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A59930 The great treaty of peace: or, A serious exhortation upon a sad occasion to double diligence about making peace with God Part whereof was preached at the funeral of Mrs. Anne Kyrl, April 6. 1677. To which is added, the character of that worthy gentlewoman. By H. S. minister of the Gospel. H. S. 1677 (1677) Wing S34; ESTC R219783 30,825 97

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is the continual and earnest applying our selves to a thing The giving setting bending the mind to a thing 'T is to be instant in season and out of season about any thing 2 Tim. 4. 2. 'T is in the morning to sow ones seed and in the evening not to withhold his hand Eccles 11. 6. 'T is to do what one does with all ones might Eccles 9. 10. and power Gen. 31. 6. 'T is to abide at ones work as the Levites were required Lev. 8. 35. 'T is to be at it early and late night and day as Paul was Acts 20. 31. 'T is to take heed to fulfill our work as Archippus is required Col. 4. 17. Further 'T is to arise and be doing 1 Chron. 22. 16. 'T is to rise up betimes about a thing 2 Chron. 36. 15. 'T is to enquire early after a thing Ps 78. 34. 'T is to take heed that we fail not to do a thing Ezra 4. 22. 'T is to bestir ones self 2 Sam. 5. 24. 'T is to be industrious about a thing 1 Kings 11. 28. 'T is to wait on a business Pro. 27. 18. 'T is to stand continually at it Isa 21. 8. 'T is to give ones self no rest Lam. 2. 18. 'T is to seek as for Silver and to search as for hid treasure Pro. 2. 4. 'T is to offer violence Mat. 11. 12. 'T is to press into Luke 16. 16. 'T is to work out with fear and trembling Phil. 2. 12. So then to be diligent to be found of Christ in peace or a reconciled estate with God it is To be instant in season and out of season about it To be at this work of making peace with God in the morning and in the evening not to withhold our hand To endeavour it with all our might and power To be at this work of making peace with God early and late night and day To abide at it and To take heed that we fulfill it and not fail to do it To wait on it till it be effected To give our selves no rest till it be done To seek this peace with God as one would seek for Silver or as one would search for hid Treasure To offer violence to all that oppose our doing it c. 5. The Fift thing I promised to shew you was To what this Diligence in Scripture is applied and to what required 1. To what applied 'T is applied 1. To seeking Good Heb. 11. 6. He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him 2. To seeking God Prov. 11. 27. He that diligently seeketh God procureth favour 3. To searching for Salvation 1 Pet. 1. 10. After which the Prophets searched diligently 4. To learning the ways of Gods people Jer. 12. 16. If they will diligently learn the ways of my people they shall be built 5. To looking left any fail of the grace of God Heb. 12. 15. Looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God 2. 'T is required 1. To the keeping of the Soul Deut. 4. 9. and Heart Pro. 4. 23. Keep thy Soul diligently Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life 2. To keeping Gods commands of loving him walking in his ways and cleaving to him Deut. 11. 22. Ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you to do them to love the Lord your God to walk in all his ways and to cleave unto him 3. To the delivering of our selves from an Adversary Luke 12. 58. When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate as thou art in the way give diligence that thou mayst be delivered from him lest c. 4. To adding to our stock of grace 2 Pet. 1. 5. Giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity 5. To attaining the full assurance of hope Heb. 6. 11. We desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end 6. To the making of our calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 10. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 7. And here in my Text To our being found of Christ in peace at his coming 6. The Reasons why we must give diligence to be at peace and in a reconled estate with God that so we may be found of Christ in it at his coming are these Reason 1. Because God having done so much in order thereunto viz. in order towards making peace between God and Man our negligence in not doing our part in order thereunto will be a slighting of the love and kindness of God which is said to be great Eph. 2. 4. and exceeding rich towards us through Christ Jesus Eph. 2. 7. It will be horrible ingratitude which will cause God to cry out and say as Isa 1. 2. Hear O Heavens and give ear O Earth for I have out of my love and by my wisdom found out a way for fallen offending Man to be at peace with me and he will not accept of it will not be diligent in the use of means to obtain it Now here it may be inquired Q. What hath God done towards making peace between Man offending and himself offended A. 1. He took counsel about it both Father and Son took counsel together about it Zech. 6. 13. The counsel of Peace-making between God and Man was between them both not I think between the two Offices of Christ Kingly and Priestly but between the two persons spoken of before viz. the Lord Jehovah and he who was to be the Branch God takes this counsel with him as he was his Eternal Wisdom with respect to his future Incarnation for in that respect he was to be the Branch Hence it may be he is called Counsellor Isa 9. 6. The consultation was how to satissie Justice offended that so the Offender might be received into favour how Man an enemy to God might be reconciled unto God and God to him The way thought upon was the Incarnation of the second person in the Holy Trinity in order to his suffering death in the room and stead of the Offender thereby to satisfie the Justice of God offended 2. He entred into a Covenant and Agreement with his eternally begotten Son about it In order to Peace-making between God and Man 1. God demands requires of his Son such and such things to be done and suffered viz. that he be made under the Law and that his Soul be made an Offering for sin Isa 53. 10. The transgression of the Law of God made the difference between God and Man and he will not be satisfied and reconciled unless this Law be fulfilled Satisfie the Law and I am satisfied says God 2. The Son accepts and engages to satisfie his Fathers demands viz. to fulfill the Law to perform the duty and pay the penalty of it to do what the Law enjoynes