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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45545	The choicest fruit of peace gathered from the tree of life presented to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in a sermon preached before them at the Abbey church of Westminster, on April 30, 1660, being the day of their solemn humiliation / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing H713; ESTC R17334	18,790	38

him that is near yea as if he that were afar off should be sooner at home then he that is near he as set in the first place If you please to look upon a preceding passage of this Prophecy you shall finde an enumeration of those severall Countreys from whence God would recover his people from Assyria and from Aegypt and from Pathros and from Cush and fram Elam and from Shinar and Hanath and from the Islands of the Sea and it followeth He shall assemble the Out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth and that promise mentioned by Moses and repeated by Nehemiah runs thus If any of thine be driven out unto the utmost parts of heaven from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee and from thence will he fetch thee That which would here be taken notice of is how divine providence brings to passe improbable events that those who were near hand should return in peace was not unlikely but for them who were afar off to be restored what more improbable and yet this was effected Who would have expected that Abraham and Sarah being stricken in years should have a childe and yet when Abraham was an hundred years old and Sarah not much younger Isaac is born Who would have thought that Joseph when sold as a slave by his brethren and imprisoned as a malefactor by his Master should have been so highly exalted by Pharaoh and yet he became second in all the Land of Aegypt Who would have imagined that David when hunted as a Partridge upon the Mountains and forced to fly out of his own Countrey should ever come to sit on the Throne and yet he was in the appointed time King both of Israel and Judah and we trust it will not be long ere we have a like example in our David And therefore let us learn not to measure divine proceedings by the last of our carnall reason rather with Abraham let us beleeve and hope even against hope and when things are at the worst nor to despair of deliverance especially when we consider The Causality of the Agent I create or as the Hebrew participle signifieth I am creating as if what was indeed long after were then to be effected because it should be as certainly as if it were presently brought to passe This word Create is used sometimes in a proper and sometimes in an allusive sence In a proper sence it is attributed 1. Primarily to the making of the world with all things therein so we often reade of Gods creating the Heavens and the earth 2. Secondarily to the preserving of all things made so the Psalmist saith Thou sendest forth thy spirit and they are created thou renewest the face of the earth with which agreeth that Maxime in the Schools Conservation is a continued Creation 2. In an allusive way it is applyed to that work of 1. Spirituall Conversion in which respect Converts are said to be New Creatures and the new man to be created after God in righteousnesse and true holinesse 2. Temporall Liberation thus when any strange and unexpected glorious and eminent deliverance is wrought by God for his Church it is called a creation and such was this to which my Text refers There are two works of God which are singularly transcendent namely his first and his last work of Creation which was in beginning of time and of resurrection which shall be the end of time and to both of these is the restoration of the Jews compared and that by this Prophet To the resurrection where he saith awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust and to the creation in this I create peace If you please I shall spend a little time in cracking the shell of this metaphor wherein we shall finde many wholsome kernels contained 1. Creation is Gods peculiar act the choicest flower of the celestiall Crown and Prerogative of the Deity It is a Question moved by the Schools Whether God can make such a creature as should be able to create another but it is resolved negatively and not without reason since that were to make a God Creation being an act of Omnipotency which is incommunicable to any thing lesse then a God It is observed by the Hebrew Criticks that these Verbs {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} are used of the Creatures but this Verb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the Text only of God Such was this restauration of the Jews a work so wrought that it did proclaim God to be the Authour and therefore the Church expressing her confidence of accomplishing it looketh up to God Lord thou wi●t ordain peace for thou hast wrought all our works and God himself foretelling it saith I will make the wildernesse a pool of water I will sow in the desert the fir-tree and the pine and the box tree together that they may see and know consider and understand that the hand of the Lord hath done this and the holy One of Israel hath created it And accordingly when this work was accomplished it was said among the Heathen the Lord hath done great things for them and indeed the wise God is for the most part pleased so to bring about his Churches deliverance that it may appear both to themselves and others that it is his doing 2. Creation is Gods immediate act in the accomplishing whereof there was no instruments made use of Some Philosophers indeed have fancied that God created lesser gods and by them made the world but Job saith he alone spreadeth out the Heavens and it is a Maxime in the Schools Instrumentum creationis creatura esse non potest the Creature cannot be so much as an Instrument in the work of Creation the Creature can do nothing alone without God but God can do any thing alone without the Creature yea the Creature cannot be subservient in the work of Creation and therefore it is a good argument against the Arians that Christ is no creature because he is a Creator for by him were all things made and without him was nothing made that was made Indeed as all works ad extra so that of the Creation was the work of the whole Trinity in reference to which it is observed that the first letters of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} are in {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} each person being as it were co-efficient in this work the Father by the Son through the Spirit creating the world but there was not could not be any thing lesse then God a co-worker in it Thus the restoration of the Jews was as it were Gods immediate hand and therefore he saith I will have mercy upon the house of Judah and will save them by the Lord their God and will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by