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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

sold him but God meant it unto good to save much people alive and when Joseph made known himselfe to his Brethren Gen. 45. 5. he saith Be not greived nor angry with your selves that ye sold me hither for God did send me before you to preserve life 4. That Christ shewes himselfe to be righteous when Kings and Princes are wicked He doth righteously punish sin with sin Ephraim is given to Idols let him alone and I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredome nor your spouses when they commit Adultery God may give places and power to wicked men and not grace and then they will become more wicked and fill up their measure suddainly God may be angry with a people for their sin and so give them a King in his wrath Hos 13. 11. I gave them a King in mine anger Gods anger is his justice whereby he burnes against sin and what he gives in justice is with respect to their sin Now he gave them a King in his wrath let that King be never so vile yet God that gave him is righteous I and righteous in that giving of him 5. That Jesus Christ is gracious as well as rightcous and orders all the badnesse of Kings for good Acts 4. 27 28. Herod and Pontïus Pilate with the Gentiles and people of Israel are gathered together against Christ but it s to doe what Gods hand and c●unsel had determined before to be done Cyrus is a Heathen King and knows not G●d Isa 45. 4. Yet for Jacob my servants sake and Israel mine elect I have even called thee by thy name and Isa 44. ult Cyrus he is my shepherd and shall performe all my pleasure saying to Jerusalem thou shalt be built and to the Temple thy foundation shall be laid 6. Though all Kings reigne by Christ yet Christ reignes much more in those who are good then in those who are bad He puts his spirit into them that are good to make them good he gives them the spirit of wisdome counsel and the feare of the Lord. He layes his Law upon them and draws them forth in obedience to it He stirres them up to what is good and holds them on in that goodnesse He gave Solomon wisdome to goe in and out before that great people and he wiseth Princes for their places and makes their actings acceptable both to God and men 1. Kings reigne by Christ It is not then so much their rich apparrel their sumptuous Pallaces their Royal attendance that instamps their Majesty on them as this that they are Christs creatures for this World they beare his Image of power and government on them and that is their great Majesty They are his ordinance Rom. 13. reigne by him and this subjects and keeps mens spirits under Oh! thanke Jesus Christ that you have no more insurrections against those in place and power mens minds are it may be ready enough to breake out but there is something of Christ stops them 2. We cannot rise against government but we rise against Christ Alas who are they that be in power but men like our selves that we rise against them Nay but they have a Commission which we have not a resistance is not so much to them as God Rom. 13. 2. is and alwayes was good Scripture Whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation or judgement wherefore you must be subject not onely for wrath but also for conscience sake v. 5. 3. Ascribe the good of government to Jesus Christ All their wisdome justice mercy and goodnesse is extracted from him when you eat of the fat and drink of the sweet when you enjoy your houses and lands your shops and ships your p●ace and plenty exalt him for it That you can lie down and rise up and walke abroad it s of his goodnesse and ingrave his Name on it and returne his praise to him 4. Do bad as well as good reigne by him learne hence a ground of patience and contentation Nothing calmes the heart so much as to revolve things on God regularly David says Psal 39. 9. I was dumb and opened not my mouth because thou didst it When Aaron lost both his sonnes that which made him hold his peace was that God would be sanctified and glorified God had done it Lev. 10. 3. That which made Job not to charge God foolishly and kept him from the sin of impatience it was that the Lord had given and taken away and the like was that in old Eli 1 Sam. 3. 18. when heavy things were denounced against him and his house he said It is the Lord let him do whatever he please 5. How glorious is that Christ by whom Kings reigne how poorely doth all their splendor resemble his glory while they rule others he rules them Oh! that we could see him he is not onely their governour but their Maker fall down and adore before him They must bring in an account of their government and you may appeale from them to him as you heard before He is most absolute and by his Decree things are and shall be to eternity How doth it greive Princes to feele old age come upon them to be subjected to aches paines and diseases and that they and their honour must part and lie in the dust Oh! then admire and for ever praise him whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome and of whose government there is no end I shall conclude this Position with a word of exhortation to Princes taken out of Psal 2. 10. 1. To be wise and understand by whom you reigne away with your contesting against Christ and fall in with his ends and interests that will be your wisdome indeed a single portion of wisdome should not content you you are to study and to rule and a great deale of wisdome is required to a little rule you have many snares and temptations in your places and you need abundance of wisdome to guard you from those snares you are to govern others yea many others as well as your selves Be wise now therefore O ye Kings 2. Be instructed ye Judges of the Earth God hath his word and his rod for you as well as others and its wisdome to learn by both Deut. 17. 19. you must read to keep you humble that your hearts be not lifted up above your brethren and if you heare not that voyce of the word behold a speaking rod and him that appointed it Heare heare and learn yea learn righteousnesse 3. Feare feare before him It s not below you O Kings it will not argue a pusillanimous spirit to feare God Exod. 18. 21. Jethro's Justices were able men men able for government yet fearing God The lesse you are under the feare of men the more should you walke in the feare of God This feare would be a sweet bound to your power and will and trust God

Lord against the mighty Sect. X. The great worke of the latter dayes shall be to exalt holinesse and righteousnesse in Kingdomes and Common-wealths Ezek. 37. 23. They shall not defile themselves any more with their Idols nor with their detestable things nor with any of their transgressions But I will save them out of all their dwelling places wherein they have sinned and will cleanse them so shall they be my people and I will be their God This blessed Covenant shall be made good both to Jews and Gentiles Joel 3. 17. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Sion my holy mountaine Then shall Jerusalem be holy and there shall no strangers passe thorow her any more These Promises have not received their full accomplishment I say their full accomplishment but remaine yet to be fulfilled according to what was laid down in the second Chapter The holinesse and purging spok●n of in these Promises shall not be the portion of Jerusalem onely she alone is not to obtain this holinesse and righteousnesse and others left out But it shall be the portion of other people the Gentiles also according to the Prophesie of John in Rev. 22. 3. There shall be no more Curse then surely there will not be that that causeth the curse which is sin so far as the curse shall not be sin shall not be But the Throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it Now the Thrones of men and of the Beast the Thrones of prophanesse and Idolatry are set up but it shall not be so then but his servants shall serve him Now they serve their own lusts and the wills of men too much but then they shall serve the Lamb Christ and how and wherein Psal 45. 6. The Scepter of his Kingdome is a right Scepter v. 7. Thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse and as Christ loves and hates so shall his servants then eminently they shall have his minde and heart 2 Pet. 3. 13. We according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse When the new heavens and the new earth shall be righteousnesse then shall be no stranger there but a home dweller it shall abide there as in the proper seat of it Sect. XI Saints shall have notable conquests over their adversaries Nnmb. 24. 17 18. The Star out of Jacob and the Scepter that shall rise out of Israel shall smite the corners of Moab Edom shall be a possession and Israel shall do valiantly out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion and shall destroy him that remaineth of the City The names of Moab and Edom and the City hold out the enemies of the Church Israel and Jacob are to be referred to the Israel of God in the Gospel and his people now as well as then and pardon me if I conceive our late domestick Wars and Triumphant Victories to look this way Joel 3. 19. Egypt and Edom shall be a desolation for the violence against the children of Judah because they have shed innocent blood in the land Egypt and Edom comprehend the enemies of Gods people now as well as formerly and precious in the sight of the Lord is the blood of his Saints Tremble and be horribly afraid France Spain Savoy Germany England yea all Nations on whom lieth the heavy guilt of Saints blood he that hath a bottle for their teares will certainly account for their blood and who knows but he may now be upon his Circuit and beginning to repay and to require blood for blood Obad. v. 18. The house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stuble and they shall kindle in them and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it Psal 149. 6 7 8 9. The praises of God shall be in the mouthes of Saints and a two-edged sword in their hands to execute on them the judgement written To execute vengeance on the Heathen and punishment on the people To binde their Kings in chains and their Nobles in links of Iron This honour have all his Saints and this ruine shall all his adversaries have Hag. 2. 22. I will overthrow the Throne of Kingdomes and I will destroy the strength of the Kingdomes of the Heathen and I will overthrow the Charriots and those that ride in them and the horses and their riders shall come down every one by the sword of his Brother Sect. XII This Holinesse and Righteousnesse these glorious Conquests and these great Changes shall not be all at once but be brought on by degrees Thus Moses carries Israel through the Wildernesse but Joshua brings them into Canaan Moses must not do all nor Joshua both have their proper works David provides for the Temple but Solomon he must build it Deut. 7. 22. I will put out these Nations before thee by little and little thou mayst not consume them at once God works and performes his promises now in proportion to what he did formerly and as it was by degrees then so now though its possible God may make more haste God builds up his people as he destroyes his enemies and that is by degrees By the seven Seals he destroyes Heathenish Rome Rev. 6. By the seven Vials successively the Antichristian Romish party Rev. 17. So by degrees he will raise his Church CHAP. XXII Contains the Vses of the former Doctrine namely That Christ is King of Saints HAving declared Christ in the former twelve Sections to be King of Saints Give me leave now to adde a word of application and that 1. By way of an inviting Instruction 2. By way of Exhortation The inviting Instruction you shall finde in these three passages discovering 1. Christs excellency 2. The properties of his Kingdome 3. The glory of his Saints 1. To shew you Christ's excellency in that he is King of Saints None so glorious and therefore none so desirable as Jesus Christ Rev. 15. 3. where he hath that high and mighty Title of King of Saints ascribed to him he is also called Lord God Almighty whose workes are great and marvelous and his wayes just and true Now to elevate your thoughts to his Excellency let me set before you these four things 1. His right and Title 2. His Qualifications 3. His Administrations 4. His Communications 1. His ●ight and Title which you shall finde the justest and highest Title He is no usurper of his Kingdome for he hath it by a fivefold right 1. Of Election 2. Of Donation 3. Of Birth 4. Of Purchase 5. Of Conquest 1. His right is by Election for He is chosen to it by God the Father Isa 42. 1. Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighteth Gods everlasting love is on him and on him for the great work and service of the Mediatorship he hath passed by all in Heaven and Earth and