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peace_n	create_v	fruit_n	lip_n	2,112	5	9.2614	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01902	The returne of prayers A treatise wherein this case how to discerne Gods answers to our prayers is briefly resolved, with other observations vpon Psal. 85.8. concerning Gods speaking peace, &c. By Tho: Goodvvin. B.D.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1636 (1636)	STC 12041.3; ESTC S117577	96,573	431

maintained with some presumption whilst wee maintaine and take up a constant fight against Gods enemies in us and disavow the outragious risings of our lusts the peace may hold and often doth for whilst wee are not at peace with sin God may be at peace with us and our Spirits but so much peace as wee give them so much warre God takes up Vse 2 The second Vse is Doth God take up quarrells against His owne then upon any breach made goe forth to meet Him It is Saint Pauls exhortation not to let the Sunne goe downe upon thy wrath but to reconcile thy selfe ere night with thy offended brother but I turne the exhortation Let not the Sunne goe downe upon Gods wrath towards thee but every day make and renew thy peace with God ere thou sleepest that as David sayes thou mayest lie downe and sleepe in peace Psal 4. 8. Vse 3 The third Vse If the peace of Gods owne people be thus often interrupted who yet are the Sons of peace Luk. 10. what wrath is reserved for the children of disobedience Ephes 2. 2. and open Rebells that are children of wrath because of disobedience There is no peace to the wicked sayes my God Esa 57. God is a preparing against thee who ever thou art that goest on in sinne if thou turne not Psal 7. 13. thou art prest for hell and art thither bound to encounter with the wrath of the great God thither where no truce is to bee had there is no discharge in that warre as Solomon sayes Eccles 8. 8. Think of this you that sinne and will sinne whose peace is not struck up betweene God and you who never yet so much as entred into any treaty of peace with God who never apprehended God and your selves at oddes Obser 3 The third thing to be observed out of the Text is this That when the Child of God wants peace he can have no peace till God speak it God must speak peace if ever his people have it therefore sayes hee here I will heare what God will speake he speaks in opposition to the voice of man and the helpe of second causes and of all meanes whatever which in time of distresse of themselves can doe no good Reas 1 Reason first Because God is the King of all the world the Soveraigne Lord of all Now treaties of war and peace are the prerogative of Kings and of them alone they may consult with their subjects about establishing good Lawes as they use to doe c. but the proclaiming Warre and Peace with forreigne States they have ever held in their owne hands and so doth God who is the King of Kings Reas 2 Secondly because God is the Judge of all the world and the party offended at whose suite all arrests and controversies doe come now when a condemned man stands at the barre let all the standers by say what they will bid him be of good comfort and tell him that his cause will goe well yet till hee heare the Judge himselfe speake as much he cannot be at rest in his minde the Judge onely can acquit him and absolve him The King alone speakes pardons and so doth God peace all afflictions are his arrests thou must therefore make thy peace with him if thou wilt be at peace Reas 3 Thirdly peace especially of conscience is a thing must be created for our hearts of themselves are full of nothing but turmoile as the raging sea which cannot rest I create the fruit of the lips peace Isaiah 57. 19. men may speake it but I must create it A word of power such as went forth when light was created must goe forth from God or else there is no peace for otherwise our hearts are as the sea that rests not Reas 4 Fourthly the wounds of conscience which are in Gods people are of that quality that none but God can cure them for the chiefe thing that wounds them is the losse of Gods favour not simply his wrath for it is the glory of God and his favour not selfe-love onely that makes them seeke him therefore nothing gives peace but the restoring of his favour and the light of his countenance the same dart that wounded must heale againe Isay 57. I smote him and I will heale him And as one that is sick with love whē love is the disease no physick no perswasion of friends can cure it nothing but onely the love of the party beloved so when a soule is wounded for the losse of Gods love not all the things in the world can cure the heart but one word from him one good looke one promise from him that wee are his stills all and onely can give peace Like to a poore child that cryes for its mother let who will dandle it and play with it and use it never so kindly yet it will not be stilled till the mother comes so it is with a poore soule that cryes after God day and night Vse 1 1 Vse In case thou art in distresse especially of spirit and want of peace of Conscience waite upon GOD in the use of meanes for peace friends may come to thee and say Why shouldest thou be troubled thou hast no such cause to bee cast downe but all these are miserable comforters as Iob said unlesse God speak peace David heard by the Prophet Nathan that his sinne was pardoned but yet his soule was not at quiet til God would second it immediately by his Spirit therefore sayes he when Nathan had been with him Psal 51. 8. Make me to heare of joy and gladnesse Art thou baited with hellish blasphemies cast into thy soule God must speake peace and rebuke Satan for thee and take him off thee all thy friends all the men in the world cannot doe it they can only say as the Archangell said The Lord rebuke thee And hee can as easily doe it as he did rebuke Laban and forbade him speaking roughly to Iacob the same charge hee can give in an instant to Satan therefore wait upon God and looke up to him Vse 2 2 Consider this against the time you come to die all your desire is to die in peace and Oh let thy servant depart in peace is the speech and desire of all But who is it that must speake peace to you then God onely At death you will send for a good Minister or a good friend to give you some comfort as you call it but if God will not speake it how can they if you could call all the Angels out of Heaven and all the Saints both in earth and Heaven and so could have all that whole Colledge of Physicians about you and they should desire to comfort you with all their cordialls yet if God will not speake it who is able to doe it Iob 34. 29. If he hides his face who can behold him None can shew his face as the opposition in the next words shewes False daubers may come to you say Peace peace as

they in the Prophet said but listen what God will speak he onely must and can doe it and be sure you make sure of him before you come to die Would any wise Prince deferr the treaty of peace with his enemy till hee come into the field and when the battel is begun how foolish then are those who neglect seeking after God till the assault of death comes and the King of feares with all his terrours hath encompassed them round Obser 4 4. Observation is that let Gods people be in never so great distresse yet it is an easie thing for God to give peace to them mark the expression used here It is but speaking peace that is it is as easie for him to give peace as it is for you to speake a word it is no more to him Then our comfort is that as he onely must doe it so he easily can doe it even with a word Reas 1 Reason 1. Because his speaking is creating if he speaks he makes things to be even with a word as at first he did but say Let there be light and there was light so still if he but say Let there bee peace there is peace hee made all and upholds all by the word of his power As therefore when the storme was at its height and the waves most raging yet at one word of Christs they were all still The sea and the winds obey him so when tentations are most fierce and the doubts of thine owne heart most tumultuous and raging a word from him can still them Reas 2 Secondly because the light which God gives to a mans spirit when hee speaks peace is a sure and infallible light and therefore a satisfying light so as when it comes it must needs give peace and no objection no tentation can darken or obscure it when it shines If he give quietnesse who can trouble sayes he in Iob 34. 29. No creature is able to separate from his love or the assurance of it 1 It is a certaine and infallible light which God gives when hee speakes peace The anointing from above which enlighteneth a mans eyes is truth and is no lie 1. Ioh. 2. 27. that is in teaching a man of which hee there speakes not onely what hee is in himselfe but what hee is in teaching us he doth it so as a man is not deluded by it and therefore it is added None else need teach him for did the spirit whē he did speak peace speak so as that that man to whom it is spoken did not infallibly apprehend it hee should speake in vaine for so the Apostle reasons in case of unknown tongues that if a trumpet give an uncertaine sound or a man speakes so as it shall not be knowne what hee speakes hee beats the aire 1. Cor. 14. 9. Now therefore surely God when hee speakes peace speakes it so infallibly and distinctly that the soule knows the meaning of it It is not a voice else for sayes the Apostle there ver 10. The end of all voices is to signifie and therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice hee shall be as a Barbarian that speakes to me ver 11. especially when the speaker undertakes to bee a witnesse as the Holy Ghost in speaking peace is 1. Iohn 5. 6. Now to witnesse is such a testimony as is taken for infallible for the end of it is to put an end to the controversie and it ends the strife betweene man and man now the Holy Ghost when hee speakes speakes as a witnesse and therefore puts an end to a mans doubts he speakes infallibly And therefore in the second place it is a satisfying light also it is such a light as dispells darknesse as answers all objections and so speakes peace home As in a question and Controversie in Divinity or Logike when some one bottome truth is understood a man hath a light which goes through all the Objections and answers them all such a light doth the Spirit give to a poore distressed soule about the great controversie of his owne salvation when hee doth speake peace hee gives such a light as satisfies the minde as lets him see that in Gods free grace and in Christ which doth answer to all hee or all the devills can say against him from what wants or objections are in himselfe Hee openeth and no man nor devill is able to shut And therefore when he doth speake peace his testimony is taken and beleeved If wee receive the witnesse of men and rest in it 1. Iohn 5. 9. The witnesse of God is greater that is of more power and efficacie to perswade and satisfie the soule Vse 1 1. Vse is an Use of comfort to poore soules that are in distresse and in such distresse sometimes as they thinke and say their case is desperate and past recovery so farre are their soules sometimes shot into despaire Consider how easie it is for you to have your condition altered and changed even in a moment I tell thee though it may be thou hast been cast down this twenty yeeres and thy soule is battered broken hardened setled fixed in serious thoughts of thy ruine and reprobation yet one good looke one good word from God shall in an instant dispell all alter thy conceit and apprehension cleane God can and doth often more with one word in one moment then Satan could doe in many yeeres with all the objections he could muster up The truth of this in experience wee often finde and observe in our selves and others Yea and sometimes when hee doth speake peace hee gives such satisfaction to a mans soule in that particular that hee would bee content to bee as many yeeres more in his spirituall conflicts to enjoy but the like light one halfe houre Thus easie is it for God to speake peace Though thou thinkest thy selfe never so far off from peace yet he can speake peace to them that are afarre off as well as those who are neere as himselfe sayes Esay 57. 19. for sayes hee it is I that speake it And when hee doth it then all thy doubts and distresses will bee forgotten as the paines of a woman in travaile are when a man-childe is borne Vse 2 Secondly is the Church in any distresse as the Church here at this time was hee can redeeme it out of all with a word A word spoken to Cyrus his heart did set them in their owne land againe so you have it expressed Esay 44. 26 27 28. The God that saith to Ierusalem thou shalt bee inhabited and to the Cities of Iudah yee shall bee built you see his maner of doing it it is but with a word speaking he sayes to Ierusale be built and though there be neuer so great impediments in the way he will say to the deep bee dry that his people may passe over hee dryed up a whole Nation a sea of people namely the Babylonians to make way for this deliverance And when they are conquered and Cyrus a new King