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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

you have begun with courage and constancy and be assured the LORD is with you while you are with him Your joyning the sword of your power to the word of your Minister is the high-way to a blessing your prudent perseverance in the worke so well begun will procure many praises to GOD many prayers for you and much joy in the hearts of all them who sincerely affect you Of which number you may reckon him who is Your most humble Servant for the good of your soules NEHE BARNET Gods lift up Hand for LANCASHIRE OR A Sermon Preached upon the day of Thanksgiving for the clearing of that County in subduing the Enemies thereof ISAIAH 26.11 Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envie at the people the fire of thine enemies shall devoure them IF you please at your leasure to look back into this Prophesie you shall finde the promises that God hath made to his Church turned into the Churches Prayers and the prayers of the Church bring forth many passages of Gods providence and the passages of Gods providence to his Church and People winde up their hearts to the true tune of prayses The experience of Gods Providences hath ever provoked Primitive Christians to Gods praises When Israel had crossed the Red-seas with dry feet and the returning waters had drowned the pursuing enemies Moses and the people sang a Song of triumph and spake saying I will sing unto the Lord Exod. 15. V. 1. for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he throwne into the Sea V. 2. The Lord is my strength and song and he is become my salvation hee is my God and I will prepare him a habitation my fathers God and I will exalt him V. 3. The Lord is a man of war The Lord is his Name When Deborah had conquered Sisera Judges 5. with his 900 Chariots of Iron whereby the Land had rest forty yeares she sang this rejoycing Song to the Lord. Praise yee the Lord V. 2 for avenging of Israel when the people willingly offered themselves Heare oh yee Kings V. 2. give eare oh yee Princes I even I will sing unto the Lord I will sing praises to the Lord God of Israel When God restored Judah back againe out of Captivity this Chapter was their song of triumph wherein three things are observeable First the place where it was sung V. 1. In that day shall this Song be sung in the Land of Judah Secondly the persons rightly fitted and qualified for the singing of this joyfull Song set downe in this Chapter by foure Qualifications 1. They are a righteous Nation V. 2. which keep the truth v. 2. 2. They are such whose minde is staid on God because they trust in God V. 3. v. 3. 3. They are such who wait for God V. 8. and the desire of their souls is to his name v. 8. 4. They are such who seek God early V. 9. with soule and spirit v. 9. These are the persons rightly qualified for singing of this song Thirdly the provoking and inciting causes for singing of this Song are these amongst many 1. Because they had a strong City salvation had God appointed for Wals and Bulwarks for them v. 1. 2. Because in the Lord Jehovah they had everlasting strength v. 4. 3. Because hee bringeth them downe that dwell on high the lofty City he layeth it low even to the ground v. 5. 4. Because he will ordaine peace for his people hath wrought all their works on them v. 12. But I need not go beyond my Text to seek for reasons why Judah doth sing this Song For When Gods hand is lifted up in a way of mercy for a people and in a way of Justice upon their enemies and makes them ashamed that envies them and destroyes them with the fire of his enemies that riseth up against them then you cannot but grant that there is good ground for singing joyfull Songs of praises So that from the course that Gods people here took when they were delivered out of Captivity we might by the way draw this Doctrine Doct. That the experience of Gods mercies in delivering his people calls for their praises to God It 's Davids argument which he useth to stirre up himselfe and others to extoll and blesse and praise his God because the Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his workes Psal 145.8 The Psalmist exhorteth the redeemed in praising God to observe his manifold providence Psal 107.1 2. O give thanks unto the Lord for hee is good for his mercy endureth for ever Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy Which is the onely argument why we should praise him because he hath redeemed us out of the hands of our enemies by two Demonstrations Reason 1 1. By disappointing their plots 2. By weakning their power First by disappointing their plots and purposes while the wicked set their wits to devise and their bodies to execute mischiefe with all the art and craft they can While the wicked are contriving iniquity on their beds and when the morning is light they purpose to practise it Behold while they travaile with this their iniquity Mich. 2.1 and have conceiv'd their mischiefe God blasts it and it proves abortive They bring forth nothing but a Lye Psal 7.14 A Lye in regard of expectation A Lye in regard of intention For the mischiefe they intended for others falls on their owne heads For God delights to catch them in the imagination of their owne hearts and pay them in their owne coine 1. God doth this that hee might not lose the glory of any of his Attributes hee will make them know that hee is a God onely wise and knowes how to disappoint the plots of the enemies 2. In regard of the enemies whose fiercenesse turnes to Gods praises in disappointing their plots he lets them know that there is a God that ruleth the earth Secondly his mercies are seen in breaking the power and strength of the enemies By the blast of God they perish Job 4.9 and by the breath of his Nostrils are they consumed therefore with confidence David saith for lo thy enemies Psal 92.9 ô Lord for lo thy enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered When the Lord our God shall send the rod of his strength out of Sion Psa 111.2 and rule in the midst of our enemies then there is cause of loud praises to God for this his mercy When God expresseth his mercies to a people in suppressing the power and pride of their enemies this calls for loud praises Vse 1 To reprove these whose eyes are fill'd with envy at the prosperitie and proceedings of Gods goodnesse to his people such a spirit were Sanballat and Tobiah of who were exccedingly grieved because