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A77363	England saved vvith a notwithstanding: represented in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 5. 1647. The day of Thanks-giving for deliverance from the Powder-Plot. / By William Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods word at Yarmouth. Published by order of that House.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1648 (1648)	Wing B4452; Thomason E412_31; ESTC R204475	32,013	35

that never people saw before and saw the Power the infinite Power of God leading them through on dry land Then did they Rebel At the Sea Even In the Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Graec. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vulg Lat. in mare Hieron in m●ri rubr● ●ran● in grandi praesenti incuitabili discrimine constituti nam Aegyptii a tergo monitbus impediebantur ne vel ad dextram vel ad senistram declinare mari vero ne progredi possent occludebantur hisce augustiis inclusi murmurabant rebellabam ubi potissimum divinae b●nitatis memoria vigere debet Muscul in Nas and yet for all this the Lord saved them he saved them with a Notwithstanding all this And I say shal the Lord put forth so much of grace upon a People that were unde● the Law and not put forth much more of his grace upon those that are under the Gospel O England England I cannot write thee lost or forsaken thou maiest yet be saved I speak of Outward Salvation thou maiest yet be saved Notwithstanding all thy Fears and all thy Sins Yea the Lord hath saved us he hath saved us with a Notwithstanding as great and large a Notwithstanding as ever People and Nation were saved with Witnesse the Mercy and Deliverance of this day When the Powder-Treason was on foot what a dark night of security had trodden upon the glory of our English day Then did our strength lie fast asleep in the lap of Delilah What Pride Oppression Court-uncleannesse Supersttions and Persecutions of the Saints then under the name of Puritans Neverthelesse he sa●ed us and our Fathers And now of late What Bitternesse of spirit among Professors What Divisions Oppressions instead of Justice What new-fangled Prides What unwillingnesse to be Reformed Time was heretofore when we did call for Truth and cried aloud for Truth Oh! that we might know the Truth But now we deale by Truth as the Fryar said the people did by their Holy-water Ye call and cry said he for Holy-water but when the Sexton sprinkles it ye turn away your faces and it falls on your backs So the times were heretofore that we called and cried out for Truth Truth it is now come unto you we would sprinkle it upon you but ye turn away your faces from it and it falls on your backs And is there not as much Swearing Drunkennesse Profanenesse stil as before I read of a street in Rome called Vicus Sobrius the Sober street because there was never an Ale-house to be found in it And upon this account I think there wil be never a sober street in England or very rare As for the precious Ordinances of Jesus Christ never so sleighted and rejected as now Neverthelesse the Lord hath saved us yea he hath saved us with a great Salvation I may say Miraculous Salvation oh if ever people were saved in a way of free love and with a Notwithstanding thus are we saved here in England Quest But suppose it be so That the Lord hath saved us with a Notwithstanding for his owne Names sake out of his mercy and free love What is our Duty that doth flow from hence Duty 1 First if the Lord doth save us with a Notwithstanding for his owne Names sake out of meere grace Then what mighty ingagements are upon us all to become gracious to repent of and turne from our former sins nothwithstanding which he hath saved us An ungracious heart may possibly mourn for Sin that it may be pardon'd but an ingenuous gracious heart wil mourn for sin because it is pardoned Yea and the more he apprehends that his Sin is pardoned the more he will and doth mourn for it We read of David that he had sinned greatly and he lay long therein without testimony of repentance at the last he breaks out into a Penitential Psalm the 51. Psal and there he melts and breaks all to pieces in Repentance When was that Psalm made the Title tels us A Psalm of David when Nathan the Prophet came unto him that is after Nathan the Prophet had come And what did Nathan say to him but thy Sin is forgiven thee whereupon he did melt into that Repentance So now when a person doth truly consider how many Notwithstandings the Lord doth carry his Conversion through then he doth melt indeed if there be ingenuity in him Oh! saies he I was a poor Ignorant man a Drunkard a Swearer an Opposer and a Jearer at goodnesse and good men yet the Lord saved me shewed mercy to me Notwithstanding all this and therefore what infinite cause have I to be humbled for Sin committed here he breaks and melts And if ye look into the 9. of Ezra ye shal find that nothing did so melt and break his heart as this That the people sinned against the free love of God ver 6. O my God I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee my God For now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God to leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place ver 10. And now O our God what shal we say after this for we have forsaken thy commandements ver 13. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespasse seeing that thou our God hast punished us lesse then our iniquities deserve and hast given us such deliverance as this Should we again break thy commandements and joyn in affinity with the people of these abominations O Lord our God thou art righteous for we remain yet escaped behold we are before thee in our trespasses for we cannot stand before thee because of this So say I Hath the Lord shewed mercy to us with a Notwithstanding all our Sins and shall we sin against him Notwithstanding all his Mercies how shall we stand before him because of this Surely the latter end will be sad and smart Ye read of the children of Israel's unbelief and that therefore they fell and died in the Wildernesse They had sinned greatly in Unbelief on the other side the water before they came through the Red sea but God pardoned that but when the Lord had brought them through the Red sea and they had seen God saving them with a Notwithstanding and then fell into that unbelief they died for it Their unbelief on this side the water was at a dearer rate then on the other And so it will be with us Many and great were our sins which we committed before the Lord saved us and if yet we will go on and will not repent of them now they will cost us dear The Lord hath saved us with a Notwithstanding Oh! what a mighty ingagement is this upon us all to leave those sins Notwithstanding which the Lord hath saved us This is our first duty Duty 2 Secondly if the Lord hath saved us with a Notwithstanding out of free love Then let us all walk

ipso facto excommunicationis vinculo subjacere Concil Lugdun 13. oecumenic approbatum centum quadraginta Episcoporum causa Frederici 2. Imperat. deponendi celebratum 1245. Bin. vide plura apud Mat. Paris cum depositione submissione Io●nnis Regis Anglicani Principibus apostatantibus a fide non est obediendum ideo cum cito aliquis per sententiam denunciatur excommunicatus propter apostasiam a fide ipso facto ejus subditisunt absoluti a dominio ejus juramento fidelitatis Thom. Aquin. 22. quaest 12. art 2. qu●st 10. art 10. Non licet Christianis tolerare Regem infidelem haereticum si ille conctur pertrahere subdito ad suam haeresim vel infidelitatem tenentur Christiani non pati super se regem non Christianum si ille co●etur avertere populum a fide Bellarm. de Roman pontif lib. 5. cap. 7. Possumus veritatem hanc authoritate praxi Ecclesiae ostendere post varia exempla addit at vero haec omnia similia non temere nec in angulo sed aliqua ex illis in conciliis frequentissimis aliquando in Generali Ergo incredibile est fuisse actus usurpatae non verae authoritatis Suarez lib. 3. de Rom. pontif cap. 23.24 qua nam sunt apostatarum haereticorum poenae privatio politicae potestatis juxta Canonem nos Sanctorum can juratos 15. q. 6. extravagantem Martini 5. ad evitanda septima poena est poena corporis viz. incarceratio exilium mors Tannerus de fide disput 1. quaest 8. dub 6. Tom. 3. in Thom. Aquinat Em. Sa in voce Tyrannus Mariana lib. 6. de reg c. 6. p. 59. Religion it self do carry such principles in the bosome of it as do naturally breed and lead to such practises then it cannot be said that this was onely the design of a few unfortunate Gentlemen Now what are the Principles of that Religion the Papists themselves say That what a Pope determines in a Councell or Generall Councell is de fide aske therefore the Lateran Councell and Concilium Lugdunense aske Aquinas Bellarmine Suarez Tollet Sa Mariana Tannerus and Becanus they will tell you that infidelious hereticall apostatizing Princes and Governours are to be deposed and excommunicated by the Pope Secondly that being so sentenced their Subjects are absolved and freed from the Oath of fidelity and Allegiance Thirdly that excommunicated persons being hereticks cujuscunque ordinis are to be deprived of their estates jurisdictions yea their lifes haeretici sunt comburendi And though this Powder-Treason were the designe of some infortunate Gentleman yet I dare challenge all the Jesuites in the world to shew such a practice designed by any unfortunate Gentlemen of the Protestant party Or is this the onely bloudy practice of the Papists and Jesuites Or is this the onely evill of that Religion Truly as things lie in my apprehension this Religion this Bellarminian Religion destroies the whole Law and Gospel the Law and the ten Commandements It destroies the First Commandement for they worship a piece of bread for God with the worship of God It destroies the Second witnesse their many Images It destroies the Third taking Gods Name in vaine by Praying and Worshipping in an unknown tongue It destroies the Fourth by denying the Morality of the Sabbath It destroies the Fift for if a man or woman get into a Cloyster and say Corban it is a Gift they are no more bound to obey their Parents It destroies the Sixt Commandement for they murder Princes and Magistrates witnesse this day and the Principles of this action It destroies the Seventh for they say single Fornication is no sin or veniall It destroies the Eighth for it hath stollen away the Cup in the Lords Supper from the people and the Scriptures from them too It destroies the Ninth for they beare false witnesse of the Fathers and antient Writers making them say what they never did to beare up their own Cause and of godly Luther Calvin Beza and others affirming that they did and died as they did not and died not It destroies the Tenth Commandement for they say Concupiscence is no sin and that Originall sin is Peccatum minus minimo lesse then the least I know nothing lesse then the least but nothing It destroies the Gospel setting up a Covenant of works The comfort and sweetnesse of the Gospel hangs on the Priestly Office of Christ which consists in his Satisfaction for sin and Intercession this Religion tels us of other satisfactions then that of Christ and other Mediatours and Intercessours as Saints and Angels It destroies your Faith (a) Concil Trident Sess 6. c. 9. 12. for it holds Doubtings and that a man cannot be ordinarily assured of his Salvation It destroies your Repentance (b) quicunque peccatum originis extenuant doctrinam de poenitentia depravant Gerard. by extenuation of sin the great sin of our nature and giving a bable Penance for true Repentance It destroies your Obedience by the ingrediency of merits It destroies the whole Law of God and Scripture (c) Vide Gerardi disputation Theolog. l. 2. ubi de hisce omnibus agitur susius by making it a Nose of Wax and insufficient Rule for us to live by without their own Traditions It destroies the Laws of man too for what is the Law of England but the Parliament The Law is a dead Parliament and the Parliament is a living Law You have now time to dispute your Liberty of Subjects Priviledge of Parliament and Royall Prerogative But had this Designe taken in what wofull confusion had all been wrapt up together It may be you say So they are now But unthankfull heart it had been worse then infinitely worse then Then might the poor Country-man have come up and seen an heap of bloud flesh and stones together and after long scraping in that heap possibly might have found the head of their Knight and Burgesse saying Here is the head of our deare Knight and Burgesse but where are his armes where his legs Then might the Wife and Children have done the like and said Here oh here is my Husbands head but where is his body my Fathers head but where is his body Then might you have heard not Rachel mourning for her Children but all the Children of this Land mourning for their Fathers and not comforted because they were not You will mourn and lament and weep sometime at the execution of a Malefactor and say What pity is it that such a man as this should die though he were thus and thus faulty in this matter yet otherwise a valiant man a wise man a brave man What pity is it that his head should thus be stricken off at one blow But here the Head of England should have been stricken off at one blow And not a Malefactor executed but our Judges themselves under the stroke of injustice tumbling in their goare Oh! unparalleld cruelty I know nothing beyond

Ingage the Name of God more and more in the time of danger And seeing for his own Names sake he hath saved you and your Fathers and Children and Families as it is this day Come now and let us Exalt his Name together The Name of God is Exalted when ye speak highly of his Power Faithfulnesse Mercy free love and grace and of all his Attributes A man Exalts his Name when he ventures upon Great things and Hard things even Lyons in his way upon confidence on the Name of God as David against Goliah The Name of God is Exalted when men yeeld up their Resolutions and Ingagements and that Presently upon the least discovery of Dishonour that may come thereby to this Name of God We Exalt the Name of God when we labour to bear up those Ordinances Waies and Truths of God which the world Decries There is a Verball and there is a Reall Exalting of Gods Name it s not the Verball but the Reall that God expecteth And seeing he saveth us and all Ours hitherto for his own Names sake Why should we not all joyn together in Exalting his Name Oh! you that are Parents call upon your Children to Exalt his Name You that are Governours and Masters call upon your Servants to Exalt his Name Tel them how he hath saved us with a Notwithstanding for his own Names sake and therefore Exalt his Name This is the fift Duty I should now tel you in the Next place That if God doth save us with a Notwithstanding then we should Serve him with a Notwithstanding all Opposition Notwithstanding all Discouragements that we should Believe and Trust in him Notwithstanding all our Fears and Dangers But I hasten to the Next Doctrine which is this Doct. 2 When God doth save his people with a Notwithstanding he doth then leave such Marks and Characters of his Infinite Power upon their Deliverance to Salvation that he may be Fully Clearly Plainly known to the Sons of men Ye shall observe therefore That when God promised any great Deliverance to his people in the time of the Prophets he frequently addeth these words Then shall ye know that I am the Lord or Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah Gods Infinite and Almighty Power is never more seen or legible then when he works in a way of free love And therefore if ye look into the 14. Numb you find that when Moses pleaded with God to pardon and passe by the iniquity of his people to shew forth his grace and love to them he doth then implore and call in the Power the Great Power of God ver 17. it 's said He made the Heavens by his Power but here Great Power is used and expressed for the pardoning of Sin And in Psal 99.8 we find that his free love and Power are knit together Deus fortis condonans c. For he is not onely strong and Mercifull but he is strong in Mercy So that whensoever God doth save his people with a Notwithstanding his great Design is to make known his mighty power unto the Sons of men Quest But it wil be said now We are all convinced and perswaded that the Lord hath saved Us and Ours in a way of free love with a Notwithstanding But what Marks or Impressions of a Deity or of Infinite Power are there upon the Deliverances or Salvations that we have had Answ 1 First it 's onely God himself that can turn the Tyde Poor weak man may turne and divert the stream of a River but it 's onely God and the Infinite power of the Almighty that can turne the Tyde When the Tyde comes in we may Saile up with the Tyde or cast Anchor but none can turne the Tyde but God alone Not long since there was a full Tyde of Superstition and Prelaticall malice coming in upon all Gods people and now of late how hath this Tyde been turned Oh! the Tyde is turn'd 't is turn'd This is the Lords doing and it may be marvellous in your eyes if it be not Secondly when there are such Great things done for Gods people as the nature of the second cause will not cannot beare then the hand and arme and speciall power of God is and may be seen therein Jer. 31.22 I the Lord have created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compasse a man (g) Neque enim simpliciter Propheta hic de viro loquitur sed nominat virum robustum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 enim sumitur a fortitudine cum igitur foeminam viro comparet non dubito quin significet Propheta Israelitas ' qui similes erant foeminis hoc est carebant viribus destituti erant omni auxilio quin dicit superiores sore hostibus suis quorum potentia poterat toti mundo terrorem incu●ere Nam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat non amplecti sed obsidere saepenumero multis accipitur scripturae locis in malam partem Hostes circundederunt me Psal 118. Cum igitur noratur obsidio Scriptura hoc verbum usurpat perinde est ●●si Propheta dixisset redigent foeminae viros in angustias ita ut ipsos captivos teneant Calvin in Ierem. 31.22 'T is ordinarily understood of Christ in the womb of the Virgin Mary But as Calvin doth well observe 't is his Comment not Mine it 's not said That a woman shall compasse a man barely but a Strong one a woman shall compasse a strong one or one that is strong so the Hebrew word signifies And saies he that word which is translated Compasse signifies such a Compassing as Enemies doe use when they lay Siege to a City So Psal 118. They Compassed me about like bees It 's the same word there which is used in a Hostile way And so the meaning is thus Though O ye Israelites ye be as weak as Women and your Enemies strong yet you shal lay Siege to them and take them captive for I will create a new thing When God works Creation-wise then he puts forth his Almighty power and when a Woman or those that are weak shall lay Siege to and take the strong then his Creating hand is at work And hath it not been thus in these Great Deliverances that he hath wrought for us of late We may all say The Lord hath Created a new thing for the woman that is those that are weak have laid Siege to and taken those that are strong Here is Power legible Answ 3 Thirdly the Psalmist doth speak expresly The Lord is known by the Judgement that he executeth The wicked is snared in the work of their own hands When the wicked Plot Consult and Designe upon and against the righteous and they are so snared in their complotments as that the cause of the just and righteous is furthered by their own workings then is the Lord known then and there are the Marks Impressions Characters of a Deity upon that work And hath not the Lord led you in this way all