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A87212	A sermon preached at Dorchester in the county of Dorcet, at the proclaiming of His sacred Majesty Charles the II. May 15. 1660. By Gilbert Ironsyde Batchelour of Divinity, and minister of Stepleton in the said county.	Ironside, Gilbert, 1588-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing I1048; Thomason E1034_15; ESTC R209046	21,155	36

peace to his people he works it Fortiter but withall Suaviter sweetly preparing their hearts and conditions before he gives it all their high imaginations their wellings of pride and animosities must come down the strong holds of their carnall confidence must be demolished their Emulations Hatred Uncharitablenesse Revenge Bloud-thirstiness must be much abated and as so many Thornes and Briars which will choak this good seed of peace must be rooted out at least in some good measure before God will sow it amongst them When men begin suits at Law they set out with high resolutions but when tired with long journeys dishonored with servile attendances when Lawyers have sucked them on the one side and perhaps Judges have been bribed on both sides then they will come to a parley and though with some reluctancy embrace peace with both their armes it is so in all wars specially civil broiles this therefore is Gods time Lastly it is his time when people will best receive it and best use it They will best receive it when they will be most thankfull for it and most glorifie the giver else peace is not given but lost as pearls cast before swine God loves his pearls and this of peace the most inestimable jewell of the lower world better then so as in receiving so in using When God sees we will abuse his mercies 't is a mercy to keep his mercies from us We abuse them when we turn them against the giver making them instrumentall to our own lusts but when there is any hope we will use them as we ought God is more ready to give then we to receive I trust as God hath fitted and prepared us for our peace so he will also enable us both to receive and continue it amongst us and this calls me to the last part of the Text without any further application the point being so appliable of it self especially in this auditory in which every one of us is concerned follow me therefore I beseech you to the conclusion But let them not turn again to folly Sin and Folly the fool and sinner are such common Synonyma's in Scripture that being in haste and tender of your patience I may well be spared the quotations Many have spoken of the sinfullness of sin and they have done well few of the folly of sin yet perhaps this is the more necessary Doctrine and more instrumental to the conversion of a sinner For tell a naturall man what grievous abominations his sins are alas the point is too high for him or he hath wit and fancy at will to plead for his beloveds But tell him that his sins make him a fool unman him so that now he doth but insanire cum ratione he hath but reason enough to make himself a mad man this will awaken him because you deal with him upon his own principles It were therefore worth the while to shew a sinner his folly I mean the impenitent constant customer to Satan and his own lusts otherwise Stultorum omnia sunt plena we are all fools for folly is bound up in the hearts of all the Children of Adam But for the sins of weakness quotidiana incursionis the daily inrodes of frailties if detested and resisted they are not properly ours though alwaies with us and within us they be those other sinners that be the fools I will give you but some few hints which might occasion a larger Treatise A fool is a simple ignorant Creature he hath but very little of the Light that enlightens every man that cometh into the world and Aristotle a Heathen could say that Omnis peccans est ignorans every evil doer is ignorant I am sure the Apostle saith that his foolish heart is darkned and which is more that he is stark blinded by the god of this World A fool is not only void of knowledg but withall uncapable of any put him to School let him converse with knowing men except you can new make his soul or new mould his braines the fool will be a fool still O ye fools when will ye be wise The Interrogation implies a Negation as much as never The Emblematist tells you that if you put an Asse amongst generous Horses that he may learn to neigh as those Horses do yet an Asse will bray as an Asse as long as he is an Asse and who can infuse goodness into a wicked heart nothing but a new Creation can do it it is that which Solomon teacheth in the 22. Pro. 17. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle as Wheat yet will not his foolishness depart from him pound Wheat in a mortar with the heaviest pestle you shall never separate the bran from the flowr it s the serch must do it It s so with a wicked fool nothing but the finest sercte of Gods grace and Spirit can separate his folly from his soul A Fool cannot make a good election of things set before him any toy shall be preferr'd before that which is of excellent worth and the greatest concerment for a Fools head is a heap of fancies No more can our spirituall fool discern things that differ he will alwayes be speaking evill of good and good of evill set before him as Moses and the Prophets use to doe life and death which doe ye think he will choose Solomon tells you that the heart of a fool is in his left hand Eccles 10.2 he had rather be standing on the left hand with the goats then on the right hand with Gods sheep Fools notwithstanding are wilfull in their choice til they have wearied themselves with their bables you shall not perswade them out of them and are not wicked men as wilfull in their follies neither parents nor wife nor children nor friends nor Sermons shall reform them but he that is filthy will be filthy still Much like the obstinate Jew though he lay in a Jakes yet none must help him out because it was his Sabbath and our wicked fool though he wallow like the sow in the mire of his sensuality none must help him out because it is his Sabbath his delight he hath set up his rest there Though a fool be thus obstinate yet you may easily cheat him of any good thing he hath to his very clothes Such easie fooles are wicked men they have most cheatable soules pliable to any temptation to any lust A Fool is a very contemptible creature he makes sport to the very children in the streets and our spirituall fool is the very off-scouring of all things scorned even by those that are as bad as himself it s no news to hear one Drunkard upbrayd another with Drunken fool or one unclean person to make himself merry with anothers uncleannesse Put a fool into an Office or Honour what a ridiculous monster doth he appear As snow in summer and rain in harvest so honour is not seemly for a fool Prov. 26.1 Perhaps by this similitude of snow

pleaseth him and pleaseth him better as saith the Prophet Micah Therefore though heavinesse be for a night yet joy cometh in the morning the sufferings of Gods people may be great but momentary for he is not willing they should be discouraged It was a shrewd question of the Divel Doth Job serve God for nought take away thy hedge this taking away the hedge did fright Job from God yet it did not stagger amaze him therefore though the rod of the ungodly may fall upon the lot of the righteous it shall not ever rest there but at last be cast into the fire Else what an heartning would it be to the wicked and how would they blaspheme when their enemies that ruled over them made them to howl saith the Prophet His name was continually every day blasphemed Esay 52.5 Every day and every day continually they did blaspheme what even his holy name his omnipotency as God his faithfulnesse as Jehovah see how effectually this works upon the Lord v. 6. Therefore my people shall know experimentally know my name that I am he that doth speake Behold it is 1. He will speak peace but when There be two Adverbs which I had almost said are Antichristian when they interpose in holy things the one is the Quomodo dubitantis an How of doubting the other a Quando murmurantis the When of repining the one is destructive of our faith as in the Noble man 2 King 7.7 as long as Nicodemus kept himself to his Quomodo istud he could could not enter into the kingdome of God the other is destructive to our hope as in Jehoram Should I attend any longer on the Lord the Quomodo hath almost spoiled us of all our Religion for how many nice and needless and therefore fruitlesse controversies hath it raised We agree upon Gods decrees but whether they be supralapsarian or sublapsarian absolute or conditional we defie one another as hereticks that Christ is in the Sacrament all agree but whether Con or Sub or Tran. or after Mr. Calvins modo ineffabili which sure must needs be best the world will never agree That Christ gave Peter the keys no man denies but whether as he was an Apostle or as a Pastor or as a Believer we most eagerly dispute So for the Quando it eats even into the marrow of the souls of Gods best people many times in their distresses Why art thou cast down O my soul saith David why art thou so disquicted within me Not so much his sufferings as the Quando of his release tormented him This cast down his soul this disquieted his heart within him for hope that is deferred longer then we would or expect makes the heart sick Prov. 13.12 Take heed therefore of the curiosity of the Quomodo if you would preserve your faith of the intemperance of the Quando of you would not be sick at heart I beseech you observe how sweetly our Saviour chides his beloved disciples for this Quando Master say they wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome to Israel they had long dreamed of an earthly kingdome much as our Chiliasts doe of their fist Monarchy a carnall phancie too They thought long to sit one at his right hand the other at his left to be great and glorious princes to Lord it over the Chief Priests and Elders the Roman governour the Emperour himself for spirituall pride is more boundlesse then carnall therefore Master wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome unto Israel they name Israel but they mean themselves but saith Christ What have you to doe to ask such questions possess your souls in patience it is not for you to know times and seasons the Father hath reserved them in his own hands Answer enough to satisfie the most impatient spirit Consider the Fathers Soveraignty it is his Prerogative to appoint the Quando and his appointments the Scripture calls the fullnesse of time Israel shall come out of Egypt the self same day that he had determined he sets the very hour my hour is not yet come saith our Saviour Gods set times are his decreed times and his decrees are secret to us we can only say that as he will have mercy on whom he will so when he will for peace is a creature of his own making I create peace and according to this rule Dei Deo it is fit he should dispose of his own Then consider the Wisedome of the Father and Wisedome is most seen in the seasonablenesse of her Words and Actions it makes them like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver it s the the very salt that gives them savour he will therefore speak peace to his people when it is most seasonable Lastly consider that as this Father is the most wise so our most gracious God and therefore he will speak peace to his people when it is best for them I will hold you no longer in the generalls of this Quando I will descend to particulars Gods seasons to speak peace are cheifly three First when we cannot help our selves to peace when we have tried our Strength our Wisdome our All and nothing can doe then God will doe when the children are come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth when the Mariners in a Tempest have tug'd and tired themselves even at their Wits ends then he delivered them out of their distresse Psal 107. God of all things loves to take his people off from themselves that no flesh not the most Sanctified flesh might glory in his presence if this were well considered we would cease to eclipse the glory of our present peace by attributing it as many doe in parties to our selves with not you but we is ours not yours foolish people he is neither yours nor yours but only Gods Qui facit mirabilia solus who alone without our help doth such wonders for his people be as zealous as you will for the King as the Cities of Greece were for their Homer but let it be the Zeal of Love not Envy of Union not Faction lest you break all in pieces Secondly Gods time for peace is when he hath well prepared his people to receive it all the ways of the Lord must be prepared to make a more easie passage for his work that of the Son of Syrac Wisd 8.1 may goe for Canonicall Scripture Gods wisedome reacheth from one end to another mightily and sweetly doth she order all things her strength is seen in the work her sweetnesse in the foregoing preparations it is so in the invisible peace for it doth not break in suddenly abruptly irresistibly into mans heart as a strong man armed it did not so in S. Pauls conversion which looks most like it there was first a Light then a Striking to the ground then a Reproving voice from heaven to work off by degrees the innate and adnate resistibility at last he was sent to Ananias and so Saul became a Paul It is so when God gives outward