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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07683	A demonstration of God in his workes Against all such as eyther in word or life deny there is a God. By George More Esquire.	More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632.; More, George, Esquire, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 18071.5; ESTC S112856	95,106	174

vnarmed and altogether vnprouided 1. Sam ●7 they saide to Samuell Cease not to crie vnto the Lord our God for vs that he may saue vs out of the hands of the Philistines They then comming to fight against Israell and hauing full assuraunce of victorie not seeing a man to draw a weapon or to lift vp his hand against them as Samuell offered the burnt offering vnto the Lorde the Lord thundred with a great thunder out of heauen vpon thē and scattered them so as they were pursued and slaine before Israel 2 Chr 20. Ichosophat in like sort the children of Moab and Ammon comming with a great multitude to battaile against him was dismaied for hee saw nothing in him and his able to withstand so mightie and many enemies He thersore sought the Lord and set his eyes toward him who laying ambushments against the children of Ammon Moab and Mount Seir which were comming against Iudah caused them to slay and destroy one another So by the strange working and mighty power of the Almightie the enemies of Iudah were kylled of themselues theyr owne hands seruing nay striuing 2. Chr 32. to cut theyr owne throates Senacharib inuading Iudah and besieging the strong Citties and thinking to winne them for him selfe proudlie vaunted what Nations he had ouercome and spared not blasphemously both to speake and write against the Lord God of Israell But Hesechias the King and the Prophet Isaiah praying against him and crying to heauen the Lord sent an Angell which destroyed all his valiant men and the Princes and Captaines of the Hoast so as he returned with shame into his land and being come into the house of his God they that came forth of his owne bowels slew him there with the sword Infinite it were to rehearse the notable examples of Gods wonderfull workes remembred throughout the whole volume of holy Scripture both in the confusion of the rich and mighty being wicked and preseruation of the poore and weake being godly they are euery where to be reade in the History of the Prophets Iudges and Kings and as well in the time as before the comming of Christ VVherfore leauing the same to the view of all which of all lye open to be seene I will of much remember some-what that of prophane men hath beene recorded wherein the strength of Gods hand is to be admired when it pleaseth him for the secrecie of his iudgement to put it forth and to execute his will vpon the Sonnes of men which being of lesse credite and of no worth in comparison of the assured testimony of the word of truth it may serue for better vse to some as ill foode doth best agree with bad stomacks and dimme light with sore eyes It is not to be doubted but that the burthen of pouerty is great The burden of pouerty great that by the strength not of the body but of the mind it is to be borne out VVherof it hath been truly sayed Menander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to endure pouerty is not euery mans case but his that is wise and accordingly it hath beene seene to fall out in the example of Socrates Diogenes Anaxagoras and other Philosophers whose minds being fortified with wisedome by no force of pouerty could be ouerthrowne wheras the common sort being led by the present sence of outward things admire riches in others and finding want in them selues are deiected in mind and carried on to foule actions or vnseemely complaints to whom I may say as Paulus Aemilius did to Persius lying downe at his feete and vttering base words and requests vnmeete for a King Plutarch in Aemilius though a Captiue at that time they seeke to amend their ill hap with a worse fault and shew them selues both worthie their meane condition and vnfit for better fortune But how and whatsoeuer the wickednes of man is such hath God euermore shewed his power to be in giuing honour to the poorest of estate and raysing the basest to the highest place that men beholding and considering the same how so euer they are weake cannot but acknowledge his strength Pouerty exalted and therein repose their comfort Plutarch in Pho. 1. and their hope Phocion of a poore man became the Generall and Commaunder of the Athenians by the space of twenty years wherewith his wife thought her selfe more graced and honoured then she could be with all the riches and iewels of the world Doubtfull whether Phocion or Alexander the greater He contemned the guifts of Alexander and there-vpon it was doubted whether was the greater man because it was doubtfull whether had the greater minde Poore Aristides was a principall actour Herodo vraria Calliope and had not the least honor in the seruice at Salamis and at Plateas was the chiefe leader of all the Athenian forces vvhom vertue did put forward pouerty could not hold back nor daunt nor dismay in any sort Eutrop. 1. The meane estate of Cincinuatus did not stop his passage to preferment from the plough he was called to be Dictator which was to be the greatest ruler in the common wealth VVhich office hauing discharged to the good of his Countrey and his owne glory to his former course of life with no lesse contentment then comendation hee returned againe Fabritius being in pouerty Eutrop. 2 3. was sent in embassage amongst other Romanes to Pyrrhus of whom Pyrrhus conceaued such lyking that to win him to be his he offered him the fourth part of his kingdom which offer he contemning Pyrrhus admiring the greatnes of his mind and esteeming the Romanes according to him was ready to accept most reasonable conditions of peace which being not accorded on and Fabritius disclosing the treason of his Phisition vnto him he sayed with admiration Ille est Fabritius qui difficilius ab honestaten quam sola cursea suo auerti potest This is that Fabritius whom it is harder to draw from honesty then to turne the Sun from his course So doth God make vertue often to shine through the cloud of pouertie causing it to be graced rather by the shew then ouercomed by the shadow thereof And as it pleased Alexander the great to preferre before many of noble birth Iust 2. Abdolminus a man of no parentage and base condition to a kingdome because that his benefite should seeme rather to be giuen freely then deserued by nobility and that his owne greatnes therein might the more be seene So is it to be obserued that the Lord God hath raysed manie from the lowest step to the highest seate from vnknowne houses to the greatest honours as well to shew his power as that the glory might be wholie his August de ciuita dei 18 no worth or desert being theirs Ptolemey a man of base birth of a common Souldier grew to be King of all Egipt Liui. decad 1 lib. 5. Iust 2. Ioui elo 1. Pompo Laetus So it happened to Seruius Tullius