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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67068	God made visible in his workes, or, A treatise of the externall workes of God first, in generall, out of the words of the Psalmist, Psalm 35, 6 : secondly, in particular of the Creation, out of the words of Moses, Genesis, Chap. 1 and 2 : thirdly, of Gods actuall Providence / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing W358; ESTC R38408	12,999	22

GOD MADE VISIBLE IN HIS WORKES OR A TREATISE OF THE EXTERNALL Workes of GOD First in Generall out of the words of the Psalmist Psal. 135.6 Secondly in Particular of the Creation out of the words of MOSES GENESIS Chap. 1. and 2. Thirdly of GODS actuall Providence By George Walker B. of Divinity and Pastour of St. John Evangelists Church in LONDON ROM. 1.20 For the invisible things of him from the Creation of the world are clearly seene being understood by the things that are made even his eternall Power and God-head so that they are without excuse London Printed by G.M. for John Bartlet at the signe of the gilt Cup neare S. Austins-gate in Pauls Church-yard 1641. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL MY MVCH HONOVRED friends Sir Thomas Barrington Sir Gilbert Gerard Sir William Massam and Sir Martin Lumley Knights and Baronets now honourable Knights of the house of Commons in the high Court of Parliament Grace and peace with increase of all bl●ssings temporall and etern●ll Right Worshipfull THat undeserved favour and respect which I have found at your hands and the due respect which I owe to your religious families do oblige me to shew some testimony of my thankfulnes And because I have no better present at this time but this Treatise of Gods externall Workes composed out of Sermons heretofore preached to mine own little flock and in the troublesome time of my late bonds brought into this forme I must crave pardon for my boldnesse in presuming to offer it to your hands seeing persons of higher place have defamed and branded these and the rest of my Sermons preached for divers yeares last past with the reproachfull name of factious and seditious doctrines and by their grievous accusations have caused me to be shut up as the great troubler of the City wherin I live and kept in sure hold least this my manner of preaching might proove dangerous and a cause of much hurt and many troubles in these changeable and doubtfull times From these and such crimes and unjust accusations as I have in part purged and cleared my selfe already in a legall way so by your help and favour I hope ere long to be openly acquitted and justified before the world If you shall be pleased to cast a favourable eye upon these my poore laboures and to take a view of them I doubt not but the precious matter being Gods pure word will abundantly recompence the failing of the composer and the defects of his skill and workman-Wherfore humbly craving your kind acceptance of this small token of love and slender acknowledgement of duty and service and desiring to become more indebted to you by your favourable respect shewed thereunto I commend your worthy persons and religious families to the grace and blessing of the Almighty whose invisible majesty even his divine power and God-head is clearly seene from the Creation of the world which is in this Treatise plainly described and understood by the things created Yours in all Christian duty and service GEORGE WALKER OF The externall Works of GOD in generall PSALM 135.6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in Heaven and in Earth in the sea and all deepe places THE externall outward workes of God which follow in the next place after his internall workes are indeed nothing but his actuall execution of his eternall counsell purpose and decree For the unfolding of which workes in generall and laying open of the nature use and severall kindes of them I have made choise of this Text From the wordes and circumstances whereof we may easily gather all points of instruction necessary to be knowne concerning the generall nature use and kindes of them First here the words of the Psalmist shew that he speakes of Gods outward workes because he limits them to places and times to Heaven Earth Sea and all deep places Secondly he speakes of them all in generall none excepted so the Hebrew word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifies all in generall whatsoever doth plainly shew and also the perfect enumeration of all places which are in the world and wherin any outward sensible and visible work can be done to wit the Heaven the Earth the Seas and all deepe places Thirdly he sheweth that God is the author of these works as he is Jehovah that one eternall God in whom there are three persons Father Son and Holy Ghost for he saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Jehovah the Lord doth or hath done Fourthly he sheweth that the Lord doth ●ll these workes of himselfe according to his owne will and pleasure and none of them all by com●ulsion unwittingly and unwillingly but even as hee pleased and after the counsell of his will and pleasure {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} whatsoever the Lord pleased Fifthly he intimates that all these workes of God come necessarily infallibly inevitably and irresistably to passe and that none of them all can faile which God hath beene pleased to doe but so come to passe as he pleaseth in every respect even in the same time and place This hee intimates in that he saith every thing whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done Sixtly he sheweth that these outward workes tend to make God knowne and are of use to bring us to the knowledge of the true God and in and by them God is knowne aright and his greatnesse also This is manifest by the dependance of this ver. on the former For having said I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is above all gods he brings in this text as an argument and proofe saying whatsoever the Lord pleased that he hath done which is in eff●●t all one as if he had said I know this by his doing of all his outward works for whatsoever the Lord pleased that he hath done Seventhly and lastly he shewes the severall kinds of Gods outward workes that they are not only creation but also actuall providence which concludes in it the government of the world the fall of man and the restauration of man-kind by the redemption of the world Workes of creation he expresseth vers. 7. and workes of his actuall providence as ordering governing and saving of his people by Christ which was signified in the deliverance from Egypt he reckons up in the rest of the Psalme both before and after my text So then it is manifest that this text considered with the circumstances thereof serves abundantly for the opening of the nature use and kind of Gods outward works In the unfolding whereof First let us note the order coherence and scope of it Secondly let us take a view of the wordes and sift out the true sence of them Thirdly let us observe out of them by way of doctrine a perfect description of Gods outward workes in generall and lastly apply for some use the doctrine to our s●lves The order and coherence is this First the Prophet in the 3. first verses exhorts all to praise the