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A03600 Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H. Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647. 1638 (1638) STC 13725; ESTC S119015 85,186 298

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and the Church hath beene delivered it cannot be denied now I must adde the third namely That God is the Author of the deliverance of his Servants Doct. The Scriptures are marvellous pregnant in the proofe of this two or three witnesses will cast the cause Psal 3 last The Prophet David attributeth this as a matter of proprietie to the Lord Salvation belongs unto the Lord it is not to be understood of spirituall redemption onely but also of temporall deliverance in the time of trouble It is that observeable Ier. 14.8 It is as I may so say one of Gods Names whereby hee is knowne to his Church and whereby he shewes himselfe Oh thou the hope of Israel and the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble It is not meant in regard of spirituall redemption still but in regard of temporall deliverance from those troubles that doe betide and those grievances that lie upon and those heavie burthens that presse downe the Church of God and therefore how ever it is true there are many meanes used and many helpes appointed by God for his peoples good yet it is not men it is not the policie of the wise it is not the power of the mightie it is not the fence of the Walls nor the strength of the Castles it is not the number of the Souldiers nor the skill of the army but it is the Lord that is the deliverer of his people as we may see Psal 44 4 Command th●n deliverance unto Iacob the Lord hath deliverance at command the Lord can bring keepe and succour as he seeth fit nay it is that which God takes and challengeth to himselfe as that hee will not have any other to share in hee will not have any other part stakes with him in the performance of goodnesse and mercy to his children Deut. 32.39 It is that the Lord takes unto himselfe salvation is mine preservation is mine the issues of life and death are onely in the hand of the Lord the point then is plaine enough we will open the ground of it the which the cause now requires being a remembrance of that miraculous deliverance from the Gunpowder Treason The grounds of the point are foure The first is this God is infinitely wise and onely knowes how to deliver his people men are driven to their wits end many times they see no meanes offered no meanes appointed they can sinde no cause how to succour themselves in the time of distresse but he is an experienced deliverer 2 Pet. 2.9 God knowes how to deliver his when enemies are practising beneath and digging deepe in their devices the Lord sits in heaven and seeth all and laughes at them all their practises he observes them nay the Lord knowes all the purposes policies and engines which the wicked purposes to contrive before they contrive them as when David was in K●ylah hee asked the Lord will Saul come aye saith God and will they deliver mee into his hands they will deliver thee saith God the Lord knew what the men of Keylah intended before they shewed their malice therefore hee makes way for the escape of David Secondly as God onely knowes all the engines and policies and practises of the wicked when they are devised in the depth of the earth as the Psalmist speaketh Let them doe what they will and endeavour what they can never so cunningly and secretly the Lord knowes them But secondly the Lord is onely able and sufficient to deliver his in want of meanes above meanes nay against meanes 2 Chron. 14.11 When Asa was in great extremity when there was five hundred thousand came against him the greatest Army we read of in holy Scriptures and not many more in profane Stories the Text saith Hee cried unto the Lord and said thou canst deliver by many or by few God could save Asa and his Nobles though he had no Army at all for observe it this All-sufficiencie and abilitie of God in delivering his children in time of troubles will discover it selfe in three branches and they are the particulars of this second generall First the Lord provides meanes before any meanes can be Psal 47. the last Verse all the shields of the earth are the Lords all the shields in Spaine Germany and Denmarke and England they are all the Lords all meane before they are have their being from the Lord and Esay 54.16 the Text saith there was no Smith before God created him nor no coales before God made them so that there are no meanes but they came from God Secondly God workes with all meanes before they can worke as there is no meanes unlesse God provide them so the meanes that ar● can doe nothing unlesse God worke with them Psal 18.34.39 we shall observe it God doth not onely give David armes but hee teacheth his armes to warre he doth not onely give D●vid hands but he teaches his hands to fight he doth not onely give him strength but hee girdeth him with strength to the battell so that all meanes in the world further than God is pleased to goe out with them they are like the withered hand of Ieroboam when the Prophet cried against the Altar Ieroboam stretched out his hand and he would plague the Prophet and he would imprison him but alas his hand withered so all the armies all the plots and policies are like withered hands unlesse the Lord come with them Thirdly it is the Lord that gives successe to all the meanes when they are improved for the deliverance of his Church so that as there is no meanes unlesse the Lord provide them as those meanes can doe nothing unlesse the Lord worke with them so these meanes can obtaine no issue they can compasse no good unlesse the Lord be pleased graciously to breath upon them and give successe unto them therefore when the Midianites thought to have carried all before them and quite to overthrow the people of Israel because they had a mighty army yet the Lord defeated their purpose and turned their swords into their owne bowels Thus we see the ability and sufficiencie of the Lord in delivering his people it is he that gives all meanes it is he that workes with all meanes it is he that gives successe to all meanes In the third place the Lord is marvellous gracious and mercifull and tender over his people as he is every way sufficient for to doe them good so he is marvellous carefull of their good Esay 63.9 in all their afflictions he was afflicted many a man hath power and wisedome and all he knowes how to helpe another yet he wants a heart he wants pitty and compassion whereby hee may lend succour to those that stand in neede thereof but it is not so with God but in all the afflictions of his people he is afflicted with them in all troubles he is in trouble with them in all banishment he is in banishment with them Fourthly as the Lord is mercifull and loving and free and tender-hearted