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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

man with knowledge love zeale reverence obedience c. Secondly these godly persons you heare are under Temptations Temptation is as much as Tryall By Temptations are meant sinfull and evill practises and that both as sinfull and harmefull For the conclusion being drawne from the instances before Vers 5 6 7. it is to be conceived that the Temptation that God knoweth how to deliver from is the same with which Noah and Lot were exercised Now Lot was exercised with the evill practises of the Sodomites as they were sinfull That righteous man dwelling amongst them in seeing hearing vexed his righteous soule from day to day with their unlawfull deeds Vers 8. In like manner Noah was tried by the corrupt doings of the old world The sinfull and impure actions of evill men are Temptations to the godly that live among them Likewise Lot was exercised with their evill practises as they were harmefull So you may reade Gen. 19. 4. 9. That the Sodomites compassed Lots house and would have broken in upon him and violated the Strangers that came into his house And accordingly to deliver from Temptation is not onely to deliver from the infection of sin but also to deliver from mischievous massacres violations breaking open of houses spoyling persecution combinations reproaches taunts and all other injurious usages godly men are in danger to meete with Now these are called temptations First partly because they are provocations to sin for a man that lives among wicked men is not onely by example provoked to imitate them but also by continuall and incessant molestations driven to doe as they doe for their owne ease quiet and security and drawne by their flatteries and wiles to comply with them and thereby tempted Secondly partly because they are exercises of patience and constancy whereby the strength and stedfastnesse of Beleevers is tryed Now for the reasons hereof First the first is from the innate hatred and malice that is in the heart of all unrighteous men towards the godly There is a venomous malignity in the heart of wicked men towards the godly be they as neere to them as the wife in the bosome or the childe that is the fruite of their loynes though it may be smothered a while in the heart yet it lurkes in the heart and will flame forth when that which covers it is removed and some occasion bring it forth into act Thus our Saviour informes his Disciples Joh. 15. 19. If yee were of the world the world would love his owne but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth y●u And after him Saint John 1. Epist. 3. 13. Marvell not my Brethren if the world hate you Even as there is a naturall Antipathy between some beasts as a Wolfe will worry and devoure a Lambe though it lye downe quietly by it so there is a secret Antipathy betweene an ungodly and a godly person though never so willing to live in peace Hence it is a sport to them to doe mischiefe a contentfull thing to vex them If they heare evill of them they will beleeve and divulge it if they have ascoffe to flout them with they will vent it if they have a desire to harme them they will practise it And that they hate them because they are godly appeares by the falshood of their pretences for their hatred They pretend they hate them for censuring them sometimes for faction turbulency sedition sometimes for hypocrisie and such like pretences And yet who more censorious factious turbulent seditious fals-hearted than themselves or whom doe they favour more than such persons doubtlesse if the godly were such they would love them as being like themselves Search the matter to the bottome and it will appeare that these are but colours to cloke their hatred with from the eyes of men It appeares by the universality of their hatred to godly persons If their hatred were particular to some it might be surmised it came from some particular cause of difference But experience shewes it to be generall their spirits are imbittered against those that they never had any dealing with their hearts rise against those they never saw if they heare or conceive them to be Precisians Puritans Round-heads or if there be any other Appellation by which they denominate godly persons Though the same persons were delightfull to them before though they were esteemed praysed by them yet when once they begin to be godly they loath them vilifie them abuse them It appeares further in that they hate them notwithstanding neare relations by reason of which nature teacheth them to love them An unrighteous father or mother will not brooke a righteous child an Idolatrous husband will not agree with an holy wife they that agree not in the true worship of the same God cannot agree among themselves Besides this hatred is implacable without mercy there must be no favour shewed to a Puritan when a Papist a Drunkard a Thiefe a wandring rogue shall finde favour come off easily in any tryall be remitted any wrong but no plea no intercession no deprecation shall prevaile to save a godly person from the extremity of oppression Secondly ungodly men are of unquiet spirits they are like Satan that never rests Matth. 12. 43. The wicked saith the Prophet Isay 57. 20. are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt They are still surmising some evill or inventing some evill or speaking some evill of them or acting some evill against them It is wages enough for them to doe hurt to godly men though they hazard life estate credit and their soules too yet they are furiously carried to doe them mischiefe Come say they Jer. 18. 18. let us devise devises against Jeremiah come let us smite him with the tongue They devise mischiefe on their Beds they set themselves in a way that is not good they ab●erre not evill Psal. 36. 4. They sleepe not except they have done mischiefe and their sleepe is taken away unlesse they cause some to fall Prov. 4. 16. Thirdly they be injurious The best of them saith the Prophet is a Briar the most upright is sharper then a thorne hedge Micah 7. 4. Take the best that is the most civill ingenuous regular of unregenerate men superstitious people carnall worldlings lukewarme formalists they cannot brooke a zealous religious person if they cannot wound deadly they will scratch and teare their flesh if they cannot bite they will barke and snarle at them Fourthly they are proud high conceited of themselves But the godly are of no account in their eyes they conceive themselves Gyants godly men as Pygmees now pride begets disdaine and insolent behaviour When pride compasseth them about as a chaine violence covereth them as a Garment Psal. 73. 6. when pride is in the heart there will bee spurning and trampling upon with feet Lastly ungodly men are acted by Satan Ephes. 22. He is