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A94047	A discovery of peace: or, The thoughts of the Almighty for the ending of his peoples calamities. Intimated in a sermon at Christ-church London, before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor, the right worshipfull the Aldermen; together with the worshipfull companies of the said city, upon the 24th of April, 1644. Being the solemn day of their publike Humiliation and monethly fast. By John Strickland, B.D. pastor of the church at St. Edmunds, in the city of New Sarum; a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strickland, John, 1600 or 1601-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5969; Thomason E48_5; ESTC R14414	39,755	53

upon whom we should wait for all our deliverance It is reported of Domitian that when he escaped from Vitellius seeking to destroy him he resolved that in the place where he lay hid he would build a Temple and he would dedicate it Jovi Custodi seque in sinu Dei s●cravit saith the Historian Tacitus And had a heathen so much zeale for the honour of an Idoll-god that hee would ascribe it all to him How much more should we ascribe the honour of our deliverances to the true God and write upon our Temples and monuments of praise not Jovi but Deo custodi to our God our great deliverer Secondly a diligent and patient waiting on God in the day of trouble is the safest way we can take let men try all other wayes and they shall find this is the only way for he is both able to help and he is also of a good disposition if I may say so little of him The Apostle on that ground exhorts men to cast all their burthen on him 1. Pet. 5.6 7. in 1 Pet. 5.6 7. Cast all your care on him for hee careth for you he taketh to heart your condition hee is sensible of all your misery For a man to goe any other way it will be in vain it will adde to his misery rather then deliver him You have an excellent and a cleare example in Ephraim Hosea 5.13 14. When Ephraim saw his sicknesse Hos 5.13 14. and Judah saw his wound Ephraim tooke another course then this in the Doctrine hee did not wait on God but he went to King Jareb yet could not he help you nor cure you of your wound And whereas before the Lord had been but unto them as a moth and as rottennesse in his judgements now he was resolved to become as a Lion he would teare them and there should none be able to deliver them Vers 14. vers 14. And which is most of all considerable to the point Ephraim that went another way was faine to return to God at last and seek help from him Come let us returne to the Lord Hosea 6.1 for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and hee will bind us up Vse 1 First it may serve to humble and to lay us low before the Lord this day that since God requireth such a calme a patient such a waiting frame of heart in his people upon him in the day of their trouble our hearts should be so farre as we know they are from this waiting frame that we should be so much distempered as wee are with pettishnesse and with impatience under the hand of God submission is that my brethren which God especially looks for at our hands whereby he might have occasion given to deliver us Levit. 26.40 41 42. 26. Levit. 40 41 42. verse when the people of Israel were in their affliction If then their uncircumcised hearts bee humbled and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquities then will I remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember and I will remember the Land Mark If when we have walked contrary to God and wee find that God hath walked contrary to us as at the 40. verse if then we will accept of our punishment that is to say if we will kindly take it humbly submit to it patiently goe under it then with God remember his covenant then will God remember our Land then will God be favourable to us It much concerneth us to bee humbled and ashamed this day that there is such a frame of heart within us so farre discordant and unsuteable to these times of calamitie that are now on us Alas my brethren wee are rather desperatly sick of Davids disease sometimes we are too high sometimes we are too low he was so set on the top of his strong mountaine as if he should never be removed and so are we And sometimes he was too low so dejected that he concluded it was ion vain that ever he served God that ever hee looked for any hope from God that ever he waited on God as he complained in the 73. Psalm 13 14. So is it with us my brethren Psal 73.13 14. we reel to and fro in our passions from one extream to another as if so be we were drunk with impatiencie and with presumption by turnes Beloved how should this affect us and make us ashamed while we look up in the presence of God this day Evils of imtiencie in trouble to think that we are of such a distempered frame of heart The better to move us to be humble and ashamed for it consider what inconveniences follow hereon First by this means it commeth to passe that wee lose all our sweet comfort and Soul-supporting peace that otherwise wee might have in the midst of our troubles as the Church had found in her experience and therefore sets it down in her song of praise to encourage the Church to wait on God in after times 26 Isaiah 3 4. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staied on thee Isai 26.3 4. because he trusteth ion thee Trust in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is eve●lasting strength God himselfe who is the God of peace will undertake to keep those in perfect peace or as the word imports by the repetition of it peace peace in peace assuredly whose minds are staid on him as Junius cogitationi in●itenti whom our last translation followes and though Calvin renders the words a little differently cogitatio fixa as relating unto Gods counsels which are fixedly set from everlasting to give peace unto his Church Non apponitur nota dativicas●s expend at lectores annon magu conveniat referre ad Deum C●lvin on Isai 26. of which reading he gives an * account and wherein hee leaves the reader free to his own judgenent yet both Junius and Calvin conclude that God will not faile to give his Church and people peace that patiently wait upon him peace with God which is of all other the most perfect and fundamentall peace peace in their owne soules in the middest of their troubles and distresses and this according to their trusting in him shall be a continuall peace seeing their God is of an * Rupes saeculorum everlasting power and strength to defend and keep it for them But through this want of trust in God it is that we are so unsetled in these times of trouble that we are sometimes carried too high by carnall confidence into provoking presumption and sometimes cast downe too low by carnall feares into dejection of spirit The beleeving heart of the righteous shall be brought into a more excellent frame as is promised Psal 112.7 Hee shall not be afraid of evill tidings Psal 112.6 his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord neither good nor bad newes shal move it inordinatly

Philistims we can never more seasonably contribute our indeavours and bestir our selves then when God goeth out before us We see how it crowned Davids undertakings with successe and Davids spirit elsewhere was raised and inlarged to more eminent enterprises when he found Gods hand going along with him Psal 60.6.10 Psal 60.6.10 When the Lord had given him victory over his enemies in the field hee goes about to beat them out of their garrison also I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine Ephraim also is the strength of my head c. not content with these hee thinks of entering their garrison Who will bring me into the strong City c. We should likewise be incouraged to lay out our selves freely now when the Almighty stands up nay when the Lord of hosts is pleased to become the God of our armies and to fight for us against our enemies Oh! that we could now joyn hearts and hands and stand up as one man in the common cause of the Church and State Now I say that God hath displaied a banner for them that feare him and for the truth now that God hath given out a Commission of deliverance for Jacob now that deliverance begins to come we might pull it home to us by our wrestings with God in prayer and by going out unto battell to help the Lord against the mighty when a Bell is rising one pull will do more to set it up then three pulls will when it is fallen Thus may we happily improve the tender bowels which wee see God carries towards us in our miseries to a full deliverance that he may give us rest from all our enemies round about and establish truth and peace together in the midst of us from generation to generation which is and leads mee to open the expected end which the Lord intends to give his Church even the last branch of the Text the matter and result of Gods thoughts toward his people in distress to give you an expected end The matter or the result of his thoughts are peace and an expected end of their long and tedious captivity and though their hope deferred hath made them heart-sick Prov. 13.12 yet when he desire shall come it will be a tree of life You see even the thing that they can wish or expect so that their desire and Gods thoughts agree in the event onely they differ in the point of time it is in Gods thoughts to give them what they desire but not when they desire it The words which our translation renders an expected end are disjunctively rendred by the most finem expectationem so some finem spem so others finem patienti●m so a third sort of interpreters I will not trouble you with the superficiall descants of any that would severally apply these words as that end should relate unto their captivitie God promiseth them an end of that and expectation should relate unto their return into their own land God should give them their expectation in bringing them back into their own countrey again the sense and meaning of the words more solidly is that Gods purpos● was to give them such an end of their captivity as that therein they should also receive the end of their hopes and expectations the yoke of their bondage should be taken off and their eyes again behold dear Judea and Jerusalem which lay so neer their hearts and all this in a time fore-appointed by Gods counsels though far off even threescore and ten yeers The point hence is Doctr. Gods counsels have foreset a good end at last to the Churches calamities Particular churches may be like those seven famous churches in the Revelation now laid waste and desolate and the Church generall as she is visible may be brought low inter suspiria lachrymas her calamities may be so destructive and lasting that she may seem to have lost her visibility for a time as the Prophet Elijah complained when he fled from Jezabels fury 1 King 19.10 1 King 19.10 I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away and according as the Lord often threatens his own people that hee will destroy them yet still there is a remnant saved to return to be as a seed for a flourishing posterity that after the Church have lyen for a while among the pots sullied and all becolled with persecution she may be as beautifull as the wings of a Dove that is covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold God intended deliverance and freedom to Abrahams seed after four hundred yeers affliction Act. 7.6.7 Act. 7.6.7 and though he led Israel a crooked way through the wilderness to humble them yet was it still with an intent to do his people good in the latter end Deut. 8.16 So that as by the course of nature Deu. 8.16 the trees and plants that in Winter are drie and sapless and seem to be little better then dead yet at the Spring recover grow green again and bear fruit according to their kinde as being appointed thereto by the God of nature so the Church though shee seem to be an outcast in the Winter of affliction and even swallowed up of misery never to be healed so long saith the Prophet as untill the cities be wasted without inhabitant and the houses without man and the land be utterly d●solate and the Lord have removed men farre aw●y Isa 6.11.12.13 and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land speaking of Judea and his own people Isaiah 6. vers 11 12 13. a 〈◊〉 vigor●●● 〈…〉 Calvin yet in it shall be a tenth and it shall return and shall be eaten as a teyl tree and as an Oake whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof God will not only reserve a remnant in the Church which shall out-live the Winter-like troubles which befall her but that remnant shall be as seed which though it lie under the earth and die shall revive and bear fruit Gods promise unto them shall be as effectuall to recover and settle them in a peaceable and desired condition which is to gi●e them an expected end as the Spring is by her vigorous influence to make seeds and plants after the dead time of the yeer to be flourishi●g and fruitfull And such thoughts there are in the Almighty his heart and such promises to the Church in his Word For hee hath made a covenant with his people which he will remember Re●●●n 1. even in their afflictions and whereby hee hath graciously tyed himself that hee will not cast them away but recover them how severely soever hee deal with them for a time in punishing their sins Admit he should as here in the Text he did cast them ou● of their own into their enemies land ●●v ●● 44 ●● yet then Lev.