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A94073	The vengeance of the temple: discovered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major and court of aldermen of the City of London, in Pauls Church, May 17. 1648. Being the day of publique thanksgiving for a victory obtayned by the forces under the command of Colonell Horton, at St. Faggons, neere Cardiffe in Wales. / By William Strong pastor of Dunstans in the west, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing S6011; Thomason E450_20	38,327	55

men much lesse of our brethren but yet if Christ will set up his Throne upon the carkases of the slaine heerein we may and will rejoyce 4. Fourthly he that will be thankfull must enlarge his thoughts by the remembrance of former mercies and all the circumstances of mercies present So doeth Deborah vers 4.5 Lord when thou wentest out of Seir when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom the earth trembled and the heavens dropped the clouds also dropped waters the mountaines melted from before the Lord even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel You must prayse God from the fountayne of Israel and sing both the song of Moses and of the Lambe And you must enlarge your thoughts in all the circumstances of the present mercies so doth Deborah by the violence of the enemy the kings came and sought then fought the kings of Canaan in Tanach by the waters of Megiddo they tooke no gaine of money By their confident expectations and their hopes Why is his chariot so long a comming why tarry the wheeles of his chariot have they not sped have they not divided the prey to every man a damsell or two to Sisera a prey of divers colours a prey of divers colours of needle worke of divers colours of needle worke of both sides meet for the necks of them that take the spoyle By the falshood and desertion of their friends Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds to heare the bleatings of the flocke for the divisions of Ruben were great thoughts of heart Gilead abode beyond Iordan and why did Dan remaine in ships Ashur continued on the sea shore and abode in his breaches Curse ye Meroz curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not out to the helpe of the Lord to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty By the immediate hand of God in the deliverance his arme was made bare They fought from heaven the starres in their courses fought against Sisera the River Kishon swept them away that ancient River the River Kishon 5. Fifthly a heart truly thankfull gives the instruments their due honour those that God hath honoured in the worke doe you honour also and God in them Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek after Benjamin among the people Zebulon and Nephthali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field Blessed above women shall Iahel the wife of Heber the Kenite be blessed shall she bee above women in the Tent. It is the property of a beast to crop the Tree that shelters it and of an unskilfull soldier to dismantle that Towne that must defend him Israel was never in a worse condition then when all their businesse was to murmur under their present sufferings and to quarrell with the Instruments of their deliverances 6. Sixthly mercies received with prayses must be followed with prayers As prayer should engage the heart to prayse so prayses should encourage the heart to prayer and those prayses are heartlesse and faithles that doe not end in prayers for when God is giving is our fittest season to be asking So heere prayse for a deliverance from one enemy drawes out the hearts in prayer against all Gods enemies So let all thine enemies perish ô Lord. Thus we are come home to the Text. The particuculars thereof are three 1. The persons prayed against Gods enemies with their note of universality All thine enemies 2. Secondly the end of these men Let them perish with that particle which directs us to the maner with an eminent utter and finall overthrow So let them perish 3. Thirdly the meanes which is by the power the prayses and the prayers of the Saints Hence the points are also three 1. First All the Churches enemies are Gods enemies 2. Secondly That perishing is their portion 3. Thirdly That they shall perish under the power by the prayers and prayses of the Saints All the Churches enemies Gods enemies Doctrine It is a question the Schoolmen usually put Num Deus possit odio haberi Whether it be possible for the creature to be an enemy to God who is goodnesse it selfe seeing evill onely is the object of hatred which is not to be found in him It is answered That as God is bonum universale hee cannot bee hated by the creature but inparticulari being a good that is contrary to us so men doe hate the Lord. For Men and Angels in their fall as some Schoolemen observe lost three things in respect of God Delectationem pulchritudinis adorationem Majestatis imitationem bonitatis They neyther delight in his beauty nor adore his glory nor imitate his goodnesse Thus all men by nature are Gods enemies But the enemies heere spoken of are Israels enemies enemies to God in his Church as Psal 78.1 Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered Isay 57.23 I know they going forth and comming in and thy rage against me Yea even all their neglects and omissions towards the Church referre to God and hee will judge them accordingly at the last day I was hungry and ye gave me no meat inasmuch as ye did it not to the least of these ye did it not to me Therefore Gods enemies heere spoken of are his Churches enemies In the opening of this point there are three things to be explayned First the Church of God in all ages and places hath met with enemies Secondly that these enemies are not onely theirs but Gods Thirdly some short discoveries who these enemies are First the Church of God hath from the beginning met with enemies For the nature of Christs kingdome in this world is to rule in the midst of his enemies in the world to come he shall rule over them The Apostle sayth There is a schema a fashion of the world that passeth away 1 Cor. 7.31 it continues not alwayes in one fashion but yet cast it into what shape you will and the Church of God hath alwayes found enemies in it and usually they have beene the greatest persons and the most prevayling party These enemies are of two sorts from without or from within While the Church was wandring among the Heathen as sheepe among wolves what else could be expected When Israel went downe into Aegypt they met with a Leviathan who by cruelty and subtilty sought to destroy them Ps 74.14 and when they came into the Land of Canaan they were as a speckled bird all the bordering Nations hated them Jer. 12.9 There arose fowre great Monarchies or principall kingdoms in the world called Beasts Dan. 7.1.2 chiefly for their cruelty to the Saints Under the Chaldean Monarchy Israel is as a scattered sheepe the Lions have driven him away the former Kings of Assyria Tiglath Pileser and Salmanaser have devoured him and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon hath broken his bones Jer. 50.17 In the Persian Monarchy there was an Haman and a Cambises who with a Samaritan faction of their

only in respect of temporall punishments and not of eternall for as no man ever went to heaven by the righteousnesse of another meere man so no man shall ever goe to hell for the wickednesse of another Heere the sonne shall not bear the iniquity of the father but the soule that sinnes shall die Yet in things temporall as children may have many blessings as a reward of their fathers graces and obedience as God brought Israel into Canaan 2. Cron. 20.7 although they were a very disobedient and stiffenecked people because it was the Land which he had promised to Abraham his friend and hee delivered them in the dayes of Hezekiah for his servant Davids sake so they may be under many temporall judgements Esay 37.35 as a punishment of their fathers disobedience the Lord heerein using his soveraignty and prerogative to punish a man eyther in his person or his posterity Gen. 9 25. 2 King 5 27. as he did Cham in Canaan his son and Gehesie both in his person and in his seede also 2. Secondly God lookes upon a generation or succession of men as a body and in the punishment of their sinnes he doth shew both justice and providence As there is a measure of iniquity in particular men to bee filled up before eternall wrath shall take hold of them Jer. 51 13. Dan. 8 23. Zach. 5.6 Joel 3 13. Rev. 14 15. so is there a measure appointed also to a State or a generation of men which must be filled up before Temporall wrath shall come upon them Wee see the Temporall judgement upon the Amorites is deferred because their iniquity was not yet full and the time to fill it up was 400 yeeres Gen. 15.16 The Lords Decree is gone forth to blot out the remembrance of Amalecke from under heaven Exod. 17.14 and yet this people doe not come up into remembrance before the Lord to their utter destruction till the dayes of Saul 1 Sam. 15.2 and then the Lord sits upon their posterity their fathers sinnes because they layd wayt for Israel in the way when they came out of Egypt So Christ sayth to the Pharises ye are the children of them that killed the Prophets fill yee up the measure of your fathers Matth. 23.31.32 So that when children walke on in their fathers wayes and fill up their measure though in respect of eternall wrath inflicted upon their persons they were in hell many yeeres agoe and received a just recompence of reward yet the temporal punishment may be reserved for after ages and visited upon the posterity when transgression is come to the full Thus all the cruelty executed upon the Saints from the bloud of Abel was visited upon the Jewes in the destruction of Jerusalem and all the bloud shed upon the earth shall be visited upon Babylon the great the mother of harlots when she shall come up into remembrance before God with all those that have receyved her marke or borne her image or acted with her in a way of bloud 6. Sixthly there are no sort of sinners in whose destruction the Lord doth so much delight it is unto him a sacrifice of a sweet savour Esa 34.6 Jer. 46.10 Z●ph 1.7.8 And as Satan the neerer his kingdome is to end the greater is his rage great wrath because his time is short so the neerer Christ comes to the perfect possession of his Kingdome for when the enemies are subdued all the Kingdomes of the earth shall be the Lords and his Christs the more will he put on zeale as a garment and the more he will hasten the enemies overthrow he will doe more in a short time at last then hee hath in many ages in times past If it bee but a slanderer Quid tandem Deus Opt. Max. in te decernet Sagittas suas desuper nec non carbones seu primas Juniperorum in Gehenna Mi●s in loc or one that persecutes with a despitefull heart and a false tongue he shall not lose his labour therefore the question is put Psal 121.3.4 What shall be given unto thee or what shal be done unto thee thou fals tongue Thy reward from the Lord shal be mighty and sharp arrowes with coales of Iuniper which as they burne hottest and continue the longest so they doe in the burning yeeld a sweet savour The second use is for consolation to all the Saints Vse 2 and the Lord takes great care that they should be comforted that their spirit might not sinke and fayle in the evill day Comfort yee comfort yee my people Esay 40.1 sayth your God and when the Lord Christ drew neere his suffering when a man would have expected all his thoughts should have beene taken up about himselfe yet now he takes care to beare up the spirits of his people that they might not bee overwhelmed with overmuch sorrow Io. 14.1 Let not your hearts bee troubled c. Truly we had need of great supports because the enemies are many and enraged mens spirits are in judgement turned to hate the Saints and it is to be feared if a man rightly discernes the signes of the times that the killing of the witnesses drawes neere which will surely bee the bitterest and bloudiest persecution that ever befell the Christian Churches My purpose is not to give you those ordinary supports which are common to all afflictions as that they come from a fathers hand from a heart full of love that they shal be in measure and make a man partaker of the holinesse of God in the end for this is all the fruit to take away the sinne c. though these are great grounds to stay a mans faith upon But I would rather pitch upon those that might be more proper and peculiar to the enemies and sufferings of the last times the cup that God hath reserved for you 1. These shal be the last great suffrings of the saints and they shal be but short for as all the former beasts are destroyed so there now remaines onely the seventh head of the fourth beast which is as the eight and must goe into perdition Rev. 17.11 and then all the eminent persecutions of the Church shall cease and there shall be no more a pricking briar and a grieving thorne in the Lords holy Mountaine the Lord shall then wipe away all teares from your eyes there shall bee no more sorrow nor crying the witnesses shall die but once and it shal be the sharpest but yet the shortest of the Churches sufferings To all you that have beene with the Lambe called and chosen and faythfull I say as the Martyr did Hold out faith and patience your worke is almost at an end It was a great comfort to Hierome of Prague that he could say to his persecutors at his death Centum revolutis annis Deo respondebitis mihi after an hundred yeeres God would call them to an account in avenging his bloud but you may summon your persecutors before God to answer in a far

first 6000. yeares of the World as Justine Martyr and after him Lactantius and others have observed And then shal be another condition of the Church which shall be even in this life compared with the former may wel be stiled Triumphant and glorious When Christ that great and mighty Angell shall come downe from Heaven clothed with a Cloud and a Rainbow upon his head and shall set his right foot upon the Sea and his left foot upon the Earth and thereby take to himselfe the dominion of both Revel 10.5.6 which is called taking to himselfe his great power and reigning Revel 11.17 when hee shall give the kingdome and dominion under the whole heaven which was before in the enemies hand unto the Saints of the most High and they shall possesse it for ever and ever When their enemies shall bow down before them and licke the dust under their feet In this militant condition hath the Church of God beene ever since the fall and how long it shall so continue no man can certainly determine But it is the concurrent judgement of our Divines that it drawes neere an end While this estate of the Church lasts their condition will be like that described by the Prophet A day wherein the light shall neither be cleare nor darke Zach. 14.6 full of uncertainties and subject to continuall changes and vicissitudes not so light that they shal say there is an end of our feares nor so darke that they shall say there is an end of our hopes Sometimes they may be under the power of the Enemy as prisoners in a pit wherein there is no water and by and by God will rayse up a deliverer for them that shall proclaime their liberty and be as a covering Cherub to the Ark of God for their defence A resemblance of this condition of the Church we have in the Jewish State which therefore is made the prototype of all the Gentile Churches thorowout the whole Book of the Revelation the Prophesie of the last times An embleme whereof you have in the former Chapters First the children of Israel did evill in the sight of the Lord and he gave them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim the king of Mesopotamia and hee ruled over them eight yeeres Then the Lord raysed up a deliverer to them Oihoniel the sonne of Kenaz Calebs yonger brother and the Land had rest forty yeeres Then the chilren of Israel did evill againe in the sight of the Lord and he strengthned against them Eglon the king of Moab and they served him eighteene yeeres and then the Lord raysed up a deliverer for them Ehud the sonne of Gera and the Land had rest fowrescore yeeres Afterwards they were oppressed by the Philistines and the Lord delivered them by Shamgar the sonne of Anath And they did evill againe in the sight of the Lord and he sold them into the hand of Iabin king of Canaan the most potent of all these enemies for he had nine hundred Chariots of iron and twenty yeeres hee mightily oppressed Israel And then the Lord raysed for their deliverance Deborah the wife of Lapidoth and Barach the son of Abinoham and gave the enemy into their hands Thus God never leaves his people in affliction but provides Saviours aswell as Persecutors not onely hornes but Carpenters also to beat them to pieces Zach. 1.21 A song of thanksgiving for this last victory and deliverance is the contents of this Chapter In which by way of context wee may observe these six particulars all which will helpe us in the duty of the present day 1 First the heart that shal be thankfull for a mercy must be gracious the song must be sung by a Deborah and a Barak they must have golden vials hearts refined and not drossie that shall have the harpes of God in their hands Revel 5.8 And they that shall sing the Lords song must be redeemed from the Earth being the first fruits to God and to the Lambe in whose mouth is found no guile Revel 14.4.5 An earthy spirit may put a man upon a prayer his owne necessity will therein carry him on to howle upon his bed for his corne and wine and oyle but it is a heart only redeemed from the earth that will enable a man to returne prayse so that if there bee ten cleansed we may say with our Saviour Where are the nine 2. Secondly whosoever shal be thankful for a mercy must prize it and rejoyce in it Gaudentis est gratias agere Levit. 3.1 Peace offrings are called in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Retributions and they that thinke they have received little will make little conscience of returning There is an evill generation among the sonnes of men that undervalue mercies and despise them saying Would God we had died in Egypt Canaan is a L●nd that eats up his inhabitants These men are so far from accepting the punishment in an affliction that they accept not the mercy in their redemption Mercies will distinguish men aswell as Judgements Some are delivered to everlasting life some to shame and everlasting contempt Dan. 12.2 O poore murmuring soules to whom mercies are a burthen 3. Thirdly a thankfull heart must stir up it selfe unto prayse Awake Deborah awake awake utter a song arise Barak and let captivity captive Eph. 5.19 thou sonne of Abinoam Thanksgiving is melody in the heart of the Lord and before you can make melody your Instrument must be in tune Awake my glory awake lute and harpe I my selfe will awake right early Yee prophane and unthankfull spirits ingratus est qui injuriam voc at finem voluptatis that repine at blessings Sen. ad Polyb. ● 20 and looke upon your mercies as your injuries incredulous men that are scarce willing to beleeve the things you see that endeavour to bring up an evill report upon all the goodnesse of God procul hinc heere is no place for you in the worke of this day The garment of prayse is comely only for the upright ye wayward spirits that slight the gift because your selves did not chuse the messenger and because you like not the hand that brings it And yee seemingly compassionate that say shall we give thanks for the killing of men and that of our owne Nation in a Civill Warre In this case the Heathen man did forbeare his Triumph and therefore such Thansgivings seeme not only unchristian but inhumane To such I answer The War in which at first ye of this City were eminently ingaged and by you the Kingdom was eyther just or unjust if it were unjust then hide your Tropheyes and be ashamed of your victories for he that gives thankes to God because he prospers in a sinne makes God a patron thereof But if it were just you ought to rejoyce in the successe being the publike execution of divine justice and to glorifie God in those things wherein hee hath glorified himselfe T is farre from us to rejoyce in the bloud of

neighbours that were neyther Heathens by profession nor Jewes by Religion these raysed a great mountaine against them Zach. 4.7 even the power of the whole Empire In the Grecian Monarchy there arose Antiochus that little horne a King of a fierce countenance who did destroy wonderfull and prospered and practised against the holy people waxed great even to the host of heaven and cast downe some of the host and of the starres to the ground and stamped on them Dan. 8.9.10 And in the fourth Monarchy as Pagan there was a great red Dragon that made warre against Michael and his Angels Thus the Church of God hath alwayes met with enemies round about But yet she might expect friends within that those borne in her bosome and brought up upon her knee that they should be true and faythfull to her But heere is the misery that she hath alwayes found the worst enemies to proceed out of her owne bowels Toads they say are most poysonous in the wineseller and the tares most destructive that grow among the wheat If an open enemy besiege Jerusalem Zach. 12.2 Judah erit in obsidione contra Hierusalem Jerom. Montan. some of Iudah will joyne with them in the siege When Jerusalem is taken by the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty Nation yet they feared more then they doe the enemy the Renegado Jewes that fell off to the Chaldeans And in their returne out of the captivity their greatest enemies were the Samaritans Jer. 38.19 that professed to worship the same God with them and would joyne with them in building a Temple to him that by their compliance they might hinder the worke Joseph antiq l. 11. c. 8. And when the Temple was built Manasses the brother of Jaddaeus the high Priest having married a strange wi●e sc the daughter of S●nballet and being therefore by his owne brother put out of the Priesthood he with his father in law did by a Petition to Alexander obtayne leave to build a Temple upon mount Gerazim in hope thereby to destroy the worship of God at Hierusalem and to draw away the hearts of the people from it And the Church of God is never in so much danger as when a S●nballet and a Manasse meet in the conspiracy And wh●n they were setled in their owne land Act. 4.11 Christ is rejected of the builders Esay 8.14 he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel And for the Saints Math. 23.34.35 I send to you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and not one of these can perish out of Hierusalem they that did professe with them the same God and to joyne in the same worship sought to destroy them Let us now come from the Iewish to the Christian Church and we shall see the enmity remayne as soon as the Roman Empire embraced Christianity Satan immediatly casts 〈◊〉 a floud after the woman the floud of Arian heresie and the Arian Christian persecutes the Orthodoxe as much or more then the Pagans had done before But this floud was soone dried up the earth helping the woman against the Arian persecution Now co●●es in a third state of the Empire which is Antichristian there doth arise a beast out of the earth Rev. 13.11 that hath two hornes like a Lambe Surely now nothing is to be expected bu● meekenesse and innocency but this Lamb speakes like the Dragon and the designe of this beast is to weare out the Saints of the most High Dan. 7.25 and to make warre upon them and that with greater cruelty then the Heathens and Arians had done before For Rome trades in the soules of men but many Nations have made defection from Antichrist have come out of Babylon Rev. 18.13 There are ten kingdomes that the Lambe will overcome by their conversion and they shall hate the whore and make her desolate Surely the Saints finde no enemies there there is in the Reformed Churches a sea of glasse mingled with fire both of contention Rev. 15.2 and persecution among themselves And they that slay the witnesses dwell in the same street where their dead bodies he Rev. 11.7.8 So that cast the world into what frame and fashion you wil while the tearm of the Churches militant condition lasts there will be alwayes found a prevayling party whose designe is to weare out the Saints of the most High 2. Secondly They that are the Churches enemies are Gods enemies whether they bee within or without the Church This will appeare upon these fowre grounds 1. First they are Gods enemies because God and his people are in Covenant there is a league offensive and defensive betweene them You have a full expression of such a league in the words of Iehosephat I am as thou art my servants as thy servants my horses as thy horses that is they shal be as truely thine to use as if the necessity were mine owne So Gen. 12.3 the Lord Covenants with Abraham I will blesse them that blesse thee and I will curse them that curse thee I will be an enemy to thine enemies and an adversary to thy adversaries Exod. 23.2 And therefore they that oppose them are sayd to fight against God And if the people of God be worsted at any time they can call to him as their Confederate Arise Lord fight against them that fight against one take hold of the shield and buckler and stand up for my helpe draw out the speare and stop the way against them that persecute me c. 35. Psa 2.3 2. Secondly because their cause is Gods cause therfore their enemies must needs be Gods enemies They intitle God to it Psal 74.22 Arise Lord maintayne thine owne cause And God by his Propht ownes it the battell is not yours but Gods 2. Cron. 20.12 It is for Gods sake that all opposition lights upon them for thy sake are we killed all the day long the reproches of them that reproched thee are fallen upon me and they chuse it rather then God should be dishonoured Malo in nos murmur hominum quam in Deum Bern. de confid bonumest mihi si Deus d●gnetur me uti pro clypeo 3. Thirdly because all Gods enemies be their enemies and all opposition that is made against God in the wayes of his Truth or Worship they take as done to themselves Doe not I hate them that hate thee yea I hate them with a perfect hatred as if they were mine enemies As Gods friends be their friends so all Gods enemies are their enemies And if they answer to their part of the Covenant surely God will not faile in his 4. Fourthly they are a people very deare to God and this makes the Lord to looke upon every thing that concernes them as being interessed in it They are dear to him Zach. 2.5 as the apple of his owne eye The sonnes of his bosome and the Father takes himselfe concerned in all the wrong offered to