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The poor man's cup of cold-water ministred to the saints and sufferers for Christ in Scotland who are admidst the scorching flames of the fiery trial.
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McWard, Robert, 1633?-1687.
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1678
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Wing M233; ESTC R25489
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purity to posterity to protect these very persons whom they persecute and persecute for persisting in those wayes wherein they themselves have give it under their hand to God they would walk Now we are not to think strange concerning this fiery trial for whosoever would be the Disciple of Christ must take up his crosse daily and follow him it must be such an one as he pleases to lay on and what he wil have it to be he must not fansy to himself a fools Paradise in Christs company nay thâ— crosse is the necessare concomitant of a Christian and sharp conflictiâ—g must goe before the obtaining of the conquerours crown we must not only resolve to meet with such fiery trials as will consume into ashes our darling Idols for there is a necessity that some hand be made use of to pluck out that right eye and cut of that right hand ' which hath caused us to offend` that so we may enter into life but we must and may exspect to meet with â—he saddest trouble and the most unsufferably sharpe trials out of that airth whence we did not feare nor could we rationally foresee the storme should blow these Persons and thingsâ— which should be most comfortable to the people of God do often prove the source of their calamitie and the Instruments Whereby they are afflicted We need not goe to Ionah's gourd nor Iob's Friends we need goe to Zechariah slain betwixt the Porch and the Altar by Ioash whom he was endeavouring to rescue out of the hands of the living God by admonishing him to keep the commandement of the Lord and his Covenant and Coronation-oath 2. Chron. 23 16. compared vvith C. 24.20 seq for though he vvas the Son of Iehojadah vvho had made him King and stain the Usurper yet he not onely for gote that kindenesse buâ— slevv the Son vvho vvas desiring yea vvhile endeavouring to keep that crown upon his head by dissuading him to venture upon God-provoking courses or to enter the list of opposition to God Almighty contrary to all the Objective and Subjective Obligations under vvhich he vvas to him for having set him upon the Throne vvho could as easily and vvonderfully bring him dovvn as he had set him up vvhich his Father had set upon it But God forgote neither his foresaking of the Covenant nor his breach of his Coronation-oath nor his forgetting of Iehojadah's kindenesse but put Ioash in remembrance of all he had forgotten and of all he had done and made him know he had heard the words of dying Zechariah I need neither tell you how nor by what Monitors he brought these things to his remembrance nor how plaâ—n a parallel it is to our case onely Ioash did not kill Iehojadah himseâ—f who had been the Instrument of his setlement in the Government I say we need not search to recoâ—ds of former Generations except it be to finde some of the Saints and some of the Churches of Christ to whom we may turne That we may learn at them and be beholding the end of the Lord know how to carry and acquit ourselves though we may long turne over the records of former times ere we finde a parallel to the iniquitie of ours for examples when these very men with whom we ourselves did once take sweet councel together and with whom we walked to the house of God in company are become such cruel and keen enemies as it is impossible to describe their rage and cruelty for a naked representation of matter of fact would â—ertainly passe with such as were not witnesses to what is done for a meditat and malicious representation of Persons Actions but I need not tell you stories what you finde beyond my tellings yea beyond your own expressings O the crimson iniquitie of our times when such as did but the other day cry Grace Grace unto it are this day throwing down what they had built and are crying raze it raze it even to the foundation When these who not long ago did cry up and commend loyalty to Jesus Christ are now crying Crucifie him let us burst his bonds assundâ—r and Cast away his cords from us Let us casse and rescinde our Covenant made to serve him and be subject to him and let us set up a New Lord and let this be the New Law that who ever will not doe according as we have done and decreed may die But Alas have these men forgotten that this Insurrection against him is recorded in Heaven and that this their rage against his follovvers upon vvhom â—hey run vvith open mouth and against vvhom they prepare themselves vvithout their fault being chargeable vvith no guilt abstracting from obedience to their God is come in remembrance before him and that the cry of these oppressed ones is come up unto the eare of the Lord God of Sabaoâ—h and vvill bring him dovvn to execute judgement for the oppressed but let us not stumble nor start aside for all this for hovv astonishing so ever it may be in it self to upright men yet let the innocent stirr up themselves against those who have dealt thus hypocritically with God and let the righteous still hold on their way and such as have clean hands wax stronger and stronger it is a weaknesse unworthy of saints not to carry as those who have laid their account with the crosse a reckoning which flesh and blood alwayes inculcating that carnal Doctrine spare thy sâ—lf is very unwilling to make We still think there is a way because we would have it so and often make a way where he hath made none to shift these hard sayings and shun these heavy things and yet come at Heaven We fansie a Possiblitie to passe thorow the world with the worlds good will and be religious too But this is to be wise above what is written The Devil must first cease to lie and murther and way-lay them that are going to Heaven and the enmitie between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent must first be done away or changed into perfect amitie which shall never be before that day dawn that the traveller to Heaven needs not lay his reckoning to meet with trouble in the way But passing the general account that the wickeds hatred agâ—inst God is so perfect as they hate his Image and Picture in his Children yea they like not the godlâ—nesse If I may cal it so of a hypocrit but hate it which they doe what ever they pretend not for the evil that is under iâ— but for the good that appeares in it As Lions are said to have so perfect a hatred at man as they wil teare the picture because of the resemblance it hath to a living man neither shall I inâ—ist upon this cause oâ— hatred against the Students of holinesse that there is a light in a Christians life who walks as a Child of light which discovers the spots of the profane world about him and with that light there