Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62961	Mans extremity, Gods opportunity, or, A display of Gods sovereign grace in saving a people whose recovery as to men and means is next to desperate as it was delivered in a sermon preached before the Honourable Lieutenant governour ... of the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England on May 29, 1695 which was the day for election of counsellors for that province / by the reverend Mr. Samuel Torrey.	Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.	1695 (1695)	Wing T1917; ESTC R30168	29,972	66

Unstedfastness in the Work of God doth render us not only unworthy and unfit but utterly uncapable of such Salvation 6. We must hearken most intensely and effectually subjecting our very Souls to the Word of God which is the highest means of the working of Divine Wisdom Power Grace and Mercy in all Saving Work for the Children of men Yea and in working all kind of Salvations for the Church and People of God The whole glorious work of Salvation out of Egypt was wrought by the Word Hos 12.13 By a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt and by a Prophet he preserved them by the Ministry of his Word he Saved them out of their Apostacy and the Calamity of the Babylonish Captivity as appears by the whole History of Ezra and Nehemiah and the Prophesies of Zechariah and Haggai and by the Ministry of the Word the great and last Salvation for the Church shall be wrought Isa 52.6 7. How beautiful upon the Mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tydings of good that publisheth Salvation that saith to Zion thy God reigneth Our Lord also prophesieth the same Mat. 23.39 For I say unto you ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Surely it was by the Ministry of the Word that God wrought gloriously for New-England in giving of us our Being as his People It is by the Ministry of his Word that he upholds and carries on the work of Conversion and thereby upholds his Churches in their Spiritual Being and Constitution and Religion in them and therefore it must be by the Ministry of his Word that that Work and these Churches and Religion which are now sinking and dying must be recovered and revived by a thorough Saving Reformation It is by the power of the Word that God makes Mercies and Judgments and all other Providential Dispensations even all his wayes and works unto his people saving nothing will do us good till God work by his Word to make all effectual It is by his Word that he doth lead and guide his people into and in the way of Salvation It is by his Word that he removes all obstructions subdues all opposition that the great Mountains before Zerubbabel become a Plain Zech. 4.7 It is by his Word that he doth stir up and strengthen all Instruments quicken sanctifie and spirit all his Servants to his work O when God comes to Save New-England by himself we shall see and feel wonderful effects changes wrought by the Ministry of the Word and when once our hearts are fully generally subjected to the power of the Word then we may be assured that God is arisen and at work for us in a glorious way of Salvation by himself then we shall be prepared to be the Subjects of such Salvation When our hearts tremble under the power of the Word as it was with them when God was at work with them to reform them Ezra 9.4 Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel and again Ezra 10.3 According to the counsel of my Lord and of those that tremble at the Commandment of our God God would do nothing for them till they did thus subject themselves to his Word Zech. 7.7 Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the voice of the former Prophets whilst Jerusalem was inhabited Surely God expects that New-England should hear and obey those many solemn words which he hath cried to them by the voice of the former Prophets as well as those which he is still crying unto us by the present Ministry and this we must do before we can upon any grounds of Faith and Hope expect that God should Save us by himself Thus we ought to approve our selves unto God I Proceed 3. To shew how we ought to apply our selves to God for such Salvation and this I need not tell you we all know it must be by Faith and Prayer 1. By Faith and it must be Pure Faith without the least mixture or tincture of carnal Confidence Prefidence or Diffidence and our Faith must work under a most humbling sence of our sins and of our unworthiness and of our own utter insufficiency to help our selves and our present Extream necessity of help from God and from God alone and that with a full reliance and recumbence upon him and an high and strong Confidence in him for such Salvation with an humble and yet firm dependence upon his Infinite Sufficiency and his Sovereign Grace and Mercy and with an hopeful patient earnest instant Expectation looking longing waiting and watching for him in this way of Salvation Thus we must believe by Faith Asserting our Covenant interest in him and relation unto him as our God the God of our Salvation as the Church Isa 25.9 Lo this is our God we have waited for him he will save us this is the Lord we have waited for him we will rejoyce and he glad in his Salvation 2. With such an exercise of Faith we are to apply unto God by Prayer for such Faith works most powerfully and effectually by Prayer and is ever prevalent with God never fails but ever obtains help from God but then we must pray indeed Pray in good earnest with utmost Sincerity Fervency Instancy Importunity labouring therein even unto an Agony not only cry but cry mightily with an out-cry of Prayer as a People ready to perish as the Children of Israel at the Red-Sea Exod. 14.10 The People of Israel Cryed out to the Lord. Truly we are now concerned to Pray as for our Lives yea much more than for our own Lives by the utmost improvement of all Arguments of Faith and Hope in pleading with God Striving as it were once for all resolving with Wrestling Jacob that through his Grace and by his own strength we will Hold him and not let him go till we obtain as Remembering that we are Praying and Crying for Sovereign Mercy and being sensible that not only the eternal concernments of our own Souls but that all the Saving concernments of our Churchces and People and of all Posterity that our very being and standing before God under his Covenant in his Kingdom as his People Yea that all the concernments of Gods own Cause Interest Name and Glory with us have great dependance upon the success of our Prayers at this time God hath been labouring long to make New-England cry God doth Expect Wait to hear us cry to him as Jer. 3.14 Wilt thou not at this time cry to me my Father thou art the guide of my youth he hath promised that he will be very gracious to the Voice of our cry that when he doth hear it he will answer Isa 30.19 Truly it is much to be feared that New-England doth not yet know what it is to cry that is with Lamenting Bemoaning Bewailing