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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09253	A sermon of the prouidence of God Preached at Paules Crosse, the 25. of October. 1607. By Iohn Pelling Bacchalaur of Diuinitie.	Pelling, John, 1561 or 2-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 19567; ESTC S114107	26,712	54

Abraham in the 22. of Genesis when Isack put out a word to him as they were going together Behold my father the fire and the wood but where is the Lambe Abraham being resolued whatsoeuer became of himselfe or his sonne that Gods commaundement must be obeyed his promises would be performed and not being able to reach by any reason to the possibilitie and secrecie of Gods worke in this he answers My sonne God will prouide as if he had said we must depend vpon Gods prouidence that must satisfie thee and me God knoweth what he hath to do he seeth what we do God will prouide for vs doing that which he commaunds Let vs go on our way and cast all our care on him for he careth for vs. So let any good man resolue that what God commands must be done a man so resoluing alwayes be sees no other but it will go hard with him sometimes But let God haue his sacrifice in thine heart resolue aboue all things in the world for his seruice and God will prouide for thee both to be able to serue him and to prouide for thee and thine in his measure in better sort it may be for the particular then thou canst nowe thinke A man may care to haue about him to leaue behind him this is prouidence but he must haue a care that his gathering be without doing wrong by violence or fraude this is obedience both must goe together where men cast all their care on God and looke that God shall care for them But men shall be tempted to the contrarie In the 4. of Matthew and in the 4. of Luke the Diuell is sayd to tempt our Sauiour Christ himselfe hauing him at an aduantage as he thought in this world in humane nature and at a time after fortie dayes fasting hungrie subiect vnto Gods prouidence he thought to make him sinne against it as either to trust wholly to meanes and those indirect make bread of stones or to trust wholly vpon Gods prouidence without meanes Cast thy selfe downe hence from this pinnacle or the end of all Gods glorie to set it at nought shewing him all the kingdomes of the world if it were but in a vision that 's all one H shewed them him in the twinckling of an eye and sayd vnto him all this power will I giue thee and the glorie of these kingdomes for that is deliuered vnto me and to whomsoeuer I will I giue it If therefore thou wilt worship me they shall be all thine Our Sauiour shakt him off at last and it was time Hence from me Satan If our Sauiour Christ had not beene euen prouidence it selfe he had hardly preuented Satans most mischieuous subtiltie Heere was euery way layde for him Had hee beene couetous heere was a world had hee beene ambitious here were all the Kingdomes of the world had hee beene tyrannous heere was all the power of those kingdomes had he beene popularly vaine-glorious here was the glory of all the power of the kingdomes of the world not shewed him only but offered him not driuing him out with lingring expectation all is offered him at once not at any hard rate but of free gift and lest there should be doubts made that Satans offer was greater then he was able to performe he saith it is all his owne deliuered him and least it should be obiected it was deliuered him to keepe and not to do away he saith it is his to giue if he will and least it should seeme restrained to some one he addeth To whomsoeuer I will I giue it Least it should be thought there were too many that would looke for it he saith They shall be all thine and least this should be condemned for prodigall follie there is a soucraigntie reserued If thou therefore wilt worship me who would stand for so smal a matter when his gaines aduancement shold be so infinit the whole world could affoord no more and who would wish to haue it all for lesse All this nay halfe this to a man not very prouident had been inough to haue made him forget all matter and ceremony of Gods glorie But by that we haue heere learned we find in the offer to be no good intended the condition impossible so much as with safetie the title Satan pretended to haue was false the deliuery neuer made to him the gift was by no right in him the shew of all was but a snaring deuise the offer of earthly kingdomes to make him loose his heauenly kingdome the offer of power on earth but to surprise him with the power of hell the offer of so great glorie but to bring vpon him the more shamefull confusion That labour of Sathans was lost he preuailed not against our Sauiour But doth he now cease is he not as subtile as strōg as stirring as tyrannous as euer he was is it not his solliciting still to haue men mistrust Gods prouidence and build onely vpon meanes be they neuer so indirect or presume vpon Gods prouidence so tempt God contemning his meanes or to forget giuing God his glorie and therein to giue Sathan a worship and thereby men to loose their part in Christ Iesu know we not that he is called in the 2. to the Corinth 4. the God of this world in the 12. of Iohn the prince of this world in the 2. Chapter of the Epistle to the Ephe the prince that ruleth in the aire the spirit that worketh in the children of diso bedience in the 12 of the Reuelation tho read dragon in the 3. of Genesis the serpent in the 13. of Matth. the enemy in the 8. of Iohn the father of lies a murtherer in the next verse after my text a roaring lyon seeking whom he may denoure doe wee not learne by all these scriptures that he is set to destroy man bodie and soule It is he that causeth schisme heresie and hypocrisie in the Church disorders and rebellions in Common wealths ambition in Princes Courts corruption in Magistrates refractarie disobedience in subiects loosenes in youth peeuish morositie in old age gredinesse and oppression in the rich vnthankfulnesse impatience and shifting in the poore needie superstition in the simple prophanenesse in the witty discord in families falshood in trust and friendship abuse of meates and drinkes pride in aparell excesse of ease and sportings impediments to well doing incitements to ill and he taketh his aduantage by fitting tempting suggestions inwardlie to euery humor and by presenting pleasing obiects outwardly to serue euery mans appetite Sathan is he whome Salomon speakes especially of in the beginning of the 23. of Prouerbs When thou sittest to eate with a Ruler consider diligently what is set before thee and put the knife to thy throate if thou bee a man giuen to thine appetite be not desirous of his dainty meates for it is a deceiueable meate Let Sathan make neuer so faire shewes his end is sinne and destruction any thing a prouident man will striue