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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42547	God's soveraignty displayed from Job 9. 12. : Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him? &c., or, A discourse shewing, that God doth, and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth, as to the matter what, the place where, the time when, the means and manner how, and the reasons thereof : with an application of the whole, to the distressed citizens of London, whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the fire : an excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal, the ends that God aims at in it, with directions how to behave themselves under their losses / by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.; Gearing, William. No abiding city in a perishing world.	1667 (1667)	Wing G435A; ESTC R18630	101,655	265

our selves what we have deserved we may behold abundance of mercy toward us under our greatest losses and his sharpest corrections Peradventure thou art in some great pain in some part or member of thy body but tell me dost thou not deserve to burn in hell and to feel the scorching pains of the damned if such an easie disease doth so torment thee here think then with thy self how thou couldst lie in everlasting torments if the pain of one worm-eaten tooth doth so fearfully vex thee day and night that it almost driveth thee to madness think then that thou deservest to be tormented for ever with that fearful Worm of Conscience Thou canst not brook the sight of such a person nor endure the company of such a man who hath done thee wrong but tell me then how thou wouldest be able to endure the company of all the damned yet even this also thou dost deserve thy sharpest sufferings here are sweet if compared with hell torments Perhaps thy house is burnt thy goods are consumed by the flame thou hast lost thy husband thy wife thy children thy friends thy estate but tell me dost thou not deserve it and much more even to lose thy God thy Saviour thy soul thy treasure in heaven everlasting glory and blessedness Therefore under all thy losses and sufferings let God have the glory of his Justice and say with Mauritius the Emperour Justus es Domine justasunt judicia tua Righteous art thou O Lord and just are all thy judgements Or as Daniel To thee O Lord belongeth righteousnes●● but unto us confusion of face Say thou I am unrighteous thou art righteous I am a sinner thou art just II. God may take from his creatures what he pleaseth without crossing his goodness or mercy his mercy is free it is not due to any he hath mercy on whom he will therefore he may take away what he will from any it is a mercy that God hath left any good thing in the possession of sinful man who might have stript us of all and when he doth a little consume us it is his mercies that we are not utterly consumed S. Augustine well weigheth the words of S. James Behold we count them blessed which endure Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have known what end the Lord made They should not therefore saith he suffer the loss of their goods in hope to receive their goods again as Job did for his wounds and rottenness made him whole and all those things which he had lost were doubly restored to him That therefore we should not when we suffer temporal losses expect or look for such a remuneration he saith not ye have heard of the patience and end of Job but he saith ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen what end the Lord made as if he had said Endure the greatest losses as Job but for this your enduring do not expect the restitution which Job had of temporal goods but rather of a more enduring substance laid up in heaven for you III. God may take away what he pleaseth from us without crossing his truth and faithfulness For 1. Gods promises by which he engageth to us in these outward things are conditional and what man living is able to say that he doth so exactly perform his conditions that God cannot take any thing from him without breach of promise who among us hath performed the conditions of the promises your in quities have withheld good things from you saith the Prophet So I may say your iniquities have taken good things from you We have either failed in our duty or we have been unthankful for what we received from God or we were not wise Stewards of Gods blessings or we waxed proud and wanton and forgat God the giver of our blessings therefore God hath turn'd us out of all or the greatest part of those good things he gave us as a chastisement of our sins and negligence in our duties Could we make good the condition of the promises we should still find God making good all the promises of this life to us Assuredly saith Calvin if we were fit and meet to receive Gods benefits he would open his hand and deal more liberally with us Therefore when God takes away your goods your wealth and substance search and try your wayes and you will find your iniquities to be the cause and then you will see little ground to blame God for unfaithfulness in his promises for albeit abundance of outward things be promised to the godly yet if we are deficient in our duty he may either with-hold or take away those good things promised for these things are promised upon condition of our hearkening diligently to the voice of the Lord our God to observe and do all his Commandments Deut. 28.1 2. 2. God may take what he will from the wicked without crossing his truth because they have no interest in Christ and his promises the promises are all yea and Amen in Christ but the wicked can claim no interest in the promises because they have no interest in Christ and if God leave them any good thing it is more than he promised them if he take away their children and leave them health it is more than he promised them if he takes away health and wealth and give them only their lives if he cast them not into hell it self it is more than he promised them IV. When God takes away health wealth goods liberties outward comforts from his own people he hath made up all their losses afore-hand he hath given himself an infinite God to be their portion nay he that takes these outward things from them will give them a kingdome and that Will make up all their losses and therefore he may take away all other things See how God speaks to Abraham Gen. 15. 1. Fear not Abraham I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward Had Abraham left his native Country his Kindred all save one Lot and was he also gone from him to dwell in Sodome was Abraham now as one alone among strangers among Idolaters and Atheists and those the most execrable in the world the very brood of Cham the Father of Canaan a people devoted to destruction having four hundred years given them to fill up the measure of their sins and yet hath Abraham no cause to fear no saith the Lord to him Fear not Abraham The Majesty of God is pleased to stoop so low as in love to give a reason hereof to Abraham and one that Abraham must needs say was very sufficient I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward which is more full than if God had said I will shield thee and reward thee though that had been enough but God promiseth himself as a shield to him and so assureth him of an infinite protection yea he giveth himself as a reward to him an exceeding great reward What cause then hath Abraham to fear Fear