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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27638	Confiding England vnder conflicts, triumphing in the middest of her terrors, or, Assured comforts that her present miseries will end in unspeakable lasting mercies to the whole nation first preached in Bengeo and Hitchin in Hartfordshire and now published for the common comfort of the nation / by Iohn Bevvick ...	Bewick, John, d. 1671.	1644 (1644)	Wing B2193; ESTC R2654	46,204	56

CONFIDING ENGLAND VNDER CONFLICTS TRIUMPHING IN THE MIDDEST OF HER TERRORS OR Assured comforts that her present miseries will end in unspeakable lasting mercies to the whole Nation First preached in Bengeo and Hitchin in Hartfordshire and now published for the common comfort of the Nation By IOHN BEVVICK Minister of Bengeo neere Hartford LONDON Printed by I. D. for Andrew Crooke and are to be sold at his shop at the Greene Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1644. TO HIS Excellency ROBERT Earle of ESSEX Viscount Hereford Baron Ferrars of Chartley Lord Bourchier and Lovain one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell and Generall of the Army raised by the Parliament in defence of the true Protestant Religion his Majesties person the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome and the Priviledges of Parliament IT is a lovely thing saith the Philosopher to benefit one but to doe good to a nation it is a thing divine Your Excellencies love to England in not counting your blood your life deare to preserve it the eminencyes in your person of vertue and valour of courage and courtesie of greatnesse and goodnesse of mercy and meeknesse of admirable prudence and unwearied patience the worthy deeds already done unto this Nation by your providence all these obligeth all true English hearts to beare a part in the National acknowledgment of your worth and in accepting what is done by your Excellencie with all thankefulnesse Your noble candor may be pleased then to pardon this presumption of dedication in a stranger to your knowledge but an honourer of your vertues the rather because the obscurest clot upon the fallow reflects something of the sunne beames as well as the mountaines as the whole globe These ensuing meditations are now mustered to attend the Campe and if the banner of your protection overspread them he shall be comforted who by them desires principally to comfort the Natio yea the world For if it be true as Saint Augustine writes that if one drop of the joyes of heaven should fall into hell it would swallow up all the bitternesse of it it may be hoped then that a few drops of heavenly joyes here presented under your Excellencyes countenance to my Countrymen ingulphed in an hell of outward miseries may availe to allay their bitternesse and cleare their eye sight as Ionathans was after his tasting honey to see thorough an hell of horror their heavenly recovery It is Englands present duty to rejoyce in tribulations to triumph under terrors to confide under conflicts to expect salvations to veiw God by the eye of faith as a refuge as interwining us in his everlasting armes of preservation as healing our breaches as stanching our wounds as preparing all rankes among us to enjoy a perpetuall unity peace amity joy and jubilee in despite of hell and Rome All this God will do for us in righteousnes but by terrible things And during his pouring vialls of wrath upon the Antichristians the English Church with the other reformed must stand on a sea of glasse mingled with fire She shall apparantly see as in a glasse Antichristian tumults rising like wave after wave yet Christ calming them and causing all attempts ebbe into emptinesse come to nothing She shall stand on a sea mingled with fire enduring hot service from inward contentions and outward afflictions these a while shall heat her but not fire her scorch her but not rost her bruise her heele perhaps in some losses but they shall not breake her nor crumble her into a totall desolation for the ten Kingdomes must stand by an unalterable decree to undo Antichrist though they a while may seeme to favour and fight for him And she shall stand with the harpes of God singing the songs of Moses songs of judgement praises for every new judgement upon her troublers and destroyers and singing too the song of the lamb songs of mercie prayses for every new deliverance vouchsafed her from on high All blessings from the omnipotent Lambe who warreth against Antichrist and will conquer are craved for your Excellency by all the reall lovers of this Nation among whom I rest the meanest of Christs ministers and to July 20 1644. Your Excellencye most humbly devoted in all Christian service IOHN BEVVICK CONFIDING ENGLAND VNDER CONFLICTS TRIVMPHING IN THE MIDDEST OF HER TERRORS PSAL. 65. 5. By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us oh God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are a farre off upon the sea THis Psalme is Eucharisticall It is a forme of thankesgiving penned by David for those mercies which God bestowes on mankind The first verse calls on the Church of God to praise him for the things afterward recited Others will take no notice of them or if they doe yet they will not so freely acknowledge Gods kindnesse in them and therfore the Saints the children of Zion must doe it The rest of the Psalme is spent in recounting the benefits both spirituall and temporall which are conferred The spirituall blessings which properly belong to the Church and faithfull people of God are foure 1. Gods hearing of their prayers In the want of defence counsell reliefe in the midst of afflictions and troubles when they are straitned and upon the verge of any extremitie he heareth their prayers Oh thou that hearest prayers to thee shall all flesh come 2. Remission of sinnes is another blessing here recounted though sinne hath raised the storme of afflictions trouble and adversaries yet God will purge away sinne and the cause of these stormes removed there is a calme As for our transgressions thou shalt purg them away 3. The collection of a Church is another blessing here rehearsed And 4. The saving and preserving this Church in a wonderfull and admirable manner so as others shall be driven to joyne themselves to the Church this is another favour from God And these are the blessings spirituall which this Psalme doth mention The blessings temporall are common to the Saints with others yet they are such that none but Saints will take notice to praise God for them and therefore for these also Praise waiteth for God in Zion These blessings temporall are 1. The erection of Kingdomes and Governments in the world It is from the mighty power of God that Common wealths are set on their foundation He by his strength set fast the mountaines By mountaines Common wealths are here to be understood as they are in the latter part of the first verse of the second of Isaiah It would be a terrible sight to see mountaines tumbling and rowling ready to close and breake one another in peices and yet such are all the Common wealths in the world they would totter and tumble and destroy one another but that God hath fastened them their bounds are set and that is one blessing 2. The repression of tumults seditions and conspiracies in Kingdomes which would utterly