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A70256	The priveledge of the saints on earth beyond those in heaven in respect of gifts and graces exercised, duties and services performed, sufferings and tryals undergone by them which the glorified are not capable of : being the sum of a discourse upon a part of Hezekiah's Song of thanksgiving ... : to which is added A short discourse of the nature and extent of the Gospel-day : reaching from the destruction of the old to the erection of the new Jerusalem out of Zech. 14, 6, 7 / by William Hooke.	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2628; ESTC R28112	66,910	165

instead of a Father to him that it went well with him and his Kingdom whiles he lived but miserably with both afterwards Many Children have lost themselves together with their Parents Consider what I say And then you that have such Ministers of Jesus Christ as labour in the Word and Doctrine and watch for your Souls prize them pray for them and improve them for you know not the consequences of their removal 5th Use of Exhortation Lastly Seeing there is more service to be done on Earth than in Heaven how should this exalt Christ Jesus in our hearts and enlarge them in love to him who as he wrought so much for us on Earth so still is he at work for us in Heaven He He is the great Worker in the highest World You know what he saith in his prayer to his Father I have glorified thee on Earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do Yea but we are to understand it of his Work upon Earth for his Work in Heaven is not as yet finished nor will before the end of the world Alas we can do little for Christ in Earth and less in Heaven Yet Jesus Christ whether in Earth or Heaven is still at work for us It is not with him as with us Heaven takes the work out of our hands but it puts it into his For thither is he gone to take and keep possession and to prepare places for us There he executeth his Mediatory-Office continually appears and makes intercession for us sheds abroad his Spirit gives Commission to the Angels and Gifts unto Men calleth and gathereth in his Elect ones enableth us to work on Earth governs the World upholds his Church and subdues their Enemies All the Work of Heaven lies upon Christ's hands and it is well it doth o● what would become of us on Earth And as this should raise our Esteem an● Love of Christ so should it quicken us the more to work for him on Earth seeing he is still at work for us in Heaven He wrought above thirty years for us here on Earth but in Heaven above sixteen hundred and thus he will continue his work to the end of the world To him therefore be glory and honour for ever and ever Amen A short Discourse OF THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE Gospel-Day Reaching from the Destruction of the OLD to the erection of the NEW JERUSALEM Zach. 14. 6 7. And it shall come to pass in that day that the Light shall not be clear nor dark But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light By W. H. London Printed for John Wilkins and are to be sold at his shop in Exchange-Alley next door to the Exchange-Coffee-House over against the Royal-Exchange 1673. COURTEOUS READER THou hast added a brief Treatise of the nature of the Gospel-Day in its Rise Progress and Perfection The Morning of which Day beginning in the Apostles times had much darkness mingled with a little light You know what stiff and earnest contentions there were for the Jewish Rites and Ceremonies yea the very Articles of Faith called in question the Spirit of Anti-christ working even then in the Evangelical Churches which in after Ages grew to a greater height in the exaltation of the Man of Sin But still the Light and Purity of the Gospel prevailed though sometimes the darkness was such as to threaten an utter extirpation God raising up some faithful Witnesses in all Ages to hold forth and vindicate the Light against all that opposition made against it The Truth had its Champions even then when the whole World wondred after the Beast And from them to us it is continued by an uninterrupted succession being still of a growing and encreasing Nature like the path of the Just shining more unto the perfect day What cause have we to bless God that we see the Truth and Gospel going on conquering and to conquer all Errour and Opposition Well the night is far spent and the day is at hand and go let us cast off the Works of Darkness and put on the Armour of Light and so much the more as we see the Day breaking when Shadows shall flee away Light shall overspread the face of the whole Earth Peace Truth Holiness and Comfort shall then abound In the mean time it is no wonder if Light and Darkness conflict together Light of Peace with Trouble of Truth with Errour and go let us not be secure God may soon bring a Cloud over our Peace and Liberty And let us also who are of the day be sober bearing with and forbearing one another forasmuch as yet we know but in part and see through a Glass darkly but when the Evening of this Gospel-Day cometh the Lord shall be one and his Name one Zech. 14. 7 9. one heart and one way Jer. 32. 39. In the Faith and Hope hereof Let all the Children of Zion rejoyce and endeavour to be a People prepared for the Lord. Reader I shall detain thee no longer from this useful and seasonable Discourse The blessing of God go with it and make it fruitful so prayes Jan. 18 th 1673-4 Thy Servant in the Gospel H. J. ZECH. 14. 6 7. And it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light THis Chapter begins with the revenge of God upon Judah and Jerusalem for their crucifying the Lord of glory Ch. 13. 7. of which vengeance Christ himself foretold and he calls them days of vengeance where he amply fieth what the Prophet here speaketh briefly Yet God threatneth to be avenged on the Nations that dealt thus with Jerusalem and the Jews They should have no thanks for this their service as minding only the fulfilling of their own wills and not Gods Ver. 3. But though Jerusalem should be overthrown and the Temple burnt and the Temple-Worship abolished yet the Lord would have a care of his Church and make way for the conversion of the Gentiles and expose the Truth and Way of his Worship to the open view of the Jews and Gentiles from East to West For the Truth and Way of God's Worship and of Salvation was pent up before Christ's coming in the narrow confines of Judea and obscured also and darkned with shadows and Ceremonies as Jerusalem the Seat of God's Worship was with Hills But now all should be laid open before all the world from East to West And this here is signified by an Allegory of the cleaving of Mount Olivet one famous Hill being put for the rest in the mid'st towards the East and towards the West whereby the City of God which is the Church should no longer be obscured but patent

because he was a great Commander and Prince in his Country to which also he had been a Father having wrought great deliverances for the same However such a Father was the good King in my Text and he owns himself as such an one in the very entrance of his Reign when he was but 25 years old For saith he to the Priests and Levites exhorting them to their duty My sons be not now negligent for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him to serve him and that you should minister unto him and burn Incense They were themselves Fathers for Hezekiah calls them God's Ministers and so they were Fathers to Hezekiah but as he was their King he was their Father and they his sons They his Spiritual Fathers he their Political and so he was not only Pater patriae but also Pater patrum not only the Father of his Countrey but the Father of his Fathers i. e. the Political Father of those who were his Fathers Ecclesiastically But here is no opportunity of speaking to such Fathers as these whose duty it is also to make known the Truth unto their Children as Hezekiah did as appears at large in his Reformation 2 Chron. 29th 30th and 31th Chapters There are Fathers in age gravity seniority viz. such as are well stricken in years Such are they 1 Tim. 5. 1. Rebuke not an Elder but entreat him as a Father the younger Men as brethren the elder Women as Mothers the younger as sisters The Elder here is not a Church-Officer as some perhaps may think For though it is Presbyteros in the Original yet the same word is applyed to Elder Women also in ver 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Elder Women or as if I should say The Presbyteresse● So that the Apostle here speaketh only of the several degrees of Age in each Text Elder and Younger calling the Elder Men Fathers and the Elder Women Mothers and the younger Men and Women Brethren and Sisters And that this is the true meaning of the Apostle appears also Titus 2. 2 3. where the Elder here is called Aged there Now there is a duty also incumbent upon these as touching the transmission of the Truth to the generation to come Make it known therefore by your Examples Counsels Encouragements upon all occasions for you have heard much and seen much and known much and treasured up experiences and therefore certainly you should have much to say to such as are of the younger sort and your years gravity wisdom experiences will the better recommend the Truth unto them for there is an honour due to you also by vertue of the fifth Commandment Let me commend to you that Text of Scripture Oh God thou hast taught me from my youth and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works Now also when I am old and gray-headed Oh God forsake me not until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come The Psalmist was now an old Man one of much experience being taught of God from his youth and as God taught him so he taught others For saith he Hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works Hitherto that is to old Age for now he was aged and gray-headed And had he not done well and was it not time now to dye Yes he had done very well but yet he is willing to live a little longer to do more and therefore saith he Forsake me not until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come As if he should say I am willing yet to live a little longer to do more generation-work there is a care and zeal for posterity upon my heart there are young people ready to come after me and peradventure they will listen to the Counsel of an old experienced servant of God and upon this account I am willing to spend a few days more upon Earth to serve God and Posterity without which it were not worth while to live Think upon this Text of Scripture you that are old and gray-headed and improve the little remainder of your lives to serve the succeeding generation For you do not love Religion if you do not love that it should live when you are dead neither are they worthy of experiences who dig and hide them in the Earth When God had shewed his singular care and power in the preservation of his Church against her Enemies that attempted the ruine thereof saith he Walk about Zion go round about her tell the Towers thereof mark ye well her Bulwarks consider her Palaces that ye may tell it to the generations following So when God ariseth to build up Zion and appears in glory upon the prayers of his poor people This must be written for the generations to come that the people which shall be created may praise the Lord. Lastly There are such who though they are not called Fathers yet are called Elders viz. the Members of the Gospel-Churches And they are so called not in respect of age but of state in these Gospel-times wherein the Church is past her non-age and is now in an Elderly state requiring more Knowledge Wisdom Strength Seriousness Gravity and Solidity in the things of God How should such as these walk before others so as to answer the Character of Elders Let such take heed then of carrying it below their state It is not for Elders to behave themselves like Children I have thought many times of that description of the Gospel-Churches in the Revelations and how little it is answered this day by many that relate to such Societies Take heed then of scandals answer your State live up to your Priviledges shine in Holiness that you may adorn the Doctrine of God and our Saviour and commit and commend your State Examples and holy Lives unto the Generation to come that they may attain to the knowledge of the Truth by your walking in it and say These Truths and Ways of holy Walking were made known to me by the Gracious Grave and serious Lives of such as did relate unto the Churches of Christ The Exhortation hitherto hath been to do all the good we are able during our abode here below seeing death will put end to all our opportunities And I have propounded to you several Particulars wherein to be exercised this way Now before I proceed to any further Use of Exhortation Let me mind you of that which may conduce to the attendance of this Duty and that is an heart enlarged unto publick service For that which greatly hinders the prosecution of this work is the narrowness and straightness of the Spirits of Men whose concernments are commonly bounded within themselves Therefore you must endeavour to abound in love First To the glory of God For this was at work in Hezekiah's heart when he said The living the living he shall praise thee This was uppermost this was the first