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A80080	Gods unusuall answer to a solemne fast. Or, some observations upon the late sad successe in the west, upon the day immediately following our publique humiliation; in a sermon before the Honourable Houses of Parliament, on a fast specially set apart upon that occasion; in Margarets Westminster, Sept. 12. Anno MDCXLIV. By Th: Coleman, Preacher at Peters Cornhill London, a member of the present Assembly.	Coleman, Thomas, 1598-1647.	1644 (1644)	Wing C5051; Thomason E16_2; ESTC R17560	16,713	36

Gods unusuall Answer To a Solemne Fast OR Some Observations upon the late sad successe in the West upon the day immediately following our Publique Humiliation IN A Sermon before the Honourable Houses of Parliament on a Fast specially set apart upon that occasion In MARGARETS Westminster Sept. 12. Anno MDCXLIV BY TH COLEMAN Preacher at Peters Cornhill LONDON a Member of the present Assembly ESAY 1. 15. And when you stretch forth your palmes I will hide mine eyes from you yea though you multiply prayer I doe not heare your hands are full of blood Rab. Isaac Ben Samuel Adarbe In Libro Dibre Shalom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed for Christopher Meredith dwelling at the Crane in Pauls Churchyard 1644. TO THE HONOURABLE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT WHat doth Israel turne his back A good Cause and a crosse successe may sometimes meet Here is the noblenesse of a gracious spirit to beare up then The Romans upon such a sad blow by a congratulatory Ambassage to the surviving Consul Quod non de Republica desperasset Livie would shew an undauntednesse notwithstanding And blessed be our invisible Supporter this unhappy accident hath not at all rejected your confidence in God onely renewed and doubled your addresses to God In that day all our aimes and endevours were to lay our selves aside that we might lay our selves low In which with the Woman in the Gospel I have done what I could The dayes for preparation and the houres for delivery both meeting in ONE speeded my pace to the main In which resting onely upon the never-failing assistance of Iehovah with much brevity wherewith in all things above all things I am taken I hold forth solely wholly Scripture In the interpretation of some Texts whereof though I vary from the ordinary acceptation let me humbly say that every of them hath its ground and perhaps satisfactory Otherwise though my studies run much that way which future times it may be shall evidence yet I shall freely leave all to their owne apprehensions As for you Noble Patriots Gird your swords upon your sides and in the might of the Lord of Hosts ride on prosperously upon the word of truth Psal 4● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meeknesse and righteousnesse and then your right hands shall make your friends to see your foes to feele terrible things So assuredly hopes and daily prayes Yours cordially in this great work of the Lord Jesus THOMAS COLEMAN A Sermon Preached before both the Honourable Houses of Parliament at an extraordinary Fast Sept. 12. 1644. PSAL. 65. 5. By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation THat which may be knowne of Rom. 1. GOD for something may though little that little then that Shamefull Little as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ignominia word seemes to import in respect of our apprehending it is transmitted to our understandings in Scripture by such termes which we peculiarly call Attributes Of these note as serving to our end two things 1. The ground of them whence they or at least some of them rise 2. The use of them to which in Scripture they serve For the first They arise from Gods workings that quality which was requisite to that act being Via causationis ascribed to God as to the cause So from the Creation an act of power we call God Powerfull from the admirable order wherein all things were disposed we call him Wise from the qualification of his Creatures exceeding good we terme him Good so oft God is said to be a Terrible God because by terrible things he gives his answer For the second These Attributes are not onely naked Epithets adjoyned to the name of God but have influence into the whole sentence and much conduce to the true sense therein contained as here O God of my salvation as after shall be seene So the Saints in their prayers according to the subject of their Petitions entitle him Great Most High Preserver of men Hearer of prayers and the like And God himselfe in those seven Epistles to the Asian Churches represents himselfe to each in severall expressions as to the state of that Church might fitliest agree In Scripture God is oft called Terrible The Text gives the ground By terrible things he answers He is called God of our salvation because that which is said here of God is in relation to him as a saving God The words then are cleare 1. Terrible things such actings of thy Power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Providence as may strike terrour into men and cause them to tremble reverencing thy presence above all gods 2. In righteousnesse most righteously thou remaining 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 notwithstanding those terrible acts a righteous God 3. Wilt answer us It implyes the continuation of Futurum denotat actionem continuam an act This answering is thy course and ordinary way Answers are either to a question or to a petition We finde no question put forth here we must suppose a petition given up and thus terribly here answered The summe of all is this We have prayed to our God his answer is rough by terrible things yet in this answer in himselfe most righteous and in the issue to us a saving God Hence observe three Propositions 1. Terrible things may be the consequent of the duty and day of prayer 2. Such terrible consequences doe not at all intrench upon the righteousnesse of God 3. They may be the way whereby God to a Land becomes a saving God Of these in order The first Proposition Terrible things may be the consequent of the duty and day of prayer God may answer our private and publique intercedings by terrible things Herein note five things The Ground The Sutablenesse The Truth The Experience The Improvement 1. The Ground Davids practice here for 1. It is certaine David was in the duty of prayer and this is cleare 1. By the title which he gives to God Oh thou that hearest prayer vers 2. 2. By the subject whereabout he was the prevalency of sin Iniquities prevaile in their infection 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against my soule in their punishment against my Land The word reacheth both 2. It is probable he was keeping a publique day of prayer by those preceding expressions vers 4. Dwell in thy Courts Goodnesse of thy house Holinesse of thy Temple which hold forth either that he as a publique person was in that publique place deploring the sins or jointly with others bewailing the calamities of his Land and People Looking on the sins of the times in his confessions they came so thicke upon him that they overwhelmed him Iniquities prevaile Looking on the miseries the Drought was so universally burning for a drought was the particular calamity that as a scourge from the Almighty it generally did spread And yet notwithstanding his prayers by such terrible things did God answer still Terrible things followed

belongs to God not to you have an eye to your own your affections your aimes your manner of managing referre the rest to him to whom it belongs Trust you in God when the wicked bend their bowes Hold your peace from any sinfull distrustfull passages and then for the event let come on us what will Job 13. 13. 2. From shunning dangers by false wayes Let no mans judgement faile him There is no safety in falshood a complyance is odious to all A Castle is a refuge for a day or so flight prolongs the misery sinfully then to betray the Cause or trust reposed in us is to run into the danger we would avoid Remember Sampsons wife and father in law The Philistims threatned to burne them nothing but a treacherous betraying of Sampson can prevent it rather then they will hazard themselves they will break the bonds of relation By their enticements Sampson is deceived Mark the end He falls into the snare he shunned The Philistims come up and burn them both with fire Behold the severity and justice of God who brought their feares upon them So true is that of the Prophet That shall be no confidence 〈…〉 ●6 to the house of Israel which brings their iniquity to remembrance These are not the wayes therefore that God approves stand still in a full dependence on him leave him to work his own ends by his own wayes He is wise Hold you your peace Stand still and 3. See the salvation of God brought to passe three wayes to the people of God When their 1. Prayers 2. Persons 3. Cause get the victory 1. When their prayers are victorious So sometimes God fights so Moses subdued Amalek Jehoshaphat his enemies and Hezekiah Senacherib for prayer hath in it a power preservative and destructive and in this Mount is often God seene 2. When their persons get the victory In all the prevalent proceedings of the Saints the victory is of God ordinary meanes of Souldiers Weapons Stratagems a strong City are subordinate to God He useth them and effects by them what he pleaseth 3. When the Cause stands up against all oppositions though with the losse of the persons Religion gets the upper hand by the sufferings of the professours Lift we up therefore both eyes and hearts and see and behold a saving God when tempestuous round about him Gods answer the last day was Lightning and an horrible Tempest this drave us to our shelter where being freed from the fury of the storme we may with delight behold the refreshing drops intermixed This dayes imployment is this covert wherein our desire is to meet to finde God an hiding place as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land The signe of it and our duty after it is to double our diligence after this day to enlive our spirits in the wayes of the Lord. Jacob being blessed by Isaac met with a crosse consequent a purpose of Esau to murder him A terrible answer This makes his fathers house unsafe he leaves it but sadly and against his will And Jacob went out from Gen. 28. Beersheba He was gone verse 7. yet verse 10. hee went Probably he set forward and yet hanged back His father his mother his family his native Country all are clogs But at last gone he is and in the way at Bethel God the God of his Fathers meets with him By a banishment the God of his salvation appeared to him Then Jacob lift up his feet Cap. 29. 1. and journeyed Then he took heart to him God we hope will make this day our Bethel From this day forward up and be doing Double thy prayers paines purse Ride on prosperously because of the word of truth and righteousnesse that the right hand of the Lord may bring valiant things to passe for us and our Armies Once hath God answered by terrible things but he will doe so no more Therein he crossed not his righteous nature though he concealed the acts of his mercy If he give us grace to improve it aright the end will shew it was the way whereby he became to us a saving GOD. FINIS