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Gods prerogative povver made known divers wayes in the Old and New Testament. Also the prerogative power of the Lord Christ. And what he will do in the dayes of his kingly office, in destroying his enemies, and exalting his saints. Very usefull for these times. / By him that loveth both truth and peace, Noah Banks.
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Kingdomes of the Lord and his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever therefore let us fall down on our faces saying we give thee thanks O Lord God almighty Rev. 11. 16. 17. because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned But now give me leave to give you a few Reasons to shew you why I doe beleeve God is about such a glorious work in this Iland First because I do not know nor have read of any Iland in the Christian world that hath opposed the Lord Christ but this that hath a people that the Lord will save at this time that the Lord is destroying Antichrist you may see in that forenamed Isa 12. 14. place Secondly in this Iland there hath bin many famous Martyrs that have suffered for Christ Thirdly God hath had as many Iacobs that have wrestled with God by prayer against Antichrist as any Nation in the world ever had and I can speak it for above this twenty years they have sowen in tears and were like unto Israel groning under our burdens and bondage therefore I doe beleeve he is now bringing us out of bondage Fourthly I doe beleeve God is going on with this his glorious work here in this Iland because God hath raysed up choice Instruments in pulling down Antichrist powers that have opposed Christ Fifthly God hath given many of his choice servants a great measure of faith to beleeve that the work is begun in this Iland and that it shall not end till Antichrist be destroyed Sixtly I am sure of it God hath as many pretious and choyce servants such as doe love the Lord Jesus in sincerity after the inward man as any Nation in the world Seventhly and lastly because I doe find by the promises of Christ that his work in destroying Antichrist shall begin in the Ilands as the Scripture saith The Iles shall wayt for his Glory So if you read the 97. Psalm the whol Psalm is a glorious Prophecy of these Times it begins The Lord reigneth let the Earth rejoyce let the multitude of the Iles bee glad thereof I do beleeve God has made good this whol Prophecy by his acts of Providence in this Iland also that glorious prophecy in the 42 of Isa from verse 12. to the 21. which I do believe is now fulfiling in these Ilands and therefore we have no reason to murmur against the Instruments of our good nor to complain but to say with the Prophet in the 12. ver let them give glory to the Lord and declare his prayses in the Ilands hath not the Lord Christ gone out like a mighty man hath not hee cryed and roared against his enemies hath not he made wast mountains and hills hath not he brought the blind by away that they knew not and led them in paths that they have not known and made dark things light before them and crooked things straight these things hath he done unto them and not forsaken them and may it not be said at such a time as this who is blind but my servant or deafe but my messinger as I have sent who is blind as he that is perfect blind as the Lords servant seeing many things but observing it not this prophecy I beleeve is fulfilled in our days Sir this little Treatise was written some two years since then being dark times and therefore what you find of weaknesse in it let it be attributed to the author but what you find to be according to the mind of God let him only have the glory this Treatise was put forth by the desire of many godly frinds and beleeving you are one that is precious in the sight of the Lord therefore you will have a favorable construction of what is written I leave you in the Lord Your servant in the Lord Christ NOAH BANKS To the Christian Reader IN these last Ages of the world there hath been much ado about the Prerogative Power of Kings and great men in all Nations so of late years more then formerly in this Island as may appear by all those wayes that great men took in oppressing the poor in imposing taxes on almost all wares and in coat and conduct money and Ship-money which made the poor people to groan under their burthens and to cry unto the Lord for vengeance against the oppressors So also our Bishops they lorded it over mens consciences in bringing in Superstitions and Idolatry and seting up their Prerogative Power that godly men must doe what their Wils will have instead of Gods Word so racking the consciences of godly men till many times they crackt again making some fly to New-England others were imprisoned branding some and cuting off their ears Oh how sad was our condition then some would by their Prerogative Power rule over the Estates of men and others over the consciences it was worse then Egyptian bondage for they onely opprest the bodies but these did seek to destroy both souls and bodies of men and no visible help could be found because they that had the Prerogative Power called Parliaments and broke them up again when they would not serve their wills also over ruling Iustices and Iudges they must bow the strait Lawes to serve their corrupt lusts and like Issacar we begun to stoop under the burthen but when men will abuse their power God will make them know that he hath a power over them be they never so great the want of the knowledge of that Almighty power that there is in God and how he hath made known his Prerogative Power in all ages is the cause men are so troubled in these times but if men would search the word of God they would see how Gods wayes are in the deeps and his footsteps are in the mighty waters Isa 43. 16. Touching the Almighty we cannot finde him out he is excellent in power he can throw down the walls of Iericho by the blowing of Rams horns and open the eyes of one born blind with clay and spettle he can make little David strong enough to cut off the head of Goliah and the Lord Christ chose out poor Fishermen to be his Disciples and left the learned Scribes and Pharisees Gods Prerogative Power made known divers wayes in the Old Testament IN these knowing times most men will acknowledg that all Prerogative Power is in God but when God is making known his Power in some great acts of Providence in the world oh how are most men offended at it and will not beleeve farther then they can see by their dark light of naturall Reason thus we read that good men failed much as Jeremiah Job and David till they went and searched into the word of God So it will bee our wisdomes in these troublesom times dark various acts of Providence to search the Scriptures how God hath formerly made known his Prerogative Power by most unlikely wayes and Instruments First when God brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt
they had not onely rejected Samuel but God that he should not rule over them but then God changed the Government upon the request of the people and God bid Samuel go and anoint them a King but God bid Samuel tell them the manner of the Kings that should Reigne over them how they would make slaves of them and take away their estates from them and hath not many Kings done so did not Ahab take Naboths vineyard and much of this hath been done in our dayes then God gave them a King which was Saul but did Saul and his 1 Sam. 14. 14 15 23. sons governe Israel long No God shewed his Prerogative when Saul would not obey the command of God but would fulfill his own will God rejected him and his posterity for being King and set up David his servant in his place and many times did God throw down Kings as he did Ahab and set up others in their stead but when Israel and their Kings begun to sin with a high hand against God and would not repent then God gave them and their King into the hand of the Heathen whom they would be like in having a King as you may read Sam. 8. 5. then was Israel brought under the Babylonish Monarchy Four Monarchies have been already first the Babylonish Monarchy secondly the Persian thirdly the Grecian fourthly the Roman all which Monarchies were shown to Daniel in the dream Now the last which is the fifth which is said to be a Little stone cut out of the Mountaine without hands as you may read Dan. 2. 34 36. Now begun the Prerogative Power of the Lord Christ for it is said He smote the Image on the feet that were made of Iron and Clay and brought to nothing all the other Monarchies as you may read ver 35. and it became a great mountaine and filled the whole earth this is a stone cut out without hands a Kingdom set up by the God of Heaven some divine work and all the Kingdoms and States that were first and last shall be swallowed up under this Kingdom of Christ as appears Dan. 7. 14. There was given to him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all Nations and Languages shall serve him his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion that shall not passe away and his Kingdom shall not be destroyed Gods Prerogative Power made known in the New Testament and in these last ages of the World THus having spoken something of the Prerogative power of God in the former ages now much might be said of the Power of the Lord Christ in these last ages of the world In the first ages Christ did wonderfully and gloriously make known his Prophetical Office visibly and externally in the world by all the Prophets as Isaiah David Daniel and all the rest of the Prophets so also he was held forth typically in the Cloud in the Pillar of fire in the Rock in the brazen Serpent in the Arke and Tabernacle and in the Temple and all the Sacrifices and the High Priests the Scape Goate all these did hold forth the Prophetical Office of Christ in those dayes of his Prophecy very gloriously to all those that understood the Prophecies Abraham rejoyced to see the dayes of Christ and Daniel longed to understand the vision and oh that men would more study to understand the Old Testament wherein they might see what God would do in all ages In the second age of the world was the Priestly Office of Christ made known visibly externally and gloriously in the world to the amazement both of men and Angels and Devils God testifies of him Math. 3. 17. this is my beloved son whom I promised should come in the fulness of time to brake the Serpents head also the Angels spake glorious things of a Saviour that was born Luke 2. 10. so the wise men they came from far to see this great High Priest and the Apostles were witnesses of all Christ did in the administration of his Priestly Office the Devils confest him and Soldiers and Christ himself was crucified openly on the Crosse all these do declare that in the second age of the world the Lord Christ did openly in the sight of men and Devils fullfil all Promises concerning his Priestly Office and all the Saints must ever since fill up the measure of the sufferings of Christ openly for conformity to Christ this sixteen hundred years The Lord Christ having finished his two Offices a Prophet and a Priest now he shall come as King and we have great ground to believe it as you may read hereafter that the Lord Christ is coming to set up his Prerogative power for now God the Father hath given to his Son all power both in Heaven and earth Matth. 28. 18. now of his enemies that would not have him rule over them he saith bring them and slay them before me now God will give his Son the Heathen for his inheritance and the utmost part of the earth for his possession Psa 2. 8. the Lord Christ hath hitherto been but a suffering and a persecuted King a scoft and a despised King by the Kings of the world but now he will be Lord and King of the whole earth Zach. 14. 9. Now the Lord Christ a sumes to himself a new form different from the form of a servant he is now coming to set up his Prerogative Kingly power to shew to his Saints and to his enemies the great design he is doing in the world this coming of Christ will be very sweet and comfortable to his Saints but terrible to his enemies with an iron rod in his hand and he shall dash them in pieces like Pottets vessels and he shall have his Garments dipt in bloud Rev. 19. 13. his face is like lightening but lovely to his Saints it shineth as the Sun Rev. 1. 16. this great power of the Lord Christ is known by his names and titles given him he is called King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19. 16. King of Nations Ier. 10. 7. King of Saints a great King Mal. 1. 14. all creatures are at his command the host of Heaven attend him mighty to save the Phil. 1. 9. Lord shall go forth like a Giant he shall stir up courage like a man of war Isa 42. 13. a Wonderful Counseller Isa 9. 6. his name is above all names every knee shall bow to him his Right hand shall doe terrible things make waste Mountains and Hils he is that Little Stone cut out of the Mountayn withour hands that shall break in peeces the Gold Silver Brasse and Iron and Clay Dan. 2. all former Monarchicall Goverments and he shall take to himselfe great Power and Rule he shall be King of the whol Earth and there shall bee given to him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all Peeple Nations and Languages shall serve him Dan. 7. 14 When will the Lord Christ take to him this great Power and reign as King First when