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A80739	Divine drops distilled from the fountain of Holy Scriptures: delivered in several exercises before sermons, upon twenty and three texts of Scripture. By that worthy gospel preacher Gualter Cradock, late preacher at All-Hallows Great in London.	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.	1649 (1649)	Wing C6757; Thomason E585_8; ESTC R206263	151,866	263

for your sakes or else I have one and none can alter it but foryour sakes I came down and made a Covenant like men and There are three that bear witness and that is enough among men therefore think my love will be constant to the end So when a Christian is at a dead lift this relieves him not that God can save him if he will but that God must he is bound to save him It is a pitifull thing when a man is in the hands of a thousand enemies and then can only say peradventure God will save me and rescue me but when the soul sees that God must rescue it and there is a Covenant made and sealed with the blood of Christ and it is not possible to be broken Gods Covenant is to save me and preserve me to his everlasting Kingdom Thus I have briefly shewed you that fondnesse that is between a Saint and God and the book of Canticles is as I told you nothing but a book of fondnesse as I may say between Christ and the Saints Therefore you should aime at the good of your souls and seeing there is such a condition that there are Saints that are so desire the Lord to make you such Expositions and Observations on DEUTER 4. Now therefore hearken O Israel unto the statutes and judgements which I teach you for to do them that ye may live and go in and possesse the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you diminish ought from it that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor for all the men that followed Baal-peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day c. I Shall not go about to expound this whole Chapter unto you you see it is very long and therefore I will not abridge my self or you of time for that which is to follow but onely briefly take notice of a few things in this Chapter which I shall touch upon for they are sweet and very serious words that Moses speaks to the people of Israel One thing is in the fourth verse saith Moses Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor for all the men that followed Baal-peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you to this day You shall read in Num. 25. 4. and in Num. 30. 15. that by the counsell of Balaam the people of Israel were brought to commit Idolatry at Baal-peor Israel joyned himself to Baal-peor and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel They were brought first to whordom and then to Idolatry as we may see in that Chapter for which God cut off men and women about some twenty four thousand And yet in this great temptation some of them did cleave to the Lord and those the Lord kept alive and destroyed them not ye that did cleave to the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day So that It is a blessed and happy thing when people shall Observation cleave to the Lord. The word is taken sometimes to stick my belly cleaves or sticks to the dust And so truly the word should stick a little upon our thoughts Cleaving it implies or signifies two things It signifies first to glew to unite two things together into one and so you shall have it Gen. 2. 24. They Cleaving to implies two things 1. A neer conjunction two shall be joyned and made one flesh they shall be glewed as it were together So you have it in Ephes 5. And there is in that word as that reverend Doctor Preston I remember observes it signifies a greater union th●● any other in the world Indeed there is a great union between two boards glewed together for I have heard Joyners say it is sometimes stronger then the board it self as a broken bone is stronger when it is knit then before ever it was broken It is an union more then marriage more then between man and wife yet that is the greatest in the whole creation Beloved such a union should be between our souls and Iesus Christ we should not hang loose upon Iesus Christ we should be united to him as a man to his wife yea something more then that And therefore saith David when he found a loosnes in his heart O knit my heart to thee that I may fear thy name Knit my heart as Ionathans heart was knit to David Will you learn this now For our work is as Moses said in another kind I have laid before you this day life and death and saith he at another time I have laid before you judgements and statutes so our work is to lay before you the will of the Lord now this is one part of it that there should be such a union between our souls and Iesus Christ And therefore learn this when thou goest home if thou finde a loosnesse between thee and Christ remember this word thou shouldest learn to cleave to the Lord and pray the Lord to knit thy heart to him When there is a loosnesse that is when many times other things run between thy heart and God sometimes thy husband sometimes thy wife sometimes thy money thy wealth thy cash hath thy heart O pray the Lord to knit thy heart more and more to him But cleaving also is taken more usually for sitting 2. A relative permanency with or abiding in the Lord when others do leave him It is a relative kinde of word it is not simply ●●iting to God or knitting to him but when other things are in competition with God when it may be others follow other things and when both are laid before mine eyes that I may follow the one or the other then when I abide with God this is called cleaving to the Lord. As I could give you diverse instances Gen. 2. 24. A woman is to forsake her father and mother and to cleave to her husband that is a woman when she is married she hath two sweet objects before her eyes her fathers house her father and mother and sisters and brothers on the one side and her husband on the other side and his friends and relations now when a woman leaves the one and sticks to the other this is properly called cleaving You shall read also in 2 Sam. 20. 2. the people of Israel every man of Israel went up from after David The people of Israel there in a peevish humor left David their King and followed Sheba the son of Bichri but the men of Iudah did cleave to their King from Iordan to Ierusalem There the people were divided Israel followed Sheba but Iudah clave to David In stead of

chickens or partridges that run their heads in a bush that hide their heads from the Hawk the Hawk sees all their bodies onely in a conceit they hide themselves thus that is they hide their own eyes that they may not see the Hawk but they do not hide their bodies that the Hawk may not see them So men shut their eyes and have many conceits O the Lord deliver us from it this is the hope of wicked men drunkards and whoremongers and sottish creatures that come not up to take Christ The Lord after compares them to little children Compa ∣ rison 2 in bed The bed is shorter then that a man can stretch himself on it As little children when they hear thunder they run under the sheets and blankets and think they are very safe so we conceive that we shall be delivered But truly all the shifts thou hast shall be no more to keep thee when the Lord comes on thee for a drunkard or an unbeliever or a persecutor then the sheets and blankets can keep them from a thunderbolt if God send it I but these were but comparisons and the people were ready to mock the prophet for it Saith he Mock not least your bands be made strong for I have heard from the Lord a consumption determined upon the whole earth Give ear and hear my voice hearken to my speech Doth the plowman plow all day to sow c. This is the manner of the prophet Isaiah especially when he speaks of the miseries and judgements that shall come upon people he mingles comfort for the poor Saints This he refers to the Saints that were upright And to comfort them he takes a comparison from the Husbandman that plows the field For the creatures are Gods Characters God hath written his will in his word at large and he hath written a copy of it as it were in the creatures that by the one we might be enabled to understand the other For we understand not one line of this blessed book any further then we are taught Now God hath so cast things in this world not only for the use and good of man but he hath cast things by his creation and providence in such a way as that every thing might resemble heavenly things Therefore it is said God hath given discretion to the Husbandman to do this the Lord hath ordered the earth so to be plowed and managed and the corn so to be threshed that thereby we might have a shadow of spirituall things comparing it with the blessed word Doth the plow man plow all day God deals diversly with weak and strong Saints What is the meaning of that It is thus you poor Saints God plows you and harrows you and if the Lord follow you with one affliction after another that whosoever escapes you suffer if not without yet within and sometimes you have both you think God deals wonderfull strangely with you Sayth he look on the plowman if ever you see one plow you will say yonder man doth but plow and harrow the land and make it fit to sow Barly or Oats or Wheat he hath some end in it they are the common heaths that lie unplowed but where there is good ground they plow it and when he hath plowed it is his discretion to sow So it is that when the Lord continues his afflictions upon thee thou shouldest consider that God that is thy good father hath some gracious designe to sow Barly or Wheat or Rye to sow some grace more And what though he plow thee or me or another more then other men or women Some lands are plowed thrice some four times besides the sowing they are so tough and dogged So some natures must be ofter and deeper and longer plowed Therefore stare not so much upon the affliction but consider the gracious designe and purpose of God to sow thee and to do thee good Thou and I have barren hearts and there is little corn that is pleasing to him there therefore he meanes by the afflictions that he layes on thee by such a sicknesse by such a perverse husband by such an ungracious childe or losse of estate the Lord means to sow thy barren heart and then blessed be his name If the Lord do that thou mayest well suffer him to plow and harrow thee any way with any instrument as he pleaseth Then he takes another comparison from threshing The Fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the Cummin c. That is the afflictions of the Saints are also like the threshing of corn as there is no land that bears corn without plowing no more can we enjoy it without threshing some more some lesse some one way some another Now saith he in the manner of afflictions you may observe two things from the threshing of men which was in another manner in those countries then with us It was trod out with the Oxe and they did bring a wheel and horsmen to ride upon their corne in those dry countries And some was beaten with a staff and small corne they did whip out with a rod. So saith he there are two things to be observed in the manner of Gods dealing you that are weak people weak Christians the Lord sees that you are little Fitches Fitches is a little graine and Cummin especially Christ calls them little things yet little and weak Christians are like Cummin and Fitches God will not bring a Cart wheele over them that shall bruise them to pieces and make them worth nothing but he will beat them with a staffe and the Cummin with a rod that is where there is a little weak Saint the Lord will take a little wand a rod a small light affliction But bread corn is bruised because he will not ever be threshing it not break it with the wheel c. That is sometimes also God meanes to lay all the afflictions as it were at once upon his childe where he sees a strong Saint many times he brings his horsemen and his cartwheel as he did with Iob you know Iob had but a bout and so he goes over and some of his days before and his days after were comfortable God brings strong afflictions upon his children The reason is because God will not alway be threshing he will not alway afflict for then the spirit of man would fail before him If thy afflictions be light say I am a little Fitch or Cummin if they be heavy say they will be short for the Husbandman though he deal more coursly with his Corn then with his Fitches yet he takes it into his Barne and laies it up safe so though thy afflictions be sore thou maist from the practice of the Husbandman say they will be short therefore indeavor to learn a little from afflictions and how to carry and behave thy self like a Saint wait patiently upon God to know Gods design and meaning This also cometh forth from the