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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94736	Iehovah iireh: or, Gods providence in delivering the godly. Opened in two sermons in the citie of Bristoll, on the day of publike thanksgiving in that citie, March 14. 1642. For the deliverance of that citie from the invasion without, and the plot of malignants within the city, intended to have been acted the Tuesday night before. With a short narration of that bloody and abominable plot. Preached by Iohn Tombes, B.D. It is this two and twentieth day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, Johovah Jireh, or Gods providence in delivering the godly, be printed. John White.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T1809; Thomason E100_31	25,023	33

bosome or in the hat Alas who may not easily conceive that in such a confusion as must needs have been at the rising up and entring of so great forces into a City in such hurly burly in such fighting there would have beene little distinction made of inhabitants yea possibly as is usuall in such fights their owne Forces some of them might have suffered as enemies It is easie to conceive that not onely goods but also persons would have perished together And therefore they that imagined themselves safe enough by reason of the good will they thought the parties plotting and invading did beare to them yet have reason to acknowledge a great deliverance of them in the disappointing of this Plot not onely the persons particularly designed to destruction but also many hundreds of those who thought themselves safe enough would have beene involved in the common slaughter Secondly let us consider the greatnesse of the deliverance in the fulnesse of it Though many thousands were destinate to destruction yet not the haire of one mans head lost not one drop of blood shed not one person that we know of lost no not so much as one Peny this was a great deliverance Thirdly let us consider the greatnesse of the deliverance by the smalnesse of the meanes A deliverance in a manner without any helpe against a great Power without any foresight against a vigilant enemy that God might have all the glory and man onely the knowledge of his owne weakenesse Fourthly a deliverance in a desperate case when the enemy was confident when the preserved were fearefull Fiftly a deliverance in the very nicke of time immediately before the plot should have beene acted Sixtly a deliverance that hath vouchsafed to make for the present the place safe the inhabitants in a better posture for the future which may in probability tend to the peace of the whole kingdome However it bee that things succeed yet surely there could not bee a way in likelihood that might have tended to the shortning of this warre and so consequently to the peace and quietnesse of this kingdome more effectuall then this that God was pleased to deliver this City And which is of all the most blessed effect it hath redounded to Gods glory by many thanksgivings to him which we this day with the acclamations of our soules give unto him and I doubt not but that it will tend much to the undeceiving of the people from those hard thoughts they have had of the godly as turbulent and discover the deepe wickednes that is in the hearts of malignant spirits notwithstanding all their pretences so that I hope in time it shall be that as in the dayes of Joshua so God will bring it to passe that no dog shall move his tongue against his people and all will see a necessity of reformation in the discipline of the Church which is the great desire of all the godly in the Land I will expresse my conceits unto you I have conceived this plot in the intention of it and many circumstances in it very like that ever to be abhorred Massacre at Paris in France under Charles the ninth of France and the discovery and disappointment like unto that of the Castle and Citie of Dublin in Ireland somewhat more then a yeare since by which although the warre and misery of that kingdome hath not beene altogether prevented yet hath beene through the Almighties sole power in a great measure lessened Doubtlesse the same spirit of Antichrist hath moved in all these plots and this present warre is set on foot by the same Jesuiticall Achitophels by the same Catholique league It is the same plot that began in Scotland but lighted on Ireland and now in a heavy manner of England It is plaine enough to every one that will consider the agents the circumstances of it that it is the plot of Papists and Jesuited spirits to root out the Protestant Religion under other pretences And God doth begin now to discover it and I doubt not but will more discover it and cleare the innocency of his people and adde deliverances to them but ruine and downefall to that Antichristian state What are wee to doe this day but to acknowledge the greatnesse of this deliverance to magnifie God our deliverer and cause the voyce of his praise to bee heard to rejoyce in Gods worke which he hath done Though we may not rejoyce in the misery of any man as delighting in it though we are not to insult over them but to pity them who did not pity us though we are not to reproach them but to pray for them that God would soften their hearts and open their eyes that they may see against whom they strive yet for as much as the Scripture saith The righteous shall rejoyce when he seeth the venge mee he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked Psal. 58. 10. that God may bee magnified wee are to rejoyce that they are cast downe and that God hath vouchsafed unto his people a day of deliverance and blessed be his name a day of thanksgiving without any interruption I beseech you let not this mercy be lost keepe a yearely memoriall of it let not this day be lost spend it not onely in ease from labour and carnall mirth but remember that Deus nobis haec ●ti● fecit God hath done this great thing for us and let our rejoycing be in God our prayses of him Oh prayse our God all yee people and let the voyce of his praise he heard which endues our soule with life and suffereth not our feet to slip And in your praises observe these directions First remember the great deliverance of all deliverances even the deliverance which the Lord Jesus the great Captaine of our Salvation hath gotten for us by his death over Hell and Death Every deliverance we have from the inferiour instruments of Satan the great adversary should lead to the remembrance of the grand deliverance from Hell eternally to be remembred Secondly let this deliverance confirme your faith erect your hope in expectation of those great diliverances which all Gods people long for even the great deliverance from Antichrist when God will judge the whore and avenge the sea of blood that hath beene drunke these many hundreds of yeares by that cruell dominion of the Papacy which all that love Jesus Christ doe earnestly pray for and endeavour the deliverance from Gog and Magog when their great multitudes shall bee overthrowne the deliverance from the grave when the Earth and the Sea shall give up their dead Learne we to argue as the Apostle doth 2 Cor. 1. 10. who delivered us from so great death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us God hath delivered this Citie and therefore will deliver his Church which is his owne City It is the argumentation of the Apostle here God delivered Noah from the old world at the deluge he delivered Lot out of Sodom and therefore God knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptation One deliverance is enough to conclude a succession of deliverances All Gods deliverances are grounded upon the same reason and therefore the assurance of one is a confirmation of our faith concerning all Thirdly learne to delight thy selfe in God learne to glory and make thy boast in him Say as Nebuchadnezzar himselfe acknowledged Dan. 3. 29. There is no other God that can deliver after this sort We that hope in the living God that trust in Christ Jesus should raise our spirits to an high and holy magnanimity and courage in our God despise the Idols that superstitious persons magnify Hath God delivered us Hath the Sonne of God saved us away then with Crosses Crucifixes dead Saints Images Reliques breaden Gods they are but dead things they cannot deliver they are but vanitie and lies there is no breath there is no trust in them Let us exalt our God and say Our God is the living God an everlasting King the portion of Jacob is not like them Israel is the rod of his inheritance Jerem. 10. Our God is a God that can deliver and doth deliver and will deliver Let the experiment of Gods deliverance raise our hearts to an high apprehension of the power and excellency and worthinesse of our God Lastly let us cleave stedfastly to our God Hath God stood to us let us stand fast to him stand to his truth by professing to his commands by obeying them stand unto his people by appearing for them stand to his cause by engaging our selves in it stand to Gods Name by trusting on it Doth God deliver the Godly Oh prize godlinesse then as great gaine as profitable for all things Doth God heare prayers Oh then let us use prayers to God Let us contradict sinners and say It is not in vaine to serve God that there is profit in keeping his ordinances and that we walke mournfully before the Lord of hoasts Mal. 3. 14. Let us returne and discerne between the righteous and the wicked betweene him that serveth God and him that serveth him not v. 18. To manifest which I should proceed to handle the other Conclusion in the Text The Lord knoweth how to reserve the unjust to the day of judgement to be punished but time will not permit FINIS