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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09253	A sermon of the prouidence of God Preached at Paules Crosse, the 25. of October. 1607. By Iohn Pelling Bacchalaur of Diuinitie.	Pelling, John, 1561 or 2-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 19567; ESTC S114107	26,712	54

with thee but the night is as cleere as the day the darknesse and light to thee are both alike All this is true of good men so is it of bad men too King Salomon in the 15 of his Prouerbs teacheth that the eyes of the Lord in euery place behold the euill and the good God is not properly sayd to haue eyes but by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the manner of men His eyes are taken for his all-viewing prouidence in euerie place Court Citie and Countrey publique and priuate God beholdeth and obserueth the euill and the good men and women actions and intents whatsoeuer Our Sauior himselfe in the 5 of Matt. saith expresly that God maketh the Sun to arise vpon the euill and vpon the good and sendeth raine vpon the iust and the vniust I will conclude this point with an obseruation of S. Chrysostome Vt nauis sine gubernatore As a ship without a gouernour is for no seruice And as another noteth well Vt corpus sine anima as a bodie without a soule can do nothing Sic mundus so the world could neuer be created as it was nor continue as it doth and hath done nor be gouerned as it is and hath bene nor come to the appointed end it shall it selfe and all things therein Sine Dei prouidentia without the prouidence of God God worketh all things according to the Council of his will amongst all the rest all things concerning all men and so vs heer from the highest to the lowest Thus much of those things which are subiect to Gods prouidence Now to the third point the manner how God worketh in his prouidence which we are to know acknowledge to be Vniuersaliter specialiter particulariter not generally only but particularly too secondly Immediatè mediatè not immediatly alwayes by himselfe alone but by meanes also many times when it pleaseth him thirdly Immutabiliter non mutabiliter so necessarily that it can be no otherwise then he will and he doth nothing contingently fourth and lastly Benè non malè he worketh in euery thing well in nothing ill Not generally only but particularly also God had a worke with Ionas when he charged him to go to Niniuie when Ionas was shifting and shipt to go another way God sets a tempest to worke at sea against that ship God cast the lot vpon Ionas to be cast out God prouided a Whale to receiue Ionas and to set him safe on shoare Againe God charged him for Niniuie guided him thither prouided for him there Gods hand in his prouidence working particularly is most euidently seene in this storie The like on Herod eaten vp with wormes for his pride and on Pharaoh plagued and confounded for his obstinacy and hardnesse of heart The like on Iob strangely afflicted for his triall more strangely crowned for his patience The like on many other whom bookes do report some notable particulars of the like no doubt on all men liuing though men vse to obserue nothing but strange matters that befall them but God is as particular in his ordinarie workes amongst vs as in his extraordinarie ordinarie and extraordinarie to him are both alike The next point is that God worketh in his prouidence immediatè without meanes yea against meanes and sometimes mediatè by meanes Without meanes God created the world of nothing he preserued Moses fortie dayes on the Mount without food and the Israelites fortie ycares in the wildernesse without chaunge of apparell In tempests at sea many times when men looke euery houre to be cast away In extremitie of sicknesse when Physitions and all giue a man off In dangerous child-births when women be at their wits end in many desperate extremities of this life when wee see no meanes of helpe in the world it is found diuerse times that GOD commeth in with his immediate helping hand and turneth tempestuous stormes to faire weather deadly sicknes to safe recouerie most sorrowfull trauels to ioyfull deliueries the bitterest iarres amongst friends to sweete contentment the greatest neglect and foulest disgraces vnde erued especially into highest accompt and dearest sauour The Kings hart saith Salomon in the 21. of the Prouerbs is in the hands of the Lord as the riuers of waters he turneth it whither soener it pleaseth him As Kings harts so all mens else Our God saith Dauid is in heauen and hath done whatsoeuer pleaseth him as hee hath done so doth he still and will doe howsoeuer it pleaseth him with meanes or without meanes or against meanes meanes or no meanes to God are both alike onely as in his prouidence he hath disposed how things shall be brought to passe so it must be That he worketh against meanes is the strangest but it is as true as the rest In the 14 of Exod. wee read that the sea diuided for Moses and the Israelites In the 2. of Kings 2. That the riuer of Iordan diuided for Elijah and Elisha in the 10. of Iosuah That the sunne stood still for Iosuah In the 3. of Daniel that the fire would not burne Shadrach Meshach and Abednego In the 6. of Daniel that the hungry Lions would not touch Daniel In the 12 of the Acts that neither Iron chaynes nor an Iron gate could hold Peter In the 28. of the Acts that a venemous viper could doe Paule no harme If all the wicked of all the nations in the world should band themselues against the Lord and against his annoynted our Prince his prophets his seruants God can dash them all as it pleaseth the Lord so only come things to passe blessed bee the name of the Lord. Now it followeth to be shewed that God worketh by meanes which I cannot declare better then by shewing what meanes he vseth in his workes as first his Angels that sometimes appeare visibly to men as they did to Iacob in the 32 of Genesis when he was in his iourney he calleth them the host of God sometimes not seene at first but afterwards as in the 2 of Kings 6. Chap. the Prophet Elishas man at his Maisters petition to God had his eies opened that he saw the mountaines couered with horses Chariets of fire which were Angels sent for the Prophets and Gods peoples defense against the mighty hoste of the Aramites sometimes and most commonly not seene at all to men yet alwaies in a readines for Gods seruice and his childrens preseruation as in the 18. of Matt I say vnto you saith our Sauiour Christ that their Angels alwaies behold the face of my father which is in heauen As it was with those little ones Christ there speaketh of so is it with ail Gods children God keepeth angels to waite vppon them though wee haue no proofe for euery one one yet haue wee for that which is as good or better They are all alwaies in such a readines at Gods commandement for mans good that Dauid saith in his 34 Ps They alwaies pitch round about them that feare the Lord to