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A66558	The vanity of mans present state proved and applyed in a sermon on Psalm 39.5. With divers sermons of the saints communion with God, and safety under his protection, in order to their future glory, on Psalm 73. 23, 24, 25, 26. By the late able and faithful minister of the Word John Wilson	Wilson, John, minister of the Word.; Golborne, J.	1676 (1676)	Wing W2905; ESTC R218560	137,734	239

notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strenthened me and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lion 3. We may see why good men do not sink more under their distress It is strange they are not born down by the violence impetuousness of troubles and afflictions that abide them upon all occasions At how noble a rate are they through Christ strengthening them enabled to carry it rejoyce in hope glory in tribulations sing in prisons take joyfully the spoyling of their goods to thank God that they were thought worthy to suffer for his name imbraced the flames 2 Cor. 2. 14. Thanks be unto God which always caused us to triumph in Christ. Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory over death the grave and sin through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. 57. 4. This shews the madness of those that run from God by an evil heart of unbelief to secure themselves and bear themselves up with carnal confidences Cain departs from the presence of the Lord to outrun his fears Thus men expose themselves to sin and ruine and yet flatter themselves with the imagination that they are safe If dangers be nigh by compliance with evil sinful shifts for present outward security we are not to run from but to fly to him lay fast hold of him not let him go Nay we should cling closer to him and hold harder when evil approaches as a child would of the parent from whom it expected relief 2. Use of Exhortat In all our troubles let us have recourse to God Are we in danger of sin of despondency of ruine Let us get us to our Rock refuge fortress and strong tower to which the righteous fly and are safe His Counsels will mightily avail us in our perplexities and multitudes of dissatisfied thoughts Let us trust him with all our concernments for he is a buckler to them that put their trust in him He will stand between them and danger Let us encourage our selves in God be of good courage be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Put on resolution that nothing shall drive us from God rejoyce in the Lord and joy in the God of our salvation though we meet with disasters and disappointments Love and praise God for his help and the health of his countenance for this end God doth turn the mourning of his people into dancing he puts off their sackcloth and girds them with gladness that they may sing praise to him and not be silent Psal. 30. 11 12. Use 3. of Consolation What abundance of encouragement doth this doctrine afford how may it strengthen weak hands and confirm doubting hearts Walk out and be delighted with this abundance of respect honour and advantage that is done to you by Gods upholding you by the right hand Here is encouragement against infidelity fears sorrows Fear not be not dismay'd the Lord is your God the holy one of Israel your Saviour God is a refuge to you a strength to you a very present help in trouble what need you fear though the earth be moved God is with his people they shall not be moved God shall help them and that right early When the Devil accuseth them because of their sin they have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous 1 John 1. 2. Who shall lay any thing therefore since Christ is the propitiation to the charge of Gods elect It is God that justifieth that hath accepted of the satisfaction of Christ and that ransom paid as appears by the resurrection of him from the dead and his exaltation Who can condemn since Christ died is risen again and maketh intercession for us Rom. 8. 33. c. God having declared the remission of sins that are past Rom. 3. 25. Satan hath nothing to alledge against the elect and called of God that are found in him Not having their own righteousness which is of the Law but the righteousness of Christ which is by faith So that the life they live is by the faith of the Son of God What hath Satan to say For what the Law could not do in that it is not able to answer its demands and therefore it was weak through the flesh that Christ by taking up our flesh hath done so that the righteousness of the Law which could not be fulfilled by might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit What comfort doth it speak to Jerusalem when it is proclaimed that her iniquities are pardoued How tenderly did God proceed with Israel in the way of his gracious providences with them God alone led them he kept them as the apple of his eye Deut. 32. 10. God taught Ephraim to go taking him by the hand Hos. 11. 3. Takes that pains to bring up nourish instruct defend his people as a careful nurse would her little one and about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness Acts 13. 18. which some read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 changing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into its aspirate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and using a word that signifies his nursing care of them however God did bear with their childishness ignorance peevishness Such love bears God to all his Saints therefore lift up your heads the Lord your redeemer is at hand He will see that your faith fail not that your patience hold out The Lord will stand at your right hand to assist you in every good work and office and he will deliver from every evil work and will preserve you blameless unto his heavenly Kingdom You have the same encouragement to uphold your hearts that the Saints and holy men of old had that were strong in faith and gained a good report for their faith The word of God that upholds the Heaven and Earth may uphold your hearts It is impossible that God should not be and then it is impossible that he should lye and he hath promised and given the greatest security that you might have strong consolation who fly for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before you SERMON V. Psalm 73. 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy Counsel here and after receive me to glory THe former Verse I have dispatched and told you when I first pitched my thoughts upon the preceding words I did intend to proceed no further but the truths following are so sweet that I intend a farther prosecution The Psalmist in the preceding words having given an account of Gods gratious supporting of him in trouble draws this comfortable inference that he would yet favour him with farther kindnesses Thou shalt guide me by thy counsel For in such sort doth God sometimes dispense his blessings to his servants he doth not only afford them present relief but future mercy So it happened with this good man Asaph In time of trouble God supports in doubts fears and discontents he upholds and God at this time did not only support him but yield him evidences of

had need of patience that after they have done the will of God they may receive the promises But yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Heb. 10. 36 37. Their miseries shall have bounds and an end They shall not always be sighing under their burdens● sobbing out their complaints there is a rest after all their travels a land flowing with milk and honey with rivers of pleasures for a dry and barren wilderness The wickedness of the wicked will come to an end the Devil may rage and roar and raise persecution and they suffer tribulation ten daies Rev. 2. 10. The Devils Agents have their hour Luke 22. 53. This is your hour and the power of darkness Nay all the calamities of the people of God are light and but for a moment if compared with eternity of glory 2 They shall be upheld and kept from eternall destruction The ungodly shall not stand in judgment nor sinners in the Congregation of the righteous Psal. 1. 5. They shall be cast and fall in the trial when the assembly of the first-born shall stand and be acquitted and received into those everlasting and blessed habitations with a happy welcome Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you They shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation 2 Pet. 1. 5. 2. Having shown what God upholds his people from in the next place we shall shew by what God upholds them 1. By his own immediate hand without the interposition or ministry of his creatures as Christ caught Peter sinking This is called Gods creating of their happiness that they may be glad and rejoyce in that which he doth create when he creates Jerusalem a rejoycing brings about the prosperity of his people when there is nothing of sufficiency or disposition in matter and means to produce such an effect When by his Fiat he commands deliverance for Jacob. And although some creatures are made use of they are such as are inconsiderable and ineffectual without miraculous power to cause any thing of this nature and conduce the least naturally towards their deliverance nay it may be contrary to their nature and above their ordinary power they are commanded to their service and answer Gods command The sea is taught to distinguish between the Egyptians and Israelites and made a way for the ransomed to pass over Elijah is fed by a Raven When Daniel is thrown into the den the hungry Lions Forget their hunger and cruelty The vermine plague Egypt and trouble not Goshen At the sound of the rams horns and the shout of Israel the walls of Jericho fall God has secret and invincible ways of conveying relief to his people They cannot be in so close a prison so begirt with danger but he can come to them comfort and deliver them manifest that help and salvation is from the Lord. He sends in his comforts to them that can pass through guards and iron gates unseen unheard and not to be resisted which their enemies cannot hinder them of and these they cannot take away from them Hos. 2. 14. When he hath brought them into the wilderness he speaks comfortably to them he sends an encouraging message to Paul Be of good cheer and in the multitudes of their thoughts within them his comforts delight their souls Psal. 94. 19. 2. God upholds his people by his word whereby he affords them instruction encouragement and comfort When they are in distress they betake them thither as to a Sacred Directory and are preserved from evil Psal. 17. 4. By the words of thy lips I have kept me from the path of the destroyer Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee Psal. 119. 11. They go to the word as a Sanctuary and in the word the Psalmist took sanctuary against his fears Psal 73. 17. He was perplexed till he came into Gods Sanctuary Some by Sanctuary do understand Heaven till he thought of heaven he was not satisfied Others by Sanctuary understand the place where Gods word was read and unfolded and there are that by Sanctuary will have the word of God to be meant Though Asaph might not mean the word by Sanctuary yet it was the word in the Sanctuary which afforded him comfort and resolution in that great perplexity And this was Davids comfort in his affliction the word of God quickned him Psal. 119. 50. 3. God upholds them by his creatures his Angels his ministers and their brethren in tribulation and suffering Our Lord himself was strengthned by an Angel Luke 22. 43. and Heb. 1. 14. Are they not ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of Salvation By his Ministers he doth mightily uphold and strengthen them They are given for the perfecting of the Saints for the edifying of the body of Christ till they come to a perfect man the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Eph. 4. 12 13. VVe are helpers of your joy saith the Apostle to the Corinthians not exercising Lordship over your saith 2 Cor. 1. 24. What mighty confirmation were Paul and Barnabas to the Churches Acts 14. 22. They returned to Lystra Iconium and Antioch confirming the souls of the Disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith The people of God are mutually helpful for the establishing of one another Job did uphold many Job 4. 4. And Eliphas spoke true in saying That he had strengthned the feeble knees and weak hands and had upholden him that was falling And God blesseth some with special comforts that they may be a relief to others by their experiences and may tell what God hath done for their souls 2 Cor. 1. 4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may he able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we our selves are comforted of God 4. By his Providences which have been so signal and remarkable that have raised them out of their fears and revived their hope and confidence when their eyes have even failed with looking When mercies have come in which they have been almost ready to despair of And God hath turned the stream of affairs towards their relief and prosperity and brought about that which was improbable and they looked not for Thus Jacob was revived Genesis 45. 22. We come to the reasons Why God upholds his people And they are drawn 1. From the love of God His love to them is so great that they are called the beloved of his soul Jer. 12. 7. He hath more love care tenderness than the fathers of our flesh If they being evil know how to give good gifts unto their children how much more shall our heavenly Father give the holy spirit to them that ask him Luk. 11. 13. In correcting his people he sheweth more pitty and goodness For the Fathers of our flesh corrected us and for a few days chastened us after their own