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A92853	Haman's vanity, or, A sermon displaying the birthlesse issues of church-destroying adversaries. Preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne thanksgiving, being on June 15. 1643. By Obadiah Sedgwick, Batchelor in Divinity, and Pastor of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing S2374; Thomason E56_6; ESTC R16869	19,380	39

ancient conquests of all the Churches adversaries amongst which the world is one All Christs conquests are for his Church and shall conquered enemies now conquer Secondly the dearest purchase of Christ for so the Church is which he ransomed by his heart blood and will he now suffer them to be destroyed Thirdly the foundation to his Church the Scriptures stile him the corner stone and that Rock upon which the house was built which no waves nor stormes could wash or drive downe Fourthly the Head of his Church will he be an head without a body Read at your leasure in what a benigne aspect he stands towards his members in Rev. 10. 1. and in what a severe posture he drawes out himselfe and all the armies of heaven against his enemies in Revel 19. from verse 11. to the end Thirdly from the enemies themselves Reas 3 Who though they swell much in their owne eyes and seeme to be the disposers of all men and presume they can doe what they list and like some of the persecuting Emperours will think themselves to be a kinde of Gods yet First they are but men at the most and men at the best And what is man that which is no more than man is no lesse then vanity meere man is but the dreame of a dream but the generation of a fancy but a vanity but the curious picture of nothing a poore feeble unable dying flash Secondly they are but Naked men they have no God with them or for them did God ever command them to destroy his Church Did he ever promise unto them in that service either Assistance or Reward Assuredly wicked adversaries have nothing but what hell and wicked men can help them with Thirdly they are but Wicked men hearken how the Scripture styles them Haters of God Enemies to God Fighters against God the very reason why they contend against the people of God is because they see any thing of God in them and shall wicked men be stronger then God Fourthly they are the only persons Cursed of God and fully threatened even in this that they attempt the destruction of the people of God Take that one place for all in Zach. 12. 2 3 4. Behold I Will make Ierusalem a cup of trembling unto all people round about when they shall be in the siege both against Iudah and against Ierusalem 3. And in that day I will make Ierusalem a burthensome stone for all people All that burthen themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it 4. In that day saith the Lord of Hosts I will smite every horse with astonishment and his rider with madnesse and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Iudah and I will smite every horse of the people with blindnesse Are blind horses and mad riders likely to prevaile 6. And I will make the Governours of Iudah like an harth of fire among the wood and like a torch of fire in a sheafe and they shall devour all the people round about on the right hand and on the left c. Shall the wood prevaile against the fire Besides all this the Lord doth deliberately as I may so speak set himselfe against them he directs his arrowes at them and doth so earnestly pursue them that he not only makes their designes unprosperous but likewise in the event to themselves pernicious which is the second point and comes now briefly to be handled That God can make the bloudiest contrivances and Doct. 2 hopefullest confidences of his Church-destroying adversaries not only Vnprosperous but also Pernicious or Hurtfull to themselves The designe in the text is turned quite contrary and the Iewes have rule over them who presumed to have destroyed and ruined them Thus Saepe in magistros scelera redier unt suos There are three things which I have observed concerning Note the Churches distresses and deliverances First the deliverances of it have been usually at the times of eminent extremities The wicked are not alwayes high enough to be destroyed the people of God are not alwayes low enough to be delivered but eminent Extremities have ordinarily beene Gods Opportunities That eminent deliverance out of Egypt was when their burthens were doubled and Pharaoh would not hearken to them That singular deliverance out of Chaldea was at such a time when their condition was as the dry bones of which God said to the Prophet Can these bones live That deliverance also out of the Antichristian and last troubles shall be when the two witnesses are slaine and the enemies make merry Rev. 11. 7 8 10 11. Secondly the deliverance of the distressed and endangered Church hath been usually crowned with the addition of some new and singular mercy As When the Church was delivered out of the Egyptian bondage they were then led away to Canaan When they were delivered out of the Caldean captivity the Temple thereupon was re-built and filled with the glorious presence of Christ When the Churches shall be delivered from the great Antichristian plots and cruelties there is promised unto them a New Ierusalem a new heaven and a new earth Thirdly the Eminent rescues of the Church have been and shall be conjoyned with the eminent destruction of its adversaries When the Israelites were delivered out of Egypt their deliverance was accompanied with the destruction of Pharaoh of all his hoast When the Iewes were delivered out of Babylon it was with the destruction of the Caldean Monarchy by the Persians And when the Church shall be delivered from the Antichristian Cruelties it shall be with the utter fall of Babylon which shall be throwne like a milstone into the Sea and never rise any more But I cannot prosecute this notable Subject according to the dignity of it I will rather leave it then mangle it the time is almost fled I will doe what I can to post after it give me leave to make some usefull applications of all this to ourselves and then I wil commit the work and our selves to Gods blessing The uses which I shall make of all which hath at this time been spoken by me and of late hath been observed by your selves I shall reduce unto three heads First Of exhortation to a seasonable duty the duty use 1 of Thankfullnesse O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull works to the children Psa 107. 8. of men Surely this is a singular work and yet men are heavy to it or else David would never have pressed it so affectionately in another place he brings three arguments at once to move us to praise God Praise Ps 147. 1. yee the Lord for it is good to sing praises unto our God it is pleasant and praise is comely Two of these arguments respect us It is our emolument and good we get more mercies by being thankfull for our mercies and it is our gracefull as wel as gracious Ornament An

his death blaspheamingly confessed Vicisti Galilaee that Christ was too hard for him What should I speak of the defeatings boundings of the Antichristian plots and furies which have been acting above these thousand years and notwithstanding all their lyings decrees devices attempts burnings murtherings resolves confederacies assistances with the power of Emperours Kings Rulers they hitherto cannot nor ever shall be able to destroy the Church of Christ the Church yet lives and shall spread more and more Thirdly By reasons the reasons to convince men of this truth shall be taken First from God Secondly from Christ and his Church Thirdly from the enemies themselves First from God Reas 1 I doe confesse that were the Church left hand to hand with her enemies and had not a God to side with it shee were no more able to sustain her self against the policy of her enemies then the lamb against the foxes Nor against the fury of them then the sheep against the lions or as a little spark of fire against an ocean of water Gaudeo quod Christus Dominus est alioqui totus desperâssem writes Myconius to Calvin upon the view of the Churches enemies But there is a God and that God is on the Churches side and this some of the enemies of God have confessed let us flee said the Egyptians Ex. 14. 25. from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them against the 〈◊〉 14 25. Egyptians Beloved I beseech you to observe that there is on the Churches side First The Covenant of God in which he doth engage all his Glorious Attributes to be not only a reward but also a shield unto his people as you may expresly read in Gen. 15 1. So that if omniscience be able to see and omnipotence be able to hinder assuredly Gen. 15. 1. none of the adversaries plots attempts shall ever succeed to the destruction of his Church though they may be faire for it and very near Secondly The affections of God and we all know that the affection of love is of all other the most tender and the most active now if either Relations or Donations or Estimations can discover and entitle to Affections then is the Church sure of Gods Affections For The Relations twixt God and his people are that of a father to his child Israel is my son my first borne and Ex 4. 22. that of an husband to a wife Thy maker is thy husband Isay 54. 5. the Lord of Hosts is his name and that of a King to his Subjects whose affections to his people one shadows out by the pelican Now can you imagine that a tender father a loving husband a just King will if they can help it suffer children wife subjects to be wholly destroyed The Donations of God to his people are wonderfull If greatest bounties be the Charecters of dearest love surely then God wants not of love to them for he hath given his Christ to them his Spirit to them Himself to them and will give eternall glory to them And after all this will he think you suffer his contemptible and conquered enemies and vassalls to conquer and destroy them The Estimations of God touching his people are singular his thoughts of them are pretious and high and honourable and therefore hee stiles them his friends his House his Temple his Garden his Vineyard his Jewels his Delight his Kings and Priests nay the apple of his owne Eye Now is it possible to fancy that God will suffer his wretched and despised adversaries to destroy his annointed to plunder him of his Jewels nay to teare out from him the very apple of his eye Thirdly the Providence of God This Providence which our late Complotters were pleased so to scoffe at this is on the Churches side And what is this Providence of God surely it is the right hand of his Covenant the actuall vigour of his infinite Attributes It runnes to and fro through all the world and orders all the motions of Heaven and Earth Foure things are very considerable in it First it is an Vniversally intimate eye diving into all the faculties and risings and framings and actings of all and every creature I know thy abode and thy going out and thy comming in and thy rage against me saith God of Sennacherib Esay 37. 28. So that there is no one nature no one faculty considerable in the naturall or morall frame of it no kindling of one thought no grudging of one desire no hatching of any one imagination no whispering of one word but all lies as naked to Divine Providence as the eminentest mountaine lies obvious to the brightest noon-day of the Sunne The Masques of actions and Curtaines veile only towards the eyes of men but there is no darknesse towards him who is light it selfe Secondly it is an Vniversally Soveraigne wheele upon the pleasure of which all actions and issues are commanded as the motion and stay of the wheeles Ezek 1 21. which Ezekiel saw were according to those of the living creatures There is no creature a maker of it self or that can be a Lord over his owne heart and works and events All these fall under the ordering of God the supreame Agent and that with an unavoydable subjection and determination My counsell shall stand Isay 46 10. and I will doe all my pleasure Esay 46. 10. Thirdly it is an infinite dispensation there is nothing requisite either to the impedition of the Churches enemies or to the conservation of the Church it selfe but is to be found in Divine Providence And therefore in Zachary it is set out by seven Zach. 4. eyes and by seven lamps and in Ezekiel it is set out by faces and wings and hands to expresse that sufficiency Ezek. 1. 8. of Gods Providence for all meanes of helps to his endangered Churches Fourthly it is a Watchfull Sentinell Hee that keeps Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep Excellent is that Ps 121. 4. Isay 27. 3. place in Esay 27. 3. speaking of a Vineyard which you know doth represent the Church for her owne weaknesse for choicenesse for delight and for fruitfulnesse he addes I the Lord doe keep it I will water it every moment lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day Now summe up all this there is a speciall Providence of God which clasps the Church as the fethers of the hen doth the chicken And it consists of Activity and of perfect Knowledge and of Soveraigne Authority and of Al-helping sufficiency and of most tender vigilancy for his people and against their enemies Must you not then grant me my position that he will frustrate all destructive plots and attempts though never so hopefull and neare Secondly From Christ and his Church Reas 2 Here I might shew you but time will cut me off that I may not spread it foure things in him which assure us that his Churches adversaries shall not prevaile to ruine it As first the