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Four usefull discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...
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Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.
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Wing B6073; ESTC R36309
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Judgments of God shall be abroad in the World they shall be in a secure Condition they shall be free from all they shall be built upon the Rock when Tempests and Storms shall be abroad to Sink others they shall not be stirred for they shall have peace with God Your Peace that is even peace with all Creatures they shall have the blessing of that peace too Whereas before all the Creatures of God were as the Hosts of God His Armies ready prepared to Avenge the Quarrel of God upon them Every Creature as it were crying unto God Lord send me Lord send me that I may strike this Sinner that I may strike this Blasphemer this unclean Wretch and this prophane Wretch and if God would but give Commission to any one Creature it would presently be their Destruction But upon their entertaining of your Message there shall be Peace between them and all Creatures so as no Creature in all the World shall ever be able to do them hurt Though they shall Live in the midst of an evil World yet this shall be their Condition That all good Creatures shall be made useful to them for good and there is no evil Creature shall ever be able to do the least evil to them And again They shall have a peace of Conscience whereas before their Consciences were ready to flie in their faces And they indeed sought many wayes and means to quiet their Consciences but could never get any true quiet of Conscience But upon their entertainment of your Message their Consciences shall be pacified in the Blood of the Messiah therefore bid them be of good comfort their Consciences shall be able to answer all Accusations that can be laid against them For so the Scripture tells us of the Answer of a good Conscience 1 Pet. 3. 21. Thus Let the Devil let Temptation charge upon one that is reconcil'd to God what they can A good Conscience through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is able to answer all Accusations and Temptations This shall be the Peace that shall be upon them And Fourthly The Word of God shall be at Peace with them They shall have Interest in all the Promises that are in the Word of God the whole Word shall speak nothing but good unto them Whereas before the Word of God was full of Terror and came against them as their Enemy but now all that is in the Word shall be Peace unto them If the Son of Peace be there This is the Peace that you shall bring upon them Peace with God and with the Creatures and with their Consciences and with the Word And then O the Blessing that is upon all the Entertainers of the Gospel O the happy Condition that the Entertainers of the Gospel are in This my Brethren is the Reason why there are some that do prize the Gospel and their Hearts are so much upon it Do not blame them they find this good in it They find the Blessing of the Gospel upon them And therefore though you feel not the sweetness and good that there is in it and so neglect it their Souls feel it and they bless themselves in their God and bless the Lord that ever they heard of the Gospel Certainly There are many Thousands this day in Heaven Blessing God that ever they heard of the Gospel because of the Blessings that they do partake of by and through the Gospel Object You will say I but there are many that are the Sons of Peace and the Entertainers of the Gospel and yet they do not feel the Blessing of this Peace they are as much troubled as any are Answ To that I answer They have certainly that which is the Matter for Peace and their trouble comes for want of Understanding it Others have Matter for Terror and their peace comes for want of the knowledg of what Matter for Terror there is It 's true they have not for the present the full sense of this Blessing of peace though they have that which will bring it at last As for Instance When the blustering Tempestuous Winds do cease the Waves of the Sea do not presently cease from their tumultuous Working and Roaring and Noise and yet that which was the Cause of their Working that 's gone So here Those who Entertain the Gospel they presently upon the Entertaining of it have the Tempest over there is no more Tempest of the Wrath of God against them but yet there may be some Trouble in their Spirits but it will be allaid within a while because that which is the Reason of their Trouble that certainly is over And therefore a strong Argument here you have to Entertain this blessed Gospel that is sent among you When you hear it Preached you hear what it brings to you it brings all the Good that Christ hath purchased with His Blood This it offers to you And can the World offer to you as much as this comes to Can there be any thing to draw your Hearts away from it that shall be Equal with this Good Certainly This is the Peace that is Infinitely above all Earthly things What would not we do to purchase a good and sure Peace here in the Kingdom If we account a firm and sure peace to be so sweet would not we be willing to lay down our Lives Certainly That Man or Woman cannot be accounted to be a good Member of a Common-wealth that should not be willing to lay down their Lives in such times as these to purchase a sure and firm peace But now here the Gospel preaches to you another manner of Blessing than this outward Peace The Gospel holds forth unto you that peace that was purchased to you by the Blood of the Son of God It was such a Peace that Christ thought his own Blood not too dear to lay down for the purchase of this peace of the Gospel It is that Peace that passes all understanding a Soul peace an Everlasting peace and therefore you should come to hear the Gospel as the great Ordinance of God that is appointed by Him to bring this Glorious peace unto your Souls Do not come meerly to hear what a Man can say or to hear the Gifts and Abilities of a Man or to get a few new Notions and the like But when you come to attend upon the Gospel come I say unto it as the great Ordinance that is appointed by God to bring peace to the Souls of those that He doth intend Eternal good unto And this is to come in a right way and manner to the Preaching of the Gospel This I say is to have a right understanding of what Good there is in the Gospel And if any of your Souls have had a peace before you have come to a right understanding of the Gospel know that all that peace is Naught it will Undo you you will never have any good by it You have had peace in your own Spirits a great while and you bless God
compared with ver 13. In ver 10. There the Lord Threatens that He will bring Evil upon the House of Jeroboam and will Cut off from Jeroboam c. Well but this must not come presently the Lord would not presently bring the Evil upon them but He would stay till He had taken away one out of the Family ver 12 13. Arise thou therefore get thee to thine own House and when thy feet enter into the City the Child shall die And all Israel shall Mourn for him and Bury him For he only of Jeroboam shall come to the Grave because in him is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel in the House of Jeroboam Mark How God takes notice of any in a wicked Family If there be but any one a Child that hath some good thing in it because but some good thing the Lord takes special Notice of such a one in the Family Therefore though his House should be Destroyed yet this Child must be taken away first Because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel Mark It is but some good thing and towards the Lord God of Israel and a Child but this was in the House of Jeroboam Let there be but a Child that hath some good thing in a wicked Family the Lord takes special Notice of it and there may come a Blessing upon the Family even for the sake of such a one The Reason of it is Because if there be any in a Family that Entertains the Gospel there the Lord hath the Glory of His Name that He doth most rejoyce in It cannot but please the Lord to have the Glory of His Name to be owned in a Family and held forth And if there be but any one in a Family that shall Entertain the Gospel who knows what good such a one may do If there be one in a Family to hold forth Christ here is a Way and Means to draw others to the Love of Christ If God Convert the Husband he may draw the Wife or if God Convert the Wife she may draw the Husband 1 Cor. 7. 16. For what knowest thou O Wife whether thou shalt save thy Husband Or how knowest thou O Man whether thou shalt save thy Wife It is spoken in the Case of Unbelievers where one was an Unbeliever and the other God had Converted And in that Case the Question was Whether they were to stay one with another one being an Infidel and the other a Believer Yea saith the Apostle For what knowest thou O Wife whether thou shalt save thy Husband Or thou O Husband whether thou shalt save thy Wife And so I say What knowest thou O Child whether thou mayest save thy Brother or Sister Or thou O Servant whether thou mayest save thy Fellow-Servant And if thou be so then how vile are they that shall Malign and Oppose Scorn and Contemn any in a Family when God doth begin to work any good upon them We know it is ordinary That if the Lord begins to strike one Soul in a Family the Child or the Servant with some Work of His Spirit that they begin to Inquire after the things of God and to Entertain the things of the Gospel his Brother will scorn him or Sister or Fellow-Servant will deride him Perhaps his Master that Lov'd him before will now Hate him and be ready upon all occasions to shew Displeasure against him Yea perhaps the very Father out of whose Loyns the poor Child comes will deride him What shall we have of you now O you are grown so Precise that now you will be Spoil'd and good for nothing And so perhaps the Mother out of whose Womb it came will now Hate it But O thou wretched Parent thou shouldest rather Bless God that God begins to work in thy Family that He begins to work upon one that came out of thy Loyns for thou do'st not know but that this Child may do thy Soul goood Thou wert the means for the Natural life of it who knows but God intends to make this Child to be a means for thy Eternal Life And so wretched Master and Mistress in a Family that shall less regard a Servant when God begins to work upon their Hearts than you did before And you whom God is pleased to begin to Reveal the Blessed things of the Gospel to and to give your Hearts to Entertain them and yet you Live in wicked Families Do you Labour to be Blessings to the Family Improve what God hath given you for the good of the Family And do you Walk so as to manifest the Power of the Gospel that your Souls doth Entertain that you may Live convincingly in the Family where you Live And though they do Hate and Scorn you for the present yet with your humble Walking they may be forced to say Verily God is Working upon this Servant and God is Working upon this Child It should be the Care of Children or Servants or Wives or Husbands that live among such as are Wicked when God begins to Work upon them they must be very careful to hold forth the Glory and Beauty of the Gospel in their Lives to Convince those that they Live withal And you that are in such a Family if God doth begin to stir any in the Family do you Improve them to the uttermost you can And howsoever you may think there is little in it yet when God begins to stir the Heart of one Salvation may be come to the House and the Lord doth expect that you should Improve that Work of His upon your own Hearts or otherwise your Consciences will Terrifie you another day O I saw God working upon my Fellow-Servant or Brother or Sister but I neglected it otherwise my Soul might have had good And so much for that Note If the Son of Peace be there your Peace shall rest upon it That is upon the Family The last Note is Go saith Christ and into whatsoever House or City you enter do thus and thus And if the Son of Peace be there your Peace shall rest upon it That is You shall be made an Instrument of good unto them so as to bring the glorious Peace of the Gospel unto them From whence the Note is this That it is a great Encouragement to the Ministers of the Gospel to think what abundance of good they may do if God shall be but pleased to Bless their Ministry Christ did foretel both His Disciples and Apostles that they were like to have hard Work of it in the Carrying of His Name abroad in the World But for their Encouragement He tells them this Go your way and Preach and if there be any Son of Peace your Peace shall rest upon it As if He should say You shall be made a glorious Instrument of doing good unto them and let this be your Encouragement And indeed it is a great Encouragement for any Minister of God to Venture his very Life