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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

things are done and suffered that we thinke impossible and most terrible but nothing is impossible to faith Therefore we must cry after this grace and lift up Prov. 3. 22. our prayer for it it is life unto the soule and grace to the neck Thereby we walk in our way safely and at the end we lye downe and are not afraid for faith makes The LORD our confidence and therefore we will say evermore Lord encrease our faith it is the onely necessary thing For Job 18. 14. First it purifieth the heart it subdues iniquity it overcomes the world nay it gives you victory over the King of terrors I doe not meane Death though that is a most terrible King but Sin which is the strength and sting of death which makes a man seek for death as for hid treasure that he might be rid of those thoughts of eternity which is are the poison of vipers and gall of Asps It sets an edge upon our feares and our sorrows This evill a pure evill Faith subdueth and mastereth through Christ in the power of His might and so we are made more then Conquerours by laying hold-fast on Him The Rock of our salvation Secondly Faith bottomes the heart upon GOD which was said before and Faith encourageth the heart to duty which follows To live to God To improve all we have and are To His Glory so assureth the person as He walks before Him here now so he shall live in Glory for ever with The Lord. Faith then is the principall thing that excellent that admiring grace get that and we have all things compleatly fitted both to do or to suffer as good souldiers of Jesus Christ I will shut up this with the words wherewith the righteous have concluded their Psal 33. 21 22 Psalme and closed up their hearts against feare Our heart shall rejoyce in Him because we have trusted in His holy Name Let thy mercy O Lord be upon us according as we hope in thee CHAP. V. The Righteous obey from the heart True sound and sincere obedience is never found but in keeping to Gods Work and in His way They meet with Lions and Bears there but they have a safeguard over them and are not afraid They are sure they are in their way and upon Duty which must be done and the work prosper and increase with the increase of God And all this in the fittest time when the Adversary shall be most confounded and God most glorified THe Righteous obey from the (a) Rom. 6. 1● heart An hearty obedience that is obedience indeed and it is ever found in GODS way and Work Such an obedience then a walking in GODS way an engaging the heart to GODS worke is a soveraigne meanes To quiet and calme the spirit when here is trouble on every side For thus The righteous man reasoneth Some Lion some Esau some fierce Adversary some great trouble or crosse may meet me in my way Yes but I am in GODS way I am doing my duty let GOD alone for the rest He will work for my comfort As the valiant Romane said I allude to it when it was told him That the enemie would be upon his back quickly ●go autem Sacrifico Let him come said he I will keep to my service I will do my duty for all that I would rather instance in Nehemiah he saw and heard enough to have daunted any mans spirit that was not such a man as himselfe That had not another spirit and could set his face like a flint And yet he was not carefull he was not afraid should such a man as he feare imployed in GODS worke and in His way Should he fly No not he Let the adversary rage and roare and send and write and flatter and lye and slander and blaspheme the adversaries did all this and more yet he would to his worke and abide by it for he was upon Temple-work a sworne Man to doe his Lord service And this Lord hath sworne to protect that man Truly it is so Let a Lion a she-beare or the devill meet such a person crosse him in the way he need not be carefull nor afraid being groundedly resolved of this I am in Gods way upon His worke O let me be stil found so doing What GODS work and in His way a mighty comfort this It is as a Cordiall to the heart when we suffer from the hand there That there and then we have done our duty Gods work in Gods way so obeying from the heart The Angels are a safeguard about us They beare us up what would we have more for our security The case is evident it is an exceeding comfort a marvailous establishment to a man surrounded with terrors That he is in GODS way upon His worke It is a Soveraigne Cordiall now in these perilous and exceeding feirce times It stayes and chears the heart and silenceth the reasoning of the Spirit What That I am in Gods way and upon His work the heart may meditate terrour now when the Nations are angry Esa 33. 18. the Kingdom totters like a drunken man We will consider with all our hearts the case that Nehemiah was in and his courage for it is very notable his case is the case of our Worthies even of all that are able to stand in the gap for the help of the Church And this time runs parallel with that then after the very same Line Therefore we will heare what Nehemiah sayes and reason the case about him What sayes he Should such a man as I flee And Who is there that being as I am would goe into the Temple Neh. 6. 1● to save his life A very bold speech I pray you since it is not too late and it may be of much use now let us examine this mans confidence Why might not such a man as hee flee what manner of man was he A faithfull man one that feared God above many There is the Answer for that A faithfull man cannot be fearfull a man full of faith cannot be full of feare BEING AS I AM In what a case was Nehemiah in then In a very sad and perplexed case sure All the reason he had if hee had no more then we have could not tell him which way to take for he had heard no lesse then ten times That from all places the Adversary would be upon him (c) Nehe. 4. 12. And when The Lord brought that counsail to nought they fell upon another The devils mint * Fabricator Prov. 6. 14. is still going his servants are still hammering there The Ad-Adversary sent to Nehemiah no lesse then FOURE TIMES to procure a brotherly conference about an an Accommodation forsooth but they thought to doe him * Chap 6. 2. 3. 4. mischiefe And when Nehemiah returned the Adversary still the same Answer Foure times together I AM DOING A GREAT WORKE WHICH MUST NOT CEASE while I come downe to you to Parley about an

about our table yet there is a feare That we may be taken away in the midst of all our fulnesse What is our life We know what the Apostle answers and every day James 4. 14. saith as much It appeareth for a little time then vanisheth away A man is well to day and dead to morrow and this feare if there be not a hand over it to subdue it holds us in bondage all our life time Heb. 2. 15. But Blessed be God so He unbottomes His People drawing the heart to Himselfe If it were not for these feares Faith would have no mastery but so it is we are in such feares often and that is almost to be in death as often so in this our wildernesse and God beareth with our manners here weaneth His people Acts 13. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from drawing so hard at the breasts of the world Assureth them This is not the place of their rest but there remaineth a Rest to his people which shall last as long as Eternity is long for ever Therefore they may beare patiently their disquietings their changes here below for a moment a little a small (c) Esay 26. 20. 54. 7. moment quickly over and then they shall see evill no more (d) Zeph. 3. 15. Shortly they shall be above in the heaven of Heavens where all is peace for evermore And their disquietments and fears make them work more strongly after this place now so God makes all work for their good whereof in the close This here must be considered even CHAP. II. The wisdom of God in planting this affection of feare in His People BLessed be God wee are in feares often it is best for us so to be wee should surfeit every day of our sweets if the feare of loosing them did not allay the lussiousnesse of the same wee should bottome our selves too strongly upon our mountaine if wee were Confident wee are too consident it cannot be removed Dayly experience tells us so much therein That wee cannot stand fearelesse upon the strongest and best bottomed comfort that hath its bottome upon the earth And Blessed bee God for all this even for this affection of feare So also and that The Lord hath put a vanity and vexation into the Creature and feares many feare make us all pull up our feet and walke more warily feare feeds us with food Convenient So it clothes us feare is our watch keeper It is the most wakeing affection most serviceable of any if it doth Its office It is the house-porter the bodies Spiall and the soules too still keeping watch It is next to love the most Commanding affection our keeper and Truths keeper also It is the best King in the world the great or little for it keeps both tables I should speake more of it but I find my self prevented here in a Booke called The Childs portion Pag. 1●2 163. whereto I would referr the Reader if please him I would rather speake somewhat more touching the usefulnesse of this affection God sanctifying the same It makes the people of God to put no confidence at all in the flesh I meane by Flesh All things under the moone They cannot feare now the changes of things here below and vexation from them for they have been so used to it That which they feared from the creature so often came upon them That now they expect no stability in the creature at all but changes and troubles and vexations from it evermore They can now suffer the spoiling of their goods with joy They did indeed put some confidence in such things They thought such things to be a HIGH WALL a but it was and they see it now to be a meere conceit Prov. ●● ●● onely and no more They know now and they are fearlesse about it That the theefe and the robber breaks in upon these treasures every day therefore it is nor their treasure they account not of it so they have laid up their treasure in a safe place where they feare not the thiefe nor the moath and it is well they are so well instructed to discretion I remember a Story worth the noting of Paulinus Bishop of Nola he had abundance of wealth but no affection to it bags Aug. deciv De● lib. 1. c. 10. V●l●●●ate pauper●imu●●● c●p●o s●●me sanct●● full and coffers full but his heart was not set upon that fulnesse but on a better treasure and full of the same It was well for him that he had a Treasure which Man could not give nor take away For though he was a very rich man but as yesterday yet was he stript of all presently and as poore as Iob. The Goths a barbarous people almost as any we can see or heare of brake into that City Nola like so many Devils and did flee upon the prey flee presently upon all the Bishop had in this world and took it Cum ab cis ●eneretur si●● corde suo ut ab co postea cogno ●imus p●●cabatur Domine non excrucier propter aurum argentum ubi e●●m sunt omnia mea tu s●is ibid. c. into their possession and the Bishop prisoner also Now mark his Prayer for that was all the refuge he had now being in the hands of Robbers LORD GOD Let me not be greatly troubled for my silver and gold Thou knowest Lord it is not my Treasure That is laid up according to Thy Commands Who didst tell us long before That this would happen These barbarous people would break in upon us for our sinnes therefore Lord I was warned and laid up my Treasure as Thou hast charged me and as Thou knowest What a wise man was this Truly all his neighbours counted him so for though they were not so wise before-hand yet now they had learnt by sad experience (c) Si non praedente sapientia certe consequente experientia didicerunt an after-wisdome that comes too late That so they should have done too They should have laid up their Treasure where their Teacher did and charged his people so to doe For mark how it hapned to those after-wits They counted the wedge of gold their Treasure and all their care and feare was To secure that so they hid it in the ground The Robbers came they knew there was silver and gold both and they would have it and by torments the enemy forced the distressed Captives To tell where they had hid their treasure Nay the Adversaries cruelty was such That they tormented some poore wretches that had neither silver nor gold upon supposition that they had both and dissembled the having of it Other some the richest men amongst them were so hardy That they would die upon the rack rather then discover where their gold was and so they were admonished saith the Author by suffering such Si autem to●queri quam aurum prodere maluerunt admonendi crant qui tanta patiebantur pro auro quanta essent

unto him but he would not hearken and that was his manner * Jer. 22. 21. from his youth he would not obey Gods voice what cared he what God said he was inprosperity had no changes and expected none Towards the end as the manner is The Lord made a breach upon him sorrows overwhelmed him like a mighty flood O said he I never looked for this Ai that was true enough and therefore his sorrowes pressed his soule we know not how low We looked for peace said they (a) Jer. 8. 15. ver 19. Why did they so For first They had provoked GOD to anger with their Images and strange vanities Secondly for I hasten here The word is gone forth of His mouth Who cannot lye In the world affliction Yet say they We looked for Peace what followes No good came we looked for a time of health and behold trouble A miserable case to be so deceived and in point of Peace The righteous not so They are not deceived They expect trouble what the gates of hell can doe against them All this is done against them they are not troubled at it They had their masters word it would be so and so it is Where is their comfort now In ME PEACE Trouble round about and War at the doores making breaches upon them That which upholds them is and fully to their expectation IN ME PEACE I will aske a Question and resolve it in two Answers when I have cleared them then I will conclude this point Is the Church never deceived in her expectation Quest No never deceived in the world in her expectation therein Answ 1 she expects no favour from it but all the evill that can be done against her and she is sure to have it from the world And 2. Nor shall their expectation in GOD be frustrate and there is the comfort I will cleare these premisses and then conclude 1. The Churches expectation from the world is never deceived What doth she expect As aforesaid Affliction and Persecution thence Her Lord hath bid her expect it for the world love their owne not His people as they love not Him and they must not look to fare better then their Lord Affliction in the world Persecution from the world is a part of the Churches Dowry See what a Ioynter her Good Lord hath made His Church and People He hath given to her All Himselfe and All the world and All ALL THINGS (b) 1 Cor. 3. 21 ARE YOURS you shall profit and receive benefit from all even from all that is called evill in the world All is yours There we reade the particulars of her Dowry and amongst them DEATH afflictions persecutions pains sorrows troubles in the flesh that is Death and all this is in the Churches Dowry no Part or Parcell of it is so large as this for it containes necessities distresses stripes imprisonments tumults labours watchings fastings all this a very DEATH to a mans sense and present feeling Is it not think you Death to be as the Church is in some of her people alwayes 2 Cor 6. 4 5. In journyings in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils by her owne Countreymen in perils by the heathen in perils in the City in perils in the wildernesse in perils amongst false brethren 2 Cor. 11. 26. in wearinesse and painfulnesse That was Pauls case you wil say Nay it is the Churches case with some of her sons and daughters and it will be their case unto the worlds end And certainly all this is a very death To sojourne in Mesech to dwell in the tents of Kedar amongst them that hate peace a very Death all this working Psal 120. indeed graciously and gloriously through GOD that orders all for Good but a very death to sense to flesh and bloud But it is her portion in this life and no longer but durante vitâ a span a little moment in comparison to eternity in the heavens where God hath time enough to doe them good and refresh their hearts after their hard labours here with joyes there unspeakable and long-lasting pleasures lasting as long as eternity is long for ever but I say their sorrowes last no longer but durante vitâ and disposed to her as a Legacie by her EVERLASTING FATHER and she is content Content A poore and beggerly expression she rejoyceth in her portion for all that which went before comes in at last with advantage adding very much to the weight of her crowne so she blesseth God for all but for nothing so much as for death for it makes the world nothing to her while she lives and when she dies sets her cleare of all that we call Evill makes her compleat throughout FITTED and (d) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Col. 1. 11. Meet for after Glory Death in some sort is like the Whale which swallowed Ionah a terrible thing but it wasteth the man to Land setteth him cleare from all winds and stormes But Death is Part of the Churches Dowry her lot To bee made the portion of foxes To bee persecuted in this world shee hath so much of Heaven in her that shee must fare the worse in the world which knowes none favours none heartily but its owne Without controversy persecution is the note of a True Church There is God or something of God some plaine character of His Image against whom the Assemblies of violent men The Nimrods The Esaus The Neroes of the world do bend themselves But can this People endure all this hardship are they able to Quest beare up against all this persecution from the tongues and hands of violent men Yes no doubt of that for God hath fitted them for shocks and Ans brunts and violent blasts Hee hath made their faces like flints their shoulders like brasse their Hands and Armes like Iron What Esay 1. 5 7. Jer. 1. 18. can the Adversary doe now The blast of the terrible ones what can it availe It is answered As much as a storme against a brazin Esay 25. 4. wall so the SPIRIT scornes what flesh can doe against Him Greater is He That is in you Then hee that is in the world (k) 1 Joh. 4. 4. These people are resolved upon that and they have overcome the world should then such men as they feare when they heare the Defaming of many which they looke to heare and crying out violence and spoile Should such men as these feare Jer. 20. 8 10. No They cannot bee affraid with any amazement for I am with them saith The (a) Jer. 1. 19. LORD they are assured of that What then Then what They will follows for They will ask nothing but according to His will If they have written down that as one saith then they may write what they wil for GOD is with them then all is with them That can make for their provision and protection They shall dwell on high their place of Defence shall be the