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death_n	bondage_n	deliver_v	fear_n	4,056	5	6.5580	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30250	Another sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, November the fifth, 1641 by Cornelius Burges, D.D. ; wherein, among other things, are shewed a list of some of the popish traytors in England.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5668; ESTC R21418	55,204	69

ever to live in glory so that for them p Phil. 1.21 to die is gain and q Rom. 8.37 in all these things they are more then Conquerors through him that loved them Thus every way the rage of man brings honour to God and good to his people and that upon these grounds Reason 1 1. God never put power into the hands of wicked men but for his own holy ends Therefore Wicked mens power is onely for Gods ends if they use that power to rage against his servants he must and will carrie on his own work let them intend what they list Now Gods end in raising such men is r Exod. 9.16 to shew in them his power and that his Name may be declared in all the earth How but by his Å¿ Exod. 14.17 getting honour upon them in the strongest pursuit of their rage against the godly as he did upon Pharaoh and all his host when they would have devoured Israel Reason 2 2. God cares not a rush for the greatest and proudest Sennacheribs in the world that rage against his people God will break the wicked rather than they should hurt the godly in comparison of any one poore servant of his own oppressed by them * Psal 105.14 he will suffer no man to do them wrong but will rebuke even Kings for their sakes that rage against them yea s Psal 2.9 break them to pieces like a potters vessell * Psal 69.14 and scatter them like hay in a whirl-winde or ships in a tempest rather than not make his people gainers by their rage So he dealt with Pharaoh Sennacherib and many moe This being his peremptorie resolution that t Rom. 8.28 all things shall work together for good to them that love him and therefore the rage of the wicked how much soever they hate them God outshoots them in their own bowe Reason 3 3. God delights to out-shoot the wicked in their own Bowe If u Psal 37.14 they bend their bowe to slay such as be of upright conversation he will shoot that arrow of their wrath further then ever they intended it and stick it fast in their own bosomes * Psal 45.5 If Pharaoh shoot at Israel Gods first-born the arrow shall fall short but then God takes it up and he shoots it into the very heart of Pharaohs w Exod. 4.22 23. first-born and he is sure to die for it Thus if the devill will still animate the rage of Herod and the people of the Jews to kill Christ that very arrow which gave Christ his deaths wound shall be the x Hos 13.14 death of death it self and the destruction of the grave and give the greatest blow to the devil and his kingdome that ever he received Little thought Satan when in his rage he prosecuted Christ to death that the death of Christ should be the saving of a world the rescuing of many millions of souls out of his power and the destruction of the kingdome of darknesse But so home did God shoot this shaft out of the bowe of his Crosse that y Heb 2.14 15. by death he destroyed him who had the power of death that is the devill and delivered them who through fear of death were all their life time subject unto bondage I have now given you the first branch of the Point the other follows which in effect is this Branch 2 The rage of the wicked shall never extend so far as to do the work they intended God makes mans rage fall short of their aime but shall ever fall short of that which they chiefly projected It is true that their rage sometimes goes very far and doth much mischief but never beyond what may stand with the honour truth and goodnesse of God and with his Covenant made to his people When the enemie begins to make himself sure of his will upon the godly and to say z Exod. 15.9 I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoile my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword mine hand shall destroy them Then God steps in and sets their bounds far shorter then wicked men promised to themselves saying to them as to the raging sea a Job 38.11 Hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed And this he doth many waies 1. Sometimes by filing off the edge of that roughnesse and malice that is in them and constraining them to mildnesse and gentlenesse contrary to their very natures 1. By filing off their roughnes and malice and setled resolutions long before taken up Thus he restrained the rage of b Gen. 31.22 Laban against Iacob c Gen. 32.28 who shortly after also as a Prince prevailed with God to prevail with Esau that had long vowed his death so that at their meeting the rage and malice of Esau was tyed up and d Gen. 33.10 Iacob saw his face as if he had seen the face of God so well was Esau pleased with him 2. Sometimes 2. By giving them work elsewhere by giving them so much work elsewhere that they have neither leisure not power to pursue the godly any further We saw it e 2 King 19.8 before in Sennacherib and we may see it in f 1 King 22.27 28. Ahab at Ramoth-Gilead when he intended a further persecution of Michaiah as likewise in Iulian * Greg. Naz. Orat. 4. in Iulian who resolving to destroy all the Christians found a necessity to go first against the Persians by whom he was overthrown and so disabled from satisfying his rage upon the others Thus God often gives Tyrannicall Princes businesse enough abroad when he findes them studious to destroy their best Subjects at home 3. 3. By spoiling them of the instruments of revenge Sometimes by dispoiling them of the Instruments whereon they relie as g Exod. 14.25 he took off the chariot wheels of the Egyptians in their pursuit of Israel either by rending from them a great part of their Dominions as from h 1. King 12. Rehoboam when he resolved to go on in his oppression of his petitioning Subjects or by weakning that strength which remains with them as he did that of the Assirian when he thought none could stand before him i Isa 10.16 sending among his fat ones leannesse and under his glory kindling a fire or by infatuating their counsels making k Isa 19.11 the Princes of Zoan fools and the wise Counsellers of a persecuting Pharaoh to become brutish and causing them to fall by their own counsels as l Theodor. hist li. 3. ca. 20. Iulian before the Persians when in a bravado he would needs burn his ships to put the more necessitie of valour into his Souldiers or by infatuating themselves that they cannot understand good counsel when it is before them as in Rehoboam case * 1. Kin. 12. but rather follow that