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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

erre and so lea● them into captivitie yet they have not done Israel harm enough they will spoyl them farther in their afflictions Satans instruments are ever working till they have fully and utterly cast away a people they will not leave their work a● halves and should Gods instruments do so then 4 These false prophets could no● but see one would think tha● they had spoken lyes in speaking of peace before the warre th● judgement the captivitie cam● to this people the Lord had by his divine hand of justice give● them the lye yet these will o● in their lying trade and put o● a bold and impudent face on i● too the Divell himself may 〈◊〉 soon put off himself his lying nature and lye not as corrupt man can of himself cease from ●hat sin even in this regard they may be well stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Di●els they are 2 Tim. 3.3 not onely in their falsenesse of accusing but of deceiving and lying 5 These false Prophets no que●tion were in some danger of ●osing their lives when the Enemy came so terribly against Je●usalem yet they are preserved ●hilst better then themselves are ●aken off God hath his own ●imes for the judging of Wicked ●en they shall escape and live ●●ill he sees them fully ripe for ●udgement and then wo unto ●hem these shall dye in Babylon ●hough they fall not in Judaea ●hese are not so much preserved ●s reserved 6 Israel had suffered much by ●earkening to these false Prophets Gods judgements were ●ut they were now in captivitie yet these false Prophets are still loved and the people are eager to follow them Ungodly men once bewitched by fal●● Prophets they will after them though they drink nothing but dammage by them they will stick to them though they dy● with them and by them by their poyson dreams deceits The occasion of the words i● cleer and being so it gives ligh● enough to the drift of the spiri●● it shews what is aimed at in th● Text and in 4. verses more 〈◊〉 namely from the 10. to the 15. First the Spirit of God by Ieremiah goes about to pro●● their Prophets Lyars of whom they said the Lord had raised them up Prophets in Babylo●● and that in a glorying way too vers 15. However an ungodly seduced people will highly advance and foolishly ex●oll their seducers yet God hee give them their own and will disown those of whom they blindly brag that God had sent them God loves not that false Prophets should get them a name by false titles or win authority from the hearts of others by ●are pretence of Gods sending them 2 For the Comforting of ●hose that were willing to hear●en to God who when they ●ad heard all these false Prophets with one consent even ●fter two yeares the yoke of ●he King of Babilon should be ●roken and the Captivity over were ready to enquire with the ●ood King as being altogether unsatisfied and not perwaded that what they spake was truth is their not a Pro●het more Ieremiah he comes 〈◊〉 and tels these that this is the Word of the Lord after 70 years 〈◊〉 not after two or a few that ●as false be accomplisht at Ba●●lon he would visit them and ●erforme his good word toward ●●em and cause them to returne 〈◊〉 Jerusalem and was not this a sweet word too the Lord himselfe tels them their captiv●● shall end though he is determined for a longer time then t●● false Prophets talkt off These five verses point 〈◊〉 these four speciall things whe●● in we may see the very s●●stance and marrow of them 1 That God would not ce●tainly put an end to their C●●tivity after seventie yeares 〈◊〉 would visit them to purpo●● he would so come that th●● captivity should not stay 〈◊〉 would draw out his good w●● of deliverance into act and 〈◊〉 promise should fall into a ble●●● Performance 2 The proof of this endi●● of their captivity in this 〈◊〉 verse and it is drawn fr●● Gods thoughts and determi●●tions to doe such a thing for 〈◊〉 people he hath pitcht upon 〈◊〉 and who can alter him 3 The meanes which 〈◊〉 will have his people vse to 〈◊〉 delivered by the instances in one and that is prayer earnest praier continued prayer prayer that should hold out till the thing prayed for be obtained then sayes God in the 12.13 vers shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto mee and ye shall seek me and search for me with all your heart then that is when this 70 yeares be even out and the time of the fulfilling of the promise drawes ●igh this shall be a praying time with them now their hearts shall be hot for deliverance ●ow their spirit shall hunger to be out of captivity more then ordinary now they shall call upon God nay they shall take paines to do it they shall go and ●ray they shall flocke together to pray they shall go to heaven by faith and pray as they that are both restlesse without this mercy and also confident that God would give ●t them nay they shall seeke and search after God with 〈◊〉 their hearts none but God w●● serve their turne now they wi●● have none of Idols they wi●● not seeke themselves most i● their prayers but God mo●● they will now search after Pr●mises and Gods time as Dan●● did in this case Cap. 9. beg● their hearts now begin to e●quire after God and to ask where is he How may we fi●● him what is it the parts b●twixt us and him now th●● search after him for communi●● with him and blessed enjo●ment of him here is prayer a●● diligence and self deniall a●● love and confidence and co●stancy of Spirit towards G●● all meeting in one all togeth●● in these poor souls now t●● time of their delivery drew ●neer the most wise God th●● fits his meanes his ends m●● sweetly together he makes th●● to be when he stirres in th●● hearts at his season and ro●● ●●owses up a dull people to looke ●fter him for their promised de●iverance when the spirituall ●nd blessed meanes of the Saints ●eliverances are once set on foot ●y the Spirit of God in the ●eart of his people insomuch ●hat faith goes out much and prayer is held up without ceas●ng and there is great search a●●er God know ye that their di●iverance is very neer it is even ●t the dores the Jews Captivity ●asts not it is soon off when once they do thus bestir themselves at Gods throne misery ●anot stand up long against prayers it will vanish like a mist ●efore the Sun Then and not ●ill then will deliverance appeare then and no longer will God stay but Salvation shall ●ome unto them 4. The prevailing of this meanes it shall do the deed God will answer them his loving ●eart will pittie them his Gra●ious hand will worke for them this the spirit delivers in th● 12.13 and 14. verses and h● speakes it thrice for failing h●