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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27638	Confiding England vnder conflicts, triumphing in the middest of her terrors, or, Assured comforts that her present miseries will end in unspeakable lasting mercies to the whole nation first preached in Bengeo and Hitchin in Hartfordshire and now published for the common comfort of the nation / by Iohn Bevvick ...	Bewick, John, d. 1671.	1644 (1644)	Wing B2193; ESTC R2654	46,204	56

disposall to do with them as he sees fit either to bring them into straites or to inlarge them to make them vessells of honour and comfort or to be made broken vessells a people for misery and destruction This trusting in God exceedingly gloryfies his providence and soveraignty over them Confidence in him is a gracious submission to be ordered and desposed of as he sees fit It is a yeelding that he may be gloryfied thorough us whether he breake us or build us wound us or heale us save us or destroy us make us glorious or miserable Confidence in him ever implyes in it an humble acknowledgment that we are but as clay in the hands of the potter to be disposed of as will best sute with his glory 2. Confidence in God giveth unto him the glory of his truth or the glory of his promises it manifests our acknowledging of his faithfulnesse and our depending upon the word of his truth It is a great glory to God that we account him faithfull a God keeping promise with his people and this is done when we confide in him David prayed Let thy mercy come also unto me oh Lord even thy salvation according to thy word and he professes that his soule fainteth for his salvation but I hope saith he in thy word And againe uphold me according to thy word that I may live and let me not bee ashamed of my hope Thus God hath the glory of his truth when we confide in him 3. Confidence in God gives him the glory of his goodnesse it is a reall acknowledgement that the Lord is good and doth good and that we therefore depend upon him as children do on their parents for all our maintenance 4. This our confidence in God giveth unto him the glory of his Godhead Wee then glorifie him when we make him the master of our affections as when we love and feare and joy in him and the like but when we hope and confide in God we then gloryfie him above the glory which we give unto him by our other affections For though in them all the principall stream runs to Godward yet there are rivelets and by currants of these affections permitted to runne to other things As for example we love God and gloryfie him by our love when he only and cheifely is loved by us but yet our love also runnes out to other things to his children for his sake and to our neighbours and to men and to other things subordinately And so we gloryfie God when he is primely and principally our feare and dread but yet he alloweth us to feare the magistrates who beare the image of his majesty and to feare our parents and to feare and reverence others And so we gloryfie him when he is cheifely and principally our delight and joy and when our soules cheare up themselves in his word but yet he alloweth us to joy in other things we may joy and delight in his saints on the earth and in outward mercies blessings and deliverances we may take pleasure in the creatures moderately I might speake the like of all other affections But now in confiding and hoping in God we only gloryfie him The whole streame of our hope is to runne to Godward and to him only When we make him our confidence we trust not in any thing else but surrendring up to him all our hopes we then make him fully and wholy our God and we thereby give him the sole interest and command in our affections and so we hereby gloryfie him Thus the people of God being every way desirous to do so they therefore make him their confidence for confiding in him honoreth him as God 2. Gods people make him their confidence because they see in God an all sufficiency to supply their defects to comfort them in distresses to releive them in their wants and to furnish them with all things which they can desire and would have The sight of this alsufficiency in God to do all this is wrought in them from one or from all these considerations which are the ground of hope and confidence as 1. They know that God himselfe is very powerfull able to helpe and save and therfore they confide in him they know that he is able to give all what they need both in spirituals and temporalls He made and framed all and all is at his disposall and he can dispose of all for their good This the Prophet acknowledges that he made heaven and gives rain and showers and every comfort Art not thou he oh Lord our God therfore we will waite on thee Lord thou hast made all these things Gods people know that he hath power to save deliver them out of trouble and yet though he do not they wil trust in him because he can do it and none else Shadrach Meseck and Abednego said so Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the fiery furnace he will free us out of thy hand oh King that we will not serve thy Gods nor worship the image which thou hast set up A man who hath a strong and powerfull convoy for his safety thorough the dangerous country he travells in will be the more confident knowing that he who conducts him is of power to raise the country for his defence so a Christian in his travell to heaven hath cause to con●ide in God for his convoy thither seeing he knowes that God himselfe is powerfull and likewise able to raise the country to call in all the creatures both of heaven and earth for his safe conduct and to make all worke together for his best 2. His people know that Gods only care provides for them and all the world seeing he hath taken on him the care of all things The eyes of all waite on thee and thou givest them their meate in due season thou openest thy hand and satisfies the desires of every living thing and therefore they make him their confidence knowing that they have no cause to distrust him God takes care for oxen much more for his servants he hath besides his generall care in providing for all creatures a speciall care over those of his owne family He himselfe tells some men that they are worse then infidells because they provide not for their owne he himselfe therefore will both thinke on and releive his owne in due time he provides both for their bodies and for their soules and he who gives to the body now a few crummes will never deny unto the soule the crown prepared for it When Gods people do seriously thinke on this they see that they have just ground to confide and trust in God 3. Gods people know that he is so powerfull that though for our good he often imploys instruments and creatures or secondary causes bestowing on them strength and ability to worke for their good yet that these can worke nothing except he concurre with them they are without his

us looke to be partakers also of spirituall salvation when he saves us temporally otherwise his temporall salvation will prove but a reserving of us unto eternall destruction Thus we ought to acknowledge that God indeede is the God of our salvation Secondly Seeing God is the God of our salvation then let all of us learne whether we are to flie for any succour in a time of neede even unto this God intitled the God of our salvation Thus did David in every straite giving unto God such titles and names which intimate that God was all kinde of succour unto him And this we must do in our neede of either of these salvations 1. In our way spirituall to salvation We desire to be freed from many of our lusts passions and disordered affections for though perhaps God hath destroyed in his the dominion of sinne that it raignes not yet much corruption remaines keeping them under from thriving in godlinesse and of this they would be rid now in this case we must do as Saint Paul did beseech God against the messenger of Satan seeke to him for salvation yea for any salvation spirituall If Satan tempt it is God who must tread downe Satan under your feete shortly Satan is still a troubling though a conquered enemy seeking to espy all advantages and therefore we must to God who only inables us to resist that he may flie from us On perhaps complaines of an unruly unbeleeving yea dead heart let him remember that it is God that quickens it therfore seek to him resolving not to cease till he leave a blessing behind the more unbeleeving dead dull unruly melancholy dejected you find the heart be the more importunate doubling trebling yea multiplying suites for God at length will heare and free thee from an evill heart of unbeleife He hath the hearts of Kings in his hand and can turne them he only can change the heart and for this he will be sought that such a deliverance and salvation may be only ascribed unto him Another it may be is afraid that he shall one day miscarry yeelding to the temptations which daily assaults him one day he doubts he shall fall back giving out from his Christian profession let such a man seeke to God for he only establisheth upholds and strengthens in grace he only guides his servants making them persevere to the end and afterward he receives such so guided up to glory Thus we ought to seeke only to him for any thing needefull unto our spirituall salvation 2. Let us only seeke unto him for any temporall deliverance or salvation David Asa Iehosaphat Hezekiah yea all saints have done so and so ought we to do both for our selves for others and for the Churches of God The Church needes much salvation it was Davids prayer and it should be ours Redeeme Israell oh God out of all his troubles not from one but from all from its troubles from within and from its troubles from without yet seeke to God call in his helpe and his salvation unto her Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord who hath made Heaven and Earth let us depend on him for it in a praying way so the Prophet Oh Lord be gracious to us we have waited for thee be thou their arme every morning our salvation also in the time of trouble The Church hath blessed be God for it many to fight for her but unlesse the Lord be their arme every morning strengthning them to fight all will for a certaine miscarry and though he do strengthen yet she may come into trouble for all that and then her duty is to pray that he may be her salvation in trouble And thus God is to be sought unto as to the Captaine of his peoples salvation both spirituall and temporall Thirdly seeing God is the God of our salvation let us his people labour to get assurance that we have an interest in the salvation which he workes As his people have interest in him so they have in his salvation To get this assurance let it be our care to have an interest in Iesus the Author of eternall salvation and the founder of all temporall deliverances for all and all manner of salvation is ratified and confirmed to Gods people in Christ We may be assured that we have interest in Christ and in the salvation which he hath wrought 1. If we be lost in our selves and sensible of our neede of salvation Christ was sent to the lost sheepe to such who in their owne apprehensions are lost being not righteous in their owne eyes He came to call sinners to repentance burdened sinners such who call to Christ for helpe least they perish such he will save come unto me all yee that are weary and heavy laden and I will refresh you 2. If we yeeld obedience to him from whom we expect salvation it is evident that then we have interest in Christ and his salvation For Christ is the Author of salvation to all them that obey him A saviour he is to such to whom he is also a soveraigne for his saved people are saved to walke in holines 3. If we willingly heare and practise his word it is a signe that we shall be saved For God will have all to be saved and come to the knowledg of the truth and salvation saith the Psalmist is far from the wicked because they seeke not thy stat●●es but I have longed for thy salvation and thy law is my delight Let us make Gods word our delight and God will make good to us this his title that he is unto us the God of our salvation And so much for the fourth observation The fift is this God is the confidence of all his people in all places The confidence of the earth of the ends of the earth yea of all the ends of the earth and as if that were not enough he is the confidence of those who are a farre of upon the sea The confidence of those on sea who are surrounded by sea of Ilanders and the confidence of those on land in all lands of the whole continent In handling this we will consider 1. How God can be called the confidence of all the world 2. What this confidence is which all his people every wher have 3. Why God is their confidence or what are their grounds of confiding in him And 4. What use may be made of this title given unto God who is here called the confidence of all the world First how can God be called the confidence of all the world This question may well be asked that the doubts which it affords may be removed For if by the ends of the earth be understood the inhabitants of the earth or the nations on it people dwelling on the earth and in the sea it will then be said that it doth not appeare that all these trust and confide in God There are many nations which know him