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The great treaty of peace: or, A serious exhortation upon a sad occasion to double diligence about making peace with God Part whereof was preached at the funeral of Mrs. Anne Kyrl, April 6. 1677. To which is added, the character of that worthy gentlewoman. By H. S. minister of the Gospel.
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to shine upon me for the Lords sake v. 19. O Lord hear O Lord gorgive O Lord hearken and do and defer not for thine own sake And as Jeremiah ch 14. 7. O Lord though mine iniquities testifie against me do thou it for thy name sake for my backslidings are many I have sinned against thee And again v. 21. Do not abhor me for thy name sake 4. Get some Abraham Moses or Samuel some Noah Daniel or Job to pray make intercession for you The prayers of such are prevailing Gen. 20. 7. He is a Prophet and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live Accordingly v. 17. Abraham prayed and God heard So Job 42. 8. My Servant Job shall pray for you for him will I accept Gods wrath was kindled against Eliphaz and his two Friends Job 42. 7. And Job is to be imployed as Gods special Favourite to offer up Sacrifice and to pray for them and so to make reconciliation between God and them The prayer of a Man of God may do much 1 Kings 13. 6. Jeroboam put out his hand against the Prophet and God dried it up so that he could not pull it in again to him And the Man of God besought the Lord and the Kings hand was restored again 5. Set Faith awork in the satisfaction and mediation of Christ He is our High Priest whose Office it is to make attonement Numb 16. 47. Christ was in all things made like to his Brethren that he might be a merciful and a faithful Highpriest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the People Heb. 2. 17. 'T is by his death that we are reconciled to God Rom. 5. 10. and v. 11. We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the Attonement Let him take hold of my strength saith God Isa 27. 5. that he may make peace with me By strength some understand the mercy of God in Christ Let him take hold of this by Faith and he shall make peace with me 6. To all this add a day of humiliation and soul-affliction which is called a day of Attonement Lev. 23. 27. Christ told his Disciples that some Devils went not out but by prayer and fasting Mat. 17. 21. and Mar. 9. 29. He said unto them this kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting Now it may be God may be so greatly displeased that he will not be at peace with us until we have greatly humbled our selves Set apart a day therefore and set about this work sure Peace and Reconciliation with God is well worth a day yea days of Humiliation Thus do and do it with speed without further delay 1. The present day is the day of Salvation 2 Cor. 6. 2. Now is the day of Salvation and Heb. 3. 15. 7. The Holy Ghost saith To day if ye will hear his voice 2. Good purposes are often lost if not presently put in execution as Felix's were Acts 24. 25. Go thy way saith he to Paul for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee but that season was long a coming 'T is just with God to deny thee a future day that acceptest not the present 4. Time is short and the very next day very uncertain We are apt to promise our selves a long time to come whereas we know not what shall be on the morrow Jam. 4. 14. And therefore do as Moses bade Aaron do Numb 16. 46. Go quickly and make an attonement And as Solomon advised a surety for another to do Prov. 6. 3 4 5. Give no sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eye-lids till thou hast made thy peace with God And as our Saviour adviseth to do when a Brother is offended Mat. 5. 25. Agree with thine Adversary quickly So let us do Speedily quickly apply your selves to the use of the forementioned means to obtain peace and reconciliation with God Think it not enough to read or hear these Directions or to talk of them unless you practise them I am sure you think it not enough to read or hear directions for the health of your Bodies unless you practise them Give me leave therefore to ask you Will you practise these directions or not Motives to follow the Directions given and to use the means prescribed for the obtaining of Peace and Reconciliation with God 1. THE Happiness of a Reconciled Estate 2. The Misery of an Unreconciled Estate 1. The happiness of a reconciled estate which will appear to be very great if you shall well consider 1. That God will be a friend to such as are in a reconciled estate whoever be enemies to them God will be their friend God will be for them whoever be against them And if God be on their side and take their part they need not fear Ps 118. 6 7. The Lord is on my side I will not fear what can man do unto me 2. That to whom once he is a Friend to them he will be a friend for ever The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peace or my covenant of peace as Ezek. 37. 26. be removed Isa 54. 10. Although sight hearing speech depart from me said one yet Gods loving kindness shall never depart Somewhat like that of David Ps 73. 26. My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever God may visit his Friends and such as are at peace with him with the Rod nevertheless his loving kindness he will not utterly take from them nor suffer his faithfulness to fail Ps 89 33. Whom he loves he loves to the end Joh. 13. 1. 3. That he will be a friend with all that he Is Has Can do and procure if for their good He will be a friend to those that be at peace with him 1. With all that he is and he is all I am is his Name He is a Sun and a Shield Ps 84. 11. He is a Rock a Fortress a Deliver a Buckler a Rock a High Tower Ps 18. 2. 2. With all that he has Now he has Strength Prov. 8. 14. Counsel and Understanding Job 12. 13. 3. With all that he can do Now he can do whatsoever pleaseth him Ps 135. 6. Eccles 8. 3. He can furnish a Table in the Wilderness he can give bread and provide flesh Ps 78. 19 20. 4. That God takes pleasure and delight in such rejoyces over them as a Bridegroom rejoyceth over the Bride Isa 62. 5. Rejoycing over them with joy with singing Zeph. 3 17. See Cant. 4. 7 9 10. and 7. 6 10. O how well-pleased was the Father of the Prodigal with his returning Son He falls upon his neck and kisses him Luke 15. 20. In truth reconciled persons are the travel of Christs Soul Isa 53. 11. And you see how Mothers delight in those Children they have had hardest