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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90892	A sermon preached upon Psalm 22, the former part of the first verse wherein is shewed, how, when and wherefore God doth desert his children, unto which is also annexed, certaine symptomes of a deserted condition, with directions unto those who have lost God's favour, how to get it : and directions likewise unto those who have gotten God's favour, how to keep it / by T.P.	Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1674 (1674)	Wing P3075A; ESTC R43720	7,089	16

a care of losing him again The burnt child ut vulgo dicitur dreads the fire so that man or woman who knows how bitter the absence of God is will take care another time how they forfeit their communion with him Fifthly God many times leaves us and deserts us anticiandi gratia to prevent our affections from being glewed to ●hings here below God many times leaves us I say lest ●e should like our being here below too well If our com●union with God was continual it would be a Heaven then ●pon Earth if God's presence was alwayes with us we ●hould not talk then of going to Heaven we should even say 〈◊〉 Peter did unto Christ in the transfiguration Lord it is good ●●r us saith he to be here Matt. 17 4. Application I come now unto the Application is it so that though God may desert a Beleiver yet he is the Believers God still then this may serve for a use of comfort and consolation to you that are in a deserted condition though he has left you yet he is your God still though he has left you yet he will come to you again O drooping Soul bear up then have a good Heart though a deserted Soul yet a happy Soul Use 2. Secondly if so be this is a truth then it will serve to refute and consute such who do hold that one may be a child of God to day and a child of the Devil to morrow wherea● we deny it and affirm thus once a Believer and alwayes a Believer once a child of God and alwayes a child of God if God hath been really our God he is our God for ever Use 3. If so be this is a Truth then here is encouragement fo● you to go to God in your forlorn Estate though he hath deserted you yet know he hath not utterly cast you off seeing then that he is your God gather from thence ground enough sufficient not to drive you into despair He is you God I say therefore go to him and beg earnestly of him for deliverance Cry out as our Lord Jesus did upon th● Cross My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Argue i● with God reason the case I say with God let thy Sou● Expostulate with God after this manner Lord I am thine and thou art mine why therefore should there be such difference between thee and my Soul pray to God believingly wrestle with him in good earnest argue with him to some purpose until such time thou hast prevailed with him and hast gotten the blessing Having now almost brought my Discourse to a Period I shall only lay down a few directions to those who have lost God's favour how to get it secondly to those who have gotten God's favour how to keep it First I am to lay down some directions to those who have lost God's favour how to get it and first be earnest in the persuite after it if you have lost God's favour give neither slumber to your Eye-lids or rest to your soules until such times you get it because as the best White wine when stale becom's to be the sowrest Vinegar so likewise the best love when abused turns to be the sorest wrath Secondly you must endeavour after God's favour by pleading the Promises when thou goest to God in a way of Duty say unto him Lord thou hast promised such and such things therefore I am resolved in the strength of Christ not to go away till these Promises are fulfilled in me Thirdly to get God's favour is by weeping lamenting and repenting over that which has been the occasion of losing it Physicians reckon that when they have found out the cause of the Distemper the cure is half done So soul when thou knowest what that particular thing is for which God hath departed from thee then there is hopes O therefore loath thy self cry shame of thy self in regard of carrying thy self so frowardly and disobediently unto God who hath been so good unto thee I come now to give some directions unto those who have gotten God's Favour how to keep it And first of all be sure you prize it valew you it at a high rate you that have gotten God's Favour are rich indeed nay further if you have gotten God's favour you have gotten that which a Thousand Worlds can't purchase Secondly if thou wouldst keep God's favour endeavour to live answerable unto it have a care of sinning away God's favour make a good use of it grace the Gospel of our Lord Jesus with a pure and blameless conversation The way to get mercies continued is by getting them Sanctified Thirdly if thou wouldst keep God's favour wait then upon him in a conscientious use of means pray more sincerely than heretofore pray more ardently then heretofore pray more believingly than heretofore pray more perseveringly than heretofore So in like manner when thou comest to the Sacrament let thy love be unfeigned thy Faith increased thy Repentance renewed be frequent I say in the use of those means which God hath appointed for the increase of our graces so as that you may live like a people that have a Hell to escape and a Heaven to obtain Fourthly to keep God's favour is by considering that if thou losest it thou wilt thereby lose thy soul if God's Favour is kept thy salvation is sure but if God's favour is lost then thy salvation is lost Fifthly and lastly to keep God's favour is by believing that it is the principal thing in Heaven and Earth which indeed it is what will it profit you if you should gain the whole world and lose God's favour is there any thing here below that can do you good in another World besides the favour of God Money will buy ut alii dicum all things but not the fav●ur of God Finally my brethren there is nothing to be compared with it Oh then what now doth remain but that you should so prize it the favour of God is an excellent thing do you so account it which that you may so do the Lord God say Amen Laus Deo