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A94736	Iehovah iireh: or, Gods providence in delivering the godly. Opened in two sermons in the citie of Bristoll, on the day of publike thanksgiving in that citie, March 14. 1642. For the deliverance of that citie from the invasion without, and the plot of malignants within the city, intended to have been acted the Tuesday night before. With a short narration of that bloody and abominable plot. Preached by Iohn Tombes, B.D. It is this two and twentieth day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, Johovah Jireh, or Gods providence in delivering the godly, be printed. John White.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T1809; Thomason E100_31	25,023	33

wise how thou doe reprove them though reproofe bee a duty yet it must bee well managed our Saviours direction is Matthew 7. 6. Give not holy things unto the Dogs neither cast pearles before Swine lest they trample them under their feet and turne againe and rend you 6. Endeavour by all good meanes to convert them Take heed of complying with them in their wayes under pretence of turning them That 's the ready way for them to glory and insult over thee and to harden themselves But bee thou as a light shining before them to convince them Philippians 2. 15. 7. If wee cannot convert them yet let us endeavour to restraine them by our authority prayers and power with them Fiftly It should admonish us to prepare our selves for these temptations while yee live on earth yee shall not live in a heaven of Saints but in a world of ungodly men and therefore make account of temptations and fit your selves for them yee that be here of this Citie because God hath given you deliverance now doe not grow secure but thinke ye may have more trialls Remember the spirit of wicked men is restlesse though they misse in one plot they will attempt another according to the spirit by which they are guided as Satan goes about seeking whom hee may devoure so doe wicked men his Agents Sixtly and lastly Herein is manifested the gratious providence of God for the godly that though they are under Temptations yet they are delivered from them though they walke among snares though they are placed as Christ saith as sheepe in the midst of wolves a few weake sheepe in the middest of a great multitude of ravening wolves yet the Church is preserved this is Gods work so it was at this time in this City a small company of godly persons preserved from a great number of malignant spirits within and without it O let us admire the goodnesse of our God herein It is the businesse of this day Doe it fully Let your spirits be raised up in admiration of Gods care and working for his people Let your hearts and tongues magnifie God and say Great is the Lord and great are his workes and great deliverances giveth he unto his people Happy O people saved by the Lord Happy are they that be in such a case yea rather happy are they that have the Lord for their God 2 PET. 2. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of Temptation and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished WEE have considered in the Morning the estate of the Godly in respect of unjust men among whom they live they are under Temptation We are now to consider their estate in respect of Gods care and aspect to them The Lord knoweth how to deliver them The Truth emergent from hence is this Though it be that the godly while they live among unjust men be in temptation yet God knowes how to deliver them This is the expresse assertion of the Text The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptation The phrase The Lord knoweth imports both care providence and vigilancy to deliver and also skill and wisdome how to contrive it and consequently certainty of deliverance To like purpose are many other places of holy Scripture Psal. 9. 9. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in times of Trouble Psal. 33. 18. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that feare him upon them that hope in his mercy to deliver their soule from death To make this Truth a little more explicate we are to consider that this skill vigilancy and providence of God in delivering the godly out of Temptation First Hath reference to divers sorts of deliverance There are divers kinds of deliverance and divers degrees in those kindes There is a deliverance of the Soule from the wrath of God Jesus that delivereth from the wrath to come 1 Thess. 1. 10. A deliverance from the power and guilt of sinne from the anguish and horrour of conscience from desertion and Apostasy There are deliverances of the body of the naturall life from death from teares from sicknesse from wants from danger The Lord knowes how to accommodate his deliverance to give deliverance according to what kind degree he thinks meet Sometimes God delivers from death Psa. 116. 8. Thou hast delivered my soule from death Sometimes by death Isa. 57. 1. The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evill to come See The Lord knowes sundry wayes of deliverance not onely by keeping them from the hands of unjust men but sometimes by letting them fall into their hands Secondly It hath reference to the persons delivered Sometimes the Lord delivers many sometimes few sometimes whole Cities and people sometimes a small remnant in them Rom. 9. 27. Isa. 10. 22. Though the number of the children of Israel be as the Sand of the Sea a remnant shall be saved though there be great multitudes of men yet a few shall be delivered Thirdly it hath reference to the meanes of deliverance Sometimes the Lord delivers by a visible power sometimes the Lord delivers by an invisible working sometimes God delivers by putting a meere fancy into the mind of the enemy somtimes by a reall accident unthought of 1 Sam. 23. 26 27. Saul and his men had encompassed David and his men round about to take him But there came a Messenger unto Saul saying Haste thee and come for the Philistines have invaded the Land Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines Sometimes the Lord delivers by an Angell sometimes by men That which the Prophet speaketh Isa. 28. 29. is true of the meanes of deliverance This also commeth forth from the Lord of hoasts who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working That we least dreame of is oft times the meanes of deliverance that which we most hoped in is oft times most unprofitable to us Fourthly It hath reference to the case of the persons delivered Sometimes the unjust persons be many strong cunning active malicious on the other side the persons delivered are few weake distracted fearefull simple yet notwithstanding the Lord knowes how to deliver them Even these poore ones are preserved and those strong cunning and active men misse of their prey Fifthly It hath reference to the time of delivery Gods skill vigilancy and providence is clearely seene in the season and opportunity of deliverance Isa. 64. 3. Then didst terrible things which we looked not for when the case of persons rescued is in appearance hopelesse yet the Lord knowes how to deliver even then Sixthly It hath reference to the fruits and consequent of the deliverance There is a deliverance which is but incompleate persons are delivered from one judgement but reserved to another The King of Sodom was delivered from the Kings that came

conspiracy by some notice that we had given unto us of their meeting at Yeomans his house about an houre or two before the plot was to have beene put in exeeution which was to have been upon the ringing of the Bells about one or two a clocke in the morning Having seized on Master Robert Yeomans with his company and after Butcher with his company the necke of the plot being broken within the Towne the enemy without whose designe as it should seeme depended much upon it having showne themselves upon the Downe the next morning after two or three shot of Canons made against them from our worke upon Brandon hill they wheeled off and so God put a Hook into their nostrills and turned them back againe for which great mercy of his in delivering us from a dangerous invasion of the enemy without and from a damnable conspiracy of some traytorous inhabitants within the City both this towne and the whole kingdome so far as it is concerned in the preservation of this City hath great cause to give thanks to Almighty God unto whom alone the glory thereof is due This is a short narration of the late detestable and bloody Plot against this City whereof no doubt more hereafter will appeare the matter being yet under examination onely one writing which was found in Robert Yeomans his house I thought fit to adde which was as followeth All Inhabitants of the Bridge the High-street and Cornestreete keepe within your doores upon perill of your lives All other inhabitants of this Citie that stand for the King the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of this City let them forthwith appeare at the High Crosse with such armes as they have for the defence of their lives their wives and children and follow their Leaders for the same defence There was also a Protestation taken amongst them to this effect that they would oppose to the utmost of their power all Forces whatsoever that were or should be amongst them or that should come in without the consent of the King Iehovah Iireh 2 PETER 2. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of Temptation and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgement to be punished THis passage containes two consectaries deduced from the 5 6 7. Verses the Apostle had advised Christians To take heed unto the sure word of Prophecy Chap. 1. Vers 19. as being a light shining in a darke place not from a private delivery by the will of man but by the motion of the holy Ghost Vers 20 21. withall he foretells Chap. 2. 1. that as there had been false Prophets among the People so there should be false Teachers among them whose practise he declares Vers 1 2 3. and their judgement Vers 3. which he confirmes by three instances 1 Of Gods not sparing the Angels that sinned Ver. 4. 2 His bringing in the flood upon the world of ungodly but saving Noah a Preacher of Righteousnesse Vers 5. 3 His overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and delivering just Lot Vers 6 7. From these instances he inferres by an Induction two rules to be observed in the course of Gods proceedings First That he knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of temptation Secondly That he knoweth how to reserve the unjust to the day of judgement to be punished The particle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for if Vers 4. shewes these instances to be brought as a medium to prove a conclusion and the argument is thus If God even then when he cast the Angels that sinned downe to hell yet preserved the guiltlesse Angels and even then when he brought the deluge on the wicked world saved Noah a Preacher of righteousnesse and even then when he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah delivered just Lot sic in caeteris then it followes as in my Text The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of Temptation c. The former of these two Consectaries I have chosen this day to insist on being a day set apart for the commemoration of a late deliverance of this City from a blood and abominable conspiracy within it wherein God hath added one more memorable Instance to verifie this rule of Saint Peter The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptation Two conclusions may from hence be gathered First That the godly while they live among unjust men upon the earth be in Temptation Deliverance from Temptation presupposeth a being in Temptation Secondly That God knowes how to deliver them though they know not Noah and Lot knew not how they should be delivered but God knew how to do it To confirme the former of these we need not many Scriptures it being proved by continuall experience yet I shall produce some Luk. 22. 28. Our Lord Christ saith of himselfe Yee are they which have continued with me in my Temptations Our Lord Christ when he lived on earth was in continuall Temptations and what was Christs estate is the estate of all Christians comformably Saint Paul of himselfe Act. 20. 19. saith That he served the Lord with all humility of mind and with many teares and Temptations which befell him by the lying in waite of the Jewes and Heb. 11. 37. among other things that befell the Saints it is said They were tempted Temptation then is one of those things that are the lot of the godly I shall endeavour to open this truth by inquiring first who are to be accounted godly secondly what temptation they are under thirdly why it is so with them In answer to the first we may take notice that the word we translate godly in Grecke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is as much as in English right worshippers So they that be right worshippers are godly persons the Etymology fitly expresseth the thing Now by worship is meant the honour and service that is done unto a God For godlinesse implies religious service and all that religious service we performe to any thing under the notion of a God that is worship And it is Mediate or Immediate mediate service is that which is directed to man yet by reason of respect unto God For this is a cleare truth that even all the duties of righteousnesse we performe to men if they be done in obedience to God they are part of his service and worship not in respect of the matter wherein but in respect of the motive by which they are performed Thus when a servant doth discharge his duty faithfully to his Master as Doing the will of God from the heart hee is said to doe service to the Lord Ephes. 6. 5 6 7. Colos. 3. 24. Every servant that obeyes his master every child that honours his father every souldier that obeyes his Commander out of conscience to God not for wages portion applause or the like respects onely therein hee worships God Immediate worship is that which is directed onely to God And this hath by use engrossed the name of Worship Now when this

in a vaine presumption which cannot hold Experience might enforme them that when men presume most they faile most and that Gods people are then nearest to deliverance when they are in appearance in the most hopelesse condition The reasons hereof are evident God knowes how to deliver when man doth not and when men say there is no helpe for him in his God then it is that God doth most certainly appeare with deliverance Out then with all these Atheisticall thoughts as if the godly and their cause were lost when forces faile enemies grow potent and are many in number Let this one experiment of this Cities deliverance teach you to see the presumption of men to bee a vaine thing When almost was there a time wherein a City was nearer spoyling and destruction and yet preserved The narration read to you may easily give you to conceive how neere it was to be taken how great the presumption of the plotters was of the successe Yet loe in this one instance this truth verified The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptation by his skill and vigilancy we have had deliverance Let not then proud spirits vaunt of their plot and power but remember what Jethro said concerning the deliverance at the red Sea Exod. 18. 11. Now I know that the Lord is greater then all Gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly hee was above them Secondly This should strengthen our faith and encourage us to seeke unto God and rely upon him even then when in our owne apprehension we be at the weakest and the enemy most potent So did Jehosaphat 2 Chron. 20. 12. O our God wilt thou not judge them For wee have no might against this great company that commeth against us neither know wee w●at to doe but our eyes are upon thee And a little after vers. 15. Bee not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude for the battell is not yours but Gods Be it that wee be brought to great straights so that we see no way of escape no meanes of helpe yet let our eyes be fixed on the power that is above still keepe up your heart with prayer in dependance upon God And let me tell you that faith is as good as a whole Army yea it is more then great forces By it the Saints have obtained victories escaped the edge of the Sword Heb. 11. 34. Marke what Hanani the Seer told Asa 2 Chron. 16. 7 8 9. Because thou hast relied on the King of Syria and not relied on the Lord thy God therefore is the hoast of the King of Syria escaped out of thine hand Were not the Ethiopians and Lubins a huge hoast with very many Chariots and horsemen yet because thou didst relie on the Lord he delivered them into thine hand For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro thoorow out the whole earth to shew himselfe strong in the behalfe of them whose heart is perfect toward him The truth is Faith is our greatest strength Armies be of no power without God and when God makes an Army to be a scourge to a people it is likely because they want faith in God for deliverance Oh that then our hearts might be established upon God whatever straights wee are brought to that wee could learne to cling and rest and hang upon him by faith though outward helpe faile He is the Lord of hosts the God of all power and wisedome Let our faith in God be strong though the arme of flesh wee use bee weake Thirdly if God be so expert in deliverance we should learne to waite upon God and to stay his time for deliverance God doth not deliver according to thy will but according to his owne purpose and therefore we should quiet our selves in his wisedome and care patiently staying till he be pleased to send deliverance We are ready to anticipate Gods worke to prescribe the way and time of deliverance and if they faile to begin to grow weary with waiting yea to draw desperate conclusions therefrom and all is because wee have not learned this lesson that the Lord knoweth how to deliver when man doth not that his wayes are unsearchable and past finding out by us that he reserveth the ordering of meanes the time when and the extent of deliverance how farre it shall reach Learne then to bee contented though hee disappoint thee in the way of deliverance thou fixest thy thoughts and hopes on and keepe up thy confidence in God his faithfulnesse and power Remember that of the Prophet Isa. 28. 16. He that believeth shall not make haste Fourthly if it be the Lord that knowes how to deliver then when we have deliverance we must remember to magnifie his wisedom goodnesse care vigilancy and providence And this is the proper businesse of this day God hath given a great deliverance to this Citie And I beseech you to consider to whom it can bee ascribed but to him It were extreame sottshnesse for any man to imagine that such a deliverance came by chance that it was hap-hazzard uncertaine blinde Fortune that did so discover and prevent a plot so long before contrived and so neere the accomplishment nor can it be conceived to have been by the foresight of men The truth is all sorts of persons were in a dubious and trembling condition A plot was feared but what it might be or what way to discover it I suppose the Agents in the discovery knew not till God directed some unexpectedly to give intelligence Those that sate at the sterne here will acknowledge they were at a stand and knew not what to doe those that seemed best to understand the state of things here conceived them in a hopelesse condition If then it cannot be ascribed to fortune or to men to whom shall wee ascribe the delivery but to God Doubtlesse they shew themselves arrant fooles grosse doaters sottish persons stupid wretches that will not say Digitus Dei est hic herein is the finger of God That a plot contrived with so much cunning brought on so neere to an issue should even then bee discovered even then be prevented when it was to be acted with such a mercifull preservation of those against whom it was intended bindes us to give great praise unto God Let us then with our whole heart acknowledge that great hath the wisedome providence and vigilancy of God beene over this place in discovering and preventing this plot To make us more sensible hereof let us consider the greatnesse of the delivery by the number of persons delivered even many thousands of lives in all likelihood a whole City and a great City preserved Yea doubtlesse those that conceived themselves safe enough have cause to acknowledge their deliverance Let men dreame of a word or a signe as a securitie for them alas in a furious concourse while men are in heate of blood doe yee thinke they can attend to observe and marke a word a little white Tape in the