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A30287	Seasonable words for English Protestants a sermon from Jer. 51, 5, setting forth, 1. When a land is filled with sin? 2. What evidences we have that England is not forsaken yet by God? and, 3. What is required of us, that we may not be given up to destruction.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5717; ESTC R3911	15,773	37

Seasonable Words FOR English Protestants A SERMON From Jer. 51.5 Setting forth 1. When a Land is filled with Sin 2. What Evidences we have that England is not forsaken yet by God And 3. What is required of us that we may not be given up to Destruction The Watchman said The Morning cometh and also the Night If ye will Enquire Enquire ye Return Come Isa 21.12 LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1690. Seasonable Words FOR English Protestants TO THE READER UPon the desire of some interested in the publication of this Sermon I have perused it and do communicate these my Thoughts concerning it There appears unto me in it those two things which do above all others commend any Sermon or any other Book namely most weighty and seasonable Argument with very judicious and methodical Management If I am able to judge the Management speaks Arma Virúmque the Man and his Furniture And it is like its great Author well known to this Age and like to be so unto future ones by his Writings in more than one Language There is a favour due unto all Posthumous Pieces of which sort this is but there is little need that this Piece seems to have of it As for its Argument it is very Salvation and that not meerly Personal or Domestical but National This if any thing will be acknowledged Momentous and now if ever it must be acknowledged seasonable Now in this our Day known only to the Lord. Nay now that it is neither Day nor Night as the Prophet speaks Now that City and Countrey are crying Watchman what of the night Watchman what of the night Now that the three frightful signs of approaching Night are so upon us I mean Shadows growing long Labourers going apace home and Wild Beasts going boldly abroad Quis talia fando Temperet a Lachrymis In a word here is that which will sufficiently recommend it self to all serious Readers It is the complaint of many that our Booksellers Shops are become heaps of dry Sand in which many a rich Stone is lost But it is known to all that Diamonds will be found out by their own Lustre And I make no great question but so this Sermon will be That it may be so and may go much abroad and do good where-ever it comes is the prayer of From my house in Bridges-street in Covent-Garden August 7. 1690. Thy Servant in Christ Jesus Daniel Burgess Jeremiah 51.5 For Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God of the Lord of Hosts though their Land was filled with sin against the Holy one of Israel THIS Chapter and the foregogoing are an eminent Prophecy and Prediction of the Destruction of Babylon and of the Land of the Chaldeans of the Metropolitical City of the Empire and of the Nation it self There is a double occasion for the inserting of these Words The first is to declare the Grounds and Reasons why God would bring that Destruction upon Babylon and upon the Land of the Chaldeans The words of the 4th verse are The slain shall fall in the Land of the Chaldeans and they that are thrust through in her streets Why so For saith he Israel hath not been forsaken The reason why God will destroy the Empire of Babylon is because he will remember Israel and what they have done against him This lies in store for another Babylon in God's appointed time The second Reason is that it may be for the comfort for the supportment of Israel and Judah under that distress which was then befalling them upon the entrance of this Babylon in the Land of the Chaldeans Notwithstanding all saith he yet Israel is not forsaken nor Judah of his God We are called this day to joyn our Cryes with the Nation in the behalf of the Land of our Nativity And though it hath been as most of you know my constant course on such solemn Days as these are to treat in particular about our own sins our own decays our own means of Recovery yet upon this occasion I shall as God shall help me from these words represent unto you the State of the Nation wherein we live and the only way and means of our Deliverance from Universal Destruction To declare our Interest herein some things must be observed concerning this Babylon whose Destruction is so solemnly prophesied of in this and the foregoing Chapter And I must observe three things concerning it First That Babylon was the Original of Apostacy from the Natural Worship of God unto Idolatry in the whole World There was great Iniquity before the Floud but no mention of any Idolatry There was a Natural Worship of God throughout the World that was not corrupted with Idolatry There is no mention of it until the building of Babel There it began The Tower which they built they turned into a Temple of Belus whom they had made a God and laid his Image in the top of it There was the Original You shall see immediately how we are concerned There was the Original of Apostacy from Natural Worship unto Idolatry Secondly Their Idolatry the Idolatry that there began consisted in Image-worship in the worshiping of Graven Images which was their Idolatry that they set up with respect unto men departed whom they worshiped by them Four times in this Prophecy doth God say he will take vengeance on their Graven Images And from the 40th of Isaiah to the end of the 46th you have a description of the Idolatry of Babylon that it all consisted in making Carved Idols and Graven Images The rest of the World especially of the Eastern Nations fell into the worshiping of the Sun which they called Baal and Moloch and Kemosh all names of the Sun and the Worship of the Moon which they called Ashtaroth and the Queen of Heaven but the Idolatry of Babylon was by Graven Images and Idols Thirdly Observe They were so far as appears upon Record the first State in the World that ever persecuted for Religion that oppressed the true Worshippers of God as such as being mad upon their Idols as the Prophet saith they were they were enflamed upon them They were the first that oppressed the Church because of its worshiping of God and destroyed that Worship among them Hence the Church prays in this Chapter The vengeance of the Lord and of his Temple be upon Babylon Not only the vengeance of the Lord for destroying of his People but the vengeance of his Temple for destroying of his Worship be upon Babylon shall Zion say Others have afflicted me saith he in the same Chapter but this Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon hath broken my bones They were the great Oppressors of the Church Upon these three accounts which is that I would observe the name of Babylon and all that is spoken of it in the Old Testament is transferred to the Apostate Church of Rome in the New and all applied unto it in the Book of the Revelation and that upon this great Analogy which I shall now briefly shew Why doth God call the Apostate State of the Church under the New Testament Babylon

Babylon the Mystery For these three Reasons First As Old Babylon was the Rise and Spring of Apostacy from Natural Worship in the World unto Idolatry so this New Babylon was the Rise and Spring of Apostacy from Evangelical Worship in the World unto Idolatry Mark the Analogy Hence she is called the Mother of Harlots that is she that had brought forth all the Idolatrous Churches and Worship that were in the World Did Babylon begin to Apostatize into Idolatry from Natural Worship so Rome began to Apostatize into Idolatry from Spiritual Evangelical Worship Therefore the Holy Ghost calls her Babylon Secondly The peculiar Idolatry of Babylon con●●●●ed in Image-worship the worshiping of men departed under Images made to their likeness And the peculiar Idolatry of Rome consists in Image-worship their worshiping Saints departed which is a great part of their Idolatry And therein they are Babylon also Thirdly and lastly As Babylon was the Spring of all Persecution against and Oppression of the Church of God under the Old Testament so Rome hath been the Spring of all Persecution and Oppression of the Church of God since the Apostacy under the New Testament On these accounts hath the Holy Ghost in infinite Wisdom transferred over the name and state and other things spoken of Babylon from the Old unto the New I have mentioned this that you may see the Interest of England in this Text of Scripture So far as the Truth of Religion is owned in this Nation so far as there is a Testimony given against Idolatry we are to God as Israel and Judah though the Land be filled with sin At the time of this Prophecy Israel and Judah were in danger of present Destruction and Desolation from the Old Babylon and if we do not mock God in all we do we are under Apprehensions that England and the Church of God in England is under danger of the same Desolation and … struction from New Babylon upon the same account and principle If we do not mock God this is that we profess at this day Wherefore the parallel runs thus far equal Such as was Babylon of Old such is that at present Such as was the danger of Israel and Judah from them at that day such is the danger of England from the New at this present This is spoken in general For the opening of the words observe these three things 1. That there is in them a Reduplication of the Names or Titles of God He is in this verse called by the name of the Lord of Hosts and by the name of the Holy One of Israel where there are such Reduplications of the Name of God or any of his Titles the Holy Ghost would have us take notice that it is a matter of great importance whereof he speaks 2. There is a Distribution and Application of these Names of God unto distinct occasions suitable unto them 1. There is in it mentioned an intimation of a Surprizal with some Protection or Deliverance Who shall it be done by The Lord of Hosts saith he The Lord his God And he doth not in vain add immediately The Lord of Hosts that Title of God He who hath the Host above and the Host below in his Soveraign disposal God's Host above are all the holy Angels and all the Heavenly Bodies in their influences The Stars in their courses fought against Sisera And he hath lately hung forth among us a Flag or Ensign of his Host above intimating that he is arising in his Indignation as the Lord of Hosts and hath hung forth an Ensign before his coming full of dread and terrour And he is the Lord of Hosts here below of all men and of all creatures disposing of them as seems good unto him The Prophet adds this name of God because of the unspeakable greatness of the thing he mentions namely that Israel should not be forsaken nor Judah while the Land was so filled with sin and the whole Interest of Babylon so coming upon them 2. The other Title of God is The Holy One of Israel This is applied peculiarly unto their sin The Land is filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel It is the greatest it is the highest aggravation of sin that it is against the Holiness of God who is a God of purer eyes than to behold iniquity So hath the Wisdom of the Holy Ghost applied these two distinct Titles of God unto the two distinct considerations of the People first of their Protection that he is the Lord of Hosts secondly as of their sin that he is the Holy One of Israel 3. The third thing is this That in this woful State there is yet an intimation made of a Covenant Interest of Judah in God and that God did yet own them as his in Covenant Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God Brethren no man I think hath less of Faith than I no man doth more despond But if I could see these two things in concurrence His God and The Lord of Hosts that is Soveraign Grace according to his Covenant and Soveraign Power according to his Providence there is ground for any man's Faith to build upon His God The Lord of Hosts Nothing but Soveraign Grace and Soveraign Power can preserve a People when their Land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel and Destruction seems to encompass them from the Interest of Babylon I shall speak yet a little more particularly You may consider in the words 1. That which is mentioned in the last place The State of the People at this time Their Land was fill●● with sin against the Holy One of Israel 2. An intimation of approaching deserved Destruction on that account Though the Land It is in that condition that it ought to look for nothing but Destruction 3. A strange and wonderful Surprisal notwithstanding this in Soveraign Grace and Power Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God the Lord of Hosts What I shall speak to is this That when a Land is filled with sin against the Lord let mens Hopes and Expectations be what they will they are in danger of utter Destruction and cannot be saved but by the actings of Soveraign Grace and Power I shall for the handling hereof at least I design to do these three things 1. Shew when a Land is filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel 2. Gather up what Evidences we have that England is not yet utterly forsaken of God 3. Manifest what is indispensably required of us that we may not be given up unto that utter Desolation and Destruction that lieth at the door I do believe that I am not in my thoughts far from your case far from the case of the Nation I do not search for things to speak to