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AnthrĊpasthenez, a good ground to cease from confidence in man discovered in a sermon upon Isaiah 2, verse 22 / preached at Clement Danes, the last day of the sixth moneth, 1651, by George Masterson.
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Masterson, Geo. (George)
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Menoch established in the top of the mountains 3. By the Confluence to it and d Omnes scil exomni natione aliqui Eman Sa all Nations shall flow unto it In the second we have her Peace as a River and her Prosperity as a mighty Stream illustrated by the wonderful effects of it at the fourth verse They shall beat their swords into plow-shares and their spears into pruning-hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn War any more and more fully where this Prophecy is again repeated Micah cap. 4. ver 4. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree and none shall make them afraid A man would expect now that this halcion Prophecy should be brought forth in a sweet calm that there should not be a frown upon the face of that great Ocean the world when it is brooded and hatch'd by the Spirit of God But behold the shaking of the Earth terribly the removing of Mountains levelling them with the dust ushers in the establishment of the Lords Mountain sharp pangs and bitter throes precede this Birth desolation and destruction the alarm of War the voyce of the Trumpet neighings of Horses clashings of Armor rollings of Garments in blood go before this blessed Peace ver 11 and 12. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of man shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day for the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up and he shall be brought low and again ver 19. They shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth Isaiah 55.9 and in the end of the 21 verse Thus Gods ways are higher then our ways he brings light out of the womb of darkness establishment out of confusion the desire of all Nations by the shaking of all Nations Hag. 2.7 Now the Lord walking in such an insolent way the Prophet bespeaks the Church ver 5. to have her eyes upon God O house of Jacob come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord they that walk not in this light grope after God in many of his dispensations as a blinde man they that walk not in this light stumble and fall under every cloud which God in the wisdom of his providence brings upon the house of Jacob their soul is cast down and their spirit disquieted in them whenever the Enemy is exalted though he be lifted up but to be thrown down with the greater violence On the other hand they that walk in this light know that when the wicked spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever Psal 92.7 They that walk in this light know that when the day of the Lord is upon the proud and lofty upon the Cedars of Lebanon and upon the Oaks of Bashan upon the Ships of Tarshish and upon the high Towers it is that the Lord alone should be exalted in that day Now when the Lord ariseth to do this he will do it by his own arm his arm shall rule for him therefore he bespeaks the Church Cease from man he will do it against all opposition whatsoever therefore he adviseth Enemies Cease from man The Romish expositors do generally interpret it of Christ the man Christ Jesus is the man say they here spoken of and to cease from him is in their sense e Serio vos moneo ut quiescatis a vexando atque occidendo Christo qui homo quidem est sed etiam Deus scelerum vindex Menoc in loc Significatur magnanima ira indignatio vindicta quam in suos hostes Christus exercet Idem To take heed and beware of offending or killing Christ who although he be man yet he is God also and by the breath of his nostrils the fierceness of his anger will avenge himself upon his enemies But the Prophets scope in the whole Chapter stands in opposition to such an Interpretation the meaning therefore is f Nolite Fiduciam in ullo homine ponere Grot. Annotat. Place not your confidence in any of the sons of men as Grot. or as the learned Divines in their Annotations Seeing all humane helps and external stays will fail and no might or height will be able to secure any when God comes to execute judgement be admonished and advised to cast off your vain Confidence in frail and mortal man The words then are a Dehortation answering ex adverso that Exhortation vers 5. and they hold forth g Deo adhaerescite ab ipso toti pendete non ab hominibus Jun in loc Dependence upon God in ceasing from man We may observe in them First A Tacit Supposition viz. Man is exceeding prone to place his Confidence in man Secondly An express Dehortation Cease from man Thirdly The Enforcement of this upon a double accompt or two Arguments to strengthen the Dehortation The first general in the end of the verse There is nothing in man to be accounted of therefore cease from him The second more particular His breath is in his nostrils therefore cease from him One word of the Supposiiton Man is prone to confide in man By Man in the Text we understand any thing that is not God the opposition is very frequent in the scripture and the Dehortation here answers the Exhortation in the fifth verse To walk in the light of the Lord. All means instruments second causes are Man Strength is man and Policy is man Riches are man c. and upon these the sons of men are prone to lean prone to cleave to them exceeding forward to sit down under them to confide in them The eyes of carnal men are set fully in a direct line upon man Godly men have too frequently a cast with their eyes they look obliquely too much upon means Rabshakeh coming up against Jerusalem with a great host makes flesh his arm placeth his Confidence in man 2 Kings cap. 18. from the 19th to the end of the 35th Goliah had his eye fixed upon man when he disdained David because a youth and ruddy and of a fair countenance 1 Sam. 17.42 and forward Babylon also leaned upon man when she said I shall be a Lady for ever when she said in her heart I am and none else besides me I shall not sit as a widow neither shall I know the loss of children Isaiah 47.7 8. And as wicked men look wholly upon man so the Saints on earth have not their eyes wholly taken off from man David looked sinfully upon man when he commanded Joab to go through all the Tribes of Israel from Dan even to Beersheba and to number the people 2 Sam. 24.2