Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A37208	The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published for the support and comfort of Gods people, in all times of tryal / by John Davenport ...	Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing D366; ESTC R7130	85,681	240

father sees it to be in ●●●dient at that time to grant his request But he will send him a letter a 〈◊〉 a messenger or some friend to visit him he shall see him in them not in his person So God deals many times with his children who desire to see his face to have sensi●le demonstrations of his favour and love to them They shall see him in his letters the Scriptures and the Promises or in some token of his love some strength in their souls Psal 138. 3. or in some messenger Job 33. 23. whom he sends to comfort them and his spirit to quicken and strengthen them to wait upon him Object But where the Spirit is there are the fruits of the Spirit and among the rest joy Gal. 5. 22. which I want Answ 1. Take a believer at the worst he hath that joy which he would not part with in exchange for the jocondnesse of worldly men 2. He hath true joy through faith even when he is in heavinesse for a time 1 Pet. 1. 8. he hath it in the root when it doth not sprout forth in leaves because it is winter with him He who desires spiritual joy and grives for the want of it hath true joy in some degree as that man from faith bewailed his unbelief Mark 9. 24. The second way whereby this hope boundeth and moderateth sorrow is by strengthening the soul to stick to right g●ounds of true comfort to maintain their joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ as their portion not yielding up their purse to every thief nor suffering themselves to be wrangled out of their right in it If excessive sorrow begins to seize upon the soul of a believer this hope will 1. Quicken him to examine its commission by parlying with his soul and enquiring whether there be good reason a sufficient cause for it or not as David did in Psal 42. 5. 11. and 43. 5. Why art thou cast down O my soul c. For sometimes your sorrow is causelesse and groundlesse and commonly it is so 1. When it is boundlesse For reason will set bounds unto grief but mistakes and mis-apprehensions know no bounds 2. When it is plea-lesse being tried at the bar of right reason or of the judgment of those who are godly-wise Job in a passion challenged God himself to dispute and gives him his choise whether he will oppose or answer he will be for him and fill his mouth with Arguments and doubts not that he shall carry the cause But when God appeared and spake to him Jobs passion vanished and his courage failed and he confessed that he had spoken foolishly and would now lay his hand upon his mouth Compare Job 23. 3 4 5. with Chap. 40. 4 5. and Ch. 42. 2 3 4 5 6. So sometimes a dejected discouraged Christian thinks he hath so much to say against his comfort as will put to silence the best and ablest Ministers But when any judicious Minister or experienced Christian comes to him he hath either nothing to say or nothing of weight but what is full of errour and mistakes Say therefore to your felves in this case as God did to Ionah Doest thou well to be angry Do I well to be thus dejected 2. If there be cause for sorrow 1. Examine whether it be sufficient to justifie such a measure or degree of sorrow or not That sorrow which drives the soul from God which indisposeth it to prayer thanks-giving to the duties of his calling to works of mercy and love that makes him lumpish harsh passionate that sowres and distempers his spirit is excessive and immoderate 2. Examine from what Topicks the Arguments are fetched that are used to justifie such a degree of sorrow The soul of man should not be subjected to sense and feeling or to any way of reasoning but that which is from and according to the Word of God To argue that you have no faith because you are full of doubting that you have no grace because you have strong corruptions is to offend against the generation of Gods children Psal 73. 15. the vanity whereof Asaph saw when he went into the Sanctuary of God So will you if you consult the Scriptures 3. Fly to the God of all comfort 2 Cor. 1. 3. First issue that great question Am I Gods Child or not If not rest not in that state but hasten out of it If yea and thou art so if thou hast his Image then set faith on work 1. Upon Gods all sufficiency and fetch all from heaven which thou wantest on earth 2. Upon his Efficiency 1. Recal to mind what he hath done for thee in times past as Asaph did in Psal 77. 5 6. 2. For the future rest on his bare word and promise which shewes what he will do Account that to be thine which thou hast in grant by the promise as David did Psal 60. 7. God hath spoken in his holinesse I will rejoice c. Gilead is mine c. Thus apply what Christ saith in Mat. 5. 3 4. 5. and the Scripture every where 3. For the present consider what God doth for thee Doth he support thee that thou sinkest not under despair Doth he keep thee in patience and submission to his will by 〈◊〉 Doth he quicken thee to use all good means with waiting upon him Give him the glory of his grace and be encouraged to spread before him in prayer all thy doubts thy fea●s thy temptations and wants Phil 4. 6. and with prayer joyn hoping in him and waiting on him Say ●here is mercy in him to pity and power in him to help though I find no comfort yet I hope I shall though my prayers be not yet answered I hope they will be in the best season and I will wait on God till he doth answer them If yet comfort come not improve the communion of Saints and the publick Ordinances as David I will hearken what at God the Lord will speak Psal 85. 8. use men and means but let your hope be fixed upon God onely look to him for comfort who creates the fruits of the lips peace Isa 57. 19. use the communion of the Saints in private also but so as waiting for his manifesting himself to your soul as the Church found he did in Cant. 5. 8. and 6. 3. And if thou canst not find out what particular hinders thy comfort do as men use to do for their bodies when the distemper is general who make an issue to draw the matter to some head pitch upon some particular sin to which thou art most subject by natural inclination or by thy calling or company or the condition of the times and let out the corruption that may Begin repentance there and joyn with it faith in the blood of Christ and so seek reconciliation with God and comfort thereby In thus doing wait on God till he satisfie thy thirsty soul who hath promised that they who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength