be put out from vnder heauen But neuer let the fact of this Amalek nor this day of Purim be put out of the Kalender to the perpetuall infamy of the Popish generation so long as the Sunne courseth about the earth Looke we often in this glasse which God holdeth this day before our eyes O come and behold the workes of the Lord the great workes that he hath wrought for this English nation a people whom God hath now redeemed from a second hell which was indeed to bee a lake of fier and brimstone a very sparke out of hell brought by furies and diuels rather than men Consider wee seriously how our soules â—are deliuered from the nether most hell As in the first and great redemption from the lowest hell God of his mercy redeemed vs by the blood of his owne only Sonne so of his mercy hath he extinguished the flames of this inteÌ„ded hell by no other meanes than by the blood of those sonnes of Beliall And as for that greater redemption wee must magnifie the grace of God being redeemed from the hands of our enemies to serue him in righteousnesse and holynesse all the dayes of our life so in this lesser redemption we must stirre vp our selues to the cherefull praise of God not in word and tongue but in heart and life Let vs call vpon our selues euery one apart as Dauid Psal. 9.1.2.3 I will praise the Lord with all my heart c. for that mine enemies are turned back and Psal. 116.12 what shall I render to the Lord for all his louing kindnesse towards me and let vs call vpon one another as he doth Psal. 34.3 Praise the Lord with me and let vs magnifie the Lord together He hath filled our hearts with gladnesse our mouthes with laughter our tongues with matter of triumph when we were as a bird in the net of these fowlers he brake the net and we are escaped Verse 8. Our helpe standeth in the Name of the Lord who hath made heauen and earth THese words are the conclusion of the whole Psalm wherein the whole benefit of all the deliuerance of the Church both for time past and future is ascribed to the Lord of heauen and earth He had sayd before the snare is broken but had not told vs by whome now hee expresseth him Our helpe is in the Name c. Quest. why saith he not in the Lord but in the Name of the Lord Answ. By the Name of God is meant that by which he reuealeth himselfe to his Church as a man is knowne by his name And in this argument the Name of God signifieth the ayd the power the strength and the goodnesse of God so it is vsed Psalme 44.5 in thy Name wee shall tread downe our enemies that is in thy strength and power Our helpe consists in that power and strength which the Lord putteth forth for vs. Who hath made heauen and earth Qust Why is this added Answ. 1. To aduance the Lord in his Attribute of Omnipotency 2. To strengthen our faith when meanes fayle vs for this power is not tied to meanes Therefore these are set the first words of the Creed I beleeue in God the Father Almighty maker of heauen and earth 3. To shew vs to what end the world the heauens and the earth were made namely that it might be a Theater and glasse of the diuine power and glory of God 4. To intimate how easie it is for God in most desperate cases to helpe his children much mor easie than to make heauen and earth 5. To shew that he can dispose all things both in heauen and earth for their safetie I. Note hence the nature and worke of faith in euery beleeuer which is to eleuate the minde to God in perils and dangers which is the time wherein faith most bestirres it selfe and to apply Gods promise of ayd his presence and deliuerance in all our troubles not only beleeuing his Omnipotency and goodnesse but that he is so vnto vs and all his chosen For this is a speech of faith which looketh beyond all external meanes and fixeth the eye of the soule only vpon God in whose hand help is And farther the nature of faith is to search into all the Atributes of God whereby it may fortifie it selfe and become inexpugnable It looketh to the Name of the Lord. It considereth him as Iehoua one that is willing to accomplish all his promises to his Church else he could not bee Iehoua by which Name he would be knowne to his people It beholdeth his power and omnipotency at the same time and then what shall hinder the Churches safety if God be both able and willing It seeth also all his power exercised for hir safety It beholds at once both the pillers of the Temple Boaz with him is strength but what are wee the better if we apply it not and Iachin that is the Lord will establish Let vs liue by faith at all times especiall in dangers stil looking beyond the means and giue glory to God with Abraham Rom. 4.20 who was strong in faith and fully perswaded that he who promised was able also and willing to performe Obiect What then must we reiect meanes Answ. No for God giueth meanes for our good But 1. No meanes can helpe vs without God as God can without meanes 2. Meanes must be vsed but not trusted in Psalm 20.7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God Heere he condemnes not the vse of chariots and horses but trust and confidence in them 3. Neuer let vs stand in the meanes as our helpers but in the Name of God who affords both them and successe in them Hence it is that God sometimes yea for the most part worketh his greatest workes by weakest meanes that the meanes might be as a glasse through which we might behold the brightnesse of his own Maiesty and grace Dan. 11.34 They that vnderstand and instruct many shall fall and when they shall fall they shal be holpen with a little helpe Why a little Because through weake meanes wee may see Gods greater strength So in the yeare 88. there was a little helpe for England but the victory was Gods So in the Gunpowder treason a little helpe and meanes by his Maiesties singular care but this was that through it we might easier see that Omnipotent helpe of him who made heauen and earth II. Note that the Churches helpe is not in it self and the dangers of it and harmes threatning it are farre greater than it is able without better help than it own to withstand So was it with the Church at the red sea so with the three children of God in the fire what help had they of themselues being bound So it was in Hamans deuice and so in Perâ—ies Reason 1. That the members of the Church may herein acknowledge the sleights of Satan and wicked men
who are mad against soundnesse of grace and yet most wittie to combine their malice and madnesse against Gods people 2. To trie them to the vttermost and proue their soundnesse in faith and patience Fire that must trie gold must be quicke and piercing and seeme vtterly to burne and consume it 3. That the Lord may herein haue occasion both to vphold his chosen in the affliction with strong inward consolation and also to put foorth this his omnipotent power in some strong and glorious deliuerance 4. That his children being driuen out of all other expectations may be vehement in prayer and fetch helpe from heauen which they want in themselues That extremitie of the Israelites at the sea made Moses to crie vnto the Lord with vehemencie Exod. 14.15 and when Iehosaphat knew not what to doe his eyes were to the Lord 2. Chron. 20.12 Mistake not the estate of the Church when it seemes to be oppressed nor yet of the members God for these ends suffers Satan and his instruments so cunningly to carie their malice and matters as oftentimes Gods deare children are in the eyes of the world helplesse But did Christ cease to be the Sonne of God because the Iewes said Let God helpe him now if hee will haue him or the Saints of olde who receiued no corporall deliuerance but a better resurrection or our owne Martyrs who seemed helplesse in their hands and flames No the Lord was their helpe and he will not suffer the soules of the righteous to perish which we shall further see in the next obseruation III. Note that the Church and people of God are neuer so helplesse but that they haue an omnipotent power with them and for theÌ„ euen his Name who made heauen and earth This is their priuiledge and sanctuarie The name of God is a strong tower the righteous slie vnto it are exalted Prou. 18.10 Psal. 33.17 An horse is a vainâ— thing in battell shall not deliuer any by his strength Why what shall helpe them The eye of the Lord is on them that feare him and vpon them that trust in his mercie to deliuer their soules from death and preserue them in the time of famine 2. Tim. 4.16 At my first appearing no man assisted me small helpe indeed Notwithstanding the Lord assisted me and strengthened me c. Reason 1. This comes to passe by Gods promise of his constant presence with his people to be with them in sixe troubles and in seuen in fire and water and extremest perils All which promises although they runne with exception of the crosse yet are neuer frustrate but made good one time or other one way or other This promise is their safe conduct And it is equall seeing they labour in his seruice and cast themselues vpon his hand 2. What else is it that keepes the Church as an Arke vpon the waters from drowning and perishing among so many tyrants enemies and persecutors as thick as waues but this most helpfull hand and power of God the Pilot of it The Church hath mightie power against it all the helpe of the wicked and the gates of hell But his eye and wing is neerer theÌ„ than the hens to preserue her silly chickens Psal. 91.2 3. As it was with the Son of God our head so is it with the members who faithfully follow his steps in patient labouring and enduring What his estate was see Ioh. 16.32 Behold the houre commeth and is now already that yee shall be scattered euery man to his owne house and shall leaue me alone but I am not alone for the Father is with me Christ was very helplesse when his followers fled for feare and his Disciples durst not tarrie with him but left him alone yet then hee had this presence and power of his Father And so haue the godly both Pastors and people 4. They can neuer be so helplesse as they shall not be able to crie for helpe and bemoane their case to God Neither want they friends to solicite their cause at the highest Court but haue all the godly petitioners for them The faith of the doctrine is a chiefe part of worship and honour giuen to God when the Saints referre the whole work of their saluation and safetie to the Lord as Psal. 3.8 Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and thy blessing is vpon thy people And when they can commend their whole safetie for the continuance and preseruation of it vnto the Name of the Lord wherein all helpe lieth It is a most firme prop to stay and leane vpon in all trials able to sustaine the heart continually with strong comfort when we can oppose this helpe of God against all the threats and boysterous proceedings of Gods enemies As subiects haue no way but to flie to the King for refuge and helpe against the oppressor so Gods people haue a way of helpe by which they lie safe in the midst of danger and shall haue the better end of the staffe against their aduersaries because they may say as Dauid against Goliah 1. Sam. 17.45 I come to thee in the Name of the Lord. A godly heart grounded in the truth of this doctrine may securely contemne whatsoeuer Satan or his instruments doe machinate against it Looke at any thing in heauen or earth it hath in it matter of strength and comfort He that made them hath power to commaund all things in them for thy safetie and good Here is a faithfull helper a very sure refuge in trouble men may promise helpe and faile or helpe on the trouble of the Saints but God will not Here is a powerfull helper men would helpe oftentimes but are weake and cannot where the enemie hath fortified himselfe with aduantages and resolutions but the Lords Name is a strong helper if Nebuchadnezzar shall say Who shall or who is able to deliuer you out of my hands wee may say with the three children Our God is able He can say to the raging sea Thus farre shalt thou come and here shall thy proud waues stay He can drie vp Ieroboams arme stretched out against the Prophet Finally here is a constant helper men are vnconstant and light one speech or suspition may driue away many from following Christ himselfe and mâ—ny in daies of triall slip away and are helplesse but the Lord helpeth constantly our helpe is euer in the Name of the Lord hee is vnchangeable in his goodnesse toward the Church neuer wearie of well-doing as men bee And without this ground in the heart men must needs shake like trees in the forrest with euery winde and feare where no feare iâ— but those shall not neede to feare any euill tidings whose heart is fixed on the Lord. Labour to be a member of the Church stand in the way and station in which God hath set thee Goe on in thy holy course keepe the way of vprightnesse For in this way God hath promised helpe and
A MAPPE OF ROME LIVELY EXHIBITING HER MERCILESSE MEEKNESSE and cruell mercies to the Church of God Preached in fiue Sermons on occasion of the Gunpowder Treason by T. T. and now published by W. I. Minister 1. The Romish Furnace 2. The Romish Edom. 3. The Romish Fowler 4. The Romish Conception To which is added 5. The English Gratulation APOC. 17.6 I saw the Woman drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sould at signe of the Talbot in Pater-noster Row 1620. TO ALL THAT WISH WELL TO OVR SYON HEARTILY AND VNfainedly Grace be multiplied and peace in our Lord Iesus Christ. BRethren beloued in the Lord You see by the Title what you may expect in the booke following I hope what it promiseth shall be indeede performed I wish it were more complete and accurate for your sakes as it might haue beene if the graue and diligent Author could himselfe haue set it forth but blessed be God that his weightier employments doe not giue him leaue or leasure I am glad I haue it for you as it is through my earnest request to him whose modesty thought it vnworthy the publication and my paines in writing it Reasons of this my request and paines I can giue you many First I thinke it necessary that our God our gracious and louing God may haue the praise of all his mercies and namely that of this day still reserued to himselfe wholly His workes are glorious and the benefit of them not confined to a scantling of time Therefore these Gratulations cannot be lesse seasonable now than they were at the day of Deliuerance Secondly this I hoped might be a meanes to restraine our declining times from gazing and doting on that pompous Harlot the Church of Rome For when our nation shall see and consider a fresh how insatiable she hath alwaies beene of blood and English blood I cannot thinke we can be so inconsiderate as to dreame of any toleration much lesse any sound reconcilement with so implacable an enemie Thirdly I thought it not altogether impossible hereby to stop the slanderous mouthes of misse-conceiuing persons scattered abroade through all the Country yet pleasing themselues in the common error who seeing in some good men a difference of iudgement in some small matters presently conclude them enemies of the State c. For this I will say of the Author and I say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost that hauing beene partaker of his Ministery some hundreds of times I neuer heard him more earnest or more faithfull than in this Argument And the whole Towne of Reding will testifie with me of his holinesse lowlinesse peaceablenesse vnweariable painfulnesse and other graces beseeming his calling which no ill-willer could euer yet impeach Fourthly and lastly my intent is hereby to stirre vp our drowsie and forgetfull hearts to due thankfulnesse for so great a Deliuerance And this me thinks is more than necessary For when I behold the generall view of the Land and the quality of peoples manners the memory of that wonderfull day seemes vnto me quite blotted out And I know not whoÌ„ better to resemble our selues vnto than those of whoÌ„ the Psalmist speakes Psalm 106.11.12.13.14 The waters couered their enemies there was not one of them left Then beleeued they his words they sang his praise But they soone forgat his workes they waited not for his counsell but lusted exceedingly in the wildernesse and tempted God in the Desert Doe we not so euen in our Canaan a Land flowing with milke and hony What horrible prouocations are there daily and hourely amongst vs in all places in euery corner Who can complaine sufficiently of the grieuous temptings and out-brauings of God which our eyes doe see Who would iudge by our strange demeanours that God had euer done any thing for vs either by sea or land either against water-workes or fire-workes Ah sinfull nation laden with iniquity Doe we thus requite the Lord for his louing kindnesse Is this his reward for so great fauours Hearken ye children of Syon and consider Though Israel play the harlot yet let not Iudah transgresse Though carnall persons who haue no true sence of the grace of Christ set themselues out in their colours and fashions and Epicurisme and Heathenisme yet let it not be so with them that professe the feare of God Though others loathe the word and the meanes of saluation yet let not Professors loathe them Let it neuer be said that Professors are proud earthly contentious vaine fantasticall or willingly sweruing from the Rule of Piety You are his peculiar people and if hee lose his honour in you also he loseth it altogether Therefore consider you the workes of the Lord and his intent in them Stirre vp your hearts and frame your liues to a reall thankfulnesse Let your moderation and discretion be quickned by zeale and let your zeale be bounded by discretion You shall perhaps meeâ—e with shame that is reproches and ignominies despise these You shall meet also with the crosse that is persecutions and dammages these endure Here is patience and magnamity Let your patient minde be knowne to all men yet let it be valorous in the causes of your God saint not neither be afraid You may well take occasion to grow the faster by this Antiperistasis and vnite your forces the more strongly Are you so spighted and maligned on euery side by profane Ismaelites then let your loue toward one another encrease the more solidly and abound toward your selues mutually in the fulnesse of the blessing of the Gospell Liue fruitfully and peaceably in the Communion of Saints here the Lord hath appointed the blessing and life for euermore Watch against Satan and his eldest sonne that Antichrist pray for the dissolution of their Kingdome especially see it be vtterly defaced in your selues and yours Giue all diligence to leaue an holy seede behinde you which shall praise the Lord in earth while your selues praise him in heauen A disgrace it is to godly Parents to haue vngodly children especially by their owne default Make your houses houses of God by setting vp and then establishing his pure worship therein Cast vp your accounts before-hand and prepare for the comming of Christ in the clouds Accept my endeauours for your good and helpe me with your prayers Reding Oct. 12. 1619. Your seruant in the Gospell of Christ WILLIAM IEMMAT The Authors Apologie CHristian Reader as I esteemed not the Sermons following sit for so publique a â—iew so neither meant I to purcâ—ase to my selfe so much enuie wrath from the â—atholiques as these Sermons may perhaps bring vpon me But the opportunity of the Publisher who hath taken paines in them and of some others desirous of them drew out at last my consent to their request If any phrases may seeme
protection and thou maist expect it Arme thy selfe and addresse thee to beare bâ—unts and blowes as a souldier but feare not victorie so long as God is neere thee and thou neere him and his helpe Put on patience to waite without haste-making though he delay helpe awhile he denies it not Neuer seeke to preuent troubles by laying aside integritie and good conscience It is no way of safetie to prouoke God nor a meanes of defence to lay aside the armour This is the condition of diuine protection 1. Pet. 3. vers 13. No man shall hurt you while you follow the thing that is good Ionas would faine auoid trouble by flying from God but God fetcheth him backe againe with a witnesse Here by the way note a speciall difference betweene the wicked and the godly in their troubles One hath his helpe from heauen others from hell or not higher than from the earth One from the Name of God others against the Name of God The wicked expect helpe one from another and combine against the righteous and can helpe themselues by lying slandering violence and turning themselues into all fashions and formes for aduantage but the godly expecting helpe from the name of God keepe themselues in Gods right waies and will meet with helpe onely thence Let vs trust our selues with God in troubles as well as in peace expecting the accomplishment of that gracious promise Psal. 34.19 Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of all If we take Gods Name with vs for our helpe the number of crosses shall not foile vs nor the power of persecutors daunt vs nor the continuance of trials breake vs. For nothing can hinder his helping hand from his seruants Nothing but sin separates betweene God and vs be humbled for sinne meete God in repentance keepe not silence be instant in prayer and all shall be well Christ is our ship if we be neuer so tossed wee shall not be drowned come to him awaken him as his Disciples Master saue vs Master of the great ship of thy Church helpe vs we perish and he will in due time stirre vp himselfe and speake to the winde and the sea and there shall be a great calme The end of the third Sermon THE ROMISH CONCEPTION Psalme 7.14.15.16 Behold he shall trauell with wickednesse for he hath conceiued mischiefe but he shall bring forth a lye He hath made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the pit that he made His mischiefe shall returne vpon his own head and his cruelty shall fall vpon his owne pate THe occasion of the Psalme is in the inscription concerning the words of Cushi one of Sauls Courtiers and Dauids accusers to Saul as if hee had beene a Rebell and sought Sauls life The parts of it are three 1 A prayer for deliuerance from his enemies and that God would cleare his innocency to the 12. verse 2 A Propheticall prediction of the destruction of the wicked to the 17. verse 3 A vow of thankfulnesse for deliuerance in the last verse These three verses of my Text being part of the seâ—ond generall hauing in them two particulars First that all the labour of wicked men against the Church is â—ut labour in vaine in respect of their owne intent and expectation verse 14. Secondly that the labour of wicked men is turned cleane contrary to their owne intent and expectation vers 15.16 And these things are set downe two waies 1. In Metaphor and similitude 2. In simple and expresse speech The former that all their labour is in vaine against the Church is expressed by a Metaphore frequent in Scripture taken from the trauell of a woman The minde of a wicked man is compared to a wombe or belly The conception is hurtfull and mischieuous thoughts and enterprises The cunning contriuing carrying and watching of fit opportunities is the nourishing perfecting and preparing to the birth while they carrie it the iust moneths in the meane time swelling with their own presumptions and glorying in the certaine expectation of their conceiued hopes The attempting of their enterprises is the parturition and trauell which costs them no small paine and labour The birth or fruite is some misshapen monster some mischieuous impe some treacherous Massacre some inuincible armie or powder-plot borne as Onuphrius writes of Pope Alexander the 6. for the destruction of all Italy so for the destruction of all England Scotland and Ireland But this monstrous shape is called a lye because mentiri is contra mentem ire as some allude When they looke vpon their owne childe and see the vgly face and shape of it in all the deformed members it is not to their minde they are ashamed and confounded and would faine seeke some father abroad either the Hugonot in France or the Puritans in England but that it is so like the fire as none can mistake the father of such a monster The latter that all the labour of the wicked is turned quite contrary to their owne expectation is set downe by another similitude taken from Hunters who as they lay snares and ginnes and pitfalls to take the sillie creatures euen so wicked men digge pits and delue deepe and lay their traines to winde in the godly into the destruction by them prepared In which sense it is said of Ioâ—sh and Iâ—hoiakim Ezek. 19.4.8 that the nations laid their nets for them and they were both taken in their pit But himselfe falles into his owne pit which he made that is whatsoâ—uer mischiefe the cruell Aduersaries deuise against the godly it catcheth themselues whereof Dauid had good experience Saâ—l layes his traine and digs a pit against Dauid 1 Sam 18.21 I will giue Dauid Micoll that she may be a snare to him and the hand of the Philistims may bee vpon him and verse 25. the King desireth no dowry but only an hundred foreskins of the Philistims to be auenged of his enemies for Saul saith the Text thought to make Dauid fall by the hand of the Philstims but Saul fell into his owne pit himselfe fell by the hand of the Philistims Chap. 31. The Philistims pressed so fore vpon him that they slew his three sons wounded himselfe sore and his owne hand also was against himselfe In the last verse of my Text all this is set out in simple and expresse words His mischiefe shall returne vpon his owne head his cruelty vpon his owne pate according to that in Prou. 5.22 His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe and he shall bee holden with the cords of his owne sinne Doct. The wicked counsels and enterprises of the enemies of the Church are not only vaine in respect of others but mischieuous against themselues Esa. 33.11 yee shall conceiue chaffe bring forth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuour you In which place the holy Ghost holds the same comparison as here comparing wicked men to women that haue conceiued
Great are the workes of God seene in the Creation and Gouernment of the world But the greatest workes of all hee doth for his Church 1. Hee hath chosen them to be his people and selected them from all nations of the earth to be a peculiar inheritance and his owne possession of all the earth 2. He hath made his residence and aboade with her as hee hath with no other society of men in the world 3. He hath made vnto her all his gracious promises and giuen the custody of his word to her and to no other people of the earth He hath not dealt so with euery nation neither haue they knowne his lawes Psal. 147.20 4. Hee hath taken vpon him the defence of his Church as of no other people to be as a shield or as a louing and carefull Husband of his deare and faithfull Spouse 5. He hath giuen her such experience of his prouidence and protection in many meruailous deliuerances both for soule and body as no people euer had the like to the perpetuall ouerthrow of all her aduersaries These and the like great workes in generall the Lord hath done for his Church Looke now vpon Israel who vtters the words of our Text what great things God hath done for them both in generall and in this speciall For the generall 1 Israel was Gods elect his sonne Exod. 4.22 his fiâ—st borne more loued more priuiledged than any his treasure his portion Deut. 32.8.9 To him belonged the adoption Rom. 9.4 and hee was not numbred among the nations Hee is select and chosen out of all the world Hee must haue the promises Of him are the Fathers and of him is Christ God blessed for euer 2. God dwelt in Israel Of Beniamin it is said that the Lord dwelt betweene his shoulders Deut. 33.12 With him was the Arke and the glory Rom. 9.4 and when that was taken the glory departed from Israel He dwelt at Salem and his Tabernacle was at Syon Psalm 76.2 God is present euery where but dwels onely in his Church Of Syon it was said There will I dwell 3. Their Lawes ordinances were meerely from God theirs was the Couenant Rom. 9.4 The Tables of the Couenant written with Gods owne hand and deliuered to them And the giuing of the Law that is their Statute-lawes Iudicials were not enacted by men but came from heauen In which respect no nation was so honoured Deut. 4.7.12 Was there euer any nation to whom God came so neere and spake out of the fire c. 4. Their preseruation and protection was a great worke of God as we shall see in some instances 1. Great was his care to send them into Egypt by reason of the famine that they might encrease in a fat land but he sent a man before euen Ioseph to prouide for them the fattest of the land Psalm 105.17 2. Great was his worke of preseruation in Egypt vnder that extreame tyrannie of Pharaoh and the Taske-maisters who could not worke wisely enough to keepe them vnder but the more they oppressed them to diminish them the more they encreased so as of seauenty soules in 220. yeares the encrease was 600000. men besides women and children Psal. 105.24 Hee encreased his people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies 3. Great was his worke in drawing them out of Egypt to which purpose hee sent Moses his seruant miraculously drawne out of the water and Aaron whom he had chosen vers 26. By whom he wrought those mighty signes and wonders vers 27. of darknesse blood frogges lyce haile caterpillers the death of their first borne c. Insomuch as the enemies loaded them with rich iewels and eare-rings and hastned them out of the Country God would not haue his seruants goe without their wages for so hard labour which the Egyptians had not considered Besides hee will haue them to haue somewhat away to bestow and conferre for the vse of the Temple And when Pharaoh pursued them so as they saw no way to escape him God gaue them a great deliuerance through the sea and him a great and miraculous ouerthrow Such a worke God neuer wrought for any people 4. Great was his prouidence and protection of them in the wildernesse where hee led them forty yeares first guiding them by a strange pillar of a cloud by day and of fire by night in all their iourneyes secondly feeding them with Mannah from heauen in which were a number of miracles and refreshing them with water out of a rocke thirdly couering their bodies with the same cloathes forty yeares together which did not teare by wearing not so much as their shooes fourthly fighting their battels for them suffering no man to do them harme but rebuking euen Kings for their sakes fiftly when hee had his people alone hee prescribes his whole worship concerning holy things holy persons places and times reareth vp a stately Tabernacle for his owne presence in it placeth a glorious Arke whence he immediately gaue answeres and directions by Vrim and Thummim and accepted sacrifices by fire immediately from heauen all testimonies of his immediate presence 5. As great was his care and prouidence in bringing them into the land of Canaan casting out all their enemies before them raising vp Ioshua to leade them in and aâ—ter him Iudges and Kings Sampson Deborah Dauid Salomon and their successors euen till their Captiuity in Bâ—bilon He gaue them a goodly land and fat flowing with milke and hony In it were vineyards which they planted not and houses which they builded not Hee gaue them a city which was on earth as the sunne in heauen the eye of the world an earthly paradise the seat of their Princes and Metropolitan of Iudea containing an hundred fifty thousand men the inhabitants In it was a Temple the bewtye of the whole world and the glory of the earth Thither the tribes went vp twice in a yere to worship the Lord Psal. 122.4 In it were the Colleges of Priests at whose mouth they were to require the Law Mal. 2.7 In it the thrones of iustice were erected Psalme 122.5 In a word Great and glorious things are to bee spoken of this Citie of God Psal. 87.3 Thus the Church in Israell might well say The Lord hath done great things for vs. But she need not cast hir eyes so farre back Here is one great worke in steed of many great things as which indeed hath many great things in it on which while she fixeth her eyes she countâ— shâ— hath matter enough of reioycing IV. For God hauing now reuenged the impiety of the Priests and Princes who had not only profaned his Land Temple and worship with Idols but had filled all the corners of the land with innocent blood by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel called the scourge of God for the space of seuenty yeares It pleaseth him now to returne in mercy to his miserable people