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A49467	Good nevvs: or, Wine and oyle poured into the wounds of sinning and distressed Jacob. In some meditations in Isa. 27. 6, 7, 8, & 9, verses. Directing to the cause wherefore and the end for which the present affliction is come upon him. Hinting at the means by which his deliverance will be wrought. And comforting him against the extremity of affliction, come and coming upon him. By Pain Lumle a Welch christian.	Lumley, Pain.	1661 (1661)	Wing L3483; ESTC R217749	52,290	58

Lord will perform upon Sion and Jerusalem till which is performed he will not punish the stout heart of the King of Assyria nor burn the Rod with which he is scourging and correcting his People for their unchild-like carriage towards him their Father In which there is 1. A sore Affliction Verse 7. 2. A Cordial to bear up the heart of Jacob from sinking under the severity of the Rod V. 8. 3. The Cause of it Sin implyed in Ver. 9. 4. The End of this Affliction which is two-fold 1. To take this Sin away expressed Ver. 9. And as the proper effect of this 2. To cause Jacob to take root and Israel to blossom and bud Ver. 6. 1. It 's a sore and dreadful Dispensation not only smiting but smiting to blood not only drawing blood letting out a little bad blood but the very Life blood SLAYING Hath he SMITTEN him as he smote those that smote him Or is he SLAIN according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him It 's the same manner of smiting with which Jacob in former times smote his Enemies It 's the same manner of slaying as Jacob shall after he comes out of this cleansing Dispensation slay his Enemies withal For though the Prophet speaks here in the Present tense ARE SLAIN yet of necessity we must refer it to the future for we cannot rationally conceive slain men can slay men Therefore we must look upon this as one of those Scriptures wherein the Lord is pleased to call things that be not as though they were as the Apostle speaks and that out of a gracious design to strengthen our Faith signifying thereby the certainty of the thing that it 's as certain as if it were in present action Poor Jacob goes into by-wayes wayes of his own invention to save his Blood to save his Life and behold he loses it making good that saying of our Lord He that seeks to save his Life shall lose it Sinning Jacob in his Laodicean frame of Spirit cryes out with the sloathful person Prov. 26.13 A Lion is in the Way a Lion is in the Street the Lord would have me pass through and fleeing from this Lion a Bear meets him and tears him and rends him as Amos speaks But lest the drooping Spirits of feeble Jacob should sink and dye under this trying and rending Dispensation under these Bloody smitings his Sin hath brought upon him 2. Here 's a Soveraign Cordial ready to revive him to support him In measure when it shooteth forth thou wilt debate with it He stayeth his Rough wind in the day of the East wind The Lord hath measured out the Affliction of Jacob and meted it in the measure of Grace and Love The end of all is Grace and Love to Jacob that he may be purged from his Iniquity and his Sin taken away that he may be so far from being utterly destroyed as that he may fill the face of the World with Fruit. Yea this very Affliction these smitings and slayings that pass over him shall have the Love of a Father written upon it he shall be able to read a Fathers Love in and through all It shall not be beyond measure but in measure God will not suffer Jacob to be tempted beyond what he is able to bear as the Apostle speaks But fear thou not O my servant Jacob for I am with thee saith the Lord to save thee though I make a full end of all Nations yet will I not make a full end of thee but will correct thee in measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished and in the LATTER DAYES ye shall consider it Jer. 30.10,11 24. V. When the Affliction hath shot forth to such a measure to such a degree to the working such an Effect which is humbling for and purging from Sin then will the Lord DEBATE with it When the Lord hath finished his whole Work upon Sion then will he Punish the stout heart of the King of Assyria when the Assyrian Rod would carry on the Affliction of Jacob farther than the Lord hath purposed it shall be then will he Debate with it How will he Debate with it He stayeth his Rough Wind in the day of the East Wind. By this Rough Wind I understand the same with the smitings and slayings before mentioned onely by this difference of expression the Lord would have us to understand the purging nature of the Affliction that the Lord will by this Wind by this Affliction as thorowly purge and cleanse his People from their Sin as the Husband-man cleanses his Corn from its Chaff by winnowing it in the Wind. And this Rough Wind these smitings and slayings this sore Affliction will the Lord stay put a stop to But when and how In the day of the East Wind. In that day in which the Lord hath appointed the East Wind to blow which is when the Rough VVind the smitings and slayings the Affliction hath done its work for which it was sent upon Jacob then in that day will the Lord stay this Rough VVind put a stop to these smitings and stayings take away this Affliction And that by The East VVind We shall see what VVind this is that taking place at its appointed time shall stay the preceding Rough VVind if we look into the Type Exod. 14.21 23. Moses stretched out his hand over the Sea and the Lord caused the Sea to go back by a strong East wind all that Night and made the Sea dry Land and the VVaters were divided and the Children of Israel went into the midst of the Sea upon dry Ground and the VVaters were a VVall unto them on their right hand and on their left This East VVind is that which Isaiah saith in his 51. Chapter dryed the Sea the Waters of the great Deep that made the depths of the Sea dividing it a VVay for the Ransomed to pass over and that when the VVaves thereof roared When the Rough VVind the smitings and slayings the present Affliction hath wrought its proper Effect upon Jacob then is the time come and a strong East VVind from the presence of the Lord shall blow and stop the breath of the Rough VVind The Lord will so deal with this Sea of Jacob's trouble the VVaves whereof are roaring upon poor Jacob as that a VVay through the Sea a VVay through the Rough VVind a VVay through the very smitings and slayings of the Enemy shall be made and found out for Jacob to escape And what then The Light of Israel shall be for a fire and his holy One for a flame and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his bryars that are scratching and tearing the flesh of distressed Jacob in one day Chap. 10.17 In ONE day A day known to the Lord even that day wherein he will staying his Rough Wind by his East Wind putting a stop to the Enemie's smiting and slaying of his Jacob healing his VVounds Punish the stout heart of the Assyrian and

but judg nothing before the time neither the Gold nor the Silver nor the Wood nor the Hay nor the Stubble but be ye Perfectly joined together in waiting upon the Lord till his Day come wherein he wil declare what he Allowes what he allowes not of what he will have to abide and what is to vanish away and perish Upon this Same Principle it is that this Same Apostle tels the Philippians I press towards the Mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you Nevertheless whereto we have already attained let us walk by the Same Rule let us mind the Same Thing This Same Thing is even Pressing towards the Mark waiting patiently and tenderly when God shall reveal even this to those who in any thing are otherwise minded This evil of Carnality is that of which the Lord so Affectionately complains in tendernesse and pitty towards his poor Flock and for which he so sharply deals with and Judges the guilty Ezek. 34.17 18 19 20 21 22. verses And as for you O my Flock thus saith the Lord God Behold I judge between Cattle and Cattle between the Rams and the He-goats Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good Pasture but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your Pastures And to have drunk of the deep waters but you must foul the residue with your feet And as for my Flock they eat that which ye have trodden with your Feet and they drink that which you have fouled with your Feet Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them Behold I even I will judge between the fat Cattle and between the lean Cattle because you have thrust with side and with shoulder and pusht all the diseased with your Horns till ye have scattered them abroad Therefore will I save my Flock and they shall no more be a prey and I will judg between Cattle and Cattle How nearly this Scripture concerns us a due consideration of the whole of it will quickly make us sensible Here are such proud tramplings of the Pastures such envious Pudling in the Waters that though the Pastures of Gods house are good Pastures yet they are made as not so though the Waters of the Sanctuary are deep Waters yet they are fouled that the poor Lean of the Flock those who are hungring and thirsting after the fat things of Gods house are forced if they will have any food any relief to satisfie their weary and thirsty Souls to feed upon that which the fat Cattle those who are full and rich in Gifts and Parts and High attainments as these Corinthians were have trodden down and drink that which they have fouled with their feet their Carnal uncomely unbrotherly walkings Here are such wrathful strivings and Pushings of the strong Cattle against the poor diseased Cattle and the poor weak Lambs of the Flock that they are scattered abroad This the Lord takes very much to heart Seemeth this a small thing unto you saith he I have given you good Pastures enough to feed my whole Flock and I have given you deep Waters sufficient for my whole Flock to drink of And now through Pride do you think them not worthy to eat in my Pastures and to drink of my Waters which I have provided for them as well as for you and so what your selves cannot eat you tread down and what you cannot drink you foul with your Feet If you cannot keep them from it yet by your Carnal uncomly Walking you cause their Souls even to loath my good Pastures and my deep Waters and I have Lambs and Lean and Sick and Broken Cattle in my Flock and do you proudly and enviously strive against these to keep them out of my good Pastures and from my deep Waters that I have given them to feed upon and drink of as well as you Do you thrust with Side and Shoulder and push with your Horns these poor needy ones till ye have scattered them abroad as if they were not of my Flock did not belong to my Fold Know saith the Lord if this seem a small thing unto you it doth not so unto me I will judge of these matters I will seek that which was lost by you by your proud disesteem of them not looking after them and bring again that which was driven away by you by your Envious striving against them and bind up that which was Broken by your thrusting with Side and with Shoulder and the Pushes of your Horns and that which is sick will I strengthen Thus will I deal with them whom you despise but you the F at and the strong that work this mischief in my Flock I will destroy I will feed you with Judgement ver 16. By this time I suppose it plainly appears how dangerous and Pernitious this Evil is to a Christian yea that it s so subtil so curious a resined Spirit that it many times enters into and dwels in the Richest Christians Christians of the highest attainments in Gifts and Parts These Corinthians were enriched in every thing in all Utterance and all Knowledge coming behind in no Gift and that which adds to all they were waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ yet these kept not themselves free from this evil frame of Spirit It 's only the conformity to a crucified Jesus that can expel this Evil spirit that can Cure this dangerous distemper that can kill this Soul-canker But we must know and be conformable to him as he is a Crucified Jesus before we can become Spiritual Christians indeed This the Apostle strongly hints to us while he tells the Corinthians I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him Crucified Also the great displeasure of the Lord against this Sin this Carnality of Spirit which brings forth Proud-boastings vain-gloryings which brings forth Envy which brings forth Strife which brings forth Divisions which causes to walk as men and which so unfits for higher Communion and fellowship with the Lord than at present is attained and for higher and more Noble work than at present the Christian is exercised in causing an inability to feed upon strong Meat and so to do strong work that till Christians are cured of this Distemper they cannot become a fit Instrument in the hand of God to do his great Work How far Christians poor sinning Jacob at this day have been and are with these Corinthians guilty of this pernitious Evil CARNALITY OF MIND and how far we have been and are yet from that Sweet Heavenly Thriving Strengthning frame of Spirit that Spiritual mind that Paul and the rest of the Apostles and compleat Christians were in in their Day the Day of the Gentiles our Espousals let every seeing Eye and sensible Heart judge how far we have been guilty of