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A77005	Oriens ab occidente: or, A dawning in the vvest· As it was delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at Westminster; upon their day of thanksgiving, for severall victories in the west, &c. By John Bond Mr of the Savoy, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572A; ESTC R211371	30,002	52

salvation There is not a branch of this tree but doth beare some seasonable and profitable fruits for this dayes banquet and although I have not time to gather them all yet give me leave to point out unto you where they grow First at the very entrance here stands a note of admiration Loe behold which is a kind of Selah in the front Hence observe Doct. 1 The name of the Lord is to be exalted and set up when he doth triumph gloriously over his enemies This in the Old Testament those very club-men of Israel did confirme by their generall acclamation when Elijah at Mount Carmell prayed-down that fire from heaven that did burne up his sacrifice wood stones dust water and all in opposition to those 850. 2 King 18.36 false Prophets ' its said that when the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said mark the words The Lord hee is the God the Lord hee is the God And thus in the New Testament that great voice in heaven cries the same where they say Allelujah Revel 19.1 2 3. salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God and againe they said Allelujah Let us therefore take heed how wee doe despise Vse or neglect that Angelicall Coelestiall God-honouring selfe-debasing onely-everlasting dutie of Thanksgiving Every mercy that is worth our prayers deserves our praises Secondly the ground of the Churches confidence is her interest in God he is our God therefore he will save us Doct. 2 The Saints interest in God is a ground of hope in all extremities Labour wee therefore as to get so to improve this holy interest in all our streights The mother doth love that child most tenderly that doth suck her most and herein also the Lord is more tender than a mother Thirdly the other ground of confidence and joy too is the Churches attendance on God wee have waited for him therefore he will save us And again we have waited for him therefore we will be glad c. Doct. 3 Holy waiting for mercies doth make them both sure and sweet unto those that have so waited so attended A word to this as I goe because it is so usefull and especially in reference to the West First holy waiting doth ensure mercies because the very gift and grace of waiting by faith and patience is an earnest a first fruits of the thing waited for No son of man that is ingenious will hold a petitioner in a waiting suspence and attendance if he intends utterly to deny him Prov. 22.22 and therefore it is said waite on the Lord he will save thee He will how know you that Even by this if he give a heart to waite upon him he cannot in honour put thee off if hee doth suffer and support thee to attend him Secondly such waiting doth ensweeten mercies too because abstinence doth quicken appetite and drawes forth the desire to a greater length after the object To the hungry soule every bitter thing is sweet That is Prov. 27.7 because hunger is such a sauce as doth ensweeten any dish Vse Then beware of distrustfull impatient hast If the Lord loves thee it shall either deprive thee of the thing so over-desired or that thing of that sweetnesse which thou expectest in it First sometimes such over-hast doth cause the losse of the thing so hasted for so over-desired Thus it fared with that Scripture-Tantalus the unbelieving Courtier at Samaria 2 King 7.2 And behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but shalt not eate thereof Thus was it also with those impenitent unruly Israelites which thought to continue their sin and yet to put an end to their troubles which would enter Canaan before the time in despight of God and Moses and without the Arke Numb 14.40 Loe we be here and will goe up unto the place which the Lord hath promised for we have sinned The men were desperately sullen and like some now a-dayes in this Land were resolved to have peace whether God would or no they are sinners they can but die vers 44. and therefore will fall on will have an end of their troubles These Israelites presumed to goe up unto the hill top notwithstanding the Arke of the Covenant of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the Campe vers 45. and the Amalekites came downe and the Cananites came downe and smote them even unto Hormah or utter destruction Nay Rachell her selfe although a good woman when too impatiently violent for children she lost her life in the obtaining of that which to want shee thought would be her only certaine death Let all impatient creatures of both sexs lay but those two texts together Gen. 30.1 Give mee children or else I die and that other And Rachell travelled and shee had hard labour Gen. 35.18 and it came to passe as her soule was departing for shee died that shee called his name Benoni that is the son of my sorrow Secondly or such impatient hast doth at least rob thee of the sap and sweetnesse of the thing so over-desired Thus was it with Jacob a man whose strong affections did draw strong afflictions upon him Good man he was I take it somewhat too uxorious about his Rachel and accordingly shee cost him dearest brought him least fruit and left him soonest But especially hee and his mother Rebecah were too too hastie and covetous for the blessing before it was ripe If wee consider the manner and the meanes that they ●●●d for the attainment of it it was somewhat a foule shift that they made to get it by Gen. 27. and how much danger hardship and delay did that over-hast cost them both Jacob is presently faine to flee for his life into a strange Countrey by the way he lodges hardly and at Padan-Aram what heates and colds by night and day what chopping of wages with other extremities doth he undergoe for neere the space of thrice seven years His father in law paying him home for deceiving his owne father by giving unto him a Leah for a Rachel as he to Isaac kids flesh for venison Besides in his returne what danger upon danger doe meete and follow him Esau before and Laban behind and at last the blessing from God cost him a halting ere hee could obtaine it and all this because they would gather-in the blessing before it was ripe Surely there is a vast difference yea divers differences there are betwixt green fruits forced from the tree and those that are mature and ripe There is a two fold difference betwixt them First in the very gathering of them what climbing and what clambering is there with ladders What threshing with poles What casting of stones and sticks to fetch them downe to the endangering and mischiefing both of the fruit and gatherer Whereas your mature and ripe fruits doe drop down of their owne accord Secondly in the using and injoyment there is a great difference Greene fruits are

end thereof And herein it is well like the scene of our times for as every verse of the one doth drop fatnesse so every weeke and almost day of the other hath presented us with new matter and formes of rejoycing The causes of joy here expressed are partly in hand these are set down historically in the phrases art and hast in the first four verses and partly in hope these are expressed prophetically in the futurall termes shall and will in the next four verses which doe reach-home to the text The whole Chapter is generally most cleare and perspicuous as becomes a Thanksgiving Sermon Only thus some Expositors would appropriate this to spirituall salvations onely and especially to that finall day of victory when Iesus Christ shall put all his enemies under his feete and this opinion they doe fetch out of verse 8. 1 Cor. 15.55 c. where it is said that hee will swallow up death in victory and the Lord will wipe away teares from all faces c. which words are by the Apostle expresly applyed to Christ Others would wholly confine this song of deliverances to temporall salvations and these doe take their hint from the verse next beyond the Text where mention is made of the threshing of Moab and of casting it as straw for the dunghill and here againe some do take the word Moab literally for those children of Lot which being turned enemies to Israel and Judah were * Calvinus ad locum so much the farther off from them in heart and affections by how much they were neerer to them by bloud and habitation Others doe take Moab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for all the enemies of the Church which are of a Moabitish straine and temper I thinke the controversie may be easily reconciled by taking-in both Interpretations together that is by understanding the Chapter as well of spirituall as of temporall deliverances And thus also it will better sute with our present occasion and condition for every victory which God now a-dayes gives to his great cause in England doth bring with it double mercies namely a spirituall step or advance towards a pure Reformation and a civill and temporall step or furtherance towards outward peace and tranquilitie So much for the levelling of the way to the Text. The Text it selfe is nothing else but an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Song of victory and it containeth that holy shout or acclamation with which the Church doth entertaine the triumphing * Revel 15.3 Heb. 2.10 King of Saints and Captaine of her salvation at his returne from the slaughter of their enemies Division In it you may take notice of two generall heads First here is the Churches confidence de promissis of things in hope Lo this is our God we have waited for him and hee will save us Secondly here is her thankfulnesse pro acceptis for things in hand Wee will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation Againe in the Churches confidence you may further observe the two grounds or pillars on which shee builds it The first is her interest in God This is our God therefore we may be confident that he will save us Secondly her attendance upon God wee have waited for him therefore hee will not forsake us and this latter is twice expressed to tell you that the Bell is an-end and therefore strikes double Wee have waited for him wee have waited for him implying either the length of their attendance wee have looked and looked again or the largenesse of their reward though wee have waited and waited againe yet our labour is not lost but God hath paid us at last for all our faith and patience by the greatnesse of the salvation which hee hath given us This is the Churches confidence Secondly in her thankfulnesse for mercies in hand look we upon the severall acts and objects thereof First the acts of her thankefulnesse are two the one transient passing forth into outward expression wee will be glad The other immanent abiding within in an inward affection wee will rejoyce For so the wordes of the Text may be properly interpreted as appeareth by comparing a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exultavit So Isa 65.9 Pro. 23.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Laetaius fuit So Exod 4.14 Pro 13.9 Psal 16. v. 9. with b Grace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 2. v. 26. Therefore did my heart rejoyce and my glorie or tongue was glad Next here is the object of these acts set downe this is expressed Explic. First in generall so it is called salvation But because there are many sorts and wayes of salvation therefore next it is set downe with a qualification or speciall restriction not such a salvation or deliverance as God sometimes bestowes in wrath upon the wicked for he may be their deliverer too in some cases but to shew that it was a speciall extraordinarie immediate divine salvation shee calls it the salvation of God or his salvation Loe this is our God we have waited for him he will save us this is the Lord wee have waited for him wee will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation Loe This Ecce behold may referre either to the Enemies or Friends of the Church As it may referre unto the enemies so in the mouth of the Church it is vox objurgantis the voice of one upbraiding As if she had said Come hither you malignant Atheists yee that have so often asked me while I was yet under hatches where was then my God What was become of my prayers Come hither gnash your teeth and let your eyes rot in their holes when you have beheld it Loe this is our God Or this Loe may referre to the Friends of the Church and so it is vox exultantis the voice of one over-joyed calling upon her friends as the * Cant. 5.16 Spouse in the Canticles to come away and see her beloved if there were any like him amongst ten thousand to come and see the goings of God and the wondrous things that he hath done for his people As if she had said Yee saints and brethren this this is that God of ours whom wee have waited on so long as wee thought to little purpose behold here you see him like himselfe treading his enemies under his feet and riding in triumph over ruined Cities and heapes of Palaces will you but come hither and looke upon him Loe this is our God Our God that is wee are not ashamed to call him our Lord neither is he ashamed to call us his people Wee have waited for him that is wee doe not repent of our long long attendance upon him and good reason for he will save us But if you will not or cannot see him at once pointing Againe I tell you this is the Lord and wee have waited for him a second time but for double attendance wee shall have double wages for wee have cause both to be glad and rejoyce in his