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A12190	The returning backslider, or, A commentarie upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy of the prophet Hosea Wherein is shewed the large extent of Gods free mercy, even unto the most miserable forlorne and wretched sinners that may be, upon their humiliation and repentance. Preached by that learned and judicious divine, Dr. Sibbs, late preacher to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by his owne permission before his death.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22500; ESTC S117394	275,564	592

is because Prayer sets God on worke Hos 2.21 22. and God who is able and willing to go through with his works sets all the creatures on worke 1 King 18.45 As we heard of Eliah when hee prayed for raine the creatures were set a worke to effect it Object Where it may be Objected O but raine might come to late in that hot Countrie where all the Rootes and Herbes might bee withered and dried up in three yeares space Yet all was well againe Answ the land brought forth her increase as formerly for faithfull Prayer never comes too late because God can never come too late if our prayers come to him 2 Chron. 15.2 we shall find him come to us Iehoshaphat we read was in great distresse when three Kings came against him yet when hee went to God by unfained and hearty fasting and prayer God heard him fought for him and destroyed all his enemies The Scripture sheweth also how after Hezekiahs Prayer 2 Chron. 19.6 14. against Senacheribs Blasphemies and threatnings the Lord sent forth his Angell and destroyed in one night of them 2 King 19.20.35 a hundred fourescore and five thousand of the Assyrians This is first for Reproofe of those who in Vse 1 their distresses set their wit wealth friends and all a worke but never set God a worke as Hezekiah did in Senacheribs case The first time hee turned him off to his cost with enduring a heavie taxation 2 King 18.14 and yet was never a whit the better for it for Senacherib came shortly after and besieged Hierusalem untill Hezekiah had humbled himselfe and prayed and then God chased all away and destroied them he had better have done so at first and so have saved his monie and paines too 2 Chron. 14.11 The like weakenesse we have a proofe of in Asa who when a greater Armie came against him of ten hundred thousand men laid about him Prayed and Trusted in God and so was delivered with the destruction of his enemies yet in a lesser danger 2 Chron. 16.2 against Baasha King of Israel distrusted God and sent out the Treasures of the house of God and out of his owne house unto Benhadad King of Syria to have helpe of him by a diverting warre against Baasha King of Israel which his plot though it prospered yet was hee reproved by the Prophet Hanani 2 Chron. 16.7 and warres thenceforth denounced against him This Asa notwithstanding this experiment afterwards sought unto the Phisitian before hee sought unto God Secondly This blameth that barrennesse and Vse 2 want of words to go unto God which for want of hearts wee often find in our selves It were a strange thing to see a wife have have words enough for her maids and servants and yet not to bee able to speake to her husband Wee all professe to bee the Spouse of Christ what a strange thing then is it to bee full when wee speake to men yet be so emptie and want words to speake to him A begger wee know wants no words nay he aboundeth with variety of expressions and what makes him thus fruitfull in words What makes a bold begger his necessity and in part his hope of obtaining These two make beggers so earnest So would it be with us if we found sufficiently our great need of Christ and therewith had hope it would embolden us so to go to God in Christ that we should not want words but wee want this hope and the feeling of our necessities which makes us so barren in prayer Prepare thy selfe therfore to prayer by getting unto thee a true sense of thy need acquaintance with God and hope to obtaine and it will make thee fervent in prayer and copious in thy requests Vse 3 Thirdly this is for Consolation though one should want all other meanes yet whatsoever their misery be if they can take words and can pray well Isa 38.3 they shall speed well If the misery be for sin confesse it and ask pardon for it and they shall have it and be cleansed from all unrighteousnesse 1 John 1.9 Words fetch the comfort to us though it be the blood of Christ onely that hath paid the debt Isa 53.5 The end of the first Sermon THE SECOND SERMON Hos. 14.2 Take with you words and turne to the Lord say unto him take away all iniquity and receive us gratiously so will we render the Calves of our lips AS wee lost our selves in the first Adam so the mercie of God in the Covenant of Grace found out a way to restore us againe by the second Adam Jesus Christ in whom all the Promises are yea and Amen yesterday and to day and the same for ever And as the wisedome of God did freely find out this way at first comforting our first Parents with it in Paradice so this bowells of incomprehensible love of his hath so gon on from time in all ages of the Church comforting and raising up the dejected spirits of his Church from time to time and awakening them out of their drowsinesse and sleepie condition And many times the greater sinners he dealt with the greater mercies and tender bowells of compassion were opened unto them in many sweet and gratious promises tendering forgivenesse and inviting to Repentance as here in this Chapter and whole Prophecie is shewed what Tribe so wicked so full of Idolatry and Rebellion as Ephraim and yet here Ephraim and Israel are taught a lesson of Repentance as the tender Nurse feeds her childe and puts meate in its mouth so here the Lord puts words in the mouth of this Rebellious people Take with you words and turne unto the Lord. Object What needs God words hee knowes our hearts before we speake unto him Answ Why wee must bring words with us though God knowes our minde It s true God needs no words but we doe to stirre up our hearts and affections and because he will have us take shame unto our selves having given us our tongues as an instrument of glorifying him he will have our glory used in our Petitions and Thankesgivings and therefore in regard of our selves he will as was said have us take words unto our selves for exciting of the graces of God in us by words blowing up of the affections and for manifestation of the hidden man of the heart God will be glorified by the outward as well as by the inward man And Turne to the Lord. He repeats the exhortation of Returning That words and purposes must concurre in Prayer to shew that words must not bee empty but such as are joyned with a purpose of turning to God for otherwise to turne to him with a purpose to live in any sin is the extremity of prophane impudence to come to aske a pardon of the King with a resolution to live still in Rebellion against him what is this but mockerie as if one should come with a dagg to shoote him Such is our

and trust none Ashur and Aegypt were horrible Idolaters and therefore not to bee trusted in that respect As we see the Prophet in this case reprooved good Iehoshaphat when he had joyn'd with wicked Ahab King of the ten Tribes 2 Chron. 19.2 shouldest thou helpe the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord therefore wrath is upon thee from before the Lord. So we see it is a dangerous thing to bee in league with Idolaters even such as the ten Tribes were who had some Religion amongst them this good King was chidden for it We will not ride upon Horses What kinde of creature a Horse is it is worth the seeing what a description God gives of him that we may see what reason the Spirit of God hath to instance in the Horse saith God to Iob. Hast thou given the Horse strength Job ●9 19 20 21 c. Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder Canst thou make him afraid as a grashopper The glory of his Nostrills is terrible Hee paweth in the valley and rejoyceth in his strength hee goeth on to meete the armed men He mocketh at feare and is not affrighted neither turneth he backe from the sword The quiver ratleth against him the glittering speare and the shield He swalloweth the ground with fiercenesse and rage neither beleeveth hee that it is the sound of the trumpet He saith among the Trumpets Ha Ha and hee smelleth the battell a farre of the thunder of the Captaines and the shouting A notable and excellent description of this warlike creature and yet for all this excellencie so described by the Spirit of God in another place Psal 33.17 the Psalmist saith A Horse is a vaine thing for safety neither shall he deliver any by his great strength Psal 20.7 Some trust in Chariots and some in Horses but wee will remember the name of the Lord our God Pro. 21.31 So in another place The Horse is prepared against the day of battell but victory is of the Lord. How oft have you in the Psalmes that proud warlike creature disparaged because naturally men are more bewitched with that then with any other creature If they have store of Horses then they thinke they are strong Therefore God forbids the King to multiplie Horses to himselfe Deut. 17.16 nor cause the people to returne to Aegypt to the end he should multiplie Horses c. Because God is the strength of his Church when there is no multitude of Horses You see it is a bewitching creature and yet a vaine helpe a place like this we have Isa 2.7 complaining there of the naughty people which were among the Jewes at that time as bad as the Israelites Saith he Isa 2 7. Their land also is full of silver and gold neither is there any end of their treasures their land is also full of Horses neither is there any end of their Chariots What is there a fault in that No. Luther saith good workes are good but the confidence in them is damnable So gold and silver Horses and Chariots are good creatures of God But this was their sin confidence in these things there is no end of their treasures if they had treasure enough they should doe well enough Their land also was full of Horses Was this a fault No but their confidence in them they thought they were a wise people to have such furniture and provision of munition for warre but God was their King and the chiefe governour of his people and for them to heape up these things to trust over much in them it was a matter of complaint Their land also is full of Idols Thus you see there is no confidence to be put neither in the one nor the other That there is no confidence to be put either in Home or forraigne forces neither in the association of forraine friends who will proove deceitfull reeds of Aegypt that not onely deceive but the splinters thereof flie about and may run up into the hand such are Idolaters and false friends deceitfull and hurtfull Nor in Home there is no trust in Horses munition or such like What doth this implie that to warre and have provision in that kinde is unlawfull and unnecessary because hee findes fault here with Horses and the like No take heed of that Luk. 3.14 for Iohn Baptist if the souldiers profession had beene unlawfull he would have bid them cast away their weapons but he bids them Doe violence to no man neither accuse any falsely c. And God would never style himselfe Isa 42.13 The Lord of Hosts and a man of warre Psal 18.34 and he that teacheth our hands to warre and our fingers to fight unlesse it were good in the season therefore warre is lawfull seeing in the way to Heaven wee live in the midst of enemies That warre is lawfull Therefore it is but an Anabaptisticall fancie to judge warre to be unlawfull No no it is cleane another thing which the Holy Ghost aimes at to beate backe carnall confidence For it is an equall fault to multiplie helpes and to neglect them either of both are fatall many times to multiplie Horses trusting in them or to spoile Horses and other helpes vainely so to weaken a Kingdome Therefore there is a middle way for all outward things a fit care to serve Gods providence and when we have done trust in God without tempting of him For to neglect these helpes is to tempt him and to trust in them when we have them is to commit Idolatry with them Beware of both these extreames for God will have his providence served in the use of lawfull meanes when there is this great care in a Christian Common-wealth there is a promise of good successe because God is with us otherwise what is all if he be our enemie So we see the second point made good That these outward things of themselves cannot helpe Therefore comes this in the third place Observ That when God alters and changes and moldeth a new the heart of a man to Repentance he altereth his confidence in the creature A Christian state will not trust in Ashur nor in Horses it is true both of state and persons The Reason will follow after in the end of the verse For in thee the Fatherlesse findeth mercy Reason Because when a man hath once repented there is a closing betweene God and him and hee seeth an All-sufficiency in God to satisfie all his desires Therefore he will use all other things as helpes and as farre as it may stand with his favour For he hath Moses eye put in him Heb. 11 27. a new eye to see him that is invisible to see God in his greatnesse and other things in their right estimate as vaine things What is Repentance but a change of the minde when a man comes to be wise and judicious as indeed repentant men are the onely wise men Then a man hath an esteeme of God to bee