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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42547	God's soveraignty displayed from Job 9. 12. : Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him? &c., or, A discourse shewing, that God doth, and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth, as to the matter what, the place where, the time when, the means and manner how, and the reasons thereof : with an application of the whole, to the distressed citizens of London, whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the fire : an excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal, the ends that God aims at in it, with directions how to behave themselves under their losses / by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.; Gearing, William. No abiding city in a perishing world.	1667 (1667)	Wing G435A; ESTC R18630	101,655	265

Charles the 5th sirnamed the Wife and Lewis his Kinsman King of Hungary and Polland with many other most noble and famous Monarchs And it is remarkable that Lothair and Charles the Bald the one the K. of France and the other the German Emperor and both of them the Sons of Lewis the devout Emperor both died the 29th of September the first of them in the year 855. and the other A. D. 877. So Charles 5. and Sultan Solyman two of the greatest Emperours that were these many Ages were both born in one year and so both also dyed in one month viz. in September Now though some have thought all these great and marvellous effects to have been wrought by the Conjunction of the superiour Planets or look below God to secondary causes yet let us look above all these to God himself who worketh all things after the Counsel of his own will Eph. 1.11 Right Worshipful to you I Dedicate these ensuing Meditations as a publick testimonial of those respects you have manifested to me let me beseech you to look diligently to your selves because the Lord hath set you on higher ground than many others it is more for persons in your places and stations to win the City of God being ships of greater burden and in the main Ocean than for small Vessels that are not so much at the mercy of the stormes because by sailing along the Coast they may come quietly to the Haven In the midst of your worldly affairs labour ye to be like the fresh Rivers that preserve their own sweetness in the salt-Sea Thus recommending you to the rich Grace of God I humbly take my leave and remain Yours in all Gospel-Services to bee commanded W. GEARING Cransden in Sussex March 27. 1667. God's Soveraignty DISPLAYED Job 9.12 Behold he taketh away who can hinder him Who will say unto him what dost thou CHAP. I. FOr the Author of this Book whether it were Moses as the Jewish Rabbins think or Job himself it mattereth not we being assured that the Pen-man thereof as of all holy Scriptures was inspired from above and it came not by private motion but the Author thereof spake and wrote as he was moved by the Holy Ghost as S. Peter tells us 2 Pet. 1.20 21. yea all the Authors of the Scriptures being as Justin Martyr testifies like Lutes ready strung though not sounding till they were struck by the Finger of God It is of no great consequence who wrote it as what is written in it Hierom who as Lyra testifieth twice translated it once out of Greek into Latin and out of Hebrew also into Latin saith that it was for the most part written in Hebrew Hexameter verse All do number it among the Poetical Books It may seem a Tragedy in regard of those many miseries that Job endured but at length it turned to a Comedy by the happy issue and blessed deliverance that God giveth to him In the words of my Text Job acknowledgeth the Soveraignty Power and Righteousness of God in all his dealings with and Dispensations toward men The word Behold is a note of attention like the sounding of a Trumpet before a Proclamation or the ringing out of a great Bell before a Sermon and it signifies some matter of worth of admiration and observation In the matter it self ye may observe Gods dispensations toward men Gods Dispensation is expressed in the Original in one word he taketh away One Expositor saith he snatcheth away suddenly of which kind of Dispensation Job himself had great and sad experience four persons one after another being sad Messengers of four sad and sudden strokes Job 1. Then their condition and carriage under Gods Dispensation is to be observed wherein two things are to be noted 1. It cannot be resisted whatsoever he pleaseth he taketh away who can hinder him or cause him to restore None can rescue or recover out of his hand 2. It ought not to be controuled Who will say unto him what dost thou Who may in thought or word question or call him to account for any of his Dispensations CHAP. II. Obser THat the Lord doth and may take from his creatures what he pleaseth The point hath two branches 1. De facto 2. De jure That the Lord doth often take away many things from his Creatures and that of right he may do it That the Lord doth take away from men what he pleaseth there are great examples in Scripture this is to be considered in respect of 1. The matter what 2. The place where 3. The time when 4. The means and manner how SECT I. In respect of the matter or things he takes away 1. He takes away health and strength and that many times from his dearest Children We read 2 Kin. 20.1 That good Hezekiah was sick even unto death and Joh. 11.3 The Sisters of Lazarus sent to Christ saying Lord he whom thou lovest is sick The efficient cause of all diseases is God himself I will appoint over you Terrour Consumption and the Burning Ague c. Levit. 26.16 I will appoint them as so many Tyrants and Lords over you who shall vex you with all manner of vexation and I will appoint them over you as so many Judges who shall punish you for all your disobediences and I will appoint them over you is so many Executioners who shall execute the fierceness of my wrath upon you they shall be over your heads over your hearts over your bodies they shall fall upon you when I will and as often as I please they shall go to this person or that place whither I shall direct and send them go whether you will yet still they shall be over you you shall not escape them when I bid them to fall upon you I will set them over you as so many Task-Masters with Cudgels in their hands over their slaves they shall be watching over you to do you mischief you are not afraid of my threatnings nor do you tremble at my word of precept therefore I will appoint terrour over you I will appoint terrifying diseases to come upon you yea your own fancies shall terrifie you Do we not see how mens fancies and imaginations are set over them in every place to affright them at this day How doth God sometimes set Conscience over men to terrifie them sometimes their sins sometimes his Judgements yea God makes every rumor to affright them and nothing can allay those terrours every man they meet every bush they see every sickness that is neer them doth terrifie them fear is from God I will saith he set the Consumption over you a Consumption which shall consume the flesh of men and make them to pine away from day to day waxing more and more feeble so that all the means they shall use shall be of no value for their recovery God hath appointed it over them there is no escaping There is no remedy against evils which God appointeth over a people so the