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A85436	The great interest of states & kingdomes. A sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Feb. 25. 1645. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D. one of the Assembly of Divines.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1246A; Thomason E325_4; ESTC R200620	40,978	64

which begins with a Kingdome given to be won by conquest * Revel 6. 8. When the seals begin to be opened Christ goes forth conquering and to conquer and ends with the Coronation of a King and the marriage of his Bride and all between is but the removing of all such lets and impediments namely of the Romane Monarchie and all other Kingdoms which that was broken into so far as they stand in his way and possesse the roome of that Kingdome which he is to set up That this is one main argument of that Book I refer you to what that great and learned Interpreter Master Mede hath largely opened And herein Christ when he first began the whole world then worshipping Idols had work enough to doe He sets first upon conquering the whole Romane Empire as it was Heathenish and the worship of Satan and Idols in it and in three hundred yeeres he dispatcheth that and throwes downe all both Idoll-worship and Princes Chap. 6. that did uphold it This the first six seales doe shew And then when the whole Empire was turned Christian yet as one well said the devill did not turne Christian But under the name and profession of Christ he stirreth up the Arrian Christian world to persecute the Orthodox Christians as much as Heathenish Rome had done But Christ takes farther vengeance for this persecution under both these Heathenish and Arrian Rome * It was the cry of the blood of the Saints slain underboth that brought on them the vengeance that followed See Cha. 6. 10 11. The Empire having been divided afore into two parts the Eastern all which now the Turk possesseth and the Western this in Europe He falls first upon the Westerne European part breaking that by the incursion of those barbarous Nations the Goths and Vandalls and this the foure first trumpets doe sound forth Chap. 8. Then for the Eastern part of the Empire although his revenge was slower yet he reserved them to the sorest vengeance that could befall the Christian world Chap 9. the conquest and tyrannie of the Saracens first and afterwards the Turks and these the fift and sixt Trumpets successively held forth Thus here is an end of the Roman Monarchie under the Emperours in the whole and in the parts of it Chap. 12. The Westerne part in Europe was by occasion of the Goths invasion broken into ten Kingdomes which though helping the woman against the flood of Arrian persecution yet through Satans seducing of them they set up the Beast or Antichristian Rome and these all together did joyn together to make as great a warre against the Saints in the 13. Chap. 13. Chapter as the Heathens and Arrians had done And so Christ was in a manner as farre off his Kingdome as at the first What then is the next great counter-plot of Jesus Christ It is to overcome these ten Kingdomes so you find Revel 17. 14. They shall saith he make war with the Lambe and the Lambe SHALL OVERCOME THEM for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull The world though turned Christian yet in all the variations of it goes on still to persecute the Saints For why the world wil be the world still and the Devill who is the Prince of the world is the same still and so he still followes that trade he had formerly practiced the same which you read of Chap. 12. ver 17. even to make war with the remnant of the womans seed which keep the commandements of God and have the testimony of Jesus This is his designe and let the world turn never so much and refine as much as it will Satan endeavours still to forme a party up amongst them whom he turns against the Saints or some of the Saints for that is the great interest of his Kingdome as that place shews it is more to persecute the Saints then to carry men on to sinne And he will be content to fall but upon a few sometimes rather then be put out of this his trade And therefore now besides plain Popery which is prophecyed of in 1 Tim. 4. to arise in the latter dayes You have in 2 Tim. 3. 1. another Prophesie of a sort of men that shall arise in the LAST DAYES Popery is Prophecyed of to be in the latter dayes who shall have a forme of godlinesse and be despisers of them that are good Thus the Devil hath carryed on his design Age after Age and Jesus Christ pursues more closely his great designe also and will never leave till he hath overcome And HE SHALL OVERCOME for He is the King of Kings and those that are with him are called chosen and faithfull And all this if it were not the scope of that Booke of the Revelation yet story would make good Why should I instance in more you know the little stone Christ and his Saints shall dash all in pieces Dan. 2. But enough You have heard the truth of this point exemplified by all these instances As for Reasons of it the Scripture affords a farre greater plenty then of Instances and in many of the instances given you may finde Reasons adjoyned by God himselfe as here in the Text they are Gods anointed in that example of Egypts overthrow Gods first-borne in that of Babels 't was the vengeance of Gods Temple and so on The time will give me leave to single out but a very few of many The Doctrine was this That the greatest interest of all States and Princes lyes in their usage of the Saints to deale ill or well with them is that whereon their misery or welfare doth depend One reason of it is 1. Reason that which should indeed have been my first Observation out of the Text viz. The neerenesse and dearnesse of the Saints to God You see how tender he is of them TOUCH them not If you would understand the tendernesse of Gods heart expressed in that word parallel it with that He that TOUCHETH them toucheth the APPLE OF MINE EYE and you have the expression twice Ps 17. 8. and Zech. 2. 8. there is nothing more deare then the eye you would have pulled out your eyes sayes Paul and of the eye the pupa the black of the eye most When the Ammonites required of the men of Jabesh Gilead that they should thrust out all their right eyes 1 Sam. 11. 2. the Text saith ver 6. that when Saul heard of it the Spirit of God came upon him and his anger was greatly kindled and he went and cut them off and scattered them so that not two of them were left together If Saul their King a tyrannicall King was thus moved for this offer of an injury to the eyes of his Subjects much more God for those who are to him as his own eye yea as the apple of it Or if you will have this Reason in an expression more neerely akin to the