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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94073	The vengeance of the temple: discovered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major and court of aldermen of the City of London, in Pauls Church, May 17. 1648. Being the day of publique thanksgiving for a victory obtayned by the forces under the command of Colonell Horton, at St. Faggons, neere Cardiffe in Wales. / By William Strong pastor of Dunstans in the west, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing S6011; Thomason E450_20	38,327	55

The Vengeance of the Temple DISCOVERED IN A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen of the City of London in Pauls Church May 17. 1648. Being the day of Publique Thanksgiving for a Victory obtayned by the Forces under the Command of Colonell Horton at St. Faggons neere Cardiffe in Wales By William Strong Pastor of Dunstans in the West and a Member of the Assembly of Divines LONDON Printed for Iohn Benson and are to be sold at his shop in Dunstans Church-yard 1648. To the Right Honourable the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen of the famous City of London Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull A Word spoken in season 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a word upon the wheeles Solomon tels us Prov. 25.11 both grateful and successefull which is the blessing that I begge of God upon these poore and meane endeavours which in obedience to your command I humbly present unto you It was the fittest subject that in this juncture of time I could fix my thoughts upon when mens hearts are too generally turned to hate Gods people and to deale deceitfully with his servants therby I feare to prepare instruments in judgement for that last act of the tragedy upon the Saints in the Reformed Churches the killing of the witnesses which I conceive as the bitterest affliction and the sharpest persecution is yet to come God hath put great opportunity into your bands and it may be hath raised you to honour for such a time as this do you countenance and act for the Lords holy ones and it shall be accepted as a service by him who is King of Saints doe you become as a correcting Cherube unto this Arke of God among you for next to the honourable title of Defender of the Faith is that of Protector of the faithfull for God and his people are engaged in the same cause and quarrel and all opposition shall end in the destruction of the opposers and they shall perish by their hands whom they oppose even by the vengeance of the Temple But no man will ever be faithfull to the Saints but hee that is himselfe a Saint in whom the spirit of God dwels as a man and acts as a Magistrate all other men though they may give good words for a time yet they will meet with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an opportunity of temptation and they will fall off Pelago se non ita commissurus esset quin quando liberet pedem referre posset engaging themselves in the cause of the Saints no further then may stand with their present purposes and designes As the King of Navarre told Bez. he would lanch no further into the Protestant cause then he might see which way to put into a safe harbour There is nothing that concernes Magistrates more then to gaine the hearts and keepe the prayers of these beloved ones and they must be faithfull to God that shall expect it for God and his Saints are in a League offensive and defensive Simulatque faedus cum Romanis percusseris noli expectare alium de me calumniatorem sed statim veluti hosti populi Romani cavendum puta Polyb. hist l. 3. and the Saints are ready to say to men as Hanniball did to King Antiochus while he continued an enemy to the Romans so long he should be sure of him as a friend but if once he made a League with them he should immediately looke upon him as his enemy so doe the Saints say while faithfull to God they are firme to you but if you be false to God it will not be long ere you will be cast out of the hearts of his people also And that you may cleave close to the people of God there is a great deale of courage required in these dangerous and doubtfull times in which mercies are accounted injuries and to give thankes for them is set upon men as a brand of cruelty and infamy when so many forsake their first Principles and labour to build againe that which hitherto they have destroyed At this time I say men have neede of courage or else they will feare and faint and fly when danger presents it selfe Truely duty is better then safety and suffering is better then sinning or shifting crooked wayes will never bring a man to right ends there is too much of the Serpent in them a lying tongue is but for a moment Perde te 〈◊〉 pereas Salv. and he that will save his life shall lose it Satan hath an especiall designe upon men of eminency and authority in such times as these that he may carry them in Tryumph and act by them to the corrupting of many As the Romanes having an evill eye upon Ptolomy King of Egypt for his wealth which they resolved to seize upon but knew not how to pick an occasion he being in League with them therefore they appoynted Cato a man in high esteeme for justice and uprightnesse as Publicus Praedo ut summa turpitudo facti authoritate tanti viri aliquantulum tegeretur by the name of the man to collour over the basenesse of the act so Satans great designe of late hath beene upon the Stars in our Horizon and wee may with feare remember how many are fallen Engage yee therefore with and for the Saints and let the present dangers raise your resolutions a great minde doth rise by difficulties and true courage is heightned by oppositions Let the birelings fly let meteours fall and those that have cleaved to the Church of God by flattery be detected yet is the righteous an everlasting foundation Let the blessing of Ioseph be on your heads whom God hath seperated from your brethren let your bow abide in strength and the armes of your hands be made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob which shall be the constant and dayly prayer of Your Servant in the Gospel William Strong A Sermon Preached in Pauls Church London before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the 17. of May 1648. Being the day of publique Thansgiving for a Victory obtayned by the Forces under the Command of Col. Horton at St. Faggons neer Cardiffe in Wales IUDGES Chap. 5. vers So let all thine enemies perish ô Lord. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Resp ad Orthod q. 71. in dial cum Tryph. p. 307. Necesse est ut in fine sexti millesimi anni malicia omnis aboleatur è terra regnet per mille annos justitia fitque tranquilitas requies à laboribus quos mundus jamdiu perpessus est de divin imperio l. 7. c. 14. Aug. de civit Dei l. 20. c. 7. Rev. 10.2.3.4 Pedem ponere est possessonem sibi dominium vindicare Par. Dan. 7. c. 27. THE condition of the Church in this world is twofold Militant and Triumphant The warfare of the Church according to the Divinity of the Ancients is to last till towards the end of the