Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
truth_n lord_n see_v way_n 3,559 5 4.5377 4 true
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A57132 The brand pluck'd out of the fire a sermon preached before the lord major, aldermen, and companies of London on Novemb. 5 at Pauls by Edward Reynolds. Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676. 1659 (1659) Wing R1240; ESTC R32283 17,217 44

There are 2 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

little mercy which was in one of these bloody men to snatch one brand out of this fire quenching the flame which would have devoured all the rest so inconsistent was this villany with a dram of mercy And all this not for our worthinesse but for his own free grace because he loved England and chose it for a place to set his Name in And blessed be his Name that notwithstanding all Romish attempts and machinations we have had his presence and the true reformed Religion in the midst of this Nation for now a full hundred yeares for so long it is from Novemb. 17. 1658. since Queen Mary died and that glorious Princes Elizabeth succeeded in her Throne In this moneth were her fires quenched and in this moneth was this fire quenched the eyes of the Lord running through the earth to shew himself strong in behalf of this poor Nation And now what remaines but being thus delivered and yet through Gods mercy in the possession of the reformed Religion the Lord knows how long that yet may last we should betake our selves to the duties here mentioned by the Prophet 1. To stand before the Lord to have our eye still upon him to attend his Will to listen to his Commands to waite on his Worship to aime at his Glory to have our mouthes and hearts filled with the praises of his Name who hath made us not as fire-brands pluckt out of the burning Amos 4. 11. but preserved from it 2. To put off our filthy garments to bewaile the woful provocations of all orders of men amongst us to make hast and be zealous to purge the house of God of those sad corruptions which have defaced it and of that woful leaven of heresie which threatens to sowre the whole lump 3. To get change of raiment to be cloathed with the garments of praise with the long white Robe of Christs righteousnesse that our nakednesse be not discovered to worship the Lord in the beauties of Holinesse 4. To walk in Gods wayes and to keep his Charge to be zealous and conscionable in all our peculiar duties to hold fast those wholesome truths which the Lord hath so long continued unto us We know how busie forraigne Emissaries are who are said to swarme among us under a disguize and in a mysterious way to infuse their doctrines into the mindes of credulous and seduced people We see what hideous errours are every where broached what contempt is poured out upon a learned and faithful Ministry What dishonour is cast upon Magistrates as if it belonged not either to their power or duty to take care either of the truth or worship of God in their Territories What immense and boundless licence men take to write print publish the most horrid opinions without check or controle what sad effects this infinite liberty hath produced in some Atheisme in others Scepticisme in others Apostacy in others sad divisions jealousies animositites scarce any face left of that Christian love and holy communion which heretofore shined in the Assemblies of Professors What woful Symptomes we have of Gods threatning to remove our Candlestick and his Glory from us Calling home to himself many eminent Ambassadors in the Church laying aside many worthy and religious Patriots in the State exercising his Ministers that remaine with the reproaches and defamings of many our leaving our first love and former zeal for the truths of God The doleful confusions and changes in the State Governments changing as it were with the Moon up one moneth and down another Certainly it is through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts that a Land is darkned It is for the Transgression of a Land that many are the Princes thereof It was a forerunner of a final wrath amongst the ten Tribes when God left them to pull down one another Oh what need have we to be awakened to lay these things to heart to prepare to meet the Lord to do our first Works to revive the ancient communion of Saints to awaken the Spirit of prayer and to cry mightily unto God to spare his people and not to give his Heritage unto reproach To receive the truth in love and to contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered unto the Saints To use all holy endeavours in our places and stations to keep the glorious presence of the Lord still amongst us To prove all things and hold fast that which is good to try the spirits whether they be of God To provoke one another to speak often to one another not to forsake the assembling of our selves together It may be the Lord will return and repent and leave a blessing behinde him That so we whom the malice of Satan and wicked men would gladly make Brands may by Gods blessing be Trees of Righteousnesse the planting of the Lord that the spirit blowing upon our garden the Spices thereof may flow out and our beloved may delight in us and eat his pleasant fruit So shall the enemies of the Church alwayes finde that he whose name is the Branch will still be too hard for the furnace of Egypt for the staffe of the oppressor That he who is a Stone with Eyes will make his Church a burdensome stone to all that set themselves against it That he will so watch over this Land while it continues Immanuels Land that we shall still as the Prophet Isaiah speaks chap. 24. 15. Glorifie the Lord in the fires Even the Name of the Lord God of Israel in the Isles of the Sea FINIS Exod. 14. 19. Judg. 6. 11. Judg. 33. 3. Zach. 1. 8 11. Dan. 3. 28. Dan. 6. 22. Acts 27. 13. 2 Reg. 6. 17. Gen. 19. 1. The Vision Job 8. 15. 2 Reg. 18. 21. Ezek. 29. 6. Isa. 24. 17. Jer. 4● 11. Hos. 14. 3. Hos. 2. 6 7. Luke 15. 16 17 18. 2 Chron. 20. 12 Isa. 36. 6. Zach. 5. 8. Zeph. 2. 2. Joshua standing as a servant Aristot. politic lib. 1. cap. 4. Depositum Custodi quod tibi creditum est no● quod a tè inven●um quod accepisti non quod excogitasti rem non ingenii sed doctrinae Vincent Lyrinensis Acts 4. 20. As a defendant Satan standing As a Tempter As an Accuser Impii diabolum habent primo suggestorem dei● tortorem Cyprian de Iejunio Tentat Una civitas una Civitas Babylonia una Hierusalem una illa R●ge diabolo ista Rege Christo c. Ang ii Psal. 61. Rev. 15. 3 17 14 19 16. Joh. 12. 31. ●oh 5. 14 15. Heb. 2. 10. Rev. 12. 7. Subsicuturis testationibus munimenta praestruimus Tert. de Baptismo c. 20. vid. Aug. Epist. 148. The Advocate for Joshua and his victory over Satan {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Homer Iliad Isa. 9. 6. Rom. 8. 33. 1 John 2. 1. 2 Cor. 12. 9. Heb. 7. 25. Luke 11. 21. 1 Tim. 1. 14. Psal. 68. 18. Job 29. 15. The foundation of the Victory 1. Gods gracious Election of Jerusalem 2. His deliverance of Joshua Isa. 9. 19. Prov. 28. 2. Amos 4. 12. Rev. 2. 5. Joel 2. 17. 2 Thes. 1. 10. Jude v. 3. 1 Thes. 5. 21. 1 Joe 4. 1. Heb. 10. 24. Mal. 3. 16. Joel 2. 14. Isa. 61. 3. Isa. 5. 7. Ezek. 47. 12. Cant. 4. 16. Zach. 3. 8. Deut. 4. 20. Isa. 9. 4. 14. 5. Zach. 3. 9. Zach. 12. 3. Isa. 8. 8.
THE BRAND Pluck'd out of the FIRE A Sermon Preached before the Lord Major Aldermen and Companies of London On Novemb. 5. at Pauls By EDWARD REYNOLDS D. D. LONDON Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard 1659. Amplissimis Praestantissimis Consultissimis Viris D. THO. ALEYN Honoratissimo Domino Praefecto MAGISTRATIBUS UNIVERSIS TOTIQUE SENATUI Celeberrimae Florentissimaeque Civitatis LONDINENSIS Concionem hanc coram ipsis habitam Ipsorumque jussu publici Juris factam In Honoris debitae observantiae TESTIMONIUM D. D. E. R. Zach. 3. 1 2. And he shewed me Joshua the high Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him And the Lord said unto Satan The Lord rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire THis Chapter is a Collection of comforts for the Church comforts present in the type Joshua the Brand comforts promised in the substance Jesus the Branch Comforts to Joshua the comfort of protection against adversaries ver. 1 2. The comfort of Honouring and adorning him for his Ministery and Office ver. 4 5. The comfort of Remuneration for his fidelity ver. 6 7. The words of the Text are a promise of protection revealed by the Angel published by the Prophet two excellent witnesses to a promise And indeed we seldome finde the Church in affliction but we finde an Angel with them With Israel when Pharaoh and his Host pursued them when they were in the hands of the Midianites when they were in the hand of the Philistines when they were in Babylon in the bottome amongst the mirtle trees with the three children in the furnace with Daniel in the Lions den with Paul in the shipwrack with Elisha when beset with an Army at Dothan with Lot in the midst of Sodom the Angel of the Lord is round about those that fear him to deliver them Psal. 34. 7. He shewed me Ioshua Israel returned but from two Captivities from Egypt and from Babylon and in both we find a Joshua imployed one to possesse them of Canaan another to re-edifie the Temple It was not without a great mystery to note unto us that there is no deliverance without a Jesus no Name but that under heaven by which we can be saved Act. 4. 12. He alone delivered us from the wrath to come 1 Thes. 1. 10. Joshua the High-Priest He is seldome mentioned alone without Zerubbabel as Ezra 3. 2 8. 4. 3. 5. 2. Nehem. 12. 1. Hag. 1. 1 12 14. Hag. 2. 2 4. As in their returne out of Egypt they were led by Moses and Aaron Psal. 77. 20. so in their return out of Babylon they were led by Zerubbabel and Ioshua and being returned these two were to engage themselves in the work of building the Temple Ezra 5. 2. And indeed Temple-work doth never go prosperously on but when the Ministry of the Priest is backed and encouraged with the authority of the Magistrate As it was by Nehemiah Hezekiah and other good Princes And therefore they are enemies to the building of Gods house who go about to perswade the Magistrate that he hath nothing to do with matters of Religion that it belongs not either to his power or duty to take care that purity of truth and worship be preserved within his territores of whom notwithstanding it is prophecied that they should be nursing Fathers to the Church Isa. 49. 23. and truly they are none of the best Nurses that suffer their children to have poison as freely offer'd them as milk or wholsome meat There is something in it that we finde Joshua here alone Satan would do mischief to any one whom God honours and imploys But his notable malice is against Religion and the building of the Temple If there be any more special instrument of that then other him in speciall manner he opposeth the more spiritual the service the more resisted by the Devil The true Jesus whereof our Joshuah was a type was no sooner called by God to build his house for so it was said of him that he should do Zach. 6. 13. but we finde him assaulted by the Tempter Mat. 4. 1. Of all works this is the work which Satan most desires to oppose as the Apostle intimates 1 Thes. 2. 18. Standing Both Tanquam Servus and Tanquam Reus 1. As a servant to Minister unto the Angel So much the word standing frequently importeth attending upon a Ministry Deut. 10. 8. 17. 12. 1 King 17. 1. Heb. 10. 11. whereby is noted 1. Reverence to the Lord whom he served 2. Readinesse to receive his commands 2. As a Defendant who being accused stands up to answer for himself the Judge fate and the people stood Exod. 18. 13. Actor and Reus were wont to stand together before the Judge Who will contend with me Let us stand together Isa. 50. 8. to intimate possibly in either the confidence of a just cause therefore it is said of the ungodly that they shall not stand in judgement Psal. 1. 5. Joshua was in filthy garments yet God imploy'd him and Satan accused him How low soever our condition be God thinks not scorne to use us in his service Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings he hath ordained praise He will be served as well in rags as in robes And how low soever our condition be Satan would have us lower from robes to rags from rags to nakednesse His malice is like hell without any bottome The truth is it is not robes or rags that trouble him but that whether in the one or the other we do any way stand before the Lord and minister unto him Before the Angell of the Lord namely the Angel of Gods presence Isa. 63. 9. the Angel of the Covenant Mal. 3. 1. He is the Lord of the House and Joshua his servant Heb. 3. 6. Mat. 24. 45. He is the Judge over the House Acts 10. 42. and Joshua his Subject And in both capacities he stands before him to execute the commands of his Lord to answer the accusations of his adversary And Satan standing at his right hand the right hand seemes to have been the place of the Accuser Psal. 109. 6 7. And it is the Hand of Action A wise mans heart is at his right hand Eccles. 10. 2. he doth what he doth heartily as to the Lord Satan hopes if he speed not at accusing he shall at resisting that he shall prevaile either as an Adversary or a Tempter But here is Joshua's comfort though Satan be at his right hand to tempt God also is at his right hand to support him Psal. 16. 8. He an Accuser at our right hand and Christ an Advocate at Gods right hand 1 Joh. 2 1 2. To Resist him or to accuse him To Resist him in his Ministry to accuse him for his failings What these failings were