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A61850	A treatise shewing the subordination of the will of man unto the will of God by that eminently godly, able, and faithfull minister of Christ, William Strong, lately of the Abbey at Westminster ; the greatest part printed with his own marginal quotations in his life time, and now published by Mr. Rowe, Master Manton, and Master Griffith.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6008; ESTC R17435	173,191	368

is as well King of Nations as King of Saints and his glory is as well seen in his providential as in his spiritual administrations So do the Saints see him with a spiritual eye even then when he doth arise to shake terribly the Earth Hab. 3.3 4. It s spoken of the Lords going forth for his people in their deliverance and for the destruction of their Enemies Manus pro actionibus quae manibus ut plurimū perficiuntur 2 Sam. 22.17 Esay 20.2 Hag. 1.1 Glass Rhet. Sacr. p. 9. Cornu significat 1. Robur potentiam ita Calv. in hunc locum potentiam Metaphoricè per cornua designat sc splendorem hunc cum potentia conjunctum fuisse 2. Radium cornui sunilem rutilantem cornua radii sunt quales emittere solent cornua spendentia Drus Tarnov His brightness was as the light and he had horns coming out of his hands there was the hiding of his power By these hands of the Lord is meant his administrations dispensations and actions in the world the hand being the instrument of action therefore all things below are called the work of his hands Psal 8.6 The horns that come out of his hand are interpreted to be radii or splendores raies or beams of light which were as it were horns The same word is used of Moses Exod. Dicit potentiam ejus absconditam esse quia nolebat Deus promiscuè per totum orbem virtutem suā palam facere sed peculiariter populo suo Quemadmodum dicitur Ps 31.19 magnitudinem bonitatis ejus absconditam esse solis fidelibus qui eum timent reverentur Calv. 34.29 His face did shine the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies horns and so the vulgar renders it quod cornuta esset facies ejus So that the Lord in all his dispensations was glorious His works had a lustre beams a brightness that went with them and yet there was the hiding of his power That is he doth so work by instruments and second causes that his hand is not seen but by a spiritual eye yet to him that hath such an eye the hand of the Lord is exceeding glorious There are horns come out of it but there is a latibulum potentiae in all the dispensations of God towards the men of the world Now to see horns in the hand of Christ to see him glorious in his administations even when his power is hid from the rest of the world under instruments and second causes this is the duty of all the Saints So doth the Church Isaiah 63.1 2. * Non agit de Christo patiente iram Dei placante sed de Christo Rege suos potentissime ab hostibus externis liberante contra cos defendente c. Tarnov exercit Bibli p 418. c. Who is he that comes from Edom with garments died from Bosrah glorious in his apparel c. To see the Lord cloathed with a Vesture dipt in blood and his name called the word of God Revel 19.13 His name was the Word of God * Antealudibrio pene habuit verbum Dei acsi tantum essent magnifica verba sed sub phiala septima mysterium Dei consummatū erit tunc maximè florebit Divini verbi authoritas cōstantissima ejus veritate in singulis perspecta Brig in loc from the beginning but then he was the Word revealing and discovering the promises and the truths of God but now he is the Word of God fulfilling and accomplishing of them A place parallel to it is Exod. 6.3 By the name Jehovah I was not known to them The Lord was known by the name Jehovah when he did give a being to the promises so Christ was then called the Word of God but then he did manifest himself to be Jehovah when he did fulfil these promises To see the Lord glorious in his administrations however they be cloathed by instruments and second causes to rejoyce in all appearances of Christ is our duty though they be terrible to the rest of the World Whatsoever † Amictus quidam gloriae Dei in ultione adversus hostes Metaphorâ ab Heröe armis induto in arenam adversus hostes descendente desumptâ Glass Rhet. Sacr. p. 160. Esay 63.1 apparrel he goes forth in he is infinitly glorious 9. When the will of God is manifested the soul should keep it self from all disquieting passions all unpleasingness of spirit whatsoever When I once see it is the will of God I will not grudge at it I will not mourn under it as if I would have it otherwise only I will mourn for my sin that hath been the cause of it This was Davids case for his child his heart was set upon him 2 Sam. 12.20.21 David acquiescit sententiae quā definitivam facto ipso intellexit agnita voluntate Dei acquicscunt sancti Lavit se David ut ingrederetur Templum D●mini ille percusserat non tamen eū habuit pro hoste suo sed acced●t eum adorat supplex c. Petr. Martyr and he prayed earnestly for him with fasting yet the child must die and assoon as he saw the will of the Lord was manifested he mourns no more but with a submissive spirit stoops under it A man should not continue the disquiet of his spirit when the will of God is manifested but with all meekness acknowledge his wisdom and submit to his will It is an evil that the Lord reproves in Samuel 1 Sam. 16.1 How long wilt thou mourn for Saul seeing I have rejected him that he should not raign over Israel The sentence of Sauls rejection was gone forth from the Lord and made manifest unto Samuel V●detur quod illicitus fuit iste planctus nisi Samuel ignorasset reprobationem Saulis Pro hoc lug●h●t Sam●●l quia defini●●at Deus eum ab●icere noluiss●t tamen Samuel qu●d 〈◊〉 Saul Lititus tamen fuit quia lagebat solum ex quadam compassione ut patet de poenis damnatorum aeternaliter quia nulli licet pro ●is orare ●●●tum autem est pro illis dolere nihil orando Tostat in 1 Sam. 15.9.41 though he was not as yet removed from the Government of the Kingdom no not in many years after Now Samuel mourned for him because he was rejected of God but when the will of God was made manifest for him to disquiet and trouble himself therein as if all the future happiness of Israel depended upon this one man and that he did not rather look out Audiverat Samuel Domini sentenam de Saule exauctorando tamen non potest primo intuitu quinam id fiat animadvertere Agnoscens unctum Samuel Dei mandato non potest repentè reverentiam illi abjicere Non satis in peculiari hoc facto animadvertit quid à se Deus postuinret sc Deum ut agnosceret velle Saulis abrogare imperium quod dederat quia ipsius voci non obtemperasset Calv. homil in

modo Bestiae devincitur In dextra Vt pro virili pro Bestia propugnent in fronte ut omnibus palam sit cui deberetur obsequium Bright Allusum est ad morem veterem quo servi Dominorum in fronte milites Imperatoris sut nominibus in dextra inscribi solebant of the Beast in their right hand and do in a high degree maintain Popish Principles and Interests and yet never wear the mark in their foreheads All these things I look upon being done as good as things which God doth approve but if the persons do them not in obedience unto God but upon corrupt Principles and unto corrupt ends or if they degenerate into the same evils and build that which they before pretended to destroy God will have a time to call them unto an Accompt and reckon with them afterward Neither doth it follow that Jehu did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord against the House of Ahab because he doing it with an evill intention and barely for Politick Ends God did afterwards visit the blood of Jezerel upon the House of Jehu I am herein to look if the thing be good in it self and to the intention of my own spirit in doing it and I need not question but I shall be accepted and rewarded for doing that in obedience to God and in sincerity of heart for which another man who did it upon corrupt Principles and unto corrupt Ends shall be sure to be punished 3. When the Ends of God are carryed on and that not coeco impetu but professedly as the intention of the Actors It is true all ungodly men do accomplish * Finis operis operantis Isai 10.7 Si pro arbitrio suo scrvi dominis obtemperant nè in iis quidem in quibus obtemperaverint obsequuntur Quando enim servus ex domini jussis câ facit tantummodo quae vult facere jam non dominicam voluntatem implet sed suam Salv. de guber Dei l. 3. p. 79. Gods Ends even when they miss their own but they do not intend the End which they effect But when men profess they aim at Gods Ends and I have ground to hope that many of them do it in truth though corrupt Ends will creep into the hearts of the best men much more into Bodies and mixt multitudes of men yet it is my duty rather to wish well unto these and to joyn with them then with any other that act quite contrary to Gods Ends and the Designs which his Word tels us that he hath upon the World The Lords ends at this time are main●y these two We may speak it for he ha●h not seft us without a word ●s 〈…〉 of it 〈…〉 wil● 〈◊〉 Heaver and Earth 〈…〉 may 〈…〉 that are 〈…〉 〈…〉 abun 〈…〉 of the 〈…〉 of men 〈…〉 of States 〈…〉 only 〈◊〉 read of tw● 〈…〉 13. the Lord thereby 〈…〉 A●●●christ according unto 〈…〉 C●aim that he makes 1. He 〈◊〉 a Temporal power and headship over Kings and Kingdoms And the Western Empire being by the Gothes 〈◊〉 broken the ten Kings receiving th●● their power as Kings did with one ●onsent put themselves and their Kingdoms under the power of the Pope and so together with the ten Kings he makes up the first Beast there spoken of which is but the Image of the former Empire of Rome in the West set up by the Pope sc Imperium Romanum per Pontificem crectum stab●litum And that the German Empire was set up by him Bellarmin himself takes a great deal of pains to prove in three Books written of purpose de translatione Imperii Romani wherein he undertakes though with great favour to his own Party to manifest 1. Leonem Tertium solum aut praecipuum ac primarium authorem translationis Imperii fuisse eique Germanicam nationem Imperium acceptum referre debere that Leo the Third translated the Empire by his authority alone unto Carolus Magnus 2. That afterward Otho de Gente Saxonum was raised to the Empire by Pope John the Twelfth 3. That the seven Princes Electors of Germany were constituted by Pope Gregory the Fifth If Antichrist did take to himself such a power as to translate and conferr Kingdoms at his will it cannot seem strange that they should give their Kingdoms to the Beast who did receive them from him and that under a pretence of his being an Officer appointed by Christ unto that very End They gave to him therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 17.13 their power of Arms and of Laws that in all the ten Kingdoms he enacted what Laws he would for the support of his own Authority so that Glossa de regulis juris hath this Rule Quando de eadem re contrariae inveniuntur leges Imperatoriae Pontificiae abrogatur lex Imperatoria per Pontificiam quia non poterat servari sine mortali peccato which the Emperors did being for the Popes greater security bound to him by an Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity as to their soveraign Lord. And I doubt not but its very easie unto men skilfull in the Laws to set forth what an influence the Pope hath had from time to time upon the Politique constitution of this Nation in framing or limiting them as was most for his own advantage many of which Laws remain unrepealed unto this day This therefore is that Beast upon which the Whore is said to sit Rev. 17.3 7 8. which was and is not and yet is sc the Roman Empire set up by the Pope as the Head of the ten Kings united into one Body under him as a learned man of late hath well observed Meretrix seu Anti-Christus huic Bestiae dicitur insiaere licet enim rei fundamenta quaedam jacta fuerint veteri Imperio in ruinam paulatim inclinante tamen potissimum ibi completum est cum imago haec Imperii Romani in Germania fuit excitata tum vere coepit Anti-christus huic Bestiae insidere ejus potentià ad stabiliendam suam tyrannidem abuti decreta sua per omnes Imperii partes firmare Imperatorum consilia pro arbitrio suo atque ad suam utilitatem moderari c. Robert Jans Dissertatio de vision cap. 13. 17. Apocal. p. 29. c. And all Powers erected by him and all laws made in favor of him or by his Authority the Lord will surely shake the Nations till he hath removed All these God will certainly shake that he may remove There are also many Inventions of men brought into the Ordinances and Institutions of Christ There is a smoak in the Temple Rev. 15.8 by which Interpreters commonly understand three things First The glorious presence of God in his Church owning his People during the time of the pouring out of the Vials for they make it an Allusion to the manifestation of the presence of God at the Dedication of the Tabernacle and the Temple Exod. 40.34 1 King 8.10 2. Chron. 5.13 So Mede

by the permitting will of God that it should be so that the Saints should in a great measure lie under the power of this envious man first to entice them and afterwards to accuse them 3. He suffers the lusts of Godly men to arïse and they are many times led captive under the Law of sin yea even sometimes to gross and scandalous sins which do vastare conscientiam though they cannot excutere fidem As Sampson to a way of uncleanness David to Murther and that plotted Solomon to Idolatry and that continued Peter to the denial of his Master and that with the bitterest execrations cursing himself to Hell as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies if ever he knew the man yea and God doth leave them to harden their own hearts in a way of sinning and go on frowardly in it Isa 57.17 Why hast thou hardned our hearts from thy fear Isa 63.17 We hardened our hearts sinfully being by God left to our selves And God doth harden them judicially which is the greatest judgement that can befall a Saint in this life 4. God doth suffer wicked men to thrive and prosper in an evil way In ways of cruelty and oppression Nebuchadnezzar gathered the riches of the Nations like eggs that none did move the wing or peep He rules over the people of God with rigour shews them no mercy but upon the ancient he doth heavily lay the yoke The Ploughers plough upon their backs and make long furrows and wicked men oppress those that are more righteous then themselves And yet the Lord seems to stand by and look on and lets him thrive and prosper in it as if he had forsaken the earth So the ten Kings shall give their kingdoms to the Beast the power of laws and the power of arms and thereby set up Antichrist and he shall grow to that power That all kingdoms and nations and languages shall worship him and shall say Who is able io make war with the Beast And he shall make war with the faints and shall overcome them And this ordinarily the Lord doth that his people should come and cry to him to awaken him for he seems as a man asleep and as regarding nothing but leaving all in the enemies hand Awake Lord why sleepest thou Now all these belong unto the permitting will of God which is conversant only about the sins of the reasonable creature 2. There is very much of Godliness seen in a mans submission of his will unto this permitting will of God For the proof of it I shall give one Scripture for each of them First Submission unto the permitting will of God in regard of sin and the remainders thereof Though a godly man look upon it as his burthen as his misery esteems sinne worse then death worse then hell Yet seeing God will have it remain in him if he must still bear this weight draw this clog after him if he will still have them to wear their Grave-cloaths the Saints are content to wait for the resurrection of the just No man was more sensible of the remainders of sin then Paul as appears by his own expression of himself The greatest of sinners and the least of Saints therefore he cries out who shall deliver me Rom. 7.24 Yet he considers deliverance is begun I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord And therefore sin shall never prevail either to condemnation or dominion And with this deliverance the Apostle sits down and submits unto the will of God untill the day of his full redemption shall come though he knew that while he lived here while with the minde he did serve the Law of God yet he should with his flesh serve the Law of sin 2. For scandalous Falls though they be such as those that the people of God should fear and pray against as being such by which they cause the name of God to be blasphemed by which they become spotted of the world a blemish to their society and leave an ill name behinde them and they are set forth by God as examples for us to take warning by to take heed we fall not into the like yet when the Lord hath suffered us to fall into them we must not rise up and quarrel with him but we must say he is just and holy even in those things wherein we are wretched and sinfull Matth. 26.33 34. Peter had an admonition from Christ of a very dangerous fall that was near him and he answers Though all men forsake thee yet will not I Christ tells him that before the Cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice It was Peters duty not in a presumptuous manner to have told Christ in confidence of his own strength no you are mistaken in me if I die with thee I will not deny thee but to have said Lord if it be thy will I had rather die with thee if by thy grace thou wilt assist me I had rather undergo the greatest sufferings then commit such a sin this was Peters duty before hand And after the will of God was manifested to permit him to fall as he did he should have said Thou hast suffered me thus to fall it was my great sin thus to deny thee But since my proud and carnally confident spirit in thy wisdom must thus be brought down and my own weakness must be discovered for my further humiliation thou mightest deal with me as it seemed thee good I have no reason to quarrel with thee thou actest righteously even there where I have acted sinfully And as this was Peters duty so it is the duty of all the Saints whose actual Falls have manifested that it was the will of God to humble them by this means And indeed the Saints when they come to read over the story of their lives and shall see therein Omnes actiones ad se pertinentes circumstantias actionum as Suarez saith they shall see in heaven they will finde they had as much need of their sins as they had of their sufferings in this present life and all things shall work together for good Et si omnia quia ni peccata though I confess there be three ways which the Lord doth use to humble men by First by letting in his love into their souls the beauty of grace the excellency of holiness and then the soul looking down upon it self is as a man that hath looked upon the Sun he can see nothing So did the Lord humble Job by further discoveries of himself so he did humble Isaiah This is the highest and sweetest way of humbling who an I that the Lord should shew in me a pattern of mercy to me the greatest of all sinners is this grace given c. Secondly He doth humble men by sufferings by afflictions he doth keep man from his purpose and hides pride from his heart Thirdly But the worst way and the most uncomfortable way of humbling is by sin when the Lord is pleased to leave his people to great sins