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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

directions Directions First let a man consider and look into the justnesse of the hand of God on his people on us If there be any thing thou canst chalenge God of injustice for then thou hast leave to fret and to bee impatient but when all that God brings on thee or on the Nation or on the Church is most just so that God is righteous in all that hee brings on us there is no place for impatiencie Why doth the living man complain saith the Prophet a man for the punishment of his sins 3. Lam. 39. As if he should say Lam. 3.39 It is right that a man should suffer for his sinne With this it is that the Church stops her own mouth in 7. Micah 9. I will beare the indignation of the Lord Micha 7.9 because I have sinned And for our parts we have nothing to say God is so righteous in all he hath brought upon us though our calamities be grievous we may see as in a glasse set before us both the provocations and the calamities of our deare countrey in what God most justly threatned against Israel Deut. 28.47 to 52. if we read 28. Deut. from the 47. verse to the 52. verse Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulnesse and with gladnesse of heart for the abundance of all things therfore shalt thou serve thy enemy which the Lord thy God shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakednes in want of all things and he shall put a yoke of Iron on thy neck till he have destroyed thee the Lord shall bring a Nation against thee from farre from the end of the earth as swift as the Eagle flieth a Nation whose tongues thou shalt not understand a Nation of fierce countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shew favour to the young And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattell and the fruit of thy Land untill thou be destroyed And he also shall not leave thee either corn or wine or oyle or the increase of thy kine or fl●ckes of thy sheep untill he have destroyed thee I may say this day is this Scripture fulfilled not in our eares only but in our experience and in our feares also Secondly looke on eternitie beyond present afflictions the Apostle found it an excellent remedy to set together in comparison the life to come and the glory of it with this life and its miseries 8. Rom. 18. Rom. 8.18 I reckon that the sufferings of this present life are not worthy of the glory that shall be revealed And you may see more clearly in 2 Co● 4 16 2 Cor. 4 16. to the end of the chapter how excellently this prestle Why Because we looked not upon things temporall wee looked on things eternall What is it to lose a house an estate or case or pleasure or fine cloathe● What is it to lose all these If we look on things eternall an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven if we look upon things farre more excellent and that eternall weight of glory Thirdly learn to live by faith upon a promise to live upon a promise yet unfilled there is a quintessence and an excellent substance in a promise made by God to support the heart though it be not yet fulfilled And faith h●th an excellent vertue to extract and bring to present enjoyment that which is virtualy in the promise to comfort and strength then the spirit Faith hath if I may so speake a kind of creating power and can make a man to enjoy that this day that shall not be actually accomplished it may be many yeares hence by giving a subsistance to things future and an evidence to things invisible Heb. 11.1 11. Heb. 1. Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen This is an excellencie of faith That it brings all things to the present enjoyment of a beleever even things that are past many yeares agoe and all forgotten Faith I say is able to bring them back againe to a Christians present use and comfort And things that are on the other side farre off to come Faith can foresee and as by a perspective present them to the soule as if in being We should therefore labour to live by faith as it is promised Heb. 10.38 The just live by faith Heb. 10.38 And as we see the Martyrs did Heb. 11.13 Heb. 11.13 They looked on the promises afarre off and were perswaded of them before they came unto them And as Abraham who enjoyed Christ in a promise Joh. 8.56 Joh. 8.56 He saw my day and rejoyced he saw it by faith and rejoyced in heart as if he had seen it with the eyes of his body So that there is an excellent Art in Faith if I may so call it to support the heart of man in time trouble that if we would make use of it we should be so strengthened in the day of our calamitie that we should not sink Come we now to the words of the Text wherein the Prophet having bridled their too hasty expectation of deliverance in so short a time as the false Prophets pretended he goeth about to uphold their faith that they may wait for deliverance till the appointed time to which purpose First hee sheweth them the ground whereupon they may build their patience and their hope of deliverance in due time verse 11. Secondly he sheweth them the meanes whereby their deliverance hoped for may be accomplished vers 12.13 I shall undertake onely the former The ground the groond whereupon the Prophet builds their expectation Gods thoughts concerning which the Prophet holds out two things First the manner how these thoughts are carried I know the thoughts that I think towards you saith the Lord. Secondly the matter or the result of his thoughts what it is that God intendeth to bring to passe in those thoughts namely To give them an expected end Before I speake of the manner of the carriage of them I shall shew you what these thoughts are then how these thoughts of God are carried Gods thoughts in Scripture principally signifie two things Sometimes they are taken for Gods everlasting counsels and determinations that are secret So 33. Psal The counsell of the Lord standeth for ever and the thoughts of his heart to generations Psal 33.11 Eò sua consiliaretulerat I know my thoughts that is to say I know that in my counsels and secret determinations Non prius de illorum ●xilio quam de illoram l●bertate cogitavit Sanctius I am resolved for your deliverance in due time And Sanctius observeth and resolveth upon these words that God did no sooner think of or purpose their bondage in Babylon then he did purpose their deliverance and freedome from that captivitie Sometimes Gods thoughts are taken for his word his revealed will or promises Gods thoughts concerning the Babylonish captivitie