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A93382	A sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons, at their monethly fast, May 29. 1644. By Peter Smith Doctor of Divinitie, minister of Gods Word at Barkway in Hertfordshire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Smith, Peter, d. 1652? or 3?; England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing S4142; Thomason E52_24; ESTC R9534	45,343	53

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Trag. they that prevent not this sinne what they can shall all hold up their hands at that terrible barre together without repentance and endevouring better especially being convinced of the fault I cannot break off yet till I have freed my soule in discovering that improvement men have made of their old swearing by their forswearing or false swearing or equivocating in their oathes and protestations and solemn vowes and covenants which being rightly and religiously performed are an acceptable service unto God and an ascribing honour and glory to his Name A spirit of Atheisme I feare runnes through the Land and the good Spirit of God is much provoked by it that our late solemne Vow is taken by many who putting what sense they please upon it think so to delude the Lord while they cheat their owne soules And others goe downright to it without any more adoe then that this is the way to save their goods or to secure their persons when their hearts are most malignantly averse from what they sweare The heathen themselves will rise up in judgement against such who ever had an oath in the greatest u 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pythag. apud Iam. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theocr. in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dreadfull reverence If any such be present let them but consider that place of Zach. 5. 1 2 3 4. where the Prophet sets forth his vision of the flying roule or book of 20. cubits long and 10. cubits broad wherein were all those curses that come swiftly into the house of him that sweareth falsly and where it shall remain till it consume it I remember Chrysostome following the Greek version reads not a flying book but a x 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuag flying hook or sickle whereby saith he appeareth how unavoidable the curse shall be that shall pursue the false swearer and him that breakes his oathes and vowes For had he said y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. 15. ad pop Antiochen Et siquis primo perjuria celat Sera tamen tacitis poena venit pedibus Tib. a flying dagger haply a man might have avoided it but when he tells us of an hook or sickle gotten about the neck there 's no escaping such a weapon Remember what the Lord saith Deut. 23. 21. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not be slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be sinne unto thee I shall no longer detain you in this sad discourse touching the things which I conceive now incense God against us and must provoke us as we desire deliverance from our trouble and distresses while we pray and seek the Lord to humble our selves for these and all such crying and outragious evils Thus much may serve for this use of direction and for this second generall Doctr. 3 3. And so I come to the last point observable in this Text which I called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the good successe the Church hath by her prayers to God in those words And he delivered them from their c. From which words plainly ariseth this Doctrine Deliverance from distresses is from the Lord. The troubles and distresses of the Saints of God here in this pilgrimage which is nothing else but a miserable absence from God for a season are many and various their whole life being like Ezekiels book z Scriptus in 〈…〉 written within and without and nothing else written but Lamentations and mourning and woe Ezek. 2. 10. Perplexities both of mind and body in ward and outward do accompany them daily The Lord is pleased sometimes to write bitter things against them and to make their life very uncomfortable to them through the anguish of their soule● The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmities but a wounded spirit who can beare It hath caused many to cry with Iob Chap. 7. 13 c. When I say my bed shall comfort me my couch shall ease my complaint then thou scarest me with dreames and affrightest me through visions so that my soule chooseth strangling and death rather then my life When through temptation they begin to thinke and say that God hath wholly left them and forsaken them and complain as one should of a deare friend deserting him Loe he goeth by me and I see him not c. Iob 9. 11. whereas he had wont to set his heart upon me and to visit me every morning Iob 7. 17 18. a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyr. Alex. in ●o● cap 2. There being nothing in the world so sad unto a child of God as to be so neglected by his heavenly Father I remember somewhat of Augustine to this purpose If God should say unto me goe thy way sinne as much as thou wilt I will not punish thee for it c. But thou shalt never see my face b Nunquam mecum eris or thou shalt never be with me He seemes to make it even the worst of all punishments For as the Psalmist saith to God In thy presence is life And again If thou hidest away thy face we dye Now when this shall be our case this our trouble and distresse where shall we seek or hope to find deliverance but in God alone His countenance estranged hath made the wound and a cast of his countenance is able to cure all again Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us and we shall be whole Deliverance from inward sorrowes is then from God alone And the like must be acknowledged of all outward troubles Shall there be evill in a City and the Lord hath not done it Amos 3. 6. c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Cyr. Alex. in loc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damas Orth fid lib. 4. cap. 20. He meanes not malum peccatorium the evill of sinne there 's no such evill from the Lord but malum ultorium the evill of punishment as Tertul. speakes And this is properly from God what or who ever be the instrument I make peace saith God and create evill Isai 45. 7. We when Gods hand is upon us correcting us for our sinnes by some or other whom hee is pleased to use as his rod or scourge usually reflect upon these instruments and like as children d Qui se ceciderint terram verberari volunt Seuec. when they take a fall as Seneca observeth cry out to have the ground beaten so we fall foule upon such secondary causes never considering either the Lord who makes use of them at his pleasure or our own evill wayes which provoke God against us When Shimei cast stones at David and cursed him So let him curse said he because the Lord hath said unto him Curse David who shall then say Wherefore hast thou done so 2 Sam. 16. 10. But did God command him then I answer There is a three-fold command of God observable 1. There is the mandate of his