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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97221	Mans fury subservient to Gods glory. A sermon preached to the Parliament at Margarets Westminster Febr. 20. 1656. it being a day of publick thanksgiving. With the addition of an applicatory discourse about the mutuall animosities of Christians, which was omitted for want of time when the sermon was delivered. By John Warren, M.A. minister of the gospel at Hatfield Broad-oak in Essex.	Warren, John, minister of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1657 (1657)	Wing W974; Thomason E916_7; ESTC R207491	21,447	40

he is called the Avenger In Hebrew the avenger of himself Psal 8.2 because he loves to be retaliating upon the people of God the anger which God has executed upon him Now there are two seasons in which the wrath of men through their own Malignity and Satans Malice is especially intended against the godly times when it flames out more vehemently as they say of Aetna and Vesuvius There is alwayes fire burning in them yet there are some speciall times of their more vehement eruption First A time of Reformation in matters of Religion In 2 Chron. 31. we read much of the zeal of Hezekiah and his people in destroying Idolatry and restoring the Worship of God to its native purity And then it follows in Chap. 32.1 After these things and the establishment of them Sennacherib King of Assyria came and entred into Judah c. And God takes notice of him that he came in a great rage 2 King 19.27 As it also appears by the railing of his servant Rabshekah before the walls of Jerusalem And to this Invasion some learned men as I said before think this Psalme has a speciall respect I do not say that Reformation is alwayes the thing which immediately offends wicked men but it is that which vexes Satan and makes him provoke and stir them up against the people of God and then he finds them out some ground or other of a quarrel such as will best fit their humour and is most agreeing to their interest Sennacherib did not make Hezekiah's Reformation the professed ground of the quarrell but his rebellion because he had withdrawn himself from his allegiance and served him not Isaiah 36.5 On whom dost thou trust that thou rebellest against me As if he had said I come not against thee for thy Religion nor because thou hast demolished the Altars at which the people were wont to worship ver 7. But because thou hast made a defection from my Soveraignty and Government But that Satan who is the generall instigator of Gods peoples enemies had the greatest spight against the King and his people for their reformation in matters of Religion is manifest enough How did the wrath of Rome burn and flame even up to Heaven in the dayes of Luther's Reformation in Germany and what mischievous plots and devices the Anger of that party hath put them upon against this Nation in times of Reformation it 's very well known The Spanish Armado in which that Monarchy acted against England ad extremum virium was formed in a time of Reformation And the Conspirants in that Hellish plot which we may now call The former Powder-Treason themselves assigned the Lawes of Parliament against Idolatry and Seducers to it for the cause of that invention Some yeares ago God put it into the heart of Authority to revive the design of Reformation which for a long time before had not onely not gone forward but receded till we were insensibly drawn back almost into Egypt again But ever since that day it is a wonder to see in what an heat the world has been against the people of God in England what raging railing fighting and violence have they endured from enemies at home and from forraigners almost in all points of the compasse We may say as David and with as easie an hyperbole All Nations have compassed us about and kept us in on every side But in the name of the Lord we have hitherto either subdued or defeated them At present when one of the greatest Potentates in the world is in the height of preparation against us yet ever and anon there is one Contrivance or other on foot in our own nation for the destruction of them whom God has most signally owned among us It were an absurdity for me Right Honourable to give you a report of the late horrid design against his Highnesse immediately your selves next and then those for whose protection and government God has raised up him and gathered you together We that are at a distance derive our knowledge of it from your selves But this observation among others may be very easily made upon it That the grand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Contrivers and Promoters of this and such like Stratagems do very well know how many heads are for the present standing on the shoulderrs of that one single person at whom they take their aim as sometimes Caligula wisht all the Romans had but one neck that he might cut off all their heads at one single stroke Obj. But some may interpose Here is indeed an evident appearance of the wrath of man in these attempts But where is the Reformation Alas the zeal of Reformation is almost extinguished among us and it is not like the Adversary's indignation should take fire from thence Ans And yet you see many times how great a matter a little fire kindleth It is true the hideous Blasphemies portentous Delusions abominable Doctrines and cursed Practises of many among us witnesse to our shame that pure Religion is far from that Power and Soveraignty in the Nation which is due to it But yet in publick Endeavours though there has not been enough done to make us a people throughly reformed God onely can do that There has been enough done to make the Adversary angry with us as a people under saile towards the land of Reformation though we move but slowly by reason of contrary winds The removall of an oppressive power in matters of Religion and many corrupt impositions thereby enforced under which the best part the very soul of the Nation groned The ejection of many scandalous and ignorant men from the place of the Ministry The Provision made for encouragement of men faithfull in that work The Redemption of the Sabbath the Lords day the observation whereof is the very pulse by which you may make a judgement of a peoples temper in all Religion from profanation formerly maintained by a Law in which there is hopes that you Honourable Senatours will do more and more worthily then those that have been in your capacity before Nehemiah saies of himself that he commanded the Gates of Jerusalem to be shut in the evening before the Sabbath ch 13. 19. I am very much perswaded that you might do God good service in causing the gates of our Cities and Towns to be shut up in the morning after the Sabbath I mean in removing or promoving to more distance our Munday Fairs and Markets in preparation for which many tradesmen hold themselves under a kind of necessity to steal away a great part of the Sabbath These and such like things are good assaies to a publick reformation and though in some mens eyes they may seem small matters yet are they enough to make the Adversary angry But till the day of Gods power dawnes upon us in which he will make us a willing people to yield our selves unto the Lord and enter into his Sanctuary as Hezekiah speaks The Sword and the Mace will