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A20225	A platforme, made for the proofe of Gods prouidence that is, for examining of the truth of this doctrine, whether God by his prouidence rule all things generally, and euery creature and action particularly / by Arthur Dent.	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1608 (1608)	STC 6646.7; ESTC S332	15,893	48

148. Psalm the Prophet saith that fire and haile snow and vapours stormie windes do execute his worde and what is it to execute the worde of God but to be ruled and gouerne by his worde it is to be at his becke and pleasure Againe in the 135. Psalme it is said that whatsoeuer pleased the Lord that did he in heauen and in earth in the Sea and all the depthes he bringeth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth and maketh the lightnings with the raine he draweth forth the windes out of his treasures and Christ our Sauiour in the 6. of Math. biddeth vs learne how the Lillies of the field do growe they labour not neither spin and a little afterward he telleth vs that God doth cloath the grasse of the field these fewe places proue that God hath a prouident care to keepe and gouerne euen his lifelesse creatures not onely generally but also particularly as cloudes raine windes grasse fire haile snow vapours lillies and such like the like prouident care he hath for other of his creatures whome hee hath indued with the life and sence but not with reason and that libertie of choise whereof I spake before Wee reade in the 147. Psalme that God giueth to beasts their foode and to the yong Rauens that crie and in the 104. Psalme vers 14. the Prophet saith that God causeth grasse to growe for the cattell and afterward in the 27. verse hee saith that all beasts foules and fishes waite vpō thee O Lord that thou maist giue them food in due season thou giuest it to them and they gather it thou openest thy hand and they are silled with good things This also our Sauiour Christ affirmeth in the 6. of Mathew saying beholde the foules of the Heauen for they sowe not neither reape nor carye into the barnes yet your heauenly Father feedeth them And in the 10. of Math. Are not two Sparrowes sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father meaning God by these few places you may see it sufficiently proued that God hath a prouidēt care of euery particular creature vpō whom he hath not bestowed y ● free libertie of choise whether they haue not life or haue life and sence and want reason Now as for those creatures to whom God hath giuen that gift of free choise which I said were Angels and men some do thinke that God in truth hath a speciall prouident care ouer man whom hee made after his owne Image and likenes but not ouer other creatures which opinion how false it is you may easily gather out of that I haue already written Others do make this to be the difference betweene man and man that God taketh a speciall care of the godly but casteth away all care of the wicked but the worde of God doth manifestly ouerthrow this opinion In the 5. of Math. Christ our Sauiour teacheth vs that our heauenly Father maketh his Sun to arise on the euil and on the good and sendeth raine on the iust and vniust And Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy the 4. chapter saith that God is Sauiour of al men specially of those that beleue wherof I gather that God hath a speciall care of those that are his but yet not so as that hee leaueth y e wicked to be ruled by chance fortune for if God haue a care of those things and creatures that the wicked possesse as of their cattell grasse and corne and such like surely hee prouideth also for them the owners masters of those creatures neither can he be prouident carefull for the godly but he must also gouerne and rule the wicked according to the pleasure of his diuine power For as a Prince and Generall of an armie is not onely carefull for the troupes and companies of Souldiers that be in his host but also for munitiō vittaile necessarie for thē that hee may haue his army so furnished that it may be a terror to the enemie and may keepe them amongst whome he lieth incamped in such dutifull obedience that they may be ready to doe whatsoeuer his Captaines and officers commaund them so can it not be that God doth prouide for his Church but he must also moderate and gouerne all those things without which his Church cannot be here vpon the earth Such things as appartaine to the nourishment cloathing safe and quiet harboring of the members of the Church They therefore who are not of the true Church are yet for the benifit of Gods Church to be ruled by his prouidence so are the Patriarches saide to haue founde fauour in the eyes of infidelles for that the Lord did rule and moue the hearts of infidelles which way it pleased him Now how God ruleth not onely euery particular man but also all the seuerall actions of men is proued by that which is in the 16 of the Prouerbs Commit thy workes vnto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be directed And by that also which is in the 4. of Iames goe to now ye that say to day or to morrow wee will goe into such a Citie and continue there a yeare and buy and sell and get gaine and yet ye cannot tell what shall be to morrow for what is your life it is euen a vapour it appeareth for a little time and afterward vanquisheth away for that we ought to say if the Lord will and if wee liue we will doe this or that Thus Iames speaking of the actions or doings of men affirmeth that God ruleth them all so that without his will wee can doe nothing no not so much as passe from one place to another and Paul coufesseth that hee was often hindred and staied by God that he could not goe to those Churches hee purposed vntill hee had his iourney graunted him by the will of God God therefore ruleth all the seuerall actions of all men I will vse onely two examples to illustrate and make plaine this most true doctrine that God gouerneth the seuerall actions of all men both good and bad In the historie of Ioseph many things to this purpose are to bee founde the end of that historie was that which Ioseph spake of Genesis 50. you thought euill against me saith hee to his brethren but God disposed it to good In this historie these men and their seuerall actions are to be wayed First father Iacob then the brethren of Ioseph Ioseph himselfe the Ishmaelites to whom hee was sold that light huswife his mistris Putiphars wife Pharao and his seruants the actions of all these persons are diuers and very different one from another some of them were laudable others detestable and yet some of those better then others and some of those actions neither to be altogether allowed nor dispraised yet as Ioseph witnesseth God by his prouidence ruleth disposeth them all both men and their actions to Iosephs good So as Dauid saith Psalme 105. that God sent a man before