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A27638	Confiding England vnder conflicts, triumphing in the middest of her terrors, or, Assured comforts that her present miseries will end in unspeakable lasting mercies to the whole nation first preached in Bengeo and Hitchin in Hartfordshire and now published for the common comfort of the nation / by Iohn Bevvick ...	Bewick, John, d. 1671.	1644 (1644)	Wing B2193; ESTC R2654	46,204	56

not And therefore how is God said to be the confidence of the ends of the earth To this we must answer according to a double acception of these words the ends of the earth They may be taken either collectively or else distributively 1. If we take these words collectively for all nations in all places then two things may be answered to the question 1. Though many nations as yet know not God yet in those nations there is sufficient meanes given from God to let them know that he only should be their trust and confidence In all nations there are such demonstrations of Gods power such declarations of his goodnes that he hath not left himself without witnes and that he only is to be depended on for all their good and to be trusted and confided in Two scriptures proves this We saith Saint Paul preach to you that you should turne to the living God which made heaven and earth and the sea and all things that are therein who in times past suffered all nations to walke in their owne wayes notwithstanding he left not himselfe without witnesse in that he did good and gave us raine from heaven And fruitfull seasons filling our hearts with food and gladnesse We see that God vouchsafed to all nations common outward temporall mercies that very heathens if they would but observe and take notice of it might thence have sufficient proofe and witnesse that he only is to be trusted in And so likewise Gods severity and judgements in smiting nations as yet not knowing him these are proofes that such nations ought to know that God only is to be confided in The wrath of God saith the Apostle is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men who hold the truth in unrighteousnesse because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it to them for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are cleerely seene being understood by the things which are made even his eternall power and Godhead so that they are without excuse So then though many nations do not actually make God their confidence yet God hath witnessed to them that he is or should be their onely trust and confidence 2. Though many nations do not as yet make God their confidence yet all nations shall one day do so and so for the present it is prophetically true that God is the confidence of all the ends of the earth David in spirit foresaw the great honour and glory which God should have in all nations and therefore he being a prophet and knowing what God would do in these later dayes he seeing this before spake of the universall adoration of God in all nations and of their taking him for their only God in a confidentiall reposing themselves on him And because of the certainty of the fulfillance of all this in due time therefore David speakes of it as if it were already come to passe and here he calleth God the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of those who are a farre off upon the sea This is not only implyed in this title here ascribed to God but David hath so much in another place Aske of me and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession And againe All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and turne to the Lord and all the kindred of the nations shall worship before him And againe He shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river to the end of the earth all Kings shall fall downe before him all nations shall serve him Take then the words as prophetically spoken of the time when God shall by terrible things shake the nations being the desire of his people and then it will appeare that he hath bin the Saviour of his from all their troubles and oppressions and then all nations will come in and choose him for their God and Lord one nation after another till all have made him their confidence and so in time these words shall be fully accomplished that God is the confidence of all the world of all the ends of the earth If the words were handled in this sense according to this exposition they would affoord much instruction touching the expectations which we are to have of the conversion of the nations of the world and concerning directions to pray for it that the arme of the Lord may be revealed to all people according to that of David God be mercifull unto us and blesse us and cause his face to shine on us that thy way may be known on earth thy saving health among all nations It is a blessing and mercy from God on his Church that for the present it knows him but it will be a new glimps of the light of his countenance on it when the nations come thoroughly to understand and praise him aright with it as their only confidence We should expect this and pray for it and desire the Lord to remove all impediments of it which for the present are very great For every valley must be filled and every mountaine and hill must be brought low the crooked must be made straight and the rough wayes made smooth People of lower and higher ranke in all places must be filled with grace after they are brought into a state of humiliation and whatsoever is crooked among them must be made straight brought to the rule be squared by the word and the wayes which are rough or offensive shall be smoothed just offences truly scrupling offences shall all be tooke away and then after this all flesh shall see the salvation of God all nations shall then come to know that Christ is the Saviour and salvation which God hath set out to the world There being no other name under heaven by which men can saved These things might be prosecuted with much instruction and comfort to all Gods people but I chuse to leave the Propheticall handling these words to the ages to come who shall experimentally finde the things now spoken of to be very true Let it suffice us to know that these words are prophetically true God is the confidence of all nations because he will be so when all nations shall come to acknowledge him for their God And so wee may safely understand the words collectively which so understood they are a full answer to the question 2. If we take the words distributively for the severall countryes of the world in parts and therein more particularly for the severall inhabitants for the particular persons dwelling in the earth and on the sea yet then the doubt remaines still How God can be said to be the cōfidence of every particular man in the earth It seemes otherwise experience teacheth us that there are very few who trust God and confide in him how then is this true that he is the

CONFIDING ENGLAND VNDER CONFLICTS TRIUMPHING IN THE MIDDEST OF HER TERRORS OR Assured comforts that her present miseries will end in unspeakable lasting mercies to the whole Nation First preached in Bengeo and Hitchin in Hartfordshire and now published for the common comfort of the Nation By IOHN BEVVICK Minister of Bengeo neere Hartford LONDON Printed by I. D. for Andrew Crooke and are to be sold at his shop at the Greene Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1644. TO HIS Excellency ROBERT Earle of ESSEX Viscount Hereford Baron Ferrars of Chartley Lord Bourchier and Lovain one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell and Generall of the Army raised by the Parliament in defence of the true Protestant Religion his Majesties person the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome and the Priviledges of Parliament IT is a lovely thing saith the Philosopher to benefit one but to doe good to a nation it is a thing divine Your Excellencies love to England in not counting your blood your life deare to preserve it the eminencyes in your person of vertue and valour of courage and courtesie of greatnesse and goodnesse of mercy and meeknesse of admirable prudence and unwearied patience the worthy deeds already done unto this Nation by your providence all these obligeth all true English hearts to beare a part in the National acknowledgment of your worth and in accepting what is done by your Excellencie with all thankefulnesse Your noble candor may be pleased then to pardon this presumption of dedication in a stranger to your knowledge but an honourer of your vertues the rather because the obscurest clot upon the fallow reflects something of the sunne beames as well as the mountaines as the whole globe These ensuing meditations are now mustered to attend the Campe and if the banner of your protection overspread them he shall be comforted who by them desires principally to comfort the Natio yea the world For if it be true as Saint Augustine writes that if one drop of the joyes of heaven should fall into hell it would swallow up all the bitternesse of it it may be hoped then that a few drops of heavenly joyes here presented under your Excellencyes countenance to my Countrymen ingulphed in an hell of outward miseries may availe to allay their bitternesse and cleare their eye sight as Ionathans was after his tasting honey to see thorough an hell of horror their heavenly recovery It is Englands present duty to rejoyce in tribulations to triumph under terrors to confide under conflicts to expect salvations to veiw God by the eye of faith as a refuge as interwining us in his everlasting armes of preservation as healing our breaches as stanching our wounds as preparing all rankes among us to enjoy a perpetuall unity peace amity joy and jubilee in despite of hell and Rome All this God will do for us in righteousnes but by terrible things And during his pouring vialls of wrath upon the Antichristians the English Church with the other reformed must stand on a sea of glasse mingled with fire She shall apparantly see as in a glasse Antichristian tumults rising like wave after wave yet Christ calming them and causing all attempts ebbe into emptinesse come to nothing She shall stand on a sea mingled with fire enduring hot service from inward contentions and outward afflictions these a while shall heat her but not fire her scorch her but not rost her bruise her heele perhaps in some losses but they shall not breake her nor crumble her into a totall desolation for the ten Kingdomes must stand by an unalterable decree to undo Antichrist though they a while may seeme to favour and fight for him And she shall stand with the harpes of God singing the songs of Moses songs of judgement praises for every new judgement upon her troublers and destroyers and singing too the song of the lamb songs of mercie prayses for every new deliverance vouchsafed her from on high All blessings from the omnipotent Lambe who warreth against Antichrist and will conquer are craved for your Excellency by all the reall lovers of this Nation among whom I rest the meanest of Christs ministers and to July 20 1644. Your Excellencye most humbly devoted in all Christian service IOHN BEVVICK CONFIDING ENGLAND VNDER CONFLICTS TRIVMPHING IN THE MIDDEST OF HER TERRORS PSAL. 65. 5. By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us oh God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are a farre off upon the sea THis Psalme is Eucharisticall It is a forme of thankesgiving penned by David for those mercies which God bestowes on mankind The first verse calls on the Church of God to praise him for the things afterward recited Others will take no notice of them or if they doe yet they will not so freely acknowledge Gods kindnesse in them and therfore the Saints the children of Zion must doe it The rest of the Psalme is spent in recounting the benefits both spirituall and temporall which are conferred The spirituall blessings which properly belong to the Church and faithfull people of God are foure 1. Gods hearing of their prayers In the want of defence counsell reliefe in the midst of afflictions and troubles when they are straitned and upon the verge of any extremitie he heareth their prayers Oh thou that hearest prayers to thee shall all flesh come 2. Remission of sinnes is another blessing here recounted though sinne hath raised the storme of afflictions trouble and adversaries yet God will purge away sinne and the cause of these stormes removed there is a calme As for our transgressions thou shalt purg them away 3. The collection of a Church is another blessing here rehearsed And 4. The saving and preserving this Church in a wonderfull and admirable manner so as others shall be driven to joyne themselves to the Church this is another favour from God And these are the blessings spirituall which this Psalme doth mention The blessings temporall are common to the Saints with others yet they are such that none but Saints will take notice to praise God for them and therefore for these also Praise waiteth for God in Zion These blessings temporall are 1. The erection of Kingdomes and Governments in the world It is from the mighty power of God that Common wealths are set on their foundation He by his strength set fast the mountaines By mountaines Common wealths are here to be understood as they are in the latter part of the first verse of the second of Isaiah It would be a terrible sight to see mountaines tumbling and rowling ready to close and breake one another in peices and yet such are all the Common wealths in the world they would totter and tumble and destroy one another but that God hath fastened them their bounds are set and that is one blessing 2. The repression of tumults seditions and conspiracies in Kingdomes which would utterly