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A86017	A sermon preached (before God, and from him) to the Honourable House of Commons. At a publike fast, Novemb. 27. in the yeare GoD Is oVr refVge, oVr strength; a heLpe In troVbLes VerIe aboVnDant VVe finDe. By George Gipps rector of Elston in Leicester-shire, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said House.	Gipps, George, d. 1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing G779; Thomason E23_3; ESTC R18994	29,030	37

arrive at shelter to repose our selves in All which three readings joyned make up the full sence thus A heart rightly anchored by hope in God may safely fly unto him and so doing securely shelter himselfe in him Suffice this for the fourth word Ainsworth God will be to us a hopefull shelter and a strength a helpe in distresses we shall find very great to wit a very great helpe in distresses we shall find him or he is found or a helpe in distresses which we shall find very great The 5. followeth And strength Not only strong in the concrete but strength it selfe in the abstract that is absolute infinite and alfufficient strength And so it may looke either backward to shelter or forward to helpe Both are most full thus God is so all sufficient in strength that who fly to him for shelter shall certainely have help from him This for the fifth word The 6. followeth A help or helper So is it diversely read The former signifieth the quality the latter the person so qualified both in one make up our fulnes or comfort God who undertaketh is fully gifted and qualified for what he undertaketh not as many men beare the name of what they have no skill to performe both in Church and State Let this satisfie for the sixth word The 7. followeth In trouble or troubles So are the severall readings Hieror out of the Hebrew reades it thus all comes up to one full sence The former the singular number so take it distributively in each and any single trouble whatsoever the latter the plurall number Deus nostra spes fortitudo auxilium in tribulationibus inventus es validum And out of the Septuagints thus so take it collectively in all troubles doubled and multiplyed how many soever The next word will perfect these which we passe unto The 8. and last word or rather words and phrase very present so we reade it but the originall with divers translations expresse the verbe Find and that either thus we shall find very present great aboundant yea too too present great and aboundant And all these severall readings are the least part of the variety of their expositions Deus noster resugium virius adiutor in tribulationibus quae im●enerunt nos nimis Whom Augustine and generally the ancients follow Ambrosius thus glosseth on it Be. for as much as some to fill up the sence doe joyne them to helpe thus we shall find God a very present yea too too present great and aboundant help others to troubles thus God a helpe in very present yea too too present great and aboundant troubles which we shall find A third sort joyne both in one and take all together as the most full sence thus Gods Saints in this life are sure to find very present great and aboundant troubles yea too great for them to beare but that their comfort is that they are as sure to find God a very present great and aboundant helpe in all those their troubles yea too great to be overcome by them Some more varieties of readings there are of lesse moment which I shall passe over when I shall have acquainted you with Augustins descant namely ●…atimes ad ●…atorem ut ●…culationes abundant ad●…at Moll●…us Deus nobis pro●… obur aux●… in tribulaationibus abualè ●… in●…entus est valdè in as much as the verbe finde may also be read Be found passively we find in the world outward troubles but me are found of our sinnes which doe dogge us home to our consciences troubling them and these are those too too great troubles but herein also is our comfort that we are found of God as a helpe in this most desperate case also For so Acts 2. upon Peters preaching their crucifying of the Sonne of God their sinne found them out that they were pricked at the heart and cryed out what shall we doe yet heard this word of comfort Repent and be baptised for the remission of your sinnes and ye shall receive the gift of the holy Ghost What may not be forgiven when this is forgiven for a patient to kill his Phisitian comming to cure him yea and so forgiven as the bloud of that Phisitian which they let out is given him to drinke for his perfect cure Thus Augustine Non invenerum peccata ●…ua sea inventisunt in eis sed ●…nerunt ad●…torium Quid ●…us agro quam 〈…〉 dimitditur quid non ●…ttitur ag●…ite bap●…zemint ●…s Austin Give me leave to adde one thing more to compleat the sence and so put an end to the first generall part propounded the explication of the words There being no other verbe in the Originall Hebrew expressed but this ●inde not that other is or shall be nor any other in liew thereof what necessity is there that we supply any but string all the words of our text upon this verbe Find which we find in the Hebrew and let it runne through them all making one entile rich chaine thus we shall find God our refuge strength and very present helpe in trouble thus in our English not to repeat the descants any more Thus of the explication The second generall followeth Observation of the doctrinall truths where give me leave first to recount all those hitherto found out and thence to cull out some choice ones List Owne we that one only God that made all c. as Acts 17. Second Rest we not untill we have made this God our God by most sure and firme covenant Third So doing wee may securely anchor our hope in him Fourth So hoping we may in all straights fly unto him Fifth So flying he will give us shelter and harbour Sixth And yet no tottering shelter but of strength alsufficient Seventh Yet not securing us from finding troubles very present great and aboundant exceeding our strength to beare Eighth Yet with this comfort that in all of them we are sure to find God a more present great and aboundant helper most able and willing to helpe us through Ninth Hasten we to find out our sinnes by repentance least that we be found out by them in an accusing conscience Tenth Yet even therein is our comfort that we shall upon our repentance for the most hainous sinnes be found out of God in pardon and forgivenesse yea if we are of the election of grace we shall be sought and found out of God to bring us to repentance and salvation Lastly from all this joyntly in one let us so gather experiments of what is past as to settle our resolution for that which is to come and from both exult we with elevation both of heart and voice We shall find God our refuge and strength a very present helpe in trouble A Text full of comfort were we as full of faith to improve it with best advantage to our soules But however all these are excellent divine truths and might plentifully be made good out of Gods word yet in

A SERMON PREACHED before God and from him To the Honourable House of COMMONS At a publike Fast Novemb. 27. in the yeare GoD Is oVr refVge oVr strength a heLpe In troVbLes VerIe aboVnDant VVe fInDe By George Gipps Rector of Elston in Leicester-shire one of the ASSEMBLY of DIVINES Published by ORDER of the said HOUSE LONDON Printed for Christopher Meredith at the Signe of the Crane in Pauls-Church-yard 1645. Die Mercurij 27. Novembr 1644. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That M. Salloway and M. Knightly do from this House give Thanks to M. Pickering and M. Gipps for the great pains they took in the Sermons they preached this day at the intreatie of this House at S. Margarets Westminster it being a day of publike Humiliation and to desire them to print their Sermons And it is ordered That none shall presume to print their or either of their Sermons without leave under their or either of their hand writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I doe appoint Christopher Meredith to print this Sermon GEORGE GIPPS TO THE HONOVRABLE House of COMMONS Assembled in Parliament at Westminster SEeing it is made a matter of course and order that we speake to you in print and that you presse me to the print which whilest I remained a Volunteere I have not hitherto been guilty of Imprimatur I say not Cum Privilegio that I am not so ambitious to challenge nor ex mero permissu this were more ambitious to affect but my present scantling is Jussu Superiorum which I cheerefully obey the rather because sweetned also cum gratia For so your Order phraseth it You are desired to print namely by them who may Command which is so farre from weakning that it strengthneth the Command by a double tye of Obedience Qui impetrare vo u●t cum ●…perare possunt ij obligant dum obsecrant I hope therefore that this Sermon may croud through the presse as many a meaner person doth with others of greater note Gods Blessing go with it so to imprint the truths thereof in the hearts of the Readers that the use thereof may be read in the course of their lives I only adde in mine owne behalfe two things First I having nothing wherein to boast but mine infirmities both of minde and body doe confesse that I shall not be able to present to your eyes in the same dresse of words that I did to your eares those selfe same notions the notions were duly penned the words not my memory would not beare it how ever the debt be not payed in the selfe same covne which I did then tell forth unto you yet I hope you shall have the just summe in value to your content and my discharge I having withall saved the burden of carrying in memory the words Secondly whereas to spare the wearying of you as much as of my selfe I did cut off the better part of the last point I shall now pay down unto you the arrerages not formerly tender'a with whatever was overseene in the former telling I returne with Josephs brethren with double mony in this sacks mouth I desire you to daigne me this favour in lieu whereof for the present I shall only adde that I am Your most humble Servant in the Cause of God and of Christ GEORGE GIPPS A Sermon Preached to the Honourable House of Commons on their Monethly Fast Novem. 27. 1644. PSAL. 46. 1. God is our refuge and strength a very present helpe in trouble THis being the first verse of the Psalme Gratiarum actiapro mira●us losit beneficijs divinis c. Quam cane●at Israel c. Quem psalmum ecclesia nunc ca●it in laudem Dei potenter mirabiliter ecclesiam verbum suum to servantis contra it is independent neither shall I trouble you with the title of the Psalme but only usher in my Text with Luthers descant upon the Psalme It is saith he a thanksgiving to God for his wonderfull benefits in keeping his Church safe from all the Enemies thereof those nations which circled them in on every side who both in hostile and perfidious manner sought their utmost ruine This therefore the Iewes sang to support their faith and to raise their fainting spirits in all their extremities 1. Hereses p●…naticorum spirituum 2. Torque tyrannos which also addeth he let us now sing to the honour of God powerfully and miraculously preserving his word and Church Against the errours and heresies of giddy brain'd spirits 3. Impugnationem mundi carr●s peccati Against the power and policy of cruell tyrants Against the baits of sinne the world and the flesh Against all malice of Satan by all his engineers 4. Et huic contra portas inserorum infinitū odum diaboli Luther●… A Psalme in all these respects as well suiting our present as both those former times and conditions Thus therefore we close with our Text wherein according to my usuall method I propound these three things 1. Explication of the sence of the words 2. Observation of their doctrinall truths 3. Application thereof to our owne behoofe Begin we with the first the Explication wherein we should not at all trouble you with the diversity of readings of Expositors Concordia d●s●…rs Di●corddia concors did not their harping upon severall strings make up a full harmony of sence strange it is yet not so strange as true that their jarring doth fill up the sweet musicall sence Breifly my tongue shall tune them that your eares may deseant upon the words in order 1. God 58. words even that God whom Paul describeth Acts 17. 24. that made the world and all things therein that dwelleth not in Temples made with hands ver 28. In whom we live and move and have our beeing This for the first word The 2. followeth Is as we reade it Others shall be Others neither nor any thing in lieu thereof but simply God our refuge So is the Originall All which differing readings in one give us the full sence thus Experimentally God is resolvedly God shall be pathetically God our refuge an exclamation with exultation Ravished affections utter broken sentences with elevation of voice transported above rules of Grammer Experience of Gods mercies passed rightly improved beget resolution for the time to come and from both an exultation of the heart in admiration of Gods mercy Let this suffice for the second word The 3. followeth Our which some reade affixed to God thus our God others to refuge thus God is our refuge Both united give the full sence thus Our God is our refuge First make we God our God by Covenant then may we make him our refuge by claime This for the third word The 4. followeth Refuge as we reade it others Hope others Shelter Which three thus differ Hope is that grace in our hearts which putteth us upon refuge which signifieth a flight or flying and mooving by which flight we