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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

such who betake them to his appointed meanes It is a delusion to thinke to come to heaven without walking in the way to it it is as if men expected to reape an harvest and yet never sowed a graine of seede So likewise he never trusts God for outwards who doth not apply himselfe to an industrious way of obteining them why looke yee said Jacob to his sonnes one upon another I have heard that there is corne in Aegypt get yee downe thither and buy for us from thence A confidentiall man will be industrious in the use of meanes 4. He who makes God his confidence will not put forth his hands unto unlawfull means for his helpe David relied on God for the Kingdome of Saul but would not use unlawfull meanes to obteine it Such never trusted God who resolve to steale oppresse defraud lie and flatter and use wicked meanes to gain a penny They trust not God who take a pension from Mammon Nor they who when they misse a thing or when any thing is amisse with them will consult with witches and wizards as once Saul did with the witch of Endor and Abaziah sent to the God of Eknon 5. He who makes God his confidence will be undaunted in any condition Confidence in God makes the heart invincible It is true an holy confiding man when evill comes cannot but see it and be thereof sensible and troubled at it but though he be troubled on all sides as the Apostle speakes yet he is not in despaire though he be sometimes afraid yet with David he can say in this will I be confident in this he is confident that God is his refuge his present helpe in trouble his preserver from the hurt of evill Though I walke saith David thorow the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no evill for thou art with me He may suspect his confidence whose heart in troubles is wholy spiritles and comfortles drooping and dwining away as Naballs did he may feare he is not yet resolved to commit freely his soule into the hands of God who is a faithfull creatour The confiding man will not be heartlesse though an universall death and desolation befall the land because he knowes that by death he shall be translated hence to see the goodnesse of the Lord I had fainted saith David unlesse I had beleived to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living Thus every one good and bad may try whether they have made the Lord their confidence 2. There are also some signes which may helpe all Gods truly faithfull people to gaine assurance that they have undoubtedly made him their confidence Many of those I know complain of unbeleeving and despairing hearts that they cannot confide and trust in God as they should To whom for comfort I answer that true beleevers may know that they have really made God their confidence if ever the Lord please to bring them to one of these temptations 1. When the promises made by God seeme to be delayed and there is no appearance of their fulfillance then all such who have not made God their confidence will cease expecting and beleeving the word of promise like that prophane man this evill is of the Lord what should I waite for the Lord any longer But if notwithstanding Gods delayes the heart keepe still to the word of truth and is still confident that in time it will be fulfilled it undoubtedly is then an heart confiding in God A waiting heart is a confiding heart So the Prophet I will waite on the Lord and looke upon him A Merchant who rests on his factor for the returne of some commodity which he promised finding that his factour deferres yet will account him faithfull knowing that he on weightier considerations for his Masters greater profit uses not to returne commodities so soone as he expected So the soule which rests on God for the accomplishment of such and such promises will yet wait on him as faithful though they be not presently or so soone performed as wee desire because it is perswaded that God delayes for some further advantage to the soule to humble it or to exalt it more or to make his blessings more acceptable when they come A soule confiding in the delay and unlikelines of the performance of promises that God can and will fulfill his word when it shall be for the best is a soule which hath made God its confidence 2. If the Lord suffers you to be mocked by prophane men if at any time they aske wher is the promise of his comming and what advantage hath piety in these times can your God save you out of the hands of murthering destroying men will you still retaine your integrity do not the most religious suffer as much if not worse then others Now at this time if notwithstanding all these scornes and disheartnings you are willing still to keepe close to God and to passe through good report and evill report and are content to be yet more vile before these men for Gods sake and in Gods cause you have undoubtedly made God your confidence Gods people thus proved that they had done so as it is in the Psalmes All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsely in thy Covenant 3. If ever the Lord bring you into a state that he seemes to be an enemy by visiting the soule wounding the spirit giving it as it were a sight of hell as if he would have no mercy yet in this case you shall know that ye have made God your confidence if you still will waite on God boldly and trustingly reasoning with him as the Psalmist did hath God forgotten to be gracious will he shut up his loving kindnesse in displeasure A soule in the lack of mercy being willing to stay it selfe on God because he will shew mercy being resolved however to dye at the foote of majesty to be crusht by his scepter this is a soul which confides in God And the Lord who knowes the anguish and distresse of this confiding spirit will heale and restore it to strength and comfort It shall be established when all the careles ones of the world shall be terribly shaken and shattered in all their hopes Consider what the Prophet writes Why sayest thou O Jacob and speakest O Israell my way is hid from the Lord and my judgement is passed over from my God c. He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall but they that waite upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with winges as Eagles they shall runne and not be weary and they shall walke and not be faint Thus may every one try and experimentally find whither God is to them as he is to others the only confidence For

and weary themselves in plotting and ruining his people and then on the sudden he turnes all upon themselves having them all in derision As when a man overlookes a company of boyes busie in making clay walls and castles and heares them talke that they will destroy hereby any who meddles with them he laughs at them and suddenly comes in and breakes all their workes in peices and sets them all on crying and lamenting even so the Lord is wise to understand fully all the adversaries attempts he laughs at them and suddenly breaks their power and fills them with wailing 3. God is all sufficient to rescue and save his people and deliver them out of all their troubles He only is able to save So he is described by the prophet Who is this that cometh from Edom with died garments from Bozra this that is glorious in his apparell travelling in the greatnesse of his strength I that speake in righteousnesse mighty to save Nothing can withstand his power with a strong hand he brought his people out of Aegypt Deliverances are at his command Knowest thou not said our blessed Saviour to Peter that I can pray to my father and he shall presently give me more then twelve legions of Angells All the Armyes in heaven and earth are commanded by him He is able to raise up and fit instruments to be deliverers of his people from them that spoile and distresse them The Midianites thought to overbeare Israell with multitude and mighty Armies but the Lord raised up Gideon and made him successefull that the Midianites helped to slay one another and so he utterly discomfited them 4. God is very watchfull to do his people good to give deliverance Behold he that keepeth Israell shall neither slumber nor sleepe He will let no opportunity slip to releive The Lord standeth up to plead and standeth to judge the people the Lord will enter into judgement with the Ancients of his people and the Princes therof for yee have eaten up the vineyards the spoile of the poore is in your houses what meane yee that yee beate my people to peices and grind the faces of the poore saith the Lord These footsteps of Gods glory his pitty omnisciency all sufficiency and watchfulnes doth evidence that the salvation of Gods people comes from no other but God He is the God of their salvation From this double salvation of the Church wherof God is the Author and therefore is stiled here the God of our salvation we learne 1. To ascribe both to him 2. To seeke for both from him and 3. To labour to have an interest in the salvation which he workes for his people First let us ascribe all the salvation which is wrought to God only According to the title here given unto him say as the Psalmist Not unto us oh Lord not unto us but to thy name give the glory And this we should do both in respect of the spirituall and of the temporall salvation whereof he makes us partakers 1. We are to ascribe our spirituall deliverance to God only The foure beasts and twenty foure elders fell downe before the lambe saying Thou art worthy for thou wast slaine and hast redeemed us to God by thy bloode out of every kindred and tongue and people and Nation and hast made us unto our God Kings and Preists and we shall reigne on earth All the glory of mans salvation is only to be ascribed to God He contrived the meanes of salvation by Christ and he gave him to worke salvation and to brin̄g his people to it let him therefore have the glory of it By grace saith the Apostle we are saved and as if he had not said enough he addes by grace yee are saved thorough faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God not of workes lest any should boast It was prophesied that when the temple should be built by Zorobabell the people of God should with on joynt cry say Grace to it and he shall bring forth the head stone thereof with shouting crying Grace Grace to it It was a type of Gods building his spirituall temples by working grace in their hearts and fitting them to be come holy temples an habitation of God through the spirit Indeed there shall be mighty oppositions many difficulties mountaines to be removed but the head stone shal be fetched out Christ the corner stone wch the builders once refused should be laid in the heart and they should all shout Grace Grace to it It is of free grace that the worke is begunne continued and finished the Lord must therefore have the praise of our salvation He brings salvation into the heart he causes it to persevere unto salvation and he only will compleate our salvation and therefore every gracious man must confesse that all of his salvation is only from the God of his salvation And so the Lord will count when he writes up the people that this man was borne there He will count that Christ was formed and framed in the hearts of his people living in this or that Kingdome the Lord keepes as it were a record of all his glorious salvations which he hath wrought in any and he will be glorified by his people for it The glorie then of our spirituall salvation is only to be ascribed to God 2. And so we must ascribe only to him our temporall salvation If he at any time doth deliver or preserve let us say of this his salvation as we did of the other Not unto us oh Lord not unto us but to thy name give the glory And with the Psalmist They got not this or that deliverance by their owne sword neither did their right arme save them but thy right hand and thine arme and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto them Say not it was the valour and strength and wisdome of such and such which hath done thus and thus for us but acknowledge that God only was the Author and the other his instruments of the mercies injoyed Many a time from my youth up have they afflicted me may England now say yea many a time have they afflicted me from my youth yet they have not prevailed against me the plowers plowed on my back and made long furrowes but it was the righteous Lord that cut asunder the cords of the wicked It would be a great worke to relate the bare heades of the mercies which from day to day God vouchsafes to his people every day brings out new mercies new kindnesses new helps new succours new escapements sundry sorts of deliverances in on kinde or other England had long before this have bin as Sodom and as Gomorah unlesse the Lord had saved her let us therefore ascribe her salvation unto God only and when at any time the Lord saves any part of it or our selves temporally let this his kindnesse lead us on to repentance Let