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A92134	Roma ruens. Dagon falling before the Arke, or, The glory of Christ over-shadowing all other glories. / As it was delivered in a sermon before. the right Honourable Lord Major, and the right worshipful aldermen his brethren, at Mercers Chappel. By Nicholas Rust, chaplaine to the right Honourable Lord Major. Magna veritas & prævalet.	Rust, Nicholas, b. 1617 or 18.	1650 (1650)	Wing R2369; Thomason E597_9; ESTC R206294	17,713	31

and answers so powerful was the wisdom of God in the child Jesus Luke 2.48 Now this wisdome of God which dwelt in Christ is in all the Saints though in a lesse measure yet sufficient to deal with powers and principalities 1 Cor. 1.27 for God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and weak things to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that so the power of God being seen in weak instruments no flesh might glory in his presence for this treasure is in earthen vessels 2 Cor. 4.7 that the praise might be of God and not of men Thus the glory of the wisdome of Christ doth darken the glory of humane wisdome for his glory doth overshadow all other glories Secondly The glory of Christs power doth overshadow and out-shine that is doth confound and bring to nothing the glory of all fleshly power that standeth up against it or in competition with it Zach. 4.7 see a glorious discovery of this in the Gospel by Saint John Judas cometh with a band of men and officers John 18.4 with weapons lanthorns and torches to apprehend the Lord of life and glory but Christ meets them in the power and Majestie of the God-head in him and said whom seek ye and they fell backward to the ground notwithstanding all their fleshly and worldly assistances they could not stand before him the power of the creature fell before the power of God in Christ therefore no man could take away his life he lay'd it down of himself When Saul had nought but a creature-power to support him and his kingdome in the absence of the power of God which was departed from him see how desolate his house was left see how the glory of it did fade and die away as any form wherein God hath appeared doth perish and come to nothing when God doth withdraw from it And though Saul did seek to fortifie himself with fleshly power against the power of God with David and to keep up his esteem and honour in the hearts of his subjects and to quicken in them an admiration of his greatnes which he saw decaying honour me good Samuel before the people but all was ineffectual for to what purpose do we spice embalme and preserve a carcase when the life and spirit is gone out of it oh how did his heart meditate terrour in the apprehension of the withdrawment of the divine presence his pulse did beat very low and a cold sweat stood upon his limbs yea all the symptomes of a dying glory oh what strivings and struglings for life he ran to Ephraim called to Assyria to the World to the Devil to the Witch of Endor Oh his sad complaint God is departed from me and the Philistines make war against me but all these struglings were but the last prongs and pangs for his glory expired and the glory of his house the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker and the house of David stronger stronger the power of God with David did swallow up the power of the creature which was with Saul for the glory of Christ doth overshadow and out-shine all other glories But that you may see further proof of this viz. Isay 14.11 that that glorious power of Christ doth overshadow and confound all other powers that exalt themselves against it cast your eye upon that place in Isaiah where you read of the aspiring Tower of Babel lifting up it self and seeking to over-top the power and kingdome of Christ for Verse 13. Thou hast said in thy heart I will ascend into heaven I will exalt my self above the stars of God but this power that shoke kingdomes and made the earth to tremble is brought down this high and lofty Tower doth tumble before the power and glory of Christs Kingdome Thy pompe is brought down to the grave Verse 11. How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer see how strongly irresistably this power doth act even in a weak forme there shall not any man be able to stand before thee said God to Joshuah that is before my power and presence with thee for as I was with Moses Josh 1.5 so will I be with thee c. This power was very dreadful when the Philistines cryed out let us flee 1 Sam. 4.7 Deus venit in castra vae nobis vae nobis c. for God is come into the camp of Israel who can stand before these mighty Gods These are the Gods which smote the Egyptians all the inhabitants of the Land did faint because of the presence and power of God with his people Israel for that power breaks all powers that dash against it The Kings of the earth Revel 17.14 Joh. 2 11. make war against the Lamb but he overcometh for he is the Captaine of our Salvation the most mighty high and victorious King of kings Rev. 19.19 and Lord of lords and when the glory of his power breakes forth Mat. 1.24 it overshadowes the glory of all other powers Thirdly The glory of Christs rightousnesse doth overshadow darken and put out the glory of mans righteousnesse The Apostle Paul before the revelation of the glory of Christs righteousnesse to his soul did glory in his own righteousnesse Phil. 3. viz. his obedience and conformity to the Law for he knew no other name wherein he should be saved but thought his own workes must commend him unto God and he esteemed himself in his self-righteousnesse adorned with a glorious robe but afterward upon the knowledge of Christ it did appear a filthy rag and it was a very loathing and abhorrence to his soul notwithstanding his legal priviledges and blameles walkings touching the Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he counted all dung and drosse in comparison of Christ for as soon as the Gospel came his sin revived his self-righteousnesse died that was crucified to him and he to that when the light of truth did shine into his heart he was so overshadowed with the glory of the Gospel that the glory of the Law was outshined for it was no glory in respect of that glory vvhich vvas to be revealed The righteousnesse of man is as an early devv and as a morning cloud vvhich do pass avvay the devv and cloud vanish before the Sun Hosan and the righteousnesse of man is confounded darkned by the Sun of righteousnesse nothing doth so humble and abase the soul as the beholding this glory of Christs righteousnesse nothing doth so discover to the soul it s ovvn unrighteousnesse nor so pull down high thoughts and lofty imaginations in the heart as to have a vision of the purity and righteousness of God in Christ Job 42.5 I have heard of thee said Job of this Divine glory but now mine eies see thee wherefore I abhor my self in dust and

glorie shall be over-shadowed and out-shined Thus desiring pardon for my boldnesse I commit and commend ye all your City families friends and Relations to the grace and goodnesse of our Redeemer Your dayly Oratour at the Throne of grace NICH. RUST Marke 9.7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them and a voice came out of the cloud saying This is my beloved Son hear him IN the beginning of this Chapter Verse 2. Jesus taketh with him Peter James and John and went up into a high mountaine to pray as Luke hath it for when we are to wait on God in such an ordinance Lukke 9.28 we are to get into a mountaine that is to be above the world for you read that Christ sent the multitude away when he was thus to converse with his Father Mat. 14.23 so are we to dismisse the multitude of earthly thoughts and cares that we may attend upon the Lord in such a duty without distraction Luke saith that as Christ prayed Luke 9.29 the fashion of his countenance was altered and his raiment was white and glistering For the Lord leaveth some impressions of his own glory upon those that come to have communion with himself in those ordinances wherein he meets their soules Exod. 34.30 Moses face did shine when he had been with God upon the mount Oh 't is good to draw neer to God Psal 73. ult But assoon as Christ appeared Verse 4. Moses and Elias appeared with him in glory By Moses I do not understand the person of Moses but the ministration of Moses so far as it was Elementarie typicall Heb. 10.1 a shadow of things to come and so to be overshadowed a glory which was to be outshined by the glory of Christ And by Elias I do not understand the person of John Baptist who was Elias but his ministration so far as it was the Baptisme of water 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 3.30 an outward sign of the Baptisme of Christ a glory which was to be eclipsed by the glory of Christ I must decrease but he must increase Now these two ministers being put for the ministrations themselves appeared with Christ for whensoever Christ exalts his glory other glories seeke to stand up in competition with it Peter is so satisfied with the vision of this glory that he is content ta take up his everlasting habitation in the mount Master it is good to be here and to build tabernacles not onely to Christ but to Moses and Elias also for when creatures stand up in competition with Christ we are ready to attribute to them the glory of Christ magnifying them as Co-adjutors and Concauses with Christ Habak 1.16 Sacrificing to our nets building tabernacles to Moses and Elias as well as unto Christ But it is the design of the Father to honour Christ Phil. 2.9 and to give him a name above every name that every knee may bow to him and all glory below himself abase it selfe before him therefore Moses and Elias shall not be able to indure the Luster of Christs appearing who is the bright morning star Moses and Elias are overshadowed and darkened by Christ their glory is extinguised no glory remained but the glory of Christ Jesus was left alone For while Peter thus spake A cloud overshadowed them and a voice came out of the cloud saying this is c. From the words thus opened we may observe That The glory of Christ doth overshadow and out-shine Doct. all other glories that stand up against it or in competition with it The Prophet Isaiah speaking of the light and glory of Christ which should break forth in the time of the Gospel Isaiah 40. discovereth the vanity of all fleshly glory how it should wither die and fade before this glory at the 5 verse The glory of the Lord shall be revealed c. and at the 7 verse The grasse withereth the flower fadeth c. Daniel saw in a vision one like the son of man Dan 7.14 in his glory Kingdome and dominion and see there how the glory of those great and powerfull Monarchies did passe away and vanish before this glory it would have grieved the heart of any Royallist to have seen it for the Thrones were cast down verse 9. Their glory utterly marred their power quite broken and all by a little stone cut out of the mountaines without hands verse 26. Dan. 2.34 Their dominion is taken away consumed and destroyed to the end for the hand-writing was gone forth against them MENE MENE TEKEL EUPHARSIN They were weighed in the ballance and found light and their Kingdomes were departed from them Dan. 5.25 The Prophet Esay in another place doth display most divinely the magnificence of this Transcendent glory Esay 2.10 and see how the lofty looks high thoughts great imaginations of men are humbled and brought down verse 10. Great and mighty ones hide themselves in the dust for feare of the Lord and for the glory of his Majestie yea verse 11. the lofty lookes of men shall be humbled and the haughtines of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day the day of the Lord of Hosts shall so be upon every one that is proud and lofty that mighty ones shal be cast from their seats and the strongest oakes of Bashan will not be able to stand against this mighty blast When the Angel came down from heaven who lightened the earth with his glory Rev. 18.1 down came Babylon and all her glory Verse 16 17 18 19. so bemoaned and lamented by her admirers and adorers for in one hour so great laches came to nought for the glory of the new Jerusalem the City of God doth even swallow up the glory of creatures Rev 21.24 The nations do bring their glory into it Thus you see the glory of Christ doth overshadow and outshine c. But I shall no longer stay in Generals but come to particulars First the glory of the wisdome of Christ doth overshadow the wisdome of the world so that it is confounded by it when it stands up in competition or in contestation with it for the wisdom learning Acts 6.9 policie and sophistrie of the world did stand up against and contest with the wisdome of God in Steven but they were all borne down by the Majestie and power of it for the truth of God is powerful Rom. 1.16 yea it is the power of God to salvation and cannot be resisted in the meanest and weakest instrument but it will bear all before it the Libertines Cyrenians Alexandrians were not able to resist the spirit whereby he spake Acts 6.10 or with all humane abilities to maintaine dispute against him for the school of tyrannie is too weak for the school of Christ The Lord Jesus at twelve years old disputed with the Doctors confounding them and amazing them with his questions

ashes Oh how low doth the glory of Christ lay the glory of man for when the glory of God appeared unto Isaiah he was so astonished and confounded Isay 6.5 that he cries out woe is me I am undone I have seen the Lord I am a man of polluted lips I am a sinful man said Peter when he had seen the Lord Jesus nothing doth so manifest to the creature its emptinesse and insufficiency as a sight of that eminency and fulnesse that is in Christ then we see that we are nothing that we have nothing and can do nothing when the Lord discovereth himself to be all in all for his glorious righteousnesse doth overshadow and eclips the glory of all earthly righteousnesse Fourthly The glory of Christs truth and worship doth quite blast and overshadow the glory of mans worship that is to say a wil-worship according to the commandments of men Oh how have we lived upon this worship and fetched all our refreshment from it speaking peace to our own souls for the perfunctory and formal performance of any particular act of this worship Isay 50. ult 29.13 though according to the commandments of men But when that glorious Sun of Divine truth hath arisen upon us and caused his light and glory to dawne upon our darke hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 this well of our former refreshment hath been utterly exhausted we could no longer find comfort or satisfaction in mens formalities we might famish for any soul-nourishment that we could find in them they have appeared to us so void of the presence of Jesus Christ Luke 24.5 that we should seek the living among the dead to seek him there so that the discovery of Christ in his truth and Gospel hath disovered the emptinesse Isay and destroyed the very being of those things whereon we have lived for the glory of Christ doth overshadow all other glory Now Divine worship cannot but darken the glory of Wil-worship for the truth of God must needs overcome and vanquish the devised worship of men many are the devises of men but the councels of God must stand the word is powerful for the subversion of strong-holds and bringing down humane imaginations therefore this may comfort us in the middest of all the errours of the enemies wherein we live truth shall get ground of errour but errour shall not get ground of truth for truth is armed from heaven against opposers therefore we are resolved in this cause of Christs to put it to the utmost triall which be strongest the lies and falshoods of men or the truth and Gospel of Jesus Christ Heb. 1. surely the brightnesse of this glory will out-shine all other glories for can darknesse stand before the light if the day break the shadowes must flie away Cant. 4.6 the Kingdome of the beast was ruined by the preaching of the Gospel because it was full of darknesse that kingdome is an effect of darknesse Revel 16.10 and a cause of darknesse brought forth by darkenesse Ex quibus nascimur ex iisdem nutrimur Luke 2.32 2 Pet. 1.19 Rev 2.28 supported by darknesse it maintaines darknesse and is maintained by darknesse now Christ is a light to lighten the Gentiles a light shining in a darke place the bright morning-star that very light and glory of the Father which must needs be destructive to the kingdome of darknesse which cannot abide the brightnesse of his coming for the lustre of it is above all other glory 2 Thes 2.8 Yea further Wil-worship is set forth in way of comparison by wax which melteth before the fire the doctrines and traditions of men melt and dissolve when the Sun of Gospel-light and truth waxeth hot Rev. 9.2 Wil-worship is the smoke of the bottomlesse pit now smoke doth vanish clouds are scattered and dissipated when the Sun ariseth Let God arise Psal 68.1 let truth break forth and what shall be contrary to truth and God will be scattered even as smoke vanisheth so it will be driven away and as wax melteth at the fire so it will perish at the presence of the truth of God so that hay and stubble will not endure the fire 1 Cor. 3.12 which must try every mans worke of what sort it is The Prophet Malachi saith of Christ Mal. 4.3 Who shall abide his coming for his coming is as a refiners fire and fullers soape He alludeth to the custome of the refiners of subterraneal treasures who by fire purifie the silver and gold ore separating the dross from it so this refiner the Lord Jesus will cause all the drosse of humane inventions in the worship of God to passe away to go forth as that scum and filth which will not abide the purity of his coming for no mixture of humanity will endure the refiners fire for the truth of God carrieth all before it dashing the brats of Babylon against the stones breaking not onely her Idols of courser materials as of wood and stone but even those of purer matter as of gold and silver and precious sto●es Rev. 18.12 dlso vering not onely the mysterie of iniquity in grosse formes For the man of sin hath various forms and though he acteth in a new form yet he is the old serpent but even that which is more specious and spun with a finer thred for the word of the Lord is quick and powerfull sharper then a two-edged sword c. Thus the glory of Christs truth and worship doth overshadow and put out the glory of al humane carnal ordinances for the Angel which cometh down from heaven with the everlasting Gospel hath great power and the earth is lightened with his glory Rev. 18.1 Lastly the glory of Christs promises and prophesies of his will and councels do overshadow and out-shine all the devises and wills of men that is the devises councels and wills of men are not able to stand before the will and councel of God Isay 46.10 11 for first the promises and prophesies of God must be fulfilled and must take place Isay 14.24 maugre all the actings and conncels of men Glorious things are prophesied of the Church of Christ in time of the new Testament that her foundations shall be laid with Saphirs and Carbuncles Isay 54.11 her gates shall be made of Agats and all her borders of pretious stones all which are of high esteeme and value with our Lapidaries that know the vertues of these stones now the enemies of the Church of Christ Isay 54.15 gather together to hinder this glorious worke and to keep off the fulfilling of these blessed Prophesies for they had rather see Sions stones Psul 102.14 lie scattered in the dust then compacted together to become a holy temple in the Lord but all their engagements are in vaine for when they rise up thus against the worke of God they fall Verse 15. when they gather together against it they are scattered Verse