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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97126	The good-vvill of Him that dwelt in the bush: or, The extraordinary happinesse of living under an extraordinary providence. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, on Tuesday, Iuly 22. 1645. At their publike thanksgiving for the good successe given to the Parliaments forces, under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax in the west. /	Ward, John, d. 1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing W774; Thomason E293_16; ESTC R200163	33,640	44

faithfullnesse else we should perish hourly in our divisions distempers and the provocations wherewith we tempt the Lord We are filled with drunkennesse we dash one against another and yet his eye pitieth and spareth and we are not perished we are divided divisions are multiplied the Kingdome divided within it selfe the Church divided within it selfe and yet behold we stand We read in the word that a Kingdome divided within it selfe cannot stand we read also and who trembles not at the reading It is easier for Heaven and earth to passe then one title of the Law to fail What shall we say hath God revoked his word hath he repealed his sentence surely he suspendeth it and we hope it may passe away unfulfilled England may be the instance of exception from that generall rule a Kingdome divided within it selfe cannot stand Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisedome and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out We are a froward and perverse generation we do not receive correction we are sick of our remedies impatient of our cure discontented with our mercies murmuring at our deliverance lingring back in our hearts to our former bondage not beleeving the Lord for all the signes which he hath shewed amongst us yet the Lord bears with us in great patience forbears to turne our enemy breaketh not in upon us to destroy us but gives us liberty to humble our souls and pray before him and suffers himselfe to be intreated and proclaimes his Name The Lord the Lord gracious and mercifull slow to wrath abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands pardoning iniquity transgression and sin and that will by no means clear the guilty Oh that we could make haste and bow and worship and glorifie God and be thankfull Truly if we bring all our story into view we shall finde nothing on the part of men but wickednesse or weaknes madnesse and folly and on Gods part nothing but wisedome and power grace and patience mercy and truth met together and justice shining in an infinitie of goodnesse To gather the whole matter into a short summe Confusion hath or might have covered us but together with the smoak of the furnace a lamp hath been seen to walke between the divided pieces many evident testimonies of the goodnesse of our God condescending in the remembrance of his Covenant to walke amongst us in paths of mercy and truth The fire hath broken out into a flame and it hath taken hold upon us round about and we are no better then a dry bush before it and yet by the good will of God abiding among us as when he dwelt in the bush destruction is inhibited intercepted and prevented daily The presence of God in the glory of his majesty hath been so tempered as to us like the spirit moving upon the waters at the creation it is refreshing reviving and we hope refining and reforming or at least preparing for the production of order and peace with truth while to our adversaries set as briars and thornes against him in the battell our God is a consuming fire Now what shall we say to these things Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse for his wonderfull workes to the children of men May I say it again and again treble the repetition as the Psalmist doth on like and lesse occasions Psal. 107. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull works to the children of men Oh that I could lift up my voice as the Angel his trumpet at the opening of the seals and perswade to come and see that we may together magnifie the worke we behold and exalt the praises of our God Come and see the work of the Lord what desolation shall I say nay rather what prevention of desolation what preservation he hath wrought in the Land There is desolation I confesse and great terriblenesse in the desolation but there is abundance of goodnesse outshining it in the extraordinary wayes and workings of deliverance by the good will of our God Come and see the worke of the Lord The worke of the Lord is great done openly before us as on a theatre a manifold worke of mercy done in wisedome fearfully and wonderfully done and is worthy to be sought out and pried into of all them that have pleasure therein there is a mine of blessings folded up in it and there may be a mint of pleasure and profit in the contemplation How precious should the thoughts of God in all of it be unto us Who so is wise will consider these things and he shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord Let us make observation of that wherein our God is glorious and we are advantaged of every thing whereby he makes himselfe known and we are or may be made blessed in the course of his extraordinary providence over us for good and pause and dwell upon the contemplation with meditation with deep and serious consideration with all intension and elevation of the heart alwaies Let the worke and praises of God be celebrated with admiration praise him according to his excellent greatnesse indeed there is no praise comely proportionable to the transcendent excellency of Gods majesty but admiration praise waiteth upon thee saith the Psalmist or as the Hebrew more significantly hath it praise is silent or silence before thee it is impossible to comprehend much lesse to expresse all that belongeth to his praise our eyes can as well read and measure the greatnesse and brightnesse of the lights in the firmament of Heaven as our hearts can discerne and display the glory of God Who can utter all the mighty acts of the Lord who can sh●w forth all his praise as the bright shining of the Sun beams in a reflection by a glasse is far lesse then the lustre of the Sun it self and the return by an Eccho is very imperfect and short of the voice when much is said and many speak together so the glorifying of God by men is infinitely disproportionable to the excellent glory that shines in his marvellous works the best praise of his providence is humble acknowledgement with reverence and adoration Let us therefore praise him according to his excellent greatnesse And let us publish his praises and not hide them in our hearts but together with the burning on the hearth let there be light and heat shed abroad that others also may be provoked to glorifie God and be thankfull I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works I will declare thy greatnesse They shall speak of thy glory and talke of thy power they shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodnesse And as much as in us is let us propagate the glory of God to posterity and ages to come one generation shall praise thy works to another

spring up daily many roots of bitternesse and many are thereby defiled There be scoffers and prophane persons and Atheists and many are daily made such and great occasion is given to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme and to speak evil of the way of Truth by those who privily bring in damnable Heresies and by those who follow their pernicious wayes using liberty for an occasion to the flesh These things and the like are done daily to the great dishonour of God and scandall of Religion I beseech you my Lords stirre up your jealousie and take hold upon your power for the punishing the avenging and the redressing of these things Be very jealous for God who is jealous for his people with a great jealousie that there may be no colour of cause given for the renewing of the old complaint All men seeks their own not the things which are Jesus Christs Secondly It is humbly desired that the worke of Reformation may be speeded and order in the Church established by Law even now while the Lord is thus advancing the worke of our deliverance although there be many difficulties and an appearance of some discouragements Your Lordships may please to remember how while the fire was yet on the Bush two or three dayes before they were to passe out of Egypt when the people must needs bee in an hurry and confusion in no fit disposition scarce a capacity of receiving such a Law and there was no time to teach them the interpretation of it and one would have thought a fitter season was nigh at hand and might well have been waited for the introducing of the use and regulating of the manner of communicating in such a mystery yet even in that juncture of time and before God offered to shew the whole patern in the Mount the Sacrament of the Passeover was instituted and the rule thereof made publike by an Ordinance and the people commanded to observe it and they went and were obedient thereunto It seems to me and I beleeve your Honours cannot think other but that this was done and written with speciall reference to this very season and the great affaire now in your hands for instruction and direction to this present Parliament to take into most serious consideration and affection the humble advice and Petitions that have so often and with so great desire and expectation been presented to both Houses in the matter of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and to give a Law for the Administration thereof and the regulating of the admission of Communicants according to the Word of God and the rules of discipline in all the reformed Churches That the Church of Christ may have the liberty of this Ordinance in the purity of it Then which nothing can make more for the unity and peace of the Church and Nation and the defeating of the crafty designes of those cunning men who lye in wait to delude and divide and to do this speedily notwithstanding all objections and obstructions which polititians or prophane worldlings or any Sectaries may with faire pretence raise to the retarding hereof being all cle●●ly and fully anticipated and answered by the light and encouragement of this very story And when this is once setled you shall with the more ease provide and we shall with the more patience and consolation expect the setting up of the rest of the frame of Government though the times should continue unquiet and hazardous and we should still be put to depend upon an extraordinary Providence for subsistence For your Lordships may also please to call to minde how when the people wandered in the Wildernesse neer fourty years before they possessed the Land The Lord caused the Tabernacle of the T●stimony to be wrought and reared and ordered the pitching of it and marshalled the Tents of the Tribes about it and gave the Lawes for his publike worship and in that unsetled time and when they were newly entred into Canaan while they were yet in warre set on foot all that belonged to the administration of it And afterwards how it was the care of Ezra and Nehemiah in the most troublesome times when they had many enemies and there were many conspiracies and confederacies against them and the distraction was great and they were forced to hold a sword in one hand while a Trowell was in the other yet made it their great care to re-edifie the holy Citie and the Temple and reforme and restore the publike service of God and when they entred into a curse and an oath Reformation in matters of Religion was the first and principall charge And when they waxed cold or forgetfull the Prophets put them in remembrance they received the exhortation and the Lord blessed the labour of their love Then the Prophets prophesied unto the Jewes which were in Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel and the Elders of the Jewes builded and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the Prophet and Zechariah the sonne of Iddo and they builded and finished it according to the Commandement of the Lord There is my warrant for this motion and there is your Honours paterne for the worke and there is great encouragement to us all I move you my Lords to no more than what ye your selves have obliged your selves by solemn Covenant to do and what you have engaged us all to endeavour and procure by all good and lawfull means to be done and this brings to minde A third thing The keeping of the Covenant in the whole and in every part especially that which concerns the Reformation of the Church according to the Word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches I suppose I may be bold and that without offence to transfer hither the speech of Peter to Ananias and Sapphira in another case or at the least to allude to it When the super-inducing of such a sacred ingagement was first in motion it was free to the high and Honourable Court of Parliament to have forborne the framing of such a Covenant And while it remained under debate and deliberation was it not in your power to have abstained from the bringing of your selves and the Kingdomes into such an oath and a curse but now yee have sworne before the Lord how so great a part as the intended Reformation can be kept back or be rigidly pressed for the advantage of the civill State and neglected or be proceeded in remifly in the case of Religion and the Church without tempting or provoking the Lord that I may not say without Sacriledge or a lye unto God judge ye Or how safe it may be after vowes to make inquiry How sad a thing and destructive would it be if the Land should after all this be made to mourne for breach of Covenant and perjury I beseech you my Lords prevent it with all your zeale and the Lord enable you to do worthily for God to do something extraordinary for him who

in mercy and truth to our posterity which we say shall be a prey and they may know that salvation which we now despise and the present froward generation perish by the way I thinke therefore there is need to pray and to pray daily to seeke the Lord that we live lest he that now dwells amongst us in good will as when he dwelt in the Bush breake out like fire in the Land as he threatens the house of Joseph and devour● it and there be none to quench it The Lord is an holy God he is a jealous God and will not forgive our tranngressions if we abuse the goodnesse of God and seek liberty for our lusts and forsake the Lord He will turn and doe us hurt and consume us after he hath done us good And it may come to passe that as all good things are come upon us which the Lord our God hath promised us so he may bring upon us all evil things untill he hath destroied us from off this good land which the Lord our God hath given us Nay if we knew the secrets of God concerning us or could understand by books as Daniel did the set time of our deliverance yet we ought to seek by prayer and supplication How much more while the fire is yet on the Bush should we cry continually to our God after the example of Moses that we may behold his Salvation And now while we are together and the Lord hath put it into our hearts to pray before him for blessed be God we may now pray after the Sermon and are not bound up to a doxologie no not on a day of thanksgiving Let us remember it in our Prayers FINIS Deut. 28. 58. Isa. 8. ● vers. 26. 28. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Exod 40. 35. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 2 King 11. 29. Doct. Greg. Nissen Lippomannus Proof by Scripture Ezra 9. 13. Psalm 126. 2 Chron 29. 4. Nehe. 8. 36 37. Psal. 144. 15. Job 21. 9 13 Psal. 144. 12 13 14. ver. 1 1. Numb. 21. 14. Psal. 145. Mognalia Dei Mirabilia Dei Isa. 59. 16 17. Psal. 15. 28. 1. Pet. 1. 7. Isa. 48. 10. Ezek. 20 5. Isa. 50. 4 50 Isa. 27. 9. Isa. 4. 4. Zech. 13. 9. Mal. 3. 16 17. Ezra 9. 13. Ezod. 3. 8. 1 Sam. 14. 27. Deut. 32. 13. Joh 2. Wisd. 16. 20 21. Deut. 31. 10 11 12. Isa. 63. 9. Exod. 3. 7. 2 Cor 1. 10. Psal. 103. 4. Psal. 68. 1● Tegere beneficium beneficio Bona rerum secunderum optabilia bona rerum adversarum mirabilia Sen. Vse 1. Gen. 15. Exod 3. Exod 3. 3. Psal. 76. 10. Mr Sedgewick Rev. 17. 2 Thes. 2. Psal. 64. 6. Job 5. 12. Isa. 27 7. Deut. 9. 18. Isa. 28 29. Iam. 3. 22 23. Rom. 11. 33. Exod. 3 4. Isa. 1● 4. Psal. 107. 8 1● 21. ●● Psal. 46 8. Psal. 111. 2. Psal 107 43. Psal. 9 16. Higgaiō Selah Res meditanda summa sunius Oh rem perpetua meditatione dignam Vatab. Psal. 145. Optimorum non est laus sed admiratio Psal. 65. 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Tacet laus ratione operum tuorum sortium Laus non potest attingere te Pagnin Psal. 106. 2. Psal. 150. 2. Ps. 145. 5 6 7. vers. 4. Esth. 9 18. Jer 16. 14 15. Rev. 11. 8. Jer. 51 45. Rev. 19. 2 4. Caution Psal. 92 5 6. Judg. 6. 13. Ruth 5. 7. Exod. 3. 5. Levit. 4. 10. Judg. 7. 13 14 15. Deut. 25. 9. Iudg. 24. 2 3. 2 Sam. 23. 17. Vse 2. Generally to all Psal. 50. 23. Psal. 105. 45. Esa. 63. 8. Exod. 4. 30 31 Exod. 5. 20 21. Psal. 78. 11. 22. Numb. 16. Psal. 78. 8. Exod. 24. Psal. 78. 34. Numb. 1. 46. Numb. 26. 65. 1 Cor. 10 6. Numb. 14. 24. Iosh 14. 6. 1 Cor. 10 11. More particularly to the Lords Numb. 7. 2. 1 Chr. 29. 6. Ego certè vereor ne nos quoque cum alienas blasphemias iterum atque iterum repetamus nostram mentem polluamus atque ita condemnatione quoque participemus Basil 2 Tim. 3. 16. Exod. 12. Neh 10. 19 30 31 c. Ezra 5. 1 2. Hagg●i 1. 2. Ezra 6. 14. Vse 3. Esay 4. 4. Heb. 11. 25. Matth. 17. 4. Micha 7. 9. Hab. 3. 17. Exod. 9. 28. James 5. 7 8. James 1. 5. Psal. 18. 24. Pet. ● Numb. 14. Amos 5. 6. Josh. 24. 19 20 cap. 23. 25.