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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87151	A sermon preached to the honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, at a publike fast, May, 25. 1642. By Robert Harris, Batchelor of Divinity and Pastor of Hanwell. Oxon. Published by order of that House.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing H875; Thomason E150_21; ESTC R4871	30,553	56

us Abide with us And then know There is patience enough in God for a Thousand Englands And if wee doe miscary it is not from want of Goodnesse in God but from want of Grace in us who have a price in our hands and doe not know it But I must away The last thing followes God is swift in his helpe as well as sure When his bee once ready for help help is at hand So Nahum pleads cap. 1.2.3 God suffers and God is swift I am in hast and cannot open the words S. Peter saith the same 2 Pet. 3.9 where two things are spoken 1. What God is in our conceit Slack 2. What God is indeed Seasonable when wee are fitted Obj. But is not God slow An. It is not slownesse or slucknesse For that is to Omit an opportunity Hee is ever Opportune and frames his pace as there is cause When wee bee ripe hee is ready hee is speedy Speedy 1. In opposition to the Iudge here who is too late and to mens opinions who being too short thinke God too long Speedy 2. In reference to our fitnesse and fitnesse of time Hee is neither too early nor too late but observes the very height strength joint article of time Wee know not how to expresse Moses his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of time Ex. 12.41 alibi in Gen. But at present wee are upon his speedy help For this doe but observe how hee represents himselfe 1. In his gestures and postures Hee 's said when hee is upon his peoples deliverance to stand up or arise to runne Vid. Hab. 3. passim apud Prophetas to fly 2. In his Expressions Hee that Comes will Come and will make haste without tarriance In the Canticles he comes leaping c. Hebr. 10.37 3. In his Performances Ever at Es 31.5 flying c. or before his day never one houre too late The Reason whereof is manifold 1. If we respect Gods selfe 1. He cannot mistake time For hee is Wisdome it selfe and the just measure of time That is Esay's reason Esa 30. Hee is a God of Iudgement 2. Hee cannot faile of his aime and end For hee is power it selfe There is nothing in his way Hee is in heaven saith David and doth whatsoever hee will Others must worke what and when they can God works when it pleaseth him and can doe a great deale in a little space Hee can cause to Conceive and to bring forth the same day Esay 66.8.3 Hee is goodnesse it selfe Goodnesse is his nature and nature delights in its owne operations it is it's life The Sunne runnes rather then stand still delights more in shining then in being overshadowed 4. Hee is Truth and it is his Word Hee will bee found in Due time and his time is the Due time with respect to our Fitnesse Read Psal 46.1.5 2. Adde in the second place Gods Relation Hee is a Father Relations you know are very active Saul would rise early to help his subjects 1 Sam. 11. Fathers be rather too hastie then too slow They are ready before their Sonnes The child indeed thinks himselfe fit for Horsmanship for the Vn versitie Marriage or the like and conceives his Father too slow But the truth is The Father stayes upon his Child and is ready before hee is ready Especially in cases of danger A Father runnes without legs when the Child is hazarded Nor is there any Beast which will not fly upon death when his young is indangered Now the Lord hath not put this inclination into Creatures and deprived himselfe thereof the while His bee His and Hee will bee Theirs if it bee not long of them Let the prodigall creep and the Father will run Luke 15. 3. His Children will mind him of the time how it passes Their Cry is still How long Make haste Their Remembrancers joyne with them Esay 62. and Christ with them Zach. 1. How long O Lord of Hostes wilt thou not have mercy upon Ierusalem c 12. These All these sue God upon his Band and presse the fitnesse of the time Dan. 9.2 Psal 102.13 To make end If meere selfe-love will force this Iudge out of his pace will not love of Iustice Mercy Truth Love of Christians of Christ of Godsselfe quicken him Doth not he know how soone their spirits will faint How soone they will step forth of the way and after halting turne aside upon too long delayes Obj. Yea but wee see Gods people long defer'd An. It seemes long because wee are short A short walke is a long journey to feeble knees Times are above our reach The knots and periods of them are in the hands of the God of Iudgement When help is seasonable his fingers itch as the Mothers breast akes when it is time the child had suck There is no more now to bee done Vses but to make this point usefull to us and then I have done 1. Blush we at our boldnesse who take upon us 1. To Controll 2. To Confine the All-wise God 1. For the first Who are we that wee should sit upon our Maker and say in effect Here God is out Here hee mistakes his time What is this but to Charge God foolishly as Iob did not What is this but to Set the Sunne by our Dyall Iob. 2.4 7.6 11.39.40 This Caesar termes sancinesse in his Souldiers This our Saviour disliked in his dearest friends This the Physician blames in his Patient Parents in their Children you in Vs if so bee that wee at so great a distance who know so little of your obstructions shall charge you here with too much haste there with too much slownesse 2. As great a saucinesse it is To Confine the Almighty Now he must help or never This way or no way By this Parliament or by No Parliament Stop for shame And if you will wisely enquire into a reason of Gods proceedings reflect upon your selves and charge the slownesse upon your owne soules It is a truth God will bee ever himselfe and hath many ends in One Worke. But in passages twixt him and us the fault is ours not his if wee bee not seasonably holpen Thence that in Isay 30.18 God waits that hee may have mercy Gods Heart Gods hands are full of mercy hee waits being A God of Iudgement i one that dispences mercy in Iudgement Thence his plea. Isay 58.1 c. The people wondred they heard not from God Why say they have wee fasted c. And God wonders that hee heares not from them And more fully Isa 59.1 hee resolves the Case Gods hand is not shortned His eare is not deafned Hee is able hee is willing to doe them help Where is the hindrance then Hee tells them Your sinnes keepe good things from you Thence also it is That God so expostulates with Ioshua cap. 7.10 Vp saith hee Why liest thou thus and cryect to mee As if it were long of mee that the warre succeeds not Goe deale