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A49636	The way to good success propounded in a sermon preached upon November the 24th, 1684, at Trinity-house-Chappel, to the wardens, elder brethren, and fraternity of masters and seamen of the same house, at Kingston upon Hull / by N.L., minister of the gospel at St. Mary's Church in Hull.	N. L.	1685 (1685)	Wing L49; ESTC R43334	15,096	37

they expose them to the Judgements of God who visits the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children Exod. 20.5 For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me Or else if they have been guilty of some gross sins that draws down the effects of Gods wrath even upon Posterity for God is said to lay up the iniquity of the wicked man for his Children Job 21.19 God layeth up his iniquity for his Children i. e. the punishment of it as in the Margent Thus Jeroboam left a Curse upon his Posterity by his Idolatry 1 King 15.29 30. And it came to passe when he Reigned that he smote all the house of Jeroboam he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed until he had destroyed him according to the saying of the Lord which he spake by Ahijah the Shilonite Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger Thus Gehazi by taking the bribe brought Gods curse upon his Posterity 2 King 5.27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee and to thy seed for ever Likewise the Jews by their great sin in Crucifying the Lord of Life and Glory brought such a Curse upon their Posterity that they have been a Vagabound People for above 1600 Years But now if men have been just and merciful in their Lives they need not be troubled about their Posterity even when they have made but small provision for them but may commit them unto God who hath stiled himself a Father of the Fatherless Psalm 68.5 A Father of the Fatherless and a Judge of the Widows is God in his holy Habitation Besides God hath promised That the seed of the Righteous shall be blessed And he hath engadged himself by Covenant not only to be their God but the God of their seed Gen. 17.7 And I will establish my Covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their Generations for an everlasting Covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee 5. When men are brought into troubles and straits for Righteousness sake it hath been and may be the Lot of the Righteous to be brought into great dangers to be persecuted for righteousness sake and to be straitned that they can see no visible means for their help and deliverance then is a proper Season to act Faith upon God and to commit their Way unto him Let such be sure that the cause for which they suffer be good and then that they suffer with a good Conscience and then they may say with Paul 2 Tim. 1.12 For the which cause I also suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day Let such I say trust God Almighty who will support them in their trouble as he did the Martyrs of old or deliver them out of their troubles one way or other Object 1. There are some that never commit their way to God and yet have good Successe and thrive and prosper in the World Answ 1. This was that which troubled the Psalmist much Psal 73. and shak'd his Faith verse 2. For I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked verse 12. Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world they increase in riches When he thought to know this it was too painful for him untill he went into the Sanctuary of God there he understood their end which was destruction verse 16.17 and 18. There he understood that they should be soon cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb Psal 37.2 Psal 92.6 7. A brutish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this When the wicked spring as the grass and all the workers of iniquity do flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever Then he perceived and so may we do too that the prosperity of fools shall destroy them Prov. 1.32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them So that this their Success and Prosperity makes but way for their greater fall and though God may permit wicked men that commit their wayes rather to the Devil then to God to thrive and prosper sometimes in the World yet this does but prepare them for greater destruction and therefore David prays Psal 17.13 14. Deliver my soul from the Wicked which is thy sword From men which are thy hand O Lord from men in the world who have their portion in this life And upon whom God shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an terrible tempest this is the portion of their Cup Psal 11.6 Object 2. Such as do commit their way to God we find want Success and thrive and prosper no better in their undertakings then others do Answ 1. Some men seem to commit their way to God and yet do not and no wonder if these be disappointed men that only have a name to live and pretend to Religion but carry on base and wicked designs these men have no interest in those gracious Promises for they are made to those that are really vertuous and good and work righteousness 2. Know that though this be true for the most part that God Crowneth the undertakings of good men with Success yet for some Reasons for their own Spiritual and Eternal advantage he may disappoint them as when their crosses disappointments want of Success tends to the improvement of their Graces their Faith Meekness Patience Contententedness and for their better preparation for Heaven such Crosses are great favours and blessings in the Issue 1 Cor. 11.32 We are chastned of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the World In short such persons as do really commit their Way to God and put their trust in him shall be no losers in the issue Eccles 8.12 Yet surely I know it shall be well with them that fear God that fear before him Vse Then suffer a word of Exhortation in the Words of the Text Commit your Way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it pass Be sure your designs be just and honest and take no unwarrantable means to effect them and then betake your selves to the Throne of Grace waiting upon God with the Church Isa 25.9 Lo this is our God we have waited for him he will save us this is the Lord we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation More particularly to you that are Sea-fairing men that undertakes tedious and dangerous Voyages upon the great Deep let me exhort you to commit your Way to God c. according to all the forementioned particulars This is the most probable cause to secure your

Persons Ships and Loading from the dangers of the Sea and know assuredly that if God should suffer you to miscarry upon the great Ocean yet by this method you may secure your souls against the Waves and Billows of Gods Wrath to all Eternity Directions for the better Discharge of this Duty that you may commit your Way to God 1. Live under the Apprehensions of his Providence Divine Providence doth concern it self in all Persons and things in the World which is a truth that none but profest Atheists will deny The Epicureans indeed but 't is charged on them as a gross piece of inconsistency grant there is a God but that he busies not himself with affairs below but an idle God sounds something like a dark Sun or cold Fire both contradictions A God in Heaven not superintending all Transactions here below is no better then a Heathen God That have Eyes but see not Ears but hear not Hands but handle not Now lest we should entertain such unworthy thoughts of the living God he manifests himself to us in the Scripture by what he is doing Isa 40.22 23 It is he that sitteth on the Circle of the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof are as Grashoppers that stretcheth out the Heavens as a Curtain and spreadeth them out as a Tent to dwell in That bringeth the Princes to nothing and maketh the Judges of the Earth as vanity He pulls down one and sets up another Ludit in humanis divina potentiarebus Divine Power often dares Dispart it self in Mans Affairs 1 Sam. 2.7 8. The Lord maketh Poor and maketh rich He bringeth low and lifteth up He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the Beggar from the Dunghil to set them among Princes and to make them inherit the Throne of Glory for the Pillars of the Earth are the Lords and he hath set the world upon them Yea our Blessed Saviour hath put this out of doubt that the Lord hath not left the World to be ruled by blind chances but that his Providence reacheth the smallest concerns Math. 10.29 Are not two Sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father 30. But the very hairs of their head are all numbred Yea these very things that seem to proceed from the course of Nature from the malice of our Enemies or our own improvidence or chance or fortune are directed by the Providence of God Now then if you firmly believe the extent of this his Providence to all persons and all Affairs you will readily commit your Way to him and wait upon him for Success 2. Call to mind what experience you have had at any time of the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God in the ordering your Affairs your manifold deliverances out of dangers relief in straits especially such of you as have lately been in great Storms at Sea and God hath in his Providence pointed out a way for your safety when many have been swallowed up in the great Deep Remember this I say and write upon this Mercy Even ever hitherto hath the Lord helped me and for the future put your trust in the living God and cast your care upon him Thus did David when he was to encounter the great Goliah he remembred how God has delivered him from the Lion and the Bear and this made him confident that God would deliver him also from the uncircumcised Philistine And therefore the Psalmist concludes Psalm 9.10 And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee 3. Labour for a strong Faith The Disciples were sensible of this defect and therefore pray the Lord that he would encrease then Faith 'T is because of the weakness of this grace that men turn aside from the Lord and walk unevenly especially where they meet with difficulties and dangers as appears by our Saviours rebuking his own Disciples for their weakness in this Grace How long shall I be with you How long shall I suffer you And will not God take care of you much more then of Sparrows O ye of little Faith Whereas if your Faith were stronger in God you would the better overcome doubts and objections that might arise in your hearts against this truth When Nature and Reason seem to be against Abrahams Obedience yet his strong Faith conquered all difficulties Rom. 4.20 He staggered not at the promise through unbelief but was strong in Faith giving glory to God Thus Moses David Daniel and the three Children in most difficult cases committed their Way to God being strong in Faith Say ye therefore O Lord increase our Faith 4. Lastly Make God your friend endeavour to gain his Favour and then you may with more confidence Commit your Way to him Men do not usually commit their Affairs to them they have no interest in or acquaintance with if wicked men that by their Rebellions against God by their frequent acts of Hostility have affronted the Almighty should in time of their great straits seek unto God or commit their way to him may not God say to them as Wisdom speaks Prov. 1.24 25 26. Because I have called ye refused I have stretched out my hands and no man regarded But ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will laugh when your fear cometh When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a Whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me Yea God may say unto them as Judg. 10.14 Go and cry unto the Gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulations Now there 's no way Sirs of making God our friend or procuring his favour but by yielding an universal sincere constant obedience to his Commandments by avoiding every known sin and walking soberly and righteously and godly before him nor no way to maintain and preserve acquaintance with him but by frequent performance of all Religious duties such as Prayer Hearing Reading Meditation of Gods Word and receiving the Sacraments Therefore to conclude let us take this method that so we may with confidence and safety good Success Commit our Souls Bodies Estates Affairs Posterity to God as our friend to whom with his blessed Son our Saviour and the Holy Ghost be praise and Glory for ever Amen ADVERTISEMENT A Catalogue of Books sold by Thomas Clark Bookseller in Kingston upon Hull Books in Folio SEbald's Scotland Illustrated Tulii Opera two Volumns Grew's Anatomy of Roots and Plants Bocca's Novels Baker's Chronicles Almahide a Romance Breut's History of France Mezerey's History of France Cave's Lives of the Fathers in two Vol. Eusebius Ecclesiastical History in English Dalton's Justice of Peace Meads Works Hammonds Works in four Vol. Parry's Surgery Marriners Magazine Phillip's New World of Words Pharmacopoeia Londinensis Pembrook's Arcadia Rushworth's Collections in three Vol. Strafford's Trial. 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