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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86578	The pillar and pattern of Englands deliverances. Presented in a sermon to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen, with the several companies of the City of London, in their solemn meeting at Pauls on the Lords Day, Novem. 5. 1654. Being also the first Sabbath after his Lordships entrance upon his majoralty. / By Thomas Horton Doctor in Divinity, and professor thereof in Gresham-Colledge London.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1654 (1654)	Wing H2878; Thomason E815_1; ESTC R202560	28,310	47

these or those men as against the Truth which is professed by them and the Worship which they give themselves to from whence God himself is interested in the protection of them So blessed and happy a thing is it to be found in good ways and to be maintaining of good causes that whiles we stir for the promoting of them we defend our selves because we make God a party with us so that he cannot forsake us but he must deny himself Therefore there is no Inchantment against Jacob because there is no Device against God There is no wisdom nor counsel nor understanding against the LORD Prov. 21.30 They that plot against the Church they plot against God himself his Cause and Truth and Worship and all that is his and how can they think to prosper or succeed in it But so much of the first Acception of the words Jacob and Israel taken mystically or representatively for the whole Church The second is 2 National as taken Nationally as pointing out that particular Church and State and People of the Jews for so the words do commonly import in Scripture and there is a Truth in the Proposition so likewise That all endeavors as against the whole Church in general so against any Church or State or Nation whatsoever in particular which God does own and take into his protection they are in vain also It was the privilege of these people of Israel that they were the Darlings and beloved of God The Lord chose them from all other Nations and People beside in the World to be a peculiar people to himself and his own inheritance Now these notwithstanding does Moab here let themselves against but vainly and with no success at all Those whom God will bless they shall be blessed maugre all opposition to the contrary How shall I curse whom God hath not curst or how shall I defie whom the Lord hath not desied says Balaam himself to this purpose vers 8. of this Chapter Happy is the people that is in such a case yea blessed is the people whose God is the Lord says the Psalmist Psal 144.13 And again Psal 33.12 Blessed is the NATION whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own Inheritance They are blest and blest by God and whiles they are so no cursings of men shall reach them or prevail against them That is the second sense of the words as taken Nationally The third is 3. Personal as taken Personally Jacob and Israel they are the Proper Names of one man and they carry a Truth in them so teaching us thus much from them That God does not onely take care of the whole Church in general to preserve that but also of every private Soul and Member of it in particular God takes care not onely of Nations but of persons not of Israel onely but of Jacob. Take notice of that And this he does whether as to keep them from the Attempts of Satan himself or of his Instruments For Satan himself Christ has vanquished him and beaten him already not onely for himself in his personal conflict with him but also for all his members which are related to him Luk. 22.32 And so for his Instruments they shall not prevail neither against those which are good in their particular persons Let it be as to Sorcery and Witchcraft and Inchantment taken in the letter there is for this a great security upon them or as to any thing else besides they are in that also under a Providence The times of the Servants of God are in his hand and their lives are at his disposing so that none can take them away but as he pleases Act. 18.10 Fear not Paul for I am with thee and none shall set upon thee to hurt thee for I have much people in this City God preserves all his Servants but especially any as they are of more publick and greater imployment Magistrates and Ministers and the like He hath a double fence for them to guard them and protect them from evill and the assaults of evill men from evill hands from evill tongues and from evill devices Psal 31.19 20. Thus much of the words also personally And so much likewise of them in the simple and absolute proposition The second is in the Reduplication II. In the Reduplication Not onely no inchantment against Jacob but besides No divination against Israel the same Truth repeated in a diversity and variety of expression and that for this reason especially to shew the certainty of the thing it self as in Pharaohs dream which was doubled because the thing was established Even so it was here It was a resolved and determined case and that also upon the experiences even of Balak and Balaam themselves they had endeavored it again and again as to the undertaking of it to curse them here and to curse them there to double curses upon them and here now accordingly they have a double acquittance from it in the ingemination of the phrase that so there might be no question made of it but be received for an undoubted Truth it is therefore double Now therefore are we answerably to entertain it The Improvement and to be perswaded of it and to it improve it to the best advantage that may be 1 For Comfort It is a point of singular comfort and incouragement to the people of God that the case is thus with them that whiles they dwell in the secret place of the most High they abide under the shadow of the Almighty Psal 91.1 That they are secured and protected by God himself from the Assaults and Attempts of Enemies plotting against them who though they may use their endeavors yet shall not prevail or if at one time yet not at another They may prevail a little for a while to encourage them and harden them so much the more in an evil course and to further their destruction but they shall not prevail at last so as to get the better of the Church This shall not be granted unto them They may prevail over a party but they shall not prevail over the whole Generation and company of the people of God They may prevail over the Preacher but they shall not prevail over the Truth over the Person but not over the Cause over the life but not over the heart and spirit this they shall not do Which further in the next place 2 For Terror serves for a word of amazement to all such persons as those are which set themselves against them that they do herein but lose their labor yea which is worse conspire against themselves Thus Psal 37 12 13. The wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth but the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is a coming He that fitteth in the Heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision Men may laugh sometimes at that which they do not understand and