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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94736	Iehovah iireh: or, Gods providence in delivering the godly. Opened in two sermons in the citie of Bristoll, on the day of publike thanksgiving in that citie, March 14. 1642. For the deliverance of that citie from the invasion without, and the plot of malignants within the city, intended to have been acted the Tuesday night before. With a short narration of that bloody and abominable plot. Preached by Iohn Tombes, B.D. It is this two and twentieth day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, Johovah Jireh, or Gods providence in delivering the godly, be printed. John White.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T1809; Thomason E100_31	25,023	33

wise how thou doe reprove them though reproofe bee a duty yet it must bee well managed our Saviours direction is Matthew 7. 6. Give not holy things unto the Dogs neither cast pearles before Swine lest they trample them under their feet and turne againe and rend you 6. Endeavour by all good meanes to convert them Take heed of complying with them in their wayes under pretence of turning them That 's the ready way for them to glory and insult over thee and to harden themselves But bee thou as a light shining before them to convince them Philippians 2. 15. 7. If wee cannot convert them yet let us endeavour to restraine them by our authority prayers and power with them Fiftly It should admonish us to prepare our selves for these temptations while yee live on earth yee shall not live in a heaven of Saints but in a world of ungodly men and therefore make account of temptations and fit your selves for them yee that be here of this Citie because God hath given you deliverance now doe not grow secure but thinke ye may have more trialls Remember the spirit of wicked men is restlesse though they misse in one plot they will attempt another according to the spirit by which they are guided as Satan goes about seeking whom hee may devoure so doe wicked men his Agents Sixtly and lastly Herein is manifested the gratious providence of God for the godly that though they are under Temptations yet they are delivered from them though they walke among snares though they are placed as Christ saith as sheepe in the midst of wolves a few weake sheepe in the middest of a great multitude of ravening wolves yet the Church is preserved this is Gods work so it was at this time in this City a small company of godly persons preserved from a great number of malignant spirits within and without it O let us admire the goodnesse of our God herein It is the businesse of this day Doe it fully Let your spirits be raised up in admiration of Gods care and working for his people Let your hearts and tongues magnifie God and say Great is the Lord and great are his workes and great deliverances giveth he unto his people Happy O people saved by the Lord Happy are they that be in such a case yea rather happy are they that have the Lord for their God 2 PET. 2. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of Temptation and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished WEE have considered in the Morning the estate of the Godly in respect of unjust men among whom they live they are under Temptation We are now to consider their estate in respect of Gods care and aspect to them The Lord knoweth how to deliver them The Truth emergent from hence is this Though it be that the godly while they live among unjust men be in temptation yet God knowes how to deliver them This is the expresse assertion of the Text The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptation The phrase The Lord knoweth imports both care providence and vigilancy to deliver and also skill and wisdome how to contrive it and consequently certainty of deliverance To like purpose are many other places of holy Scripture Psal. 9. 9. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in times of Trouble Psal. 33. 18. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that feare him upon them that hope in his mercy to deliver their soule from death To make this Truth a little more explicate we are to consider that this skill vigilancy and providence of God in delivering the godly out of Temptation First Hath reference to divers sorts of deliverance There are divers kinds of deliverance and divers degrees in those kindes There is a deliverance of the Soule from the wrath of God Jesus that delivereth from the wrath to come 1 Thess. 1. 10. A deliverance from the power and guilt of sinne from the anguish and horrour of conscience from desertion and Apostasy There are deliverances of the body of the naturall life from death from teares from sicknesse from wants from danger The Lord knowes how to accommodate his deliverance to give deliverance according to what kind degree he thinks meet Sometimes God delivers from death Psa. 116. 8. Thou hast delivered my soule from death Sometimes by death Isa. 57. 1. The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evill to come See The Lord knowes sundry wayes of deliverance not onely by keeping them from the hands of unjust men but sometimes by letting them fall into their hands Secondly It hath reference to the persons delivered Sometimes the Lord delivers many sometimes few sometimes whole Cities and people sometimes a small remnant in them Rom. 9. 27. Isa. 10. 22. Though the number of the children of Israel be as the Sand of the Sea a remnant shall be saved though there be great multitudes of men yet a few shall be delivered Thirdly it hath reference to the meanes of deliverance Sometimes the Lord delivers by a visible power sometimes the Lord delivers by an invisible working sometimes God delivers by putting a meere fancy into the mind of the enemy somtimes by a reall accident unthought of 1 Sam. 23. 26 27. Saul and his men had encompassed David and his men round about to take him But there came a Messenger unto Saul saying Haste thee and come for the Philistines have invaded the Land Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines Sometimes the Lord delivers by an Angell sometimes by men That which the Prophet speaketh Isa. 28. 29. is true of the meanes of deliverance This also commeth forth from the Lord of hoasts who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working That we least dreame of is oft times the meanes of deliverance that which we most hoped in is oft times most unprofitable to us Fourthly It hath reference to the case of the persons delivered Sometimes the unjust persons be many strong cunning active malicious on the other side the persons delivered are few weake distracted fearefull simple yet notwithstanding the Lord knowes how to deliver them Even these poore ones are preserved and those strong cunning and active men misse of their prey Fifthly It hath reference to the time of delivery Gods skill vigilancy and providence is clearely seene in the season and opportunity of deliverance Isa. 64. 3. Then didst terrible things which we looked not for when the case of persons rescued is in appearance hopelesse yet the Lord knowes how to deliver even then Sixthly It hath reference to the fruits and consequent of the deliverance There is a deliverance which is but incompleate persons are delivered from one judgement but reserved to another The King of Sodom was delivered from the Kings that came