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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86499	God, a rich supply of all good Setting forth, I. The beleevers interest in it. II. The riches of it in quantity. III. The gloriousnesse of it in quality. IV. The meanes of sealing up all: namely, Christ. All illustrated, with many wonderfull and remarkable spirituall experiences, not onely of former, but of later Christians. By Doctor Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2565; Thomason E1341_3; ESTC R209144	14,400	31

worse then nothing to poison and pain us to all degrees of misery They wil supply they say but according to what even quite contrary to the text viz. they wil supply according to the abundance and basenesse of evil that is in sin and the Devil But the voice of the text is life the voice of God indeed He will supply all your need according to the riches of his glory by Christ Jesus Second Use is for improvement of God in Christ Jesus unto all consolation to them that can closely close with and own God in Christ to say My God by the blood of Christ My God by the spirit of faith These men shall be able to say My God shall supply all my wants yea mine and others that are beleivers as Paul speaks in the text for himselfe and other Saints God shal supply all Widdows Orphans Prisoners and with all of which we have absolute need without all faile of what is also convenient for us when it is convenient First We have absolute need of grace without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. And God tells us we have need of patience Heb. 10.36 Therefore that God must needs supply according to his promise he will poure out his Spirit Act. 2. And according to his insurance having filled Christ that of his fulnesse we might receive Ioh. 1. Secondly There is an absolute necessity of what is altogether necessary to gracious actings in all conditions Heb. 4.16 Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and finde grace in the time of NEED And my grace shall be sufficient for thee even in thy wraftling with Satan 2 Cor. 12. Compare diligently 1 Cor. 10.13 Therefore this also God must needs supply Thirdly That is of absolute necessity that concurrs to our natural being and life whiles God wil have us to be on earth for his service In this respect Christ saith of outward things Your heavenly Father knows you have NEED of these things Therefore so much of food of clothes of liberty of peace c. as whereby we may be able to be and act according to Gods minde God must needs supply Fourthly There is an absolute need that God should be glorified by us He must attaine his end All things was made for his glory Revel 4. Therefore whatsoever is needful for us to further Gods glory that God must needs supply All these are but absolute necessary supplyes But God supplyes somtimes ex superabundanti good measure pressed down and running over not onely for necessity but for delight And he wil so supply us at present need in some things that we shall be able out of experience to speake with confidence of futures My God shall supply all needs As Paul speaks 1 Cor. 1.10 Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust he will yet deliver And Rom. 5. Tribulation worketh patience patience experience experience hope Past mercyes are the first fruits of future As the Apostle argues Rom. 11. That God hath more mercy for the Jews whom he calls the lump because the first-fruits of the fathers afore the floud and the Patriarks after the floud were holy by mercy received from God And as God supplyes all with all as we have sayd so also sutably to the Saints condition in this world wil he supply For Hel and the world indeavour to put the Saints into need and all manner of wants But saith the text God will supply all your need Hel and the world labour to make them poor and scanty and miserable but saith the text God wil supply all your need according to his riches Hel and the world do nothing but render them contemptible and ignominious But saith the text God wil supply according to his riches in glory Hel and the world labour if it were possible to divide them from Christ But saith the text God wil supply them by Christ Jesus Object But how wil God supply us Answ Either ordinarily or extraordinarily God is pleased when he sees good to use means but he is not tyed to means method or manner of acting When Moses was much with God on the mount he could fast forty dayes when Peter had a vision Act. 10. he forgate his hunger When Paul was in a rapture he knew not whether he was in the body or no and therefore minded not bodily wants When we consider our clothing with Christs righteousnesse and eternal glory we shall more minde our clothing upon with them then moth-eatable garments 2 Cor. 5. Whiles Adam injoyed God he minded not his nakednesse There are no perplexities can enwrap and hamper and seize upon Pauls spirit whiles he considers Christs fulnesse through whom he can do all things Phil. 4. A word from Christs mouth stils him in a great fight of temptations 2 Cor. 12. Distractions there may be in States and upon Churches and every one enquires what wil things come to But the consideration of these Christ must reign Psal 2. Heb. 2. The four mettalled Image of all humane power opposing him must be broken before him Dan. 2. And Antichrist must down as sure as if down already Revel 18. Christs Church must be set up in glory Revel 21. The Saints must rule chap. 20 these I say will quiet our mindes Object But my heart hath many doubtings in it Answ Dost thou call him my God and hast had some former experiences what he hath done for thee then mayest thou boldly as Paul say in the text My God shall supply all my wants Yea the same God that makes any promise wil give to thee lying under the serious consideration of that promise assurance through that promise that he wil performe it and make thee wait till thine eyes see it done In waiting with hope upon God a soule oft times hath much communion with God And in this communion God doth make admirable impressions on Saints spirits touching assurance Psal 130.5 6 7. So that if all the world should perswade them it were in vaine to waite they could not be taken off Yea some Saints waiting upon God unto and in great sufferings have little lesse then an impression of Prophesie made upon their spirits Hus a Bohemian signifying a Goose in his language sayd that if they costed him in the fire within an hundred years should rise a Swan that should carry the cause on for which he suffered And accordingly Luther signifying a Swan rose up and did so most successefully The Martyr that last was burnt in Smithfield told the people they should be of a good comfort for he was perswaded he was the last that should suffer under Queen Mary And so he was The world doth not consider this of secret impressions And therefore they plot sometimes great plots thinking to have the people to side with them But God makes contrary impressions and so all falls to nothing Quest When wil God supply Answ When his time

the lapsed Angels but of his well being of a gracious heart and gracious qualities in that heart Psal 51.10 Ephes 4.24 Ephes 2.10 Mine by preservation and not onely in common providences as he is the Saviour of all men but in preservation of the soule from sin of the affections from prevayling temptations and graces from deadnesse Mine by redemption Sutably to that specially here meant is here mention of Christ Jesus According to that Christ is made of God to us redemption 1 Cor. 1. He hath payd a price to justice to redeem us from vengeance and hath gained the actual love of mercy to bestow all good upon us * The same Fine and Recovery cuts of the entayle of evill and conveighes the good estate to us Upon these grounds and in this manner doth the beleiver challenge God to be his God If you will have the measure and graduall then thus The beleiver saith God is my God fundamentally by the promise As that I will be your God and you shall be my people Formally and properly by faith my beloved is mine and I am his Cant. 2. And Thomas my Lord and my God Effectually and feelingly by the operations of love joy c. As Mary-sayd my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour And as the beleiving Iewes did 1 Pet. 1.8 Compleatly in parts when we own God and own our selves to be none but his Faith drawing down Christ to us And that faith working by love carryes us up to Christ Cant. 2 My BELOVED is mine and I am HIS he feedeth among the Lillies untill the day breake and the shaddowes flee away turn my beloved c. 2 Extension in quantity God shall supply even to a fulsilling all needs The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here rendered need 1. Signifies want necessity So that whatsoever is necessary to supply God will supply A sinlesse wanting viz. of such things without which we cannot answer to Gods ends God will be sure to supply But a sinfull wanting a moral aguish dropsy thirst of such things and so much as will rather hurt then help a wantonnesse rather then a want God doth best supply rather by keeping us in that want then supplying rather by withholding then by giving Psal 119. It is good for me that I was afflicted For in this case we more want soule health then bodily supplyes therefore God withholding the drink of creature-comforts is best to cure our spiritual ague or dropsie appetite So then our desires must be natural not unnatural either after things in kinde not good for us or in degrees unsutable for our condition As on the otherside our wanting must be real not imaginary as the dream of thirst in the Prophet Such an imaginary want was in Rachel when she phantisied that her life depended upon having children Give me children sayd she or I dye 2. The Greek word signifies use that which is usefull and instrumental to act and doe Now that is for our true use that more fits us for Gods use For as the Philosopher called Servants we are Gods instrumenta rationalia his reasonable tools or houshold goods Revel 4. All is made for Gods end and use Therefore without all faile God will so supply and serve our need as may fit us best to serve him And in relation to both significations of the Word remember that I told you that the word supply in the original signifies to fill God will at least fill the true useful need He may and doth oft make our cup to overflow gives a measure running over but that is of superabundant kindnesse But this he will do and is tyed under hand and seale in Word and Sacraments viz. to fill such wants He will fill every size of vessel replenish every capacity to its proportion He will ballast and tackle every ship as it may safelyest swim and ride out every storme He clothes lambs and sheep with a fleece they may best bear and get away from the thornes 3. Intention in qualities one way or other first or last he will supply according to his glorious riches God is glorious and so will dole out your share according to your proportion you shall confesse it when the total is cast up In comparison of others nothing or your own former small thing you shall have great things God hath chosen the poore in regard of the world saith Iames rich in faith And saith Paul Godlinesse is great gaine with contentment For it brings contentment hearts ease more satisfied then Alexander with a world The Godly man hath two worlds entayled upon him Godlinesse hath the promise of this world and that to come So that the Godly man can say I have enough He is rich that thinks he wants nothing that hath as much as he can aske or tell what well to doe with give us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread sufficient for our substance A mans estate is to be valued according to the use not the bulke according to the efficacy not the quantity What are tooles of which one hath no use or benefit Green hearbs if they give content saith Solomon exceed a stalled Oxe If a mans estate serve his use is effectual to a quietation of spirit he hath the greatest ENOUGH that can be desired The whole of a beleivers estate is very rich thus 1. The least mercy is greater then he as Iacob confessed for a man is all misery in himselfe 2. The least that he hath as to him that it might be a mercy not a snare cost the value of Christs blood A little Diamond costs more then a load of quarry stones 3. If the stream of mercies be small yet great is the continuance from the fountaine A little free-hold is better then more by short lease 4. Besides all he hath the fountaine it selfe God himselfe The heavenly man hath not onely the light but the Sun it selfe fixed in him as in its Orb. The Christian and God are one as Christ and God are one Ioh. 14.20 Ioh. 17.21 All that God gives to beleivers intends ends in this to lead them to God Judge your condition by this God is a wooer that gives tokens to his love with an intent to give himselfe You see then God doth many wayes supply richly That richnesse according to which God will supply is a glorious richnesse The glory is three-fold as the riches are three-fold 1. There is a glory upon the temporalls of a beleiver They come from Gods right hand See the difference Pro. 3. and in the Patriarks blessing The right hand blessings perfected the left They come from Gods good wil not from meer common providence They all taste lovish they are varnished with love polished with a beauty as given to Christ for us as the world was made exceeding good that is beautiful useful c. for the first Adam in innocency Again there is a glory in the seasonable giving of temporals to beleivers So like apples of gold with picturs