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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85371	Jacob raised: or, The means of making a nation happy both in spiritual and temporal priviledges. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Peeres in the Abby Church at Westminster, at the late solemne monthly fast, Decemb. 30. 1646. / By Willam [sic] Goode, B.D. and Pastor of Denton in Norfolk. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Goode, William, b. 1599 or 1600.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1094; Thomason E369_3; ESTC R201278	27,277	38

Judgement which may fall out among godly men and are not destructive to the peace of the Church nor hinder the propagation of the power of godlinesse let them be covered and healed by love Luther saith of these differences * they are to be burnt with the fire of love As Constantine when some Bishops brought him books of their private quarrels to read He took them and threw them into the fire and burnt them and so ended the controversie Pride and selvishnesse are the cause of most of our divisions and might easily be cured with love and humility which we have infinite reason to labour for The Apostle tels us of the danger of divisions Gal. 5. 15. If ye bite and devoure one another take heed ye be not consumed one of another But this is not all our danger There is nothing in probability in the world that can so certainly make the plot of the Jesuites to take in making us become a prey unto our enemies as our own contentions Let us not have lesse wisedome then those two Heathens Aristides and Themistocles that when they were to go together to negotiate the affairs of their country to a city of their Enemies could lay down all the difference betwixt themselves Either we are not brethren or else we should ask our selves this question Why should we contend Let all that are godly lay this to heart in time that we may have that unity in affection that we may live together as Brethren and the Power of godlinesse may be carried on in the Land and our united strength may be imployed for defence against the adversaries of Peace and Truth The second direction how to prevaile with God to raise the Nation is To advance those things that will make the name of God great in the Land If we would have God to honour us with his blessings we must study how to honour him by making his Name glorious There be 5 meanes whereby the knowledge and service of God and consequently his glory be principally promoted 1. Good Magistrates that will use their authority for the suppression of vice and prophanesse and the encouragement of such as are godly When God will enlarge the priviledges of his Church he will give Kings to be nursing fathers and Queens to be nursing mothers unto it Isa. 49. 23. and Isa. 60. 3. Kings shal be thy brightnesse And ver. 16. Thou shalt suck the breasts of Kings Whence we may take notice how great enemies they are to Religion and the glory of God that would divest Christian Magistrates of their power to command and strengthen Ecclesiastical Reformation or make it none of their duty to advance the knowledge and the true worship and service of God and to crush prophanesse and restrain and purge out such corruptions in Religion as are destructive to it by their Civil sanctions 2. The Ordinances of Iesus Christ The administration of the Word and Sacraments and Prayer c. By these God doth dispence his Grace unto his servants whereby they are enabled to believe and to walk according to the rule of Holinesse and to do good works whereby they glorifie their Father which is in heaven and make his Name great In all the places where I shall record my Name there I will meet you and I will blesse you Exod. 20. 24. God communicateth all his spiritual blessings in holy Ordinances These are the Throne out of which issue the seven Spirits Rev. 4. 5. In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make a feast of fat things to all people Isa. 25. 6. In a feast are plenty dainties and varieties So in Gods ordinances not only a beginning but a supply and increase of the choicest gifts and spiritual abilities to glorifie God are communicated 3. Able and godly Ministers for the preaching of the Gospel and dispencing of the mysteries of Christ are choise instruments of making Gods name great in a Kingdom God doth use these as Co workers with himself for the planting and watering of grace in the hearts of his children 1 Cor. 3. 6. 9. For this cause they are called sometimes Fathers that beget us through the Gospel unto Christ 1 Cor. 4. 15. sometimes Nurses or Pastors that feed us with the milk of the Gospel 1 Cor. 3. 2. Sometimes Stewards that faithfully dispence the rich treasures of Jesus Christ unto all such as belong unto the election of God 4. Order or Government according to the Word of GOD If the holinesse of any people make the Name of God great that is called upon them If it be the honour of the husband-man that his vineyard brings forth fruit which is amiable and usefull Then it must needs be much for his honour also that this vineyard and these fruits be preserved from waste or corruption Now Government it is the hedge of Gods vineyard A hedge is used as for separation to divide a Vineyard from common and open places so for defence to prevent it from the incursion of such as would pluck and destroy the fruits of it Censures are Gods Pruning-knife to lop off the dead boughs that his trees may beare more of that fruit that he delights in They are Gods medicine to drive out that leven that would sowre the whole lump of his people 1 Cor. 5. ● 5. 7. 5. The Saints These are the magazines of Grace and Holines and therefore no people in the world make the name of God so great and glorious as these do nor doth God make any Nation so great and happy as that where his own people receive entertainment When Israel were the only visible professors of truth and holinesse Moses saith Deut. 4. 7. Is there any Nation so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for Iustin Martyr cals the Saints the Supporters of the world It is no paradox to tell you That you may thank the Saints for your Wives your Children your Estates your Honours and all the comforts you enjoy because when once the number of the Elect is compleat all that remains in the world shall be burnt with fire Gods chosen people are called A blessing in the midst of the land Isa. 19. 24. and they are such a blessing as preserves all other blessings where they are There is no such fortification can be made to any Nation as the Christian entertainment of the Saints for whose preservation God will destroy both Kings and Kingdoms Isa. 43. 3. 4. I gave Egypt for thy ransome since thou wast precious in mine eyes thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee therefore will I give Men for thee and People for thy life When God intended to make Jerusalem victorious and prosperous then he saith The Governours of Iudah shall say in their hearts The inhabitants of Ierusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of Hosts their God Zach. 12. 5. The strength and blessings of