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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

our Saviour Christ is the vvisdome of the Father that makes him so able for his undertakings In a degree it holds also true in you Honourable and Worthy Senatours vvhom God hath called to be Saviours of this Kingdome the Reason's cleare you must doe it for many that vvill ill requite you ingreatefull and unworthy persons such as consider not your faithfulnesse nor travell nay even for such as vvill revile you and reproach your actions for base minded men that will doe nothing for themselves thus doth Christ and thus must you Now vvhat vvisedome is here requisite vvhereby in the face of such discouragements in patience to possesse your soules Looking beyond these things and so discerning how the time vvill be that those very mouthes vvhich now are opened against you vvill speake of your renown and praise 2 Cor. 4. 17. how the child unborne shall blesse God for you And how these afflictions which are but for a moment worke for you a farre more exceeding and eternall waite of glory In the meane time carrying matters so as not to give offence to God nor so to lose vvith man as to lose the cause here I say is wisdome thus to possesse your selves vvith patience therefore the Apostle having made his exhortation to let patience have Jam. 1 4 5 a perfect worke addes in the next words If any of you want wisdome let him aske of God Wisdom alwayes is the mother of such a daughter Now doe but consider vvhat advantage is in point of vvisdome in a pardon and in peace with God and this second Reason of the point vvill also be exceeding cleare You see here Israel having made his peace with him found out a stratagem against the Benjamites vvhich before either for vvant of courage or of prudence or rather both they did not use the taking of the City by an ambush as they did Solomons wise-man so often mention'd in his Proverbes is the holy man and the wicked man is the foole not onely in point of spirituall but even of morall vvisdome Guilt upon the conscience brings confusion into the soul that brings darknesse upon the understanding A vvise man alwayes knoweth his end and scope in any businesse a vvicked man is not able to judge of his owne ends 1 Joh. 2. or aymes he walkes in darknesse sayes the Apostle and knoweth not whither he goes that is he is not able to trace the vvayes of his owne heart therefore vvicked men are said to be given over to an unjudicious mind the vvord vvhich is translated a reprobate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 1. 28 mind signifies a mind void of Iudgement And indeed this followeth upon the former a spirit of feare is never sever'd from an unsound mind 2 Tim. 1. 7. God hath not given us the spirit of feare but of power of love and of a sound minde Prov 2. 7 8. The Lord layeth up sound wisdome for the Righteous layes it up for him that is vvhen he is in straits vvhen as a man of a guilty conscience is confounded at his vvits end as vve say then hath the righteous man such quietnesse of spirit soundnesse and presence of mind as hee shall have the use of solid reason for his guide Thus God layes up sound wisdome for the righteous 3. The vvorke of God requires a man that chiefly aimes at God and at his glory in vvhat he does it cannot prosper vvith selfe-seeking men their ovvne ends vvill either byas them and turne them quite out of the way or take them off And such are those who are not reconciled to God and pardoned we Luk. 15. see it clearly in the Prodigall he was no sooner out with his Father but he became his own slave and served his own base lusts those were the swine he kept whereby to keep himself alive And in this Parable we have the state of every man not reconciled to God the reason why this is his case is this because man being but a creature must be servant unto something he is not able to subsist alone or to set up of his own stock 't is Gods prerogative alone to be independent and not to serve the happinesse of creatures lyes in service the Angells themselves would be undone without it therefore I say every man is a servant unto something and being out with God he serves himself self is the next in reason that will challenge it when God's deni'd it Now this self-love I say will spoile the work that such a man shall undertake for God Israel is an empty vine sayes God Hos 10. 1. he brings forth fruit unto himself the reason is because Gods ends and his will seldom or never stand together they runne counter and one destroyes the other This now is a third reason of the point The work of God will prosper best with such whose peace is made with him because they only are the men that make the glory of the Lord their scope in what they doe the reason is because God is the portion of that man whose sins are pardoned he can say that God whom I serve is my God my Father my hope and joy my glory my salvation he can say that God is so his own as that his best being is in God so as that which he does for himself without relation unto him he loses quite and what he doth for God or gives to him is his own still as our Saviour sayes He that saves his life shall lose it and Mat. 16. 25. he that loseth his life for my sake the same shall find it Therfore does he aime at God in all his ways and therfore doth his work thrive best with him Thus have we an account of the Reason of this point from the nature of the work Secondly We shall see as much from the enemies that will oppose it and they are principally two 1. Satan 2. The sin of a mans own heart Who ever is imploy'd for God must wrastle not only against flesh and blood but against principalities and Ephes 6. 12. powers against the rulers of the darknesse of this world against spirituall wickednesses in high places that is he shall have all the power of all the Divells in Hell against him When Iosua was poynted to as an instrument for God Satan was said to stand at his right hand to resist him Zach. 3. 1. we had come to you even once 1 Thes 2. 18. and again sayes the Apostle but Satan hindred us We may say the like such and such things had been done for God by us such and such a blessing h●d we enjoyd even once and again but Satan hindred us It is his nature to be doing mischief against God and against his work in the hands of his people therfore when he is cast out of mens hearts and so cut short in that regard he is said to be thrown down like lightning from Heaven the hearts of men is Luk. 10.