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A65752 The troubles of Jerusalems restauration, or, The churches reformation represented in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abby Church Westminster, Novemb. 26, 1645 / by John White ... White, John, 1575-1648. 1646 (1646) Wing W1784; ESTC R186492 39,612 69

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THE TROUBLES OF JERUSALEMS RESTAURATION OR The Churches Reformation REPRESENTED In a Sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of LORDS in the Abby Church Westminster Novemb. 26. 1645. By JOHN WHITE Master of Arts and Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Dorchester in the County of Dorset ZACH. 14.6.7 And it shall come to passe in that day that the light shall not be cleare nor dark But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord nor day nor night but it shall come to passe that at evening time it shall be light Published according to Order LONDON Printed by M. Simmons for John Rothwel and Luke Fawne and are to be sold at their Shops in Pauls Church-yard 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The House of PEERES assembled in PARLIAMENT IN obedience to your Command Right Honorable I make bold to present unto your view these Meditations which in part I did and intended fully to have delivered in your ears the day where●n by your appointment I was called unto this service I may truly say I intended it rather then performed it For the Meditations themselves being conceived as womens children are Gen. 3.16 in sorrow and pain upon the bed of languishing weaknesse when they were come to the birth wanted the help of strength to bring them forth I felt indeed so much I will not say sorrow but extremity of pain while I stood that day before you that I was enforced to present you only the heads for the most part of what I intended to have delivered then unto you if the infirmity then upon me had not hindered it You well know Right Honourable that the infirmities of the body have a strong influence upon the soul and therefore I assure my self you will not expect that from a minde distempered and distracted by the sense of pain and griefe which might be required of a free and enlarged spirit I make no question but some may be ready to passe that censure upon this message of mine unto you which old Cato gave once upon an Embassage sent by the Roman Senate wherein of the three Ambassadors one had his head full of scars by wounds received in the wars the second was lame in his feet the third defective in his intellectuals Eam legationem neque Caput neque Pedes neque Cor habere that Embassage said he hath neither Head nor Feet nor Heart I passe not for such censures I only desire that although these Meditations be the issue of an infirm Head and Body they may not be taken to be aegri somnia a sick mans dreams nor the illusions of a deceiving Prophet that cryes out I have dreamed I have dreamed Jer. 23.25 The words which I set before you are the words of truth the Oracles of God and if they be so esteemed by you and all that love the truth I have my desire and God shall have the glory The chief Subject handled is the Troubles which accompany the Churches Reformation In that particular God hath made my work suitable to his own both the restoring of Jerusalem and my Meditations thereupon were cast into times of trouble if pains and infirmities may be so accounted In the close of this Sermon you shall finde an humble Petition for the cherishing of poor Students which if you be pleased to entertain with favour as the last request of a dying man nay as an intimation from the Man Christ who dyed for us I know not whereby you may more ingage not man but the Lord himself to make good his promise to you Mal. 3.10 11 12. to open the windowes of heaven and to powre upon you and the Land blessings more then you can receive and to rebuke the devourer for your sakes so that all Nations shall call you blessed That your care and endeavour may be both in this and all other services for the Church to fulfill the will of the Lord Christ and that this may be your reward is and shall be the prayer of Your Honours humble servant in the Lord Christ JOHN WHITE THE Troubles of Jerusalems RESTAURATION OR The Churches Reformation DAN 9.15 The street shall be built againe and the wall even in the troublous Times WHatsoever things were written aforehand were written for our learning saith the Apostle Rom. 15.4 The Lawes for our Direction The Prophecies for Observation of their Accomplishment in answerable Events The Promises for our Comfort and conso ation The Examples of Evill for Caution of Good for Imitation And lastly the Events ordered by the Wisdome and Providence of God for Precedents and Patternes representing our State and Condition either What it is at Present and why so or what wee are to Expect it may be hereafter Upon this ground it is Right Honourable that I have made choice of this portion of Scripture to the Church of the Jewes then a Prophecy of that which was shortly to be fulfilled but to us being long agoe Accomplished in the nature of an History or Relation of what God did then for his people and How and When setting before us as in a Type the state and condition of our owne Church at present both what it Is and what God is about to doe amongst Us as will easily appeare by Paralleling the particulers of the One with the other For first that Church of the Iewes was then and had full Seventy yeares been held in Captivitie and bondage under the Babylonian Monarchy Our Church had bin farre longer oppressed under a more heavie yoke of the spirituall Babylon the Mother of Fornications Secondly during that Bondage the Church of the Iewes was deprived of all Gods Ordinances as with much bitternesse themselves complaine Psal 74.9 We see not our signes there is no more any Prophet neither is there any amongst us that knoweth how long Our condition in this respect was every way as sad and miserable as theirs we had indeed amongst those that occupied the roome of Seers but those that should have been our Watchmen were all Blind sleeping and loving to slumber Shepheards that could not understand looking all to their owne way every one to his gaine from his quarter as the Prophet Isaiah complaines of the Priests of his time Isa 56.10.11 Thirdly that yoke of the Babylonish-captivity was sodainly and unexpectedly broken and taken off from the necks of Gods people insomuch that those who were restored to liberty scarce believed that which they enjoyed but seemed to themselves like men that Dreamed Psal 126.1 Our deliverance from the Romish Bondage was no lesse sodaine no lesse unexpected then theirs even in a Moment that yoke was broken and we were restored to liberty to the admiration of all the Churches of Europe who said as the Heathen did of the Iewes The Lord hath done great things for them Psal 126.2 Fourthly that sodaine and unexpected Change of the state of the Iewes was wrought by the change of the Princes God sodainly cutting off