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A00608	A sermon preached to the nobely-deseruing gentleman, Sir Thomas Warner And the rest of his companie: bound to the West-Indies. For their farevvell: At St. Buttolphs, Aldersgate, London. Septemb. 6. 1629. By Iohn Featly, Preacher of the Word of God.; Sermon preached to the nobely-deserving gentleman, Sir Thomas Warner.	Featley, John, 1605?-1666.	1629 (1629)	STC 10743; ESTC S115123	17,112	40

nothing might hinder them from knowing their Creator I that threaten in Thunder when vniust Mortals following their owne wickednesse prouoke my fury to throw vengeance vpon their disobedience I that controule the whole Fabricke of Nature and can blow it away with the breath of my displeasure Haue not I commanded thee The Maiestie of his Stile is a strong argument of the Sufficiencie of his Power against all that deny it To reade his Iudgements vpon the Israelites in their Iourney for their stubborne Murmurings would command the Peruser to a confident beliefe of his Iustice To behold the Plagues he sent vpon K. Pharoah and all Egypt would make the heathens themselues determine of his Prerogatiue-royall Yea and to obserue his infinite store of seuerall Punishments for peruerse Sinners would make the stubbornest offender acknowledge it sufficient when he shall say Haue not I commanded thee Let Ioshua then stand vndaunted and the glory of the Creator dispell the Clouds of Feare that might possesse his Heart for it is the great Iehouah that commands him It will not I suppose be impertinent here to instruct the ignorant in this Attribute of God which is defined to bee the essentiall property of God whereby he can and may worke whatsoeuer is agreeable to his nature Yet that the Power of God hath seuerall acceptions First it is taken for the Eternall Sonne of God Iesus Christ our Sauiour as in 1 Cor. 1.24 We preach Christ the Power of God Secondly for the Gospell of Christ so Rom. 1.16 I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ for it is the Power of God vnto saluation Thirdly Catachrestically The Samaritanes called Simon Magus the Power of GOD Acts 8.10 To whom they all gaue heede from the least vnto the greatest saying This man is the great Power of God Fourthly and truely It is taken for the essentiall Property of God which belongs to the Trinitie Yet to auoyde all erroneous mistaking herein we must haue a care to distinguish betweene the essentiall-Essentiall-Power of God now spoken of and the personall-Personall-Power As the Power of Begetting in the Father the Power of being Begoten in the Sonne and the Power of Proceeding in the Holy Ghost And againe wee must distinguish betweene the absolute and the actuall Omnipotencie of God yet both remaining actiue The former is such whereby God can perfectly doe whatsoeuer may be done as well praeter super naturam besides and aboue nature as with it exemplified in making Elizabeth conceiue in her old age and the like for with God all things are possible Luk. 1.37 The latter is that whereby hee not onely can doe whatsoeuer hee determines but can doe it with a word without any difficulty and nothing may or can resist him From the former of these ariseth a question Whether God can bring to passe things against Nature stiled Impossibilities To which we must distinguish betweene Impossibilia naturae and Impossibilia naturâ Things impossible of Nature to be done which flye beyond the common pitch thereof as to make the Sunne stand still or cause the fire not to burne which we reade of in the Scriptures And things impossible in Nature which are against the definition of a thing as it is Ens as to make a thing simply and really to bee and not to bee at the same instant which is vtterly and absolutely impossible By this latter the Papists are conuicted which maintaine the Transubstantiation of Bread into the very fleshly Body of Christ and make the very indiuiduall Body in seuerall places at once Thus much then for the Positiue knowledge Giue me leaue onely to cleere 2 or 3 objections and so I shall conclude it First then in Genesis 18.17 the Lord said Can I hide from Abraham the thing which I doe as some Translations reade it which may seeme to deny his Omnipotency This is easily answered by the word which is in the future tense and our last Translation iustly renders it Shall I hide Or if the former were true yet it would be per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not that God could not hide from Abraham the destruction of Sodome and Gomorrha but in the ardencie of his affection that he was so good that he would not Secondly Gen. 19.22 When God commanded Lot to fly to Zoar he spake in these words Haste thee escape thither for I cannot doe any thing till thou escape thither therefore the Omnipotencie may seeme to be questioned But to this it is answered that God said hee could not because his Councell was vnchangeable and he had before determined the escape of iust Lot Thirdly and lastly Because God cannot lye nor sinne nor be deceiued nor dye therefore some would question his all-sufficient Power But to this S. Austine answers Ita haec non potest vt potius si posset minoris esset potestatis Could he admit of these things it would instead of improuing lessen his Power He is called Omnipotent because he can doe what he will and not suffer what he will not for that would proue a passiue-Power in God which we absolutely deny to be in him and acknowledge onely that which is actiue Thus haue I as briefly as I might waded through the first particular considered in Ioshua's Commission viZ. the Power of God included in the Maiestie of his Speech Now followes The Prouidence of GOD pointed out in his Care which he had ouer his People in giuing them Ioshua Thee Haue not I commanded thee COrruptio vnius est generatio alterius say the Philosophers The Corruption of one thing is the Generation of an other The Seede in the ground quickens by death The Ashes of the Phoenix produceth another Bird. And as in them so likewise in Authority Moses being dead Ioshua succeeds Thus will the Word of God euer haue the Truth to support it He promised the Land of Canaan to the Israelites whose Commander being dead lest they should rowte themselues with a Mutinie to dash their hopes Ioshua is placed ouer them by Diuine Authority Thus was the Prouidence of God as well manifested in this as in former passages touching the Israelites His Prouidence I say which that I may briefly handle I shall consider therein First What it is in the largest extent viz. The Administration of the All-mighty whereby he did create and doth and will gouerne and preserue by his Word all his Creatures in generall but more especially Those that belieue in his Word to whom he giues the Holy Ghost for their Protector Other definitions I neede not oppresse you with lest I should become tedious Secondly wee must consider How wee may know that there is such a Prouidence Which is manifested 1. By the order of things visible 2. By the consideration of God in himselfe 3. By his Gouerning of all things manifestly appearing 4. By his Word wherein in diuers places he hath made it euidently apparent Thirdly The Causes are to bee weighed which are Three viZ. 1. The Mercie