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A94206 God glorified, and the wicked snared in a thanksgiving sermon for the most happy preservation of His Majesty, King William III. from a most horrid and barbarous assassination, in order to an invasion from France / by A.S. A. S. 1696 (1696) Wing S6A; ESTC R42325 8,578 32

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God Glorified AND THE Wicked Snared IN A THANKSGIVING SERMON For the most happy Preservation of His Majesty King WILLIAM III. from a most horrid and barbarous Assassination in order to an Invasion from France By A. S. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by R. Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1696. God Glorified AND THE Wicked Snared PSAL. IX 16. The Lord is known by the Judgments that he executeth ALthough there be nothing in the World so much removed from the Eye of Sense as the Substance of the Essence of God is yet there is nothing more known by its Acts and Operations The direst Beams of the Divine Majesty that flow from his Being and Essence these are too illustrious for our dim and bleared Eyes to gaze upon But then the Rayes of his Wisdom and Power Goodness Justice and Holiness reflected upon us from the Creature these discover God unto us and make him known who in his Essence is a great Deep an eternal Abyss unto our Eyes so that although there be nothing in the World less known than the very Being or Essence of God yet there is nothing more clear more visible in its Acts Effects and Operations than God's Attributes are his Wisdom Power Goodness c. his Essence as I may say it is all covered with thick Darkness veyl'd with Clouds from our Eye but the Rayes of those Attributes shine through those Clouds So that as we see the Light of the Sun many times when we cannot see the Sun it self the Body thereof being hidden under a Cloud So may we see the Lustre and Glory of the Wisdom Power and Greatness of God while we cannot see his Essence nor pry into the Deep of God himself Which I conceive will instruct us as a Preparation to understand the Words The Lord is known c. Which words are an absolute and plain Proposition of themselves therefore I shall not any way divide or lessen them lest also I should at the same time cut the Nerves of the Truth and make it weak by being minute and obscure which in it self is as it were a strong and an entire Body but I shall speak unto them by making these Questions upon them I. What is the Judgment of God here said to be executed II. When may God be said to be known in the Sense spoken of in the Words III. How may we understand more remarkably the Judgments of God Or thus How or by what means do the Judgments that God executes in the World make the same God known unto us First What is meant by the Judgments here spoken of I answer by Judgment exprest by the Hebrew Mishpat we are to understand the righteous Sentences and holy Decrees of God past upon Man or Mankind in order to Reward or Punishment and also the Execution that is made upon the passing of these Sentences So the Jewish Masters tell us It is to judge according to Truth and execute also according to that Judgment whether it be in Matter of Punishment or Reward And then if you would know the particular Sense wherein the Word is taken here there 's no Question but it refers to the worst Sense that is to say an Act of Judgment the Execution of it as the latter part of the words shew The Wicked is snared in the Work of their own Hands Look in what Sense the Judgment of God is said to be executed in the latter part of the Text in that Sense it is taken in the former part but the Judgment executed is spoken in respect of Punishment of Offenders therefore so is it to be taken in the former part also Secondly When may God be said to be known in the Sense spoken of in the Words I answer When so much of his Wisdom Power Justice Righteousness Holiness or any other of the Divine Attributes is discovered and made known unto the Sons of Men as that every Man that will consider may indeed observe and take Notice of that he that hath an ear may hear and he that hath an Eye may see if he please We are not here to think that God speaks of the Metaphysical or Phylosophical Knowledge of his Essence No that 's too high for us but he speaks of Moral Knowledge of his Attributes or indeed rather of a sober and pious and humble Acknowledgment of them So that then God may be said to be known when his Wisdom Power Goodness are acknowledged in these Providences and Dispensations that he exerciseth and acts among the Sons of Men. The Holy Scriptures they were not generally at least and in the largest Extents of them designed to instruct Philosophers and to discipline and teach Men of great and raised parts and understandings only but they were as well aimed to enlighten to inform to teach and instruct Men of lower and weaker Capacity As the Sun doth not only shine upon the Cedars of Lebanon upon the tallest and bravest Plants of the Wood the Trees of the Forest but also upon the lower Brambles and Bushes in like manner God who would have all to be saved doth not so cause the Holy Scriptures to be drawn penn'd or Written that they should only be understood by Men of greatest Parts I mean in the general or things necessary and of highest Attainments but also that what is necessary should be drawn out of them even by Men of lower and meaner Understandings And hence it comes to pass when we find the Knowledge of God spoken of in Scripture it is not to be understood Philosophical Notional Metaphysical Knowledge of his Being and Essence for this is above all Capacities but we are to understand common and ordinary acknowledgment of those wonderful and glorious Attributes of God shining in his Providence made known in his Works appearing in all those Exercises of that Providence in the World and amongst Mankind Thirdly How and by what means does the Judgments which God executes in the World make him known unto the Sons of Men. I answer first in the General That God's Judgments they are generally suited and strangely accomodated unto the Time Opportunity and also unto the Nature of those things that are at such times upon the Wheel or upon the Anvil when those Judgments are discovered and are executed in the World The Wisdom of Divine Providence it makes it self known every where unto a seeing and considering Eye and if we will but take notice of things we may see the Lines of Divine Wisdom and Knowledge drawn upon every thing we may discover the Footsteps of Righteousness and Justice generally in God's Judgments of his Intendments and of his Designs in the World But to fall into particulars All God's Judgments are seasonable and the most remarkable in these Particulars 1. They often surprize the Sinner in the very act of Sin they arest the Hand that is lifted up to strike they cut off the Head that is plotting and contriving to destroy they fall in upon the