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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93347	Gods unchangeableness: or Gods continued providence, in preserving, governing, ordering and disposing of all creatures, men, actions, counsels and things, as at the beginning of the world, so to the end of the world, for ever, according to the counsel of his own will. From whence is gatherd six necessary inferences very applicable to the changes, alterations and vicissitude of these our present times. Wherein is clearly demonstrated and proved, that Oliver Cromwell is by the providence of God, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. to whom the people owe obedience, as to him whom God hath set over them. Unto which is added, the causes of discontent, repining and murmurings of men: also, some serious advertisements, and seasonable admonitions to the discontented, and reprehensions to all impetuous, arrogant murmurers. Together with answers to some cheif objections made against the Lord Protector and his present government, endeavouring (if possible) satisfaction to all men. / Therefore written and published for publicke good, by George Smith, Gent.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1655 (1655)	Wing S4036; Thomason E824_4; ESTC R207687	84,417	65

publike day of Humiliation for emergent causes named which God will doubtlesse accept of as of late he did by a signet of his favour when we by his Highnesse order sought God for Rain in our great necessity Although some who stile themselves Saints not only refused to joyn in our Petitions but used unchristian speeches to Gods dishonour and contempt of the duty And truly it was sad to observe the general neglect of our late Solemn Fast that only Shops should be shut and places for recreation full as I was informed but Churches shut or empty in respect of the numbers of Inhabitants many omitting the duty out of carnal respects and many out of will because it was commanded and because the end crossed their self-interests I do affirm that it is no lesse a duty in the Christian Magistrate to command the duties and performance of duties for the true worship of God then it was duty to the Magistrate under the Law but the Magistrate under the Law did command such duties as Asa Jehosaphat Jehojada Hezckiah and others We know that Asa did not only command Reformation of Gods worship bur annexed to his command a great punishment i And Ezra did the like k And the Apostle Paul diminisheth nothing of the Magistrates Authority under the Gospel nor is there any Scripture that offers the least doubt of that their authority but rather makes it greater Heb. 10. 28. therefore I say that the neglect or rather contempt of such duties and the suffering of it uncontrolled by the Magistrate will in stead of a blessing bring a curse as is threatned by the Prophet Jer 48. 10. but the due observance of the holy and spiritual worship of God held forth by the Magistrate and practised by the Minister and People is the chief means to divert the judgements we fear and procure the blessings we want I come now to the sixth and last Inference and that is That when God hath effected and done his will in any thing visibly made known to us by the work of providenee we are not to murmure nor repine though it be in any thing contrary to our expectation or desire or though it be to our great affliction but to submit to it willingly only by praier to seek unto God and patiently wait his time and means for deliverance This hath been the practice of the godly in all ages k Thus holy David did while his childe was yet alive he used all lawful means for the life of it But when God had done his will and the childe was dead he left off to mourn and murmured not but patiently bear the affliction Thus did just and righteous Job he feared his Sons might sinne and procure Gods displeasure he therefore used the right means to prevent it m but when Providence had brought that to passe which he feared and God had visibly manifested his pleasure Job was patient he murmured not neither against providence nor instruments but blessed the Name of the Lord n The Church under her great affliction murmured not they acknowledged Gods hand and complained of their sins the cause of all o and waited patiently for their deliverance It is good saith the Prophet that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord p Surely saith Job it is meet to be said unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend any more q And the Apostle exhorts that we be followers of them that by faith and patience inherit the promise r But to murmure against providence is wickednesse and the effects of murmuring and discontents is very dangerous Dangerous to a mans self and bringeth others into dangers too You know what became of the murmuring Israelites in the wildernesse from time to time as is recorded in the Books of Exodus and Numbers Consider the case of murmuring Korah and all his murmuring company the earth opened and swallowed them up ſ This was the immediate hand of God not Moses nor Aaron yet such was the rebellious hearts of the people that the next day they all fall to murmuring against Moses and against Aaron and accused them that they had killed tho Lords people t And for this there died presently of them fourteen thousand and seven hundred by a sudden plague u You know that for this sin of murmuring all the people that came out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward were excluded from the promise except Caleb and Ioshua w Hence the Apostle exhorts us Christians not to tempt God as they tempted him nor to murmure as they murmured and were destroied for saith he All these things happened unto them for our examples x God is the same to us that he was to them only he hath divers dispensations of his judgements he is an unchangeable God for evert If we sin like them that went before us we shall be as greatly punished as they were yea greater Though God do not so usually strike men suddenly for sin as formerly yet there is greater wrath to come Let us a little consider the cause of mens murmuring and see if it do not arise from a carnal heart a carnal man propounds ends to himself as the Merchants St Iames speaks of that say they will go to such a City or such a Countrey and buy and sell and get gain but say not if God will so it is with men that seek their own ends in any thing they propound this or that but God is not in their thoughts they say no● if God will but we will do this or that thing or would have this or that done c. It may be nay it is common with these men that they will have the Name of God in their mouths but as the Psalmist speaks God is not in all their thoughts And therefore when their wils and designs are crossed they are angry and repine against God and men Thus the people of Israel did in the wildernesse they met with crosse providences which they looked not for and they could not bear it but cry out against Moses saying because there were no graves in Egypt Hast thou brought us to die in the wildernesse y and again wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt to kill us in the wildernesse our children and our cattel z Thus at this day we have seen many strange Providences such as we looked not for and men have had many and diverse designs aims and ends but meet with crosse Providences which they cannot bear nay resolve they will not bear they complain and cry out against this and that thing but specially they murmure against God and own not his providence in governing the world Therefore they also murmure at the thing done and against the Instruments doing it this is I say against God himself for he alone orders every thing and every Action as is proved in the beginning of this

distributed to every man through one man is oppression Every mans waies are right in his own eyes o as the holy Ghost is pleased to express And they would do as when there was no King in Israel but every one did what was right in his own eyes p to adulterate Religion abuse the Ministers of the Gospel teach for doctrines the precepts of men commit adultery blasphemy and kill or what not as in the time of vacancy of Judges in Israel that there was no publike Magistrate in the Land to put them to shame in any thing q Was not England almost brought to this condition And is it not the thing so much laboured for at this day and that under the specious pretence of a Reformation such a Reformation as ascendeth out of the smoak that came out of the pit r blessed be our Jehovah that hath thus far holpen us against such designs that they have been prevented by his good providence And let the Instrument be blessed by Iehovah who hath been used by his hand to disappoint their purposes of whom I hope and expect much better things then from those Reformers or then we have seen in our Age for due administration of justice and establishment of Religion and Laws that Religion may be advanced held forth to the people by a holy discipline according to the Word of God which is the will of Christ not the fancies of men for God is a God of order and not of confusion He is not the Authour of confusion but of peace in all the Churches of the Saints ſ And it was the Apostles joy in beholding their order and stedfastnesse of faith in Christ t And for this cause as himself saith he left Titus at Crete that he should set things in order that was wanting and ordain Elders in every City u Order by a discipline of worship in the purity of Ordinances is the way to that Reformation the Lord Jehovah looketh for and the establishment and due execution of good and just Laws that every man may enjoy his own propriety and that justice may be distributed to every man without favour or revenge impartially and that oppressors may be punished severely according to their offence This is the thing God looks for at the hand and by the place to which he hath called the Lord Protector And this I beleeve he intendeth and will do if murmurers will have but patience If he do it not he dissembleth with God and God will judge him who only knows the secrets of all hearts For Judgement belongs unto God alone he hath not given that unto men but he hath commanded us not to judge but our selves Judge not that ye be not judged w for the Lord is a God of Judgement blessed are they that wait upon him x The Prophet Malachy sharply reproveth the Jews in a case like ours at this day Ye have wearied the Lord with your words yet ye say wherein have we wearied him when ye say every one that doth evil is good in the sight of the Lord y that is you make acclamations against God and blasphemous clamours because you have not forthwith what ye desire and in their own way as if he were a favourer of evil doers therefore ye cry out Where is the God of judgement as a violent affirmative that there was no such just God thus murmurers weary God Shall not God search out this for he knoweth the secrets of the heart z Why then do we judge and condemn the man that hath done us good and no harm and why do we murmure against God and repine at providence The Lord in mercy open the eyes of all his people and bring their hearts suitable to himself that they may willingly submit their wils to the will of God You know we had a long time of peace and knew not the bitternesse of war and we had a happy beginning of Reformation in the daies of Q. Elizabeth but in stead of going forward we went backward and fell into the hands of oppressors and persecutors of Gospel-Truths which was the procurement of war a sore punishment we expected relief from men but were more oppressed they neither cared to ease us nor pitied out condition our Religion grew to be mixed with multitudes of new devices and all old heresies cried down by the primitive Church Under these calamities we groaned and cried to God yea many of Gods people sought him by praier and fasting private and publike for deliverance And that God would give us Judges as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning a that we might be called the righteous and faithfull Nation yet we will not give God leave to do it for us though we see Providence working it we will not be satisfied except God bring his will to our will nay to our wils except God will give us the thing we ask in our own way and by the means we our selves prescribe and set down we will not own it any other way We ascribe too much to our selves therefore we prescribe unto God things times men and means God by providence hath given us again a free Parliament freely chosen by the people or it is their own fault if some of the Members that the people have chosen be discontented and are of any of those sorts of murmurers before spoken of so as they refuse to act for the good of the Commonwealth it is their fault and I fear their sin It is not his Highnesses fault nor the peoples but it will be some grief to the refusers when they shall see the work done without them or that it should miscarry by their neglect they knowing that at this day the pillar and ground of truth is shaken And the two great and standing Ordinances of God strongly assaulted by many of that kinde of temper that Korah and his company was That rose up against the office of Moses and the office of Aaron who would have no Magistrate but themselves nor no Ministry but of themselves The office of Magistracy was in Moses the office of the Ministry wa● in Aaron They are two distinct Offices and not promiscuously to be mixed nor to be severed from a Christian Commonwealth Gods word is the rule to both Moses and Aaron were Brethren and of one Tribe signifying a propinquity in their Offices they go together and are defence and instruction one to the other Now against these Offices Korah and 250 Princes of the people men of renown rise up and say Moses and Aaron wherefore lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord you take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation is holy even every of them b Moses in this case makes his appeal to God the murmurers did the like as some among us too presumptuously have done God decides the controversie between them and saith he will cause their murmurings to cease God gave

cloathed in a ves●ure dipt in bloud And as in Psa. 58. 10. The Saints shall wash their feet in the bloud of the wicked and in Psa. 68. 23. That thy foot may be dipped in the bloud of thine enemies c. The meaning of these places is plain to be no more but the suddain destruction which the Lord Jehovah should bring upon the wicked such as are enemies to the Church as in the words going before in Psa. 58. 8 9. As a Snail that melteth they shall passe away and before the pots can feel the thorns he shall take them away as with a whirlwinde He shall who is that he It is God Jehovah he shall do it not the Saints the Lord Christ to whom all power and dominion is given and was given to him from the time of his Incarnation as he himself witnesseth Mat. 28. 18. All power is given to me c. he doth not say It shall be given me but in the present tense It is given unto me Hence is that of Isa. 63. 3. I have tr●d the wi●epresse alone and of the people our Saints there was none with me for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury See Rev 14. 20. and Rev. 19 17 18. by which it is evident that the destruction of Christs Enemies shall not be by the sword in the hand of the Saints but by some miraculous way from heaven like that expressed in Rev. 20. 9. Fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them It is doubtlesse true that Satan is let loose out of prison and God useth him instrumentally to deceive the Nations we see it and the Lord Jehovah doth cause them by Satans deceits to destroy and consume one another but the great destruction must come by some great and miraculous way from the hand of God and thus Christ is said to be King of Nations and he is King of Saints in a peculiar manner he is the protector and safe preserver of the Saints on earth and he ruleth in them spiritually notwithstanding M. Spittlehouse be of an erring opinion as he expresseth in a late Paper published in print I shall esteem and strive to imitate him in any vertue but I must dissent from his errours Of this I have spoken in our fifth Inference to which I referre the Reader for further satisfaction We that make Scripture our rule say and shall ever aver that the Kingdom of Christ is set up by praier and that is the power of the Spirit of God within us he shall rule in the hearts of the Saints and by his Kingly power shall and will subdue our lusts or fantasies and self-waies mortifie the flesh and the affections thereof that we may be fit Temples for him to dwell in that he alone may rule and reign there l Others there be that will have none to rule over them but Caesar Caesar must be their King they will neither have Christ nor his vicegerent to be their King but they say stoutly as the unbeleeving Jews Away with him away with him we have no King but Caesar m Such are the great Disciples of M. Evans who hath a notable Art to abuse Texts of Scripture Many other such Babel practices we have to work confusion in a poor shattered Common-wealth but God in his appointed time will prove our buildings and what they are whether we have built upon the sands or upon the rock n I shall at this time omit to numerate mens self-waies and shall with the Apostle Paul give this caution to all he saith of himself according to the grace of God which was given to him as a wise Master Builder he had laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon but let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon for the fire shall try every mans building what it is 1 Cor. 3. 10 13. Let not any that professe to be Christians contend for victory but seek verity for strife and division are fleshly and carnal as the Apostle expresseth in the Chapter last mentioned The Lord Christ exhorts us to peace the Apostles all exhort to peace love and concord and Saint Paul tels us If we bite and devour one another we shall be consumed one of another o And the Lord Christ by a convincing Argument saith that If a Nation be divided against it self it cannot stand p Consider how great things God hath done for you q therefore serve the Lord with all your heart But if you will murmure against God and do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your King these are the words of Samuel to the people when they bad sinned in asking a King not simply in asking a King but violently desiring it before Gods time came that he would give them a King for David was from the beginning ordained to be their King although they had not asked a King as is evident Gen. 49. 10. and Kings are Gods Lieutenants on earth It is no lesse sinful to refuse a King when God gives him then it was sinful to ask a King before Gods time was come wherein he would give them a King Let not this be Englands sin it will not be unpunished we have seen the work of Providence all along in setting up our Lord Protector all the plottings and devices and counsels of men could never have effected such a thing in such a way it is evident that God hath done it we have seen the working of the wheels and the living creatures by the wheels spoken of by the Prophet Ezechiel in Chap. 1. 15 16 17. c. and in Chap. 10. 13. c. And a wheel in the middle of a wheel r It is hard to kick against pricks and it is a dangerous thing to provoke providence I have seen a seditious Paper sent abroad by some that stile themselves sober Christians intitled Some Memento's to the Army I hope they are as they stile themselves But I am sure Christians have neither precept nor example of such practice to stir up rebellion There was one Sheba the son of Bichri a very seditious man upon Scripture record a Son of Belial of whom it is said He blew a Trumpet and said We have no part in David every man to his Tent O Israel ſ Bichri prepared as he intended for a new war against David What his reward was from the hand of a just God you shall see 2 Sam. 20. 22. he lost his head by the hands and consent of his associats Scatter thou the people saith the Psalmist that delight in war t You may know that warre is every where in Scripture threatned as one of Gods sorest judgements and peace is promised as a singular mercy to a Nation it was so to the Nation of the Jews and is especially promised to the Church under the Reign of Christ Kingdom when they shall beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning books