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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

which he doth not want and sets down a course of meanes which he will not alter and then it concerns us to answer Providence with industrie to put forth our strength and to use such meanes as God vouchsafes If we have the honour to be Gods Instruments we must do the office of Instruments and be active we must cast our care on God for the issue but we must sweat our selves in the prosecution Hell it self shall never prevaile against the flock of Christ yet they must strive to enter in at the narrow Gate they must work out their own salvation with fear and trembling Election to the end includes the meanes whosoever will be happy in another world must first be good in this Presumption is as dangerous as distrust and he may justly lose the fruite of a happy end who neglects the use of lawfull meanes 3. Confide in God in the want of meanes It was a pious speech of Luther in an Epistle to Melancton God is able to preserve his own cause from falling or to raise it when it is fallen God is never more neere his people than when deliverance seemes furthest off they can be in no condition where he is at a stand and cannot help them This war which we think will devoure us all may be an Instrument of preservation as the whale which swallowed up Jonas was a meanes to bring him to the shoare The depths of Mercy are beyond the depths of misery and God hath his own ways of helping his Children when all things else deny them help The violence of the wind turn'd back the Darts of Bugenius his Armie into their own faces for the victory of Theodosius A number of little fishes will come to feed the Rochellers in a hard siege Moab and Ammon the Enemies of Judah shall destroy one another So mightie is God in power and excellent in working Say that our sins are many and our transgressions great yet Gods mercys are more and his glory will be greater in pardoning No faults can damme up the endles goodnesse of the Almightie we cannot offend so much as he can pardon Say that our enemies are many and mightie and cruell yet Ahab with a few yong Men vanquished Benhadad's great Army and 32 Kings with him The Divell is stronger by Man's wickednesse than by his own power Say what we can and say the worst we can that England is sore wounded and poore Ireland is giving up the Ghost Yet remember that Repentance preserv'd Ninive which in 40 days was to be destroy'd that Fayth delivered Daniel out of the Lions mouth That he who will raise our bodies can mend our worst condition Was Abraham deceived who trusted in God for a Sonne against the course of Nature Or David who being compassed about with the waters of affliction hoped for better times Or the 3 Children who beleev'd that God would deliver them out of the fiery furnace O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all that persecute me and deliver me And deliver us all he will if we all pray unto him for faithfull prayer is Omnipotent And pray unto him we shall if we all trust in him for trust is the roote and life of succesfull prayer Let us all therefore Pray and Trust and Trust and Pray that our heavenly father would work a good understanding betwixt King Charles and his great Counsell that he would look with the Eye of compassion upon dying Ireland that his mercyfull hand would make up the breaches of distracted England that his goodnesse would take away the cause of all calamities our many and great and crying sins And after our prayers let us trust againe that seeing it is all one with the Lord to save with many or with few to help with meanes or without meanes He will in due time produce a sweet correspondence betwixt the King and people he will deliver bleeding Ireland out of the hands of bloudy Rebells He will restore distressed England to a happy condition he will pardon our iniquities and remember them no more Let us pray therefore and trust continually and let us never cease to trust and pray FINIS Die Mercurii 28. Decemb. 16●2 IT is this day ordered by the House of Commons that Master Corbett shall have thanks returned him from this House for the great paines he took in the Sermon he preached this day at S. Margaretts in the Citie of Westminster at the intreaty of this House And that he be desired to print his Sermon And it is ordered that no man shall presume to print it but hee whom the said Master Corbett shall authorize under his hand-writing And it is further ordered that Sir Iohn Corbett a Member of this House shall returne the thanks to Master Corbett H. ELSYNGE Cler. Parl. D. Comm. I appoynt Rob. Bostock Stationer to print this Sermon ED. CORBET ERRATA PAg. 9. l. 20. r. destroyes l. 11. r. untruths l. 35. r. thus p. 10. that Gallen p. 11. l. 1. r. every grasse l. 36. r. ruled p. 13 l 31. r When that scarlet p. 13. in the margentr Visa est in●igna quam Tullianae dignitati compararem p. 16. r. Gold Math. 16.17 Ioh 3.4 1. Cor. 2.10 Joh 5.39 Math. 11.25 1. Cor. 1.19 D. Twisse D. Amesius Cameron P●du Moulin c. Psa. 115.10 Eph. 1.11 Tract. de ●vers Arist. dogmatum L. 4 de Gene c. 12. in En●● c. 96. Quisquis diffitetur insanit Rom. 9.21 Jer. 18.4 Mi●o ineffabili modo non fieri propter ejus voluntatem quod contra ejus voluntatem fit In. 2. q. 2. Greg. l 2. ●or c. 12 H●e●o cont. p●lag●a O●●g l. 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Psal 33 6 Contaren de ●erf l. 2 c. 5 Aquinas Con Gen l. 3. c. 24. Thom. p. 1. q 104 Sua in Met. Vasquez in 1. p. d. 72. Scotus in 2. d. 1. q 5. Hurtad● c. Hieron. in Ep. ad Ctesiphon●ē in l. 1. Contra Pe●agianos act 17.25 〈◊〉 2.13 Act. 17.28 Math. 14.29 Dan. 3.27 Exod. 1● 21 Numb. 20.8 Ios. 10.13 In 1. ad Heb. Hom 2. ad Heb. Vs 2. Sam. 15.26 Damnati gratias agant accusatio votū poena felic●tas· Iob. ● 10 Heb. 12.6 Job 3. Ier. 12 1.2 Consuevisse Deos quos pro scelere ulcisci velint his secundiores res diuturniorem sanitatem conceder Caes. l. 1. de bell Gall Iob 21.7 Math. 26.39.42 Isa. 45.9 Psal. 139.12 Sen. Ep. 41. Hil. l 8. de pri. Chrysost. in locum Ps. 7 2. Ier. 11.20 Psal. 94.11 Gen. 6.5 Isa. 64.6 Pro. 16.4 Psa. 34.10 1. Tim. 2.4 Heb. 12 2 Job 16.19 Ap 2. pro Chr. p. 57. De mend ad Cons. l. 1. c 6. Iob 13.7.9 Prov. 16.4 Exod. 32.32 Non nisi cū m●ntitur perseverat Tertul. Papists defen. aequivocation Psal. 14 1. Ideo dixit in corde suo quia hoc nemo audet d●cere etjamsi audet cogitare August V. 18. C. 1. V. 21. In vita Anse●mi Modò veritatis antiti●●ta ve●● Religionis corona jam sentina confluges omnium haeresium Nuntius Popheticus p. 34. Nehem. 9.6 Iob. 38.11 Theodor in his Sermons of Prov. Chrysost. in his Sermons of Prov. L●ssius in his base of Provid. c De usu partium c. 7. Rom. 11.53 Math. 6 2● 29. 1● 29.30 vid. aug. l. 5 de Civ. Deie 11. l. 10. c. 14. Pro. 16.33 Lam. 3.37 Deu. 19.4 2. Sam. 17. 1. Sam. 2.25 Prov. ● 1 Prov. 19. ●● C. 12. C. 15. Vid. de Alipio l. 6. confess August c. 7. de Iul. Caes. apud Suet. in Cas. c. ●1 Exod. 34.24 Jer. 10.2 Rom 8.28 Joel 2.31 Mat. 24.29 C. 18. M. Meade in his clavis Apo. Alst. in his diatr. Caro●us Gallus in his clavis Proph. See the Inter on the Reve. Napier Fon. Br●gh Con●a Man Math. 24.14 Vide Heurrius de leg. Eva●g ad Jndo See Wee●● Treatise of the Iew p. 355. Mich. 4.3 Esa. 54.11 L. de mundo c. 6. Vide Catech Ra. ●cov Sleyd Com Rulling l. 1. Enchyr. c. 17. 1. Cor. 11.29 Act. 14.3 Ph. 2.16 Rom. 1.16 Burtor in Syn. Jud. Weens treatise of the Iew p. 349. Dignitati comparar● Aug. Con. l 3. c. 5. Act 26.24 Act 17.32 2. Cor. 5.18 Rom. 10.14 2 Cor. 10.4 Heb. 4.12 1. Chro. 28.9 Ier. 17.10 1. Sam. 16.7 Aug. l. 3. Conf. c. 6. Hom. 3. in 1. ad Cor. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Nostri ut de viris taceam pueri mulierculae tortores suos taciti vincunt expromere illis gemitum nec igni● potest Lae. l. 5 c. 13. Socrates l 1. ca. 5. hist. Ecc. 1. Cor. 1.26 Rom. 8. v. 6.7 Rom. 8. v. 6 7. Ier. 32. v. 39.40 Prov. 1.7 Psa. 119. v. 98 99 100 Luke 16. v. 13.14 Psa. 119. v. 98.99.100 2. Sam. 16.23 Iob● ● Mat. 16.26 Splendiae peccata Iob. 3.4 1. Cor 2.14 Psa 19.6 119.130 Titus 3.3 1. Cor. 4. Psal. 44.14 Rom. 11.22 Lev. 26.43 Luke 23.43 Act. 9. Calv. in Ep. dead. in 1. ad Cor. Epist. 1 ad Heliod Ignatius Antiochen Apol. 2. pro Christ p. 54 55. See Tertul. adver. Gen●es c. 2. Adamus in vita 1. King 18.17 1. Cor. 4.13 See Tertul. Apol. contra Gent. c. 39. Salv. l. 3. 2. Kings 5 1. Cor. 11. Act. 2. Isa. 55.11 Heb. 4.12 A Gell. l. 1. c. 13 Florus l. 1. c. 14. Deu. 38. Math. 4. ●2 Exod. 8. v. 26. Ioel 2. See Junius in locum Gen. 50.20 2. King 2.29 1. King 18.34.35 Act. 5 15. Ezech. 9.4 Hook Ecc. pol l. 5 sec. 42. See the storie The danger is past as soone as the letter is burnt Isa. 38. 2 King 20.7 Ficus suapte natura possunt pus evocare educere Cels l. 5. cap. 12. Eccl. 10.10 Iosep. Anti. l. 15. c. 14. Rev. 11.16 So some good Divines interpret 2 King 5. Iohn 9. Iudg 7. 2 King 3.22 er 27.5 Isa. 47.10 Josu 1. 2. Chro. 20.17 Exod. 14. Luk. 13. ●4 Phil. 2.12 Jon. 1 1● Syms Hist. c. 14. p. 67 c. 16. p. 183 2. Chr. 20.22 Isa. 28. ●9 1. King 20 Jon. 3. Dan. 6. Dan. 3.17 Psa. 7.1 Alsted●

things are naked and open unto the Eyes of him with whom we have to do Nothing can escape his knowledge we are as it were divided and bowelled without our clothes without our skin in the sight of God But when we are lockt in our chambers the windowes shut the curtaine drawn over our heads when we are compassed about with stone walls who then shall see us Nemo te videt saith Saint Bernard non tamen nullus No man indeed can see thee but he seeth thee before whose tribunall thou must one day stand and give an account for every idle word Thy good Angells see thee and greeve at thy sinne the Divell seeth thee and rejoyceth at thy follie The stones in the wall see thee and are ready when God pleaseth to fall upon thee and to grinde thee to powder But Gods power doth not rest here his all seeing Eye is not terminated in words and actions He searcheth the raines he reads cleerly the book of our soule he heares our thoughts this House of our body walls of flesh cannot exclude the rayes of that Omnipotent Majestie David in the 94. Psa. 81. will call them fools who think otherwise he will give a reason for it in the 92. v. He that planted the eare shall not he heare or he that formed the eye shall not he see he that made the heart shall not he know the wayes and works thereof But Gods Eyes are purer yet and I have not expressed the least part of their brightnesse God understands our thoughts a far off Psal. 139.2 from all eternitie saith Lyranus uppon that place as soone as he had existence himself and he was never without existence he did know all the purposes the secret motions the deepest roote and grounde of all our cogitations But alas who can measure that which is infinite Our great God knoweth more yet and which may make us adore and admire and tremble beholds us in our proper and corrupt condition he discerns much filth and great staines in the fairest soule he seeth our carnall thoughts our worldly thoughts our presumptuous thoughts our suspitious thoughts our partiall thoughts our curious thoughts our vaine thoughts he seeth our wisest thoughts are foolishnesse and our best thoughts have enough to condemne us But O worme that I am ashes and nothing and worse then nothing why do I endeavour to fathome the depth of Gods knowledge to describe that light which looketh further and further and hath no end of looking further Whatsoever God seeth and he seeth whatsoever hath been and whatsoever is whatsoever will be or may be he seeth whatsoever is to be seene and whatsoever is not to be seene he rules and governs and commands he directs to his own glory and mans salvation Philosophy will teach us that Angels can discover bad thoughts by wicked actions and judge of the soul by the temper of the body But to see us from everlasting and to see us in our native fowlenesse and deformity to know our thoughts before they were and so long before they were to dispose of them to his own ends this is that altitudo of which Saint Paul speaks into which the further we descend the lower we may sink and the more we know the more we are ignorant O thou Christian then whosoever thou art having fought a good fight made conscience of thy ways and kept thy selfe straight in the middest of a crooked generation do not hang down thy head or remit one jot of thy zeale in goodnesse for the reproaches of Men or the unjust censures of all the world rather revive and quicken thy industry in every good cause inflame thy holy life and in despite of all the sharp arrowes of calumniation run joyfully in the race of Gods service raise thy languishing thoughts with David in the consideration of thy own sinceritie and innocence and single heart comfort thy self with the example of Christ who despised the shame for the joy which was set before him and satisfie thy soule with Jobs resolution behold now my witnesse is in Heaven and my record is on high When thou art going to any lewd Act profane company vaine pleasure remember the God of Israel looks upon thee If profit unhappily move thee to injustice oppression or any other service of the Divell if rotten lusts unconstant honour base ends lay siege unto thy soul and endanger thy spirituall safety call to mind the presence of the Almightie This one weapon of Divine Armory is powerful enough to confound a whole world of temptations and to conquer Hell it self For will any man cut a purse before the Iudges face and when he is sitting upon the Bench will any man commit adultery in the open streets Nothing hinders vice so much as nakednes if Seneca speak true the greatest part of sins are committed for want of witnesses How tender were the primitive Christians herein Who would not tell a lie to save their lives as Justin Martyr relates Saint Augustin proceeds further and will not admit a lie for the salvation of a mans soule But Job hath a straine above all and will not have a lie told for the glory of God that glory which is the greatest Good which is the end of all things which Moses preferr'd before his own everlasting happinesse O mercyfull Father how are we degenerated from those pious resolutions what Spirit hardens our hearts and devoures the conscience of these later generations which make lying a Profession and are constant in nothing else which maintaine the lawfulnesse thereof and confirme on truths with Oathes and Imprecations In Davids time the fool said in his heart there is no God he durst not speak it with his tongue But our Atheisme is raised to that height and boldnesse that we dare professe it in our words and Actions we dare brag of our uncleannes in contempt as it were of heaven and in scorn of the Almightie Adde to this the filthines of sinne which our Saviour tells us Math. 15. defiles the Man {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} makes him Common which by an Hebraisme is profane uncleane beastly Agreeable to which is that of Saint James lay aside all filthines and superfluitie of naughtines filthines in the abstract {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} naughtines which is an excrement a nastie thing as odious and detestable in the nostrills of the Almightie as our very excrements are to us Vpon which ground Devout Anselme professed that he would rather be in Hell and free from sinne then polluted with the filthines thereof possesse the Kingdome of Heaven Now if every sinne be of this blotting beastly condition if the Almightie beholds them in their vilest shape in their greatest deformitie what shall we think of those crying sinns of unfaithfulnesse blasphemy whoredom murther how do they difile us what beasts and black Divells do they make us what shall we think of