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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85666	An exposition of the five first chapters of the prophet Ezekiel, with useful observations thereupon. / Delivered in severall lectures in London, by William Greenhill.	Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1851; Thomason E272_1; ESTC R212187	422,046	514

a wheele in a wheele not the gnave stocke in the midst of the wheele to which the spokes are fasten'd for that hath not the forme of a wheele but there was one wheele in another as the orbes of the heavens comprehend one another as in some Water-works and Watches there be wheeles one in another and then the meaning is that there is a secret hidden motion or wheele that moves the wheeles which way soever they run Observe first that the motions of the world and kingdomes are perplexed and crosse motions like a wheele in a wheele Saul moved with all his strength to settle the kingdome upon his own Son but he met with a contrary motion David is anointed to be King and the men of warre came to David to Hebron to turne the kingdome of Saul to him 1 Chron. 12.23 And so Adonijah said to Bathshebah the kingdome that was mine is turned about and become my brothers hee met with a crosse wheele that carried the kingdome from him 1 King 2.15 How perplexed intangled were the motions of the Jewish affaires both in Babylon and at Jerusalem when the Prophet saw this vision The Papists doe erect regnum in regno an ecclesiasticall monarchy in the temporall exempt from temporall jurisdiction onely subject ob pacem or bonum commune if subject at all and so they give Monarchs a broken right in some things but defeasible in other things by their spirituall Monarchie Nebuchadnezzars wheele was in theirs and intangled them much in both places What crosse motions were in France when the King of Navarre Prince of Condee the Admirall and all that were of the Religion looked for peace and met with a massacre Are not there Romish Spanish French and Popish wheeles moving in our Kingdome Armies and Councels Look at this instant upon the motions of this Kingdome in Parliament or out of it and they are exceeding intricate Never was skaine of silke or thread so knotty or involved as the affaires of the kingdome and world are never bird so intangled in the Limetwigs or Net as things are at this time 2. The motions to mutations and ruines are very swift things move faster then we conceive to their ends The Jewes hasted out of Aegypt and destruction hasted on the Aegyptians A wheele in a wheele notes intension of motion as Elias prayed in prayer Jam. 5.17 That is he was intense so a wheele in a wheele intimates intensenesse of the motion All things make speed to their owne ruine 3. There is a secret motion which carries on the wheeles and moves them that way they goe there is a wheele in a wheele and that sets the other a moving as a spring in a Watch sets all the wheeles agoing some latent engine stirs the wheels of the world in some places you shall see the waters suddenly fly all about you the cause of that motion is hidden so in all the motions turnes and stirres of the world there is a secret wheele divine providence that sets on worke and carries on That was a great wheele and turne when ten tribes at once fell from Rehoboam and ran to Jeroboam Politicians and Statesmen could see sedition rebellion and treason in that motion the outward wheele was obvious but the wheele in the wheele was not seene by every eye Behold I will rend the Kingdome out of Solomons hands and give ten Tribes to thee 1 King 11.31 If there be divisions ruines plunderings in a Kingdome there is a wheele in those wheeles a providence that acts and orders Job 6.5 Afflictions come not forth of the dust nor trouble out of the ground they come out of the wheele God turnes that upon Kingdomes and families as Micah 1.12 Evill came downe from the Lord to the gates of Jerusalem God hath a wheele in all the wheeling businesses of the world Anastasius the Emperour being inform'd of a conspiracy against him and the State Zonar commanded Justinian and Justinus with many others to be executed by a voice in the night he was bid to spare Justinian and Justinus for they were to doe good service and they both afterward were Emperours the motion of the wheele in the wheele sav'd their lives and advanc'd them to honour At the Battell of Keinton was a wheele in a wheele the wheele at first ran for the adverse partie but the wheele in the wheele turn'd it on our side At Brainford there was a wheele in a wheele When the enemies plots have been their plagues and their doings their undoings the wheele in the wheele both moved and turn'd their owne workes upon them Psal 9.16 4. The motions of divine providence in the things of the world are beyond the reach of the ablest braines Providence walkes works so darkly deeply changeably wheeles about so that mortalls cannot tell what conclusions to make when the issues of things are extant we can see what the antecedent motions carried in their wombe otherwise not unlesse wee have it by vision as here Ezekiel had or some extraordinary way Providence hath such bouts and fetches as puzzle the thoughts and hearts of the ablest and best when the Children of Israel were at the borders of Canaan they were carried backe againe to Ezion-gabor Numb 33. Exod. 13.18 it 's said God led them about through the way of the Wildernesse by the red Sea and so providence leads businesses about they goe backwards and forwards so that we cannot make sense of Gods motions in the world As in Characters till a man learne be instructed in them he can make no sense of them and men now of rare abilities cannot tell what sense to make of the motions of the wheeles Mounsieur Chastileon Admirall of France at the match of Charles the 9th his Sister with the King of Navarre was invited with the chiefe of the Protestants by the King to celebrate the marriage at Paris and to confirme Peace the Protestants at Rochel advised him not to goe but importunitie of others prevailed with him he went and was massacred for it Although he was of great wisdome hee could not discerne what way the wheeles would move the wisest man is too weake to spell out the meaning of the wheels and mysteries of providence once before he had refused to come to Court at the Kings sending who sent Mounsieur Du Tore his cousen to advertise him of important affaires he had to communicate he suspecting answered the King means me no good and tell him there be no Count Egmonds in France I will not suffer my head so easily to be cut off as he did in Flanders Roderick King of Spaine to assure himselfe against the children and friends of King Vitiza whom he had deposed dismounted all the strong holds and disarm'd the people this strengthened him against domestick enemies not forein attempts For the Moores invading him shortly after overthrew him and finding little resistance in seven or eight moneths conquer'd almost all Spaine The Britains molested by the

Picts and Scots cald in the Saxons who for some time served them to purpose but in the end conquered them and their Countrey These could not foresee what would be the issue of things the motions of providence are so secret and various that it lyes not within the compasse of mans power to make certain conclusions therefrom 5. There is a connexion of causes and things together in the world Hosea 2.21 22. I will heare the heavens and they shall heare the earth that shall heare the corne wine and oyle and they shall heare Jezreel as in Architecture there is a dependance and connexion VER 17. When they went they went upon their foure sides and they returned not when they went and so on to the end of the 21. IN these Verses wee have two things 1. Wee have the effect of the wheeles which is motion laid downe in the 17 19 20 21. Verses And 2. The adjuncts of them which are two 1. Height 2. Eyes in the 18th verse The commodiousness of their motion for all parts and the forme of it are both in this 17th verse The Hebrew is In going they went to their foure foure sides to the foure parts which were next to their sides or through the foure parts and so the sense is they went to into or through the foure parts of the world if you read it according to our translation upon them the sense is when the foure living creatures moved the wheeles moved upon their sides It 's our phrase when we ask one which side went he of such a man we answer upon or on his right or left side but the better sense to me is they went according to their foure sides Looke what side what part of the world was appointed them that the wheeles went to and moved in And returned not They came not backe but went forward There might be varietie of motions but no backe motions no retrogradations being once gone forth they returned not The observation first is this That in all parts humane things move to their appointed period and there is no returne of them being once there Pharaoh and his Host came to their period in the bottome of the Sea and never saw Aegypt more The Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs have taken up their lodgings in the dust and returne no more What David said of the child I shall goe to it it shall not returne to me is a fit motto to all creatures they must goe to those are gone before not they returne to these Cities people families silver gold fine linnen they must see that corruption those saw in former dayes 2. That inferior causes move constantly in their motions to doe the will of God The wheeles turned not when they went nothing could turne them backe nor the Angels in their administrations but they goe on Wee thinke it 's the creature makes stops lets in the affaires of the world but it 's Gods hand his providence doth it the wheeles all inferior causes proceed in their motions till God check them and cause a stand Esa 43.13 I will worke and who shall let it VER 18. As for their Rings they were so high that they were dreadfull and their Rings were full of eyes round about them foure 19. And when the living creatures went the wheeles went by them And when the living creatures were lift up from the earth the wheels were lift up 20. Whither soever the Spirit was to goe they went thither was their Spirit to goe and the wheels were lifted up over against them for the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels 21. When those went these went and when those stood these stood and when those were lifted up from the earth the wheels were lifted up over against them for the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels IN the 18th verse we have the rings of the wheels described from their highnesse and eyenesse They were so high they caused terror so full of eyes they caused wonder The Hebrew reading is somewhat different it runs thus And the rings of them both height to them and feare to them or by reason of them that is Propter cas the wheels were so high that they bred terror struck feare into the Prophet The word Rings in the Hebrew is Backs their backs were high dreadfull that is their Circumferences or Rings were so of such breadth and altitude for there is no difference between those in rings and circles that they caused feare to those looked upon them Now what is meant by this height and greatnesse of the wheels must be opened unto you and it 's this the motions of second causes and changes of things here in this world are so great so incomprehensible by man that they produce feares and terrors to the sons of men Men are troubled that they cannot fathome the deeps and measure the heighth and breadth of the wheels when men see times and seasons changed kingdomes dashed in pieces the godly brought into bondage the wicked advanced truth persecuted errours in credit justice troden down and all things moving by contrary motions they stand amazed and not able to reach the causes of things to measure the wheels and see into the exact motions of them they become sensible of their own weaknesse and say O the heighth of the wheels O the shallownesse of our spirits Observ 1. That the causes and motions and changes in the world are unknown to the sons of men the wheels are too high for them to measure man is so beetlelish and purblind that the dim sight of his soul pierceth not into the secrets and knowledge of causes Eccles 3.11 it only comes at the out-side and extremities of things the superficies of the wheel but not the heighth and depth of it not the true nature and causes of things so that admiration opinion not science is begotten in man this Agrippa knew that writ a Book of the vanity of Sciences and Zanche that writ a Tractat Quod nihil scitur and Socrates was judged the learned man so that hee said This I know that I know nothing ● Cor. 13.12 and above all these the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 8.2 If any man thinke he knoweth any thing he knoweth nothing yet as hee ought to know and elsewhere Wee see through a glasse darkely things are a riddle to us we know not what to make of them Look into the world and what can we make of it the wheels in every quarter have such a heighth as none can reach second causes move so suddenly as none can spy them out Cast your eye upon Physicall wheels and they are too high for Physicians to measure what reason can they give of Antipathies or that some trees should have a venomous root on the one side and a remedy on the other they meet with diseases and difficulties that are Ludibria medicorum and must referre you to occult qualities Cast your eye upon Politicall