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A34921
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Isagoge ad Dei providentiam, or, A prospect of divine providence by T.C., M.A.
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T. C., M.A.
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back pleads his insufficiency yea when that is answered by God he hath nothing else to say and that indeed was too unmannerly to be said Send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send Exod. 4. 10 11 12 13. 5. In not heeding and improving some foregoing Providence in order to a grapple with some future difficulty It is said of the Disciples They cried out and were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure and wondred Mar. 6. 49 51. What was the ground of their disquiet Fear Was there no Antidote to have checkt their trouble Yea there was for Christ had done that before at land which might have quieted them at sea the Miracle of the Loaves might have fed their faith which would not then have been so sea-sick this seems to be intimated in v. 52. For they considered not of the loaves for their heart was hardned We see then that there is fault in crossing with the Methods of Providence and it hath been shewed particularly how persons do thus cross What remains but to be on our watch and that the rather considering these two things 1. Satan hath his Methods which are wily ones for so the Apostle Paul asserteth Eph. 6. 11. Satan's design is to pervert and subvert He will be busie to make a man unprofitable under the Methods of the Lord He labours to make men slight warnings storm under afflictions stifle convictions to be backward to any good work God calleth them unto and to be forgetful of special Providences which may have their future reference for support under Difficulties 2. It 's man's wisdom to comply with the Methods of the Lord. Ephraim is called an unwise son and why for he should not stay long in the place of breaking forth of children Hos 13. 13. To be stupid and blockish under the Lord's Dispensations not to eye God in them and to have a recourse to Him and to improve them for good is to be the unwise son with Ephraim OBSERVATION XIV Jesus Christ as Mediator is the Father's Vicegerent Plenipotentiary or Supream Moderator of things in the World CHAP. I. VVHAT foundation this hath in the Word may appear divers ways 1. There are types of this before Christ assumed the human nature This is he that was in the Church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the Mount Sinai and with out fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us to whom our fathers would not obey but thrust him from them so Stephen Acts 7. 38 39. To this add that in Dan. 10. 16. Zech. 1. 12. And as there are sacred Draughts or Pictures of this so Predictions of it Deut. 17. 15. with Acts 7. 37. A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me him shall ye hear Psal 110. 1. with Mat. 22. 44. The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool Daniel had a predictory Vision I saw saith he in the night visions and behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the Ancient of days and they brought him near before him and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed Dan. 7. 13 14. 2. There seems to be a notable praeludium or preface to this in Christ's sitting in the midst of the Doctors both hearing them and asking them questions and in his reply to Mary Wist ye not that I must be about my father's business Luke 2. 46 49. And before this in the Wise-men's coming from the East enquiring after him who was born King of the Jews and doing their homage to him as Mat. 2. 1 2 11. 3. The solemn voice from Heaven when Christ inaugurated or entred on his publick Ministerial work doth witness to this Mat. 3. 17. And lo a voice from heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased And so in Luke 9 35. There came a voice out of the cloud saying This is my beloved Son hear him 4. There are plain and positive Assertions on this wise Mat. 28. 18. All power is given unto me both in heaven and in earth Ephes 1. 22. And hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the Church Mat. 13. 41. The Son of man shall send forth his angels John 5. 27. And hath given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of man Compare this with v. 22. For the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment to the Son This is saith Musculus as if so be we should speak of the Sun the Sun burns not any one but hath given all burning to his beams This kind of speech doth not exclude the Sun from a virtue or efficacy to burn or illuminate but ascribes the work of burning and enlightning to his beams in and by which the Sun doth burn and enlighten for what heat and splendor the beams have they have it from the Sun After this sort the Father is said to judg no out but to have committed all judgment to the Son when he judgeth all things in the Son CHAP. II. 1. SEE what ground there is for honouring Christ This inference Christ himself deducteth That all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him John 5. 23. with 22. Honour Christ then in his Natures in his Offices as King Priest and Prophet in his Ordinances in his Gospel-day for worship in his Ministers and People Honour Him both in judgment and practice with due respect had to Him according to the fore-mentioned ways 2. What a bold Adventure is it for the sons of men to affront Christ or rage against Him This is an Evil cautioned against and the attempts of men as they will be fruitless so no less dangerous to themselves if they desist not What do sinners but take a great deal of pains to get a Stone of vast bigness up the hill and when it is nigh up back it returns and crusheth themselves The Psalmist is pertinent to this purpose Psal 2. there is a Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing v. 1. The interrogation hath its dehortative considerations No reason so to do And as it is horrid sin so no less folly in regard of the issue The Lord laughs at such foolish Children's play v. 4. Christ is on the holy hill of Zion v. 6. there is no beating him off that hill Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel v. 9. 3. Here is ground for support and consolation in the Wilderness of this World Christ
party against them namely That they were the conquered people of Christ The Scripture had foretold of what should be and so what might make against them makes for them They were overcom'd and yet did overcome by their faith and patience The Wild-Boar of the Forest did chase them to their Father's House A time comes when Christ plays the mighty Huntsman and so slays the slayer to the glory of His Vindictive Justice Nam cum Episcopus Tolosanus stragi intercedens eos qui adhuc residui intentoriis forte manserant misso quodam religioso ut tanto quasi Dei irati contra eos pronunciantis flagello convicti jam tandem feritate depositâ ad fidem quam vocant Catholicam converterentur illi verò se populum Christi victum retorquentes hoc quasi clypeo tentationis impetum frustrati sunt atque ad unum omnes à recurrentium Militum manu intersecti fortiter occubuerunt Thirdly There is a glorious dissplay of Providence in timing both Mercies and Judgments Mercies are timed and so timed as that they are oftentimes inhanced from the season for them God did remember Joseph in the Butler's forgetting of him for Joseph is reserved till he be more fitted for release and till Pharaoh be at a loss about his dreams for the Magicians could not interpret them unto Pharaoh Gen. 41. 8. The like may be observed in Daniel's case between whose intended slaughter and advancement there was but a little time Dan. 2. 13. with following verses Moreover the time of Mercy doth sometimes lead to or point at some duty which the Lord graciously recompenceth at such time The day of setting upon Temple-work is a day of God's blessing them from thence Hag. 2. 18 19. It is observed how the English had victory given Fox Acts and Mon. in the History of Edward the sixth unto them on that very day and hour Images were burnt at London And as for Judgments the Lord times them The Assyrians goes not against an hypocritical Nation till God sends them Isa 10. 6. God knows how to make a Calamity a double one in regard of the timing of it That passage in Mat. 24. 20. doth plainly attest so much Moreover the day of Calamity may point out at sin committed on the day that Calamity is inflicted While the word a proud one was in the king's mouth there fell a voice from heaven c. Dan. 4. 31. Time is sometimes a Glass to behold the sin committed then or before at such a time which hath its recourse when the Judgment is inflicted The day week month of Smart may point to the day week month of Sin before The Second Branch of the Observation refers to Places And here three Propositions likewise offer themselves to consideration First Some Places are Monuments of Providence in regard of what falls out there Surely saith Jacob the Lord is in this place and I knew it not he set up a pillar and called the name of the place Bethel Gen 28. 16 17 18 19. See moreover for this purpose Numb 21. 3. 1 Sam. 7. 12. 1 Chron. 22. 1. Secondly There is much of Providence in going to Places and in absence of parties from Places A Levite lodgeth at Gibeah Judg. 19. 14. and what falls out there is the desolation of Benjamin no less than the lives of Twenty and five thousand Benjamites pay the shot or discharge that Levite's Quarters Judg. 20. 46. In 2 Sam. 20. 1. there happened to be there a man of Belial whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri a Benjamite and he blew the Trumpet of Sedition Nathan Sadock Benaiah Solomon are not at that Seditious Feast of Adonijah Abiathar Joab are and they had better fasted than thus feasted as the sequel of the story doth declare 1 King 1. There was much of Providence in Saul's coming to Jabesh-Gilead for their help 1. Sam. 11. 11. Thirdly Both Mercy and Wrath may be read in legible Characters on Places and at Places The Providence of God is seen in way of Mercy as it respects the place it self in blessing of it as he did the land of Canaan to the Israelites And the same Providence is displayed in way of mercy at places and that in doing good to the souls of men and to the outward man too Many of the Jews which came to Mary at Bethany and had seen the things which Jesus did believed on him John 11. 45. The blind man is in the way nigh Jericho and Christ there passeth by and healeth him Luke 18. 35. And as Mercy is thus displayed so Wrath likewise The Lord turneth rivers into a wilderness and the water-springs into dry grounds a fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein Psal 107. 33 34. The Brethren of Ahaziah are on their progress to visit Ahab's children at Samaria they are met with by Jehu and slain at the pit of the shearing-house even two and forty men 2 Kings 10. 13 14. King Joram is providentially drawn forth from Jezreel and met Jehu in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite 2 Kings 9. 21. he is slain by Jehu and his body is thrown on that very plat according to the word of the Lord as Jehu makes the observation v. 25 26 of the same chapter CHAP. II. 1. FROM the Lord 's timing of matters learn 1. What ground there is for wicked ones to consider of their ways God not only times Punishment but so times it as that it may become double punishment God hath turned the Glass of his Long-suffering in Heaven how many sands are run out and how many are to run out they know not this let them know That God will come in way of punishing if they come not in way of repenting he will come even to a sand When the iniquity of the Amorites is full vengeance steps in Gen. 15. 16. There is a MENE God hath numbred thy kingdom and finished it for a Belshazzar Dan. 5. 25. And as the Lord timeth Wrath so there is a stinging timing of it Wicked ones have a spring-tide of Wrath when they expected it not so it was foretold of Babylon Isa 47. 9. But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day the loss of children and widowhood they shall come upon thee in their perfection c. And in v 11. Therefore shall evil come upon thee thou shalt not know from whence it ariseth and mischief shall fall upon thee thou shalt not be able to put it off and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly which thou shalt not know 2. What ground is there for godly ones to wait on God in this Providence for mercy God hath his timing of mercy and so timing of it as may the more commend the mercy There is a blessed season to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones Isa 57. 15. John's Disciples came to Christ in a seasonable