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A73031	Certain godly and learned sermons, preached by that worthy seruant of Christ M. Ed. Philips in S. Sauiors in Southwarke: vpon the whole foure first chapters of Matthew, Luc. 11. vers. 24. 25. 26. Rom. 8. the whole, 1. Thess. 5. 19. Tit. 2. 11. 12. Iames 2. from the 20. to the 26. and 1. Ioh. 3. 9. 10. And were taken by the pen of H. Yeluerton of Grayes Inne Gentleman	Philips, Edward.; Yelverton, Henry, Sir, 1566-1629.	1607 (1607)	STC 19854; ESTC S114640	484,245	625

with Gods saints Heb. 10.35 that they haue done it in this respect as hauing regard to the recompence of reward set before them in a hope that cannot faile Let vs therfore not scrape so greedilie in the earth as the blind moles doe nor wallow our selues in the mire of this world like swine nor root our affections in the things of this life but let vs sigh with desire and wait with patience the generall redemption of the sonnes of God and restitution of the creatures to their first perfection at least let vs look to our owne particular departure out of this life for there is no priuiledge nor protection can come from the court of heauen but depart we must and how soone we know not the Diuell would faine take vs in the lurch and the world will intice vs to deferre the buying of oyle for the keeping of our lampes burning till the Lord do knocke Mat. 25.10 but let vs euer be furnished for the way let our faith hold vs and our hope containe vs within the compasse and assurance of our saluation These be the daies of our pangs and pilgrimage happy shall that day be when we shall be deliuered and when our iourney shall be ended Heere we haue to walke a most tedious and craggy course happy shall that day be when we shall come to our heauenly country Heere wee sight a troublesome though no doubtfull com● happy shall that day be when wee shall be crowned as conq●●rors heere we sow with sorrow happy shall ●hat day bee w●●● we shall reape a plentifull and perpetuall haruest with much ●●y heere wee are full of wounds and our eies stand full of teares happy shall that day be when our wounds shall be healed and our teares wiped away ROM chap. 8. vers 26.27 verse 26 Likewise also the spirit helpeth our infirmities for wee know not what to pray as we ought but the spirit it selfe maketh request for vs with sighes which cannot be expressed verse 27 But he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the meaning of the spirit for he maketh request for the Saints according to the will of God THE Apostle proceedeth to minister consolation in all those afflictions we must passe thorow and sheweth that there is no cause wee should shrinke or faint since we are maintained and supported by a heauenly power against which the gates of hell cannot preuaile for the Lord doth assist vs by the holie Ghost which doth excite and stirre vp in vs gronings that is heauenly praiers which doe reach and pierce the very throne of God which being made according to his will we must needs obtaine whatsoeuer we shall request In the words obserue three things first generally that the ●●●ly Ghost doth relieue vs in our infirmities and weaknesse se●●ndly by what meanes he doth it namely when we are low brought by stirring vp in vs such vehement and feruent praiers as cannot proceed from any naturall man nor the power of man but from a power farre aboue man thirdly the powerfull working of these praiers namely that being made according to Gods meaning the Lord must needs shew himselfe exorable and to be intreated and it is not possible they can returne emptie from the throne of grace For the first consider that it were impossible for vs to stand one minute if no other power did sustaine vs but flesh and bloud for euen in the choisest of Gods children faith is verie weake and our hope verie wearie and flesh and bloud through selfe loue desireth ease and doth mone it selfe and is fearefull to see or to suffer the crosse yea Sathan doth buffet vs by our inward infirmities for sinne lieth heauie within vs and this maketh vs to grone outward afflictions make the flesh to smart the world tempteth vs on both hands one way with the peace of the wicked another way with the troubles of the godly alluring vs to the vaine glistering shewes of the one and terrifying vs from the ghastfull and hideous sight of the other So as hauing sinne within vs Sathan without vs and the world about vs all enemies to the peace and rest of our soules euerie houre should we perish were we not supported by the mightie hand of this inuisible spirit and therefore flesh and bloud hath no cause to be proud but ought in trueth to glory in it owne weaknesse because it hath such an helper and so strong an helper and so certaine a helper as is this spirit which is nothing else then the very power of God himselfe as it was said to Paul My grace is sufficient for thee Further in that it is said He helpeth our infirmities obserue that hee doth not free vs fully from them or remooue them fully from vs but hee doeth onely helpe and releeue vs in them And this is that Christ praied for in his bitter agonie Iohn 17.15 I praie vnto thee Father saith hee not that thou wouldest giue them an exemption and freedome from trials but that they may bee so kept from euill as euer they may finde some comfortable deliuerance So in another place Christ saith vnto his Apostles Mat. 9.15 that when the Bridegroome was with them they could not mourne hee sparing them for that time but afterward he saith Hitherto haue yee liued in peace haue ye a sword if not buy one for tribulation shall come and then he said A little while I will be from you that is during the time of my death but I will send a better comforter and then followeth The world shall reioyce but ye shall mourne mourne though ye haue a comforter but not mourne vntill ye haue a comforter which setteth forth the riches of the Lords mercie that prouideth a remedie before we receiue the wound and layeth himselfe as it were in our bosome before he sendeth vs cause of sorrow To this purpose is that Paul speaketh 2. Corinth 4 8 9. we are afflicted on euery side yet not in distresse in doubt but we despaire not persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but perish not because by the same spirit that was in Christ the inward man is renewed daily And this was the answer which Paul himselfe receiued from God being sore buffeted by Sathan 2. Cor. 12.9 Content thy selfe saith the Lord my grace is with thee therefore striue thou and I will helpe thee This also is prefigured in the combat betweene the Angell and Iacob Gen. 32.25 who had his bone in his thigh shrunke but yet would not forsake his hold till he had a blessing So as by this combat we are sure to receiue such a blow as we shall halt all our liues after to this end that we may seeke for Iacobs staffe the blessing of the Lord to strengthen vs. And this was Moses comfort when his hands were faint and wearie in holding of them vp in prayer so that they fell downe Exod. 17.12 then did the spirit of the Lord support

certainely set downe but it is probable and likely that it was not till Mary had recouered the weaknes of her child-birth Secondly heerein consider the substance of the message containing these foure things first that Ioseph must take the babe and his mother hee doth not say his wife for the Angell had before satisfied him for that matter Secondly the place whither he must goe to Egypt the worst of all other Thirdly the time he should stay there set downe indefinitely till hee was called away Fourthly a reason of this commandement expressed to releeue the weaknesse of Ioseph though the commandement it selfe had been sufficient because Herod sought to destroy the child Out of the first circumstance of the time learne that God giueth and alloweth no long time of peace and truce to his seruants whom he will make mirrors of patience but hee sendeth one trouble in the necke of another that though the life of man be but as a tale told yet the estate of a Christian soule hath many fractions and interruptions before it can passe like the weauers shuttle through the web so as the breathing time which they haue had is but to enable them to further strength for that which succedeth Heere being in this place set downe how the Lord mingled the sweetnesse of the gifts brought to this babe by the men of Persia with the bitternesse of an immediate persecution by the hand of Herod the King to teach Ioseph and in him all of vs that when we haue had honour together with the profession of the Gospell we may not flatter and perswade our selues of the continuance of this but bee armed to stand to the truth and to the acknowledgement of the Lord Iesus both in honour and dishonour For Mary as she had this comfort to see the babe her sonne honoured and worshipped of these Wisemen so had she this sorrow and discomfort mixed therewithall in the night to trusse vp her furniture and to flie Thus fared it with her sonne at another time who Mat. 21.8 comming riding on the Sabboth to Hierusalem had acclamations and cries of the people Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord yea had the greatest glory that euer happened to any earthly Prince to haue garments strawed in the way for him to tread on thereby the more royally to entertaine him yet after all this within fiue daies he is exclaimed on and tumultuously they crie Crucifie him crucifie him his bloud be vpon vs and our children To teach vs that neither prosperity puffe vs vp nor aduersity cast vs downe knowing that it is the Lords will and pleasure that there should be an interchangeable course of these things As Simeon prophesied Luk. 2.35 that a sword should pierce Maries soule which euen now was fulfilled being commanded to take her heeles to teach her that she should not expect any great state in this life though she was the mother of the King of glory but that euen shee should be fashioned after her owne Sonne to come to a crowne by the crosse Heere then is condemned the daintinesse of those professors that will waite no longer at the Lords table then they may be fed from his trencher and which doe loue the practise of the Gospell onely for the peace of the Gospell For Ioseph may not bee discouraged though he bee driuen to flie with the Lord of life in his armes but heereby may he be secured of safety hauing his Sauiour with him And on this may we all rest that 〈◊〉 wee bee driuen to flight for the cause of Christ our feet shall 〈◊〉 leade vs to the wings of Christ where we shall be cherished euen in Egypt a place of darknesse and disdaine to the truth 〈◊〉 God For the second circumstance which is the place wither they must flie it cannot be thought but Ioseph was distracted and wearied with sundry cogitations yea and perplexed with deepe sorrowes to see that this King of glorie must bee forced to flie from the cruelty of Herod and to such a place as was alwares an enemy to the Church of God Howbeit heerein wee may obserue how sometimes the Lord sheweth but a sparkle and portion of his power in the deliuery of his seruants though at other times hee openly sheweth himselfe for their protection in great glorie and maiesty as in the case of Eliah 2. King 1.9 when the souldiers came to him and scoffed him saying Man of God come downe presently the arme of God was made naked and fire came downe and consumed them So did the Lord deale with Elisha 2. King 6.18 who hauing discouered the secrets spoken in the King of Syriahs chamber the King in indignation sends foorth against one man hauing but Gehezi to wait on him and hoast of armed men to compasse the place where hee was and when they came thinking to haue caught him they were smitten with sudden blindnesse and Elisha in a holy zeale of Gods glory leadeth them to a city where but for him they had beene all slaine So Daniel chap. 6.7.22 he is put into the Lions denne sealed with the Kings owne signet as escape out he could not which since it is so the mouths of the Lions are shut that they cannot hurt him heere is maiesty but now Iesus his owne sonne he must flie and shall not be rescued by any immediate hand of his Father heere is a diuerse dispensation The children in the fire Dan. 3.22 though it consumed them that cast them in yet doe not their cloaths so much as smell of it and shall wee thinke that the hand of the Lord was now shortned or his power abated that hee could not haue wrought as mightily for the safety of his owne sonne God forbid Peter we see is cast into the gaole Act. 12.8 but the Angell of the Lord openeth the doore and bids him preach with confidence and ●hen hee was condemned the next day to bee executed lying ●ound with two great chaines the Angell with one blow vnloo●eth them both bringeth him through the souldiers and an iron gate flieth open to giue him passage So Paul Act. 16.26 he is deliuered by an earth-quake that shakes the prison and the gouernours are faine to intreat him to go foorth Thus can the praiers of Gods seruants obtaine the ministery of Angels to disarme the power of Sathan and to frustrate the malice of the wicked Howbeit on the other side how the Lord suffereth as it were his power to bee blasted vnder a wonderfull kind of infirmity wee haue equall examples in the Scripture We see Eliah 1. King 19.3 that before could command fire from heauen must now flie from the face of Iezabel and is driuen to such an exigent that hee cries out vnto the Lord euen to take away his life So the spies that came to see Iericho Iosh 2.4 and were sent from Ioshua the Lieutenant of God to take possession of the land of Canaan so