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cause_n	let_v	lord_n	see_v	4,698	5	3.6890	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26112	A treatise of rejoycing in the Lord Jesus in all cases and conditions ... together with a Christians hope in heaven, in one sermon, and freedom from condemnation in Christ, in two sermons being the last preached / by Robert Asty.	Asty, Robert.; Asty, Robert. Saints hope in heaven.	1683 (1683)	Wing A4086; ESTC R27667	164,168	283

reason suggested to them under some providence or other that disquieted their spirits it was through the suggestion of sense and reason that Zachartas questioned the truth of the Word of God sent to him by the Angel about having a Son Luk 1.18 And Zacharias said to the Angel whereby shall I know this for I am an old man and my Wife well stricken in years It was from the instigation of sense and reason that that unbelieving Lord did question that great plenty that the Prophet told him should be the next day 2 King 7.1 2 Thus saith the Lord To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flower be sold for a shekel c. Then a Lord on whose hand the King leaned answered the man of God and said If the Lord should make windows in Heaven might this thing be He only argued upon the Prophecy in his own reason and in his own sense and this made him so unbelieving as to reject the Prophecy of the Prophet This sense and reason made the Disciples themselves to question the intention of the Lord about feeding so great a multitude as there was with such small provision as they had Mark 8.1 2. In those daies the multitude being very great c. At the 14th verse his Disciples said unto him From whence shall we buy bread that these may eat So that if you would get into this life of Faith keep down sense and reason and cast out their suggestions which will not bring you near to but set you further off from the Lord. Do not say upon a new difficulty here is no way to escape or upon a loss this or that is gone and can never be made up to me again but throw out the reasonings of sense if the discouraging suggestions of sense be resisted and set by Faith will then get up and speak in the heart 9. Look through and beyond the discouragements of second Causes unto the encouragements of the first Cause that is alwaies absolute and independent and there fix your eye in a strait Second Causes they are failable but so is not the first Cause that is the efficient of all and the Lord who is the first Cause and efficient of all oftentimes dries up all creature streams and causes visible humane help to fail that we may see how great the first Cause is Though the Lord doth ordinarily make use of second Causes yet the Lord will so walk towards us to discover to us that he is not tyed to means that he is not tyed to second Causes and he oft-times causeth visible helps to fail that our eyes may be upon him as the first absolute independent Cause of all I will give you an instance for this and it is that of Israel Israel was in the way of the Lord marching towards the Land of Promise and as soon as ever they were come into the way of the Lord that they were entered into the wilderness they were brought to the mouth of the Red Sea Now all second Causes failed for help there was not a Ship nor a Boat to be got to carry the Hosts of Israel over the water but the first Cause was not at a strait and therefore says Moses from the Lord Israel stand still and see the Salvation of God Now let not your eyes be upon the second Cause but upon the first Cause and you shall see what a deliverance God can make for you and he carried all the Host of Israel men women and children through the drowning Sea and not a man woman nor child was lost in the passage and yet there was neither Ship nor Boat to aid them over And so afterwards when they came at Jordan the waters were before them there was no Boat to swift them over the waters but the Lord he commands Israel to go on and the waters made a lane for them they run on heaps on both sides and Israel hath a path made in the great deep for them And I will give you an instance now of a good man a man of great Faith and that was Moses Moses in a considerable strait fixes his eye upon the second Cause and pored upon the discouragements of that and was lost in his spirit by not looking beyond unto the first Cause and the encouragements that the first Cause did administer It is Numb 11.19 20.21 and so on The people in the preceding verses they murmured against Moses because they had no flesh they were come from their full Tables in Egypt and they had not now their dainties to live upon and they did not know now how to be content why says God you shall not eat one day nor two but even a whole month Now see what Moses said at the 21th verse The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen and thou hast said I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month Shall the Flocks and the Herds be slain for them to suffice them or shall all the Fishes of the Sea be gathered together for them to suffice them c. Here is the relation God tells this whole Congregation that they should have Flesh to eat for a month they should eat their bellies full they should eat till they could eat no more Moses had his eye fixed upon second Causes and not upon the first Cause and he questions this Lord says he how can this be So many hundred thousands of us and what shall we all have flesh to eat Now on the other hand we read of Asa when a mighty Host came out against him 2 Chron. 14.11 An Host of a thousand thousand that came out against him he lookt beyond the discouragements of second Causes unto the encouragements of the first Cause that is absolute and independent and see how his spirit held up And Asa cryed unto the Lord his God and said Lord it is nothing with thee to save whether with many or with those that have no might help us O Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy Name we go against this multitude c. He looks unto God the first Cause of all and he saw there the Power of God was enough to charge this whole Army and to engage against this great multitude that came out against him And this was the Prophet's Spirit and the course that he took here in the Text all second Causes failed and frowned and administred only discouragement The Figg-tree that blossomed not there was no fruit in the Vine the labour of the Olive failed the Fields yielded no meat the Flocks were cut off from the fold and there was no herd in the stall Here was a failure of all second Causes now saith he I will look unto the first Cause I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my Salvation Christians let me tell you that if you lay the weight of your case upon second Causes you will never come to rejoyce in Christ Jesus