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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02456	A learned sermon handling the question of ceremonies, controuerted in our church: by Roger Hacket Doctor in Diuinitie	Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621.	1605 (1605)	STC 12588; ESTC S119068	22,518	70

it in Mount Sion but feared then to doe it because the Lord in wrath had killed Vzzah for staying the arke with his hand when the oxen shooke it And when after he had heard from many that God blessed the house of Obed-Edom where for three moneths after the death of Vzzah the arke remained he charged the cheife fathers of the Leuites whose office it was and none others to carry the arke of God to sanctifie themselues and their brethren for the Lord had made a breach amongst them because they were not there at the first and because then they sought not God after a due order who beeing sanctified and hauing on them linnen garments like as had all the singers yea and Dauid the king they together with the Elders of Israel and captaines of thousands brought the arke of the couenant with shooting melodie great ioy and the sound of trumpets and placed it in the middest of the tabernacle which Dauid in Mount Sion had caused to be pitched for it And although euen then Michol Dauids wife did therefore despise him because so arraied he daunced before the arke saying O how glorious was the king of Israel which was vncouered to day in the eies of his maid seruants as a foole yet he did not onely approoue his fact by reproouing her but glad to see that after a thousand yeares the Lord had accomplished his promise that the arke of his strength was come into his rest that the Lord had chosen Sion and loued to dwell in it saying this is my rest for euer here wil I dwell Ioying also at the heart to see the readie obedience of the Elders Worthies and people in seconding the command of God and furthering him in his godly desires he maketh this congratulatorie psalme of praise and thanksgiuing saying I was glad when they said vnto me we will goe into the house of the Lord and after in this psalme speaking to the priests that attended on the arke to the people that by their tribes were to come to Hierusalē there to offer before the Lord and to the Elders which on the seates of iudgement gaue sentence there to them all he saith O pray for the peace of Hierusalem let them prosper that loue thee This was the occasion that moued Dauid to deliuer this speech Now let vs in the second place consider to whome he spake it euen to the priests people and rulers To the priests for since the arke was now placed in Hierusalem there to continue his aboad vpon which it was their office to attend not onely there to offer the daily sacrifice but there also to make attonement vnto God for the sinnes of the people It behoued them greatly to pray for the welfare of that holy citie yea and aboue the common maner of the vulgar people to sanctifie themselues least for their sakes God should abhorre the sacrifices which he himselfe ordained as in the daies of Helie or make a breach with his people as in the late slaughter of Vzza And yet not to them onely doth the Prophet Dauid here speake but to the people also for when God had appointed them that thrice euery yeare on their solemne feasts they should appeare before the Lord Iehouah in that place which the Lord shall choose to put his name there and accordingly they did the feast of vnleauened bread at the feast of weekes and at the feast of tabernacles to which Dauid in this psalme giueth witnesse thither the tribes euen the tribes of the Lord goe vp a testimony vnto Israel to giue thankes vnto the name of the Lord. Theirs it was also as wel as the priests in their godly desires to wish for the peace of Hierusalem and in their holy obedience to procure that God might still continue fauourable vnto her And because the welfare of Hierusalem consisted not onely in the praiers of the priests obediēce of the people but in the wel-ruling of the cheife gouernours to them as to the third and cheife estate of this bodie politique Dauid here speaketh that they should carefully seeke for those things which should make for Hierusalems peace for although in their seuerall cities the tribes of Israel had their rulers and such which heard the causes of the people yet in Hierusalem was placed the cheife seate of iustice there was the Senadrim the counsell of the seauentie Elders vnto whome were referred all causes of weight both in matters concerning God and his worshippe as the state ciuill of the kingdome the which Dauid in the verse before sheweth where be faith there is ordained the seate for iudgement euen the seates of the house of Dauid Therefore called the seates of Dauid because he was then their king and from him had they power to command Thus much for the persons priests people and rulers to whome he addressed his speech Now thirdly let vs speake of the speech it selfe of that which he requireth of them Of the Priests that they should pray of the people that they should desire of the rulers that in the best of their indeauours they should seeke for those things that should make for the inward and outward peace of Hierusalem that should make Hierusalem at peace with God and at peace with the world Not onely for her outward peace and happinesse that shee may be freed from violence and liue in securitie without all feare of forraine enemie as Chrysostome speaketh but that her children as the twinnes of Rebecca doe not struggle within her for that cannot be but with her great paine and greater griefe nay abode all that shee may be at peace with her God The which all Caluin fitly expresseth saying he exhorteth all the Christians worshippers of God that they make their praiers for the happy estat of that holy citie for since as Beza truely obserued the safetie of Prince Priest and People seemed to consist in the preseruation of that citie let all sorts pray for Hierusalem and for the safetie and wel-fare of all them that loue and fauour her As if he had spoken first to the Priests O ye Priests which should be peace-makers and seeke to reconcile the people to their god by whose holy praiers as by the prayer of Moses not onely Israel preuaileth and Amalech is put vnto the worst but by whose holy life and louely conuersation the people of God are mightily perswaded to honestie of life and a brotherly vnitie seeke ye the peace of Hierusalem and doe not yee either by your variance trouble and make muddle her pure and siluer waters or cause by your ill liues and dishonest conuersations the people to abhorre the sacrifices of the Lord and therefore to be abhorred of the Lord. As Moyses to Aaron what did this people to you that you should bring so great a sinne vpon them And to you O yee people