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A00461	The arriereban a sermon preached to the company of the military yarde, at St. Andrewes Church in Holborne at St. Iames his day last. By Iohn Everarde student in Diuinity, and lecturer at Saint Martins in the fields.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?	1618 (1618)	STC 10598; ESTC S114619	42,065	124

honored with silence yet his actuall or ordinarie power is limited and as it were circumscribed by his will so that as the first can do no more than he will so this doth whatsoeuer he will and therefore voluntas eius est potest as eius saith Ambrose His will is his power Now he being pleased to reueale thus much vnto vs in Scripture that it is his will ordinarily to worke by ordinary meanes and secondary causes himselfe to heare the heauens the heauens to heare the earth the earth to heare the corne and the wine and the oyle and they to heare Israel certainly they that shall reason from his posse to his velle from his power to his will are like those deceitfull or vnlearned Physitians who as Augustine saith do so apply vtile medicamentum a plaister wholsome in it selfe vt aut non prosit aut obsit that it shall either do no good or a great deale of harme for with as much probability might we omit both ploughing and sowing and expect Manna from heauen because the LORD once fed the Israelites with it or abstaine from foode because Moses fasted forty dayes or gape till the Rauens feede vs because they once did so to Elias or waite till an Asse counsell vs because Balaams Asse aduised his master as expect that the Lord should giue vs victory with sounding of Rammes hornes or breaking of pitchers that is to stand still onely and behold what the Lord will doe for vs Miracles were they and miraculous would this be and therefore not to be looked for but in cases of necessity our Sauiour himselfe when he was to ascend into heauen hauing chosen Mount Oliuet for the place from whence that as one saith Quamdiu natur ae vis inseruire potuit miraculo non vteretur wherein the power of nature could helpe him he might not worke a miracle Nor is this any disparagement to his might whom we acknowledg to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 solely sufficient by his immediate word to gouerne all things as well as he was to create them but rather an honor to himselfe and to his creatures to himselfe for beating out the golden ingot of his prouidence into so admirable a chaine of causes perplexed folded and linked one within another And to his Creatures in daigning them to be Co-workers with him that as he is the principall agent so they may haue imployment vnder him wherwith to busie themselues that they fall not vpon that iust reprehension Quid statis hic totum diem otiosi why stand yee here all the day idle It rests then that as Hierom speakes truly though to another point Singulorum priuilegia legem efficere non possunt the priuiledges of singular and speciall persons make no common rule for all men in generall What God hath beene pleased to do at sometimes and what he is able to do at all times we may looke vpon for our comfort but not rely vpon for our incouragement to neglect the ordinary meanes For within these limits haue they walked to whom the secret of the Lord hath beene reuealed and whose feet haue beene guided the right way by the lanterne of his word Iacob had Gods promise for the superiority ouer his brother Esau and Dauid was abundantly secured of Gods protection from Saul and all his other enemies yet for all that they were content to vse the best meanes they could watching all opportunities redeeming all occasions sometimes flying sometimes intreating sometimes buying their peace though alwaies assured that safety is from the Lord and by particular promises fully perswaded that he would deliuer their soules from death and their dearlings from the power of the lyon Pauls voyage by sea is knowne euen to the Barbarians so is his danger and the speciall reuelation he had for the deliuerance of himselfe and all his company And what then did that make the Mariners neglect to sound to cast anchors to lighten the ship to wey anchors to hoyse sayles nay such as could to swimme first to land and such as could not swimme to saue themselues on bords and other peeces of the ship No for he knew that si periculum quantum cauere possumus non cauemus magis tentamus Deum quam speramus in Deo if we labour not to auoide danger and perill as much as we can in how deplored and desperate cases soeuer we rather tempt God indeed than trust in God But aboue all we haue an euident and an eminent example hereof in her whom all generations shall call blessed the Virgin-mother of our Sauiour who though shee had laid vp in her heart all the sayings of the Angell at the Annuntiation of Elizabeth at her visitation of Simeon and Annah at her purification yet when the Angell of the LORD appeared vnto Ioseph in a dreame and bad him take that sweet babe and his blessed mother and flee into Aegypt because Herod sought the Childe to destroy it did shee reason against her husbands resolution and plead Gods eternall decree or her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 full perswasion and assured beleefe thereof against his purpose Nothing lesse Shee thought not her selfe wiser than God in his commanding than her husband in his obedience Shee was not like the Leuites wife that answered not nor like Lots wife that departed vnwillingly but as Ruth to Naomi her mother in law so answered her heart to Ioseph I will not leaue thee nor depart from thee but whither thou goest I will goe I know the LORD certaine and firme in the end and accomplishment of his promise I know not the meanes by which he hath determined to effect it and therefore Surge eamus Arise let vs goe hence Thus all the seruants of God haue one of their eyes fastned vpon Ezechiel his Cherubims and the other vpon his wheeles their hearts are reposed vpon Gods mercy but their hands are stretched out vnto all that they shall finde to do when Hezekiah is sicke though the Prophet Isaiah be sent vnto him with a promise of recouery yet he must take a lumpe of dry figs and lay it vpon the sore and therefore meanes must be vsed But though the watchman stand vpon the walles yet except the Lord keepe the City he watcheth but in vaine and therefore secondary causes only must not be relyed vpon nor a sacrifice offered vnto our nets nor incense burnt vnto our yarne The horse is praepared against the day of battell there as I said at the first is mans prouidence but safety is of the Lord there is his power and praerogatiue Giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars and to God that which is Gods It was the Spartane resolution admota manu fortunam invocare to do their best and then to aske helpe from fortune we haue a more sure word whereunto you shall do well to take heede as to a light shining

of his supreme and transcendent power the prerogatiue which he will not communicate to any creature in disposing of victory according to his owne pleasure with meanes without meanes against meanes which is the second point obseruable in this Scripture But safety or victory is of the Lord. Which truth was neuer more frequently and freely acknowledged by any man than by Dauid one that had the heart of a Lion one that had gotten him a name in warre whose happy valour was growne into a Prouerb Saul hath slaine his thousand and Dauid his tenne thousand yet in God will I boast saith he all the day long and praise thy name for euer I will not trust in my bow neither shall my sword saue me but thou hast saued vs from our enemies and hast put them to shame that hated vs And still in euery victory this was his song of triumph Non nobis Domine non nobis Not vnto vs Lord not vnto vs but to thy name giue the glory for If thou hadst not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs they had swallowed vs vp quick Our shields our swords our speares our bowes our men our horses had all beene prepared in vaine against the day of battell except thou hadst gone forth with our armies brought vs into the strong Cities and lead vs into Edom. So much is likewise confessed by Moses in that song of thanksgiuing made for the deliuerance of the Israelites from the Aegyptians Exod 15. and epitomized as it were in the third verse The Lord is a man of warre Iehouah is his name The same song sang Ioshua his successor by way of prophecy Iosh. 23.10 One man of you shall chase a thousand for the Lord your God fighteth for you and by way of historie in the Chap. following at the 11. verse And the men of Iericho fought against you the Amorites the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and Girgashites the Hiuites and the Iebusites and I saith the Lord deliuered them into your hands all which acknowledgements though differing in words yet naturally resolue themselues into this proposition that safety or victorie is from the Lord I shall not neede to vse many words in this matter None but a Goliah a Sennacharib a Nebuchadnezzar or Holofernes will assume to themselues and their owne arme the successe of warre whether victorie or discomfiture But if Israel preuailed when Moses who was but a seruant in the house held vp his hands and when he let them downe Amalek preuailed much more will the Saints sing loud vpon their beds Thine O Lord is greatnesse and power and glory and victory and praise and on the other side Thou makest vs turne backe from the Aduersary and they which hate vs spoile for themselues Nor is this only to be vnderstood in cases where numbers to numbers and praeparation is opposed to praeparation as though it were then only in his power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who should be found too light in the ballance when resolution meets with resolution skill with skil and strength with strength Infestisque obuia signis Signa pares aquilas pila minantia pilis No with God non est distantia there is no difference It is as easie with him to help with few as with many If he hold vp his hand Gedeons three hundred shall be enough for the Midianites and Amalekites that are in multitude as the Grashopers Nay Ionathan and his Armorbearer shall be too many for the whole Garrison of the Philistims If he let it fall then Permodicus numerus Syrorum Though there came but a smal company of the Aramites yet the Lord will deliuer a mighty army of the Israelites into their hands Thus safety wheresoeuer and to whomsoeuer and vpon what oddes so euer is from the Lord and from him only you see it confirmed testimonio oris operis both by the testimony of his word and his worke And certainly if the men of this generation shall thinke his power lesse or lesse able to praeuaile against Babel because of the building her a Tower Against the Anakim because of their walled townes against Goliah because of his Helmet and Brigandine of brasse or against Ierusalem it selfe because of her bulwarkes I le say no more but as our Sauiour to the Iewes so tell I them the men of Niniueh shall rise in iudgment against them and condemne them for Niniueh hath God set forth as an example of his vnresistable power how weake the arme of flesh and bloud how foolish the policie of man and how vaine the helpe of Princes is in comparison thereof Take the example into your consideration Niniueh was at that time the seate of the Empire of Assyria and Ashur the staffe in the hands of the Lord the rod of his wrath to correct his people of Israel withall The rodde lifts it selfe against him that taketh it vp and the staffe exalteth it selfe as if it were no wood By the power of mine owne hands haue I done this and by mine owne wisdome because I am wise Is not Calno as Carchemish Is not Hamath like Arpad Is not Samaria like Damascus saith this flagellum Dei this scourge of God whom the Lord had appointed to be as whips on Israels sides and as thornes in her eyes Herevpon the Allmighty who cannot abide that a Iudge should commit murther in doing iustice nor that a man should persecute him whom He had smitten or adde to his sorrowes whom He had wounded Qui fruitur poena ferus est legūque videtur Vindictam praestare sibi determines as soone as he hath accomplished his worke vpon Mount Sion and Ierusalem to visit the King of Ashur himselfe and his proud lookes to take his rodde and cast it into the fire Yet before this come to passe before the Lord open the gates the Chaldaeans bring war destruction like a tempestuous whirlwinde vpon Niniue hee graciously vouchsafeth to send faecialem a herehault his prophet Nahum who in his words and name to the comfort of his afflicted people and the terror of the Israelitomastiges rattles such an alarme in their eares as neuer any Prophet did in so warre-like termes vnto any people And that you may see how the LORD will haue safety attributed vnto himselfe and how his power derides the opposition of mans strength obserue how particularly and praecisely he answers euery obiection and looseth euery knot that hope her selfe the last company of affliction could deuise to knit to which purpose as Iotham in his parable supposeth trees to speake so imagine that you heare HOPE and TRVTH thus Dialogue-wise discoursing Surely saith HOPE Niniueh shall not be destroyed for it is a great City GOD himselfe hath taken knowledg of it and honored it with that attribute Yea but saith TRVTH The Lord hath giuen a commandement concerning her that no more of