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A62380	Papisto-Mastix, or, Deborah's prayer against God's enemies Judg. 5, 31. explicated and applyed : in the Cathedrall of Saint Peter in Exon, November the fift, 1641 / by William Sclater ...	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing S919; Wing P311_CANCELLED; ESTC R15926	46,487	70

makes f Isa 52.10 bare his own arme and getteth g Psal 98.1 himselfe the victory himselfe as if he stood in need of none no not of the meanest ayd and therefore is Christs victory expressed by treading of a wine-presse alone Isa 63.1.6 When there are none to help when the Church is brought to sorest extremities and greatest improbabilities of being saved yet saith one though multitudes meet against her as many as Grapes in a Vintage they shall all be but as so many clusters of Grapes He shall squeeze out their blood like Wine and make his Church to thash them And this he doth sometimes extraordinarily to shew himself the immediate author of the deliverance as when he discomfited the Hoast of the the Syrians by a noyse of Horses and Chariots of fire 2 King 6.17 and 7.6 as there was a h Euseb l. 3. c. 8. voyce heard in the Temple before the destruction of Hierusalem not more in likelihood to warn the faithful to depart the City than to terrifie the lewd inhabitants The story of our own Henry the fifth against the numerous Frenchmen who thought to have even crowded them to death is more known than to need relation Under the conduct of Germanus here in Britain who came over from France to subdue the Pelagian heresie which then prevailed amongst us against a mighty army of Saxons and Picts the Britons prevailed onely by the three times pronouncing the word Hallelujah which voice ecchoing redoubling from the Acclamation of his followers among the Mountains nigh to which the Enemie had encamped frighted them and won the Conquest upon which it was called i Vide Archiepis Usserium lib. de Britan. eccles primordiis p. 332 333. c. Victoria Hallelujatica and the story telleth us Triumphant Pontifices bostibus fusis sine fanguine triumphant victoriâ fide obtentâ non viribus The joy was in a victory gotten without blood-shed and that by Faith not by force Sometimes againe the senses of the Enemies are deluded as the Moabites seeing the sunne shining upon the water flowing happily upon red earth had their eyes dazled and so ranne upon their unthought-off destruction 2 King 3.22 23. And so also he made way to his indignation upon Pharaoh and the Aegyptians by rowling up the waters into an heap till they were all run full on into the very gulfe of destruction Exod. 14. Sometimes againe ordinarily but by weake means Thus Zerah the Ethiopian with his Hoast of a thousand thousand was overthrown by a handfull of King Asa for it is nothing with the Lord to help whether with many or with them that have no power 2 Ch. 14.11 And Gideon only with three hundred men and a with few empty pitchers and blinking Lamps undid the Midianites though they lay as Grasse-hoppers upon the valley of Morch Judg. 7.7.20 the reason is verse the second Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me saith the Lord saying Mine own hand hath saved me So David a young stripling goeth forth against the huge monster Goliah and with nought but a sling and a smooth stone smote that dread of Israel that he felldown like to an k Pro. 7.22 Oxe fatted for the slaughter at the feet even of a tender stripling 1 Sam. 17. So the wals of Jericho were thrown down with the blast of Rams-horns Josh 6.20 to see wals that seemed to challenge by their height an equipage with the Stars of Heaven a man would imagine no warlike engine of the most martiall ostentation enough to batter them but behold that God may have the glory of so great a downfall onely a seven daies walk about them with the sound not of any silver shrill trumpets but onely of Rams-horns instruments base for the matter and not loud for the sound this must doe the businesse for the Lord when he will compasse an overthrow makes l B● Hall Contemplat of the siege of Jericho weaknesse no disadvantage and very mean and homely are those means which God commonly useth in his most glorious works At other times again by ordring casualties and particular emergencies for the deliverance of his Church a thing conspicuous in the Histories of Joseph Eester in which book of Eester though the name neither of God nor Lord be found at all yet in no Scripture is there set down more wonderfull and remarkable passages and acts of Gods immediate providence for his calamitous people So that as a man by a Chaine made up of severall links some of Gold others of silvers some of Brasse Iron or Tin may be drawn out of a Pit so the Lord saith an m Mr. Edward Reynolds on Ps 110. ver 5.6 p. 499. eminent Divine of this age by the concurrence of severall subordinate things which have no manner of dependance or naturall coincidency among themselves hath oftentimes wrought the deliverance of his Church that it might appeare to be the worke of his own hand In short God partly by defeating the devises of the crafty partly by restrayning the power or over-ruling the malice of the wicked n Jud 6. confer D. King p. 56. Lect. 4. on Jonah chayning up even Satan himselfe by these and a thousand other wayes the Lord declareth his power to be more for his Church then all the Enemies thereof can be against it and therefore after Deborahs example here because of that his power he is chiefly to be sought unto in the time of danger Thirdly for Gods goodnesse and readinesse to relieve the wants of his children it flowes naturally from the bowels of his innate compassions and most render loving kindenesse therefore Luke 1.78 old Zachary calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thus when his embondaged people groaned under their Aegyptian burthens the Lord looked upon them and soon eased them of their sighings and o Isa 1.24 himselfe of his adversaries Exod. 2.23 24 25. see Psal 103.8 9 Mic. 7.19 Lastly for fidelity and faithfulnesse heare Truth it selfe to speak Matth. 5.48 the whole creation shall as soone faile as the least iota of Gods word faile of accomplishment yea in comparison of God every even of the truest men is a direct Lyer Rom. 3.3 For it is an impossibility that God should ly Heb. 6.18 or deny himselfe being truth it selfe 2 Tim. 2.13 As for man indeed wherein is he to be p Isa 2.22 accounted of whose breath is in his Nostrils whose fidelity and favour like to the reeds of Aegypt may not faile us only but run into our hands and hurt us 2 King 18.21 see Psal 12.1 and Prov. 2● 19 Confidence in an unfaithfull friend in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joynt For as there is no trusting to a broken tooth for feeding nor to alame leg for speedy journeying no more firme confidence is there to be placed in a wa●ering yeelding unfaithfull friendship Now in God his fidelity is like himselfe q Ma●