The Churches victory in a message from heaven to the saints on early / by a fat, pious and learned divine, immediately before his death, to incourage all those who are now in armes for the defence of Christ and his gospell. Fat, pious and learned divine. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A33135 of text R33293 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C4274A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A33135 Wing C4274A ESTC R33293 13119558 ocm 13119558 97818 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A33135) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 97818) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1547:19) The Churches victory in a message from heaven to the saints on early / by a fat, pious and learned divine, immediately before his death, to incourage all those who are now in armes for the defence of Christ and his gospell. Fat, pious and learned divine. 1 broadside. Imprinted at London for Mi. F., [London] : [between 1641-1661] "Mi. F." is Miles Flesher--NUC pre-1956 imprints. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Presbyterianism. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. A33135 R33293 (Wing C4274A). civilwar no The Churches victory in a message from heaven to the saints on early / by a fat, pious and learned divine, immediately before his death, to Fat, pious and learned divine 1641 706 2 0 0 0 0 0 28 C The rate of 28 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE CHURCHES VICTORY . IN A Message from Heaven , to the Saints on Earth , by a ●at Pious and Learned Divine , immediatly before his Death . To incourage all those who are now in Armes for the defence of CHRIST and his GOSPELL . THis is the day of Iacobs trouble , and Sions sorrow , and you doe well that see it , and take it , to heart , for he is a de●d member takes not notice of the ill , these sad times may produce , therefore first take heed your selves bee not a part of the misery of the times , that they bee not the worse for you . And then make this the day of Jacobs trust also , for God is never neerer to his Church , then when the greatest troubles are neere to them : when in Earth men are concluding an utter overthrow ( as now ) God in Heaven is concluding a glorious deliverance : Christ now stands upon Mount Sion , and there is a Councell in Heaven will dash in pieces all the Counsells on Earth , and which is more , God will worke the raising of his Church , by that very meanes by which the enemies seeke to ruine it : God gave to great a price for the Church to suffer it long to remaine in the hands of cruell men . And for the flourish the enemies now make , it is but for a measured time , their day is comming , and their Armes and Armies shall both be broken , and shall not onely vex , but torment themselves , to see their Projects disappointed , and the mould of all their devises turned upon their owne heads . The depths of misery , are never below the depths of mercy , God often for this very end , strips the Church of all helps below , that it may relie onely upon him for help from above ; And that it may appeare the Church is governed by an higher power , then that whereby it is opposed . And then is the time when the Church may expect her greatest deliverance , when there is a great faith in the great God ; then the captivitie of the Church shall returne as Rivers in the South , and she shall become a cup of trembling in the hands of her enemies , for the prayers of the Church cry , the blood of the Saints cry , and the violence of the Enemie themselves cry , for deliverance and vengeance . And then an Armie of prayers will suddenly turne the streame ; a few Moseses in the Mount will doe more then many souldiers in the valley . It is your selves keepe Antichrist and his faction alive to plague the unthankefull World , his strength is not from his owne cause , but from your want of zeale and confidence in God : You hinder your Halalujahs by private Brabbles , selfe-seekings ; coldnesse , and formallitie : If God had once his ends , in the humiliation of the Church for sinnes past , with Resolution of Reformation for time to come , this present age might expect to see the salvation of GOD , which the generations at hand shall be witnesse of . It will therefore prove the wisest resolution to fall and rise with the Church of Christ , for the enemies themselves shall see and say , God hath done great things for them ; Kings shall lay their Crownes at Christs feet , and bring all their glory to his Church . I will have mercy upon the House of Iudah , I will save them by the Lord their God ; and will not save them by Bow , nor by sword , nor by Battell , by Horses or by horsemen , Hosea 1. 7. When the Enemie shall come in like a flood , the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him , Esa 59. 19. Imprinted at London for Mi. F.