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A85436	The great interest of states & kingdomes. A sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Feb. 25. 1645. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D. one of the Assembly of Divines.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1246A; Thomason E325_4; ESTC R200620	40,978	64

29. he calleth Pharaoh King of Egypt The Dragon of the Rivers which I beleeve hath reference to the Crocodile in those Rivers which is a kind of Serpent and beast also and in the 7. verse after which we are now upon to a staffe of reed Whereas in that 68. Psal you see both are put together The beast of reeds Here in this 29. of Ezechiel the Prophet having in his eye the common Hieroglyphick of the Countrey turnes the similitude to their being a staffe of reed that suiting his present scope which was to expresse their failing that confidence the people of God reposed in them and so becomming the fatall occasion of their miserie BECAUSE saith he verse 6. thou hast beene a staffe of reed to the house of Israel when they took hold of thee thou didst breake They as Cornelius à Lapide upon the place had provoked the Jews to rebel against Nebuchadnezzar promising to assist them But though thou wert Baculus in promissione a staffe in promises yet but Arundinens in executione a staffe of reed vaine and helplesse in the performance as he speaks The Prophet goes on Yea thou didst not onely break but run up and rend all the shoulder and madest their loynes to be at a stand didst not onely hinder but hurt and weaken them The Lord comes upon them with his former THEREFORE ver 8. saith the Lord I will bring a sword upon thee and will cut off man and beast And so he goes on in three or foure Chapters to set forth their punishment and that relating as the former had done to this their unfaithfull dealing with Gods people as that sinne that was the cause thereof which is the point in hand When the Prophet had thus dispatched Egypt 7. A speciall threatning against mount Seir and Edom. and threatned the like to Assyria and Babylon of which enough was touched before he fals afresh upon mount Seir and Edom and contents not himselfe to have put them into the common catalogue which we have gone over with the rest of the Nations in the 25. Esau of whom both came was called Edom for his Rednesse Gen. 25. 30. Seir from his hayrie hands Esau dwelt in Seir Gen. 33. 14 16. and was given as a possession to his seed by God Deut. 2. 5. and Esau was the father of Edom Gen. 36. ult Chap. but he returns again to a peculiar special reckoning with them in the 35. Chapter the reason of it we shall see by and by because they were their brethren Because saith he there ver 5. thou hast had a perpetuall hatred and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity in the time that their iniquity HAD AN END that is when they had already suffered so much for their sins that it might have been thought God had punished them enough yet then doe they begin their misery afresh Therefore as I live saith the Lord I will prepare thee unto blood and blood shall pursue thee c. And ver 10. he addes another reason Because thou hast said These two nations and these two countries shall be mine namely their owne and that of Israel adjoyning and we will possesse it when Nebuchadnezzar had laid it waste they promised to themselves the possession of it whereas THE LORD WAS THERE as the Prophet addes They thought they might as easily conquer and enter upon the possession of it as any of the other Nations whereas the Lords presence was there to keep possession for himselfe and his people that belonged unto it This was their sinne then follows their punishment Therefore as I live saith the Lord I will even doe according to thine anger and according to thine envie which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them I will proportion my punishment accordingly And he doth not content himselfe onely with this bringing of them in again here but besides he spends a whole Prophesie upon them the Prophesie of Obadiah whose message is taken up with nothing but threatnings against Edom and resolving all into the same quarrel For thy violence against thy BROTHER Jacob * Deut. 2. 4 5. God said to the Jewes You are to passe through the coast of your BRETHREN the children of Esau Meddle not with them c. Edom and Seir as was said comming of Esau were brethren to the Israelites and God takes it infinitely more unkindly at their hands then at the hands of the other Nations THEREFORE shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cut off for ever In the day that thou stoodst on the other side that is behavedst thy selfe as a neuter that stood aloofe in the day that strangers carryed away captive his forces and forreigners entred into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem thou wast as ONE OF THEM didst as much mischief as the Babylonians The Psalmist also hath it Psal 137. 7. Thou shouldst not have entred into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity yea thou shouldst not have looked on their affliction that is as idle Spectators much lesse rejoycers in it nor have laid hands on their substance not have spoiled them of their goods in the day of their calamity c. Therefore is their punishment to a perpetuall ruine more heavy then any of the rest Thus now you have also seene an end of all these Kingdomes that were neighbours about Ierusalem and how they were all reproved yea destroyed upon this quarrell of touching and medling with his anointed as the Text hath it Now let us goe on to the other Monarchies V. The Persian Monarchy an instance of Gods blessing for his peoples sakes the Persian and the Grecian you shall see still that the story of them also makes good this great point in hand The Persian and the Grecian both had to doe with the Church But the first of these the Persian seems rather an instance on the other hand viz. of the welfare and of the raising up of a Nation and of a State for the people of God For God hath given some instances of blessing as well as he hath given of ruine The very raising up of Cyrus and of that Monarchie in him it was for his peoples sake The Scripture is expresse for this reade Esay 44. 28. Thus saith God of Cyrus He is my shepherd and shall performe all my pleasure even saying to Ierusalem Thou shalt be built and to the Temple Thy foundation shall be laid And goe on to Chap. 45. ver 1. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus whose right hand I have holden to subdue Nations before him c. He calls Cyrus His ANOYNTED He calls Tyre An anointed covering Cherub also Ezek. 28. and no other Heathen Princes else in all the Booke of God First Tyre an anointed Cherub because he was propitious to the Jewes even as the Cherub covering the Arke Occolampad in loc