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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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