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A90672	A firebrand pluckt out of the burning. A sermon preached at Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemn fast, Novemb. 27. 1644. By Benjamin Pickering, Minister of Gods Word at Buckstead in Sussex: and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said house.	Pickering, Benjamin.	1644 (1644)	Wing P2150; Thomason E23_4; ESTC R18962	22,587	38

out his sword to avenge the quarrell of his Covenant and the fire of his anger burnes but he may complaine as of old Jer. 6. The Founder melts in vaine our wickednesse is not tooke away by repentance the wicked are not tooke away by the hand of justice Or as Ezek. 22.18 The house of Israel is become drosse all they are brasse and iron and tinne and lead in the midst of the furnace they are even the drosse of silver Behold therefore O tremble at this I will gather you into the midst of Ierusalem in mine anger and in my fury and I will leave you there and melt you yea I will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath c. and ye shall know that I the Lord have powred out my fury upon you O then heare the rod and who hath appointed it it is an ill signe when we are set on fire round about and lay it not to heart An ill signe when we are with the old World and Sodome secure when we put away the evill day and think when the overflowing scourge passeth through the Citie it shall not come neere us This Citie is the Cauldron and we are the flesh and when we make the Lord complaine as Amos 4.11 Ye were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning yet ye have not returned to me and when unfruitfull notwithstanding Sunne and raine like that cursed earth our end is to be burned Secondly when we are in the burning look up to Iesus Christ as the Israelites being bit with fiery Serpents lookt up to the brazen Serpent thus we shall have healing Num. 11.3 by faith we may quench the violence of flames Heb. 11. In Christ we shall have safetie This man shall be the peace when the Assyrian the greatest enemy that ever Israel had cometh into the Land Thirdly labour for the Spirit of comfort The refreshings of this Spirit as living water will coole the heat of the spent soule Fourthly pray that the Lord would mitigate the flames so he did for those three Dan. 4. and for some Martyrs pray and draw out water as in buckets and powre it out before the Lord It will be a sure meanes of quenching when Moses prayed the burning at Tabera was quenched Labour to be constant hold fast the Name of Christ the Church of Pergamus is a patterne to us that held fast and denied not the faith when Antipas suffered martyrdome and where Satan dwelled doe likewise Revel 3. you have covenanted with God deale not falsly in his Covenant let not your steps decline out of the way though the Lord should smite you into the place of Dragons Psal 44. and cover you with the shadow of death for your encouragement hearken to the Lord of Hosts Zach. 3.7 If you will walke in my wayes and keep my charge then you shall also judge my house and keepe my Courts and I will give thee places to walke among them that stand by Honourable Worthies if you will persevere zealously in the Lords worke you shall be advanced to be among Angels though you cannot have the presence and face of an earthly King you shall be with the glorious Angels standing before the face of the King of heaven This may be abundant comfort unto you much Honoured and to all Gods people Vse 4. We are in the fire but first the Lord is with you and all his Isa 43.2 so that the flame shall not devoure Secondly you are choyce Instruments Gods people are his chosen choice gold will endure the fire and the Lord will not cast away his people whom he hath chosen when the house is on fire we take care for our Treasure our choyce vessels our jewels we are not so solicitous for lumber so the Lord careth for you and all his you are his choyce Vessels Mal. 3. and peculiar Treasure and his Iewels very precious in the Lords eyes Thirdly Christ the Sonne of God intercedes for you and that affectionately he will prevaile with God to rebuke the Adversarie and that to the purpose The Lord rebuke thee Increpationem tuam contra te dirigat Dion Carthul the Lord rebuke thee even as Christ rebuked Windes and Seas so will he doe with Satan and all his instruments as Nahum 1.4 Fourthly let the gracious beginning which the Lord hath made be a sure pledge unto you that he will finish be bold to plead with God Lord thou wouldest not that we should undertake a building and not finish it thou hast undertaken to build thy House here be not so thy selfe as thou wouldest not that we should be Fifthly the Lord hath promised great things and spoke of glorious dayes which now hasten concerning his Church nothing shall hurt in Gods holy Mountaine The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Isa 11. the waste and desolate places and the land of thy destruction shall be too narrow by reason of the Inhabitants and they that swallowed thee up shall be farre away Isa 49.18 O thou afflicted and tossed with tempest and not comforted behold I will lay thy stones with faire colours and thy foundation with Saphires and I will make thy windowes of Agats Isa 54.11 12. and thy gates of Carbuncles c. And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy children The time and my strength would faile to recite the glorious things that are spoken of thee thou Citie of God the new Jerusalem coming downe from heaven with Gods glory upon her In that day saith the Lord Zach. 12. I will make the Governours of Iuda as an hearth of fire among the wood and like a torch of fire in a sheafe and they that have fought against Ierusalem their flesh shall consume away whilest they stand upon their feet Zach. 14. and their eies shall consume away in their holes c. Thus Right Honourable be comforted over the Church of God now in the burning and over your enemies which are ordained for destruction by the words of the God of Truth The Lord bids them take away Ioshua's filthy raiment and restore to the Priesthood its former lustre signified by change of raiment Hence saith Master Calvin Plus expectent fideles quam coniicere licet ex praesenti aspectu Expect more then the present face of things can promise the Lord will be known to be Iehovah in giving a being to his Word He will be with you feare not Hag. 2.5 Psal 68.13 Though ye have beene among the pots yet shall ye be as a Dove coverd with silver c. Therefore let every man in his Sphere be incouraged to be active and zealous to forward and hasten the perfect deliverance of Gods Church Vse 5. and the perfect building and furnishing of Gods House be not scandalized be not disheartened for every

Cant. 8. many waters cannot quench this love c. In wrath he remembers mercy and will not contend for ever lest the spirit should faile before him Isa 57.16 and the soules that he hath made The Lord will repent himselfe for his servants when he seeth that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left Deuteronomie 32.36 The tender mercies of the wicked are cruell their malice is endlesse but the Lord in wrath remembers mercy When his people are humbled his repentings are kindled his bowels are troubled and acknowledgeth that Jerusalem hath received double at his hands for all their sinnes Isa 40.2 Duplum in Christo Junius And so one addes an Argument besides those I have set downe out of these words which may silence the Devill and all implacable enemies Thus This people is sufficiently punisht therefore God is not to be urged to adde to their punishment Sanctius Fourthly the enemy shall not alwaies blaspheme the Lord will stop the mouth of iniquitie he will still the enemy and avenger Deut. 32.26 27. the Lord would have scattered the Israelites into corners and caused the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that he feared the wrath of the enemy Fifthly thus the Lord takes course for his own Name although not for our sakes yet for his owne Names sake he will worke for us that his Name be not polluted And so Ioshua pleads Josh 7. Chap. 7. that for this reason the Lord would not leave his people in the enemies hand for then What saith he wilt thou doe unto thy glorious Name Fourthly here is implied that if the Lord beginne in mercy he will finish Psal 102. Psal 138.8 when the time to favour Sion the set time is come then the Lord will perfect his worke concerning us he will doe it in despight of all Devils and Antichristians though there be mountaines before his Zerubbabels God will make them plaines and bring forth the head-stone of his worke with shouting He can make the hardest resistance as Clay or Wax to the Signet the greatest impediment shall give place as Euphrates did to Cyrus that he might take the old Babylon He saith to the deepe Isa 44. Be drie and so will the Lord doe that he may be avenged on Rome Revel 16.11 Yea things adverse shall not onely yeeld but concurre The Lord will make away in the wildernesse and rivers in the desert the beasts of the field shall honour him the Dragon Isa 43.19 20 21. and the Owles c. As the beginnings of the ruine of the wicked evidenceth their certaine totall ruine If Haman begin to fall he shall not faile but fall so the beginnings of deliverance from our Romish enemies are pledges of compleat deliverance the beginnings of the repairing of Gods Temple evidence the certaine finishing of it beginnings of woe were signes to the Iews of the extremitie of woe and beginnings of blessednesse and puritie are like signes of perfect blessednesse and puritie First for the Lord hath chosen Ierusalem and his beginnings declare what he hath decreed If God hath decreed to deliver to build to beautifie the place of his Foot-stoole and make it glorious who can hinder the Lord God hath purposed and who can disanull it Isa 14.24.27 he hath stretched forth his hand and who can turne it back Secondly It stands God upon for his honour to goe on in mercy when he begins in mercy his Truth his Wisdome and Power are ingaged Moses therefore was much affected when the Lord threatened to destroy Israel as one man after he had puld them out of the Egyptian burnings Exod. 32.12 Lord saith he why doth thy wrath waxe hot against thy people which thou hast brought forth out of the Land of Egypt with great power and with a mightie hand Wherefore should the Egyptians speake and say for mischiefe did he bring them out to slay them in the mountaines Num. 14.15 16. And now if thou wilt kill all this people as one man then the Nations which have heard the fame of thee will speake saying Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into Canaan he hath slaine them in the wildernesse The Lord would not have us such unwise builders as beginne and cannot finish such builders are exposed to scorne and shame therefore the omnipotent onely wise God will not doe so The Lord also is tender of his servants honour he will still the enemie Psal 8. Sanballat Tobiah and Geshem will laugh Nehemiah and other Worthies to scorne Neh. 2.19 20. What is this thing that ye doe Neh. 4.2 3 4. Will ye rebell against the King What doe these feeble Iewes will they fortifie will they sacrifice Then his fellow Even that which they build if a Foxe goe up he will breake down their stone wall but Nehemiah and such may be confident and say The God of heaven will prosper us therefore we his servants will arise and build and make all knowne to God who careth for your persons your names and honours Heare O our God for we are despised and turne their reproach upon their owne head The reproach of his servants he will wipe away Isa 66.5 The Lord will appeare to your joy when they shall be ashamed Thirdly God is constant so is his love and resolution to doe us good he is not as the sonne of man that he should repent Num. 23.19 Mal. 3.6 1 Sam. 12.22 he is God and changeth not The Lord will not forsake his people for his great Names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people Therefore when the Lord beginnes he goeth on as Naomi said of Booz The man will not be in rest untill he finish the things this day Men are mutable discouraged weary but the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not Natura not dilassatur opere as the heavens are never wearie the Sunne after millions of revolutions continueth still rejoycing as a mighty man to runne his race much lesse is the God of Nature and the God of these Heavens weary shall the Lord then begin and not finish Shall I bring to the birth Isa 66.9 and not cause to bring forth saith the Lord The Lords care over his Church is also a constant care his eyes are continually upon it upon one stone that is Christ Iesus the Corner-stone on whom we are built there are seven eyes that is many eyes the Lords eyes are upon Gods House Populi causam Deus semel tucudan suscepit ac proinde qua est constantia ●●nquam deseret cam Drusius his chosen and so shall be till all be perfected concerning his people They may be in the burning but they shall certainly be rescued and if so perfectly delivered The constant zeale of the Lord of Hosts will performe this First sympathize and pity Ireland almost burnt Vse 1. Levit. 10.6