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A94071	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_pt2; Thomason E875_1; ESTC R203660	179,143	303

executes Iudgement for his people Iudgement shall return to righteousness it is true indeed there will come a time when the Saints shall rule the world there will come such a time I am afraid it is not at hand yet I am afraid so for that place in Dan. 7. I rather chuse to expound it by that in Isa 60.12 That Kingdom and Nation that will not serve thee shall perish not a Gentile but a Jewish Nation but I say there will come such a time when Judgement shall return to righteousness and then that prophesie of Lactantius shall be fulfilled Oriens dominabitur Occidens serviet Lactant. there will come such a time and with this now he comforteth himself that though the Judgements of God seem to lie hid and be deferred yet it shall not be so alwayes but Iudgement shall return to Righteousness And then In the last place he comforts himself the Lord will bring upon them their own iniquity their own iniquity that is they shall fall in their own devices they shall be dashed in peices upon the stumbling block of their inventing he takes the wise in their own craftiness and he burneth them like Bees in their own hive● and so you shall find in Daniel 7.25,26 where the little horn is said to speak great words against the most High and to wear out the Saints and to change times and laws What then why then it is said the Iudgement shall sit and dominion shall be taken from him and to consume and destroy even to the time of the end for saith he Our God will bring upon them their own iniquities These were now the thoughts wherewith he comforted himself and by which he did overcome all those troublesom and tumultuous thoughts that were in his Spirit My Brethren I should speak something to the Application of it I shall say no more but this because I see I have trespassed You have heard that the great afflictions of good men in troublesom times is more from thoughts within then from dangers without You have heard that answerable unto these thoughts God provideth consolations which do sustain and cheer the heart My Exhortation to you is Vse Live in the faith and walk in the strength of these truths labour I say to live in the faith and to walk in the strength of these truths that there are consolations that can quiet the heart of man in the midst of the greatest struglings and tumults of Spirit that can be And that afflictions never do you harm but when they invade your Spirits by your own thoughts Consider I beseech you these things and then let thy affliction be never so great and though your thoughts be never so tumultuous yet there are consolations there are I say consolations of God which will certainly be a means to delight your souls And so much now shall serve for a brief opening of this Scripture unto you Comfort and encourage one another with these words Gods Throne Erect IN The Assemblies of his Saints At a Fast. REV. 4.6 Round about the Throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind c. THE Comma of this Book is set forth Chap. 1.19 write the things that are and the things that shall be hereafter and into these two parts this Book is divided First a Relation of the things that are referring to the seven Churches of Asia Saint Johns special charge Secondly a revelation of the general estate of the Church to come and that from Johns time unto the second coming of the Lord And this second part begins at Chap. 4. where the Church is made the scene of all things prophesied of in this book the vision of the Throne the Beast and the Elders are the representation of the Church where the Lord hath his Throne of whom are the Judgements executed upon the Churches enemies for the Churches sake The whole subject of this Book contains First a representation of the Church upon earth for there the Lord is worshipped for they fall down and they cast down their crowns and they are those that were redeemed by the blood of the Lamb Chap. 5.9 and the Angels are reckoned as distinct from them Chap. 5.11 they are round about the Throne and the beasts and the Elders it sets forth their office and their watchfulness over the Saints in their worship Secondly it is a representation of the universal Church in all times and in all places for Chap. 5.9 they are such as were redeemed out of all Nations and kindreds and tongues therefore all that have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb in the Churches of the New Testament unto them is this Revelation and them it doth concern Thirdly it is this Church universal as it is constituted and made up of particular instituted Churches for if we look upon the Church invisible it hath no Officers in that only the Lord Jesus Christ who is the head and if we look upon the universal visible Church there are no Officers in it but here are Elders and Bretheren Officers and members which do Constitute a particular visible Church that do meet together to worship God as being the plat-form into which the Lord would have all the Societies and Congregations of his people gathered together in There are in the words three things First a Throne Secondly the Beasts which are four round about the Throne Thirdly the qualifications of these Beasts they are full of eyes before and behinde First here is a Throne and there was one that stood upon it Verse 3. here it is an allusion to the Tabernacle and the Temple where the glorious presence of God amongst his people was manifested that is plain First from Ier. 17.12 A glorious high Throne is the place of our Sanctuary and therefore that is resembled unto the throne of God Secondly it is said Rev. 16.17 there came a voice out of the Temple of heaven from the Throne saying It is done c. therefore a Temple is his Throne or his Throne was the mercy-Seat in the Temple from whence God did manifest his presence to be in the midst of them Thirdly it will appear by what is said to be before his Throne the golden Candlesticks with the seven lamps of fire and the Sea of glass which was an allusion unto the laver of brass in the Temple all were ornaments or utensils of the Tabernacle or the Temple It is true that we read of another Throne which shall be erected after the thousand years of Satans binding be accomplished Rev. 20.11 and he who stood upon it was he before whose face the Earth and the Heavens fled away and the dead both small and great did stand before him to be Iudged of those things that are written in the Book according unto their works and the earth and the Sea gave up her dead c. But that is a Throne of Judgement and this a Throne of Grace and this sets forth the presence of Christ