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A94070	XXXI. select sermons, preached on special occasions; the titles and several texts, on which they were preached, follow. / By William Strong, that godly, able and faithful minister of Christ, lately of the Abby at Westminster. None of them being before made publique.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing S6007_pt1; Thomason E874_1; ESTC R203660	309,248	523

power now there shall be much of the power of Godlinesse of the life of Christ manifested in them thy people shall be all righteous the branch of my planting that I may be glorified Esay 60.21 It is the Bride the Lambs wife having the glory of the Lord upon her Rev. 21.10,11 it s true there shall not be perfect holinesse in the Saints for there is a Tree of life for medicine as well as for meat Rev. 22.2 and they shall not be without Hypocrites those that shall cleave unto them by flattery but yet there shall be a glorious spirit of discerning even of them also and they shall be without not onely that make but they that do love a lie Thirteenthly This Church shall have abundance of converts and their Ordinances shall be exceeding fruitfull to bring in souls into the Lord Ezek. 37.9,10,11 Where the Waters come every thing shall live and there shall be a multitude of fish even as that of the great Sea exceeding many thy Gates shall be open continually not shut day nor night that they may bring the riches of the Gentiles and their Kings shall be brought and they shall flie as a Cloud and as Doves unto their Windows because of the glorious Majesty of the Lord that is seen amongst them c. Fourteenthly They shall be brought home into their own land and they shall dwell there they shall dwell in their own Citie as in the days of old and Ezek. 12. Ezek. 37.25 Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place even in Jerusalem they shall dwell in the land that I gave to Jacob their father wherein their fathers dwelt they shall dwell there even they and their Children and Childrens Children for ever Fifteenthly There shall be a perfect union between the ten Tribes and the two Tribes and the hatred shall depart that breach was never yet made up But then the sticks shall become one Ezek. 37.19 The envy of Judah shall depart and Ephraim shall vex Judah no more I wil gather them out of all Countries whither I have driven them in my anger and I wil give them one heart and one way and then Jehovah shall be one and his name one c. Jer. 32.39 Sixteenthly They shall be the great instrument in the hand of the Lord for to ruine and destroy the Turkish Empire when the Lord shall bend Judah for him and fill his bow with Ephraim Dan. 11.40.44 We read of the King of the South whom tidings out of the North and out of the East shall trouble There are several reasons why by the King of the South I conceive to be meant the Turkish Empire as that which had the next power and exercised the next Tyranny over the Jews and being come to a height there is tidings from the East and North troubling the gathering together of the Jews Ezek. 37.7 when the bones came together there was a great noise and a shaking and standing up they became an exceeding great and formidable Army and he saith that these bones are the house of Israel returning into their own land here is the tidings that trouble the King of the South there the Turk invadeth the glorious holy Mountain and then he comes to an end and none shall help him it is Euphrates must be dried up to prepare the way for the Kings of the East Rev. 16.12 that they may join themselves with the Western Christians Seventeenthly At their returning to the Lord there shall be by them a wonderfull blessing upon all the Gentile Churches their gain shall be much by it they were gainers by the Jews rejection their casting off was the inriching of the World their diminishing the riches of the Gentiles how much more their fulnesse Rom. 11.12.15 it shall be as life from the dead it is not I conceive spoken of the Jews that there comming in should be suddenly and by an act of almighty power as a resurrection as it is resembled Ezek. 37. but it shall be unto the Gentiles as life from the dead that is as misery is exprest by death so all joy and happinesse is exprest by life it shall be as it were a resurrection put a new face upon the world that as it shall be a glorious condition upon earth when all the Saints shall arise and stand upon the earth with joy being perfected in their graces and in their faculties so shall this be even unto the Gentiles as well as unto the Jews a resurrection Eighteenthly With the calling of the Jews the Kingdome of the God of heaven shall be set up that which is now so commonly called the fifth Monarchy shall begin when the four Monarchies are destroyed which shal be with the drying up the River Euphrates that is the Turkish Empire It s true that Christ hath a Kingdome during the rule of the Monarchies in the dayes of those Kings God doth set up a Kingdome but it is a little stone and it breaks the Image by degrees and then afterward becomes a Mountain and the Kingdome given unto the Saints of the most high Which in the Book of Dan. 7.27 it s meant the Jews who are every where called the holy people not of the Gentile Saints Dan. 8.24 and 12.7 and therfore it is they must take the Kingdome and possesse it and it shall be given to them which is not wel applied by all that will call themselves Saints and holy people as if they were to take to themselves the rule of all the Kingdomes of the world Nineteenthly Unto this time the perfect fulfilling of all the prophesie of God doth belong there are degrees of fulfilling the prophecies more or lesse in all times but it s unto this that the perfections of the World are reserved Rev. 10.7 its never before the 7th Trumpet sound that the mystery of God is finished that is all those secrets that were in the bosome of God to perform and which he revealed unto his servants the Prophets all those do not receive their full accomplishment all that God doth intend to do for his people in the advancement of his son in this World is now fulfilled and accomplished Lastly And this glorious condition shall continue unto this people unto the day of judgement that they shall suffer no more the Sun shall no more go down nor the Moon withdraw it self Esay 60.20 I will set my Tabernacle in the middle of them for evermore Ezek. 37.26 by an everlasting covenant and I will plant them in their own land with my whole heart and my whole soul and I will never turn away from them to do them good there shall be no more sorrow nor crying all tears from their eyes shal be wiped away and no more curse as they formerly had Rev. 22.4 they shal be cast out of the land no more c. There Sun did rise and set but now shal go down no more These things require further discussing then one hour permits But having

branch in me that bears no fruit my father takes away that is he is cast out of the vine of which he did seem to be a branch and he withers and is thereby prepared for to be fuel for the fire its true if there were the least fruit or the least hope and expectation of it it would be reprieved for if there be but a cluster Isa 65 8. the Lord saith spare it for there is a blessing in it but when Christ comes to expect fruit and findeth nothing but leaves no fruits thereon then there is a curse neer Never fruit grow on thee henceforth for ever And by such a curse the man withers at the root immediatly Chrysost de poenit doth allude to the manner of men Chrysost Romanae leges poenam praegnanti deferunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If the Laws of men spare for the fruits sake how much more will the goodness and the mercy of God do it if there be but a cluster but where there is no fruit there is nothing now between that and the fire there is nothing so much as to defer the judgement There is a double curse upon a barren tree not only the original curse which is the ground and cause of barrenness but there is a particular curse when the Lord pronounceth a sentence of perpetual barrenness to this very end that the soul being cut off may wither and may thereby be prepared for the fire and it is said they are withered and men gather them they are cast into the fire and they burn the fire of Hell burns so fiercely upon none as upon them that are cast out as withered branches in judgment for their unfruitfulness Fourthly why will the Lord give men over to a perpetual barrenness that they shall never more bear fruit but as it is said Iude 12. They are without fruit twice dead and pluckt up by the roots as there is no fruit for the present so there is no hope of fruit for the future for the Tree is pluckt up by the roots these are men given up to perpetual barrenness and the grounds of it are such as these First if any thing would make them fruitful the gospel would for we see that if the waters that issue out of the sanctuary run out into the dead sea the waters shall not be healed and that there is as little hope of fruit from such as there is of the dead Sea that it should be yet fruitful and therefore Zach 14.8 Living waters shall go out from Ierusalem towards the first sea this mare primum is nothing else but mare mortuum or the dead sea and why are they called living waters not only formaliter or as they are aquae perennes such as do always flow but effective because they do beget life where they come and all things where the waters come do live and there are trees for fruit on every side because the waters do come thither yea even when there was as little hope either of life or fruit as there it now in respect of the dead sea Secondly there is no other use to be made of them they must be either for fruit or else for fuel for men that live unprofitably under the Ordinances are good for nothing as it is with a vine if it be not fruitfull it is usefull for nothing else in the world for a man cannot take a pin from it Ezek. 15.3 those that are branches in the vine fruitfulness doth prepare it for pruning and soiling for every branch in me that bears fruit the father purgeth that it may bring forth more fruit so barrennes unfruitfulnes doth prepare it for lopping that it be cut down that it may be profitable one way for all the garden of Paradise the Lord hath reserved for one of these ends some of them because he would not have them all perish he hath reserved for fruit and some when he hath a long time expected fruit and indured with much long patience and suffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruct●on now he cuts them down and lays them up for fuel for Prov. 16.4 he made all things for himself and he will make some advantage of all the creatures to his own glory they shall be some way or other serviceable either as vessels of mercy or as vessels of wrath either to honor or to dishonor Thirdly the Lord doth this because therein are several provocations that they are unto him First he hath bestowed much labour upon them for the father is the husband-man and his eye is in reference unto fruit Isa 49 45. I have laboured in vain and spent my strength in vain When he hath dunged and digged about it not only the barrenness but the loss of his labour then is a provocation then the Lord lays a man out of his hand Ier. 6.29 Then reprobate silver shall men call them when the Lord hath rejected them I would have formed you I would have purged you but now you shall never be formed or purged Secondly the Lord expects fruit Isa 5. I looked for grapes for though nothing is hid from God yet he speaks after the manner of men through his patience and long suffering waiting upon them that never bring forth fruit now it is a dangerous provocation to deceive his expectation Isa 5.12 I looked for mourning but there was rejoycing with the harps c. This iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die Thirdly they dishonor the Lords vineyard that there should be found fruitless trees and therefore the Lord is provoked against them to take them away which he doth by giving them up to perpetual barrenness this Judgement is that which the Saints fear and bewail as Beza saith Beza Tanquam monstrum inter filios Dei sto inutile lignum to serve for nothing but to fill up a room to the dishonour of the vineyard and that is very dreadfull Culcate me salem insipidum good for nothing neither for the land nor for the dunghil and upon these grounds the Lord gives up men to live under the Ordinances of the Gospel unprofitably that they have no saving effect upon them he gives them up a perpetual barrenness they are given to salt Vse Use Ye that live under the Gospel and glory in it as the Jews did under the Law fear lest the Lord give you over to this Judgement for many are called but few are chosen A very dangerous thing it is to live under spiritual Ordinances and influences with carnal hearts and to this end let me exhort you to fear the several steps and degrees by which commonly God doth give men up to it and they are such as these First men miss of Christ who is the only fruitfull Root for it is in him only that you bring forth fruits Joh. 15.5 without him you can do nothing when men begin their Religion with duties and performances without a work of regeneration which tends unto Union