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saint_n	blood_n	drink_v	shed_v	1,634	5	9.9643	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87808	The life-guard of a loyall Christian, described in a sermon, preached at St Peters Corn-hill, upon Sunday in the afternoone, May 7. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts of Clare-Hall in Cambridge: sometimes chaplaine to a regiment of curiasiers in his Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K682; Thomason E444_10; ESTC R204196	15,800	23

suggestions and publick persecutions the Devill will strive to split thee against the rock of desperation But take this for thy comfort that although thou art dangerously tossed yet thou shalt not be cast away for even he that upholdeth the heaven is thine upholder Which leadeth me from the second part of the Text the Churches passage thorow fire and water to the third which is the concomitant or the convoy Almighty God Tibi adsum I am or I will be with thee I that am the great Creator of Heaven and Earth I that fill all places and am contained in none I that am about thy path and about thy bed and spie out all thy wayes tibi adsum I am I will be with thee But what need then is there of this promise For we may say it without blasphemy that God must still be with us it being as impossible for him to deny his omnipresence as to deny himself he can sooner separate heat from fire he did that in Nebuchadnezzars Furnace he can sooner separate light from the Sun he did this at our Saviours expiration the Creator can better doe any thing then divorce or divide his presence from his Creatures for herein not only our bene esse but our very esse doth consist should he subtract his presence from us we must return into our first nothing He is not far therefore from every one of us as St. Paul told the Athenians nay he is nearer to us then we are unto our selves tibi adsum I am I will be with thee But ye know there is a two-fold presence of Almighty God First his generall presence which is his universall power and providence whereby he governeth and disposeth all things both in heaven and earth and under the earth according to that of the Psalmist Psal 139. If I climb up into heaven thou art there if I goe down to hell thou art there also If I take the wings of the morning and remaine in the uttermost parts of the sea even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me Secondly there is Gods speciall presence whereby he is present with his elect only either to prevent their troubles or else to comfort and support them and chiefly is he with his servants in his Temple at his publick worship which may easily be explained by an example The King is or ought to be and I trust shortly will be by his power in all parts of his Dominion yet he is said to be there especially where his Courtiers where his retinue is In like manner is the King of Kings by his unbounded power and providence at all times in all places yet we may know him to be with us after an especiall manner in the Temple from his retinue of heavenly Courtiers that are there attending on him For it was not for ornament only that the walls of Solomons Temple were carved round about with Cherubims but also to signifie that the holy Angels are ever about us at our publick services And if Angels be there much more is the King of Saints tibi adsum I am I will be with thee There are three things especially that will continually be with us the Aire our Conscience and Almighty God We may as well be without our being as without our breath take but away this from us and take away us too The Aire leaveth us not till death our Conscience this goeth further with us it remaineth with us after death to all eternity Doe not therefore the least sin though none be with thee but thine owne Conscience for this will accompany thee to thy death-bed nay this worme will live to eternity And thy conscience is not more inseparable from thee then Creator whisper never so softly he will heare thee hide thy selfe never so closely he will see thee runne away never so swiftly he will still be at thine elbow tibi adsum I am I will be with thee But I should not speak so much of Gods general presence his speciall presence is that which I must here insist upon that presence which he promised the Patriarchs and Prophets that presence which our Saviour promised his Apostles Loe I am with you alway even unto the end of the world Mat. 28. ult Alway there is no intermission To the end of the world that is world without end here is no termination We may have men for our companions that will forsake us in distresse or if they stick to us all our life they must leave us at our death But if God be our companion if God be present with us it is not distresse it is not death shall ever part us nay death shall unite us more neerly then ever we were before we shall alway be with God he will alway be with us tibi adsum I am I will be with thee But if God be alway thus present with his Church we may then expostulate here as Gideon once did with the Angel Judg. 6.13 Oh my Lord if the Lord be with us why then is all this befallen us Why is the blood of his deare servants shed like water on every side Why suffereth he the Turk and Pope to drinke themselves drunk with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus I Answer though seemingly God absent himself from his Church for a season yet never will he finally forsake her seemingly I say for indeed he absenteth not himself at all it is but in our apprehension that he is ever from us if we can but beleeve it he is present with us alway tibi adsum I am I will be with thee And the application of this now may be two-fold First here is comfort for all that mourn in Sion and with good Hezekiah turne their face to the wall Let them be cast into prison with Joseph and my Soveraign Lord the King let them be cast into a dungeon as Jeremy was let them be cast into a den as Daniel was let them be cast into the water as Moses was let them be cast into the fire as the three Children were let them goe thorow fire and water famine and sword never so many dangers never so great disasters yet so long as they have God with them this will sweeten all their pills in the multitude of the sorrowes which they have in their hearts his comfortable presence will refresh their soules Secondly seeing God is still with us this should teach us likewise to be still with him seeing he vouchsafeth to keep company with us on earth therefore our conversation should be with him in Heaven When we are lying down to sleep to him we should commit our Spirits when we wake up like David we should be present with him It was Jacobs vow Gen. 28 that if God would be with him then the Lord should be his God We need not speak so doubtfully for God is certainly with those that fear him not only by his generall but also