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The shepheards farewell to his beloved flocke of S.B.E.L. where he hath been above twenty yeeres their weake, yet vigilant pastour, / I.G. D.D.
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Grant, John, d. 1653.
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shall be to them wanting who are nor deficient in this requesting duty but are in it so earnest that with Jacob the Patriarch they will not let the Lord goe till from the Lord they find and feele a blessing and in that blessing full sweetly enjoy God Now our requests unto are God made known by prayer supplication thanksgiving A touch must I needs give you of each of them and God by his Spirit touch your hearts in the use of them all {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Prayer is our request unto God our Heavenly Father for the supply of what may sustaine us and fit us for Heaven that may enable us both temporally and spiritually to hold on and to hold out in our callings till hence we are called to our abode in glory to our Mansions of eternity {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Supplication is our request to God by way of deprecation either to have evils removed from us or sweetned to us Sinnes and miseries involve us here but Gods providence is over us and all shall work for the best unto us who by constant supplication referre our selves unto and both alwayes and in all things depend on God and although he even nay us are fully resolved with that man of the right mettall holy and patient Job to trust in him {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Thanksgiving is a request to God to accept of our thanks our poore thankes for his richly multiplied benefits on us conferred in Jesus Christ As it becommeth the righteous to be thankfull so in all things rendring perpetuated thankes unto God by them God is invited to the continuation of blessings to their setled assurance of his eternall favours In that which usually we do call the Lords Prayer are all these requests uncomparably couched Prayer Supplication Thanksgiving Be it in our hearts alwayes and in our mouthes often upon occasions Thus pray we z and pray we this when ye pray say Our Father a and never forget we that prayer lest in our owne without an eye on that and close with that we be lost as in so many Wildernesses full of intricacies full of enormities full of endangerments I close with that of our English Bernard In the Lords Prayer whether we regard the brevity perfection authority method efficacy or necessity of it it is to be beleeved that no Saint or Angell is able to march the plat-forme thereof being large for matter short for phrase and sweet for order Take withall for the cleering of this branch in our Text and for your right apprehending and using of the Lords Prayer the Explication and Application thereof from the same Author and others thus Our Father by the right of creation by the merit of compassionate and bowell-mercies by the gracious provision of things needfull and usefull for us which art in Heaven the Seat of thy Majesty in the very radiancy of glory the Inheritance of thy children by adoption and grace the Kingdome of endlesse and un-disturbed happinesse hallowed be thy name by the thoughts of our hearts by the words of our mouthes by the works of our hands thy Kingdome come that of grace to inspire us that of power to defend us that of glory to crowne us thy will be done in our weale and in our woe in our fulnesse and in our needfulnesse in our life temporall and at our death the change of this for a better life in Earth as it is in Heaven in us below as it is in the glorious Angels above done willingly readily cheerfully faithfully done without the very least murmuring without any let or any manner hindering without fraudulent and deceitfull jugling the cheating way of serving God in the complementalnesse of Religion Give us this day our daily Bread for the nourishment of these our decaying bodies for the spirituall feeding of our Heaven-bred soules for the reliefe of all our necessities whether bodily or spirituall whether for our sustentation here for a time or preparation for hereafter to the dayes of eternity And forgive us our Trespasses those wherâ—by thou our Father art in the course of our sinfull live dishonoured our Neighbours any wayes wronged our selves heedlesly endangered and with many miseries perpetually even day by day enthralled as we forgive them that Trespasse against us that have hurt us in our bodies that have hindred us in our goods and estates that have wronged us in our good names and reputations And lead us not into tentation the tentation of the world lying and rotting in all manner of wickednesse the tentation of the flesh our bosome-inticing Dalilah over-neare and over-deare unto us the tentation of Satan our common adversary the perpetuall hunter of us to utter perdition and destruction But deliver us from evill forgive that is past remove that is present what is to come graciously so prevent that nothing may ever make a seperation between thee and us thee our Father and us thine adopted ones in the Lord Jesus Christ the Sonne as of thy nature so of thine entirest love For thine is the Kingdome to rule and over-rule all thine the power to command and to doe all thine the glory to be all in all to all thine and all these for ever and ever in the world that is present and in the world that is to come unlimited is thy Kingdome thy power and thy glory Amen thou sayst it and so it is Amen thou doest promise it and so shall it be Amen is our eccho to what thou sayst and promifest so be it Heavenly Father is the faithfull Amen to all the requests our gracious Lord hath taught us to put up affectionately unto thee And now from the Apostles Exhortations to various duties which in a plaine way we have explained proceed we in the last place to the Apostles closing up of all with a right sutable apprecation and the peaco of God which passeth all under standing shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus I shall briefly closely open this leave it with you as an hearty farewell of your worn-out Pastour whose prayer ever shall be for your thriving to Heaven-wards The peace of God was the Apostles apprecation to his Phillipians and is mine to you once mine but now left to your owne choice of a Preacher and God fit you with one that may fit you for God By the peace of God in this passage conceive that peace which God worketh in beleeving consciences as an effect of the Gospell to them sincerely preached My soule assures me that I never delivered any thing from this Pulpit that was unsound untrue never hucstered the Word of God to the humouring of any for by-ends of mine owne never hood-winked any Parishoner by forged interpretations raked out either of the Channels of Rome or Dung-hils of Amsterdum otherwise even of a child from my beleeving Parents soundly Protestant learned I Christ and both in truth and cleernesse have so taught
him And this Testimony of mine owne conscience on it selfe seriously reflecting is to me as thousands of Witnesses God so deale with my soule as I have been faithfull to you-wards in the whole course of my Ministery among you for the solid good of your soules And now my prayer is for you that the peace of God may settle in you onely that peace is the peace surpassing a peace that hath no bounds no termination no expiration The peace it is the onely peace that passeth all understanding The World conceives the Godly to have no peace but the godly know that the wicked World hath none no not when it is at the quietest we have it from him that had it immediately from God Isaiah that Prophet Evangelicall or propheticall Evangelist There is no peace saith my God to the wicked and in that one Prophet we find it twice recorded b And he addes this comparison to set it forth to the very full Sea-like the wicked cannot rest when any winds trouble them their waters cast up mire and dirt and with their fulsomnesse and noysomnesse not a corner is there anywhere that stinks not of them yet even in their disturbances a peace there is in godly consciences a peace passing the capacity of worldly mens understandings a setled and a setling peace And no mervail for it keepeth their hearts and minds through Christ Jesus Listen unto the legacy of Christs bequeathing The Hearts keeper it is and the minds keeper and both in the right temper of un-disturbed tranquility Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid c The peace of the world is like the world fickle now on soone againe quite off ever giddy never steady The children of men are deceitfull upon the weights light as vanity yea then vanity it selfe lighter d And wise Salomon the Sonne of religious David proves throughout his Ecclesiastes that book of proofes by him experienced But the Peace of God through Jesus Christ or that peace we have bequeathed us from Christ is such a peace which as the world cannot give us so it cannot take the same from us Our Peace-maker is the securer of the peace we have from him our hearts and minds are in safe custody thereby Out of Satans reach they are and above the malice of every satanically-minded and handed wretch yea and tongued too in both sexes We may have our good names by slanderousnesse blemished our estates by the violence of plunder ruined our temporary lives by the bloodinesse of war or by any manner of disease pestilentiall or otherwise taken from us but the peace made between the God of faithfulnesse and our beleeving souls is altogether unbereavable Hel gates cannot there be prevalent where Gods pardon and peace are entred and where in the blood of Christ beleevers are sealed by the spirit of Christ to the day of full Redemption I shall now referre you to the present close perusall and to the practicall use whiles you have a day on earth to live of that 91 Psalm It begins thus He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty and it thus concludes he shall call upon me and I will answer him with long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation Here and in the rest of that Psalm is the peace of God displayed a peace passing the understanding of naturall men as not at all therewith acquainted a peace keeping the hearts and minds of the regenerate in an heavenly temper and filling them with joy unspeakable full of glory e The Kingdom of God is righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost f And our Saviour tels us that this Kingdom is within us g A Kingdom it is that comes not with observation loe it is here or loe 〈…〉 there is but frivolous discourse for behold the Kingdom of God is within you it consisteth as formerly you heard from St. Paul in righteousnesse peace joy in the holy Ghost all within all in the hearts of beleevers When Jesus Christ dwels in the heart by faith as Saint Paul averreth he doth h every Beleever knoweth it there is rejoycing in the Lord there is the unstinted expression of Moderation there is the assurance of the Lords assissance there is a casting on God the care of our welfare in a perpetuated laying downe of our requests before him in prayer supplication thanksgiving and there the peace of God which passeth all understanding keeps through Jesus Christ the hearts and minds of Christians I hope what I have at this time delivered is generally understood and my prayer is that it may particularly be derived into practise If with this resolution you approach the Lords Table my hope is and my prayer seconds it that you will hence-forward prove thriving Christians that you will grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ i Not to goe forward in Religion is to goe backward is to pull downe what formerly we have built up is to end in the flesh although we have begun in the spirit And from any such course the Lord divert us all and make our wils plyable to his will in all things to his glory in our salvation The Lord evermore blesse you and evermore keep you all the Lord make his face to shine perpetually upon you all unto you all to all your posterity be unstintedly gracious the Lord lift up his countenance upon you all give you al his peace that passeth all understanding to the keeping of all your hearts and minds in all integrity through Jesus Christ the Righteous to whom with thee O Father the holy Ghost from you both our comforter three Persons one very God bâ—â—ll glory to all eternity Amen FINIS a Eph. 3. 17. b Luk. 9. 23. c Eccles. 2. 2 d Luk. 6. 25. e Luk. 10. 20 f Thes. 5. 16. g Rom. 5. 2. h Ro. 14. 17. i Joh. 15. 11. k 1 Pet. 1. 8. * Ro. 15. 13. l Ro. 15. 13. m Gen. 13. 8 n Eph. 4. 1. o ver. 31. 32. p Mat. 5. 16. q 1 Pet. 2. 11. 12. r Prov. 16. 7. Å¿ 2 Cor. 7. 11 t Mat. 6. 34. u 1 Pet. 1. 7. x Ps. 145. 18. y Mat. 7. 78. b chap. 48. 22 57. 21. c Joh. 14. 27 d Psal. 62. 9. e 1 Pet. 1. 8. f Ro. 14. 17. g Luk. 12 11. h Ephes. 3. 17. i 2 Pet. 3. 18.