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A96884	The cause use cure of feare. Or, strong consolations (the consolations of God) cordiall at all times, but most comfortable now in these uncomfortable times, to fixe, quiet, and stablish the heart, though the earth shake, and make it stand stil, to see the salvation of the Lord. Taken from Gods mouth, and penned by Hezekiah VVoodward, that all his servants may have assured confidence for ever.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3481; Thomason E90_23; ESTC R1487	71,096	87

layne so long above ground in the street of the great Citty nor had the Adversary any Cause to rejoyce over them indeed he hath not but I speake with respect to the offence of a dead body lying uncovered or hinder their bodies to be put in the graves (c) Rev. 11. 9. They were mystically dead sure for such also is their resurrection their coming to life again I think thus it was and yet I cannot expresse it in words what Antichristian Rome far more cruel then heathenish Rome She was a Dragon fell and Cruell but not so Cruell as a Lamb with hornes as Shee is that looks like a sheepe and is so in her clothing but inwardly is a greevous wolfe O beware of her and her Religion she is MYSTERY BABYLON the GREAT The mother of Harlots And abominations of the earth Rev. 17. 5. and hath no more good in her then what can be found in the bottomlesse pit from whence her Power and Authority ascendeth Rev. 11. 7. I was saying That death there is not properly so called but mystically thus I thinke it was Rome with her sworne servants hath done and will doe all the indignities that are Imaginable against these witnesses suspending putting out of office Defaming Defacing Degrading Truly I know not what but what Rome that delights in proud wrath could doe shee hath done and will doe against these witnesses And how far doth their malice reach To the Body no farther And that was Dead in law before the Body is dead because of sin The Body It is GODS building we must thinke and esteeme honourably of it for it shall be a Glorious body but as it is here and in comparison the people of GOD put little or no account upon it and it is according to the Spirits allowance The Body is not mentioned in the Scripture but with this addition a Dead a vile a corruptible Bodie The Soule stands for All and indeed it is All that we might put esteeme upon it more then upon all the world We see Bodies and dead bodies there then the Adversary can but kill the Bodie their proud wrath can reach no farther They can but take downe that Tabernacle which had it stood a little longer would have fel of its self God has never given a man His security That his Body shall be kept from perishing The streame of the promise runs still towards the Soule I was in the very mouth of Danger sayes Paul almost swallowed up there I was delivered at that time Nero he was the Lyon had not power over me at that time And the 2 Tim. 4. 17. LORD shall deliver me there is his security from what from Nero No hee sayes not so for at length when Paul had finished his testimony he was given up to that devourer The Lord shall deliver me from every evill worke An evil worke a complying with the workers of iniquity and with their wicked wayes that is worse then the Devourers mouth a thousand times worse so nor Paul nor the witnesses did doe Now take all will preserve me to His heavenly Kingdome That 's all indeed and makes amends for all will preserve me to His heavenly Kingdom where the dead bodies now that have all the dishonours put upon them that are conceivable shall be glorious Bodies We have viewed the Bodies now we consider where they lie 2 Where lye they In the street All the disgrace that can bee imagined shall be put upon them that will doe their Duty if they come into their Adversaries hand and it shall be done against them in the openest place where the Adversary may glut his eye in the exercise of proud wrath wherewith his heart is filled To expresse it as we read The Adversary having made himselfe drunke with blood will make these witnesses a GAZIMG-STOCK by reproches and afflictions a spectacle to the world Angels and men (d) Heb. 10. 13. 1 Cor. 4. 9. Why then who is on Gods side who he that is resolved to take Gods part must expect such usage but then he may expect such an exceeding and superlative comfort as will countervail and make amends for all If all the comforts in the world were distilled into one elixir put into these witnesses hands it would not be so cordiall as this which follows All this villanous usage upon these Bodies shall bee done where where also our LORD CHRIST was Crucified That was without the Gates of Jerusalem True and without the territories too by a Law not their own for the Iews could put no man to Death but from Caesar Tiberius he was the Emperour in Rome It is very comfortable what follows There also our Lord was Crucified But rejoyce in as much as ye 1 Pet. 4. 13. are partakers of Christs sufferings that when His glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy Who would not rejoyce to be put to open shame for Christ where Christ was put to open shame for him A great Commander refused a Crowne of gold in that place where the Lord Christ had put upon him a Crowne of thornes There is a continuall spring of comfort from thence which abundantly makes amends for all the proud wrath put forth against these Bodies in the street of the great City There also our Lord was crucified They shall suffer no more but what their Lord hath suffered before them and in that He hath 1 Pet. 4. 13. suffered that shame He suffered it for them that their shame now might be their glory Truly there is a comfort contained in these words that is not expressible but by the mouthes of these witnesses And they felt it then even a joy unspeakable I say then when that wicked woman that abominable strumpet with her Rev. 11. 10. lovers were so jocund and joyfull over them making merry and sending gifts one to another for this is a conclusion of experience That GOD leaves not His Servants Orphanes comfortlesse John 14. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 At such a time as this when they are in the eyes of man fatherlesse friendlesse helplesse in the hands of proud wrath exercising all the indignities that are imaginable upon them and glutting their eye therewith then they are orphans you will say for all have left them and there they lie as you see But now marke the promise I will not leave you Orphans comfortlesse I will come to you nay He is come it is in the present tense now He is come in for all the creature-comforts are gone forth then God comes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in in that season and nick of time And if there be any comfort in His presence as sure there is for He is The God of comforts and God speaks to His people most comfortably in a Wildernesse The sweetest comforts come forth of the greatest straits the Father not of some but of all consolations then they are sure to find it