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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25209	A sermon upon the wonderful deliverance by His Majesty from assassination, the nation from invasion by Vin. Alsop.	Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing A2911; ESTC R23666	37,849	39

concerns are superintended by infinite wisdom and nothing left to the blind Idol Fortune or Chance the Deities of Heathens and Paganizing Christians 2. These eyes of Providence run to and fro for Providence is most nimble and active runs swiftly hither and thither as the exigencies of his Church and People invite and call for them And this is the sole priviledge of Omnipresence that it runs to all places without being in or removing from any place wherever God sees there he is his presence is equal to his Omniscience 3. These eyes of Providence have the whole earth for their Province not a Saint in the remotest parts of Gods earth that is out of the reach of his care nor a sinner in any place above the reach of his power Nothing is below his cognizance nothing above his control Prov. 15.3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding both the evil and the good Persons and things whether good or evil are all within the circle of Providence even those which are neither Subjects nor Ministers of his Grace shall be brought under the kingdom of his power 4. That Providence has not only an eye to see but a hand an arm to execute his purposes whither in promises or threatnings he is strong and shews himself strong makes it appear that when he will save none shall be able to destroy when he will destroy none shall be able to save Psal. 89. 13. Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand and high is thy right ●●●d And this has been impressed upon the consciences of the worst of men whether from the remains of natural light or the immediate impulses of the spirit Numb 23 19 20. Hath he said it and shall he not do it Behold I have received commandment to bless and he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it But more freely and ingenuously has this truth been acknowledged by holy ones Josh. 23.14 Ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord spake concerning you all are come to pass unto you and not one thing hath failed thereof The same truth is owned by Solomon I Kings 8. 24. Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him thou spakest also with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thy hand Gods promise never outbids his power 5. Lastly Let 's observe the special object of his watchful and powerful Providence they whose hearts are perfect towards God In this David gloried Psal. 7.10 My defence is of God who saveth the upright in heart And thus we have a fair prospect into that watchful Providence which neither slumbers nor sleeps A truth which as God has verified in all generations towards his Israel so has it been often and eminently exemplified in our days before our eyes and on our behalf for the more useful management of this Observation 1. I will endeavour to shew the way of the divine Providence in keeping Israel from all the machinations of her enemies 2. By what means Providence has discovered and defeated the secret contrivances of Israels enemies formed against her 3. I will open what a glorious priviledge it is to have the watchful Providence of God superintending Israel and all her concerns 4. To improve and apply it in our recent deliverance from that accursed Conspiracy of Miscreants against our Israel I. I will endeavour to shew the way of watchful Providence in keeping Israel from the secret machinations formed against her by her Enemies The Psalmist informs us Ps. III. 2 That the works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein and why should not our souls have pleasure in them when we have so great an interest in him if Providence saves us it will deserve our deepest study and consideration A wise man as the same Prophet instructs us Psal. 107.43 will observe these things and by a due observation of them shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord in them There 's abundance of love at the bottom of all Gods Salvations but we commonly skim off that only which floats aloft and do not profound into the mysteries of them 1. It 's worthy our strictest observation how the watchful eyes of Providence see and discover the evil designed against Israel when 't is far off and at a great distance when designed mischief is yet in its first causes perhaps in the heart of the Devil or peradventure in the hearts of his 〈◊〉 instruments Psal. 139.2 He knows mens hearts afar off This piercing eye observes the intended wickedness in the conception long before it be come to the birth he sees the Cockatrice Egg before it be hatcht into a Serpent he sees a single spark of mischief long before they can blow it up into fire and flame Psal. 7. 14. Behold he travelleth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood A wretched case this is which the enemies of Israels peace most sadly lament that they should have painful conception pain all the time of their going and at last after all the pangs throes of hopes and fear to bring forth nothing but a lie If hope deferred makes the heart sick Prov. 13.12 surely hope defeated will make it die The method of all the contrivances of hell against Israel is this first there 's a deep rooted malice an inveterate enmity in the heart in all the seed of the serpent against the seed of the woman and all the spiritual seed of that seed Secondly This malice in the heart fumes up into the head and sets it a working how and by what means to execute that propense malice these ways and means are at first rude and unshapen an informed mass and lump an undigested heap of devilish matter till thirdly frequent consults deliberations of the most refined wits with whatsoever assistance can be had from below lick it into some shape and give it a more distinct order and method and there it lies till opportunity gives it maturity and helps by a favourable juncture to abstetricate it into the world All this Providence observes and defeats one of these two ways 1. Sometimes Providence gives a miscarrying womb that tho they have conceived yet the Embryo shall never have life or if so yet it shall prove abortive and the pregnant womb of Malice shall never go out its full time 2. Or if Permissive Providence suffers them to bring forth yet they shall never accomplish their projects the Infant shall be starved at Nurse And for this the Church by the mouth of the Prophet prays Hosea 9. 14. Give them O Lord what wilt you give them give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts 2. Watchful and wise Providence narrowly observes how these machinations against him and his anointed do proceed how they go on how advance and ripen and yet tho his eyes be open his mouth is shut and he keeps