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A29049 A brief treatise about the spiritual nature of God and of His worship by Edw. Bagshaw ... Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671. 1662 (1662) Wing B405; ESTC R9965 16,963 38

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of an Almighty Power such as is Preservation from Danger or support under it Pardon of sin and strength against it and the like which are Petitions that God loves to hear for since when ever he Answers a Prayer he would be known to do something which onely he is able to bestow and therefore by way of Prerogative and Excellence he stiles himself A God Hearing Prayer 2. The consideration of Gods Omnipotence will take off all Despondency of Spirit when Matters go otherwise with us then we would have them When we are put to a plunge and are run into a wild Maze and Labyrinth of Perplexities not knowing how to resolve what will be the issue of such or such a Providence that crosseth us a Belief of Gods Omnipotence will fix us again and make us see clear day in the midst of our Doubts It was the Impious Triumph of those Ungodly men who had beset and surrounded David 1. That they had left him no probable way to escape Psa 3.2 Mat. 27.43 Many there be saith he that say to my Soul there is no help for him in God As if they had said we have now made sure work with him and so ordered the matter that Omnipotence it self cannot rescue him As those wicked Pharisees when they had nailed our Saviour to the Cross they cut him yet more to the Heart with this Reviling Speech He trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have him for he said I am the Son of God VVhich Speeches uttered with so much contumely and bitter Scorn Psal 69.20 did as our Saviour complains break his Heart and no doubt pierced deeper into his Soul then either the Thorns or Spear did into his Body But what did our Saviour what did David in that Extremity For David we find him in the same Psalm notwithstanding all this appropriating God unto himself and boasting of him as his Shield his Glory and the lifter up of his Head and to show how much he slighted those proud boasts of his Insolent Enemies and how much they were mistaken in their Triumph I laid me down saith he and slept i. e. I quietly reposed my self in the midst of all these shakings and that we might wonder at this his Calmnesse and Security he adds For the Lord sustained me Thus likewise did our Saviour just after those words uttered by the Pharisees which were so long before prophesied of that they should be spoken our Saviour adds But thou O Lord art my God from my Mothers Belly Psal 22.10 Be not therefore far from me for trouble is near As if he had said Times of deep discouragement and Amazing distractions are thy Times therefore now appear vigorously when thou alone canst have the glory When a Creature is wholly forsaken as it were when it is hung round with Terrour and even fainting for want of Inward supply and succour then if a soul can but say to God Thou art the Lord the Lord Almighty and by an Act of Faith redouble Thou art my God what should it fear or what can it tremble at For if God be for us who can be against us the World hath not in it Terrours or Discouragements enow to fright such an one whose God is the Lord and who hath Omnipotence it self for his shield and Protection 3. Lastly the consideration of Gods Omnipotence will Quiet and Pacifie the Soul under its Afflictions where by Afflictions I mean Spiritual and Inward Griefs such as are sense of sin fear of wrath Dispair of Mercy and the like For as for other things viz. Want Poverty Di grace and the like which pass with the World for Afflictions and are the ordinary Themes of Declaimers in Divinity if we do ill they are our Wages as due to us as hire is to the Labourer if we do well they are Marks of Honour and ought to be triumphed and gloried in as our Choicest and most Signal Priviledges But when God hath put his Terrors into the Soul when he appears our Enemy and by an Immediate Act of his Power speaks Dispair and Anguish unto a Wounded Conscience a soul in that Case hath no possibility of Relief but what it can gather from acting Faith upon Gods Omnipotence For it is upon this score that we may beg for pardon as Moses did for the Israelites Numb 14.17 and now let the Power of my Lord be great as thou hast said I am a God long-suffering Therefore forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of thy Mercy For great Power is alwayes accompanied with great Mercy Psal 103 1 1● Psalm 3 35. for such an one will consider our Frame will remember that we are but Dust as David speaks or as the Church He will not Afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of Men. God who is infinite in Power doth not delight to shew it in troubleing his poor Creature who alwayes lies under his Lash and cannot bear with the Effects of his Anger Therefore when Iob complained so grievously that God hedged up his way with Afflictions as with Thorns that he did find occasions against him and counted him for his Enemy with many such expressions as the bitternesse of his Soul did cause him to utter Elihu answers him in Gods stead First Job 33.12 in minding him that God was greater than Man and therefore it was in vain to reply against God since he gave not any Account of his Matters And least this Answer should onely serve to keep Job from Complaining but not from Repining least it should onely make him silence his Discontents but not totally suppresse them Elihu reproves that Consideration with adding this That God can do no wrong and the Almighty cannot commit Iniquity Job 34.10 The Force of which Reason consists not onely in this because Soveraign or Almighty Power makes all his Actions Just who ever hath it which is a Curious an Unprofitable Notion in this Case but because God in his Word hath tied himself to Rules he hath been pleased to Oblige himself to be Gracious and to attend his peoples good in the Exercise of his Power And therefore in stead of those bitter Complaints against God wherewith persons Mouths are usually filled in such Cases let them rather be opened in thankfulnesse since God doth in very Faithfulnesse correct and hath designes of Mercy when he plungeth us into the Depth of Misery Heb. 12.10 For the End of all is to purge out our sin that we may partake of his Holinesse So much for the first Attribute viz. Gods Omnipotence 2. Secondly The other Attributes which do belong to God as he is a Spirit and which in our Approaches to him are most to be reflected upon by us are his Omnipresence are his Omniscience I joyn them both together because they are both but one Act and in Scripture Language are never several In which to see and to know is all one