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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94736	Iehovah iireh: or, Gods providence in delivering the godly. Opened in two sermons in the citie of Bristoll, on the day of publike thanksgiving in that citie, March 14. 1642. For the deliverance of that citie from the invasion without, and the plot of malignants within the city, intended to have been acted the Tuesday night before. With a short narration of that bloody and abominable plot. Preached by Iohn Tombes, B.D. It is this two and twentieth day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, Johovah Jireh, or Gods providence in delivering the godly, be printed. John White.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T1809; Thomason E100_31	25,023	33

against him but reserved to fire and Brimstone Sometimes God gives a compleat deliverance that procures a continued peace Jehoshaphat was delivered from the invasion of the Moabites and the fruite of it was the Realme was quiet for his God gave him rest round about 2 Chron. 20. 30. Sometimes God gives a deliverance which ends in triumph and glory sometimes a deliverance which leads to more temptations God it may be gives a deliverance to shew what he would doe if wee would cleave to him but because of our forgetfulnesse of God our not rendring againe according to his mercy we may be delivered from one conspiracy so as to fall into another from one evill so as to be reserved to a greater The reasons why God doth thus providently and skilfully deliver the godly out of temptation are First because of his promise God hath ingaged his word for the deliverance of his people Psal. 50. 15. I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie mee Secondly because they pray to him in the same place he saith Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee God will not be wanting to the prayer of the poore destitute he will heare their cry Though it be that proud Atheisticall persons make no reckoning of prayer as if it could doe any thing for deliverance yet sure prayer is a mighty engine with God it is of singular force for deliverance The effectuall servent prayer of the righteous avayleth much Jam. 5. 16. Thirdly because of his love for that makes him imploy his wisedome and power for the deliverance of the godly Deut. 33. 3. yea hee loved the people all his Saints are in thine hand Because they reciprocally love God and are tempted for his sake For thy sake we are killed all the day long and counted as sheepe for the slaughter Psal. 44. 22. Therefore he must needs favour their cause and be engaged in point of honour to deliver them Psal. 91. 14. Because he hath set his love upon me therefore will I deliver him A good master will not suffer his servant to miscarry for his fidelitie in doing his businesse Surely God that is the best master who hath farre more goodnesse then all the creatures will not faile to protect and rescue his servants his children that are in danger for his sake Besides it concernes God to shew himselfe just in righting the innocent that he may make good his title The God of judgement The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous Psal. 1. 6. and therefore is by his righteousnesse bound to helpe them Fiftly the rage of the enemies is a sufficient reason for God to deliver his people and to imploy his providence and power for their rescue Deut. 32. 27. saith God I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy lest their aduersaries should behave themselves strangely The Lord intends to use wicked men as his rod often times to scourge the godly but he intends they should correct them not destroy them he would not have them altogether unpunished yet corrected in measure hee would not have them lost though chastised Therefore hee gives deliverance at last though the enemy rage much The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the let of the righteous lest the righteous put forth their hand unto iniquity Psal. 125. 3. Because he knowes the enemy is implacable unmercifull knowes not how to put bounds to his rage but acts in his fury ad extremum virium to the utmost of his power therefore God sets bounds to his rage and curbs his fury Psal. 76. 10. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restraine Sixtly the presumption and boasting of the enemy is a great motive to God to deliver his people Thus the Psalmist urgeth God to remember the reproach of the enemy the voyce of the enemy Psal. 74. 18. 23. Because they conspire together they say Come let us destroy them all together let us out them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be no more in Remembrance Psal. 83. 4. they say let us persecute and take him there is none to deliver him they magnifie their owne power they deride the poore godly man as if there were no helpe for him in God they promise to themselves satisfaction of their rage malice covetousnesse therefore God will disappoint them Because of Senacheribs blasphemy and reproach God delivered Hezekiah and Hierusalem Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine eares therefore will I put my hooke into thy nose and my bridle in thy lips I will turne thee backe by the way by which thou camest saith God Isa. 37. 29. not onely by reason of the cries of the oppressed but also by reason of the bragges of proud tongues that have said We will prevaile who is Lord over us therefore saith God I will arise and set him in safety from him that p●…ffeth at him Psal. 12. v. 5. Applic. For Application First this may serve to abate the presumption and boasting of unrighteous men in their practises against the godly It is usuall with ungodly persons when they have hatched a plot when they have gathered a power to insnare and crush the godly to promise themselves certainty of prevayling because of their cunning confederacy secrecy because they conceive the godly have no power or no wit to withstand them And therefore in the laying of all their plots in the pursuing of all their designes they make God as a cipher and vilifie godly persons as if they were a contemptible poore nothing And all is because they have no acquaintance with this truth that God knowes how to deliver the godly out of temptation Wherefore they vaunt and boast themselves all their speech is of their great multitude great partie strong power good Commanders wealthy men cunning plotters firme union these and such like things they glory in Senacherib makes no other account but to take Jerusalem by reason of his multitude of Chariots and horsemen sends word to Hezekiah by Rabshakeh to this purpose Thinkest thou that thou shalt be delivered out of my hands I will give thee two thousand horses if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them As if he had said thou hast so few men as not to bee able to furnish two thousand horses with able riders and how then canst thou stand against me who bring into the field hundreds of thousands The same thought is in other ungodly persons they make no account but to prevaile and carry the day because of their multitude and confederacie God is secluded from their thoughts as if he were but a looker on that did nothing But as we use to say they that reckon without their host must reckon againe they that reckon without God make up an easie reckoning but a foolish one they please themselves

conspiracy by some notice that we had given unto us of their meeting at Yeomans his house about an houre or two before the plot was to have beene put in exeeution which was to have been upon the ringing of the Bells about one or two a clocke in the morning Having seized on Master Robert Yeomans with his company and after Butcher with his company the necke of the plot being broken within the Towne the enemy without whose designe as it should seeme depended much upon it having showne themselves upon the Downe the next morning after two or three shot of Canons made against them from our worke upon Brandon hill they wheeled off and so God put a Hook into their nostrills and turned them back againe for which great mercy of his in delivering us from a dangerous invasion of the enemy without and from a damnable conspiracy of some traytorous inhabitants within the City both this towne and the whole kingdome so far as it is concerned in the preservation of this City hath great cause to give thanks to Almighty God unto whom alone the glory thereof is due This is a short narration of the late detestable and bloody Plot against this City whereof no doubt more hereafter will appeare the matter being yet under examination onely one writing which was found in Robert Yeomans his house I thought fit to adde which was as followeth All Inhabitants of the Bridge the High-street and Cornestreete keepe within your doores upon perill of your lives All other inhabitants of this Citie that stand for the King the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of this City let them forthwith appeare at the High Crosse with such armes as they have for the defence of their lives their wives and children and follow their Leaders for the same defence There was also a Protestation taken amongst them to this effect that they would oppose to the utmost of their power all Forces whatsoever that were or should be amongst them or that should come in without the consent of the King Iehovah Iireh 2 PETER 2. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of Temptation and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgement to be punished THis passage containes two consectaries deduced from the 5 6 7. Verses the Apostle had advised Christians To take heed unto the sure word of Prophecy Chap. 1. Vers 19. as being a light shining in a darke place not from a private delivery by the will of man but by the motion of the holy Ghost Vers 20 21. withall he foretells Chap. 2. 1. that as there had been false Prophets among the People so there should be false Teachers among them whose practise he declares Vers 1 2 3. and their judgement Vers 3. which he confirmes by three instances 1 Of Gods not sparing the Angels that sinned Ver. 4. 2 His bringing in the flood upon the world of ungodly but saving Noah a Preacher of Righteousnesse Vers 5. 3 His overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and delivering just Lot Vers 6 7. From these instances he inferres by an Induction two rules to be observed in the course of Gods proceedings First That he knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of temptation Secondly That he knoweth how to reserve the unjust to the day of judgement to be punished The particle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for if Vers 4. shewes these instances to be brought as a medium to prove a conclusion and the argument is thus If God even then when he cast the Angels that sinned downe to hell yet preserved the guiltlesse Angels and even then when he brought the deluge on the wicked world saved Noah a Preacher of righteousnesse and even then when he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah delivered just Lot sic in caeteris then it followes as in my Text The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of Temptation c. The former of these two Consectaries I have chosen this day to insist on being a day set apart for the commemoration of a late deliverance of this City from a blood and abominable conspiracy within it wherein God hath added one more memorable Instance to verifie this rule of Saint Peter The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptation Two conclusions may from hence be gathered First That the godly while they live among unjust men upon the earth be in Temptation Deliverance from Temptation presupposeth a being in Temptation Secondly That God knowes how to deliver them though they know not Noah and Lot knew not how they should be delivered but God knew how to do it To confirme the former of these we need not many Scriptures it being proved by continuall experience yet I shall produce some Luk. 22. 28. Our Lord Christ saith of himselfe Yee are they which have continued with me in my Temptations Our Lord Christ when he lived on earth was in continuall Temptations and what was Christs estate is the estate of all Christians comformably Saint Paul of himselfe Act. 20. 19. saith That he served the Lord with all humility of mind and with many teares and Temptations which befell him by the lying in waite of the Jewes and Heb. 11. 37. among other things that befell the Saints it is said They were tempted Temptation then is one of those things that are the lot of the godly I shall endeavour to open this truth by inquiring first who are to be accounted godly secondly what temptation they are under thirdly why it is so with them In answer to the first we may take notice that the word we translate godly in Grecke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is as much as in English right worshippers So they that be right worshippers are godly persons the Etymology fitly expresseth the thing Now by worship is meant the honour and service that is done unto a God For godlinesse implies religious service and all that religious service we performe to any thing under the notion of a God that is worship And it is Mediate or Immediate mediate service is that which is directed to man yet by reason of respect unto God For this is a cleare truth that even all the duties of righteousnesse we performe to men if they be done in obedience to God they are part of his service and worship not in respect of the matter wherein but in respect of the motive by which they are performed Thus when a servant doth discharge his duty faithfully to his Master as Doing the will of God from the heart hee is said to doe service to the Lord Ephes. 6. 5 6 7. Colos. 3. 24. Every servant that obeyes his master every child that honours his father every souldier that obeyes his Commander out of conscience to God not for wages portion applause or the like respects onely therein hee worships God Immediate worship is that which is directed onely to God And this hath by use engrossed the name of Worship Now when this