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A90064	Jerusalems vvatch-men, the Lords remembrancers: a sermon preached at the Abbie at VVestminster, before both Houses of Parliament, and the Assembly of Divines, upon their solemn fast, Iuly 7. 1643. / By Matth: Nevvcomen M.A. and Minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Published by order of both Houses of Parliament.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing N911; Thomason E63_7; ESTC R8797	23,198	43

JERVSALEMS VVATCH-MEN THE LORDS REMEMBRANCERS A SERMON PREACHED at the Abbie at VVESTMINSTER before both Houses of Parliament AND The Assembly of DIVINES upon their Solemn Fast Iuly 7. 1643. BY MATTH NEVV COMEN M. A. and Minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex As for me I have not hastned from being a Pastour to follow thee neither have I desired the wofull day thou knowest that which came out of my lips was right before thee Be not a Terrour to me thou art my hope in the day of evill Jer. 17.16 17. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them and to turn away thy wrath from them Jerem. 18.20 Yee that have escaped the sword goe away stand not still Remember the Lord afar off and let Jerusalem come into your minds Jer. 51.50 Published by Order of both Houses of Parliament LONDON Printed by M. F. for CHRISTOPHER MEREDITH at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1643. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE LORDS The worthy Members of the HONOURABLE House of COMMONS AND The Learned and Religious DIVINES now assembled to consult about matters of RELIGION THis Sermon might have been entertained from the Pulpit and now from the Presse as Pharez was from the womb Gen. 38.29 with a Quàm erupisti how hast thou broken forth were it not knowne to this Assembly that the Parliament had designed another both in yeares and all Intellectuall and spirituall abilities far more fit for the solemn work of so solemne a day in so solemne and Reverend an a Consisting of both Houses of Parliament the Divines all joyning in humiliation and prayer Assembly But bodily infirmities compelling him with Zarah to draw back his hand the work was I know not by what providence devolved on me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I was to that quire of Mourners and Intercessours but as the grashopper was to b Hujus meminit Strabol 6. Clem. Al. in Protreptico al gentes Phot. in Ep. ad Joen Patricium Eunomius his harp quae Citharae jugo insidens ruptae chordae sonum expleret The same Authority which I am resolved to obey usque ad Aras that commanded mee to preach then commands me now to make publique to the eyes of all what then was committed to the ears of not many when the same Authority shall command other things that have since been spoken and transacted in your Assembly to see the Light I doubt not but all sober-minded men that have not been made drunk with the cup of Romes fornication will acknowledge you have with a single eye sought Truth with peace and union with Reformation It is Men Brethren and Fathers a great work that God hath called you to set your heads and hearts and hands unto to rescue truth from the jaws of those monstrous errours that had almost devoured it to disburthen the worship of God of those corruptions that have so long clogged and defiled it to advise of and propound such a Government in the Church as may be most agreeable to Gods word most conformed to the pattern in the Mount and to the practises of the best Reformed Churches 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Had our God cast you upon this work in the most pacate times and among a People the most prepared for Reformation that ever any were yet in it selfe considered such is the infinite weight of your employment as might even swallow up all your thoughts But then to consider how unprepared the hearts of people are for that which is the work of this age and this Assembly Reformation which hath been represented to Prince and People under the odious notion of Brownisme Anabaptisme Church Anarchy Confusion in so much that with many endeavours and assays of Reformation will find no better entertainment then Hezekiahs messengers of Reformation did 2 Chron. 30.10 when the people laughed them to scorn and mocked them Nay with some worse for so enragedly doe some burn after their Idolatrous wayes and so mad are they upon their own inventions Jer. 50.38 that deny them these and it is to be feared you shall finde them in the temper the Abezrites were scarce any thing will pacify them but the bloud of those that have cast down the altar of Baal and cut down the grove that was by it Iudg. 6.30 Doe not Multitudes cry already upon the disuse of some Ceremonies and the displacing of some Superstitious Priests do they not cry with Micah Judg. 18.24 Yee have taken away our Gods and our Priests and what have we more This makes the times so calamitous as we may say of them with the Learned Rivet In multis certè infoelicissima sunt nostra Tempora in quibus in pessum omnia ruunt quasi transversum ire videntur Concutiuntur Regna Respublicae tumultibus omnia perstrepunt seditionibus caedibus terra polluitur quod malum omnium malorum fons est clamant peccata et coelum provocant profligatis ferè moribus honestis vitiis latè quasi apertâ portâ erumpentibus Pruriunt ingenia multorum in rebus Divinis ita se gerunt adeò licenter ut quod olim in populo Ebraeo quibus temporibus non erat Rex in Israele quisque quod rectum videbatur in oculis suis faciebant Iud. 17.6 Sic multi sunt qui nullis repagulis continentur fidem in dies mutans quam dum multiplicant amittunt Alios vetustâ socordiâ detentos dum nullam mutationem admittunt in bonum ita dementat superstitio ut in monitores insurgant ne dum ut eos patienter audiant All this proclaims the work of Reformation the more necessary but withall the more difficult Against these difficulties what have you to encourage you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were yee encompassed as sometimes Elisha was with an hoast of armed men yet might yee say as he did there They that be with us are more then they that be against us For first Revel 19 14. with you are all the Armies in heaven All the Saints and Churches of Christ are with you striving with you by their prayers not only in reference to your persons but to your employments for protection guidance blessing The appearing of Christ in the beauty of Reformation among us may be said to be the desire of all Christian Nations Secondly not only so but yee have the prayers of those that have been before us For verily many Prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye see Favour me the use of this expression by way of allusion have not seen them viz. a Parliament resolved upon a more thorough Reformation an Assembly called to debate advise about the establishing of Doctrine and worship and the Government of the Church in a more pure regular manner with how many tears and prayers did our Forefathers seek this at the hands of God The first fruits of which prayers we who are entred upon

many too many with the Priest and Levite passe by on the other side of the way and will not see though they cannot but see the Churches bleeding miseries amongst all her lovers there is none to comfort her Lam. 1.2 Zion spreadeth forth her hands and there is none to comfort her Lament 1.17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands from sea to sea from one Nation to another people and there is none to comfort her there is none to guide her amongst all the sons whom she hath brought forth neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up Esay 51.18 O were I able to expresse this to the life unto you you would say if ever there were a time for you to shew your selves as the good Samaritane to bestow as he did your wine your oyle your money nay your teares your prayers your blouds upon the healing of the Churches wounds Now is the time Or could I let you see the Church Ierusalem as Iohn saw her in that Revelation which was given unto him by Christ Iesus chap. 12. in the same condition though not in the same cloathing a woman cloathed not as there with the sun but with a cloud not having the moon under her feet but a globe of flames a field of blood under her feet not as there with a crown of twelve starres upon her head but rather in Tamars dresse and posture 2 Sam. 13.19 who with ashes on her head and her garment of divers colours the ensigne of her Virginity and Royalty rent and torne and with her hands upon her head going forth crying such may we conceive the dresse and posture of the Church of Christ to be she now as there Revel 12. cryeth travelling and pained to be delivered in this pained condition the Church hath been now almost these three years ever since the beginning of this Parliament the Church of God amongst us hath been in travell crying and pained to be delivered and all this while as there the great red dragon stands before the woman to devour the child as soone as it is born O! the sight of the Church in such a sad condition might force a teare from a stone a prayer from a speechlesse heartlesse man but from Ministers from those that are the Lords Remembrancers me thinks it might draw tears enough to rince the earth from bloud and prayers enough to offer violence to heaven But not to speak parabolically but plainly I say again if ever there were a time that did command the most importune and uncessant prayers of all Gods ministers and people now is the time was there ever time wherein the Church of God was more shaken more in danger to have both her pillars of truth and peace broken reduced to dust to nothing then at this time The enemies of the Church have a long time sought to undermine the truth but now they raise Armes against the truth they plant open battery against the truth And for our peace where is it Terras reliquit it hath taken to it self the wings of a dove and forsaking earth is fled to heaven frighted hēce with the sound of the trumpet the alarum of warre and the cryes of bloud We may chronicle of our age that which the Prophet Azariah spake of some ages of Israel 2 Chron. 15.5 6. In those times there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries And Nation was destroyed of Nation and city of city for God did vex them with all adversity Never was this poor Church people in a more broken distressed condition in regard of peace civill nor scarce ever worse in regard of peace ecclesiasticall now when there are so many swords in England and in Ireland drawn against the Protestants ô that we should be even at daggers drawing one against another O the bitter divisions and digladiations of Protestants amongst themselves in these bleeding times For the divisions of Reuben there are great searchings of heart for the divisions of Reuben there are great searchings of heart Holy Ridley and Hooper though in the times of the peace liberty of the gospell they could never agree about black and white but had many wrathfull bickerings yet in time of persecution for the gospel they could as their own expression is agree in red when God came to put them together in tears and sufferings and bloud they could forget all differences of judgement then and love and live and die together as brethren Doe those know what spirit they are of that at such a time as this when all the true hearted Protestants in England are put in one calamitous suffering bleeding condition are yet quarrelling about their own opinions weakning the Protestant party by sub-divisions which if united is scarce enough to withstand the common adversary should this be if we had not lost our peace with God As the Holy Ghost speaks of the calamities of the Church in Iuda 2 Kings 24.3 so may we say of the calamities upon the Church of England Surely at the commandement of the Lord came this upon England and the Lord grant the Lord grant that the following words be not verified in their time the Lord grant this be not come upon us to remove England out of his sight but however we may take up the Churches lamentation Lam. 3.17 Thou hast removed me far from peace Ey and as far from praise The crown is fallen from our head Lam. 5.16 we are become a reproach to our neighbours a scorn a derision a by-word a shaking of the head those few of us that adhere to the Protestant Religion and cause are represented to the world at home and abroad as Sectaries Anabaptists Rebels that if ever there were a time for us to cry to God to scatter those clouds of bloud confusion contempt that cover the face of the Church to bring forth our judgement as the light and our righteousnesse as the morning now is the time Yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest till he establish and till he make Ierusalem a praise in the earth A second enforcement of this duty from the persons present And if ever Men were called to this work we are called to it 1 as Ministers 2 as Ministers selected from the rest of our brethren to this present service whereunto we desire to sanctifie our selves this day ½ As Ministers it doth ex officio belong unto us to be the Lords Remembrancers to put the Lord in mind of Ierusalem you know what order the Lord took that the Priests the Ministers of the Lord under the Law might continually remember Israel the Church of God unto the Lord the high Priest was to bear the names of the twelve tribes upon his shoulders engraven in two stones and upon his breast engraven upon twelve stones Ex. 28.12.29 that he might bear