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A80759	Light in darknesse: discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, November 24. 1647. being the day of their publick fast. / By William Carter, minister of the Gospel. Published by order from that House.	Carter, William, 1605-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1648 (1648)	Wing C680; Thomason E416_29; ESTC R204499	20,093	37

where were fiery Serpents Scorpions and drought then caused many thousands of them there to perish All this he did in answer unto prayer Exod. 3. 7 8. and upon the whole it was for their advantage Deut. 32. 10. He led him about instructed him and kept him as the apple of his eye Another most remarkable return of prayer was the coming of the Lord Christ in flesh Malac. 3. 1. The Lord whom yee seek shall suddenly come into his Temple but who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth For he is like a Refiners fire and like Fullers sope Therefore is the day of his coming called a terrible day Malac. 4. 5. Behold I will send Eliah the Prophet that is John the Baptist Matth. 17. 12. before the great and dreadfull day of the Lord. Called again the great and terrible day of the Lord Joel 2. 31. applied also to the first coming of Christ by Peter Acts 2. 16. 21. so called partly because his coming put his people to such hard things in the world though Christ is sweet his Refiners fire is very terrible Would you have an higher instance yet Then take that of Christ himselfe he prayes his Father for his glory John 17. 1. Father glorifie thy Sonne His Father grants it gave him a name Phil. 2. 9. above all names set him at his right hand a Prince and Acts 5. 31. a Saviour where is fulnesse of joy and pleasures for evermore Psa 16. 11. But ought not Christ to suffer and so to enter into his glory Yes thus he answered the Lord Christ himselfe by terrible things such things as made him cry so to his Father thrice and that with teares O my Father if it be possible let this cup passe from me and why hast thou forsaken me And as Christ is the pattern to which his brethren are to be conformed Rom. 8. 29. so in answering them he makes them also many times cry out as forsaken and Father let this cup passe let that passe from us Prayer makes work for prayer the Lord in answering one bespeakes many he will be sought to for his blessings and because he loves to heare his Spouse and saith her voyce is sweet he will not suffer Cant 2. 14 a dispatch by one but many wrastlings Iacob had prayed for his return in his return he prayes Gen. 32. 9. yet was he put again to wrastle vers 24. And for a further proofe of the point in hand observe that when he gets the fullest answer conquers God himselfe yet so as he was touched in the hollow of his thigh and that put out of joynt Another place for this purpose is Psalm 18. which is to be understood not of David onely but of the whole Church of God a Cum David typum gerat Christi Ecclesiae rectè etiam ad certamina victorias Christi atque adeo ad totius Ecclesiae militiam in hac vita accommodatur hic Psalmus à Pau●● ab aliis interpretibus Moler in Psal 18. as it is applied by the Apostle Rom. 15. 9. where he cites those words of this Psalm v. 49. Therefore will I give thankes to thee O God among the heathen to prove that the Church of God among the Gentiles should praise his name Now for our purpose see what David or the Church of God saith vers 6. In my distresse I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God he heard my voice out of his temple then the earth shook and trembled the foundation also of the hils moved and were shaken because he was wroth There went up a smoke out of his nostrils fire out of his mouth devoured he bowed the heavens also and came down and darknes was under his feet He made darknes his secret place the Lord also thundred in the heavens and the highest gave his voice All these are metaphoricall b Allegoricè hic locus debet necessario capi quia praeterquam quod hoc Davidi evenisse in scripturis non legitur non agic hic propheta de singula●i aliqua liberatione seorsim sed de omnibus è manu omnium immicorum suorum vers 1. A 〈…〉 san 〈◊〉 expressions whereby is set forth what terrible things God doth in the world in answer to his peoples prayers so terrible as that when the answer comes the Saints themselves are in the dark as touching his proceedings even when he bowes the heavens and comes down amongst us that is shewes himselfe in his glory in our deliverance Darknesse c Caligo sub pedibus ejus id est quod opera viae ejus cognosci non possunt Luther Reas 1. is under his feet as the Psalmist also saith in a like case Psal 73. 16. I thought to understand this i e. his dealing with him but it was too painfull for me The reason is given because the Lord had answered him in such a dreadfull way when the wicked prosper sayes he all the day long am I plagued and chastened every morning The reason why he answeres thus is Because what God doth for his people take one thing with another is still in order to the crucifying of the flesh and what more terrible than such a death We pray for pleasing things as we imagine but as we are flesh as well as spirit so the flesh hath still a part in every prayer what we beg is partly carnall and upon the matter in part we begge we know not what Now the answer as it comes from God take all together is spirituall which is a crucifying thing to sinfull flesh hence comes in all the terrour The two sonnes of Zebedee desire of Christ preferment in his kingdome Matth. 20. 20. this for the main was a good request but see what Christ sayes to it v. 22. You know not what you ask not that in his kingdome are no proferments or that they were altogether sinfull in that petition there was a spirit of faith in Christ and love unto him breathing in it but they were partly carnall in what they begged therfore they understood not at what rate it must be granted our Saviour therefore addes Are yee able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of and to be baptized with the baptisme that I am baptized with intimating clearly that they thought they beg'd a pleasing thing but that the answer would be terrible to flesh and blood you see the reason they were partly carnall in their suit the answer would be spirituall when it came Many fastings and prayers have been in these our dayes formerly for setting up the throne of Christ amongst us God wil answer rhat request it is his promise Psa 2. but in wayes it may be more spirituall then we are apt to think This mkes his answer in that very thing not pleasing even to those who beg'd it of him You pray for pardon that is a pleasing thing yet

Light in Darknesse DISCOVERED In a Sermon preached before the Honourable House of COMMONS November 24. 1647. being the day of their publick Fast By WILLIAM CARTER Minister of the Gospel Published by Order from that House PSAL. 97. 2. Clouds and Darknesse are round about him JOHN 1. 5. The Light shineth in Darknesse LONDON Printed By M. Simmons for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1648. To the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS In Parliament assembled IN this discourse you have the method of the Lords proceedings in making his people happy A Theam deserving a far better skill than mine to handle and your most earnest thoughts and study the rather since his case therein is also yours The things belonging to our peace are seldom rightly known either as they come from him or you therefore we oft repine and murmure where we should returne our thanks praises what he calls Light and Life we often say is Death and Darknesse Thus also things of peace safety by you provided for us apt we are to call by other names The Lord himself is therefore your example and what you expect from others hee requires of you a candid interpretation and acceptance of his actions though whilst he answereth your prayers in righteousnes his answers for the present be displeasing to you He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men yet if he answer any thing conducing to our peace it must be somewhat of that kind because his thoughts are not as ours nor his ways as our ways the light therefore is his the darknes ours In these our dayes if ever still hath been a time for faith this way to work And you shall honour Christ as much by trusting him in darknesse as by working for him while 't is day To strengthen your hands in both hath in this Sermon which now also from the Presse at your command is humbly offered to you been the care and study of Your humble and affectionate servant in the Gospel W. CARTER Light in Darknesse PSAL. 65. 5. By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are afar off upon the Sea IN the words before my Text we have the blessednesse of the Saints enjoyed by them as dwellers in Gods House Blessed is the man whom thou chusest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy Courts we shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy House even of thy holy Temple The blessings frō God whereby his Saints are satisfied are therefore called the goodnesse of his House because they are obtained by seeking God which is the work and service of it Mark 11. 17. Is it not written saith Christ my House shall be called of all Nations the House of Prayer His people are his House Heb. 3. 6. therefore a praying people The Psalmist therefore also in relation unto what he had to say of the goodnesse of his House speaks to God under that title vers 2. O thou that hearest prayer to thee shall all flesh come In my text we have the manner how the Lord is pleased to answer the desires of his people and that in two things 1. In respect of the things obtained God will answer them 1 By terrible things 2 In righteousnesse how terrible soever the things are that is 1 They shall not be without desert Psal 99. 8. Thou answeredst them O Lord our God thou wast a God that forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions 2 His people shall not lose but gain thereby for all is done in answer unto their petitions 2. In respect of the giver of them 1 As a God of their salvation will he do it By terrible things in righteousnes wilt thou answer us ô God of our salvation They shal be as the morning cloud saith God of his people Israel Hos 13. 3. and as the early dew that passeth away as the chaff that is driven with a whirlewind out of the floore and as the smoke out of the chimney yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt and thou shalt know no God but me for there is no saviour besides me 2 As such a God of salvation who is the confidence of all his people Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are afar off upon the sea How terrible soever his answer be his people shall have cause to trust him still The words thus opened I may give you the sum of them in these two conclusions 1. That by terrible things the Lord answereth the prayers of his people 2. That how terrible soever his answers he yet all is done in righteousnesse and he a Go● of their salvation still in what he doth and the confidence of all his Saints and children I shall speak to both chiefly I shall insist upon the former in handling whereof I shall touch upon the other The point of Doctrine then is this That by terrible Doctrine things the Lord answereth his peoples prayers As the heavens heare the earth and that as well by hasty Hosea 2. 21. showres and stormes as by a gentle rain and as 1 Cor 15. the earth heare the corn yet that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die so the Lord heares his people yet many times in wayes not pleasing to them at the present O God thou art terrible out of thy holy pl 〈…〉 saith David Psal 68. ●5 What are these 〈…〉 es but where God is said to heare his people Psal 3. 4. I cried unto the Lord with my voice he heard me out of his holy ●ill Psal 18. 6. In my distresse I called upon the Lord he heard my voice out of his temple Now as there is comfort from these holy places so is he terrible from thence that not onely to his enemies but also to his people Thence is that speech of Moses Exod. 15. 11. that he is glorious in holinesse fearfull in praises doing wonders A great return of prayer was his carrying Israel out of Egypt into Canaan I have heard their cry saith God and am come down to deliver them to bring them to a land flowing with milk and honey Exod. 3. 7 8. But he did it so as many a time he made all their hearts to ake witnesse their afflictions multiplied ere they got out their sad condition by the sea their bitter expostulations and complaints against Moses Were there no graves in Egypt c. Exod. 14. 11. With reference to this the Lords answering his people thus Moses hath that passage in his song Glorious in holinesse fearfull in praises Consider also his proceedings with them afterward he could have brought them to the mountain of his holinesse in few dayes he leads them through a great and terrible Deut. 18. 15. wildernesse