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A86017	A sermon preached (before God, and from him) to the Honourable House of Commons. At a publike fast, Novemb. 27. in the yeare GoD Is oVr refVge, oVr strength; a heLpe In troVbLes VerIe aboVnDant VVe finDe. By George Gipps rector of Elston in Leicester-shire, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said House.	Gipps, George, d. 1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing G779; Thomason E23_3; ESTC R18994	29,030	37

bringeth good out of evill which could not be had he not first permitted evill to be These are Pauls miraculous Riddles and Paradoxes 2 Cor. 6. 4. to the 10. v. with which the Spirit of God by faith acquainteth his children which the naturall man discerneth not neither can he Nothing so confoundeth Satan with all his Assassinates foiling him at his owne weapon letting him have his most malicious will and thereby accomplishing his owne most holy will As that Josephs brethren should sell him into Egypt that they might not worship him whom thus they came to worship That Sampson should be bound by the Philistines to deprive him of his strength thereby to exercise and evidence his strength to their ruine That David should kill Goliah with his sling and smooth stones out of the brooke and so cut of Goliahs head with his own sword All severall types of Satan bringing Christ to death so working mans salvation and his own kingdoms desolation the things Satan so feared and hereby thought to prevent Psal 76. 10. Surely the wrath of man and devils shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath shalt thou refraine that is when God hath let as much malice runne forth as will make most for his glory God will turne the cock and damme up the residue when at the fiercest then is his fit time and that is as ver 9. When God ariseth to judgement to save all the meeke of the earth Let this suffice for clearing of this last doctrine The first Use whereof is Instruction of the severall waies that God hath for delivery of the godly from all their troubles Vse 1 wherof he hath given us evidence besides his reserves even his owne waies in his own wise providence to his own glory beyond mans tracing according to what we last delivered in this Doctrine as followeth 1. God often smiteth the hearts of the enemies of his Church and children with sudden fears and jealousies of dangers to themselves when no cause is thereof that is reall so that they fly when none pursueth them As did the hosts of the Assyrians 2 King 7. 6 7. whom the Lord caused to heare a noise of chariots and horses and of a great hoste and so were utterly routed Yea Stories mention the like in ordinary through mistake of trees and Sun-shine upon waters and cattell for armies of ratling winds yea dreames striking horrour and amazement as a notable example of the Midianites dreame with the following stratagem Iudg. 7. 13. doth evidence 2. God often smiteth the enemies hearts with relenting pity and maketh them prove friends to his Church and children So he over wrought Iudah and Reuben towards Ioseph Gen. 37. 19. to spare his life So Ahashuerosh towards Hester and the whole Nation of the Iewes to reverse the sentence gone forth for their destruction Esth. 7. So Nebuchadnezzars heart was set before hand to free Daniel in his measure as well as after to joy in it and in the interim to be troubled for him Dan. 6. These twain are Gods preventing wayes of help 3. God often suffereth his Churches and childrens enemies to ride on prosperously in their projects yet so as in the upshot to confound them and to turne their designes to his owne glory the welfare of his Church and children and their owne shame and confusion as in the instances of Iosephs brethren who sold him into Aegypt the Philistines binding Sampson and the betraying Christ unto death Also in Saul his giving Michal to David to wife to be a snare unto him in the dowry of a hundred Philistines fore-skins that so David might fall under their hands which was his rise to greater honour 1 Sam. 18. 22 c. The like in the accusers of the three children Dan. 3. and of Daniel himself chap. 6. both which tended to the rise of them and ruine of their adversaries 4. God often letteth the principals alone and only dealeth with the instruments of their cruelty disabling them for service against his Church and children as the fiery fornance and the Lions in the two fore-named examples So the chariot wheeles of Pharaoh's hoste fell off in pursuit of Israel through the red Sea Exod. 14. 25. So the band of souldiers that came to attach Jesus as soon as he said I am he went backward and fell to the ground Ioh. 18. 5 6. And Ecclesiasticall Story telleth us that Iohn being put into a Caldron of boyling leade came forth without any hurt 5. God often suffereth the devill and all his instruments to do their worst and then he doth his best setting himselfe in battalia his host against theirs under whose command are all creatures like so many regiments Some so potent that one Angel in one night slaieth 185000 enemies of his Church 2 King 19. 35. The starrs in their courses fought against Sisera Judg. 5. 20. the Sunne and Moone stand still to give light to his people to be avenged of their enemies Iosh 10. 12 13. Yea the river Kishon swept them away Iudg. 5. 21. Yea God hath hosts of lice flies fleas frogs haile murten and what not to punish kings for their sakes 6. God often suffereth the wicked to prevaile even unto martyrdome against his Church and Saints but it is to free them from evils to come to give them a more honourable crown of glory and to raise up seed to his Church out of their blood as hath formerly been touched Now beloved all these things are written for our instruction for how ever we expect not the like miraculous deliverances as most of these were yet wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures must have this hope that the Lord will find out a fit way for us also to escape and will give a good issue with the temptation when how and how farre his wise providence seeth best for his own glory and his childrens good however delivering them from eternall death and giving to them life everlasting I need not recount unto you our own experiences of our Church of Englands wonderfull deliverances that from the Spanish invasion of eighty eight and that of the hellish powder-plot with those in these our late and present calamities which we may name Gad for loe a troope cometh many deliverances already brought forth and many more we trust are yet in the wombe Gods children are men of observation and thereout suck they no small advantage to their soules which shall usher in a second Use of Exhortation Vse 2 that we observe diligently Gods gracious dealings in this behalfe both to his Church and to thy selfe in particular to learne thence to praise God to pray to him and to trust in him Herein if in any thing was David a man after Gods owne heart who inditeth Songs of Gods providence in all his wondrous works of grace to his Church both historically from the beginning of the world downe to his own times and prophetically from his owne time unto the worlds end yea