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A89666	Mans wrath and Gods praise. Or, A thanks-giving sermon, preached at Taunton, in the county of Somerset, the 11th. of May, (a day to be had in everlasting remembrance) for the gratious deliverance of that poore towne from the strait siege. / By George Newton, Mr. of Arts, and minister of the Gospell in that place.	Newton, George, 1602-1681.	1646 (1646)	Wing N1045; Thomason E344_6; ESTC R200954	18,621	32

MANS WRATH AND GODS PRAISE OR A Thanks-giving Sermon Preached at Taunton in the County of Somerset the 11 th of May a Day to be had in everlasting remembrance for the gratious deliverance of that poore Towne from the strait siege By GEORGE NEWTON Mr. of Arts and Minister of the Gospell in that place PSAL. 118.24 This is the day which the Lord hath made made solemne above other dayes by extraordinary mercy and wee will make it solemne above other dayes by extraordinary joy Wee will rejoice and be glad in it LONDON Printed by W. WILSON for Francis Eglesfield at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard and are to be sold by George Treagle in TAUNTON 1646. To the VVorshipfull the Major the Common Councell and the rest of the Inhabitants of Taunton Magdalen my duely respected and dearly affected friends SIRS THey that have been acquainted with my resolutions will admire to see any thing of mine especially by my consent made thus publick This Infant as you know was very weake and there was neither Will nor Strength to bring it forth in this way but it was forc't into the world by strong expulsives Now it is come abroad my hope is that either like Zaccheus it will bee hid among the croud of taller and more stout conceptions or if any chance to spy it he will not be so unworthy to wrong such a poore weak thing as this is If it may live to be to any of you a remembrancer of the uncomparable mercy of our God who show'd himselfe upon the Mount I have the utmost of my aime in this publication We finde sometimes in Scripture that a heap of stones hath serv'd for a memoriall as well as a more curious Pillar Though this be but a heap of things not orderly digested in a curious Method but hastily throwne up together as the short time for preparation would permit this service following close upon the Sabbath dayes labour yet it may serve for a memoriall of that sweet and pretious mercy which if it dye in your thoughts I desire to dye with it The Lord set up a lasting monument of this deliverance in our hearts and write it there with a pen of Iron and the point of a Diamond in indeleble Characters that no injuries of time may ever blot it out again and give us yet at length to render to him according to the benefits he hath done us lest we provoke him to repent and doe us evill after he hath done us good My heart bleedes when I thinke what God hath done what he expects what we returne and what is likely to become of all in the latter end I have a horrid apprehension of it as the Prophet had if after God hath punisht us farre lesse then our iniquities deserve and giv'n us such a deliverance as this we should againe breake his Commandements We should againe Why we doe break them since there came deliverance and that more frequently and boldly then wee did before The Lord breake our hearts for it and helpe us to make up our breaches and our controversies with him in and by him who as our peace before our houses that be left be all desolate before it come to Oh that thou hadst knowne before the wrath of God arise against us and there be no remedy All that I have to adde is this desire that as the Sermon is a monument such as it is of Gods praise for the deliverance of this happy day So this Dedication of it may be a monument of my thankfulnesse to you for all the great encouragement and kindnesse and respect with which you have refresht his bowells who is in the Apostles stile 2 Cor. 4.5 Your Servant for Jesus sake GEO. NEWTON MANS VVRATH AND GODS PRAISE PSAL. 76.10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restraine WE are assembled in the presence of the Lord this day to make good this text Not to preach upon it onely nor to heare it but to act it To take occasion from the wrath of man to praise the Lord. And certainely if ever any people in the world had cause to say as the Prophet in my text Surely the wrath of man shall prayse thee we the poore people of this place have cause to say it Surely the wrath of man which was so largely manifested and so mightily restrain'd shall quicken us and stirre us up to celebrate the prayses of the God of our salvation This Psalme is Eucharisticall a Psalme of prayse therefore yeelds fit matter for a day of prayse Yea for this day of prayse as fit I think as any in the booke of God For the occasion of it was the same as most Interpreters resolve with the occasion of the prayses of this solemne day viz the raysing of the siege which the Assyrian King had laid against Jerusalem His great Commanders were come up against it w th a mighty hast as you may see 2 King 18.17 threatned utter ruine and destruction to it that in such a height of volence and pride and scorne as ever any eare heard So that the hearts of Hezekiah and his people melted in their bosomes But God comes in and cheereth them with a most sweet and comfortable message by the Prophet Chap. 19.20 c. And for the proud Assyrian King he tells him that his wrath and rage tumult were come up into his ears And that how cruell how bloudy how barbarous soever his intentons were he should not bring them into act and execution For he would put his booke into his nostrils and his bridle in his lips and turne him back by the way by which he came ver 27.28 And he would diligently defend the City and save it for his owne sake vers 34. And so accordingly the following night he sent an Angell that went out and smote in the Campe of the Assyrians an hundred foure score and sive thousand men ver 35. And the next newes you hear the siege is raised and the City is delivered With reference to this deliverance this Psal of thankfulnes was pen'd In which the Prophet magnifieth God who brake the arrows of the bow the shield the sword battel of the enemy Who spoyled the stouthearted made them sleep their last sleepe for so the Angell came upon them in the night you know as it is likely when they were asleep never suffered them to wake more Who caused judgement to be heard from heaven for thence he sent that fatall messenger who made such bloudy worke among them And in the end the Psalmist cheeres and comforts up himself and all the people of the Lord with this assurance drawn out of experience and out of that which he had seen the Lord to doe against the Proud Assyrian King when he was in the height and huffe of all his rage violence against Jerusalem Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of

question to be made of this and hence the Holy Ghost hath set a surety on it in my Text Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee and the remainder of wrath shalt thou restraine Well then my brethren in the second place since the Lord will have it so since hee hath said it shall be so let the wrath of man praise him There hath been much of the envenom'd rage of wicked men let out against this poore Towne Oh let us praise the Lord that kept us unconsum'd in the heat of their fury that when the Towne was storm'd so desperately as you know it was for so many dayes together God kept you who are here before him in that storme and did not suffer any of that haile to fall upon you That when others fell by the Bullet and the Sword your bloud was pretious and your lives were deare to him Say now as Hezekiah Isaiah 38.19 O Lord the living the living they shall praise thee as we doe this day Nay that GOD did not keep your bodies onely but your spirits too that he upheld them with unshaken resolution in the mid'st of such danger That hee united you so firmly all together who notwithstanding were not all of one minde nor one way That all the violence and rage that was declared against you was so farre from causing you to desert the Cause of GOD and to give up the Towne into the hands of those that fought against it as that it made you to renew your resolutions to sticke the faster to the Lord and to his Cause to fight it out in the midst of fire and bloud Here certainly the wrath of man doth praise the Lord the wrath of man sends us occasion to sing the praises of our God forever And if wee ought to praise the Lord with reference to that part of the wrath of man which he let out much more with reference to that which hee restrain'd Oh here was mercy to be spoken of to all ages that God sets limits to the rage of these men That when they set their heart as the heart of GOD himselfe he made them know they were but men That when they said of this poore Towne Fall on and take it for there is no reliefe for it there is none to deliver it that when they were about to enter GOD put his hook into their Nostrills and his bridle in their Lippes and carried them another way Brethren you may reflect upon the time when you stood looking out at the Windowes and crying as the Mother of Sisera Iudges 5.28 Why is the Chariot so long a comming Why doe the Wheeles of the Chariot linger Why is Reliefe so long a comming Why doth it stay and linger thus Why doth it meet with such procrastinations and delays And in the end concluded that there was no helpe for you but you should surely perish by the hands of these men And when your hearts were gone and hopes were gone when you were in the Wilderness where if you met with any good or any comfort it must come from Heaven then GOD came in and spake comfortably to you Oh thinke upon the time when you gave your selves for lost and on a suddaine some came running in and told you Reliefe is come Oh was not that a sweet and welcome word Reliefe is come Were you not as Israel was in such a case like men that dreame Did you not doubt this happy tidings was onely fancied and conceited in a Dreame and that there was nothing of truth and reality in it It was so farre above your hopes and beyond your expectations And now my brethren I beleeve your hearts are very much enlarged and ready to breake out into the praises of the Lord. Mee thinkes I heare you put the question to mee what shall wee doe to make it to appeare that wee are sensible of this mercie I give you some directions in a word and I have done 1. I acknowledge the restraint of our malicious enemies to bee of GOD. That it was hee and he alone that set limits to their siege Say not it was the valour or the skill of the COMMANDERS it was the courage of the SOULDIERS though many of them did beyond the race of men and deserv'd as high applause and commendation as instruments are capable of but rather say their wrath and rage did GOD restraine And truly GOD was visibly and admirably seene in this businesse For when our Line was almost empty of Defendants and when the bodies of your enemies were not restrained by any thing that you could either doe or see the LORD restrained their spirits as the PROPHET speakes in the Verse that follows next save one upon my TEXT so that they had no hearts to come on And therefore now let all your bones cry out and say LORD none is like to thee that wee are yet unbroken Let all your houses say LORD none is like to thee that wee are standing Let all your Wives and Children say LORD none is like to thee that wee are living They were not Workes they were not Gunnes and Souldiers that preserved us and destroyed our enemies but their wrath did God restraine and therefore let the Lord and he alone have all the glory 2. Endeavour to bee large to him in duty who hath beene large to you in mercie There was a time you know when you were shut up by your enemies who kept you in on every side when you were held within a very narrow compasse But now the LORD hath set you in a large place Oh let your hearts I pray you bee enlarged to him in praises and let your hands be enlarged to him in service Oh doe not goe but run the wayes of his Commandements now he hath set you thus at liberty Doe not thinke it is enough to walke on in an ordinary track of duty but strive to doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Christ speakes some singular fine excellent some extraordinary thing and to abound in the worke of the LORD who hath laid out the riches of his mercie on you 3. Improve and lay out all that you have left for GOD and bestow it all upon him Beloved GOD hath given you your somes your wives your children your estates your lives If you have any thing he gave it you the second time hee renewed your tenure in it this day If hee had but let loose the enemie and if hee had not mightily restrained him in all appearance you had lost all You may truly say to GOD as David doth thou art the God of our life and therefore now live to him Thou art the God of our strength and our we with and our comfort and therefore lay out all for him 4. Let all those Vowes and Covenants which you made to God in dayes of miserie be remembred and observed in dayes of mercie Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou nestraine and then the next words are Vow unto the Lord and pay it Brethren I make no question when you look't for nothing else but death and ruine you engag'd your selves to God by many obligations Oh how obedient and how holy you would be if he would but deliver you this once if hee would save you from this death onely You told the Lord a very fuire tale But say my Brethren have you paid those Vows have you made good those Obligations or did you onely flatter with him as wee are wont to flatter men to attaine our owne ends May that bee said of you which David notes of Israel Psalme 78.36 When hee slew them they sought him c. Neverthelesse they did but flatter him their heart was not right with him nor were they stedfast in their Covenant Well bee assured God will not flatter hee will not dally with you when hee comes about againe Praise and Obedience and Thankfulnesse was due before you made these Vowes to God but you have made it doubly due by laying on your selves such sacred Bonds as these are And have you broken these Bonds I feare when you examine what your wayes have been since you had respite you will acknowledge you have broken them indeed and desperately cast away these Cords from you I will not shake my Lap at you as Nehemiah sometimes did nor say as hee Chapter 5. Verse 13. So God shake out every man from his house and from his labour that hath not kept the promise that he made with God at that time Even thus let him be shaken out and emptied No that bee farre from mee But I will rather say as holy Hezekiah in another case The good Lord pardon every one that hath not kept his solemne Vowes and remember not his breaches to avenge the quarrell of his Covenant on him when the next day of Visitation comes 5. Endeavour to perpetuate the memory of this mercy write it upon the Lintells of your doores upon the Palmes of your hands upon the Tables of your hearts relate the story of it to your Children that so the Generations that are yet to come may blesse the Lord that you may keep the Praises of your God alive even to the worlds end Oh let not such a sweet and precious mercy dye with you Let not that bee charged upon you which DAVID chargeth upon Israel That you forget the workes of God and the wonders that hee hath shewne you That you forget the time when the Enemy was entring and God sent Reliefe from Heaven and restrained his fury Oh let this day bee alwaies solemne to you a day of gladness and of Feasting and a good day to all generations I say as God unto Ezekiel Ezek. 24.2 Write the name of the day even of this same day the eleventh of MAY the Enemy of our Religion and of our Liberty and Peace set himselfe against TAUNTON this same day The God of Heaven shewed himselfe for TAUNTON this same day Hallelujah Salvation and Honour and Glory and Power and Might and Dominion and Everlasting Praise be unto Him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb in all the Churches of the Saints for ever and ever AMEN FINIS

wrath shalt thou restraine So that the words you see containe the Prophets sweet and comfortable meditation against the wrath and rage of man which they had lately experience of in the attēpt of the Assyrian host against Jerusalem And it is here set down in a gradation First here is wrath And then here 's a remainder an overplus of wrath 1 Here is wrath let out to execution and against that the comfort is that God will turn it to his Praise and advance his glory by it Surely the wrath of man so much as thou art pleased to give way unto to suffer to be wrackt and vented on thy people that shall praise thee 2 And then here 's a remainder an overplus of wrath for there is no end in it and against that the comfort is that God wil limit and restraine it So much as he foresees will serve to the end and purpose he restraines The wrath of man is not so full of rage and bitternesse as these words are full of sweetnesse And yet my brethren they are not so sweet but they are as certaine too and therefore they are bound with an asseveration here which takes away all scruple from them Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain If I should make the utmost of this golden sentence every link of which is precious the observations would be many But because the time is short I shall wrap up the sum of all that might be gathered hence in two conclusions which you shall see to lye before you in the surface and the letter of the Text that the that runnes may reade them 1. The wrath and rage of wicked men against the people of the Lord is very great so great that there is no end of it When they have proceeded furthest in execution of their malice there is an overplus and a remainder there is more behind still 2. Though it have no limits in it yet the Lord sets limits to it and fetches prayse and glory to himselfe from it I shall pursue them in their order as the time will suffer beginning with the first Doct. The wrath and rage of wicked men against the people of the Lord is very great so great that there is no end of it When they have proceeded furthest in execution of their malice there is an overplus and a remainder there is more behind still There is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alwayes in their wrath the wrath of man shall praise thee saith the Psalmist in my Text and the remainder of wrath shalt thou restraine So that let them have executed what they will or what they can there is a residue of rage and fury in the hearts of wicked men for God to curb which if it were not mightily restrained by the hand of heaven would break out even to the utter ruine and destruction of the Church Their venome is not all spit their malice is not all spent there 's no Non ultra in their cruelty For further cleering of the truth of this it is to be considered what the Holy Ghost observes of HEROD that when hee had done many barbarous and bloody acts against the Church he added yet this above all that hee shut up Iohn in prison Luk. 3.20 He had done enough before sufficient any man would think to have drawne his rage dry but this comes after for a vantage as you see it is added above all And there was more behind still which you may readily observe to be drawn forth on all occasions along the current of his story Those enemies of whom the Psalmist speaks Psal 124.3 if they had been endued with power according to their rage they would have swallowed up Gods people quicke so desperately they were bent against thous Like ravenous beasts they would not have forborne so long to kill them first and then to chew them and devoure them no they would greedily and hastily have snapt them up and swallowed them alive The cruelty of Edom is remarkable nothing wil satisfie him but the utter desolation of the Lords Jerusalem Down with it down with it even to the ground And Babylon goes further yet she takes the little ones and dashes them against the stones What souldiers heart almost would not relent and melt at this not only in hot blood to mow downe armed enemies together in the field but afterwards to come deliberately into a conquered Towne and there to take up little children sprawling by the heeles and to dash out their braines against the walls Yet thus dealt Babylon with Gods people See how the Saints of God were us'd by bloody persecutors and by cruell men Hebr. 11.36 and the following verses That place may serve in stead of all where the Apostle setteth forth at large the matchlesse cruelties that they endured and makes a Catalogue of divers exquisite and horrid tortures they suffered which seemeth to be penn'd in characters and lines of blood They had tryall of cruell mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment They were stoned they were sawn asunder were tempted were slain with the sword they wandred about in sheep-skinnes and goat-skins being destitute afflicted tormented And yet the men who were expos'd to all this favage cruelty were such and so unparalleld in holinesse that the world was not worthy of them And if we search the stories of the Church my brethren we shall find that the ages since our Saviour have equal'd yea exceeded those that went before him in rage cruelty against the Lords people In the tenne persecutions of the Church and in the Marian dayes in this Kingdome the enemies were never at a stand they never thought they had proceeded far enough though they were come to extreamity of rage against the Saints No my beloved they waxed still more mad against them as the phrase is Acts 26.11 And as a mad man knows no measure in his fury so it was with these men Mad they were and madder every day they grew so that they sought out new devised tortures and hee was thought to have deserved well that did evill in the invention These dayes of war and desolation have furnisht us with the sad examples of the endlesse fury of ungodly men so that I need to say no more we have seene it by experience that the wrath of wicked men against c. Nor need wee wonder at it my beloved for 1. They are by nature full of all maliciousnesse so full that they are like to burst with it They are of barbarous bloudy and inhumane dispositions Mercy my brethren is a fruit of Gods spirit and consequently is indeed in none but Gods people Wicked men have no mercie and so they shew no mercie as the Apostle Iames speakes Or if they have a kind of mercy in them it is a mercy mercilesse if I may expresse it so their mercies yea their tender mercies are cruell Prov. 12.10 They are men

ungodly men to scourge them But when hee heares them crye and roare so that they are about to swound then hee comes running in and sayes Comfort yee comfort yee my people they have received double You mercilesse and cruell wretches you have given my Children double twice as much as they can beare and so hee falls a kissing them to fetch life in them againe And so mee thinkes I see the Lord come running in among the mercilesse besiegers of this place and crying out as Isa 3.15 What mean yee that yee beate my people in pieces What doe you meane to doe to them What doe you purpose to reduce this Towne to nothing to consume it all to ashes to butcher all my people here so that I shall not have so much as one left Is that your resolution and intent indeed I have permitted you to wreake a great deal of your rage upon the houses and the persons of my poore servants But what doe you intend to burne all and kill all So that there shall not bee a house standing nor a SAINT alive here I cannot beare it no the remainder of your rage must I restraine And thus you see GOD limiteth the wrath of wicked men which is the former member of the point 2 Branch And as he limits it in part so that part of it which hee doth not limit he turneth it to his owne praise and fetches glory to himselfe from it Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee saith the Psalmist here so much as is permitted unrestrained shall bring honour to thy Name and the remainder c. Although the wrath of man doe not accomplish the righteousnesse of God it doth accomplish the glory of God The Lord as he design'd to doe gat honour out of Pharoah's rage and out of the Assyrians rage against his people And I am confident hee will have honour out of the wrath and rage of his and our malicious enemies against this place Thus hee hath done heretofore and will doe to the worlds end But you will interpose and aske mee now Which way doth the LORD fetch praise out of the wrath of wicked men against his people I answer principally two wayes First Hee fetches praise and glory from the rage of wicked men against his people as it commends the greatnesse of his owne power For it is a great thing that the LORD should keepe his people notwithstanding all their fury That though there be enough of the Malignant Church to devoure the Militant to eate up GODS people as a man would eate bread And though they bee so full of bitternesse and wrath against them as it is possible for men to be GOD should preserve them notwithstanding safe and sound in the midst of these men That hee should keepe them as hee doth sometimes unsinged and untoucht in a fournace of wrath heate hotter then ordinary This setteth off the glory of his power Secondly God fetches praise and glory to himselfe from the rage of wicked men against his people as it doth accidentally commend the excellency of the graces which hee hath bestowed upon them Is it not very much my brethren that the Saints should stand it out and be upright notwithstanding all the spite and fury of ungodly men against them That all their malice all their rage and all their threatnings should not cause them to desert or to deny the Cause of God no nor to droop or faint under it Have not the spirits of the Saints of God been admirably strengthned and upheld in these latter times of triall when there were no outward meanes appearing to the eye of sence or reason and when there were no hopes left Is not the grace of God by which they were upheld then he you a glorious thing Hath hee not much honour by it It was an honour to the Lord that Iob continued constant and patient notwithstanding all the malice of Satan and his Instruments and the worst that they could doe It glorified the grace of God in him And therefore God me thinks doth vaunt and pride himselfe in this pretious Saint of his in that speech of his to Satan Iob 2.3 Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth and still he holdeth fast his integrity Though thou hast done thy utmost to him hee hath not done as thou didst wickedly suggest hee would hee hath not yet deserted or denyed mee No still hee holdeth fast his integrity And so the Lord doth seeme to say in these dayes to the malicious enemies of his people Looke upon those Saints of mine though you have plundred them and stript them and turn'd them bare and naked to the mercy of the World though you have imprison'd them though you have threatned them with death it selfe they never yeelded or complyed with you they never took the cursed oath that you endeavoured to impose upon them they never yet denied me nor my cause but still they have held fast their integrity though you have shewed the utmost of your rage and spight against them Were not the rage of wicked men declared against the Saints of God the glory of his power and grace could not be magnified and set off as now it is But now the wrath of man doth praise him Vse 1. Now to apply it very briefely Is it so that though the wrath of wicked wretches have no limits in it yet the Lord sets limits to it Why then I say as David touching the Philistine let no mans heart faile him by reason of the rage of these men Let them fume and let them storme and let them swell even till they burst with inward fury they shall doe but what the hand and counsell of God determined before to be done When they have done what he determines they shall not move one jot they shall not stirre an inch further And why then are you so affraid of the oppressor as the Prophet speakes and forget the Lord your maker who limiteth and boundeth their fury Oh you of little faith wherfore doe you doubt Why will you say though God restraine the wrath and rage of wicked wretches many times yet at some other times he permits it to break out in a very great measure and so wee have cause to bee affraid of it Yet here is comfort still my brethren for that which hee permitteth unrestrained he turneth to his owne glory And shall we not take sweet encouragement in this that God is glorified though our selves suffer Should wee not cheerefully endure a little of their rage so the Lord have honour by it Should wee not preferre his glory farre beyond our owne quiet So that you see wee want not something to support us every way and however matters goe If God restraine the wrath of wicked wretches wee have ease if hee permit it unrestrained he hath praise And this is not an empty notion rais'd by fancy but a certaine thing there is no doubt no