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A62903	The absolute necessity of spiritual husbandry in breaking up our fallow ground. Together with a discourse of the terrible coming of Christ, to execute vengeance on all that remain fallow ground, and obey not the gospel. By Samuel Tomlyns, M.A. and minister of the gospel in Marlborough.	Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.	1699 (1699)	Wing T1857; ESTC R219739	76,560	161

and General of all the Hosts of Heaven They are Ministers to attend on him and his and Hosts to fight against his and his Churches enemies And well they may be called his Angels for he made them they were created by him Col. 1.16 17. and for him and by him they do subsist and have their Being upheld and continued to them else they would cease to be and return to nothing 2. God therefore called the Angels to worship his Son made Flesh come into the World in our Nature When he brought the first begotten into the World he saith Let all the Angels of God worship him Heb. 1.6 It may be inquired whether they do not owe the Son of God adoration on the account of their being graciously supported and preserved in their Integrity The two Cherubims that figured the Angels were made out of the Mercy-Seat as well as stood upon it Exod. 25.18 19. There are Elect Angels 1 Tim. 5.21 as well as Elect Men. Herein did the various and manifold Wisdom of God shine Ephes 3.10 in keeping Elect Angels standing and in raising up Elect Men when they are fallen 3. The Angels Ministred to Christ and probably brought him Food after the Devil had tempted him taking occasion from his hunger And an Angel came from Heaven and strengthned Christ in his Agony Luke 22.43 4. Jesus Christ is the Ladder that joins Earth and Heaven together and it is on this Ladder the Angels of God ascend and descend John 1.51 All Correspondence all Commerce and Communion between the upper and lower World is carried on by this Ladder The Angels descend to serve the Members of Christ and then ascend to give an Account of the faithful discharge of their Office and Trust 2. These Angels are called mighty Angels And it is a great and mighty Work they are to undertake and execute there is a multitude of Malefactors to be Arrested there are great and mighty Enemies to be Apprehended there is a great and mighty Harvest to be cut down to be reaped and separated from the Field of the Church There are Goats to be separated from the Sheep and bad Fish to be taken out from among the good The Angels shall come forth to honour Christ Heaven shall be emptied of Angels and Saints to wait on Christ The Angels when they come forth shall sever the Wicked from among the Just the Harvest is the end of the World the Wicked are the Tares and the Reapers are the Angels Matt. 13.38 39. Sinful Men and Women are as weak and feeble Tares they cannot stand against or before the Hook of these mighty Reapers they shall be easily cut they shall quickly fall before a sharp hook managed by such mighty Arms. The far greatest part of the World will be found Tares therefore there needs many mighty Reapers to cut down so vast a Harvest and skill will be requisite to discern and distinguish some of the Tares some close and refined Hipocrites from the good Corn. 2. They are to bind the Tares fast in bundles Matt. 13.30 that they shall none of them escape He that had not a Wedding Garment was to be bound hand and foot Matt. 22.13 His hands were to be bound that he should not fight or resist his feet were bound that he should not fly or run away 3. These Angels are as mighty Sergeants to present Malefactors to the Judge As for those mine enemies saith Christ which would not that I should reign over them bring them before me Luke 19.27 The Angels are to execute this Order and fulfil this Command They are to present Criminals at the Bar of the Judge 4. When Christ doth Sentence and Condemn wicked Men the Angels are ready to execute the Sentence They gather those that offend and commit iniquity they pluck out the had Fish and cast them into a Furnace of unquenchable fire Matt. 13 40 50. Christ saith of his enemies Let them be slain in my presence Luke 14.27 These condemned Malefactors may be said to be slain by the Angels when they cast them into the Furnace for then all this sweet pleasant and desireable Life and Being is consumed and gone those are no better than woful stinking Carkasses that must be Food to the Worm that never dies and fuel to the Fire that never goes out Is 66.24 5. The Angels are to gather the Elect It is said that Christ shall send forth his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and shall gather his Elect from the four Winds and from one end of Heaven to the other Observe 1. That the Elect are called Christ's Elect he chuses as well as the Father the Lamb hath his Book of Life Rev. 13.8 Those that the Father gives him the Names of those he writes down in his Book These Christ chuses to redeem reconcile and satisfie for With the Salvation of these he charges himself These he must bring to his Fold and they shall hear his voice John 10.16 These he must keep and lose none of them John 17.1.2 The Angels are to gather these as a Spouse to Christ her Husband Ps 45.14 15. with joy shall she be brought in Raiment of Needle-work to the King The Virgins her Companions shall be brought they shall enter into the Kings Palace When Abraham imploy'd his Servant to fetch a Wife out of Padan Aram for Isaac his Son he said the Lord God of Heaven should send his Angel before his Servant and he should take thence a Wife for his Son Gen. 24.7 As an Angel was imploy'd to prosper the Work and Way of Abraham's Servant and to bring a Wife to Isaac so the Angels of God shall bring and present Christ's Wife to him they shall know who are the Elect find them out and distinguish them from others 2. They shall gather the Elect as Members to their Head as Loyal Subjects to their King 2 Thes 2.1 The Apostle Paul speaks of the coming of the Lord Jesus as a most desirable thing and the gathering of the Elect to him as a most sweet and comfortable thing and the Angels shall do this Work to gather Saints to Christ USE We may learn from the ATtendance of Christ what Honour shall be put on Christ at his Appearing Heaven shall be emptied of the Angels and glorified Saints to follow Christ the Graves shall be emptied of the dead Bodies of the Saints to meet Christ 1 Thes 4.14 Those that sleep in Jesus shall God bring with him They shall be brought from death to life to be presented to Jesus Christ Christ shall come in his own Glory as he is the Son of God and thought it no robbery to be equal with God Luke 9.26 And he shall come in the Fathers glory that is he shall come in that Glory the Father hath put on him as his Righteous Servant Phil. 2.10 11. God hath exalted Christ and given him a Name above every Name that at the Name of Christ every knee should bow and

I shall abundantly utter the memory of that Goodness Two things are here to be observed 1. That the Creatures are such Preachers as never do keep silence day unto day uttereth speech It offers new Matter of Contemplation and Admiration and Night unto Night sheweth Knowledge Every succeeding Night instructs the preceding Night and makes some farther and new Discoveries of God that should more enlighten the Minds and affect the Hearts of Men towards God 2. The Creatures preach God in a Speech and Language that all Nations may understand though their Languages are so confounded and are not understood by other People and Nations there is no Speech or Language where their voice is not heard The most ignorant and brutish Barbarians may understand the Speech and Language that the Creatures do preach in The confusion of Babel doth not hinder the Creatures from being understood in what they publish and declare of God 3. There is a great Book in which Men may read God Psal 19.4 Their Line is gone forth into all the Earth and their Words to the end of the Earth The Pages of this great Book are the Sea the Heavens and the Earth And this Book still lieth open and the most ignorant illiterate and unskilful may read in this Book and understand somewhat of its Contents This is a long Line that reacheth to the ends of the Earth and it is written in such great and Capital Letters that all may read it 4. Men are in the World as in a great Room all hung round with Glasses he that is in such a Room may clearly and plainly see the Attributes and Excellencies of God The invisible things of God from the Creation of the World are clearly seen Rom. 1.20 They are evidenced and demonstrated to Sense yet so that the Understanding doth help the Senses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They are understood by the Mind that contemplates the things that are made and so Sense by the assistance of the Mind doth clearly see invisible things 5. There are Garments with which God is Clothed and in which he may be seen Psal 104.2 David saith to God Who coverest thy self with Light as with a Garment The Psalmist plainly refers to God's Creation of Light Gen. 1.3 God said let there be Light and there was Light God did then put on this bright and glorious Creature as a Garment As the Greatness Majesty and Glory of Kings is seen in their Clothing so God is known how Powerful how Good how Wise he is by his Works Scultetus saith on Psal 104. Vestis Dei Contemplanda si Deum Contemplari volueris You must view God's Garment if you will Contemplate God himself for God himself otherwise is invisible We cannot come to the naked Divine Essence but we must see the first Cause clothed with Effects in the Works of Creation and Providence As when God comes forth to execute Justice he is said to Clothe himself with the Garments of Vengeance Isa 59.17 He puts on the Garments of Vengeance for Clothing and was clad with Zeal as a Cloak Hath God Clothed himself with so many and such glorious Garments Are his Attributes so visible in his Creatures And are not Men inexcusable that know not God who daily comes forth to us Clothed in his Works of Creation and Providence and thereby renders himself visible to us Quest But what do these Witnesses Preachers Books Glasses Garments of God discover and make known Answ The Being the Eternity Wisdom Power and Goodness of God 1. The Being of a God the invisible things of God from the Creation of the World are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his Eternal Power and Godhead or his Divine Being Where there are Effects there must be a Cause where there are Streams there must be a Fountain If you will trace follow and persue the smallest stream it will at last bring you to the Ocean so follow the smallest Rivulet of Creature-Beings and it will bring you to God the infinite Sea of Being Where there is so great a House raised with so much Art and Skill there must needs be a Builder None ever saw a House built by Chance or Accident and what Folly and Madness is it to think that this great House of the World was built by a Casual yet Lucky meeting of Stones together The Creatures are not of themselves and therefore cannot be from Eternity That only that is Infinite Omnipotent All wise can be from Eternity Creatures are not so and therefore cannot be from Eternity Ask any Man living did you make your self none can be so impudent to affirm that he made himself And there is the same Reason against his Father or any other Man that he did not make himself therefore Men must necessarily come to a First Man and to a God that made him Thus the Creatures do demonstrate the Being of a God 2. The Creatures declare the Eternity of God He that made all things must necessarily be before them Col. 1.17 He is before all things and by him all things were made and consist Col. 1.16 17. From everlasting to everlasting he is God Psal 90.2 If God were not from Eternity the World could not have had a beginning or any Creature have been formed 3. The Creatures proclaim the power of God Rom. 1.20 his eternal power Men speak words but God speaks things by his word he calls things that are not Rom. 4.17 And their answer is to rise spring up and exist that which is nothing yet hears and obeys God God said let their be Light let the Earth bring forth Trees Plants Herbs and Flowers and it was so and yet the Earth had no Seed of these things in it self Gen. 1.11 12. And as God speaks Creatures so he breaths the Soul Gen. 2.7 God breathed into mans nostrils the breath of life and he became a living soul And God writes in the Minds and Wills of Men none but he can reach or come at these Tables and write in them And God doth not as Men write Syllables and Words but he writes new Principles Habits Dispositions and Inclinations he writes Light in the Mind and Love in the Will Consider of these three glorious Effects of the power of God That he speaks Creatures breathes Souls writes new Principles and Inclinations in the Soul The power of God gloriously shines in the Work of Creation 1. That he made all things out of nothing Heb. 11.3 Things which are seen were not made of things which do appear That is They were made out of nothing There did not appear any eternal First Matter out of which God made all things Other Artists do not make their Matter but they must have it made to their Hands but God made all things out of nothing 2. God made all things By the Word of his Power Psal 33.6 were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth Psal 33.9 He spake