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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00461	The arriereban a sermon preached to the company of the military yarde, at St. Andrewes Church in Holborne at St. Iames his day last. By Iohn Everarde student in Diuinity, and lecturer at Saint Martins in the fields.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?	1618 (1618)	STC 10598; ESTC S114619	42,065	124

honored with silence yet his actuall or ordinarie power is limited and as it were circumscribed by his will so that as the first can do no more than he will so this doth whatsoeuer he will and therefore voluntas eius est potest as eius saith Ambrose His will is his power Now he being pleased to reueale thus much vnto vs in Scripture that it is his will ordinarily to worke by ordinary meanes and secondary causes himselfe to heare the heauens the heauens to heare the earth the earth to heare the corne and the wine and the oyle and they to heare Israel certainly they that shall reason from his posse to his velle from his power to his will are like those deceitfull or vnlearned Physitians who as Augustine saith do so apply vtile medicamentum a plaister wholsome in it selfe vt aut non prosit aut obsit that it shall either do no good or a great deale of harme for with as much probability might we omit both ploughing and sowing and expect Manna from heauen because the LORD once fed the Israelites with it or abstaine from foode because Moses fasted forty dayes or gape till the Rauens feede vs because they once did so to Elias or waite till an Asse counsell vs because Balaams Asse aduised his master as expect that the Lord should giue vs victory with sounding of Rammes hornes or breaking of pitchers that is to stand still onely and behold what the Lord will doe for vs Miracles were they and miraculous would this be and therefore not to be looked for but in cases of necessity our Sauiour himselfe when he was to ascend into heauen hauing chosen Mount Oliuet for the place from whence that as one saith Quamdiu natur ae vis inseruire potuit miraculo non vteretur wherein the power of nature could helpe him he might not worke a miracle Nor is this any disparagement to his might whom we acknowledg to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 solely sufficient by his immediate word to gouerne all things as well as he was to create them but rather an honor to himselfe and to his creatures to himselfe for beating out the golden ingot of his prouidence into so admirable a chaine of causes perplexed folded and linked one within another And to his Creatures in daigning them to be Co-workers with him that as he is the principall agent so they may haue imployment vnder him wherwith to busie themselues that they fall not vpon that iust reprehension Quid statis hic totum diem otiosi why stand yee here all the day idle It rests then that as Hierom speakes truly though to another point Singulorum priuilegia legem efficere non possunt the priuiledges of singular and speciall persons make no common rule for all men in generall What God hath beene pleased to do at sometimes and what he is able to do at all times we may looke vpon for our comfort but not rely vpon for our incouragement to neglect the ordinary meanes For within these limits haue they walked to whom the secret of the Lord hath beene reuealed and whose feet haue beene guided the right way by the lanterne of his word Iacob had Gods promise for the superiority ouer his brother Esau and Dauid was abundantly secured of Gods protection from Saul and all his other enemies yet for all that they were content to vse the best meanes they could watching all opportunities redeeming all occasions sometimes flying sometimes intreating sometimes buying their peace though alwaies assured that safety is from the Lord and by particular promises fully perswaded that he would deliuer their soules from death and their dearlings from the power of the lyon Pauls voyage by sea is knowne euen to the Barbarians so is his danger and the speciall reuelation he had for the deliuerance of himselfe and all his company And what then did that make the Mariners neglect to sound to cast anchors to lighten the ship to wey anchors to hoyse sayles nay such as could to swimme first to land and such as could not swimme to saue themselues on bords and other peeces of the ship No for he knew that si periculum quantum cauere possumus non cauemus magis tentamus Deum quam speramus in Deo if we labour not to auoide danger and perill as much as we can in how deplored and desperate cases soeuer we rather tempt God indeed than trust in God But aboue all we haue an euident and an eminent example hereof in her whom all generations shall call blessed the Virgin-mother of our Sauiour who though shee had laid vp in her heart all the sayings of the Angell at the Annuntiation of Elizabeth at her visitation of Simeon and Annah at her purification yet when the Angell of the LORD appeared vnto Ioseph in a dreame and bad him take that sweet babe and his blessed mother and flee into Aegypt because Herod sought the Childe to destroy it did shee reason against her husbands resolution and plead Gods eternall decree or her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 full perswasion and assured beleefe thereof against his purpose Nothing lesse Shee thought not her selfe wiser than God in his commanding than her husband in his obedience Shee was not like the Leuites wife that answered not nor like Lots wife that departed vnwillingly but as Ruth to Naomi her mother in law so answered her heart to Ioseph I will not leaue thee nor depart from thee but whither thou goest I will goe I know the LORD certaine and firme in the end and accomplishment of his promise I know not the meanes by which he hath determined to effect it and therefore Surge eamus Arise let vs goe hence Thus all the seruants of God haue one of their eyes fastned vpon Ezechiel his Cherubims and the other vpon his wheeles their hearts are reposed vpon Gods mercy but their hands are stretched out vnto all that they shall finde to do when Hezekiah is sicke though the Prophet Isaiah be sent vnto him with a promise of recouery yet he must take a lumpe of dry figs and lay it vpon the sore and therefore meanes must be vsed But though the watchman stand vpon the walles yet except the Lord keepe the City he watcheth but in vaine and therefore secondary causes only must not be relyed vpon nor a sacrifice offered vnto our nets nor incense burnt vnto our yarne The horse is praepared against the day of battell there as I said at the first is mans prouidence but safety is of the Lord there is his power and praerogatiue Giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars and to God that which is Gods It was the Spartane resolution admota manu fortunam invocare to do their best and then to aske helpe from fortune we haue a more sure word whereunto you shall do well to take heede as to a light shining