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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28333	An earnest plea for peace and moderation in a sermon preached at Barnstaple in Devon, to the ministers and others occasionally there assembled, Octob. 17, 1660 / by Martin Blake.	Blake, Martin, 1594 or 5-1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3133; ESTC R25930	13,288	30

six his Sanctuary as you may read Deut. 12. 10. c. And accordingly his will was that at some certain times of the year viz. at Easter Pentecost and the feast of Tabernacles all the Males of the people should come up thither to perform their religious services unto him as you may see Deut. 16. 16. compared with the former passage So carefully did the Divine Wisdom project for the establishment of a well-ordered Uniformity of Religious Worship in a settled State to prevent distractions and to preserve Unity among the people After this for the space of many hundred years the Israelites notwithstanding remained in somewhat an unsetled condition and the Tabernacle with the Ark were oftentimes removed as in a state of migration from place to place until the time of King David So long it pleased God to exercise his peoples faith and to hold them in an humble expectation of his performance But at length when the season which God had fore-determined within himself was now at hand it pleased him to make known unto David that Jerusalem in the Tribe of Judab should be the City and Mount Sion the place where his Ark should rest and where also he would have a Temple built unto his Name as you may gather from those expressions of his 1 Chron. 28. 11 19. compared with Psal 76. 1 2. 78. 67 68. With much gladness did King David listen to this Oracle of God and accordingly he had it in his heart to have performed the whole work himself in his own dayes but being commanded of God to leave the building of the Temple to his sonne Solomon that should succeed him he contented himself as to that particular only he provided for it some materials aforehand and in the mean season addressed himself to bring up the Ark of the Testimony from the house of Abinadab where it then was unto Jerusalem which from thenceforth became the solemn seat both of Religion and of the Kingdom And here by the way we may observe the Piety and Zeal of this good King in that together with the well setling of the Civil State he took into his Princely consideration the right ordering of affairs in reference to the Church and house of God Accordingly he calls unto him the chosen men of Israel and so with one unanimous consent they chearfully set upon the work And although their first attempt miscarried by reason of some failing in the manner at which God was displeased yet their second endeavours which were undertaken with better caution and more regularity of Devotion obtained a better successe for as we read 2 Sam. 6. 15 c. They brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet and set it in his place in the midst of the Tabernacle that David had pitched for it Their failing at the first time was partly in that Vzzab being but an ordinary Levite presumed to touch the body of the Ark which God allowed not to any but the Priests and partly for that in imitation of the Philistines they carried the Ark upon a Cart whereas God had required that it should not have been borne but upon the shoulders of the Levites The error in both these was now at this second time reformed and so the work succeeded to content So then though the intentions of Men in medling with the things of God be never so right yet the success will not answer our desires unless it be managed by such hands as God hath called and consecrated to the work Well now all is right and on they go as full of Joy as of Devotion and to further them in both these the King as it is conceived by most Expositors had furnisht them aforehand with this Psalm with a charge to sing it by the way as the Ark of God was thus carrying up unto Jerusalem and for this cause partly and partly also it may be for that it was to be sung with an elevated voice it was called a Psalm of Ascensions or Degrees An excellent Psalm indeed and very opposite unto the occasion whereupon it was composed It is of a mixt kinde as containing in it expressions of several sorts for it begins with Joy and Exaltation it goes on with Praise and Commendation and then concludes partly with Exhortation to the People and partly with Protestation for his own particular The Exhortation takes up the two first verses wherein this good Prince professeth his joy for the gratious temper of his people expressed in their chearfull forwardness to frequent the place of Gods publick worship and their resolution to be constant in their holy performances of that kinde I was glad saith he when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord our feet shall stand within thy gates O Jerusalem See here how much a zealous and well ordered people in the matters of Gods worship do contribute to the comfort of their Prince and how apt a good Prince is to rejoyce in their well-doing especially of that kinde The commendation follows in the three next verses and sets forth the praises of Ierusalem in a threefold reference that is to say First to the unanimity and sweet agreement of the inhabitants among themselves Ierusalem saith he is built as a City that is compact together vers 3. Secondly to their devout and holy deportment towards God Thither saith he the Tribes go up the Tribes of the Lord unto the Testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord vers 4. Thirdly to their care of Justice in the equal distribution of rewards For there saith he are set Thrones of judgement the Thrones of the house of David vers 5. Lo here the three great Ornaments and indeed the strong supports of a Kingdom or Commonwealth Love Religion and Justice The exhortation which he annexeth to both the former is briefly sum'd up in the two next verses wherein he adviseth them every one in his place to sollicite the Throne of Grace for the confirmation of this their sweet accord and prosperous condition without being interrupted by any either hostile opposition from without or unbrotherly dissention from within The first in these words Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem they shall or as some read let them prosper that love thee vers 6. The second in the next words wherein he adviseth them to pray again and say Peace be within thy walls and Prosperity within thy Palaces vers 7. whence we may observe that the favours which God indulgeth to a Church or State are rendred the more comfortable and lasting by the blessing of Peace superadded to them and that therefore in the midst of all our enjoyments we must beg that blessing at Gods hand yea and call in others to concurre and joyn with us in their Devotions for that end In the last place the Protestation which King David maketh for himself and wherewith he concludeth the whole Psalm is sairly