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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85443	Zerubbabels encouragement to finish the temple. A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Apr. 27. 1642. By Tho. Goodwin, B.D. Published by order from that House.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1268; Thomason E147_13; ESTC R1423	34,286	63

God himselfe acknowledgeth it to have been but an error or rashnesse in him even when hee smote him 2 Sam. 6. 7. The anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah and God smote him for his errour But yet it was an errour about the Arke Gods worship and a small one there is dangerous But you will then say We had best not meddle with it at all but let it alone and leave it as it is It is true that David himselfe in his feare had just the same thoughts 1 Chron. 13. 12. David was afraid of God that day How sayes he shall I bring the Ark of God home to me If men be stricken thus for touching of it God be mercifull to me thought he let it rather remaine where it is So David brought not the Ark home to himselfe but carryed it aside into the house of Obed Edom ver. 13. But God did soon confute him of this his error also for the 14. ver. tels us that The Lord blessed the house of Obed Edom and all that he had And then David began to bethink himselfe surely if it brings a blessing upon the house of Obed Edom it will doe the like on mine too And then we reade in the 13. Chap. He prepared a place for it and brought it home and he being by this breach made put upon searching into the Word found that the Levites onely ought to carry it and that because they did it not at the first the Lord therefore made a breach upon them ver. 30. Now above all all observe that when he amended that errour and brought it home he was blest and blest indeede For no sooner did hee thinke of building a house for it but God promised to establish his house for ever 2 Sam. 7. 11. And reade the 18. Chapter and you shall see how all his enemies upon this were subdued afore him And then of his sonne Solomon God sayes in the 13. ver. He shall build an house for my name and I will establish the Throne of his Kingdome for ever His own house and the Kingdome were established together by it Thus likewise when this second Temple was to be finished God provokes them to it by this From this time will I blesse you Hag. 2. 19. And as he blessed them so he will blesse you and your families and the Kingdome To instance in some particulars which have been in your hearts also as that purpose was in Davids together with encouragements out of the Scriptures suited thereunto You have declared your godly resolution to be to expresse it in your own words to use your utmost endeavours to establish learned and preaching Ministers with a good and sufficient maintenance throughout the whole Kingdome wherein many dark corners are miserably destitute of the means of salvation which project tendeth to enlarge Christs mysticall Church From this time God will blesse you look for it and establish the Kingdome by it The Scripture for your encouragemēt holds forth an example of just the like practice of one of the best Kings and of that same blessing following upon it which is in all your aims 2 Chron. 17. 7 8 9 10. Jehoshaphat in the third yeare of his raigne sent to his Princes to teach that is to countenance the teaching of the Word in the Cities of Judah and with them the Levites and Priests and they taught in Judah and had the Book of the Law of the Lord with them and went throughout all the Cities of Judah and taught the people Here is the same practice that you have resolved upon the successe is answerable to your hearts desires For ver. 10. it followes And the feare of the Lord fell upon all the Kingdomes of the Lands that were round about Judah they made no warre against Iehoshaphat This will secure the Land as much as that posture of Warre you intend You have also issued out an Order for the purging out divers Innovations in about the worship of God for the abolishing of all Crucifixes scandalous pictures c. and other the like superstitions Go on to establish it you will establish the Kingdome by it Not to quote the book of Kings and Chronicles which is abundant in such examples we have an instance more ancient of the like blessing of God upon the like practice Gen. 35. Jacob reformed his family of all their strange Gods and all their eare-rings ver. 2. 4. and the successe was that the terrour of God was upon all the Cities round about them ver. 5. You have likewise declared that you intend a due and necessary Reformation of the Government and Liturgie of the Church c. you will finde the like blessing to be upon this also in the Warre you have undertaken against the Popish Irish Rebels When Abijah King of Judah was to fight with Jeroboam King of Israel that had perverted the worship of the Lord see how he pleades the cause against them and his Armie Ye have cast out the Priests of the Lord 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 that is such as by Gods owne appointment were to governe the Church and to minister afore the Lord And they burne unto the Lord every morning and every evening burnt Sacrifices and sweete incense the shew-bread also set they in order upon the pure Table and the Candlestick of gold with the Lamps thereof We keepe the charge of the Lord our God but you have forsaken him and behold God himselfe is with us for our Captain but you shall not prosper c. ver. 9 10 11 12. and the issue of all this is recorded ver. 16 17. God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah and the Children of Israel fled before Judah and Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter so that the children of Israel were brought under at that time But on the contrary If you falter in the matter of Religion and Worship know that from that time God will curse you as he did Jeroboam and Israel with him who when he had set up the calves to hold the people to him God threatens his house to take it away as a man take away dung untill it be all gone 1 King 14. 10. And as for Israel and the state of that Kingdome he threatneth to smite it as a Reede is shaken with the water ver. 15. Whereas you may stand as a Rock in the waters and all alterations and turnings of the streame would but dash and breake themselves upon you you all that while abiding firme immoved you will then become as a reede in the waters tossed up and downe with contrary motions of feares and troubles as the streame carryes you this way or that way even as that state of Israel from that time was but fluctuating and at best unstable as waters with variety of governments