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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80047	Gods vvisdom justified, and mans folly condemned, touching all maner of outward providential administrations, in a sermon / preached before the Honorable House of Commons, Ian. 31. 1648. By John Cardell.	Cardell, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing C492; Thomason E540_24; ESTC R205775	30,393	55

swear in his wrath against them That they shall never enter into his rest in regard of their own sinfulness and vileness that 's safe enough But to say that God cannot or that God will un save such a person or such a people that savors of too much ignorance Rom. 5.20 Where sin abounded Grace did much more abound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 superabundavit Bez. magis exuberavit Eras Bonitas invicti non vincitur infinita miscricordia non finitur Fulgent Ais mihi peccata peccatis adjeci qui jam cadens erectus fucram iterum cecidi conscientiae meae vulnus jam pene curatum exulceratione recruduit Quid trepidas Quid vercris Idem semper est qui ante curavit medicum non mutabis experimentum adjutorii non expectat qui tanguoris tui novit originem Unde dudum curatus fueras inde iterum curaberis Ambros lib. de Paenit cap. 12. ad init Cogita scintillam si in mare ceciderit non poterit stare aut apparere Quantum scintilla ad mare se habet tantum hominis malitia ad Dei clementiam imò non tantum modo sed longè suprà Nam Pelagus tametsi magnum sit mensuram recipit Dei vero elementia sive miscricordia mensuram non habet Chrysost de Paenit Hom. 3. and that they know not the Scriptures that reason on this maner for this of old was just the Israelites case they had sufficiently provoked God before they were delivered out of Egypt and after they were delivered too when Pharaoh pursued them to the very brink of the Red Sea and put them to that great hazard there which we spake of afore to you just there at the very brink of the Red Sea when God was about and where he was about to work out the greatest deliverance for them Then and There did they provoke him to his very face and sin most desperately against him So the Psalmist confesses Psal 106.7 8 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies But provoked him at the Sea even at the Red Sea And what then what followed thereupon Did not God drown them in the Red-Sea for this high provocation of theirs No says the Psalmist though they provoked him at the Sea and even at the Red-Sea yet Nevertheless he saved them for his Names sake that he might make his mighty power to be known He rebuked the Red-Sea also and it was dryed up and he led them through the depths as through the wilderness Case 6 Sixthly Another Case wherein our own ignorance and folly discovers it self and troubles us it is in case of outward meanness Of outward meanness Prop. As when we see God passing by those Instruments that to us seem most likely and most worthy to be used and making choyce of other Instruments that to us seem most unlikely and unworthy to be used how apt are men in such cases to despise the day of small things To scorn Zech. 4 10. reproach and calumniate the great works of God in the world upon this very ground because maintained and upheld and carryed on by such Instruments as are to them so despicable that they know not how either to think well of them or to speak well of them at this very day this lies as a very great stumbling block in the way of many But let us herein also be ashamed of our own ignorance and folly and know Res Tunc verò potissunùm clucet Dei Potentia illa omnem captum humanum superans cúm vel agit ipse quidpiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel infirmissimis instrumentis ad res maximas perficiendas utitur Beza in 2 Cor. 12.9 That God the wise and the holy God he delights to bring great and mighty things to pass by very unworthy and very unlikely Instruments and such as men despise to the end that his own Power and Wisdom and Goodness and Glory may be so much the more conspicuous and apparently visible in what he does And therefore O the severity the great severity of that passage or sentence from the Apostles own mouth 1 Cor. 1.26 Ye see your calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called But says he God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought the things which are Quidnam eaquae non sunt appellat eos scilicet qui nibil se arbitrantur propter nimian eorum exiguitatem Sic incredibilem significavit 〈◊〉 cúm per eos qui nihil esse videbantur magnos subigeret Chrysost in loc that no flesh might glory in his presence but that he that glories might henceforth learn to glory in that Christ alone who of God is made and appointed to be even All in All unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption as it there follows in the conclusion of that Chapter Case 7 Seventhly Another Case wherein our own ignorance and folly is very apt to trouble us and to cause miscarriages it is in case of some carnal disappointment of ours Of Carnal disappointment Prop. As thus when God is pleased at any time to stir up promising Instruments to do us good men that we hope will act for us and be a means to deliver us from all maner of base bondages and unworthy slaveries whatsoever in such a case how apt are we to Idolize such men and such means and to put more confidence in them then in that God that uses them and that imploys them and without whom they can of themselves do nothing And when we have leaned so hard upon these Staves that they begin to crack and break under the weight of our Carnal Confidence then when The Staff of Beauty and Bands is thus far broken Zech. 11.10 11 our hearts begin to flag and to fail us and the Staff of our Hopes that breaks too and so foolish are we and ignorant as to conclude That because we have not deliverance in this way that therefore we shall never have it in any other way or because God comes not just at our time therefore we are apt to conclude That he will also fail us at his own time which he never does and which is evermore the best time Gods time the best time Res And therefore our wisdom would be patiently and quietly to wait upon God and not to limit or confine him either unto Times or unto Means Isa 30 1● Lam. 3.26 Hab. 2.3 Heb. 10.36 37 Psal 27.14 Rom. 4.18 but to leave it wholly unto himself and unto his own free disposition to do us good both when he pleases and how