A81131:82
The arraignment of unbelief, as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment
The arraignment of unbelief, as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment: cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament, at Margarets Westminster, upon the 28th. of May, 1645. being the day of their public fast. / By Joseph Caryl, late preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, now pastor at Magnus near the bridge, London.The arraignment of unbelief, as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment: cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament, at Margarets Westminster, upon the 28th. of May, 1645. being the day of their publike fast. / By Joseph Caryl, late preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inne, now pastor at Magnus neer the bridge, London.
London: printed by G. Miller for Giles Calvert, 1645
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thou shalt not be afraid of them, but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt, &c. Hence the reason why the people of Israel provoked God at the red sea by their fears and murmurings, is thus given (Psal. 106. 7.) They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies.
thou shalt not be afraid of them, but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt, &c. Hence the reason why the people of Israel provoked God at the red sea by their fears and murmurings, is thus given (Psal. 106. 7.) They remembred not the multitude of thy mercies.
If then (at any time) you think your selves scanted in promises, send back your thoughts to those many experiences, both of elder and later dates: The invincible Navy in 88. overcome; the secret Powder-plot discovered and blown up; your yesterday protections, deliverances, successes, victories, should all be served up to the table of your hearts, for faith to feed upon, and nourish it self up into a holy confidence, That he who hath delivered you from so great a death, and doth deliver, will yet deliver you, that thanks may be given by us all in this behalf.
Secondly, As faith acts upon the truth and goodness of a promise, so always by the justice and holiness of a rule. No ⟨p. 35⟩man can act that by faith, which is either unlawful to be done, or is done unlawfully. Faith acts in the eye of God, and therefore must act holily. Faith tells us that God hath no need of our sins, to promote his cause, and that we must not lye for God.