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A89666	Mans wrath and Gods praise. Or, A thanks-giving sermon, preached at Taunton, in the county of Somerset, the 11th. of May, (a day to be had in everlasting remembrance) for the gratious deliverance of that poore towne from the strait siege. / By George Newton, Mr. of Arts, and minister of the Gospell in that place.	Newton, George, 1602-1681.	1646 (1646)	Wing N1045; Thomason E344_6; ESTC R200954	18,621	32

question to be made of this and hence the Holy Ghost hath set a surety on it in my Text Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath shalt thou restraine Well then my brethren in the second place since the Lord will have it so since hee hath said it shall be so let the wrath of man praise him There hath been much of the envenom'd rage of wicked men let out against this poore Towne Oh let us praise the Lord that kept us unconsum'd in the heat of their fury that when the Towne was storm'd so desperately as you know it was for so many dayes together God kept you who are here before him in that storme and did not suffer any of that haile to fall upon you That when others fell by the Bullet and the Sword your bloud was pretious and your lives were deare to him Say now as Hezekiah Isaiah 38.19 O Lord the living the living they shall praise thee as we doe this day Nay that GOD did not keep your bodies onely but your spirits too that he upheld them with unshaken resolution in the mid'st of such danger That hee united you so firmly all together who notwithstanding were not all of one minde nor one way That all the violence and rage that was declared against you was so farre from causing you to desert the Cause of GOD and to give up the Towne into the hands of those that fought against it as that it made you to renew your resolutions to sticke the faster to the Lord and to his Cause to fight it out in the midst of fire and bloud Here certainly the wrath of man doth praise the Lord the wrath of man sends us occasion to sing the praises of our God forever And if wee ought to praise the Lord with reference to that part of the wrath of man which he let out much more with reference to that which hee restrain'd Oh here was mercy to be spoken of to all ages that God sets limits to the rage of these men That when they set their heart as the heart of GOD himselfe he made them know they were but men That when they said of this poore Towne Fall on and take it for there is no reliefe for it there is none to deliver it that when they were about to enter GOD put his hook into their Nostrills and his bridle in their Lippes and carried them another way Brethren you may reflect upon the time when you stood looking out at the Windowes and crying as the Mother of Sisera Iudges 5.28 Why is the Chariot so long a comming Why doe the Wheeles of the Chariot linger Why is Reliefe so long a comming Why doth it stay and linger thus Why doth it meet with such procrastinations and delays And in the end concluded that there was no helpe for you but you should surely perish by the hands of these men And when your hearts were gone and hopes were gone when you were in the Wilderness where if you met with any good or any comfort it must come from Heaven then GOD came in and spake comfortably to you Oh thinke upon the time when you gave your selves for lost and on a suddaine some came running in and told you Reliefe is come Oh was not that a sweet and welcome word Reliefe is come Were you not as Israel was in such a case like men that dreame Did you not doubt this happy tidings was onely fancied and conceited in a Dreame and that there was nothing of truth and reality in it It was so farre above your hopes and beyond your expectations And now my brethren I beleeve your hearts are very much enlarged and ready to breake out into the praises of the Lord. Mee thinkes I heare you put the question to mee what shall wee doe to make it to appeare that wee are sensible of this mercie I give you some directions in a word and I have done 1. I acknowledge the restraint of our malicious enemies to bee of GOD. That it was hee and he alone that set limits to their siege Say not it was the valour or the skill of the COMMANDERS it was the courage of the SOULDIERS though many of them did beyond the race of men and deserv'd as high applause and commendation as instruments are capable of but rather say their wrath and rage did GOD restraine And truly GOD was visibly and admirably seene in this businesse For when our Line was almost empty of Defendants and when the bodies of your enemies were not restrained by any thing that you could either doe or see the LORD restrained their spirits as the PROPHET speakes in the Verse that follows next save one upon my TEXT so that they had no hearts to come on And therefore now let all your bones cry out and say LORD none is like to thee that wee are yet unbroken Let all your houses say LORD none is like to thee that wee are standing Let all your Wives and Children say LORD none is like to thee that wee are living They were not Workes they were not Gunnes and Souldiers that preserved us and destroyed our enemies but their wrath did God restraine and therefore let the Lord and he alone have all the glory 2. Endeavour to bee large to him in duty who hath beene large to you in mercie There was a time you know when you were shut up by your enemies who kept you in on every side when you were held within a very narrow compasse But now the LORD hath set you in a large place Oh let your hearts I pray you bee enlarged to him in praises and let your hands be enlarged to him in service Oh doe not goe but run the wayes of his Commandements now he hath set you thus at liberty Doe not thinke it is enough to walke on in an ordinary track of duty but strive to doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Christ speakes some singular fine excellent some extraordinary thing and to abound in the worke of the LORD who hath laid out the riches of his mercie on you 3. Improve and lay out all that you have left for GOD and bestow it all upon him Beloved GOD hath given you your somes your wives your children your estates your lives If you have any thing he gave it you the second time hee renewed your tenure in it this day If hee had but let loose the enemie and if hee had not mightily restrained him in all appearance you had lost all You may truly say to GOD as David doth thou art the God of our life and therefore now live to him Thou art the God of our strength and our we with and our comfort and therefore lay out all for him 4. Let all those Vowes and Covenants which you made to God in dayes of miserie be remembred and observed in dayes of mercie Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou nestraine and then the next words are Vow unto the Lord and pay it Brethren I make no question when you look't for nothing else but death and ruine you engag'd your selves to God by many obligations Oh how obedient and how holy you would be if he would but deliver you this once if hee would save you from this death onely You told the Lord a very fuire tale But say my Brethren have you paid those Vows have you made good those Obligations or did you onely flatter with him as wee are wont to flatter men to attaine our owne ends May that bee said of you which David notes of Israel Psalme 78.36 When hee slew them they sought him c. Neverthelesse they did but flatter him their heart was not right with him nor were they stedfast in their Covenant Well bee assured God will not flatter hee will not dally with you when hee comes about againe Praise and Obedience and Thankfulnesse was due before you made these Vowes to God but you have made it doubly due by laying on your selves such sacred Bonds as these are And have you broken these Bonds I feare when you examine what your wayes have been since you had respite you will acknowledge you have broken them indeed and desperately cast away these Cords from you I will not shake my Lap at you as Nehemiah sometimes did nor say as hee Chapter 5. Verse 13. So God shake out every man from his house and from his labour that hath not kept the promise that he made with God at that time Even thus let him be shaken out and emptied No that bee farre from mee But I will rather say as holy Hezekiah in another case The good Lord pardon every one that hath not kept his solemne Vowes and remember not his breaches to avenge the quarrell of his Covenant on him when the next day of Visitation comes 5. Endeavour to perpetuate the memory of this mercy write it upon the Lintells of your doores upon the Palmes of your hands upon the Tables of your hearts relate the story of it to your Children that so the Generations that are yet to come may blesse the Lord that you may keep the Praises of your God alive even to the worlds end Oh let not such a sweet and precious mercy dye with you Let not that bee charged upon you which DAVID chargeth upon Israel That you forget the workes of God and the wonders that hee hath shewne you That you forget the time when the Enemy was entring and God sent Reliefe from Heaven and restrained his fury Oh let this day bee alwaies solemne to you a day of gladness and of Feasting and a good day to all generations I say as God unto Ezekiel Ezek. 24.2 Write the name of the day even of this same day the eleventh of MAY the Enemy of our Religion and of our Liberty and Peace set himselfe against TAUNTON this same day The God of Heaven shewed himselfe for TAUNTON this same day Hallelujah Salvation and Honour and Glory and Power and Might and Dominion and Everlasting Praise be unto Him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb in all the Churches of the Saints for ever and ever AMEN FINIS

of stupid spirits of seared consciences and hard hearts they are as the Apostle speaks Ephes 4.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 past feeling Their wickednesse in many of them hath quite extinguisht those slender sparks of ingenuity which the decayes of nature left in them so that for rage and cruelty they are become brute creatures And hence the Scripture likens them to beares and bulls asps and tigers and Leviathans and other ravenous and fierce creatures Yea as if they went beyond the cruellest of beasts on dryland they are compared to Sea monsters Lam. 4.3 2. And as they are by Nature full of rage and malice so their rage and malice is extremely heightned by the antipathy and enmitie they have against the Lords people and hence it is that there is no end in it For enmity calls out the rage that is within and makes it swell beyond all measure Now there is in the hearts of wicked men a bitter enmity against the womans ford against the Children of the Church they hate them with a perfect hatred and that to the very death and therefore they will shew them no mercy Some pity they may shew perhaps to other men to men of their own Tribe to persons that are lewd and wicked and abominable like themselves but for the Saints they shall not raste a drop of it How pitifull was Saul to Agag His tender heart forsooth would not permit him to destroy him but he had no such tender heart to Holy David if hee could once have gotten him into his power hee had surely dyed for it And he could kill almost an hundred of the Priests of God in one houre without remorse or reluctation So Ahab seemes to melt upon Benhadad an open enemy of Gods people he calla him brother and he shall know that he will use him like a brother and that he will not take away his life from him though God himselfe had appoynted him to dye And yet hee butchers all the Prophets of the Lord that hee can get into his hands without mercy or compassion This is the manner of ungodly men Pity they have for vitious and prophane persons but they have none for Gods People no they must taste the utmost of their furie Their malice and their rage against them is so great that nothing will appease it but their utter extirpation nothing but their cutting off that they may have no more a being no nor so much as the memoriall of a being that the name of Israel may bee no more remembred Psal 83.4 What was it that boyled up the rage of our malicious enemies so high against us but because we were as they accounted us a strict and a precise Towne though GOD knowes we have ever been too large and too loose Indeed that hatred which arises from Religion is bitterest of any other The first that ever was was founded there and you know how farre it went it rested not till it arrived at the shedding of a brothers bloud This brings forth immortale odium nunquam sana●●ile bellum This makes the brother to destroy the brother the father to deliver up the sonne to death as Christ speaks Luke 21.16 It respects not countrey friendship allyance kindred any thing it knowes no bounds of moderation And hence it is my brethren that the rage of wicked men against the people of the Lord is such a bottomlesse and endlesse rage because they hate them for holinesse and for religions sake Vse 1. And is it so my brethren that the rage of wicked men c. Then in the first place let it be a Caveat to us not to trust them nor to leave any thing if we can hinder it to their mercy It concernes us very deeply to tye them up as short to keepe them in as straight a compasse as wee can Their rage and fury if it once get loose hath no bounds and limits in it and therefore wee must limit it if wee bee able wee must hamper them and binde them as a man would doe wilde Beasts and brute Creatures The Scripture likens them to such as wee have shewed you by which the Holy Ghost would have us to know what disposition they are of and how wee are to deale with them And yet mistake me not I doe not say these brutish creatures should be curb'd by popular and private hands in a tumultaary way no this is not the way of God but by the hands of those who are the Ministers of God for this purpose And I am very much afraid that they who have authority and power in this respect committed to them ard not so circumspect and cautious as they ought to be That there is too much liberty already given I do not say to such as have been moderate and of a milder disposition but even to such as have declared themselves to be implacable and desperate enemies of God and of his people and that they are let loose too soone Perhaps they fawn and flatter and submit they give faire words and promises and protestations and who would not doe so if after he have shewed himselfe so farre and had his hands so deep in so much blood and as much as in him lyes in the destruction of this glorious kingdome he may be entertained and received upon equall terms with those who have been most cordiall and have laid out themselves for God and for his cause What ever wiser men may thinke it 's somewhat early as it seems to me to trust them and to commit our selves to them We might learne a point of prudence and Christian policie in holy David 1 Sam. 24. ult There was ameere affinity by reason of his marriage between Saul and him Saul had acknowledged Davids innocence his kindnesse and made him goodly protestations as a man could doe And yet when all was done the holy Ghost observes that Saul departed home and David get him up into the hold As who should say he would not trust him notwithstanding all this A simple harmlesse man would have beleeved Saul he would have thought that all had been in truth that hee had said and so have put himselfe into his power He would have reasoned with himselfe to this purpose I see that Saul is altered now for he acknowledges his errours as there hee doth in that place he confesses his offence he promises as fairely and it should seeme as cordially as a man can doe And shall I not give credite to his vowes and protestations It is impossible now he hath so declared himselfe so publiquely so earnestly that hee should ever breake with me But David was a little wiser then to commit himselfe to Saul hee was too olde now to bee caught with a few faire words from him in whom he had experience of so much falsenesse No no hee will not trust him yet he will not slight his Garrison hee will not yet deliver up the place of his defence Saul departed faith the Text and

ungodly men to scourge them But when hee heares them crye and roare so that they are about to swound then hee comes running in and sayes Comfort yee comfort yee my people they have received double You mercilesse and cruell wretches you have given my Children double twice as much as they can beare and so hee falls a kissing them to fetch life in them againe And so mee thinkes I see the Lord come running in among the mercilesse besiegers of this place and crying out as Isa 3.15 What mean yee that yee beate my people in pieces What doe you meane to doe to them What doe you purpose to reduce this Towne to nothing to consume it all to ashes to butcher all my people here so that I shall not have so much as one left Is that your resolution and intent indeed I have permitted you to wreake a great deal of your rage upon the houses and the persons of my poore servants But what doe you intend to burne all and kill all So that there shall not bee a house standing nor a SAINT alive here I cannot beare it no the remainder of your rage must I restraine And thus you see GOD limiteth the wrath of wicked men which is the former member of the point 2 Branch And as he limits it in part so that part of it which hee doth not limit he turneth it to his owne praise and fetches glory to himselfe from it Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee saith the Psalmist here so much as is permitted unrestrained shall bring honour to thy Name and the remainder c. Although the wrath of man doe not accomplish the righteousnesse of God it doth accomplish the glory of God The Lord as he design'd to doe gat honour out of Pharoah's rage and out of the Assyrians rage against his people And I am confident hee will have honour out of the wrath and rage of his and our malicious enemies against this place Thus hee hath done heretofore and will doe to the worlds end But you will interpose and aske mee now Which way doth the LORD fetch praise out of the wrath of wicked men against his people I answer principally two wayes First Hee fetches praise and glory from the rage of wicked men against his people as it commends the greatnesse of his owne power For it is a great thing that the LORD should keepe his people notwithstanding all their fury That though there be enough of the Malignant Church to devoure the Militant to eate up GODS people as a man would eate bread And though they bee so full of bitternesse and wrath against them as it is possible for men to be GOD should preserve them notwithstanding safe and sound in the midst of these men That hee should keepe them as hee doth sometimes unsinged and untoucht in a fournace of wrath heate hotter then ordinary This setteth off the glory of his power Secondly God fetches praise and glory to himselfe from the rage of wicked men against his people as it doth accidentally commend the excellency of the graces which hee hath bestowed upon them Is it not very much my brethren that the Saints should stand it out and be upright notwithstanding all the spite and fury of ungodly men against them That all their malice all their rage and all their threatnings should not cause them to desert or to deny the Cause of God no nor to droop or faint under it Have not the spirits of the Saints of God been admirably strengthned and upheld in these latter times of triall when there were no outward meanes appearing to the eye of sence or reason and when there were no hopes left Is not the grace of God by which they were upheld then he you a glorious thing Hath hee not much honour by it It was an honour to the Lord that Iob continued constant and patient notwithstanding all the malice of Satan and his Instruments and the worst that they could doe It glorified the grace of God in him And therefore God me thinks doth vaunt and pride himselfe in this pretious Saint of his in that speech of his to Satan Iob 2.3 Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth and still he holdeth fast his integrity Though thou hast done thy utmost to him hee hath not done as thou didst wickedly suggest hee would hee hath not yet deserted or denyed mee No still hee holdeth fast his integrity And so the Lord doth seeme to say in these dayes to the malicious enemies of his people Looke upon those Saints of mine though you have plundred them and stript them and turn'd them bare and naked to the mercy of the World though you have imprison'd them though you have threatned them with death it selfe they never yeelded or complyed with you they never took the cursed oath that you endeavoured to impose upon them they never yet denied me nor my cause but still they have held fast their integrity though you have shewed the utmost of your rage and spight against them Were not the rage of wicked men declared against the Saints of God the glory of his power and grace could not be magnified and set off as now it is But now the wrath of man doth praise him Vse 1. Now to apply it very briefely Is it so that though the wrath of wicked wretches have no limits in it yet the Lord sets limits to it Why then I say as David touching the Philistine let no mans heart faile him by reason of the rage of these men Let them fume and let them storme and let them swell even till they burst with inward fury they shall doe but what the hand and counsell of God determined before to be done When they have done what he determines they shall not move one jot they shall not stirre an inch further And why then are you so affraid of the oppressor as the Prophet speakes and forget the Lord your maker who limiteth and boundeth their fury Oh you of little faith wherfore doe you doubt Why will you say though God restraine the wrath and rage of wicked wretches many times yet at some other times he permits it to break out in a very great measure and so wee have cause to bee affraid of it Yet here is comfort still my brethren for that which hee permitteth unrestrained he turneth to his owne glory And shall we not take sweet encouragement in this that God is glorified though our selves suffer Should wee not cheerefully endure a little of their rage so the Lord have honour by it Should wee not preferre his glory farre beyond our owne quiet So that you see wee want not something to support us every way and however matters goe If God restraine the wrath of wicked wretches wee have ease if hee permit it unrestrained he hath praise And this is not an empty notion rais'd by fancy but a certaine thing there is no doubt no