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A57140	Gods fidelity, the churches safety opened in a sermon preached before the lord major, aldermen, and common-councel, at Lawrence-Jury Church, on Wednesday Septem. 15, 1658 : being a day of humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1252; ESTC R32285	22,488	88

63 16-19 Be not wroth very sore neither remember iniquity for ever behold see we beseech thee we are all thy people Isa. 64.9 Thou art righteous 1. In thy Iudgements and chastisements which thou hast inflicted upon us we cannot blame thy severity thou didst warne us before thou didst punish us thy Trumpet did sound before thy Rod did smite us 1. Thou art a Righteous Iudge when thou condemnest wicked men their mouth shall be stopped thou wilt overcome when thou judgest Psal. 51.4 Rom. 3.19 thou dost not wrong them for they shall receive according to their works 2. Thou art a Righteous Father when thou chastisest holy men thou dost not wrong them thou measurest and proportionest thy stripes not unto their sinnes but unto their strength dealest with them tenderly and suitably to their cases and conditions To purge them not to consume them thou hast a Rod for the Cummin and a Staffe for the Fitches and a wheele for the Bread Corn Isa. 28.27 28. thy Rod is Virga Hominum a Rod fitted to the condition of weak men 2 Sam. 7.14 and the Temptations wherewith thou sufferest thy Children to be tempted is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proportioned to the infirmities of man 1 Cor. 10.13 thou knowest our frame thou remembrest that we are dust Psal. 103.14 that our strength is not the strength of stones nor our flesh of brasse that we dwell in houses of Clay which are crushed before the Moth Iob 4.19.6.12 and accordingly thou dost in very faithfulness afflict to refine not to consume us 3. Yea when thy judgements are secret yet they are righteous when wicked men prosper and good men suffer when wicked men are the Fanne and good men the Corn when the Weeds flourish and the Corn is overtopped when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he when the affairs of the world seem to be out of course and every man out of his place All this while the Lord makes way for the revelation of his righteous judgements his work will be beautifull in its time all things will work together for good as Materials in a Building Ingredients in a Cordial Colours in a Table Rom. 8.28 The prosperity of the wicked will work to his ruine Prov. 1.3 the affliction of the righteous will work to his glory 2 Cor. 4.17 Thus righteous in thy judgements neither thine Enemies nor thy Children shall ever haue cause justly to complaine against thee Thou art righteous 2. In thy Covenant and promises If thou shouldest have dealt with us according to our provocations we had been consumed Lam. 3.22 Ier. 10.24 but thou hast remembred thy gracious promise to our fathers and therefore we are preserved Though our sins have forfeited mercy yet thy truth and faithfulness hath fulfilled it we owe not our remaining that we are a people we owe not our escaping that we are a free people unto any goodness of our own but unto the grace of the Covenant alone Gods truth and fidelity to his people that are in Covenant with him is the true ground of all their safety he doth not change therefore we do not perish who otherwise from the dayes of our Fathers are gone astray Mal. 3.6 7. his mercies are from everlasting to everlasting Psal. 103.17 from everlasting in predestination to everlasting in Glorification he gave grace and promised eternal life before the world began 2 Tim. 1.9 Tit. 1.2 before they were extant or had any being further then in the purpose of God on whom the grace was bestowed to whom the life was promised And what he did from eternity purpose he will not in time revoke for his gifts are without repentance Rom. 11.29 he doth by his faith and fear preserve his people through his power unto that mercy which he hath from eternity given them Ier. 32.40 1 Pet. 1.5 of themselves they fall dangerously and frequently from their own stedfastness and then the Lord doth chastise their wantonness with the Rod of a Father but doth not utterly take away his loving kindness Psal. 89 28-35 1. The Covenant and grace thereof is free and absolute not conditional and suspended upon the unstable will of man It is not of him that willeth or runneth but of God that sheweth mercy and sheweth it on whom he will Rom. 9 15-18 Between God the Father indeed and Christ as a second Adam the Transaction of the Covenant was wholly conditional he was to take from his Father a Commission in our nature to lay down his life and to take it up again to fulfill all righteousness to be made sinne for us to have our iniquities and the Chastisement of our peace laid upon him before he could see of the travel of his soul Yea he undertook not only for his own work but for ours By the preciousness of his blood he purchased and out of the plenitude of his Spirit he supplyeth unto us what ever grace is requisite unto our salvation But I say as to us the grace of the Covenant is thus farre free and absolute that no duties are required of us which are not as branches of the same Covenant bestowed upon us he hath promised to give a new heart and to put a new Spirit within us to take away the stony heart out of our flesh and to give us an heart of flesh and to put his Spirit within us and to cause us to walk in his Statutes to save us from all our uncleanness to cleanse us from all our iniquities Ezek. 36.25 26 27 29 33. and though he there tell us that he will be enquired of by the house of Israel to doe these things for them ver 37. yet we know it is he onely who poureth out the Spirit of Grace and Supplication whereby we make this inquiry of him Zach. 12.10 Gal. 4.6 Rom. 8.26 True indeed it is that when we believe it is we only that believe and when we work it is we that work but our working is not the cause of his grace but his grace the cause of our working Certum est nos velle facere cum volumus cum facimus sed ille facit ut velimus ut faciamus And therefore the Apostle saith I laboured more abundantly they they all to note that the labour was his yet not I but the grace of God which was with me to note that the principle was God 1 Cor. 15.10 Thou hast wrought all our works in us saith the Prophet Isai. 26.12 The works are ours the strength is thine ours the heart and the hand that act thine the Spirit and grace whereby we act he doth not with-hold his love till our wills prevent him and move him to extend it but he doth out of his own free love frame our hearts unto the love of him and work the will in us which he requireth of us Phil. 2 12 13. we repent because he turns us he doth not turn to us because we first turn to

it shame and confession of guilt ver 15. O Lord God of Israel who art in Covenant with them and ownest them for thy people Deut. 26.18 and art afflicted in their afflictions in whose sufferings thy great name is concerned in whose prosperity thy sole grace is magnified Thou art righteous Just in thy Iudgements in all that is come upon us Nehem 9.33 faithfull in thy Covenant in all that thou hast said unto us And hereof thou hast given us assurance for we remain yet escaped According to thy promise that after seventy years should be accomplished in Babylon thou wouldst visit thy people and perform thy good word towards them in causing them to return to their own Land again Ier. 29.10 2 Chron. 36.21 we have deserved by our Provocations to be cut off from being a People but for thy Promise sake we yet remain for thou hast said that the Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet untill Shilo come Gen. 49.10 that Immanuel was to come of the house of David before the Jews should cease to be a Nation or should have their politie utterly dissolved Isa. 7.14 Isa. 8.9 10. Isai. 10 24-27 We have deserved to have been kept Captives in Babylon still but for thy Promise sake we remain yet escaped because thou hast said that thou wouldest cause us to come up out of our graves and bring us into the Land of Israel Ezek. 37.12 13 14. It is by the blood of the Covenant alone that thou hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit Zach. 9.11 The words are the close of a Penitential Prayer wherein there is observable 1. A Comfortable address to God as the God of Israel 2. A Penitent acknowledgement of his righteousnesse in the evils which they suffered 3. A grateful acknowledgement of his fidelity in the Mercies which they enjoyed 4. A demonstration of this great Mercy 1. We remain we are not consumed 2. We remain an escape we are not detained in captiuity 3. As it is this day not only escaped but favoured encouraged assisted to build Gods House to restore his Worship though to this day we have had so great provocations O Lord God of Israel Thou art righteous we have sinned as a perfidious people against a God in covenant thou hast afflicted us in measure as a God in covenant Afflictions are sweetned Mercies are magnified sinnes are aggravated sinners are humbled and melted by no consideration more then by the grace of the Covenant that we have to doe with a God who is pleased to be called ours when he smites us this is our Comfort the rod is in the hand of a Father he may visit with stripes but he will not break his Covenant Psal. 89 32-34 when he loadeth us with mercies this is our joy that they are all appendices to Christ and rayes and Emanations of the Covenant Rom. 8.32 Ier. 32.41 If he hear us if he answer us if he be gracious unto us we shall weep no more though he give us bread of adversity and water of affliction Isai. 30 18-20 when we review our sinnes and set our selves seriously to turn to God this makes us loath our selves this fills our faces with shame and our hearts with sorrow that we have done it against a God in Covenant who is pacified towards us Ezek. 16.62 63. It is great presumption for aliens and strangers to despise Gods authority or abuse his bounty but for an adopted people whom he hath selected in a peculiar manner to be his own and set apart for himself for whom he reserveth the choisest of his mercies to whom he revealeth the secrets of his love for these to sinne not only against Precepts and Benefits but against the Bowels of a Father the blood of a Saviour the grace of a Comforter the Covenant of life the Charter of Salvation this is that which should greatly abase us in our own eyes that we should thus requite a Father Deut. 32.6 The Lord calls Heaven and Earth to be amazed at it Hear O Heaven and give ear O Earth for the Lord hath spoken for I have nourished and brought up children adopted them into my family brought them into my Land advanced them unto my favour vouchsafed my presence with them set up my Name and glory among them and yet they have rebelled against me Isa. 1.2 Be astonished O ye heavens and be ye horribly afraid be very desolate for my people who have heard my voice out of Heaven whom I have taken from the midst of another Nation by temptations by signs by wonders by war by a mighty hand by a stretched-out arm and by great terrors who have been the Fountain of all their blessings and the glory in the midst of them have changed their glory for vanity and their Fountain for broken cisterns Ier. 2.11 12 13. This is matter of great pressure unto him Amos 2.9 13. and should much more be so unto us Many aggravations there are in the sins of Gods people which may greatly tend to their humbling and abasement They are committed 1. Against more glorious light and more spiritual convictions after they have known God and are known of God Gal. 4.9 after he hath taught them his ways shewed his covenant imparted unto them the secrets of his salvation Ps. 25.9 14. after he had opened their ears and sealed their instruction to withdraw them from sinful purposes Iob 33.16 17. after he had caused them to hear a word behind them saying this is the way Isai. 30.21 and had shewed them the salvation of God Psal. 50.23 and had been as it were transfigured in their presence The more the beauties of holiness are discovered to the soul the greater is the unkindness and disingenuity of that soul in giving entertainment to any sinful lust again 2. Against speciall and more tender love which love of Christ passeth knowledge and therefore should constrain us to love him that loved us died for us 2 Cor. 5.14 David had been highly honoured by God Solomon was the beloved of God and this made their sins both more strange and more atrocious 2 Sam. 12.7 8 9. Nehem. 13.26 you only have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore I will punish you for your iniquities Amos 3.2 Ier. 2.21 22. 3. Against the breathings of the Spirit of Grace whose motions being quenched whose operations being resisted whose sweet and gracious pulsations at the door of the soul being neglected he is exceedingly grieved in the hearts of his people and provoked to withdraw himself and his Comforts from them Ephe. 4.30 Cant. 5 6. and they put to cry hard for recovery of him again whom they had by their unkind usage grieved away and caused to hide his presence from them Psa 51.10 11 12. 4. Against the peace of God which should keep our hearts and mindes in Christ from yeilding to temptations Phil. 4.7 when the Lord speaks peace to