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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80426	Higayon selah. Ierusalem fatall to her assailants. Discovered in a sermon before the Honorable House of commons August 29. 1649. At Margarets Westminster, upon their solemne day of thanksgiving for that signall victory over the Lord Ormond, in routing his whole army, and raising the seige of Dublin in Ireland, by the garrison thereof under the command of lieutenant Generall Jones. / By William Cooper M.A. minister of the gospel at Olaves Southwark.	Cooper, William, minister at St. Olave's Southwark.	1649 (1649)	Wing C6064; Thomason E572_4; ESTC R206160	37,133	45

חגיון סלה IERUSALEM Fatall to her Assailants DISCOVERED In a Sermon before the Honorable House of COMMONS August 29. 1649. At MARGARETS Westminster Vpon their solemne day of thanksgiving for that signall Victory over the Lord ORMOND In routing his whole Army and raising the Siege of Dublin in Ireland By the Garrison thereof under the Command of Lieutenant Generall IONES By WILLIAM COOPER M. A. Minister of the Gospel at OLAVES Southwark PSAL. 9.16 The Lord is known by the judgement that he executeth The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah Claud. lib. 1. in Eutrop. Sic opifex tauri tormentorumque repertor Primus inexpertum Siculo cogente tyranno Sensit opus docetque suum mugire juvencum London Printed by J. C. for the Author and are to be sold at the Crown in Popes-head Alley 1649. Die Iovis 30 Augusti 1649. ORDERED by the Commons assembled in Parliament that the thanks of this House be given to M. Cooper for his great pains taken in his Sermon preached before this House yesterday at Margarets Westminster being a day set a part for a publick Thanksgiving And that he be desired to print his Sermon and have the like priviledge in printing as others usually have had in the like case And it is ordered that Sir Henry Mildmay doe give him the thanks of this House accordingly Henry Scobel Cler. Parliamenti To the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at Westminster Honorable Worthies THE Romans what out of policie or superstition Pluc Macrob. Vide Casp Bart. ad Rutil l. 2. v. 42. made it heinous and capitall to make known the name of their Cities tutelar God by whose favour Rome had attained to that height of grandor and glory it was religion to them to be silent and secret in this But our silence would be so far from being sacred that it were a sin and high prophaning the name of our tutelar God the great God and Lord of Hosts not to publish and blaze his Name unto the world especially when himselfe declares that he doth his wondrous works that they may be had in everlasting remembrance But when I consider the sullen silence and ingratitude of many notwithstanding so vast a confluence of mercies upon us with measure pressed down and running over me thinkes it calls to mind what an Hebrew Writer complaines of in his time that the Fathers had plowed R. Hag. sowen reaped fanned and set bread upon the Table but the children had not a mouth to eat it Surely that 's a foolish and a froward child that sees not how his heavenly Father hath provided for him and yet wants a heart to value and a mouth to proclaim his goodnesse The sense of which alone prevailed upon my spirit to attend the call of Divine Providence by you Honourable Worthies both first to speake and now to publish this ensuing homely discourse I believe therefore have I spoken It was a noble acknowledgement in David when he said Thine O Lord is the greatnesse and the power and the glory and the victory and the Majesty All things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee How then can we grudge to give God his homage and tribute who hold all at the will of the Lord Our thankefulnesse what is it but the reflection of his own beames and the eccho of his strokes strokes laid on so home and heavy upon your adversaries as makes some of them with the Magicians to confesse the finger of God You right honorable have declared your high sense of so transcendent a deliverance and I hope it will not soon die with you being so rich a present and earnest of future happinesse Yet know this doth not pay all your debt Crescentibus donis donorum crescunt rationes much is given you and therefore much shall be required of you So then it is proper for your soules now to ask this question What shall I render and how shall I stand under this weight of glory and mercy A question so much the more proper and seasonable as our frailties are apt to expose us in prosperous successes unto the power of temptations insomuch as a sage Heathen tels us this observation of his Cicero lib. 4. Epist 3. ad Lam. that although warre be full of calamities yet nothing is more dangerous than victory which albeit it happen to the best men yet it commonly renders them fierce and impotent in their excesses yea notwithstanding they are otherwise by nature inclined yet by a kind of fatality they are made such The consideration of this I hope will over-aw your hearts by a holy feare and watchfulnesse not onely to shun these rockes of extremity to which you see men in such a case obnoxious but also to study an improvement of your mercies sutable to the greatnesse of them There is a memorable story of that grave Emperour Charles the fifth a man cut out for greatnesse and happinesse had he not dashed upon that rock which commonly splits Royal Families an endevour to smother the Gospel by force and fraud this man upon some successes was flattered by Antonius Leva and some other of his officers to make use of his victories for the advantage and interest of his Imperiall Majesty their meaning was that he should thereby make himself great after the example of Caesar Alexander not sparing any that stood in his way To whom he thus reply'd The sole mark of Alexander and J. Caesars aim Besold Dissert Philolog c. was worldly glory but it becomes me and other Christian Princes so to look at honour as to take heed lest while we hunt after that we lose our soules and to use victory so as we may be able to give God an account of our actions This answer from such a man at such a time I confesse made some impression upon me when I read it my prayers are it may doe more upon you whom for your present capacity and transactions it more fitly suits Shew thou your selves to God as he hath declared himselfe to you Wot you how In righteousnes and holines by these two the Lord makes himself glorious and these two will be as the two pillars Jachin and Boaz both to your own honour and the happines of this people For Religion Bodin val in Res Hac velnti thyrso percutiuntur mentes humanae Lib. 2. cap. 18. de prin I know a name only of it is sufficient to some to maintain their own name and to preserve an interest This hath been esteemed by Princes sufficient to charme and restrain the multitudes forasmuch as Religion hath the strongest reason in it and for it of all things But if there be but a name if there be but a shew and singlenesse in this the Lord will not be mocked Yet if any should tell me that England hath the same ground to complaine of what France did long agoe That too many

verse Behold I will make Ierusalem a cup of trembling c. I thus armed thus resolved will now shew my glory at this great undertaking come and see a famous spectacle your God engaging for Ierusalem when the Lord once engageth eminently for Ierusalem to defend and deliver it Note he summons all to be spectatour and observers of it Before he shewed his power what he could doe here he declares his will what he is resolved to doe Behold I will make c. a solemne summons This is worth noting God looks to be observed and admired in his great workings for a distressed people he cals for it aloud Revel 6. When the Lamb opened the first seale John saith he heard a noise as of thunder one of the foure beasts saying Come and see and when he had opened the second seale I heard the second beast say Come and see And when he had opened the third seale I heard the voyce of the third beast say Come and see And when he had opened the fourth seale I heard the fourth beast Come and see Alloquitur Ioannem sustinentem personam fidelis populi qui similiter per vocem ministrorum excitarentur ad observandos hos mirabiles eventus Exod. 14.13 Moses told trembling Israel Feare not stand still and see the salvation of God which he will shew you this day The Lord shall fight for you and yee shall hold your peace yea that 's a glorious sight to see indeed to see God taking a Pharaoh in hand of whom wee said For this cause have I raised thee up to shew in thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth This is one main end why the Lord fats and heightens an adversary that he may try misteries with him and spend his arrows on him and all this to be observed and admired the more Psal 111 2. The works of the Lord are great sought out of all that have pleasure therein his work is honourable and glorious he hath made his wonderfull works to be remembred that 's their end the Lord would never appear upon the stage if he had not some strange act to present he would never call inspectatours if he would not provide somwhat worth seeing This hath made the Saints in all ages curious in observing Gods works Abraham rejoyced in seeing Christs day Iacob waited for Gods salvation Moses said I beseech thee shew me thy glory he had seen much of God before all that did but whet his appetite he was still greedy after more Daniel was a man of desires in this sense as you heard it glossed but now and had a large prospect yet would fain have crowded to see more Right honourable You set us to display God in his grandour this day you stand upon advantageous ground and you see farre and quick into Gods works for you have declared your sense of this and former mercies yet you will yeeld you have not seen all and that its worth reading and turning over and over this marvellous discovery and dispensation of God Say then with Moses when the bush burned and was not consumed when the Church was in a flame and yet flourished in the fire I will now turn about and see what this great sight meaneth Exod. 3.3 The Lord wonders and is very angry at the senlesnesse and blindenesse of men that will not see his hand lifted up men that are quick witted and sharp sighted in other things they can discern the face of the skyes but will not know the signes of the times when they are visible but let the wicked doe wickedly for none of them shall understand but the wise shall understand the scripture makes tother a matter of folly and brutishnesse but these providentiall acts upon wicked men in their ruffe and when they flourish and are presumptuous then to pull them down this is too deep for wicked men yet are wee solemnly called to observe it See Dan. 12.10 Hos 14. ult Psal 92 5 6 7. Psal 107.40 41 42 43. Behold I will make Ierusalem a cup of trembling to all the people round about when they shall be in the siege both against Iudah and Ierusalem Note Ierusalem may be besieged by her enemies the place and people of God may be encompassed and distressed by their Adversaries a truth so clear both of litterall and mysticall Ierusalem that it is but time waste to prove it It s observable that our three grand enemies are encompassing enemies and grow dangerous For an enemy to encompasse argues a fourfold danger First It argues neernesse Secondly Superiority in power else he neither could or durst advance so close Thirdly Superiority in numbers else he could not surround and encompasse for he that is without hath the largest Line Fourthly A distresse and straitning from escape all this is implyed in a siege 1. The Devill Iob 1.7 Iob 2.2 He compasseth the earth 1 Pet. 5.8 He is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to walk about and to devour There 's not a soul of a righteous man but he layes siege making assaults and battery to that soule as for the hearts of wicked men he is possessed of them already and they are fortified by him against God his Word and judgements 2. Sin is an encreasing evill it s called sin that doth easily beset 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hebr. 12. Psal 49.5 David speaks of the iniquity of his heels compassing him about 3. The world none will doubt but that 's an encompassing enemy Therefore the poor Church is not only called a lilly among thorns a speckled Bird amongst the Birds Lambs among Wolves but expresly a besieged City the Daughter of Sion is left as a Cottage in a Vineyard as a Lodge in a Garden of Cucumbers as a besieged City Isaiah 1.8 Solitary and surrounded and not only invested at large but closely streightned and distressed so as with Jehosaphat they know not what to do only their eyes are upward towards God restat iter coelo tantum The ground of this from God is partly to give check restraint to the extravagancies of his people and we know sometimes it is but need the best and most retired soul hath his wanton flings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it s very hard to keep it from leering and hankering after some vanity to cure this the Lord will hedge us in with thornes Chrysost Hos 2. that we shall not find our lovers We are apt to turn our liberty into licenciousnes and the grace of God into wantonnes and to surfit upon mercy to growe fat and ranck to begin to gone and kick and break fence the Lord sees good to pinch us for this to reduce us to our measure and compasse by driving us into corners Sic deus cohibet fraenat suos ne diffluant Calvin thus the Lord will hamper his own he will banck and bound them into their right Channels least they overflow their bancks but