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A92843 Englands condition parralelld with Iacobs for [brace] troubles. Salvations. Hopes. Laid open in two sermons, lately preached at Marlborough in Wilts. By Iohn Sedgwick, Batchelour in Divinity and Pastor of the Church at Alphage neere Cripplegate, London. Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643. 1642 (1642) Wing S2360; Thomason E115_23; ESTC R18288 48,093 63

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looke for good from God notwithstanding all the evills I feele and suffer Object Object But happily you will object and say Sir have godly men alwaies a doore of hope in distressed times Remember whose speech was that My hope and strength is perished from the Lam. 3. 18. Lord and againe Our bones are dryed and our hope is lost wee Ezek. 37. 11. are cut off from our parts Answ Sol. I have considered of these Scriptures which speak out the Saints infirmities they do not say that they had no doore of hope but they shew the weaknesse of their faith to apprehend the same the Well of water was nigh to Hagar yet untill her eyes were opened she could not see it the question is not how clearly Christians doe see the doore of hope or how strongly they are able to raise up their expectations but whether they have not a ground for to hope for good in evill times wicked men can neither actually nor habitually hope for they have no ground the godly have a constant ground and cause for hoping and when they cannot actually yet they can habitually hope Vse 2 Secondly this may raise up our hearts this day unto much Vse 2. comfort and confidence it is true that we have a doore of great misery standing very open before us there is a threatning and a trembling doore setting up in the Land it may bee such a door which may enter us into a bloody and civill War the very beholding whereof may strike us with sadnesse Let me now tell you for your comfort Grounds of comfort 1. That there neither is or shall be set up within this Land any doore which shall enter us into misery but such as the good Lord whom we love and feare and serve shall permit and suffer God must suffer all our sufferings it is not all the power plots and projects of our revolted Nobles and Malignant party that can set up a doore of misery at their pleasure God who hath the hearts and the preparations thereof in his owne hands hath the hands of them all in his hands even to check controll and turne them at his own will 2. That if ever God suffer men to set up a foredoore of misery he will bestow upon his a backdoore of hope God is as able as willing to set up doores of hope for his Doores of hope 3. That God hath given to us this day many doores of hope I shall name these unto you The doore of the promises 1. The full and precious promises of mercy and succour abundant is God in his undertakings to relieve distressed Christians And what are all those engagements of God for good unto his but the letting fall of some hints of mercy before the soule to raise up hope had we no promises we could have no doore of hope Remember saith David thy word unto thy servant Psal 119. 49. upon which thou hast caused me to hope Object But we have no particular promise of deliverance and therefore how can wee make the promises a doore of hope Sol. It is the promises of God in generall that are the doore of hope so that if we can finde our particular condition in them we may expect mercy and deliverance The doore of experiences 2. Experiences of former times this was Davids and Pauls 1 Sam. 17. 36. 37. 2 Cor. 1. 10. doore of hope and we should make it our doore of hope what God hath done at one time he can also doe at another time nay he puts out himselfe at one time that future Ages may make him their hope at all times Could we looke into dayes of old and recall the yeares of the right hand of the most high and see what God hath done for miserable Churches and distressed Christians before us nay could we but live upon our owne particular experiences of the many passages of God among us I thinke we should have as wide a doore of hope as ever any people had The doore of prayer 3. Enlargement of spirit God hath poured out the spirit of prayer upon the people of the Land some nay many thousands there are who come to the Throne of Grace and doe mightily and daily wrastle with God for a blessing upon England and this is a strong doore of hope it is that which keepes heaven doores open we usually say that when the Cock begins to crow thick then the day is nearest breaking and this is my hope that England shall not miscarry because she hath such a p●aying people in it goe into all the corners of the I and and you shall finde many Jacobs many Daniels and many Nehemiahs who doe exercise themselves in praying surely a childe of so many prayers cannot perish The humbling daydoore 4. Frequency of humiliations God hath set up in England by authority twelve solemne humbling dayes in a yeare which is such a mercy that England never enjoyed and these dayes are in many places solemnly kept in these dayes multitudes meete together even whole Armies of Christians beset God the considerable part of the Land doe weep and mourne humbling themselves for their sins before the Lord and seeking mercy and pardon for the Kingdome The doore of utterance The erection of further and greater meanes of light and knowledge the doore is set open for painfull and conscientious preachers in such parishes and places in the Kingdome that for many yeares past never enioyed the soule-saving Ministry the spirituall food in many places is doubled and trebled an excellent evidence of much good to this poore Island The doore of ac●●p●ation 6. The acceptation of sacrifices and services God hath had respect to the prayers and humblings of his people there hath scarce been a day of solemn meeting which God hath not crowned with some seasonable and answerable returne which is another doore of hope when Manoah was afraid thought that he should die because that he had seen God his wife doth comfort him saying If the Lord were pleased to kill us he would Judg. ●3 23. not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things neither would hee have told us such things as these q. d. Man what talkest thou of dying so long as God is accepting The doore of Reformation 7. The foundations that are laid for a glorious Reformation God hath raised up glorious workmen who have carried out much of the old rubbish cleared in gre●t measure the foundation and brought in place many good materials tending to the beautifying of the Church I dare say that is laid in which all hellish opposition shall never be able to overthrow The doore of the Parliament 8. The zeale and courage of the worthies assembled in Parliament they are men so raised up in their spirits and so united among themselves that no threates or discouragements can