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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97221	Mans fury subservient to Gods glory. A sermon preached to the Parliament at Margarets Westminster Febr. 20. 1656. it being a day of publick thanksgiving. With the addition of an applicatory discourse about the mutuall animosities of Christians, which was omitted for want of time when the sermon was delivered. By John Warren, M.A. minister of the gospel at Hatfield Broad-oak in Essex.	Warren, John, minister of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1657 (1657)	Wing W974; Thomason E916_7; ESTC R207491	21,447	40

apply this briefly If the wrath of wicked men against the godly be thus conducing to the glory of God how just cause have we to be humbled considering how the kindness of God to us has through our abuse of it been turned to his dishonour The wrath of the wicked praises him and his mercy to us disgraces him We have shamed the mercies of our God and the God of our mercies by an unworthy walking under them You know who said when she had made a Bishop she had spoyled a Preacher It may too truly be said concerning us that when we were in a low estate and under the lash we were an humble people a praying people a mutually loving people and in a word a people that lived like Christians but since we have been made free and great and potent in the world we have been spoiled for Christians and are become a people vain and light in our minds a people that dare boldly believe or unbelieve any thing which will make any man vain in his conversation A proud and haughty people even to the justification of them whom God abased before us Covetous ambitious hard-hearted and in Religion generally carelesse cold and undetermined Has God delivered us so many times and saved us for this Truly to speak after the manner of man as Moses sayes of God Gen. 6. that it repented him that he made man We may say God may well be ashamed of all that he has done for us Is it not pitty that his enemies should reproch him in pointing at us and say These are the Lords people Ezek. 36.20 Do you see them these are the Saints do you observe what their Religion is and how well it teaches them Do you see what 't is to be godly I know that in the failings of Gods people the logick of Adversaries is such that they will infer an ell from every inch but it is just matter of lamentation tous that we have given them so much occasion to blaspheme Use 2 But to conclude This serves to perswade Christians to be patient of the wrath of enemies though it do break out God will make an excellent use of it and press it into a subserviency to his own glory Let the earth be removed if it must be so and the mountaines cast into the midst of the sea Let the Saints be thrust again into prisons and dirty dungeons Let fire and faggots come in fashion again and bloody persecutors return to their old trade yea let that Tragedy of Piedmont be acted over in England we are too angry among our selves for the most part to see how neare these things are in probability upon their march towards us But let it be as the Lord pleases certainly it shall be no worse And though men be never so enraged he will out of their greatest fury make admirable provisions for his own glory And if God thinks his Glory well worth the whole charge of Creation and Providence why should not we reckon our light Afflictions well bestowed upon it FINIS ERRATA PAge 3. lin 10. read Assertive p. 4. marg r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 7. marg r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 9. marg r. retaliare p. 14. l. 22. r. listed p. 16. marg r. videndum p. 19. l. 1. r. covetous p. 25. l. 22. for O r. So. p. 30. marg r. Mat. 7.28 Saturday the 21. of Februar 1656. ORdered by the Parliament That the Thanks of this House be given to Mr. Warren for his great pains taken in his Sermon preached yesterday before the Parliament at Margarets Westm being a day set apart for publick Thanksgiving and that he be desired to print his Sermon aad that he have the like priviledge in printing the same as hath been allowed to others in like cases And that Major General Haynes do give him the thanks of this House accordingly Hen Scobell Clerk of the Parliament

he is called the Avenger In Hebrew the avenger of himself Psal 8.2 because he loves to be retaliating upon the people of God the anger which God has executed upon him Now there are two seasons in which the wrath of men through their own Malignity and Satans Malice is especially intended against the godly times when it flames out more vehemently as they say of Aetna and Vesuvius There is alwayes fire burning in them yet there are some speciall times of their more vehement eruption First A time of Reformation in matters of Religion In 2 Chron. 31. we read much of the zeal of Hezekiah and his people in destroying Idolatry and restoring the Worship of God to its native purity And then it follows in Chap. 32.1 After these things and the establishment of them Sennacherib King of Assyria came and entred into Judah c. And God takes notice of him that he came in a great rage 2 King 19.27 As it also appears by the railing of his servant Rabshekah before the walls of Jerusalem And to this Invasion some learned men as I said before think this Psalme has a speciall respect I do not say that Reformation is alwayes the thing which immediately offends wicked men but it is that which vexes Satan and makes him provoke and stir them up against the people of God and then he finds them out some ground or other of a quarrel such as will best fit their humour and is most agreeing to their interest Sennacherib did not make Hezekiah's Reformation the professed ground of the quarrell but his rebellion because he had withdrawn himself from his allegiance and served him not Isaiah 36.5 On whom dost thou trust that thou rebellest against me As if he had said I come not against thee for thy Religion nor because thou hast demolished the Altars at which the people were wont to worship ver 7. But because thou hast made a defection from my Soveraignty and Government But that Satan who is the generall instigator of Gods peoples enemies had the greatest spight against the King and his people for their reformation in matters of Religion is manifest enough How did the wrath of Rome burn and flame even up to Heaven in the dayes of Luther's Reformation in Germany and what mischievous plots and devices the Anger of that party hath put them upon against this Nation in times of Reformation it 's very well known The Spanish Armado in which that Monarchy acted against England ad extremum virium was formed in a time of Reformation And the Conspirants in that Hellish plot which we may now call The former Powder-Treason themselves assigned the Lawes of Parliament against Idolatry and Seducers to it for the cause of that invention Some yeares ago God put it into the heart of Authority to revive the design of Reformation which for a long time before had not onely not gone forward but receded till we were insensibly drawn back almost into Egypt again But ever since that day it is a wonder to see in what an heat the world has been against the people of God in England what raging railing fighting and violence have they endured from enemies at home and from forraigners almost in all points of the compasse We may say as David and with as easie an hyperbole All Nations have compassed us about and kept us in on every side But in the name of the Lord we have hitherto either subdued or defeated them At present when one of the greatest Potentates in the world is in the height of preparation against us yet ever and anon there is one Contrivance or other on foot in our own nation for the destruction of them whom God has most signally owned among us It were an absurdity for me Right Honourable to give you a report of the late horrid design against his Highnesse immediately your selves next and then those for whose protection and government God has raised up him and gathered you together We that are at a distance derive our knowledge of it from your selves But this observation among others may be very easily made upon it That the grand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Contrivers and Promoters of this and such like Stratagems do very well know how many heads are for the present standing on the shoulderrs of that one single person at whom they take their aim as sometimes Caligula wisht all the Romans had but one neck that he might cut off all their heads at one single stroke Obj. But some may interpose Here is indeed an evident appearance of the wrath of man in these attempts But where is the Reformation Alas the zeal of Reformation is almost extinguished among us and it is not like the Adversary's indignation should take fire from thence Ans And yet you see many times how great a matter a little fire kindleth It is true the hideous Blasphemies portentous Delusions abominable Doctrines and cursed Practises of many among us witnesse to our shame that pure Religion is far from that Power and Soveraignty in the Nation which is due to it But yet in publick Endeavours though there has not been enough done to make us a people throughly reformed God onely can do that There has been enough done to make the Adversary angry with us as a people under saile towards the land of Reformation though we move but slowly by reason of contrary winds The removall of an oppressive power in matters of Religion and many corrupt impositions thereby enforced under which the best part the very soul of the Nation groned The ejection of many scandalous and ignorant men from the place of the Ministry The Provision made for encouragement of men faithfull in that work The Redemption of the Sabbath the Lords day the observation whereof is the very pulse by which you may make a judgement of a peoples temper in all Religion from profanation formerly maintained by a Law in which there is hopes that you Honourable Senatours will do more and more worthily then those that have been in your capacity before Nehemiah saies of himself that he commanded the Gates of Jerusalem to be shut in the evening before the Sabbath ch 13. 19. I am very much perswaded that you might do God good service in causing the gates of our Cities and Towns to be shut up in the morning after the Sabbath I mean in removing or promoving to more distance our Munday Fairs and Markets in preparation for which many tradesmen hold themselves under a kind of necessity to steal away a great part of the Sabbath These and such like things are good assaies to a publick reformation and though in some mens eyes they may seem small matters yet are they enough to make the Adversary angry But till the day of Gods power dawnes upon us in which he will make us a willing people to yield our selves unto the Lord and enter into his Sanctuary as Hezekiah speaks The Sword and the Mace will