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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77007	Salvation in a mystery: or A prospective glasse for Englands case. As it was laid forth in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their monthly fast, March 27. 1644. / By John Bond, B.LL. late lecturer in the city of Exceter, now preacher at the Savoy in London. A member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the Commons House.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3574; Thomason E43_2; ESTC R1754	41,396	73

Tolle lege take up and reade it seems that very providence did direct that amongst all sorts of bookes the King should pitch upon History and amongst all sorts of History this volume and amongst all the parts of this volume this page this passage that so way might be made for Esthers intended motion Well fourthly vers 3. And the King SAID what honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this Why did the King take notice of this service at this time more then formerly for it is said chap. 2. ver 22. that Esther had formerly certified the King of this businesse in Mordecai's name yet then no reward is thought upon But it seemes Mordecai's reward was kept for this very time by an act of extraordinary providence But fifthly to put a heape of casualties together That Haman should so seasonably come in in that very nick of time when Ahasuerus was studying how to reward Mordecai That Haman should come in with that request and motion for the executing of Mordecai Adde to these the Kings admission of Haman the question propounded to him and Hamans answer to that question all which you may reade in chap. 6. vers 4 5 6. And then all these graines put together do make a great weight Let all these casuall circumstances be cast in and you must confesse that every particular of them being a severall piece of wonder the whole doth make up little lesse than a Miracle Honourable and beloved how easily could I shew you the faces of such like casualties or petty-wonders in the glasse of your owne proceedings You have instances enough of your owne I meane in your owne History to parallel all these particulars and a thousand more I need not to go a borrowing for you Only thus much in a word this Manna of rarities from heaven is your daily bread I must on-wards Thirdly a work is then carried-on mysteriously when it is carried on contra naturam What English shall I have to reach this expression withall When a worke is carried on CONTRARILY and CONTRADICTORILY It is an hard phrase but so over-flowing are the mysteries of mercy which God is now working amongst us that certainly our English tongue is grown too narrow to lend us words to expresse them I must therefore use the word Contradictorily Contradictory what is that That is when a worke is promoted and carried-on by its contraries I must shew it by an instance When the carriage of a worke doth run like Samsons riddle Iudg. 14.14 Out of the Eater came forth meat and out of the strong sweetnesse That the Eater should yeeld meat and the strong give out sweetnesse this is such a riddle that a strict Logician hearing it would be ready to cry out Implicat 't is a contradiction in adjecto yet so it is when enemies do become furtherers of a worke against themselves and that is common you see amongst us If Samsons riddle doth not expresse it sufficiently adde another expression out of the Psalmist It is in Psa 112.4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in darknesse It is according to nature that the dawning doth spring out of the night and that the more perfect day doth arise out of that dawning is still according to nature because the increase is graduall But when light shall arise immediatly out of darknesse when high-noone shall suddenly leape out of midnight such a jumpe is against nature and you must call it a mystery because it is held as a Maxim amongst Naturalists that Natura nihil agit per saltum the motion of nature is not by leaps but by paces Thus Mark. 4.28 First the blade then the eare after that the full corne in the eare Therefore as often as we shall see a branch I meane a fruit of Providence like the Rod of Aaron that in one night was budded and brought forth buds and bloomed blossomes and yeelded Almonds Numb 17.8 so often let us confesse with the Psalmist This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes Yea but when or where did we ever see such things as these I would give some few particular instances under this head of salvation through contrarieties and contradictions As 1. 1 Enemies furtherers When Enemies doe further a worke against themselves yea and that by fighting against it This contradiction we have found true ever since the beginning of our present troubles The enemy by projecting fighting against Reformation hath both hastened and hightned it more then our selves could perhaps would have done in that time When there had been a talke a while after the beginning of this Parliament of some solemne way of uniting the Kingdomes by some speciall Association in those crazie times the enemy by increasing our dangers and obstructing as I remember the proceedings do quicken us into a Protestation And because that obligation was easily broken ah lamentable by the generality of men who deserted their owne protection and remedy therefore the enemy would never leave adding one horrid provocation to another by fighting against the Parliament denying them a being proclaiming them Rebels and owning the Diabolicall Rebels of Ireland as good Subjects to cut their throats untill by such sharp provocations as these they had spur'd and switch'd the three Kingdomes into a most Solemne Oath and Covenant for a compleat Reformation The men would not suffer us if we would only to pare and clip Prelacy no they will have it pluckd up Roote Branch They will not suffer the three Kingdomes to rest in severall kinds and pitches of government and worship but they will have one true reformed uniformity in these and all other Churches of Christ Thus their rage hath abundantly ripened the worke This is seemingly contradictory 2. When one and the same thing is at once helpfull to Gods people 2 Helpfull-Hurt and hurtfull to the enemy As it is sayd of the Angel and of the Pillar of the Cloude Exod 14.19 And the Angel of God which went before the Camp of Israel removed and went behinde them and the Pillar of the cloud went from before their faces and stood behind them ver 20. And it came between the Campe of the Egyptians and the Campe of Israel and it was a cloude of darknesse to them but it gave light by night to these so that the one came not neer the other all the night Such helpfull-hindering occurrents have we often met withall that have proved like the extraordinary frost that 't is said did suddenly happen in the North at the comming in of the present Scottish Army it blocked up the wayes of the enemy by abundance of Snow that they could not plunder and fire as they intended but it gave an unexpected passage of Ice over the river unto our Brethren and their carriages Many like acts might be shewen which upon the one hand did shew the Lords presence with his people as I have seen some two faced pictures and on the