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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94047	A discovery of peace: or, The thoughts of the Almighty for the ending of his peoples calamities. Intimated in a sermon at Christ-church London, before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor, the right worshipfull the Aldermen; together with the worshipfull companies of the said city, upon the 24th of April, 1644. Being the solemn day of their publike Humiliation and monethly fast. By John Strickland, B.D. pastor of the church at St. Edmunds, in the city of New Sarum; a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strickland, John, 1600 or 1601-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5969; Thomason E48_5; ESTC R14414	39,755	53

26.44 45. When they he in the land of their enemies I will not cast them away n●ither will I abhorre them to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them for I am the Lord their God but I will for their sakes remember the c●venant of their Ancestors This proviso was expresly put in when God renewed his Covenant unto David and his seed that as hee would be carefull on the one hand to punish the sins of his people in case they did transgress so on the other hand he would continue his love to them and be mindfull of his covenant Ps●l 89.32 33. I will visit their transgression with the rod P●●● ●● ●2 33 ●4 and their iniquity with stripes nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my truth to fail my coven●nt will I not break His truth should fail and his covenant should be broken if his Churches calamities should not be brought unto a good end at last if her temporall afflictions should be endless or swallowed up in eternall misery but the people of God in former times have confessedly found his promise made good in this particular also as we finde in the confessions of Nehemiah N●h 9 31 Neh. 9.31 Having set forth how the Lord was driven by their sins to punish his people by giving them up into the hand of the people of the lands hee shewes us that hee did not continue their miseries upon them Nevertheless for thy great mercies sake thou didst not utterly consume them nor forsake them for thou art a gracious and mercifull God Yea it concerns the Lord to make good this covenant visibly before the world that he may be justified even in the sight of men concerning his faithfulnesse to the Church in her deliverance Secondly Gods mercie is the great attribute which is finally to be magnified and set up in his dispensations toward the Church as his wrath is to be in his dispensations toward his enemies which are called the Vessels of Wrath as his people are called Vessels of Mercie In all which dispensations he so carrieth intervenient occurrencies that at length they shall serve to further the glorifying of that attribute mainly intended whatsoever they may seem to doe in our apprehensions for the present as * Parcendo malis ita justus es secundum t● non secundum nos si●ut mis●rtus es s●cundum n●● non s●cund●m 〈◊〉 Anselm an Ancient speakes of God sparing the wicked though he seem to be mercifull to them in our sense he is not so to them in his own intentions therein But that sparing them shall further glorifie his justice upon them at length The like we may speak of his afflicting of his beloved people it shall turne in the end to the advancing of his mercie as it did in David by his 01 own confession It is good for me that I have been afflicted So then we may be confident upon this ground that the end of the Churches troubles shall be such as mercie may rejoyce in and be magnified by and such as we may mark for good as assuredly as the Prophet doth the end of the perfect and upright man Psal 37 37. Psal 37.37 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace His life may be troublesome but his death shall bee comfortable as the Israelites through a crooked tedious wildernes came to the promised land at last Moses said of their journey in that wildernesse it was to try them As the Gold-smith puts his metall into the Furnace that it may come out the purer so the Lord dealt with his Church therin that he might bring her forth of trouble to his mind set her according to her desire at last so saith the Prophet Psal 60.10 11 12. Thou O God hast proved us thou hast tried us as silver is tried thou broughtest us into the ne● Psal 60.10 11 12. thou laidest affliction upon our loyns thou causedst men to ride over our heads we went through fire and through water but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place where we have the Church raising up her apprehensions of Gods present mercies to a highher pitch by reflecting upon the dangers through which she came to enjoy th●m however shee was neere shipwrack she is now not onely as a ship in safe harbour but as on shore in a pleasant countrey Some speciall benefits in which the Churches troubles shall end c. We see then in the generall the Churches troubles shall end well but what kinds of good may be expected or hoped for as the fruit of them we have not seen I shall therefore in the next place briefly point at some particular good ends which we may hope and expect God will bring his Church unto by her afflictions First the refining of the Church herselfe which was intimated before by trying her as silver is tried in the Psalmist while she is in afflictions she is as metall in the furnace which comes out severed from the drosse at length the frequent allegories of washing and purging in Scripture to this purpose I forbeare we will only take notice of the Prophets expression Mal. 3.17 18. Mal. 3.17 And they shall bee mine in that day when I make up my Jewels then shall yee disc●rne between the righteous and the wicked The Lord had been working upon them as a Refiners fire and Full●rs sope in the former part of the chapter by afflicting his people he had been cutting and polishing his jewels that he might render them Oriently beautifull and at last he strings them and makes them up to preserve them as his peculiar Treasure in his Cabinet wherein he placeth nothi●g but things of price Reformation then of the Church whereby the holy seed shall be the substance thereof Isai 6.12 Isai 6.12 is one great good may be expected as the end of the Churches miseries and afflictions Secondly the just punishment of the wicked whereby the righteousness and power of God shall be much exalted as they were upon Ph●raoh for which Moses indited a God-exalting song and God himself is pleased to hold out this as an incouragement to his people to be patient in their afflictions that when God hath done his work upon his people by the Assyrian Isai 10.12 he will punish him Isa 10.12 Nay he will destroy him Verse 25. Yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction for the incouragement of a reforming childe the father will throw the rod wherewith he was corrected into the fire and this shall be so expected an end of the Churches calamities that the people of God sh●ll rejoyce to see the Lord so jealous for them to avenge the innocent blood of his servants so the Lord calls upon them Deut. 32.43 Rejoyce Deut. 32.43 O yee nations with his people for he will avenge