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The way to peace A funeral sermon on Job 22.21. Preached upon the decease of the right honourable Elizabeth, Countess of Ranalagh. By Daniel Burgess.
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Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.
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Wing B5719; ESTC R224017
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felt the Terrors of Conscience this Peace will little need Letters of Recommendation For as those do make a real Tophet and give us Fire and Brimstone to drink this Peace maketh a very Paradise and gives us of the Wine which is drank in the Kingdom of God Wine that maketh merry indeed and in nothing terrified Because as no Winds save those in its own Bowels can ever move the Earth no Troubles but those within a Man 's own Heart can ever break it Now it 's the Royalty of God as King to make War and Peace and of God as Judg to speak either Trouble or Comfort Wherefore Conscience as a Subject and as an Officer must hear what God saith and speak Peace when he doth And Blessed are they who hear its joyful sound Unto them is given also Peace with Creatures When Man rebelliously took up Arms against God the Creatures loyally turn'd to fight against Man It became them as Subjects to espouse the Quarrel of their Soveraign And as his Host or Army to fight his Battels all of them in their Courses This they did accordingly from the first and this they still do From the highest Cherubin to the poorest Worm and very inanimate Particle of the Creation all stand in Battel-array against us till we lay down our Arms against their Lord and ours But upon our Reconciliation to God their War is ended Angels Love us all the rest do some way serve us none do Hurt us The Stones of the Field and the Beasts are Friends again with us and that confirmed by a League Job 5.23 The Sucking Child may play on the Hole of the Asp and the Weaned Child put his Hand on the Cockatrice Den Isa 11.8 True the Tamest of them may Wound us by accident and the Wildest be our Death by their natural Fierceness but neither of them shall ever break their League and Hurt us The King who commissioneth them engageth that they shall do nothing but what shall turn to our Good Rom. 8.28 Insomuch that a Man Acquainted with God dwells safe from fear of Evil while he lives in the Place of Dragons Prov. 1. ult Nor is this all there remains Peace with Death which considered in a natural Respect is a Rending asunder Soul and Body the things whose Union is the nearest and dearest in all the Creation And considered in a Penal respect is Casting into the Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels for what less is Sin 's Wages which is Death's common Name In both respects it will be acknowledged to be a King of Terrors A Dread Soveraign to all over whom it doth Reign But the King-on-Zion-Hill is He who alone doth great Wonders and for his Favourites Bindeth this King of Terrors in Chains this cruel Prince in Fetters of Iron Saying Touch not mine anonited and do my People no harm Yea not content to foil this Apolluon and destroyer as an Enemy He changeth its Nature and makes it a very Friend unto his Friends Death is Yours saith the Apostle to such that is your Friend and Servant Thus Catholick is the blessed Peace that we speak of with God above with Conscience within with all the Creatures in this World and with Death our Exodus or going out of the World Another Property of it is this 2. It is a Fruitful Peace All manner of Fruit it bears Fruit of Praise unto God and of Profit unto Men and of Pleasure unto God Men and Angels Hence is that Joy in Heaven made over one Creature who acquainting his Soul with God Enters into this Peace Luke 15. Yea hence it was that Jesus Christ grudged not the Blood of his Cross to purchase this Peace Blood which he would not have shed but for one of such Benefit as passeth all Vnderstanding so the Apostle speaks of this Peace and so by the foregoing Property this appears to be Wherefore I proceed 3. It is a Durable Peace If any thing Immortality must enhanse Value Everlastingness must make things of Value to be Invaluable And as for this Peace it is Eternal if Divine Truth be Inviolable Hear it speaking in Isa 54.10 The Mountains shall depart and the Hills be removed but my Kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the Covenant of my Peace be removed saith the Lord that hath Mercy on thee And in Jer. 32.40 I will make an Everlasting Covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good and I will put my Fear in their Hearts that they shall not depart from me Astonishing Grace I willnot and They shall-not This Peace is as much stronger than Adam's as God with us in our Nature is stronger than that earthly Father 4. It 's an Incomparable Peace Rarity addeth Sweetness to Honey and the good things which are not to be Matched are hard to be Rated But is this Peace to be parallel'd What did God spare one of the Angels that sinned Did He excuse one from the Chains of Darkness and restore him to Peace Was ever our God the God of a Second Peace before The Angels Peace did not Cost the Price wherewith ours was Bought It was not by the Blood of Jesus that they were made nigh to God It was their Happiness not to want a Peace-maker it is our Happiness to have one and one no less than Immanuel Wherefore consequently 5. It is an Admirable Peace Our Saviour himself doth express his great Wonder Joh. 3.16 God So Loved the World The holy Angels pry into it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with very Astonishment 1 Pet. 1.12 Astonished at the Peace which God's blessed Son died to make for rebellions Servants The Supream Judg died to make for Malefactors Never was Love like this Love it passeth all Vnderstanding And never was Peace like to this Peace the Knowledg whereof is high we cannot attain it In the Day of Judgment wherein it shall be fully Manifested God will be admired in his Saints i. e. Admired by Joying-Angels by Envying-Devils and Reprobates and by Praising-Saints themselves for the Glory of the Peace to which He advanceth them Nevertheless mistake not this as though before that Day we were to have little Peace but know that in Truth 6. It is a Present Peace also You are no sooner Acquainted with God but it is Yours You have the sure Grant of it tho you have not so soon the sweet Sense of it There is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ though their Fear be that there is nothing else to them Nor is it unworthy of notice that this is never questioned by them in their Extremities but that if they do Believe in Jesus Christ they are Justified by the Faith of Christ And if their suspected Faith be sound their Joy ought to be Vnspeakable and Full of Glory Moreover as paradoxal as it may seem I add concerning it as it is in this Life 7. It is a Joyful Peace and a Glorious So the