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A85485	The progresse of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey Church of Westminster before the house of Peers, on the 24th of September, 1645. being the day of their monethly fast. / By William Gouge, one of the members of the Assembly.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1393; Thomason E302_25; ESTC R200284	30,328	48

Commandement then that which was written in tables of stone For that exacted an impossibility Rom. 8. 3. by reason of the weaknesse and corruption of our flesh But the New Commandement is written in the fleshly tables of our heart whereby ability is given unto us cherefully and acceptably to performe the same 5. A new way This is also called a living way which Christ by his flesh hath consecrated for us For Christ himselfe having with his own bloud entred into the most holy place hath thereby made full satisfaction for all our sins which causes the way to Heaven to be impassible and made the way easy for us to walke in Thus is he the way the truth and the life the only true way that leadeth us unto life 6. A new heart This is opposed to a mans naturall heart which is stiled an heart of stone in that it is so obdurate that it will sooner like a stone be broken all to pieces and utterly confounded with Gods judgements then yield to him and his word This new heart is not only freed from that obstinacy but also made flexible and pliable to the Word of God and worke of his spirit and thereupon called an heart of flesh 7. A new spirit This also is opposed to a mans naturall spirit which in all things resisteth the good Spirit of God Such a spirit the Jewes of old had of whom Stephen the first Martyr for Christ thus speaketh Ye do alwayes resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye But this new spirit readily and willingly yeeldeth to every good motion of the Spirit of God 8. A new song A song which shall sound forth as the Prophet expounds himselfe Gods praises from the end of the earth by reason of the Gospel whose sound as the sound of the heavens hath gone forth thorow all the earth The sum and substance of this new song was sung out by an heavenly quire at the birth of Christ It was this Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will towards men Finally to insist on no more particulars there is a promise made of making all things new If any shall thinke that this is meant of the world to come let him consider how expressely the Apostle applyes it to the time of the Gospell saying of that time Behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5. 17. Thus we see how this promise of Gods doing better for his Church in the later times is evidenced by sundry particulars of better and new things Yet further as if ordinary words and usuall comparisons were not sufficient to set forth the great increase of Gods providence the Prophets use very transcendent and hyperbolicall expressions to set it out the more to the life and that according to our capacity To which purpose this increase of Gods Providence is thus expressed For brasse I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brasse and for stones iron Hereby he sheweth that as wood is better then common stones and iron better then wood and brasse better then iron and silver better then brasse and gold better then silver so much better yea infinitely more are the good things of these later times better then the good things of former times Yet further is this increase thus heightened Isa. 30. 26. The light of the Moone shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be seven fold as the light of seven dayes Who knowes not how great a difference there is between the two lights of the Moone and the Sun to make the light of the Moone as great as of the Sun must needs be a wonderfull great increase And because there can be no greater light then the light of the Sun he multiplieth that light to the number of perfection saying The light of the Sun shall be seven fold as the light of seven dayes And to shew that no comparisons are sufficient to set out the increase of Gods goodnes to the full it is further said The Sun shall be no more thy light by day neither for brightnes shall the Moone give light unto thee But the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory Isa. 60. 19. If we take a view of the increase of Gods good Providence generation after generation even from the beginning of the world to the end thereof it will yet more clearely appeare that as Gods goodnes hath ever increased more and more so the greatest increase thereof hath been in later times and so the better things reserved for us and others who have lived therein For the clearer exemplification hereof we will account the whole continuance of the world together with the world to come as one great week And distinguish the whole course thereof from the creation to the day of judgement into six long dayes the seventh being an eternall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a keeping a Sabbath or rest after the day of judgement The six forementioned dayes may thus be distinguished The first from Adam to Noah Wherein besides Gods goodnes in creating the world was manifested that great evidence of mercy in promising a Redeemer to free man from his miserable bondage under Satan whereinto he had implunged himself the words of the promise are these It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele By this relative particle It the seed of the woman the Lord Jesus Christ is meant The words being spoken to Satan under the serpent by thy head is meant Satan and all his power by bruising an utter subduing of the same The next words Thou shalt bruise his heele set forth Satans attempts against the mysticall body of Christ and his annoying of the same in many respects But so as the heele only the externall condition of the foresaid body not the head the soule of it can be crushed This was a very gracious promise and a great good The second day lasted from Noah to Abraham wherein the Church had that memorable type of Gods preserving it out of that common deluge which destroyed the whole world besides This type was the Arke This the Apostle calls in relation to Baptisme a like figure For it did lively set forth to the Church such a preservation and deliverance from sinne and destruction as Baptisme doth In this respect a more expresse evidence of Gods goodnes was given in this day then in the former The third day was from Abraham to David wherein that precious and expresse promise of blessing all Nations in Abrahams seed was made wherein also Israel was brought out of the Egyptian bondage a type of the redemption of the Church from her spiritual bondage under sinne and Satan In this day the Tabernacle with the many other types of Christ his offices and benefits to his Church were first ordained and Israel

the rest My purpose therefore is to insist upon the last Doctrine You heard it before hear it again God hath provided his better things for the later times of his Church Well observe the particular good things which God hath provided for the Christian Church which is the Church of the later times and you shall finde them stiled better The Testament given to the Christian Church is a better Testament It is made by the Sonne of God Immanuel God with us and ratified by his death wherein an eternall inheritance is bequeathed unto us Was there ever such a testament before 2. The Covenant made between God and his Church in these later times is a better Covenant Give me here leave because mention is made both of a Testament and a Covenant to shew you the difference between them 1. A Covenant is an agreement between two a Testament is the declaration of the will of one 2. The two between whom a Covenant passeth must be both living a Testament receiveth force by the death of him that made it 3. A Covenant is ratified by the mutuall consent of both parties a Testament by the will only of him that made it 4. A Covenant useth to be made upon conditions on both parts a Testament is made upon the meer favour and grace of the testatour Now the Covenant made with Christians is better then the two former Covenant both called old because they are both in such respects nulled The first was a Covenant of works made with man in his entire estate which by his fall he made impossible for man to keep But this Covenant giveth ability to keep it with much alacrity 2. There was a Covenant indeed of grace made with the Church before Christ exhibited but set out in such obscure promises and prophecies and dark types and shadows as it was needfull in time to be abolished but the new Covenant made with the Christian Church is so clearly and plainly revealed as it may well in that respect also be called better 3. The Promises now made are better Promises most of the Promises before Christ exhibited were of temporall good things I will not deny but that spirituall and celestiall good things were prefigured under them but now spirituall and heavenly good things are more expressely perspicuously and plentifully promised to the Church 4. The hope that now we have is a better hope Promises are the ground of hope The better the promises the better must hope needs be and that in those respects wherein the Promises are better Christians may more immediately directly and steadily hope for all spirituall and heavenly blessings then they that lived before Christ could 5. The sacrifice that now we have is better then the former sacrifices He that considereth the difference between the bodies of unreasonable creatures the body of Christ the Sonne of God cannot but know that there is an infinite excellency in this sacrifice over and above those If any thing under the Gospel may justly be stiled better then the like under the Law surely this sacrifice may most of all be stiled better then those 6. The blood of Christ in regard of the crie of it is stiled better It is said to speak better things then that of Abel because Abels blood cried for vengeance Christs for pardon Christ when he was upon the crosse where he shed his blood thus cried Father forigive them Yea further Christs blood is better then that blood which was shed on the Altars under the Law For it is not possible that the blood of buls and goats should take away sins but the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin 7. To insist upon no more particulars the Apostle under this indefinite phrase {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} some better thing compriseth all those good things which in comparison of the Church of the Jewes are bestowed on the Christian Church For thus he saith God hath provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect In such a respect as Gospel-blessings are called better they are also called new as A new Covenant a new Testament a new Hierusalem a new Heaven and earth a new name a new commandement a new way a new heart a new spirit and a new song These and other like things are called new in opposition to old things which decaid and vanished away so as there was a necessity of new things to succeed in their room These new things shall never wax old they are new not only in their beginning but also in their perpetuall continuance They shall ever be fresh and flourishing like Aarons rod which budded and bloomed blossomes and yeelded Almonds and so alwayes continued even as long as the Arke of the testimony before which it was set remained The new Covenant and the new Testament are the same which were before stiled better and in such like respects called new Of them therefore I shall need to say no more then what hath been said The rest that follow are these 1. A new Jerusalem The old Jerusalem was of senseles corruptible materialls The new Jerusalem is of lively stones a spirituall house It is stiled the City of God in regard of the excellency thereof for excellent things in Canaans language are said to be things of God and in regard of that care which God taketh of it and delight which he takes to be in it The old Jerusalem was but a type and figure of this 2. New Heavens and a new Earth Hereby is meant a new face of a Church farre more glorious in the spirituality of it then the former before Christ The phrase is hyperbolicall it is used to set forth not only a renovation of the Church but such a renovation as should put the world as it were into a new forme and frame insomuch as he that should attentively look upon it might say Behold new Heavens and a new Earth If it be objected that an Apostle speaking of the times of the Gospel saith We looke for new Heavens and a new Earth and thereby intends the glory of the world to come I answer that excellent matters are some times spoken of in their inchoation and progresse and sometimes in their perfection and consummation so as the new Heavens and the new Earth in their beginning and increase may be under the Gospell and in their consummation and perfection after the day of judgement 3. A new name This Christ stileth his name Rev. 3. 12. This name is to be a sonne of God For as many as received him to them he gave power to become the sonnes of God Of old they were called children of Israel now Christians yea the Apostle giveth the name Christ to the mysticall body of Christ consisting of many Saints 1 Cor. 12. 12. 4. A new Commandement Another kinde of

of the Chapter The scope of the text The parts thereof Observ. 1. Jam. 1. 17. Observ. 2. Zech. 11. 1. Psalm 119. 68. Observ. 3. Observ. 4. Mal. 1. 2 3. Rom. 9. 13. 1 Tim. 4. Observ. 5. Isa. 2. 2. Particular things stiled better 1. Better Testament Heb. 7. 22. Heb. 9. 15. 2. Better Covenant Heb. 8. 6. Difference betwixt Covevenant and Testament Heb. 9. 17. Two old Covenants Rom. 8. 3. 3 Better promises Heb. 8. 6. 4 Better hope Heb. 7. 19. 4 Better sacrifice Heb. 9. 23. 6 Better blood Heb. 12. 24. Luke 2 34. Heb. 10. 4. 1 Iohn 1 7. All Gospel things better Heb. 11. 40. Gospel-things new In what respect new Heb. 8. 13. Numb. 17. 8. c. Heb. 9. 4. 1. New Jerusalem Rev. 3. 12. 1 Pet. 2. 5. 2. New Heavens and a new Earth Isa. 65. 17. Non dixit alios caelos aliā terran videbi mus sed antiquos in melius commutatos Hier. Com. in Isa. 65. 2 Pet. 3. 13. How we still look for new heavens and a new earth Principium innovationis in praesentiseculo perfecta consummataque novitas nondum Hier. Com. in Ephes. l. 2. 3 A new name Isa. 62. 2. Joh. 1. 12. Act. 11. 26. 4. A new Commandement Ioh. 13. 34. 5 A new way Heb. 10. 20. Ioh. 14. 6. 6. A new heart Ezek. 36. 26. Ezek. 11. 15. 7. A new spirit Act. 7. 51. 8. A new song Isa. 42. 10 Rom. 10 18. Luk. 2. 14. All things new Rev. 21. 5. Hyperboles doe set out the increase of Gods goodnes Isa. 60. 17. Luna fulgebit ut sol c. non significat interitum pristinorum sed commutationem in mell us Hier. Com. in Isa. ●… l. 18. The continuance of this world divided into six dayes 1. Gen. 3. 15. Gen. 6. 18. 1 Pet. 3. 21. Beza transsere {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} correspondens exem lar Vide annotat ejus majores in hunc locum Suidas ait {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sumi prosimilitudine 3. 4. 5. Ier. 16. 14 15. Hag. 2. 9. Ioh. 1. 29 36. Mat. 11. 11. 6. Psal. 118. 24. Reasons of Gods increasing goodnesse 1 Extent of goodnesse better discerned Gods works better better The first daies work The second daies work Aben Ezra aliique referunt maria terram ad e●undum diem eò quod post quā illa creata fuerunt dictum sit v. 10. Vidit Deus quod bonū esset The third daies work The fourth daies work The fifth daies work The sixth daies work 2 Better things put off to make them more desired and esteemed Mat. 13. 17. 1 Peter 1. 11. Luke 2. 10. Luke 2. 46 47. Luke ● 68. Luke 2. 29. 3 Best things put off to the last daies for Christs honour Gal. 4. 4. Gen. 3. 25. Uses of Gods encreasing goodnesse 1 Popery makes the last daies worst 1 An unknown tongue lesse understood than types Bellarm. de effect Sacr. l. 2. c. 31. Rhem. Annot. on 1 Cor. 14. 2 Popish sacrifice worse then legall Concil. Trid. Decret 10. c. 2. Bellarm. de Miss. l. 1. c. 5. 12. l. 2. c. 7. Heb. 7. 27. and 9. 26 28 and 10. 10. Heb. 7. 11 c. Heb. 9. 22. 3 Popish penance more heavie then legall Alij degentes in remotis abditu locis singuli singulas cellas veluti sepulchro inhabitant c. Annonam totius bebdomadae Sabbato accipiunt ac omnimode humanae consolationis expertes c Alij antris speluncis parietibus se includunt c. Sune etiam quisqualores solitudinum requarūt bestiale ferarū consortium non pertimescunt c. Otho Frisingins l 1. cap. 35. 4 Popish ceremonies more burdensome then legall Bellarm de effect Sacr c 31. Rhem. Annot on Gal. 4. 1. 2 3. Isa. 1. 12. Mat. 15. 9. 2 To wish the Jewish glorious times argues folly Genesis 3. 6. Jewish Christians Acts 10. 15. 1 Tim: 4. 1 3. Acts 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 1● Apish imitation of the Jews 3 It is worse to have no Church-governours then such as the Jews had 2 Chron. 19. 11. 1 Cor. 12. 28. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} both in sacred Scriptures and other authours signifieth a Governour {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Mica 5. 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Dominator is stile {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Mat. 1. 6. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is also opposed to {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} him that serveth Luk. 22. 26 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Qui imperat voluptatibus Islo a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Plutaron Difference betwixt Magistrates and Church-Governours 4. Aggravation of Gospel-sins Gospel-sins 1. Ignorance 2 Cor. 4. 4. 2. Unsetlednes Ephes 4. 14. Heb. 5. 12. 3. Doubtings Jam. 5. 6 7. Mat. 8. 36. 14. 31. 4. Abuse of Grace Causa pro non causa Objectum pro non objecto Subjecum pro nos subjecto 5 Perverting Election Ephes. 1. 4. 6 Doing evil on pretence of good Rom. 3. 8. 7 Delay of repetnance 8 Misapplying liberty Gal. 3. 10. 13. Rom. 8. 1. 9 Prophaning the Sabbath Jude v. 4. 10 Apostacie 2 Pet. 2. 20. Heb. 10. 26. Deut. 32. 6. Heb. 10. 29. Mat. 11. 21 c. Heb. ●… 8 29. 5. Gods reserving better things to later times makes us expect better in bad The Jews to be recalled Ezek. 37. 16 c. The better things given to Jews Better things to Christians Light held forth by Wickliff Wickliffs articles Popes supremacie cast down The scourge with six strings A better Reformation 2 Chron. 15. 17. 20. 33. Q. Many The doctrine of the Gospel restored to the purity thereof Tihi Regina tu●sque populis quod haud scio an cuiquam nostra tempestate regno per te datum est pura videlicet ac fincerae Evangelij doctrinae integra professio B●za in Epist. Ded. Reginae Eliza. Ad quam si plenam quosque ecclesiasticae disciplinae instaurationem adjunxeris lane non video quid a●…p●…us Anglia ipsa possità te flagi tare Ibi● Rubs which hinder the Progres of Providence Joshua 23. 13. 6. Gods increasing goodnes requires greater thankfulnes Mat. 11. 11. 1 Pet. 1. 10. Luk. 10. 24. John 8 56. Luk. 1. 68. 〈◊〉 2. 2● 7 Worthy walking 1 Thes. 2. 12. Col. 1. 10. Ephes. 4. 1. Mat. 3. 8. Rom. 6. 21. Heb. 6. 12. How Christians are to excell the ancient Jewes How Christians walk worthy Genesis 4. 4 Heb. 11. 4. Genesis 4 26. Genesis 5. 24. Genesis 6. 9 11 Genesis ● 23. Genesis 14 18 20 Heb. 11. 13. Genesis 42. 18 Namb. 14. 24. Joshua 24. 15. Judges 2. 16 c. Ruth 3. 16. Mat. 12. 41 42. Hab. 12. 1.