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land_n	egypt_n	moses_n	pharaoh_n	2,863	5	10.3611	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78179	Gods lift-up hand for Lancashire, presented in a sermon preached before the honorable committee of the county at Lancashire. Upon the 18th of December 1645. Being a solemne day of thankesgiving to God for clearing of the country, in subduing the enemies thereof. / By Nehemiah Barnet, minister at Lancaster.	Barnett, Nehemiah, b. 1614 or 15.	1646 (1646)	Wing B874; Thomason E1165_2; ESTC R210100	19,384	61

God withdrawing the spirituall sense of discerning the wayes of his providences and judgements God may deny it to many What Moses said of many in Israel I may say of many in England Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the Land of Egypt unto Pharaoh Deut. 29.2 4. and unto all his servants and unto all his land The great temptations which thine eyes have seen the signes and those great Miracles yet the Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and eares to heare unto this day Because God in his just judgement may give them over to the God of this world 3. Reas that Prince of darknesse to be blinded to their destruction of such the Apostle Paul speaks Eph. 2.2 which were amongst the Ephesians who walked according to the course of this world according to the Prince of the power of the aire the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience So that they in a just judgment are blinded that they cannot discerne the wayes of God Of all judgements these spirirituall judgements are heaviest and this judgement is mentioned by the Apostle Paul Rom. 9. v. 8. according as it is written God hath given them the spirit of slumber eyes that they should not see and eares that they should not hear unto this day The Apostle here hath reference to the Prophet Isaiah his prophesie of the obstinacy of the people unto their desolation And he said Esa 6.9 10. Goe and tell this people Heare ye indeed but understand not and see yee indeed but perceive not Make the heart of this people fat and make their eares heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and heare with their eares and understand with their heart and convert and be healed The Lord open our eyes and boare our eares and touch our hearts with his gracious Spirit that wee may never fall into these worst of his judgments Vse 1 This informes us of a blinde generation in the world who cannot see and will not see Gods hand lifted up that will not take notice what God is doing in England They are a churlish dogged people that bark and snarle at the works of God that speake the language of Sanballat and Tobiah Neb. 4.2 3. What doe these feeble Jewes do will they fortifie themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day will they revive the stones out of the heapes of the rubbish which are burnt So these say What wil these brain-sick Puritanes and Round-heads doe will they presently build a new Religion will they have a new Discipline c. It 's these our blind Britaines which makes our Parliament Worthies stand in Nehemiah's posture working consulting with the one hand and holding their weapons in the other Vse 2 These wilfull blinde miserable men being discovered to you in the next place I might thunder terrour to them that oppose the hand of God lifted up for the Churches cause Wilt thou goe on to fight against God now his hand is lift up against thee thou wouldst bee ashamed if thou didst perceive and understand what thou art doing thou layest about thee and knowest not who thou smitest thou knowest not what thou dost If God in mercy would open thine eyes thou wouldst see plainly perceive that thou art opposing Gods worke that thou hast lifted up thy hand against God and buffeted him and wounded through the sides of his servants God himselfe Couldst thou see this thou wouldst be ashamed Did Pharaoh see that none of his devices prospered against Israel and that hee could not worke wisely enough to destroy them Did hee see that the more violent hee was the more God took their part and followed him with Plagues so that his servants askt him Exo. 10.7 If hee would see all Egypt destroyed before hee would let them goe yet he would not see but runnes on in mischiefe till the fire of Gods enemies had devoured him Vse 3 Suffer a word of Exhortation and then I shall close it lookes beloved on you whose eyes have seen the great things God hath done for these parts how mercifully Gods hand hath been lifted up for this County You ought now to blesse God that you have eyes that have seen oh blesse God that you were not blinded to your owne destruction therefore now learn to feare the Lord serve him with all your hearts all your dayes It 's the lift-up hand of God that hath crowned this poore County with his blessings in inlarging the borders of our tranquillity so that as Moses said of Israel so may I say of Lancashire Happy art thou oh LANCASHIRE Deu. 33.29 who is like unto thee ô people saved by the Lord the shield of thy helpe and who is the sword of thy excellency and thine enemies shall bee found lyars unto thee and thou shalt tread upon their high places We must all of us confesse with the Prophet David Psal 40.5 That many are the wonderfull workes which God hath done for us and his thoughts which are to us wards they cannot be reckoned up in order If I would declare and speak of them they are more then can bee numbred So that I must conclude this Text at this time with Samuels counsell 2 Sam. 12.14 Onely feare the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things hee hath done for you Which counsell if it please God to give us grace to follow it will bee a meanes to move God to lift up the hand of his Protection over us and destruction upon our enemies and bring them to shame that envy us and cause the fire of his enemies to devoure them FINIS