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A80758	Israels peace with God Beniamines overthrow A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, August 31. 1642. By William Carter. Published by order from that House.	Carter, William, 1605-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. Proceedings. 1642-08-31.	1642 (1642)	Wing C679B; ESTC R222274	30,414	48

ISRAELS peace with GOD BENIAMINES Overthrow A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House of COMMONS at their late solemne Fast August 31. 1642. By William Carter Published by Order from that House NEHEM 8. 10. The joy of the Lord is your strength LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold by Christopher Meredith at the Signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard M. DC XLII Die Mercurij ultimo Augusti 1642. IT is this day Ordered by the COMMONS House of PARLIAMENT That M. Sollicitour and M. Salloway doe returne thanks unto M. Carter for the great pains he took at the intreaty of the House before the Members thereof at S● Margarets Westminster this day of the publike Fast and that they doe intreat him from this House to Print his Sermon And it is also Ordered and required that no man shall presume to print this Booke or Sermon but he whom M. Carter shall assigne under his hand H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Appoint Giles Calvert to Print the afore-said Sermon WILL. CARTER TO THE HONOVRABLE HOVSE OF COMMONS now Assembled in PARLIAMENT YOur commands have hardened me against the conscience of my poore abilities to offer to you my two mites one from the Pulpit this other from the Presse The wise God is pleased to trust the treasure of his Gospell in earthen 2 Cor. 4. 7. vessells Such glorious and sweet discoveries of himselfe the Lord hath given us in it that the weakest 2 Cor. 10. 4. may by it be helpfull instruments unto the strongest The weapons of our warfare are mighty not from our selves but through God who glorifieth strength in 2 Cor. 12. 9. weakenesse This truth of his concerning reconciliation with him is one of the principall by it the soules of men are overcome to doe for God ' its called justification of life T it 2. 11 12. Rom. 5. 8. because the putting forth of spirituall life in us begins in that and God himselfe is overcome to doe for men I studied how to speake a word in season as for a day of Fast it is the businesse of that day to make attonement As for your selves of all the preparations you can make for that great work you have in hand it is the chiefe This ingageth heaven for your assistance fits you for the worke rayseth your affections to it continually gives a Ps 23. 3. new and fresh increase of strength it restores the soule which otherwise growes weake in all it's acts by decayes of nature in the body and the guilt of sinne upon the conscience when sinne is pardoned our youth returnes and Ps 103. 5 is renewed like the Eagles It will knit you all together in a mutuall and an heavenly love The Thebans in their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athen. l. 3 Armies had a band of men they called sacra cohors which consisted of such only who were joyn'd together in the bonds of love these they esteem'd the prime of all their strength in battell This is the priviledge of those who are at peace with God they are an holy band all knit together by that heavenly bond Now the God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Jesus the great shepheard of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good worke to doe his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ This is the prayer of Your daily Oratour and humble servant in Christ WILL. CARTER ISRAELS Peace with GOD Benjamines overthrow JUDGES 20. 26 27 28. VERS 26. Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up and came unto the house of God and wept and sate there before the Lord and fasled that day untill even and offered burnt-burnt-offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 27. And the children of Israel inquired of the Lord for the Arke of the covenant of God was there in those dayes 28. And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron stood before it in those dayes saying shall I yet againe goe out to battaile against the children of Benjamine my brother or shall I cease And the Lord said goe up for to morrow will I deliver them into thine hand IN this Chapter we have the History of the Warre of Israel against his brother Benjamine The occasion of the Warre we have in the former Chapter the sinne about the Levites Concubine A fact so foule as all the Congregation of God the men of Israel held themselves obliged to see it punished The like ingagement was acknowledged by the people upon supposall of a sinne committed by the two Tribes and halfe at the bankes of Iordan Had they built that Altar with intention to have used it in the worship the people had been bound to warre against them as we see in that they make the case to be the same with that of Achan and of Peor Josh 22. 17 20. The cause here for which the people tooke up armes was just and their call was good it was from God besides what they had for it of the mind of God either by precept or example the Lord did countenance the action by an Oracle from Heaven vers 18. ●3 Shall I goe up to battell against the children of Benjamine my brother The Lord said goe up against them Yet the successe was ill Twice was Israel smitten by the rebells to the losse well nigh of forty thousand men Good successe in warre depends much upon the goodnesse of the cause but not only upon that nor is alwayes the justice of a cause a warrant for a man to take up Armes there must also be a lawfull call both these are not enough to bring an happy issue That we shall see in the Text in which we have two things First the practice of the people upon their being beat and put to flight the second time Secondly the successe of that their practice Their practice is laid downe First in generall they goe to God Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up and came unto the house of God and sate there before the Lord When Eccles 12. 7. Gods people leave this world they goe to God and when the world leaves them that is when crosses come and the comforts of this life forsake them they doe the like they goe to him Afflictions drive the wicked farther off from God but bring his people nearer to him Come say they let us returne unto the Hos 6. 1. Lord our God for he hath torne and he will heale us he hath smitten and he will bind us up Secondly in particular in two things First they labour the making of their peace with God which all this while they had neglected which neglect was the cause why God did not assist them A man that would doe any thing for God and prosper in his worke besides that both his cause and his call must be

have him in some measure at a distance as our Saviour had when hee said that hee had nothing in him or otherwise he 'l get into his heart and so insinuate himself and sway him by his lusts insenfibly untill he overthrows him quite and he repent of what he did for God Secondly As for sin ther 's no way to destroy 1 Cor. 15. 5 6. it but by a pardon the strength of sin is the law that is so long as the guilt of sin and so the curse of the law hath hold upon the soul the soul is weak and sin is strong Therfore the Apostle sayes Heb. 9. 14. that the blood of Christ doth purge us from dead works to serve the living God So long as God is look't upon as one not reconciled what heart can any man have to his service what man will suffer or will venture any thing for one whom he accounts his enemy the secret despaire of his acceptance or of ever doing good upon 't will lay him naked to the power of the sin of his own heart to keep him off and to ingage h●m quite the other way It is a pardon that destroys our sins Titus 2. 12. The grace of God which bringeth salvation appearing teacheth us to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Vse 1 Thus have I finished the Reasons of the Point and so the clearing of it now what remaines but that by way of Application you be exhorted to the thing The cause wherein you are ingaged is just your call to this engagement is as cleare take heed the third thing be not wanting pardon of your sinnes and peace with God Thinke upon the point that hath beene opened God hath put into your hands a worke of his the greatest that hath been on foot for God in these Islands for many hundred yeares the safety peace and welfare of the Kingdome I may say the three Kingdomes nay in a great degree of all the Kingdomes of the world wherein the true Religion is profest and that not onely in respect of temporall things but even of such as have an influence into eternity the true Religion the Gospell of our Salvation God himselfe take away Religion and the Gospell and our God is gone 2 Chron. 15. 3. Israel was without the true God when he was without a teaching Priest and without the Law God hath call'd you to the purging of the Land of those Locusts and Caterpillars I meane the Romish factours now amongst us that would not have left so Joel 1. 9. much as a meat-offering for our God I may call them Locusts the Scripture puts that name upon them In the booke of Ioel there is a Prophesie Joel 2. 11 20. of a Northerne Army that should cause a Day of darkenesse and gloominesse of clouds and of thicke Joel 2. 2 3 darknesse and that the Land which was as Eden before should be as the wildernesse behind it This Army we see was a multitude of Locusts and such like things Joel 2. 25. I will restore to you the yeares that the Locust hath eaten the Canker-worme the Caterpillar and the Palmer worme my great Army which I sent among you This was verified in the Letter to the Iewes the fruits of their Land were for a season spoyl'd by such an Army but under the type of Joel 1. 6. 2. 2 3 4 5 6 8. Locusts it is a Prophesie of the mischiefe done to the whole world especially to Europe by Popish vermine as wee see Revel 9. where wee Rev. 9. 2 7 8 9 10. Occidenta les Locustae sunt monachi monia les frater culi numerosa c●hors religiosorum Cardinales cum tota Hierarchia pontifi●ia Brigh Fox Pisc c. Rev. 9. 10. Joel 1. 4. have the selfe same Locusts with the same descriptions as they are set forth in Ioel compare the places and you 'l say they are the same which by Interpreters are applyed to the Saracens in the East and to the Monkes and Fryars and whole Popish Hierarchy in these Western Kingdoms it is true the time of thejr chiefest power is past as it is said Their power should continue for such a time yet multitudes we have amongst us still and the designe is that they may againe prevaile untill there be not left so much as a meat-offering for God 't is not long since we had experience how they grew upon us so as what the Palmer-worme left the Locust eat and what the Locust left the Canker-worme eat and what the Canker-worme left the Caterpiller eate And how slender was the meate-offering left for God when as so many burning and shining lights were quite put out such a famine of the word in most places of the Kingdom and such bondage layd upon mens souls This work I say the Lord hath call'd you to the cleansing of the land from these and blessed be his Name who rayseth up your hearts to undertake it The blessing of the GOD of Heaven rest on you your Families and Children unto all Posteritie Well would you prosper in this work then say not it 's enough that both your cause and call is good and thus and thus you are in strength faile not to make your peace with God this day take heed of Israels case against the Benjamites Me thinks I heare this sad example of Gods dealing with his people speaking to you as the voice of Ioel 2. 12. God in Ioel Turne ye even to me with all your hearts with fasting with weeping and with mourning and rend your hearts and not your garments and turne unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnesse and repenteth of the evill Who knowes if he will returne and repent and leave a blessing behind him even a meate-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord your God I may say the same to you if you but doe the worke indeed that now you come about who knowes what God may doe What blessing hee may give to your proceedings what ruine he may bring upon your enemies Ps 56. 8. he 'l put all your teares into his bottle and they shall doe more against the rebells then so m●ny thousand bullets from the Cannon Or otherwise who knows what God may doe against you if you neglect the making of your peace with him this day alas it may soon cost many thousand men their lives and for a season it may lose the cause doth it not make your hearts to bleed the very thought of this what will those Egyptians say what blasphemies will they belch forth and what shall the Lord our God doe for his great Name much cost and care and Iosh 7. 9. travell hath been spent in making up of strength and it is well there hath God will reward you for it a thousand fold should your indeavours prove abortive God lookes upon them