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The return of the sword or a divine prognostick delivered in a sermon at Newcastle : manifesting that breach of covenant is a prognostick of the return of the sword. / By Robert Jenison. Dr. of D.
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Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.
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in his days Now if either of these have been sufficient cause to renew Covenant with God have not we had and have we not still the same cause or like He must needs be either a child or of no observation that remembers not what the case and condition of these three Kingdoms was a few years ago and how we were under not only sensible wrath by plague and other outward evils but more insensible and not so visibly observed by all that is in a manner bought and sold and betrayed into the hands of Rome by such treacherous Trustees as who especially in our own Land had the chief power delegated to them upon the prevention of which by Gods mercy arms were taken up between the Kingdoms and after a short pacification renewed again which occasioned that bloody civil War among our selves that bloody Antichristian Inhumane Butchery and Massacre of the poor Protestants in Ireland intended to have been followed home to our doors also in Scotland and England by which means all three Kingdoms were in great hazard to have lost besides lives and goods our Religion Laws Liberties By the combination of enemies Now the combination of all sorts of Malignants Papists Athiests Prophane cold and luke-warm Protestants against the sincerer sort and against the Parliament was thought ground and cause sufficient to unite and enter into a most solemn League and Covenant according to God and as in the presence of the Almighty with hands lift up to him for Reformation and defence of Religion the honor and happiness of the King the Peace and safety of the three Kingdoms and to joyn with all their power in the defence of this cause against the common enemies c. After the example of divers godly Kings of Judah c. Yea for this our Nation to seek God by solemn monethly and other occasional humliations Our need of keeping our National Covenant by fasting and prayer And as this our Covenanting was then so occasioned is there not still the same cause to continue the union and inviolably and in conscience to keep close to our Covenant unless we will say our own turns now are served by it and that it is to be looked upon as an Almanack out of date which if we should generally so think to me argues that such entered into Covenant not in a religious but only civil and politick respect which if I have any sence or judgment in matters of that nature should be an horrible prophanation of the holy Name of God and a dallying with holy things to the just provocation of Gods displeasure who is a party in it against the violators of the same But is there indeed no further use of that our so solemn a Covenant Have we not still the same common Enemies Are not our dangers and causes of fear as great now as ever Is not Religion for the truth purity and power of it in as much danger as ever Do not such as are Enemies to both and all the Kingdoms hope if not seek to divide us Are not their hopes and our fears occasioned by the jealousies mistrusts and mâ—â—prisions we have one of another which if God be not merciful and chief counsellors on both sides wise for prevention may break out into a new and greater flame Howsoever we have less cause now then ever to be secure whether we look homeward or outward to other forraign Nations and more cause to maintain the union of the Kingdoms and to keep inviolably and stick close to God and our Covenant and to look upon our conscionable keeping of it as a strong â—edg to keep us under God safe from forraign and domestique Enemies and in the purity of our Religion and Worship against the licentious doctrines and practise of the times Lastly Then seeing our fears are not yet over 4 Use Examination but that though in the South and West of England storms are calmed and all in a manner done there and that for the present Clouds seem again to be gathering especially in the North What cause we have to fear the return of the sword from the Malignant and ill-effected party there howsoever the Return of the Sword from what coast soever not without just cause doubted and feared It will concern us wisely to consider and enquire into the true causes thereof for a timely prevention seeing prevention is ever better then medicine and Repentance is but the fruit of Improvidence I will enquire no further then my Text gives the occasion Our careless keeping of our solemn Covenant The Army of the King of Babylon was threatned to return and indeed did return to Jerusalem fought against it took it and burnt it with fire and made the Cities of Judah desolate But what is given as the special cause of it They were long and often threatned for many of their other sins but that here mentioned is That whereas they had made a Covenant before the Lord in the house which is called by his name they turned and polluted his name Verses 15 16 -18 22. transgressed his Covenant and not performed the words of the Covenant which they had made before him We then see and have seen what an heynous sin and how grievously punished is the sin of Breach of Covenant when made before God and according to his Will and when men perform not all the very words of it It was punished in Judah and Jerusalem with the taking and burning of the City and in Israel or Samaria as partly also in Iudah with the loss of their King or of their Kingly Government I will cause to cease the Kingdom of the house of Israel Hosea 1.4 10 3 4. And elsewhere now they shall say we have no King and why Because we feared not the Lord What then should a King do to us They have spoken words swearing falsly in making a Covenant These two together made their misery compleat and both of them the fruit of this sin Now for us of this our Nation we might doubtless be much more secure and in safer condition both in regard of our peace and also Government if our Covenant both with God as we are Christians and with our neighbour Nation as we are under one King were on all hands Application both entered into without such opposition made against it or more conscionably zealously and better kept by such as have entered into the same of both Nations First 1 To sâ—ch as sâ— mâ—dâ— rends to our naâ—onal Covenant For us who have so solemnly entered into this League as with God so one with another If as by a new act in this bloody Tragedy war come upâ—n our stage again or that old enmity between the Nations return that God send an evil Spirit or that a fire break out to the hazard and hurt of both Nations as once between Abimelech and the men of Shechem which God in mercy avert and turn from us
THE Return of the Sword OR A DIVINE PROGNOSTICK Delivered in a SERMON at Newcastle Manifesting that breach of Covenant is a Prognostick of the return of the SWORD By ROBERT JENISON Dr. of D. LEVIT 26.25 I will bring a Sword upon you that shal avenge the Quarrel of my Covenant EZEK 17.18 19. Seeing he hath despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant when lo he had given his hand he shal not escape As I live saith the Lord surely mine Oath that he hath despised and my Covenant that he hath broken even it wil I recompence on his own head LONDON Printed by John Macock for LUKE FAVVNE at the sign of the Parrot in Pauls Church-yard MDCXLVIII To the indifferent Reader THese Sermon notes lying by me having been delivered on the day of a solemn * Thursday April 30. 1646 Fast kept as by the Kingdom of SCOTLAND and by their Garrison here so by us who sympathizing with them conceived their dangers and fears to be ours and who for that one time made our day of solemn humiliation theirs which yet we kept for the place alone by our selves and finding that in all likelihood they may be as usefull at this time as then and may tend to our warning by way of prevention howsoever to Gods glory and the justifying and magnifying of his ways whether of justice or of mercie I conceived it would conduce to those ends if transcribing and here and there enlarging the same I made them in this juncture of time more publick as being a word or two spoken in season and that the rather because I have for my part been for divers years so unusefull to the Publick and a stranger to mine own Nation though my willingness and endeavours were not wanting to have assisted in more publike imployment with others unto which being assigned upon notice of a time then set for the sitting of the Assembly of Divines I undertook a long and tedious as also hazardous * From Dantzigk to London in July 1642. Voyage but arriving and finding that then the Kings consent to their assembling was expected and relied upon and it very unlikely to be got upon leave obtained I hastned to return unto my poor flock at Dantzigk and was content with some expence of time and money to undergo the same hazards which makes me now as occasion offers to be as serviceable to the publicke as I may according to my poor mite My ayme is as the good and warning of such as God intends good unto so above all Gods Glory in the acknowledgment of which I hope they will joyn with me whether it be in a way of Justice or Mercy Thine in the Lord R. J. Newcastle March 23. 1647 8. THE Return of the Sword OR A DIVINE PROGNOSTICK JEREMIAH 34.22 Behold I will command saith the Lord and cause them to return to this City and they shall fight against it and take it and burn it with fire and I will make the Cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant THis prediction and threat be to the enemies of God The occasion of this Text. of the King and of all these three Kingdoms Yet that it be not to us either of this place or to these three Kingdoms let us take warning by it and that in better maner then those â—id to whom it was here uttered It is not above eight moneths I take it that this town Septem 1645. Newcastle with the adjacent Counties were in great fears by reason of the prevailings of the E. of Monross and his party who being at that time Master of all Scotland made his approaches very neer to England his Scouts as is said being then come within it though upon the fears and prayers of his people of both Kingdoms by a miraculous providence he was met withal routed By Major General middleâ—â—â— scattered and himself sent back to his mountains A mercy by us of this place and as may be thought April 1646. by others also too soon forgotten And now we hear of a dangerous and seditious Band under the name of an humble Remonstrance c. tending to the violating and subvertion of our Covenants say our brethren of Scotland in a late * Declaration of the 〈…〉 of the general Aâ—â—â—mbly 〈◊〉 Scotland And causes of the Fast of this day Declaration of theirs raising and fomenting jealousies in Scotland and between both Kingdoms prolonging of the unnatural wars and impeding the intended uniformity in Religion They hereupon calling it and looking upon it as a banding Remonstrance a Divisive Band and seeing their Land threatned with a new Breach from the North and in consideration of the late shameful backsliding and compliance of many with the Enemies of their want of Reformation and not taking warning by late judgments of sword and pestilence of their senceless ingratitude for drawing back his hand of pestilence and for giving a little breathing from the cruel insulting Enemy and confessing it just with God to send new troubles c. They hereupon I say have appointed a solemn * Thursday April 30. 1646 Fast to seek God and that God in the might of his power would crush this cockatrice egg that it break not forth into a fiery flying serpent c. Now they and we especially in these Northern parts of England April 29. being upon the like grounds in the same ship of danger and the day of our own monethly Fast calling on us for like duty we cannot but sympathize and joyn with them and with their garrison here And how we are conceâ—ned in it in regard of our common interest And though the storms be laid in the West of England yet seeing new clouds to arise in and from the North we are not to rest secure but to look to keep our vows promises and Covenant better then we do or have done and to maintain what in us lieth peace and unity first with God and then according to our nâ—tional Covenant with our neighbors and one with another that so being Inseparable Siâ— Jacob Ashley we may also be Insuperable seeing as was said by the Commander who was last taken and routed and after the Kings last game was playd our or the Parliaments and two Kingdoms work was done if we did not fall out among our selves These things have occasioned this text at this time which I shall very briefly run through and insist only though not largely on one chief observation In this Chapter is the effect of two Sermons of the Prophet Jâ—remy The occasion of these words The first from Verse 1. to 8. where Ieremy prophesieth the captivity of King Zedekiah and the City Jerusalem c. at the time when they of Jerusalem were in some distress by the Caldean forces who fought against it and against all the Cities thereof The second from and with the 8. Verse to the end when the siege was for some space of time