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A48928 A memorial of Gods judgments, spiritual and temporal, or, Sermons to call to remembrance first preached and now published for publick benefit / by Nic. Lockier ... Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685. 1671 (1671) Wing L2797; ESTC R19409 116,705 258

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or displeased We must dye said one of the Heathen so say I whether God be pleased or displeased with us to speak with reverence we must believe as the Cananitish Woman did when Christ called her Dog or else we sinck and perish Vse 4 Wherefore my last Use is to exhort you to seek this grace of faith that you may be able to believe God because of his own Word Job 4.41 And so to set your Seal to his Word and Works and by this be able to espy light in darkness which God is most ready to give Righteousness shall go before him and he shall set us in the way of his steps Psal 85. ult Truth shall spring out of the Earth and Righteousness shall look down from Heaven which words surely point at Christ and the Gospel by which God trains up sinners to believe in him to their Salvation in this World and in the World to come God preached Christ to Adam and taught him to take hold of him to his temporal and eternal Salvation Adam named his Wife Eva or Life And the promise is that we shall all i.e. Jew and Gentile be taught of God to this thing to glorifie the word of the Lord that is the essential word Christ and the written word the Scriptures God taught Noah to build the Ark concerning which one thing is most remarkable that the Door into the Ark was in the lowest story and so was under Water all the time of the Flood which surely was done on purpose to make and exercise faith purely in him which shut him in Seek faith in this height which my Text and Doctrin spake of 1 That you may be able in the greatest darkness to make light and sight The Jews in their daunces would say Blessed be thou O my Youth which hast not shamed my old Age and these were called Men of Performances Others would say Blessed be thou my old Age which hast gain-said my Youth and these were called Men of repentance Both would say Blessed is he that hath not sin'd and he that hath sinn'd and is pardoned Seek such a faith that thus you may see cause to bless God in every condition in Youth in Age in sickness in health when down and when risen again when you do not sin and when you do sin as being able to apprehend Christ and your pardon Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned blessed is he to whom the Lord will not impute sin surely his Salvation is neer them that fear him that gl●ry may dwell in our Land mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other Psal 58.9 10. What this kissing of Righteousness and Peace means you may see Vers 2. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy People thou hast cover'd all their sin Selah The Psalmist by faith saw peace in Heaven towards the Lords People and that peace i e. All good should be on Earth to them also which keeps the heart in a ready chearful frame to serve God and to bless him in every state and therefore such a faith should be sought for Watch to preserve your faith who have this grace of graces How careful we are to preserve our eyes and much more to preserve our lives Faith is your best eyes by which you are able to look out of every hill into Heaven and faith is your best life by this we live spiritually and by this we have all the joy of our life that is worth any thing He that never saw the rejoyceing of drawing of Water never saw joy in all his life saith the Jewes so he that never saw the joy of faith which is called unspeakable and full of glory never saw joy in all his life and therefore you that have this faith and the great and unspeakable benefit of it preserve it all you can and make no shipwrack of faith and conscience and there you save all though you lose all beside Hence it is that David begs that God would draw out his loving kindness to them that knew him and his righteousness to the upright in heart with thee is the Fountain of Life and in thy light we shall see light Psal 36.9 10. By which he means that God would more reveal Christ to him in his word and works for the better establishing of every grace and thus let us p●nt all our days that in his light we may see light and have our faith and integrity preserved for they live and dye together He that did bring the World by the Flood in o●ics first Chaos covered all with VVater he can and is ready to bring our fa●len state by Christ the greatest piece of which is unbelief to some degree of restoration and bear up the Pillars thereof faith and every grace and all by his own hand And he that enabled Noah in Seven Days to furnish the Ark with all Creatures for a whole Year both for nourishment an● for sacr fice to weather it in all that dark time he can quickly inable us to store our Souls in this dark day with every grace to weather well this evil time and to stand compleat in all the will of God The Motives which may be used are these your own matters are or may be suddenly very dark most Mens sun claps in in this hour and every one either in point of estate or liberty or life begineth to walk in the Vally of the shadow of Death it would be well now in such times to have such a frame of spirit to keep up and to fear none ill to be able to say as David The Lord is my light and my Salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid though an Host encamp against me my heart shall not fear though War should rise against me in this will I be confident for in time of trouble he shall hide me in his Pavilion in the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me and now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about Psal 27.1 2 3 Many Clouds are up and more still arising and some are already over-shadowing you Would it not be well if you were able indeed to say thus Though Wa●s be though Famine though Pestilence though Imprisonment Banishment yet in all these will I be confident over these shall I be a Conqueror for in the times of these troubles the Lord will hide me and it may be now as dark and as dismal as things look shall my head be lifted up above all mine enemies round about God promised after the Flood was over that Day and Night should no more cease Gen. 8 22. which intimateth saith one upon that place that during the Forty Days Rain which made the Flood that the Day was as it were ceased and turned into Night by the great and thick Clouds and Tempests which were all over the World and Clouds and Darkness are usually