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kingdom_n	david_n	great_a	lord_n	2,198	5	3.5931	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81210	Heaven and earth embracing; or, God and man approaching: shewed in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their publike fast at Margarets Westminster, January 28. 1645. By Joseph Caryl minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer London Bridge.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing C779; Thomason E319_11; ESTC R200557	28,718	47

Of a challenge and so the Prophet doth as it were dare those people to whom he speaks in the Name of the Lord. The Lord will doe thus unto thee and seeing he will doe so prepare to meet thy God muster thy forces and gather all thy strength harden thy heart and set thy face against God see how thou canst make thy part good against him In that sense the word is used Luk. 14. 31. What King going to make warre against another King sitteth not down first and consideret● whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that commeth against him with twenty thousand To meet him is to fight with him to undertake him in the field So saith the Prophet God hath gathered his Army he is comming against you see now if you be able to fight a battell with him Dare you meet him in the field Thus it speaks a challenge It is likewise the language of an humble supplication so most interpret that place seeing the Lord will doe thus O Israel Prepare to meet thy God put on thy mourning weeds take up a lamentation get thy petition ready go forth upon thy knee and beseech him to spare thee So Abigail met David when he marched with a resolution to destroy Nabal and his Family the noble spirited woman came forth and met David what to doe Not to contend with him but to supplicate him 1 Sam. 25. 23 24. Praying is such a meeting with God When Saul prevailed in battell against the Philistin●s he had thoughts to prosecute his victorie and attempt them a second time Let us goe down saith he after the Philistines by night and spoyl them and let us not leave a man of them Let us rally again and rout them quite the people answer Doe whatsoever seems good unto thee renew the battell if thou pleasest Stay saith the Priest be not too hasty it is good to aske counsell and a blessing of God before we venture Then said the Priest let us draw neer hither unto God that is let us pray and by Vrim and Thummim enquire of the Lord what his minde is in this thing he expresses that dutie of advising with God under this notion of drawing neer unto God Hence it is that ordinances of worship are called the face or presence of God Cursed Cain complains in such a language Gen. 4. 14. Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth that is from the society of men and from thy face shall I be hid that is I shall not be admitted to offer sacrifice with hope of acceptance any more Hence it is said at the 16. verse that Cain went out from the presence of the Lord that is he went like a man excommunicated and banished from the Church of God and the meetings of his publike worship The worship of the Jews is called an appearing before God Exod. 23. 17. David breathes out his desires in the same expression When shall I come and appear before God Psal 42. 2. And in his song of thanksgiving his spirit rises to this strain 1 Chron. 16. 29. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name Bring an offering and come before him worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse And if so we see first that is a priviledge which most account a burthen Holy duties are lifted at as burthens and the carnall heart cries out What a wearinesse Mal. 1. 13. They are burdens indeed but upon no other true account then as honour is a burden When we pray we draw nigh to God Is it no honour to draw nigh to great Princes and to be admitted into the presence of a King Will any reckon this a wearinesse Were our hearts spiritualized every time we pray we would look upon our selves as admitted into the presence chamber of the King of Heaven and we should say as Jacob at Bethel of every place we pray in This is no other neither better nor worse then the house of God this is the gate of heaven Gen. 28. 17. Prayer is the true Jacobs ladder set upon the earth and the top of it reaching Heaven by which we ascend to God and God descends to us The Queen of Sheba counted it a high favour to stand before Solomon and she envied his servants whose attendance gave them that priviledge When the Apostle had said that circumcision which is outward in the flesh was nothing a Question is started in the next words What then is the advantage of the Jew And what is the profit of circumcision He answers Much every way chiefly Because to them were committed the Oracles of God The Jews kept the records they were Masters of those Rolls which God sent from heaven these occasion'd their frequent recourses to God and advisings with him this made them a people nigh to God this was the chief advantage of the Jew the profit of circumcision Christ saith Mat. 11. 27. that Capernaum was a City exalted upto heaven Why lifted up to heaven The Gospel was preached there which might have drawne them nigh to God this was their exaltation to heaven to be exalted to heaven is the greatest exaltation When that ambitions Monarch Isa 14. 13. would let out his spirit of pride to the utmost and shew the very head of that monster heresolves thus I will ascend to heaven I will exalt my throne above the starres of God Mortall man could not imagine higher then heaven Capernaum was exalted up to heaven she had more then any worldly honour by the enjoyment of that ordinance the preaching of the Gospel While God vouchsafeth any people such meetings as these he exalts them to heaven O take heed your hearts be not found groveling upon the earth take heed you doe not thinke it a hell a pain a vexation to be in God-approaching and man-exalting duties I know wearinesses will be upon the flesh there are weaknesses and distempers there but chide them away entertain them not number it among your choisest priviledges to converse with God Secondly Learne whence it is that the Saints so highly prize and delight in these duties The world wonders what they finde in them where the sweetnesse what the comfort is what secret golden mines they finde in these diggings when themselves finde nothing but burdensome stones and clay The reason is because the Saints draw nigh to God in these duties and they that draw nigh to God cannot but finde great treasures they that meet with God meet with all delights Davids soul was a thirst for God for the living God not for a Kingdome Psal 42. 2. And the one thing which he desired of the Lord was that he might dwell in the house of the Lord all the daies of his life It was good being there Why What because of any incomes from the world No this is it That I may behold the beauty of the Lord. If a soul gets a sight of God in prayer it hath enough in