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Observanda. The life and death of the late Q. Mary
Observanda. The life and death of the late Q. Mary. : Prefaced, with some observations upon the turns of divine Providence, now bringing of mighty changes, upon the world. : Whereto is added, the address of condolence [sic], made unto His Majesty, by the nonconformist ministers, on the decease of that illustrious queen.Observanda. The life and death of the late Q. Mary. : Prefaced, with some observations upon the turns of divine Providence, now bringing of mighty changes, upon the world. : Whereto is added, the address of condolenee [sic], made unto His Majesty, by the nonconformist ministers, on the decease of that illustrious queen.
printed by B. Green for Samuel Philips, 1695
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Hence there are also Collateral Designs of Providence, which are the Four Sides of the WHEELS, in the Dispensations of God. Thus 'tis, in the most of our Changes!
VII. When the Lord will have Changes to come, they shall be Irresistible; Who hath Resisted His will? Tis once and again said of the Wheels, They Turned not, as they went. There is no Turning the Wheels of Providence out of their course; no Rubs can divert them, from what the Lord will have to be performed by them. All the Changes in the World, are Decreed by that Lord, who is Unchangeable; When the Wheels are Turning, tis by the Order of that God, of whom tis said, There is with Him no Shadow ⟨p. 23⟩of Turning. Our Lord says, O WHEEL! Go, bring such a Great Thing about! But, it may be, there are Great Mountains that lie in the way of the Wheels: Great Persons, Great Factions, and Great Oppositions. Its no matter: I say, as of old, Who art thou, O Great Mountain? Thou shalt become a Plain, before the Wheels of the Chariots of our God. It was said, in Zech. 6.1. The Four Chariots came out from between the Mountains of Brass. The Firm Decrees of God, are those Fixed, Stable, Eternal Mountains of Brass; the Four Wheels do move according to those Decrees; and be of good cheer, none of our Little Mountains of Earth▪ [Mountains! I should say, Molehills,] can stand before them. When the Sceptre of of a mighty Kingdom was to be transferred, from a Royal Hand, into another Hand, which the Lord had Reserved in the Obscurities of a Wilderness, how many thousands of Obstacles were there to hinder such a Turn of the Wheel? Yea, but when once the Lord said, O WHEEL! He also said, in 1 Sam. 15.29. He is not a man, that he should Repent. Oh! The whirl of these Wheels! when once they are set a Turning, in a way of Grace, or in a way of Wrath, stand clear all Opposers; there is no standing before these all conquering Wheels. In Artificial Engines, the Mechanic Powers of Wheels, are of a prodigious Efficacy; but the Wheels of Providence are infinitely more Efficacious.