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A03839	The Ievves deliverance out of Babylon, and the mystery of our redemption plainely demonstrated in ten sermons, vpon the 126. Psalme, viz. 1. Sions saluation. 2. The saints securitie. 3. The free-mans frankincense. 4. The atheists acknowledgement. 5. Gods goodnesse. 6. The godlies gladnesse. 7. The prisoners petition. 8. The commoditie of the crosse. 9. The captiues case. 10. The Christians comfort. Preached in Yorkshire, by Iohn Hvme, Minister of the Word; and now published by authoritie.	Hume, John, minister of religion in Yorkshire.	1628 (1628)	STC 13954; ESTC S114146	137,004	180

seemely order of seruing of God Some of vs crie out against the Kings supremacie some raile against the reuerend Priesthood and Prelacie and too many of vs whet our tongues and sharpen our pennes to speake and write against the 〈…〉 chaste ceremonies and discipline of this Church of England and so wee must fill vp our Sermons with 〈…〉 inuectiues exclayming against the 〈…〉 forsooth and withall falsly reproching the 〈…〉 Ecclesiasticall as full of superstition and Poperie Wee call euery thing in question and raise doubts where the matter is as ●●eare and euident as the light of the Su●●● By 〈◊〉 doing wee giue our Adue●saries iust cau●e to 〈…〉 in hope of aduantage Wee cause the Word of 〈…〉 sp●ken of and bring many of the ignorant sort to waue and wander in their opinions stumbling at euery straw and starting aside at euery crosse and is to bee seared erelong the complant of Chrysostome in a case not much different bee not verified amongst vs whilst we are doubtfull in questions there be but few true Christians there is but one Faith one Truth and one Baptisme one Law and one Gospell and why should there not bee one heart and one soule one tongue to preach and one hand to penne the onely Truth these jarres about light and slight queres befits not true Christians there is but one harmonie amongst the Saints in heauen and there should bee but one harmonie amongst the Saints on earth Christ is of all with one voyce praysed in the Church triumphant and should be so also in the true Churches militant Wherefore let vs imitate and follow the Apostles who with one consent continued landing and praysing x Act. 2. God Now Lord we beseech thee to be with our mouth as thou wast with Moses to open our lips as thou did deft Dauids and to touch our tongue as thou did dest Ezekiels and to open to vs a doore of vtterance as thou did-deft thy Apostle that so we may continually pray vnto thee and daily prayse thee so long as we liue vpon the face of this earth that hereafter wee may with Quires of Saints and Angels sing vnto thee in the highest Heauens prayse and glorie wisedome and thanks honour and power for euermore Amen THE ATHEISTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OR The third sequell that followed vpon their deliuerance viz. The Heathens confession THE FOVRTH SERMON VERS 3. Then said they among the Heathen the Lord hath done great things for them IN these words you haue the third sequell that followed vpon this deliuerance viz. The Heathens confession what God had done for his people When the land of Israel was desolate and when the house of Iudah went into captiuitie the Ammorites reioyced at their fall crying ha ha against them they clapt their hands they stamped with their feet and reioyced in heart against the land of Israel The Moabites insulted ouer them the Edomites molested them and the Philistimes did reuenge themselues for their old hatred vnto them and all that p●ssed by Ierusalem opened their g Theodoretus nonnulli aperite os pro irridere accipiunt iuxta illud Psal 22.7 14 13 14 79.4 Origen aly ex stimant referre potius m●rem belluae deuerare cupientes Psal 23.13 Jer. 51.34 Christoph à costro lib. 5. comment ler. mouth they h Sibilare mouere caput signa ioca●tis per ludib●ium contemnentis ita●ccipitur sibilare Reg. 9. Zoph 2. similiter mouere caput Psal 21. hissed they gnashed their teeth they wagged their heads they clapt their hands saying is this the Citie that men call the perfection of beautie and the ioy of the whole earth Come let vs deuoure it for certainely this is the day wee have seene it and found it Thus did the prophane Heathen insult ouer Gods People and Sanctuarie but now when they see that they haue found fauour againe with God and that hee hath graciously brought againe their captiuitie and in his wrath cast downe their enemies they are confounded for all their power and they lay their hands vpon their mouth not daring to barke or bay any more at them but amazed and astonished they are forced to confesse that The Lord hath done great things for them In the words The parts of the Text. we may obserue First The Confessors the Heathen Secondly the thing confessed the Lord hath done great things for them And therein wee may note First the Agent the Lord. Secondly the Act hath done great things And thirdly the Persons for whom for them By whom the godly are reproched by the same they are often commended viz. the Iewes The parties confessing were the Heathen euen they who before did deride them and thought them a people forsaken and not regarded So that here wee may learne that often they who laugh at Gods people and children in time of their afflictions and reproch them * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost in Gen. kom 51. in time of their miserie euen they in the end are constrained to acknowledge Gods goodnesse towards them and whereas before they opened their mouthes against them so in the end they are forced to commend them And herein is both the power and loue of God manifested when he forceth his childrens enemies to be the trumpets of their praise And so whilest the Viper is vpon Paules hand the Barbarians abhorre him as a murtherer but when he casts it off without harme they thinke a Acts 28.3 4 5 him a God Whilest Iob lyes a wofull wretch vpon the dunghill his neighbours forsake him his acquaintaince forget him his wife disdaines him his seruants him his wife disdaines him his seruants disobey him the wicked despise him and euen vagabonds and villaines deride b Iob 19. him But when the Lord brought againe the captiuitie of Iob then they came all to him feast and reioyce with c Iob 42. him As Dauid went out of Ierusalem sleeing from Absalom wicked Shimei vpbraides him as a bloudie man and a man of Belial curses him and throwes stones at * 2. Sam. 16. him but as Dauid returned to Ierusalem hee was one of the first that went to meet him falls downe before him acknowledges him for his Lord and Soueraigne confesses his fault and craues his gracious * 2. Sam. 19. pardon Our Sauiour himselfe whilest he suffered vnder and vpon the Crosse was stripped scoffed at crowned and crucified of the Souldiers and the high Priest Scribes and Pharises mockt him saying He trusted in God let him deliuer him now if he will haue him Yet when the vaile of the Temple rent asunder when the Heauens were darkened and the Sunne obscured when the Graues opened and the Earth quaked the Centurion and his companie were all stricken with an exceeding feare and confessed that he was the sonne of d Matth. 27.43 God And so the Iewes in their miserie and extremity became an open shame vnto their enemies a very

fearefull Field of Blood but as the Apostle saith Aboue in Heauen from whence we looke for our Sauiour y Phil. 3.20 the Lord Iesus Christ. Secondly ☞ shee is compared to Sion to shew vs that as a Citie that is built vpon a Hill z Match 5.14 cannot bee hid so shee and her members should not alwayes lurke in obscuritie nor lye hid through aduersitie the Arke must not euer be kept close in the House of Obededom Moses Basket must not alwayes bee shrowded among the Bull-rushes the Prophets cannot bee continually hid in the Caue of Obadia nor Eliah lurke still in a Caue on Mount Horeb no for it shall bee in the last dayes that the Mountayne of the House of God shall be prepared on the top of the Mountaynes and shall be exalted aboue the Hills and all Nations shall flow vnto it and many people shall say come let vs goe vp to the Mountayne of the Lord to the House of the God of Iacob and he will teach vs his wayes c Isai 2.2 3. and we will walke in his paths Againe 2. Sion a Hill of great strength Sion was a Hill of great strength and securitie so the Church of God is so firmely and steadfastly grounded that the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it shee is that House of wisedome ☞ surely seated vpon seuen g Pro. 9.1 Pillars she is that goodly edifice built vpon a Rocke against which though the winds blow the floods flow and the raine beate yet can shee not be moued for the Rocke whereon shee stands is Christ how is both the ground-stone that doth vphold and the corner stone that doth conioyne the whole * Matth. 21.42 Psal 118.22 Isa 28.16 Acts 4.11 Rom. 9.33 1. Pet. 2.6 7. building so that neither the assaults of Satan nor the attempts of man can ouerthrow the least stone thereof For all that trust in the Lord shall bee as Mount Sion which cannot be remoued but remayneth for h Psal 125.1 euer Thirdly Mount Sion was not barren through coldnesse 3. Sion a Hill very fruitfull like the Hill Caucasus nor through heate like the Hill Vesuvius it is not cursed like the Mountaynes of Gilboah nor polluted with corruption like Golgatha but it is watered with dew from heauen like Hermon moystned with the siluer Streames like the Springs of Lebanon and stored with all fruitfull Plants like Mount Ephraim where by wee are taught ☜ that the Church is replenished with all spirituall blessings and heauenly graces shee is that Mountayne whereon the Lord doth feast all people with fined wines and fat things shee is that House of wisedome wherein the Lord hath killed his victuals drawne his wine and prepared a Table for his ghests shee is that Orchard replenished with all sweet fruits as Camphyre and Saffron Calamus and Cinamon here are the waters of Life to quensh our thirst here is the bread of Life to stay our hunger here is the precious balme of Gilead the costly oyle of Oliuet to soften our wounds and to cure our sores here is hony to comfort vs milke to nourish vs and wine to cheare our hearts and in a word the Lord will satisfie vs with the fatnesse of his House and will giue vs drinke out of the Riuers of his pleasures for with him is the Well of Life and in his Light shall we see light Lastly Mount Sion aboue all the Mountaynes of Iudaea was most beautifull and seemely 4. Sion a Hill most beautiful the situation of it being delectable and amiable For Mount Sion lying northward is faire in situation it is the ioy of the whole Earth and C●tie of the great King whereby mystically was expressed the beautie of the Church the Arke of the Couenant was ouer-layed within and without with gold and all things in Salomons Temple were couered with gold ☞ pointing out the glorie and the beautie of the mysticall Temple the House of Christ the Hill of Holinesse and the Tabernacle of the most High wherein must enter no deformed Thersites no base Abimelek no crooked Vulcan no lame Mephibosheth no couetous Croesus no vncharitable Diues no lasciuious Lamea no gadding Dinah and no wanton Dalilah but such as with Esther are purified and cleane such as leaue their sinnes as the Woman did her pitcher such as forgoe their iniquitie as the Apostles did their Nets such as throw their errors away as blind Bartymeus did his cloke euen such like and none else The Church called Sion in regard of the signification must stay on this holy Mountayne for none shall dwell in the Lords Tabernacle nor rest on his holy Mountayne but such as walke vprightly and worke righteousnesse Now 1. Heape tumulus acer nus as for the signification of the word Sion first it is translated a heape and that doth shew vs first that the Church is a company ☞ called and collected from all the corners of the Earth to be one body in z Rom. 12.5 Christ the Iewes aboue all the Nations in the world were chosento bee a precious people to God ● Deut. 7. yet the inuisible Church was not limited within such narrow bounds for euen among the Heathen God had his throughout all Ages he called Rachab out of Iericho Ruth from Moab and he had Iob in the Land of Vz and now the partition wall is broken downe there is but one Sheepherd and one sheep-fold There is neither Iew nor Grecian bond nor free male nor female but all are one in c Gal. 3.28 Christ Iesus Againe ☞ the Church being compared to a heape conioynd and gathered together doth shew vs what vnitie and amitie what peace and tranquillitie there should be within her walls Shee should be like Ierusalem all within her selfe at vnion and not like the Tower of Babel full of confusion like Christs Coat all of one peece and not like Ieroboams coat cut into twelue peeces teaching vs that there ought to be no contention no diuision no confusion no dissention amongst her members but we should all be of one soule and one minde keeping the unitie of the Spirit in the bond of * Ephes 4.3 2. A Glasse Speculum Spe●ulatio peace Moreouer Sion signifieth as much as a Glasse or Speculation because the Law which serues for a looking glasse wherein a man may behold his naturall f Iam. 1.23 face ☜ and whereby he may come to know himselfe and his corrupt nature was first there to be read there to be had and there to be vnderstood For the Law came foorth of Sion and the word of the Lord from g Isa 2.3 Ierusalem The Women brought their looking glasses and offered them to the vse of the h Exod. 38.8 Tabernacle teaching vs that if we would apparantly perceiue the leprous spots of our vgly sinnes to repaire to the Tabernacle to Mount Sion where the Law