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lord_n	blood_n	drink_v	eat_v	23,847	5	7.8334	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08364	The haven of the afflicted A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Gloucester Aug. 10. 1613. By Sebastian Benefield Doctor of Divinity and fellow of C.C.C. in Oxford.	Benefield, Sebastian, 1559-1630.	1613 (1613)	STC 1869; ESTC S114173	12,952	28

by way of question when they will most of all affirme it Gen. 18.14 the LORD saith to Abraham Is any thing too hard for the LORD It is as if he had said al things are easie with the LORD there is nothing impossible nothing too hard for him Mar. 12.24 Iesus answering the Sadduces said vnto thē Doe yee not therefore erre because yee knowe not the Scriptures neither the power of God It is as if he had said doubtlesse yee therefore erre because yee knowe not the Scriptures neither the power of God 1. Cor. 10.16 St Paul saith The bread which we breake is it not the communion of the body of Christ It is as if he had said The bread which wee breake is the communion of the body of Christ Many other places of like nature I might produce But by these wee see that an Interrogation vseth to be put from an Affirmation as in my text Shall there bee evill in a city and the LORD hath not done it It is as if our Prophet had said There shall be no evill in a city but the LORD will doe it Or whatsoever evil is in a city the LORD hath done it Durus est hic sermo happyly will some say as those fleshly hearers of Christ said to Christ Ioh. 6.60 When Christ had told them that they were to eate his flesh to drinke his blood else they should not liue Durus est hic sermo This is a hard saying who can endure to heare it Shall there be no evil in a city but the LORD will doe it but he hath done it Durus sermo This is a hard saying This stumbling blocke this stone of offence will easily be remoued if you will bee pleased to consider with me three circumstances expressed in the letter of my text Quis Quid Vbi An Agent an Action The place of performance The Agent is the LORD the Actiō is a doing of evill the place where this action is to bee performed is a City Shall there be evill in a city and the LORD hath not done it Follow me I beseech you in these three I will passe them over as briefly and as plainely as I may If in my discourse I shall seeme for a while somewhat thorny or perplexed helpe me with your attention Shall there be evill in a city the LORD hath not done it The first circumstance to bee now considered is Quis. The Agent My text cals him IEHOVAH IEHOVAH It is the most proper name of God No creature is made partaker of it nor man nor Angel It betokeneth first the essence of God secondly the truth and complement of his promises First it signifieth that God is verè τὸ ὂν à quo πάντα τὰ ὄντα that God is so of himselfe that e Rom. 11.36 of him and through him and to him are all things Secondly it signifieth that God is ever faithful in his promises From whence two things should deeply and perpetually bee fastned in the memory of every Christian one is that our God is an everliuing God is the chiefest good is the author of all good and is therefore alwaies and aboue al things to be loued the other is that our God is ever true in his promises and therefore that our whole trust must ever lie on him For he only is IEHOVAH IEHOVAH is his name for ever it is his memoriall vnto all generations So it is called Exod. 3. 15. and Hos 12.5 This our God the Lord IEHOVAH who is of himselfe alone and is only true in all his sayings hee is not that God of those shamelesse blasphemers the f August de Haeresib c. 46. Manichees and g Ibid. c. 22. Marcionites h Zanchius de Attribut Dei lib. 4. cap. 1. qu. 1. thes 4. Deus malus à quo sit omne malum an evill God from whom commeth all evill Our God is no such God there is no evill in him there proceeds no evill frō him he is wholly i Ps 33.5 73.1 103.11 17. 136.1 c. good good k In se Deꝰ bon ' est suâ essētiâ summè Polā Syntag. Theol. lib. 2. cap 20. of himselfe by his essence Now if hony of its owne nature and essence sweet hath no bitternesse in it if the Sunne of its owne nature and essence light hath no darknesse in it without doubt God of himselfe of his owne nature essence good hath no evill in him Wee confesse with David Psal 5.4 O our God thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickednesse neither shall any evill dwell with thee Thus you see Quis who this Agent is It is IEHOVAH the Lord our God whose being is of himselfe who is true in all his sayings who is absolutely good in whom there is no staine of evill Such is the Agent The next circumstance is Quid the Action a doing of evill Shall there be evill in a city and the LORD hath not done it The naturalist saith l Mat. 7.17 A good tree bringeth forth good fruit the Philosopher saith Omne m Arist 2. Phys Aquin. 2. Dist 18. qu. 2. Art 1. ad 4. Zanch. de Attrib l. 2. cap. 7. qu. 3. agens agit sibi simile Such as the Agent is such is the Action if the Agent be good the Action cannot be evil How then is it that God of himselfe and absolutely Good is here in my text noted for a doer of evill For answer herevnto wee must with St Austin cap. 26. contra Adimantum Manichaeum distinguish of evils there is malum quod facit homo and malum quod patitur there is an evill which man doth and there is an evill which man suffereth the first is sinne the other is the punishment of sinne of this not of that must God be said to be the doer This distinction is more plainely delivered by Tertullian contra Marcion lib. 2. cap. 14. There is malum delicti and malum supplicij there is malum culpae and malum poenae there is an evill of sinne an evill of paine Suum cuique parti definimus autorem saith that Father malorum quidem peccati culpae Diabolum malorum verò supplicij poenae Deum creatorem Of the evills of sinne and fault the Devill is the author but in the evils of paine and punishment wee acknowledge the hand of God the Creatour This distinction of evils saith n Annot. 82. in locum Tertulliani Pamelius is worth the noting against Calvin and his followers as if Calvin or the rest who maintaine the truth of that doctrine which Calvin professed denied this distinction of Evils to make God the cause and author of sinne This horrible blasphemie and impietie wherewith o De amiss Grat. statu reccati lib. 2. cap. 4. Bellarmine p Octavâ ratione Campian q Defensione praefationum Bellarm. Tom 1 pag. 5 6. Gretser r Tom. 1. Opusc 3. de