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A62961	Mans extremity, Gods opportunity, or, A display of Gods sovereign grace in saving a people whose recovery as to men and means is next to desperate as it was delivered in a sermon preached before the Honourable Lieutenant governour ... of the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England on May 29, 1695 which was the day for election of counsellors for that province / by the reverend Mr. Samuel Torrey.	Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.	1695 (1695)	Wing T1917; ESTC R30168	29,972	66

Word of God do all concur to prove That God at some times and in some cases doth in Sovereign Grace save his Churches both from Sin and Judgment in a more Immediate and Extraordinary Way of working by himself This Doctrine opens it self unto us with a fulness of Scripture Evidence in the several parts of it 1. That all Salvations to the Children of men are from God He who is God alone must needs be the only Saviour therefore he is emphatically styled the Saviour Isa 45.15 O God of Israel the Saviour and verse 21. There is no God else besides me a just God and a Saviour Isa 43.11 I even I am the Lord and besides me there is no Saviour therefore he is styled the God of Salvation Psal 68.20 He that is our God is the God of Salvation hence Salvation belongs only to the Lord Psal 3.8 all who know and believe him to be God must needs acknowledge him to be the only Author of all both Temporal Spiritual and Eternal Salvations to all the Children of men who partake of any Salvations Isa 45.22 Look unto me and be ye Saved all the Ends of the Earth for I am God and there is none else 2 That God works divers kinds and degrees of Salvation there are divers wayes of Salvation wherein God works as a Saviour there are external common general Salvations which God works in his common Providence these God works in divers waves and degrees for all the Children of men By these Salvations it is that he moderates all the Evils of the Curse so far as to give man a Being and Subsistence in this world more or less comfortable as seemeth good to him Psal 107. per tot We have an Induction of such kind of Salvations with a reiterated Exhortation To Praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful Works to the Children of men Again God works such Salvation in common Providence also but in special Mercy to his Churches and People Deut. 33.29 Happy art thou O Israel who is like to thee a People Saved by the Lord. There are also Special Salvations which God worketh for his Churches and People in the way of his Spiritual Providence in Saving Mercy which are the only Saving Salvations and which hold a necessary Connection with Eternal Salvation this is the most glorious Salvation which God works for his People in this World when he Saves his People from their Sins and from all Spiritual Evils and Enemies and to this all Promises of Salvation to the Church in this World do ultimately referr This is and will be the Consummation of all Temporal Salvations to the Church in this World as it will appear gloriously in the last and full Accomplishment complishment of this Promise in our Text when that Acclamation shall be heard Rev. 12.10 Now is come Salvation and Strength the Kingdom of our God and the Power of his Christ 3. That God works all both Temporal and Spiritual Salvations for his Churches and People either more Mediately or more Immediately he works common Salvation in a way of mediate ordinary Providence and so all Gods Propitious Prosperous Providences may be said to be Salvations God works special extraordinary Salvations for his People in a more Immediate Extraordinary way of Providence although it may not be altogether Immediately yet more immediately there may be a more Immediate Influence of Divine Wisdom and Power which may make the Salvation wrought Wonderful if not Miraculous such as God wrought for his Church of Old in Egypt in the Wilderness in the times of the Judges and of some of the Kings and afterwards In this way of working it is that God is said to Save his People by his own Right Hand and by his own Arm Psal 44.3 Psal 77.15 and to Save them with an High Hand and Out stretched Arm Exod. 6.6 and 14.8 When the Lord doth make bare his Arm then all the Ends of the Earth may see his Salvation Isa 52.10 Most immediately God works in working of Spiritual Salvations Now God may be said to work more immediately 1. When he works as a Creator when it is Creating Work and in some respects the most Glorious Creating Work or Work of Greation for God to Create to himself a People a Church Psal 102.18 The People that shall be Created shall Praise the Lord so Isa 41.20 Isa 43.1 Thus saith the Lord that Created thee O Jacob c. ver 7. For I have Created him for my Glory and ver 15. I am the Lord the Creator of Israel your King Surely God will work more gloriously by himself in Creating the New Heavens and the New Earth Isa 65.17 18. For behold I Create New Heavens and a new Earth be you glad and rejoice for ever in that which I Create for behold I Create Jerusalem a rejoycing and her People a joy Isa 45.8 Drop down ye Heavens from above and let the Skies pour down Righteousness let the Earth open and let them bring forth Salvation I the Lord have Created it Observe God Createth this most Glorious Spiritual Salvation for his Church 2. God works more immediately by himself in Saving of his People when he works by a more full and glorious exercise of the Power of Christ Mediator God works all Salvations by his Son he is therefore eminently styled the Saviour he hath wrought Spiritual and Eternal Redemption and Salvation and he applies it to all his Elect He is Exalted by Gods own Right-Hand to be a Prince and a Saviour Acts 5.31 There is Salvation in none other nor any other Name given under Heaven amongst men whereby we can be Saved Acts 4.12 he is therefore called Jesus Because he came to Save his People from their Sins Mat. 1.21 All Temporal Salvations wrought for the Church of Old are attributed unto him Isa 63.10 In all their Afflictions he was Afflicted and the Angel of his Presence saved them God appeared and wrought by him in Saving his People out of Egypt Exod. 3.2 in the Wilderness Exod. 23.20 and in bringing of them into Canaan Josh 5.13 14. and in bringing the Church out of Babilon Zech. 1.12 thus God alwayes Saved his People by the Angel of his Presence and therefore all Salvations which God works for his People in all Ages of the World until the Church Militant become Triumphant are ascribed to him Rev. 7.10 Salvation to our God and the Lamb that is to God working more immediately by Christ Mediator 3 God works more immediately to Save his People by himself that is by his Spirit Zech. 4.6 not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts that is more immediately by myself This is none other than the same Promise with this in our Text renewed just then at the first period of the Signal Accomplishment of it though it may have a more full and notable Accomplishment not only unto them but to the whole Church of God in the

to it when it is become the Spirit of the Times truly then all kind of Impediments and Obstructions to the Work of God will become insuperable All Spiritual Evils which are most dangerous and destructive will become irresistible and invincible and the Work of Reformation more and more impracticable and impossible unless God undertake it by himself for when the foundations are thus out of course or destroyed what can the Righteous do Psa 11.3 at such times and in such cases as these nothing but Sovereign Grace can Save us Which is the last thing in the Doctrine therefore 5. It remains to be proved That when God thus Saveth his People by himself it is in Sovereign Mercy this is most evident by the instance in our Teaet for when this Promise of Salvation was made to Judah and much more before it was most signally Accomplisht to them Judah was as bad yea worse more wicked than Israel as was hinted before from Jer. 3.11 and is more at large set forth in Ezek. 16.46 c. where comparing Judah with Samaria God concludes that Judah had committed more sins more abominable than Samaria that Samaria had not committed half the sins that Judah had yea that Judah was worse than Sodom yet God saith in our Text and Context I will no more have mercy upon the House of Israel but will utterly take them away But I will have mercy upon the House of Judah and will Save them by the Lord their God this must needs be Sovereign Grace in the glory of it Thus it appears That at some times and in some cases God doth in Sovereign Mercy Save his people both from Sin and Judgment in a more immediate and extraordinary way of working by himself I shall pretermit what might and ought to have been spoken in the Application by way of Inference for Instruction or Admonition and to proceed to the EXHORTATION Which speaketh in general to all the People and Churches of NEW-ENGLAND So far at least as they may be spoken unto and addrest in this General Assembly and it is to Move Excite and Encourage us So to approve and apply our selves unto God as he may be graciously moved to have mercy upon us and to Save us by the Lord our God that is to Save us in Sovereign Mercy in a more immediate and extraordinary way of working by himself Let not such an Exhortation be thought improper or impertinent to N.E. as to think or say within our selves we hope We are not yet come to that lamentable pass nor reduced to such an extremity as to be under an extream necessity to implore Sovereign Mercy for our Salvation we hope our Condition is not yet so hopeless but that we may hope to be Saved in the ordinary way of the working of Gods Power and Mercy by ordinary means and therefore that it may be too much a scandal and reproach to be represented otherwise as a people utterly lost and gone without Sovereign Mercy O would to God it were not so much so as upon serious consideration we may conclude it is but we must understand that an Apostatizing People are most secure when they are most in danger Isa 57.10 Yet saidest thou not there is no hope thou hast found the life of thine hand therefore thou wast not grieved Observe an hard-hearted People will never be brought to say there is no hope till it be too late therefore although I believe that we are yet a people as hopeful as to Salvation in the issue as any other visible people of God in the World if not more I say in the issue yet those who have any right understanding of our present State Frame and Way must needs acknowledge That we have need of present Help and Salvation from God himself working by himself in Sovereign Mercy and therefore that it is our instant Duty and Concernment so to approve and apply our selves unto him as that we may obtain it I shall therefore amplifie this Exhortation by shewing 1. How it doth appear that we stand in such present need of Sovereign Mercy 2. How we ought so to approve our selves to God as that we may be prepared to be made the Subjects of it and to recive it 3. How we ought so to apply our selves to God for it as that we may obtain it That we may be sensible that we have present need of such Salvation from God We may consider 1. Whether we can expect that God should do any more for us in the ordinary way of the working of his Ordinate Power and Mercy by ordinary means than he hath already done to Save us God doth put the Quaery to his People for Conviction What could have been done more that I have not done What shall I do for the Danghter of my People O Ephraim What shall I do unto thee It may not it cannot be denied but that God did as much in our first Constitution when he Planted these Heavens and Laid the Foundation of this Earth and said to New England thou art my People for Establishment before him in Faith Obedience and Perseverance under his Covenant and in his Kingdom and to secure us from Defection and Apostacy from him as we can say that ever he hath done for any People these many Ages Can we say what God could have done more for us to Settle us in a stedfast Standing before him with close constant adherence to him then he hath done He chose us and set us apart to be a peculiar people to himself he gave us a Constitution compleated with all kind of Priviledges Liberties and Immunities both Civil and Religious which any people could desire enjoy or improve unto the promotion of both Holiness and Righteousness Godliness and Honesty he gave us a full and compleat standing under his Covenant in his Kingdom or in Church State He gave us his House with all the Spiritual Furniture and Provision of it pure Doctrine and Worship the whole Gospel Ministry and Ministration the whole Faith and Order of the Gospel and hath hitherunto kept us in the full Possession Enjoyment and Improvements of all with full Freedom Liberty Seasons Opportunities Advantages Encouragements to do anything everything that was necessary for the advancement of Religion and the interest and work of our Lord Christ and our own Establishment with fafety from Apostacy he hath granted continued a special day of Grace with all possible means of Grace for the carrying on of the work of Conversion and Edification and for the progress of all Saving Work both in Churches and in Families both in Publick and in Private He also Created a Defence upon all the Glory and appointed his Salvation for Walls and Bulwarks What could we expect that God could do more for us in the ordinary way of the Improvement of Means Well notwithstandall this we have made a woful defection from God insomuch that he may justly upbraid us as he did them