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The glory and interest of nations professing the Gospel preached at a private fast,…
The glory and interest of nations professing the Gospel preached at a private fast, to the Commons assembled in Parliament / published by their command, by J. Owen.
London: printed for Philemon Stephens, 1659
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. That whereas the end of all humane wisdom, in nations or the Rulers of them is, to preserve humane society in peace and quietness, within the several bounds and allotments that are given unto them by the providence of God, it so comes to pass for the most part through the righteous judgment and wise disposal of God, that it hath a contrary end, and bringeth forth contrary effects throughout the world. Do not the inhabitants of the earth, generally ⟨p. 8⟩owe all their disturbance, sorrow, and blood to the wise contrivances of a few men, not knowing how to take the Law of their proceedings from the mouth of God, but laying their deep counsels and politic contrivances in a subserviency to their lusts and ambition. And what Glory is there in that which almost constantly brings forth contrary effects to its own proper end and intendment?
1. That whereas the end of all humane wisdom, in nations or the Rulers of them is, to preserve humane society in peace and quietness, within the several bounds and alotments that are given unto them by the providence of God, it so comes to pass for the most part through the righteous judgment and wise disposal of God, that it hath a contrary end, and bringeth forth contrary effects throughout the world. Do not the inhabitants of the earth, generally ⟨p. 8⟩owe all their disturbance, sorrow, and blood to the wise contrivances of a few men, not knowing how to take the Law of their proceedings from the mouth of God, but laying their deep counsels and politick contrivances in a subserviency to their lusts and ambition. And what Glory is there in that which almost constantly brings forth contray effects to its own proper end and intendment?
2. That God delights to mix a spirit of giddiness, error, and folly in the counsels of the wise men of the world; making them reel and stagger in their way like a drunken man, that they shall not know what to do, but commonly in their greatest concernments, fix upon things, as devoid of true reason and sound wisdom, as any children or fools could close withal. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the Counsel of the froward is carried headlong;