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A09253	A sermon of the prouidence of God Preached at Paules Crosse, the 25. of October. 1607. By Iohn Pelling Bacchalaur of Diuinitie.	Pelling, John, 1561 or 2-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 19567; ESTC S114107	26,712	54

A SERMON OF THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD. Preached at Paules Crosse the 25. of October 1607. By IOHN PELLING Bacchalaur of Diuinitie PROVER 4.13 Take hold of instruction and leaue not for she is thy life LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for Nathaniell Butter dwelling at the signe of the Pide Bull neere S. Austins gate 1607. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND RELIGIOVS LORD THE LORD EDWARD SEIMAVR EARLE OF Hertford and to the right Honorable and virtuous Lady the Lady Frauncis Countesse of Hertford Gods abundant graces and blessings for this life and for the life to come RJght Honorable my singular good Lord and Lady your Honours both hauing from time to time exceedingly comforted and encouraged me in my labours of this kind J rest assured you will gladly accept and protect to your vtmost this sermon of mine published my good Lord at your command Whereas some of good sort and iudgment moued your Lordship to put me to it for a further good to Gods Church and whereas also your Lordship out of your honourable and religious care procured the right reuerend father in God the Lord Bishop of London my especial good Lord to require it of me and seing hereupon his Lordship hath vouchsafed to peruse it and by his authoritie hath allowed it hauing duely waighed all this J professe that I accompt God hath had a directing and a working hand in all and haue therefore obeyed leauing all excuses which I might probablie haue made euen so Gods will be done When a publique good in a mans calling is likely to be effected excuses for priuate respects in my conscience haue no place Had I but imagined in time that it should haue come to this at length by Gods help it had beene better and yet his goodnesse it is that it is no worse it is truth and it is needfull that J dare and do auouch for my part to take it well and to vse it wel may make it good and profitable for your Honors first and so for others to whom God shall giue opportunitie and grace J haue beene earnestly moued to set it out as I preached it of the words I am sure I haue mist very few of the matter nothing Your Honours are well knowne to to pray together to heare sermons together to receiue the communion the blessed body and bloud of Christ Iesus and that in your publique Parish-Church together God grant more of your state for examples sake for their owne soules sake and for Gods glorie sake to do the like If together also your Honors wil be pleased sometimes to reade and conferre seriously of this diuine matter heer consecrated to your Soueraigne good let me be blamed and most seuerely censured if you finde cause to repent your well bestowing time and paines this way The Lord God of mercies fill your noble hearts with heauenly graces and powre vpon both your Honours and all yours his richest blessings for his deare sonne Christ Iesus his sake London the 25 of Nouember 1607. Your honours most bounden and deuoted chaplaine IOHN PELLING 1. PETER 5.7 Cast all your care on him for he careth for you BEing to prouide me for this time and place right honorable right worshipfull and welbeloued in our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus I haue with Gods direction I trust setled vpon these words for my Text which I haue heer read vnto you I meane by Gods helpe not to idle out any time in handling them your faithfulnesse in hearing on your part may with Gods blessing proue to you well worth the while Obserue therefore I pray you the words the doctrine and the vse The wordes importe a commandement and a reason to induce men to obey it The doctrine is the doctrine of Gods prouidence which all that talke of vnderstand not the truth nor the depth of The vse is so manifold and profitable that any good man may be diuerse wayes bettered by it either he may be informed of that he knew not or be resolued in that he doubted of or be put in minde of that he remembred not or be perswaded to that he affected not or be comforted in his sorrowes or be moderated in his ioyes or be incouraged in his wel-doing or be deterred from euill some all these waies some by more then these may be singularly benefited God in all duely serued and his name glorified The words importing the commandement are Cast all your care on him the words inciting men to obey it are these For he careth for you Next before my text we reade Humble your selues vnder the mightie hand of God that he may exalt you in due time and so comes in my text Cast all your care on him it must be meant on God for he that is God careth that is prouideth for you for you most especially and most beneficiallie that cast all your care on him For men to cast all their care on God presupposeth mens taking some care for themselues and implyeth that men should not ouercharge themselues with care nor build vpon their owne but vpon the care that God hath of them who is better able to prouide for them then they can for themselues So that to care to care moderately and to accompt it a mans best prouidence to depend most vppon Gods prouidence is that which we are here commanded and incited vnto Sith no man can care in that measure or manner nor relye in all his courses vpon Gods care Gods prouidence as he ought either not knowing or not duely considering what Gods prouidence is we will by his assistance plainely and truely deliuer the doctrine touching that great matter plainely that it may be vnderstood truely that it may be beleeued and so by Gods grace also well applyed and vsed In opening this doctrine I must shew first what Gods prouidence is 2. what things are subiect vnto it 3. Gods manner of working by it In the writings of the godly learned we finde it thus described Prouidentia Dei est actio Dei externa temporalis qua omnia et singula quae sunt conseruat et quae fiunt omnia singula disponit ad finem quem ipse determinauit secundum libertatem voluntatis suae idque vt in omnibus et singulis glorificetur The prouidence of GOD is an outward and a temporarie action of God by which he doth preserue all things that are vniuersall and singular and doth dispose of all things general and particuler that are done and doth determine the end of them according to the libertie of his owne will and that to this end that in all things generall particuler he may be glorified And thus Prouidentia Dei est eternum et immutabile decretum Dei de rebus omnibus et singulis ad suos certos vsus et fines perducendis secundum illum ordinem quem ipse praefiniuit ad suam gloriam Gods prouidence is an eternall and an immutable decree of God touching all things whatsoeuer

christian man can haue no sufficient warrant for it it is barbarous Thou art disgraced it may be thou hast deserued it then what wrong hast thou or thou hast not deserued it ther 's place for patience for charitie but that 's base but that 's not so let King Salomon that was thy better I am sure teach the. It is a mans honor to cease from strife Pro. 20. and it is a mans glorie to passe by an offense Prou. 19. and he that is slowe to anger is better then the mightie man and he that can rule his owne minde is better then he that winneth a Citie Prou. 16. It is indeede a sinfull tempting of GOD that men without cause doe aduenture their liues it argues a man dissolutely resolute there 's the fairest of it But God hath appointed euery man his end true therfore stay till it come why that may be the time and the place yet thou mayst be guilty of thine owne death by seeking it and God may punish thee with final impenitencie for thy desperatues But thy purpose is to kill and not to be killed That 's worse for then thou art guiltie of an other mans death and thine owne too But thou wilt fly or get thy pardon thou canst neuer fly from Gods presence though thou gettest thy pardon for thy murther yet thou maist bee damned for it and for all thy flying thou maist be taken and for all thy suite thou maist misse thy pardon Then thou wilt repent God may forgiue thee God will not forgiue thee vnlesse thou very hartily repent thee which thou art not sure to doe when thou wilt But thou doest not meane to kill nor to be killed Ah thy hart faints thee nay but thou art bold vpon thy skill and thy iudgment thy aduersarie may put the besides both but thou knowest thou art too good for him many haue made that reckoning that haue come short home But thou hast often tryed been tryed and art safe thanke God and leaue there But thou maist be prouoked thou maist fairely because honestly refuse it But that 's against thy nature tell not me of thy nature I tell thee of Gods grace and thy duety Say what can be said there is no prouidence no well aduised wisedome no christianitie in it But can no man warrantably without tempting God put his life in hazard One may if he be assalted when he cannot auoyd it that 's necessitie If a man be at sea vpon good occasions he is in his way hee followes his vocation or if a man be called to serue his Prince or Country in battaile that 's honourable And if a man be set apart to suffer for Gods truth sake that 's glorious Some can be content to put vp iniuries and to hold their liues pretious inough but they are ouerwhelmed with sorrowes which come vpon them whether they will or noe for the losse of their goods their friends their children Let them remember Iobs losses greater then theirs and his patience greater then his losses in the 1. of Iob. Let them remember what he did and what he said when his sorrowes came one vpon anothers necke vnto him he arose indeed and rent his garments and shaued his head and fell downe vpon the ground he had sense of his griefe but he worshipped and said Naked came I out of my mothers wombe and naked shall I returue thither the Lord haih giuen and the Lord hath taken it and blessed be the name of the Lord. Some are otherwise poore distressed and diseased and haue noe comfort in the world Let them remember Lazarus in the 16. of Luke that liued and dyed for this world most miser ably but his comforts after wards made amendes for all but God was present at hand with them so he is with vs and can help vs and wee knowe that all things worke together for the best to them that loue him Romans 8. But touching this point that God hath appointed ted euery man his end what expresse scripture haue we for that In the 14 of Iob we read touching euery particular man words thus spoken to God Are not his dayes determined the number of his moneths are with thee thou hast appointed his boundes which he shall not passe If it be so were it not yet better that men might know the time why for preparatiō against the time that 's somewhat for it is seene indeed men do prepare themselues to death when they finde they can liue no longer and part of their preparation is in their affections to leaue this world and to desire heauen but that 's not so good to be content to go or to desire heauen when wee can stay heer no longer The right preparation is before extremities come considering the certainty that such a time will come the vncertaintie when seeing it may come at any time men are to prepare that they may be readie at all times Verie fewe doe so it is too true but all should do so It is Gods order our Sauiour himselfe hath set it in the 13 of Matth. Take heede watch and pray for ye know not when the time is as if he had said directly the lesse you know the set time the more ought you to be alwayes in a readinesse by taking heede that ye be not taken at vnawares by watching for the time come it whensoeuer God please by prayer to God for grace and mercy grace to cast all our care on him mercie that he would care for vs that whether we liue or die sooner or later we may be the Lords Thus much of the words a commandement and an inducement to obedience the doctrine Gods prouidence what it is what things are subiect vnto it and Gods manner of working by it the vse our being prouident in setling our iudgement in obseruing Gods order and in christian practise I haue instanced in some particulars you may apply it to many more Let these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight and effectuall in this audience O Lord my strength and my redeemer To God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost be ascribed all honor power and glory now and for euer Amen FINIS