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A02492 A sermon preached at Barstaple vpon occasion of the late happy success of Gods Church in forraine parts. By G.H. D.D. Hakewill, George, 1578-1649. 1632 (1632) STC 12620; ESTC S117907 16,704 39

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may lawfully pray against their designes though not against their persons as David prayed against the plots and policie of Achitophel O Lord I pray thee turne the counsell of Achitophel into foolishnesse or we may pray against their persons indefinitely though not particularly as thus let them be confounded what ere they be and turned backe that hate Sion let them bee as the grasse upon the house tops which withereth before it groweth up wherewith the mower filleth not his hand nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosome or lastly we may pray against their persons in particular conditionally though not absolutely first we are to pray for their conversion and then if maliciously and wilfully they persist in their obstinacy in the second place for their confusion This was Davids method fill their faces with shame that they they may seeke thy name O Lord that is that they may be converted unto thee but in case they will not be converted but stand out in their rebellion and go on still with an hard heart ahigh hand a stiffe necke and a brazen forehead then it followes Let them be confounded and troubled for ever yea let them boe put to shame and perish if by shame they will not bee wrought to conversion from shame let them be brought to confusion but then we must here remember that we doe not so much rejoyce because they perish as because by their perishing the Church of God is delivered and the glory of God advanced in the manifestation of his justice and for that reason the same Prophet presently addes That men may know that thou whose name is only Iehovah art the most high over all the earth that thou art the supreame Iudge of the world and sittest in the throne that judgeth right to which very purpose is that in another Psalme The righteous shall rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance hee shall wash or bathe his feete in the bloud of the wicked so that a man shall say verily there is a reward for the righteous verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth therefore shall the righteous rejoyce in the vengeance and bloud of the wicked not because their bloud is shed but because by the shedding of their bloud men are brought to know and acknowledge that he is the God that judgeth the earth with righteous judgement for shall not the Iudge of all the earth doe right finally hereunto likewise accordeth that song of triumph Rev. 19. after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying Alleluja salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgements for hee hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged the bloud of his servants at her hand and againe they said Alleluja This rubbe being thus remooved I now come to the second part of this first branch which is what these enemies of God are The enemies of God either acknowledge no God as professed Atheists or acknowledge a God but not the true God as Idolaters or the true God but goe not to him the true way that is by IESVS CHRIST as Mahometans and Iewes or goe to him by IESVS CHRIST but not by him alone as Romanists or goe by him alone but withall fancie to themselves and obstinately maintaine some erroneous opinion in fundamentall points as Hereticks or are sound enough in fundamentall points but out of an affectation of singularity separate themselves from the congregation as schismaticks or lastly joyne themselves to the congregation but either with false hearts as hypocrites or foule hands as prophane persons having both of them a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof these may all of them in some sense though in a diverse manner in a different degree be termed the enemies of God And againe to speake generally they are all Gods enemies who blaspheme Gods name who with hold Gods right who prophane Gods day who dishonour Gods house who abuse Gods word whou nreverently or unworthi ly receive Gods Sacraments who despise Gods ordinances who neglect Gods commandements who disgrace or disesteeme Gods ambassadors But by the enemies of God here in this place undoubtedly are to bee understood the enemies of his Church that is such as persecute it or for professions sake oppose themselves against it such an indissoluble linke and reciprocall connexion there is betwixt God and his Church that it cannot be but that the enemies of the one should be the enemies of the other The reproches of them that reproched thee are falne upon me saith the Psalmist as a member of the Church and againe Doe I not hate them O Lord that hate thee and am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with a perfect hatred I count them mine enemies And as Gods enemies are the Churches enemies so the enemies of the Church are Gods enemies and therfore they are Gods enemies because they are the Churches enemies Loe thine enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee have lift up the head and why were they thine enemies the reason is there immediately added They have taken crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones because they tooke counsell against his people and consulted against his Church therfore were they his enemies Remember Lord saith the same Prophet the reproch of thy servants wherewith thine enemies have reproched them therefore they were His enemies because they reproched his servants that is his Church and in this very Chapter Curse ye Meroz saith the Angell of the Lord curse bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not up to the helpe of the Lord against the mightie wherby he intitles the Churches quarrells to the Lord. But above all we have to this purpose in the ninth of the Acts a singular testimony from the mouth of the Lord himselfe as it were an oracle speaking to us from heaven where wee read that when Saul who afterward was called Paul was breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord that is the Church and to that end was upon his journey to Damascus being amazed with an exceeding bright light which shone round about him he heard a voice saying unto him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me and he said Who art thou Lord and the Lord said I am Iesus whom thou persecutest it is hard for thee to kicke against the pricks Iesus whom thou persecutest why Iesus was then in heaven and Saul on earth Saul clothed with misery and mortality here below and Iesus above sitting at the right hand of God in glory and majesty farre enough out of Sauls reach how then could Saul persecute Iesus surely none otherwise but because he persecuted the members of his Church which Iesus takes to heart as if himselfe had beene persecuted in his owne person The reason
the sunne The sun saith Syracides is vas admirable a marvailous instrument and well might he so call it it being next to man himselfe the greatest wonder among all the workes of God and in a manner visibilis mundi Deus the visible God of the world in so much that Socrates judged by the Oracle the wisest man then living would spend whole dayes in gazing upon it as a man transported and ravished in admiration of it and truly were it not our inbred disposition magis nova quam magna mir ari rather to wonder at things new and strange than great in themselves it is certaine there is no one thing we should so much admire as the sunne in regard of the greatnesse the glory the regularity the swiftnesse but above all the wonderfull vertue and efficacy thereof in working upon these inferiour bodies Let them then that love him and so love him as to fight his battels for the Churches sake bee as the Sunne Regular and constant in their religious purposes as the sunne is uniforme and invariable in his course from the East to the West and from the West to the East againe from the North to the South and from the South to the North againe not missing the least jot in all his points and periods turnes and returnes but performing his office so duly so exactly so precisely as if he were indeed a reasonable creature and perfectly understood what he did according to that of the Psalmist he appointed the Moone for seasons and the Sunne knoweth his going downe Safe and secure in their persons as from conspiracy and rebelion at home so from forraigne machinations and Iesuiticall Assassinates as the sunne is placed out of gunne-shot farre enough above the reach of all malicious and forcible attempts free not onely from danger but from all feare and possibilitie of danger Vnwearied and indeficient in their pious enterprizes as the sunne which though it hath now lasted by the space of so many thousand yeeres yet since the first creation thereof hath it lost nothing of that primitive vigour and originall perfection which by Almighty God was bestowed upon it Swift and speedy in their prosperous successe as the sunne which as Astronomers assure us runnes above a thousand miles within the compasse of every minute and this incredible swiftnesse was it which gave occasion to Copernicus and others to conceive that the globe of the earth did rather ●●ove and the sunne stand still Lastly Let them be as the sunne when he goeth forth in his might which the Prophet David hath excellently described In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun which as a bridegrome comming out of his chamber and rejoyceth as a strong man to runne a race his going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof Let them that love him be as the sunne when he thus goeth forth in his might Let them be acceptable and glorious powerfull and vigorous as the sunne when he riseth in the morning and so by degrees mounts up to the verticall point at high noone chasing away the darknesse dissolving the frost dispelling the mist and cheering up the spirits both of men and beasts partly with its warmth and part ly with its light Let their wayes bee as the path of the just which Salomon compares to the shining light increasing more and more unto the perfect day So let them goe on and still march forward from strength to strength from courage to courage from victory to victory till they have brought their noble and worthy designes to a blessed end So let all thine enemies perish O Lord but let them that love him bee as the sunne when he goeth forth in 〈◊〉 might Grant this good Lord we beseech thee 〈◊〉 thy mercies sake for thy promise sake for thy sons sake to whom with thee and the holy spirit three persons and one God invisible eternall only wise wee ascribe and desire to bee ascribed all power Majesty and dominion now and for ever PSAL. 45 Ver. 3 4 5. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh O most mighty with thy glory and thy Majesty And in thy Majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekenesse and righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things Thine arrowes are sharpe in the heart of the Kings enemies whereby the people fall under thee Deo soli gloria FINIS Exo. 15 1. 1 Sam. 18. 7. Math. 5. 44. Psal. 35. 13. Psal 83. ver 12. ●● Nm. 10. ver 35. Psal. 68. ver 1. 2 Sam. 15. 31. Psa. 129. ver 5. Psal 83 ver 16. Verse 17. Verse 18. Psal. 58. 10. 11. Gen. 18. 25. Psal. 69 9. Ps. 139. 21. 22. Psal. 83. 2. Psal. 89. 49. Iudges 4. 14. Ver. 15. Ver. 20. Antiq. l. 5. c. 6. Ps. 13. Psal. 44. 6. Exodus 17. 15. Psa. 1● 9 10. 〈◊〉 Cap. 4. 3. Ver. 3. 13. Psal. 7. Psal 7. 17 ● 3. Psa 35. Ver. 53. 12. ● Cap. 4. 16. Antiq. 5. 8. Psal 83. 9. Psal. 2. 9. Revel 2 27. Esay 30. 14. Psal. 68 2. Obadiah 18. Rev. 17. 16. Rev 18. 21. ● Sam. 11. 11. Lib 4. 28. Pro. 4. 18. Pro. 4. 18.