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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60548	Light out of darkness in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton, Kt., Lord Mayor of the city of London, in Guild-hall Chappel, the 26th of Sept. 1680 : wherein are contained, rules how to support our selves under dark providences, when they seem to supercede divine promises : also, directions how to obtain a prospect of serene and happy times / by Samuel Smith ...	Smith, Samuel, 1620-1698.	1680 (1680)	Wing S4201; ESTC R3482	14,587	40

Duty Modesty and Safety to be devoutly blind 7 Rule Though Providences should be Gloomy and Dreadful yet be not discouraged because the most Startling Appearances of God have usually ushered in the most Remarkable Degrees of Peace and Establishment unto the Church Jer. 30.5 6 17. Jer. 33.6 10 11. Zech. 13.8 9. Psal 71.20 21. Ps 65.5 By terrible things in righteousness hast thou answered us O God of our Salvation He fulfills Prayer many times in such a strange way which will make our hearts to tremble The Lord appeared to Job in the Whirlwind when he came to comfort him and justifie his Righteous Cause against his Censorious Friends Thus the place was shaken when the Apostles were filled with the Holy Ghost Acts 4.31 So Paul was struck blind and taken up for dead when the Lord chose him to be a Vessel of Mercy and Honour to bear his Name before the Gentiles Acts 9.9 17. Fire came down from Heaven to consume the Sacrifice in Attestation of Its Acceptance The highest Joys are built on the lowest and most tried Foundation The deepest most boisterous Inundation of Calamities shall not drown us if they advance us in Heavenly-mindedness Hereby we shall gain the prospect of Gods Covenant Mercy and Fidelity as a Securing Rain-bow about the Throne of Amazing Justice 8 Rule Reserve your passing Sentence on the Darkest Dispensations until the winding up in their ultimate Scope and Tendency As we must be Witnesses of Gods Truth to the present Generation and Trustees to transmit it pure unto Posterity so when Providences are most stupendious we must treasure up Prayers and antedate Praises for those Salvations which God will work in After-ages We should rejoyce to think that the Lord will provide more Halcyon days for the Successive Generations of the World though our selves should fall in the Wilderness and never set foot on the Canaan of a Desired Rest But fearing lest this Day-star may be perverted in its benigne Influence by breeding presumption in a sinful or slothful secure state let it cast an Aspect of Caution in Conjunction with its comfortable Rays that none may be misled by the abuse thereof 1st Let not Romish Doctors expect that the Saving Light of the Knowledge of God in Christ should beam into them while they willfully yield themselves as Captives to the Power and Prince of Darkness or delight to strengthen a Combination with restless Atheistical Workers of Iniquity Such are afraid least the light of Gods Truth should disturb their Security in a Sinful Course yet there is no shadow of any pretence under which Antichrist may presume to lie safe from that Winged Desolation which watches to ensnare him As the Path of the Just is like the Morning Light which shines brighter to perfect Serenity in the Conscience so the Way and Designs of the Ungodly shall perish For these the Blackness and extremity of Darkness is reserved for ever They may sportingly presume to warm themselves with their own deceitful dying Sparks kindled out of the Grandeur of the World and a pompous False Religion yet they shall lie down in the shame of Disappointment When once an Evening of unexpected Terrors shall overtake them these shall increase to a midnight of desperate Sorrow in a perfect Desolation 2dly Let not the Enthusiast pervert this Comfortable Promise in the Text as if the Kingdom of Christ were to be promoted by the Invention of any Novel Arrogating Opinions which such Men expect should be idolized for Undubitable Maximes These can never usher In those glorious Accessions of Truth and Peace promised to the later Age of the Christian Churches Under a Pretence that In the Evening it shall be Light Scepticks irreverently pry into the Cabinet of Gods Secret Counsels Such do not with a modest safety advance in the Search of true Wisdom but rather rudely dictate Rules to the Supreme Governour of the World Proud Dogmatical Spirits exalt the Phaenomena or Mock-light of their Wanton Fancies Under pretence of illuminating others they despise the Sacred Institutions of Christ as if those were weak faint obscure Streams of Light adapted and fitted only to the Infant State of Christianity Such Deceivableness of Unrighteousness flows not from the Father of Lights but from Romish perverting Emissaries the Locusts of the Pit of Darkness 3ly There is another Caution I would give to such who expect the glorious Accession of Jewish Converts to the Christian Churches Let them not disturb Christs sweet repose among the Lillies of Evangelical Vertues by becoming Thorns and Briars to tear and rend in pieces his Seamless Coat of Unity and Concord The Divisions of Christians among themselves obstructs the Conversion of the Jews are the Engines which Rome makes use of to batter down the Bulworks of our Safety Fiery Contests among Protestants scare the Wild Savages from embracing Christs Pure Religion His Healing Influences as the Sun of Righteousness cannot spread to such Nations who still remain under the power of Pagan or Popish Blindness when they hear that Christs Doves quarrel one another with as great bitterness of spirit as That whereby Wolves designedly prey on the Lords Inheritance What a shame is it That these Lovely Twins of Truth and Peace should be divorced when as the Fruits of Righteousness can neither be sown nor reaped so advantageously in a Storm of Passion If we would have Gods Mercy and Truth meet together in fulfilling the Promise of our Establishment Let Righteousness and Peace kiss each other in our own Breasts But if a perverse spirit be mingled among us all Counsels and Means used for Safety will prove abortive Let us not by our Animosities Jealousies and Immoralities attempt that Destruction upon our selves which all our Enemies could never yet effect While the Jews severally contended in Parties they were universally overthrown Many are in expectation of Glorious Promises to be fulfilled in the Last Age of the World But we can never become terrible to Antichrist till all Antichristian Lusts be pulled down in our own hearts nor till we display the Banner and Beauty of Truth with Unanimity This will credit propagate maintain and secure the Protestant Religion and its Professors in the hearts and estimation of all Men When the Lord shall restore Sion to a more settled State the Worshippers of his Name shall see Eye to Eye they shall agree in the same Sentiments of Religion and in Candour of Affection In the mean time while it is only Twilight among the most knowing Christians let us not reproachfully stigmatize one another in those less considerable Controversies which at this day perplex the Christian Churches The Genuine Spirit and Profession of Christs Pure Religion is full of Meekness and not sowred with Envy Malice nor any proud Partiality in judging of Opinions It doth not wrangle in a Peremptory asserting the Truth lies on the side of this or that Party only Such Clashing Corruscations are Portentous Fore-runners of Destruction and not