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A78110 Gods prerogative povver made known divers wayes in the Old and New Testament. Also the prerogative power of the Lord Christ. And what he will do in the dayes of his kingly office, in destroying his enemies, and exalting his saints. Very usefull for these times. / By him that loveth both truth and peace, Noah Banks. Banks, Noah. 1650 (1650) Wing B670; Thomason E615_17; ESTC R206703 20,729 31

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he commanded Moses to goe to Pharaoh and tell him that the God of the Hebrews hath sent to him to let his people go but his answer was I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go Oh how unlikly a person was Moses a shepherd to go to so great a King in so strange a buisness how hardly would Moses be perswaded but when God said he would make his Power known by plagueing Pharaoh and the Egyptians and God said he would goe with him if God will goe with any Instruments they shall doe the work God was not tied to raise a great Army no he can make use of a Shepherd to doe the work and he can arme Lice and Flies and Frogs to pull down the pride of Pharaoh But oh how hard a matter was it for Israel to beleeve because Pharaoh did lay heavier burdens on them then before but after God had brought them out by a mighty hand oh what an untroden path did God lead them in they must goe thorow the Red Sea or else Pharaoh would make them bond slaves or destroy them now doth God make his Prerogative Power appeare above what Israel could beleeve by making a way for his people to goe thorow the Red Sea when the Egyptians following them were all drowned so all along throw the wildernesse forty years did God preserve them in a miraculous way they had bread and meat from Heaven and water out of a Rock and yet for all this how few of them did beleeve that God would bring them into Canaan and give them the Land of promise none but Ioshua and Caleb one great reason was because the walles of Iericho were so great and so high but you may see how God did blow them downe with Rams hornes How did Israel at the first hearing of their deliverance Reioyce and bow down their heads and worship God but after God had Exod. ● 13. made his Power known and brought them out of Egypt oh how did they murmur against Moses and Aaron and said they two took too much upon them but did not God destroy them and their carkasses fell in the Wildernesse for murmuring against Moses and Aaron So at the beginning of our Troubles oh how did our Ministers and People rejoyce and blesse God for raysing Instruments to bring them out of Bondage but now God having made his Power known by doing Wonders for us by them oh how doe now the same men murmur against the same Instruments and say they take too much upon them and fain would wee goe back again into Egypt but let these men take heed lest God sware in his wrath they shall never see the new Ierusalem but their children shall see the good Land which many godly men now see a far off Secondly how dark a way was that when Christ came at the first a Virgin should conceive a sonne oh the mighty power of God and love of this Lord and King of Heaven and Earth He must come in the form of a Carpenters sonne none would own him but poore Shepherds and Heathens and afterwards he took poore Fishermen to be his Disciples and a few woemen administred to him how did this blind the great Learned men of the Iewes but here you see how God delights to make his Prerogative Power known when he will doe his greatest works by the most unlikely Instruments but oh how sad a thing was it for them not to know in that their day the things that concerned their peace and not to have rejected their Saviour Oh let it not be sayd of England nor London that they doe slight or refuse the great Salvation that God hath done for us because the Instruments are not so great or so learned lest we be found fighters against God Now seeing God hath made his Prerogative formerly known by doing his greatest works by the least and unlikeliest Instruments that all the glory may be given to him So also doth the word of God declare his Prerogative Power if you read the 32 of Deuteronomy from the 39 verse to the 44 there God saith I kill I make alive I wound and I heale and none can deliver out of my hands So in the first of Samuel the second chap in the 7 and 8 verses the Lord maketh poore and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up he rayseth the poore out of the dunghill to set them among Princes and maketh them to inherit the Thrones of Glory for the pillars of the Earth are the Lords and he hath set the world on them And in the 40 of Iob the 12 and 13 verses He looketh on every one that is proud and bringeth him low and treadeth down the wicked in their places and hideth them in the dust together and bindeth their faces in secret Divers wayes did God make his Prerogatvie Power appeare in the Old Testament First over Angels and Men in pulling down their pride The great Design God had in creating all things was his own Glory and amongst all his creatures he made Angels and Men to be the most glorious and endued them with many priviledges above all other creatures but still he reserved the Prerogative Power to himselfe If the Angels whom God had placed in an excellent condition who had Heaven for their habitation standing in the presence of God beholding his glory if they will not keep their first estate but will lift up themselves God will then make known his Power in destroying them and all their glory and throwing them down out of heaven into hell reserving them in everlasting chaines in utter darknesse unto the judgment of the great Day Iud. ver 6. And also Adam whom God created after his own image and placed him in Paradise and made him Lord over all his creatures here below when hee would exalt himselfe how soon did God destroy him and all his glory and his posterity and drove him out of Paradise and hee and all creatures became accursed if Cain will lord it over his brother Abel and shed his brothers blood God will make his Power known he shall bee accursed and a vagabond on the earth Gen. 4. 11. So if Pharaoh will deal proudly and say who is the Lord and by his power oppress Gods people with cruell bondage and will Exod. 5. 10. not let Israel go at Gods command God will make his Power appear in raysing an Army of Lice and Flies and Frogs to plague Pharaoh and if this will not humble him he hath a Red Sea wherein to drown him and all the malignant Egyptians that followed after Gods people Exod 14. 24. Also Nebuchadnezzar that proud King if hee lift up himselfe and say in the pride of his heart Is not this great Babylon that I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty Here you see the pride of this vain man but while the words were in the Kings mouth God told him that the