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A94073	The vengeance of the temple: discovered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major and court of aldermen of the City of London, in Pauls Church, May 17. 1648. Being the day of publique thanksgiving for a victory obtayned by the forces under the command of Colonell Horton, at St. Faggons, neere Cardiffe in Wales. / By William Strong pastor of Dunstans in the west, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing S6011; Thomason E450_20	38,327	55

first 6000. yeares of the World as Justine Martyr and after him Lactantius and others have observed And then shal be another condition of the Church which shall be even in this life compared with the former may wel be stiled Triumphant and glorious When Christ that great and mighty Angell shall come downe from Heaven clothed with a Cloud and a Rainbow upon his head and shall set his right foot upon the Sea and his left foot upon the Earth and thereby take to himselfe the dominion of both Revel 10.5.6 which is called taking to himselfe his great power and reigning Revel 11.17 when hee shall give the kingdome and dominion under the whole heaven which was before in the enemies hand unto the Saints of the most High and they shall possesse it for ever and ever When their enemies shall bow down before them and licke the dust under their feet In this militant condition hath the Church of God beene ever since the fall and how long it shall so continue no man can certainly determine But it is the concurrent judgement of our Divines that it drawes neere an end While this estate of the Church lasts their condition will be like that described by the Prophet A day wherein the light shall neither be cleare nor darke Zach. 14.6 full of uncertainties and subject to continuall changes and vicissitudes not so light that they shal say there is an end of our feares nor so darke that they shall say there is an end of our hopes Sometimes they may be under the power of the Enemy as prisoners in a pit wherein there is no water and by and by God will rayse up a deliverer for them that shall proclaime their liberty and be as a covering Cherub to the Ark of God for their defence A resemblance of this condition of the Church we have in the Jewish State which therefore is made the prototype of all the Gentile Churches thorowout the whole Book of the Revelation the Prophesie of the last times An embleme whereof you have in the former Chapters First the children of Israel did evill in the sight of the Lord and he gave them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim the king of Mesopotamia and hee ruled over them eight yeeres Then the Lord raysed up a deliverer to them Oihoniel the sonne of Kenaz Calebs yonger brother and the Land had rest forty yeeres Then the chilren of Israel did evill againe in the sight of the Lord and he strengthned against them Eglon the king of Moab and they served him eighteene yeeres and then the Lord raysed up a deliverer for them Ehud the sonne of Gera and the Land had rest fowrescore yeeres Afterwards they were oppressed by the Philistines and the Lord delivered them by Shamgar the sonne of Anath And they did evill againe in the sight of the Lord and he sold them into the hand of Iabin king of Canaan the most potent of all these enemies for he had nine hundred Chariots of iron and twenty yeeres hee mightily oppressed Israel And then the Lord raysed for their deliverance Deborah the wife of Lapidoth and Barach the son of Abinoham and gave the enemy into their hands Thus God never leaves his people in affliction but provides Saviours aswell as Persecutors not onely hornes but Carpenters also to beat them to pieces Zach. 1.21 A song of thanksgiving for this last victory and deliverance is the contents of this Chapter In which by way of context wee may observe these six particulars all which will helpe us in the duty of the present day 1 First the heart that shal be thankfull for a mercy must be gracious the song must be sung by a Deborah and a Barak they must have golden vials hearts refined and not drossie that shall have the harpes of God in their hands Revel 5.8 And they that shall sing the Lords song must be redeemed from the Earth being the first fruits to God and to the Lambe in whose mouth is found no guile Revel 14.4.5 An earthy spirit may put a man upon a prayer his owne necessity will therein carry him on to howle upon his bed for his corne and wine and oyle but it is a heart only redeemed from the earth that will enable a man to returne prayse so that if there bee ten cleansed we may say with our Saviour Where are the nine 2. Secondly whosoever shal be thankful for a mercy must prize it and rejoyce in it Gaudentis est gratias agere Levit. 3.1 Peace offrings are called in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Retributions and they that thinke they have received little will make little conscience of returning There is an evill generation among the sonnes of men that undervalue mercies and despise them saying Would God we had died in Egypt Canaan is a L●nd that eats up his inhabitants These men are so far from accepting the punishment in an affliction that they accept not the mercy in their redemption Mercies will distinguish men aswell as Judgements Some are delivered to everlasting life some to shame and everlasting contempt Dan. 12.2 O poore murmuring soules to whom mercies are a burthen 3. Thirdly a thankfull heart must stir up it selfe unto prayse Awake Deborah awake awake utter a song arise Barak and let captivity captive Eph. 5.19 thou sonne of Abinoam Thanksgiving is melody in the heart of the Lord and before you can make melody your Instrument must be in tune Awake my glory awake lute and harpe I my selfe will awake right early Yee prophane and unthankfull spirits ingratus est qui injuriam voc at finem voluptatis that repine at blessings Sen. ad Polyb. ● 20 and looke upon your mercies as your injuries incredulous men that are scarce willing to beleeve the things you see that endeavour to bring up an evill report upon all the goodnesse of God procul hinc heere is no place for you in the worke of this day The garment of prayse is comely only for the upright ye wayward spirits that slight the gift because your selves did not chuse the messenger and because you like not the hand that brings it And yee seemingly compassionate that say shall we give thanks for the killing of men and that of our owne Nation in a Civill Warre In this case the Heathen man did forbeare his Triumph and therefore such Thansgivings seeme not only unchristian but inhumane To such I answer The War in which at first ye of this City were eminently ingaged and by you the Kingdom was eyther just or unjust if it were unjust then hide your Tropheyes and be ashamed of your victories for he that gives thankes to God because he prospers in a sinne makes God a patron thereof But if it were just you ought to rejoyce in the successe being the publike execution of divine justice and to glorifie God in those things wherein hee hath glorified himselfe T is farre from us to rejoyce in the bloud of

lesse time 2. Secondly these last sufferings shall be an inlet to the most glorious deliverances that ever the Church of God had for the killing of the witnesses shall make way for their resurrection Rev. 11.12.15 when they shall ascend to heaven in a cloud their enemies beholding them And then shall the Kingdomes of the earth become the Kingdomes of the Lord and the dominion under the whole heaven shall be given to the Saynts of the most High Dan 7.27 and they shall possesse it for ever and ever 3. Thirdly all your sinfulnesse and unworthines shall not hinder your redemption though the people of God fall yet they shall rise and though they may sit in darknesse the Lord will bee light about them Indeed the great discouragements to the Saints are their sinnes and their unanswerable walking unto meanes and mercies but yet the Lord cannot alter the word gone out of his lips nor suffer his faythfulnesse to fayle Esay 10.27 The burden shall bee taken away from off thy shoulder and the yoke from off thy necke and the yoke shall bee destroyed because of the annointing Glass Rhetor sacr Calv. in loc Some take the annointing for Christ the annointed of the Lord and others for the Kingdome of Christ which by an unction the Lord had established whether Christ or the Kingdom of Christ be understood yet there is an annointing that will breake every yoke Their sinnes may procure their affliction but they shall never hinder their redemption 4. Fourthly The enemies shall never bee able to set up Popery in this kingdome againe and to establish any of those things that relate to it that the Lord hath removed in these late yeeres they shall never bee able to root out the Saints out of the Reformed Churches but they shall grow by their opposition Christ will surely keepe the ground that hee hath won in a way of Reformation and what the former vialls have destroyed shall never be made up againe for hee will not lose the fruit of his conquest in any one of them His shakings of heaven and earth are to this end that hee may remove the things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things that cannot be shaken may remain Heb. 12.27 There is nothing that is made by man in the things concerning God but he will have a shaking time for it and his end in shaking it is that hee may remove it and he doth not so remove it that the enemies should againe establish it And therefore what ever of Popery the Lord hath shaken and removed I doe conclude that all the power of the enemy shall never set up againe I doe not doubt but there will bee many and desperate attempts for it but they shall never bee able to prevayle as when the Heathenish way of worship was destroyed there were many endeavoured to set it up againe Fiftly God will in an especiall manner owne you in all your sufferings as he calls you forth for him so will hee assuredly appeare for you and therefore he saith when men reject them and cast them out Rev. 11.3 they are my two witnesses and they shall have the same power with him that any of the ancient Saints have had in times past they shall turne water into bloud with Moses and Aaron they shall shut Heaven that it shall not raine with Elijah they shall be two Olive trees standing before the God of the earth with Joshua and Zorobabel if any man hurt them fire shall come out of their mouthes and devour them and they shall smite the earth with plagues as often as they will so that the greater persecution they shall meet with all from men the nearer accesse they shall have to God and the greater acceptance with him and as the affliction shall abound so shall also the consolation and to be owned eminently by God and to be looked upon as those of whom the world is not worthy when they are disowned by men and accounted not worthy to live in the world is a great meanes to beare up mens spirits in the greatest sufferings Sixtly It shall end in their finall and utter destruction for there shall follow an earthquake Rev. 11.13 in which the tenth part of the City shall fall Christ shall be clothed with a vesture dipt in bloud Rev. 19.13.15 and he shall tread the wine presse and fiercenesse of the wrath of Almighty God and all those ancient Prophesies as well for the enemies destruction as for the Saints redemption shal be fullfilled for time or delay shal be no more Rev. 10.6.7 the mystery of God shal be finished as he hath declared to his servants the Prophets and then shall that ancient prediction of Lactantius be fullfilled De divino praemio lib. 7. c. 15. Romanum nomen quo nunc regitur ab orbis horret animus dicere sedd cam quia futurum est tolletur de terra All that power of Rome which hath for many hundred yeares as the fourth Beast tyrannized over the Churches all this shall be destroyed in the little horne Dan. 7.11.26 and the Beast given to the burning flame to be consumed and destroyed unto the end But especially by Iulian who did in dispight to Christ and Christianity use all meanes to bring in Pagan Idolatry againe and to build the Temple at Jerusalem and to set up againe the Jewish worship and to this end set a great multitude of poore deluded Jewes about this worke but when they had gotten materialls together and thought to set about the building that night the Lord sent a whirl-winde and scatered all the materialls but they were not thus discouraged from the worke but they sought out the ancient foundation of the Temple to build upon it and having found it the Lord sent an earthquake which cast up all the former foundation and then that Prophesie was full filled there was not a stone left upon a stone not throwne downe Ecce globus igneus e fundamentis Templi erumpeus laborantibus occur tens operarios multos ambussit incendio illo per totum diem durante Ea miracula quosdam Iudaeos ita permoverunt ut Christum Deum agnoscerent Religio vero indurati cum indignatione opus caeptum dereliquerunt Osiander Epitom hist Ecclesiast Cent. 4 l. 3. c. 34. but such was their blindenesse and desperate madnesse that they would not desist from the enterprise therefore the Lord sent a fire out of the foundations of the Temple which consumed many of the workmen their materialls and instruments for the building and then at last they began with shame and indignation to give it over The like endeavours wee may expect for Rome Antichristian and with greater violence but they shall be alway so crossed that they shall at last perish in their owne opposition what ground the Lord hath won upon Rome he will maintayne for he will by degrees destroy her Neyther shall