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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28659	A doore of hope, also holy and loyall activity two treatises delivered in severall sermons, in Excester / by Iohn Bond ...; Doore of hope	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1641 (1641)	Wing B3569; ESTC R23253	104,423	165

made knowne when their hypocrisie deceipts malice c. doe begin to be discovered then 't is very probable that they shall not proceed any further their market is marred And is it not so with our Enemies at this time their vailes vizards maskes and periwigs are plucked off so that men see them in their colours Secondly they are met withall and crossed even by a Divine hand in all their plots projects and conspiracies As the Prophet Elisha directed the King of Israel to meet with the King of Syria in all his stratagems 2 Kin. 6. v. 8. to ver 13. Then the King of Syria warred against Israel and tooke counsell with his servants saying in such a place shall be my camp And the man of God sent unto the King of Israel saying Beware that thou passe not such a place for thither the Syrians are come downe And the King of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of and saved himselfe there not once nor twise Therefore the heart of the King of Syria was sore troubled for this thing and he called his servants and said unto them will ye not shew me which of us is for the King of Israel And one of his servants said none my Lord ô King but Elisha the Prophet that is in Israel telleth the King of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber Now when the bed-chamber counsels of traiterous Enemies doe come abroad 't is a signo that they are declining apace Exod. 14.24 ver 25. The Aegyptians we know were mirrours of incurable stubbornnesse against the Lord and yet even they when they saw that their hoast was troubled and that their Chariot wheeles were taken off so that they drave them heavily even they do confesse 't is time to flee from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them against the Aegyptians And so 't is reported of those Spaniards that came against England in that Armado in Eighty eight that seeing the windes and seas and all against them they cryed out that God was turned Lutheran ô me thinkes the present factions of Papists Anti-Deliverancers and Anti-Reformists they might as well imagine now that the Lord God is turned Covenanter and Puritan I take the word so as those men doe usually abuse it Act. 14 14. And for mine owne part after the way which many persons doe call Puritanisme so desire I to worship the Lord God of my Fathers But this is a second signe of their tottering and of our standing upright Thirdly which followeth from both the former they doe grow weaker continually both in their party 2 Sam 3. v. 1. and in their spirits 'T is said There was long warre betweene the house of Saul and the house of David but David waxed stronger and stronger and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker Yea and in Sauls owne particular case 1 Sam. 28. v. 15 see how spirit-falne he is when his destruction approacheth And Samuel said to Saul why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up And Saul answered I am sore distressed for the Philistines make warre against me and God is departed from me and answereth me no more neither by Prophets nor by dreames ver 20. therefore I have called thee that thou mayest make knowne unto me what I shall doe And after hearing his doome from the Divell Then Saul fell straight way all along on the earth and was sore afraid because of the words of Samuel and there was no strength in him But you will say nay Ob. rather the Enemies now doe grow more desperate and couragious No Answ there is a vast difference betwixt desperatenesse and valour though for the first fit they may seeme to be alike There is great oddes betwixt the playing of Fishes in the pond and their frisking in the kettle though both may seeme alike Desperate attempts are sure badges both of a conquered man and a coward for though dead men cannot bite yet dying persons doe bite most deadly These are grounds of Probability from the Enemies But from the Church and the Reforming party Ground 2 we may gather Arguments quite contrary to all these three For 1. Their Counsells doe prosper like that of Hushai against Achitophel And Absalon and all the men of Israel said 2 Sam. 17. v. 14 the counsell of Hushat the Archite is better then the counsell of Ahitophel for the Lord had appointed to defeat the counsell of Ahitophel And 2. They are now more and more Honourable before all tollerable men as was Joseph Gen. 41. v 39. comming out of prison Dan. 6. v. 28. and Daniel out of the den of Lyons Yea the hand of the Lord is upon them for good as it was with the same Joseph and Daniel 3. In short both their party and their spirits doe in a comfortable degree increase and grow continuall as it was with the house of David before mentioned 3. Ground 3 Probable ground of Deliverance and Reformation are the Lords Ingagements in this businesse and these are of two sorts First his Ingagements to the worke it selfe as an helper Auxiliary or beginner and these ought to support our hopes not a little It is an Argument with which I find the Saints in Scripture doe much stay their hopes and presse the Lord in times of great provocation and perill As when they had committed that great sinne in making a Calfe and the Lord had a kinde of desire to consume them Exod. 32. v. 9. ver 10 11 12 yet Moses useth this Argument to appease wrath and to continue preservation and doth obtaine his request 2 Chro. 20.1 2 So when Jehoshaphat was in triple danger there were three Nations to one against him but he giveth himselfe to prayer and a maine argument of his prayer is set downe to be this ver 5 6 7. Art not thou our God who didst drive out the Inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever Lo with how many Relations and Ingagements doth he there presse the Lord His Relations doe lye in these wordes Our God thy people and the seede of Abraham thy friend The Ingagements in these words Thou didst drive out the inhabitants of this land and gavest it to the seede of Abraham c. Brethren let us in an humble and edifying way to the Lords honour the works promotion and our encouragement edifie one another with these sayings This is the Lords Ingagement to the work as an helper 2. Is his Ingagement against the Enemies as a Party or a Principall And this we may gather if we looke upon the great blasphemyes of the Enemies even against the Lord himselfe 'T is good newes for the Church when her Enemies are growne rancke in blasphemy when they are come so farre as to despight the power of godlinesse and to hate holinesse quatenus ipsam as