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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04605	Londons looking backe to Ierusalem, or, Gods iudgements vpon others, are to be obserued by vs	Jones, John, minister at St. Michael Basenshaw, London.	1633 (1633)	STC 14722; ESTC S119135	33,692	66

the powers of darknesse into the kingdom of thy deare Sonne What shall wee doe that haue thus sinned against thee ô thou preseruer of men whither shall we goe from thy spirit or whither shall we sly from thy presence If we ascend up into heaven thou art there if we make our bed in the deepe thou art there if wee take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea even there shall thy hand finde us No darkenesse can cover us from thy all-seeing eye no place can shelter us from thy almighty hand thy judgements can follow us and thy vengeance take hold on us whithersoever we goe What then shall we doe in this perplexity In all humility wee cast downe our selves before the throne of thy mercy bewailing our misery with bleeding hearts and throbbing soules deploring our misery imploring thy mercy condemning our selues confessing our sins promising purposing and resoluing with all our hearts to forsake our sinnes Though we are out of measure sinfull yet thou art out of measure mercifull thou art infinite in mercy and with thee is plenteous redemption The greater our sins are the greater shall be the glory of thy mercy and of thy Sons merits in forgiving our sinnes which are so many and so great Pardon therefore we pray thee all our sins past wash us from them in the pure laver of thy Sons blood It is not the river Iordan nor all the rivers of Damascus that can cleanse us from our spirituall leprosie onely thy Son thine onely Sonne and that pure fountaine of thy Sonnes blood which thou hast opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem for sin and for uncleannesse In that blood we beseech thee to wash us from our sins from the guilt of sin from the punishment of sin from the power of sin with that blood purge our consciences from dead workes and quicken us by thy Spirit unto a new life that we may serve thee the true and ever-living God zealously without feare universally without partiality sincerely without hypocrisie constantly without apostacy in all righteousnesse and true holinesse all the dayes of our liues that the end of our life may be the end of our faith which is the saluation of our soules And although we are unworthy to pray for our selues yet in the name of thy Sonne we are bold to enlarge our prayers for thy whole Church howsoeuer distressed or whersoever dispersed throughout the parts of the whole earth Give thy Gospell a free passage repaire the ruines of Sion build up the broken walles of Ierusalem and with the breath of thy nostrills blow downe the walls of Iericho In thy due time put an end to the troubles of the Church abroad Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand and doest not plucke it out of thy bosome how long oh Lord how long wilt thou suffer the blood of thy seruants to be spilt upon the ground Thou that didst once heare and regard the blood of Abel one man crying for vengeance wilt thou not heare the blood of many thousands What advantage canst thou have in giving over thy owne children to the fury of their enemies shall thy enemies triumph and thy children perish shall thy enimies reioyce thy children mourne shall the light of thy Gospell be eclipsed the splendour of thy glory obscured thy temple defiled thy name dishonoured thy truth slandered Are they of Babilon better than they of Sion or is there any other people that knoweth thee besides Israel or what generation hath so beleeued thy couenant as Iacob Arise then oh Lord arise plead thy owne cause honour thy owne name defend thy owne altar fight thy owne battaile protect thy owne people behold the pride of the wicked and send thy wrath upon their heads throw downe the forces of all them that haue purposed cruel things against thy Sanctuary against the top of Sion thy hallowed house the place where thine honour dwelleth Make every nation to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power that there is none other that protects thy Church and truth but thou onely Protect thy Church and truth among us and all that thou hast placed in authority over us especially his sacred Maiesty Charles by thy gracious providence King of great Britaine France and Ireland defender of the true ancient Catholick Apostolick faith and in all causes and over all persons as well Ecclesiasticall as civill next under thee and thy Sonne Christ supreme governour Blesse we beseech thee his royall consort Queene Mary beseeching thee that with Mary shee may chuse the better thing that cannot be taken from her Blesse the present pledges of our succeeeding hopes Prince Charles with lady Mary his sister O Lord grant that as they grow in yeares so they may grow in grace and favour with thee and with men Blesse the rest of the Royall progenie beyond the scaes the Lady Elizabeth with her princely issue when thou seemest best settle them againe in their former inheritance that they may be nursing Fathers and mothers unto thy Church Blesse the Right Honorable the privie Councel the true hearted Nobility and Gentrie of our Land the Reverend Iudges all vnto whom thou hast committed the sword of iustice all Ministers vnto whom thou hast committed the sword of the spirit what names or titles soever distinguished whether Archbishops Bishops or inferiour Pastors And that there may be a continuall supply of able men to governe both in Church and common wealth blesse all nurseries of good learning especially the two famous Vniversities of this Land Cambridge and Oxford water the young plants that are in both of them with the dew of thy grace that they may grow vp as Cedars in Lebanon for the building of Sion And comfort all that are comfortlesse oh thou Father of comfort and God of all consolation visite the sicke strengthen the weake heale the wounded bind vp the broken hearted gather the dispersed redeeme them that are enthralled releeue them that are impoverished succour them that are tempted restore them that are fallen by infirmitie and establish them that stand by thy free spirit Finally giue a blessing we pray thee to this our meeting in this thy house vpon this thy day to speake and to heare thy holy word O Lord God I am a child and cannot speake I am of polluted lipes and slow of speech but thou art he that canst giue sight to the blind and speech to the dumbe therefore untie the strings of my stamering tongue and touch it with a coale from thine alter my doctrine shall drop as doth the raine and as the dew vpon the grasse And for this thy people touch their eares and their hearts with the finger of thy blessed spirit that they may heare thy word attentiuely conceiue it rightly beleeue it readily apply it wisely treasure it upon their memories faithfully practise it in their life and conversations conscionably so all our

vnderstandings may be enlightned our hearts purified our conscience spacified our sinfull liues reformed and our soules saved yea the whole man at length glorified in the land of the living And that in and through thy deare soone our onely Saviour Iesus Christ in whose name and words we pray Our Father c. IEREMIE 7.12 But go yee now unto my place which was in Shiloh where I set my name at the first and see what I did unto it for the wickednesse of my people Jsrael SVCH is the lenity and long animitie of Almighty God that before he proceedes to the punishment of sinners hee gives them many warnings before he sends the storme shall not now profit you that are wicked but you and your temple shall be destroyed The temple is not more excellent than another place but for the Arke and the Alter indeed it is somewhat more adorned but all the excellency and sanctity lie in them And were not these as well in Shiloh yet notwithstanding it was ruinated So that it is but a folly in you to wax proud of these things as if their sanctity without your sanctity could save you from the wrath to come Therefore for the abating of your pride and the rectifying of of your confidence Go ye to my place c. Which text though at first sight seemes not shoot Yea he doth often shew us his bow but takes neither string nor shaft into his hand Thou hast shewed the people hard things Psal 60.3 Shewed not imposed he shewes his bow before hee shootes and his rod before he layes it on So true is that speech of the Church Lam. 3.33 The Lord doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men Search the rolles of holy writ and there yee shall observe him sometimes grieving for sinne sometimes complaining of it somtimes threatning of it sometime proposing to us the execution of his iudgements upon others for such and such sinnes as here to Ierusalem that shee might see her miserable condition fall to speedy deprecation to her and her inhabitants he propoundeth Shiloh as a spectacle of his justice and that for those sinnes of which Ierusalem was as deepely guilty as ever Shiloh was Ite ad locum meum in Silo c. The chuse but set a sudden stop and period to their prosperity yet did they trust for safety in the outward badges of their religion and especially in their Temple saying The Temple of the Lord c. The temple of the Lord is holy glorious reverenced of all how is it possible that any should destroy the temple of the Lord or vanquish the citty in which that temple is Oh saith Ieremie trust yee not in such lying words for the holines of the place doth little availe a people if they themselves be not holy in their lives For proofe of which goe but unto Shiloh the holinesse of the place in Shiloh where at first the holy Tabernacle staid for a long time the Ark before which the name of God was invocated and the worship of sacrifices administred did nothing profit the people of Israel when they gave themselves to wickednesse but together with them that place was reiected of the Lord so the temple of Salomon shall not now profit you that are wicked but you and your temple shall be destroyed The temple is not more excellent than another place but for the Arke and the Alter indeed it is somewhat more adorned but all the excellency and sanctity lie in them And were not these as well in Shiloh yet notwithstanding it was ruinated So that it is but a folly in you to wax proud of these things as if their sanctity without your sanctity could save you from the wrath to come Therefore for the abating of your pride and the rectifying of of your confidence Go ye to my place c. Which text though at first sight seemes not to meddle with matters present now of neere home but past and farre off matters of another Meridian aloofe from us as farre as Shiloh or Ierusalem concerning not Christians but Iewes mentioning not our wickednesse but theirs the wickednesse of the People Israel Yet as the Sunne though it rise in the East sets in the West by that time the Text hath gone its circuit it may come to set farre from where it rose as Nathan though he began with a parrable of two men and a sheep yet brought it about in the end to Thou art the man In our Text there is a journey prescribed yea a double journey the one corporall Go that respects the body the other spirituall see that respects the minde Or if you like it better here is a direction to a double action Go and see 1. Ite go yee and that is amplified by two circumstances the time and the place besides which yee may adde the consideration of the persons Yee Go yee And 1. the persons are the inhabitants of Ierusalem 2. the time is now go presently for delay breeds danger And 3. for the place it hath a double description 1. Nominall it is Shiloh 2. Reall it is the place where God did set his name at the first 1 What that place was possessively In which latter are diverse particulars to bee observed 1. proprietary or owner of it God my place saith the Lord which shewes the glory of it for that must needs be glorious which is the place of God 1 King 8.11 the King of glory But the whole world is Gods as well as Shiloh was true but this is his in speciall respects set down in the next passage expressing the reason why Shiloh was so glorious it was a priveledged place for 1. God did set his name there and not onely so but 2. 2 What that place was positively he set it there at the first Ther 's the glory of the place the sanctity and previledge of the place and the antiquity of each Go yee now c. ther 's the first act The second followeth Videte See not onely Go Ioh. 1.46 but Go and see as Philip to Nathaniell Come and see When yee are come to Shiloh bee not idle there but open your eyes and see imploy your mindes and consider What I did unto it for the wickednesse c. 1. Observe what was done unto it the calamity that befell it 2. Who was the Authour of that calamity I saith the Lord 3. What was the impulsive cause that provoked the Lord to inflict that calamity Wickednesse 4. Whose wickednesse it was that could so farre provoke him as to reiect his owne place Shiloh the wickednesse of his owne people Israel Where wickednesse raigneth God will not spare that place though it be Shiloh nor that people though it be Israel Go yee now c. I will handle the text two wayes First Exegetically or Paraphrastically by way of explicatiō then Diadactically or Doctrinally by way of instruction And I begin with the first act