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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08541	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the seauenth of May, M.DC.IX. By George Benson ...	Benson, George, 1568 or 9-1648.	1609 (1609)	STC 1886; ESTC S101670	81,544	106

of dayes thy mercie is as ancient and from the beginning O thou whose name is wonderfull thy loue is wonderfull why should men then from the breasts of consolation fly and cal to Aegypt or go to Ashur Leane vpon the worlds lap as long as you will shee will proue but a Dalila to robbe you of your strength she will proue like that little sister Cant. 8. that hath no breasts but Christ is your true Vine Iohn 15. 1. A vine growes neere the house so he is neere to all them that call vpon him a vine is an ornament to the house so Christ is to vs therfore we must cast all our crovvnes dovvne at his feete The Vine keepes the house from a storme So CHRIST keepes vs from storme and tempest vvhich is the portion of the vvicked to drinke But which is tremblable and monstrous there be some who when God smites them they fly vnto a witch or an Inchauntresse and call for succour as though Iob had beene deceiued when he sayd O God thou vvoundest and healest againe thou woundest and killest againe or vvhen he sayde The same God that takes away the same God doth giue When Ahazia was hurt hee sent to Beel-zebub the God of Eckron but God sent Eliah the Thisbite in haste to meet the messenger on the way and bade him say What is there neuer a God in Israel but thou must seeke for helpe of Beel-zebub the God of Eckron Because thou hast done this thing thou shalt neuer rise out of thy bedde Gods fauour neuer was vppon Saul after hee left him and vvent to the Witch of Endor therefore it is sayde that Saul dyed in his sinne because hee forsooke the Lord and asked counsell of a familiar spirit Let this doctrine serue as eye-salue vnto all you if there be any in this place who for the loue of your goods and your bodies health seeke vnto not the hurting witch for flesh and bloud abhorres her but the good witch as you call them commonly who is more sought vnto therefore the more daungerous who assure yourselues is the more Saint the more Diuell Therefore deale you with God by prayer be in league with God this blessed league of loue was not concluded betwixt God and the men of Ephraim because they left their first loue and started aside like a broken bowe but God was angry his iealousie burned like fire he found their goodnesse to be as a cloude and as the morning dewe quickly come and quickly gone their zeale short breathed in going vp the hill to heauen Hee found their motion not to bee naturall not from the heart because it was tardior in fine quàm in principio more flow in their latter end then in their beginning His family admittes no dwarfes or vnthriuing soules which grow not in grace which do not run that they may obtaine but rather with Demas goe backe and imbrace this present world therefore hee weighed them in a ballance and found them too light and diuided their kingdome Heere stand amazed with me and tremble at the angry wordes of our iust God But when they shall goe I wil spread my net vpon them and draw them downe as the fowles of heauen I will chastice them as their congregation hath hearde verse 12. As if God had sayde O ye men of Ephraim though you be without an eye and see not your danger without a foote and returne not vnto me without a heart like a doue deceiued and goe to Ashur yet I wil see you when you go for I search Ierusalem with a candle I will spread a net by my wisedome and draw you downe by my power and chastice you in my iustice and make good my truth by performing that which you haue heard in your congregation Hee will see them when they goe where I note Gods all seeing prouidence watching ouer the godly and ouer the wicked ouer the godly to protect them ouer the wicked to restraine them Ouer the godly for their protection and therefore in the 9. of the Prouerbs Wisedome that is Christ the wisedom of his father is said to buildher an house that is the Church vpon seauen pillars that is vpon a sure foundation and in the foundation of the Church as of the Temple of Ierusalem Zach. 4. there is laide the stone with seauen eyes Gods all seeing prouidence which is is so mounted vpon the wings of birds that two silly Sparrows sould for one farthing cannot fall to the ground without his permission much lesse man who is of more worth then many sparrowes least of all Gods elect for whose good his Angels are appointed to be a guard and to all that are heires of saluation Heb. 1. 14. The difference betweene the God of Israel and the Gods of the Gentiles is this the God of Israel holds his people in his hands Apoc. 2. 1. But the Gentiles held their Gods in their owne hands Gen. 35. 4. The wheeles in the first of Ezechiel things whose motions are giddy and vncertaine resembled the round world and the things therein which things like the rings of those wheeles are full of eyes full of Gods prouidence for now Ierusalem being without walles hath Gods prouidence to be awall of fire about her and himselfe is the glory in the midst of her for the good of his people hee makes the heauens to heare the earth the earth to heare the corne the wine and the oyle and them to heare the cries of Israel when Israell cries hee must bee heard For he that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleepe Least then we plow the Sands and labour in vaine wee must wrastle with all difficulties and businesses and ouercome them as the people of God did the Madianites with the sword of the Lord and the sword of Godion neither being wanting vnto our selues nor yet depending vpon our own endeuours without the blessing of the Lord who will say to the North Giue and to the South keepe not backe It was a worthy resolution of Iacob that hee would not goe into a strange Countrey vpon a great businesse vnlesse GOD would be with him in his iourney Let it be your resolution not to vndertake any businesse for soule nor body but with a request vnto God before you vndertake your worke that hee will further your enterprise When you come into the Church to heare for your soules health or when you are about to labour in your vocations remember this GOD is the supervisour of his owne will to see that it bee performed by the godly and by the wicked hee helpes the godly that they may doe it If the vngodly doe it not Hee teares them in peeces while there is none to help for according to the position of the schooles in him there is bona potentia and potens bonitas Ouer the wicked a power and that is good