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A27583 The blessing of Moses on the tribe of Asher opened and applyed in a mystical and spiritual sense, to every saint, and servant of Christ in a sermon on Deut. 33.25 ... / by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1693 (1693) Wing B2124; ESTC R20407 18,576 36

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in the first Epistle of John 5 Chapter 4 Ver. saith he Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the World and this is the Victory that overcometh the World even our Faith Who is he that overcometh the World but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God Let us therefore lay hold upon the Arguments of the Gospel upon the Strength and Power of Jesus Christ in the Faith of his great undertaking In that Faith let us go out and Conquer let us go out and prevail O! how would it raise us above this World above the fears of it above the delights of it above the pleasures of it if we had but the Power of this Faith if we had but this Victory of Faith in us and upon us In the Third Place it would enable us to tread even upon Death it self upon all the Afflictions that are in our way to Heaven and upon that King of Terrors Death it self For though indeed we apprehend Death to be nothing but a Privation of Life in the General yet we know as we are Christians it is an Inlet into Eternity Even Nature starts at it as it is a Cessation and putting an end to the life and motion and action wherein we are conversant now it looks much more dreadful to us as it opens into Eternity But if we were but shod with Iron and Brass we should find these Shooes of Iron and Brass would carry us through and we should be able to tread even upon the sharpness of Death and the Grave we should find the great Power of Jesus Christ enabling of us because he has overcome Death Even as he has overcome the World so he has overcome Death We should never leave trying and proving this Armour of God upon the Feet of our Souls till we find that we can walk even upon Graves and upon our own Graves among the Tombs and not be affrighted when we find we are carried thrô and thrô and that we master and tread down as we go We should I say not only come and die when we must die but before-hand we should be armed at these very points we should find our Shooes herein to be of Iron and Brass Observe how triumphant David speaks in the 23d Psalm Yea though I walk through the Valley of the shadow of death Where I don't know what may lye in my way what may rise up against me I do not know what are the Secrets what Ambuscades there are in the Valley of Death I don't know what Powers are appointed and prepared to Destroy Yea in the 4th Verse though I walk through the Valley of the shadow of Death I will fear no evil for thou art with me c. This would bear us through and carry us with great Resolution and with undauntedness of Courage For the great expression of our Action you know in Scripture is very much in our feet in our walking Now therefore to have our Feet thus shod it would enable us to get up above these things to be aloft over the things that are so dreadful and terrible to Flesh and Blood Hab. 3. 9. The Lord is my strength and he will make my feet like Hinds feet and he will make me to walk upon mine high places And therefore I can sing I can set a Song to the Chief Singer on my stringed Instruments Because I have such an Assurance such an Elevation and Exultation of Soul in the Lord I will rejoyce in the Lord Ver. 18. and glory in the God of my Salvation although the Fig-tree shall not blossom c. Although there be no outward appearance of Good O how timerous how Cowardly are we how ready to be affrighted at any appearance of Death that in all our Discourse we cannot endure the thing Dying But were our Shooes but of Iron and Brass it would be easie the way would be plain before us we should be able to strike through every thing and to the overcoming of it And then In the Last place Our Shooes being of Iron and Brass we shall be born up even when we have pass'd out of the Body For though indeed we do not know the things that are beyond Death none have come back to give us an Account how it is with Spirits when they have left the Body I say none have come to give us Account only the Word of God that assures us and tells us that we shall be upon Precipices when we go out of the World if we are not apprehended by Christ Though undoubtedly Satan hath way-laid the way of Spirits going out of the Body with all the Incumberances he can possibly As I told you before it was the method of former times in War they took care to lay whatever could incommode their Enemies Feet with Stakes of Iron and Brass that might make the passage very difficult So undoubtedly that lost and undone Spirit that Envious Spirit that great Adversary of Souls does whatever he can do to way-lay Spirits going out of the Body and entering into the State of Eternity and going up to the Throne of God and the Throne of Christ he does whatever he can do but these Shooes of Iron and Brass shall carry us through Jesus Christ himself hath taken care to remove him out of the way so far as is necessary and the great Action of the Spirit of a Saint going upo to Christ and going up to God it shall be sustained and maintained by him and he will arm us wherein soever we lye open to Disadvantage and to Danger There will Christ more peculiarly provide for I make no doubt there is no one single motion of the Spirits of Saints but Christ hath so guarded and so taken care of as that very motion that we read of Eccles 12. 7. The Dust returning to the Earth as it was and the Spirit to God that gave it Now what are as I said before the Ambuscades What are the secret Linings of the way as we speak in Terms of War lining all the Avenues of the way we know not Satan hath lined them all with what may utterly spoil and deterr our motion up to God But Jesus Christ having first armed us with Shooes of Iron and Brass he himself will be found in the way and he 'll sustain our passage and cover our passage and bear up all our motions unto God And so I have opened the first of the great Expressions of the Blessedness that Moses expresses of Asher Thy Shooes shall be Iron and Brass Of which all the Mines that were in the Lot of Asher in that part of his possession they were but Types to set out this Almighty Power this Almighty strength of God unto Salvation And therefore I shall close this Head of Discourse with that in the 4th Chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians 7th Verse saith he The Peace of God which passeth all understanding As he calls him the God of peace Rom. 16. so here The Peace of