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A09253 A sermon of the prouidence of God Preached at Paules Crosse, the 25. of October. 1607. By Iohn Pelling Bacchalaur of Diuinitie. Pelling, John, 1561 or 2-1621. 1607 (1607) STC 19567; ESTC S114107 26,712 54

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deliuer them and the holy ghost in the 1. to the Hebrues teacheth that they are all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for their sakes which shall be heires of saluation When they are seene they haue some shape giuen them for the time that they are not seene it is for that they are spirits which are inuisible to men seene to men or vnseene God seeth them and vseth them and they are his mightie meanes to preserue and to destroy The bad Angels and all God vseth to punish sinners and for the tryall sometimes of the best men as of Ioh. Besides Angels ministring spirits God hath the heauenly bodies with their light motion and iufluence which they haue all of God to worke vnder him in the world as in his Prouidence hee hath appointed Moses in the 1. of Genesis and Dauid in the 136 Psal teach vs that God made the Sunne to rule the day the moone and the starres to gouerne the night God himself in the 38 of Ioh testifieth of a set course of the heauens and of a pourefull rule of theirs ouer the earth of the Pleiades and their sweete influence the starres as learned and godly men take it which bring in the spring time Of Orion and the loosing of his bands a starre which bringeth in winter of Mazoroth and their times the 12 signes of guiding Arcturus and his sonnes which are likewise noted to signifie the north starre and those thereabout In the 9. of Ioh wee reade of Gods countermanding those great Rulers of the world the sunne to rise or not and of God his closing vp the starres as vnder a signet Besides the heauens God hath other his creatures too as his effectuall meanes to the maintenance gouernment and ordering of the whole In the 2. of Hosea God saith I will heare the heauens and they shall heare the earth and the earth shall heare the corne the wine and the oyle and they shall heare Israel That is God is the fountaine of all excellencie of power and virtue to the heauens the heauens shed downe their influences into the earth the earth giueth nourishment to the corne iuycé to the wine fatnesse to the oyle all these are to inable and stirre vp man with gladnesse and cheerefunesse to serue vnder God in his prouidence as he hath appointed How men are this way God his meanes may appeare by a viewe of mens states in this land publique and priuat Their gouernment and their maintenance In publique the king in his kingdomes is immediately vnder God ouer the Church and common wealth he exerciseth his soueraigne gouernment assisted by his Council Vnder the King ouer the Church are the Arch bishops and Bishops and the rest of his Maiesties ecclesiasticall gouernours The Common wealth is to be considered as it is in peace or as it may haue warres In warres are noble men especially to be generals men of worth only to be captaines commanders and officers In peace Cities and great Townes are ordinarily gouerned by their Maiors Aldermen and others of the better sorte Countries abroade by the Peeres of the Land the Iudges of the land the Iustices inferior officers vnder them Priuat houses are either for learning or for hous-keeping In societies of learned men the heads and auncients are to gouerne the yonger In those that ave for houskeeping and hospitalitie are the husband and the wife to rule their farnilie children and seruants In great mens houses chiefe officers in their places are to command the rest of the houshold I hus for gouernment Now for maintenance the King is to haue it royally of his subiects the Landlord rightfully of his tenents the Churchmen liberally by the Church liuings the Lawyers and Phisitions duely by their fees the Souldier is to liue on his pay the Merchant by his trafficke the husbandman by his flocke and tillage the crafts man by his hands the seruant by his wages the poore and impotent by almes and beneuolence I cannot remember all but you may see by these how God doth vse men his meanes for gouernment and maintenance one of another The next note is that God worketh immutably first God is immurable himselfe the Holy ghost teacheth it vs in the 1. of Iames With God is no variablenesse nor shadow by turning In his essence he is immutable Malachi 3. I am the Lord I change not In his decrees the 19. of the Prouerbs The Counsil of the Lord shal stand In the execution of his decrees Esai 14. The Lord of hosts hath sworne saying Surely like as I haue purposed so shall it come to passe That nothing shall preuent him or preuaile against him the 27. of the same chap. The Lord of hosts hath determined it and who shall dis mull it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turne it away That this holds not in some places onely but in all againe the same Prophet at the 26. verse of the same 14. chapter This is the counsil that is consulted vpon the whole world and this is the hand stretched out ouer all the nations Now notwithstanding all this that we see the Sunne doth rise and set the Moone doth wax and wane the sea doth ebbe and flowe the yeare hath winter and sommer that weather proues faire and foule grasse greene and withered flowers fresh and fading fruits ripe and rotten that men in their minds prone off and on in their bodies sicke and healthie in their states rich and poore in yeares yong and old All these changes and all else argue not that in God the creator there is mutatio voluntatis but that God doth velle mutationem in creatura God wils the change in the creature The effects may be diuerse yea contrarie though the cause be one The cause of all effects is God in him there is no mutabilitie though multiplicitie of power God determineth second causes So that in respect of God there is no casualtie of effects though there be varietie Whatsoeuer God ordaineth in respect of God is necessarily that that it is it can be no otherwise God worketh immutably in his prouidence The last note touching the manner of Gods working in his prouidence is that he doth all things well nothing ill God commandeth in 1. Cor. 14. That in his house which is his Church All things be done honestly and by order As in the Church so will God haue it in the comon wealth too and as in publique states euen so in priuat houses also In the same chap. 33. ver God is said not to be the author of Confusion In the 9. to the Rom. there is a question asked whether there be vnrighteoushes with God the answer is in the same place God forbid It is true that is in the 11. of Wisdome God hath ordered all things in measure number and weight And it is worthie to be noted which is in the 1. of Gen. and so often repeated at the Creation That God saw that it was good