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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34527	Gods providence, a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Decemb. 28, 1642, in S. Margarets Church at Westminster by Ed. Corbett ...	Corbet, Edward, d. 1658.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6241; ESTC R20147	26,491	35

And the letter Thau upon the foreheads of his people shall preserve them Ezech. 9. God is not like the Children of Men who can do nothing without their Tooles he can work above meanes and he can work against meanes sometimes he disableth the greatest meanes and sometimes he useth no meanes at all 2. God can help the meanes He that can work without meanes can improve and advance the weakest meanes can raise and quicken every temper and dispose little occasions to great purposes Luther an obscure Fryer did shake the whole Kingdom of Hell and Antichrist by whom God gave Truth a resurrection a conquest over heresie The whole world against Athanasius and Athanasius against it half a hundred of yeares spent in doubtfull triall which of the two in the end would prevaile the side which had all or that part which had no Friend but God and Death And to come a little nearer home and it would be strange ingratitude in this place to forget that general deliverance which this whole land obtain'd by the doubtfull language of a few carelesse syllables And which is more to be admired when the vault was ready the powder laid the trayne made the match prepared the Executioners of all bloudy in resolution and in the rage of their Fury Then the hand of God made a scrip of Paper to frustrate all the work and to vanquish Rome and Hell it self we all know that Ezechias being sick unto death was cured with a bunch of Figgs which having a peculiar Nature to drie Vlcers in time would have Matured the Boyl but the suddaine cure was the hand of God if the Iron be blunt God puts more strength unto it If our gracious Creator will favour the building of the Temple no raine shall fall for ten yeares space in the day-time to hinder the workmen The woman in the Revel. the Spouse of Christ shall be holpen by the Earth the dullest of Elements the basest of the people· Naaman shall be healed by the common waters of Jordan the blinde-man cured by clay and spittle Physick fitter in common reason to have destroy'd the Eyes than to have restored the sight When God speaks terror 300. Men shall vanquish a mightie Hoast and emptie pitchers shall affright an Army as much as roring Cannons Nay a blast a rumor a Fancy shall overthrow the greatest power on earth The Moabites had a Fancy that they saw the bloud of their Enemies when they saw nothing but the sun shining in the water And yet this Fancy was their overthrow 2. King 3.22 So easy it is for God to raise strength out of weaknesse to pull down the pride of flesh and bloud and to make a shadow a trifle the Instrument of great Deliverance And therefore 1. Trust not in Meanes The way to have any thing taken from us and not blest is to trust in it and depend too much upon it The Prophet Ierem. is positive herein cursed be the Man who trusts in Man and who maketh flesh his Arme The reason followeth and which draweth his heart from God For when we make flesh our arme account it our support and strength and relie upon it for deliverance Our hearts are withdrawn and departed from the living God we Deifie the Creature and as much as in us lies we unGod that Creator The Lord himself in effect speaks as much in his discourse with Gedeon Iudg. 7. The people which are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands lest Israel make their vaunt against me and say my hand hath saved me Self-sufficiency and Creature-confidence is of a vaunting and rebellious Spirit It sets up it self and De-thrones the Almightie Woe to them saith Isay. in the 31. C. that go down into Egypt for help and trust in charets because they are many and in horses because they are strong And if you would know what this woe is the Prophet will acquaint you in the 3. V. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand the helper shall fall and he that is holpen shall fall and they shall all together faile Curses and woes follow them which rest in and lean to earthly things and the fruit of carnall confidence is destruction Out of God there is nothing but the Creature which is changeable emptie and insufficient which borrowes all the worth it hath and by very trusting in it proves uncomfortable How many Parents lose their children by setting their hearts too much upon them who miscarry oftner than Men of the greatest parts Let us not therefore cry up the hands of Zerubbabel nor the greatnesse of an Army nor the wisdom of a Parliament but let us exalt the power of the Almightie adore his Providence trust in his goodnesse let every Christian endeavour to joyne his soule close unto God and as it were to square it fit for him to bring his trust only to the God of trust and to set him in his own place the highest in the heart For the conjunction of the soule with God is the life thereof and while we be carefull to preserve that union the Gates of Hell cannot prevaile against us we stand impregnable But if the Divell come once betwixt God and our soules and it is his greatest study so to Do If the love of the creature and confidence therein make the least separation and unloose our hearts from their chiefest good then our rock and sure footing is gone we lie open to that roaring Lion and to those waters of iniquity which will quickly sink us in perdition Despaire Idolatrie Atheisme and the whole bodie of sin have free passage into our soules We cannot step from God but Sathan steps to us Every degree of departing from God is distrust and unbeliefe and what will not an unbelieving heart commit 2. Serve Gods Providence in the use of meanes So far as God affords us helpes and meanes we must not be wanting in our Dutie to actuat their power and to employ them to the best advantage we must go along with Providence and serve occasion and opportunities and be exactly carefull of all meanes although we must not trust in any God promised Josuah not to leave him nor forsake him yet he bids him be strong and of a good courage the Israelites must fight it out when God had given the Enemy into their hands Indeed sometimes he will have us only spectators of his Actions he will tell Jehosaphat and the people of Judah they shall not need to fight in the battel stand still move not and behold the salvation of the Lord towards you when he is pleased to shew a strange deliverance and to get honour in the confusion of his Enemies as he did on Pharaoh in the red Sea then there shall be no concurse of second causes he will fight himself and do his own work with his own hands but most commonly he requires the service of the Creatures