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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88141	Elias redivivus: a sermon preached before the honorable House of Commons, in the parish of Saint Margarets West minster, at the publike fast, March 29, 1643. By John Lightfoote, preacher of the Gospel at Bartholomew Exchange, London.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing L2053; Thomason E99_11; ESTC R20324	33,230	56

pray on the Lords day and to pray on other dayes and it is to be a maine petition on this solemne day of humiliation that as the Lord hath put the Spirit of Elias into your hearts so that he would put the Power of Elias into your hands that as he hath made you willing so would he also make you able to turne the hearts of the Fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisedome of the Righteous The words of the text are the last words of the old Testament there uttered by a Prophet here expounded by an Angell there concluding the Law and here beginning the Gospell Behold saith Malachi Mal. 4. 5. I will send you Eliah the Prophet And hee saith the Angell shall goe before him in the Spirit and power of Elias And hee shall turne the hearts of the Fathers to the children saith the one And to turne the hearts of the fathers to the children saith the other Thus sweetly and neerely should the two Testaments joyne together and thus divinely would they kisse each other but that the wretched Apocrypha doth thrust in betweene Like the two * Cherubims in the Temple Oracle as with their outer-wings they touch the two sides of the house from In the beginning to Come Lord Jesus so with their inner they would touch each other the end of the law with the beginning of the Gospell did not this patchery of humane invention divorce them a funder It is a thing not a little to be admired how this Apocrypha could ever get such place in the hearts and in the Bibles of the Primitive times as to come to sit in the very Center of them both But to this wonderment there may be some satisfaction given namely because that these bookes came to them from among the Jewes as well as the old Testament and the new And because that the Jewes alone and alone so long had had the knowledge of Divinity and Religion among them the converted Gentiles could not but give their writings extraordinary esteeme And because the Talmud not being yet written the world was not acquainted with the vanity and straine of Jewish learning those insuspecting times did swallow these bookes as not tasting as yet how unsavoury that was nor distinguishing these to be of the same tast It is therefore more to be admired that when the Talmud was written and the impious and ridiculous doctrines and fables of the Jewish schooles laid open to the world that then these bookes which shew themselves to be of the very same stampe in many things should not onely not be refused out the Bibles and out mens good conceit but also get better and further footing in the same but to this wonderment some satisfaction also may be given namely that superstition begun then to grow in the Church every day more and more and it became a Religion to doe as their forefathers had done before and to retaine what they had retained be it whatsoever it would and of what ungroundlesnesse soever But it is a wonder to which I could never yet receive satisfaction that in Churches that are reformed that have shaken off the yoke of superstition and unpinned themselves from off the sleeve of former customes or doing as their ancestors have done yet in such a thing as this and of so great import should doe as first ignorance and then superstition hath done before them It is true indeed that they have refused these bookes out of the Canon but they have reserved them still in the Bible as if God should have cast Adam out of the state of happinesse and yet have continued him in the place of happinesse Not to insist upon this which is some digression you know the Counsell of Sarah concerning Ismael and in that she outstripped Abraham in the Spirit of Prophecy Cast out the bond-woman and her sonne for the sonne of the bond-woman may not be heire with the sonne of the free In the words of the text you may see your owne worke and taske and those two things that you have so long laboured under and that we have so long longed after Reconciliation and Reformation You may behold in a part of the text Reconciliation in these words To turne the hearts of the fathers to the Children and Reformation in the other and the disobedient to the wisedome of the just These are the two hands of our master which is in heaven or rather the two good things in his hands after which we his servants have looked so long and doe looke this day and cannot be taken off till he give them to us These are the hands of your two Houses or rather the two great gifts which we wait till God put into your hands to conveigh them towards us These are the two pillars Jachin Boaz Firmenesse and Strength that we long to see set up at the doore of that Temple that you are in building And these are the two twins for which the Tamar of our England is in travaile and is pained to be delivered if there be but strength to bring them forth These two things contained in the latter part of the text are set forth and illustrated by two circumstances in the former First by the party and the function of that party that must performe so great a worke those included in these words He shall goe before him Secondly the qualifications and indowments of that party for the function and for the worke that expressed in these In the Spirit and power of Elias The party rare the function honourable his indowments singular his worke divine He shall goe before him c. We will take up the words according to this Division but not according to this order for as in nature the agent is before the action and as in the text the workeman is named before the worke so are they fit to be considered and so will we take them into our handling and so shall we take them as they lie in the text and first of the first He shall goe before him Who are meant by the He and the him in this part of the text the dimmest eye that is will easily judge and discerne upon its owne reading namely John the Baptist and our Saviour Christ Two that were in a very neere relation one to another by nature for they were kinsmen according to the flesh but of a neerer and of a higher relation in regard of their function for they were they that began the Gospell or the one begun the other perfected they were they that were the two great Prophets of the new Testament or the one greater then a Prophet and the other greater then a man I cannot omit that which is not nor cannot be omitted by any expositor it is so plaine upon the him in this part namely that in the verse next before he is called the God of Israel He shall turne many of the Children to