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A77007	Salvation in a mystery: or A prospective glasse for Englands case. As it was laid forth in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their monthly fast, March 27. 1644. / By John Bond, B.LL. late lecturer in the city of Exceter, now preacher at the Savoy in London. A member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the Commons House.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3574; Thomason E43_2; ESTC R1754	41,396	73

unto them that dwell on the earth vers 7. saying with a loud voice Feare God and give glory to him for the houre of his judgement is come c. Hereupon in the eighth verse there followed another Angell saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great City c. Fallen why what ayled her What was it that threw her downe Surely it was nothing but the Angell that did fly in the midst of heaven having an everlasting Gospell to preach unto them that dwell upon the earth It was meerly the preaching of the Gospell if you will know it So that it seemes the Lord will throw downe Babylon the mysticall just as he threw downe the walls of Jericho with an holy blast by the breath of the Gospell it shall be preached flat to the ground No marvell that our Prelates were so angry with Lecturers Another expression of her overthrow might be gathered out of Revel 17.13 14 15 16. I will but name it because my reverend Brother in the morning hath prevented me And Chap. 18. vers 2. where you shall find that Babylon shall be thrown down meerly by Gods immediate supernaturall working upon the spirits of those men that were formerly friends and factors for the Whore For first 't is said verse 13. that these that is the ten hornes which are tea Kings have one mind and shal give their power and strength unto the Beast Verse 14. These shall make war with the Lambe Here they doe unite and agree well enough to persecute the Saints but reade on to verse 16. there they fall upon the Whore their late mother and mistresse The ten hornes which thou sawest these shall hate the Whore and make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burne her with fire A strange alteration indeed But how could such neare friends fallin-to such bitter enmity so suddenly No cause at all but this vers 17. for God hath put into their hearts both to unite and fall off againe Thus you see not onely Gods great salvations of his people in generall but especially those from Babylon are to be carried-on in a mystery But is it not strange that the Lord doth delight thus Quest to obscure and hide himselfe in the carriage of his great works Would it not do better according to our judgements and apprehensions if they were carried-on in the common rode of ordinary providence so that every man might see them before him whilest they are a doing as well as behind him when they are done I answer the nature of man is apt thus to reason Answ as Job chap. 13. vers 3. and Jeremiah chap. 12. vers 1. did And I could answer such questions with Saint Paul's O homo tu qui c. Rom. 9.20 Nay but oh man who art thou that replyest against God But that I may satisfie as well as confute I shal adde that there are reasons to shew that it is not only fit but necessary yea triply necessary that such great salvations especially from Babylon should be mysteriously carried-on 'T is necessary 1. For the Lords greater glory The grounds 2. For his Peoples greater good 3. For his Enemies greater confusion First the Lord doth thus hide himself whilst he is saving 1 For Gods greater glory for his owne greater glory There is a cleare and full place to this particular Prov. 25.2 It is the glory of God to conceale a thing but the honour of Kings is to search out a matter REM ABSCONDERE that is so to hide both himselfe and his worke that men may not be able before-hand to guesse at him whither he will go next nor yet to trace after him when he is gone before The latter expression namely That no man might go after him is to be found in Eccl. 7.13 14. Consider the work of God for who can make that streight which he hath made crooked And vers 14. In the day of prosperity be ●oyfull but in the day of adversity consider God also hath set the one over against the other to the end that man should find nothing after him Marke this God hath set the one over against the other to the end that man should find nothing after him that is the Lord doth incurvate his workes he doth intricately and to our apprehension promiscuously mingle the a●●s and effects of his common providence he doth traverse his ground he doth go on as it were by jumps that so the wit of man may not be able to trace and follow him but may sit downe admiring the depths of his wisedome and the strength of his power He doth leave so much print of his foot-steps as to convince the Atheist that he went that way and yet so little as to puzzle the Naturalist to find out the manner of his going And 't is abundantly for the Lords glory in all his Attributes thus to conceale a matter Every common Painter is able to paint a plaine piece of worke Erasm Adag Simulare cupressum as the proverbe is to paint a tree or a bough but hee is an Artist indeed that is able to draw forth a shadowed piece Every indifferent good souldier is able to fight pell-mell or upon a party hand to hand but he is the skilful man that is able to order an ambushment that can manage a stratagem Beleeve it brethren therefore doth the Lord draw his salvations in shadowed works that you may see the depth of his wisdome therefore doth the Lord use to overcome by ambushments that so the glory of his grace unto his people and the glory of his wisdome even amongst his enemies may be the greater That is the first ground for his owne greater glory The second ground why he carries his worke in a mysterie is for the greater good of his people 2 For the godly's greater good You have so choyce a place to this purpose in the booke of Deuteronomy that it alone may suffice Deut. 8. beginning at ver 2. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty yeers in the wildernesse to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest keepe his Comandements or no And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with Manna which thou knewest not neither did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live Thy rayment waxed not old upon thee neither did thy feete swell these forty yeers God could have carried on Israel in a shorter time and in a direct way not in such a maze and labyrinth through the wildernesse forty yeers together he could have carried them through within forty moneths Hee could have fed them from the earth if it had pleased him and could have preserved them so as they should never have bin straitned for