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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81992	Seismos megas. Or Heaven & earth shaken. A treatise shewing how kings, princes, and their governments are turned and changed by Jesus Christ as [brace] King of Kings, and King of Saints. / By John Davis, M.A. sometime lecturer at Christ Church in London, and now pastour of a congregation in Dover.	Davis, John, pastor of a congregation in Dover.	1655 (1655)	Wing D422; Thomason E1601_2	153,991	331

flesh nay as he is one with the Father Now 2 Cor. 5. 17. as many as are in Christ must be new creatures not new in some outward circumstances but in their whole frame not new from ontward restraint and present occurrences that mould them but new from a new inward disposition and so old thoughts indulging of sense and appetite unrulinesse and unreasonablnesse of passion unduenesse of aims and ends all these old things must passe away and all become new You are partakers of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. He doth not say you are partakers of Nature for that is common to all creatures nor of a reasonable nature for that is common to all men But a Divine Nature which is as far above the reasonable as the reasonable Nature is above the brutish it s such a Nature as ariseth from the great and precious Promises that are given to us and by which world lust and corruption are escaped You are Gods workmanship Eph. 2. 10. Those upon whom God leaves and manifesteth his special power and grace you are a created workmanship answerable to that work which called light out of darkness and created in Christ as well as by him and therefore you must answer Gods great ordination by being dedicate unto good workes and walking in them your motion must be progression and your progresse must be continued Your minds must be filled with the knowledge of his will Col. 1. 9. The manifestation of his minde must be imprinted on yours his word is his will revealed and his will is that which we must know yea know so as that there must be no deficiency you must be filled with it you must not onely be rational but wise not onely understanding but spiritual yea filled with all wisdome and spiritual understanding Eph. 1. 17. makes mention of the spirit of wisdome and revelation Of wisdome raising you to exalt the best good as your highest end and directing you to the aptest meanes for obtaining that good and what your natural power cannot reach unto he reveals and therefore it concerns you not onely to have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 knowledge but the acknowment of his will knowledge upon knowledge experimental approving knowledge Your understanding must be inlightned v. 18. light upon light spiritual upon natural light and then you are searching into not the nicetyes and curiosities of knowledge but to know his call and the hope of it his calling you out of darknesse into marvelous light and laying up a Crown of glory for your hope you have the exceeding greatnesse of his power working you to believe and the glorious riches of the inheritance in the Saints and all for you to know You must be transformed by the renewing of your minde Rom. 12. 2. Transformation and renovation must go together to make up this Christian metamorphosis and then you will not be quarrelling and snarling at the word as if it were a hard saying not to be borne but then you will prove the will of God to be good and perfect and it will be exceeding acceptable to you You must know the love of God which passeth knowledge Eph. 3. 19. A strange paradoxe to know that which passeth knowledge and yet its most true and most sweet for its a filling knowledge a knowledge with a fullnesse yea the fullest fullnesse for it is with all the fullnesse of God Your hearts must be abounding in sincerity of love to Jesus Christ his truth and all Saints They are under the Anathema maranatha that love not the Lord Jesus Christ and the power and deceitfulnesse of Satan works in them that receive not the love of the truth loving is more then liking it s a deliberate act of will closing with a sutable good Christ and his truth his wayes and his Saints are most sutable and agreeable to us when we are in love with him Your desires must not be faint and weak but hungrings and thirstings and that after righteousnesse strong desires for the apprehension of the excellency of the object and necessity of enjoying desires from an inward sense of want and unsatisfied without the enjoyment of what is desired and yet are you truely blessed in your desire after those things You must be walking in the feare of the Lord and comforts of the holy Ghost Act. 9. 31. Happy is the man that feareth alway that is in the actual apprehension of Gods greatnesse and goodnesse and so is troubled left his carriage should not answer them both Holy comforts do not make men idle or wanton but walking and fearing walking in the comforts of the holy Ghost and if sorrows and mournings overtake them they have comforts in them for its godly sorrow causing repentance never to be repented of The great duty of your heart is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ that you may be saved to see him in the excellency of his person and that he is able to save to the uttermost and that he is the onely one there being no other name given whereby you can be saved saved from sin and wrath from guilt and power hence you leane rest and stay on him roule your selves into his armes and if you perish resolve to perish there and so believing in hope against hope are strong in faith and give glory to God Rom. 4. 18. 20. and this faith must purifi● your hearts so that when others are transported with unruly passions you must be shewing forth all meeknesse kindnesse and gentlenesse You must rejoyce in the Lord allway Phil. 4. 4. Your faith gives a sweet enjoyment of Christ and that enjoyment doth inlarge your heart with joy unsp eakable and full of glory which make up that peace that passeth all understanding It is no light or loose joy but that which guards the heart and minde from the assaults and insults of sin and Satan and make up that new name that none can read but he that hath it Your mouths must correspond with your hearts and no corrupt communication is to proceed out of your mouth our mouths are made instruments to communicate our thoughts but this communication must not be corrupt in us or tending in the least to corrupt others it must be good not corrupt but useful and profitable good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers grace in you may draw forth grace in them good communication in you may promote good communication in them No foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a virtue with Aristotle is set down by the Apostle as a thing not convenient Talking is then foolish when it promotes not the feare of God and the good ends we should prosecute and mark how the Apostle joynes jesting with foolish talking I dare appeale to your experience that when you have garbled your

rooted and rivetted in you you could not take that impression from evil example without as you do if you had not a body of sin within oh thank your naughty hearts for being so soon tainted Satan comes to our Saviour and findes nothing in him Joh. 14 30. but in us he findes a strong party for him Indite your wicked proud passionate uncleane ungodly Natures for your forwardnesse too too great forwardnesse to follow what is evil the theives within open to those without and both ●ob and spoile 4. Lastly how just is it that you suffer from Princes when you grow sinful from them can you be content to follow them in evil and be discontented to receive evil from them little doe you know how your following hardens and encourageth them in sin they grow worse and worse and you help to make them so no wonder if you finde them bitter to you when they finde you wicked against God CHAP. XV. Opens the eight Position namely That abuse of Power and wickednesse of People adapt to Civil War as appears 1. In that pride in Princes produceth pride in people 2. Pride introduceth Luxury 3 Luxury poverty 4. Poverty discontent 5. Discontent meditation on their pressures 6. That meditation an unwillingnesse to payments for publick service 7. They forsake their Trades 8. They feare more then they feele 9. Incendiaries augment their feare 10. These incendiaries have many followers Vse YOu have heard of Power abused Chap. 12. and how the sins of Princes tend to break that power Chap. 13. and that when Princes are wicked people prove so also Let us now see all these joyned together in this eighth Position That abuse of power in Princes and wickednesse in people adapt to Civil War Rehoboams abuse of power caused the ten Tribes to rend from him and the wickednesse of the Benjamites caused the people of Israel to war against them 1. Abuse of power sticks much upon some serious and godly spirits it did so on our Worthies in that long Parliameut Worthies I call them for truly they did worthily in their time and we know how sensible they were of the Supreame abused misled Power how oft they petitioned how long they treated and treated waited and waited and at last were forced to defend themselves In which defence God and their consciences and we can testifie how tenderly they proceeded and how unwillingly they were drawn to act at last as they did It will not stand with the wisdome of some men to see the Laws which are the wisdome of our Ancestors put forth with power and Authority to see them I say trampled upon and foolish self-will exalted The courage of others cannot brooke unjust commands over their persons and demands of their estates Some beleeve God hath invested them and theirs with a liberty which they cannot lightly part withall but are tyed to maintaine Others conceive they are betrusted with publicke interest and therefore dare not but speake plainly and act boldly Some feare they should offend by ●infull silence and subjection Other feare they should be unfaithfull to those in power to see them abuse it and not let them know it All are sensible of power abused would faine have abused power rectified but if to the abuse of power there be added perversnesse and supremacy of will cease to wonder if you meet with a disposition to warr yea the worse of warrs a civil warre These wise couragious conscientious Men are leading men and have many followers their good affection to their Countrey being so oft tryed and known obliges their countryes hearts to them How many have bin made wise by their wisdoms and instructed by them in principles of power and state which they never knew and begin to be acquainted with the terriers and boundaryes of prerogative and liberty Courage is not confin'd to leaders but is that which is competible to those under command who share in it as well as they that lead them Our great Councell found that if they d●rst lead they should not nor did not want followers yea fighters too I think never nation had such a Parliament nor Parliament such souldiers It was our happinesse we had so many conscientious as well as couragious men and surely as courage so conscience prevailed with many yea exceeding many both commanders and commanded How glad were many poore precious soules to see those whom they had chosen to make lawes for them to endeavour to keepe a good couscience toward God and toward Men towards Authority and those under it And sure it could not but rejoyce the hearts of those conscientious worthyes to finde so many to love pray for them night and day let them looke to their Conscience in what they command for they still found a ready conscience in them to obey How many dayes and nights too have bin spent on one side in councell on the other in fasting and prayer oh the frequent and fervent meetings and prayers that we have had and now reape the answers of what a mighty spirit of grace did God poure out on Pastors and people on Captains and souldiers on Counsels and congregations that we may truely say Never such a praying Parliament a praying city a praying army and a praying people as we have had and all this occasioned by abuse of power See the height of Gods goodnesse that can and doth bring light out of darknesse sweetnesse out of bitternesse and good out of evill little did those then in power intend to draw forth such a spirit of prayer but though they intended evil God turned it to good But all this while we speak but of one party Nullū bellum utrinque justum No war so no civil war can be just on both sides It s the miserable fate of war that besides all the misery of it there is unavoidably iniquity cleaving to one side or other We have yet bin speaking of the better side but let us looke and you will finde folly as well as wisdome and wickednesie as well as conscience nay more and in more to adapt to civill war for Pride in Princes produceth pride in people It inrageth their hearts when they see they are not owned as Brethren but abused as slaves 1 Kings 12. 13. Rehoboam answers the people roughly and vers 16. the people return as bad an answer What portion have we in David and what inheritance in the son of Jesse To your tents O Israel How doe they grudge the unworthy flattering Courtier the ingrossing of their princes love which they should share in and not have all contracted and centred in a favorite How did their stomacke rise to see vile persons preferred and their betters slighted and laide aside Pride introduceth Luxury when mens minds are high then they thinke how to live high in their dyet apparrell pleasures recreations entertainments how wel might many live if their minds were suited to their state a low minde