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england_n	king_n	lord_n	sovereign_a	12,705	5	9.8164	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42912	Godliness no friend to rebellion, or enemy to civil government Being the substance of a sermon occasionally preached at Great Yarmouth, Octob. 25. 1673. By a lover of peace and truth.	Lover of peace and truth.	1674 (1674)	Wing G933F; ESTC R215817	19,698	39

they are but instruments at the best the blessing is from the Lord. The Use of this is 1. First Then learn where to leave and lodge the publike affairs of the Nation even in the hand of the Almighty There are many things dear and precious to you and are much upon your heart as the maintenance of the true Protestant faith the exclusion of Popery the encrease of Trade the preservation of just Rights and Liberties the upholding the Honour of the Nation abroad and the like now who but God can give these to a people Go then to God by fasting and prayer humbly in regard of sin in Faith considering his promise believing that God and he only can make us an happy people happy in our King happy in our Parliament commit them by faith and prayer to the Grace and assistance of God Hath God committed Government by his Providence and appointment to them do you commit them to God For if God be not with them they cannot prosper It was not for nothing that Moses was so importunate with God for his presence saying Lord if thy presence go not with us carry us not up hence for without thee we cannot go on in safety This is a great people and who can keep us right but thy self therefore let thy presence go with us Oh! then what discontents jealousies and fears may be that arise in your mind let them send you to God drive you to the Throne of Grace Alas it is in vain for Rachel to be angry and chide with her husband Jacob for children God must open her womb or she must die in her barrenness 'T is true as there are instruments of blessings so of evils and punishments to a Nation but our eye should not be so much upon them as upon God from whom every good and evil cometh Thus David quieted his spirit in the case of Shimei's cursings and this would not a little conduce to the quietness and peace of a Nation under crosses and evils that come upon us for our sin The woman with her bloody issue may spend all her substance upon Physitians but it is God must limit her distemper it is God alone that can cure her she must come to Christ or die in her disease It is not the high wall of treasure nor the long Sword of Power that can deliver or secure a Nation Then do not make Kings or Parliaments forein Alliancies Armies or Navies your strength for God many times blasts that we confide most in that we might learn where to confide and trust So the Lord called Israel to re-mind the disappointment of their leaning upon Assyria Hos 5. ver 13. When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound then went Ephraim to the Assyrian and sent to King Jareb yet could he not heal you nor cure you of your wound When God brought them into a streight they made the Assyrian their Jareb or Saviour by him they reckoned they should save themselves or subdue their enemies But says God he could not help you ye are wounded and weak still When shall we learn to sanctifie God's Sovereignty by an humble and fiducial reliance upon him in all our streights and difficulties and say as returning Ephraim Jer. 3. ver 23. when God saith Return you back-sliding children and I will heal your back-slidings Behold say they we come to thee for thou art the Lord our God Mark what follows Truly in vain is Salvation looked for from the hills and from the mountains Truly in the Lord our God is the Salvation of Israel Oh! that we could fiducially say so of England In the Lord our God is the Salvation of England 2. The second Use is That we would pray that God would keep this great Truth upon the heart of our Sovereign King and his Councellors also upon the heart of the Honourable Trustees of the Nation assembled in Parliament That God only can bless Governours and make their work prosperous in their hand Certainly the more such a Perswasion taketh hold and prevaileth upon the minds of men the more they will endeavour to sanctifie the Name of God either by doing vertuous and worthy actions or avoiding that which is unrighteous and unjust knowing that the Throne is only established in righteousness Sirs by a little consideration of affairs in all ages you may take notice how God hath contested and striven with the world about the Honour of his Name and Sovereignty this is the main and great Reason of the wonderful and strange Revolutions and Changes of the Affairs States Governments and Kingdoms in the world namely the Honour of God He hath left such Prints and Characters of his Majesty and Sovereignty upon the affairs of men That they may know he is God and ruleth in the Kingdom of men and that men whatever their appearances and blusterings here below are do make but a vain shew they cannot stop the Counsel of God nor the effecting of his will in any thing who shall certainly do whatever he hath said or determined This Doctrine we have in Ecclesiastes the 8th verse 14. I know that whatsoever God doth it shall be for ever nothing can be put to it nor anything taken from it and God doth it that men should fear before him That is it is not in man to alter any course of Affairs which God hath set but it shall run in a constant course like a mighty river that cannot be resisted thus it shall be for ever and if God will bless a Nation and multiply its comforts and prosperity none shall be able to break the hedge of his Providence or lessen the heap of blessings which he hath given or if he will bring a curse and calamity upon a people it is not in the power of man further than God will use him as an instrument to add to the affliction nor can he help and deliver from the trouble no nor mitigate or lessen it in the least degree whatever we may think The reason of all is given viz. That men should fear before him as if he had said They will not fear me but the Creature if it were able to make any alteration either for good or evil Thus God would have all men sanctifie his Name by having such thoughts of him in their minds And he seems to bespeak the world at this day by his Providence as he did in the 46th Psalm verse 8 9 10. Come behold the works of the Lord what desolation he hath made in the earth He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth he breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder he burneth the chariot in the fire Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted among the Heathen I will be exalted in the earth What a majestical Challenge is this of God bespeaking the whole world in point of his Honour Oh! pray that God would powerfully instil this upon the mind of the Great Ones of