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A45242	Forty-five sermons upon the CXXX Psalm preached at Irwin by that eminent servant of Jesus Christ Mr. George Hutcheson.	Hutcheson, George, 1615-1674.	1691 (1691)	Wing H3827; ESTC R30357	346,312	524

their own hand so far are they from being neglected 〈◊〉 shall not insist any more on this there being something before my hand which I would speak at more length un-unto I know not if there be any among you that are loath to look out to those riches in the Promises but ye would know that hope in God is the allowance of all the Israel of God that on the nail fastned in a sure place and who is given as a glorious Throne to his Father's House not only will be hung the Vessels of Flagons but the off-spring and the issue and all Vessels of small quantity Isai 22.24 That in noticing his followers he will lose none he will despise none the dust shall be as near to his Footstool as the most eminent and things shall go well thou shalt not want so long as the supply is betwixt him and thee if he have thou needs not fear want these may much encourage them who look upon themselves as the out-wails and draiglers of the Flock and have not the confidence to look to the priviledges of the Children Thou ma● hope in God and lay claim to the Promises made to Israel as well as the most eminent Believer if thou be studying to be an Israelite indeed And this leads me to the 3d thing that I proposed to be spoken to upon this Head That is That however hope in God be the common allowance of all Israel great and small yet it is the allowance only of them who are Israelites indeed and therefore all that I have spoken hitherto concerning an allowance to hope in God will be of little purpose to thee and me except that we can make it out that we are of the Israel of God who are allowed to hope in him it is dangerous for dogs to take the childrens bread No but when folk endeavour to be children they may have hope but when they cheat themselves with hoping they are children and take a blind guess to lean to in stead of hope it is dangerous Remember what I marked in the morning from Rom. 9 6. That they are not all Israel which are of Israel there is a Jew outwardly and a Jew inwardly and there is a circumcision and baptism which is outward in the flesh and there is a circumcision and baptism which is inward of the heart in the Spirit and not in the letter a circumcision whose praise is of men and another whose praise i● not of men but of God Rom. 2.28 29. And therefore hope being the great cordial that is allowed to the Israel of God I would have all excited in order to the making of it sure to make sure work in this business to prove and try whether they be Israelites indeed upon whom this cordial is allowed and here if I should follow out this purpose at large it would lead me to give all the marks of Regeneration the marks of an Israelite indeed or if I should insist on these Characters of the true Circumcision that worship God in the Spirit rejoyce in Jesus Christ that have no confidence in the flesh Philip. 3.3 A man cannot get true Religion in shorter bounds nor in these words whether ye read them backward or foreward or both backward and foreward as bairns do the A B C. A true Israelite must have no confidence in the flesh all must be flesh to him that 's not Christ and he must deny all confidence in it whether they be fleshly priviledges or any thing but Christ and his renouncing confidence in the flesh should lead him to believe in Christ alone for Salvation and rejoyce in him and the truth of his rejoycing in Christ should appear in worshipping God in Christ with inward and spiritual affections And go backward his worshipping of God in Spirit leads him back to rejoyce in Christ Jesus for his salvation and his rejoycing in Christ leads him back to renounce all confidence in the flesh and to look upon believing in Christ as no hopeless bargain But I say if I should insist upon these I should digress too much on this Head Therefore in deciphering who are true Israelits that have ground of hope in God I shall confine my self to these two 1. The time and occasion of Jacob's getting the Name of Israel when he wrestles with God in prayer 2. The Epithet of a clean heart that is given to Israel Psal 73.1 A little to these two as time will permit For the first if ye will read the 32 of Genesis the first time Jacob got this name of Israel was when he is at Prayer with God and compare it with Hos 12.4 Ye will find some notable Characters of an Israelite indeed and especially of an Israelite or regenerat man when he should be at the exercise of Hope in particular difficulties and exigencies And first in general Jacob got that Name when he was at his Prayers that was the posture wherein he was when instead of Jacob he got the Name of Israel a prince and prevailer with God the Lord tells it him verse 28. He was a man who when he had any thing to do in the world he seyed God first with it he laboured to discuss all his difficulties at the Throne of Grace A Prayerless frame although it be not alwayes an evidence of a graceless man yet it is an evidence of a graceless frame wherein the ground of Hope is much under the water in a cloud and in the dark a Praying Supplicant is an Israelite indeed in nearest capacity to put forth Hope on God thou that can go through thy difficulties and not begin at God to discuss them to seek an account of thy pressures and griefs remember Sauls pretence 1 Sam. 13.12 For his sacrificing he would force himself and offer a burnt offering without Samuel before he made not supplication and intreated the Face of God for favour and peace now this of Prayer being the general the other particulars that follow will deduce it more distinctly 2. When he is called Israel he is at occasional Prayer Jacob as he was a godly man he had his ordinar addresses to God Isaac his Father had his times of going out to the fields to pray Gen. 24.62 and David at evening at morning and at noon will cry aloud Psal 55. ●7 But Jacob's ordinar diligence in prayer will not serve him when a particular emergent of Providence presses him but he then doubles his diligence we find him twice at it once verse 9. when he hears that Esau was coming against him he runs first to God by prayer and another application we find verse 24. when he had sent over his Goods and his Wives and Servants over the foord he falls a wrestling with the Angel of the Covenant until the break of day what shall I say to many Israelites in profession who have not an habite of ordinary conversing with God in prayer But what shall I say further to them who though they have

Psalm of David or that David was the Pen-man for these doubled Expressions vers 2. of this Psalm are used by him Psalms 54 55 and 61. and many others For the particular difficulty to which this Psalm relates it is not needful to determine what it was It may suffice us for taking up the scope of the Psalm in general that the Psalmist is in a Distress and being in a Distress ye will find him first Wrestling and then secondly Victorious For the first His Wrestling ye shall take it up in three Branches 1. Ye will find him wrestling with plunging Difficulties and Perplexities and these he expresseth under the name of Depths and the way he takes to win out of them is wrestling by Prayer vers 1 2. 2. Ye will find him wrestling with the Sense and Conscience of Guilt putting back his Prayer and Offering to crush his Hopes and this he wrestleth with by claiming to Pardon vers 3 4. 3. Ye will find him wrestling with Delays to his Answer of Prayers or Delays of the Outgate prayed for and this he wrestles with by Patience and Hope vers 5 6. Again in the last two Verses ye have him Victorious for having gotten an Issue he hoords it not up he does not conceal it but he brings it forth and improves it for the use of the People of God whom he encourageth to hope in God upon the account of Mercy and Pardon and plenteous Redemption and on the account of his redeeming Israel from all his Iniquities So much for the Scope and Partition of the Psalm To return to the first two Verses upon which I may be the more brief that I had occasion to speak to you before of the Troubles and Trials of Gods People of Prayer and Gods Answering Prayer yet we shall not pass this part but we shall endeavour to gather some things useful from it In this his Wrestling then take notice of these four things 1. Ye have that that the Psalmist is put to wrestle with which is expressed under the name of Depths 2. The way of his wrestling therewith out of the depths he cryed Out of the depths have I cried 3. Ye have him reflecting on this his Practice he takes a back-look of it and he avows it before God Out of the depths have I cried unto thee O Lord. 4. Ye have the prosecution of this his Wrestling or his pleading for Audience in a new and doubled Suit vers 2. Lord hear my voice let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications For the first of these the Depths out of which he cried I cannot accord to understand it thus that he prayed from the depths or bottom of his Heart So the Commentators I spoke of before understand it of that degree of Vertue which is profound Prayer from the inward parts or bottom of the Heart There is a truth in that I confess that Prayer should come from the bottom of the Heart and in Prayer we should write our Hearts on our Tongues but I find it not a Scripture Phrase that People are said to pray from the Heart when they cry out of the Depths Neither can I understand it of the Conscience of Sin only that as some would understand it he is under a deep of Despair upon the account of Guilt that he speaks of vers 3 4. and hath a promise of Redemption from vers 8. The word is Depths in the Plural Number and therefore it is safest to understand it more generally of plunging and sinking Difficulties both outward Trouble and inward Perplexity resulting thereon and of the Conscience of Guilt wakened up in Trouble that may come in under these Depths and this interpretation agrees best with the current of Scripture where we find the horrible Pit the Miry Clay Depths Deep Waters Water Floods made use of to hold out great Troubles as Psal 40.2 Psal 42.7 Psal 69.2 14 15. I shall here touch upon one Observation That not only the visible Church but even the truly Godly may be brought under plunging Difficulties and Perplexities both inward and outward to their great sinking or at least their apparent sinking They may be and are very often in the Depths and put to their Prayers in the Depths so it was with the Psalmist here and in these Psalms formerly cited And in prosecution of this point 1. I shall first speak a little to the Metaphor of Deep or Depths 2. How it comes to pass that the Lords People are brought to these Depths 3. To a word of Use First For the Metaphor of Deep or Depths I shall shortly offer what I conceive is the Import thereof in these four 1. That which is a deep is a thing very dark dig a Pit and make it deep the light of the day cannot penetrate into it Thus the unintelligible mysteries of Seducers are called Depths as Rev. 2.24 the depths of Satan spoken of Thus also the wise counsel of God that men cannot indagate are called Depths Psal 92.5 Thy thoughts are very deep and 1 Cor. 2.10 The Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God and thus also Ezek. 3.6 a people of a strange speech and of a hard language whose whose words the people could not understand are spoken of in the Original it 's a people of a deep Lip Deepness then imports Darkness Unintelligibleness that which is Mysterious And that this Notion is not strained even in this case of Trouble is clear from Hemans lament Psal 88.6 Thou hast laid me saith he in the lowest pit in darkness in the deeps where to be in Darkness and in the Deeps are exprest as Synonymous or one and the same And truly this is ordinarily incident to the People of God their deep Trials are in themselves so dark and in their effects so astonishing that they are often at a stand either to know what God says to them by them and hence are these Wherefores and Whys as to this or that which is come upon them as also in reference to their Duty as Jehoshaphat expresseth his Distress 2 Chr. 20.12 Lord we know not what to do But 2ly This Metaphor of a Deep or Depths as it imports that which is Dark and Unintelligible so it imports that out of which it is not easie to get up cast a Man upon the Ground he may easily get up but cast him in a deep Pit he can hardly get up out of it without help Some Emblem we have of this in Jeremiah chap. 38. where he is put into the Dungeon where there was no Water but Myre and he sunk in the Myre Ebedmelech had a hard task to get him up and the People of God their Troubles may be Depths upon that account Refuge may fail them no man caring for their Soul Psal 142.4 All hope that they shall be saved taken away as it is said by Paul in that Voyage Acts 27.20 all their expectations of an outgate may be crushed as Jer. 14.19