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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81219	The saints thankfull acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdome. Delivered in a sermon at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, upon the day of their solemne thanksgiving unto God, for the great victory given our armie, under the command of the noble Lord Fairfax, at Selby in Yorke-shire and to other the Parliaments forces in Pembrock-shire, April 23d, 1644. By Joseph Caryl preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inne.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1644 (1644)	Wing C787; Thomason E48_1; ESTC R7648	36,302	59

right and reliefe may not his own people expect from him no gifts can blind his eyes from giving judgment nor any greatnes stop his hand from executing it No sonnes of Zerviah are to hard for him 2 Sam. 3. 39. he will reward the doer of evill according to his wickednesse Tribulation and anguish upon every soule of man that doth evill but Rom. 2. 9 10. glory honour and peace to every man that worketh good Thirdly he is meeke and lowly so the Prophet presents him as the object of Sions joy in the dayes of his humiliation Zach. 9. 9. When he came riding upon an Asse and upon a colt the foale of an Asse And so we may present him to Sion still in all the times of his exaltation raigning upon his throne or riding upon the chariot of his greatest glorie He keeps no severe distance from his people nor deterrs them from suing to him by a clouded angry brow smiles and sweetnesse sits upon his face he is Deliciae Sanctorum the delight of Saints and tendernesse it selfe to all his people Fourthly he is a peaceable Prince and more then that the very Prince of Peace He is not onely disposed for Peace but he hath peace at his dispose Kings of the earth command warre but they Treat for peace But if Christ say Peace to the Sea The winds will obey him And if Christ say peace to the sword the warre will obey him If he will give quietnesse who then can make trouble whether Ioh. 34. 29. it be for a Nation or for a man only Time would faile me to instance further in those divine heart-reioycing Characters of Sions King That which compleates and eternizes our Ioy in Christ as King is that he is King eternall who only hath immortality It clouds our 1 Tim. 1. 17. light and kils the spirit of our joy even while we enjoy excellent Princes to remember they must dye For when that snow melts from the heads of such Aged Princes as it was said of our late famous Queene Elizabeth from the feare of her good subjects and the hope of her enemies then I say we may expect a Flood Change of Kings makes often great changes in a state But in Sion there is no succession of Princes Christ is perpetuall Dictator there To have a better then he or to loose him are equally impossible We cannot mend our selves by any change nor have we any ground to feare a change And that which sets the crowne upon all our comforts yet faster is that as his person is immortall so also is his love towards his people his love is free he hath no designes upon any in loving them His love is without respect of persons he makes all his Subiects Favourites His love is everlasting none can out us of his favour We know that a false whisper into a Princes eare hath blasted all a mans hopes and withred all the Interests he had in him before But no Ziba can accuse us out of the affection of our Heavenly King Then rejoyce greatly O Daughter of Sion Shout O Zach. 9. 9. Daughter of Ierusalem Behold thy King That which 1 King 10. 9. the Queene of Sheba said of Solomon as the shadow is fully accomplisht in Christ who is greater then Solomon Because the Lord loved Israel therefore made he thee King to doe Iudgement and Iustice The thrones of some Princes have Hos 13. 11. bin founded in the wrath of God against a people I gave thee a King in anger But the throne of Christ is founded in the love of God yea it is all composed and built up of love The whole frame is love and such love as will never be out of frame Quest. But have we this cause of joy and thankfulnes is Christ King now or hath he taken to him his great power and raigned Answ I beleeve we have I beleeve we may see he hath 'T is true the acts and glory of this Kingdome fall not under popular observation No nor under the observation of the Princes of the Earth Wicked men will not cannot behold Isa 26. 10. the Majesty of the Lord. Every eye cannot see this King in his beauty Therefore it is spoken as a speciall priviledge of him that walkes uprightly and shuts his eyes from seeing evill Thine eyes shall see the King in his beautie The Isa 33. 15. 17. proper beauty and Majestie of Christs kingdome is spirituall When Christ came in the flesh and conversed among the Jews every day they knew him not neither do they beleeve on him to this day As therfore Christs appearance to save his Church was humility in a mysterie such as none of the Princes of this world knew For as the Apostle argues 1 Cor 2. 7. 8. had they knowne it they would not have crucified the Lord of glorie So the appearance of Christ to governe his Church is Majestie in a mysterie such as the Princes and men of the world know not for did they know it we may argue from the Apostle they would not oppose the Lord of glorie Antichrist hath usurp'd the great power of Christ and hath raigned many hundred yeares yet how many Nations and in every Nation how many persons will not beleeve it to this day His kingdome is tottering and falling and ending and yet many contend that it is not yet begun The raigne of Antichrist is a mysterie too Neither the raigne of Christ nor Antichrist is visible to all The reason why so many see not Antichrist on his throne is because they are so neare him And the reason why so many see not Christ on his throne is because they are so farre from him They who are neare Antichrist cannot see him and they only can see Christ who are neare unto him A great part of the day of Christs raigne shall neither be cleare nor darke but at evening time it shall be light Zach. 14 6. 7. He will at last cast out such rayes of glorie in the administrations of his Kingdome as every eye shall either see it or be dazel'd with it And for the present if we consult the things which we either heare or see if we leave ancient prophecies and peruse but the historie of these latter yeares What can we conclude lesse then the Initials of Christs Kingdome or at least the Prognosticks of his Raigne When Iohn the Math. 11. 3. Baptist sent two of his Disciples unto Christ And said unto him art thou he that should come or do we looke for another Iohn 10. 24 25. Christ answers from his actions goe and shew John the things which yee do heare and see the blind receive their sight and the lame walke the lepers are cleansed and the deafe heare the dead are raised up and the poore have the Gospel preached to them At another time when the Jewes came round about him and said unto him how long doest thou make us to