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A46744	The rocke, or, A setled heart in unsetled times a short discourse minding and helping Gods people to make use of their faith for moderating their feares in these sad times of the sorrowes of Sion : being the heads of some sermons preached lately and now published for that purpose / by William Jemmat ...	Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1644 (1644)	Wing J551; ESTC R19664	30,965	98

beleeving alike he will be alike in dispensing his mercies Mal. 3.6 I am the Lord I change not therefore ye sonnes of Jacob are not consumed Therefore also collect as David 1 Sam. 17 36. and as Paul 2 Tim. 4.17 18. It is a great help to a Beleever to remember the yeers of the right hand of the most high Psal 77.10 and call to mind what he hath done for his Church and people formerly to the Church in Aegypt in the Wildernesse in Hamans time in other exigences Others have fared well while they waited on God therefore we also will wait and doubt not but to doe well enough Psal 22.4 5. Our Fathers trusted in thee they trusted and thou didst deliver them They cryed unto thee and were delivered they rusted in thee and were not confounded Thus fortifie your faith as much as ye can and it will be a strong fortifying of your spirits in all feares of evill A strong and healthy body getteth up a high hill farre better then a weakling can doe If our faith were stronger our hearts should be more fixed and setled then they are If it were the fall assurance of faith Heb. 10.22 we should not once doubt for all these terrours Mark 11.13 Remember the removing of mountaines and transplanting of trees into the midst of the sea all by the power of faith Onely beleeve and all shall be possible Other Consequences of the point are these I. Be thankfull for this precious grace of faith Be thankfull for the usefull grace of Faith which is so usefull in these dangerous dayes the staffe of thy life the strength of thy soule the fix●ng of thy poore trembling heart the only sight thou hast when round about is nothing but darknesse A great and wonderful gift thou receivedst when the Lord gave thee faith to beleeve in his Sonne and rest in promises It is worth the having though thou pastedst through the pikes in duties of humiliation It cost some adoe to get faith but when it is once had it is a most blessed commodity It stands thee in stead ever afterward whatever sad occasions thou hast The Jaylor though much cast downe for a while Act. 1● 34 yet reioyced that he beleeved and all his houshold And those primitive Beleevers who were pricked at the heart in hearing of their great sinne reioyced and praised God for so great a mercy Acts 2.44 47. Goe thou and doe likewise We give thanks for lesser mercies then this Or what if the Lord give thee not riches health peace and the like Yet he gives that which is better and countervailes all other defects with infinite advantage on the eternall part Doe thy best to work faith in others II. If things goe thus then doe all ye can to get faith into your children and friends as ye desire they should have found and hearty comfort in the evill day Ye would not see them lye distracted malancholie drooping under their burden taking indirect courses to help themselves Now lay a good foundation not onely in morall vertues or religious duties but goe higher tell them of Christ of the Covenant the promises sinne and guiltinesse their need of a Saviour and the like It is a great matter Ps 112.1 to feare God and delight greatly in his Commandements This Text is a promise to such persons but note withall it goeth higher even to that sovereigne grace of faith His heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. verse 7. And it was by faith that the old Beleevers d●d suffered or received those great matters Heb. 11. Therefore in all thy instruction and discipline still insinuate something for faith Get that notion into their heads and hearts None but Christ Jo. Lambert Advance a faithfull Ministery whereby faith is bestowed None but Christ III. If it be so then advance a faithfull Ministery a● the meanes whereby faith is bred and thereby a ground laid for solid comfort in times of feare Plant such a Ministery where it is wanting cherish and maintaine it where it is Pitty them that want the Ordinance pray they may have the Word of faith preached among them Mat. 6.38 Pray the Lord of the Harvest to send forth Labourers into his Harvest If rich be at charges if in authority give countenance to a faith-breeding Ministery This is the onely way for poore soules to be soundly comforted when their tryall commeth Comfort stands not in a smartering knowledge or a few good words or saying over some good prayers or the like but if faith were bestowed into the heart which alone can quicken a soule otherwise dying No grace nor vertue can knit a knot betweene God and the soul but onely faith Faith truly so called is of a lasting nature whatever tryals there be and of a triumphing nature 1 Pet. 1.7 8. Beleeving ye re●o●ce with ioy unspeakable and full of glory And if so how worthy are those pains whereby faith is conveyed into the heart and afterward confirmed Take faiths part against a faithlesse generation 2 Pet. 1.1 IV. Ever commend and stand in the magnifying of faith which doth so good offi●es in the worst times Call it a prec●ous faith much to be esteemed and prized Endure not any word of disparagement to be cast upon it There is a carnall generation of men and wom●n who doe much slight and villifie faith as an ayrie Notion a trifle nothing in comparison of Charity and good works Oh here is much adoe about faith these are our Solifidians c. Whereto I say First neither charity nor works are any thing without faith Heb. 11.6 Without faith it is impossible to please G●d It is in Christ only that we and our graces are accept●d No merit in charity nor the works of it onely in Christ they get acceptance Yea in faith it selfe is nothing meritorious all the vertue and praise of it standeth in relation to Christ the Object Secondly it is faith that must uphold the heart in an evill time When dangers be abroad and feares come home to us this is our anchor to be staid withall We have seen how much is cast upon faith to doe in these sad plucks What we have done in an holy way may be a comfort but the stresse of the businesse lyeth on this how well we have beleeved and what interest we have in Christ Psal 27.13 I had fainted unles I had beleeved to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the Land of the living And the comfort of the good we have done comes in a secondary consideration Heb. 10.4 In that ye did it to these ye did it unto me By faith Abel offered a better sacrifice them Cain Thirdly faith ever will produce good works Fides sola iustificat sed fides quae iustificat non est sola as a good Tree good fruits It works by love Gal. 5.6 and love is a laborious thing 1 Cor. 13.4.7 No fire without light and warmth no faith without love and good works Every branch in Christ bringeth forth good fruit Fourthly it is a Popish spirit that makes such a jumbling of faith and charity which are ever to be distinguished though not separated Leave each his owne work and place and both are glorious and whereas other comparisons are odious these most Or it is an ignorant spirit which knows not what the maine tye is between God and a soule now fallen into sinne nor how we come to God by Christ alone and how we are justified freely by grace which faith appropriateth al our present adherence to God is by faith hereafter by sight and fruition Or lastly it is a prophane spirit of a man in love with his sinne or worldly vanities all for a present enjoyment he will not stay for his happinesse till hereafter as faith directeth And to get a lively faith asketh more paines then he is willing to take some adoe there is to try examine evidence maintaine and increase faith which the lazie Christian will never endure FINIS May 22. 1644. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl

which is a con●inuall feast a brazen wall great matter of joy in many and great afflictions 2 Cor. 1.12 This is our reioycing even the testimony of our conscience Thirdly it worketh hope which is an anchor of the soule both sure and stedfast entring into that with●n the vaile Heb. 6.19 and saith Though it be ill for the present it will be better hereafter In the world is no comfort but in Heaven there is enough and enough Men are enemies but God a friend and will appeare in time for us and against them all And if our selves should miscarry yet our posterity shall see the fruit of all these stirres our children shall enter into the good land A great stay to the heart when almost overwhelmed with ca●es and fea●es Psal 27.13 I had fainted unlesse I had beleeved to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the l●ving Fourthly faith works patience to endure any thing in the way and for the cause of God therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God 1. Tim. 4.10 And by patience the Christian hath power over his owne spirit and can possesse his soule Luk. 21.19 which otherwise would be lost as it were by impatience and other distempers When patience hath its perfect worke Jam. 1.4 he shall be altogether invincible and shall hold out unto victory and to the enjoying of all mercies promised Heb. 6.12 old Beleevers through faith and patience inherited the promises Fiftly faith can pray the prayer of faith Jam. 5.15 16. Oratio fidei Omnipoten● 〈◊〉 which availeth much and after a sort is Omnipotent as Luther said And specially by prayer the Beleever can get hear●s-ease in every s●d qualitie the setling of unquiet affections heavy passions of unbelief frightfull apprehensions of evill to come Lord help my mi●ch●fe Ma● 9.24 Ps 109.4 for my love they are my adversaries b●t I 〈◊〉 my self● unto prayer mark the force of that phrase And it is said of Jehosaphat in that great danger that he set himself● to seek the Lord which both qualified his feare and obtained a victory 2 Chron. 20.3 V. In respect of the enemies both in the world and from hell Enem●es d●sabled in the ●a●ne Rom. 8.33 Faith seeth them disabled in the ma●ne Who can a●●●●st or condem●e or separate from the love of God Well they may kill the body but not hurt the soule or rifle the estate but not prejudice the goodnes of his estate toward God Therefore feare them not saith our Saviour Luk 12.4 5. Neither can they do that til the Lord give them leave 2 Sam. 16.11 as he bad Shime● to curse David and satan could not touch Job nor enter into the Swine of the Gada●●●ns till he had commission Enemies are a sharp rod but in the hand of God to lay on or take off as he pleaseth Isa 10.5 Nor yet can they vex us one moment longer then the Lord will As we see in Israels comming out of Egypt Exod 12.41 The selfe same day wherein the 430. yeers were expired The rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous Ps 125.3 In due time the rod must be cast into the fire VI. In respect of the proper ●nd of faith Faith ends of not but ●n salvation which is salvation 1 Pet. 1.9 Faith never leaves the soul but in endlesse unspeakable blessednes There indeed it self endeth having done its office but the effect benefit of it never endeth Now they say all is well that ends well and in present all is well because the end shall be good thence the heart is fixed and the Beleever fainteth not whatever he suffers in this life see 2 Cor. 4.16 17 18. The Ordinance of God VII In respect of Gods grant and ordinance to a Beleever walking humbly with him as here in the Text this stands a● a priviledge of the godly described 〈◊〉 1. to be on● that f●a ●t God and d●l●g●●●●●g earth 〈◊〉 Comm●●d●ments God ●ath past over to him such in hum●nity He sh●● not b● 〈…〉 d●g●● 〈…〉 in the Lord. Having taken his part of sorrow and feare before-hand Hab. 3 16. he shall rest in the day of evill And having come to Gods termes of beleeving repenting obeying zeale and the like he shall now enjoy the sweetnesse of it One that hath served his time faithfully shall have the priviledges of a Townsman or Citizen These are the grounds whereon faith setleth the heart in evill 〈◊〉 All this while we say nothing ●f a Stoicall or C●n call resolution that a Christian should either be voyd of affections Heb. 12.5 o● desp●se the crosse by a dogged stomacke or that he needs worldly wisdome and policy to help himselfe or that he must shift and sh●rk for hims●lfe in an indirect way or goe over to the enemies of God and Religion or on the other side seeke his owne revenge upon them All this is but Sau●● Armour not sit for Dav●d to fight in Therefore we leave them to Ma●●●●vel and his disciples Men of this world Job 36.21 who choose sinne rather then affliction And we goe out against the enemies of God as David against Goliah 1 Sam. 17.45 in the name of the Lord. Grounds of faith suffice the heires of faith who are ever happiest and most at ease when they hold them to their grounds Section III. Improve Faith for setling thy heart in these evill times Make use of Faith at these times of need Every one wisheth the times were setled and if the times were setled he would doe thus and thus to make gaine and live a merry life But Christians the setling of the times is not in your power the setling of your hearts is and ye see how Other may passe away as fruitlesse wishes and lost endeavours but this is feisable and will be to good purpose The Just is an everlasting fo●ndation saith Solomon Prov. 10. that is being fixed by faith otherwise he is weak as another man this is the Samsons look which holds all our strength together this keeps life in the heart and steddinesse whereas without it the soule staggers like a drunken man Now live by faith Hab. 2.4 While the naturall man lives the life of nature do you live the life of grace and of faith Make use of this privilege as Townsmen doe of theirs to enrich themselves and keep out forreigners No man hath a commodity lying by him but he will make use of it when it shall be most for his advantage And so should a Christian of his faith in these times of need Never in all our dayes had we such times and occasions as these and therefore now more then ever we should put our faith to the proofe Godly men have no exemption from troubles dangers or evill tidings but onely an Antidote to fence their poore hearts against the venome of them And they