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A53283 The soveraign efficacy of divine providence ... as delivered in a sermon preached in Cambridge on Sept. 10, 1677, being the day of artillery election there, by Mr. Urian Oakes... Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681. 1682 (1682) Wing O23; ESTC R31763 31,659 48

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supplies of Strength and Grace Is. 40. 29 30 31. And though you have many Enemies Sin Satan World and may meet with much Opposition yet God that hath all Issues and Events in his Hand being on your Side nothing shall do you real hurt Rom. 8. 31. You need not fear what Men or Devils can do against you seeing God that manages the active power of the Creature is for you They have no power but what God gives and hands as He will Ioh. 19. 10 ●1 He will not suffer them to do you real hurt Nothing shal separate you from the Love of God in Christ Rom. 8. 35-39 Nay all adverse Powers though of greatest sufficiency to doe you hurt and bent upon it shall do you good whether they will or no Rom. 8. 28. And you shall be sure to conquer at last and have good Success Indeed you may at present have many particular Designs and Undertakings and be frustrated and suffer disappointment therein but then it is good for you to be afflicted crossed disappointed and Unsuccessfulness is really best for you most conducive to the prosperity of your Souls you shall be sure of good Success so far as Infinite Wisdom sees it to be good for you And then however your particular designs and undertakings may be defeated yet you have a general Grand Design that is paramount predominant which is The everlasting Enjoyment of God and if you reach that you are well enough and as happy as you would be and the Lord who is the Lord of Time and Disposer of Events and Governour of his Creatures to their Ends will not suffer you to be disappointed herein You shall infallibly glorify God and enjoy Him for ever This is matter of Comfort to the People of God in the worst Times when it is with them as with Iacob when he said All these Things are against me Gen. 42. 36. when none on their Side Refuge fails and no Means appearing for them And indeed the People of God in this Country have had great Experience of this What Deliverances hath God commanded When few and weak and low and exposed to the Rage of Enemies God said Touch not my Anointed do my Prophets no harm The Salvations of New-England have been most apparently by the Lord 's Governing Time and Chance This or that Chance or Occurrent hath faln in in the very Nick of Time to prevent Ruine It hath not been from the sufficiency of the Instruments of our Salvation but from the All-sufficiency of God and His overruling Events wonderfully Therefore let all that fear God comfort themselves with this Consideration And that you may take down be refreshed with this Cordial Consider two Things 1. That Events are not to be judged or concluded of beforehand from the Aspects of Second Causes As Astrologers conclude this or that shall happen because of this or that Aspect the Conjunction or Opposition of Planets and Positure of the Stars heavenly Houses so do Politicians from the prospect they take of the Combinations and Confederacies and various Aspects of Second Causes Hence also God's People are discouraged when they see the World combine and enter into Leagues Confederacies against the Church now they conclude they shall be a prey to their Teeth and swallowed up And Enemies are ready to Insult over the Curch and to say as Pharaoh I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil c. Exod. 15. 9. But this is a wrong way of judging because Time and Chance happens God may turn all a quite other way It was a good observation of Mr. Caryl When wicked men are nearest their Hopes godly men are furthest from their Fears because then usually God defeats them and their Insolence Confidence engage Him to do it 3. That the Determination of all Events is in the Hand of God in Christ or of the Lord Iesus Christ. The Mediator is at God's right Hand and hath all Power in Heaven and Earth committed to Him all Judgment and the Command and Government of all Events He governs Time and Chance God is in Christ providentially ruling all Events prospeting or blasting all Affairs as He will It is the Man upon the Throne above the Firmament that gives out his Orders according to which the Living-Creatures or Angels move the wheels of Providence as you may see in that excellent Scheme of Providence which is drawn in the first Chapter of Ezechiel And it 's well for Believers that themselves and their works are in the Hand of Christ and that all Events in the World are determined by Him Thàt Christ whose Person you love whose Ordinances you love whose Truth you love whose Commands you love whose Members you love whose Appearing you love that Christ that loveth you a thousand times more than you can love Him and loved you above his own Life and will love you to Eternity that Blessed Lord Jesus Christ hath the managing of all Affairs and of all your Concerns and Undertakings in his own Hands And therefore we may conclude that He will do all in favour of his Members it shall be well with them that fear God Eccl 8. 12. VSE IV. Of Exortation in sundry Particulars 1. Labour to maintain an humble Sense of your own Insufficiency to accomplish any thing even in that kind wherein you seem to be most sufficient best accomplished Let worthy Magistrates in Consultations for publick Good Ministers in their Ministerial way Scholars in their way and Souldiers in their military capacity walk humbly with God Truly God hath poured Contempt upon our military Men our Artillery men and good Souldiers New-England hath gloried in these Things Indeed men of martial Spirits and Skill ought to be encouraged these Trainings and Exercises are very commendable by all means to be supported and countenanced and it is pi●y that as in other things so in this the good Old Spirit is so much gone These are not Times wherein the Nations beat their Swords into Plough-shares and their Spears into Pruning-hooks War in some cases is lawful and at sometimes necessary and sure then Learning of War is so also But I fear we have trusted too much in Sword and Bow and gloried in our Numbers in our Arms and Ammunition in our Trainings in our expert Souldiers and the Lord hath shewn us that all these things are nothing without his Blessing and that unless the Lord watch the Town keep the garrison'd House fight the Battel all is in vain We have seen that a despised despicable Enemy that is not acquainted with books of military Discipline that observe no regular Order that understand not the Souldier's Postures and Motions and F●●ings and Forms of Battel that fight in a base cowardly contemptible way have been able to rout and put to flight and destroy our valiant and good Souldiers And I must confess that which determined my thoughts to this Text was