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saint_n	intercession_n	mediator_n	redemption_n	1,722	5	9.9845	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91943	The fast friend: or A friend at mid-night. Set forth in an exposition on that parable Luke 11. 5.-11. Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at mid-night, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, minister of the Gospel.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1822; Thomason E953_1; ESTC R203374	432,120	516

sight of the keeper of the prison as we read Prov. 16.7 Gen. 39.21 Exod. 3.21 Psal 106.46 Psal 88.18 Gen. 39.21 And the Children of Israel favour in the sight of the Aegyptians Exod. 3.21 And the Jewes that were in Babel and other places he gave them favour in the sight of all that led them away Captives Psal 106.46 And it is he that taketh away Friends and removes them far from us Psal 88.18 so that in them out of him there is no safe repose for help Secondly Earthly Friends can but befriend us in some particular troubles and wants some in one kinde some in another none in all which is the Reason that we stand in need of a multitude of Friends nor can all our Earthly Friends afford sufficient help in all our necessities There is some choise mercy that God reserveth for himself immediately as peace of conscience joy in the holy Ghost and the graces of his spirit which however they are bestowed on us in the means yet without the concurrence of divine grace Gen. 30.1 2. they can do nothing Give me Children saith Rachel to Iacob or I dye Am I in God's stead saith Iacob that I should give thee Children So shouldst thou come to thy best Friend on Earth and say Give me Faith Give me Repentance Give Peace of Conscience must not he answer thee as Iacob did his beloved Rachel 2 King 6.26 27. or as the King did to the woman in the siege of Samaria If God do not help how can I Were it in our power to help you to grace there is not one of you that should this day return home without it It is God only that is able to do all for you Ephes 3.20 Thirdly Earthly Friends cannot befriend us in all Places should they be both able and willing to help us yet they cannot be in all places at once here and there too I may be shut up in close prison banished out of the kingdome cast into a Den of Lyons or be where I cannot send unto my Friend But God is such a Friend as is every where where we are on this side the sea 's or beyond them Jer. 23.32 24. Am I a God at hand and not a far off saith the Lord do not I fill heaven and earth Jer. 23.23 24. When Abraham was called out of his own Country Psal 139.7 8. God went with him when Ioseph was in prion God was with him c. He is a Friend in Court City Country David found him in all places in his meditations Psal 139.7.8 And in all places he is ready to supply our wants No Friend like him Fourthly the friendship of our earthly Friends proves many times vain for every man at his best estate is altogether vanity Psal 39.5 Psal 39.5 And their purposes and promises prove no better they fail us in undertaking for us sometimes above abilities or else through heedlesnesse and forgetfulnesse or other weaknesses frustrating their good intentions If not so yet their breath goeth forth they return to the earth and in that very day their thoughts Psal 146.3 4. which they had of helping and doing us good perish with them Therefore put not your trust in Princes saith David nor in any Son of man Psal 146.3 4. And why not there is no help in them and why no help in them their breath goeth forth they Return to the Earth and their very thoughts do perish Object But it seems by this that no mortall man is to be trusted be he never so able or faithfull Resp Here we must distinguish between that trust we put in men and that we put in God Trust in men is that Credit which one puts in another in our mutuall and wordly dealings spoken of Prov. 31.11 This is Civil Trust in God is the Affiance and confidence of our hearts in him Prov. 31.11 relying upon his providence and promise both for the removing of evil Psal 37.3 1 Tim. 6.17 and bestowing of good spoken of Psal 37.3 1 Tim. 6.17 This is Religious There is a Civil trust due to men who are raised up as means under him to succour us and do us good and that is lawful But it must be subservient to that Religious trust which we are to put in God nor can that be put in any Creature without Idolatry and therefore forbidden to be put in man or in any earthly Creature Now let us come to the Application of the point Use What shall we say to those who in the day of their distresse withdraw their hearts and hopes from the Almighty and put their confidence in the Creature some in one some in another but few there are that make the bosome of God their chiefest refuge and fly to him as to their best Friend in the time of trouble To which of the Saints wilt thou turn said Eliphaz to Iob Iob. 5.1 Iob 5.1 Had he put that Question to a Papist he would readily have answered to St. Sithe for my pursse to St. Loy to save mine horse for my teeth to St. Apoline to St. Iob for the Pox to St. Luke to save mine Ox Fox Martyr to St. Anthonie to save my Swine c. They have Saints enough to turn unto As men do please for every disease they have a Saint particularly Such is the grosse Idolatry of the Church of Rome who set up some such to be prayed unto and put confidence in as never had any true being but were meer Phantasies and Imaginations of mens brain And others such as we may conceive without breach of Charity are damned wretches in Hell And for the best of them who were indeed true Saints on earth and now glorious in Heaven it cannot be done to them without infinite wrong offered both to the Father Son and Holy Ghost Call upon me Psal 50.15 John 16.23 Rom. 8.15 saith God in the day of trouble Psal 50.15 not on that Saint nor this Angel Ask my Father in my name saith Christ and he will give you John 16.23 He is the onely Mediator both of Redemption and Intercession between God and us 1 Tim. 2.5 An the Holy Ghost teacheth us to cry Abba Father Bishop King Rom. 8. Should we take saith one the Pen of a ready writer and begin at Genefis and proceed to the end of the Revelation and note all the Prayers and supplications which are many yet not one that is made to any other then the true God Nor shall we find any Commandement Promise or warrantable example for that practice Indeed we read of a damned wretch in Hell who did addresse himself to Abraham Luke 16.24 Father Abraham said he have mercy on me Luke 16. vers 24. but that example will not affoard them one drop of water to coole the tip of their tongues Jer. 17.5 Others fly to mortall men and rest on earthly meanes in the day of their Calamity They make flesh