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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29206	A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of York before Hi[s] Excellence the Earle of Newcastle and many of the prime nobility and gentry of the northerne covnties : at the publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for the late great victory upon Fryday, June 30, 1643, and the reducement of the west parts of Yorkeshire to obedience.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4233; ESTC R32864	17,240	33

smitten the Army of the Chaldeans saith God so that there remained none but wounded men yet they shall arise up every man in his Tent and burne this City with fire Jer. 37. 10. God can infuse such strength and vigour into men halfe dead that all the power of their Enemies is not able to resist What shall we say then When we have both Bows and Swords let us nor presume When we want B●wes and Swords let us neither disp●●re nor yet rashly hazard our selves The one argues want of Faith the other is a tempting of God Whether we have them or want them yet let us say Some put their trust in Charrets and some in Horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God Psal. 20. 7. When it was told Leonides that the Persian Arrowes did obscure the Sun It is well said he then we shall fight in the shadow But well and well againe is he that fights under the shadow of the Almighty and under the covering of his Wings Life or Death or whatsoever happens shall work together for his good But we are apt to impute all occurrences to secundary causes If a sicknesse seise upon us we ascribe it to some cold or distemper we scarce think of God We trust him more easily with our Soules then with our bodies or our Estates And if we doe confide in God it is as an Usurer trusts a Bankerupt upon a pawne So long as we have Men and Mony and Armes and Ammunition we trust in God but we cannot with the Woman of Canaan pick comfort out of the name of a Dog nor say with holy Job Though the Lord should kill me yet will I trust in him What is the result of all this If we affect prosp●rou● successe we must place our confidence in God not in our Bow or in our Sword 2 Chron. 13. 18. Judah prevailed against Israel Because they relyed upon the Lord God of their Fathers The Israelites had greater numbers a better cause all manner of advantages against the Benjamites yet they lost two great Battells and prevailed not till they sought for Victory with tears and humiliation at the hands of God Judges 20. Whilst Moses lifted up his hands in Prayer Israel prevayled against Amalech Bellum tibi imminet O Balach saith a Father O Balach thou Sonne of Zi●por Warre is in thy gates six hundred thousand armed Israelites are entered into thy confines And doest t●ou prepare curses in stead of dart● and Words for We●pons Doubtlesse Balach had heard that Israel moved not a hand against Pharaoh but the Lord fought for them as an H●brew Rabbine did expound this Text unto Origen Numb. 22. 4 Now shall this Company licke up all that is round about it as the Oxe licketh up the Grasse of the Field The Oxe licketh up the grasse with his Mouth and cuts it with his Tongue as with a sickle So this People fight with their Lips and overcome with their Prayers When thou buildest a Fort lay the foundation in Prayer When thou puttest on thine armour buckle it to thee with Prayer But God heareth not sinners as one said to a company of Pirates in their devotions pray lower least God heare that yee are passing this way He th●t will pray aright for Victory over his Enemies must first endeavour to conquer his own corruptions He must doe his Duty and referre the successe to God as Ioah said Let us be valiant and pl●y the Men and let God doe what seemeth good in his Eyes He must not swerve from the streight line of Justice for any advantage He must not limit God to any meanes There is a story of an Hermit That prayed to God sometimes for Raine sometimes for Faire Weather and God still granted his request yet his Garden did not prosper So going to another Hermits Cell he found all his Herbes faire and flourishing And when he admired at it the other Hermit soone resolved the doubt O Foole didst thou think thy selfe to be wiser then God Such another fellow was Naaman 2 King 5. 11. I thought he will come out to me and call on the name of the Lord and strike his hand over the place If God doe not help us just when we please our selves and by such meanes as we approve we thinke God hath forgotten us Let us therefore pray with due submission and when God hath granted our request let us give all the glory to Him But it is Thou c. This is my fift and last Observation that in lieu of Gods Protection he exp●cts a thankefull acknowledgement from us It is thou that savest us from our Enemies and pu● test them to confusion that hate us Why was Goliaths sword laid up in the Temple Though it was l●pped up in an Ephod yet I doe not do●bt but that at solemne times it was to be she●ed to the People to excite them to ● more cheerfull Thankesgiving for Gods gracious deliverance of them from the Army of the Philistins Therefore God caused a potfull of Mann● to be preserved that Posterity might see with what food he had fed their Predecessors And the Rod of Aaron was so carefully kept to be a memoriall of Gods great deliverances How devoutly did the Idolaters give thankes to their Gods of Gold and of Silver being but supposed Benefactors much more we to the God of Heaven and Earth What thanks did Christ the Sonne of the living God give unto his Father for a dinner of Barly Bread and of broiled Fish If any of us be invited forth to a Meale we hold it uncivility not to return thanks much more to God who dayly spreadeth our Table and filleth our cups yea who hath preserved to us the Tables and the Cups themselves and not these only but our Lands our Houses our Goods our Wives our Children our Lives our Liberties our Religion O sing prayses sing prayses unto our God sing prayses sing prayses unto our King who saveth us from our Enemies and putteth them to confusion that hate us The skirts of Aarons Garments were compassed with Bells and Pomegrannets Pomegrannets are an excellent Fruit and signify Gods blessings the sound of the Bells is our thankesgiving When his Pomegrannets do abound it is meet our Bells should sound After the Lord had taken his rod off from Zachary and restored him to the use of his tongue the first thing that he did was to sing thankes to his Deliverer Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which hath visited and redeemed his People If God did require the first fruits of the Earth much more the first Fruits of the Heart and of the Soule This is the end of this Assembly to return our thanks to the Lord of Hosts for a late victory obteined in the West parts of this County by His Majesties Army under the Conduct of his Excellence the Earle of Newcastle against the Lord Fairfax and the Northern Rebells A great victory indeed whether we looke upon