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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60992	A sermon preached before His Grace George Earl of Melvil Their Majesties high commissioner, and the nobility, barons, and burrows, members of the high court of Parliament. In the Parliament-House, upon Sunday, May 11, 1690. By John Spalding, minister at Kirkcudbright.	Spalding, John, 1633?-1699.	1690 (1690)	Wing S4796; ESTC R221641	18,386	25

allude to that Word Isa. 21. 11. watch-man what of the night watch-man what of the night The watch-man said The morning cometh and also the night There may be a dark Night before the Morning and even darkest immediately before the break of day And 2. Ye are to understand these dark Providences with reference to Judgments as well as mercies Ier. 8. 7. The stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times and the turtle and the cran and the swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. And as to this ye are to understand 1. That the Lord with variety of outward Judgments oftimes smites a sinful People he hath many sickles to cut down a Nation when they are rype by abounding and being impudent and obstinat in sin Ioel 3. 13. Zach. 5. 1. And in his Soveraignity he changes them at his pleasure And in order to this he fitteth Instruments to execut his wrath and prepares them for doing his pleasure Isa. 13. 3. I have called my sanctified ones I have commanded my mighty ones for mine anger and proportions the Judgments some way to the sin of a People that they who run may read for what the Lord smitteth them when they that spoil are spoiled c. 2. That the Lord doth sometimes insensibly consume a People by spiritual and invisible Judgements sending a moth among them Hos. 5. 12. I will be as a moth to the house of Iudah and as rottenness to the house of Israel And making gray hairs to be here and there upon them Hos. 7. 9. tho they knew it not This is worthy of your search and studying to understand how the Lord secretly and insensibly by Spiritual Judgments wastes a Nation Judgments come and the noise of their feet is not heard they are effectually tho insensibly destroyed O strange A People slain and the sword not seen and the shot not heard but in his wrath they pine away by his deserting of them Mic. 3. 4. By hardning their hearts blinding their eyes and fatning their hearts Isa. 6. 9. By giving them up to spiritual barrenness Ezek. 47. 11. And to strong delusions 2 Thes. 2. 12. And by letting them run on in sin without reproof or correction Isa. 1. 5. Hos. 4. 14. And by many other spiritual plagues which makes the case the sadder that not only as I have said they consume insensibly but they are both sins and judgments Amos. 4. 4. Yea if not timously prevented by turning to the Lord they may prove the sad earnest of hell and damnation as in that forecited place 2 Thes. 2. 12. That they all might be damned who believe not the truth And 3. It 's worthy of your study to understand how that Moth. at last if a People prove incorrigible turns into a Lyon and a Leopard Hos. 13. 7. Therefore I will be unto them as a lyon and as a leopard by the way will I observe them And how the Lord by out ward and visible strokes destroyes a Nation Ier. ●4 12. I will consume them by the sword and by famine and by the pestilence 5. You are to labour to understand the great ends and designs that the Lord is driving on by these times and providences that pass over a People And if ye observe narrowly ye will find 1. That by all these Providences in the latter days he is removing these things that are or as some read it may be shaken as of things that are made that the things which cannot be shaken may remain 2. That he is making way for the utter ruin and fall of Antichrist and Popery in all the forms of it that not so much as a rag of that whore may remain Rev. 18. 2. And his Church sing a triumph Babylon the great is fallen is fallen And 3. That he is carrying on the establishment of Zion upon her right Basis and Foundation Isa. 14. last v. What shall one answer the messenger of the nations That the Lord hath founded Zion and the poor of the people shall trust in or as in the Heb. betake themselves unto it And if these great Ends be carried on by Providences It matters not much tho you and I and others miss our own particular and self Ends. And 6. I would propose to you the understanding of the Times which the Text relates unto And if there be any paralell betwixt it and our Times it is not I but Scripture and Providence the great Commentary on Scripture that hath made it And if ye will search into the case of the Text you will find 1. That Saul David's Father in Law was now dead and the Throne vacand 2. Abner and his Command that he had over the Tribes was now removed out of the way by the Lord 's remarkable hand 2. Sam. 3. 30. 33. 3. David was now magnified among the People by his victories over the Philistines his pious carriage and his zeal for the ark of the Lord and against Idolatry and for the publick good of the Land v. 18. of this chap. 4. The time of the Promise for making David King was now at hand to be fulfilled 2 Sam. 3. 9 10. 5. There was a Spirit of Zeal for this work moving all the Tribes they flock one after another to the work as here in this chap. v. 2● 38. It 's said They came all with a perfect heart to make David King over Israel and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David King untill as v. 22. they were a great host as the host of God 6. There were both open and secret Enemies to this great work of making David King if ye will consider what is said in 1 King 12. 16. and in v. 17. of this chap. And 7. When ever David came to the Crown he gave orders to bring back the Ark to its right place And in the following chap. to this Text ye see what orders after consultation with the Leaders and Captains he issues forth to bring again the Ark of God for says he we inquired not at it in the days of Saul Yea 8. In this Juncture there were that gave the Ark a wrong touch which kindled the Anger of the Lord against him see v. 9. of the chap. next to this Text. And I must in the 9. and last place add That when the Ark was brought home several remarkable things followed As David the King his carnal fear to bring it to his own City v. 12 13. of the following Chapter The great confirmation of the Kingdom upon him by the Lords signal appearances in his behalf according to his Promise by forreign Confederacies and kindness by a numerous Family and by victories over his Enemies As in 1 Chron. 14. 1 2 10 14 c. And at last after several stops and lets the Ark is brought with shouting unto it's own place the City of David 1 Chron. 15. 28 And the called and appointed Officers of