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A77366	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb. 29. 1643. By VVilliam Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods Word at Yarmouth.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4465; Thomason E79_11; ESTC R13662	28,626	38

the strength of the Lord in the Majesty of the Name of the Lord his God and they shall abide And this man shall be the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land ver 5. So that whosoever doth but seriously consider the strength and anointment of Jesus Christ must needs conclude this Doctrine with me Though God suffer the enemies of his Church and people to be many and great yet in due time he will raise up a proportionable strength against them to suppresse them and to deale by them as they have done by others The application of this Doctrine lookes two wayes To the Saints in generall Carpenters in speciall To the Saints by way of consolation and incouragement To the Carpenters to Gods workemen by way of direction and exhortation First here is consolation and incouragement unto all the Application 1 Saints and people of God Wonder not that in a day of humiliation I speake of consolation Beloved you are never Sanctus dolet de dolo●e gaudet Aug. more fit to mourne for sin then when you can rejoyce in God One grace makes way for another It is the warme beames of Gods love and care must thaw our hearts Two things that we are this day to do To wrastle with God To fight with our enemies You cannot in your wrastling take better hold of God then by the skirt of a promise you cannot fight better against your enemies then by faith The Devil with whom especially we fight in these wars will not be killed with swords and knives This is our victory whereby we overcome the world even our faith It is written in the life of Mr. Tindall that when he was in the Netherlands there was a Conjurer that could command dishes of meat from severall mens tables so that he would invite his friend to a dish of meat from such or such a Princes table divers going to see his exploite Mr. Tindall went with the rest if it might be to hinder it and when he came there he set himself in a way of beleeving to hinder this Conjurers proceedings which he did accordingly for when that wretched man should have done his exploit his hands were held by Mr. Tindalls faith and he cryed out and said I cannot do it there sits the man that hinders me or to that purpose What will not faith do if good What will it not hinder if evil I will not say that in these sad dayes of ours we have to deale with Conjurers but surely with such persons as through their violence and thefts are able not onely to command mens dishes off their tables but all their goods out of their houses Oh that we had but faith enough we might Fides se demittit ad domestica soone beleeve them out of all their plundrings Wherefore that I may raise up your faith a little and keep you from discouragements I lay before you this promise Zechariah his vision is your promise yea it is somewhat more for as we say of Sacraments so I say of these two last visions they are promises unto the eye unto sense When Ioshua was to bring the children of Israel into Canaan and so to meet with many enemies before he went out God Moses and the people bestowed their severall exhortations on him and if you consult the place you shall find that all of them God Moses and people wish him to be of good courage and not to feare Why so Abulensis answereth Rationabiliter enim timere potuit Ioshua Ioshua might rationally feare for he saw how that his master Moses was occasioned by the Rationabiliter ergo timere poterat Josua quod cum ipse ●●agilio● ess●t sacillime peccare pote●at ita ut deus ipsum et populum in hostilem tradert potestatem Tostat in Josu 1. cap. Israelites to sin against God and to be angry in so much as he was kept out of Canaan Whereupon Ioshua might well think thus with himselfe Oh Lord if Moses who was the meekest man on earth was moved to anger the holyest man a man that saw God face to face yet could not do this work but through his failing was denyed entrance into Canaan how shall I be able to lead this people up against all these enemies Well therefore might he feare saith Abulensis lest God should give both him and his people into the hands of his enemies Well but how then doth God remove these feares and relieve his heart Onely thus he strengthneth him with a promise Feare not sayes God neither be dismayed for I am with thee and I will never leave thee nor forsa●e thee So now are there any of you oppr●ss●d with divers seares because of these hornes that are risen up in several parts of the world of this Kingdome The Lord hath said that according to the number of the hornes the carpenters shall be Are there enemies in every part There shall be carpenters in every part Will you say Oh but our en●mies are exceeding many and very cru●ll So were these mentioned in the Text who as Sanctius observeth the words signifie were to doe mischief in quantum potuerunt in quantum voluerunt and as your English hath it so that no man did lift up his head Will you say Oh but I doe not yet see these carpenters at worke But is it not because you do not stir up your s●lves I lift up mine eyes and saw saith Z●chariah Will you say Oh but when I do stir up my selfe to behold things as they are I cannot see foure for foure a proportionable strength on the Churches side raised up against the enemies Well but yet you may see some strength in every place where ever there is any opposition made by enemies some there are in the same place that God hath raised up to resist them And the Text is not that God will raise up strong gigantean carpenters but carpenters foure carpenters some or other that shall doe the work of God though they be never so weak In that Mic. 5. where the promise is to raise up seven shepherds and eight principall men he saith ver 7. The remnant of Iacob shall be as the dew that waiteth not for the sons of men Mark that word that waiteth not for the sons of men When Sisera and all his host were discomfited what were the carpenters were not Deborah and Iael with her hammer amongst them and saith the Text So let all thine enemies perish it is not onely a prayer but a prophecie It is recorded in the life and death of Melancthon that when Charles the 5. and the Pope of Rome threatned the Protestants with fire and sword Luther Melancthon and others got together to seek a way for themselves their little ones and their substance and on a certaine day after long deliberation Philip tired out with labour rose up exceeding sad and very sorrowfull to go speake with some that knockt and enquired after him at the gate