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A52574	New-Englands duty and interest to be an habitation of justice and mountain of holiness containing doctrine, caution, & comfort : with something relating to the restaurations, reformations, and benedictions promised to the church and world in the latter dayes : with grounds of hope, that America in general & New-England in particular may may have a part therein : preached to the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, at the anniversary election, May 25, 1698 / by Nicholas Noyes ...	Noyes, Nicholas, 1647-1717.	1698 (1698)	Wing N1461; ESTC R16814	53,865	112

to have cast off a professing people yet he may chuse them a second time it is no more than he hath done in the like case Zech. 2.12 The Lord shall inherit Judah and choose Jerusalem again 4. Notwithstanding wrath is come upon the Jews to the uttermost because they sinned to the uttermost in rejecting and crucifying the Son of God yet not without cause we believe and expect that God will again restore reform and bless them Though they are Unchurched and Unpeopled and have been miserable as misery can make them yet the Oracles of God give incouragement to believe that they shall again be recovered It were endless to quote all the old Testament texts brought by those that write on this Subject among which my Text and Context is improved by Dr. Gouge others Paul in Rom. 11.27 renders it indisputable Obj. If it be granted concerning the Jews what is that to the Christian Gentiles This text speaks of the Jews Thus saith the God of Israel A. That this and many other texts of like import do nextly belong to the Jews I have already granted but that doth not prove that by way of Analogy this and such like texts do not belong to Christian Churches consisting of Jews or Gentiles or both I pray consider who are the Israel of God now Are not all that believe Children of Abraham and heirs according to promise Is not the Blessing of Abraham come upon the Gentiles Is God the God of the Jews only is he not of the Gentiles also Rom. 3.29 Although the Ephesians during their Heathenism were Strangers to the Covenants of promise and aliens from the common wealth of Israel yet I hope they were not so after they were Converted and Christianized No they who before were afar off were made nigh by the blood of Christ who broke down the middle wall of partition and made both one and now they were no more Strangers and Forreigners but fellow Citizens with the Saints and were built upon the foundation of the Prophets as well as Apostles c. What is there Jew and Greek Scythian and Barbarian still surely they are all one in Christ Jesus Eph. 2.12 13 Gal. 3.28 Col. 3.11 5. There be Prophesies in the New-Testament that contain in them promises of Restauration Reformation and Blessing to Churches that were formerly Eminent for Christianity Habitations of Righteousness and Mountains of Holiness but become in time very degenerate and very miserable and desolate first over run with sin then with misery that are either buried in their own ruins or if they flourish it is with Antichristian or Mahometan Inhabitants for the most part yet do Prophetick Scriptures speak of their Resurrection and Restauration What else can be the meaning of the Resurrection of the Witnesses the Spirit of life from God entring into them after they are overcome and stain their standing on their feet and their ascending into Heaven Rev. 11.11 12. The like may be said of the Congratulatory Acclamations of Voices in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 See also Rev. 15.4 All Nations shall come and worship before thee Past all peradventure there is implyed in these Texts that Kingdoms that belong'd to our Lord in Constantin's Time but for their Degeneration were over run with the Romish Idolatry and Tyranny and the Imposture and Oppression of the Mahometans so that they ceased to be the Kingdoms of the Lord as they were before and became the Kingdoms of Antichrist of Mahomet shall again be rescued out of the hand of those cruel Lords and again profess their Subjection unto Jesus Christ which implyes Restitution Reformation and Divine Benediction The Lord Jesus field some kind of possession of the West Empire during the 1260 years of Antichrist's Reign by his Witnesses that Prophesied all that time though in Sackcloth He hath held possession likewise in the East Empire notwithstanding the fury and cruelty of the Arabian and Saracen or Mahometan Harpyes for the Christian Religion is professed there to this day though not with that power purity and glory that it some time was and shall be again Dr Goodwin makes the 144000 mentioned Rev. 14 1. to be the Witnesses that prophesied in Sackcloth and held possession of the West Empire for Christ the 144000 mentioned Rev. 7.4 to be the Witnesses of Christ in the East Empire to be Seal'd for Preservation during the Mahometan Tyranny concludes that our Lord hath all along held possession of both East and West Empire and expects glorious Restaurations and Reformations in both I have done with the Explication and Proof of the three Doctrines and shall croud the Application together with what brevity the present Occasion requires which will not permit a full Application of such copious Theams howsoever useful it might be USE I. Of Instruction To teach us That Holiness and Righteousness have an everlasting amiableness and excellency in them In God they are the Essence of God in Angels and men they are the Image of God they are Essential to the Being of God and they are Essential to the Well-being of Angels and men they are the best adjunct and Epithete that rational creatures are capable of Take Holiness and Righteousness from Angels and they become Devils take them from men and they become like Beasts yea worse not only earthly sensual but devilish also The dignity of mans first Estate consisted in holiness and righteousness after the Image of God the ignominy and damnableness of mans lost Estate consists in his sinning and coming short of the glory of God that is of his glorious Image consisting in holiness and righteousness The sanity and felicity of mans best and last Estate consists in being recovered to the image and favour of God by Jesus Christ Whilst man was holy and righteous God loved him as his Friend and when man became unholy and unrighteous God loath'd him as his Enemy and although God may love him with a love of Benevolence of Beneficence yet ●e cannot love him with a compleat love of complacency and delight till he is recovered to holiness and righteousness again As Sin is a reproach to any person people or place on the contrary holiness and righteousness are a credit and honour to them it was the glory of the City that was the joy and praise of the whole earth that it was a habitation of righteousness mountain of holiness yea it is the glory of the New Jerusalem it is called the Holy City and the Holy Jerusalem Rev 21.2 10. 't is the peculiar excellency of the New Heavens and New Earth that righteousness dwelleth therein 2 Pet. 3.13 The unconceivable glory of the Heaven of Heavens consists more in its holiness than in its heighth though it transcend in both It is the throne of Gods holiness the holy of holyes was but a Type of it The highest excellency

the Valleys of Piedmont and many other places in Europe where for his Name and Gospel sake they have been Killed all the day long What if the Reformed Nations are very much deformed and the spirit and power of the First Reformers seemed to die with them and since hath been a gradual declension till the power life of Godliness is very much decayed and the purity of their Worship abated and Schisms Divisions and Sects strangely multiplied and Luke-warmness in some and Prophaneness in others abominably advanced Yet we ought to hope and pray that God will revive his work and bring on a Second Reformation which when it cometh will carry all before it and it seemeth as if it would not be long first Nebuchadnezzars Image standeth upon his last Leggs and it seemeth as if both of them had received a blow from the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands that maketh them stagger It is probable Delay will not be much longer The Great Turk the Oppressor of the Jews Eastern Christians seemeth to be at his last prayers and they likelier to reconcile him to Hell than to Heaven And considering what is said of the Kings of the East Rev. 16.12 and of the Western Kings Rev. 17.16 We ought to expect and pray for the coming of the time when the Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 At which time it is past all peradventure all that is yet to be fulfilled of the Glorious Things spoken of the City of God will be accomplished and the Restaurations Reformations and Divine Benedictions promised to the Jews or Christian Churches or World will be accomplished The Things that Infidels and Enemies mock at and good Christians understand but darkly and believe but faintly shall be Gloriously Effected And notwithstanding the present bad circumstances of America I know no reason to conclude this Continent shall not partake of the Goodness of God in the latter days nor why the Sun of Righteousness may not go round the Earth as the Sun in the Firmament doth go round Heaven No Scripture asserts the contrary but many seem to favour the Affirmative I suppose that Christ is not called the Sun of Righteousness meerly because of his Light and Heat and quickening vivifick Influences but also because of his Circuition or Circuit round the World by the Preaching of the Gospel and his expanding and extending his saving Virtue to those that Sit in darkness and in the Region and shadow of Death See and consider Psal 19.4 5 6. and compare it with Rom. 10.18 Luk. 1.78 79. Mal. 4 2. Methinks men should not be hasty to Reprobat a Fourth Part of the World without Express Order from Heaven I know not how it came to pass that Conjectures about America have been so various strange and uncomfortable as to its Rise State and final Destiny Burnet M. D. affirms that the Americans in their Progenitors came not out of the Ark that their Progenitors descended not from Noah And indeed they are beholden to him that he let them descend from Adam and did not bring them out of the Slime as he doth Gog and Magog But it is enough to reply to this that it is not only Unscriptural but also Antiscriptural A late Annotator on the Bible who is otherwise a very worthy man but I think misses it in this in his Preface to the New Testament in the separate Edition alloweth the Americans to be descended of Noah but by Cham and thence gathers that they shall not be gathered into the Church To which I reply 1 That it is wholly begg'd that they are the Progeny of Cham and notable Reasons and Authorities may be produced to the contrary 2 That if it were certain it were so yet the Consequence is no way valid as the Multitude of Churches that have been in Africa shew that were undoubtedly the Posterity of Cham. 3 This opinion is wholly founded and the stress of it depends upon a doubtful Interpretation of a dark Prophesie Gen. 9.27 God shall enlarge Japheth So our Version reads it But if Cham with his four Sons hath filled all Africa with a considerable part of Asia and possess all America besides he is certainly enlarged more than Japheth with his Seven Sons and would vie for Number with Shem Japheth too If we prefer the marginal Reading God shall Perswade Japheth and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem this would not gain the point intended for the not mentioning of Cham doth not necessarily exclude Cham no more than when Shem is called the Brother of Japheth Cham is denyed to be the Brother of Japheth or Shem denyed to be the Brother of Cham. Besides Interpreters of great Note go other ways The Hebrew Doctors gathered from this Prophesie that they should speak Japheth's Tongue which in the Ages following was Greek and was fulfilled in the Apostles speaking and writing the Gospel in Greek Ainsworth saith it may imply the grafting of Japheth's Children into the stock of the Church when Shem's Posterity the Jews should be cut off quoting for this Rom. 11.11 12 15 17. As the Reubenites are said to dwell in the Hagarites tents after the Hagarites were subdued and fallen 1 Chron. 5.10 Others read the words God shall enlarge Japheth and He that is God shall dwell in the tents of Shem in the sence of John 1.14 And so make it a famous Prophesie of the Incarnation of the Son of God his taking Flesh of the seed of Shem. Others understand it of God's setting up the Temple and dwelling in it among the Israelites descended of Shem. Certainly it is not reasonable to draw so hard a Conclusion on such a Text that admits of such and so many various Interpretations Seeing it tends to discourage all Endeavours for the Conversion of the Indians and so may greatly prejudice the Souls of Millions of Men and hinder the inlargement of the Kingdom of Christ And indeed it seemeth many ways derogatory to the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Saviour of the World John 4.42 1 Joh. 4 14. If the Angels may be believed His Birth was Joy to All People If the greatest born of Women may be believed He taketh away the sin of the World John 1.29 If the beloved Disciple may be credited He made an Atonement or is the Propotiation for the sins of the whole World And many other such like Expressions there be which must certainly comprehend Some of All Nations And the Redeemed Church acknowledge as much in their Song of Praise Rev. 5.9 10. Nor can I possibly otherwise understand Christ's Commission to his Apostles and their Successors in the Ministry Mark 16.15 Go ye into All the World and Preach the Gospel to Every Creature Matt. 28.19 20. Go ye therefore and teach All Nations c. and lo I am with you alway unto the End of the World Which seemeth as plain as words

New-Englands Duty and Interest To be an Habitation of JUSTICE AND Mountain of HOLINESS Containing Doctrine Caution Comfort WITH Something relating to the RESTAURATIONS REFORMATIONS and BENEDICTIONS Promised to the Church and World in the latter dayes With grounds of Hope that America in General New-England in Particular may have a Part therein Preached to the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay at the Anniversary ELECTION May 25. 1698. By NICHOLAS NOYES Teacher of the Church at Salem Published by Order of Authority BOSTON in New-England Printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen. Printers to the Governour Council 1698. Isa 1. v. 26. Afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness the faithful City Luke 1. v. 75 In Holiness and Righteousness before Him all the dayes of our Life 2 Pet. 1.20 Knowing this first that no Prophesy of the Scripture is of any Private Interpretation Psalm 86.9 All Nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee O Lord. Si est Gens quam non fecit Deus Non adorabit eum nulla est autem Gens quam non fecit Deus quia fontem omnium Gentium Adam Evam fecit Deus Omnes ergo Gentes fecit Deus Omnes ergo Gentes venient adorabunt Augustin in locum Psalm 100. v. 1. Make a Joyful noise unto the Lord all ye Lands Jam jubilat Domino universa Terra et Quod adhuc non jubilat Jubilabit Augustin in locum The Epistle Dedicatory To His EXCELLENCY RICHARD Earl of Bellomont AND Lord COOTE Colooney in the Kingdom of Ireland GOVERNOUR Of New-England New-York New Hampshire and Vice-Admiral of those Seas May it Please Your Excellency IT is recorded in the Holy Scriptures that the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ though it was of great importance and concernment to all People yet it pleased God that it should by one of the Evangelists be directed in a special manner to a single Person called the most Excellent Theophilus as in Luke 1.6 I write unto thee most excellent Theophilus that thou mayest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed Theophilus signifies A lover of God It is conceived by learned and pious Interpreters to be the proper Name of an Eminent Person who had been Converted to the Christian Faith at Antioch where the followers of Christ were first called Christians and the title Most Excellent given to him renders it very probable that he was in a chief place of Magistracy in that eminent City if not Governour of the whole Province for we read not of that style Most Excellent given to any but such as were Governours of Provinces such as Faelix Festus who were successively Governours of Judea as in Act. 23.25 Claudius Lysias to the most Excellent Governour Faelix c. So why might not this Theophilus be Governour of Syria by the special Providence of God raised up to such a Dignity that by the influence of his Example and Authority he might be a means under God for the Propagation and Progression of Christianity unto many others In like manner this Ensuing Sermon containing one great end of the Gospel of Christ viz. That all Christians should Serve the Lord in Holiness and Righteousness before Him all the dayes of our lives Luke 1.75 It is now presented to Your Self as to our most Excellent Theophilus in concurrence with all New England bowing down themselves before You as to our Governour sent from God and the King We give thanks to God for Your safe Arrival Per varios Casus Per tot discrimina rerum Now as God hath been with those Worthy men whom He hath graciously vouchsafed to bestow on this People to bear Rule over them particularly the Honorable William Stoughton Esq Lieutenant Governour and our Worthy Patriots assisting in Council whose Integrity we can't but remember at all times with Gratitude So we pray for Gods gracious Presence with Your Excellency and His more abundant Blessing upon Your Person Government that the end thereof may be attained that this People may live a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness Honesty The good report of Your Personal qualifications Your Publick appearing for Securing of the Liberties of our dear England and Your good beginnings of Reformation at New-York where You first landed have filled our hopes and raised our Expectations that You are sent from God and are coming amongst us in the Spirit and Power of that Excellent Governour Nehemiah of whom it was said He was a man that came to seek the Welfare of the Children of Israel Neh. 2 10. W●●ch was a grief to their Enemies but matter of great rejoycing to that good People in their afflicted and low condition This People of New England are a People whom God hath Signally owned blessed in our first former times our Fathers coming into these ends of the Earth not upon any Worldly design but meerly on the account of Religion they had much of the gracious Presence of God with them in their Planting and Building Work and in laying the Foundations in Church Common wealth and in the additional blessings of Heaven Earth and Sea Land So that from a day of small things New England in a few years was grown up to be a thriving and flourishing Plantation But alas we their Successors have not answered the Lords Expectation or our own Profession but as we have been multiplyed encreased so we have Sinned and provoked the Lord to anger against us so that of late years He hath Severely witnessed against us by the variety of His Judgments in a Successive way and for a long time So that we are at present an Afflicted poor People greatly diminished impoverished and brought very low through Oppression Affliction and Sorrow as it is in Psal 107. from v. 33 to 42. And as yet it was said of the People of Israel when they were in a distressed condition that the Lord gave them Saviours Neh. 9.27 And with respect unto the latter dayes it is foretold That Saviours shall come up on Mount Sion and the Kingdom shall be the Lords Obad. the last v. This hath been frequently done in these latter times in some degree as might be shewed in many instances it may Suffice to mention Your Grandfather of blessed Memory who was raised up under God with an Heroick Spirit to be the Saviour of Ireland in the day of their distress in 1641. and we hope in God that He hath sent Your Self amongst us as a Saviour to New England bringing with You an Olive Branch of PEACE as a good Omen that the deluge of our Calamities is abated and our hopes encreased that yet New England may live in the sight of God and that under the Shadow of Your Government we may yet be revived and the work of God amongst us be renewed by degrees unto a more flourishing Condition than hitherto that

a man and this is prefaced with The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a new thing indeed for a Woman to be both a Mother and a Virgin at the same time a new thing in deed for a Woman to be the Mother of him that was God though not of the God Head yet of the Humane Nature received into Personal Union with the Son of God A woman shall compass a man viz. the man of Gods Right-hand for whose sake Redemption should come and with it Restauration Reformation and Divine Benediction not only to the Jews but also to the Gentiles for God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself not imputing to them their trespasses and some of the Blessings promised were the manifestation of the New-Covenant the Gathering and Enlarging the Catholick Church writing the Law in the heart c. which the Apostle to the Hebrews refers to Gospel times Heb. 8 10 11.12 And the whole by way of Analogy and just accommodotion may be referred to Kingdoms Countries Places Nations professing the Christian Religion thus the New Testament teacheth us to in●erpret accommodate and apply to our selves Texts of the Old Testament See Rom. 15.4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our Learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope So 1 Co. 10.11 Now all these things hapned unto them for ensamples and are written for our instruction on whom the ends of the world are come So also 2 Tim. 3.16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for Instruction in righteousness Thus having shewed how this text that nextly concerned the Jews comes to affect us and concern these last ages of the professing world I shall only for further Explication of the Text shew what intended by Justice what by a Habitation of Justice and then what by Holiness and what by a Mountain of Holiness and then proceed to give you the Doctrines Q. What intended by Justice A. Sometimes it is more strictly taken for that political virtue whereby such as are in Authority punish evil doers and praise and justify them that do well and that this sence is herein comprehended is without doubt but yet it is intended in a more large sence in this text for here it is joyned with holiness and yet distinguisht from it and when it is so it is taken for conformity to the second Table of the Decalogue or six last Commandments the word rendred Justice might as well be rendred Righteousness they are Synonimous and so the same word in the text rendred Justice is in many other texts rendred Righteousness See Isa 1.26 Afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness Q. What intended by Habitation of Justice or Righteousness A. By Habitation of Righteousness is intended a City or place that abounds in Righteousness and excelleth in it or that is full of righteous persons the Abstract being put for the Concrete Compare it with Isa 1.21 It was full of Judgment Righteousness lodged in it that is Equity Honesty Charity Chastity Truth Justice were not as Strangers in Jerusalem but Inhabitants they dwelt in the Temple in the Courts in the Gates in the Streets in their Houses in their Shops and in all their converse commerce And of the New Heaven and the New Earth it is said Righteousness shall dwell therein that is be not only resident but eminent prevalent permanent and a●●●dant Q. What intended by Holiness A. Some times it is taken in so large a sence as to comprehend in it conformity to the whole Decalogue but when it is joyned with and yet distinguished from righteousness it intends conformity to the first Table of the Law or four first Commandments and with respect to the Holiness and Righteousness mentioned in the text once for all for preventing mistake I declare I intend not only that which is commonly called Morality but conformity to the whole Doctrine which is according to Godliness that Obedience to which men are Created in Christ Jesus that Grace which men derive from him through the holy Spirit in Regeneration and Sanctification whereby they are enabled to live to God and serve him in Holiness and Righteousness Q What intended by a Mountain of Holiness A. As it respect Jerusalem it meaneth that it should regain its ancient purity and be as renowned for Holiness as ever it was that had not only been beautiful for its Situation but for its Sanctification wherein not only Holy men had dwelt but the Holy God there was the holy Temple the holy Oracle the holy Ordinances and holy Assemblies the beauty of holiness the habitation of Gods holiness the Throne of his holiness the Courts of his holiness and where his anointed ones ministred unto him something like as the Angels do in Heaven it was a Comparative Heaven for holiness and a Type of the real Heaven it had been so and should be so again When it is applyed to Christian Countries it means that they should abound in holiness and excel other places therein as much as Judea did other lands and Jerusalem did other Cities in the day that they were Holiness to the Lord So you have the meaning of the Text its words phrases both in the literal sence as it nextly concern'd the Jews and also in its Analogical sence as it concerns Christians of all Kingdoms and Plantations to the end of the world We come now to the Doctrines that result from the Text thus explained which are three The first from the doctrinal hints in the Text the second from the historical hints the third from the Text as it is a Prophesy DOCT. I. That it is the duty of all People or Places professing the Christian Religion to abound and excel in Holiness and Righteousness or to be an Habitation of Righteousness and Mountain of Holiness DOCT. II. That such People and Places as profess the Christian Religion may expect to be Happy or Miserable according as it goeth with them as to Holiness and Righteousness DOCT. III. That although Places that have been Habitations of Righteousness and Mountains of Holiness should become very degenerate and for their Sin be made very desolate yet there is ground of hope that God will again Restore Reform and Bless them The first DOCTRINE Confirm'd by Reasons Reason 1. Because the Moral Law obligeth all mankind to holiness and righteousness from the beginning of the world to the end of it for it was no ways suitable to the Wisdom and Holiness of God to make man a rational Creature which is a cause by counsel of his own actions and so capable of honouring or dishonouring of ob●ying or disobeying him that made him and then leave it to his liberty whether he would own and honour his maker yea or no whether he would worship God according to his Institution or his own or anothers invention Can it