But how do sinners strive with God without cause when he has done them no harm but much good And how sad is this for shall evil be recompensed for good Sinners it is said love those that love them and do good to those that do good to them Luke 6. 32 33. It is thus indeed as to Men but not to God Sinners as one expresses it carry themselves as Men towards Men but as Devils towards God acting below the very principles of common humanity and their own nature as Men as if they had not the hearts of Men no principle being more deeply engraven in the hearts of Men than this to do good to those who do good to them but sinners do evil to that God who does good to them and never did them hurt They load and weary him with their iniquities and make him to serve with their sins who dayly loads them with his benefits and sin against a Thousand mercies So that God may say to sinners what Christ sometime said to the Jews For which of my good works is it that you stone me John 10. 32. That you go on to sin against me is it because I made you or because I have ever since preserved you For we could as soon make our selves as preserve our selves or is it because I daily still sustain you feed you cloath you and every way take care of you and provide for you O the reflection upon this another day that there was no Cause no Therefore for sinners carrying it so towards God as they did will be a great part of that worm of Conscience in Hell which shall never dye And this made those in Judges 2 when the Angel of the Lord had convinc'd them of the unreasonableness of their actings Why says the Angel have ye done this This made them lift up their voice and weep and make the place where they were a very Bochim vers 1 2 3 4 5. Vse 2. Then let us justifie the Lord in all he does and acknowledg that he is righteous not doing what he does without cause but there being a Therefore for it Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel Has the Lord sent among us the Sword and after that the Plague Yea and after that Fire and several other judgments as Gripes strange sicknesses Seasons Storms Tempests Breaking us at Sea and causing strange Inundations at Land And is not his anger yet turned away but is his hand stretched out still As we have seen a late in that dreadful Fire in Southwark and again a late at Northampton to the great consternation of that people None of these are without cause but there 's a Therefore for them all and therefore let us say as the Church Lam. 1. 18 The Lord is righteous for we have rebelled c. And as Daniel â— 7 O Lord righteousness belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of faces c. Vse 3. Let this then quiet us and cause us patiently to bear what ever the Lord hath or may further inflict upon us as the Prophet Micah resolves chap. 7. 9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him That is very observable to this purpose which we read Ezek. 13. 22 23 where the Lord says of a Remnant there that should escape That as concerning all the evil he should bring upon Jerusalem when they should see what cause there was for what he did they should be comforted concerning it all a strange expression The Lord had done fore and heavy things against Jerusalem inflicted grievous judgments he mentions four viz. The Sword Famine noisom Beasts and Pestilence And not only gainst the Land and City but against the Temple Read the Book of Lamentations And yet when that Remnant should see the ways and doings of those against whom God had done it they should see such cause for what God had done that it is said as concerning all that God had done They should be comforted i. e. contented silenced well satisfied and not have a word tosay as concerning all that the Lord had brought upon them Pray peruse the place it is worthy your serious observation Vers 22 Yet behold therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth both sons and daughters Behold they shall come forth unto you and ye shall see their way and their doings Their manner and course of lise and conversation how evil it hath been and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem even concerning all that I have brought upon it And they shall comfort you when ye see their ways and their doings and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it says the Lord. And truly such have been and still are at this day the daring crying sins and abominable wickednesses of this Nation yea and of this City as to the generality of us Such is our pride every manner of way in our Gait Habit Hair Apparel yea in our very Nakedness such are our garish ranting flanting immodest Attires and Dresses so contrary to the fear of the Lord and the profession of Godliness Such our Luxury Sensuality Excesses Revellings Drunkenness desperate Security such our horrid and open profanations of Gods Name and Day such our Atheism Oaths Errors Heresies Blasphemies Perjuries Superstitions Idolatries Oppressions Cruelties Thefts Murders Whoredoms Adulteries Uncleannesses Hatred of God and his Ways and the power of Godliness By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery sinners breaking out and blood touching blood Hos 4. 2. In a word such are our prodigious and execrable impieties of all sorts and kinds whatsoever That what-ever evils the Lord hath or may yet further bring upon us or what ever he do with us we have cause to be comforted i. e. silenc'd satisfied and never open our mouths more Why criest thou saith God for thinc affliction Thy sorrows are incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Jer. 30. 15. And wherefore says the Lord will you plead with me Jer. 2. 29. They were ready to plead against God as if he had been rigorous towards them but wherefore says the Lord will you plead with me ye have all transgressed against me and let that silence you and well it may For there 's more true real evil in one sin the least sin than in all other evils whatsoever the evil of punishment being little to the evil of sin the bitterness for sin to the bitterness in sin one strikes but at the creature the other at the Creator at God one at what is finite the other at what is infinite c. Vse 4. Let us labour then to find out the Cause and get it removed Let us not stand complaining but sall upon searching and trying for there is a Therefore for what the Lord doeâ— For what ever he has done or goes
into his bodily Arms and then Lord says he now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Luk. 2. 28 29. And so we shall then meet God in peace and this is a mystery we should ☞ more study and get better acquainted with how in our addresses to God to make use of Christ I am says Christ the way c. and no man cometh to the father but by me John 14. 6. Not with acceptance neither so as to appease please and pacifie him but with me and by me In our addresses to God he says as it were to us as Joseph sometimes said to his Brethren as in reference to their Brother Benjamin He did solemnly protest unto them that except he was with them they should not see his face And therefore say they to their Father If thou wilt send our brother with us we will go down but if not we will not go For the man said unto us ye shall not see my face except your brother be with you Gen. 43. 3 4 5. And therefore they took Benjamin with them And vers 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to the ruler of his house bring those men home and slay and make ready for these men shall dine with me c. I see they have brought Benjamin with them So unless Jesus Christ be with us in our addresses to God our elder Brother there 's no seeing Gods face no finding grace in his sight favour in his eyes but if he be with us then we shall have welcome We are bid What ever we do in word or deed to do all in the name of the Lord Jesus And how much more then so great a thing as this to meet God in the way of his Judgments And if we are to give thanks to God by him much more by him are we to apply our selves to appease and pacifie him being incens'd by our sins And therefore let us be sure so to meet God 1. As being in Christ and then 2. with Christ i. e. so as for acceptation to present him tender him and plead and press and urge him and his merits mediation and satisfaction and that is the way to meet God to purpose and to prevail as to what we meet him for He being the true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mercy-seat or propitiatory through whom alone the Father is propitious and merciful to such who so meet him See Exod. 25. 17 21 22. V. With Presents as Jacob met his incensed Brother Esau and Abigail David Gen. 32. 13 20. 1 Sam. 25. 18. And here the main and principal Present is indeed what I have mentioned already Jesus Christ but yet there are other also which in and thorow him are very pleasing and delightful to God As 1. A broken and contrite heart an heart kindly toucht and affected with sin and afflicted for it and which in a deep sense of it and sorrow for it heartily sighs and longs for the pardon thereof This is said to be The sacrifices of God Psal 51. 17 to denote its singular acceptableness above all other None so pleasing as this nor without this But to this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word Isa 66. 2. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself c. Jer. 31. 18. i. e. bewailing his sins And Josiah's heart being tender and he humbling himself before God how pleasing was it to God Because thy heart was tender and thou didst humble thy self 2 Chron. 34. 27. And this is mentioned again to shew how grateful it was See Psal 34. 18. Isa 57. 15. Matt. 5. 3 4 c. Such seal to what the Scripture says of sin that it is no light or slight matter but an evil and bitter thing c. But how few such Presents have we We have many broken estates and broken credits but few broken hearts Oh! that there were more 2. A willing and obedient heart ready in all things to comply with the mind and will of God yielding up it self to him Lord what wilt thou have me do Act. 9. 6. And speak Lord for thy servant heareth and I am thy servant and will do all that thou bidst me This is very pleasing Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord Behold to obey is better than sacrifice c. 1 Sam. 15. 22. In Micah 6 We have a People there asking the question vers 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and how my self before the high God Wherewith shall I meet him so as to appease him Shall I come before him with burnt offerings with Calves of a year old vers 7 Will the Lord be pleas'd with thousands of Rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oyl c No Vers 8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God i. e. to obey and readily comply with him in the duties of both Tables coucht in those expressions To be a willing people Who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me Jer. 30. 21 That hath such an hearty desire and ready and willing resolution to comply with me This is that which pleases God indeed But those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring hither and slay them before me Luk. 19. 27. 3. A sincere and upright heart For the Lord hath pleasure in uprightness and the upright in heart are his delight 1 Chron. 29. 17. Prov. 11. 20. Thou desirest truth in the inward parts c. Psal 51. 6. 4. A merciful compassionate heart towards others in their miseries and necessities so as to pity them and to be ready to succour and relieve them Heb. 13. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased They are acceptable presents bowels of mercy kindness When we go to meet God What do we go to meet him for but that we may obtain mercy And if we would obtain mercy we must shew mercy For with the merciful God will shew himself merciful Psal 18. 25. And they shall obtain mercy Matt. 5. 7. But he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy Jam. 2. 13. When Gods judgments were denounc'd against Nebuchadnezzar that yet there might be a lengthening of his tranquility Daniel counsels him to break of his sins by righteousness and his iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor Dan. 4. 27. And this is said to be the fast God hath chosen Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thy own flesh And then shall thy light break forth as the morning c. Then shalt thou call and the
strength as himself advises us Isa 27. 5 which I hinted before but now shall open and explain or let him take hold of my strength i. e. as some of my self who is called the strength of Israel 1 Sam. 15. 29 and in this sense it suits with that of Isa 64. 7 And there is none that calls upon thy name that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee i. e. either to keep thee back from going on still in thy Judiciary proceedings or to keep thee that thou dost not depart from us And thus we should in an humble submissive way take hold as it were of the Lord or his arm that he does not still go on to smite or that he do not depart for wo to us if he depart from us it is the very sum and completion of mans misery for God to depart as to his special and gracious presence Or 2dly Of my strength i. e. of my grace and the help and assistance of my Spirit as his strength and sufficiency to this great work without which he cannot as in reference thereunto do any thing and taking strength in this sense then we may be said to take hold of it when we humbly and earnestly beg and intreat it and as our sufficiency hold to it and rely on it to fit and qualifie us to make peace with God by working in us Faith and Repentance To oppose the strength of God is indeed dangerous but thus in an humble way by Prayer and Faith to lay hold on the Lords strength as our strength so as to make peace with him it is both our duty and advantage and it may be read or let him take hold in or with my strength i. e. my help and assistance Some read it let him be strong in my strength and we cannot indeed be strong but in the Lord and in the power of his might Eph. 6. 10. Or 3dly By the Lords strength We may understand the Lords Christ and the riches of his Grace and Mercy in and through him who is called as the Wisdom so also the Power or Strength of God 2 Cor. 21. 24. The Lords strength to pardon and save sinners lies in his mercy and grace and that grace and mercy is in and through his Son and in and through his Merits Mediation Satisfaction and Intercession by which he is impowered and strengthned thereto without any 〈◊〉 of his Justice And therefore that we may make peace with God we must in this sense take hold of his strength i. e. of his Christ and of his grace and mercy in and through him and this we take hold of by believing and when upon any breach made between God and us we apply our selves to God in and through him and plead and urge him as I hinted before and his Merits Mediation Satisfaction and Intercession and wholly and only groâ—nd our hopes thereon And O! what goodness and condescention is this in the great God that whereas he might trample upon sinners he should thus treat them and bespeak them and advise them or let him take hold of my strength that he may make peace with me c. Let heaven and earth Angels and men admire and adore this goodness and wonderful condescention of the great God! and how shall we escape if we refuse to hearken to him thus graciously and condescendingly advising us what to do as to that wherein we are so infinitely concern'd CHAP. VII The Motives THE relation we stand in to God Motive 1. And this God himself here urges Prepare to meet thy God O Israel He is thy God and it is as if God had said I have not as yet utterly rejected thee â—or cast thee off neither is my Covenant with thee quite disannul'd and made void though thou hast sadly Apostatiz'd from me and therefore being yet thy God let this prevail with thee to meet me for should not Israel meet his God and being angry make his peace with him and be ashamed to continue any longer incorrigible under his hand The Prodigal Son as soon as ever he came to himself resolves I will arise and go to my Father Luk. 15. 17 18. It is my Father and should not children go to their Father a people to their God and this Argument the Lord often makes use of elsewhere O Israel return unto the Lord thy God c. Hosea 14. 1 And return ye back sliding children Jer. 3. 22 23. And shall not our hearts eccho back again as theirs did Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel And what indeed more beseems a people than to meet their God and being angry to seek to appease him especially others going on still by their sins more and more to provoke him and that they at least should labour to quench his wrath and save the Nation whiles others go on more and more to incense it and destroy the Nation Mot. 2. The consideration of Gods infinite Power Might Majesty and Greatness Which are here in several clear and perspicuous demonstrations most notably and magnificently described and set forth and with a great deal of State and Solemnity displai'd and all the more to affect and move our dull and stupid spirits and indeed it is one of the Stateliest and most Magnificent Descriptions of God that we find in all Holy Writ For lo he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind and declareth unto man what is his thought that maketh the morning darkness and treadeth upon the high places of the earth the Lord the God of Hosts is his Name And it is as if the Lord had said And if my Mercy cannot move thee let at least my Majesty if not my Goodness my infinite Power and Greatness who am he that formeth the mountains c. And now these glorious Titles and Attributes which the Lord here Assumes to himself being here on purpose brought in the more to put us upon this great work that they may the more awaken us and influence us to so good a work I shall a little open and explain each of them in order as they lye and this is all I shall do at present in reference to this 13 ver 1. He formeth the mountains Those huge high and massy bodies indeed he forms all things the meanest Jer. 10. 16 and the mountains also yea he is said To weigh the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance Isa 40. 12 i. e. he can turn them which way he will or overturn them as easily as we do the smallest matters which we weigh in scales and put in or take out of the balance as we please O quam magna tremenda vertus Dei O how great and tremendous is the power of God! 2. He createth the wind That strong and boistrous creature and which though
treadeth down the highest persons of the earth He comes upon princes as upon mortar and as the potter treadeth clay he bringeth princes to nothing he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity Isa 40. 23. He cuts off the spirit of Princes he is terrible to the Kings of the earth Psal 76. 12. Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes Psal 119. 118 119 though never so mighty And therefore be mâ—n never so great Conterens superbos Grotius or high this cannot secure them nor set them out of his reach who treads upon and treads down the highest places powers and persons of the earth And those that walk in pride he is able to abase as Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged Dan. 4. 37 Yea And in the thing wherein they deal proudly to be above them Exod. 18. 11. The loftiness of men he boweth down and the haughtiness of men he makes low He tells Edom Obad. 3. 4 The pride of his heart had deceived him that dwelt in the clefts of the rock and whose habitation was high that said in his heart who shall bring me down to the ground But says God Though thou exalt thy self as the Eagle and though thou set thy nest among the stars yet thence will I bring thee down And it is said of the wicked Though his exeellency mount up to the Heavens and his head reach unto the clouds yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung c. Job 20. 67. And thus he treadeth down the heights of the earth and is most high for evermore Psal 92. 8. There are high and higher then they but God is highest of all higher than the highest Eccles 5. 8. than the Heavens yea the highest Angels in Heaven And hence he is said Psal 113. 4 5 6 to humble himself to behold even the things that are in Heaven 6. He that does all this the Lord the God of hosts is his name 1. The Lord Jehovah which denotes 1. His Self-existency that he hath his Being of and from himself and gives being to all his creatures And 2. His eternity that he is everlasting 2. The God of Hosts All the creatures in Heaven and Earth being as it were his Hosts under his power and at his beck and command as Soldiers under their General to order dispose and imploy as he pleases And he has his Hosts above and beneath Coelestial and Terrestrial And being such a God as before he is described He that formeth the mountains c. A God of such infinite power he can muster them up when and as he pleases and make them do what execution he will And this is a Title often in Scripture given to God we have it thrice in one Verse Zach. 1. 3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts turn ye unto me saith the Lord of hosts and I will turn unto you saith the Lord of hosts which shews there is much in this to move us to turn to him For he being The Lord the God of hosts if we do so indeed he is every way able to save us and do us good but if we do not to punish and destroy us The Lord the God of hosts is his name And shall not all this now prevail with us to prepare to meet this God who doth all this who formeth the mountains createth the wind c. and whose name is The Lord the God of hosts For if we do indeed meet him what cannot so great a God do for us Surely he can disperse and drive away all imminent evils from us and communicate all good unto us but if we refuse to meet him what cannot he do against us and what evils cannot he bring upon us He that formeth the mountains c. And therefore if his mercy cannot move us let yet as I said his Majesty if not his Goodness his Greatness and seeing all that is here said fully declares that there 's no opposing nor resisting him by force our only way then is so to meet him as to appease him For with God is terrible majesty Job 37. 22. Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance yea all nations before him are as nothing and counted to him less than nothing and vanity Isa 40. 15 17. The mountains quake at him and the hills melt and the earth is burnt at his presence yea the world and all that dwell therein Nahum 1. 5. And who would set the briars and thorns against me in battel I would go thorow them and burn them together Isa 27. 4. The most steely and flinty spirits in the World can no more stand before God than Briars and Thorns before a consuming Fire How easily does he break in pieces all opposite power By strength shall no man prevail 1 Sam. 2. 9. Where 's the Man that ever was able to carry it against him or hath got any thing by contending with him but blows and utter overthrow Pharoah contended with God but what got he So Julian the Apostate but was he not forc'd at last throwing up his blood towards Heaven to cry out Vicisti Galilee Thou hast overcome O thou Galilean Others even the mightiest have one time or other met with their match but never did God Before him the mightiest Giants are but as Pigmies and Potsherds and let the Potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth but not with the great God Shall weakness contend with strength Impotency with Omnipotency It is said of a creature Lay thine hand upon him remember the battel do no more And None is so fierce that dare stir him up Who then is able to stand before me Job 41. 8 10. You know what they said 2 Kings 10. 4 Two Kings stood not before him how then shall we stand Why a whole World could not stand before God He is wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath hardned himself against him and hath prospered Job 9. 4. And therefore there being no withstanding him by power nor carrying it against him by force let this prevail with us so to meet him as to labour by all possible ways and means to pacifie him And then that power which cannot be withstood by us will be imployed for us both for averting all imminent evils and for procuring all desirable good Mot. 3. The great God when he is in such away seeks for such that should so meet him as to appease him that should make up the hedg and stand in the gap before him for the land that he should not destroy it Which as it shews the great scarcity of such that they are but few For else what need they be sought So his great solicitousness for such and their great acceptableness to him and how unwilling he is to go on to execute what he threatens and that he had rather by such be prevented Now that the Lord seeks for such see Ezek. 22. 30 And I sought for a man
so as to be appeas'd towards us and we shall make peace with him as he hath said Isa 27. 5 Or let him take hold of my strength that he may make peace with me And what then Shall it be in vain No it follows And he shall make peace with me He shall find me exorable and easie to be intreated If I be treated with in such a way and in and through such a one as I offer sinners to be treated with and never indeed was there a treaty with God in Christ for peace in a right way in vain And therefore the Lord inviting us here to prepare to meet him shews us what is good even that which he requires of us to prepare to meet him so that whilâ—s many are saying Who will shew us any good Here 's what is good indeed and not only our duty but our great interest and concern David prays Psal 86. 17 Shew me a token for good and if we were once brought to this this would prove a token for good indeed for good to our selves and to the Nation for God who is now in the way of his Judgments would then return to his ways of Grace and Mercy and then we thus meeting God he will so meet us as to own us bless us accept us and graciously receive us he will meet us with loving-kindness and tender-mercies with the shinings of his Face with the light of his Countenance with his Favour and Love in which is life yea which is better than life Psal 30. 5-63 3. With hïs blessing and choicest blessings with Grace Pardon Peace Reconciliation c. and then as his going forth is prepared so shall it by us be experienc'd as the morning or Sun-rising to the world and he shall come unto us as the rain as the former and latter rain unto the earth And what a compleat blessing are Sun and Rain to the earth and the same in his accesses will he be to us and then he will meet us as Esau met Jacob Who ran to meet him and imbrac'd him and fell on his neck and kissed him Gen. 33. 4. As Aaron met Moses Who when he saw him was glad in his heart Exod. 4. 14. As Joseph met his Brethren when he made himself known to them Gen. 45. As the Father met his returning Prodigal who when he was yet a great way off saw him and had compassion on him and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him Lnke 15. 20. As David met Abigail Who accepted her person and presents and said to her Go up to thy house in peace See I have hearkned to thy voice c. 1 Sam. 25. 35. And ver 33 Blessed says he be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging my self with my own hand for in very deed as the Lord God of Israel liveth except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me surely there had not been left c. So will God say to you Who shall indeed thus meet him You are the blessed of the Lord who made heaven and earth And blessed be you and blessed be your work and blessed be the way and course you took to meet me in the way of my Judgments for in very deed unless you had hasted to come to meet me unless you had made up the hedg and stood in the gap before me for the Land I had destroy'd it I had poured out my indignation upon them I had consumed them by the fire of my wrath and their own way had I recompensed upon their heads But blessed be you who prevented me And what an honour and what a blessed thing is this What ground of singular comfort may it afford to be instrumentally the faviours of a Nation and to keep it from ruin and to have the salvation thereof as instrumental to lie at our door and to prevail with God for mâ—rcy not only for our selves but others the Nation Mot. 6. Sixthly and lastly The Lord will not only so meet us but remain and still abide with us and build up mercy among us for ever Then the hope of Israel the saviour thereof in the time of trouble will not be as a stranger in the land nor as a wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry for a night but as an home-dweller and will perform that everlasting Covenant That he will not turn away from after us to do us good but continue to do us good with his whole heart and his whole soul and we shall be his rest and his rest shall be glorious and therein will he say will I dwell for I have desired it And then Glory shall dwell in our land and mercy and truth shall meet together righteousness and peace shall kiss each other and then this City the City of our solemnities shall recover its pristine glory and grandeur and become famous and renown'd a City sought out and not forsaken Isa 62. 12 and as iniquity brought it low and was its reproach so righteousness shall again exalt it and be its praise and we shall then see our Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle that shall not be taken down nor one of the stakes removed or cords broken but there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams c. 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