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A95864	A sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons; at their late solemne fast, December, 28. Wherein is described 1. The church her patience: 2. Her hope. In the exercise of both which graces, she is enabled to waite upon God in the way of his judgements: in which divers cases are propounded and resolved. That the soul sick of love, doth with more difficulty endure the absence of Christ, then the present evils of this world. By Thomas Valentine, Rector of Chalfont in Buckinghamshire. Published by order of that House.	Valentine, Thomas, 1585 or 6-1665?	1643 (1643)	Wing V26; Thomason E86_32; ESTC R12382	44,658	51

Die Mercurij 28. December 1642 IT is this day Ordered by the House of Commons that Mr. Valentine shall have thanks returned him from this House for the great pains he tooke in the Sermon he preached this day at St. Margarets in the Citie of VVestminster at the intreatie of this House And that he be desired to Print his Sermon And it is Ordered that no man shall presume to Print it but he whom the said M. Valentine shall authorise under his handwriting And it is further Ordered that Sir VVilliam Massam a Member of this House shall returne the thanks to Mr. Valentine H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D Com. I appoint Samuel Man to Print my Sermon Tho Valentine A SERMON PREACHED AT THE LATE FAST Before the Honorable House of COMMONS ZEPH. 3.8 Wait upon me saith the Lord untill the day that I rise up to the prey for my determination is to gather the Nations that I may assemble the kingdoms to powre upon them mine indignation even all my fierce anger for all the earth shall be filled with the fire of my jealousie IT appears by the next verse that a full Reformation was promised For God tels them he will give them a pure language or a pure lip They should have and speak of nothing but pure and holy ordinances the names of Idols and idolatrous worship should be banished and quite forgotten It is also as clear by the latter part of this text that a great desolation was coming upon the enemies of the Church till both these be done we must wait A dutie of much difficultie for when we have strong desires usually they are unrulie and if we have enemies naturally we are desirous of their speedie downfall We take up Jeremies expression but few have his spirit Jer. 11.20 Let me see thy vengeance upon my enemies and are too like him in Plutarch who said to his adversarie I doubt not but thou shalt pay for it but I am afraid I shall not see it Lest we should be transported with these desires and grow impatient God gives a charge to wait his leasure There is a day set a time prefixed beyond which Gods patience to evill men shall not extend it self I will in due time saith God arise like a Lion to the prey I will spoil them that spoil you I will teare them in peeces and they shall never recover their strength any more When this prophesie took effect and what age it pointed at is not determined by Interpreters some think it was fulfilled in Josiah his time because this Prophet lived in the time of his reigne so Ribera and Drusius conjecture and it might be so because Josiah did not begin his Reformation till the twelfth yeer of his reigne 2. Chron. 24.3 Others think it was meant of the restauration of the Church after the captivitie because in Josiah his time though there was a Reformation yet no destruction to the enemies thereof Others refer it to the times of the Gospel because the calling of the Gentiles is mentioned and also that consent of serving God with one shoulder was verified in Act. 2.46 They served the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with one accord Others refer it to the end of the world and they make this Scripture and that of Joel 3.16 to be meant of the last judgement because fire and indignation and all Gods fierce anger shall then be powred out to the full And the phrases used in Matth. 24.29 of the latter end of the world do agree to this and that of Joel and the multitude here and there mentioned have made them think it could be no other The notation of the name Jehosaphat Haiah and saphat sit indicium the Papists beleeve that the vallie of Jehosaphat should be the place of judgement But let wise men consider whether to make a valley so capacious as to hold all the people that have lived from the beginning of the world to the end be not an opinion so improbable as needs no confutation All that which can be inferred is that the last judgement and great temporall judgements hold a sutablenesse and correspondencie one with another For the time of this prophesie I shall not meddle with in this exercise In the text observe 1 A dutie which is commanded 2 A motive whereby it is enforced In the former observe 1 The dutie it self Wait 2 The object upon me saith the Lord. 3 The time how long untill the day that I rise to the prey In the second which is a commination against the enemies observe 1 The generalitie of it nations kingdoms and the whole earth 2 The certaintie of it I am determined to do it saith God 3 The terriblenesse of it set out in Gods indignation all his fierce anger and the fire of his jealousie If you look upon the beginning of this Chapter from the first verse to this text you may see that the Church and Commonwealth were exceedingly corrupted For ver 3. it is said that the Princes were as roaring Lions the Judges were as the evening wolves they knaw not the bones till the morning such as should protect and defend them did spoil and devoure them The Priests and Prophets that should offer sacrifice for them and instruct them were vain light persons and did pollute the sanctuatie and wrest the Law These that were enemies bred and born in their own kingdom as well as those abroad are threatned and it is evident that the Churches Reformation and her enemies desolation must come together and till both these be done we are commanded to wait So that you see what is to be the subject of our ensuing discourse and if you will have it in an observation it is this Though wicked men be not punished and pulled down and though the Church be not reformed so soon as we could desire yet we must wait upon God till he do it To wait is cheerfully to expect the fulfilling of all the promises wherein lies the Churches good and the accomplishment of all the threatnings that respect the enemies And if to this we adde the manner then to wait is so attend upon God as that the want of any blessing desired become no hindrance either to our affections or religious actions For if either be it is not the waiting God accepts In waiting 3. things 1 There is a want of a blessing else there were no need of waiting It is the service of a defective state when all shall be compleat in heaven there will be no need of waiting we shall see God and injoy him and in him all things We shall have all our desires granted but in this world we are under many pressures and want many blessings and must wait 2 In this time of our want yet we must not cool in our affections but must love God and rejoyce in him else we are mercenarie it we should be deprived of all that is dear unto us If the fig-tree should not blossome neither