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A61850	A treatise shewing the subordination of the will of man unto the will of God by that eminently godly, able, and faithfull minister of Christ, William Strong, lately of the Abbey at Westminster ; the greatest part printed with his own marginal quotations in his life time, and now published by Mr. Rowe, Master Manton, and Master Griffith.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6008; ESTC R17435	173,191	368

sed constitutos esse tantum vicarios Hospitiae etiam nusquam sanctis defutura Domini enim terra est plenitudo ejus Cum etiam clarificatur Dominus annuntiatur in fidem omnium Gentium universus orbis terrarum fit Ecclesia ejus August in Psal 24. Earth is the Lords and fulness thereof The Government belongs to him Therefore it was a gratious and wise admonition that Luther sent to Melancton who was much troubled at the present affairs of the Church Ibi quoque vis est facultas ea dirigendi gubernandi quibus providere dicitur nam in rebus invenitur non modo natura eorum sed ordo quo sibi invicem connectuntur una in aliam tendit ut eam adjuvet sive ut ab illa perficiatur utroque pacto res benè institutae sunt quoad seipsas sigillatim quaeque dictae sunt bonae generaliter quoad ordinē valdè bonae Petr. Martyr loc com Provid Rom. 8.28 Pet. Martyr Monendus est Philippus ut desinat esse rector mundi That he would leave off to govern the world for we are no more able to Rule it then we are to create it 6. With thankfulness and faith expect the good that the Lord will bring out of it If thy design had gone on be it what it will it had been but particular to have served a present turn but the Lords end is general and sutes with all the glory of his other actions in all times and in all Ages past and to come And the order of those must not be inverted nor the glory of them defaced for thee Therefore say surely all things shall work together for good for those that love the Lord. God in all this doth but carry on his own design the plot of his eternal Counsel De operibus Dei non est judicandum ante quintum actum And the rather we are with thankfulness to expect what God will bring to pass because he hath in the book a Rev. 5.1 Liber intus foris scriptus septem sigillis obsignatus est Codex satidicus seu consiliorum Dei quo scries ordo rerum gestarum ad sccundū illū gloriosū Christi adventū pertexebatur Mede of the Revelation fore-told us all the designes that he hath upon the world untill the end thereof The Lord made all things for himself Prov. 16.4 b Quamvis Deus nihil propter utilitatem propriam fecerit eo quod nullo indiget tamen omnia propter semet ipsum ut ultimū finē operatus est Cajet in loc Psal 43.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teipsum deprimes Mont. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tumultuaberis Vt quid me conturbas anima ita vertit August Mentes nostras ad gratiae absconditae intuitum procul evehit os sibi in praesentiâ sat●tur obstructum esse spem suam in ●ongum tempus extendit sibi promittit quod non apparet Calv. that is for his own ends and he doth rule all things so as may accomplish those ends As therefore in spiritual dispensations the Lord doth sometimes lift up the light of his countenance upon his people and sometimes he doth hide his face from them their hearts are cast down or as the word signifies they do cast down themselves the heart makes a noise or there is an uproar or tumult in the soul not being pleased with the present dispensations This is a mans fault that he should reprove and reason his soul out of from a principle of faith saying I shall yet praise him that is not only the Lord will turn to me again in mercy and remove the affliction and when his hand is changed towards me he will give me matter of praise as now I have matter of sorrow But there is this farther in it that though in this present dispensation I can see nothing but matter of trouble and sorrow yet I shall see God working all things so for his glory and my good which are bound up together that this which is now to me matter of grief shall be unto me in time to come Laudo Deum ut qui hactenus mecum egerit liberalissimè nunc etiam pro liberrinia potestate inculpabiliter Cocceius in loc We have so much blessing in our affliction as we can bless God for our affliction Caryl matter of prayse There are two famous instances of it in the Scripture Job 1.21 Blessed be the name of the Lord. He doth as well bless God for taking as for giving Now as we love God because he loved us first so we can never bless God for any thing but when we do apprehend that there is in it a blessing from God unto us And the Lord doth as well bless by taking as by giving therefore we should bless him in both who is blessed for evermore The other instance is that of Christ Scipsum nos secum Christus attollit ad considerandum Dei occultum judicium quod adorat praedicat ne nos illud sub examen vocare audeamus in quo filius Dei se acquiescere testatur quo Patri gratias agit Par. Matth. 11.25 I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes He doth thank God for hiding as well as revealing To let the greatest part of the world to walk in their own ways to live without God in the world to have no taste or savour of the great things that he hath wrought that Christ hath purchased and these many of them men of the greatest parts the highest place the most improved abilities yet laid aside * Liberatur pars hominū parte percunte latet discretionis ista ratio sed non latet ipsa discretio quid calumniamur justitiae occultae qui gratias debemus misericordiae manifestae Laudemus veneremur quod agitur quia tutum est nescire quod tegitur Prosper de vocat Gent. l. 1. cap. 15. as vessels in which there is no pleasure Those upon whom the Spirit of God in his common works hath bestowed so much cost a man would think it sad to consider but when the will of the Lord is manifested it is the duty of the Saints as it was of Christ not only to be silent and submit to it but even to bless God and to be thankful for such dispensations He that abounded in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or loving kindness to mankind he that sought their salvation above his life yet if the Lord will hide the things of salvation from the wisest of them he is not only well pleased but it being the will of God to glorifie his Justice in the one as well as mercy in the other he doth bless God for hiding as well as revealing 7. Take heed of standing in the way of God when he is going forth in judgement Whatsoever God hath a design to

sect 18. p. 317. Glass Rhet. sacr p. 46. Periculosum est sibi placere cui cavendum est superbire Ille autem qui super omnia est non extollit se nobis namque expedit Deum nosse non illi unde patet quod Deus suam gloriam non quaerit propter se sed propter nos Aquin. 2. 2ae q. 132. ad 1um Eo fortior adversus ●aeli minas surge cum mundus undique exarserit cogita te nihil habere de tanta m●le perdendum Sen. q. nat l. 2. c. 59. Psa 76.10 Necesse est omnes homines quantumvis feroces furentes tibi cedere si quid furoris adhuc vertet ita coercet ut erumpere non possit Muls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sym. either essential and so his glory is himself which no man hath seen nor can see or manifestative the shining forth of his excellency in the discoveries of his Attributes Now that the glory of the Lord might shine forth as the Sun though all the Stars be eclipsed he is well pleased If the Lord please to make me a footstool that he himself might be exalted into his own Throne I rejoyce in my own abasement If he will get himself a name by the shaking of the earth and heavens by the overthrows of Kingdoms as he will do by the general conflagration of the world at the last day a Saint can with rejoycing stand upon the ruines of all things and say I have lost nothing my end is secured God that made all things for himself he rules all things for himself he will provide for his own glory in the midst of all the tumuls and turnings that are below Now if he will cause light to shine out of darkness and win to himself glory by working a harmony out of the discords of the Creatures Finis solus in mediis amari debet ergo finis solum est ratio motiva voluntatis media qua talia tantum terminativa Scot. disp 3.8 Gibeuf de libertate creat l. 1. cap. 11. §. 2. in this I can and will rejoyce This is indeed the great happiness of a Saint though in his inferior ends he may miscarry yet he is always secured in reference to his utmost end Whereas all ungodly men as they many times fail in their subordinate ends so they always miss of their utmost end and therefore must needs be miserable for the rule is finis ultimus perficit tam agentem quam actionem Omnis finis secundarius ex ultimo acquirit perfectionem Keker log de fin c. 18. Therefore nothing can make a man happy but the securing of his utmost end And nothing can make a man miserable but his missing of his utmost end While a man therefore sees that to thrive and prosper God answering cardinem desiderii as Austin speaks of prayer though he fails in many other things which he in his judgement conceived necessary means conducing thereunto yet he is fully satisfied and well pleased 2. The power of godliness consists much in self resignation unto God and the happiness of the Saints is Fuerunt aliis hominibus cum Ethnicis tum Christianis loca quaedā exstructa reditus constituti ad pauperum relevandom miseriam is cui haec provincia demandata fuit dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum parvuli vel parentibus erant orbati vel publicè expositi à parentibus non agniti Greg. Tholoss Synt. juris l. 15. c. 28. Pupillus est 1. Qui omni hominum praesidio caret ope humana destituitur 2. Qui suae ignorantiae nuditatis inopiae conscius est 3. Qui se totum curae tutoris sui committit ac proinde humilis est à tutoris metu mandatis solus pendens Tarnov in Lam. 5.3 Zanch. in Hose 14.3 to be in themselves fatherless to be put out of their own protection and provision Hosea 14.3 The Church is described leaning upon her beloved Cant. 8.5 her support is out of her self there she takes up her repose Psal 10.14 The poor leaves himself with thee they commit their souls unto him in well doing 1 Peter 4.19 And they commit their wayes Psal 37.5 to him in the issues and successes of them Now a man that does commit all his own and the Churches affairs into the hands of God brings all to him and leaves them with him let him do what seems him good which way soever God casts it his soul is satisfied and he is quiet under his dispensations Grace makes a man solicitous for nothing but duty as it makes a man to fear nothing but sin It is never troubled about events but when the duty is done though the event answers not his desires he can as well quiet his soul in God as if he had had all the success in the world So doth the Lord Jesus Christ Isai 49.4 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signinificat laborem cum singulari molestia conjunctum A Septuag redditur per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uti Hab 2.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Est humor nativus in quo vigor robur corporis consistit qui à laboribus assiduis indefessis deficit exarescit I have laboured in vaine one word signifies to labour with a mans might with his utmost diligence even unto faintness and weariness and the other word doth signifie humidum radicale It is the same word that Christ useth Psal 22.15 My strength is dried up like a Postsheard and yet even in that labour the event and the success is exprest to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for confusion which he intended for preservation and for destruction which he intended for edification yet my work is with the Lord and my reward with my God † Bis glorificatur Deus si votis successus respondeat sed ubi nihil omiserint verbi ministri non est cur eos poeniteat Deo placuisse Calv. A soul by reason of this self resignation can sit down satisfied and give up himself to God as freely having done his duty as if the success had answered his desires So may a faithful Minister lie down in his grave and yield up his soul 2 Cor. 2.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys Vterque Deo gratus est odor quo electi recreantur in salutem quo reprobi enecantur Et si Deo suavis est odor nobis quoque esse debet abunde sufficere si justam reprobis damnationem afferendo Dei gloriam promoveat Calv. with as much comfort as if the people had been gained So may a gracious magistrate as if the people had been preserved and established And in this mainly doth the power of grace consist it enables a man to resign all things The state of Churches Kingdomes Families into the hand of that God unto whom he hath committed his soul and he is as truly quieted in Gods disposing of the one as the other 3.

put in him by God the Father and so we may rest assured he will be faithful unto him For he hath accomplished all things and hath not spared his own life he loved it not to death in reference to his spiritual Kingdom therefore he will be faithful also in the providential Kingdom which is given him not only as part of his Office but as a part also of his reward being set at the right hand of God and thereby being made both † Act. 2.36 Christus fuit Rex Dominus ex quo coepit esse Mediator non demum factus est post resurrectionem sed locus intelligi debet de solenni declaratione quae tum facta est cum Christus consedit ad dextram Patris Maccov Thes Theolog par 3. disp 15. Lord and Christ Secondly Ratione Dominii for he did purchase all the creatures There was not only a debt which he paid but there was a purchase which he made and that was of all the creatures * Constituit Christum haeredem omniū Heb. 1.2 Sumus nos cohaeredes Christi Rom. 8.17 Cujus haeredes sumus Dei cujus Filii Quae Dei haereditas Omnia sunt Dei omnia igitur nostra quae Dei sunt sumus enim haeredes ex asse 1 Cor. 3.21 Haereditas Christi gemina est gloriae dominii in utramque partem nos ut fratres recipit Par. in Rom. 8.17 Christus meruit nobis omnia bona supernaturalia omnia auxilia sive praevenientia sive subsequentia ac universa illa bona et si bona sint nobis extrinseca quae rationem induunt mediorum ad nostram salutem Vincent Asturicens de habit Christi grat praelect q 5. p. 259. Reinolds in Psal 110.4 p 455. for the Churches service he bought the services of some and the persons of others He bought some as sons others as servants Which may be the meaning of though it be commonly otherwise interpreted 2 Pet. 2.2 They denied the Lord that bought them In both these respects we may be sure as a purchase made by himself at a dear rate and as an office committed to him by his Father he will order all things so as they shall be to his own glory and his Fathers ends And therefore we see that all the changings and shakings in the world are attributed to Christ Heb. 12.25 26. See that ye refuse not him that speaks from Heaven Relativum ● non possumus referre nisi ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hoc est ad Chrislum quem Mosi opposuit Par. Illud non ad coelum speciatim refertur sed ad rem totam Magnas antehac fcci rerum mutationes sed restat longè major Grot. whose voyce then shook the Earth c. It was Christ that did shake the Earth in the giving of the Law And it is he that is said once more to shake not only Earth but also Heaven 3. Christ hath made his Providential Kingdom subordinate unto his spiritual Kingdom Propter Ecclesiam in mundo durat mundus alioquin uno momento conflagraret coelum terra quia mundus non est dignus uno grano tritici siquidem plenus est blasphemiis impietate Nisi oratione doctrina sustentaret Ecclesia mundum uno momento perirent omnia Luth. in Gen. 30. 34. he doth rule all things in the world onely for the good of his people It is for their sakes the world stands and therefore it is for their good and in subordination thereunto that the world is governed For first All creatures made for mans use were at first put under mans Covenant and therefore when man sinned his curse did reach unto them also Gen. 3.17 If there had not been a second Covenant revealed man had perished and all the creatures for his sake Secondly It is by the Covenant of Christ and under the Government of Christ that they are at this day established Esay 49.8 I will give thee for a Covenant of the people to establish the Earth It must have the same extent with the people to whom he is given as a Covenant but that was not to the Jews only and therefore it cannot be restrained only to the Land of Judea Psal 93.1 97.1 is commonly expounded of the Kingdom of Christ Thirdly The creatures for this cause wait to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God Rom. 8.21 The Vanity which I conceive the creature is subjected to is a Vanity of service to the lusts of Satan and Sinners and the reason why they are by God subjected thereunto is because the Lord hath a number of Sons to be carryed through the Wilderness of this World and when they are perfectly delivered from corruption then shall the creatures be delivered from the bondage of corruption Quemadmodum mundus propter hominem conditus est propter lapsum illius corruptus ita ad gloriam electorum dissolutus restituetur Gomar in Rom. 8. Fourthly The continuance of the World is only to advance the ends of the Kingdom of Christ It s attributed to the patience of God 2 Pet. 3.9 Rom. 9.22 but all the attributes of God are exercised by Christ in his Government and it is for to bring men to repentance which only belongs to the second Covenant and till the Kingdom of Christ be perfected the World is reserved by the Word of God and then shall the ancient curse be executed All things shall be dissolved the Earth and the works that are therein shall be burnt up And for this cause Ephes 11.22 it is said he is made head over all things unto the Church * In b●num Ecclesiae ●●tinet hoc I●p●r●um G●o● in loc Eph. 1 23. Rev. 21.9 Jer. 12.7 He is the head of the Church and over all things for the Churches sake The Church is his body the Lambs wife the dearly beloved of his soul therefore seeing it is for their sakes that he hath undertaken the Government of all things surely all things shall be so ordered as they shall turn to their spiritual good and advantage in the end Consider how dear the Church is unto God the Father * Joh. 16.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud Graecos ultroneum significat sc Pater ultro vos diligit etiam nemine rogante Erasm unde Nonnus vertit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he did commit it as a depositum unto Christ to keep They are therefore stiled Those whom thou hast given me | Jo. 17.11 Act. 20.28 Quam heminibus impossibile est mixtum fermentum separare à pasto tam impossibile est diabolo Christum ab Ecclesia sua separare Luth. And consider how dear the Church is to Christ who hath purchased it with his own bloud Therefore if the Father will trust him and if he be so far engaged that he shall loose all his sufferings if the Church miscarry we may

Grot. c. 2. It notes the displeasure of God against his Enemies in the Church for smoak is in Scripture irae divinae symbolum Isai 14.31 Glass Rhet. sacr p. 244. And so Mr. Brightman Docet testari Deum praesentiam suam manifestis excandescentiae argumentis c. in hostes c. 3. It notes a darkness and an obscurity in reference to the Truths and Ordinances of God arising from the Corruptions and Innovations which Antichrist brought in For though it be said to be from the glory of the Lord and from his power yet it was from God judicially only And so smoak is taken for corruption of Doctrine and Worship and thereby a darkning of Truth Rev. 9.2 And this doth appear because this smoak did hinder that the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Heaven was not opened and that men could not see the Ark of the Testament Rev. 11.19 But when the Vials are poured out and Antichrist thereby destroyed and all this smoak dispelled then there should be this cleer sight and discovery even of the most hidden things the Ark of the Testimony which was within the vail for that appears as Mr. Mede hath observed to appertain non ad initium sed eventum Phialarum And concerning this smoak the Spirit tels us 1. That it should last and continue during all the time of the Vials so that Antichrist hath brought through the just judgement of God that darkness and obscurity into the Temple and things of God and that it will never be dispelled till he be utterly overthrown for the Temple is not opened till the seventh Trumpet sound Cap. 11.19 2. The Effect of this smoak is that by reason of it no man should be able to enter into the Temple Which hath a double sense given of it but may fitly be put into one 1. That no man by reason of the darkness of the smoak should be able to see understand the mysteries of the Gospel for intrare in adytum est Dei arcana discere Psal 73.17 Grot. 2. By this smoak the evidence and glory of the mysteries of God was so darkned that none comparatively that is few should be converted to God and added to the Church For the great Harvest of the World shall be under the seventh Trumpet sc the conversion of the Jews and the fulness of the Gentiles Hic fumus non omnes electos ex Gentibus sed tantum Judaeos plenitudinem Gentium ab adytis prohibet Brightman So then during the continuance of Antichrists kingdom there shall be a darkness upon the things of God And this darkness shall hinder the discovery of the truths of God and a recovery of the souls of men And when the Servants of Christ have to their utmost labored to clear the things of God and to dispel the darkness that is upon them yet they shall never be perfectly cleered till all the Vials be fully poured out And till then the Lord will shake Churches that the things that are made in them also may be removed Now who are they that serve Gods Ends in this Either they that labor to remove them or they that labor to continue them according to the commandments and Traditions of men 2. The Lord is pouring out the Fourth Viall upon the Sun Rev. 16.8 which is the highest light in the Romish Hemisphere whether it be in Church or State In the pouring out of the Vials it is generally observed by Interpreters 1. That the subject upon which all the Vials are poured is Rome Antichristian For the Commission given is to pour out the Vials of the wrath of God upon the Earth Rev. 16.1 Earth in this Book is sometimes opposed unto Heaven and then as by Heaven is meant the true and pure Church of Christ as Rev. 4.1 12.1 so by Earth is meant the false Church an Earthly and corrupt Church under Antichrist as an Head And so it is the kingdom of Antichrist upon which all these Vials are poured out 2. That the Vials are but so many several degrees of wrath upon this false Church and so many steps to its ruine For as Rome was not built in a day so the Lord will not have it to fall in a day 3. That the Lord sets forth this Antichristian State by a Resemblance of the World as he had done before in the Trumpets in which all things as Earth Sea Rivers c. are mystically to be understood of something which resembles these 4. That the Angels which are the Instruments of vengeance in the pouring out of these do come out of the Temple sc the Reformed Churches the vengeance being that of the Temple and procured by the prayers of the Saints there and that they shall be godly men or at least generally so reputed For they are cloathed with pure and white linnen and having their breasts girded with golden girdles 5. Whatever any Vial is poured out upon it is for its ruine and upon whatsoever in this Antichristian State the Vial is poured out the Lord doth so manage things in providence that they do all work for the ruine thereof And all the Powers of the Earth shall not be able to support it under a Vial poured out These things being premised we are to observe that the Sun being the greatest light in the natural world doth resemble that which is the greatest in this mystical and Antichristian world sc the highest power and the greatest authority therein as cap. 6.12 Isai 60.20 Mat. 24.29 which some understand to be the German Empire unto whose root the ax hath now been laid for thirty years together Others observing that the Empire is but an image of the former beast set up by the Pope and that he gives life to it they say that the Pope is the greatest light in the Antichristian World Both which may stand together for Subordinata non pugnant It is Antichrist and his power that is wholy struck at in the Vials And though through all the Ten Kingdoms there are several chief lights in their own heavens for they received power as Kings the same hour with the Beast and upon all these this Vial is poured yet the main wound is given to Antichrist in their downfal For the Judgement upon them is but so far as they hold of and relate unto Rome as far as they have correspondence with Rome The whole current of the Book of the Revelation runs this way I cannot consent that God is now pouring out the fifth viall upon the Throne of the Beast Mr. Iohn Cotton upon the fifth vial which some holy and learned men affirm 1. First Because it is evident that the overthrow of Episcopacy which is conceived to be meant by the throne of the Beast was not the main thing intended in this destruction for it was overthrown but as an appendix to Monarchy as that which upheld it and so hindered the Vial upon the Sun Pontifices Romani illi quoque