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A95730	Scriptures opened and sundry cases of conscience resolved, in plain and practical answers to several questions, upon the proverbs of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Daniel / by that faithful servant of Jesus Christ, William Thomas ...	Thomas, William, 1593-1667.	1675 (1675)	Wing T990; ESTC R42854	160,919	408

between us and him nearer though spiritual than that of our kinred according to the flesh therefore Christ that his troubled Servants may have peace calls them to himself John 16. 33. Phil. 4. 4 12 13. 4. There is the peace of inward consolation by that Spirit which is the Comforter to allay and take away all heart-trouble John 14. 26 27. Hereby Jesus as Jonathan 1 Sam. 23. 16. strengthens the hands and hearts of his Servants in God 5. There is the peace of expectation Let not your hearts be troubled saith our Saviour John 14. 1 2 3. for I go to prepare a place for you that where I am ye may be also look to that in all troubles here and quiet and comfort your hearts 1 Thes 4. 17 18. 2 Cor. 4. 14. 6. Of sustentation mean-time Acts 18. 10. Psal 73. 23 24 26. Thus of the personal Peace 2. There is by a reigning Christ a social-Peace or a society-Peace And that 1. By our own Regeneration whereby our spirits are made peaceable towards others 2. By others Conversion whereby their spirits are made peaceable towards us Both these we find Isa 11. 6 c. Thus was the raging spirit of Saul calmed and thereby the whole Church also had much more rest and quiet Acts 9. 31. yea by the convictions of the Word upon the hearts of wiser Men though they be not converted there ariseth a peace to the People of God by an over-ruling Christ and Thus by Gamaliel's counsel upon a ground of Religion to wit that it was dangerous to fight against God Acts 5. 39. that bloody company were so convinced that the Apostles had their lives and were dismiss'd with a comfortable measure of peace Unto all which we may add that Christ to whom all power is committed bends and binds the hearts tongues and hands of Enemies as Gen. 31. 42. 33. 10. raiseth up instruments and ordereth out benign Providences as he pleaseth for his Churches peace Hence something they do against the Children of God and more they cannot do though they would never so fain and though they be never so like to do it as we see in Herod Acts 12. 2 3 4 5 6 11. Hitherto of the Peace of Christs Kingdom 3. Christs Rule and Dominion is described by the relation it hath unto David Here therefore is as it were the Heraldry of the Holy Ghost describing this King as lineally descending from David This was of great use to the Jews because all their Covenant-comforts and precious Promises were laid up in the House of David 2 Sam. 7. 26 29. 2 Kings 19. 3 4. 1 Chron. 14. 2. yea and is so to us Gentiles also for the main Promises of the Covenant of Grace are made and belong to the people of God in all Ages which people of God we Gentiles now are over whom Christ the Son of David is as their King and Shepherd Ezek. 36. 24. John 10. 16. Rom. 10. 12. Hos 1. 10 11. In sum There 's no comfort for sinners but in a work of Redemption and Reconciliation none can be merry solidly but they that can sing that new Song Revel 5. 9. There 's no Redemption but by the true Messiah and his Sacrifice Dan. 9. 26. John 8. 24. Acts 4. 12. This true Messiah must be of the House and Lineage and sit upon the Throne of David Luke 1. 32 33. 2. 4. By this Description therefore we see where to fix our comfort there being no sitting upon the Throne of David since this Child was born but by this Child and Son of God only to whom is given Dominion and Glory Dan. 7. 14. Mat. 20. 18. yet we must remember that He sits on the Throne of David as David did reigning outwardly and subduing Enemies as he did His Kingdom is not a worldly but a spiritual Kingdom wherein he rules by his Word and Spirit Psal 110. 2 3. Mat. 12. 18. Luke 17. 21. only while he rules thus in his Church spiritually he rebukes the wickedness of the world as he seeth good outwardly Psal 110. 6 7. Acts 12. 20. yea and of the Church also Acts 5. 5 10 11. 13. 11. 4. The Government of Christ is described by the manner of the administration of it His Kingdom is a well-ordered and established Kingdom as the Covenant with David was 2 Sam. 2. 3 5. Christ in person did set things right in the Temple John 2. 15 16. And hath set an order in his Church Mat. 18. 15. John 20. 23. Ephes 4. 11 12. 1 Tim. 3. 2 c. 5. wholly and Tit. 1. 5 6 7 c. yea for outward things 1 Cor. 11. 2 c. 34 14 throughout Col. 2. 5. It is also an established Kingdom so that the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against it Mat. 16. 18. nor any true Member of it Luke 22. 32. John 17. 15. 1 Pet. 5. 10. with v. 8 9. This appears because all those things are in it whereby the Throne is established as right Laws and righteous Executions of Judgment in regard of his Enemies and Justice in regard of his Subjects 5. It is described by the perpetuity of it It is for ever and ever Dan. 7. 14. Luke 2. 33. Heb. 1. 8. As long as this world lasteth Christ doth and will administer it as Mediator as now it is and ever after the Kingdom will continue in a glorious state 2 Tim. 4. 1. 2. 12. All this is sealed and assured by the zeal and ardent love of the Lord of Hosts which is the cause of it and again by the zeal and vehemency of spirit that is in the Lord of Hosts for his own glory his Churches welfare to pay his Enemies their Wages to make good his Truth and perform his gracious Promises made to his people When God puts on the cloak of zeal as 2 Kings 9. 20. 20. 15. he will throughly plead the cause of his Church Jer. 50. 34. vindicate the honour of this great King and see that all shall be well though for present it be never so ill Isa 59. 14 15 16 17 18-20 63. 5 6. Our zeal is oft seen in promising and professing It were better shew it as God doth his in performing That which yet remains to be more particularly spoken to is why Christ is so much spoken of in Promises and Promises of the Churches Deliverance whereof these Reasons may be given 1. Because Christ is the foundation of faln Mans recovery of the covenant of grace of all the grace comfort of that covenant which containeth all good in it as the Mine of Mercy He is therefore mentioned and described immediately after the Fall in that first grand Promise Gen. 3. 15. revealing mans restoring upon this ground that the Seed of the Woman shall bruise the head of the Serpent that caus'd the Fall by the Serpents bruising of his heel that is principally by our Saviours