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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88420	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: at their late solemn fast, Octob. 28. 1646. in Margarets Westminster. / By Nicholas Lockyer, M.A.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2800; Thomason E359_6; ESTC R201168	23,998	40

shame and spitting * The inference necessary and my Lord God will help me therefore I shall not be confounded therefore have I set my face like a flint and I know that I shall not be ashamed He is neare that justifieth me who will contend with me Let us stand together who is mine adversary let him come neare to me Behold the Lord God will help me again he repeats who is he that shall condemne me the Moth shall eat them up If any one could condemne Christ for any thing that he had not done all things well in order to his Fathers will then something might be said why things should not prosper in his hand why he should not have a full concurrence of divine power to carie him thorow al in order to the creature but none can say this no not the Father himselfe He will justifie me and He is neare that is ready to doe it and therefore I am sure as I have been a holy One to my Father so He will be a holy One to me and will not suffer me to see corruption not be overcome by any adversary who will contend with me compare with this Psal 45.7 Thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse therefore God thy God hath anointed thee with oile of gladnesse above thy fellowes where Christ's legall righteousnesse is mentioned he did performe all things for the matter exactly and for the manner exactly with such a degree of affection * He did doe righteously and love the doing of it his affection was as compleat as his action though the worke very sad that he did buy all the oile of his lamp which might accomplish him for the creature therefore God called his God as by purchase thou lovest righteousnesse therefore God thy God Compare with this that type Deut. 33.8 9 10. And of Levi he said Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy One whom thou didst prove at Massah and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah who said unto his Father and to his Mother I have not seen him neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor knew his owne children for they have observed thy word and kept thy Covenant they shall put incense before thee and a whole burnt-offering upon thine altar The exactnesse of Levi's righteousnesse in that point of great triall is made a type of Christ's exact righteousnesse whereby he purchased not onely Or lux but Urim lights that is all the treasures of wisdom knowledge And so not only thamam integrity or perfection but Thummim perfections i. all righteousnesse Vse This point may exhort us to bee patient patience hath two things in it a spirit free from perturbation and pure in ' expectation and both these would I distinctly enforce Contentation from the truth in hand It 's a very shaking time of all sorts bodies soules persons Kingdomes and when trialls are strong passions are so too for the most part and men forget themselves as men much more as Christians and play the beast One would not have thought there had been so many unreasonable creatures in this land until the hand of God appeared amongst us Ier. 18.20 Harvest is past the Summer is ended and wee are not saved Everie wheele breakes and then the heart breakes too when 't hath forgot the truth in hand that the pleasure of the Lord prospers in Christ's hand No wheele moves fast enough nor well enough when the heart makes haste no body is wise nor faithfull none hath braines nor hands to doe any thing t is strange to see how all is carried stranger to thinke what all will come to No body wise nor faithfull Yes Christ is and it should bee enough to everie one in any straight that he is and will be a succesfull agent When many are about a busines oftt-imes no body is one jostles so against another til all be in danger to jostle against Christ and the very principles of sober men When wheeles have much weaight upon them they oft-times make a very unpleasant noise Is God amongst us Israel wants water Amalek waites to give battell and this great straight made that great State fall a chiding of God and one another Is God amoungst us The place was called for this Massah Meribah i. striving and chiding The bigger bodies are with the greater difficulties they move now when great difficulties make great impatience towards God and towards one another this and not our straights indangers all as you may see in the example forementioned Straights simplie considered Exodus 17. though never so great can undoe none neither a person nor a Kingdom but how either behave themselves in them When wee retort temptation upon God this overturnes all that is when he tempts us then wee fall a tempting of him Water is wanting mony wanting enemies not wanting Amalekites in abundance readie to combine yet as long as Christ is there is enough for the prosperity of any good worke and then not enough for the quiet and tranquillitie of thy spirit What though mountaines move yet should wee be still so long as Christ is there is a streame that will refresh the Citie of God in the greatest drought Impatience is very excogitous a man had need have more naturall strength then ten men or else he will fall into a consumption the soule is so uncessantly hammering it selfe and other folks about its owne devices and divine events Jer. 10.14 Every founder is confounded If every founder then an impatient man for he is one founder he is heating and melting his braines night and day casting this and casting that till he hath no more metall to cast and then quite confounded when he cannot cast the Idol he would then quite casts off the true God Is God amongst us What and things so hard and so crosse and confused Action may be in our hand but successe is in Christs this the founder doth not see I meane the impatient man and therefore is confounded Impatience is spiced with pride and ignorance though possibly neither discerned by the subject in which it is What if the will of the Lord whilst in our hand be nothing but straights and difficulties bloud and death wilt thou therefore rage and fret against God his people and will this is to make a God of thy self to be angry because the successe of things is not plac'd in thy hands and under thy cognisance whereas God hath said it shall be onely in Christs hand As impatience is spiced with pride so with ignorance Great stormes bring great darknesse with them you know God usually is so much hid in such times from man that nothing but his hand is seene and this too rather felt then seen and in such cases Solomon tells us how ordinarily poore blind man goes to worke Say not thou what is the cause that former dayes were better then these for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning

this Ecclesiastes 7.10 An impatient man thinks that the revolution of all times should be of the same aspect that present times should be as full of trade as full of friends as full of peace and plentie as former times or else that former times were better then these Men doe not inquire wisely as the wise man saith Times and conditions are to be called good or better not as our owne will but as the will of the Lord prospers in them I may be more poore more contemptible then I was in time past yet if Christ be made more rich and more glorious hereby I am bound to say that this time is better then the dayes past Possibly the will of the Lord in order to the men of this generation may be to put them to it in all that is dear that our worke shall be to labour as it were in the fire to bast and waste our selves out about the refining furnace to bring out the next age more pure and holy then this wee may sow and others after us reape as they did before us in order to many mercies then which now we have if Christ make such a noble work to succeed and take by us wee are bound to say that these are very happy times * Luke 9.30.31 and this Christ will 't was sealed in that apparition two appeared in glory and spake of Christs decease There is a communication of this in a degree and 't was done for our sakes as it is said of other cariages Messengers appeare to our soules in glory when about the hardest parts of the will of God a spirit of glory and of God visiteth us which is the hand of Christ prospering his Fathers will Impatient men are blind they can see no glory but that which is externall all that ever God hath said about the glory of times is onely this in my text that his pleasure should prosper by the hand of Christ and this indeed is the glory of times and persons in every age Doth the will of God by the hand of Christ prosper within thee without thee in the world in thine owne heart then t is a glorious time that wherein thou shouldest content and solace thy selfe * Every time is best to its best improvers The still breathing of every age should be the will of the Lord be done Patience hath two things in it as I formerly told you perturbation removed and expectation seated in the place of it and the Doctrine in hand inforceth both Be still and know that I am God Psalm 46.10 The one expression notes passion allaied and the other expectation raised Know that I am God that is that I will accomplish my will so it followes I will be exalted among the Heathen c. Let your expectation be pure to such a height the point in hand lifts Weeds creepe up by every flower and in every ground unlesse very well look't to Confidence becomes carnall and then dies as instruments die and swels and flants as they live and prosper millions of such men are not worth a straw in a storme they are the great bubbles of boysterous weather which break as fast as they swell The Nations shall blesse themselves in him and in him shall they glory or shine Halal what ever hath been done for us hath been done by him what ever is to be done for us or for others is to be done by him if ever England shine or any instrument in England 't will be as in his hand by whom alone all shall prosper Expectation pure the spirit is solid very high and yet very low never at a losse let times and things goe how they will but when 't would speake of the vertue and excellence of that hand by which the pleasure of the Lord is fulfilled and truly there one may pardonably lose ones soule T is not an easie thing to be pure in expectation one is like a child that hath been used to be caried that when set downe to goe alone catcheth at every thing next it and there hangs and will not let goe and yet falls at last with its props in his hands God hath spoken once twice have I heard this that power belongeth unto God Psalm 62.11.12 The speech of God in providence is of great eccho especially in some more remarkable works God speakes in providence so wonderfully sometimes to a person or to a Nation that it sounds oft in a mans soule once twice that is frequently that God alone does all and a man is readie to say so oft and yet in a renewed distresse old unbeliefe revives and the soule dies The Psalmist in the context bids not to trust in poore or rich one is vanity t'other's a lye saith he but trust in the Lord at all times and then renders the reason in the words forecited Power belongs to the Lord. Which is no more then the enforement of my text the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand The word of the Lord is very pure so should our building upon it be 't was very gloriously taught in that significant providence to Abraham The Ram caught behind him Genesis 22.13 * I heard behinde mee a voyce of a great rushin blessed be th● glory of the Lord from his place Ezek. 3.12 Gods glorious place is behinde us The pleasure of the Lord doth prosper at his pleasure and as his pleasure sometimes before us that is in wayes which we can reach and serve Gods providence in sometimes again behind us that is in such wayes as wee cannot reach to lend him the least concurrence in to teach that our expectation should be purely plac'd upon his word and that wee should say to our soules in all straights The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand Abraham had no hands behind him neither doe men ordinarily goe that way to catch things yet there was the Ramme caught Hitherto I have exhorted to contentation Imitation now I shall exhort you to imitation and so close up the point and the day Be followers of Christ as deare children what shall prosper in his hand let that prosper in yours according as you are able to give prosperity to things and in the pursuit of this particular give me leave Honourable Worthies to apply my selfe more particularly to you Be valiant for the truth upon the earth be so in heart be so in tongue and hand give not the Prophets and people of the Lord cause to mourne over you as Jeremy did over the generation of his time They bend their tongue like their bow for lies but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth Jeremie 9.2 3. 'T is a gallant thing to lay hearts and hands upon all that which Christ doth and say let this prosper though I dye if it will not grow without warring with my bloud yet I cannot hand off nor heart off the will of the Lord be done you have many