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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01902	The returne of prayers A treatise wherein this case how to discerne Gods answers to our prayers is briefly resolved, with other observations vpon Psal. 85.8. concerning Gods speaking peace, &c. By Tho: Goodvvin. B.D.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1636 (1636)	STC 12041.3; ESTC S117577	96,573	431

said And thus farre it is true that sinning thus between interrupts and hinders the obtaining our petitions that answerably as wee doe thus dash and betray and undoe our prayers The answer to it so in a proportion we finde in the way to our obtaining the thing wee prayed for so many rubbes and difficulties doe arise for as wee lay blocks in Gods way comming towards us to doe us good so hee in ours therefore often when a businesse goes prosperously on and wee think wee shall carry it comes some accident betweene the cup and the lip that casts all behinde hand againe because answerably wee dealt with God For when wee had prayed and were encouraged and in good hopes then by some sinne or other wee spoyld all and bereaved our selves of our expectation But yet this you are to consider that as in the end praying useth to overcome sin in Gods Children so also God in the end overcomes difficulties and brings the matter to passe and know it is not sins past so much that hinder the prayers of Gods people as the present unfitnesse and indisposition of their hearts for mercy TIDINGS OF PEACE TO BEE SPOKEN to Consciences distressed Psal 85. ver 8. God will speak peace unto his people and to his Saints c. THE maine thing intended to bee insisted upon out of these words is dispatcht yet that I may not leave so faire and fruitfull a crop still standing upon the ground unreaped I will goe on more briefly to have in the rest of that harvest the Text affords This Psalm as was said was penned as a Prophecy of and prayer for the returne of Gods people out of the Captivity of Babylon and the setling and establishment of that Church and State upon its former Basis yet so as therein there is a further and more especiall aime had to the peace and glory to bee brought in by Christ till when this Prophecy otherwise had but a poore and slender accomplishment in regard of much outward glory or peace that that Church enjoyed And therefore the peace here spoken of and promised for the present is to be extended largelier then to outward prosperity or an happy issue out of that calamity even to speaking peace to drooping and weather-beaten consciences and accordingly we finde this kinde of peace to have beene specially promised by the Prophet Isaiah to the people at their returne out of the Captivity both in Isaiah 48. from 20. to the end and Isaiah the 57. from the 14. to the end there being many broken hearts that had wanted the light of Gods countenance long having beene during the Captivity banisht from the Ordinances of the Temple hanging up their harps mourning whose thoughts were as if God had meant to destroy them as appeares Ier. 29. 11. who afterwards were refreshed with in ward peace at the restauration of those Ordinances as well as with outward as by those places doth appeare Therefore in relation to this kind of peace onely I will at this time handle the words In the words you have a discovery of Gods proceedings in treating of peace or proclaiming war with his people and subjects Obser 1 1. You see that sometimes God doth not seake peace to his owne children This was their state for the present when this Psalme was penned Hee will speake peace therefore at present he did not yea it may incline us to think that God at present spake the contrary for the Prophet speaks this by faith as contrary to sense and present experience hee beleeves God intends to come againe to a treaty of peace though now hee seemes to have nothing but anger and blood and war in his looks speeches and actions and to threaten and proclaime warre and take up Armes against them And thus God often deales with his owne Children whether a people or a particular man so with a nation Esay 63. 10. They rebelled and hee fought against them so with a particular man God frowned upon and rated his Child Ephraim and spake bitter things against him it is the phrase used Ier. 31. 20. though yet Ephraim is my pleasant Child sayes he David had not a good word from him a long time Psal 51. 8. Make me to heare againe of joy and gladnesse And Psal 50 7. Heare oh my people and I will speake but not against them they might hope because hee ownes them for his people Heare oh Israel and I will testifie against thee and yet it followes I am the Lord thy God Iob sayes he did not speake onely against him but also wrote bitter things hee wrote as it were bookes against him Iob 13. 26. hee writing over in his Conscience the sinnes of his youth in letters of blood and wrath and terrors for them Obser 2 There must needs be some great reason for this they being his people which is the second thing that is intimated and may be observed out of these words namely the reason or moving cause provoking God thus to interrupt the peace of his people they had fallen into some grosse folly or other some sinfull inordinate dispositions had beene indulged unto and nourished in them which is usually though not alwayes the cause of this his dealing this is evident by this that the conclusion of their peace when it is made up againe hath this clause as the onely article of reconciliation between them that they returne no more to folly implying they had formerly runne out into some inordinacy which to reduce them from God had tooke up armes against them and thereby taught them wisdome to take heed of losing and then buying peace at so deare a rate againe And indeed all the quarrells that God hath against a Nation a particular place or person that belongs to him doe begin there They rebelled and Hee fought against them Esay 63. 8. For the iniquity of his covetousnesse I was wroth Isa 57. Reason The reason is for anger is out of love as well as hatred which therefore he expresseth though with griefe hee should be put to quarrell with those hee hath set himselfe to loue And as wicked men whom hee alwaies hates may out of his patience have a truce so on the contrary with his owne God may take up a quarrell yet He loves them remembers them with everlasting kindnesse The Vses of both are these Vse 1 1 As peace with God is deare to you so to take heed of turning unto folly Onely take this advertisement that they are not meere follies or ignorances that doe interrupt or breake the peace as it is not simply the outrage of some Pirats that will cause two States at peace to enter into a warre unlesse that State consent to their act and maintaine them in their rapine So it is not simply the rising of lusts that warre in our members against the Law of the minde that breake the peace betweene God and us unlesse they be approved of and consented unto nourished and