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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59878	A sermon preached at White-Hall, before the Queen, on the 17th of June, 1691 being the fast-day / by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing S3349; ESTC R15763	14,452	35

Christ and his spiritual Seed those who are the Children of Abraham by Faith in Christ as he proves at large in the 9 10 11 Chapters to the Romans though he gives another answer to this too That though the Promises do no longer belong to Abraham's carnal Seed yet God so far remembers his Covenant with Abraham and his carnal Seed that he has not wholly cast them off but will in time engraft them into his Church again by Faith in Christ For out of Sion shall come the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. But I cannot enlarge on this now To apply this then to the times of the Gospel We certainly learn from God's Care of the Jewish Church that God will always preserve and protect the Christian Church that the true Faith of Christ and his true and sincere Worshippers shall never wholly fail in the World as Christ promises That the gates of hell shall not prevail against his Church for God established an everlasting Covenant with Abraham and his Seed that is with Christ and the Christian Church who are the true spiritual Seed of Abraham to whom the Promises belong and if God so punctually performed his Promise to the carnal Seed of Abraham while they were to be his visible Church until Christ came who was the promised Seed we learn by that Example how he will protect defend and support the Christian Church to the end of the World till Christ the promised Seed return again to Judge the World to put an end to all Things and to receive his Church into the Kingdom of his Father To this we owe the Continuance and Preservation of the Christian Church to this Day amidst all the Dangers which have threatned its final Ruin when the Church is tossed on the foaming Billows of this World like the Ship into which Christ and his Disciples entred 8 Matth. 23 24 25. When there arose a great tempest in the sea insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves and Christ was asleep and his disciples came to him and awoke him saying Lord save us we perish And he saith unto them Why are ye so fearful O ye of little faith then he arose and rebuked the wind and the sea and there was a great calm This was a Figure and Emblem of the condition the Church is very often in in this World for most of our Saviour's Miracles had some spiritual significations in them His curing the Halt and Blind and Lame and Deaf represented his Diviner Power in curing the Diseases and Distempers of our Souls in making the Blind to see and the Deaf to hear and the Lame to walk and therefore when he cured the Man that was born blind he turned his Discourse to spiritual Blindness 9 John 39 40 41. When he had fed that great Multitude with a few loaves and small Fishes he discourses to them of that Bread that comes down from Heaven and will nourish them unto Eternal Life and which he only could give them 6 John when he discoursed with Martha about raising her Brother Lazarus from the Dead he preaches to her his Divine Power to raise dead Souls as well as dead Bodies into immortal Life 11 John 25 26. When the Disciples at Christ's command had cast their Net into the Sea after having toiled all night and taken nothing and encompassed a great multitude of Fishes he tells them the meaning of it that he would make them Fishers of Men. Thus here Christ's rebuking the Wind and Sea which were ready to swallow up the Ship wherein he and his Disciples were is a Figure of the State of the Church in this World and of his Readiness to Protect it How threatning soever the Dangers are Christ is in the Ship and all the Powers of the World how much soever they rage and foam can never swallow up that Ship wherein Christ is unless they can swallow Him up too and though he may seem to be asleep and to take no notice of the Sufferings and Dangers of his Church yet the importunate Prayers and Cries of his Disciples will awake him and then he will arise to their defence and hush the Winds and Seas into a Calm This the Church had frequent experience of under the Pagan Persecutions which raged with Fire and Sword and all the witty Arts of Cruelty when nothing would serve but the final Extirpation of the Name of Christians But how often did Christ rebuke the Wind and Sea and restore profound Peace and Rest to his Chuch What a glorious Triumph did he give his Church over the last and most terrible Efforts of the Pagan Powers when he raised Constantine into the Throne and made the Empire Christian And this is a very comfortable Consideration to us at this time The Protestant Churches which profess the Pure and Uncorrupt Faith and Worship of Christ as to all the essentials of Faith and Worship have now for many Years groaned under the Antichristian Tyranny and Persecutions and now at last and I hope it may be the last as it is the most terrible Insult of the Anti-christian Powers a Great and Mighty Prince bends his whole Force to root out the Protestant Name as well as to Usurp upon the Liberties of Europe What he has done in his own Country and where-ever his Power and Influence reached I need not tell you From some of his Subjects he has forced away their Faith others to keep their Faith have lost their Estates their Liberty their Country their Lives What danger we were in at Home we all saw and felt not long since though some Men would now perswade us it was but a Dream but it was a very terrible Dream if it was one and thanks be to God that we are awakened out of it and may we never fall into such frightful Slumbers more or rather let us neither be lulled asleep nor dream awake lest these frightful Dreams prove Realities at last For should that mighty Monarch prevail and like an irresistible Torrent bear all before him as some kind Friends to the Liberties of Europe and the Protestant Name and Interest wish and pray he may it requires not a Spirit of Prophesy to foretel what will become of Protestants But our Hope and Trust is in God that the true Christian Faith shall never be rooted out and I am as certainly perswaded that the Protestant Faith and Worship as to the Essentials of it and as opposed to Popery is the true Christian Faith and Worship as I am of the truth and certainty of Christianity itself and when I remember by what little beginnings and weak and contemptible means GOD spread the true Light of the Gospel over great part of the European World when it was covered with the Aegyptian Darkness and oppressed by the Unsupportable Tyranny of Popery notwithstanding all the Follies Divisions and Miscarriages of Protestants I cannot fear that God will cause our Sun to set again and that he