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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67574	Seven sermons preached by the Right Reverend Father in God, Seth Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.	1674 (1674)	Wing W830; ESTC R38484	145,660	578

wrought a trein of mighty signs and wonders in the land of Egypt for their deliverance And all Israel saw the great works which the Lord did upon Pharaoh and his host and they sang with Moses that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He hath triumphed gloriously the horse his rider hath he thrown into the Sea for he brought forth his people with joy because he had a favour for them 3. He was not their maker and their redeemer only but their establisher he perfected deliverance and followed them with all things perteining unto life and godliness He was their conductor in the wilderness in the day time he led them with a cloud and all the night with a pillar of fire He was their Protector As an Eagle flutters over her young ones and spreads abroad her wings so he stretched out his everlasting arms for their defence he suffered no man to do them wrong and drove out the nations before them He was their provider of meat drink and cloathes he smote the stony rock and the waters flowed he gave them Quails and Manna from Heaven so that they did eat Angels food he led them 40 years in the wilderness in all that space their cloaths did not wax old upon them nor their shooes upon their feet And lastly he was their establisher formed them into a Church and State and dictated to them laws for their perpetual establishment he gave testimonies unto Jacob and appointed a law in Israel a law written by the finger of God delivered by the mediation of Angels He set before them life and death he confirmed the Covenant made to their fathers he entred into a Covenant with themselves he spake to them sundry wayes and divers manners and finally to take away all pretences of ignorance or infidelity he appeared often to their fathers by the name of El-shaddai to Moses by his name Jehovah to themselves he came down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai he often filled the Tabernacle with his glory and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people These are some few instances of Gods dealing with this people Now for their requital the Scripture tell us their behaviour toward Moses and Aaron the instruments and toward God himself the Author of all their mercies of their deliverance Many a time they murmured against Moses and Aaron in Egypt and in the wilderness before they were out of Egypt they quarreled at Moses for attempting their deliverance within three days after their triumphal song they murmured at Marach about six weeks after the whole congregation murmured again and wished that they had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt they murmured at their very Manna and cried out in remembrance of the fisb that they did eat in Egypt the Cucumers and the Melons the Leeks and the Onions and the Garlick When the spies returned from Canaan they made a down right mutiny they said one to another Let us make us a Captain and let us return into Egypt They sided with Corah Dathan and Abiram in their rebellion and after the earth had opened and swallowed them up they still owned the rebels and adhered to the good old cause on the morrow all the congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron saying Ye have killed the people of the Lord still persisting in an opinion that they were Patriots and godly men But what do we speak of Moses or of oblique and consequential actings against God the Scripture tells us of their stupidity and infidelity they understood not his wonders in Egypt How long saith God will it be ere they believe me for all the signs which I have wrought among them neither signs among them nor signs upon them could cause them to believe He smote them for their unbelief and for all this they sinned still and believed not for all his wondrous works It tells of their forgetfulness they forgot God their Saviour which had done so great things for them they soon forgot his works and his wonders of their falseness and treachery their heart was not set aright their spirit was not stedfast when he slew them they would seek him for a while but they did but flatter him with their lips and dissemble with their double hearts It tells of their base idolatry they changed their glory for the similitude of a calf yea they offered their sons and daughters unto devils of their pride and scornfulness they despised the pleasant land they were a provoking generation a stubborn and rebellious nation How often did they provoke God in the wilderness and grieve him in the desart Many a time did he deliver them but they provoked him with their Counsels He divided the Sea for their passage and clove the rocks for their sustenance and covered them with a Cloud for their protection and they sinned yet the more They tempted him they spoke against him they provoked him at the sea even at the red Sea they turned back and tempted God and limited the holy one of Israel In one word they were a rebellious house a stiff-necked people they kept not the Covenant which themselves had made they would none of his precepts they despised his promises and his threatnings their neck had an Iron sinew and they had a brow of brass This was their behaviour even then when Gods miracles were fresh and Moses was still among them And God foresaw that after his decease they would provoke him yet more This was that requital which stirred and inflamed the spirit of Moses and quickned him to that abrupt Expostulation the first general part of the text whereof I have hitherto been giving an account Do ye thus requite the Lord You have seen some part of Israels ingratitude it follows that we consider the Turpitude and the Imprudence of this ingratitude which gave occasion for the censure here passed upon them O foolish people and unwise And first of the Turpitude of their ingratitude whereby it will appear that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now to set forth the unworthiness of their in gratitude against God in all the aggravations of it it is a task too heavy for me nay even for Angels and Moses when he was inspired and in the height of his rapture did not attempt it but making a chasme and drawing a veil over that part insinuates it to be unexpressible I shall not therefore offer at impossibilities but follow the method which the Scriptures have provided for us in like cases It is the manner of the Scriptures in things concerning God which are incomprehensible to bait the mind and train it on by exercising it in the Analogy of things familiar The love of God to his chosen people is incomprehensible to give us therefore a little notion of it the Prophet brings men to the consideration

and degrees in the greatest happiness whereof any society is capable conducting us by the hand of Moses and Aaron and their subordinate Ministers to the great ends of the great ordinance of God in the world and apt to enable and to dispose well-minded men by the means of grace and motives to sobriety righteousness and godliness which we enjoy by peace and plenty by liberty and prosperity in all which we exceed all others to produce effects of noble courage and magnanimity such as we read of in the stories of our Ancestors and of Piety and Devotion in proportion answerable to those of our glorious Predecessors that is not inferiour in their kind to any nation in the world Surely this also hath been of the Lords doing in reference to Society Civil and Sacred it is he that hath made us and not we our selves Now let us pass to the second enquiry 2. Hath he not redeemed us and that also in both capacities personal and national 1. For our persons spiritually and temporally hath he not bought our souls at a price hath he not offered us a plenteous redemption by the blood of the everlasting Covenant redeemed us from the curse of the Law the bondage of Sin the power of Satan the wrath of God Again is there any one single person to whom he hath not given many a temporal deliverance known and unknown or at least-wise unconsidered Hath not he redeemed us from the prison of the womb from the hazards of our infancy from the perils of our childhood from the wildness and precipitancy of youth from the snares and entanglements of our riper years Is there any one whom he hath not redeemed from six troubles and from seven in our bodies estates liberty reputation whom he hath not powerfully and frequently rescued from the folly and perverseness of our selves from the malice of our neighbours from the rage of Devils Hath he not redeemed us in our personal capacities 2. Hath he not redeemed our nation again and again in all its interest civil and sacred Who else was it that delivered our fathers and our selves from Barbarisme and Idolatry from Tyranny and Superstition from fanatical Anarchy and Irreligion To omit former deliverances can we forget how it is but a little while since the wrath of God was poured out upon this Kingdome to the uttermost since our Sun was turned into darkness and our Moon into blood our stars ravisht from their Orbs the Royal father Martyred the Son banished the Nobles confounded the State dissolved the Church destroyed our Religion Laws Liberty Property torn away our bones were dryed our hope was gone and we thought we had been clean cut off Then when we cried unto the Lord in our trouble he delivered us out of our distress He sent redemption to his people he turned our captivity as the Rivers of the South then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with Joy The Symptoms of joy and triumph were heard and seen in all the corners of the land nay the Sea roared and the floods clapped their hands the hills and the heavens resounded because of the redemption for he cometh for he cometh c. And now I say unto you hath he not redeemed us 3. Hath he not established us that is to say the Estalishment which we enjoy is it not all from him and hath not he done his part for our establishment our spiritual and temporal our private our publick establishment Doth not the God of all grace continually press upon us the means of grace calling us to his Eternal glory endeavouring to make us perfect to establish strengthen and settle us in his truth to establish us in the faith and in holiness to strengthen our inward man that we may be rooted and grounded and built up in him to a lively hope and an humble assurance of eternal life All spiritual Establishment is it not from God is there any person within the verge of his Majesties Dominions for whom God hath not provided plentiful means for this Establishment Again for our temporal private condition is there any one of us destitute of some sort of provision subsistance some sort of settlement or Establishment Is there any one that hears or hears me not for whom God hath not provided some honest way of Establishment by donation of pious Founders and Benefactors by legal descent by voluntary Bequest houses which they builded not c. by labour of the hand or contrivance of the brain by assistances of Alliances or friends by charitable benevolence by the bounty of contingency or the like Are not every one of these from the Lord is any one destitute of one or more of these ways of establishment or that can answer ' that God hath made no provision for them hath he not given us our temporal establishment Lastly hath not God done his part towards a National and a publick establishment of this Church and Kingdom Hath he not in order thereunto resetled our gracious Sovereign in the throne of his Royal Predecessors Re-established the Church upon its rightful Basis and foundation Restored all orders and degrees to their legal rights proprieties privileges and liberties Reinforced our Religion and our Laws in the due administration of Discipline and Justice Reduced all things into that ancient frame and constitution which had from many Generations derived happiness and glory to the people of England Finally for preservation and continuance of all these hath he not restored the actual strength of the Kingdom our Forts and Castles our stores and magazines our Towns and Cities our Armies and Navies lately rescued out of the hands of rebellious Usurpers to those Royal hands to which they do of right belong In one word therefore to conclude this first enquiry hath not God dealt with us as he did with Israel hath he not made us redeemed us established us The next consideration ought to be whether we have not so requited the Lord as they requited him Whether our behaviour hath not been answerable to that of Israel in reference both to the foolish part and the unwise And here alas how clear and conspicuous is the parallel in respect of their ingratitude and imprudence Have we not dealt do we not deal ungratefully with the Author and instruments of all our mercies Have all Gods methods and various dealings with us prevailed so far as to bring our persons to repentance or our Kingdom to a Reformation Have we been convinced or have we not been hardened by his wonders converted to his fears or sealed up into a sottish stupidity and senseless contempt of Religion a spirit of Atheism and downright infidelity Do we not murmur against Moses and Aaron do not some amongst us still abet the cause of Corah Dathan and Abiram are not some of us ready to make them a Captain and to return into Egypt Have we not soon forgot God our saviour have we not flattered him with our lips