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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

with the Prophet Isaiah what complaints Isa 6. 5. to 8. he makes of his unfitnesse for the office and imployment of a Prophet Woe is me saith he I am undone because I am a man of uncleane lips God doth but assure him that his sinnes were pardoned and how ready is he and forward to the worke v. 6. one of the Seraphims touched his lips with a coale from the Altar that is he was toucht by that Spirit of grace and life Rom. 8. 1. Heb. 1● 1● which is in Christ our Altar whereby as the Apostle sayes we are made free from the Law of sinne and death and sayes unto him thy iniquity is taken away and thy sinne purged then when God cryes whom shall I send and who will goe for us here am I sayes the Prophet send me See what a pardon does to fit us for the work of God not that now he began to be a Prophet or that now his sinnes were first pardoned but this fresh evidence of pardon gave to him a new strength and courage to the work Another instance we have of this in Saul and David Saul was a man of the goodliest person and for gifts of nature was the likeliest of all the men of Israel to make a King and such a King as should deliver Israel from oppression by his enemies he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders upward 1 Sam 10. 23. the testimony that Samuell gave of him was this see him whom the Lord hath chosen that there is none like him among all the people v. 24. He was a man of such hopes and Samuel himselfe had such expectations what God would doe for Israel by his hand as we see how he mourns for Saul when God had cast him off But this mans sinnes were never pardoned he never made his peace with God in all his life and how ill the work of God succeeded in his hands he does his work to halves God sends him to destroy Amalek against whom he had an ancient quarrell Saul spares Agag Exod. 17. 16. and the fattest of the cattell Israel in the time of his reigne was brought to such a bondage to the Philistines as that there was not found a Smith in Israel and 1 Sam. 12. 6. 19. the people hid themselves in caves in thickets and in rocks and high places it is true at the beginning of his reigne something he did but yet if Saul slew his thousands David his ten thousands and what was David a man but of a slight appearance in comparison but a man after Gods own heart one that had 1 Sam 13. 14. Ps 63 1. his sinnes pardoned and could say O God thou art my God and of Gods favour that it was better than life to his soule he slayes Goliah with a sling and a stone 1 Sam. 17. when Saul stands trembling in his tent and how did he prosper against the enemies of God throughout his reigne Well this David breakes his peace with God and then how feeble and how weake he growes that sinne in the matter of Vriah he confesses broke his bones Ps 51. 8. Againe at ver 12. see what he saies Restore to me the joy of thy Salvation and establish me with thy free Spirit then will I teach transgressours thy wayes and sinners shall be converted to thee David was a Prophet but he could not teach the wayes of God untill the joy of Gods Salvation was restor'd him The joy of the Lord is our strength Nehem. 8. 10. Now in handling this Point however that in my Text from whence it riseth be an instance onely of a warre that Israel under-tooke for God yet I shall not there confine my selfe but insist upon it in the generall as it is a truth in any case whatever nor shall I so desert my Text not onely because the truth is universall and holds paralell in all cases wherein we appeare for God but also because as the Nation of the Iewes was a type of the Churches of the Gospell so such like passages of providence and dealings with that people have in them much of the mind of God about the most spirituall affaires of the Churches of the New Testament as we see the Apostle Paul applies that great Deliverance of the people out of Aegypt at the red-Sea and in the Wildernesse to the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 10. 1. Therefore I say I shall handle it as that which holds true in any worke we undertake for God it prospers b●st with those whose peace is made with him For the further clearing of it take first one demonstration that it is a truth then I shall give the Reasons whence it comes to passe That it is a truth appeares in this because a man not reconciled to God ere long growes weary of his worke The house upon the Sand our Saviour saies will fall and the stonie Mat. 7. 26 Mat. 13. 20. ground that is an heart wherein there is no through worke of grace will bring forth fruit but for a season Sooner or later at least in some degree of Apostasy a man unsound falls off from God The ways of the Lord are right and the Righteous walke in them but Hos 14. 9. the Transgressours shall fall therein which is an evidence his worke did never kindly prosper in his hands that is one cause of all Apostasyes when men will doe for God and what they doe comes off with losse and disadvantage For instance when a man will pray but looses of the tendernesse of his heart by prayer or heares the word and for a season heares with joy yet is the worse for hearing or ventures himselfe for God in standing for his cause and every time with lesse content and comfort in his venture in every duty driving still the Christians trade to losse what followes upon this At last he is discourag'd quite and saith in his heart that he shall not doe good upon the way turns Apostate and fals away from God Looke into mens Apostasyes you 'l find this still hath been one cause thereof Despaire is ever an ingredient in that sinne and that arises partly from such like experiments What is said of God in that he does for man in his conversion and salvation is true of us in that we doe for God Heb. 10. 38. If any man draw backe sayes Heb. 10. 38. God my soule shall have no pleasure in him Hee speakes it of such persons who come forward kindly in conversion unto such a pitch and then fall off Now saies the Apostle thus it is with Christ in this particular A man that is as it were betwixt his hands in fashioning and moulding to salvation so long as he comes kindly on in his conversion Christ takes pleasure in him and rejoyces over the worke of his owne hands upon his soule but if he prove a knotty peece that comes not forward in the worke resisting still the Holy