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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65488	Eleaven choice sermons as they were delivered by that late reverend divine, Thomas Westfield ...	Westfield, Thomas, 1573-1644.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1414A; ESTC R38251	108,074	268

can hurrie a body and remove it as he did the body of our Lord from the wildernesse to the pinacle of the Temple and thence to the mountaine Hee can speake in Images it was the divell that spake in some Images of the Gentiles And if popish Images have now and then spoken too as they say they have Bene de me scripsisti said he of Thomas Aquinas Thou hast written well of mee Thomas I make no question but the divell spake in them The divell can doe more then that the divell knowes the secret and hidden vertues in things their sympathies and antipathies their qualities and properties The divels can doe wonderfull things Though they cannot doe miraculous things they can doe wonderfull things Thus the sorcerers in Egypt they did many wonderfull things mira but not true miracles Now fourthly there are mirabilia Dei the wonderfull things of God Indeed there is never a worke of God but it is wonderfull what worke soever it be The very Heathen man could say in every naturall thing there is something in it that is wonderfull But there are some workes of God above all other that are truly miracles not mira but miracula What workes are those Such as exceed the facultie and possibility of nature they are properly and theologically miracles The divell can doe many things by the concurrence of naturall causes but hee cannot worke a miracle that which is properly and theologically called a miracle the divell cannot worke it Now God had wrought many miracles for this people The turning of the dust of the earth into lice this was a miracle the Magicians by the help of the divell attempted to doe this but they could not doe it the art of the Magicians failed them in such a thing as this they could not turne the dust into lice Then he turned the water of the river into blood hee turned the red-sea into drie land hee turned three daies into three darke nights hee turned light into palpable darknesse that no man saw one another nor stirred from the place where hee was for three daies These are wonderfull things truely miracles yet this people forgat God their Saviour that had done such great things for them in Egypt and wondrous things in the land of Ham. Yea and lastly Terrible things in the Red-sea yea God did terrible things for them before they came to the red-sea He did terrible things for them in Egypt if you marke them hee plagued the Egyptians in all things First in their soules with hardnesse of heart hee plagued them in their bodies with botches and blaines hee plagued them in their corne with haile hee plagued them in their beasts with murraine hee plagued them in their houses with froggs hee plagued them in their families with the death of their first-born Here were terrible things when they were in Egypt but the most terrible thing of all was that at the red-sea when hee drowned Pharaoh and all his host that there was not one of them left In the ninth verse of this Psalme you may observe a worke of power in the tenth verse a worke of mercy and in the eleventh verse a worke of judgement The worke of mercy was a great worke the worke of power was a wonderfull worke and the worke of judgement was a terrible worke Yet for all this see the unthankfulnesse of this people They forgat all these But is it possible you will say that they forgat in so little a time all these works that they did not remember them There is a two-fold forgetfulnesse there is a forgetfulnesse of the minde and a forgetfulnesse in affection and action A man may have God in his minde yea in his words in his mouth and yet forget him while hee thinkes of him while hee speakes of him I will shew it you in examples Aske the Idoll-monger Why dost thou make this Idoll He will say To remember God by it It is the usuall word of the Papists Why have you these Images Why To remember God by them But this is no way to remember God this is to forget him because when his Commandement is forgotten hee is forgotten his Commandement is that thou shalt not make an Image They made this calfe to have a visible representation of God before their eyes to remember him O they forgat him now A blasphemer a swearer will have the Name of God in his mouth there are not three periods but hee will have the Name of God in his mouth Will you say that this man remembers God that talkes and speakes of him and swears by him at every word Doth hee remember him thinke you This is to forget God For if hee remembred the Name of God that it is a good name hee would love it If hee remembred that it were a great name hee would feare it If hee remembred it were a glorious name hee would reverence it But hee neither knowes it to be a good name hee forgets that it is a good name and a great name and a glorious name and that makes him to forget God even when hee remembers him and speakes of him To conclude let mee onely make a little application I thinke if any Nation may call God their Saviour next this people surely I thinke wee may doe it Consider how God saved us in 88. Was not that a great worke Remember how God saved us in the Gun-powder treason Was not that a wonderfull worke Remember how God saved our lives from death five yeares since in that same great and heavie plague Was not that plague a terrible worke Yet surely brethren have not wee forgotten God have not wee forgotten these workes of his Our falling from our first love our sliding back again to Egypt our neutrality in Religion our little hatred of Idolatry and Superstition such is our pride such is our wanton excesse such is our oppression such our false weights and such our false oathes and such our false faces Our waies that wee walke in are so unworthy of the Gospell of Christ that I am affraid God may charge us as truely as hee charged this people Wee have forgot God our Saviour that hath done so great things so wondrous things and so terrible things for us FINIS PSAL. 106. 23. Wherefore hee said that he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach c. I Have done with that same fearefull sinne of this people I am now in the verse that I have read to shew you the fearefull punishment of God upon them for this sinne He said hee would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turne away his wrath lest bee should destroy them In these words you have two things The s●ntence that God pronounceth against this people for this sinne He said hee would destroy them You have secondly the revocation of this sentence the meanes whereby God was kept from the execution of this judgement

changed Look Jerem. 18. ver 6 7 8. If I shall speake to a Nation to pluck it up and to roote it out to destroy it if that Kingdome and that Nation shall turne from their evill waies and repent then saith God I will repent of that evill that I threatned to doe against them The sentence is absolute to the end it may strike a further feare and terrour The sentence is propounded absolutely but intended conditionally Though God doth not change his will yet God doth will a change If wee know how to change our lives God knowes how to change his sentence That is the first thing that he requires The second thing that God lookes for at the hands of his children is an earnest and vehement intercession to God by prayer for pardon That was the condition hee looked for here at this time He said hee would destroy this people but it was with this condition hee would not destroy them if Moses made intercession for them Yea and hee would encourage Moses hee did as much as tell Moses that this was the meanes whereby hee might be stayed And he would encourage Moses to make intercession by his words Moses saith hee let mee alone and let mee destroy this people Why doth hee say let mee alone What is that but because hee would have him be bold O Moses you see what power you have with mee I cannot strike this people if you make intercession hee knew Moses his love to this people therefore let mee alone that I may destroy them I must conclude with the time and with an application There is a fatall period set to all the Kingdomes of the earth sooner or later according as the sinnes of that Kingdome and people come to their full ripenesse and maturity Both Philosophers and Divines have observed by long experience diverse prognostick signes of the approach of the ruine of a people If God should seeme by any of these prognostick signes to threaten our ruine and destruction at this time if God doth seeme to any to doe this let them know it may be that this threatning of God now is but conditionall There are two waies by which wee may get God to revoke and call back his word One is by true repentance from wicked men and the other is an earnest intercession made by Gods children O brethren that wee did but know in this our day what belongs now to our peace O that wee could do as the Ninevites did every one humble himselfe before God and turne from the wickednesse of his waies And O that Moses would run to the breach and now with strong cries and teares begge pardon for who doth know whether the Lord will not yet be mercifull to us and turne his fierce wrath from us that wee perish not I have gone thorow the first thing the revocation of the sentence Who caused it Moses And by what means By standing in the breach I must leave till next time FINIS PSAL. 106. 23. Wherefore hee said hee would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood in the breach c. I Spake the last day of the revocation of this sentence I come now to the next thing Who caused the revocation of this sentence but one man Moses but hee was a chosen man Moses whom hee had chosen Marke I pray among Gods elect in every generation in every age there have been some men that have been select Such a man I name Enoch in the old world that God tooke away hence that hee should not see death And such a man I reckon Noah to be a man gracious in the eyes of God when all the world perished And such a man I reckon Abraham to be whom God is pleased to honour with the name of his Friend Abraham my Friend And such a man was Moses whom God was wont to talk with as familiarly as one man talkes with another as the Scripture saith And such men I reckon Eliah and Elisha to be the very Chariots and Horsemen of Israel in their daies And such a man was Daniel a man of Gods affection a man that God did wondrously love and set by and many more These are as deare to God as the apple of his owne eye as the signet upon his right hand these I call the Favourites of heaven Kings upon earth have their Favourites the King of Kings hath his These are the Favourites of heaven these are those principall men Micah 5. v. 5. The Princes of men The hebrew beares it Principall men These are those Excellent ones upon earth that David speakes of Psal 16. My delight is upon the Excellent ones that are upon the earth There is not one of these but are worth a thousand others and have more power with God then many thousands of others And as the people said of David when hee would goe to battell against Absolom No thou shalt not goe lest the light of Israel be quenched for thou art worth ten thousand of us I may say the same of such as these One Moses in the day of Gods hot wrath and vengeance one such a man as Phineas was in the time of a plague One such a man as Eliah was in the time of a drought One such a man as Paul in the companie when men are in a shipwrack is able to doe more good then a thousand others Gods children they are not alway mighty men according to the flesh Not many mighty saith the Apostle not many mighty ones according to the flesh 1 Cor. 1. 6. But though they be not alway mighty according to the flesh yet in regard of their spirit and grace and their state with God they may be mighty men Saint John Baptist a contemptible man according to the flesh but the Angell fore-told of him that hee should be great in the sight of the Lord. You have some men that have prided themselves in the sirname of Great Antiochus the Great and Alexander the Great and Herod the Great and Pompey the Great and diverse others There be many of Gods children poore contemptible things Ignobilia mundi the contemptible things of the world that are greater men with God and have done greater acts then the greatest of these great ones Which of all those great ones was able to command the sun to stand still Josuah did it Sun stand thou still in Gibeon and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon Which of all those great ones was able to command the thunder Samuel did it in the time of wheat-harvest Which of all those great ones was able to command the raine Eliah did it As the Lord God of Israel liveth there shall be no raine but according to my word 1 King 17. verse 1. Which of all those great ones was able to stand in the breach against the great God of heaven and earth when hee came to execute his fierce wrath upon his people you see Moses did it If one Moses may cause a revocation of a