in it's glory Seek first this kingdom of God and the righteousnesse thereof and all these things shall be added unto you Oh that it were the will of God to put an end to all that pretended holinesse hypocriticall Humiliation self-interested Religion that have been among us whereby we have flattered God with our lips whilest our hearts have been farre from him Oh that it might be the glory of this Assembly above all the Assemblies of the world that every Ruler in it might be a sincere Subject in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Oh that it might suffice that we have had in our Parliament and among our Ministers so much of the form and so little of the power of Godlinesse that we have called world Christ and lust Christ and self Christ working indeed for them when we pretended all for Christ Oh that I could nourish this one contention in your Honourable Assembly that you might strive who should excell in setting up the Lord Jesus in their hearts You may be apt to think that if you can carry on and compasse your purposes then all your Enemies will be assuredly disappointed do but embrace the Lord Jesus in his kingly power in your bosomes and ipso facto all your Enemies are everlastingly disappointed you are the grains which in the sifting of the Nation have been kept from falling to the ground Are you not the residue of all the Chariots of England Oh that in you might appear the reality of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus which hath been so long pretended by others that sound righteousnesse not a Pharisaicall rigid supercilious affectation nor a carelesse belief and comportment the issue of novell fancies might be found upon your spirits that you may be thought meet to rejoyce with the Lord in his kingdom otherwise this day of the Lord which we have described however desired and longed after will be darkâ—esse to you and not light 2. In reference to your great Employments whereunto the Lord hath called you and here I shall briefly hold out unto you one or two things 1. That you would seriously consider why it is that the Lord shakes the Heavens and the Earth of the Nations to what end this tendeth and what is the cause thereof Is it not from hence that he may revenge their opposition to the kingdom of his dear Son that he may shake out of the midst of them all that Antichristian mortar wherewith from their first chaos they have been cemented that so the kingdoms of the Earth may become the kingdoms of the Lord Jesus Is not the controversie of Sion pleaded with them Are they not called to an account for the transgression of that charge given to all Potentates Touch not mine Anointed And what is the ayme of the Lord Jesus herein whose mighty voice shakes them Is it not to frame and form them for the interest of his own kingdom that he may fulfill the word he hath spoken to Sion I will make thine officers Peace and thine exactors Righteousnesse Consider then I pray what you have in hand wait upon your King the Lord Christ to know his minde If you lay any stone in the whole building that advanceth it self against his Scepter he will shake all again digge you never so deep build you never so high it shall be shaken Nay that there be no opposition will not suffice He hath given light enough to have all things framed for his own advantage The time is come yea the full time is come that it should be so and he expects it from you Say not in the first place this or that suits the interest of England but look what suits the interest of Christ and assure your selves that the true interest of any Nation is wrapped up therein More of this in the Treatise annexed to my Sermon of Jan 31. 2. Be incouraged under all those perplexities and troubles which you are or may be wrapped in lift up the hands that hang down and let the feeble knees be strengthened I is but yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry The more you are for Christ the more Enemies you shall be sure to have but the Lambe shall overcome He is come to revenge the blood of his slain upon this Generation and to free the residue from the jaws of the terrible He is our Rock and his work is perfect what he hath begun faster or flower he will surely accomplish It is a thing of the most imaginable indifferency whether any of our particular persons behold these things here belowe or no if otherwise we shall for the present have rest with him and stand in our lot at the end of the dayes but for the work it self the Decree is gone forth and it shall not be recalled receive strength and refreshment in the Lord Wonder not when the Heaven is shaken if you see the stars fall to the ground we had some who pretended to be Church-starres that were meerly fixed to all mens view and by their own confession in the Politicall Heavens The first shaking of this Nation shook them utterly to the ground If others also tremble like an Aspen leaf and know not which winde to yeeld unto or sail backwards and forwards by the same gale wonder not at that neither when men lay any other foundation then the immovable corner stone at one time or other sooner or later assuredly they will be shaken Let the professing people that is amongst us look well to themselves The day is coming that will burn like an oven Drosse will not endure this day we have many an Hypocrite as yet to be uncased Take heed you that act high if a false heart a defiled heart be amongst you there shall be no place for it in the mountain of the Lords house The inhabitants of Sion shall be all righteous Isa. 60. 21. Many that make a great shew now upon the stage shall be turned off with shame enough try and search your hearts force not the Lord to lay you open to all The Spirit of judgement and burning will try you Tremble I pray for you are entring the most purging trying fornace that ever the Lord set up on the Earth Be loose from all shaken things you see the clouds return after the rain one storme in the neck of another Thus it must be untill Christ hath finished his whole work Seeing that all these things must be dissolved what manner of persons ought we to be in all manner of holy conversation Let your eyes be upwards and your hearts be upwards and your hands be upwards that you be not moved at the passing away of shaken things I could here incourage you by the glorious issue of all these shakings whose soretast might be as marrow to your bones though they should be appointed to consumption before the accomplishment of it but I must close See the vanity folly madnesse of such as labour
Die Veneris 20 April 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Sir William Masham do give hearty thanks from this House to Mr. Owen for his great pains in his Sermon Preached before the House yesterday at Margarets Westminster And that he be desired to Print his Sermon at large as he intended to have delivered it if time had not prevented him wherein he is to have the like liberty of Printing thereof as others in like kinde usually have had HEN SCOBELL Cler. Parliament ΟΥΡΑÎΩΠΟΥΡΑÎΙΑ 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 Isaiah 66. 14. 16. And when ye see this your heart shall rejoyce and your bones shall flourish like an herb and the hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants and his indignation towards his enemies For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many LONDON Printed by M. Simmons and are to be sold by John Cleaver at his Shop in Paul's Church-yard near the School 1649. Where also are to be sold the Authors former Sermon Preached the 31th of January 1648. And likewise his 2 Sermons for A memoriall of the Deliverance of Essex County and Committee TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE the COMMONS of England Assembled in PARLIAMENT SIRS ALL that I shall preface to the Ensuing Discourse is that seeing the Nations welfare and Your Own actings are therein concerned the welfare of the Nation and Your own prosperity in your present Actings being so neerly related as they are to the things of the ensuing Discourse I should be bold to presse You to a serious consideration of them as now presented unto You were I not assured by your ready attention unto and favourable acceptation of their delivery that being now published by Your Command such a request would be altogether needlesse The subject matter of this Sermon being of so great weight and importance as it is it had been very desireable that it had fallen on an abler hand as also that more space and leasure had been allotted to the preparing of it first for so great judicious and Honorable Audience and secondly for publick view then possibly I could begge from my daily troubles pressures and templations in thee midst of a poore numerous provoking people As the Lord hath brought it forth that it may be usefull to Your Honorable Assembly and the residue of men that wait for the appearance of the Lord Jesus shall be the sincere indeavour at the throne of Grace of Coggeshall May 1. 1649. Your most unworthy Servant in the work of the Lord John Owen A SERMON Preached to the Honorable House of COMMONS Upon Thursday the 19th of April 1640. being by Order of that House especially appointed for a Day of Humiliation HEBR. 12. 27. And this word Yet once more signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain THe main designe of the Apostle in this Scripture to the Hebrews is to prevail with his Countrey-men who had undertaken the Profession of the Gospel to abide constant and faithfull therein without any Apostasie unto or mixture with Judaisme which God and themselves had forsaken fully manifesting that in such back-sliders the soul of the Lord hath no pleasure Chap. 10. 38. A Task which whoso undertaketh in any Age shall finde exceeding weighty and difficult even to perswade Professors to hold out and continue in the glory of their profession unto the end that with patience doing the will of God they might receive the promise especially if there be Lyons in the way if opposition or persecution do attend them in their professed subjection to the Lord Jesus Of all that deformitie and dissimilitude to the Divine Nature which is come upon us by the fall there is no one part more eminent or rather no one defect more evident then Inconstancie and unstablenesse of minde in embracing that which is spiritually Good Man being turned from his unchangeable Rest seeks to quiet and satiate his soul with restlesse movings towards changeable things Now he who worketh all our works for us and in us Isa. 26. 12. worketh them also by us and therefore that which he will give he perswades us to have that at once his bounty and our duty may receive a manifestation in the same thing Of this nature is Perseverance in the faith of Christ which as by him it is promised and therefore is a Grace so to us it is prescribed and thereby is a Duty Petamus ut det quod ut habeamus jubet August Let us ask him to bestow what he requires us to enjoy Yea Da Domine quod jubes jube quod vis Give what thou commandest and command what thou pleasest As a Duty it is by the Apostle here considered and therefore pressed on them who by Nature were capeable and by Grace enabled for the performance thereof Patheticall exhortations then unto perseverance in the profession of the Gospel bottomed on prevalent Scripturall Arguments and holy Reasonings are the summe of this Epistle The Arguments the Apostle handleth unto the End proposed are of two sorts 1. Principall 2. Deductive or Emergencies from the first 1. His principall Arguments are drawn from two chief Fountains 1. The Author And 2. The Nature and End of the Gospel The Author of the Gospel is either 1. Principall and immediate which is God the Father Who having at sundrie times and in divers manners formerly spoken by the Prophets herein speaketh by his Son Chap. 1. 1. 2. Concurrent and immediate Jesus Christ this great salvation being begun to be spoken to us by the Lord Chap. 2. 3. This latter he chiefly considereth as in and by whom the Gospel is differenced from all other dispensations of the minde of God Concerning him to the End intended he proposeth 1. His Person 2. his Employment For his Person that thence he may argue to the thing aymed at he holdeth out 1. The infinite glory of his Deity being the Brightnesse of his Fathers glory and the expresse Image of his Person Chap. 1. 3. 2. The infinite Condescension of his Love in assuming humanity for because the children were pertakers of flesh and blood he also himself took part of the same Chap. 2. 14. And from the consideration of both these he presseth the main Exhortation which he hath in hand as you may see Chap. 2. 1 2. Chap 3. 12 13 c. The Employment of Christ he describeth in his offices which he handleth 1. Positively and very briefly Chap. 1 2 3. 2. Comparatively insisting chiefly on his Priesthood exalting in sundrie weighty particulars above that of Aaron which yet was the glory of the Jewish worship and
satisfied The truth is the same lust and corruption which makes them dis-beleeve Gods signes moves them to look after signes of their own For this very thing then were the Pharisees branded as hypocrites that having wisdom in naturall things to calculate and prognosticate from necessary signes yet in the works of the Lord though the signes which in his wisdom he was pleased to give were plentifull round about them yet they must have some of their own choosing I pray God none such be found in our dayes 1 Chron. 12. 32. it is said of the men of Issachar that they had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do Israel is in the dark and knows not what to do if the times and seasons be not discovered to them If the minde and will of the Lord in their generation be not made out unto a people it will be their ruine Hence it is that the Lord incourageth us to make inquiry after these things to finde out the seasons wherein he will do any great work for his people knowing that without this we shall be altogether uselesse in the generation wherein we live Isa. 45. 11. Ask of me of THINGS TO COME concerning my sons and concerning the works of my hands COMMAND you me And what is this that the Lord will have his people to inquire of him about even the great work of the ruine of Babylon and restauration of his Church which yet was not to be accomplished for 240. yeers And this he tells you plainly in the following verses I have raised him up Cyrus inrighteousnesse I will direct his wayes he shall build my cities and he shall let go my captives not for price nor for reward saith the Lord of hosts v. 13. The Lord is earnest with his people to inquire into the season of the accomplishment of his great intendments for the good of his Church when as yet they are afar off how much more when they are nigh at hand even at the doors Who so is wise and will ponder these things they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord Psal. 107. ult. Dan. 9. 2. The Prophet tels you that this was his great study and at length he understood by books the approach of the time wherein God would deliver his Church from Babylonish captivity and pollution now this discovery hath two or three notable products 1. It puts him upon earnest supplications for the accomplishment of their promised deliverance in the appointed season Wide from that Atheisticall frame of spirit which would have a predetermination of events and successes to eradicate all care and endeavour to serve that Providence which will produce their Accomplishment A discovery of the approach of any promised and before fixed work of God should settle our minds to the utmost endeavour of helping the decree bring forth 2. He finds great acceptation in this his addresse to the Lord by supplications for the establishing of that work which he had discovered was nigh at hand for 1. An Answer is returned him fully to his whole desire in the midst of his supplications v. 21. Whilest I was praying the man Gabriel came c. 2. The work which he had discovered to be approaching was instantly hastned and gone in hand withall v. 23. At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth Oh that God would stir up his Saints in the spirit of Daniel to consider and understand by books the time that he hath appointed for the deliverance of his people that fixing their supplications for the speeding thereof the Commandment may come forth for it 's full accomplishment 3. Having attained this the Lord gives him fresh discoveries new light of the time for the birth of the Messiah which he thought not of prayed not for Seventy weeks are determined c. 24. So delighted is the Lord with his people's diligent inquiry into his wayes and walkings towards them that thereupon he appears unto them in the revelation of his mind beyond all that they did expect or desire Now all this have I spoken to stir you up unto that wherunto at the entrance of this Use you were exhorted that you would labour for that spirituall wisdom prudence which may acquaint your hearts at least in some measure with the minde and will of God concerning his work in the generation wherein you live And further to provoke you hereunto know that you cannot but wander as in many other so especially in foure sinfull things 1. Sinfull cares 2. Sinfull fears 3. Sinfull follies 4. Sinfull negligence 1. Sinfull cares Anxious and dubious thoughts about such things as perhaps the Lord intends utterly to destroy or at least render uselesse Had it not been the greatest folly in the world for Noah and his sons when the flood was approaching to sweep away the creatures from the face of the Earth to have been solicitous about flocks and herds that were speedily to be destroyed Many mens thoughts at this day do even devour them about such things as if they knew the season would be contemptible unto them Wouldest thou labour for honour if thou knewest that God at this time were labouring to lay all the Honour of the Earth in the dust Couldest thou set thy heart upon the increase of Riches wert thou acquainted that God intends instantly to make silver as stones and cedars as sycamores though not for plenty yet for value Would men be so exceedingly solicitous about this or that form of religion this or that Power to suppresse such or such a perswasion if they knew that the Lord would suddenly fill the Earth with his knowledge as the waters cover the Sea Should our spirits sink for fear of this or that persecutor or oppressor were it discovered unto us that in a short time nothing shall hurt or destroy in the whole mountain of the Lord Should we tremble at the force and power of this or that growing Monarchy giving it's power to the Beast had God revealed unto us that he is going to shake it untill it be translated Certain it is that the root of all the sinfull cares which sometimes are ready to devour the hearts of God's people is this unacquaintednesse with the work and minde of the Lord 2. Sinfull fears Luk. 21. 28. our Saviour having told his disciples of wars tumults seditions famines earthquakes c. which were to come upon the Earth bids them when they see these things to lift up their heads for joy But how should this be rejoyce in the midst of so many evils and troubles in the most whereof they were to have a Benjamins messe a double portion Yea saith our Saviour rejoyce for I have told you before that then it is that your deliverance and redemption draweth nigh It is for them to shake and tremble who are in the dark who know not what the Lord is a doing They may be at their wits end who
know no other end of these things but for you who know the mind of the Lord what he intendeth and will effect by these things cast off all sinfull fears and rejoyce in him who cometh Amongst us in these dayes new troubles arise wars and rumors of wars appearances of famine invasions conspiracies revolts treacheries sword blood oh how do mens faces wax pale and their hearts dye within them Sometimes with David they could fly to the Philistines and wind up their interest with them whom God will destroy every new appearance of danger shuffles them off from all their comforts all their confidence Hence poore souls are put upon doubling and shifting in the wayes of God in such a frame as God exceedingly abhors They know not why any mercy is given nor to what end and therefore are afraid to own it lest some sudden alteration should follow and make it too hot for them to hold it and all this because they know not the minde of the Lord nor the judgement of their God were they but acquainted with it so far as it is evidently revealed they would quickly see all things working together to the appointed end 3. Sinfull follies Toil and labour in vain is of all follies the greatest folly like the Jews under Julian building of their Temple in the day God casting it to the ground in the night When a man labours toils wearies and spends himself for the accomplishing of that which shall never come to passe and that which if he would but enquire he might know shall never come to passe he cannot well want the livery of a bruitish man How many poore creatures that think themselves wiser then Charchan and Dedan and all the children of the East do spend and consume their dayes and time in such wayes as this labouring night and day to set up what God will pull down and what he hath said shall fall Come on let us deal wisely saith Pharaoh to his Egyptians Exod. 1. 10. to root out and destroy these Israelites poore fool is there any wisdome or counsell against the most high I could give instances plenty in these daies of men labouring in the dark not knowing what they are a doing indeavouring with all their strength to accomplish that whereof the Lord hath said It shall not prosper and all because they discern not the season 4. Sinfull negligence You are no way able to do the work of God in your generation It is the commendation of many Saints of God that they were upright and served the will of God in their generation Besides the generall duties of the Covenant incumbent on all the Saints at all seasons there are speciall works of Providence which in sundry generations the Lord effecteth concerning which he expects his people should know his minde and serve him in them Now can a servant do his masters work if he know not his will The Lord requireth that in the great things which he hath to accomplish in this generation all his should close with him What is the reason that some stand in the market place idle all the day some work for a season and then give over they know not how to go a step farther but after a day a week a month or yeer are at a stand worse then all this some counterwork the Lord with all their strength the most neglect the duty which of them is required what is the reason of all this They know in no measure what the Lord is doing and what he would have them apply themselves unto The best almost live from hand to mouth following present appearances to the great neglect of the work which the Lord would have hastned amongst us all this comes from the same root But now if all these sad and sinfull consequences attend this nescience of the minde of God as to the things which he is a doing in the dayes wherein we live so far as he hath revealed himself and requires us to observe his walkings by what wayes and means may we come to the knowledge thereof that we be not sinfully bewildred in our own cares fears and follies but that we may follow hard after God and be upright in our generation There be foure things whereby we may come to have an insight into the work which the Lord will do and accomplish in our dayes 1. By the light which he gives 2. The previous works which he doth 3. The expectation of his Saints 4. The fear of his adversaries 1. By the light which he gives God doth not use to set his people to work in the dark they are the children of light and they are no deeds of darknesse which they have to do How ever others are blinded they shall see Yea he alwayes suits their light to their labour and gives them a clear discerning of what he is about The Lord God doth nothing but he reveals his secrets to his servants The light of every Age is the forerunner of the work of every Age When Christ was to come in the flesh John Baptist comes a little before A new light a new Preacher And what doth he discover and reveal why he calls them off from resting on legall Ceremonies to the doctrine of Faith Repentance and Gospel ordinances tels them the kingdom of God is at hand instructs them in the knowledge of him who was coming to what end was all this onely that the minds of men being enlightned by his preaching who was a burning and a shining lamp they might see what the Lord was doing Every Age hath it's peculiar work hath it's peculiar light Now what is the light which God manifestly gives in in our dayes surely not new doctrines as some pretend indeed old errors and long since exploded fancies Plainly the peculiar light of this generation is that discovery which the Lord hath made to his people of the mystery of Civill and Ecclesiasticall Tyranny The opening unravelling and revealing the Antichristian interest interwoven and coupled together in civill and spirituall things into a State opposite to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus is the great discovery of these dayes Who almost is there amongst us now who doth not evidently see that for many generations the Western Nations have been Juggled into spirituall and civill slavery by the legerdemain of the Whore and the Potentates of the Earth made drunk with the cup of her Abominations How the whole Earth hath been rolled in confusion and the Saints hurried out of the world to give way to their combined interest Hath not God unvailed that Harlot made her naked and discovered her abominable filthinesse Is it not evident to him that hath but half an eye that the whole present Constitution of the Governments of the Nations is so cemented with Antichristian morter from the very top to the bottom that without a through shaking they cannot be cleansed This then plainly discovers that the work which the Lord is a doing relates to the
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
to oppose the bringing in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Canst thou hinder the rain from descending upon the earth when it is falling Canst thou stop the Sun from rising at it 's appointed houre will the conception for thee dwell quietly in the wombe beyond it's month Surely thou mayest with far more ease turn and stop the current and course of Nature then obstruct the bringing in of the kingdome of Christ in righteousnesse and peace Whence comes it to passe that so many Nations are wasted destroyed spoiled in the dayes wherein we live that God hath taken quietnesse and peace from the Earth Doubtlesse from hence that they will smite themselves against the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands Shall not the Decree bring forth is it not in vain to fight against the Lord Some are angry some troubled some in the dark some full of revenge but the truth is whether they will hear or forbear Babylon shall fall and all the glory of the Earth be stained and the kingdoms become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ FINIS Chap. 10. 36. Prov. 22. 13. 26. 13. Psal. 116. 7. 1 Thes. 1. 3. 2 Thes. 1. 11. Deut. 10 16. Chap. 30. 6. Ezek. 18. 31. Chap. 36 26 Acts 11. 18. Exod. 19. 18 19 Chap. 20. 18. Nescio an facilior hic locus fuisset si nemo cum opposuisset Mald ad Luc. 2. v 34. Ephes. 1. 10. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Oecumen. in Loc. Matth 2. 2. Matt. 27. 45. Luk 23. 44. 45 Mat 27 51 52 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Rom. 8. 28. Nunquam Pauli sensum ingredieris nisi Pauli Spiritum imbiberis Ber ser. de Monte {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1 Ioh. 2. 27. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Theophilac in Ioh. 10. Psal 68. 9. Hab. 2. 20. Matth 24. 7. 1 Sam. 14 25. Isa. 13. 13. Psal. 68. 8. Ioel 2. 10. Revel. 8. 12. Matth. 24. 29. Luk. 21. 25. Isa 60. 20. Obad. 4. Rev. 8. 13. Chap. 11. 12. Chap. 20. 11. Euseb. Eccles. Hist. lib 9. c 8. 10. li. 8. ca. 27. De vita Constan li 1. ca. 50 51 52. Isa. 66. 22 23 24. Gen. 1. 10. Revel. 17. 1. Dimidium facti c. Part II. Mat. 24 6 7. Ier. 4. 19. Isa. 9. 5. Part 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Acts 1. 7. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Matth. 24. 7. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Luk. 2. 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 2 Thes. 2. 6. Revel. 18. 2. Isa 60. 12. Psal. 2. 6. II Generall Head Heb. 11. 5. Iude 4. Gal. 1. 6. Heb. 6. 18. Heb. 7. 12. Mutationem Trem Translationem Erasm. Ar Mont. Psal. 2. 6. Psal. 110. 2. Acts 2. 36. Rev. 1. 18. 1 Cor. 15. 24. 25 26 27. Luk 6. 20. Mark 12. 34. c. Psal. 45. 6. Psal. 145. 13. Isa. 9. 7. Obad. 21. Isa. 11. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Chap. 18. 18 19. Chap. 30. 18 19. Micah 4. 1. Isa. 49. 18 19 20 21 22. Chap 54. 1 2 3 c. v. 11 12. Chap. 60. 16 17. Ezek. 48. 35. Amos 9. 11. Rom. 11. 15 c. Isa. 49. 22 23. Chap. 66. 21. Mal. 3. 3. Ezek. 43. 10 11 Revel. 21. 3. Chap. 54. 11 12 13 c. Zach. 14. 9 10 11. Acts 3. 21. Obs Reas. 1. Psal. 2. 4 5. Psal. 137. 8 9. Isa. 47. 1 2 3. Isa. 49 26. Ier. 50. 33 34. Chap. 51. 24 25 34. 35. Zech 12. 2 3 4. Chap. 14. 12. Rev. 18. 6 c. Acts Mon Histor. Pap. Reas. 2. Psal. 2. 9 10 11 12. Rev. 17. 14. Matt. 28. 20. 1 Cor. 11. 26. Ephes 4. 11 12 13. 1 Tim. 6. 13 14. Psal. 45. 16. Isa. 49. 7 13. Revel. 18. 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Bel de Rom. Pon li 5 c. 8. 2 Thes. 2. 6 7 Dan. 2. 41. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Rev. 17. 13. Rev. 13. 15 16. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 2 Thes. 2. 11. Roma sedes Petri quae Pastoralis honoris facta caput mundo quicquid non possidet armis Relligione tenet Prosp. de Ingrat Reas. 3. Ioh. 10. 16. Isa. 37. 31. Ier. 30 9. Ezek. 34. 23. Chap. 37. 24 25. Hos. 3. 5. Amos 9. 11. Exod. 14. 21 22. Iosh. 3. 15 16. Halâ— 3. 8. Ier. 51. 31 32. Revel 11. 2. Psal. 137. 8 9. Isa. 47. 7 8 9. Ier. 51. 25 26. Revel. 17. 1 2. Zach 2. 7. Ier. 51. 6. Iudg. 16. 28 29 Petra dedit petro Petrus diadema Rodulfo Reas. 4. Heb. 11. 28. 2 Cor. 4. 18. Vse 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Luk. 16. 29 â—0 Esther 1. 13. Gen. 6. 13. Isa. 23. 9. 1 Kin. 10. 27. Hab. 2. 14. Isa. 65. 25. Qu. Ans. Luk. 3. 15. Vse 2. Vse 3. Vse 4. Vse 5. Vse 6.