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Ouranōn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled on April 19, a day set apart for extraordinary humiliation / by John Owen.
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Owen, John, 1616-1683.
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unto it's accomplishment Chap. 17. the Romane Harlot having procured the ten Kings or kingdoms into which the last head of the Romane Empire sprouted about the yeer 450. by the inundation of the Northern Nations to joyn with her they together make war against the Lambe v. 12 13 14. 12. The ten Horns which thou sawest upon the last head of the great Beast the Romane Monarchy are ten kings which have received no kingdoms as yet to wit when John saw the vision but receive power as Kings one houre with the Beast about 400. yeers after this the Pope ascending to his Soveraignty and these Western Nations growing into distinct Dominions about the same time 13. These have one minde that is as to the businesse in hand for otherwise they did and do vex one another with perpetuall broyls and wars and shall give their power and strength to the Beast or swear to defend the Rights of holy Church which is no other then Babylon and act accordingly 14. These make warre with the Lambe having sworn and undertaken the defence of holy Church or Babylon they persecuted the poore hereticks with fire and sword that is the witnesses of the Lambe and in them the Lambe himself striving to keep his kingdom out of the world and the Lambe shall overcome them shaking and translating them into a new mould and frame For he is Lord of lords and King of kings and they that are with him whose help and endeavours he will use are called and chosen and faithfull 16. The ten Horns which thou sawest upon the Beast being now shaken changed and translated in minde interest and perhaps Government these hate the whore and shall make her desolate are instrumentall in the hand of Christ for the ruin of that Antichristian State which before they served and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire Hence Chap. 18. 2. Babylon and that whole Antichristian State which was supported upon their power and greatnesse having lost it's props comes topling down to the ground Babylon the great is fallen is fallen v. 2. and the Saints take vengeance on the whore for all her former rage and crueltie Double unto her double according to her works v. 6. V. 9. And the Kings of the Earth being some of them shaken out of their dominion for refusing to close with the Lamb who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her learning practising false worship of her institution shall bewail her and lament for her as having received succour from her her monstaries and shavelings in their distresse whereunto indeed they were brought for her sake when they shall see the smoke of her burning beholding her darknesse stink and confusion in her finall desolation Now all this shall be transacted with so much obscurity and darknesse Christ not openly appearing unto carnall eyes that though many shall be purified and made white yet the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Dan. 12. 10. there shall be no such demonstration of the presence of Christ as to open the eyes of hardned men but at length having suffered the poore deceived wretches to drink of the cup prepared for them he appears himself gloriously Chap. 19. 13. in a more eminent manner then ever before to the totall destruction of the residue of opposers And that this will be the utmost close of that dispensation wherin now he walketh I no way doubt The Assertion being cleared and proved the Reasons of it come next to be considered and the first is that It shall be done by the way of Recompence and Vengeance It is the great day of the wrath of the Lambe Revel. 6. 17. The land shall be soaked with blood and the dust made fat with fatnesse For it is the day of the Lords vengeance and the yeer of recompense for the controversie of Zion Isa. 34. 7 8. The day of vengeance is in his heart when the yeer of his redeemed is come Isa. 63. 4. The Kings of the Earth have given their power to Antichrist indeavouring to the utmost to keep the kingdom of Christ out of the world What I pray hath been their main businesse for 700. years and upward even almost ever since the Man of Sin was enthroned How have they earned the Titles Eldest Son of the Church The Catholick and most Christian King Defender of the Faith and the like hath it not been by the blood of Saints is there not in every one of these kingdoms the slain and the banished ones of Christ to answer for in particular Hath not the blood of the Saints of Jesus yeleped by Antichrist and his adherents Wicklieffes and Lollards cried from the ground for vengeance upon the English Heaven and Earth for a long season did not their bodies lye in the streets of France under the names of Waldenses Albigenses and poore men of Lyons Hath not Germany and the annexed Territories her Husse and Hussile Hierome and Subutraguians to answer for is not Spaine's Inquisition enough to ruine a world much more a Kingdom Have not all these and all the Kingdoms round about washed their hands and garments in the blood of thousands of Protestants And do not the Kings of all these Nations as yet stand up in the roome of their Progenitors with the same implacable enmity to the power of the Gospel Shew me seven Kings that ever yet laboured sincerely to enhance the kingdom of the Lord Jesus and I dare boldly say Octavus quis fuerit nondum constat And is there not a cry for all this How long Lord holy and true doest thou not avenge our blood on them that live on the earth Revel. 6. 10. Doth not Sion cry The violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon and my blood upon those Heavens of the Nations And will not the Lord avenge his Elect that cry unto him day and night will he not do it speedily Will he not call the fowls of Heaven to eat the flesh of Kings and Captains and great men of the Earth Revel. 19. 18. Will he not make these Heavens like the wood of the vine not a pin to be taken off them to hang a garment on in his whole tabernacle The time shall come wherein the Earth shall disclose her slain and not the simplest Heretick as they were counted shall have his blood unrevenged neither shall any attonement be made for this blood or expiation be allowed whilest a toe of the Image or a bone of the Beast is left unbroken That by his own wisdom he may frame such a power as may best conduce to the carrying on of his own kingdome among the sons of men He hath promised his Church that he will give unto it holy Priests and Levites Isa. 66. 20 21. which shall serve at the great feast of tabernacles Zech. 14. 16. a
untwining of this close combination against himself and the kingdom of his dear Son and he will not leave untill he have done it To what degree in the severall Nations this shaking shall proceed I have nothing to determine in particular the Scripture having not expressed it This onely is certain it shall not stop nor receive it's period before the interest of Antichristianity be wholly separated from the power of those Nations 2. By the previous works he doth How many of these doth our Saviour give as signes of the destruction of Jerusalem and so consequently of propagating the Gospel more and more to the Nations Matth. 24. Luk. 21. How fearfull and dreadfull they were in their accomplishment Josephus the Jewish Historian relateth and how by them the Christians were fore-warned and did by them understand what the Lord was a doing Eusebius and others declare When saith he you shall see the abdomination of desolation the Romane Eagles and Ensignes standing in the holy place Matth. 24. 15. or Jerusalem compassed with Armies as Luk. 21. 20. then know by that that the end thereof is come and your deliverance at hand The works of God are to be sought out of them that have pleasure in them They are vocall speaking works the minde of God is in them They may be heard read and understood the Rod may be heard and who hath appointed it Now generally he begins with lesser works to point out to the sons of men what he is about to accomplish By these may his will be known that he may be met in Righteousnesse Now what I pray are the works that the Lord is bringing forth upon the Earth what is he doing in our own and the Neighbour Nations Shew me the Potentate upon the Earth that hath a peaceable Molehil to build himself an habitation upon Are not all the controversies or the most of them that at this day are disputed in letters of blood among the Nations somewhat of a distinct constitution from those formerly under debate those tending meerly to the power and glendour of single persons these to the interest of the many Is not the hand of the Lord in all this Are not the shakings of these Heavens of the Nations from him Is not the voice of Christ in the midst of all this tumult And is not the genuine tendance of these things open the visible unto all What speedy issue all this will be driven to I know not so much is to be done as requires a long space Though a Tower may be pulled down faster then it was set up yet that which hath been building a thousand yeers is not like to go down in a thousand dayes 3. The expectation of the Saints is another thing from whence a discovery of the will of God and the work of our generation may be concluded The secret wayes of God's communicating his minde unto his Saints by a fresh savour of accomplishing prophesies and strong workings of the Spirit of supplications I cannot now insist upon This I know they shall not be led into temptation but kept from the houre thereof when it comes upon the whole earth When God raiseth up the expectation of his people to any thing he is not unto them as waters that fail Nay he will assuredly fulfill the desires of the poore Just about the time that our Saviour Christ was to be born of a woman how were all that waited for salvation in Israel raised up to an high expectation of the kingdom of God such as that people never had before and assuredly shall never have again Yea famous was the waiting of that season through the whole Romane Empire And the Lord whom they sought came to his Temple Eminent was their hope and excellent was the accomplishment Whether this will be made a Rule to others or no I know not This I am assured that being bottomed on Promises and built up with Supplications it is a ground for them to rest upon And here I dare appeal to all who with any diligence have enquired into the things of the kingdom of Christ that have any savour upon their spirits of the accomplishment of Prophesies and Promises in the latter dayes who count themselves concerned in the glory of the Gospel whether this thing of consuming the mystery of iniquity and vindicating the Churches of Christ into the liberties purchased for them by the Lord Jesus by the shaking and translating all opposing Heights and Heavens be not fully in their expectations Onely the time is in the hand of God and the Rule of our actings with him is his revealed will 4. Whether the fears of his Adversaries have not their lines meeting in the same point themselves can best determine The whole world was more or lesse dreaded at the coming of Christ in the flesh When also the signes of his vengeance did first appear to the Pagan world in calling to an account for the blood of his Saints the Kings and Captains presently cry out The great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Revel. 6. 17. I am not of counsel to any of the Adherents to the Man of Sin or any of those who have given their Power unto the Beast I have not a key to the bosomes of the Enemies of Christ I am neither their Interpreter nor do they allow me to speak in their behalf yet truly upon very many probable grounds I am fully perswaded that were the thoughts of their hearts disclosed notwithstanding all their glittering shews dreadfull words threatning expressions you should see them tremble and dread this very thing that the whole world as now established will be wrapped up in darknesse at least untill that cursed Interest which is set up against the Lord Jesus be fully and wholly shaken out from the Heavens and Earth of the Nations And thus without leading you about by Chronologies and computations which yet have their use well to count a number being wisdom indeed I have a little discovered unto you some Rules wherby you may come to be acquainted with the work of God in the dayes wherein we live and also what that work is which is our first Vse The next shall be for direction to guide you what you ought to do when you know what is the work of your Generation Be exhorted to prepare to meet the Lord to make his way straight and this I would presse distinctly 1. As to your Persons 2. As to your Employments 1. As to your Persons Give the Lord Jesus a Throne in your hearts or it will not be at all to your advantage that he hath a throne and kingdom in the world Perhaps you will see the plenty of it but not taste one morsell Take first that which comes not by Observation that which is within you which is righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost Take it in it's power and you will be the better enabled to observe it coming