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A39910	A discourse concerning God's judgements resolving many weighty questions and cases relating to them. Preached (for the substance of it) at Old Swinford in Worcester-shire: and now publish'd to accompany the annexed narrative, concerning the man whose hands and legs lately rotted off: in the neighbouring parish of Kings-Swinford, in Staffordshire; penned by another author. / by Simon Ford ...	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.; Illingworth, James, d. 1693. A just narrative or account of the man whose hands and legs rotted off.	1678 (1678)	Wing F1484; ESTC R28411	53,261	98

my self to be obliged to make good these Two things 1. That there are some penal Events which can by no rational Person be justly attributed to meer chance or casualty or any like cause not capable of choice or design in its actings 2. That such penal Events as these must therefore be the effects of a Providence and that Providence Divine I. The first of these Propositions I prove by the following Arguments 1. There are some penal Events befalling men in this world which have been punctually threatned and foretold as they have in the Issue faln out and many of them so threatned and foretold in the very Circumstances with which they were accompanied in the Event As for instance 1. In reference to the generality of Mankind So in the first Threatning annexed to the Law given to our first Parents in Paradise Gen. 2.17 the daily experience of all Humane Nature taken notice of by Heathens themselves shews it to have been punctually fulfilled in the corruption and calamities generally befalling the whole race of Men. And that other in the Law given to Noah Gen. 9.6 that whosoever sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed is continually in the almost miraculous discoveries of Murders and bringing Murderers to condign punishment verified in the observation of the generality of Mankind to this very day As also is that of the wonderful ways by which Conspiracies against Sovereign Princes are brought to light according to the notable threatning to that purpose Eccles 10.20 2. And in reference to particular Persons and Nations See and compare Num. 20.12 27 28.24.27.12.15 Deut. 32.49.34.5 So in the exclusion of Moses and Aaron from Canaan it is taken notice of expresly in the account given of their deaths of Aarons by Moses his own Brother and of Moses his own by him that fills up his Story after his decease that it fell out to both of them according to what God had denounced And it were easie to add many more of the same kind to particular Persons But 1 Kings 13. that of the old Prophet to the disobedient Prophet at Bethel 2 Kings 7.19 20. that of Elisha to the incredulous Lord in Samaria those of Elijah and Micaiah to Ahab and Jezebel 2 Kings 21.19.23.22 28. shall suffice instead of all the rest whereof the Historical part of Scripture is full because they are so notoriously evident to all that know the Bible And as to Nations To omit the long Catalogue of all the plagues of Egypt threatned and inflicted in the circumstances mentioned in the relation of them that one great Instance of the often foretold Captivity of the whole Jewish Nation is so observable and so attested beyond all exception by the publick Records of that Nation held to this day by all their Posterity in veneration that there is no more nay not so much cause to doubt it then there is that England was conquered by William the Norman I shall close this Argument with two Instances so punctual in a circumstance of all others most unlikely to be lighted on by chance that I know not what can be objected against them to invalidate the force of them but an Exception against the Records themselves whence they are taken to which I shall therefore add a word or two anon The one is that of the Judgment denounced against Jeroboams Altar 1 Kings 13.2 and the Priests that offered on it to be executed as it was by Josiah 2 Kings 23.16 mentioned by his very Name about 300 years before the performance The other is that of the destruction of Babylon in order to the restitution of the Jewish Nation wherein Cyrus is also by his very Name Isa 44. ult 45.1 2. foretold to be the Person that as he did was to effect it Which Prophesie by the learned Grotius his computation was uttered 170 years and by that of Junius and others above 200 before he accomplished it or probably was in being And the very manner how he was to take that great Imperial City to wit by the turning away and drying up Euphrates is so lively described by the Prophet Jeremy that the Heathen Authors Herodotus Jer. 50.38.51.31 32. and others who give us an account of the event justifie the verification of the prediction the same way Now in these and the like Predictions of future Events with such circumstances there is no man but must allow a greater certainty with respect to the causes on which they depend then there can be in any products of meer Casualty Which is my first Argument 2. The second is this There are Instances of some penal Events that have been brought upon offenders in a way of formal Proceeding yea such as is usual even in Humane Judicatures For Instance When Joshua had forbidden the embezelling any part of the spoil of Jericho under the penalty of a Divine Curse Josh 6.18.7 16 17 18. Achan the offender falls under the danger of it Upon the discomfiture of the Host before Ai enquiry is made after the unknown Transgressor of that Law Then he is found out by the direction of a four-fold Lot that brought all the people down to his very family under a scrutiny till the Lot takes him Then follows his Examination Confession Judgment and Execution And not much unlike was the Process Jon. 1. by which Jonah was cast into the Sea and there imprison'd in the belly of a Whale till his Repentance procured his Release Now abating the extraordinary way of discovery in these two cases the rest of the Procedure in these Judgments in formed Methodically according to the order of Humane Justice And must these proceedings in so exact a Method too be attributed to meer Casualty May not the persons who have the confidence to assert this as well affirm that Malefactors are hanged at Tyburn by meer Casualty when they have been seized by order of Law committed to Newgate by warrant tryed at the Sessions-house and having received their Sentence upon the Verdict of a Jury been conducted to the place of Execution and there turned off the Cart by the known Officers thereunto by Law appointed 3. My third Argument is this In the actual punishing of offenders many times the Instruments made use of have been irrational Creatures and yet have by an unknown Influence been directed to act as if they were governed by Principles of Justice as well as Reason as putting an evident discrimination and difference betwixt them and the innocent when both of them have equally been within their Power In the famous case of the plagues of Egypt how came the Frogs the Flies the Hail and the Plague c. to seize only the Houses Cattle bodies of Egyptians and not touch an Israelite or any of his concerns when as it appears by the order for the sprinkling of the Jews houses with the blood of the Paschal Lamb for distinction they lived for the

for the righteous Psal 58.11 and that verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth But the latter dispositions and deportments are recommended to us by the Examples of the best men and most eminent of Saints When Jobs friends had dealt so uncharitably with him he tells them what a different usage they should have found from him if their souls had been in his souls stead and assures them that though he could in such a case have spoken as they did to him now and heaped up words against them and shaken his head at their calamity as they used him yet he would have strengthned them with his mouth and the moving of his lips should have asswaged their grief Job 16.4 5. And when Davids very bitter enemies that insulted over his calamity were sick he cloathed himself with sackcloth Psal 35.13 and his prayers though ungratefully received by them and thrown back in scorn into his bosom whence they proceeded were heartily and sincerely from that bosom poured out to God for them And our Saviour the most perfect of men to the many sufferers under Gods hand whom he relieved was generally so compassionate that he took on him by a merciful Sympathy all the Infirmities that he cured and bare all his Patients sicknesses Mat. 8.17 Yea he could not forbear weeping over the very prospect of those Tragedies he foretold himself against Jerusalem though the Shambles of his Prophets and his own Slaughter-house Luke 19.41 And God expects as well as the sufferers themselves that to him that is afflicted pity should be shewn Job 6.14.19.21 22. especially if the hand of the Lord hath touched him and dislikes that men in their brethrens calamities should persecute like him i. e. take the same liberty of harsh and severe usage towards them as God does as if they could do it with like right and justice as he In a word it is his express command that to shew our selves to be of the same mind one towards another we not only rejoyce with them that rejoyce Rom. 12.15 16. but weep also with those that weep And thus I discharge this sixth Head also VII Come we now to the seventh and last to draw such Inferences from this whole discourse as may be of use and advantage to us 1. And first I infer the great Reason that there is for a general Judgment in another world For seeing God is known by the Judgment that he executeth and all that which he executeth here extends but to a few offenders and it may be the notice taken of those Executions that are made reacheth but a small part of Mankind it stands with the highest Reason that there should be a Time wherein all the world may see even those that while his hand was lifted up on earth would not see that just and true are his Judgments Isa 26.11 Besides by the rareness of the Judgments he executeth here instead of being known as he ought he is by many apt to be misunderstood whilst they are generally stumbled at his letting so many notorious offenders escape for one that he punisheth and those that escape he●e many times are the greatest and most prosperous of men that even dare his justice by setting their mouths against the Heavens themselves Psal 73.9 Wherefore that he may make it known that he spareth not so many high and mighty offenders either through impotency or partiality it is easie to infer that there must be such a day wherein all men whether they be small or great shall stand before him Apoc. 20.12 and be judged according to their works 2. I infer that those men do God great disservice who either carelesly overlook or designedly endeavour to suppress and keep from the notice of the world these remarkable Divine Judgments or when by reason of their own publique circumstances they cannot but be taken notice of by others attempt to slur and stifle as much as they can the evidence of those particularities which so much conduce to the preserving and propagating the knowledge of God in the world Those of the former sort are injurious in an high degree to God who when he exposeth his glorious Attributes to view as on a Theater will not vouchsafe to be spectators of them But those of the latter rank are prodigiously wicked And yet too many even of these are to be found in all ages of the world who study to darken Gods glory in such remarkable Judgments and to lead the apprehensions that people naturally are apt to have of them as far from God and Providence as they can find any colour to do Thus the Egyptian Magicians encouraged by a prophane Atheistical King as well as prompted thereto by their own malice emulated the miracles that Moses did and by frequent attempts to do the like endeavoured to persuade the People that there was nothing in them beyond the power of created beings to effect till God at last in the plague of the Lice drew from them an unwilling confession that neither they nor their master the Devil could imitate it Exod. 8.19 and that therefore it was the finger of God And it seems to me that the Priests and Diviners of the Philistines were willing when they were called into consultation what to do with the Ark of God to have carried on as bad a design and to have persuaded both themselves and the people that it was a disputable case whether the God of Israel had inflicted those Judgments upon them 1 Sam. 6.9 which they had suffered or whether it were a meer chance that had befaln them And therefore though they speak some good words concerning the God of Israel and give their advice that if they returned the Ark they should make him some Presents too it may be forced thereunto as Caiaphas prophesied by a Divine impulse yet they contrive to put the determination of that great Question upon the issue of such an odd Experiment as without a miraculous influence of the Lord of all the Creatures upon those that they imployed would in all rational probability have determined it against God For it was ten thousand to one odds but that the Kine being milch Kine and their Calves newly taken from their sides and shut up in their sight just as they were put into the Cart that was by their advice to carry the Ark being let loose without a driver had turned as nature would prompt them the same way their young ones had gone rather than towards the Land of Israel And a foul scandal it is to the Christian Name that too many of those who bear it do herein act as if they joyned in design with the fore-mentioned Heathens For besides the downright Atheists too many of whom pass muster now adays under Christs colours whom I have before confuted the sottish and prophane generation of men are desirous to look beside God in all such strokes lest by