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The return of the sword or a divine prognostick delivered in a sermon at Newcastle : manifesting that breach of covenant is a prognostick of the return of the sword. / By Robert Jenison. Dr. of D.
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Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.
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the flesh in all the carnal desires of it Who keep not Covenant with him And men generally would needs be admitted Christians under the signal of the Cross binding themselves manfully to â—ight under Christs banner against all these Enemies and to continue Christs faithful soldiers and servants Fâ—ther General Now how we have kept this Covenant in this our nation generally whether better then those hypocritical and carnal worshippers who had made a Covenant with God by sacrifice against whom God himself became judg testifying against them for their hypocrisie in worship for their disobedience in practise and for prophaning his Covenant and casting his words behind them the whole world that knoweth how it hath been with us especially of latter years and our own consciences can easily witness and judg How light have we made of Christ the Lord who was given us by a Covenant of his faithful Ministers the messengers of his Covenant and of their mâ—ssage and ministry whom we silenced As doing contrary to the practise of the good 〈◊〉 of Israel 2 Chro. â— 4.2 3 5 chap. 15.8 16. molested banished what some godly Kings of Judah did by way of Reformation when in thankfulness for great mercies they renewed their Covenant with him and with one another we were such as did the quite contrary King Asa with his covenanting demolished Idolatry as formerly in Judah so also in Israel yea deposed his own mother because she had made an Idol We have sought to bring Idolatry and Popish superstition into the Land again and have given way too far to the practise of it by Papists and such as were Popishly affected King Asa restored Gods true worship in both Kingdoms Chap. 14.4 15.8 Israel and Judah renewing the altar of the Lord We sought to pull down and corrupt Gods true Worship in both Kingdoms England and Scotland and to rear and set up Idolatrous altars to a breaden God Ch. 15.3 with vers 8 9. He set up in Israel a teaching ministry as other good Kings and Governors did 2 Chron. 17.4 6 7 8 9. We have endeavored yea actually have pulled down and taken away many Lectures and afternoon Sermons and silenced or driven away such Ministers as were most faithful painful and constant in preaching yea even in that regard And was it not time for God by sending the sword to avenge the quarrel of his Covenant Not to speak of the prophaness of most mens lives contrary to their Covenant in Baptism as if indeed they had made a covenant with the devil to do all his works instead of forsaking them with the world to follow the vain pomp and glory and covetous desires of it and with the flesh to be led by the carnal desires of it And the sword being come how have men sided not only Papists but others in forsaking the banner of Christ and fighting for Antichrist and under colour of fighting for Queen Elizabeths Religion have fought for Queen Maries Religion and against the true orthodox and sound Religion and Worship Was this that which their Baptism under the sign of the Cross bound them too Oh! It s a dangerous thing either to forsake the Covenant of God Ier. 22.7 8 9. or to oppose it by fighting or being against it as was Antiochus Epiphanes Dan. 11 28-30 And howsoever our Parliament hath given us and doth stil give us good hopes of a Reformation according to Gods Word and a bringing us back to the Covenant of our God both in matter of doctrine discipline and a more holy life yet whilest this main work of God goeth so slowly forward whilest discipline is not yet settled or so bounded as it should be and whilest such connivence if not in effect a toleration is suffered for men to speak hold write and do what they list that men may make themselves vile and yet at least as yet by no law established or executed be restrained or frowned upon by such as should restrain them we have no cause to be secure but to fear the return of the sword out of some quarter of the world or other or from within our selves as formerly God will not be dallyed withal And if God so judg us as he did old Eli and his house 1 Sam. 3 13 14 and that our sins be not purged with sacrifice or offering and that our monethly Humiliations prove rather as they are kept provocations we have none to blame but our selves Gods ways and judgments will ever appear to be righteous 2. And if we look to particular Vows and Covenants dayly broken by all sorts must not all justifie God 2. Particular as holy and righteous in such evils as have befaln them or may yet befal them Oh what vows and promises do men make to God in time of their troubles fears and dangers and yet how soon broken and forgotten when these are over What protestations imprecations taking heaven and earth to witness our sincere intentions and yet how little conscience made of performance Are not men yet sensible of these things If God make such men yet to smart must he not be acknowledged just What cause even the better party in the Land have to be humbled and to fear sharper rods upon this ground of careless keeping our late Covenant and national League we shal enquire into and examine anon 2. In the mean time 2. To be excited and incouraged to keep Covenant with God 2 Châ—â— 13 9 10 11 12. it would be much to the abatement of our fears and to our incouragement and hopes of good success in all our undertakings especially when we have to deal with a Malignant party and these are such as we have most cause to fear if we could truly reason as King Abijah against King Ieroboam making War with him have not ye cast out the Priests of the Lord the sons of Aaron and the Levites and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands But as for us the Lord is our God and we have not forsaken him and the Priests Which minister unto the Lord are the sons of Aaron neither Baals Priests nor Priests of their own making We keep the charge of the Lord our God but ye have forsaken him And behold God himself is with us for our Captain ver 17 18. â—ight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers for you shall not prosper Neither did they prosper there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men The blessings hereof c. and the children of Iudah prevailed because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers and kept the Covenant made with their fathers Howsoever God would be some way or other with us if we were with him 2 Chron. 15.2 At least whatsoever our case should be we might hence be comforted in our troubles and in like integrity say and appeal to God Psa 44 17 18 as the