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A60972	Davvnings of light wherein the true interest of reformation is opened in generall, and in particular, in this kingdome for the establishment of weaker judgements, and many other things impartially hinted, to a further discovery of truth and light in many of our present controversies : with some maximes of reformation / by John Saltmarsh ...	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1646 (1646)	Wing S477; ESTC R40634	39,746	130

I gave my brother Hanaeniah the Ruler of the Palace charge over Jerusalem for he was a faithfull man and feared God above many Neh. 7.2 Publick designations In publick designations to place or imployment it is good ordering and disposing men abroad according to their nearest relations and interests And appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem every one in his watch every one to be over against his own house Neh. 7.3 Originations In the proceedings of the business of God he hath his speciall times of working of new beginnings and originations for God is never at such a losse but he knowes where to begin and therefore we fall very short of Gods designe in doubtings and despondencies seeing that he is so immediate and infinite an Agent as he is And my God put into my heart to gather together the Nobles and the Rulers c. Gods Treasurers Gods work is of that nature that drawes out the strength and contribution of all sorts and God only seems to lay up provisions amongst his people for such a time Men are but treasurers for God and must open their coffers when providence puts the key into their hands And some of the c●iefe of the Fathers gave unto the worke and that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold c. Neh 7.72 73. Also we made ordinances for us to charge our selvs yearly for the service of the house of our God Neh. 10.32 Scriptures openly consulted It is the surest way to consult the Scriptures of God and finde out the minde of him in every part of our way to Reformation and to draw out those principles there which the people are to work by The more light the multitude see from thence the more firmly and faithfully will they walk And Ezra opened the book in the fight of the people day by day from the first day unto the last day he read in the book of the law of God The mixed or Neutralists There ought to be a godly and faithfull care in the times of Reformation to discriminate and separate those that are mixed or Neutralists for they are such as stand in the way and if the businesse flow into their orbe of negotiation there it sticks and is retarded In those dayes saw I also Jewes that had maried wives of Ashdod of Ammon and Moab and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod and could not speak in the Jewes language And I contended with them and smote them Neh. 13.23 24. Prayer beforehand When we expect God down amongst us to do some great thing for his Church then should be the season of our holy assemblings meetings and it is a signe of Gods immediate following when he sends out a spirit of Prayer and Supplication beforehand Then returned they unto Jerusalem and all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication Act. 1.12 14. Publick appointments In publick appointments there is much godly prudence in selecting those that are not experimentally known amongst us Wherefore of those men which have accompanied with us all the time must one be ordained to be a witnes Act. 1.21 Resort and consociate When evident dangers and obstructions are in the way then it is good for the people of God to resort and consociate and to make the maine part of their designe a communicating of the state of their affairs to God for they relate most to him and it is the fittest to impart to him those impediments what he can only remove And being let go they went unto their own company and when they heard that they lift up their voyce to God with one accord c. Acts 4.23 Differences composed Differences amongst the godly are best healed and composed by the godly and meetings or gatherings of the people of God are remedies very agreeable to the distemper There arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews Then the twelve called the multitude of the Disciples together Spirituall provid●nce When once the Gospel hath been admitted there must be a spirituall providence used not only for propagating but strengthening and establishing Heard that Samaria had received the word they sent uato them Peter and John An eminent Agent If there be any one agent whom God hath eminently engaged and prospered in his work there ought to be an eminent care for his preservation and accommodation least the light fall out if the candlestick be broken And they watched the gates day and night to kill him then the Disciples took him by night and let him down by the wall in a basket Gracious seasons When the Lord gives any gracious seasons to his people from troubles or persecutions those times must be only Spirituall else the people of God come not up to his ends in the mercies received and it may be just with God to break off such seasons when they are no better acknowledged Then had the Churches rest and were edified walking in the fear of the Lord Care in communicating Where any thing is acted by any of the people of God by a more then ordinary light there ought to be much care in communicating and clearing up to the mindes of darker Brethren the reasons and grounds of such actings and no such disputings or contendings as may rather ravell out a controversie then guide into any orderly information And when Peter was come up they of the circumcision contended with him And Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning and expounded it by order unto them The whole counsels of God It is godly prudence to prepare people in their way to reformation with telling them as well of the Crosse as the Crown and to open the true constitution of things below and this i● to publish the whole counsels of God and to lay in a principle of patience and premonition before any thing come to passe They returned again and confirmed the soules of the Disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of Heaven FINIS Rom. 11.33.1 Joh. 5.7 Joh. 5.26 Rev. 8.22 Act. 17.28 Jer. 23.23 34. Rom. 1.20 Psal. 8.5 Ps. 13 5.6 Judg. 16.17 1 Chron. 19.2 Act. 12.20 2 Kings 18.39 Heb. 11 2● Psal. ●7 ●● Mat. 3 ● Luk. 17.24 Psal. 97.4 5. Jud. 3.15 Ezra 1.1 ● N●h. 28.18 Esth. 9.1 Mark 16.20 Act. 4.4 1 Cor. 2.10 Exo. 8.19 Num. 17. Josh. 3.15 16 17. Josh. 6.20 Judg. 7 2● 1 Sam. 17.50 Jud. 15.15 Joh. 9.6 7 Act. 19.12 Act. 5 15. Judg. 6.15 1. Cor. 1.27 28. Ma● 1.16.17 1 Cor. 1.26 1 Cor. 1.21 Acts 8.1 Dan. 4.20 1 King 19 18. Isa. 55.5 Heb. 11.1 Heb. 11.27 Col. 3. 1 Sam. 27.1 Act. 27.10 Act. 27.22 23 24. Cant. 2.12 13. Can. 5.4 Judg. 5. Isa. 59.2 Ez. ● Joh. 7.17 Jer. 18.7 8. Joh. 16.15 Joh. 1.10 Ephes. 1.15.17 18. Heb. 1.3 2 Cor. 5.19 Isa. 53.2 Pro. 8.22 30. Col. 3.2 3. Job 17.10 21 23 Jer. 31.33 Ezech. 36.26 He● 8. Col. 1.19 Ps. 3● 20 Cant. 2. Prov. Isa. 29.20 Psal. 48.12 13. Isa. 22.23 Cant. 2.14 2 Chron. 15.13.2 Kings 23 2● Judg. 5.20 Ezra 1.1 Neh. 2.8 Ezra 7. ●eb 12.8 Neh. 4.12 1 Cor. 6.11 1 Cor. 1.10 Phil. 3. 15. 16. Rom. 15. Rom. 15.2 Rom. 14.2 3. Luk. 9. Joh. 8.36 Act 6.5 1 Cor. 7.22 23. Ep● 2.19 1 Joh. 2.27 Jer. 31.43 Acts 15.2.3 Acts 20.17 2 Tim. 3.16 2 Tim. 2.25 Gal. 6.1 Col. 3.12 Acts 4.18 Can. 2.2 Phil. 3.16 Gal. 6.2 Phil. 3.15.16 Bacon 〈◊〉 Aug. 〈◊〉 Mat. 12.16 Rev. 17 5 1 Thess. 2.7 R●v. 17.17 Psal. 29.3 Cant. 2.17 Hag. 2 7. Exo. 19 9. 1 Kin 19.12 Psal. 50.3 Judg. 6.1 Eze. 37. ● Isay 53. ● Hag. ● 2. Chron. Neh. 7. Judg. 20. 1 S●m 23. Isa 36. 1 Ki●g 20.34 Exod. 2. ●3 34 25. Exod. 3.1 Exo. 3. ● Exo. 3.19 Exo. 4.16 Acts 7.25 Act. 7.36 Neh. 1.3 4 5 8 10. Neh. 1.11 Neh. 2.18 Neh. 2.12 Neh. 2.19 20. Neh. 3.1 Neh. 4.9 Neh. 4.7 2 Cro. 3● Jer. 3.10 Hos. 6.4 2 Cro. 17.8 9. Hos. 64. ● Neh. 5. ● 3.4 7. Neh. 5. ● 8. Neh. 5.16 17. Neh. 6.9 ● 5. Neh. 6.9.10 16 17.18 Neh. 6.1.18 ●ct 6.1 2 ●cts 8.14 Acts 19.24 25. Acts 19.31 Acts 11.2 3. Acts 14.22

Again we must look at Gods standing amongst us He is not now as he appeared to Israel on the Mountain with a clear paved work of a Saphire under his feet but he is now as he was before in the visions he stands in the bottome among the Mirtle trees on a red horse so shaded as none but his own can see him His spirit is in the wheeles and one wheele within another He walks in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks yet none but a Disciple sees him The work of Church providence is intricate and perplexed so it was when the Iewes were his people and now it is when the Gentiles are his people too so it was in the first part of his work about his Church and so it is in this second p●rt of his work too for it is all but one work only in severall complexions and methods to Israel and the Gentiles Maximes of REFORMATION Go●s engagement for deliverance WHen the people of God are under any spirituall or civill oppression God will be sure to be mindefull of them designing some course for their deliverance not in the way of his common providence but frō the engagement that he hath laid upon himself by covenant ●nd in this his season of thoughts towards them their sighes and complaining● of soul do move him and put him on and actuate his wisdome into experiments And the childre● of Israel sighed by reason of bondage they cried their cry came up unto God and God heard their groaning and remembred his covenant and had respect unto them Eminent workin●s When God sets himself to deliver a people he comes towards some of them in some eminent working and engages them to go before the people Come therefore and I will send thee unto Pharaoh that thou maist bring forth my people Disp●si●io●s b●f●rehand When God intends actually to enlarge a people he layes in dispositions beforehand into the hearts of the Princes and Elders so that all their motions shall fall easily into such conjunctures as tend that way And they shall hearken unto thy voice and th●u shalt come thou and the Elders of Israel Gods designe upon obstructions When the Lord is upon the work of enlargement and bringing out his people he often allowes the obstructions which their enemies cast in and yet goes on to make up his glorious designe of their impediments And I am sure the King of Epypt will not let you go n● not by a mighty hand Mutuall concurrences The Lord in the great designe of leading forth his people acts both the Elders and Ministers into mutuall concurrences and strengthnings of each other that the failing of each may be made up by the others supply And Aaron shall be thy spokesman unto the people and he shall be to thee in stead of a mouth and thou shalt be to him in stead of God Some experiments eccentrick to Gods time There are oftentimes certain experiments which the people of God make in their way to deliverances before the fulnesse of time come But still there is such a want of correspondency in the things they look for that they make no proceeding but faile being eccentrick to Gods time of successe He supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them but they understood not Successe through disadvantages When God stirs up a people to go out from bondage he gives the enemy the liberty of obstructing and raging and drawes forth his people through many windings and turnings so as their passage is not even and direct but their successe is made up of disadvantages of contrarieties and improbabilities He brought them out after that he had shewed signes and wonders in the land of Egypt The season of seeking God When tidings of publick calamity are abroad then is the season of seeking God and enquiring after sin and putting God in minde of covenants and engagements that hee stands in to his people And they said unto me the remnant that are left of the captivity there in the Province are in great affliction and reproach the wall of Hierusalem also is broken down and it came to passe when I heard these things that I sate down and wept and prayed and I said I beseech thee O Lord remember now these are thy servants whom thou hast redeemed Relations for advantaging the cause of God We must observe all our relations in publick times and see how we are placed for advantaging the cause of God and we must put forward every engagement still keeping an eye upon him for directing our designes to his own ends Prosper I pray thee thy servant this day and grant him mercy in the sight of this man for I was the Kings Cup-bearer When to impart the appearances of G●d That which will exceedingly excite the spirits of people to publick endeavours is a wise imparting the severall preparations that God hath made and the appearances of God to the rises and beginnings that are attempted for men are the easilyer drawn to engage there where they see God ingaging first Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me as also the Kings words that he had spoken unto me and they sayed let us rise up and build so they strengthened their hands for this good work Treating with few and a just survey In the first designing of Reformation it is good treating only with few at first and that in secret and to take as just a survey of the necessity as you can And I arose in the night I and some few men with me neither told I any man what God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem neither was there any beast with me save the beast that I rode upon Let your enemies see your interest When the enemies of God are beginning to plot against the endeavours of Reformation the safest is to let them see the interest you rest on and that your judgement and resolution is seated higher then to bee easily taken downe with contempts or scandals or practices But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian heard it they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said what is this thing that you do will you rebell against the King Then answered I them and said unto them the God of Heaven he will prosper us therefore we his servants will arise and build but you have no portion nor right nor memoriall in Jerusalem Holy preparations foundations for Reformation In the work of Reformation your beginnings and foundations must be layed in prayer and holy preparations the works of God must be advanced in the wayes of God and Reformation must go up in sanctification Then Eliashib the High Priest rose up with his Brethren the Priests and they built the sheepgate they sanctified it and set up the doors of it even unto the tower of