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A32805	Of God Almighty's providence both in the sending and dissolving great snows & frosts, and the improvement we ought to make of it a sermon occasioned by the late extreme cold weather, preached in it to his neighbours, and now thought fit to be made more public, for the common good / by Benj. Camfield ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1684 (1684)	Wing C382; ESTC R5822	19,660	35

vi c. Go to the Ant thou Sluggard consider her ways and be wise which having no Guide Overseer or Ruler provideth her Meat in the Summer and gathereth her Food in the Harvest There is no such ingenious Tutor of all sorts of Prudence as Necessity Quis expedirit Psittaco suum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Magister artis ingenique largitor venter Persius II. Next as to others it trains us up to all the bowels of Compassion and Charity in consulting what we can for their Indigence and Infirmities to help and enable them to support themselves and Families under those pinching Extremities which do sometimes attend the Season of the year With Dorcas to make Coats and Garments for the poor Widows Acts IX xxxix And with the hospitable Batharians at Melita to shew all possible Kindness to ship wrack'd Strangers kindling them a Fire and taking them into shelter because of the present Rain and Cold. As St. Paul records that lovely instance of heathen Goodness and Humanity Acts XXVIII i ii How great a Charity and Benificence is it to contribute towards the Relief of the necessitous in Fewel and Cloths and Harbour as well as Food to render the bitter winter tolerable And III. It trains us up especially to the religious Fear and Obedience of God Let all the earth fear the Lord saith the Psalmist let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him as I quoted it before and that from a like Topic Psalm XXXIII And he takes notice whether we make that use of our Reason as we should to infer this Duty from hence and lets us know how ill he resents it if we do not so Witness that Complaint against his people for this neglect Jerem. V. xxiv Neither say they in their heart Let us now fear the Lord our God who giveth us Rain the former and the latter Rain in its season and reserveth to us the appointed Weeks of the Harvest That is Who crowneth the year with his Goodness feedeth us with the Fat of Wheat and for the Production of that commands the Clouds and Seasons c. But This is not all I would here suggest This farther offers it self to our Thoughts That it is highly Reasonable we should learn Obedience to Him whose commands all Things else so readily obey Even Snow and Hail and Ice Storm and Tempest fulfilling his word We should therefore learn Obedience from them that we be not Heteroclites and Exceptions from the rest of the Creation unto whom it might be expected that we who are in a Form above them should rather set a good Example And we should learn this Obedience the more because what in them is Necessity only may in us be a Vertue and a Vertue highly to be rewarded from our Lord and Masters Bounty And still the more because the Ties of Gratitude are upon us We are obliged to pay this Tribute of Thankfulness to him whom all Things else obey for our Benefit and Welfare to maintain us in Health and Strength and Chearfulness that we may do him service And that without anxious and diffident cares for our own Provision what we shall Eat and what we shall Drink and wherewith we shall be cloathed Si●…e the Lord we serve is both able and willing to supply us with all these Necessaries Being such in power and Wisdom and Goodness as we have heard him described Who sendeth his commandment upon Earth and his word runneth very swiftly who giveth Snow like wooll and scattereth the Hoar-frost like Ashes who casteth forth his Ice like Morsels so that none is able to withstand his cold who sendeth out his word again and melteth them bloweth with his South Wind and the Waters flow Now unto this Supreme All-perfect Being the Creator Preserver and Ruler of the world the Almighty and Everlasting God who Governs all Things both in Heaven and Earth be ascribed by us as is most due All Honour and Glory and Praise and Adoration with Thanksgiving and Obedience for ever and ever Amen The END Books lately printed and sold by Ric. Chiswell DOctor Puller's Discourse of the Moderation of the Church of England Dr. Henry Bagshaw's Discourses on select Texts Mr. Seller's Remarks relating to the State of the Church in the three first Centuries Dr. Sherlock's Practical Discourse of Religious Assemblies Defence of Dr. Stillingfleets Unreasonableness of Separation A Vindication of the Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet in answer to Mr. Baxter and Mr. Lob about Catholick Communion The History of the House of Estée the Family of the Dutchess of York Octavo Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha or Natural Power of Kings Mr. John Cave's Gospel to the Romans Mr. Camfield's two Discourses of Episcopal Confirmation Octavo Bishop Wilkin's Fifteen Sermons never before extant Mr. John Cave's two Sermons of the duty and benefit of submission to the Will of God in Afflictions Quar. Dr. Crawford's serious expostulation with the Whiggs in Scotland Quarto A Letter giving a Relation of the present State of the Difference between the French King and the Court of Rome to which is added The Popes Brief to the Assembly of the Clergy and their Protestation Published by Dr. Burnet Mr. Tanner's Primordia or the Rise and Growth of the first Church of God described Octavo A Letter writ by the last Assembly General of the Clergy of France to the Protestants inviting them to return to their Communion together with the Methods proposed by them for their Conviction Translated into English and Examined by Dr. Gilb. Burnet Octavo Animadversions on a late Treatise intituled The Protestant Reconciler 8o. A Disswasive from Revenge by Dr. Stratford Dean of St. Asaph Octavo Dr. Cave's Dissertation concerning the Government of the Ancient Church by Bishops Metropolitans and Patriarchs more particularly concerning the ancient Power and Jurisdiction of the Bishops of Rome and the encroachments of that upon other Sees especially Constantinople Octavo His History of the Lives Acts Death and VVritings of the most eminent Fathers of the Church that flourished in the Fourth Century being a Second Volumn wherein amongst other things is an Account of Arianism and all other Sects of that Age. VVith an Introduction containing an Historical Account of the State of Paganism under the First Christian Emperours Folio Books in the Press DOctor John Lightfoot's Works in English in two Volumns Folio D. Spenceri Dissertationes de Ratione Rituum Judaicorum c. Fol.