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sin_n	bowel_n	full_a	great_a	45	3	2.0782	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96180	The anchor of hope, for Gods tossed ones, or, Mercies thoughts for the vessels of mercy under misery, or, Gods bowels let out, opened, proclaimed to afflicted saints in a little treatise on the 29 of Jer. 11 vers. / by John Welles ...	Wells, John, 1623-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1290A; ESTC R42975	70,879	217

is made gracious that beleeves that is patient Phil. 1.29 it is given to him he hath it this way and no way else a soule that is rewarded t is by way of gift Revel 22.12 Behold my reward is with me saith Christ to give to every man according as his worke shall bee when mercy rewards and saves it is a gift and when Justice rewards and damnes t is a gift of justice or of debt that is due to evill workers and that God dos freely of his owne minde For the fourth thing they are thoughts to give an end and expectation satisfying thoughts you shall have saies God what mercy you do will or can expect God meanes this 1 That they should have an end put to all their miseries the dark cloud should be blown over their sufferings should have a blessed end God himselfe would put a full period to them 2 Such an end an end so gracious that it should answer their living and large expectations Iam. 5.11 that it should satisfy all their longings such an end as blessed JOB had in his afflictions the end of the Lord was gracious to him the Lord did shew even in him and by him that he was very pitifull and of tender mercy so as the Lord might well instance in JOB for to prove what tender bowels he had he might well say to his children go to JOB and see whether I am not gracious and of tender mercy JOBS example may learne us both the graciousnesse that God shewes the patience that Saints should shew JOB had an end and expectation too so gracious was God to him and so good will God be to his people now I can shew the like againe saies God I can do as much for you and so I purpose my thought are for to walke in the same way of mercy towards you you shall have as much as an ende and expectation will come too that is as good an end as you can wish desire or long for novv to make the mercy thus compleat there must be in it these in gredients First there must be a powerfull bringing them backe from their Captivity and an happie deliverance of them from all afflictions Ier. 30.10 God must save his Israel from afar and his seed from the land of their captivity Iacob must returne be in rest and be quiet and none make him afraid 2 A full performance of all the promises of the Lord to them God must give them according to his promises or else he could not give occording to their expectations 3 A blessed giving in of spirituall graces with spirituall enlargements for grace received for the abounding of thanks giving to wards God 4 The shining of Gods face upon them againe which brings with it sweet and spirituall peace This the faithfull expected 5 All this must be done seasonably in the best in the fittest time when they were ready when the full worke of God was done upon their hearts when their expectations and wantings were at highest Zech. 9.1 when they look most when their eyes were most intentively pitcht upon God When comes the burden upon Hadrach and the rests upon Damascus that is upon the cruell enemies of Israel and the inflicters of all their miseries but then when the eyes of all Israel are as one man towards the Lord and then comes all other mercies too that they needed even a full supply from the Lord their God For the second thing the Arguments to proove the truth now in hand wee may reason thus 1 Because God is Love and this is much more then to say God loves 1 Iohn 4.8 16. it notes thus much that it is the very Essence and nature of God Man may properly be said to love but cannot be said to be love God is so t is affirmed from his own mouth when this was said t was a piece of Gods own minde and t is recorded twice in one chapter t was a sweet argument it seems the Apostle was now upon he is incouraging Saints to love and love so as to dwell in it and therefore he mentions this that God is love Ioh. 3.16 Rom. 5.8 if they would looke so high as t is most fit they should they might easily see a most glorious pattere of love that they could never reach and that was love it selfe wee read of Gods so loving the world c. And of Gods commending his love to us but we read not as I remember of this phrase that God is love but in this place Now the servants of Christ having not only heard him and seen him and tasted him but enjoyed abundance of glorious fellowship with him wherein by most certaine and sweet experience they had been so oft so much satisfyed with this River of his good pleasure they come up to the highest expression that can bee to set out the love of God when they say God is love surely those glorious Saints in heaven that are at the Wel-head of happinesse as it were and enjoy the fulnesse of love in the highest degree could not have spoken more gloriously of this love then to say God is love now if hee be so God will First be pitying his Secondly hee will bee contriving for his and Thirdly he will be overlooking all the unworthinesse of his 1 He will be full of pity as a father pities so the Lord will saies David Gods bowels could not but be troubled for his repenting Ephraim Ier. 31.20 and so troubled too that God takes up this resolution that he will surely have mercy upon him God could quickly finde bowels when Ephraim found his sins and his mercy sayes now Ephraim is a deere son Ephraim is a pleasant childe all is forgot already that Ephraim hath done his former Idolatrie his former prophanenes his former stubbornnes it is all covered all drowned already in the sea of his mercy here behold bowels of compassion indeed here is pity that is infinitly tender shining in the very carriage and language of God towards poore creatures full of sinns and full of troubles both at once this is the very way of Gods bowels let his children be in danger in troubles under sorrowes and sufferings the heart of God cannot rest it will bubble it will be hot it will boyle up t will run over to his afflicted children 2 This love that is God it selfe Gods owne nature t will be a contriving thoughts of love will flow from it God is all act purus actus and so is this love it is busie hard at worke plotting for and pitching upon some great good for those whom he delights to choose to love to honour I will surely have mercy sayes God I will surely do such a poore sovle good his sould shall blesse me his conscience shall enjoy me his spirit shall rejoyce in me his heart shal be fild with my peac with my comforts with my blessings 3 This love of God can tell

God so the Sun will not be darkned he that is light it selfe will not Eze. 2 33.11 cannot be blinded he that is a most glorious Soveraigne will not be bafled he cryes to you 1 Sam. 24.25.26.27 why will ye dy why do not you answer him and say Lord give us to live why do not you melt in your hearts and with teares say is this thy voice O our Father what hast thou so much mercy such multitudes of bowels dost thou cry after us why will ye dy when we chose such a death our selves oh thou hast rewarded us good whereas we have rewarded thee evill thou hast shewed us this day in this voice of mercy in these thoughts of mercy how well thou dealest with all thine and willest to save those who have kild themselves can God say more then to cry returne returne my thoughts are towards you come to me my mercies shall be all yours ah poore soules you have destroyed your selves yet there is helpe in me for destroyed creatures you have kild your selves yet there is life in me for dead creatures you have damned your selves yet there is salvation in me for such damned creatures as you are you have sinned and so have infinitly displeased me yet there is mercy enough in me to reconcile you to me say you bring sin yet I can take it away say you multiply sin yet I can tell how to multiply pardon and so to forgive you all Isa 55.7 as well as some is not this Gods voice does not God say thus much in effect by this gracious voice if I did intend that sin should still part betwixt you and me why do I call upon you why do I proclaime this great mercy to you my heart sais Christ cannot rest till those I dyed for enjoy the fruit of my death my love saye● Father will not keep in towards those I have purposed love unto they shall have it sayes God I will be their God I will be their portion I will become their saviour Oh that sinners had eares to heare his voice Oh that they had such hearts in them that would beleeve that would make them restles under all their false gods and fly to the true 2. This truth calls upon unbeleevers to come off from glorying over the people of God when they are brought into a low condition by tyranny oppression or any sad hand of rebuke from God it is usuall with the world then to trample upon the servants of Christ when they be afflicted ones they will persecute where God smites they will grieve those whom God wounds The Church in Micah was no sooner down but the world was glad therefore she thus gives the enemy a faire warning she thus puts in a prohibition Rejoyce not over me O mine enemy Micah 7.8 When I fall I shall rise agine when I sit in darknesse the Lord will bee a light unto me Shee speaks of rising again on purpose to make her enemy to know that he should fall and never rise which was not her case nor never should shee grants she sits in the darke but denies that this will be her condition still the Lord will be a light unto me She grants the worst and beleeves the best T is as much as if she should say O mine enemie doe I fall Oh what a fall wilt thou have then Does judgement begin at me what then will thy end bee When I sit in the darke I have the Lord to be a light to me but what Lord hast thou to bring thee into light He that will raise me will judge thee he that will be a light to me for my comfort will be a terror to thee for thy condemnation Shee thus replies for herself against the ungodly giving them to know of her rise and recovery as well as fall and cleerly intimating their fall without recovery their darknesse without light their judgement without mercy which shall fall upon them and grinde them to powder take heed then yee Wicked ones tell not the people of God they be out-casts who seeks after them who cares for them they be now downe they shall never up more now they be in miseries there is an end of them they shall never rise againe What cannot God 's Ionahs live under the waves and in the Whales belly What must his Daniels needs be broken in pieces because they be in the Lyons den shall an Iron furnace in Egypt consume all the Israel of God or shall an oppressig Babylon still keepe them under hatches What is there no sun rising there is no deliverance comming Be there no thoughts of peace in the heart of the great God toward his Yes yes yee fooles and blinde why then do you thus push with your hornes Why then do ye thus pride up your selves like Moab and exalt your selves against those whom God will exalt Ier. 48.26 27. you will have for your pride one day divine justice will see you paid hear what it is make ye him drunken for he magnified himselfe against the Lord c. For was not Israel a derision to thee Was he found among theeves thou didst use him as if hee had been so even the very est villaine upon earth since thou spakest of him thou skippest for joy Oh how glad was Moab that Israel was broken Israels affliction was her melody But Moab shall be broken for it the horne of Moab where with he pusht the people of God so is cut off and his arme is broken saith the Lord ye spirituall Philistines ye may sport your selves with the sorrowes of Gods deer ones it may be your mirth cannot go well forward 25. v. till a blinded imprisoned Sampson is sent for in but what will you gaine unlesse it be ruine to your selves the losse of your own soules of your own lives and all that is truly good 3. This truth may serve to call them in from persecution from pursuing their bloody thoughts aginst the Saints why boastest thou thy selfe in mischiefe O mighty man sayes David to bloody Doeg the goodnes of God endureth continually Psal 54.1 Doeg thought hee had done such a chare when hee had told Saul where Dauid was Oh how he boasted Oh how fast he went on in pursuing him in his mischievous waies but David both heartens himself checks his enemy with this the goodnesse of God endureth continually do what thou canst thou hast not thou canst not part either God from his goodnesse or his goodnesse from me or from his people this will endure this will last when thy arrowes be all spent when thy breath is gone when thy life is lost and thou art drinking the very gall of thy most deserved portion t is as much as if David should say to Doeg O thou enemie how art thou besotted that thinkest thy waies will prosper thy vaine heart perswades thee thus thou sayst in thy self now I shall have my lust and my will I