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A65766 The church's security in the midst of all difficulties and dangers explain'd and asserted in a sermon preacht upon the 5th of November last, upon those words of Numb. 23, 23 / by R.W., B.D., and minister of Kedarminster in the county of Worcester. White, Richard, b. 1636. 1694 (1694) Wing W1802; ESTC R9789 10,322 24

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THE Church's Security In the midst of All Difficulties and Dangers Explain'd and asserted in a SERMON Preacht upon the 5th of November last Upon those words of Numb 23.23 By R. W. B. D. And Minister of Kedarminster in the County of Worcester LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns the lower End of Cheapside 1694. To the Worshipful The High-Bayliff Justice Aldermen And the rest of the Corporation of Kedarminster Gentlemen YOU being generally my Auditors at the Time of my delivering this Ensuing Discourse were quicken'd from what you have heard to make it your general desire by the Mediation of several of the Chief amongst you that I would make my late Discourse more Publick by the Printing of it This being the first Request in this kind which you ever made unto me I am therefore the more willing to comply with it especially considering that I know not how much of a Call from Providence there may be in your so general Concurrence in this matter I commit the Ensuing Discourse to the Divine Blessing and you all to the Divine Protection subscribing my self Your Affectionate Minister R. W. Nov. 13. 1693. The Church's Security c. Numbers 23.23 Surely there is no Inchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against Israel according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel What hath God wrought THESE words were uttered by Balaam when he endeavoured to curse Israel the People of God that so he might obtain a reward from Balak he was in himself no better than a Witch or Conjurer but when he sought to do mischief to God's People by the assistance of evil and wicked Spirits with whom he was confederate the holy Spirit of God did strangely interpose and made use of this Conjurer to be his Instrument for Prophecy as to several particulars that relate to the Church of God in general and for the declaring of a Blessing to Israel which was God's Peculiar and Chosen People his Church at that present time and so God by the over-ruling power of his Spirit did turn the Curse that was intended by this wicked In chanter into a Blessing More especially in the words of my Text there is a discovery made by the plain confession of this Wizzard of the vanity of his own attempts against the Church and People of God Surely saith he there is no Inchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against Issrael c. as before In which words we have contain'd two general parts 1. An Assertion firmly laid down with relation to Jacob and Israel Surely or assuredly as if he had said you may take this for an assured thing for a certain truth that there is no Inchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against Israel We know that the names Jacob and Israel were both of them first given to him who was the Father of those twelve Patriarchs from whom were derived those twelve Tribes of which the Jewish Nation was constituted The name Jacob signifies a Wrestler or a Supplanter and was given to him at first upon occasion of his laying hold of his Brother Esau's heel at his Birth and was further confirm'd to him afterwards in the fitness of its signification by his supplanting his Brother Esau and depriving him both of the Birth right and of the Blessing and also again in his famous wrestling with God by Faith and Prayer as well as with the Angel of God by bodily exercise from the success of which wrestling it also came to pass that the other name here mention'd the name of Israel was given unto him that is a Prince with God according to the words of the Angel Gen. 32.28 And he said thy name shall be called no more Jacob but Israel for as a Prince hast thou power with God and with Men and hast prevailed These names Jacob and Israel are here as in many other places used to denote the whole Nation which derived from this person there being nothing more common both in Scripture and likewise in other Authors than to call a Nation by the name of the Person or Persons from whom it proceeded Now forasmuch as this Nation was the Church and peculiar People of God above all the Nations of the World according to that of the Psalmist In Judah is God known his name is great in Israel at Salem also is his Tabernacle and his dwelling-place in Sion he hath not dealt so with any Nation that is with any other Nation neither have the Heathen the knowledge of his Law For this reason it is that by the names Jacob and Israel the Church of God in general especially that which we call the Invisible Church the Church of the Faithful of such as are what they profess themselves to be even real Believers is to be understood and even in this large sense are these words Jacob and Israel to be understood here in my Text even to denote all true Believers the Church of the Faithful throughout all Ages These are all 1. Jacob's Wrestlers and that both with relato God and also with relation to Men. 1. They are wont to be Wrestlers with relation to God by Faith and Prayer they are not willing to give the Almighty any rest until he establish Jerusalem his Church in general a praise in the Earth 2. They are Wrestlers with relation to Men those that are the Enemies of God and Christ and true Goodness as in Baptism they are inroll'd in the number of Christ's Souldiers so they make it their business to fight under his Banner against the Devil the World and the Flesh which are his Enemies and to acquit themselves well in their spiritual Combate and Warfare for as the Seed of the Serpent is an Enemy to the Seed of the Woman so is the Seed of the Woman an Enemy to the Seed of the Serpent and they do in the issue get the Blessing from and prevail against those carnal Esau's who tho' they 're Brethren it may be according to the Flesh yet bear an Enmity to them yea they become at length more than Conquerors over all their spiritual Enemies through Christ strengthening of them which makes it evident 2. That all the true Members of the Church of Christ are also Israel's such as have power with God and with Men and do prevail as they wrestle with God by Faith and Prayer so through the Divine Grace and Condescention they are wont to prevail with God by Faith and Prayer And as they wrestle and contend in the Cause of God against Sin and sinful Men so they are wont to prevail and to be Crowned as Conquerors at last tho' it may be even by suffering so that there is enough said for the explication of these two names here mentioned Jacob and Israel Concerning these 't is here said that there is no Inchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against Israel Some read it there is no