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A30060 An exhortation to trust in God, and not to despair of His help and fall from Him, in this dark time of popery that is coming upon the church written by Digby Bull. Bull, Digby. 1695 (1695) Wing B5411; ESTC R6962 37,239 44

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trust in any blind Deity nor in any sensless Idol that hath eyes but seeth not nor in a Creature that is ignorant of our condition and of the concerns of this World But in trusting in the Lord Jehovah the living and true God we trust in a God that is Omniscient and knows every thing That perfectly understands all the affairs of this World and is thorowly acquainted with our State and Condition here That sees and knows all our needs and wants and the sorrows and miseries that we ly and labour under and all the hazards and dangers that we at any time are in And that hears our addresses and prayers which we at all times make unto him And therefore upon this account we have the greater reason to place our trust and confidence in him and to account him the Rock of our Salvation Secondly He is a God of infinite Wisdom and prudent in all his actions and enterprizes and therefore we have the greater reason to trust and confide in him All his actions and doings are weighed in the ballance and grounded upon the highest reason of all and are managed with wisdom and counsel He is not like the foolish Builder that laid his foundation upon the Sand and to have his work overturned with every blast of an adverse Fortune nor so unwise and imprudent as to be guilty of any such error and to have any of his intentions frustrated and blamed He attempts nothing but what he will bring perfectly to pass and his counsel shall stand and there is no over-reaching and out-witting of him but he at his pleasure can over-reach all others and therefore we have the greater cause to trust in him and rely upon him as the Rock of our confidence at all times Eph. 3.10 To the intent saith the Apostle that now unto the Principalities and Powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God And this all the works of God declare viz that he is a God of infinite Wisdom and understanding so far as we are able to judg of them The stupendious Frame of this visible World with all the admirable works therein will abundantly manifest to us the wonderful Wisdom of him that Created and Formed it and let us understand a little how unconceivable it is If we behold the Heavens with all the Glorious Bodies thereof the Sun Moon and Stars with that exact o●●er and the steady courses and motions that they keep with admiration and wonder may we say with the Psalmist Ps 19.1 The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his hand-work Day unto day uttereth Speech and night unto night sheweth knowledg And the Earth with all the numberless Hosts and Armies thereof doth shew the same The curious Frame and Order and Government of all the Armies and Hosts of Creatures that are upon the face of the Earth do manifestly shew to us that he that formed them and disciplines and orders them must be infinite as well in Wisdom as in Knowledg and Power And saith the Psalmist Ps 104.24 O Lord how manifold are thy works in Wisdom hast thou made them all And saith Solomon Pr. 3.19 The Lord by Wisdom hath founded the Earth by understanding hath he established the Heavens By his knowledg the Depths are broken up and the Clouds drop down the dew The accurate works of God do abundantly manifest to us his exceeding great and infinite Wisdom He is infinitely Wise of himself and needeth no Counsellor to instruct and direct him as the Prophet sheweth Is 40.13 Who saith he hath directed the Spirit of the Lord or being his Counsellor hath taught him With whom took he Counsel and who instructed him and taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledg and shewed to him the way of understanding He is all-sufficient in this respect and he alone is Wise and giveth to all others Wisdom and understanding as he sees good Job 35.10 saith Elihu there But none saith Where is God my maker who giveth Songs in the night Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the Earth and maketh us wiser than the Fowls of Heaven And saith the Preacher Ecc. 2.26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom and knowledg and joy He is the original and fountain of all Wisdom and there is no Wisdom nor Counsel can prevail against him There is no circumventing and over-reaching and out-witting of him There is no craft nor policy that will signify any thing against him The foolishness of God is wiser than men saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 1.25 And saith Job 9.4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered And saith Solomon Pr. 21.30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor Counsel against the Lord. All the wisdom and Counsel that is set against God is like to be blasted and to come to nought and they that travel with Plots and Designs against him will be sure to bring forth their own wo and misery in the end For he destroyeth the wisdom of the wise and overthroweth their Counsels at his pleasure He confounds all the Wit and Cunning of the crafty and turns it into stark folly and sottishness as he sees good He leadeth Counsellors away spoiled saith Job 12.17 and maketh judges fools And ver 20. He removeth away the Speech of the trusty and taketh away the understanding of the aged And ver 24 25. He taketh away the heart of the chief of the People of the Earth and causeth them to wander in a Wilderness where there is no way They grope in the dark without light and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man Thus doth he darken and confound their reason and understanding and makes them to become like fools and mad men at his own pleasure And saith God by the Prophet Is 44.25 That frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh Diviners mad that turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledg foolish And saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 1.19 For it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent And again saith he 1 Cor. 3.19 For the wisdom of this World is foolishness with God for it is written he taketh the wise in their own craftiness Thus are they taken with their own Wit and Cunning and their craft and policy is all retorted and turned back upon themselves and they do only plot and consult for their own downfall and ruin that set themselves against him And now seeing God is so unconceivably and infinitely Wise in all that he takes in hand and is guilty of no errors nor over-sights in what he doth but acteth always like himself like an All-wise God and is sure to bring his purposes and designs to perfection seeing he cannot be over-reached and out-witted by either men or Devils and that there is no counsel