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A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

to sinne but make their peace with God which I heartily desire therefore at the instant importunity of a speciall Christian freind and being much encouraged by the very loving acceptation it found from other Christians that heard it I was content this Sermon should be published if it be judged meet It is indeed brought forth in a time wherein I my self have both much employment and many troubles that I could not afford unto it such serious premeditation nor review as I desired nor have I the helpe of many books usefull for such a purpose nor yet a dexterity in Temporary narrations as those that are skilfull in the times both which were requisite in a Sermon of this subject yet that is but part of the matter and if I mistake not here is some thing usefull for thy soule in whatsoever condition thou art And therefore I pray thee in Christian love either heal or conceale any failing thou findest in it and say as truly thou may'st perhaps it was an oversight for I confesse I am full of infirmities beare with my rudenesse in speech I do assure thee I would be loath to offend any gracious soule But faile thou not to make particular application to thy own selfe of what thou findest most sutable to thy own estate and condition so shall God have the glory and thy soule shall prosper and my soule shall rejoyce with thee This I heartily desire And remain Copdock July 1647. Thine in Christ Benjamin Hubbard DANIEL 5.25 The latter words of that Verse MENE MENE TEKEL VPHARSIN RIght Worshipfull Sapè fit ut aliqua brevis exigua scriptio vocetur liber Matth. 1.1 19.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deut. 24.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and beloved in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of the sixty six books of Sacred Scripture some are more Historicall relating many things done before the writing of them as the books of Moses and the Evangelists some are more doctrinall teaching the rules of a Christian life and a holy conversation as the Epistles of the Apostles and some are more Propheticall and so are the words of my Text Mene Mane Tekel Upharsin There are foure difficulties that doe obscure and veile the meaning of the Text which I shall comprehend in these four words Tempus Locus Lingua Brevitas There is likewise a fourfold consideration that will farther help us to understand the same in some measure take them in these foure words Occasio Quomodo Quibus Eventus Give me leave to speake briefly of these eight particulars Tempus The circumstance of time when when these things were done which are mentioned in this Chapter is very considerable And although those that have beene famous for their studies in Chronologie do not all agree herein yet the difference betwixt most of them is not very much considering the great difficulty of the work In opere Chronologico Anno 3395. An. Mun. 3412 Vide de Annis Captivitatis Babylonicae Chyt Chrono Herodoti 3424. Funct 3425. Perkins 3430. In 2 Chron. 36.23 Dan. 6.1 Dan. 5. ult Ezra ● ● Calvisius sets down these things as done in the yeare of the World 3395 and saith that Cyrus overcame Darius Medus and tooke Babylon 17 yeares after and that the Jews had liberty to return to Judea and build the Temple in the yeare 3418 and that they returned 3419. But Chyiraeus Functius and Mr. Perkins doe write that these things were done about the yeare of the World 3425 and in the last year of the Babylonish captivity for Cyrus began to reigne presently after the death of Belshazzar although his father-in-Law Darius Medus had the Name and Title for honour sake yet Cyrus himselfe in effect had the dominion as Tromellius Junius and Calvin observe Now certain it is that in the first yeare of Cyrus after that he and Darius had wonne Babylon the Jews had free liberty to return out of that captivity 2 Chron. 36.20 And hence I gather that these things were done in the last yeare of the Babylonish captivity Locus The circumstance of the place is also very considerable for as One sayth Time and Place are the two eyes of History Now it is conceived by some that there be three Cities called Babylon in the sacred Scriptures Gen. 11.2 4. Babylon even that City where the Tower was built by men who o●t of the infidelity and pride of their hearts thought by that means to provide for their honour and safety from the floud of Gods displeasure they chose a Plain neer to the great River Euphrates and build the City partly on the one side 2 Chron. 36.20 Psal 137.1 2 3. Dan. 4.30 Gen. 11.8 9. Isa 13.19 Babyl●lon 83.10 lat 3● 50 Ierus 66.0.31.40 Clavius in Io●de Sacro Bosco and partly on the other side of the same River And thither the Jews were carryed into captivity and there they made their lamentation And in it was the Royall Palace of the Kings of Caldea It was at first called Babel for the confusion of Tongues a judgement of God upon the first builders of it as it tended to confusion at the last It was scituate neerest the Rumbe East and by North from Jerusalem and distent from it about eight hundred seventy and five miles Cayro a famous City in Egypt is by some Authors named Babylon and so it is called in Ortelius his Map at which place Fran. Sac. Qu. Funct Com. Chron. Anno Christ 44 45 B●n●ng ●in totius Sa. Scrip. Calvin Beza in 1 Pet. 4.13 Rhem. Annot. in 1 Pet. 5.13 Calvis Chrono in An. post Chri. 64. negat 2 Cor. 11.28 Rom. 15 16 20 Rom. 16. 2 Tim. 4.6 16. Revel 17.4 5. 18.2 Revel 11.8 Revel 17 5. ●ulling Brightman L. Napier Fr. Iuniur Dan. 4.30 some doe conceive Peter the Apostle was when he wrote his first Epistle although some rather hold he was then at another City of that name in Assyria But the Translators of the Rhemish Testament in their Notes upon that place doe say that by Babylon is meant Rome because they would thereby confirme their saying That Peter the Apostle was Bishop of Rome 25 yeares which is contrary to the holy Histories in the Acts of the Apostles and to many passages of the Apostle Paul in his Epistles But is Rome Babylon by their own confession then ex ore tuo by thine own confession ô Papist we conclude Rome is Babylon and the mother of whoredoms and shortly to be destroyed Rome in a figurative and spirituall sense is called Babylon in very deed Revel 18.2 as all Orthodox Modern Expositors doe interpret the same both for their proud uprising superstitious Idolatries and horrible confusion a Rome is also called Egypt because it hath been a prison and bondage to Gods people and truth Revel 11.8 But these things mentioned in this Chapter were done in the City in which both Belshazzar did live and before him Nebuchadnezzar which was first properly

all numbred by the Lord The wicked hate Psal 137.7 oppose and would root out the godly but God limits them and they shall doe no more then shall make for Gods glory and his peoples good Rom. 8.28 they are like mad men in chains and can goe no farther then the chaine permits them Psal 76.10 Psal 2.12 Psal 55.23 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shall thou restrain They st●… perish in the mid-way of such their plots and designes they shall not live out halfe their dayes which is either halfe the time themselves dream of or that one would think according to their naturall constitution they might live rather then they shall proceed a step farther then may make for Gods glory Luke 12.19 20 Thou fool this night when thou least thinkest of it thy soul must be required of thee And so the rod of the wicked shall not alwayes lye upon the back of the Righteous Psal 125. their power and time is numbred In regard of particular persons and godly souls the Lord doth try them but yet all their afflictions are in measure not to make a full end of them Jer. 30.11 and therefore God hath a double measure 2 Cor. 5.10 Psal 7.16 Psal 9.16 A measure of justice whereby as a Judge he measureth out to the wicked a punishment proportionable to their wickednesse a part of which they receive even in this life often times A measure of mercie whereby as a tender Father and loving Physitian he faithfully chasteneth his Sonnes for their faults Psal 103.10 1 Cor. 10.13 not according to what they have deserved but according to what they have deserved but according to their ability with respect to their profit how much will doe them good And in case they want strength and grace Heb. 12 10. 2 Cor. 12.9 Revel 2.10 he puts into them strength and grace sufficient And he measures the time also how long it shall continue In regard of the Church Acts 9.31 An. Christi 34. Acts 12.1 An. Christi 43. for although the state of the Church hitherto hath been such that somtimes they have had some breathing times of peace yet it was not long before persecutions came again But there is doubtlesse a time a coming and now even very neer too in which this shall be fulfilled Moreover 2 Sam. 7.10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more as before time And though this place may most properly be applyed to the Christian Church of the Jews after their conversion to Christ which we now expect yet the true Christians of those times of what Nation soever by birth and not being Jews are as children of the same Church implyed therein as appears in another Prophesie Arise shine Isa 60.1 for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee This seems to be spoken to the Jews onely but by and by he sayth And the Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising Lift up thine eyes round about and see all they gather themselves together they come to thee thy sons shall come from far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side Then thou shalt see and flow together and thine heart shall feare and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee the forces of the Gentiles shal come unto thee Micah 4.2 The which times the Prophet Micah also sore-telleth at large saying And many Nations shall come and say Come and let us goe up to the Mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his wayes and we will walke in his paths And of the great peace of those times he sayth they shall beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks Nation shall not lift up a sword against Nation neither shall they learn war any more But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree and none shall make them afraid And he confirms this truth saying for the mouth of the LORD of Hosts hath spoken it And he shews the resolution of Gods people then shall this be We will walke in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever Quest But when shall these things be will some one say or rather will many say for I observe of late a great despondencie of spirit in many Christians Answ Although I will not limit the holy one of Israel to set a certain day or yeare Yet we may conclude the beginning of those times is very nigh upon two Scripture grounds for I love to build upon no other foundation in matters of this nature Because the servants of the Lord are enlarged in prayer for the Church of the Jews Psal 102.13 14 they take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof hence the Prophet concludeth Thou shalt arise and have mercie upon Zion for the time to favour her Exod. 17.11 Calvis Chron. An. Christi 394. Acts Mon. Vol. 1. p. 66. 67. yea the set time is come For when the servants of Christ lift up their hands and hearts in fervent faithfull prayer their enemies fall to fearfull ruine as appears in the Sacred story of Moses and Amalek the Ecclesiasticall History of Theodosius and the Letter of Marcus Aurelius Antonius Emperour to the Senate and people of Rome Because we may understand so much by Books to wit the Books of Gods Word Dan. 9.2 Jer. 25.12 as Daniel understood by reading the Prophesie of Jeremiah I wil therefore propound some things and leave them to your serious and wise considerations hoping they will give some light unto this truth That famous and faithfull countrey-man of ours and indeed a reverend Divine and if I may without offence hyperbolize a little the Prophet of this Centurie the bright burning light of our age Master Thomas Brightman in his Commentaries both of the Revelations and Solomons Song In Apoc. 19.1 2 3 4. Cant. 6.9 doth suppose the first calling of the Jews to be in the yeare 1650 and that Rome shall be destroyed some short time before the calling of that new people Yet wil I make bold to propound some Scripture-grounds why some other godly learned and judicious Divines doe rather refer these things to a time somwhat longer hence take the substance of them in these few propositions God hath all times and seasons in his own hands Acts. 1.7 Amos 3.7 Dan. 12.4 and doth reveale things usefull for his Church to his servants the Prophets We finde in the Sacred Scripture that God hath limited all the great captivities and afflictions of his Church as their bondage in Egypt the Babylonish Captivity Gen

15.13 Jer. 29 10. Dan 9 24. so their Calamity from the time of Daniel unto Christ even so the Captivity of the Church under Antichrist is also limited to a certain set time Revel 17.17 namely 1260 dayes Revel 11.3 Revel 11.2 Revel 13.5 Revel 12.6 which is contemporary and of equall duration with the 42 moneths and the time times and halfe a time or three yeares and a halfe reckoning 30 dayes to a moneth 12 moneths to a yeare By a thousand two hundred and three score dayes in that place is not meant so many naturall dayes Revel 12.6 Ezek. 4.6 but a propheticall day is a yeare as in Ezekiel I have appointed thee each day for a yeare The womans flight into the Wildernesse was presently after that war by which the Dragon was cast out Revel 12.6 7 8 9. and there was no more place found in heaven for him That those 1260 years must not begin as some have thought at the victory of Constantine the Great though he indeed began that Warre because that after his time heathenish Idolatry was again used in publike in the dayes of Julian the Apostate But we must begin that number of * De qua victoria Claudianus ita canit O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat aether c. Et coniurati veniunt ad classica venti yeares at the last victory of that famous Theodosius in his Battell against the Pagans under Eugenius Which Theodosius did root out Satanicall worsh●p so that it never in the same kinde prevailed since his time in Rome And for the time when this Battell was fought as the Romane Histories do not wholly faile us so neither do they so certainly report the time to us as were to be desired For Functius puts the same Battel of Theodosius against Eugenius An. Christi 395. 1260. in the yeare of Christ 398 but yet Calvisius who herein seemes more exact 1655. hath it in the yeare 395 and some doe abate of those years also An Christi 398. 1260. Whereupon some reverend and judicious Divines doe thinke that the downfall of Rome shall be either in the yeare 1658 1658. or before and that it shall not stand longer then that yeare at the most Object To prevent an objection That the conclusion doth too much depend upon humane writings and Chronologies Answ You are to know beloved that all that do open Propheticall Scriptures doe very well to clear the fulfilling of the Prophesies by the true histories of the times to which they do properly belong although but Humane Writers And this practice is also warranted in the Book of Hester Hist 10.2 where the Holy Ghost doth refer the readers of that age unto the Chronicles of the Medes and Persians which were the Civill Annals or Histories writ and kept by those Heathens that there they might reade a more large declaration of those things which were more concisely and briefly related in that Book Titus 1.12 Acts 17.28 so that for amplification and illustration such writings may be used though not for sufficient and single probations of divine truths Use 4 The last Use shall be an Use of Vivification or quickning to revive our languishing spirits which in these sad times are too too ready to give in Lift up I say your heads with joy Luke 21.28 Heb. 12.12 13. the dayes of your consolation are nigh Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make streight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed and as the Apostle Peter exhorteth 1 Pet. 1.13 Gird up the loyns of your minde be sober and hope unto the end In that phrase Gird up he alludes unto the long-side garments which the Jews did wear which if they were not girded up 1 Kings 18 46. did hinder their activity now this he applies metaphorically to the minde which must be girded up but let it be with the girdle of truth sirs and it shall fortifie our slack mindes to these duties Ephes 6.14 To Christian Moderation of spirit concerning sublunarie things an excellent grace in these so doubtfull times Aequa mens tranquilitas mentis usefull it is in prosperity and adversity not being too greedy in getting or keeping the things of this life nor too much fearing the losse of them Let your moderation be known unto all men The Lord is at hand Phil. 4.5 It should arme us with Patience to undergoe whatsoever God shall call us to suffer in the meane time Me thinks I may safely say we are the last generation that shall dye in the field fighting against Antichrist if we doe not over live him as it may please God many of us may but beasts in the killing when they have the pangs of death on them use to struggle and kick very strongly and so doubtlesse will he do let us therefore with patience wait in hope for the time of his utter destruction for now in the mean time Rom. 8.25 Heb. 10.36 wee have as much need of patience as ever Christians had It should quicken Faith It was a worthy speech and well-becomming a gracious Minister on his death-bed M. Rob. Bolton Psal 27.14 Hold out faith and patience your work will speedily be at an end Remember Davids charge Wait on the Lord Isa 26 22. be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart Wait I say on the Lord. Hide you in your chamber Psal 91.1 2. in the secret place of the most High abide under the shadow of the Almighty trust in him make him thy refuge till these calamities be over past Psal 57.1 Psal 37.5 Roll thy way upon the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe It will quicken prayer for the Church of the Jews they long agoe prayed for the Gentile Churches saying Psal 67.1 2. God be mercifull unto us and cause his face to shine upon us Selah That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all Nations Let us requite to our power the labour of the love of their forefathers and consider the fulnesse of the Gentiles also shall come in with them Rom. 11.12 15 which shall be much more riches and as life from the dead to us Gentiles our own joy is wrapt up in theirs And therefore every one of us have good reaspn to pray with that Princely Psalmist who tryumpheth in Hebrew rythme Remember me O Lord Psal 106.4 5. Liroth betobath bechirecha Lismoach besimcbath goiecha Lehithhall alim nachalechecha with thy favour that thou be arest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation that I may see the good of thy chosen that I may rejoyce in the gladnesse of thy Nation that I may glory with thine inheritance For perhaps yet before we die many of us I mean our eyes may see that