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A59930 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. H. S. 1677 (1677) Wing S34; ESTC R219783 30,825 97

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is the continual and earnest applying our selves to a thing The giving setting bending the mind to a thing 'T is to be instant in season and out of season about any thing 2 Tim. 4. 2. 'T is in the morning to sow ones seed and in the evening not to withhold his hand Eccles 11. 6. 'T is to do what one does with all ones might Eccles 9. 10. and power Gen. 31. 6. 'T is to abide at ones work as the Levites were required Lev. 8. 35. 'T is to be at it early and late night and day as Paul was Acts 20. 31. 'T is to take heed to fulfill our work as Archippus is required Col. 4. 17. Further 'T is to arise and be doing 1 Chron. 22. 16. 'T is to rise up betimes about a thing 2 Chron. 36. 15. 'T is to enquire early after a thing Ps 78. 34. 'T is to take heed that we fail not to do a thing Ezra 4. 22. 'T is to bestir ones self 2 Sam. 5. 24. 'T is to be industrious about a thing 1 Kings 11. 28. 'T is to wait on a business Pro. 27. 18. 'T is to stand continually at it Isa 21. 8. 'T is to give ones self no rest Lam. 2. 18. 'T is to seek as for Silver and to search as for hid treasure Pro. 2. 4. 'T is to offer violence Mat. 11. 12. 'T is to press into Luke 16. 16. 'T is to work out with fear and trembling Phil. 2. 12. So then to be diligent to be found of Christ in peace or a reconciled estate with God it is To be instant in season and out of season about it To be at this work of making peace with God in the morning and in the evening not to withhold our hand To endeavour it with all our might and power To be at this work of making peace with God early and late night and day To abide at it and To take heed that we fulfill it and not fail to do it To wait on it till it be effected To give our selves no rest till it be done To seek this peace with God as one would seek for Silver or as one would search for hid Treasure To offer violence to all that oppose our doing it c. 5. The Fift thing I promised to shew you was To what this Diligence in Scripture is applied and to what required 1. To what applied 'T is applied 1. To seeking Good Heb. 11. 6. He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him 2. To seeking God Prov. 11. 27. He that diligently seeketh God procureth favour 3. To searching for Salvation 1 Pet. 1. 10. After which the Prophets searched diligently 4. To learning the ways of Gods people Jer. 12. 16. If they will diligently learn the ways of my people they shall be built 5. To looking left any fail of the grace of God Heb. 12. 15. Looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God 2. 'T is required 1. To the keeping of the Soul Deut. 4. 9. and Heart Pro. 4. 23. Keep thy Soul diligently Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life 2. To keeping Gods commands of loving him walking in his ways and cleaving to him Deut. 11. 22. Ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you to do them to love the Lord your God to walk in all his ways and to cleave unto him 3. To the delivering of our selves from an Adversary Luke 12. 58. When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate as thou art in the way give diligence that thou mayst be delivered from him lest c. 4. To adding to our stock of grace 2 Pet. 1. 5. Giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity 5. To attaining the full assurance of hope Heb. 6. 11. We desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end 6. To the making of our calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 10. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 7. And here in my Text To our being found of Christ in peace at his coming 6. The Reasons why we must give diligence to be at peace and in a reconled estate with God that so we may be found of Christ in it at his coming are these Reason 1. Because God having done so much in order thereunto viz. in order towards making peace between God and Man our negligence in not doing our part in order thereunto will be a slighting of the love and kindness of God which is said to be great Eph. 2. 4. and exceeding rich towards us through Christ Jesus Eph. 2. 7. It will be horrible ingratitude which will cause God to cry out and say as Isa 1. 2. Hear O Heavens and give ear O Earth for I have out of my love and by my wisdom found out a way for fallen offending Man to be at peace with me and he will not accept of it will not be diligent in the use of means to obtain it Now here it may be inquired Q. What hath God done towards making peace between Man offending and himself offended A. 1. He took counsel about it both Father and Son took counsel together about it Zech. 6. 13. The counsel of Peace-making between God and Man was between them both not I think between the two Offices of Christ Kingly and Priestly but between the two persons spoken of before viz. the Lord Jehovah and he who was to be the Branch God takes this counsel with him as he was his Eternal Wisdom with respect to his future Incarnation for in that respect he was to be the Branch Hence it may be he is called Counsellor Isa 9. 6. The consultation was how to satissie Justice offended that so the Offender might be received into favour how Man an enemy to God might be reconciled unto God and God to him The way thought upon was the Incarnation of the second person in the Holy Trinity in order to his suffering death in the room and stead of the Offender thereby to satisfie the Justice of God offended 2. He entred into a Covenant and Agreement with his eternally begotten Son about it In order to Peace-making between God and Man 1. God demands requires of his Son such and such things to be done and suffered viz. that he be made under the Law and that his Soul be made an Offering for sin Isa 53. 10. The transgression of the Law of God made the difference between God and Man and he will not be satisfied and reconciled unless this Law be fulfilled Satisfie the Law and I am satisfied says God 2. The Son accepts and engages to satisfie his Fathers demands viz. to fulfill the Law to perform the duty and pay the penalty of it to do what the Law enjoynes
for such things made her diligent industriously diligent that she might be found of Christ in peace without spot and blameless in a reconciled justified and sanctified estate She gave her mind she set her self to be found in this estate She was instant in season and out of season about this In the morning she sowed her seed and in the evening she withheld not her hand Eccles 11. 6. She gave all diligence to add to her faith vertue and to vertue knowledge c. She gave diligence to make her calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 5 10. She was not slothful but shewed diligence to the full assurance of hope Heb. 6. 11 12. And whatsoever she apprehended was commanded by the God of Heaven she would diligently do it Ezra 7. 23. What more shall I say Her eyes were turned away from beholding vanity Ps 119. 37. Her ears were swift to hear Jam. 1. 19. In her tongue was the Law of kindness Prov. 31. 26. Her hands were stretched out to the poor and needy Prov. 31. 20. Her feet were shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace Eph. 6. 15. Her knees were bowed unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Eph. 3. 14. Her face was Zion-ward Jer. 50. 5. Her clothing was humility 1 Pet. 5. 5. Her ornaments a meek and a quiet spirit 1 Pet. 3. 4. Her girdle sincerity Eph. 6. 14. Her speech was savoury seasoned Salt Col. 4. 6. Corrupt communication proceeded not out of her mouth but such as might minister Grace to the hearers Eph. 4. 29. Her conversation was upright Ps 37. 14. Ordered aright Ps 50. 23. As became the Gospel Phil. 1. 27. Without covetousness Heb. 13. 5. Chaste coupled with fear 1 Pet. 3. 2. Honest 1 Pet. 2. 12. Holy 1 Pet. 1. 15. Heavenly Phil. 3. 20. All her springs whence slowed these streams were in God Ps 87. 7. Her confidence was not in the slesh Her rejoycing was in Christ Phil. 3. 3. Christ was her All Col. 3. 11. Her wisdom to direct her righteousness to justifie her sanctification to cleanse her redemption to set her at liberty 1 Cor. 1. 30. When she was hungry his flesh was her meat When thirsty his blood was her drink John 6. 55. When she fainted he was her cordial Luke 2. 25. When she fought with her spiritual adversaries he was her victory and triumph 1 John 5. 4 5. 1 Cor. 15. 57. Rom. 8. 37. When she failed Christ was her Advocate with the Father John 2. 1 2. In life he was her hope 1 Tim. 1. 1. In death he is her gain Phil. 1. 21. In the grave he will be her life and resurrection John 11. 25. I think I may say of her as Hezekiah of himself Isa 38. 3. That she walked before God in truth and with a perfect heart and did that which was good in his sight And as Christ of Nathanael John 1. 47. Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile Her dying words exprest much of a Christian indeed To instance They exprest 1. Her expectation of a change I do not hope to live long 2. Her weannedness from the world and sense of the badness of it For said she being fit to dye 't is the best time to dye in and the worst age to live in 3. Her lamenting after God for she complained of unprofitableness under the means she enjoyed and of the want of former refreshments 4. Her confidence in God For said she though I am a great sinner yet I believe I am a pardoned sinner and so have rest and quiet One saying to her There is need of the Lords help Yea said she and God hath laid help upon one that is mighty and by his stripes I am healed One repeating that Scripture Ps 116. 6. The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me Yea said she the Lord will remember me in my low estate Her thankfulness Blessed be God said she I have refreshing though not rest At other times she would say O the consolations of the Lord are not small things 6. Her prayerfulness In her last fit she said Lord ease Lord help Pray pray pray And so whiles we were praying for her she fell asleep Thus she has given you an Example as Christ did his Disciples John 13. 15. I will not call you to lamentation but to imitation I must Not to lamentation Though some of you have lost a dear Sister And some of you a tender Aunt And some a faithful Friend And some a helper of their faith and joy And some an encourager in the ways of God The poor have lost a visitor and liberal benefactor And this Congregation a worthy member And she her self has lost something too she has lost her Asthma or difficulty of breathing Her pains sighs and groans Her cold sweats and fainting fits Her sorrows and sufferings Her troubles and temptations Her sins and corruptions But what are her gains No tongue can express nor heart can conceive what they are She has gained Heaven What eye hath not seen nor ear hath heard nor hath it entred into the heart of man 1 Cor. 2. 9. A Kingdom Everlasting Luke 12. 32. 2 Pet. 1. 11. A Crown of righteousness and life 2 Tim. 4. 8. James 1. 12. An Inheritance rich and glorious Eph. 1. 18. Incorruptible undefiled and that fadeth not away 1 Pet. 1. 4. She has gained fulness of joy in the presence of God and pleasures for ever more at his right hand Ps 16. 11. An exceeding exceeding eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. 17. The Beatifical Vision Mat. 5. 8. The immediate and full fruition of God and Christ An eternal life with God and Christ and Saints and Angels And therefore I must not call you to lamentation But as I said to imitation I must Follow her as she followed Christ 1 Cor. 11. 1. Let her Vertues live in you so shall she in some sense still live with you 1. Look for such things as she did Look for new Heavens and new Earth Look to things not seen and things that are eternal Look for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of c. Look for and hasten unto the coming of the day of God 2. Let the expectation of such things make you diligent in the use of means to be found of Christ at his coming in peace without spot c. in a reconciled justified and sanctified estate Give your minds set your selves to be found in this estate Be instant in season and out of season about it In the morning sow your seed and in the evening withhold not your hand Eccles 11. 6. Give all diligence adde to your faith vertue c. 2 Pet. 1. 5. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 10. Be not slothful but shew diligence to the full assurance of hope Heb. 6. 11 12. And whatsoever shall be commanded you by the God of Heaven diligently do it Ezra 7. 23.