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A34527 Gods providence, a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Decemb. 28, 1642, in S. Margarets Church at Westminster by Ed. Corbett ... Corbet, Edward, d. 1658. 1642 (1642) Wing C6241; ESTC R20147 26,491 35

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them we cannot be too carefull about that work in which our greatest care is not enough 2. Do not undervalue Gods Ordinances Divine Institution adds a price and holy regard to every work The time the place the matter the manner every circumstance receives weight from Gods command and he who is not carefull to observe the least doth not obey God when he performes the greatest If Naaman wil be cleansed he must wash seven times in the water of Jordan six times washing will not remove the Leprosie whosoever will be cured must enter First into the Poole after the Angel hath troubled the water he that comes after shall have no benefit Gods order must be observed his number regard'd contempt in any circūstance ruines all the work It is no just excuse to prefer some before others when all ought to be done it is not the Dutie of a Servant to chuse his work and rather to dispute his Masters will then obey it Let the Ordinances of Heaven be never so meane so poore in regard of their outward condition They are worthy of pretious account of honourable esteeme of carefull observance in respect of their Author and those sacred ends for which they were injoyn'd Common bread becomes the food of life in the Sacrament of the Lords supper and water a vulgar and corruptible Element Seales in Baptisme the remission of sinns The very same words of Man which passe as wind and only beate the Aire comming with Gods Authority and blessing shall melt a heart of Flint shall prosper in the work for which they were sent are sharper then any two edged sword are lively and mightie in operation If the liquor be cordiall what matter if the vessell be earthen If the Tabernacle be all gold within what though the covering be of badgers skin A Scholler will not judge a book by the bulke and out-side but by the contents A Souldier will not chuse a sword by the luster of the hilt but by the goodnesse of the blade The Author legitimates the work the will and end is All in every action Crassus whip'd his Mason because he sent him a fitter Mast for his service but not the same he required and Manlius beheaded his sonne because contrary to command he gave battel to the enemy obtained the victory And will God endure disobedience at the hands of sinfull Men Is he lesse jealous of his honour then the Creature shall he command and threaten and beseech Shall he bring salvation to our doores to our bosomes and shall we despise it Take heed curses attend contempt Famin follows abuse of fulnesse and unthankfulnesse in Peace knowledge brings war and ignorance Our Saviour only called John and James and they without tarrying left their ship and their Father and followed him Parents and Fortunes and Lives give place to Gods command we must disprove nothing which he approves nor like any thing which he dislikes For we are not our own and therefore we must not set up our own wills nor judge by our own reason nor work for our own ends but we must sacrifice our selves to God our wills to his will our reason to his knowledge our whole endeavours to his Glory It is enough for us that he would have it so His will is wisdom and Justice and power and reason and all things 3. God can effect glorious designes by weak and improbable meanes What cannot the God of Heaven compasse to set forth his own glory and to advance his servants good Flies and Frogs and Lice the very corruption and dung of the earth are too strong for Pharaoh a potent Prince these vile and loathsome Creatures shall conquer a Nation of armed Men When all Aegypt and any ground upon which an Aegyptian breath'd did swarm with Flies the Land of Goshen a little spot of earth and in the middest of the Countrey was not molested with any Not with Flies which of all Creatures are most passeable and least to be resisted Walls and Rivers and Armies cannot oppose their motion denie them entrance And yet these active irrationall Creatures did not touch upon Goshen when they were round about it they did know the people of God and distinguish betwixt his Friends and Enemies Read the 2. Cap. of Joel how a great and mightie people were prepared for battel before whom the Land was as a garden of Eden and behinde whom a desolate wildernesse V. 3. They shall come as the noise of a flame of fire and devoure men like stubble V. 5. they shall march like strong men go forward in their way without resistance V. 7. they shall fall upon the sword and not be wounded V. 8. The earth shall tremble before them and the Heavens shake V. 10. And yet this powerfull terrible Army in the 25. V. consists only of Grashoppers and Caterpillars vile despised wormes which are strong to execute the word of God V. 11. are invincible Souldiers when the Lord of Hosts is Generall What more contrary to good than evill or what more opposeth happinesse than sinne Yet the evill of Joseph's brethren God disposed to good and the greatest sinne that ever was the Crucifying the Lord of life by the Divine Counsell produced the greatest blessing Nay the bitter waters shall be made sweet by salt and the sacrifice shall burne when water is powred upon it our very afflictions as over mastered and rul'd by God have this injunction upon them to further our salvation Our wounds are remedies and those who contradict the precepts of the Almightie obey his Providence Reasons may be these 1. No meanes are Helpes to God The Lord of Hosts can conquer without an Army Zach. 4.6 Neither by power nor might but by his spirit he can subdue every Mountaine of opposition and bring about whatsoever he hath determined Indeed in the ordinary course of Providence second causes do concur and in their spheare derive to every effect a proper vertue Yet here also the God of Providence hath the governing power he is the Author of all the good which is produced and may be said to work himself though with other meanes For all the world of Creatures are but Instruments at the most such as contribute no assistance to the Almightie God they depend upon him for their Being they work by his continuall influence and receive their ends from his eternall Order The same reasons which moved God to make the Creatures move him still to use them not necessitie or want of power but love goodnesse Did he cast out Divels with his finger Luke 1. and can he not beate down Men with his hand Did he make the world when there was no help and can he not rule the world without any help Is his arme shortned who is omnipotent or his Providence decayd who is wisdom it self The shadow of Peter shall heale multitudes of all diseases Act. 5.