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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

is not right worship though men bee never so devout in it yet they are not godly persons when the Priests of Baal called on the name of Baal from morning even till noone saying O Baal heare us though they cryed aloud and cut themselves after their manner with Knives and Lances till the blood gushed out upon them 1 Kings 18. 26. 28. yet there was no godlinesse in all this In like manner though the Papists and other superstitious persons are very devout in their way spend much time in prayer after their manner fast often and doe many laborious works for satisfaction of their sinnes yet because they worship not God aright they are not godly persons If it be then asked who are they that are Right worshippers I answer To right worshipping these things are requisite First they that are right worshippers worship onely the true God whosoever he be that gives religious worship of any sort to any other besides the Lord Jehovah whether it be inward worship of the soule as trusting in it loving it fearing it magnifying and extolling of it in their hearts or outward worship as by gesture of the body kneeling falling downe before it bowing lifting up the hands or eyes kissing or by offering of gifts bringing oblation incense sacrifice first fruits tithes or by swearing by them praying to them making vowes to them blessing them singing Hymnes in their praise consecrating Temples making Priests keeping holy dayes to them for all these are religious worship whosoever I say gives any or more of these or any other sort of Religious worship not mentioned to any besides the true God is an Idolater and therefore not a right worshipper for this is the true definition of an Idolater Whosoever gives Divine worship to a Creature is an Idolater as may be gathered from the Apostles description of Idolaters Rom. 1. 25. where it is charged upon them that they changed the truth of God that is the invisible Power and Majesty of God which they knew by the things that are made Vers 18 19 20 21. into a lie that is into a lying resemblance and worshipped and served the Creature {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} more then the Creator so our last Translation hath it but the better and true reading is Besides the Creator For it is plaine by the words Vers 23. That they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible man and Vers 25. that they changed the truth of God into a lie and therefore they worshipped the Creature more then the Creator But this was their Idolatry that they worshipped the Creator by a lying resemblance and so worshipped the creature besides the Creator So then this is the first note of a right worshipper that hee worships with Religious worship none but Jehovah the true God Secondly they that are right worshippers as they worship onely the true God so they direct this worship only by the true Mediatour which is Jesus Christ the Son of God He onely is a right worshipper that worships God in Christ whosoever he be that makes any other mediator unto God let him be called mediator of redemption or of intercession it is against the true worshipping of God and an high violation of the glory of Jesus Christ For as the Apostle tells us 1 Tim. 2. 5. There is one God and one Mediator betweene God and man even the man Christ Jesus no more Mediators are acknowledged by the Apostle then there be Gods To us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we in him 1 Cor. 8. 6. Therefore the true worshippers are described to be such as rejoyce in Christ Jesus Phil. 3. 3. that glory in him as their Lord and Mediator Thirdly they that are right worshippers worship the true God by the true Mediator according to the true rule that is they worship the true God according to his owne prescription and appointment not according to mens devices and inventions For as our Saviour tells us Matth. 15. 9. In vaine doe they worship God who teach for Doctrines the Commandements of men Hee that shall goe as far as Hierusalem to visit Christs Sepulchre that shall sprinkle himselfe with holy water keepe reliques of Saints observe old customes of former Christians abstaine from eating flesh if he could keepe all the traditions of men not faile in any point of ceremony and thereby thinke to please God as if hee did him honour thereby shall not onely misse of his end but also instead thereof provoke the wrath of God against himselfe through his superstition Let all superstitious persons who are very devout in their way know this for a certaine truth that God doth not esteeme them as godly persons because they are not right worshippers of God The godly have the Law of God in their heart Psal. 37. 31. and according to it endeavour to walke in all duties of his worship Fourthly right worshippers worship God for a right end that they may honour him and exalt him in their soules and give him glory The Pharisees Matth. 6. 5. prayed to God gave Almes and no doubt also brought their sacrifices to Gods Altar yet neverthelesse they were adjudged Hypocrites because they did these things that they might bee seene of men And the same censure belongs to all others that shall pray preach heare or performe any other duty of Gods worship that they may gaine a name of Religious persons and not chiefely for the glory of God that his name may be sanctified whosoever misseth the right end of worship loseth the title of a Godly man Fiftly Right worshippers worship God from a right principle Two principles of our worship are necessary that our worship be right First the Spirit of God no man can worship the Lord in truth unlesse the Spirit of God dwell and act in him 1 Cor. 12. 3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost Secondly a right faith without which a man cannot worship truely for the doctrine of our Lord Jesus is the doctrine which is according to godlinesse 1 Tim. 6. 3. The mystery of Godlinesse 1 Tim. 3. 16. the faith of Gods elect the acknowledging of the truth which is after godlinesse Tit. 1. 1. whence I inferre that to godlinesse is requisite an acknowledgement of the truth and that onely the true faith is that which begets godlinesse Wherefore all Hereticall persons that hold falsehoods against the fundamentall truths of the Gospell cannot be right worshippers a corrupt faith doth beget a corrupt worship Sixtly right worshippers must worship God with right affection They that worship God truely must worship God in spirit and truth Joh. 4. 23 24. We are the Circumcision which worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. that is that worship God not onely with the outward man but also in the inward

in a vaine presumption which cannot hold Experience might enforme them that when men presume most they faile most and that Gods people are then nearest to deliverance when they are in appearance in the most hopelesse condition The reasons hereof are evident God knowes how to deliver when man doth not and when men say there is no helpe for him in his God then it is that God doth most certainly appeare with deliverance Out then with all these Atheisticall thoughts as if the godly and their cause were lost when forces faile enemies grow potent and are many in number Let this one experiment of this Cities deliverance teach you to see the presumption of men to bee a vaine thing When almost was there a time wherein a City was nearer spoyling and destruction and yet preserved The narration read to you may easily give you to conceive how neere it was to be taken how great the presumption of the plotters was of the successe Yet loe in this one instance this truth verified The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptation by his skill and vigilancy we have had deliverance Let not then proud spirits vaunt of their plot and power but remember what Jethro said concerning the deliverance at the red Sea Exod. 18. 11. Now I know that the Lord is greater then all Gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly hee was above them Secondly This should strengthen our faith and encourage us to seeke unto God and rely upon him even then when in our owne apprehension we be at the weakest and the enemy most potent So did Jehosaphat 2 Chron. 20. 12. O our God wilt thou not judge them For wee have no might against this great company that commeth against us neither know wee w●at to doe but our eyes are upon thee And a little after vers. 15. Bee not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude for the battell is not yours but Gods Be it that wee be brought to great straights so that we see no way of escape no meanes of helpe yet let our eyes be fixed on the power that is above still keepe up your heart with prayer in dependance upon God And let me tell you that faith is as good as a whole Army yea it is more then great forces By it the Saints have obtained victories escaped the edge of the Sword Heb. 11. 34. Marke what Hanani the Seer told Asa 2 Chron. 16. 7 8 9. Because thou hast relied on the King of Syria and not relied on the Lord thy God therefore is the hoast of the King of Syria escaped out of thine hand Were not the Ethiopians and Lubins a huge hoast with very many Chariots and horsemen yet because thou didst relie on the Lord he delivered them into thine hand For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro thoorow out the whole earth to shew himselfe strong in the behalfe of them whose heart is perfect toward him The truth is Faith is our greatest strength Armies be of no power without God and when God makes an Army to be a scourge to a people it is likely because they want faith in God for deliverance Oh that then our hearts might be established upon God whatever straights wee are brought to that wee could learne to cling and rest and hang upon him by faith though outward helpe faile He is the Lord of hosts the God of all power and wisedome Let our faith in God be strong though the arme of flesh wee use bee weake Thirdly if God be so expert in deliverance we should learne to waite upon God and to stay his time for deliverance God doth not deliver according to thy will but according to his owne purpose and therefore we should quiet our selves in his wisedome and care patiently staying till he be pleased to send deliverance We are ready to anticipate Gods worke to prescribe the way and time of deliverance and if they faile to begin to grow weary with waiting yea to draw desperate conclusions therefrom and all is because wee have not learned this lesson that the Lord knoweth how to deliver when man doth not that his wayes are unsearchable and past finding out by us that he reserveth the ordering of meanes the time when and the extent of deliverance how farre it shall reach Learne then to bee contented though hee disappoint thee in the way of deliverance thou fixest thy thoughts and hopes on and keepe up thy confidence in God his faithfulnesse and power Remember that of the Prophet Isa. 28. 16. He that believeth shall not make haste Fourthly if it be the Lord that knowes how to deliver then when we have deliverance we must remember to magnifie his wisedom goodnesse care vigilancy and providence And this is the proper businesse of this day God hath given a great deliverance to this Citie And I beseech you to consider to whom it can bee ascribed but to him It were extreame sottshnesse for any man to imagine that such a deliverance came by chance that it was hap-hazzard uncertaine blinde Fortune that did so discover and prevent a plot so long before contrived and so neere the accomplishment nor can it be conceived to have been by the foresight of men The truth is all sorts of persons were in a dubious and trembling condition A plot was feared but what it might be or what way to discover it I suppose the Agents in the discovery knew not till God directed some unexpectedly to give intelligence Those that sate at the sterne here will acknowledge they were at a stand and knew not what to doe those that seemed best to understand the state of things here conceived them in a hopelesse condition If then it cannot be ascribed to fortune or to men to whom shall wee ascribe the delivery but to God Doubtlesse they shew themselves arrant fooles grosse doaters sottish persons stupid wretches that will not say Digitus Dei est hic herein is the finger of God That a plot contrived with so much cunning brought on so neere to an issue should even then bee discovered even then be prevented when it was to be acted with such a mercifull preservation of those against whom it was intended bindes us to give great praise unto God Let us then with our whole heart acknowledge that great hath the wisedome providence and vigilancy of God beene over this place in discovering and preventing this plot To make us more sensible hereof let us consider the greatnesse of the delivery by the number of persons delivered even many thousands of lives in all likelihood a whole City and a great City preserved Yea doubtlesse those that conceived themselves safe enough have cause to acknowledge their deliverance Let men dreame of a word or a signe as a securitie for them alas in a furious concourse while men are in heate of blood doe yee thinke they can attend to observe and marke a word a little white Tape in the