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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29529	Stand still: Or, A bridle for the times A discourse tending to still the murmuring, to settle the wavering, to stay the wandring, to strengthen the fainting. As it was delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, Anno 1643. By John Brinsley, Minister of the Word there, and now published as a proper antidote against the present epidemicall distempers of the times.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4729; ESTC R217245	80,497	119

instruments that shall hinder the worke It is that which Moses here telleth the Israelites that God having a purpose to get himselfe honour in their deliverance and his Enemies destruction this he would doe though none of them should lift up a hand to the worke Let them stand still yet shall not that hinder Gods designe Quamtumvis torpeant velut examines it is Calvins expression upon the Text Though they should be so st●pified and benummed with their faithlesse feare as that they should not be able to move a hand to stir a foot yet In uno Deo satis praesidii God alone was able to doe the worke for them and he would doe it without them Apply it to our owne present condition Suppose it those instruments which hitherto have shewne themselves most active for the good of the Church and State amongst us that some of them nay all of them should fall off as some of them have done or be taken off as others of them have beene yet shall not this hinder Gods designe Mans designe it may but Gods it shall not Whatever mercy God hath intended towards his people in this Nation he will effect it though there should be never so great a deficiency in meanes and instruments Though both we and they should stand still yet God will carry on and carry through his owne worke A truth an undoubted one but let it not be misconstrued as if my aime in delivering it were to make any of us secure either carelesse or fearelesse or to take off the edge of whatever warrantable indeavours for the furthering of what we desire and hope God is about to doe for us No I have received no such promise from God as Moses here had to warrant me in giving this advice to you that he doth here to them to bid you stand still This direction of his as I told you it was in this particular an extraordinary not to be drawne into President by others in a like condition In an ordinary way that of the Father holds true He that made us without us will not save us without us He spake it I know of Eternall but it is no lesse true of Temporall salvation Ordinarily God maketh use of our indeavours in the obtaining of those mercies which himselfe intendeth to bestow upon us And therefore farre bee it from me to perswade much more to command any in this sense in these busie and active times to stand still Some directions I acknowledge as occasion hath beene offered I have tendred unto you for the regulating and ordering of ●our motions that they might be with safetie and beautie as the motions of a well-ordered Army are But never did this word of Command yet fall from my mouth in this sense to bid you stand still neither was it ever my purpose to take you off from whatever warrantable indeavours that might be subservient to the Providence of God in obtaining what we desire and hope for Herein I shall rather lift up my voice like a Trumpet incouraging you to the worke Calling you first to your Prayers These are the most proper and most tryed weapons of the Church Preces lachrymae Prayers and Teares You that have done any thing this way stand not you still Goe on and advance making your approaches neerer to the Throne of Grace which is at this day strongly besieged by an Army of Suppliants You that are the Lords Remembrancers give him no rest You that make mention of the Lord keep not silence doe not you stand still do not you hold your peace For Zions sake I will not hold my peace and for Ierusalems sake I will not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof goe forth as brightnesse and the salvation thereof as a burning Lampe In this way I shall exhort and stirre up all the Lords people my selfe amongst the rest not onely to continue but to double their indeavours Neither shall I confine you to your Prayers onely I remember what the Lord said to Ioshuah when hee and the Elders of Israel were fallen upon their faces to the earth before the Arke bewailing that unexpected Repulse which some of their forces had received at Aye where their men were beaten off with the losse of some of them to the discouragement of the whole Army The Lord finding Ioshuah in this posture he saith unto him vers. 10. Get thee up wherefore lyest thou here upon thy face What might not Ioshuah doe what he did Might he not pray and humble himselfe before God in such a case as that Yes he might doe it he ought to doe it there being no readier way to stay or prevent judgment then this But this was not enough there was something else to be done Alio remedio opus erat saith Calvin upon it there was another Salve to be applyed to that Soare And what was that Why there was an Achan in the Campe who by his medling with that execrable thing contrary to the expresse command of God had made the people execrable laying the whole Congregation under a Curse And this it was that must be taken away otherwise Ioshuahs prayers though able to arrest and stay the Sunne in the Firmament of Heaven yet could they not be able to stay the course of Gods judgements Beloved thus standeth the case with us at this day The judgements of God being gone out and having broken forth upon us in a most terrible manner Prayers and Humiliations are requisite and necessary never more but not sufficient Alio remedio opus est There is something else to be done viz. the taking away of the Execrable thing from amongst us that accursed thing which hath provoked the eyes of our God against us Unlesse this be taken away all our Prayers and Humiliations though never so frequent never so earnest yet will they not be available to the stopping of the course of judgement And therefore let me speake unto all the Lords people as the Lord there to Ioshuah Get you up wherefore lye you upon your faces Not but that you may doe this and ought to doe it but this is not enough there is more to be done then this There is an Achan many Achans amongst us Execrable Persons say some I excuse not them Execrable things say I Accursed Sinnes Accursed Abominations which whatever in the Toleration or Connivance sure I am in the practice they are no lesse then Nationall having over-spread all places and all sorts of persons Surely these are the Achans the chiefest Troublers of this our Israel Now untill these be taken away taken off from the head of the Nation by a Generall a Nationall Reformation wee cannot expect that the course of judgement should be stayed In the feare of God then let all of us up and be doing doing what we may for the furtherance of this great worke Every one beginning at home reforming our owne Hearts Lives Families Then doe