Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness…Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse…

We come now to the use of the Point, and so we will proceed to the next. It is great pity that we should so behave our selves, that this God should not succour us; but say, He will deliver us no more, but let us make use of the Point in hand. And the Use we are to make is this;

We come now to the use of the Point, and so we will proceede to the next. It is great pitty that we should so behave our selves, that this God should not succour us; but say, He will deliver us no more, but let us make use of the Point in hand. And the Vse we are to make is this;

Is it so, Use that the Lord is the Author of all the deliverance and succour of his servants: 1. Then it must teach us a point of wisdom, namely, to whom we must give the praise of all our marvellous deliverance ⟨p. 114⟩and preservation we have enjoyed, to whom it is, we ought to render all the glory of our protection and safety, that hath been continued for the space of above sixty years to this Kingdom; Do as the Prophet David doth: The Lord is the Author of all, let the Lord have the honour of all, Give unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name. The Prophet David doth distrain, as it were, he is violent with the hearts of men, and he labours to wrest praise and honour from men, Give unto the Lord the honour and the glory due unto his name: the truth is, we must not sacrifice to our own nets, that is, we must not praise our own power, and say, it is our power that hath accomplished it, and our wisdom that hath effected it: no, it is not our shipping, it is not our power ⟨p. 115⟩or courage, or means that have done it. Therefore let us do as the Prophet David doth, in the 44. Psalm, It was not my Bow that did succour me, it was the Lord that hath delivered me, and relieved me, and his be the praise for ever: and if all people should do this, and ought to do this, then I had almost said, nay, why may I not say so, why should we not do it more than all the world besides, for whence comes it, whence is it, that the Lord hath had an eye unto me above all the rest, when the fire of Gods fury hath flamed and consumed all the country round about us; Bohemia, and the Palatinate, and Denmark, when the fire hath thus burnt up all, yet this little Cottage, this little England, this Span of ground, that this should not be searched, nay when the sword hath ruinated, and overcome