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A96435	Abraham's humble intercession for Sodom, and the Lord's gracious concessions in answer thereunto containing sundry meditations upon Gen. XVIII. from ver. XXIII. to the end of the chapter. Wherein many things are spoken of concerning believers drawing near to God, and the efficacy of their prayers; and how they may be princes and prevailers with God, and with what boldness they may come before him, and what ground they may get of him by their prayers, and what sweet communing they have with him. With sundry other things worthy of our most serious thoughts, helping us to be more spiritual and heavenly, which may prepare us for that everlasting communion and fellowship that we hope to arrive at, and come to in a blessed state of glory by Jesus Christ. By Samuel Whiting, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Lyn in N.E. [Three lines of Scripture texts]	Whiting, Samuel, 1597-1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing W2022; ESTC W15363	173,427	374

consider her wayes and be wise Prov. 6.6 7 8. I might be large in the prosecution of this but these instances may suffice to be as so many glasses to shew us how diligent and active and industrious we should be in our particular Callings and that God would have us busily working in our several places and stations for him Secondly From our selves 1. We are ever best when we are at work our hearts are never in better frame to go to God in duties of our general Calling then when we have been most conscientially careful in being diligent in our particular Calling We can then go with comfort to pray when we have been at work and never are we fitter to offer up this spiritual sacrifice then when sloth hath not seized upon us in our particular Callings And hence it is that these are coupled together Rom. 12.11 Not slothful in business fervent in Spirit serving the Lord. 2. We shall be pronounced blessed if we be found well-doing when our Lord cometh Matth. 24.46 and it is that that we would all desire after to be partakers of that blessedness who would not be found so at that day 3. We are not yet in heaven but on earth and therefore must attend on our outward occasions and businesses that we are called to When we come in heaven we shall rest from all our works here and be wholly imployed in serving God and praising him Rev. 22.3 4. we shall do Angelical work Seraphical work but while we are here we must be doing in ordinary work and it is a good work because commanded of God 4. We need many things for the outward man which by diligence in our ordinary Callings through the blessing of God are brought in to us Prov. 10.4 22. we get our daily bread by the labour of our hearts and hands food and raiment and physick and all necessaries by the Lords mercy are given in to us this way The King himself is served by the field Eccles 5.9 Gods crowning the year with his goodness his steps dropping fatness make our labours successful and bring in all outward blessings to us and therefore diligence in our Callings is that that God approves and looks for from every one of us 5. We are commanded to labour six dayes in the week Exod. 20.9 except upon extraordinary occasion as upon a Fast or by sickness we be hindred or by some other occasion that justly exempts us and keeps us necessarily from it we may not look at it as a permission onely but as a strict command and that calls upon us to be about our business and be doing in our particular Callings 6. We have Gods example in the first Creation set before us to follow he did his work in six dayes and then rested Exod. 20.9 and so would by his example have us to work and to trace his steps So that not onely Earth and Sea and Stars but Heaven it self calls upon us to labour and work diligently in our Callings Thirdly From our outward occasions and imployments 1. They are such as that we cannot serve God comfortably neither in our Bodies nor in our Spirits except we labour and attend our particular Callings and we are bound to serve him and glorifie him in both 1 Cor. 6.20 and how shall this be except we follow our imployments Meat will not fall into our mouthes except we labour Clothing will not be rained down from heaven upon us except we work for it and without these we cannot serve God neither with outward or inward man 2. These imployments in our Callings are such as that we cannot live without them Bread is called The staff of life Isa 3.1 and Clothing is the health of life and neither of these in an ordinary way can be had without labour 3. These imployments in our particular Callings are such as that we cannot expect the blessing of the Lord upon us The blessing of the Lord maketh rich but it is when the hand is diligent Prov. 10.4 22. otherwise there is no blessing of wealth or increase promised 4. These imployments in our particular Callings do fit us to come to God in spiritual duties and fit us for his coming to us either by death or judgement Luke 12.42 43 44. and this is worth something It was the speech of a faithful Minister now with God to one that he found working hard in his Calling Let me be found so doing when my Lord cometh 5. These ordinary imployments keep us from many sins and from many temptations to sin preserve us from many assaults of the Enemy that Idleness will expose us to As we see in Davids example 2 Sam. 11. if he had gone forth to war at that time or had been doing any thing that was good he would not have faln into such snares and sins as he did which idleness exposed him to Satan and his own corruption would not have so prevailed as they then did when he gave himself to that floth that we there reade of A diligent hand prevents the tempters coming or at least hinders him from overcoming Working in our Calling will either keep the snare from being laid for us or keep our feet from being taken by it And have we not cause then to be diligent and faithfully busie in our Calling 6. These labours and imployments preserve us from falling into other dangers and evils for God hath promised that his Angels shall have charge over us to keep us in our wayes Psal 91.11 Let a man but keep himself in his Calling and Gods Angels shall keep him They are Gods host and so long as they are about him a strong host is about him so that neither plague nor sickness nor any other evil shall come near him v. 10. he is safely guarded that hath such a military guard about him he need not fear any danger that hath these fiery charets and horses round about him 2 Kin. 6. These armies will never sly but will stand by us and shield off all dangers and all enemies and have we not good cause then to be in our Callings Cautions about our Imployments in our particular Callings 1. WE must take heed that love of the World set us not on work to be busie in our Callings for that is straitly forbidden 1 Joh 2.15 and such are not true to God but are called Adulterers and Adulteresses and are the enemies of God Jam. 4.4 and the greatest enemies that are to themselves for thereby they plunge themselves into many snares and temptations and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in perdition and destruction 1 Tim. 6.9 10. If the love of the world be the great wheel that sets all a going and puts our hands to labour in our Callings we shall never please God nor benefit our selves or others by what we do this way The World is both an Harlot and a Witch and if we lust after the beauty of this Harlot and suffer

them up in bundles to burn but gather the Wheat into my barn Mat. 13.30 His permissive and providential Will is in it that good and bad should be together till the great day of Separation come There will be a mixture of one with another while we are here there will be Vines and Figtrees as well as Thorns and Bramble-bushes there will be Roses as well as pricking Briars some Lillies among a multitude of Thorns some gracious Saints among a many wicked sinners 4. God hereby exerciseth the graces of his righteous ones and tries their faith and patience their humility and self-deniall by being among the wicked world for they will be taunting and mocking and many wayes dealing injuriously with them they will persecute them and put them into the furnace and so their graces are more bright and orient and refulgent and themselves come out as gold Job 23.10 By these God makes up his Jewels and hangs them out that their glory and lustre may appear to all Solid mettal never looks more shining then when it hath been longest in the fire so here 5. God hereby makes them more heavenly-minded and more weaned from the world they have enough and too much of an evil world that they are desirous in Gods time to go out of it What they meet with here makes them long for heaven As the sparks fly upward so these sparky lively ones fly upward and heaven-ward in their looks and longings and earnest desires after that blessed place No meer man was more afflicted with evil men then Paul and none more beavenly-minded then he 2 Cor. 4.17 18. Phil. 3.20 these give wings to our desires to mount them up heaven-ward these winds lift up our hearts as the waves of the Sea unto heaven these make us like Eagles to soar aloft we have so much of their bad company that we would gladly be with better Phil. 1.23 6. God hereby makes Heaven to be Heaven to such godly ones as have been among the wicked their company hath been a kinde of hell to them and to leave hell to go to heaven O how sweet must that heaven be to come out of a dungeon of darkness into light O how pleasant must that light be Heavens glory is compared to the light Psal 49.19 Col. 1.12 and that light must needs be sweet indeed after such darkness 2. From the Righteous themselves 1. They are a curb and restraint to them at least they are not so vile while they look on though some be very impudent even in the company of godly ones as the Sodomites were 2 Pet. 2.7 8. but or dinarily they are a restraint to them they are as bit and bridle to such head-strong beasts that they dare not fly out and break away into such vile abominations as otherwise their corrupt natures would carry them to 2. They do condemn them Heb. 11.7 Their good example condemns them both in their Consciences here and will aggravate their condemnation another day in that living where such godly ones were they would not learn Righteousness but be as base and lewd as if they had none to teach them better 3. They keep off many plagues and judgements from them Gen. 19.22 Job 22.30 Their presence their prayers their tears and mournful sighs defer the coming of that Evil that the sins of those wicked ones call for They stand in the gap and make up the hedge to keep out wrath from breaking in upon them 4. They bring in many blessings and mercies to those they live among which they should never have had had it not been for the godly that have lived among them many a fair outward blessing the wicked may thank the godly for Gen. 12.2 Slaves fare the better for the abundance that is provided for Sons yea Dogs fill their bellies of that which is the portion of Children 3. From the Wicked 1. Even among them there may be some that God may shew favour to and may effectually call home That man runs far that God cannot bring back again as we see in persecuting Saul Acts 9. Zacheus Luke 19. the woman of Samaria Joh. 4. And righteous men living among these are a means of their spiritual good 2. They are some of them instrumental to bring some godly men amongst them though not out of any love to them for their godliness sake This may be blessed for the spiritual good of some of them 3. They are often convinced that they do naughtily having such to teach them better both by precept and example Their Consciences tell them they do evil their hearts upbraid them for their wickedness that having such lights to shine to them they yet walk on in darkness 4. They do even wish they may die their deaths though they know not how to live their lives Numb 23.10 Oh that I might die that mans death sayes such a man I would never desire to fare better then he Oh that I might fare as well and then it would be well with me These wishings and wouldings they sometimes have by righteous mens being among them 5. They do see some kinde of beauty and lustre in their way and speak of the Saints happy condition very affectionately Numb 24.5 6 c. that there 's no people in the world like them and specially that God is among them 6. They do foretell the Saints victory over their enemies and that they shall do validntly against all that rise up against them Num. 24.8 9 7. They learn at least a form of godliness of them though they cannot come up to the power of it they learn to speak as they speak and get their phrases and can tell how to use their tongues as if they were better men then indeed they are This they have by the Saints company which are amongst them 8. They see the mischief that befalls them when they that are godly are taken from them and what fools they were that made no better improvement of them This the Sodomites could not but see when Lot was taken from them for as soon as he was gone the Lord rained fire and brimstone and destroyed them all Gen. 19.24 25. Vse 1. for Information 1. We see that as long as there are some Righteous ones among the wicked we may hope that God will not destroy them that he will not bury his Jewels among such dunghills that he will not burn up his Wheat with the Chaff that he will spare the Wicked for the sake of the Righteous that are among them But I shall have occasion to speak more fully to that upon the following words God will do much for evil men out of respect to his gracious Saints their very presence holds Gods hands their prayers hold his heart towards them their tears and sighs are prevailing arguments to keep off blows to continue blessings But enough at present of this 2. We see what the Saints condition is in this world it is to be mingled with the wicked Lambs

obedience to him We owe him ten thousand thousand and thousand of thousands more then ever we can here pay him 3. To long for the time when as he overflows to us in bounty so we shall to him in love and duty 4. To pray without ceasing we shall be no losers by it we shall have the thing we ask 5. To be liberal our selves we have an example worthy our imitation 6. To be little in our own eyes for who are we that he should thus condescend to us Verse 26. And the Lord said If I finde in Sodom fifty righteous within the City then I will spare all the place for their sakes Doct. XI THat the Lord is so full of love to his Righteous ones that he will spare a multitude of wicked ones for their sakes Sodom was a City that had many in it and they were sinners above the ordinary sort but if there had been fifty Righteous within the City he would have spared all the place for their sakes Reasons 1. From the Lord. 2. From his Righteous ones First From the Lord. 1. He is a Merciful God he Proclaimed his Name so of old Exod. 34. The Lord The Lord God merciful and such a God as delighteth in mercy Mic. 7.18 and therefore though such sinners and righteous ones deserve no such thing as mercy yet it is meet that he should have his delight Malefactors deserve nothing but punishment but if a Prince delight in mercy and will spare them who hath any thing to say against it but that he may take his delight so here 2. He hath promised that for the sake of his Righteous ones he will deliver great places Job 22.30 He will deliver the Island of the innocent and his Promises are sure words If a King say that he will do a thing it shall be done it is irrevocable he will not call back his word how much more will the Lord make good his promises they are all faithful words and stand fast for ever 3. He hath said that he could do nothing so long as any Righteous ones have been in wicked places his hands are as it were bound and tyed Gen. 19.22 and therefore he will do much for their sakes He knows not how to smite while they are there If the place be never so bad it must be spared till they be gone If he bury any Jewels it shall not be among such dunghill sinners they shall lye down in their graves with honour 4. He orders it in his Providence that when he hath any evil to bring upon a place he takes away his Righteous ones before that evil come Isa 57.1 Austin was taken away before the City where he lived was taken by the Goths and Vandals Parcus was removed by death before Heidelberge was surprized by Spinola and his Souldiers Mr. Whately of Banbury was translated to a better plaee before the Town was taken in the late Wars And all these were removed a little before such judgements came The Corn is gathered into the barn before the Swine are sent into the field so the godly are taken away before any remarkable judgement come which shews how favourable the Lord is to his Servants and that great and sinful places are spared while they are there with them 5. He looks at his Righteous as such as the world is not worthy of Heb. 11.38 for they keep off judgement from the world though they be so vilely and unworthily used in the world They are the props and pillars of the world under God if they were all gathered in the world would soon be burned into ashes and would be on a flaming fire They are they that keep up the whole Fabrick of the Earth and under God keep it from ruine and dissolution 6. He abhors and abominates the workers of iniquity and therefore if he spare them and destroy them not it is for the sakes of the Righteous that are among them it is not for any good will that he bears to the wicked he would soon make an end of them if there were not some amongst them that his Soul takes pleasure in Shells that are good for nothing but to be cast away are regarded for the Pearls that are in them So here Secondly From his Righteous ones 1. They pray for the places they live in that the Lord would be pleased to keep off judgements and continue mercies to them and these Prayers of theirs prevail God cannot tell how to deny the suits that they present before him Lot for Zoar Gen. 19.20 21. Their Prayers are so delightful to him Prov. 15.8 Cant. 2.14 that even places devoted to destruction shall be spared for their sakes the smoke of the incense of their Prayers ascends to God and to his Throne and so prevails that Gods anger cannot so smoke against those places as otherwise it would certainly do were it not that God had such regard to the Prayers of his Righteous ones in their behalf 2. They are vexed with their filthy conversation and tormented day by day with their unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2.7 8. and this affliction of their souls that they suffer among such wicked ones God hath special regard unto and for the sake of such mourners will spare those places while they continue among them 3. They by their presence keep off the stroke of Gods vengeance Great is the power of the very company of godly ones to bear off and shield off a judgement when it is ready to fall upon a wicked place Evil men do not think so but they shall know it when the righteous are removed from them Isa 57.1 4. They are very tender of his Name and therefore he will so tender them that for their sakes he will do great things yea for a sinning people How tender was Lot of the glory of God that could not endure to hear and see what he did without vexing his righteous soul from day to day and did not God accept him for the sparing of Zoar 5. They keep his Commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight and therefore can prevail with him for any thing 1 Joh. 3.22 even for the sparing of a very wicked place and people They that please Princes may have any thing of them that they desire how much more they that do those things that are pleasing to the Lord 6. They delight themselves in the Lord and therefore he will give them the desires of their hearts Psal 37.4 whatever it is that they desire though it be in behalf of a wicked place and people yet even that desire shall be granted to them Such a place and people shall be spared for their sakes 7. They are a people near unto him Psal 148.14 and therefore he will do much for them Vse 1. for Information 1. We see what honour God puts upon his Righteous ones that will for their sakes spare wicked places and the worst of people Great is the respect that God bears to them

of that then by suffering us to be familiar with him now But of this I shall speak more when I come to the Vses 4. We are united to him by the Spirit through Faith 1 Cor. 6.17 and Vnion ever takes in Communion and Familiarity with it It is so in all the Vnions that we can name in the world and so it is in this Mystical and Spiritual Vnion between the Lord and us we have sweetest communion and most familiar acquaintance and fellowship with him by being so united to him they that are one flesh as man and wife are are familiar one with another how much more then are they that are joyned to the Lord and so are one spirit 5. We are his chosen ones that he delighted in from all eternity Ephes 1.4 Prov. 8.31 and they that he hath set his Electing love upon he will suffer to be familiar with him they that are our choise ones that we have set our hearts upon we are willing that they should be familiar with us and that in a friendly way they should commune with us now such are we to God and therefore he will suffer us to be familiar with him 6. We are they that he challengeth a propriety in Isa 43.1 Thou art mine we are his every way by right of Creation by right of Redemption by right of Dominion and Soveraignty over us by right of Power over us as the Potter hath over his clay by right of Espousage of us to himself name any right that we can he hath true title to us and interest in us and so reciprocally have we in him Cant. 6.3 I am my beloveds and he is mine now he being ours and we his all these wayes what marvel is it if he suffer us to be familiar and to commune with him Vse 1. for Information 1. We see the great condescendency of the great God that he will stoop so low as to commune with dust and ashes and to suffer us to be familiar with him in communing and speaking in prayer to him Oh the infinite distance that is betwixt the Lord and us we are not able to conceive it much less to express it what 's a drop of a Bucket to the great Ocean what 's a Candle to the Sun what 's a small dust of the ballance to the whole Earth what 's a little spark to a great flaming Fire what 's nothing and less then nothing to him that is all and in all and infinitely above all created Beings these are some Scripture resemblances to set forth and shadow out the infinite distance that is between the great God and all nations Isai 40. that therefore this infinite one should vouchsafe to be familiar with us and to commune with us and to suffer us to be so familiar with him as to speak in Prayer to him and commune with him it is great condescendency in him and that that we may well wonder at that he should so humble himself whence is this to us what can we say in way of admiring at it our words and our thoughts must needs be all swallowed up in consideration of it 2. We see what an holy blush this may put into our faces that we are so little familiar with him in praying to him but keep far from him too often when we have leave and liberty to commune with him there are too many that restrain prayer before God Job 15.4 and when he would admit them into his acquaintance and let them be familiar with him they have to do here and there about this and that and the other outward occasions and so men let go the best blessing of sweet familiarity with the blessed God Might a man be admitted to be familiar with a Prince would he not accept it with all humble gratitude would he decline it Oh how unworthily do we then carry it to the great God that when we may familiarly commune with the Lord we decline his company and minde other matters which are not worth a straw under our feet in comparison of this sweet colloquy and communing with the Lord our God 3. We see that great pride that is in many of the sons of men that scorn to come in company with men of an inferiour rank and with those that are a little under them and will not speak to them doth the great God humble himself to speak to us and commune with us and shall worms despise their fellow worms I tell all such though they be silk-worms yet they be but worms and an earth-worm will prove as good as a sill-worm and it may be better in the day of death and judgement If God stoops low it is not for vain man to lift up himself or look high Will he commune with us and let us commune with him we may well then sloop to commune with those that are some way lower then we are That the Angels that are greater in dignity then we should incamp about us Psal 34.7 and minister to us Heb. 1.14 shews that they are humble ones but that the great God should familiarly commune with and let us commune with him he comes down low to us and therefore it is a shame to us to be proud and lift up our selves above our brethren The King himself is for bidden this Deut. 17.20 4. We see what a mercy of God it is that he will be so familiar as to commune with us and to suffer us to commune with him we are not worthy to come into his presence to put up any request to him to have any thing to do with him to bring any suit before him Ezek. 9.6 unworthy of the least of his mercies Gen. 32.10 that therefore he should be pleased to commune with us and admit us to commune with him it is a wonder of his mercy to us our sins might justly bar us out of his presence and cause him to withdraw himself from us so as that he should not suffer us to speak to him nor to regard any thing that we say in his ears but he is merciful and will not turn away our Prayer nor his mercy from us but will let us familiarly commune with him and himself will commune with us in granting our desires to us 5. We see what delight we should have in the duty of Prayer wherein we talk and commune with God he delights in it himself Prov. 15.8 and why should not we delight in it friends delight to commune one with another Husband and Spouse to talk together if God therefore delight in their holy communing together and looks at it as musick and melody in his eares we should take delight in it Musical Instruments are said to be the delights of the Sons of Men Eccl. 2.8 If Prayer therefore be as a musical Instrument to delight God it is meet we should be delighted with it 6. We see that if there be such sweet communing between God and us here Oh what communing shall we have with