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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03080	The triumph of the Church over water and fire. Or A thankfull gratulation for that miraculous deliverance of the Church and state of Great Britaine, from the Romish Tophet: or, that barbarous and savage Powder-plot As it was delivered (for substance) in a sermon at Blacke Fryers in London on the fifth of November. 1625. By Theodor Hering, minister of the Word of God.; Triumph of the Church over water and fire.	Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645.	1625 (1625)	STC 13204; ESTC S104029	27,216	53

is a depth of misery to note the extremitie deepe and deepe to note the varietie neither was this to some one member that might fall into these quag-myres but the whole Church makes her moane Many a time baue they afflicted me from my youth may Israel now say many a time have they afflicted me from my youth vp Psal 129.12 That chosen vessell forewarnes the Antiechians that through many tribulations they must enter into the Kingdome of God Act. 14.22 As for the Apostle himselfe he had his share as deepe as any perils by Sea perils by Land c. Strange it is to see what varietie of troubles what a world of afflictions as it were can Army of Pykes 2 Cor. 6.4.11.13 2 Cor. 4.9.13 or a thicket of thornes Paul ran through David a Man after Gods owne heart what troubles vnder-went he at home What dangers abroad What from his enemies What from his friends What inward affliction What outward persecution As a man borne to sorrow that scarse ever came where tranquilitie grew So that Mirrour of patience Iob how came his crosses and losses thicke and three-fold like showers of haile-shot Iob. 1.14.15 Velut vndam vndam sequitur as waue followes waue in the midst of the Sea Solomon Proverb 24.16 tels vs they come by troupes by seavens a certaine number put for an vncertaine many come that is certaine but how many that is vncertaine Who can number the starres of the skie Who can number the drops of the water Who can number the sparkles of the fire Who can count the dust of Iacob Or who can number the fourth part of the afflictions of Ioseph But it is their nature I must insist on rather then their number did not Experience the Mistresse of fooles saue me that labour The dearest children of God as wee often finde and feele are they not put to great extremities to shrewd plunges to desperate pinches What a strait was the Church brought to thinke you when the Edomits cryed Downe with it downe with it even to the ground What should I protract time to instance in persons in places What meane these and the like phrases The plowers haue ploughed on my backe they made long furrowes Psal 129.3 And againe Psal 66.12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads wee went through fire and water the same allusion which is here in my Text. This is that bread of affliction that water of affliction that gall and wormwood wherewith he feedes his that Baptisme which our Saviour forespeakes to the Sonnes of Zebedeus Mat. 10.38.39 Luk. 12.50 Yee shall drinke indeed of that cup that I shall drinke of and be baptized with the baptisme wherewith I shall be baptized If you take it literally was not Noah carried through the water Gen. 7.18 Exod. 1.22 and the Hebrew babes did they not passe through the flouds The three Children went they not through the fire Dan. 3.23 howbeit the flame kindled not vpon them Those blessed Martyrs how many thousands were sent vp to heaven Elias-like in fiery Chariots If you take it spiritually these waters had even entred into Davids soule he was not drenched onely but almost swallowed vp of those waues Ps 69.1.2 Iob. 16.13 Iob. 7.12 Iob complaines that the Lord had set him as a Butt that the arrowes of the Almightie stucke stucke fast in his ribbes the venom whereof had drunke vp his bloud he was hedged in as a Whale Ionah cryes from the bottome of the Whale from the belly Hell Ionah 2.3.4.5 More Generall Gen. 4.8 when holy Abel lay bleeding vnder the bloudy knife of his butcherly brother Caine was not the Church at a desperate pinch When Isaac lay bound on the Altar Abrahams hand now stretched out and vp ready to giue the fatall stroake Gen 22.10 was not the Church at the last cast gasping for life When the Hebrewes were pressed in a manner oppressed with that sore intollerable Egyptian bondage when forced to march through the midst of that red Sea figuring the blood Exod 14.22 red Sea of persecution through which all the Israel of God must wade when those Assyrian Bandes the Caldean armies brake their bankes and like a violent ouerswelling torrent swept all before them as a generall inundation 2. Kings 18.11 was not Gods Ston in the middest of the waters when the Roman Troups put all to the fire and the sword not leauing one stone vpon a stone of that famous Citty and Temple the wonder of the world not throwne downe or rather in the times of those ten fiery persecutions when Nebuchadnezars Oven was heated seuen times hotter then ordinary was not the Bush all in a flame was not Sion in the middest of the fire What might be there reason will some demand that the troubles of the righteous should be so many and great the same in a manner with the former It fals out thus partly in respect of God partly in respect of their enemies in respect of thēselues partly not principally Iehovah permits it ordaines it orders it Why the more and the greater their afflictions are the more doth his mercy shine the greater doth his wisedome and power appeare in their deliuerance in their rescue When Israel was euery way distressed Exod. 14.12.12 the sea before them the army of the Egyptians behinde them pressing at their heeles the high towring Mountaines hemming them in on all sides now will the Lord get him honor vpon Pharaoh and all his hoast Exod. 14.4 Now will the Lord of Hoastes march valiantly and overthrow the horse and the rider When the people of God were scattered ouer the foure corners of the world now for God to turne againe the captivitie of Iacob Isaiah 43.12.14 as the streame back-ward to bring them home weeping with their faces toward Sion this shall be to mee sayth the Lord an euerlasting name ioy and honor now he shewes him-selfe a God The greater the streame is the skill of the Pilot if hee steere the shippe aright appeares to be the greater the more desperate the disease is the cure is the more glorious this may be one ground why the troubles of the righteous are many and mighty that the mighty and manifold wisedome power goodnes of Iehovah might shine out in their full glory to the admiration of Men and Angels Another reason followes because their enemies are many and great Their malice great their subtilty great their power great their sedulity great their cruelty great Consider their subtilty the slie Midianites haue a thousand wiles and wayes to vexe and beguile the plaine hearted downe-right Israelites Consider their malice there is an eternall enmity put by God himselfe between the seede of the woman and the seede of the Serpent which how euer smothered sometimes as it were in the ashes yet euer and anon is blowne vp by the bellowes of vnplacable malice Gen. 15. and breakes forth into an open