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A80426	Higayon selah. Ierusalem fatall to her assailants. Discovered in a sermon before the Honorable House of commons August 29. 1649. At Margarets Westminster, upon their solemne day of thanksgiving for that signall victory over the Lord Ormond, in routing his whole army, and raising the seige of Dublin in Ireland, by the garrison thereof under the command of lieutenant Generall Jones. / By William Cooper M.A. minister of the gospel at Olaves Southwark.	Cooper, William, minister at St. Olave's Southwark.	1649 (1649)	Wing C6064; Thomason E572_4; ESTC R206160	37,133	45

have endeavoured to seek out a seasonble and sutable word for we may know as there 's nothing new under the Sun so the providence of God which hath wrought hitherto worketh yet still for his Church and so will doe yet more gloriously that yee all may marvell Observe then the parts and parralel together You have here first a very formall and formidable laying a siege secondly We have a signall raising of that siege thirdly we have the causes and consequents of both In the first two things are considerable First The besieged secondly the besiegers The Besieged is a City no mean City but a Mother in Israel Jerusalem the metropolis of Judea the glory of the earth the City of God is invested and beleagured the beloved City is surrounded and straightned by her adversaryes 2. The Besiegers a numerous Host all the people round about sundry Nations bad neighbours such as bear evill will to Sion all these come up against Juda and against Jerusalem this is clearly implyed v. 2. Nay its presupposed that all the people of the earth may designe a siege and sacking to Jerusalem v 3. Besides they shall come up well provided with Horse and Foot and all warlike equipage and they shall advance so far as to attach it they shall be lifting at it presuming to carry it v. 2 3 4. compared together Thus much of the siege of Jerusalem 2. The signall raising of the siege Wherein observe we first the Causes secondly the consequents The Causes are twofold Principall and instrumentall the principall cause of this work of Deliverance and Victory for its both is the Lord Jehovah who appears chief in this action in every verse to the eighth and he is described by his power and by his will which are put forth to relieve and succour Jerusalem Particularly the Lord comes forth armed with his Almighty creating power described in there eminent effects of it stretching out the heavens laying the foundation of the earth and forming the spirit of man within him This is to tell you how far the Lord Jehovah will engage for the rescuing of Jerusalem in distress his wonder-working and world creating power 2. The Instrumentall cause of Jerusalems reliefe for the Lord makes use of Instruments in it and that is Jerusalem it self shall be instrumentall in its own deliverance and the Lord thus working for Jerusalem by Jerusalem puts forth severall acts in the manner of his working here elegantly expressed and happily taking effect upon the enemy 1. Infatuating of him he would needs drink a cup and he was intoxicated with it v. 2. 2. Worsting or breaking them he would be lifting and heaving at Jerusalem and this stone fell upon him and brake him v. 3. 3. By astonishing the Horse and his ryder their most active powers their Cavalry and flower 4. After this follows the enemies utter consumption all of them shall be cut in pieces and consumed as straw with fire v. 3 6. Thus we have the Causes Hence 3. Follow the effects and consequents 1. Jerusalem is delivered and secured 2. Hereupon follows the doxology high and low governours and inhabitants of Ierusalem speak hearty praise to the Lord of Hosts acknowledging wherein their strength lyes in the Lord and his people and withall we have an act of faith in the governours resolving to make choice of the Lord of Hosts for their protector cleaving to him and being assured of him upon this score and interest that they have the inhabitants of Ierusalem with them and for them i. e. Gods people who have alwayes Gods presence and power by which they are invincible v. 5. Thus you have the Lords doing and our duty These are our parts and the parallel is clear between Ierusalem case and this occasion it needs not further repetition or application for as the words seem litterally meant of Ierusalem assaulted and distressed by Antiochus defended and relieved by the Maccabees so is it mystically meant of the Christian Church or any part of it persecuted by Antichrist and his powers of whom Antiochus was no obscure type or fore-runner * The interest of Gods people in Dublin and the enemies rage against it together with the righteous in it may well intitle such another City Jerusalem Now oh that the other part of the Prophesie v. 8. were fulfilled upon us this day as it was upon them that in that day i. e. when God puts forth his power in and for his people then the inhabitants of Ierusalem and he that is feeble among them shall be as David and the house of David as God and as the Angel of God before him they have been in power and valour Oh let us be as Davids and as Angels in praise and thanksgiving Had we but Davids heart and harp we might sing upon those parts of the text a Psalm of Degrees I must crave leave to passe through the Porch and Entry to my Text the first verse of the Chapter is but a preparatory preface to that I pitch upon for our meditations yet hath it some influence and relation to that which follows The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel Thus saith the Lord that stretched forth the heavens that laid the foundations of the earth that formeth the spirit of man within him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Song or comfortable prophesie begins with the burden first a burden that doth not pinch or presse Gods people at all t is for Israel for their sakes for their safety for their comfort but a burden indeed faln heavy upon Ierusalems enemies Ierusalems besiegers this burden is theirs It s a common metaphor among the Prophets importing some judgement or propheticall threatning of judgement upon a people such a contrariety is there between Ierusalem and her enemyes that as the two scales of a balance put weight in one it presseth down and lifts the other up the rise of Sion is the fall of Babylon the death of the witnesses makes the inhabitants of the earth merry Revel 11.10 When Ieremy and his people lamented in tears their enemyes laughed mocking at their Sabbaths Againe the Saints have their turn at last they shall laugh last Isa 65.13 14. Behold my servants shall rejoyce but yee shall be ashamed my servants shall sing for joy of heart but yee shall cry for sorrow of heart and howle for vexation of Spirit Revel Now this is a speciall act of divine justice to give every one his turn and not onely so but by the law of retaliation to make his people shift their burdens upon their oppressours shoulders The burdens that oppressors lay on the back of the righteous shall fall heavy upon themselves breaking their bones and pressing them down into the Pit This they get by laying load on the Saints of God but of that afterward from the 3. v. The burden of the word of the Lord. The word fals heavy upon sinners though they make light of it this expression

was so familiar among the Prophets in the degenerate time of the Church that the obstinate Jews would come in scorn asking Ier. 23.33 14 c. what is the burden of the Lord but they found it a burden to them indeed Pharaoh made light of Gods threats and plagues on him by Moses and Aaron but at last they sunck him as a stone to the bottom of the Sea Ahab made light of Michaiahs word but it proved a heavy burden to Ahab as Iehu cals it 2 Kings 9.25 The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel i. e. This vengeance threatned on the besiegers is for Israels sake in favour of Israel All the havock that he makes of great persons of families of whole Cities Armies Nations is for Israel the whole current of Gods judgements is but a comment and confirmation of this pertinent to this and very pregnant is that of the Prophet Isa 43.1 2 3 4 5. when he tells Israel there as here that he was his maker redeemer and preserver from all evils he gives the reason of all verse 3 4. I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy Saviour I gave Egypt for thy ransome Ethiopia and Seba for thee since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee therefore will I give men for thee people for thy sake The Lord takes away multitudes of wicked men as drosse and counts them but as the dung of the Earth for Israel What a distinguishing love is here in a gracious God that puts so vaste a difference between men and men between party and party accounting his own honourable his enemies base his own precious his enemies vile The Lord like a Lion goes forth and tears what ever he meets with to feed his young be it men or beasts Thus the Lord makes bloody sacrifices and slaughters his adversaries bee they never so mighty or many Rev. 19.17 18 19. as we have it notably described by Iohn in the Revelations Having armed and mounted Iesus Christ with royall conquering power brings in the Angel inviting all to a great feast which he cals the supper of God the provision is flesh costly flesh to eat the flesh of Kings the flesh of Captains the flesh of mighty men of hosts and them that sit on them c. I do not take the words litterally of Birds feeding on the carkasses of the churches slaughtered enemies lying unburied though that may be too but of warriours mingling themselves with the Church for pay and prey or of militant Saints who being married to Iesus Christ as conquerours hee sups them upon the spoiles of their enemies Psal 74.14 the mighty Behemoths and Leviathans that prey on Sea and Land the insatiable Potentates of the Earth even they shall be meat for his people as Ioshua and Caleb said the mighty Anachs should be bread for Israel Num. 14.9 Thus out of the 〈◊〉 comes forth meat and out of the strong commeth sweetnesse the Lord will make the Lion that wars against Sampson to fall by his hands he shall tear him as a Kid and the carkasse of him shall yeeld Sampson honey Saith the Lord which stretcheth forth the Heavens c. Then the Lord comes forth armed as a God he puts on all his majesty and all his might when he engages for Ierusalem then he awakes as a great Lyon and as a Gyant refreshed with Wine Then the hils melt and the earth trembles at his presence when he commeth forth to ayde Jerusalem for then he commeth forth like a God that is like himself the Lord will put forth no lesse grandour and glory in delivering Ierusalem then when he made the world Let all saith God be reduced to a Chaos of confusion such seemed once our condition and now little better to those that cannot or will not see yet I will fetch order out of that saith the Lord Let all be covered over with darknesse and jumbled into rubbish nay let all be shut up again into the wombe of nothing at least that nothing of inhability improbability and impossibility too as to a created agent yet I will create deliverance fetch out a cosmos a beautifull pile and face of things praise the Lord in this great last restauration of the world which we trust is now beginning The Lord will make a new heaven and a new earth Revel 21.1 The Lord will make quite another world and all this for Israel Have you not heard hath it not been told you that it is I and onely I doe this that I make nothing of my peoples enemies be they many a whole world of them as vers 3. Yet I spread out the heavens while they besiege then Ierusalem I 'le overwing their multitudes I 'le front them and flanck them I will catch them all in a Net for I stretch out the heavens and for their power their mining their confidence let them look to their ground I lay the foundations of the earth let them dig as deep as hell to hide counsell and to shake thy wals and cast thee down O Ierusalem I will countermine them I 'le blow them quite up they shall be buried in their own rubbish saith the Lord what if they abound with courage and malice insomuch that my people are even afraid of them is it not I that form the spirit of man within him I take and give courage I will make thee stout-hearted as women but I will make them that are feeble among my people as David for I form the spirit of man within him And for the Savage disposition of the enemy I tame that saith God Daniel and the Lyons shall lodge quietly together my Lambs shall feed safely among the Bears and Wolves my Children shall play with Aspes and Cockatrices for I form the spirit of man within Right honourable and beloved Here 's matter of courage and confidence for us here 's ground not of prayer onely but of praise this day Was not the enemy sweld with that height of arrogance and presumption upon his numbers and advantages had he not so neer compassed and carried Dublin as to say it could not be delivered out of his hands without a miracle Loe our Creator hath wrought this miracle when he that stretcheth out the heavens c. undertakes it he can doe it and hath done it and did he ever appear like a God for us yet more then in this engagement so few and feeble against so many and mighty 1200 Horse and not the third part of 4000 Foot in the act on conquering 19000 and beyond their own purposes and thoughts to charge the whole Army yet carried on Thus if the spirit of the Lord come on Sampson he shall break his cords and slay heapes upon heapes with an Asses jaw-bone but let us not anticipate Here have yee seen the Lord of Hosts armed like himself now hear the Herauld sounding the trumpet before him in the next

wall is called a broad wall it being 50. foot others say 50. cubits thick and of an incredible height yet taken we have a wall of water about us Deut. 1.28 and wooden walls yet all this is nothing to a wall of fire It was said of the Canaanits Cities that they were walled up to heaven they fel down before Israel but a wall of fire is more impregnable Isa 10.17 This the Lord threatned against that grand Tyrant Nebucadnezzar The light of Israel shall be for a fire and his holy One for a flame and it shall burn and devoure his thornes and his briers in one day Thus you see the enemy is combustible stuff as elsewhere tow chaff stubble and straw Thus shall they be to Jerusalem in their attempts and she shall be fire unto them ver v. 6. after my text Surely the Lord will make it a hot day to Jerusalems assailants This shews Gods people to be invincible because all these titles of defence as Walls Tower c. declare the Saints to be in God that they dwell in or within him So the Psalmist clearly Psal 91.2 c. 1 Ioh. 4.16 He that dwelleth in the secret of the most high shall abide under the shaddow of the Almighty Now hence it followes that those who will attach Jerusalem must first fight with God and batter storme and break thorough him ere they come at Gods people think then that Jerusalems assailants have the hardest pull of it of all others in the world For who will set the bryars and thorns against him in battell he will go through them and consume them together Go Isa 27.2 3 4. sing unto Jerusalem a Vineyard of red wine I the Lord do keep it I will water it every moment lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day c. Marke Jerusalem is red wine i. e. generous and delectable to God but poysonous and dreadfull unto her enemies and you hear the reason of it I the Lord do keep it Let us speak a word to this reason of the point according to the metaphor in the third verse viz. of a Stone How comes the Church to be such a burthensome and breaking Stone to her adversaries Answ Because the Lord Jesus is incorporated into their Walls both in the foundation and corners and they as living Stones are cemented to him and built upon him by his blood This is that Rock against which neither the stormes 1 Pet. 2.4.5 6 7.8 windes and waters no nor the gates of hell can prevaile This is that precious corner Stone of God unto beleevers but a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offence unto the wicked Math. 21.44 This is that Stone on which whosoever falls shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it shall grind them to powder This is that little stone cut out of the Mountaine without hands Dan. 2.34.35 45. which brake in peeces the iron brasse clay silver and gold and when it had smote the Image it filled the whole earth This little Stone is Jesus Christ in his word and members little and despised in the eye of the world as Davids pebble was to Goliah and his Armes but yet that which fell'd that Gyant to the ground Psal 2. so this little Stone shall breake Crowns Swords and Scepters even as Potsheards shall fill the earth and prevaile It is the Lord that makes Jerusalem a burthensome Stone to her enemies Vse 1 Is it so That its fatall to Jerusalems enemies to attach her and doth the Lord punish such machinations in their kind Then let not Jerusalem feat her enemies in their highest ruff and threatenings There be 4 things that render an enemy formidable Policy For they are in their generation more subtile then the Saints they are Serpents and foxes the Saints are Lambes and Doves Yet fear not this this cup here shall astonish and infatuate them What a foole did that grand Oracle Achitophel become as soone as ever he ingaged against David Courage yec fear not that this cup shall be a cup of trembling to them and shall make them shake as the leaves of a tree shaken with the wind Number Fear not that neither What saith the text though all the people of the earth shall be gathered together against you yet they shall be cut in pieces And have you not had tryall hereof in all your conflicts being still over numbred by your adversaries yet your Barley Cake tumbled downe the Tents of Midian Power Be they a huge hoast of Cavalry and Infantry as the text hath it do they glory in their strength and therefore approach with contempt to your strength as Tobiah the Horonite and Sanballat the Ammonite What do these feble Jewes if a Fox go up he shall break down their stone wall Yet up it went and it became so strong that all the strength they had could not demolish nor dismantle it Your adversaries had all these foure advantages against you Policy Courage Numbers Power yet your God frustrated all before Jerusalem which became a cup of trembling and a stone of stumbling to all these Vse 2 For Instruction to behold as in a mirrhor this great truth verified to us this day as by innumerable former proofs so by that signall instance the cause of this solemnity Let your raysed meditations read over what God hath done for you and behold this great Truth riding triumph in all ages of the Church of God that wicked men may heare and feare and that the righteous may beleeve and rejoyce If we should walk through the histories of the Church Euseb l. 2. c. 7. we should not onely finde Pilate for condemning Jesus Christ to kill himself Herod and Herodias that slew John Baptist ending their dayes in misery and banishment Besides the example of another Herod who killed Iames and imprisoned Peter Acts 12 and persecuted the Church he was smitten of God and eaten of wormes in that very chapter But also among persecuting Emperours Domitius Nero the first persecutor of Christians that was an Emperour Iustin proclaimed and condemned by the Senate to be whipped to death and drag'd through the Citie for feare of which he slue himselfe Flavius Domitian the second Persecutor was slain Suet. in Domit Speed Chron. and his body disgracefully used by the Senate his Scutcheons and Images thrown down and they forbad any remembrance of him Thus was he recompensed in his Body and members that mangled the Image Body and Members of Jesus Christ The like befell Septimius Severus slain at York Cassianus Macrinus Antonius Heliogabolus Murderers and Monsters all slaine Alexander Severus and Maximinus likewise came to the same fatall ends Behold the justice of God against those murderers of Christs innocent servants punishing blood with blood according to the Law of retaliation What shall I tell you of Decius who raised the seventh persecution for which God suffered him to be assaulted for

doe great things and shalt still prevaile or as was upon Balaam when hired to curse Israel he blessed them and said they were invincible and should still doe valiantly or as was upon Hamans wife Zeresh who said If Mordecai was of the seed of the Iewes those that began to fall before him should fall irrecoverably This mercy to them is a owning by heaven of your paesent power your late changes and transactions which the world so much disowned and were startled at This mercy doth eclipse and drown fore-going mercies whereby the Lord doth not only keep on his course of mercy to his people but in a higher and more signall way keeping the best wine till last the most excellent Arts and Sciences till the conclusion When the Trumpets sounded louder and louder then God came down Exod. 19.19 When Joshua compassed Jerico 7. daies the Rams hornes sounding the last found had a shoot with it and then Jericho walls fell down Me thinks the Lord speaking louder every day his stroakes being still greater his discoveries being more glorious continually then before what can it bode but Babylons walls falling the Lord coming down neerer unto us even among us See how the enemy yea the earth trembles at his presence Shout therefore brethren his praises aloud many a poor soul prayed and cryed aloud for this deliverance and is heard by this return Let our praises sound as high you know who got the victory by praysing God aloud at which time the Lord set ambushes for his enemies 2 Chro. 20.21 22. and who knoweth what he is doing for us at this instant Add hereunto the nearnes of this mercy many will look on this mercy as a thing afar off because done in another Land but do we not know that our safety and interest was even bound up in theirs Is it not our out-works which taken will soone straighten us It s the making up of a great banck which broken will let in the enemy like a floud upon us Have we not felt inundations from thence already He turned the Sea into dry land they went through the stoud on foot there did we rejoyce in him Psal 66.6 VVas not that deliverance far from David both in time and place yet he saith there did we rejoyce Much more let us rejoyce now as more nearly interessed and related Were not our hearts tuned to the notes of this Harp in the dolefull tunes of it Let it be so now in the joyfull tydings that it brings us Again learn to trust thy God O Jerusalem he will defend thee in a siege and streight against all the world Never distrust a Lord of Hosts more upon any seeming dis-advantages whatsoever they are but lures and snares to catch a presumptuous dareing enemy Rev. 20.9.10 take an example yet to come after the thousand years Satan shall be loosed and shall go out to deceive all the Nations of the four Quarters of the Earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battel whose number is as the sand of the Sea and they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the Camp of the Saints about and the beloved City never was there such a league before Jerusalem never did it sustain such a siege but mark the end fire came down from God out of Heaven and devoured them and then the Devil is cast into the lake of fire and brimstone never look for war or sieges more after that time therefore trust God for ever and know if you will believe you shall see the glory of God yet daily but I may not inlarge Again learn we hence to wait on God notwithstanding some delayes though he tarry wait for him the adversary must have his houre of the power of darknes the waves must beat the ship and fill it too while Jesus sleepes yet know he doth but seem to sleep his providence ever waketh he that watcheth and keepeth Israel doth not slumber what if Jerusalem be besieged yet is it not therefore taken and destroyed How hard were the Inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead put to it by Naash 1. Sam. 11. almost to the putting out of their right eyes and losse of liberty yet they waited a little and were delivered how greatly was Samaria distressed even to a great famine so that the King said why shall I wait any longer yet had they speedy deliverance and plenty 2 King 6. ult and cap. 7.1 2 King chap. 18.19 How formidable was Zenacheribs numerous Host before Jerusalem of well nigh two hundred thousand that had conquerred and wasted all Countries round about and by the blasphemies of that great Rhodomont Rabshakeh all successours seemed hopeles yet Hezekiah waited and Jerusalem was delivered and Zenacheribs Army destroyed wait you on the Lord wait I say on the Lord. There is another consectary which the Text holds out to us in the 5. verse that the Inhabitants of Jerusalem under God are the strength of the Governours of Judah the people of God in any place are the strongest Bul-wark to that place why because the Lord of Hosts is their God O ye Governours of Judah think on this how great have been your contests about the Militia of this Nation now you have it there is as great a care to mannage it with safety and to its proper ends but know this Worthies you have a better Militia then the former even Gods own people among you this is your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say you in your hearts the Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of Hosts their God marke the Interest they have in God is the Magazine and cittadel of their strength and safety Israel was called a Camp of Host as they came up from Aegypt and aske but Balaam what he thought of them when with an evil eye he took a prospect of them How godly are thy truths O Jacob the Lord is among them he hath as it were the strength of an Vnicorn the people shall rise up as a great Lyon and stir as a young Lyon he shall not lye down till he eat of the Prey and drink the blood of the slain Numb 23.21 22 23. marke that the Lord is among them that 's their strength they are among you there 's your strength these are your artillery 2 King 13.14 Rev. 11.5 6 your great Ordinance these are your Chariots and your Horsemen as he said of the Prophet If any shall hurt these fire goes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies as was said of the witnesses those have power to shut Heaven that it rain not in the dayes of their Prophesie and have power over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all Plagues as often as they will it was said of the Romans nemo impune lacessivit populum Romanum it s more truly applyed to Gods people none goes unpunished that sets himself against them Know therefore where your strength lies in