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A79420	A discourse of divine providence I. In general: that there is a providence exercised by God in the world. II. In particular: how all Gods providences in the world, are in order to the good of his people. By the late learned divine Stephen Charnock, B.D. sometime fellow of New-Colledg in Oxon.; Treatise of divine providence	Charnock, Stephen, 1628-1680.; Adams, Richard, 1626?-1698.; Veel, Edward, 1632?-1708.	1684 (1684)	Wing C3708; ESTC R232630	167,002	420

after this i. e. after a reproof by a Prophet after ill success in his league after eminent care of God in his deliverance after a signal freeing him from a dangarous invasion in a miraculous way he enters into a league with Ahab's Son as wicked as his Father ver 36. he joyned himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish and after that a third Prophet is sent to reprove him and the ships were broken v. 37. Here is a remarkable opposition to checks of providence and manifest declarations of God's will as if he would be the Commander of the World instead of God Abner's action is much of the same kind who would make the house of Saul strong against David tho he knew and was satisfied that God had promised the Kingdom to David 2. In omissions of prayer One reason to prove the fools denying God's government of the world is that they call not upon the Lord. Psal 14.1 4. The Lord looked down from heaven to see if there were any that did understand and seek God 'T is certainly either a denying of God's sufficiency to help us when we rather beg of every creature than ask of God or a charging him with a want of providence as though he had thrown off all care of worldly matters 2 King 1.3 Is it not because there is not a God in Israel that you go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron Seeking to any thing else with a neglect of God is a denying the care of God over his creature Do we not in this case make our selves our own governours and Lords as though we could subsist without him or manage our own affairs without his assistance If we did really believe there was a watchful providence and an infinite powerful goodness to help us he would hear from us oftener then he doth Certainly those who never call upon him disown his government of the world and do not care whether he regards the Earth or no. They think they can do what they please without any care of God over them The restraining prayer is a casting off the fear of God Job 15.4 Thou casteth off fear why and restrainest prayer before God The neglect of prayer ariseth from a conceit of the uprofitableness of it Job 21.15 What profit should we have if we pray unto him Which conceit must be grounded upon a secret notion of God's carelesness of the world such fruit could not arise but from that bitter root But the Prophet Malachi plainly expresses it Mal. 3.14 Ye have said it is in vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances Whence did this arise but from a denial of providence upon the observation of the outward happiness of the wicked ver 15. And now we call the proud happy yea they that work wickedness are set up yea they that tempt God are even delivered Sometimes it riseth from an apprehension that God in the way of his providence dealeth unjustly with us A good Prophet utters such a sinful speech in his passion 2 King 6.33 Behold this evil is of the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer 3. When men will turn every stone to gain the favourable assistance of men in their designs and never address to God for his direction or blessing When they never desire God to move the hearts of those whose favour they court as though providence were an unuseful and unnecessary thing in the World It was the case of those Elihu speaks of Job 35.9 10. they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty but none saith where is God my maker who gives songs in the night c. none in the midst of their oppressions and cryes under them did consider either the power of God in the Creation as he was their Maker nor his providence in the government of the World as he raised up men from low estates and gave matter of cheerfulness even in a time of darkness This was the charge God by his Prophet brought against Asa 2 Chron. 16.7 before the text Thou hast relyed on the King of Syria and not relyed on the Lord thy God herein thou hast done foolishly v. 9. where he sets a relyance on the Creature and a relyance on God in direct opposition In several cases men do thus deny and put a contempt on God as the governour of the World when we will cast about to find out some creature resuge rather than have recourse to God for any supply of our necessities Doth not he slight his fathers care that will not seek to him in his distress This was Asa's Sin 2 Chron. 16.12 in his disease he sought not to the Lord but to the Physicians The Jews think that one reason why Joseph continued two years in prison was his confiding too much upon the Butler's remembrance of him and interest for his deliverance which they ground upon the request he makes to him Gen. 40.14 but think on me when it shall be well with thee and shew kindness to me and make mention of me unto Pharaoh and bring me out of this house I must confess the expressions are very urgent being so often repeated and seems to carry a greater considence at present in the arm of flesh than in God We do not read that Joseph prayed so earnestly to God though no doubt but being a good man he did Methinks the setting down his request with that repetition in the Scripture seems to intimate a probability of the Jews conceit Or also when we do seek to him but it is out of a general belief of his providence and sufficiency not out of an actuated consideration or when we seek to him with colder affections than we seek to Creatures as if we did half despair of his ability or will to help us as when a man thinks to get learning by the sagacity of his own wit his indefatigable industry and never desires with any ardent affection the blessing of God upon his endeavours When we lean to our own Wisdom we distrust the providence of God Pro. 3.5 trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding Trust in God and leaning to our own wisdom are opposed to one another as inconsistent or when a man hath some great concern suppose a suit at law to think to carry his cause by the favour of friends the help of his money the eloquence of his advocate and never interests God in his business This is not to acknowledge God in thy wayes which is the command Pro. 6. in all thy waies acknowledge him as though our works were not in the hand of God Eccles 9.1 This is to take them out of God's hand and put them into the hands of men To trust in our wealth it is to make God a dead and a stupid God and disown his providence in the bestowing it upon us The Apostle seems to intimate this in the opposition

a mighty one of an Angel As the Soul sends forth a multitude of Spirits swiftly into the nerves for the supply of the lowest member which run thither upon the least motion So do the Angels which are Gods Ministers run at the appointment of God and are employed in all the wheels of providence The Spirit of the living Creatures was in the wheels of providence * Ezek. 1.20 1. The highest orders among them are not exempted from being officers for the Church Though they are called Gods Angels in respect of their immediate attendance on God yet they are called mans Angels in respect of the service they do for them Matth. 18.10 Their angels do alwaies behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven They are not the ordinary sort of Angels only which attend upon those little ones upon young converts humble Souls those little ones in the Kingdom of Heaven but they are the highest Courtiers there such as see the face of God and stand before him A King hath many Servants but not every Servant only the chief of the Nobility stand before him so they are not Angels of the meanest order and rank in Heaven that are ordered to attend the lowest Christian The Apostle makes no doubt of this Heb. 1.14 are they not all ministring Spirits there is no question but they are sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of Salvation He asserts confidently that not one of them is blotted out of the List for this employment Are they not all none are exempted from the service of God so none are exempted from the end of that service which is the good of Believers They are Gods servants but for the Churches good for them which shall be heirs are they not all it is irrational to deny it And they are sent forth every one of them hath his commission sign'd by God for this purpose and not only for the Church in general but for every member in particular for the heirs of salvation And not only for them which are already called and enrolled but for them who shall be called whose names are written in the book of Gods election who shall be heirs And they are not only faintly sent as if they might go if they will but they have a strict charge to look after them well not in one or two of their works or ways but in all Psal 91.11 He shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes to bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone they are to use all their strength to this purpose to bear them up in their hands As the elder Children are appointed by Parents to have a care of the younger in their works and motions and to use both their wisdom and strength for them The Angels are a guard to secure them here and at last to convey them to their fathers house Luk. 16.22 When a man is in favour with a Prince all the Courtiers will be observant of him 2. Armies of them are employed upon this occasion There are great multidudes of them as Bildad speaks Job 25.3 Is there any number of his armies that is of his Angels when Joel speaks of the heathens gathering together thither saith he Lord cause thy mighty ones to come down * Joel 3.11 A whole squadron of them shall attend upon a gracious man according to the circumstances he is involved in Gen. 32. 1 2. And Jacob went on his way and the Angels of God met him and when Jacob saw them he said this is Gods host Regiments of Angels enough to make up an Army for so Jacob terms them me thim upon the way to secure him from his Brother Esau and to encourage him in his journey So some interpret 2 Sam. 5.24 the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees The sign of the marching of a Brigade of Angels with the Lord in the head of them for the discomfiture of David's enemies then shall the Lord go out before thee to smite the host of the philistins And this they do not of their own heads but by the pleasure of God not only by a bare will but a delight Psal 103.21 Bless the Lord allye his hosts ye ministers of his that do his pleasure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his choicest pleasure he delights to see this his Militia upon action 3. Christ hath the government of them to this end for his Church Angels are all put in subjection to him Heb. 2.7 8. In that he put all in subjection under him he left nothing that is not put under him He is exalted above all principality and power God hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church Eph. 1.21 22. all things even principalities and powers are put under his feet to be commissioned and influenced by him for the good of his Church * Ezek. 1.12 Whither the Spirit was to go they went they are ordered by the Spirit of Christ to this purpose Zech. 1.10 Those are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth They are his faithful messengers dispatcht into the World by him as scouts and spies to take notice of the state of the World and to give him intelligence and an exact account of affairs and v. 11. they give an account to Christ Christ is the Head and General of them Col. 2.10 They are his Host alwaies in a warlike posture with Christ in the Head of them Zech. 1.8 upon their Horses which notes readiness to move and speed in motion And as an Host they are said to pitch their tents round about them that fear him and are in a continual conflict with the evil Angels to prevent their designs in the behalf of Christ whom they acknowledge as their head by their worship of him * Heb. 1.6 Christ orders them to take care to seal his Servants in the foreheads that they may be preserved in the storms which shall happen in the World at the time of the ruine of the Romish Papacy Revel 7.2 3. An Angel comes that had the seal of the living God commission of God saying hurt not the earth nor the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the Servants of our God in the foreheads 4. The great actions which have been done in the World or shall be done for the Church are performed by them Angels were sent as expresses by God with his great decrees concerning the revolutions of times * Dan. 7.16 Dan. 8.16 And I heard a mans voice which called and said Gabriel make this man to understand the vision An Angel was sent to Daniel with the message of a Redeemer and the clearest prophecy of Christ which the Jews are not able to answer to this day which they most startle at Part of the discovery of the Revelation to John which is as a standing

preservation of it all things must necessarily concur by the wise disposal of affairs Therefore since they are travelling to be where their head is he having the government of the world will make all things contribute assistance to them in their journey that Christ may have that compleatness of glory which God intends him He expresly tells his Father John 17.10 that he is glorifyed in his people * John 17.10 And I am glorifyed in them And at the sound of the seventh Trumpet the Kingdoms of this world are to become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever * Revel 11.15 Now since all the motions in the world are that the Kingdoms of the world may become the Kingdoms of his Christ pecenliarly his as a being anointed King by hm It must needs be that all things must be subservient one time or other to this end was rein the good of his people doth consist otherwise they would not bless God so highly for it as they do* Revel 11.17 We give thee thanks O Lord God almighty because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned And where there is a resistance of this glory of Christ it is a natural effect of that decree whereby Christ is constituted King that the resisters should be broken in pieces and dasht like a Potters vessel Psal 2.6 9. and the issue of all is the blessedness of those that put their trust in him v. 12. The care that God hath of Christ and the Church in the types of them seems to be equal The Ark which was a type of Christ and the Table of shew-bread a figure of the Church had three coverings whereas all the rest of the Vessels c. belonging to the cerimonial part had but two * Numb 4.5 6 7 8. On the Ark there was the vail and covering of badgers skins and a covering of blew On the Table of shew-bread there was a cloth of Blew a cloth of Scarlet and a covering of badgers skins God orders as much for the security of the Church as for the security of Christ therefore the same things that tend to the glorifying of Christ shall tend to the advantage of the Church 2. God has given the power of the providential administration of things to Christ to this very end for the good of the Church If God had constituted him Head over all things to the Church can there be any doubt but that he will manage the Government for that which is the principal end of his Government which he hath shed his Blood for and which is chiefly intended by God who appointed him 1. All power of government is given to Christ Matth. 11.27 All things are delivered to me of my Father And the Father judges no man but hath committed all judgment to the son Joh. 5.22 that is the whole Government and Administration of Affairs 'T is not to be understood of the last Judgment for then it would be a limitation of that word all not that the Father lays aside all care of things but as the Father discovers himself only in him so he governs things only by him All this power was committed to him upon his interposition after the Fall of Man He was made Lord and Christ that is anointed by God to the Government of the World For upon the Fall God as a Rector had overturned all Man could not with any Comfort have treated with the Father had not Christ stept in and pleaded for the Creation whereupon God commits all judgment to the Son that he might temper it It was by Christ as a covenanting Mediator that the Earth was established * Isa 49.8 He had this Government Anciently and it was confirmed to him upon his death Heb. 1.3 Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power Calvin understands the first word not only of the Deity of Christ but of the discovery the Father made of himself in and through him as Mediator The latter words some understand both of his Providential and Mediatory Kingdom by the word of his power this say some is referred to the Father whose image Christ is as ating by a delegated Authority and Commission from his Father others to Christ as that Christ upholds or bears up all things by his own powerful word Calvin thinks both may be taken but embraceth the second as being more generally received I may offer whether it may not be meant also of the powerful interposit ion of Christ as Mediator whose interest in God was so great that he kept up the World by his powerful Intercession when all was forfeited and God put it upon that interposition into his hands as heir of all things who having a hand with him in Creation understood both the Rights of God and the Duty of the Creature upon the condition of purging sin by his Death which he did and thereupon went to Heaven to take Possession of the Government at the right hand of God sat down took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high as due to him by Covenant and Articles agreed on between them I know nothing at present against such an interpretation of the words but I will not contend about it All this honour was confirm'd unto him upon his Death For having perform'd the Condition requisite on his part God deputes him and intrusts him with the Government of things that he might order all things so as to see the full Travel of his Soul 2. All this power was intended by God for this End the good of the Church As God appointed Christ a Priest for his Church to sacrifice for them a Prophet to teach them so the other Office of King is conferred upon him for the same end the advantage of the Church God acquaints us of this End aimed at by him in the Promise of the Government to him Jer. 33.15 16. In those dayes and at that time will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up to David and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land what is the end In those dayes shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely He should execute Judgment that is Administer the Government for the salvation of Judah and security of Jerusalem It was his Office both to build the Temple and to bear the Glory and to Rule upon his Throne to be a Priest upon his Throne to Rule as King and Priest Zech. 6.12 13. He shall build the temple of the Lord even he shall build the temple of the Lord. The erecting a Church is the sole work of Christ by Gods appointment And he was to bear up the Glory of it He should rule to this End for the Counsel of peace shall be between them both If by both be meant the Lord and the Man whose name is the Branch it then chiefly