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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85791	The heads of some sermons preached at Finnick, the 17 of August. 1662 By Mr William Guthry upon Matth. 14: 24, 25, 26.	Guthrie, William, 1620-1665.	1680 (1680)	Wing G2275B; ESTC R228467	46,400	69

therefore as a just punishment and recompence of their sin he layes on an arrestment on the Truth that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ the Saviour of sinners the King Priest and Prophet of his People He did it as a recompence of the sins of many for the accusing of the Truth But one of the greatest Reasons of this inhibition was to make way for another glorious designe which was on foot in Heaven anent Christs suffering at Jerusalem for saith the Apostle if they had known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory Jesus Christ knowing that he behooved to go to Jerusalem and suffer and to redeem the world and so he sets them at liberty to crucifie him by their not knowing that he was the Lord of glory and so he leaves them to a latitude to persecut and crucifie him that so he might accomplish the great designe that his Father and He had on foot anent the Redemption of the World And the Doctrin I shall here hold forth upon this Reason of the inhibition is this that the Lord by the most uncouth and strange Dispensation in his Church brings about the most glorious Purposes and Works of God that can be imagined in the world There was no Dispensation almost that was more uncouth and more strange and more dark more desperate-like than this was Let no body know that I am the Christ Let none know that I am the Saviour of the world yet all was don by the burial of that Truth The Lord Jesus Christ brought about the most glorious work that ever was wrought for his Church which was by the death of a stain Christ which was occasioned here some way by his hiding of this Truth from those that were to crucifie him I say the Lord useth by the most strange and uncouth dispensation in his Church to bring about the most glorious purposes advantagious works for the good of his Church of any in the world In following out this Doctrine I shall speak to these few things First we shall speak a little of strange and uncouth dispensations that fall-out in the Church and then a word to what those glorious works of God are that are brought about by those glorious dispensations 3. We shall give you some instances by which it will appear that the Lord by the sadest and uncouthest dispensations that ever fell-out in the Church has brought about the greatest and most advantagious work for her And in the close of the Doctrine we shall speak a word of Reason why the Lord chuseth this way for bringing about such glorious works and purposes by such uncouth and strange dispensations For the First We call Dispensations uncouth and strange and dreadfull-like when things as it were fall out by a kind of special Providence yet do justle with the revealed Word of God and his commands such as a lye put into the mouth of Jacob by Rebekkah there was a kind of secret Providence in the thing that justled with the command of God yet ye know there came some strange advantage to him thereby So Esther ye know came in the place of Vasthi the Queen this did exceedingly justle against the command of God for the Jewes should not have entred in marriage with any of that place that was not in Covenant with God this seemed to justle against the command of God yet ye know how this did amount to the good and advantage of the Kingdom of Christ So the sons of Jacob fell upon the Shechemites that was an uncouth dispensation the poor man was justled exceedingly for that living among strangers yet there came a great advantage for Jacob out of that Jacob had too long rested in that nest therefore saith he Arise Jacob and go to Bethel 2. We call Dispensations strange and uncouth as they justle with promises predictions or prophecys of the Lord 's great things towards his People ye know he endeavoured for the People of Israel to bring them out of the Land of Egypt it makes the burden seven-times worse their task is doubled this justled with God's promises or prophecyes of coming out of Egypt a bonny beginning indeed there is not one of them will come out of it their task is doubled yet by these things he brought about their delivery gloriously for great advantage to them and great ruin to their enemies Hamans promotion with all his followers to the court of the King it did directly justle against the oath that he had sworn he would have warr with Amalek for ever Haman is so high that he is like to overthrow all his Church and followers that was an uncouth dispensation yet his height overthrew him for evermore 3. We call dispensations uncouth as they justle against the People of God and as they difficult all the People of God so as they cau not extricat themselves out of that plunge nor know what way to do it these are uncouth and strange dispensations The People of Israel in their march out of Egypt instead of liberty and freedom of march God straitens them all betwixt Pharaoh and the red Sea with a rock on every hand there was no escape there that was an uncouth dispensation yet that made way for a glorious out-gate for them and the utter overthrow of the enemy for ever Yea saith Pharaoh and the Egyptians they are intangled in the land of Israel the wilderness hath shut them in we have gotten you in an hose-net Yea goodman crack at leisur it will be as good fishing you with an hose-net to morrow ere this time 4. We call dispensations uncouth and strange as in themselves they are destructive to the purposes and works he intends to bring about as they are in themselves destructive to these purposes they are uncouth enough Why are they not As for example the Lord buryeth a truth of great importance lets men lay a great stone upon it and say it shall never rise again then he brings up that truth again more glorious than ever When he intends to make a truth famous on the earth then he lets bury it that is an uncouth and strange providence and dispensation this was the dispensation here mentioned in the Text let no body know that I am the Christ once saith he bury that truth I forbid you to tell any body that Truth That 's a strange dispensation it seems to be destructive to the whole Covenant of Grace Nay but bury it for all that for I shall garr it rise with a thousand advantages more than ever yet he hath a sweet sharp hand in these things yes truely he has a sellon gate to make contraries work for good I confess it 's a bare moor that he goes over and gets nothing that dispensation never fell-out in the Church but he gets ay an harle of it for the good and advantage of the Church and People of God I say then there are many uncouth and strange

as God's blessing and he holds it as God's curse he shall never have power again by his life to committ a good deed all the actions again proceeding from that life shall be cursed cursed in his in-going in his outgoing in his basket in his store and in every thing he doth he may build houses and buy land after that but all shall be accursed all the actions proceeding from that cursed life shall be cursed live they long or live he short the curse of God shall fall upon him though he should live to be the sinner of an hundred years old he shall be accursed his life cursed his actions cursed all that he doth shall be but fuel to the curse of God that shall light broad flaught upon him he shall eat and drink and wear in the curse of God he shall feed and live upon the curse of God and the curse of God shall feed and live upon him he shall hold bed and boord on the curse of God and the curse of God shall hold bed and boord on him that way they shall lose their life they shall lose it as God's blessing Thirdly The man that goes thus preposterously about to save his life he shall lose his life so as within alittle he shall lose the comfort of his life within alittle he shall be full of Hells sorrow hells terror shall seize upon him the worm that never dyes shall begin an inward gnawing at his heart the worm of an ill conscience rugging at his heart and intrals of him like a canker-worm drawing at his leaver an inward flame like the fire of hell ready to burn him up within ere ever death come to take-away the cursed carcase of him the gnawing worm that never dyeth shall ever draw at the conscience of him like a greedy glade riving at a gushorn ay as if the Devil were within going to rive out the Soul at his broad side and to run away to hell with it God will kindle the fire of hell in the heart of him wherein he shall find that hungry worm like the Devil drawing at the heart of him drawing-out the soul and intrals of him like a few hungry glades riving at a gushorn thou shalt never have rest henceforth but an inward gnawing and rugging at the heart till thou be fully possest in everlasting flames Gang thy way man if thou hast wronged the Cause of Christ for fear of thy life I would not have an hour of thy life for all the gold of Gawry Fourthly This man loseth his life another way more formally as God upon this account for the man's seeking to save his life garres his life gang upon a miserable account and that many times or long as the just reward of his sin he dyes in the midst of his dayes God garres him make some tykes testament he doth not dye properly he is cut-off in the midst of his dayes he disownes God and betrayes the cause for fear of his life ere ever he wit God clieks him off He had an honourable opportunity to have let his life go but he would not let it go so God garres him let it go upon a more miserable account and very readily God garres his life gang by that self same mean that he took to save his life it 's like their eyes are open now that will see the like of that yet now will ever we see that day that the Declaration and the Service-book and keeping dayes of mens invention will be the high-way to garr some folk lose their life Will ye have patience a little Ye shall either see that day or ye shall say I had no skill of preaching or of the mind of God ye will see this that those folks that have betrayed the People of God have most of all betrayed their own life they think they have gotten a safe-gate for their life now as ever man had for they have made the King Head of the Church and they shall be of any Religion that ever he likes to bring through the Land that they may save their life Goodsooth that will not workyet all that will not bide you that will even but bring you the sooner to the gallows that will garr your bones whistle in the wind some day Will the taking of the Declaration do your turn think ye God will garr the taking of that Declaration that many a man thinks to be the safety of his life that way of the safety of his life will garr his head weigh his tail yet and his bones whistle in the wind All those shifts will but the sooner bring them to the gallows ye must come to the gallows for these shifts that ye take against the Light of your own Conscience Ye will to the gallows for all the plots that ye plot against the People of God Wicked Haman must to the gallows for all the plot that he plots so deep against the People Ye think that these lawes that ye make against the People of God will only bring them to distress sorrow and bonds Yea but they will garr your bones whistle in the wind for all that The readyest way to bring folk to a miserable hinder-end is that wicked Declaration What would ye think of such a cast of kindness from God's hand as that to make your mischief turn upon your own head Wicked Haman's plots and contriving cruelty against the People of God most haste to help him to haste him to the gallows Haman may make many decrees but he must to the gallows ere he see them put to execution What would ye think if those lawes that they are making against the People of God to bring them to ruin bring their own carcases to the gallows These their Acts and Lawes that they are making against the People of God is the way in all the world to hasten themselves to a miserable hinder-end The sinfull way that a man takes for the safety of his life proves the very mean and way of his overthrow and so will come of them yet Now what is the reason of this that he that seeks to save his life shall come to a miserable hinder-end that way that he seeks to save it Answ The reason is the righteousness of God God is a Righteous God that is even the reason of it God is a Righteous God he will make it known to all the world that he is an Upright God and that there is no unrighteousness in him He is righteous in this to rain snares on such wicked Soules that lay snares before the consciences of his People The Righteous God loveth Righteousness as ye heard in the morning upon the hinder-end of that Psalme that we lectur'd on the way that the man went to save his life when God called him to lay it down he is a Righteous God to garr his life gang by that way which he looks to save it the man that before Heaven and Earth Sun and Moon