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A39910	A discourse concerning God's judgements resolving many weighty questions and cases relating to them. Preached (for the substance of it) at Old Swinford in Worcester-shire: and now publish'd to accompany the annexed narrative, concerning the man whose hands and legs lately rotted off: in the neighbouring parish of Kings-Swinford, in Staffordshire; penned by another author. / by Simon Ford ...	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.; Illingworth, James, d. 1693. A just narrative or account of the man whose hands and legs rotted off.	1678 (1678)	Wing F1484; ESTC R28411	53,261	98

Judgments from Providences of a like severity befalling men on other accounts my fifth Head VI. The sixth follows to wit To give you directions in the making application of Divine Judgments to particular Cases without offending against Justice or Charity The Reason why such directions are needful is very evident For we are forbidden by our Saviour Mat. 7.1 to judge our Brethren lest we also be judged And in the noted Cases of those on whom the Tower in Siloe fell Luke 13.1 2 3. and those whose blood Pilate mingled with their Sacrifices our Lord seems to take the part of the Sufferers against their Censures And the miscarriage of Jobs friends in their dealings with him Iob 42.7 is by God himself expresly condemned Wherefore it is meet this Case should be carefully stated that we may in the present Argument be satisfied how far we may lawfully go in applying Gods Judgments so as to preserve our selves from such Errours And in Answer to this Case I shall as I did on the former Head first premise some Grounds to proceed on and thence proceed to the direct solution of it according to them 1. The Grounds which I shall premise are these 1. That it follows from what was said on the former Head that in such Applications of Divine Judgments to particular Cases we are to be very cautelous and circumspect 2. And yet it does not follow that we are totally obliged to forbear them Yea rather there are divers Arguments from Scripture which give great countenance and in some Cases great encouragement to the making of them 1. As first the Text it self which asserts such Judgments to be means whereby God is made known will necessarily infer that in order to the making this use of them we must be allowed the liberty of discreet and considerate Application of them For to suppose a notable Judgment executed with signal manifestation of a Divine Hand therein and of purpose designed for men to take notice of it and yet not to allow them to observe it in those circumstances which render it most observable all which circumstances are necessarily annexed to particular Cases implies a contradiction 2. The Scripture tells us of Holy Men who have made such particular Applications and have not been blamed but rather commended for it and their examples left on sacred Record for the imitation of future Times It is given as an honourable character in general of good and holy men that because they have pleasure in that imployment Psal 111.2 they seek out the great works of the Lord of which these judicial Providences are a special part And holy David propounds himself in particular as an encouraging example to patient expectation of the Issue in that stumbling Case of Divine Providence The notable prosperity of some notorious wicked men telling us that he himself had seen some such in great power Psal 37.35 36. probably Saul and his profane Courtiers and Favourites flourishing like a green Bay-tree whom yet he observed in the Issue notably extirpated so that they could not be found And that notable speech of Hezekiah to the Levites is recorded to his commendation as a considerable part of that which gave him just Title to that honourable character that he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord according to all that his father David bad done wherein he observes particularly though with reflection upon his father Ahaz that the Lord had lately delivered Judah to trouble and astonishment 1 Chron. 29.2 6 7 8 9. and hissing and that their fathers fell by the Sword and their sons and daughters and wives were yet in captivity for the neglect of Gods House which he thence quickens the Priests and Levites for the future to take more care of 3. Good men in general are encouraged with the promised prospect of Divine Judgments on some notorious wicked men When the wicked such whose prosperity was a tentation to good men to fret and be envious against them are cut off thou says the Psalmist to the man whom he encourageth to wait on the Lord and keep his way shalt see it Psal 37.34 i. e. so as to take notice of it to thy great satisfaction and encouragement to depend on God for the future And elsewhere the righteous is told that when the notorious oppressing Judges against whom that Psalm is directed shall be taken away as with a whirlwind living and in Gods wrath i. e. brought in the prime of their prosperity to a sudden and violent end Psal 58.10 that he shall rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance and wash his feet in the blood of the wicked i. e. in a kind of holy Triumph for the manifestation of Divine Justice shall even trample upon them when they lye in their blood without fear of defilement to which in other cases the Jews by the Law for touching any thing of a dead Corps were liable any more than if they had washed their feet in water 4. And sinners are blamed for not drawing Arguments of caution and reformation from the particular Instances of Gods Judgments in their days As Belshazzar for that when he saw and knew how God had dealt with his proud Grandfather Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 5.18 19 20 21 22. he notwithstanding lifted himself up against the same God before whom he ought on that consideration to have been humbled And the remaining Tribes of Judah and Benjamin are severely taxed for that when they saw that God had rejected and sent into Captivity the Ten Tribes their brethren for their Idolatry yet they feared not but went on confidently in the same provoking sin themselves And it is not to be understood how any persons can be obliged to take warning from particular Examples if they be not allowed to apply such Providences of God to them in those particulars from whence that caution is to be gathered 3. Wherefore we must find out some other Interpretation of those Scriptures which seem totally to prohibit all applications of Divine Judgments to particular Cases and particularly of those before mentioned And that as to them at least is a matter of no great difficulty For the first of them forbids one Christian indeed to judge another Mat 7.1 but it is only a rash and a harsh censuring Christian brethren as the Pharisees were wont to do even for the smallest faults and that when the censurers themselves it may be as they indulge themselves in greater such as are like beams to the others motes as appears v. 2. that is there forbidden Luke 13.1 2. And the blame which in the second Text the relaters of the fall of the Tower of Siloe and the mixing the blood of the Galileans with their Sacrifices by Pilate did incur was not barely for taking notice of these Events as Divine Judgments but for judging the persons in a like Pharisaical pride greater sinners than others and than themselves in particular