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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53745	Englands warning by late frowning providences, especially the immediate hand of God upon the straits-fleet improved in a sermon preacht April 1st, 1694 ... : from Ezekiel V, viii ... / by Jonathan Owen ...	Owen, Jonathan.	1694 (1694)	Wing O826; ESTC R17899	21,718	36

and defensive Wars with other Nations but now when an incensed God by his over-ruling Providence frowns upon any or all of these as of late it surely indicates he hath a controversie with us was it not the accursed thing in the Camp that occasioned that sad disappointment to Israel before Ai as Joshua 7.1 4. And were they not compell'd to reform according to Gods command before they could prosper against their Enemies and was it not the disobedience of Jonah to Gods Precepts that caused a Storm to arise that impeded their Passage until he was thrown over-board And what may we imagine hath been the occasion of our late Disappointments by Sea and Land but our great Provocations here and there For can a Bulrush grow without Mire as in Job 8.11 or will a Lyon roar in the Forrest when he hath no Prey as in Amos 3.4 Neither would God thus blast ordinary endeavours for our Honour Safety and Wealth if we had not by our Sins set him against us I must confess tho' we have looked for much and it 's come to little yea tho' our Trading is Dead in the midst of us tho' our Merchants wax Poor and much of their Wealth is swallow'd up in the merciless Waves tho' we have many Widows Fatherless and Orphans by the late desolating blow from Gods immediate Hand upon the Fleet yet he that hath done all this might justly have swallow'd up all and have spared none to inform us of so great a Judgment commixt with tender and sparing Mercy to others by this repeated Judgment the incensed God hath evidently fulfill'd that Commination upon us Ezek. 13.13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God I will even Rent it with a stormy Wind in my Fury and there shall be an over-flowing shower in my anger and great Hail-stones in my Fury to consume it Thus I have given you the Signs of a Black day wherein it may be said as in the Text I even I am against thee c. 3. General Is to Evince and Demonstrate that of all Judgments for the great God manifestly to declare himself against a People or a Nation is the worst and sorest and the Reasons are these following 1. Reason It 's so because if God be against a People or a Nation then all he is in himself is against that People as when a Sinner is brought in to Covenant with God then all in God is his and for his good even every Attribute of God his Wisdom Mercy Goodness Faithfulness and the like so when God sets himself against a People or a Nation then every Attribute of God is set against that People and Nation And therefore it must necessarily be the greatest and worst of Judgments for God to declare Himself against a People or a Nation Beloved there is infinitely more in the One great God's manifesting Himself against us than if all the World besides him should do it sad was the Case of Israel when God pronounced by the Prophet Jer. 18.11 Behold I frame evil against you and devise a device against you c. When the great Jehovah sets his Wisdom on Work to frame Evil and devise Judgments it must needs be sad for not only one but all the Attributes of God are against that People 2. Reason Of all Judgments for the great God to manifest and declare himself against a People or a Nation is the worst because then all the Creatures of God are against that People the Lord of Heaven and Earth hath all his Creatures at his beck and command they do and must fulfil whatsoever his Pleasure is as a great General once said If he did but nod with his Head or stamp with his Foot he could make his Souldiers encounter the greatest difficulties so if the Lord of Heaven and Earth doth but look out of Heaven and say as Jehu did to them with proud painted Jezebel 2 Kings 9.32 Who it on my side who Then all the Creatures in Heaven and upon Earth in the Sea also and Winds shall be ready to look out and obey his Commands and fulfil his Will Psal 148.8 Fire and Hail Snow and Vapour Stormy Wind fulfilling his Word Did not he cause the Stars to fight against Sisera Judg. 5.20 and did not he send an Angel to discomfit the Camp of the Assyrians who blasphem'd against the Lord and many more such Instances we have wherein the great God as well as of late upon the Straits Fleet hath shew'd that it 's the worst of Judgments for God to declare himself to be against a People because if he be against them all his Creatures shall be against them also 3. It is so because if God be against a People or a Nation his Opposition renders all other Means ineffectual for our Preservation as the Psalmist speaks Psal 127.1 2. Except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it except the Lord keep the City the Watchmen watch in vain 2. It 's in vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of Sorrows So if the Lord doth not bless our Merchandizing our Trade and Callings our Forces by Sea and Land all our Care and Cost will be in vain It was a dismal time with Saul when he cry'd out to him the Witch rais'd 1 Sam. 28.15 I am sore distressed and the Philistines make War against me and the Lord God hath departed from me So if God forsake us in this time of War sore Distress must necessarily follow I pray God deliver us from that woful Commination mentioned by the Prophet against Egypt Isa 19.3 I will destroy the Council of Egypt Isa 7.7 Thus saith the Lord God it shall not stand neither shall it come to pass As with good Advice War is to be made and in multitude of Counsel is Safety under God so for God to set himself against a People is the worst and forest of Judgments because his Opposition renders all means for our welfare ineffectual 4. It 's the worst of Judgments for God to set himself against a People or a Nation because then there is no Safety but the greatest Peril as it is written concerning the Children of the Wicked Job 5.4 They are far from Safety So it may truly be said of that People whom God is against They are far from Safety that is they are in eminent danger incompass'd with hazards on every side as helpless as a naked man is against an incensed Army that resolves to put all to the Sword and spare none when God by Judgments declares as in the Text I even I am against thee it may truly be said to such as Psal 142.4 Refuge fails and which way soever we betake our selves there will be no Exemption from the Judgments of an incensed God I remember what the King said to the Woman in the Famine of Samaria to this effect 2 Kings 6.27 When she cry'd out Help O King help if the Lord do not help