with him and fought against the Philistines and David waxed faint And Ishbi-benob which was of the Sons of the Giant the weight of whose Spear weighed three hundred Shekels of Brass in weight he being girded with a new Sword thought to have slain David But Abishai the Son of Zeruiah succoured him and smote the Philistine and killed him Then the Men of David sware unto him saying Thou shalt go no more out with us to battel that thou quench not the Light of Israel THese words are a very remarkable plece of Story which is compleat in it self and therefore I need not look upon what goes before it in this Chapter I crave your earnest attention to the Matter I intend to handle for your Instruction this part of the Day and have but patience till I come to the Application then I hope you will see that what I shall deliver to you will be very suitable to the Work and Duty of this Day and not only so but will direct you what to do every Day till God shall turn our Fasts into Thanksgivings The true Reason of my chusing this Text and that upon this Solemn Day which requires an extraordinary seriousness with the Application of the whole strength of our Hearts and exercise of every Grace is not at all to flatter much less to idolize our King and Queen which would be the worst of Services to them and to our selves by provoking God to quench the Light of Israel but really to shew you as plainly and as convincingly as I can how deeply our Hearts should be affected with our own Condition how earnest we should be with God to preserve our Supreme Governours and especially our King in the Labours and Dangers of this War and how we should behave our selves under all those Circumstances under which the Sovereign and over-ruling Providence of the infinitely Wife and Almighty God hath subjected us And I was moved to these Considerations which I shall commend to you by the great Thoughts of Heart which possess many honest religious and tender Persons Why say they will our King hazard his Person in this War who is in danger not only from the Craft and Malice of the open Enemy in the Field but Treachery even in his Camp Why will the Parliament and the Kingdom let him What will become of us if we should be so unhappy as to lose Him in this unsettled and distracted State when there are so many secret Discontents and such open Talk Beloved we cannot be too much concerned for the Safety of their Sacred Persons the Peace of these Kingdoms and the Preservation of our Religion both at Home and Abroad The Glory of God the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus and the Salvation of our Souls by the Means of Grace are as much concerned in the Success of this War as ever at any time to any People This War is not a War for outward Peace and Liberty nor for Glory and Renown for Riches and Trade or any other temporal End or Interest only but for the true Interest of the Kingdom of God among us and of the Protestant People of God in all Nations where they are or soon will be in danger if God doth not shew himself to be on our Side There are many Interests of many Princes and People in this one Bottom and all united in one King and submitted to his Conduct under God If these should be divided we should be weakned and fail but if he should miscarry we must needs sink for a time and many Countries suffer Shipwrack and then not only the Estates Liberties Properties Bodies and Lives but precious Souls and the Ark of God would fall into the Power of the Cruel The Philistines would soon over-run our Land and they who seem to wish for their coming would feel the Miseries of their coming as soon as they who fast and pray with all sincerity to keep them out and be less able to endure them If the Light of our Israel should be quenched O how tempestuous would it be round about What a Day would it be of Gloominess and thick Darkness O far be it from those who desire that Evil Day ever to see it come may they all go to their Graves in peace before that Inundation of Woes and Miseries break down our Banks 'T is true we have more to lose now at once than ever our Forefathers had and therefore when we consider our Sins we have more cause to fear than ever But let this comfort and encourage us to offer up strong Prayers and Cries to the God of Heaven to God our Saviour that the Glory of God's Truth Mercy and Grace being so specially and imminently concerned in this War that his Wisdom and Power will the more sincerely appear for the preservation of Israel and the Light of Israel Call up Faith and Hope to put forth all their strength into those Prayers which go not out of feigned Lips O for a strong Faith at the head of our Godly Sorrows and Humiliation for Sin this Day O for the Assistance of the mighty Spirit of Prayer and Supplication to send up yea to carry our fervent Prayers to Heaven Is the Spirit of God departed from his praying wrestling Jacobs in England and gone to our Enemies Hearts Is God is the Ark of God in their Camp Hath not God prepared his Arrows against the Persecutors What inhumane Persecutions are the greatest of them guilty of But as my Thoughts run on this String of Hope I am checked by the sight of the great and many Sins of these Kingdoms for which God might bring us under the Sword of our Enemies and even deliver up the Ark the Church into their hands O that every Congregation were weeping and mourning before the Lord this Day and casting away our Iniquities O that this Day were a Day of confessing and forsaking those Sins for which God might justly hide his Face from us O that we were exercising of Revenge upon our selves for all our Abominations O that we were sighing and crying for all the Abominations done in the midst of our Jerusalem and that all in their Places would become zealous for the Glory of God resolving every one to mortify his own Sins disarming the Traitors against God Church and State in his own Heart and setting themselves against Sin in others that God may be reconciled to us and intreated for the Kingdom But yet as bad as we are are we not God's People Are there not some Fifties among us for whose sake God will spare us But not to insist upon such Arguments for Hope let us build upon one it is a strong and a standing Argument by inverting the Word of God and humbly turning it upon him Thus saith the Lord God I do not this for your sakes O House of Israel but for my holy Name 's sake Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord God be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded
THE Great Concern and Zeal OF A LOYAL PEOPLE FOR A GOOD KING'S PRESERVATION In the HAZARDS of WAR And the Duty of such a People opened and enforced In one of our MONTHLY-FASTS in a Country Parish By the Minister thereof LONDON Printed for Ionathan Robinson at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1691. To all that sincerely fear God and honour King WILLIAM and Queen MARY THE Word of Authority to us is To your Prayers as the Word of a Commander to his Souldiers To your Arms. The Weapons of our Warfare are not Carnal but Spiritual Mighty through God to the pulling down of the strong Holds of Satan not only in the Hearts of Vnbelievers and Enemies of the Gospel battering yea casting down Imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the Knowledg of God and bringing into Captivity every Thought to the Obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10.4 5. but the same spiritual Weapons are mighty against all the visible Armies and strong-Holds of the Devil under the Command of his Vice-Royes the declared Enemies of the true Church of Christ yea and of Mankind also according to the extent of their Power What mighty things are recorded to be done by One of those Weapons of our Warfare mighty through God in sensible Weakness and Self-distrust And what shall I more say For the Time will fail me to tell of Gideon and of Barak and of Sampson and of Jephtha of David also and Samuel and of the Prophets who through Faith subdued Kingdoms c. Heb. 11.32 33. Take notice how the Prophets Men of Peace are enroll'd among the Men of War And no wonder that when Victories and Conquests even over Kingdoms are attributed to Faith that then the Prophets should have an eminent place among the greatest Men of greatest Name And this Power of Faith is not lost but wants Exercise for this is the Victory which overcometh the World even your Faith 1 John 5.4 5. And that which overcometh the World and that mighty evil Spirit in it can subdue a Kingdom at any time when God pleaseth and the time of its destruction is come This Faith is exercised in Prayer and by Prayer winning and engaging the mighty God of Jacob the Lord of Hosts to be on our side Our Enemies cannot stand before us they shall fall and perish the strong shall be as Tow. One Man shall chase a thousand and two ten thousand Deut. 32.30 Jos 23.10 The Church of God is both beautiful and formidable Cant. 6.4 Terrible as an Army with Banners Her Majesty and Stateliness is set forth as an Army with Banners and her exceeding great Power in her Faith and Prayers Believers in regard of the Power of their Faith are more terrible than Armies saith Excellent Mr. Durham If one Jacob as a Prince prevailed and by his Strength had Power with God Hos 12.3 4. What cannot many do that weep and make Supplications What cannot an Army of Believers do What cannot an Army do that by an united Faith with Sighs and Weeping take Heaven by violence Faithless spiritless faint formal Prayers put into rank and file and displayed in the finest Eloquence do no Service at all such Prayers do but beat the Air. That same Language in which God speaks to us is the most proper for us to pray to God that Word by which God worketh Faith in us is that which best suiteth the Prayer of plain-hearted Faith It is an Observation of Eminent Mr. Charnock which deserves to be engraven on our Hearts When God would do any mighty Work in the World he stirs up his People to pray for it and their Prayers by his own appointment have a mighty influence upon the Government of the World for when they come before him in behalf of his Church in general he doth indulge them a greater Liberty and Boldness and as it were a kind of Authority over him than upon other occasions of their own Isa 45.11 Thus saith the Lord The Holy One of Israel and his Maker Ask of me things to come concerning my Sons and the Work of my Hands command ye me God would be more positively Treat of Provid p. 71. Fol. confidently and familiarly dealt with about the Concerns of his Sons though they were things to come to pass in after-Ages Rev. 8.3 4. The great Changes in the World are an Answer to those Prayers which are offered unto God Holy Brethren The Work of God hath been very great in some eminent part of the World in some Countries and Kingdoms and the Prayers of the Faithful have prevailed much But was there ever at any one time so great a Work as is now a doing in our Days Are not the great Affairs of the Sons of God in all Protestant Churches I say in all Protestant Churches drawing near to a Determination The Issue of this War is like to be the Rise or Fall not only of many in Israel but of all the Israel of God confederate in the true Religion of Jesus Christ O then is not this the time for us to be of one Heart and Soul deeply humbled sincerely mourning crying and sighing for the Abominations that are yet in our Jerusalem Cities and Countries weeping and making Supplication and with the most reverent and awful Adoration make us bold with the Highest Majesty of the Holy One the Saviour in a time of trouble as he alloweth us Monsieur Jurieu fulfilling of Prophecies and others Even to command him concerning his Sons and the time to come which many of his Servants wait for and say as Luther Fiat voluntas mea Let my Will be done Holy Brethren partakers of the Heavenly Calling Give me leave to engage you to be more abundant in the fervent Prayers of Faith and of true Penitent reformed in Heart and Life Consider how much of this great Work lies upon you at this time Who can tell what your Prayers may do under God by his appointment The Proclamation for these Fasts reacheth to the Realm of England the Dominion of Wales Town of Berwick upon Tweed O that all from sixteen to sixty in these Bounds were fit for Prayer to bear Arms these spiritual Arms O then how might we hope that even she that tarrieth at Home and is fervent in her Closet may divide the Spoils of the greater Spoiler of all he can lay hands on But O how weak are we how divided how unprepared What Help can we look for from them that are disaffected to the King and Queen and troubled at this glorious Revolution How do they murmur that God should do what seemeth him good for his Peoples Good How many are there that do not as much as appear to Fast How many are for the Liturgy of James not the Apostle's which hath been reputed spurious by many of our most Learned Divines and Bishops but the Apostate's How many half yea half-quarter observers of those Holy and solemn Days How like are these to old
to Israel than the God of Israel goes before him and bears him up in his Hand 5. Trust God in all Dangers to preserve him and succour him in case of fainting God has succoured him by one of his Nobles in a former Battel against France Let us pray and trust that Help shall not be far from him when Dangers are nigh O let all that fear the Lord trust in the Lord Now let our Eyes be towards the Lord and trust him over all trust him I say again with our Light and Lamp And O that we could trust God not with a humane Trust as far as we see great Armies and early Successes but trust God with the Trust of humble penitent believing sincere praying Hearts The 2d Duty is Prayer and this is one part of the whole Armour of God without which who can expect to be saved Great and many were David's Extremities and therefore we find so many of his Prayers and Thanksgivings for their Success They who pray most and best are God's best Servants and the King 's truest Subjects O let us pray by Faith with Hope with Contrition Humiliation Sincerity Fervency Continuance and Perseverance by the Spirit in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ to the Lord of Hosts to God mighty in Battel When David spake of the peaceable and prosperous Reign of Solomon he saith Psal 72.15 and for him shall Prayer be made continually O all you that can pray pray heartily pray daily pray abundantly Prayer has been most prophanely derided in this Age But if we would have God do what we will let us believe and pray according to the Will of God Let not a day pass over you without effectual Prayers for God's Glory in the prosperity of the Gospel and redeeming Israel out of all his Troubles And that God would guide assist preserve and prosper our King and Queen and strengthen them by his Spirit in the inner Man take these following Considerations to satisfy and encourage your Hearts 1. The King must go to these Wars It is not Vanity to see the young Men play before him as Abner said to Joab 2 Sam. 2.14 Hest 4.14 no but necessity A necessity in respect of Duty and Obedience to God who hath prepared and called him to it He is obliged to assist in a Common Cause against a Common Destroyer of Countries and Cities And who knoweth but he is come to the Kingdom for such a Time for such a Service as this He doth not only add Strength by his Armies but puts Life into the Armies of other Princes as well as his own There is the same Necessity for our King to go forth to Battel as it was for David's going when he went it may be so that there may not be hereafter a like Necessity as there was not when the Men of David obliged him not to go for then he was much disabled and there were many others fit for the Service that were forward to go Men fit to be trusted Wendeline Doctrin Politicae lib. 2. c. 42. Ayala l. 2. c. 2. Sect. 19. Men that were true to the Happiness of Israel And as Cesar was wont to say Not go but Come along So many other great Captains have not only been present but performed the parts of Souldiers as well as Generals But the greatest Valour must do this with great Caution and remember he is a General and not a Commander posted to maintain his assigned Ground lest he become a Mark for an Ishbi-benob or give cause to an Enemy to say as he did who killed the most renowned King of Sweden That is the true Bird and so shot him dead Let us not forget to ask of God always to govern the King 's great Mind and guide him with his Eye 2. Here is sufficient Encouragement for us all not to be faint-hearted and dismayed but to pray with an awful humble Confidence and Expectation that God will favour this Righteous Cause For 1. this War is a lawful War and that gives us encouragement to seek God for the Success of it and our good King's Prosperity and Preservation The Lawfulness of this War will appear in all the Causes of a lawful War if you 1. Consider our Selves 2. Our Enemies 3. Our Allies 1. If you consider our Selves It is lawful because undertaken by Supream Authority by the King and Consent of the Parliament The King hath just cause to maintain his own just Title to the Crown and Government of these Kingdoms And it is the Peoples Duty to serve him in the Wars according to their utmost Ability as Judah did adhere to David 2 Sam. 2.4 whom they received and anointed him to be their King You know that I have not made State-Matters the Subject of my Preaching but now it is necessary to say something to inform you in what I believe is true and then engage and perswade you to your Duties The King's Title and Right to the Crown is scrupled by some who own him as King de facto in Possession these do seem rather to temporize than to obey upon a full Principle of Obedience and speak not fully to the Point and the Case of the King and Queen And others refuse to swear Allegiance to them though settled upon the Throne by a free Convention of Peers and People and their Title ratified by a Parliament and acknowledged by all Princes and States abroad except One who would have the Kingdom for himself if he could Which of all the Heads of the several Families and Lines of our English Kings could shew a better Title or near so good than our King and Queen antecedent to their Coronation But since it should be held undoubted and therefore this War is lawful if it were for nothing but to maintain his just Title against his Enemies The Reasons which Abner and the Men of Israel gave for their submission were good to prove David's Title and every one of them might be applied to prove our Soveraign's Title see 2 Sam. 3.12 17 18. Chap. 5.2 3. And though God hath not spoken by audible Words to them You shall feed my People Israel and thou shalt be Captain over Israel he hath spoken aloud by convincing Providences 2. It is lawful if you respect our Enemies The French have declared War against us attempted an Invasion Do not we know him too well to let him in If we resist him who shall be our King He that hath saved us and doth still endeavour it or he who when he had declined and refused to satisfy the just Petitions of his Subjects and contrary to Law and his Duty went about to change our Government and not daring to meet a Free Parliament ventured his Cause to the determination of God by the Sword and lost it in that Court of Judgment and deserted the Government and Kingdom and withdrew to an open Enemy's Country and hath made use of that Enemy's Power against us and
Bottles How many of those who seem well affected to the Government are grosly ignorant sensual and profane unreformed unrefined from their Lees What can these do What ill-favoured irreverent what cold and dead what broken Work do many make so that we have cause to fear the Divine abhorrence of our Fasting How far may a Man ride before he can see one Sinner whose Heart and Life is reformed according to the Word of God after our many monthly Days of Fasting If a Poll could be taken of them that are for or against or are wary Neuters whether ever God and Christ or their Enemies should be found in the best side All must be excluded from voting right who do not lift up holy Hands to God in Prayer so that from the Land's End even to the Town of Berwick we can make no more than a Gideon's Army But yet I hope there are enow to make an Army too strong for all the Enemies of our Faith Religion Peace and Government Be therefore of good Courage wait on the Lord and he shall strengthen your Heart all ye that hope in the Lord. Encourage our selves in the Lord our God were our Extremities greater and more than they are And consider 1. Is not God on our Side O let us humbly wrestle with his Majesty to rise for his own Glory for David's sake for Jerusalem's sake what will our Enemies the Heathen say 2. Hath not God prevented us with his loving-Kindness Did we by our Prayers call in our Deliverer Did not God put it into his Heart before we knew of it Have we not seen when we fasted and prayed it went well with us for the Honour of God for the Honour of his Ordinance for Prayer's-sake despised blasphemed Prayers-sake I was glad to hear it was the poor praying People of Ireland that saved London-derry that made the Men of Inniskillin more than Men and not our Gallant Dammees and Hectors Pray on to the last Breath pray to the last drop of Tears Give not up so great and so good a Cause for lost it is all in the Hand of God our God trust him 3. Pray on there are more for us than there be against us Is not God for us Are not Angels for us Do not the Souls under the Altar solicite God and cry How long Lord Holy and True Rev. 6.10 dost thou not avenge our Blood on them that dwell on the Earth I beseech you observe this that they who are our Enemies now are they who have shed the Blood of the Saints We are sure that God will avenge the Blood of his Servants and hear the Prayers of his Saints in Heaven and on Earth The Lord never denied to hear their Prayers he hath only delayed Andit was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow-Servants also and their Brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled Some have written and others believe this late is the last Persecution of the Churches in France at least and if so that the Number of them that should be Killed is fulfilled then we shall shortly sing as Jehosaphat and the People did For his Mercy endureth for ever 2 Chron. 20.21 4. Pray believing in him to whom you pray and knowing against whom you pray Is he not a bloody merciless Persecutor who can set him out in his Garments dy'd in Blood and hath not God said He hath ordained his Arrows against the Persecutors plead that with God Psal 7.13 5. Who do we pray for Are they not God's own People the Apple of his Eye or hath God not one small Râ—â—nant left Remember the Prayer of Nehemiah Now these are thy Servants and thy People whom thou hast redeemed with thy great Power and by thy strong Hand Nehem. 1.4 to 10. 6. Argue from the very Strength and Greatness of our Enemy O say our Men of Reason and Thoughts Men like the cowardly Spies of the Land of Canaan who discouraged the People How powerful is France How Great that King How wise his Counsel How mighty are his Armies How strong at Sea How well disciplined what an Advantage hath he who is one in united Councils before-hand with his Enemies in the time of Year whereas the Confederates are slow in Resolutions and Preparations He 'll hold them in play he 'll tire them out And what will not this Great Man do Yea Are these things true is this the sense of Men wise Men most Men Be it so Yet for all this hâ—â—l he the Army of Zera the Ethiopian Let us cry to the Lord as Asa did 2 Chron. 14.9 Lord it is nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that have no Power Help us O Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy Name we go against this multitude thou art the Lord our God let not Men prevail against Thee Let us wait upon God and take an Argument from the strength of our Enemies Psal 59.9 Because of his Strength let us wait on thee for God is my Defence We have a God hearing Prayer to pray unto we have a good Cause all is in Danger we have great Encouragements O let us say He hath delivered and we trust be will not only deliver but prosper O then let us pray for a praying Heart And pray every Day without ceasing And that first for our King and Queen that they may have the whole Armour of God to put on the Testimony of a good Conscience that in the Vprightness of their Hearts they do all they do that they may never fall into the slippery and pernitious Steps of evil Kings Let us pray for them that they may inherit an Everlasting Kingdom that endeavour to make ours so happy Many do labour to fright us more with the King's Successes than with the return of their idolized Image as if he would be as absolute as high for Prerogatives as any of his Predecessors What Confusions he will make say others in the best Church in the World and much more Whereas the great fear is that he will do more for God than most of his Predecessors Men are mightily afraid of losing their Pluralities their Ceremonies their Sins Let us pray for the preservation of our Lamps the free Progress of the Gospel the Advancement of Religion and Godliness into High Places for a painful Preaching exemplary Ministry for the saving and sanctifying Protestant Churches for healing of Breaches in a word for Grace Mercy Peace And when we have pray'd to the pouring out of our Hearts let us not trust to our Prayers beyond God's Promises but stay our selves upon the Rock of our Salvation To whom be Might and Dominion for ever Salvation to our God Hallelujah The Great Concern and Zeal of a Loyal People for a Good Warlike KING c. 2 Sam. 21.15 16 17. Moreover the Philistines had yet War again with Israel and David went down and his Servants
better to keep at home and receive Enemies from abroad and repel them or carry the War abroad into the Enemies Countries But certainly the Reasons and Circumstances of this War well known to our wise King perswade it is best where it is God hath provided for us a wise watchful couragious Queen in full Authority to govern and watch over us at home who is worthy to be trusted under God There are more Princes engaged in this War beside the King and other Dominions concerned and if God do but break that Devourer at home and deal with him as God rewarded Adonibezek it will keep him from ravaging abroad as he hath done Hunt him down he will be glad to hide in his own Den. Nothing is more to be fear'd than a Composition with him for being faithless he will no longer keep Conditions of Peace than he can gather Strength to break them 3. You say you would not have him venture his Person I say let us express all the loyal and truly-Christian Care we can and all the true Zeal we can for his Preservation but let us consider that it hath been the manner and use of the greatest Kings and the best of Commanders to go to the Wars and command in Battels Not to speak of the famous Conquerors of the World was there such a Man in the World as Abraham was Gen. 14.13 14 15 16. And this holy Abraham goes in the Head of his armed Men in Person and leaves not the charge of them to his Confederates How like a Souldier did he command and marshal his Men and he was not a Spectator but an Actor in the Fight What a Man was Joshua who had the Name and Spirit of a Saviour he went and did not take care to send to the Battels of the Mighty The same might be enlarged in David even to a declining Age and of other Kings 4. A King may be as safe in a Camp as in his Court read Psal 3.5 I laid me down and slept I awaked for the Lord sustained me Ver. 6. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of People that have set themselves against me round about Arise O Lord save me O my God c. Psal 27.3 4 5. But then remember these Men were strong in Faith and much in Prayer Not to exceed in length Let us who are sensible of the great Favour of God towards us in our King and Queen be upon our Duties which are two 1. Trust 2. Prayer 1. Trust God with all our Heart Look upon our Lamps as subject to Mortality to fainting to be quenched but let us look to the God of Israel above the sading Light of Israel Isa 45.22 Look unto me and be ye saved all the Ends of the Earth for I am God and none else Kings cannot save themselves but it is God who giveth Salvation to Kings Psal 144.10 Salvation belongeth to the Lord Psal 3.8 Psal 44.6 Psal 33.16 2 Chron. 14 11. And a King that trusteth in the Lord will not trust to his Bow c. to the greatest Numbers of Men nor Preparations for War He was a King and a Prophet that dehorteth us from trusting in Princes Psal 146.3 4 5. 2. Trust the Lord of Hosts with our King and Queen As we are to cast all our private Burdens upon the Lord and to commit our private Ways Affairs and Concernments to the Lord so let us cast the great Concernment of the Kingdom and all the People of God in the Kingdom The King trusteth in the Lord Psal 21.7 O let us trust also in the Lord and trust our Light to his gracious watchful and mighty Providence O that we could trust the mighty God of Jacob with his Church and People when as low and weak as Jacob when he is called Jacob Jacob is low and weak Now is the time for right trusting in God And the more Trust and Confidence we place in the King and Queen and the more we exceed in love to them the more cause have we to have a right Trust in God 1. Trust the King as far as a King is to be trusted with our Armies with our Purses with our national Interests abroad and at home and the more our disaffected Back-friends have contemned him let us honour and trust him the more But when we have trusted much to his Wisdom Integrity Valour Conduct and Experience let us not make an Idol of him let us not forget God nor forget that he it is that teacheth his Hands to war and his Fingers to fight 2. Trust God in this Cause and War as if we had no King to trust to for we must trust God alone Only the Lord be with thee as he was with Moses Jos 1.17 He only is my Rock and my Salvation he is my Defence I shall not be greatly moved My Soul wait thou only upon God for my Expectation is from him He only is my Rock and my Salvation I shall not be moved In God is my Salvation and my Glory the Rock of my Strength and my Refuge is in God Trust in him at all times ye People Surely Men of low degree are Vanity and Men of high degree are a Lye Psal 62.2 5 c. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Princes Psal 118.9 All Nations compassed me about but in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them vers 10. 3. Trust not in Means with the least neglect of God yet use God's Means in trusting God Trust God in the use of Means above Means trust not God without Means when Means may be had of God's appointment Set your selves in array but then stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord 2 Chron. 20.17 David would not trust in his Bow but he would make use of his Bow Though the Means be but as Rams-horns and the tumbling of Barley-loaves yet do as God would have us Presumption is no Trust 4. Trust God with giving supplying renewing disposing and prospering Means but do not limit God to any one Way or Time or Person Mordecai was a Wonder he was confident that God would deliver the Jews he made use of Hester as a proper as a very proper Instrument to work upon the King but his Trust was not limited to her but if she fail'd Deliverance shall come from another place Hester 4.14 No King in England without dishonour to any was so like to carry on the Work of God and to do the Service of his Church as our present King is he hath done much already Was ever King so trusted by so many Princes Who was so engaged being so provoked by the Enemy so prepared with depth of Thoughts and Privacy with Industry beyond Strength or encouraged by Deliverances as He Yet still let us not limit the most High God and the more we trust God the more we love our King O long may this Lamp burn and shine but he can no longer give Light