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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77005	Oriens ab occidente: or, A dawning in the vvest· As it was delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at Westminster; upon their day of thanksgiving, for severall victories in the west, &c. By John Bond Mr of the Savoy, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572A; ESTC R211371	30,002	52

more ingredients or simples there are in any composition or distillation the more rare and excellent men doe account it and the more of the Artist there is therein To give instance in some of the heapes of victories which you are to consider of this day What thinke wee of Gods justice His Iustice hath not that shewed it selfe eminently in hardning the hearts of the enemies in their two strongest holds of Bridgwater and Sherborne to over-stand honourable proffers that so they might bring themselves to the worst and lowest conditions of all others Whereas other men that defended sleighter places went off with better tearmes Well knew the Lord that you could not so safely let goe the enemies that were in Bridgwater and Sherborne being beasts of longer teeth and more deeply dyed in bloud as those in Bath which were lesse hurtfull adversaries therefore the Lord in a speciall manner did so work it that those fiercer wild beasts must bring themselves to be muzzled fettered and caged up that they might not doe further mischiefe abroad and if any must march away to let goe those whom we need not much to fear Thus the Lord did sometimes harden the heart of Pharaoh that he should not be content to come off from Israel upon honourable and safe tearmes as he might have done at any time on this side the red sea but he shall follow the Lords people into the sea Exod. 15.5 that so he may at last sink like a stone in the migtie waters And what think you of the power of God in these late deliverances His power Was there not much of that attribute seen in helping our Armies to take-in such extraordinarily fortified and resolved strong holds by meere strength force and utmost extremities by assault batterie fire and sword Surely to take a strong place by strength and storme doth argue that there is extrordinary much of God in it especially when such a storme is effected with so little losse I might adde much more concerning the Lords wisdome mercy and other attributes that appeared even in the victories of this day but I shall open these cabinets anon Thus where you see much of Gods attributes laid out ingaged When victories do come in the channell of the promises and as it were concentred in a victory you may conclude that there is much of God in that deliverance Secondly when deliverances do flow in upon us in the channell of the promises then you may be sure they are mercifull mercies and that they have in them much of God For the promises they are the buckets belonging to these wels and fountaines of salvation Isai 12.3 Therefore with joy shall they draw water out of the wels of salvation These wels doe seeme to be opposed to those cisternes which are mentioned by another Prophet They have forsaken me the fountaine of living waters Jerem. 2.18 and hewen them out cisternes broken cisternes that can hold no water The creatures are cisternes the Lord alone he is the fountaine and out of this fountaine or wel-head we must draw all our salvations spirituall temporall publike personall by the buckets of the promises and then they will prove blessed blessings unto us Quest. But you will say what promises can we find in all the word that are made to the Parliament or Armies of England Or what are those Scripture-buckets to our nation or condition Can there any victories come to us in these channels Answ 1 Yes there are Scripture-promises to Englands Parliaments and Armies in this present cause Consider the great promise to Joshua Iosh 1.5 there you shall see a title to the promises given even to us I will never leave thee nor forsake thee saith the Lord to Joshua And this may be drawne down to all Joshua's or saviours of the Lords people to the end of the world as appeareth by comparing that text of Joshua Heb. 13.5 with another in the new Testament Let your conversation be without covetousnesse and be content with such things as you have for he hath said I will never faile thee nor forsake thee Whence we learne First that the promises made to Joshua or any other holy man in Scripture for provisions and protections in the Lords worke and cause may very well be applied to us and all others in like works and causes Secondly that a generall promise of the Lords presence and assistance for us in his service is as sufficient for all particulars whereof we stand in need as if they were expressed Verse 6. So that we may boldly say with dividuall the Lord is our helper Thus there are Scripdividuall the Lord is our helper Thus there are Scripture promises even to our English Parliaments and Armies in the present cause and worke Secondly I conceive yet more fully that the victories for which wee blesse God this day are come unto us in the channell of some particular promises Q. This is comfort indeed you will say if you can make it out unto us A. I will but point at two sorts of promises Two proper promises applicable to this daies mercies which seeme especially to sweeten this dayes mercies The one hath reference to that Armie which was the instrument of these victories The other to our selves for whom these instruments have done that worke First with reference to the instruments themselves You know what an Armie they were esteemed and what low thoughts were taken up concerning them then turne to that promise Because the foolishnesse of God is wiser then men 1 Cor. 1.25 26 27 23 25. and the weaknesse of God is stronger then men For you see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh nor many mightie nor many noble are called But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confound the things which are mightie And base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are That no flesh should glory in his presence Let this text be the Motto of this new Modell This day if ever is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares for now if ever hath the Lord done great things by such meanes yea he hath confounded carnall wisedome by folly strength by weakenesse and pride by humilitie Certainly such effects such deliverances as these doe come down in the channell of this promise That is one Let me give you another promise with reference to your selves and us the rest for whom these deliverances were wrought by those instruments You know the generall frame of mens spirits when the Lord began this turne of things I hope wee were pretty well weaned from creature-confidence and as low as ever in our owne eyes Then turne to that other promise Deut. 32.36 37 38 39. For the Lord shall judge his people and repent

himselfe for his servants when he seeth that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left And he shall say where are their gods their rock in whom they trusted See now that I even I am hee and there is no god with mee I kill I make alive I wound and I heale neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand When men are most low and lost in their owne eyes and doe most of all distrust themselves and the outward meanes looking up wholly to the Lord then if they get a deliverance it is in mercie and flows in upon them in the channell of this and the like promises Such mercies cannot taste of the cask Honourable and Beloved let me instance here as a westerne man the eyes of the poor prisoners of hope in the West have been long long time lifted up toward these Easterne hils for help and for their reliefe There was a first a second Army sent down but alas mens eyes and hearts were taken up with too much expectation and confidence I believe in those Armies which were commanded by that excellent Peere and by that valiant Knight and I cannot but think that one principall cause why those Noble Generalls could doe no more for those Counties was this because the people did look upon them too much If once wee doe make Idols of our Jewels then the Lord will break them in pieces and 't is a mercy for if wee should get deliverance by Idolized meanes and instruments our spirituall losses thereby would be much greater than our temporall gaines and commodities Observe wee therefore what an Army the Lord hath now sent down into those parts and what instruments hee doth there imploy even an Army of strangers men much unknown to the people of those Countries both by face and name lest they should Idolatrously and carnally look upon them Thus hee causeth in mercy the Westerne deliverance as he did their affliction to arise unexpectedly out of the dust And this is a signe of a gracious mercy when the Lord so bringeth about the Victories and salvations of his people that hee doth crosse selfe and kill corruption in them even by the mannaging and ordering of their mercies This is a double conquest even of corruption and of outward enemies both at once Doubly blessed be his name for such twinning favours as these This was the second note or mark that there is much of God in a salvation when it comes in the channell of the Promises Thirdly When they are the fruits of duty As Of Prayer when it is the fruit of holy meanes and duties as of prayer and praises when it comes in the way of duties Let me instance but in those two which I have mentioned And first in prayer when a salvation comes in the way of prayer You know how Jacob got his garland Gen. 32. Hos 12.4 his new name of Israel even by wrastling with God and that wrastling was by prayer and teares saith the Prophet Hosea Now what a solid blessing did that prove and how much of God appeared there in it It got him the name of Israel it derived an honour to all his posterity and it gave them a new relation to God which relation the Lord afterwards gloried in and they never pressed him with it ordinarily but they prevailed And therefore it was such a solid mercy because it was gotten by prayer Shall I adde an instance of a female wrastler Hannah begged a sonne of God by prayer and shee called him Samuel that is asked of God shee wrote the name of God upon the mercy to shew that it was obtained by prayer 1 Sam. 1.2 Chapters and therefore shee gives God all the glory and sets him up in her praises Now bring wee our mercies to this touch-stone have any of our victories come-in by this way of prayer have they been fruits of supplications and humblings were the hands of Moses in the Mount Exod. 17 1● as well as of Joshua in the Valley in any of these great and plentifull deliverances What think you of the verticall criticall Victory at Nazeby you were pleased to command out some 9. Regiments of Volunteers out of these Cities I meane so many Congregations to keep a solemne day of prayer and humiliation and believe it they are your Volunteers that must doe the work both in your spirituall and Civill Militia these Regiments did beset heaven upon the Tuesday and loe upon the Saturday after in the same week God gave you that Victory of victories the great unexpected necessary England-saving Victory of Nazeby Nay and the poore West out of its penury may come-in here with an instance too the great late turning of the Tide of that desolate Country was the Victory of Langport but when was it surely the very next day after the Westerne Fast at Black-friers Two dayes of victory did immediatly follow that one day of humiliation These mercies came-in like Daniels Answer Dan. 9.20 When I was speaking to the Lord the Angel Gabriel came and told me Thy prayers are heard O! these are the jewels in a Ring of victory they are precious things of God and ought especially to be recorded when mercies are the fruits of prayer So when they are the fruits of praise too Of Praises I read that Jehoshaphat had a great victory given-in as the fruit of praise 2 Chron ●0 22 When they began to sing praises to the Lord that is for a promise of deliverance sent by the Prophet The Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon Moab and Mount Seir which were come against Judah and they were smitten And hath not the Lord answered your praises too as well as your prayers Certainly there are mercies in this kind to be found out As when you gave command to praise the Lord for Nazeby victory that very morning God sent the tydings of the regaining of so-much-bewailed Leicester thereby to put one string more into our instruments of praises So when you gave command for blessing the Lord for that Westerne mercy neere Langport in that very day of praise as I remember to shew how the Lord loves a thankfull people hee did give their impregnable Bridgewater into your hands Let us also observe this marke of God upon his salvations Fourthly When they are improvements to grace and activity 2 Chron. 14 15 16. Chapters this is higher when victories are improvements to grace and holie action it holds also in all other inferiour personall mercies Honourable and Beloved may you please to look upon that one King Asa God gave him a wonderfull victorie those Chapters are proper for your reading this day even the greatest I thinke that wee read in the book of God Ten hundred thousand Ethiopians came up against him God routed them all in one battaile And while Asa was meditating a thanksgiving for this Chap. 15. God sent the Prophet Azariah to preach