THE church's VICTORY.  
IN A Message from Heaven, to the Saints on Earth, by a ●at Pious and Learned Divine, immediately before his Death. To encourage all those who are now in arms for the defence of CHRIST and his gospel.  
THis is the day of Jacobs' trouble, and zions sorrow, and you do 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 yourselves be not a part of the misery of the times, that they be not the worse for you. And then make this the day of Jacob's trust also, for God is never nearer to his Church, than when the greatest troubles are near 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 Zion, and there is a council in Heaven will dash in pieces all the counsels on Earth, and which is more, God will work the raising of his Church, by that very means by which the enemies seek to ruin it: God gave to great a price for the Church to suffer it long to remain in the hands of cruel men.  
And for the flourish the enemies now make, it is but for a measured time, their day is coming, and their arms and Armies shall both be broken, and shall not only vex, but torment themselves, to see their Projects disappointed, and the mould of all their devices turned upon their own 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 rely only upon him for help from above; And that it may appear 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 captivity of the Church shall return 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 enemy themselves cry, for deliverance and vengeance. And then an army of prayers will suddenly turn the stream; a few Moseses in the Mount will do more than many soldiers in the valley.  
It is yourselves keep Antichrist and his faction alive to plague the unthankful World, his strength is not from his own cause, but from your want of zeal and confidence in God: You hinder your Halalujahs by private Brabbles, self-seekings; coldness, and formality: If God had once his ends, in the humiliation of the Church for sins 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 witness 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 crowns at Christ's feet, and bring all their glory to his Church.  I will have mercy upon the House of Judah, I will save them by the Lord their God; and will not save them by Bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by Horses or by horsemen, Hosea 1. 7. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him, Esa 59 19  

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