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A49636	The way to good success propounded in a sermon preached upon November the 24th, 1684, at Trinity-house-Chappel, to the wardens, elder brethren, and fraternity of masters and seamen of the same house, at Kingston upon Hull / by N.L., minister of the gospel at St. Mary's Church in Hull.	N. L.	1685 (1685)	Wing L49; ESTC R43334	15,096	37

murmur at his Proceedings nor contend against his Providence but are ready to say with Eli under the greatest disappointments and the most seeming cross Providences It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good 1 Sam. 3.18 Our Religion teacheth us when God in his Providence crosseth or disappointeth us in our Enterprizes not to fly in the face of God in a passion but to fall down at his feet in submission Our blessed Saviour gave us his own example for this duty When God put a bitter Cup into his hand to drink he said The Cup which my Father gives me shall I not drink it The great Apostle Paul also took out this Lesson Phil. 4.11 12. For I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know both how to be abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need Qu. 2. What Considerations may enforce this Duty 1. I shall only name two the first is in the Text he will bring it to pass or turn it to good And the force of this first Consideration will appear if we take notice 1. That God is able to bring it to pass 2. That he is willing First That God is able although this be a truth that most men take for granted yet seing it oft falls out that our Faith is put to the stretch things are so cross and with Nicodemus are ready to say How can these things be can God furnish a Table in the Wilderness It will not be amiss to touch upon these following particulars that our judgements may be satisfied in the present truth Whoever is disappointed in any design he undertakes 't is either because he wants prudence to manage it power to compleat it or cannot be present to carry it on Now there is that in God which answers these defects 1. Their wisdom in God and that infinit too whereby he is able to forecast his work and to overwit the wisest As Eliphaz sayes Job 5.12 He disappointeth the devices of the Crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprize verse 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong Whatever wayes of Wisdom are to be met with in the Creature they are but so many beams of light darted from him who is the Original Jam. 1.5 If any lack wisdom let him ask of God who gives it to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him Then as the Psalmist saith Psal 94.9 10. He that planted the ear shall not he hear He that formed the eye shall not he see He that teacheth man knowledge shall not he know Yes surely therefore Rom. 16. last He is called the only wise God 2. There is power in God It hath been observed by some that this expression is found no less then 70 times in Scripture that God is Almighty difficulties are no difficulties with him Whatever is absolutely possible in it self excepting that which is inconsistent with perfection it falls within the reach of his power He can bring about his designs by weak means without any means that are obvious to the eye of man or by seeming contrary means All the Creatures are at his beck and command he can dispose them take away their beeings suspend their Actions yea the very hearts of men are in his hands and he can turn them as the Rivers of water 3. He is Omnipresent oftimes mens designs miscarry ' cause they cannot be at several places the same time or cannot act at a distance but God is present in all places and filleth all things Can any man hide himself in secret places that I should not see him for do not I fill heaven and earth Jer. 23.24 And this being added to his Wisdom and Power make it out that God is able to bring things to pass Secondly God is willing to bring it to pass He is good and merciful and delighteth to do good and to shew mercy It 's as natural to God to do good as for the Eye to see or the Ear to hear The sweet Singer of Israel David Celebrateth the mercy and goodness of God in Psal 106.107 108. God hath no pleasure in punishing men and therefore Justice is called Op●● à lienum his strange work and when at any time he doth inflict Judgements upon them he seems to be troubled thereat How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim Hos 11.8 He hath no delight in disappointing men in their Enterprizes God hath a natural inclination to do us good to Crown our endeavours with Successe to gratify those that please him Psal 35.27 Let the Lord be magnified who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his Servants Besides Gods willingness is apparent from the many gracious Promises that he hath made in his Word to help and relieve them that put their trust in him 2. There is none that we can Commit our Way with safety to but unto God It will be acknowledged that we cannot with safety commit our Way to the Devil though there are too many God knows who take this course such as consult Wisemen but this their way is their folly Such as take unwarrantable courses to bring about their designs they for certain will find themselves disappointed in the issue Neither can a man put confidence in himself with safety he is both too feeble and too foolish Jer. 10.23 O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not it man that walketh to direct his own steps If a man put confidence in himself 't is the way to want Success Neither may we with safety put confidence in Friends though they be a great treasure For the greatest through impotency may or through fraud will deceive us Job complains Job 6.15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook and as the streams of brooks they pass away Neither can we trust in the greatest of men One would think that if any thing was to be trusted in it was to be in Kings and Princes but see what is said Psalm 62.9 Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lye to be laid in the Ballance they are altogether lighter then vanity Therefore he sayes Psalm 146.3 4. Put not your trust in Princes nor in the Son of man in whom there is no help His breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish Man is but vanity and God never created him to be trusted in Trust is too great a burden for any thing but God But some think they may safely put confidence in their Wealth Psal 52.7 Lo this is the man that made not God his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness Prov. 10.15 The Rich

Persons Ships and Loading from the dangers of the Sea and know assuredly that if God should suffer you to miscarry upon the great Ocean yet by this method you may secure your souls against the Waves and Billows of Gods Wrath to all Eternity Directions for the better Discharge of this Duty that you may commit your Way to God 1. Live under the Apprehensions of his Providence Divine Providence doth concern it self in all Persons and things in the World which is a truth that none but profest Atheists will deny The Epicureans indeed but 't is charged on them as a gross piece of inconsistency grant there is a God but that he busies not himself with affairs below but an idle God sounds something like a dark Sun or cold Fire both contradictions A God in Heaven not superintending all Transactions here below is no better then a Heathen God That have Eyes but see not Ears but hear not Hands but handle not Now lest we should entertain such unworthy thoughts of the living God he manifests himself to us in the Scripture by what he is doing Isa 40.22 23 It is he that sitteth on the Circle of the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof are as Grashoppers that stretcheth out the Heavens as a Curtain and spreadeth them out as a Tent to dwell in That bringeth the Princes to nothing and maketh the Judges of the Earth as vanity He pulls down one and sets up another Ludit in humanis divina potentiarebus Divine Power often dares Dispart it self in Mans Affairs 1 Sam. 2.7 8. The Lord maketh Poor and maketh rich He bringeth low and lifteth up He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the Beggar from the Dunghil to set them among Princes and to make them inherit the Throne of Glory for the Pillars of the Earth are the Lords and he hath set the world upon them Yea our Blessed Saviour hath put this out of doubt that the Lord hath not left the World to be ruled by blind chances but that his Providence reacheth the smallest concerns Math. 10.29 Are not two Sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father 30. But the very hairs of their head are all numbred Yea these very things that seem to proceed from the course of Nature from the malice of our Enemies or our own improvidence or chance or fortune are directed by the Providence of God Now then if you firmly believe the extent of this his Providence to all persons and all Affairs you will readily commit your Way to him and wait upon him for Success 2. Call to mind what experience you have had at any time of the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God in the ordering your Affairs your manifold deliverances out of dangers relief in straits especially such of you as have lately been in great Storms at Sea and God hath in his Providence pointed out a way for your safety when many have been swallowed up in the great Deep Remember this I say and write upon this Mercy Even ever hitherto hath the Lord helped me and for the future put your trust in the living God and cast your care upon him Thus did David when he was to encounter the great Goliah he remembred how God has delivered him from the Lion and the Bear and this made him confident that God would deliver him also from the uncircumcised Philistine And therefore the Psalmist concludes Psalm 9.10 And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee 3. Labour for a strong Faith The Disciples were sensible of this defect and therefore pray the Lord that he would encrease then Faith 'T is because of the weakness of this grace that men turn aside from the Lord and walk unevenly especially where they meet with difficulties and dangers as appears by our Saviours rebuking his own Disciples for their weakness in this Grace How long shall I be with you How long shall I suffer you And will not God take care of you much more then of Sparrows O ye of little Faith Whereas if your Faith were stronger in God you would the better overcome doubts and objections that might arise in your hearts against this truth When Nature and Reason seem to be against Abrahams Obedience yet his strong Faith conquered all difficulties Rom. 4.20 He staggered not at the promise through unbelief but was strong in Faith giving glory to God Thus Moses David Daniel and the three Children in most difficult cases committed their Way to God being strong in Faith Say ye therefore O Lord increase our Faith 4. Lastly Make God your friend endeavour to gain his Favour and then you may with more confidence Commit your Way to him Men do not usually commit their Affairs to them they have no interest in or acquaintance with if wicked men that by their Rebellions against God by their frequent acts of Hostility have affronted the Almighty should in time of their great straits seek unto God or commit their way to him may not God say to them as Wisdom speaks Prov. 1.24 25 26. Because I have called ye refused I have stretched out my hands and no man regarded But ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will laugh when your fear cometh When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a Whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me Yea God may say unto them as Judg. 10.14 Go and cry unto the Gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulations Now there 's no way Sirs of making God our friend or procuring his favour but by yielding an universal sincere constant obedience to his Commandments by avoiding every known sin and walking soberly and righteously and godly before him nor no way to maintain and preserve acquaintance with him but by frequent performance of all Religious duties such as Prayer Hearing Reading Meditation of Gods Word and receiving the Sacraments Therefore to conclude let us take this method that so we may with confidence and safety good Success Commit our Souls Bodies Estates Affairs Posterity to God as our friend to whom with his blessed Son our Saviour and the Holy Ghost be praise and Glory for ever Amen ADVERTISEMENT A Catalogue of Books sold by Thomas Clark Bookseller in Kingston upon Hull Books in Folio SEbald's Scotland Illustrated Tulii Opera two Volumns Grew's Anatomy of Roots and Plants Bocca's Novels Baker's Chronicles Almahide a Romance Breut's History of France Mezerey's History of France Cave's Lives of the Fathers in two Vol. Eusebius Ecclesiastical History in English Dalton's Justice of Peace Meads Works Hammonds Works in four Vol. Parry's Surgery Marriners Magazine Phillip's New World of Words Pharmacopoeia Londinensis Pembrook's Arcadia Rushworth's Collections in three Vol. Strafford's Trial. Books in Quarto Seller's Practical Navigation Markhams Master-piece Salmon's Iatrica Wedenfield De usu Spiritus Vini Falkners 2. 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