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A52288 The great work of God in this present dispensation of peace consider'd, open'd and apply'd in a sermon preach'd at Havant in Hampshire, on Thursday Decemb. 2d. 1697, being the day of publick thanksgiving / by Charles Nicholetts ... Nicholets, Charles. 1698 (1698) Wing N1088; ESTC R41403 26,958 29

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THE Great Work OF GOD In This Present Dispensation of Peace Consider'd Open'd and Apply'd IN A SERMON PREACH'D At Havant in Hampshire on Thursday Decemb. 2d 1697. Being the Day of Publick Thanksgiving By Charles Nicholetts Minister of the Gospel there London Printed by Hugh Newman and Sold at his Shop at the Grashopper in the Poultry 1698. To His very much HONOURED FRIEND Grimbaldus Pancforth Esq Sir IT is my knowledge of you and your entire Affection to the best Interest that emboldens me to this Presumption of inscribing your Name to the following Discourse drawn up in hast Preach'd in much pain and now at a venture expos'd to the World Not for any thing of worth in it but only the suitableness of it to the present dispensation I confess I might well blush at the apprehension of your Sagacious Eye were I not secur'd in the sweetness of your Temper And that you are too great to pass censure on what is so much beneath you and too well enclin'd to the great work of God now on the wheel then Critically to fasten on the weakness of any attempt to display it Dear Sir I have here a fair opportunity to let the world know how much stand obliged to you What a refreshing shade you have been to me my disconsolate Wife and poor Children but I know your modesty will not bear my running any farther this way and therefore I shall stop Only beseeching the God of Recompense to return all your undeserved kindness treble-fold into your own besome And you that have given more then a cup of cold Water to me a poor unworthy Creature yet to me as a Prophet Oh may you receive a Prophet's Reward Thus committing you your Virtuous Lady and your hopefull Branches to the Divine Protection of the Holy One in whom I desire to be esteemed as I am SIR Your most Affectionate and Humbly devoted Servant Charles Nicholetts ERRATA PAge 7. line 5. later part of the line for Intermission read Intervention Page 12. 〈…〉 for Aiding read Ordering A Thanksgving-Sermon PSALM XLVI Verse 9. He maketh Wars to Cease unto the End of the Earth he breaketh the Bow and cutteth the Spear in Sunder he burneth the Chariot in the Fire I Will sing of Mercy and of Judgment unto thee O Lord will I sing sayes the Sweet-Singer of Israel Here we have mention of both and from God's Eminent Appearing and Wonderfull Working as to both the Church Glories in him as her Strength and Refuge and a very present help in Trouble Luther was so Affected with this Psalm that upon any Eminent Occasion or under any Gloomy Dispensation he would cry out Come let us Sing the 46th Psalm It seems to be Pen'd upon some Remarkable Mercy vouchsaf'd to the Church in time of War whether we refer it to the Victory David got over the Philistines as some think or to the Deliverance of Jerusalem from Rezin King of Syria as others think I shall not enquire much less determinate for the matter is not much whether we look to either of them But certain it is the Psalm is a Song of Triumph for a Great and Mighty Deliverance of the Church from her Enemies destroyed by the Lord's Assistance thereby giving her Peace that she without controule might Serve and Praise him according to his Word In this Verse she Triumphs in God's putting an end to her Troubles by causing Wars to cease Wherein you have First Her Acknowledging God the Author of this so Great and Glorious a Mercy He maketh Wars to cease unto the ends of the Earth Secondly Her declaring how and which way he does it He breaks the Bow be cuts the Spear in sunder and be burns the Chariot in the fire .. For the First of these that God is the Author of this Mercy these Three things offer themselves to our Consideration First The Lord is pleased to Entitle Himself as Related to War and hence the Church speaks of him as a Warrior Exod. 15. v. 3. Jehovah is a man of War Jehovah is his Name How many Titles does the Lord assume and this one amongst the rest A man of War The Great General of all the Forces in Heaven and Earth And by this Name he makes his Glory manifest unto all We Read of his Army and that his Camp is very great Joel 2. v. 11. And in his Warlike Power and Majesty lie will be glorified among the Sons of Men. Secondly The Lord orders and manages War as he pleases and according to his Will When he bids go to War there must be no staying at home and when he Commands to kill there must be no quarter given As soon as he had set Saul upon the Throne he sent him to War against a Nation that had been long and malicious Enemies to his People with a strict Command to carry on the War very Vigorously 1 Sam. 15. v. 2.3 Thus saith the Lord of Hosts I remember that which Amalek did to Israel how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt Now go and smite Amaleck and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both Man and Woman Infant and Suckling Ox and Sheep Camel and Ass The word Amalek in the Hebrew denotes them to be great Sinners and God gave Saul Commission to make War upon them as such but. his Ill-management of that War lost him his Crown and his Soul too God call'd Assyria the Rod of his Anger the Staff of his Indignation and he sent him against an Hypocritical Nation against a People of his Wrath Isa 10. v. 5 6. Thus you see God orders and disposes of War and woe unto those Warriours that obey not the Command of this Great General Thirdly The Lord puts an end to War in his own time and when he thinks most fit When his Work is finish'd his present Design accomplish'd he then sayes to the Enraged Warriours as he said to the Angel over Jerusalem 2 Sam. 24. v. 16. It is enough stay your hands and stop the torrent of your fury Or as he said to Peter when he cut off Malchus his Ear John 18. v. 11. Put up thy sword into the Sheath He commands the Swords to be put up and then they are Padlock'd till he gives a New Commission to unsheath them Thus according to the Phrase of the Text He maketh Wars to cease And it Notes Three things First He causes an Intermission of War by an Intermission of Peace for a time So the term is us'd Lam. 3. v. 49. Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not without any intermission But where there is an Intermission there is a present Cessation We find Judah had some Intervals of Peace upon their seeking the Lord with their whole desire For 't is said He gave them rest round about 2 Chro. 15. v. 15. And therefore how long Peace may last no body can tell for 't is wholly at God's will He that permits