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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97126	The good-vvill of Him that dwelt in the bush: or, The extraordinary happinesse of living under an extraordinary providence. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, on Tuesday, Iuly 22. 1645. At their publike thanksgiving for the good successe given to the Parliaments forces, under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax in the west. /	Ward, John, d. 1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing W774; Thomason E293_16; ESTC R200163	33,640	44

which fled from under their jurisdiction and how nigh we were brought to Rome ere we were aware of it When these things were thus were we able to have rescued our selves from under the hands of those who dealt cunningly with us and evil intreated us and laid those sore burdens upon us Were we worthy that the Lord should look upon our afflictions and send to deliver us Did we so much as understand the drift and depth of those designes then on foot the methods the arts and wiles of those powers and spirituall wickednesses in high places with whom we then wrestled Were we duly sensible of the dangers wherein we were of the hazards which we ranne I beseech you let it not be forgotten how unexpctedly how seasonably how marvellously how graciously the God of our mercies prevented us and visited us to redeem us And as he whose Name is Wonderfull did wonderfully in the first turning of the wheel in like manner he hath wrought gloriously for his Names sake in the whole carriage and advancing of his great worke of preservation and deliverance When God began to worke his signes among us did we understand that he meant to give us such deliverance as this did we imagine those things possible which our eyes have been made to see When the woman took up the stool to cast at the head of the Dean when the Service-book was read at Edenborough did we dream that by that means as was hinted in the morning all the Bishops in the three Kingdomes should be set besides the cushion When our Brethren the Scots began to gather together to consult about and petition against the invading of their priviledges when they were necessitated to take up armes for their just defence did those Incendiaries who blew that coal intend to gather the people of these Kingdomes to the battell of the Lord against Antichrist and his Popish Priests and when there was an appearance of warre was it probable that that little cloud in the North should have risen against the winde and spread so farre and the storme fallen so heavily upon that party who first provoked them to it In the beginning of this Parliament when the manifold oppressions and grievances of the Church and Kingdome began to be represented by petitions who did imagine there had been such a blessing in that cluster that that despised day of small things should have been prolonged and prospered into such a probability of reformation In the beginning of this summer at the time when Kings go forth to battel what likelihood was there of so many daies of rejoycing in so short a space that the daies of publike thanksgiving should strive in number with the daies of solemne humiliation Let us draw yet a little neerer to behold this great sight and see if names and places and such like circumstances being changed the late and present waies of our God amongst us be not like to those which Moses looks at in this Prophecie Or if I may not take the liberty because the time is short to compare particulars yet give me leave to offer these remarkable things to your observation In the generall it must be acknowledged that the Lord hath his way in the storme and his fury is poured out like fire but withall this cannot be denied nay it ought to be confessed to the praise of God that even all that cloud hath been light to us-ward and darkenesse to our enemies we have found by the good hand of God upon us a very great moderation of judgements a marvellous mixture of mercies and therein wide difference put between us and them Hath he smitten us as he smote those that smote us or are we slaine according to the slaughter of them that are slain by us They have been many times lift up for their greater fall but we have been alwaies remembred in our low estate and redeemed from the hand of our enemies we have been at our wits end by the difficulty and perplexity of affairs the Lord hath made the storme a calme and brought us out into unexpected enlargement when we have stood on the brinke and precipice of ruin he hath sundry times snatched us off and set us in more safe estate what we have managed weakly and what they have attempted confidently and watchfully God hath over-ruled for great good and advantage to us and while they are left to themselves to abuse the providences of God to the exciting and inflaming of their own animosity the enraging of their spirits and the hardening of their hearts our God whose dwelling is amongst us in good will offers more grace to us because he hath compassion on his people he hath caused the trumpet to be blown to the solemne assembly and he sendeth his messengers to preach submission and conversion to God repentance and amendment of life and we hope that the names are more then a few that learn righteousnesse and mourn in Sion and wait upon God in the way of his judgements True it is there is no such Prophet amongst us to whom God speaks face to face as he did to Moses that can reveal the secrets of Gods counsel concerning the circumstances of the manner and end of this unnaturall warre but great is the company of Preachers that interpret the revealed will of God concerning our duty and the waies of our salvation which is more necessary and more profitable for us to know neither is there any one singular person that is such an eminent mediatour as Moses was that can fall down before the Lord 40 daies and 40 nights together and neither eat bread or drinke water because of all the sins we sin in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger yet doubtlesse there be many that are afraid of the anger and hot displeasure of the Lord and the spirit of grace and supplication hath been poured upon many and there be many that steppe daily into the gappe and wrestle with God and prevaile The power and the wisedome of God who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working hath been very glorious in a world of providences in favour of us every where we may behold with open face the glory of the Lord in a world of wonders oh Lord how manifold are thy works in good will thou hast done them all we may say with amazement what hath God wrought and what Nation is there who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for or at any time since the Bible was written hath God assayed to preserve and prepare a people for himselfe by temptations by signes and by wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an stretched-out arme and by great terrours as the Lord our God hath done for us in our own land before our eyes The compassions of God fail not they are new every morning great is his