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A86366 The voyce of Providence asserted, and the followers of God in the waies of His Providence justified in a letter sent by John Hinde to a minister in London, who denied the former and condemned the latter. Hinde, John, 17th cent. 1653 (1653) Wing H2055A; ESTC R42444 12,453 16

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mask it over with the name of Vertue I deny not but some men may do so in some particular act I justifie them not but must the followers of Providence be condemned for them Remember what Solomon saith He that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just even they both are abomination to the Lord. And whereas you take upon you to affirm what they would have done had they lived in such and such time take heed lest in judging another you condemn not your self saith our Savior to his Disciples ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of and faith the Apostle Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall And though you take upon you to pronounce them that are followers of Providences to be seekers of themselves I dare not judg others I desire to look inwards and to know my own heart which never yet told me though I have followed Providences that I sought my self and not the publick good or my self more than the publick good and I wish that the jeerers at the slighters of and the admirers of Providences prove not indeed self-seekers And although you peremptorily conclude That there can be no peace to those that follow Providences and what ever they find in the present in the end they shall find no peace to their souls I dare not beleeve it because you say it but desire your Rule for it and I shall be so charitable as to hope that there may be peace in the end even for them that slight Providences yea for them that for the present oppose and walk contrary unto Providences if the Lord take but off the vail that is before their eyes Your affirmation that God did never ordain that his Providences should be the Rule of Life if you mean the only Rule of Life I agree it and your saying that God will not have us to follow his Providences but his Precepts and your desire to see a place in all the Scriptures that directs us to follow the Providences of God brings me to the fecond part of my work which is The asserting it to be your duty as well as mine to follow God in the way of his Providences and here I shall lay down this Position That the Providential Works of God are Instructions and Cautions to lesson men they are not casual indeterminate wild childish arrows shot at random none knows from whom or at what scope or mark no all the Works of Providence they are grounded in a wise and fixed Cause and they are carried on unto most excellent ends It is true the Providential Works of God they are many times dark and mysterious and I confess likewise as to our narrow conceptions and apprehensions they seem to admit of changes and contradictions one to another and I acknowledg likewise that many persons cannot see into the intentions and meanings of God in Providential Works partly from the imbecillity of their judgments and partly from the obduration of their hearts but notwithstanding all the difficulty mysteriousness and contrariety in the works of Providence it is yet a real truth that Providential Works are Instructions and Cautions not only personal Providential Works such as are terminated in this or that particular person but also the common and publick Works of Providence which are conversant about Nations or Churches in all their Changes and turnings all of them contain Instruction and Caution And that Instructions and Cautions are not only to be taken out of the Word of God but out of the Providential Works of God I shall cleer to you First by Scriptures and then by Arguments First by Scriptures In the 2. Psalm 10. Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth In the beginning of that Psalm is reported unto us the rage of the great ones of the Earth against the Lord and against his Christ there is likewise reported the successlessness of all that rage and counsel in the 6. verse Yet have I set up my King and then the dreadful judgments of God upon all those that did so oppose Jesus Christ in his Government Thou shalt break them with a rod of Iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a Potters Vessel now from all these works of Providence doth Instruction and Caution follow in the 10 verse Be ye therefore now wise O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Kiss the Son lest he be angry In the 3. of Zephaniah 6 7. I have cut off the Nations their Towers are desolate I made their streets wast that none passeth by their Cities are destroyed so that there is no man that there is none inhabitant I said surely thou wilt fear me thou wilt receive Instruction so their dwelling shall not be cut off Howsoever I punished them but they rose early and corrupted their doings Here are strange works of Providence destruction upon destruction and here also is an expectation of God himself that his people should have received instruction should have feared him and amend their waies even upon their consideration of those judicial acts of Providence In the 5. of Daniel 18 19 20. and so on There we reade of Gods Providence in raising up Nebuchadnezzar to a Kingdom and Majesty and Glory and Honor this ascribed to the Providence of God and likewise of his being deposed from his Kingly Throne because of his exceeding pride and loftiness of heart in the 20. verse and these Providential Works did continue so long upon Nebuchadnezzar until he had taken out the right Lesson that which God meant by these Providential Works of his which is set down in the 21. verse Till he knew that the most high God ruled in the Kingdoms of men and that he appointeth them to whomsoever he will And besides this God did upbraid his son that he was no more cautioned by these his Providential Works upon his Father And thou his Son O Belshazzar hast not humbled thy heart though thou knewest all this but hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of Heaven c. and because he went on in the same sins of his Father God hath numbred thy Kingdom and finished it at the 26. verse In the 46. Psalm 10. which Psalm Luther stiles Speculum Providentiae which containeth in it First a Narration of the neer and effectual Providence of God with all his people in all their straights and distresses In the 1. verse God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble Secondly the Heroical faith of the People of God in the apprehensions of that gracious and Providential presence of God in the 2. verse We will not fear though the Earth be removed in the 3. verse Though the Waters roar and swell Thirdly Advice unto the Enemies and to the People of God the matter of which advice is three-fold First To a wise consideration of the wonderful Works of God in the 8.