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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86068	God the believer's best stronghold in the worst times. A sermon preached upon the preservation of His Majesty's person, and the discovery of the late plot of the intended invasion. / By Edmund Godwin ...	Godwin, Edmund.	1696 (1696)	Wing G967A; ESTC R177501	23,981	57

into the Mouth of the Eater But who can overthrow such a Strong-hold as God is that is Almighty Wo be to him that strives with his Maker Use I. If God be such an excellent Strong-hold then see what a bosom you have here to flee unto that whatsoever evil days come yet if you have recourse to him for your Strong-hold you may be sure to be safe and take heed I beseech you that you do not set up your Rest in any thing on this side God When it is a day of Trouble as we are threatned with such a day at this time Counsel and Strength of Men and Horses and Ships cannot be a Strong-hold for us without God See what the Prophet says in the second Chapter of Isaiah Cease from Man whose Breath is in his Nostrils and if Man must be ceased from much rather must the things that Man hath made be ceased from as Ships and pleasant Pictures as the Prophet instances in that Chapter Now there be these three things that may rap off your Fingers from the Creature or making any thing your Strong-hold on this side God Now for this consider 1. The Inutility or Unprofitableness of all Creature-help in the day of Distress in the day of God's Anger for Riches profit nothing in the day of God's Wrath saith Solomon Prov. 11. 4. But they many times make the Owner the more in danger as the Gold Ring hath made some to loose the Finger And what shall it profit a Man says our Saviour to gain the whole World and to loose his own Soul That were a Loss above all other Losses thou hast better lose thy Wife thy Children thy House thy Lands nay thy Life it self than loose thy Soul and yet thus many do to gain the World But what Profit when they come to take away thy Soul The things of this World have not so much Worth in them as to deliver your Souls from Death or Hell or Damnation so that it cost more to redeem one Soul than all the World comes to They have not so much worth in them as to satisfy one of your Debts for no Man knows Love or Hatred by all that is before him they have no power to pacify Conscience in its Distress The things of this World prove many times lothing Torments to dying Christians and they are many times dying Comforts to living Christians 2. The Mutability of the Creature There is a great deal of Mutability in the Creature you cannot say the Moon will shine two days together with the same face so the things of the World are likened to the Moon Rev. 12. 1. The Woman that is the Church is said to have the Moon under her Feet i. e. All worldly things Again They are sometimes likened to the Wind Dan. 7. 2. says the Prophet there I saw the four Winds striving upon the Sea And what were those four Winds but the four Monarchies striving upon the Sea of this World which should be uppermost And so as the Moon doth not shine two days together with the same face no more are you sure the Wind will blow two hours together in the same Quarter The gratest Monarchies and Kingdoms are but so many stormy and violent Winds and will you make that your Strong-hold that is so subject to Alteration and Change In a stormy day will you go to a Shadow for your Refuge or Shelter 3. Besides all this there is a Corruptibility in all these things so the Apostle speaks to this purpose 1 Pet. 1. 19. He calls there Silver and Gold corruptible things which we are apt to account most durable How may all the Glory of the World which we are apt to account most shining and excellent be wink 't into Blackness and Darkness All the Glory of Man is but as the Flower of Grass All Solomon's Glory was but that of the Lilly of very short Continuance the Flower may fade whilst the Stalk yet standeth and yet that within a short while will be cast into the Oven The Flower may be nipt in the Bub but if it be let alone it will fall of it self such are Creature Excellencies and therefore I beseech you do not set up your Cities of Refuge on this side God And for your further comfort consider how God knows such as are in Trouble and trust in him and have Dependance upon him for Safety and Deliverance if God's People could be in Adversity and God not know it then their case would be sad indeed but God knows what all your Ailes and Troubles are and will certainly deliver you out of them all if you depend upon him and trust in him Quest But are there not many that are Believers that are cut off in their Troubles and Straits as good Josiah and others Answ There are seldom any that in the height of their Dependance upon God that have acted Faith and fully relied upon him for Deliverance that have been cut off For you must know that it is one thing to have Faith and another thing to act Faith as it is one thing to have a Sword and another thing to use it Many a one may be cut off for not using of his Sword whereas if he had used it very like he might have escap'd and it is a Saying of the Psalmist concerning the goldly Man Psal 112. 7. He shall not be afraid of any evil tydings Why His Heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. All the while he acts his Faith on God he hath no cause to fear So that this further informs us that the Wicked shall never beat Believers out of heart for in the worst times they have a Strong-hold a good God to run unto and so shall they be saved from all their Enemies When they are in the greatest danger still they have a God that takes Cognizance of them when it may be their Friends and neer Relations will take no notice of them Thou hast known my Soul in Adversities saith David Psal 31. 7. If they could be in Adversities and God not know it it would then be a sad thing indeed but God knows whatsoever Adversities you are in and will doubtless deliver his I but are not many of them cut off by Death I answer God will be so good to them as to deliver them from Death or by Death and therefore the day of Death is better to them than the day of their Birth for when they are born then they come into Trouble but when they die then they come out of Trouble and it is better to come out of Trouble than to come into Trouble This is the Comfort that they have that trust in God God knows them and knows how to deliver them when they do not know how to deliver themselves We know not what to do says Jehoshaphat 2 Chron. 20. 12. I but God knows what to do and how to deliver his and to reserve the Wicked for the day of Wrath For this Knowledg of God