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A86325	The glory and beauty of Gods portion: set forth in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at the publique fast, Iune 26. 1644. / By Gaspar Hickes, Pastour of Lanracke in Cornwall, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Hickes, Gaspar, 1605-1677.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1838; Thomason E2_10; ESTC R2493	29,927	47

spirit of judgement to him that sits in judgement He will raise up instruments and fit them with faithfulnesse and activitie for the administration of Justice He shall be for strength to them that turne the battell in the gate He will infuse courage and adde wonderfull successe to their attempts that fight his battels and jeopard their lives for his cause The words read unto you are a propheticall Promise let it not seeme unsutable to the day for me to handle a Promise It is our worke to day to humble our soules and poure them out in prayer and what so proper and prevailing to melt a gracious soule as the goodnesse of a Promise and where but in the Promises shall we look for grounds and matter of our requests and what one single Promise in Scripture can more directly and fully answer our desires than this we groane after Reformation this Promise holds it forth to us in the honourable and amiable notions of glory and beauty Our supreme Councell our Kingdomes Worthies are this day on their knees before the Lord and what blessing would they beg of God or we for them rather then the spirit of judgement here promised Our Armies are in the field and if we were put to the option to find out and beseech an advantage to them we cannot bethinke a better than is here expressed that the Lord would be their strength If I had a spirit and a tongue to set forth and you hearts rightly disposed to aske what is here contained I might impart and you obtaine the fulnesse of the blessing of God That we all may doe our duties the better I beseech you looke over the Promise againe wherein you may finde remarkable 1. The seasonablenesse of it intimated in the circumstance of time when it shall be accomplished In that day 2. The pretiousnesse expressed in the substance of good things assured the Lord himselfe undertakes to be for a crown of glory and for a diademe of beauty rich and sure and honourable advantages these 3. The peculiaritie of the Priviledges appropriated they are to Gods residue or remnant the persons with whom alone he stipulates 4. The specification of two choice excellencies wherewith he honours and beautifies his covenant people 1. The spirit of judgement for Civill Government 2. Holy valour and strength for military exploits In that day c. The parts I shall handle in the same order as they lie disposed in the Text beginning with the seasonable accomplishment of this pretious Promise set downe in the circumstance of time of which a word only because I may not spend much of the little time allotted me about a circumstance In that day If you considerately calculate the time here noted by a view of the context you will find it to be a time of foule degeneration when the greatest part was swollen in pride slimed with sensualitie growne to an height of insolency and universality in sinning and therefore ripe for a judgement yea indeed it was the very day of wrath when destruction like a violent storme a deluge of mighty waters did dash and overwhelme the flower of their beauty when like a greedy devourer it consumed most of their visible strength and excellencie In such a day t is much if the Lord affords shelter to his deare ones an hiding place till the indignation be overpast yet more it is which he here undertakes for them even then to keepe them up in their honour to raise them higher in happinesse when his severity is most sharpe and his judgements are most heavie round about them 'T is a cleare truth Doct. That in the worst and most dangerous times the Lord doth certainly provide for the glory and the beauty the advancement and the ornament of his chosen people If you looke for the literall or historicall accomplishment of this truth you will find it in the blessed reignes of Hezekiah and Iosiah 2 Chron. 29. 34. wherein after the Lord had removed the ten tribes out of his sight and cut short Judah for their high provocations yet some glorious respites he affords to his remnant wherein Religion and Justice recovered their flourish and the ruined honour of that Church and state revived and got strength But if you consider the Promise in its generall drift in its extent or amplitude as it reaches and belongs to all the faithfull then might I by a plaine and plentifull induction shew how from time to time it hath beene performed but I shall not multiply instances rather I shall single out some few that are most eminent and remarkable And where should I begin but at the most glorious advantage that ever befell the Church the summe of saving Priviledges so much desired so long looked for to which its probable this Promise mainly points I meane the exhibition of Christ in the flesh upon what times fell that even upon the most degenerate and deplorable that might be when the glory of the Scepter was departed and the beauty of truth and worship fouly blemished and razed when the Church was even at the lowest ebbe Afterwards when Christ had gathered a people for himselfe and suffered Sathan to vent his malice against them in bloudy opposition when the rage of persecutours was at the achme Euseb E●cles Histor 1● 8 c. 4. at the height When Dioclesian and Maximianus had vowed the extirpation of the Christian Name when their savage crueltie had more exhausted the world then ever any warres had done as the Historian observes even then on the sudden doth the Lord chaine up the grand enemie Su●p●●ius checke and over-turne his fell agents in their fiercest careere and introduce glorious liberty a flourishing calme on his heritage In succeeding ages when the weedes of heresie sprang apace in the fat and well manured soile of the Church and at last grew together into popery as into one stemme all errours and villanies falling into that as into a common confluence or sinke when that man of sinne was swollen up to such monstrous insolencie Melchior Adam in vitâ Lutheri that he set his feet upon the neck of all authority when he was waxen impudent in blasphemies insomuch that Tecelius the foule-mouthed publisher of his indulgences blushed not to affirme that by the Popes power interventu pecuniae mony he must have too he could pardon him that had defiled the blessed Virgin the mother of Christ even then did the glorious Sun of truth breake forth in the preaching of the Gospel many Nations threw off the yoke of Antichrist and subjected themselves to a beautifull Reformation But whether doe we wander from our selves what neede we looke for forreigne or farre fetcht instances never was this truth more evidently exemplified in any Nation or Church under Heaven then in ours When did the Lord advance us to the dignity of his people and establish his truth and worship amongst us in a peaceable and beautifull manner even immediately after