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A00746	The calling of the Ievves A present to Iudah and the children of Israel that ioyned with him, and to Ioseph (the valiant tribe of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel that ioyned with him. The Lord giue them grace, that they may returne and seeke Iehovah their God, and Dauid their King, in these latter dayes. There is prefixed an epistle vnto them, written for their sake in the Hebrue tongue, and translated into English. Published by William Gouge, B. of D. and preacher of Gods word in Blackefryers. London.	Finch, Henry, Sir, d. 1625.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1621 (1621)	STC 10874; ESTC S102095	158,276	326

himselfe to be exalted by any thing that so poore sillie wormes of the earth are able to do And how should this whet our affections and set an edge vpon vs to performe so holy a dutie to him Thee In the manifold changes and confusions that fall out in the world we must haue our recourse to God They that haue no heart to praise God it is a token they haue neuer felt how sweet and gratious he is Iehovah thou art my God The foundation of all our prayers praises of God standeth vpon these two grounds and props his power and his will He is able to do vs all good For he is Iehovah Lord of heauen and of earth His will we can not doubt of For he is our God and Father through Christ Both these pillars we are taught to rest vpon in that holy heauenly and peerelesse prayer Our Father which art in heaven My God Here is the faith of a Christian when truly and from his heart in the sinceritie of his soule he can say with Thomas Ioh. 20. my God and my Lord appropriating to himselfe the promises of God in Christ So could not wicked Saul do who so oft saith vnto Samuel Iehovah thy God 1 Sam. 15. 21 30. as being himselfe none of his This maketh our faith differ from the faith of Diuels and from the faith of all carnall Gospellers For thou hast done The mightie and memorable acts of God deserue and are most worthy alwayes to be had in remembrance for he hath so wrought his wonderfull workes that he hath purchased a memoriall for them saith the Psalmist Psal 111. 4. They that are negligent and forgetfull make God as much as lyeth in them to loose this purchase which can neuer be Wherefore it is a thing too too intolerable though nothing be more common in the world for men to be so attentiue to their owne priuate affaires that they neuer heede the glorious acts of God which he euery day sheweth forth in the world for men to behold as in a glasse his glory in them Whereunto we are directed by our Prophet and a doore as it were and window here set open things pointed at which we must open our eyes to see For as the Apostle writeth to the Romanes Rom. 1. the invisible things of God are manifested in them His power truth wisedome iustice maiestie and mercy Wonderfull things When we see strange and marueilous things wonderfull in our eyes incredible to flesh and bloud there is the finger of God his power and his might Councels long ago When we finde the same long before many ages past prophecied and foretold as purposed from eternitie not sodainly and by chance rushed into what a prouidence and care is this ouer his Church and people what a depth of wisedome in so ordering and disposing of them Are faith trueth When his promises so long waited for and expected come in due time to be performed there is his faithfulnes and trueth To teach vs not to faint nor cast off our faith and confidence but though he linger yet to waite For comming he will come and will not defer Abacuc 2. 3. 2. For thou hast brought a Citie c. When we see mightie Nations strong and fensed Cities that lend the arme of their strength and power to the oppressing of Gods people to haue their hornes broken and to be laid euen with the ground that there remaineth not so much as a shard to fetch one cole of fire in a ruine neuer to be repaired behold a moment of his iustice 3. The mightie people the terrible nations What a God must we needs say is this of maiestie and glory that wringeth out of the mouth of the wicked and vngodly a confession of his praises and maketh the false-hearted tyrants that haue beene so awfull and terrible to his people to counterfeit a subiection and will they nill they to doe his Church seruice Esay 60. 14. 4. Thou hast beene a fense to the poore c. When the hearts of his poore distressed seruants in the middest of their heauinesse and sorrowes receiue aboundance of comfort are kept as it were in the Lyons denne and in the middest of the hot burning fornace that God is as a wall of brasse round about to gard and to defend them lo the riches of his mercie and goodnes And this maketh a high and mightie wall of difference betweene prophane worldlings and Gods children For euen they are amazed many times at the wonderfull things that God bringeth to passe in the gouernment of the world But none can indeed profit by the workes of God but such as haue their eyes opened to behold the things before remembred When the blast God is a helpe in affliction very ready to be found when all humane forces faile the diuine power is most at hand He suffereth his owne that are most deere vnto him to be iustled to the walls yea to be as an old and tottering wall readie to be ouer-turned with the blasts and violence of the wicked as the Church complaineth in the Psalmes Psal 66. 12. Thou hast made men to ride ouer our heads But in the meane time he hath the bridle and holdeth the reynes in his owne hands to curbe and keepe them in when they would go too farre passe the metes and bounds that he hath set them Then commeth his helpe as we say in the nike most sweet and comfortable as the shadow is to one that walketh and trauelleth in the heate of the day when the Sunne scorcheth most 5. Thou hast brought downe God is he that bringeth downe the rage and furie of the wicked and for all the stir and adoe they keepe stilleth and quieteth the waues of their haughtie and restles Spirits that they can doe his Church no hurt Many a time haue they afflicted me euen from my youth may Israel now say Many a time haue they afflicted me euen from my youth but could not praeuaile against me Psal 129. 1 2. Which did answer We must looke whilest we are in this world to be maliced of the wicked and vngodly They loue a life and it is meat and drinke vnto them to see Gods people buffeted and tormented as the Edomites did which the Prophet reprehendeth in them Obadia vers 12. the Church complaineth of in the Psalmes Psal 137. 7. So hath there alwaies bin in the world a perpetual trucelesse war between the seed of the woman the seed of the the serpent Kain that was of the wicked one and Abel the righteous the sonnes of God and the children of men figured in Rebecca a type of the Church in whose wombe two nations were diuided and the children rushed and dashed one against another That as within we haue a battell the spirit striuing and fighting against the flesh so without wee haue the world that rageth and maligneth vs. The reason is because our losses they take to be their owne gaine and thinke

it is said Rom. 11. 15. which the Apostle in that place calleth life from the dead from the death of sinne and infidelity And therefore is heere gloriously described vnder the form of the generall resurrection Whereunto the Scripture in this argument doth ordinarily allude Ezech. 37. Esay 26. 19. Dan. 12. 2. Hosh 13. 14. Rom. 11. 15. vers 11. 12 13. 14. Though this be not the common condition of all some will remaine obstinate whose end shall bee most iniferable As Dan. 12. 2. vers 15. The fourth and last steppe is the glory of the Christian Iewish Church dwelling in their owne homes when their enemies are once subdued vnder them in the 21. and 22. chapters The last 8. chapters of Ezechiel are of the same argument but as the dispensation of those times made it needfull vnder the shadowes of heauenly things heere more magnificently by heauenly things themselues It was shewed vnto Iohn in two visions first in a kinde of generalitie then more distinctly The former containeth 1. A new face of things in their happy and glorious renouation by the power of the Gospell which shall bring them quite out of loue with their former legall worship chap. 21. 1. as Esay 65. 17. for this passing away of the first heauen and the first earth and that the Sea was no more is that shaking of heauen and earth of the sea and of the dry land whereof Haggai prophesieth Hag 2. 7. 2 The sanctitie of this Citie for first it is altogether New if you compare it with the staynes and blemishes that the Churches of vs Gentiles are tainted with though wee also make a part of the heauenly Ierusalem Gal. 4. 26. Heb. 12. 22. Secondly it is of a diuine off-spring comming downe from God out of heauen Thirdly shee is clothed with the righteousnesse of the Saints as a bride trimmed for her husband verse 2. 3. Gods tabernacle his presence and dwelling there 1. part of vers 3. as Ezechiel calleth the name of the City Iehouah Shammah Iehouah there Ezech 48. 30. 4. His couenant being their God and taking them for his people 2. part of vers 3. 5. Heauinesse and sorrow shall bee taken from them vers 4. as Esay 25. 8. All which things are solemnely confirmed by the authority of him that cannot lye vers 5. 6. 7. Yet euen here also notwithstanding all the illustrious arguments of Gods glory shining so cleerely some will remaine fearefull to professe Christ vnbeleeuers c. as before chap. 20. 15. vers 8. Thus farre of that vision which was in a kinde of generalitie The other more distinct to the beholding whereof Iohn was carried in the Spirit vnto a great high mountaine vers 10. declareth 1. Her glory so great that she shall be the enlightener of the world as Esay 60. 1. 2. vers 11. 2. The elegancie of the City most royally set forth from vers 12. to vers 22. 3. The sincerity of Gods worship No Legall rites which God prescribed for a time much lesse humane ordinances or the inuentions of mans braine I saw saith Iohn no Temple there for the Lord God Almighty and the Lambe are the temple of it vers 22. 4. A wonderfull light of knowledge as if they were rather taught immediately of God then by booke-learning or the ministry of man They need neyther Sunne nor Moone Candle nor any light for the Lambe himselfe is their light vers 23. 5. As she giueth ver 11. so the Nations shall receiue light from her 1. part of vers 24. 6. The honour they shall doe vnto her bringing all their glory to adorne this City for which purpose the gates shall be open day and night for there is no cause to feare any thing 2. part of vers 24. 25. 26. 7. The purity of Church-discipline that no impure or vncleane thing shall enter thither vers 27. 8. Plenty of spirituall graces through the pure streams of liuing water flowing out of the throne of God chap. 22 vers 1. by the tree of life Christ Iesus most fruitfull in it selfe most medicinable vnto others the very leaues whereof are able to heale all the diseases and vlcers of the soule vers 2. Compare Zach. 14. 8. and Ezek. chap. 47. But where Zacharie speaketh of waters flowing out of Ierusalem Ezekiel out of the Temple Iohn expoundeth both to be meant of the throne of God and the Lamb that is from the grace and fauour of God in Christ 9. Sanctitie of life There shall be no cause of the heauie censure of Gods Curse against any 1 part of vers 3. 10. Constancie in Gods seruice 2. part of vers 3. 11. A sweet and ioyfull communion with God They shall see his face 1. part of vers 4. 12. Such a starre of excellency shining in them as maketh Gods glory most euident and conspicuous His name shall be written in their forehead 2. part of vers 4. 13. A wonderfull light of knowledge as before Reu. 21 23. 1 part of vers 5. 14. And lastly Perpetuity of their happinesse and of Gods glorious presence raigning for euer in and among them 2. part of vers 5. wherewith Ezechiel also doth conclude AN EXPOSITION Vpon the 24. 25. 26. and 27. Chapters of the Prophet ESAY Together with some few Obseruations thereupon 1. Behold IEHOVAH emptieth the land and layeth it waste and turueth it vpside-downe and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof 2. And it shall be as with the people so with the Priest as with the seruant so with his master as with the maid so with her mistresse as with the buyer so with the seller as with the lender so with the borrower as with the taker of vsury so with the giuer of vsury to him 3. The land shall be cleane emptied and vtterly spoyled for IEHOVAH hath spoken this word 4. The land shall mourne and fade away the inhabited world shall languish and fade away she haughty people of the land shall languish EXPOSITION THese foure Chapters containe one whole and entire Prophesie It hath two deuided members One of the reiection of the Iewes the other of their receiuing in the last daies into the flocke of Christ The reiection in the first 20. verses of the 24th chapter setteth forth the most wofull desolation that any storie can giue example of Which though it be of things to come many hundred of yeares after the Prophet as one that saw them in the Spirit as if they were then done vttereth not onely in the future but sometimes in the present sometimes in the time past by an Idiom proper to the Prophets to note how certaine they are to take effect This threatned desolation is garnished and set forth fiue manner of waies First needs must it be a matter of some rare and maruellous consequence that Behold the O-yes of the Holy Ghost is set

set forth by a heape and multitude of euils as it were with one breath instanced in six particulars 1. All manner of euill shall come Feare or a horrible fearfull and feared euill the feare whereof is worse then the thing we feare the pit sodaine and vnlooked for mischiefe the snare out of which there will be no getting out 2. One mischiefe shall come vpon the backe of another that tone or tother none shall scape 3. Heauen and earth shall fight against them and conspire to do them mischiefe 4. A terrible confusion shall be seene All turned topsie turvie Euery thing shall go to wracke 5. Transmigration and flitting vp and downe To be a renegate people The land that is the inhabitants of the land tossed and tumbled from one place vnto another as a lodge that is made but for a night and taken away againe 6. A desperate and vnrecoverable downefall Their transgression that is the punishment of their transgression as a heauy burden so pressing and weighing them downe that their end shall be vtter ruine a fall neuer to be repaired Alwaies vnderstanding this one exception vnlesse it be by the mightie hand and power of God visiting his people as sometimes he did their fore-fathers oppressed with the hand and intollerable bondage of the land of Aegypt Of which restitution our Prophet speaketh in the verses following Obseruations God hath multitudes of Iudgements at command his quiuer full of arrowes and varietie of shafts to dart at the wicked 17. Feare 39. The stoutest gallant must stoope and vayle his bonnet he whose heart is as the heart of a Lyon shall feare when he threatneth Pit 40. Miserable men that promise to themselues all happinesse prosperity shall tumble into the pit of Gods Iudgements ere they be aware for when they say peace and safety then shall come vpon then sodaine destruction as to a woman with childe and they shall not escape 1. Thes 5. 3. Snare 41 And when they are once caught and snared in his traps there is no meanes to rid them out his handstretched forth who can turne away Esay 14. 27. 18. He that 42 Let none think to escape the stroke of his arme one way or other the Iudgements of God will reach him He that findeth fauour profiteth not to seeke God by repentāce is but reserued to a further punishment as Amos saith Amos 5. 19. He that flieth for feare of the Lion shall light vpon a Beare and when hee commeth home and leaneth vpon the wall a serpent shall bite him Why then should any man walking in his sinnes flatter his owne soule and promise to himselfe peace and happinesse when the Iudgements he seeth before his eyes to light vpon other are warnings vnto him The windowes c. the foundations c. 43. How great a God haue we to deale withall that hath heauen and earth and the armes of them both at his command he set wide open the windowes of heauen brought a floud vpon the world of the vngodly 2. Pet. 2. 5. He opened the mouth of the earth to swallow vp Kore Dathan Abiram Num. 16. what is he not able to do to work effect his iudgements 19. 20. The land c. 44 Things so ordered disposed as in the iudgement of flesh and bloud must needs endure alwaies he can change and bring vnto confusion The City of Ierusalem how well was it knit and compact together whilest she was in her prime read Psal 122. the same how is it now brought vnto most miserable wast hauock Heauie 45 Obserue the wages of sinne the weight and intollerable burden of it There shall the workers of iniquity fall and neuer rise vp againe Psal 36. 12. 21. And it shall be in that same day Iehoua shall visit the hoast of that lofty one in the lofty place it selfe and the Kings of the earth in this very land 22. And they shall be gathered together as a prisoner into a pit and shall be shut vp in prison and after many daies shall be punished EXPOSITION THe 21th verse and so forward comprehendeth the second part which is the Iewes restoring in two degrees First is the ruine and ouerthrow of their proud enemies vnder whom they were held captiues wherein these circumstances may bee obserued first in how seasonable a time God will send them helpe In that very day the sorest time of their affliction when all strength is gone as Deut. 32. 36. 2. The enemies they shall subdue diuided into two the lofty one himselfe and the Kings his associates Who is this lofty one here spoken of Gog and Magog Reuel 20. 8. or as Ezechiel hath it Ezech. 38. 2. Gog comming out of the land of Magog whom there wee haue shewed to be the Turke Which are the Kings shall come vnto his helpe Daniel nameth beside Aegypt and other places his slaues vassals Lubim and Cushim that is the furthest parts of Lybia and Ethiopia In Ezekiel they are reckoned the Persians Aethiopians Putaeans or men of Cyrene Gomer and the house of Togarma Dan. 11. 43. Ezech. 38. 5. 6. Iohn in the Reuelation Reu. 16. 14. calleth them the Kings of the earth and of the whole world And againe Reu. 20. 8. The Nations that are in the foure Corners of the earth whose number is as the sand of the Sea Will you now take a muster of all this huge Armie the Generall Souldiers their preparation the whole Campe their on set and discomfit read Ezechiel 38. and 39. Thirdly The place where they shall so fall The Generall because he is a lofty one shall fall in as lofty a place as he Harmageddon the mount of delightfulnesse Reu. 16. 16. or Hartesby the mount of Comelinesse within the compasse of the holy land Dan. 11. 45. It may be hee shall haue the honour to fall at the mount it selfe in the valley of Iehosaphat before Ierusalem or mount Tsion Ioel 3. 2. 12. The Kings with him shall fall in the same very land the land of Iudaea which they so scorne But perhaps in some more petty and obscure places as it is most like about the Sea of Gennezareth otherwise called the lake of Tyberias Ezech. 39. 11. 4. The time is after many daies Ezechiel doth explane it Ezec. 38. 7. After many daies thou shalt be visited for in the latter end of the yeares thou shalt come c. This therefore after many daies is to be vnderstood the last age in a manner and period of the world wherein we liue vpon whom the ends of the world are fallen The certaine time is to bee learnt from other Scriptures Dan. 12. 11. 12. Reuel 9. 15. which it belongeth not to this place to discusse But yet two steppes or degrees seeme heere to be closely intimated one the declining of the Turkish power when that huge Empire shall begin to totter fall