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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

against us or the like Faith acted will say as David Psal 3.6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about as Elisha to his servant 2 Kings 6.16 Feare not for they that be with us two men onely are 〈◊〉 then they that be with them As Asa 2 Chron. 14.11 Lord it is nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that have no power As Jehosaphat chap. 20.12 we ha●e no might against this great company that commeth against us neither know we what to doe but our eyes are upon thee Or as Moses at the red Sea Exod. 14.13 Feare ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will sh●w to you to day Againe faith act●d will say God is able to make their hearts melt in them 〈…〉 even the stoutest of the en●mies a● the Canaanites God can make them heare a noyse in t●● 〈◊〉 1 K●ng 7. ● and be gone as the Syrians o● a rumour Isa 37.7 as the Assyrians God can set them to sheathing their swords in the bowels one of another as the Moabites 2 Chron. 20.23 Ammonites and Edomites He can send an evill spirit among them to fall off one from another as Abimelech and the men of Sechem Judg. 11.23 Or he can bide us in the midst of all the enemies as he did Jeremie and Baruch Jer. 36.26 It may be ye shall be hid in the day of wrath Zeph. 2.3 And if not yet faith acted will say We shall goe to Heaven so much the sooner and there it will be better for us then if we had lived here an hundred yeers longer in the greatest prosperity After darknesse I shall see light and while I sit in darknesse the Lo●d shall be a light unto me Mic. 7.8 So in any other instances faith is the victory wherein we overcome the world 1 Joh. 5 4. And we see large and faire exemplifications of it Heb. 11.33 34 35. Through faith they subdued Kingdome wrought righteousnesse obtained promises ●●●pp●● th● mouthes of Lyons q●●● had the violence of fire escaped th● 〈…〉 the sword c. This is the lustre and glory of faith in the vigorous acts of it Samson was not more glorious in those miraculous acts of killing a Lyon or laying the Philistims heap upon heap then a Beleeever shall be if faith be well brought into action III. Faith when it admitteth of feares most and is pestered shrewdly yet strives to the contrary and works them out by little and little What time I am afraid I will trust in thee Psal 56.3 and a Beleever chides away unbeliefe as Psal 42.11 Why art thou cast downe O my soule and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God Unbeliefe is a great burden to a good soule and makes it say with teares Lord I beleeve Mar. 9.24 help tho●●●●●e ●●●el●●fe Ah that I should bewray such weaknesse after so much acqu●intance with God! after so much experience of his goodnesse after so much profession to b●leeve in God A●mighty 〈…〉 O wretched man that I am Rom ● 24 who shall deliver me from this body of death And as faith groweth stronger so these feares weare away by little and little At lightsome times it is as bold as a Lyon Prov. 28.1 The wicked the● when no man pursueth but the righteous are bold as a Lyon and we are righteous by faith All graces conflict with their contraries and so doth saith The comfort is it is sure of victory in the end Which is something to stay and fix the heart during the ●●me of the combat Time shall be that all these feares and first things shall passe away We shall not so much as feare any enemies of soule or body or molestation by them IV. There is a mixt consideration of the fears of a beleeving heart 〈…〉 in Sword● of 〈◊〉 godly that it is rather an holy and commendable feare then otherwise Some affliction or danger there is but yet an higher cause which breedeth the feare First sometimes the feare is for some sinne unrepented and unpardoned as the poore heart doubteth Job in his great calamities feared least the Lord reckoned with him for old offences chap. 13.26 thou writest bitter things against 〈◊〉 and mak●st me to possesse the 〈◊〉 of my youth When trouble comes and the peace with God not setled it is just cause of feare Prov. 18.11 A w●●●● 〈◊〉 who can beare Though sometime the Christian be comfortably perswaded of the peace yet my perfectly Or some old sinne comes newly to remembrance and brings terrour with it As to 〈◊〉 brethren when taken for spyes Gen 12. ●1 We are 〈◊〉 guilty concerning 〈…〉 that we 〈◊〉 the anguish of his s●●le and would not heare therefore is 〈◊〉 d●st●●●sse come upon us Or howsoever some feare will doe well to assure the peace more throughly Phil. 2.12 Work out your salvation wi●● fear and tr●mbling And thus 〈◊〉 is the man that feareth alwa● Prov. 28.14 Where feare standeth in opposition to hardnes of heart as appeareth by the opposition of the sentence Secondly sometimes the feare ●s not so much for hims●lfe whose estate is good and gives him leave to rejoyce in God all the day long as for his ch●ldren which are young t●nde● not instructed not provided for He feares least they should c●me into Popish or prophane hands and miscarry Alas what shall they doe if they be fatherlesse motherlesse friendlesse without government or without good instruction The body is like to be in bad case enough but the soule is worse Few friends of the soule even where is some love to the body Thirdly sometimes it is not so much for his owne particular as the welfare of the Church least Idolaters prevaile and Idolatry be established againe least the Gospell be hindered in the free course of it feast the Ark● be taken and the glory depart from Israel 1 Sam. 4.13 Eli sate upon a seat by the way-side watching for his heart trembled for the Arke of God Or he feares for the glory of God least it be eclipsed if the good side goe to the worse and wicked enemies have occasion to blaspheme Where is now 〈◊〉 God P●●● 12.10 and Gospelling and Fasting and Praying and Reformation Thus Moses was afraid least if Israel were destroyed in the Wildernesse the enemy would say It is because God was not 〈…〉 them into the good ●and Num. 14.13 and Joshua chap. 7.9 What will thou doe unto thy great Name namely if Israel still fall before the men of A● Which is an holy feare We read of some such thing in God himselfe Deut. 32.26 27. I said I would 〈◊〉 them into 〈◊〉 I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy 〈◊〉