the wildernesse hath been the condition of Gods people before us Let us wait upon God with patience and thankfulnesse improving studiously those means for recovery He hath blest us with untill the Lord be pleased to raise us out of these present troubles and dangers and accomplish for us those rich mercies which we desire and hope for Patience is a quiet silent frame of soule under troubles submiting to God without murmuring or declining any work God sets us about And to encourage and perswade us to this Patience take these brief Considerations First They that wait for Gods salvation with a free and full submission to his will and bearing of his indignation manifested in those crosses and afflictions which he brings upon them for their sins or tryall shall never fail of such an issue as shall conduce most to their true and eternal happinesse Jer. 30. 18. Secondly The more patient we are under cure the sooner we shall be healed nothing more hinders the cure of wounds then the distempered strugling and unquietnesse of the Patient When David in his flight from Absolon came to this degree of submission unto God 2 Sam. 15. 26. Here I am let him do unto me what seemeth good in his eyes David quickly got the victory over Absolon and all that rose up in that rebellion with him When Hezekiah came to this after God had threatned that all his treasures and jewels should be taken away and his sons become Eunuches to the King of Babylon as to say Isaiah 39. 8. Good is the word of the Lord God presently respited the judgement and let Peace and Truth be in his dayes We could not but expect to meet with great and long troubles by the strongest oppositions that men or devils can stir up against us because we endeavour to carry Reformation to the highest pitch Psal. 2. 1 2. When Christ sets up his kingdome the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing The Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsell against the Lord and against his Anointed When the Jewes began to build the Wall of Jerusalem Sanballet and Tobias and the Arabians c. they all conspired together to go and fight against Jerusalem Nehem. 4. 8. When they began to build the Temple their enemies hired Counsellors and wrote Letters against them unto Cyrus King of Persia Ezra 4. 5. and designed their ruine Evill men will strive for their lusts as for their lives and therefore will struggle much against that Reformation that will either curb their extravagancies or expose them to much disgrace and scorn even amongst their inferiours And not only evill men but Satan will muster up all his forces for opposition when he sees his kingdom going down As Jaylers when they see their prisoners ready to break out they will then thrust them into the Dungeon and double their irons So Satan when he discernes the Liberty and Purity of the Gospel is like to take his prisoners from him he will shakle them with all troubles and miseries he can get commission to bring upon them Fourthly All our troubles are much lesse then our deservings God might have stub'd us up when he went about to prune us God might have turned us into dust as he did Sodome and Gomorrah seeing our sins are greater then theirs could be that never abused Gospel-mercy as we have done and surely it is only the Lords mercy we are not consumed In the midst of our judgements God hath remembred mercy and by many miraculous deliverances in our greatest streits hath let us see that he would not give us up to be a prey to the teeth of our enemies and still we we have balm in Gilead and physitians there though our sins exceedingly obstruct our perfect healing Fifthly God useth by long afflictions many times to prepare us for great mercies Joseph was a great while in the hands of strangers and afterward in prison before he became ruler of Aegypt Israel were instructed with the Rod forty yeares in the wildernesse before they were made possessors of the land that flowed with milk and hony and afterward were humbled with seventy yeares Captivity before they enjoyed the glory of the second Temple And Antichrist must reign and afflict the Saints a thousand years before the glorious times of the Church A field that is to be sowen with curious seed that is all over-grown with briars and thorns will take a long time in stulbing and preparing And stones that are to be placed in a curious building will take a long time in hewing and squaring Sixthly We still go on to continue and multiply our sins now to have gods judgements removed before we be amended were the greatest judgement of all For God thus not to be angry were the greatest anger of all For the Chyrurgion to pull off his salves and to leave dressing the wounds of his Patient before he were healed were to leave him desperate of any cure at all God doth not afflict willingly neither doth he take any delight in the troubles of his own people and therefore sure we are not yet fit for those mercies we desire or else God would not continue to multiply his judgements upon us Now better had we be content with any cure then to be suffered to go on still in our sins There is nothing so much bitternesse in those rods that drive us unto God as in those sins by which we are separated from God Kingdoms are well bought whatever price we give for them saith a Heathen Whatever pressures we undergo the purchase will be happy if the Kingdom of Jesus Christ for the comfort of us and our posterity may be at length advanced among us Seventhly We may be patient because our troubles shall neither be greater nor longer then makes for Gods glory and our good One of the sharpest and longest miseries that befell Israel was the Babylonish captivity and yet God saith of that I have sent them into Chaldea for their good Jer. 24. 5. Affliction is measured out only by God himself neither men nor devils can touch one hair of our heads without licence first sued out from God Affliction springs not out of the dust Job 5. 6. Is there any evil in the city that I have not done saith God Now God knowes our strength is not the strength of stones nor our flesh the flesh of brasse Job 6. 12. And therefore God doth afflict his people in measure Isa. 27. 7. God that is our Physitian to mixe the potion of our adversity