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A93079 The saints iewell, shevving hovv to apply the promise In a sermon preached by Thomas Shepheard. Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649. 1642 (1642) Wing S3115A; ESTC R232293 10,658 26

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THE SAINTS IEWELL shevving hovv to apply the promise In A Sermon preached by THOMAS SHEPHEARD For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off even to as many as the Lord our God shall call Act. 2. 29. Printed in the yeere 1642. To the Reader REader the body may as well subsist without the soule as the soule can without a promise and as the body is not wearied with bread being the staffe of life though it hath it every day for nourishment so likewise the fainting hungry soule can never be cloyed with feeding upon the promises for which cause I have also adventured this little Sermon not doubting but it may reape it 's due fruit from those whose hearts are rightly affected which God granting I shall account my labour abundantly requited Farewell T. S. THE SAINTS IEWELL shevving hovv to apply the promise Having these promises dearely beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthines of the flesh and spirit perfecting holines in the feare of God 2 Cor 7 1. THe Apostle Paul in the former chapter exhorteth the Corinthians to beware of unequall yoking themselves with unbeleevers and hee gives a double argument for it one from the unequalnes of it the other from the promises as in my text Having these promises In these words are three parts First a loving appellation in these words Having these promises dearely beloved A gracious exhortation let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the feare of God An argument for instigation or motive that hee useth to presse his exhortation which is from the nature of the promise That which is in the last part of the division is first in order of the words and therefore we will looke upon the words as they ly in order and so from the last part and first words I shall handle this doctrine Doct. That God made many promises unto his people I am come to you this day not to set out unto you the excellency of wit or learning or the creature but the excellency of a naked promise according to that 2 Pet 1 4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and and pre●ious promises Now all the promises of God unto his people are such as concerne the body or the body and the soule those that concerne the body are with this limitation that is so farre as concernes Gods glory and the good of our soules but for the body and soule consider that place For the Lord is a sunne and Shield the Lord will give grace and Psal 84. 11. glory and no good will he withhold from them that live uprightly I Come to the reasons why God hath thus made many promises unto his people and they are three The first reason is this that his people might have a fit object for their faith to lay hold upon for if you looke upon all the creatures in the world you shall finde in all of them jointly or any of them apart a fit object for faith to worke upon or be satisfied in it is with faith as with a poore woman that hath a child and hath nothing in the world to give it shee takes the child at her back and goeth from doore to doore and what shee getteth shee giveth to the child so faith takes the soule and carrieth it to promise after promise and what ever she findes there she gives it to the soule The second reason why God hath made many promises unto his people is that they may have a ground of comfort for as it is the object of their faith so it is the ground of their comfort for all other things of this world cannot profite or comfort the beleeving soule as suppose we should go to friends for comfort it may be they want comfort for themselves and so are unfit to comfort us or it may be they will not comfort us or it may be they are a great way off and so cannot doe it or perhaps though able and sometimes willing yet they are mutable in their comforts so as though at one time they are willing and doe comfort us yet another time they faile us but Christ to whom the soule is led by the promise not onely hath comfort and is able to comfort us but he is willing also to give comfort to us who knoweth our wants and is neere to all that Psal 145. 18. call upon him in trueth and also he is immutable in his comforts And were the creature a sufficient ground of comfort to Gods people then to want the creature were a sufficient ground of misery to them but a man may want health wealth liberty and the like and yet through and in Christ his soule may have satisfying comfort but if he want Christ though he hath a fulnesse of the creature hee is most miserable and without all satisfying comfort the promise onely is able to afford comfort to the soule in health in sicknes in life and in death The third reason why God hath made many promises unto his people is that they may become mutuall comforters one of another by having somewhat by experience from a promise wherewith they may be enabled to comfort others so that you may see the promise is not given to comfort our selves with onely but also one another Now for use Is it so that God hath 1 Vse made many promises unto his people let us try our selves whether we have any right to the promises or no I will name but one note that you may the better remember it and it is a true one for you shall find it in Scripture But the Scripture hath concluded all under sinne that the promise by faith in Iesus Christ might be given to Gal. 3. 22. them that beleeve So that you may see it is to them and to them onely that beleeve he that can exercise faith in the promise hath right to the promise For ye walke by faith and not by sight 2 Cor. 5. 7. If Christians be in afflictions and see that it doeth them good then it is easie to beleeve that promise which God hath made All things shall worke together for the good of them that love God But to beleeve this Rom. 8. 28. promise when wee cannot see any good come of affliction that is to beleeve by faith and not by sight but when we can see no good come by affliction but finde our selves more dead and dull and also God to frowne upon us and yet wee trust in God and beleeve the promise and stay our soules upon Gods word this is to live by faith as we are commanded Who is among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth Isai 50. 10. the voyce of his servant that walketh in darkenes and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Faith maketh things absent to be present and maketh the promise good to us though