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truth_n	according_a	spirit_n	word_n	3,264	5	4.1172	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29734	The support of the faithful in times of persecution, or, A sermon preach'd in the wilderness to the poor Protestants in France by M. Brousson ... ; faithfully translated from the French.; Confiance du fidèle persécuté. English	Brousson, Claude, 1647-1697.; Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1699 (1699)	Wing B5003; ESTC R3102	18,703	32

our Faith and Patience to force us to have recourse to him in our Afflictions and to put our Confidence in him to make us taste of the Consolations of his Spirit and at the same time to convince us that his good Providence takes care of his Children in their Streights and Necessities and in fine to make us admire the wonderful Deliverances he vouchsafes to give them when they have profited by his Chastisements and have glorified him in the time of their Tryal And therefore now he says in our Text Fear not thou Worm Jacob and ye Men of Israel I will help thee saith the Lord and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel Now to understand well the Sense of these Words and of the other Prophecies of the old Testament we are to observe that since the Jewish Church was the Type of the Christian and the same things that befel the Jewish Church were to befal the Christian we must observe I say that though the literal Sense of the Prophecies of the Old Testament had respect to the Church of Israel after the Flesh yet their Mystical Sense relates to the Christian Church which is Israel after the Spirit and moreover that those ancient Prophecies have their chief and full Accomplishment no where but in the Christian Church They that take this remark along with them as they read these antient Prophecies will make wonderful Discoveries of what should fall out in the Christian Church In the general they 'l find there that the Christians would be corrupted by Prosperity as the Jews were before them That they would plunge themselves even in the Idolatry of the Gentiles and that afterwards these Idolatrous Christians would for a great while oppress the Faithful Servants of God that Worship him in Purity according to his Word but that God would relieve them at last and deliver them out of all their Troubles And to this purpose God speaks to his destitute People in the Verses afore my Text Fear thou not says he for I am with thee be not dismay'd for I am thy God I will strengthen thee yea I will help thee yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my Righteousness Behold all they that were incens'd against thee shall be ashamed and confounded They shall be as Nothing and they that strive with thee shall perish Thou shalt seek them and shalt not find them even them that contended with thee They that War against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of nought For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand saying unto thee Fear not I will help thee Whereupon he adds the Words of my Text Fear not thou Worm Jacob and ye Men of Israel I will help thee saith the Lord and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel I shall confine my self to the Mystical Sense of these Words and only examine them as they may relate to Christians And with the assistance of the Holy Spirit which I have already implor'd and do still with all my Soul I shall consider these two things 1. The Name God calls his Distressed People by Thou Worm Jacob Men of Israel 2. The Consolation he gives them in this their Destitute State Fear not says he I will help thee and thy Redeemer is the Holy one of Israel God grant my Beloved we may all meditate on these things with due attention to the end we may receive that Instruction and Comfort which the Spirit of God holds forth to us in these Words and is so necessary for us in this time of Distress wherein all that will serve God with Purity according to his word suffer a Cruel and Bloody Persecution I. God calls his People here Thou Worm Jacob or Jacob thou art but a Worm Now 1. When God calls his People Jacob he would have us consider them all but as one Man And in effect all the Faithful together compose but one mystical Body whereof Christ is the Head They are all united by the Holy Spirit they are all Members of one another therefore they ought to live in perfect unity and like the Primitive Christians love one another so entirely as to be but one Heart and one Soul 2. True Christians are called Jacob because they are the Posterity of Jacob after the Spirit and Heirs of his Faith and Piety and of the Promises which God made to him of old Jacob parted with the food that perisheth that he might obtain the Blessing of his Father and that of his God together with the Heavenly enjoyments thereto annex'd In like manner the Faithful ought to abandon all Earthly Advantages that they may have a share in the Glory and Felicity of Heaven 3. Believers are call'd Jacob because their condition in this Life is like that of Jacobs For as Jacob who was born after the Spirit was heretofore Persecuted by Esau his Elder Brother that was born after the Flesh So Faithful Christians that are Christians after the Spirit are likewise persecuted by Antichristians who are Christians after the Flesh These wicked false Christians reproach us every now and then that we are but of Yesterday The truth is more Ancient than they But with respect to our Reformation which is our Spiritual Birth we grant they are in a sort older than we as Esau was older than Jacob. But then as I told you before they are born after the Flesh as Esau was and we after the Spirit as Jacob was and that is the reason they persecute us And this is no new thing Abel that was born after the Spirit was persecuted to Death by his Elder Brother Cain who was born after the Flesh The same may be said of Isaac the Heir of the Promise who was likewise persecuted by his Elder Brother Ishmael that was born after the Flesh So likewise the Prophets of old who serv'd God with purity according to his word were persecuted by the Jewish Church when it was fallen into Idolatry We ought not therefore to be surprized that at this time we who adore God in Spirit and in Truth according to his Commandments are in like manner persecuted by a corrupted and Idolatrous Church Moreover the People of God are not simply call'd Jacob but Thou Worm Jacob. And in effect my Friends we are but Worms of the Earth in the presence of our God whose greatness knows no bounds for he fills the Heavens and the Earth Heaven is his Throne and the Earth is his Footstool We are but dust and Ashes in comparison of our great God nay we are less than the small dust of the Ballance Therefore he calls us Worms that we may always remember our misery and nothingness that we may always humble our selves in his sight and never violate that respect which is due to his Sovereign Majesty But evermore be possessed with a Religious awe in his presence Further we are but Worms in comparison of our Enemies For generally the Faithful are weak and despicable