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<P>THINGS Now-a-doing: <HI>OR,</HI> THE CHVRCHES TRAVAILE Of the Child of Reformation now-a-bearing.
IN A SERMON Preached before the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, at their &s;olemne Fa&s;t, <HI>Iuly</HI> 31. 1644.</P>
<P>By <HI>Stanley Gower,</HI> &s;ometimes Rector of <HI>Brompton-Brian</HI> in the County of <HI>Hereford,</HI> now Preacher of Gods Word at <HI>Martins Ludgate, London:</HI> And one of the Reverend A&s;&s;embly of Divines.</P>
<BIBL>MATTH. 24. 21, 23, 24, 25.</BIBL>
<BIBL>V. 21.</BIBL>
<Q>Then &s;hall be great tribulation, &s;uch as was not &s;ince the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever &s;hall be.</Q>
<BIBL>V. 23.</BIBL>
<Q>Then if any &s;hall &s;ay to you, Lo, here is Chri&s;t, or there: beleeve it not.</Q>
<BIBL>V. 24.</BIBL>
<Q>For there &s;hall ari&s;e fal&s;e Chri&s;ts, and fal&s;e Prophets, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q>
<BIBL>V. 25.</BIBL>
<Q>Behold I have told you before.</Q>
<P>Publi&s;hed by Order of the &s;aid Hou&s;e.
<HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>G. M.</HI> for <HI>Philemon Stephens</HI> at the &s;igne of the Golden-Lyon in <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard, 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE HONOVRABLE HOVSE OF COMMONS Now a&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_DAniels <HI>Prophecie concernes the</HI> Jewes<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 1. Thy people.</NOTE> <HI>in</HI> Hypothe&s;i, <HI>the whole Church of God in</HI> The&s;i, <HI>for</HI> no Scripture is of private interpretation, <HI>&s;aith</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 1. 20. 1 Cor. 10. 11. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> <HI>S.</HI> Peter, <HI>and</HI> The&s;e things hapned to them as en&s;amples, <HI>&s;aith S.</HI> Paul.</P>
<P><HI>To them it &s;peaketh two things;</HI></P>
<P>1. <HI>Their</HI> Calamities <HI>under the foure great</HI> Mo|narchies <HI>now almo&s;t at an end.</HI></P>
<P>2. <HI>Their</HI> Con&s;olation afterwards, <HI>and now ap|proaching.</HI></P>
<P><HI>To us it &s;peaketh two things more;</HI></P>
<P>1. <HI>Our</HI> Hope, <HI>living in dayes of trouble, but withall, of delivery; it is not a</HI> Tympany, <HI>but</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 1.</NOTE> <HI>a</HI> Child, <HI>that the Churches of the Saints goe with|all, if they &s;tick</HI> long in the place of birth, <HI>it</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;e. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ words"></NOTE>
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<HI>is</HI> becau&s;e they are fooli&s;h; <HI>but at length a &s;afe deliverance is promi&s;ed, the man-child of Refor|mation &s;hall be borne, and Heaven and earth &s;hall cry</HI> grace grace unto it.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zech. 4. 7.</NOTE></P>
<P>2. <HI>Our</HI> Help, (<HI>for</HI> hope deferred maketh the<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">. 12.</NOTE> heart &s;ick,) <HI>in this booke two ways it is afforded.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t, From the</HI> Hi&s;tory <HI>of it, See here how the Church, though it be a little and but a de&s;pi&s;ed flock, yet is it of that esteeme with God, that for the Churches &s;ake he wheeles about all the Monarchies of the world; the</HI> Per&s;ian <HI>&s;hall da&s;h in peeces the</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 2. &amp; 7.</NOTE> Babylonian, <HI>the</HI> Greekes <HI>the</HI> Per&s;ian, <HI>the</HI> Romanes <HI>the</HI> Grecian, <HI>and</HI> the God of Hea|ven <HI>the</HI> Romane Empire <HI>and them all, and &s;et up the Kingdome of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, that</HI> &s;tone cut cut without hands, which &s;hall become a great mountaine and fill the whole earth.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly, From the Prophe&s;ie of it, not Hu|mane, but Divine, that &s;acred Calendar, and great Almanack of Prophe&s;ie: the foure Kingdomes of</HI> Daniel, <HI>are not only, an Hi&s;toricall, but a Prophe|ticall Chronologie of times, mea&s;ured from the begin|ning of the</HI> Jewes <HI>captivity till</HI> all the Kingdomes of the world &s;hould become the Kingdome of<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 11. 15.</NOTE> our Lord and his Chri&s;t; <HI>a cour&s;e of time, du|ring which, the Church and Nation of the</HI> Iewes
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<HI>&s;hould carry the veile upon their hearts, but after|wards &s;hould turne to God, and be rai&s;ed up from the death of &s;inne; are turne &s;o &s;trange, a delivery &s;o</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 12. 2. Rom. 11. 15.</NOTE> <HI>great, that it is re&s;embled to a</HI> re&s;urrection <HI>from the grave.</HI></P>
<P><HI>To this great Calendar of times the Apo&s;tles in the new Testament relate, when they call the times of the fourth Kingdome,</HI> the la&s;t times, <HI>and the latter times of that Kingdome,</HI> the latter times; (viz.) <HI>the latter part of that la&s;t Kingdome (as &s;aith a learned Interpreter:) Goe we then to this</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">M^r <HI>Mede</HI> Apo&s;t. of latter times, <HI>p.</HI> 64, 65, 66.</NOTE> <HI>Propheticall Calendar, we have</HI> the Romane Mo|narchy <HI>almo&s;t at an end, and concerning the</HI> Iewes, (<HI>who&s;e comming in &s;ucceedeth their going out) two things foretold.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The finall end of</HI> the Turki&s;h Empire (<HI>as lear|ned</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1.</NOTE> <HI>men conceive) the only obstacle to tho&s;e</HI> Kings of<NOTE PLACE="marg">M. <HI>Brightman,</HI> and many o|thers. Rev. 16. 12.</NOTE> the Ea&s;t <HI>as the</HI> Iewes <HI>are call'd, and the last defence of the Bea&s;t; who&s;e beginning, was about the yeare 1300. and the addition of 350. (which is the</HI> time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 12. 7. M. <HI>Brightman, in locum.</HI></NOTE> times, halfe a time) <HI>doth bring that Turki&s;h tyranny to an end, in the yeare</HI> 1650.</P>
<P><HI>The beginning of their gratious delivery, this</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hall be after a two-fold</HI> epoche.</P>
<P>1. The taking away of the daily &s;acrifice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 12. 11.</NOTE> <HI>which was wickedly done by</HI> Antiochus, <HI>long before,</HI>
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<HI>but</HI> de jure <HI>by our Lord Ie&s;us Christ his death, de|stroying</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 8. 10. 11, 24. 25.</NOTE> <HI>all other &s;acrifices by the &s;acrifice of him&s;elfe, the fulne&s;&s;e of all their &s;hadowes, and</HI> defacto <HI>by</HI> Ti|tus<NOTE PLACE="marg">Io&s;eph Antiq.</NOTE> Ve&s;pa&s;ian, <HI>who tooke away the place of &s;acri|ficing, when he de&s;troyed the Temple.</HI></P>
<P>2. The &s;etting up of the abhomination of de&s;olation, (<HI>or which maketh de&s;olate) this was wickedly attempted by the</HI> Iewes <HI>in the dayes of</HI> Iu|lian the Apo&s;tate; <HI>he in contempt of Christ gave li|cence to the</HI> Iewes <HI>to build their Temple, and renew their Iewi&s;h wor&s;hip, hereupon they tooke up every</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Tripart. Hi&s;t.</NOTE> <HI>stone of the old foundation, but before they laid any new one, they were di&s;per&s;ed by a &s;peciall hand of God. A fearfull earthquake in the night de&s;troyed all their work<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, a &s;udden fire con&s;umed all their tooles, and them&s;elves &s;o di&s;per&s;ed that from that time the</HI> Iew|i&s;h <HI>&s;uper&s;titions did for ever cea&s;e.</HI> Cyril Bi&s;hop of Ieru&s;alem, <HI>who admoni&s;hed them of this Prophe&s;ie of</HI> Daniel, <HI>but after no di&s;&s;wa&s;ion could prevaile, he openly profe&s;&s;ed, that now the time was come which our Lord fore-told, that</HI> there &s;hould not be left one &s;tone upon another.<NOTE PLACE="marg">M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t. 24. 2.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Now under&s;tand we this to be the</HI> epoche, Iu|lians <HI>reign fell out in the yeare 360. to which adde 1290. they make up 1650. the very time formerly de&s;igned for the fini&s;hing of the</HI> Iewes <HI>di&s;per&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><PB REF="4"><HI>The&s;e things being &s;o, I knew not</HI> (Right Honou|rable) <HI>a Text &s;peaking more to
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then what I preached on, and by your Authority have expo&s;ed now to more publike view.</HI></P>
<P>To you <HI>it &s;peakes by way of</HI> Caution, <HI>that no</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1.</NOTE> <HI>&s;pot, nor blot, nor &s;hrinking back be found among&s;t you, that are</HI> repairers of our breaches, and re&s;to|rers of pathes to dwell in.</P>
<P>To us <HI>it &s;peakes by way of</HI> Cri&s;is, <HI>it di&s;covers the</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2.</NOTE> <HI>temper of the &s;ick body of both Church and State under you our great and (under God) only Phi&s;itian, your phy&s;ick &s;tirs the humours; makes &s;ome better, &s;ome wor&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>To our times <HI>it &s;peakes by way of</HI> comfort, <HI>they</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">3.</NOTE> <HI>are trouble&s;ome, but trying times, and after triall, there &s;hall be delivery to tho&s;e that are</HI> purified, made white, and tried, <HI>but de&s;truction to tho&s;e that</HI> doe and will doe wickedly, <HI>true wi&s;edome and un|der&s;tanding is hid from them, and reveal'd to the godly wi&s;e. Let then a bloody crew fight on, and fill up their mea&s;ure, and let a fooli&s;h people refu&s;e to a&s;si&s;t you as they ought, the Lord him&s;elf hath &s;aid the word,</HI> to you <HI>as to</HI> Cyrus. He is my &s;hepheard, and<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 44. 28.</NOTE> &s;hall performe all my plea&s;ure, even &s;aying to <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> Thou &s;halt be built, and of the Tem|ple,
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Thy foundation &s;hall be laid: <HI>and</HI> to them, <HI>the Lord will throw downe his</HI> haile <HI>upon them that</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 16.</NOTE> <HI>&s;tand again&s;t Reformation, and rend their hearts with indignation and bla&s;phemy; he will goe an end with his worke, though they &s;weare and &s;torme, till he have utterly con&s;umed them from the face of the earth.</HI> Perfect is the work of God, <HI>and (as the Lord</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 32. 4.</NOTE> <HI>&s;pake concerning</HI> Eli) when he begins, he will al&s;o<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 3. 12.</NOTE> make an end.</P>
<P><HI>Thus craving your pardon, and (which is more) your acceptance, as you have my faith, &s;o &s;hall you have my prayers, that what</HI> Cae&s;ar <HI>once &s;aid of</HI> Rome, He found it brick, but left it marble,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Romam lateri|ciam inveni, marmorea<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters"> re|linquo.</NOTE> <HI>may much more Honourably be &s;aid of you, you found our Church and State</HI> Athei&s;ticall, Prela|ticall, <HI>you leave</HI> the beames of our hou&s;e Cedar,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cant. 1. 17. <HI>Plin.</HI> l. 43. <HI>c.</HI> 5 &amp; 16. <HI>c.</HI> 41.</NOTE> and our galleries firre; <HI>famous for durablene&s;se, ac|ceptable for &s;weetne&s;&s;e; by laying in the walls of the Church &s;uch &s;olid and eternall truths of God as may hold out instead of</HI> Sociniani&s;me, Arminiani&s;me, <HI>and many moe; and by &s;etting up &s;uch</HI> Wor&s;hip, <HI>and</HI> Di&s;cipline, <HI>and</HI> Governement, <HI>as may keepe off wind and weather, that Gods people may walke hand in hand together, as in galleries of firre.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Honours, both at the throne of grace, and in the worke of Chri&s;t&punc; STANLEY GOWER&punc;</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Things Now-a-doing.</HEAD>
<Q><BIBL>DAN. 12. 10.</BIBL> Many &s;hall be purified and made white, and tried; but the wicked &s;hall doe wickedly; and none of the wicked &s;hall understand, but the wi&s;e &s;hall understand.</Q>
<P>_YOu heard in the morning (Right Honou|rable<NOTE PLACE="marg">Coherence &s;howing.</NOTE> and the re&s;t dearely beloved in the Lord Je&s;us) God by <HI>Ieremy</HI> coun&s;elling to <HI>amend your wayes and your doings;</HI> Heare<NOTE PLACE="marg">M^r <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</HI> on <HI>Ier.</HI> 7. 3.</NOTE> now God promi&s;ing by <HI>Daniel</HI> that many &s;hall be amended, and this promi&s;e illu&s;trated by the contrary, <HI>but the wicked &s;hall doe wickedly:</HI> be as attentive I be&s;eech you to God promi&s;ing, as unto God per&s;wading.</P>
<P>The&s;e words &s;tand in the nature of a Parenthe&s;is, the ver&s;es before and after, cohere well enough without them; the former, as <HI>Daniels</HI> que&s;tion, v. 8. <HI>what &s;hall be the end of the&s;e things?</HI> the latter, as the <HI>Angels</HI> an&s;wer thereunto. v. 11. <HI>From the time that the daily &s;acrifice &s;hall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh de&s;olate &s;et up, there &s;hall be a</HI>
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<HI>thou&s;and two hundred, and ninety dayes.</HI> My text comes in betweene, as a propheticall progno&s;tick of that time <HI>Da|niel</HI> would &s;o faine know, <HI>ver.</HI> 8. and the <HI>Angel</HI> &s;omewhat ob&s;curely calculates, <HI>ver.</HI> 11. Some copies in&s;ert the word [<HI>Interim,</HI>] and reade, <HI>Complures interim; meane time ma|ny, &amp;c.</HI> which &s;how the ver&s;e to be dependent: and in|deed we mu&s;t con&s;ider a little, the <HI>time,</HI> and <HI>&s;cope,</HI> ere we can bring home the prophecie, and I &s;hall give you both very briefely.</P>
<P>The Time fore-told, is, the call of the <HI>Iewes, [thy peo|ple]</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1.</NOTE> &s;ayes <HI>ver.</HI> 1. for <HI>Daniel</HI> was a <HI>Iew,</HI> not &s;econd &s;on to<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Time.</NOTE> <HI>David</HI> by <HI>Abigail,</HI> of whom you reade long before, but<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Chron 3. 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> 1. 6. <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp;<HI>c. Io&s;eph <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n|tiq&punc;</HI> l. 10. c. 11. 2 Sam. 12. 24, 25.</NOTE> a Prophet of the Princely tribe of <HI>Iudah,</HI> and (if we may credit * <HI>Io&s;ephus</HI>) of the blood Royall al&s;o. He is el&s;e|where &s;poken of as a very excellent man, but we mu&s;t here looke upon him as withall, pen-man of the <HI>Holy Gho&s;t,</HI> and that of a very choice peece, the <HI>Iewi&s;h</HI> &s;tory. <HI>Solomon</HI> be|loved of God, (called therefore <HI>Iedidia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">) &s;on of</HI> David <HI>King of I&s;rael,</HI> writes the Churches Epithalamia, and Love|&s;ongs: <HI>S. Iohn,</HI> the ble&s;&s;ed Evangeli&s;t, beloved Di&s;ciple, and among&s;t the 12. Apo&s;tles, paralell to <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> among&s;t the 12. Patriarchs; as Evangeli&s;t writes his Go&s;pell, as Apo&s;tle, his Epi&s;tles, and as Prophet, his <HI>Revelation</HI> to the Churches. And this our <HI>Daniel,</HI> eminent with men, who&s;e<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ez<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">k. 8. 3. Ez<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">k. 14. 14, 16, 18, 20, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n. 10. 11.</NOTE> wi&s;edome grew into a proverbe:&mdash;<HI>Thou art wi&s;er then Da|niel:</HI>) powerfull for men, and greatly beloved of God, writes the hi&s;tory of the <HI>Iewi&s;h</HI> Church (then the only peo|ple of God, and as yet <HI>beloved for their fathers &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI>) in the<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. 28.</NOTE> &s;ix fir&s;t Chapters, and their prophe&s;ie in the &s;ix latter<NOTE PLACE="marg">M <HI>Brigh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">man</HI> on <HI>Dan. Willet.</HI> on <HI>Dan</HI> and o|thers.</NOTE> Chapters, as &s;ome have made the di&s;tribution of this Booke: or (as others,) their troubles under the foure great Monarchies, to this <HI>twelfth</HI> Chapter; and their deliverance
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under the fifth perpetuall Monarchy which the &s;tone cut out without hands &s;hall &s;et up (as Chri&s;t is called in this booke) in this <HI>twelfth Chapter.</HI> King <HI>Solomon</HI> admires, the ri&s;e of the Gentile Church in<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cant. 3. 6.</NOTE> his &s;ong&punc; and admires after that, the ri&s;e of another Church, which he calls a <HI>Shulamite,</HI> alluding to <HI>Sha|lom,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Cant. 6. 10. &amp;<HI>c.</HI></NOTE> the ancient name of <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> the mother City of the <HI>Iewes,</HI> looking forth as the morning, becau&s;e that Church &s;hall ri&s;e out of the Ea&s;terne Countries;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 16. 12.</NOTE> that her nut &s;hould be crackt, the &s;hell which was over her kernell, the veile which was over her heart &s;hould be taken away, and that &s;he &s;hould be as a flouri&s;hing Vine and budding Pomgranate, brin|ging forth whole&s;ome fruit to refre&s;h God and man, is matter of admiration, and no le&s;&s;e indeed than a re|&s;urrection from the dead, to which it is re&s;embled in this Chapter, and el&s;ewhere. <HI>S. Paul</HI> would not have<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. 15. Rom. 11. 25.</NOTE> us ignorant of this mi&s;tery: That we might not be &s;o, we have a two-fold a&s;&s;urance of it in this booke; One, by dreame of <HI>Nebuchadnezzar,</HI> as we &s;ee at large in the <HI>&s;econd Chapter:</HI> The other by vi&s;ion of <HI>Daniel</HI> him|&s;elfe, in the <HI>&s;eventh Chapter:</HI> of both which I may &s;ay as <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> of <HI>Pharaohs</HI> two dreames, <HI>It is doubled</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 41. 32.</NOTE> <HI>twi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e, becau&s;e the thing is e&s;tabli&s;hed by God, and God will &s;hortly bring it to pa&s;&s;e&punc;</HI> How &s;oone, let him that hath under&s;tanding count from the ver&s;e following, where there are two <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">s, 1. <HI>From the taking away of the daily &s;acrifices;</HI> that was when <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> was de&s;troy|ed, the place of &s;acrificing; 2. <HI>From the &s;etting up of the abomination of de&s;olation;</HI> which is &s;uppo&s;ed by good Authours, to be in the dayes of <HI>Iulian the Apostate,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">360. yeares after Chri&s;t, or thereabouts&punc;
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<HI>Cyrill</HI> of <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> ob&s;erving how they had taken up<NOTE PLACE="marg">Socrat <HI>Scho|la&s;t Eccle&s;ia&s;t. Hi&s;t.</HI> l. 3. <HI>c.</HI> 17.</NOTE> every &s;tone of the old foundation, and were di&s;per|&s;ed ere they layed a new one as they had thought, &s;aid, the words of our Saviour, (<HI>There &s;hall not be left a &s;tone upon a &s;tone,</HI>) was then fulfilled: and if &s;o, then the time comes out in the yeare 1650. as ap|peares to any that &s;hall adde 1290. to 360. Then &s;hall the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> power be broken al&s;o, as appeares from another account, <HI>ver.</HI> 7. and then &s;hall Hallelujahs ring for the marriage of the bride, the Lambs wife; and before the&s;e things come to pa&s;&s;e, <HI>Rome</HI> &s;hall be de&s;troyed, who&s;e la&s;t &s;cene is now acting, and her ruine at hand, and the things that &s;hall come upon her make ha&s;t. This is the Time, and it is a de&s;ireable Time.</P>
<P>The &s;cope now of <HI>Daniel</HI> in this Chapter, is to<NOTE PLACE="marg">2.</NOTE> comfort the hearts of Gods people, again&s;t the trou|bles,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Scope.</NOTE> and trials of that time, by giving them two progno&s;ticks of this great deliverance. (<HI>viz.</HI>)</P>
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<ITEM>The Trials, <HI>ver.</HI> 10. of that Time.</ITEM>
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<P>The <HI>Troubles</HI> of that time &s;hall be <HI>&s;uch, as never was &s;ince there was a Nation even to that &s;ame time,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>The <HI>Trials</HI> of that time &s;hall be &s;uch, as makes god|ly men better, wicked men wor&s;e: For &s;o &s;aith my text&punc; <HI>Many &s;hall be purified, made white, tried, but the wicked &s;hall doe wickedly,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>And now (Right Honourable) if <HI>a word fitly &s;po|ken,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 11.</NOTE> be <HI>as apples of gold, with pictures of &s;ilver,</HI> then<NOTE PLACE="marg">3.</NOTE> the&s;e words begg your acceptance, as being, not on|ly<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Accomo|dation.</NOTE> profitable (for &s;o they are at all times, being the
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words of the Holy Gho&s;t) but al&s;o &s;ea&s;onable, for &s;o they are at this time, they are our very <HI>Cri&s;is.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM> 1. The Times alike; purifying, whitening, trying times. </ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Per&s;ons alike; &s;ome wicked, &s;ome wi&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Properties alike; they act accordingly, none of the wicked understand, but the wi&s;e doe under&s;tand;</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>So that I may &s;ay of my text, as our Saviour Chri&s;t did of his, taken out of another Prophet, <HI>This day is</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 4. 21.</NOTE> <HI>this Scripture fulfilled in your eares.</HI> We reade, that <HI>the &s;ame day that the Lord thundred and rained, the people</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 12. 18.</NOTE> <HI>greatly feared the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>This day God thunders many wayes, and in my text he al&s;o lightens, God grant the effect may be an|&s;werable;</P>
<P>So much for the 
<LIST>
<ITEM>Time.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Scope.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>I come now to the text: <HI>Many &s;hall be purified,</HI> &amp;c.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Text &s;how|ing.</NOTE> It is propheticall; and in &s;uch, we con&s;ider
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Credit of the Prophet.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The parts. <HI>viz.</HI></NOTE></ITEM>
<ITEM>Prophe&s;ie it &s;elfe.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Credit of the <HI>Prophet,</HI> is not only this, that he<NOTE PLACE="marg">1.</NOTE> was an excellent man (as we have &s;hewed) but that he<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Prophet</NOTE> was al&s;o <HI>the Holy Gho&s;ts pen-man.</HI> Wicked <HI>Porphyry,</HI> ene|my to Chri&s;tian Religion, makes him little better than an impo&s;tor, and affirmes this booke was an Hi|&s;tory, writ by &s;ome prophetick-wi&s;e, that lived in or after the dayes of <HI>Antiochus Epiphanes;</HI> but the <HI>Sep|trogint</HI> have tran&s;lated this booke into Greeke, 100. yeares before that <HI>Antiochus&punc;</HI> and <HI>Io&s;ephus</HI> tells, how<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Io&s;eph Antiq.</HI> lib. 11. cap. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>Iaddus</HI> an high-Prie&s;t, &s;hewed. <HI>Alexander</HI> the Great, that Prophe&s;ie in this booke, which fore-told of a King of <HI>Graecia</HI> that &s;hould de&s;troy the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Monar|chy, in confidence whereof <HI>Alexander</HI> proceeded to
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that warre; and this was at lea&s;t 60. yeares before <HI>Antiochus,</HI> as Chronologers compute: Some <HI>Rob|bins</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Theodor.</HI> pre&s;at in <HI>Dan&punc;</HI> Item Polan. in prolegom.</NOTE> dreame, that the booke was writ by the wi&s;e|men of the great Synagogue, who were in the time of <HI>Ezra:</HI> but how came it then that <HI>Daniel</HI> is &s;o oft na|med in the booke, and that the Title of the booke in Hebrew, is, <HI>The booke of Daniel?</HI> But both the one,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE> and the other are confuted by our Saviour Chri&s;t, which determines it both to <HI>Daniel,</HI> and that he was<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 24. 15.</NOTE> a Prophet, and bids us (by the way) when we reade, con&s;ider, the words of <HI>Daniel the Prophet,</HI> in the ver&s;e next following my text. And therefore this booke is not to be placed among&s;t tho&s;e Scriptures which they call <HI>Holy writings,</HI> but among&s;t tho&s;e they call <HI>Prophets.</HI></P>
<P>The Prophe&s;ie it &s;elfe of the&s;e words, is (you &s;ee)<NOTE PLACE="marg">2.</NOTE> of great &s;iding, and each &s;ide acting accordingly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Prophe|&s;ie.</NOTE> &s;omething before the time of the <HI>Iewes</HI> conver&s;ion;</P>
<P>In which con&s;ider two different <LIST>
<ITEM>Subjects,<LIST>
<ITEM>Wicked.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wi&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Predicates.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Different in 
<LIST>
<ITEM>Effects, <HI>Many &s;hall be purified, made white, tried, but the wicked &s;hall doe wickedly.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Degree, <HI>None of the wicked &s;hall under|&s;tand; but the wi&s;e &s;hall under&s;tand.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Now if the lea&s;t filing of gold is pretious, then of Truth; yet &s;hall I but name &s;ome &s;everals, and in&s;i&s;t only (according to my time and your patience) upon one Propo&s;ition. I might ob&s;erve then,<NOTE PLACE="marg">3.</NOTE></P>
<P>1. <HI>Godly men are wi&s;e, and wicked men are &s;oules.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Points. Rai&s;ed but not pro&s;ecuted.</NOTE></P>
<P>This appeares from the op|po&s;ition of &s;ubjects. <LIST>
<ITEM>Wicked.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wi&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><PB N="7" REF="8">It &s;hould be either <LIST>
<ITEM>Wicked.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Godly.</ITEM>
</LIST> or <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Fooli&s;h.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wi&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>By rendring therefore as oppo&s;ite to wicked, wi&s;e; it &s;hewes that wicked are not wi&s;e; and by tearming tho&s;e that are not wicked, wi&s;e; it imports, that the wi&s;e are not the wicked, but the godly&punc; indeed the word u&s;ed for wi&s;e, is applied to godly Teachers, <HI>ver,</HI> 2. but when it is oppo&s;ed (as here) to wicked, it<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE> &s;ignifieth, not teachers only, but others too. Receive it therefore for a divine <HI>maxime</HI> (I pray you) That piety is the be&s;t pollicie, and godly men are in the Holy Gho&s;ts judgement the wi&s;e&s;t men.</P>
<P>2. <HI>There are many godly wi&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>If <HI>many &s;hall be purifide, made white, and tryed,</HI> then (God be thanked, and the Lord encrea&s;e the number of them) there are many &s;uch: and not only many,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE> but many great men too; the word in the Originall &s;ignifies both <HI>many,</HI> and <HI>great;</HI> many in number, and great in condition; as when it is &s;aid; <HI>Many are the troubles of the righteous:</HI> that is to &s;ay, many in num|ber, great in nature: It is indeed rare to have great men good, a little goodne&s;&s;e &s;tands for a great &s;umme among&s;t great men: but yet it is no &s;ingular thing, there are many &s;uch: be not a&s;hamed therefore, you that are great, to be, and to be thought to be, godly.</P>
<P>3. <HI>Be&s;t may mend, and &s;hall be mended.</HI></P>
<P>They <HI>&s;hall be purifide, made white, and tried,</HI> that their dro&s;&s;e may be purged: The Lord hath his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">laile to thre&s;h out their chaffe, his water and &s;ope to make them white, and his fire to melt and try them; and ther|fore they are proud, not perfect, that think they have<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 3. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc;</NOTE> &s;ound an <HI>Hercules</HI> pillar to write a <HI>ne plus ultra</HI> upon.</P>
<P><PB N="8" REF="9">4. <HI>Wicked men doe, and &s;hall doe wickedly.</HI></P>
<P>5. <HI>The rea&s;on why they doe &s;o, is,</HI> becau&s;e none of <HI>the wicked &s;hall understand.</HI></P>
<P>6. <HI>The godly wi&s;e &s;hall under&s;tand when none of the wicked &s;hall.</HI></P>
<P>Now none of the&s;e &s;everals I can in&s;i&s;t upon, what of them my time and your patience will permit me to &s;peake of, I &s;hall gra&s;pe in this one Propo&s;ition, that containes the &s;umme of the ver&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>That the &s;ame times, and troubles in them, which make</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Doctrine.</HI> The maine Doctrine ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">dled. Shewing.</NOTE> <HI>godly wi&s;e men better, make wicked men wor&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>And I will not &s;peake &s;o much of Times, which comes in more properly in the ver&s;e following; as of troubles in tho&s;e times, the&s;e are hinted in the words, <HI>purified, made white, and tried.</HI></P>
<P>My method for the doctrinall part, &s;hall be to &s;hew,</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>What tribulations they are by which God doth purifie, make white, and try his people.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>How they are by the&s;e purified, made white, and tried.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>What is the rea&s;on that they have &s;uch different effects upon the godly, and the wicked.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>For the fir&s;t: They are not all of one &s;ort, nor &s;ize.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1.</NOTE> Here there are three &s;orts, <HI>lighter &s;princklings,</HI> in al|lu&s;ion<NOTE PLACE="marg">What <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ula|tions.</NOTE> to <HI>Iewi&s;h purifyings; heavier rubbings,</HI> in allu|&s;ion to <HI>Iewi&s;h clean&s;ings;</HI> and <HI>&s;harpe&s;t trials,</HI> in allu&s;ion to <HI>Iewi&s;h trials.</HI> The Apo&s;tle el&s;e-where reduceth them to two: <HI>Inward fightings, outward feares:</HI> but it<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 7. 5.</NOTE> matters not &s;o much what they are, as whereto they &s;erve, for they are but a meanes to an end, their bet|tering;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tantum &s;u|mendum quan|tum ad finem prode&s;t.</NOTE> and therefore as we &s;ay of meanes, &s;o much as will &s;erve; &s;o doth the Lord proportion the tribu|lation
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to the good of his people, &s;o much and no more, as will &s;erve to <HI>purifie, m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke white, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> try them.</HI></P>
<P>For the &s;econd; I will &s;hew you, how the Lord by the&s;e, doth<NOTE PLACE="marg">2.</NOTE></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Purifie.<NOTE PLACE="marg">How they pu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">fie, make white and try.</NOTE></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Make White.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Try them.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>The <HI>Iews</HI> had their purification, &s;o have Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P>There is Chri&s;ts Blood, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9. 14. Word, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 15. 3. Spirit, <HI>Mat.</HI> 3.</P>
<P>But I am no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;peaking of the&s;e, which doe directly, and properly tend thereto; but of afflictions, which by accident &s;erve to that end: as you may &s;ee, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 4. 4. By the&s;e now Gods people are <HI>purified</HI> 2. wayes.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, From &s;in committed, both originall &s;in, and<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. They purifie <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;in com|mitted. Pro. 22. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">5.</NOTE> actuall; For originall&punc; <HI>Solomon</HI> tells us, <HI>Folly is bound up in the heart, and the rod of correction drives it away:</HI> And for actuall, <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;heweth, that by correction, <HI>the iniquity of</HI> Jacob <HI>&s;hall be purged, and this is all the fruite,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a&punc; 27. 9.</NOTE> <HI>to take away his &s;in:</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, From &s;inne to be committed. I meane<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. From &s;in to be comitted.</NOTE> to prevent your &s;inning for time to come: Tribula|tions are not only <HI>medicines,</HI> but al&s;o <HI>antidotes:</HI> God in this doth as wi&s;e State&s;-men, when they &s;ee a man bu&s;ying him&s;elfe much with matters of &s;tate at home, prying into things concerne him not, they &s;end &s;uch into the warres abroad: &s;o doth God, &s;end tribula|tions to exerci&s;e his people, and keepe them pure, lea&s;t they fall &s;oule: thus did he with S. <HI>Paul,</HI> he had his <HI>thorne, least he &s;hould be exalted,</HI> &amp;c. and thus they are<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 12. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> purified both in heart and lift, to cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;in pa&s;t, and pre|vent &s;in to come.</P>
<P><PB N="10" REF="10">Againe, by the&s;e they are <HI>made white;</HI> &s;o Dan. 11.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. They make white.</NOTE> 35. <HI>And &s;ome of them of understanding &s;hall fall to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end.</HI></P>
<P>It is not enough to be pure, which renders a man holy to God, but to be bright and white before men: Inward purity makes no great &s;hew before men un|le&s;&s;e whitene&s;&s;e and un&s;pottedne&s;&s;e doe accompany it; now there are two wayes that God will have his people <HI>white,</HI> as well as <HI>pure</HI> at this time.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, From their own&mdash;other mens &s;ins. You<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. From their owne other mens &s;ins.</NOTE> (Right Honourable) have confe&s;&s;ed ju&s;tly, that the guilt of Idolatry and blood lay upon our fore-fathers; I may &s;ay of the&s;e, as of the <HI>iniquity of</HI> P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or, <HI>we are not</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">2 17. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> King. 23. 26.</NOTE> <HI>clean&s;ed from it to this day. Mana&s;&s;ehs</HI> &s;ins lay heavy upon the Land in good <HI>Io&s;iahs</HI> dayes; God will have our Land made white from the&s;e.</P>
<P>Secondly, From their own-&s;u&s;pected &s;innes. Two<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. From their own &s;u&s;pe|cted &s;ins.</NOTE> &s;innes the enemies of our peace &s;u&s;pect in you and fal&s;ely charge upon you, (give me leave to &s;peake plainly) <HI>Di&s;loyalty</HI> to our <HI>Soveraigne,</HI> from which your Declarations, and proceedings may acquit you;<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. Declar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t. <HI>Aug&punc;</HI> 12. 1642.</NOTE> and <HI>Sacriledge</HI> again&s;t our God, from which the world expects how you will acquit your &s;elves; cer|tainely when God hath purified you, he will make you white, as he did <HI>David</HI> again&s;t <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ul,</HI> even by his<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">4. 17. Gen. 4<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 38.</NOTE> own confe&s;&s;ion; and <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> again&s;t his Mi&s;tris: nay as he hath done you already in many things, and what remaines you have in promi&s;e, for the cau&s;e is before the Lord, who will <HI>give a perfect lot:</HI> Hee hath &s;aid, <HI>Commit thy way unto the Lord, tru&s;t al&s;o in</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l. 37. 6.</NOTE> <HI>him, and he &s;hall bring it to pa&s;&s;e. And he &s;hall bring</HI>
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<HI>forth thy righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e as the light, and thy judgement as the noone day.</HI> Thus the Lord will by tribulation, both purifie them in heart and life, and whiten them from the &s;pot of other mens &s;innes, and their own &s;u&s;|pected &s;ins.</P>
<P>Thirdly, By the&s;e, both times and troubles, <HI>they</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">3. They try their</NOTE> <HI>are tried:</HI> The <HI>Iewes</HI> had not only their &s;princklings and wa&s;hings, but al&s;o their water of jealou&s;ie, and other meanes by which they were tried; &s;o hath God his troubles, not only to rid his people of &s;inne, and to render them &s;potle&s;&s;e before men, but al&s;o to try them; Gods trials are of two &s;orts, &s;ome for hu|miliation, then he leaves them to know all that is in their heart, as he did <HI>Hezekiah:</HI> others for confirma|tion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chro. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">2. 31. Gen. 22. 1.</NOTE> then he a&s;&s;i&s;ts them, as he did <HI>Abraham.</HI> By the&s;e tribulations God trieth his peoples</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sincerity.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Graces.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Fir&s;t, He trieth their &s;incerity, if they will &s;tick to a<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Sincerity.</NOTE> good cau&s;e without defection, and goe on in a good cour&s;e without deflection. Certainely, the&s;e times and troubles make the &s;ame di&s;covery of men as for|mer did; then there were &s;ome <HI>confe&s;sors,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Mar|tyrs,</HI> others <HI>Traditors,</HI> that in time of tribulation went<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Eu&s;eb Eccle&s;. Hi&s;t.</HI> 1 Cor. 11. 19.</NOTE> away. <HI>Errors mu&s;t be, that they that are approved may be knowne:</HI> and doctrines and practi&s;es of liberty mu&s;t be, that well rooted and grounded Chri&s;tians may be di&s;tingui&s;hed from <HI>children, to&s;&s;ed to and fro,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 4. 14.</NOTE> <HI>and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the &s;leight of men, and cunning craftine&s;se, whereby they lie in waite to deceive.</HI> Tribulations are like great winds, which fa&s;ten trees well rooted, but throw downe the re&s;t; There have been and daily are many both in
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Church and State thus tryed&punc; &s;ome <HI>Darius</HI>-like, <HI>la|bour</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 6. 14.</NOTE> <HI>earne&s;tly to the going downe of the Sun,</HI> and then they goe back. It was great triall a while agoe, what men would &s;et them&s;elves again&s;t the Prelates and their proceedings, how men would fortifie their &s;pirits a|gain&s;t their &s;ummons, Courts, Cen&s;ures, impri&s;on|ments and &s;ore oppre&s;&s;ions: God hath delivered us thence, and after the&s;e, brings more publike and uni|ver&s;all trials, how men will &s;tand in and for the pub|like, who be the <HI>Calebs</HI> and <HI>Io&s;huahs</HI> that will goe on<NOTE PLACE="marg">Numb 14.</NOTE> to the accompli&s;hment of reformation, again&s;t the <HI>Anakims,</HI> and who will lu&s;t after the <HI>fle&s;h pots of E|gypt;</HI> who will waite upon God, and goe when he bids, and &s;tay when he &s;tayes; and who will goe their own way, as they then did; we are ju&s;t thereabouts now&punc; and if any fall off, we are told before hand, it is the i&s;&s;ue of their in&s;incerity. <HI>They went out from us, but</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Joh. 2. 19.</NOTE> <HI>they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, He trieth their graces: He that hath any<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Graces.</NOTE> grace may now know what he hath; I will in&s;tance in three;</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, He trieth their <HI>Love,</HI> how fa&s;t they are gl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">w|ed<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Love.</NOTE> to God and his cau&s;e, that no affliction can part them, whether they are as willing to be turned into a pri&s;on for his &s;ake, as into their own habitation; Love is of this nature: <HI>Many waters cannot quench Love, nei|ther</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Cant. 8. 7.</NOTE> <HI>can the floods drowne it.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, He trieth their <HI>Faith:</HI> Our Saviour<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Faith.</NOTE> Chri&s;t is &s;till upon this with his Di&s;ciples; <HI>O ye of lit|tle</HI>
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<HI>Faith!</HI> Had men <HI>Stephens</HI> eyes to &s;ee a <HI>Io&s;us in the</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 7. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">5.</NOTE> <HI>Heavens,</HI> when &s;tones were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ying about their eares&punc; or a <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> eyes, to <HI>&s;ee the recompence of reward;</HI> did they by <HI>faith</HI> &s;ee Gods attributes put forth for their helpe, they would not &s;tagger what &s;ide to take to, nor what to doe, but would readily an&s;wer as tho&s;e Heroes: <HI>O King we are not carefull to an&s;wer thee in this</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 3. 16, 17, 18.</NOTE> <HI>matter: If it be &s;o; our God whom we &s;erve, is able to de|liver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will de|liver us out of thy hand O King, but if not, be it knowne to thee O King, that we will not &s;erve thy gods, nor wor&s;hip thy graven images which thou ha&s;t &s;et up:</HI> All the gra|ces which grow among thornes and thi&s;tles, attending upon faith, meekne&s;&s;e, patience, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> will now be tried and di&s;covered.</P>
<P>Thirdly, He trieth their <HI>Love to one another,</HI> what<NOTE PLACE="marg">3. Sympathie.</NOTE> &s;ympathy they have to tho&s;e that &s;uffer with them, or for them: You have Mini&s;ters, the Country wants them; hither come the godly and faithfull of the land, that have &s;uffered the lo&s;&s;e of all: God tries now, what ha&s;t you will make (Right Honourable) to &s;ettle the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Ordination, and releeve tho&s;e Churches that for the pre&s;ent are as &s;heep without a &s;heapheard: and how you will imploy tho&s;e that are faithfull in the land about you, as <HI>David</HI> did. Thus you have<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 101. 6.</NOTE> &s;eene how they are by the&s;e purified, made white, and tried.</P>
<P>Now remaines the third and la&s;t thing propo&s;ed, (<HI>viz.</HI>) what is the rea&s;on, and whence it is, that the&s;e<NOTE PLACE="marg">3.</NOTE> times and troubles have &s;uch different effects and ope|rations<NOTE PLACE="marg">What is the Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;on of &s;o d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fferent ope|ration.</NOTE> upon the godly wi&s;e, and upon the wicked, and tho&s;e three that are in my text &s;hall &s;erve. I will adde no more.</P>
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<P>Fir&s;t, This comes to pa&s;&s;e from the diver&s;ity of &s;ub|jects<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rea&s;on</HI> 1. From diver|&s;ity of &s;ub|jects.</NOTE> on whom they light, <HI>(viz.)</HI> godly, and wicked. Afflictions as Phy&s;ick make better or wor&s;e; they are re&s;embled to a <HI>fanne,</HI> the godly are the Lords wheate, purified by it, but the wicked are as the chaffe, blowne<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer 15. 7. and 51. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> away, nor is there any thing to be &s;een among&s;t them, but Apo&s;ta&s;ies, abu&s;ing Gods truth, and what not? Je&s;us Chri&s;t compares tribulation to the <HI>Sun;</HI> the<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 13. 6.</NOTE> &s;ame Sun which warmes and perfecteth good-&s;eed, &s;corcheth that which hath not depth of earth, depth of root, and enough of moi&s;ture, as that which was &s;owne upon high way, &s;tony, and thorny ground had not. It is in the Prophet compared to <HI>water and fire;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 43. 2.</NOTE> now as things are which are ca&s;t into water and fire, &s;o is the operation: ca&s;t gold into the water, it keeps its yellow &s;hine, ca&s;t it into the fire, it becomes brigh|ter; ca&s;t earth into water, it turns it into mudd, ca&s;t it into the fire, it crumbleth to du&s;t; ca&s;t hay into the fire, it gives a blaze, and turns to &s;moake and a&s;hes; ca&s;t it into water, it rots it pre&s;ently; The Apo&s;tle tells us; <HI>the day &s;hall declare every mans work of what</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3. 13.</NOTE> <HI>&s;ort it is.</HI> Tribulation is &s;uch a day; it <HI>pre&s;seth</HI> every<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom&punc; 5. 3, 4. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> godly man, and out comes their grace; it pre&s;&s;eth the wicked, and out comes their wickedne&s;&s;e; as dung|hils, the more they are raked, the more they &s;tinke; whereas the godly, are as the &s;pices, which brui&s;ed ca&s;t forth a &s;weeter &s;avour: the Eagle tries her young ones by the Sun, God tries and differences godly from the wicked by afflictions; wicked men are as the <HI>wood of the vine,</HI> good for nothing but the fire; godly<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 15. per totum.</NOTE> are &s;uch as are &s;till on the mending hand.</P>
<P>Secondly, This comes to pa&s;&s;e from the different<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rea&s;on 2.</NOTE>
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adjunct or priviledge, godly wi&s;e men, have every<NOTE PLACE="marg">From different adjunct or pri|viledge.</NOTE> thing (and &s;o afflictions) &s;anctified to them, wicked men have every thing accur&s;ed to them. The <HI>Pro|phe&s;ie</HI> here, you &s;ee, is by way of promi&s;e to the one, <HI>they &s;hall be purified,</HI> &amp;c. by way of judgement to the other, <HI>the wicked &s;hall doe wickedly.</HI> The charter of the Chri&s;tian is large, <HI>All things,</HI> even <HI>death</HI> it &s;elfe, <HI>is</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3. 21, 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>yours, and you are Chri&s;ts:</HI> godly men have as cur&s;ed hearts as any wicked men; but being in Chri&s;t they are &s;anctified, and have grace to be improved and bet|tered; therefore all runs pa&s;&s;ive; <HI>purified, made white, tried:</HI> and the Prophet <HI>Malachy</HI> tells you how; <HI>He</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> (that is to &s;ay, the Angel of the Covenant, Chri&s;t) <HI>&s;hall &s;it a refiner and purifier,</HI> &amp;c. to compo&s;e the fire (for though &s;inne merit trouble, man or Devill be in|&s;truments of the trouble, yet God is the chiefe agent) and to order it for the good of the mettall he ca&s;ts in|to the fire, to encrea&s;e the flame one while, when<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lev. 26&punc; 14, to 40.</NOTE> they are not purified&punc; and to quench it another while, when they are: but afflictions are not &s;o to wicked men; Chri&s;t is a <HI>&s;wift witne&s;&s;e again&s;t them;</HI> they are gi|ven<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 3. 5.</NOTE> up, and being &s;o, mu&s;t needs doe wickedly.</P>
<P>Thirdly, This comes to pa&s;&s;e from the different<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rea&s;on</HI> 3. From different cau&s;e. Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">v. 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> cau&s;e; <HI>None of the wicked under&s;tand, but the wi&s;e un|der&s;tand.</HI> There is a three-fold wi&s;edome and under|&s;tanding of heavenly things, and they are di&s;tingui|&s;hed<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE> by three words: The wi&s;edome of the art, the be&s;t of all Philo&s;ophy, <HI>the feare of the Lord, which is the beginning of wi&s;edome:</HI> The wi&s;edome of the teacher, the Lord, <HI>none teacheth like him:</HI> And the wi&s;edome of the &s;choller, who is <HI>made wi&s;e to &s;alva|tion.</HI> Now wicked men have none of the&s;e, at lea&s;t
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they have not them all, but the godly wi&s;e have: wic|ked men either have no light, they con&s;ule not with Gods word, and then how &s;hould they under&s;tand&punc; <HI>They have rejected the wi&s;edome of the Lord, and what</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 8. 9.</NOTE> <HI>wi&s;edome is in them?</HI> or they have no under&s;tanding, no eyes opened, no grace infu&s;ed, and &s;o they judge ami&s;&s;e of things that differ; or their eyes are not well di&s;po&s;ed, they have mi&s;guided judgements, &s;omething or other makes them mi&s;take. Aske them concerning the warres in <HI>Germany, Scotland, England; they call evill good, and good evill.</HI> Thus you &s;ee the Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P>Now remaines only the practicall part, having done<NOTE PLACE="marg">The doctri|nall part fini|&s;hed.</NOTE> with the Doctrinall; the point you &s;ee is proved, there re&s;ts the Application. And though this might be ma|nifold, I will not trouble you with any more then three;</P>
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<ITEM>It &s;erveth therefore for <HI>Instruction.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>It &s;erveth therefore for <HI>Exhortation.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The u&s;e three|fold.</NOTE></ITEM>
<ITEM>It &s;erveth therefore for <HI>Con&s;olation.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>This may in the fir&s;t place give &s;atisfaction to three<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>V&s;e</HI> 1. In&s;truction in three points. 1. Why <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">odly are afflicted, wicked &s;pared.</NOTE> great &s;cruples which trouble many.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, It &s;hewes the rea&s;on why godly per&s;ons are afflicted, and wicked pro&s;per. Though it plea&s;es God &s;ometimes to ble&s;&s;e his people with peace, and to give them re&s;t again&s;t their enemies round about them&punc; yet for the mo&s;t part in the ordinary way of his di&s;pen&s;a|tions, <HI>many are the troubles of the righteous&punc;</HI> and for the wicked, they are <HI>active and &s;trong, and no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ands in their</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 73 4.</NOTE> <HI>death:</HI> When <HI>Iacob</HI> is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ed to and fro, <HI>E&s;au</HI> is at re&s;t in mount <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ir,</HI> encrea&s;ed in riches and power: when <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">l</HI> is on the throne, <HI>David</HI> is hunted as a partridge: when <HI>Mordecai</HI> is at the gate, <HI>Haman</HI> is in favour in the Court; and when the Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">tiers are at the banquent
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of wine, the Citie <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> is perplexed upon this cro&s;&s;e di&s;pen&s;ation ari&s;eth a dangerous temptation, which drives many backe, &s;ome &s;ometimes to deny a Provi|dence; not onely are Gods Children lyable to the&s;e temptations in con&s;ideration of the trouble of the Righteous, and pro&s;peritie of the wicked, but when God is in a way of mercy, if there be any &s;tay in the<NOTE PLACE="marg">That the one may be purifi|ed, and the other doe wic|kedly.</NOTE> cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice, any delay of deliverance, they are ready to be troubled. Is God ju&s;t? Is God mercifull? why &s;tand things at a &s;tay? Now <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> text re&s;olves this &s;cruple; Tis that the godly may be <HI>purified, made white, tryed;</HI> and it is againe, that <HI>wicked men may doe</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 73. 17. Jer. 12. 3. Hab. 1. 13. 14.</NOTE> <HI>wickedly,</HI> and may fill up the mea&s;ure of their &s;inne: thus doe even tho&s;e that &s;tumble at this, at la&s;t re&s;olve them&s;elves <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and certainly when God hath accom|pli&s;hed his worke, it &s;hall be otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>Secondly, it &s;hewes the rea&s;on why it is &s;o trouble|&s;ome<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Why this time more trouble&s;ome than former?</NOTE> a time now more than at other times. We were quiet, why are we now &s;o di&s;tempered? It is becau&s;e this is a time of Reformation: as the Lord told <HI>Rebe|cah,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">It is a Time of Reformation.</NOTE> when &s;he went to enquire of him concerning the &s;truggling in her wombe&punc; <HI>Why am I this?</HI> He &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 25. 22, 23.</NOTE> <HI>Two <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ns are in thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> and two manner of people</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Such times have been al|wayes trou|ble&s;ome.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hall be &s;eparated from thy bowels,</HI> &amp;c. God is now about to purge his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">oore, and never was there a time of Re|formation which differ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ced good and bad, but it was a time of troubles&punc; when the Jewes came out of <HI>Egypt</HI> into <HI>Cannan</HI> the &s;ive Bookes of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> tell you their troubles: when out of captivity, ere they got up their City and Temple, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> and N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="6 letters">h tell you what trouble: and when they &s;hall come out of Judai&s;me, <HI>ver.</HI> 1. of this Chapt. tels you it &s;hall be <HI>a time of trou|ble</HI>
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<HI>&s;uch as never was &s;ince it was a nation to that time:</HI> When the Gentile Church came out of the <HI>Heathen</HI> per&s;ecutions, <HI>Revel.</HI> 12. tels you what troubles; and when they &s;hall come out of the <HI>Antichri&s;tian</HI> per&s;ecu|tion, the &s;ame book tels you of their &s;everall &s;orts of troubles: whil&s;t we made brick for Prelates, and &s;uf|fered the Egyptian taske-ma&s;ters to lay on us all their burdens, <HI>we did not re&s;i&s;t unto bloud,</HI> as now we doe &s;ince we have ca&s;t them off: and whil&s;t Satan keepes po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion <HI>all things are at peace, but when the &s;tronger</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 11. 21, 22.</NOTE> <HI>then he comes to bind him, he rents and teares.</HI> What wor|king again&s;t Chri&s;ts comming in the fle&s;h, from <HI>Abel</HI> to the birth of Chri&s;t? what attempts again&s;t the Prophets, Apo&s;tles, and Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t that offe|red<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 34, 35.</NOTE> and preached the Redemption wrought by Chri&s;t? and what re&s;i&s;ting of the Holy Gho&s;t com|ming<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cor. 10&punc; 5, 6.</NOTE> to apply the grace &s;o offered? therfore &s;tand not amazed at our troubles now, Chri&s;t is about a great work of Reformation, and therefore there will be op|po&s;ition, <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> is to be built, both wals, and &s;treets,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 9. 25.</NOTE> <HI>in troublous times.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, it &s;howes the rea&s;on why the Lord &s;tands<NOTE PLACE="marg">3. Why the Lord forbeares &s;o long to deli|ver?</NOTE> &s;o farre off in trouble: this was alwayes a great af|fliction to the godly <HI>in times of trouble,</HI> not &s;o much that they were troubled, as that the Lord &s;tood <HI>farre</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 10. 1. and 22. 1.</NOTE> <HI>off from their cry, and from the voyce of their rearing.</HI> We fa&s;t and pray, and yet we are not delivered; why is it thus? why? it is, becau&s;e the godly need yet more purifying, and the wicked mu&s;t yet doe more wicked|ly, for that they neither doe nor can under&s;tand. View each of the&s;e di&s;tinctly.</P>
<P><PB N="19" REF="15">Fir&s;t, it is, becau&s;e <HI>none of the wicked will under&s;tand;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Becau&s;e none of the wicked will yet be brought to un|der&s;tand.</NOTE> they might el&s;e take notice of Gods avenging hand; every &s;troake proclaimes him a &s;in-revenging God, and of Gods protecting hand, the bu&s;h burneth, and is not con&s;umed. Religion, Lawes, and Liberty, have as Candles under water, &s;trangely been pre&s;erved. Their project was by oppre&s;&s;ion to keepe them downe, the oppre&s;&s;ours now are oppre&s;&s;ed; they would keepe off Parliaments, or breake them if they could not &s;erve them&s;elves of them; there is now a &s;tanding Parlia|ment to plague them, they would bring in fir&s;t Re|bels to helpe them, and imploy bloudy Papi&s;ts, now three Kingdomes are in one Covenant, and their &s;hips<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 20. 36, 37.</NOTE> are broken at <HI>Ezi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">-G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ber;</HI> the Lord hath every where &s;aid to them; <HI>A&s;&s;ociate your &s;elves, and ye &s;hall be broken</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 8. 9&punc; 10.</NOTE> <HI>in pieces: and give eare, O ye of farre Countries: gird your &s;elves, and ye &s;hall be broken in pieces: gird your &s;elves, and ye &s;hall be broken in pieces, Take coun&s;ell together, and it &s;hall come to nought: &s;peake the word, and it &s;hall not &s;tand.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">ver. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, 13.</NOTE> And he hath &s;aid to us, <HI>Feare not their feare, nor be afraid; Sanctifie the Lord of hosts him&s;elfe, and let him be your feare, and let him be your dread&punc; and he &s;hall be for a &s;anctuary,</HI> &amp;c. but the wicked will not under&s;tand any<NOTE PLACE="marg">That appeares in 3. things.</NOTE> thing at all: three wayes is this expre&s;&s;ed here, if we marke it &s;trictly.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>they will doe wickedly;</HI> that is to &s;ay, they will<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. They will doe wickedly. I&s;ai. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 10.</NOTE> goe on in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">inne &s;ecurely; &s;o el&s;ewhere. <HI>Let favour be &s;hewed to the wicked, yet will he not learne righteou&s;ne&s;se: in the land of uprightne&s;se, will he deale unjustly, &amp;c. Salomon</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 22. 3. Luk. 17&punc; 26. I&s;ai. 47. 8.</NOTE> &s;aith, <HI>The prudent man &s;eeth the evill, and hydeth him&s;elfe; but the &s;imple pa&s;seth on, and is puni&s;hed;</HI> &s;o did the old world, &s;o did <HI>old</HI> and new <HI>Babylon; &s;o &s;hall it be al&s;o in</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 18&punc; 7.</NOTE>
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<HI>the dayes of the Son of man.</HI> Wicked men are as ig|norant and blind as tho&s;e <HI>Phili&s;tines&punc; If he goe up the way of his own coa&s;t to Beth&s;heme&s;h, then he hath done u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 6. 9.</NOTE> <HI>this evill, but if not, then we &s;hall know it was but &s;ome chance that happened to us.</HI> They neither &s;ee the hand of God that &s;mites them, nor their owne de&s;ert that<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 26. 11.</NOTE> provokes the Lord thus to &s;mite them. <HI>Strangers de|voure his &s;trength, but he &s;eeth it not, yea, gray haires are</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 7. 9.</NOTE> <HI>here and there upon him, but he knoweth it not,</HI> as &s;aith the Prophet.</P>
<P>Secondly, they will be more wicked for the trou|ble,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. They will doe yet more vvickedly.</NOTE> this is not ordinary with all wicked men (&s;ome like <HI>Ahab</HI> will be humbled for the time) but with the wicked of our times, we are here foretold it will be &s;o; and Saint <HI>Iohn</HI> in the <HI>Revelation</HI> &s;peaking of <HI>Anti|christian</HI> enemies, all along their going downe, tels us<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 16. 9, 10, 11, 21.</NOTE> the &s;ame, that they will breake forth to further wic|kedne&s;&s;e, even to bla&s;phemie again&s;t the Name of God, and looke at Reformation as rebellion. It was a brand upon <HI>Ahaz,</HI> that <HI>when he was in di&s;tre&s;&s;e on</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chro. 28. 22.</NOTE> <HI>every hand, yet in his di&s;tre&s;&s;e he did tre&s;pa&s;se yet more again&s;t the Lord.</HI> And a concomitant of their de&s;tru|ction in <HI>E&s;ay, They &s;hall fret them&s;elves, and cur&s;e their</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 8. 21.</NOTE> <HI>King, and their God.</HI> And it is foretold concerning the&s;e la&s;t times, that, <HI>Wicked men and &s;educers &s;hall wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Tim. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 13.</NOTE> <HI>wor&s;e and wor&s;e, deceiving, and being deceived:</HI> and we &s;ee all this made good upon the men of this generati|on; the more God plagues them, the more they &s;inne.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>They will not understand;</HI> i. <HI>to repent, and give</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. They will not repent. Rev. 16. 9, 11.</NOTE> <HI>glory to God,</HI> to give him the glory of his Soveraignty, in who&s;e hands all troubles are, to inflict, order and re|move
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them; the glory of his truth and ju&s;tice, to ac|knowledge the ju&s;tice and truth of God by rea&s;on of their doings which have procured all the&s;e plagues to them&s;elves, as the godly doe. <HI>Thou art ju&s;t in all that is</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Nehem. 9&punc; 33.</NOTE> <HI>brought upon us, for thou ha&s;t done right, but we have done wickedly,</HI> they contrarily <HI>keepe wickedne&s;&s;e &s;weet within</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 20. 12, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Lam. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 22.</NOTE> <HI>their mouth;</HI> and the glory of his mercy, that they are not con&s;umed. Surely the &s;ins before reformation, in reformation, &s;ince reformation, and now mo&s;t of all that men hate to be further reformed, might make<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 26. 11. Rev. 16. 9, &amp;c&punc;</NOTE> men tremble: but this is one of their plagues, that they cannot <HI>&s;ee, they cannot repent.</HI> This is now one rea&s;on why the Lord &s;tands &s;o far off; wicked men will doe wickedly, and not under&s;tand, and therefore more plagues mu&s;t come, that they that will not &s;ee, may be made to &s;ee.</P>
<P>There is another rea&s;on, and that is, becau&s;e godly<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Becau&s;e the godly are not yet &s;ufficiently purified, &amp;c.</NOTE> wi&s;e men are not <HI>&s;o purified, made white and tried,</HI> as they &s;hall be; and indeed there is more cau&s;e to feare this than the other; God can &s;oone take order with the wic|ked, were but his people as they &s;hould be; I will there|fore abruptly breake off here the u&s;e of In&s;truction, and fall into the &s;econd u&s;e of Exhortation.</P>
<P>This &s;erves in the &s;econd place therefore for Exhor|tation,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>V&s;e</HI> 2. Exhortation, Preface there|to.</NOTE> that you would be <HI>purified, made white, tried;</HI> let not our deliverance, and the deliverance of Gods Church, &s;tay, and be deferred for want of this. And here (Right Honourable) <HI>&s;uffer the words of exhortation</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 22&punc;</NOTE> <HI>patiently.</HI> I &s;hall borrow the benefit of the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">M. <HI>Rat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">and</HI> Jer. 7. 3. his preface before his applica|tion.</NOTE> mornings preface to &s;peake unto you plainely. We rejoyce in the authority we have from you, be&s;ides the encourage|ment to &s;eeke the Lord by fa&s;ting and prayer, but you
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had need call the land to one fa&s;t more, to <HI>Ezras, to</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezra 8. 21.</NOTE> <HI>&s;eeke of God a right way,</HI> to know why we are not deli|vered. <HI>God</HI> we are &s;ure <HI>is a God that heares prayer,</HI> e&s;pe|cially<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 65. 2.</NOTE> extraordinary prayer; but are we purified, made white, tryed? <HI>Io&s;huah</HI> fa&s;ted, but the Lord told him that was not the thing, <HI>I&s;rael had &s;inned,</HI> that mu&s;t be<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 7. 11, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Exhortation it &s;elfe to three duties.</NOTE> done away ere God would helpe them.</P>
<P>It is not for me to charge any fault upon you the great a&s;&s;embly of the Gods; but give me leave to &s;et the great God before you as your patterne, and thereby charge your &s;elves; in his Name: only let me exhort you to the&s;e three things.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Be purified.</HI> Me thinks the Lord calls upon<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Be purified.</NOTE> you that are the repairers of our breaches, and re&s;to|rers of pathes to dwell in, as &s;ometimes to <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 13. 27.</NOTE> <HI>Will you not be made cleane? when &s;hall it once be?</HI> I am not able to charge impurity upon you, but God can, and your own con&s;ciences may helpe you to find it out: This only let me &s;ay unto you, that an ordinary<NOTE PLACE="marg">More than or|dinary purity expected from Parliament|men.</NOTE> purity will not &s;erve your turnes (though it is wont to be &s;aid, a little holine&s;&s;e goes for a great deale a|mong&s;t our Nobles and Gentry) You are great men and wi&s;e; the Worthies of the Land, think I pray you what a di&s;grace a <HI>But</HI> puts upon you, &s;uch a <HI>But</HI> I meane as was on <HI>Naaman, Now</HI> Naaman <HI>Captaine of</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">a King. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>the ho&s;te of the King of</HI> Syria, <HI>was a great man with his ma&s;ter, and honourable, becau&s;e by him the Lord had given deliverance unto</HI> Syria: <HI>He was al&s;o a mighty man in va|lour, but he was a leper.</HI> As you &s;tand for your &s;elves and for us, &s;o give us leave to be&s;eech you to a double purity, one for your own &s;akes, another for ours; and becau&s;e in this &s;econd con&s;ideration you move in a
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high &s;pheare, I be&s;eech you patterne your purity by his whom you repre&s;ent: no le&s;&s;e holine&s;&s;e mu&s;t you aime at, than to <HI>be holy as he is holy;</HI> me thinks if every &s;econd cau&s;e works &s;o much more &s;trongly as it is uni|ted to its fir&s;t cau&s;e, then you that repre&s;ent one King|dome at the lea&s;t, and are (as I &s;aid) the great a&s;&s;em|bly of Gods, &s;hould be &s;o much more pure and holy as you are neerer to God than others both in name and office: You are engaged in an Honourable cau&s;e, and you have as Honourable a call thereunto, now as in both you would pro&s;per, purifie your hearts, your hands, your hou&s;es, remember the Lord <HI>will be &s;ancti|fied</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lev. 10. 3.</NOTE> <HI>in all tho&s;e that draw neare him.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Be made white</HI> as well as pure. I cannot<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Be made white.</NOTE> (againe) but the world doth, be&s;po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> your innocen|cy: now doe you as the Lord: he cleares his righ|teous dealing before the Sun; doe not you let any &s;pot lie upon your proceedings. I will in&s;tance only in three of your graces.</P>
<P>Be <HI>made white in your Truth,</HI> by executing your ordi|nances,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In 1. Truth.</NOTE> that you may not only &s;ay but doe.</P>
<P>Be made <HI>white againe in your Iu&s;tice,</HI> upon delin|quents,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Ju&s;tice.</NOTE> that what you &s;eeke, when it is put into your hands we may &s;ee you execute; The very Heathens call'd <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> the daughter of <HI>Iupiter</HI> married to him, and &s;itting clo&s;e by his &s;ide, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
<Q><GAP DESC="foreign">,</Q><NOTE PLACE="marg">He&s;iod. <GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE>
and the Lord &s;ayes, what a doe is here with fa&s;ting, <HI>execute true judgement, &amp;c.</HI> el&s;e you fa&s;t not to him;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zech. z.</NOTE> looke into the pri&s;ons if this fa&s;ting day be not a fea|&s;ting day, and if they mock not God with &s;omething el&s;e than religious fa&s;ting on their <HI>Friday.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="24" REF="18">Be <HI>made white once more in your Zeale,</HI> and &s;incerity<NOTE PLACE="marg">3. Zeale, quit the land of Sacriledge.</NOTE> to reforme the hou&s;e of God by denying your &s;elves and giving up thereto that which may make it glo|rious. It was a good ob&s;ervation of an Honourable Member of your &s;ociety, upon <HI>the Teares of Germany,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>R. H.</HI></NOTE> that their deliverance was not like to be yet, becau&s;e in the catalogue of all their &s;innes then made in a Ser|mon, the chiefe &s;inne was not named, <HI>Sabbath-brea|king,</HI> whereof that Country was notorlou&s;ly guilty. Truly, I am &s;orry that in &s;o excellent an <HI>Ordin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Provide for the Mini&s;tery.</NOTE> <HI>for Repentance, Sacriledge</HI> is not mentioned, whereof this Land hath been too much guilty, unle&s;&s;e by you it be purged from it, which we all expect.</P>
<P>You well heard in the morning, there is great ne|ce&s;&s;ity of &s;peeding the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Ordination, now before you; but let me adde thereto, that the mini|&s;tery you &s;hall ordaine, will be rendered very con|temptible and vile before all the people, unle&s;&s;e you take care they be not di&s;abled for want of <HI>Maintenance,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Main|tenance. 2. Authority, not civill, but &s;acred, not Prelaticall but Mini&s;teriall.</NOTE> nor di&s;couraged for want of <HI>Authority;</HI> the former they are in danger to be by <HI>Impropriations,</HI> the latter, by <HI>Patrons.</HI> I plead not for authority civill, but &s;a|cred, not Prelaticall, but pious and Mini&s;teriall; that they may not be afraid to <HI>tell the people their tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ions, and the hou&s;e of Iacob their &s;ins.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly, <HI>Be tryed;</HI> and be faithfull when you are<NOTE PLACE="marg">3. Be tried.</NOTE> tried; &s;ome you have had, more you may have; &s;hrinke not, &s;tand to it and you &s;hall have the Crowne of life. The time prevents me, therefore I will con|clude with a word of the thirdu&s;e, which is of Con&s;o|lation.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>V&s;e</HI> 3. Con&s;olation, upon three grounds.</NOTE></P>
<P>Be you thus faithfull, and three things may &s;u&s;taine
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your &s;pirits again&s;t all di&s;couragements.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, You &s;hall be &s;ure to prevaile; for looke upon<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Sure to pre|vaile.</NOTE> <HI>ver.</HI> 1. It is not a <HI>Timpany,</HI> but a <HI>Delivery</HI> the&s;e times fore-tell, and what an Honour will it be to you, to be midwives to the birth of &s;uch a child of refor|mation, as Heaven and earth &s;hall cry <HI>grace, grace</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Zach. 4. 7.</NOTE> unto it? &s;ore troubles you have had, and may have; but <HI>a woman in travell hath &s;orrow becau&s;e her houre is</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 16. 21.</NOTE> <HI>come, but as &s;oone as &s;he is delivered of the child, &s;hee remembreth no more the angui&s;h for joy that a man is borne into the world.</HI> To encourage you hereto, con&s;ider<NOTE PLACE="marg">For the ene|mies bla&s;|pheme.</NOTE> the wickedne&s;&s;e of the enemy (if you be purified) doth a&s;&s;ure you, they &s;hall not prevaile; <HI>they make lies their refuge, and under fal&s;hood hide them&s;elves,</HI> you<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 28. 14, to 20. And none ever hardned him|&s;elfe again&s;t God and pro|&s;pered. Job 9. 4.</NOTE> know what God &s;aith he will doe with &s;uch a people: They bla&s;pheme God which hath power over the plagues, and repent not to give him glory; therefore they lie under the vials of his wrath; you may write up|on it, <HI>they &s;hall never pro&s;per.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, You may live to &s;ee this delivery, as he<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. You may live to &s;ee the day; for not long to it.</NOTE> &s;aith, <HI>who &s;hall live when God doth this?</HI> that &s;hall you I am confident, if the calculation be true, which hath been given of the time in the <HI>ver&s;e</HI> next following my text; its not twice &s;o long as you have &s;itten al|ready in Parliament, ere <HI>Rome</HI> be de&s;troyed; and therefore could I be heard over all our <HI>Militia,</HI> I &s;hould wi&s;h them not feare employment if the&s;e wars be ended, which many are too loath to fini&s;h &s;oone enough, lea&s;t as <HI>Demetrius</HI> &s;aid in another ca&s;e, <HI>their craft &s;hould faile:</HI> For this ended, a more noble warre, and more unanimous would be occa&s;ioned, <HI>to helpe the Lord again&s;t the mighty</HI> in other Countries. God
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&s;eemes to have confirm'd this Parliament for &s;ome &s;uch purpo&s;e, as if he would have you <HI>immortall</HI> till the worke be done.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, (and &s;o I conclude) if any of you die be|fore<NOTE PLACE="marg">3. If you die, your names &s;hall be ho|noured, and your po&s;terity ble&s;&s;ed.</NOTE> you &s;ee this great &s;alvation of the Lord, your po&s;terity &s;hall inherit the ble&s;&s;ing; and for you, it is Honour enough that you expire in &s;o great a cau&s;e; Heathens thought no greater Honour than to die for their Countrey; for you to lay downe your lives in being the <HI>Angels</HI> of God, as ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Luther,</HI> famous Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> renowned <HI>King of Sweden</HI> was in powring out the vials of Gods wrath on the throne and &s;eate of the bea&s;t; you have Honour enough; they &s;hall not need to come to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> to reade your <HI>Epitaphs,</HI> all the Churches of the world &s;hall reade at di&s;tance the Epitaphs &s;o truly and worthily<NOTE PLACE="marg">M. <HI>Obad. Sedg|wick,</HI> before Parliament, <HI>May</HI> 15. 1642. on <HI>Ier.</HI> 4. 3.</NOTE> preached to you by a renowned watchman, who&s;e prai&s;e is in the Go&s;pell. <HI>The&s;e are</HI> Scotlands <HI>umpire,</HI> Irelands <HI>guard and revenge,</HI> Englands <HI>pre&s;ervation, the</HI> Churches <HI>&s;afety, and</HI> Religions <HI>glory.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>An Appendix,</HI> Giving light from Hi&s;tory &s;acred and Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, to &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages of the <HI>Sermon,</HI> humbly pre&s;ented to his much honou|red Patron Sir ROBERT HARLEY Knight of the Noble order of the Bath, and one of the Members of the Honourable Hou&s;e of COMMONS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_AS</HI> the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons <HI>by your mouth commanded me both to preach, and print</HI> this Sermon, <HI>&s;o I trust you will patronize</HI> this &s;hort Appendix <HI>which I am encouraged by good friends to affix hereto.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The</HI> foure great Monarchies <HI>are now almo&s;t come to an end; out of the</HI> third <HI>comes up</HI> a little Horne, <HI>conceived to be</HI> Anti|ochus<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan 8. 9. <HI>Hugh Brough|ton.</HI></NOTE> Epiphanes, <HI>(as the circum&s;tances of the</HI> eight Chapt. <HI>&s;how) for it is of the</HI> Goat, <HI>which is call'd</HI> a Leopard, <HI>Chap. 7. 6. out of the</HI> fourth <HI>comes up another</HI> little Horne, <HI>conceived to be the</HI> Turke <HI>(as the circum&s;tances of the</HI> &s;eventh Chapt.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 7. 8.</NOTE> <HI>&s;how) for he ri&s;eth among the</HI> ten hornes <HI>of the</HI> fourth bea&s;t, <HI>which is</HI> the Romane; Otthoman <HI>fir&s;t a&s;&s;umed the title of</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hen. I&s;aack&s;on.</HI> pag. 343.</NOTE> Sultan; <HI>and about the yeare 1300. laid the foundation of the Turki&s;h Kingdome, from thence reckon</HI> a time, times, and an halfe <HI>prophetically, dayes for yeares.</HI> The time 100. times<NOTE PLACE="marg">M. <HI>Brightman in</HI> Dan. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 7.</NOTE> 200. halfe time 50. <HI>in all 350. yeares, which added to 1300. expires&punc;</HI> Anno 1650. Then &s;hall the King of the North <HI>(the</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 11 40, 44 M. <HI>Mede</HI> Apo&s;t. latter times, <HI>pag.</HI> 111.</NOTE> <HI>Turke)</HI> come again&s;t the King of the South <HI>(the Saracen)</HI> like a whirle-wind; Then tydings out of the Ea&s;t, &s;hall trou|ble him: <HI>and then,</HI> from the taking away of the daily &s;acri|fice by <HI>Titus Ve&s;pa&s;ian,</HI> who <HI>burnt both City and Temple,</HI>
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and the &s;etting up of the abomination of de&s;olation by <HI>Julian,</HI> &s;hall be 1290. dayes, <HI>which added to</HI> 360. the time of <HI>Julians</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Onuphr. 360&punc; I&s;aa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;on. 367.</NOTE> reign, <HI>makes al&s;o 1650. though 3. or 4. yeares difference there is among&s;t Chronologers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For confirmation whereof con&s;ider two things, 1. Chri&s;ts Prophecie. 2. Its accompli&s;hment.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Our Saviour Chri&s;t, a little before his death, prophe&s;ied</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1.</NOTE> There &s;hall not be left here, &s;tone, upon &s;tone, which &s;hall not<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 24. 2.</NOTE> be thrown downe. <HI>His Di&s;ciples aske him when this &s;hall be? He bids them that reade, con&s;ider</HI> when they &s;hall &s;ee the abo|mination<NOTE PLACE="marg">ver. 15.</NOTE> of de&s;olation &s;poken of by <HI>Daniel</HI> the Prophet &s;tand in the Holy place. <HI>Here is the Prophecie and the time when it &s;hall be fulfilled.</HI></P>
<P><HI>To find the accompli&s;hment now, Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall &s;tory mu&s;t</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2.</NOTE> <HI>&s;peake. There I find</HI> Titus Ve&s;pa&s;ian <HI>as before, burning</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Io&s;eph. Antiq.</NOTE> <HI>both City and Temple, where alone it was lawfull to &s;acrifice; but yet for all that there were &s;tones upon &s;tones left; I find al&s;o</HI> Julian the Apo&s;tate <HI>endeavouring to re&s;tore Jud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Tripart. Hi&s;t.</NOTE> <HI>by authorizing, encouraging and a&s;&s;i&s;ting the</HI> Jewes <HI>to reedifie their Temple, and they taking up every stone of the old founda|tion over night, and intending to lay a new foundation the next day, but when they had fulfilled the Prophecie of Chri&s;t, they were di&s;per&s;ed that very night, and never able to lay a new stone there, as they had intended. Ile give you out of</HI> Greeke <HI>and</HI> Latine, <HI>the te&s;timony of foure very famous Hi&s;to|rians, (viz,)</HI> Ruffinus, Socrates, Theodoret <HI>and</HI> Sozomen; <HI>the two former mention the Prophecie of Christ, and</HI> Cyril <HI>of</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>his ob&s;ervation upon it; the two latter imply the Prophecie, but &s;ay nothing of</HI> Cyril, <HI>all of them, though &s;everall writers, in &s;everall places and times, agree in te&s;timony.</HI></P>
<Q><P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Ruffinus <HI>tels, that</HI> Julian <HI>conveened the</HI> Jewes, <HI>and</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ruffin Hi&s;t. Eccle&s;</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">. c 37, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">8, 39.</NOTE> <HI>asked them, why they doe not &s;acrifice? they tell him, they may not except it be in</HI> Hieru&s;alem, <HI>as their law commands them; He askes, why then they doe not build their Temple? They tell him they are not able. He gives them authority, encouragement and a&s;&s;istance. They thereupon fall about it as if &s;ome Prophet had spoken to them. They prepare lime and &s;and, and all things el&s;e, and then</HI> they take up the old
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foundation; <HI>which done, the next day, nothing was wanting, why they might not lay a new one, the old being removed. But when</HI> Cyril <HI>the Bi&s;hop of</HI> Hieru&s;alem <HI>had dilige<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly con|&s;idered what they had done, and what they were about to doe, he was confident either</HI> out of tho&s;e things which he had read concerning the times in the Prophecie of <HI>Daniel,</HI> or which our Lord had foretold in the Go&s;pels, that by no meanes it could be that the <HI>Jewes</HI> &s;hould there lay a &s;tone upon a &s;tone, but that the &s;aying of our Saviour &s;hould now be fulfilled. <HI>Neither was his prediction vaine, For behold in that night which only staid them from beginning their new worke, an earthquake turn'd all down to the ground, and confirm'd the very truth of our Saviours words, and &s;o being frighted, both</HI> Jews <HI>and</HI> Gentiles <HI>went away, and gave over their foo|li&s;h beginnings.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then</HI> Socrates <HI>to the &s;ame purpo&s;e;</HI> Julian <HI>calls for the</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Socrat. Hi&s;t. Eccle&s;.</HI> l. 3. c 17. <HI>Secund&punc; Graec.</HI> c. 20.</NOTE> Jews, <HI>and demandeth of them the cau&s;e why they did not &s;a|crifice? After they had an&s;wered, it was not lawfull for them &s;o to doe, but in</HI> Ieru&s;alem, <HI>he commanded that in all ha&s;t their Temple &s;hould be built; accordingly all nece&s;&s;aries were provided, as timber, &s;tone, brick, clay, lime, with other things requi&s;ite in building.</HI> At that time <HI>Cyril</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> remembred the Prophecie of <HI>Daniel</HI> which Chri&s;t had fore-told in the holy Go&s;pels, that the time was now come, when there &s;hould not be a &s;tone of the Temple left upon another, but that the Prophecie of our Saviour &s;hould now take place and be fulfilled. <HI>When the Bi&s;hop had thus &s;aid, accordingly it came to pa&s;&s;e, for a great earthquake the night following, &s;hooke the old foundation of the Temple, and &s;o in&s;tead of rai&s;ing it up, it was utterly overthrowne.</HI></P>
<P><HI>In the third place,</HI> Theodoret; <HI>The Emperour having called</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Theod. Hi&s;t. Eccle&s;</HI> l. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. c. 20.</NOTE> <HI>the</HI> Jews <HI>together, asks them why they &s;acrifice not as they are commanded? They an&s;wer, their wor&s;hip is confined to one place; This wicked enemy of God&punc; commands their Temple to be reedified,</HI> hoping fooli&s;hly, that he &s;hould thereby make our Lords Prophecie a lye, <HI>but he contrary to his thought, hereby declared it much more to be a truth. All the</HI> Jews <HI>came together from all parts of the world, and contributed</HI>
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<HI>both pains and pur&s;e unto the building; and 'tis &s;aid they had made them spades, baskets and other tooles of &s;ilver, for that work;</HI> them&s;elves ca&s;t down with their own hands the re|liques of the old Temple, thinking to build it new from the lowe&s;t foundation, &amp;c. <HI>But a mighty earthquake and other fearfull prodigies de&s;troyed all their preparations, &s;o that they fled,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>In the la&s;t place,</HI> So<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">omen, <HI>though the Emperour hate<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>So<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">om Hi&s;t. Eccle&s;. l. 3. c&punc; 17 S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cund. G<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">c.</HI> c. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE> <HI>the Chri&s;tians, yet he carried him&s;elfe curteou&s;ly towards the</HI> Jews, <HI>becau&s;e they were great enemies to the Chri|stians. Having call'd them together, and exhorted them to ob&s;erve the Law of</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>and they having an&s;wered him that their Temple being destroyed, might not wor&s;hip in any other place; he &s;upplied them out of the publique, with money to reedifie their Temple, that he might reduce them to their old &s;acrificing; They fall to the work with cheereful|ne&s;&s;e, and begun to</HI> prepare the place <HI>they were to work in,</HI> and the Gentiles helped them, thinking to prove Chri&s;ts words fal&s;e, That their Temple &s;hould never be repaired, but in&s;tead thereof, every &s;tone thereof de&s;troyed. They tooke a|way the reliques of the old building, and the next day inten|ded to lay a new foundation, but were fru&s;trated by an earth|quake, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P></Q>
<P><HI>By all the&s;e, you &s;ee</HI> every word of God is true, and every man a lyar: in the mouth of two or three witne&s;&s;es every word<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 3. 4.</NOTE> &s;hall &s;tand: <HI>here are foure in one book, all bearing witne&s;&s;e to this Truth, that</HI> as Chri&s;t had &s;aid, it came to pa&s;&s;e, there was not left &s;tone upon &s;tone in the Temple; <HI>From that time there|fore is the full epoche of the abomination utterly made de&s;olate</HI></P>
<P><HI>The&s;e things I have annexed for others, not for you, who have diligently &s;ought out the accompts: Accept only my fir&s;t fruits; you have laid out much upon the Promi&s;es, and you &s;hall receive much, the things which &s;hall be accompli&s;hed make ha&s;t.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>The unworthie&s;t of all that &s;erve you in the Go&s;pell of Chri&s;t STAN. GOWER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Die Mercurii, 31^o Iulii, 1644.</HEAD>
<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Par|liament, That Sir <HI>Robert Harley,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Hallowes,</HI> doe from this Hou&s;e give thanks to Ma&s;ter <HI>Gower,</HI> for the great paines he tooke in the Sermon he preached this day, at the intreatie of this Hou&s;e, at S^t <HI>Margarets We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> it being the day of publike Humiliation, and to de&s;ire him to print his Sermon. And it is ordered that none &s;hall pre&s;ume to print his Sermon, but whom he &s;hall authorize under his hand-writing.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED>
I doe authorize <HI>Philemon Stephens</HI> to print my Sermon, and no other, but with his con&s;ent.
<SIGNED>Stanley Gower.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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