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A71286	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing W364; ESTC R6426	39,735	52

snares of the wicked the Lord suddenly brake the snares and we were delivered before their hooked pricks could fasten upon us or tear us Secondly though the Lord hath suffered us for our sinnes and for the tryall of our Faith to fall of late into the Bryars and we have undergone sharpe and cruell prickings in this bloudy civil war kindled in our Land yet he hath so armed us with Faith in Christ and strengthned us with courage and with confidence and with full assurance of his love that wee goe through all cheerefully and comfortably as if we felt no hurt yea in all the afflictions we feele no stroke of wrath and revenge at all but only chastisements of love fatherly corrections and tryalls which are the faithfull wounds of a lover better and more safe then the deceitfull kisses and embracings of our enemies Thirdly in the midst of Thornes and Bryers when the Lord suffers the swords of the enemies to cut our flesh and to wound and kill our bodies and to shed our bloud that they may fill up to the full the measure of their iniquities yet he suffers not their violence to reach unto our soules we stand firme and stedfast in faith and so far are we from wavering in Religion inclining to Popery forsaking the cause of Christ and suffering our soules to be betrayed wounded and slaine that wee have renewed our Covenant with God have bound our selves to stand for a more full Reformation of Church and State and to maintain the true Reformed Religion with our bodies lives and goods and to oppose popery and all other Sects and Opinions contrarie to true godlinesse O how are we bound to admire the love mercy bounty and goodnesse of the Lord our God in all these notable passages of his providence watchfulnesse and provident care over his Church and people in this land how ought we to love honour serve and obey him to seek continually to him for help and to call upon his name and to humble our selves even to the dust for our many sinnes and provocations by which we have most unthankfully borne our selves towards him and ill-requited all his kindnesses to us Let these our monethly Fasts heave us up every one a step and degree higher in our devotion zeale and reformation of life and the oftner we are put in remembrance of Gods mercies to us and our sins against his holy Majesty the more let us be humbled the more let us crye mightily to God in confession prayer and supplication which if he gives us grace to doe we shall have no need to feare or doubt but may be confident that he will scatter the bands of our enemies and all the cursed pricks of the cursed Bramble he will take away every one as with a whirle-winde as my Text here speaks Secondly this Doctrine is of use to strengthen the faith of vse 2 weake Christians and to put courage into them that are fearefull and cowardly in our Land now in these perillous times wherein so many pricking Bryars and grieving Thornes are suddenly growne up among us and severall bands of desperate sons of Belial are multiplyed within us and round about us on every side Gods love to his Church and his care for his people and watchfulnesse over them doth not alwayes consist and appeare in suffering no hurtfull Bryars to be at all or if such happen to grow up and increase in ridding the land of them speedily for this is the way to make us grow secure and cold in prayer and seeking to him sinne not corrected will increase and faith not tryed nor exercised wil grow rusty and there will be no manifestation of them that are approved But herein especially is Gods love and care for his people manifested when hee suffers Bryars and Thornes to grow up and multiply in the land till they grow terrible and dangerous and yet preserves his Church as a Lilly among thornes safe and untouched and his people from all sense and feeling of any hurt from them or if the sharpe hooked pricks catch hold of them they cannot enter so far nor strike so deep as to wound them mortally and to make them feele the smart of a wrathfull and revenging stroak because they are girded with the whole Armour of God or if they wound them mortally in their bodies and in their fraile flesh yet in their soule and spirit they feele no hurt at all they are so firmly built on Christ the Rock and sustained by his righteousnesse and by his spirit that they cannot waver nor be moved from their stedfastnesse Hereby God doth manifest himselfe to be our refuge and strength and a present helpe against all troubles never failing no● neglecting us in time of need and firme friend in all adversities Wherefore let no mans heart faile because of the Bands of the wicked Papists or prophane Atheists gathered together to make open war against us or malignants working under hand or hereticks and Schismaticks making rents and divisions which tend to weaken us and to expose us to the rage and fury of Antichrist and his Bands But let us all put on courage and strength in these perillous times and the more that evills and dangers encrease the more stout resolute let every man be to resist them in his place and ranke and according to his ability Feare not them that can kill the body and can doe no more but feare him rather who can destroy both soule and body in hell Matth. 10.28 Cowards and fearefull persons have no place in the new Ierusalem but are shut out with unbeleevers and the abominable and murderers and whore-mongers and sorcerers and idolaters and lyers which have their portion in the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone for evermore Rev. 21.8 The fourth and last poynt in my Text is the destruction of the enemies and persecutors of Gods Church and people in these words He will take them away with a whirle-winde as well the green as the dry The Doctrine which hence ariseth is That when God Church is most dangerously beset and most fiercely doctrine 4 assayled by the bands of enemies and persecutors of all sorts the Lord will terribly suddenly and totally scatter and destroy them all and none shall escape First he will terribly scatter and destroy them as with a tempestuous whirle-winde which commeth with great violence and terrour as we all know by experience Secondly he will destroy them suddenly for nothing riseth up nor rusheth in more suddenly than a whirle-winde Thirdly he will destroy them totally all and every one aswell the green as the dry As all have a share in the persecution of the Saints and in opposing true godlinesse so all shall perish in the same destruction First that the destruction of the wicked who band themselves together against Gods Church and people shall be dreadfull and terrible the Scriptures aboundantly testifie For the day of Gods vengeance on them is sayd to be

cast out from their Communion as unclean Dogs all reformed Churches will fight for any Reformation which comes neare to them though it be never so well warranted and held forth in the Word of God We read of Manasseh the King of Iudah that when the Captains of the host of the King of Assyria came against him they took him in the thorns bound him in chaines and carryed him to Babylon where he was in great affliction 2 Chron. 33.11 When the City could not defend him he fled for shelter into the Briar bushes and there he was caught and held fast by the hooked pricks for the enemies to take him and even so it will be with us if wee trust in these pricking thornes and betake our selves to them for helpe they will betray us into the enemies hands Wherefore let us set our hearts to rest wholly on our God and to seek to him with fasting prayer and humiliation for deliverance from these Bryars and Thornes and from their hooks and snares And because while we regard iniquity in our hearts the Lord will not heare us let us confesse our sins with mournful hearts and forsake them and the Lord will forgive the iniquity of them and will be our refuge and strength and a present helpe in all our troubles For if we could but prepare our hearts and fit our selves for deliverance by obtaining mercy to have our sinnes and transgressions blotted out and could wash our hearts from wickednesse and put away by repentance our sinnes which doe strengthen the hands of our enimies against us God would quickly scatter all them that rise up to vex us and not spare nor indure them for one moment they are all even the best of them the hatefull pricks of the cursed briar fully ripe for destruction Sin is that which brought them for a curse upon the ground and repentance and putting away of our sins is the onely way to rid the land of them the Lord is ready and waiteth for our amendment that instantly and without delay he may scatter them as with a whirlewinde both the green and the dry The third point in my Text is That God will not suffer the righteous to feel the evill and mischiefe intended and plotted against them by the bands of their enemies and persecutors but will most timely and seasonably take away and destroy all and every prick of that cursed bramble and spare none neither greene nor dry There are two kinds of feeling one is by outward and bodily sense of things which touch us and we touch and handle them this is expressed in the Originall Scriptures by an Hebrew word which implies bodily touching The other is the inward sense of feeling by knowledg and understanding This feeling reacheth beyond bodily sense of the flesh even to the soule and spirit and it is expressed in the Originall by the hebrew words Iadagh and Iabin which signifie to know and understand the thing bodily felt Of this feeling we read Prov. 23.35 where it is said of a drunken man That he is stricken and yet is not sick of his blow he is beaten but he feels it not It is certaine his flesh feeles it and the stripes leave a print behind but he hath not for the present the use of his reason to know and understand because his spirits are drowned in drink and oppressed with moist vapours Also Eccles. 8.5 it is said that he that keepeth the Commandement shall not feele evill that is not evill as a plague or curse reaching to the soule nor as an evill of wrath and revenge for so the righteous doe not feele any evill though they feele in the flesh many afflictions of tryall and chastisement which are not evill but good to them Wee read that Isaac did bodily feele Iacob by touching his hands and neck but he did not know nor understand that it was Iacob whom he felt and so he had a feeling of him in part only by bodily sense but not a full and perfect feeling of him in soule and spirit by knowledg and understanding Here my Text speakes of a full sense and feeling aswell inwardly in soule and spirit as outwardly in the flesh For the word Jabi●u which signifies such a feeling is here used the words thus opened minister the third Doctrine viz. That God out of his tender love and watchfull providence over his Church and people doth frustrate the wicked counsels and purposes doctrine 3 of their Enemies and scatters their persecutors before they proceed and prevaile so far as to make them feel the evill and mischiefe which they are sharply set and cruelly bent to inflict and bring upon them The full Scope and intent of this Doctrine is to shew and to hold out unto us these 3 things First that God is ready to prevent the evills intended against his Church and People by their enemies and delivers them from them oftentimes before they have any sence or feeling of them at all Secondly that though the Lord suffers the wicked to afflict his Church and to be his rod to scourge his People either for their sins by way of sharp correction or for tryall of their faith and patience yet he never leaves them in their hand to feel their worst nor gives them to their lust rage and fury to be devoured and swallowed up of them or to bee put to sense and feeling of paine intollerable Thirdly though the cruell enemies of Gods Church and persecutors of his people may proceed so far as to kill their bodies with sense of outward torment and violence done to the flesh yet they shall never reach to their soules and spirits nor prevaile so farre as to make them feele the evill and mischiefe intended against their inward man the soule and spirit For the confirming of this Doctrine in all these particulars we have cleare testimonies and pregnant examples in the sacred Scriptures First that God prevents the evil intended by the enemies against his people so that they doe not feele it neither doth it touch them at all it is plainly affirmed Psalme 91.2 3. where it is said of them that trust in the Lord and make him their refuge that he will deliver them from the snare of the Fowler and from all other evills which are most terrible so that no evill shall befall them nor plague come neare their dwelling onely with their eyes shall they behold and see the reward of the wicked their enemies Also Psalme 27.2 When the wicked even mine enemies saith David came against me to eate up my flesh they stumbled and fell And Psalme 37. The wicked plotteth against the righteous and gnasheth upon him with his teeth he hath drawne out his sword and bent his Bow to cast downe and to slay such as be upright but the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is comming His sword shall enter into his owne heart and his Bow