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An exhortation to prayer for Jerusalems peace in a sermon preached at Dorchester at the Affizes holden there for the county of Dorset, March 19, 1662 / by Henry Glover.
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Glover, Henry, b. 1624 or 5.
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An Exhortation to PRAYER FOR Jerusalems Peace IN A SERMON PREACHED At Dorchester at the Assizes holden there for the County of Dorset March 19. 1662. By HENRY GLOVER Rector of Shroton in the same County Rom. 12. 18. If it be possible as much as lyeth in you Live peaceably with all men Orare Cleri Caesaris Pugnare LONDON Printed by E. Cotes for William Church-hill Bookseller in Dorchester 1663. To the Worshipful WOLLEY MELLER Esq High Sheriff of the County of Dorset Mr. Sheriff WHen you first engaged me to preach the Assize-Sermon I little thought but that when the Pulpit-work was done my Notes might have gone quietly to sleep among their Fellows I never dreamt of my Lord the Judge his Invitation nor your Injunction nor the Desires of many others to have them made Publique i. e. to expose both my self and them to Censure Nor am I ignorant of the disadvantages that a plain Sermon receives by the Press There 's many an ordinary Face that at a glance appears lovely and hath something in it that pleases but when it is gazed upon and exactly pryed into discovers its own disproportions So it is with many Printed Sermons they may please in the Pulpit but are more laid open to view by the Press I suppose this will be one of them But this is my Comfort that though I was never so fond upon it as to think it a Beauty yet I am satisfied that it is very honest And some ingenuous dispositions may like it for that for its simplicity and well-meaning and others that are more censorious may yet for its moderation and general aim not be so rude as to fall foul upon a harmless Creature which intended no more hurt but only to perswade men to Peace and according to its little strength endeavour a Reconciliation at least a Mitigation of our never enough to be lamented Divisions And so being protected by its own Innocency as harmless Children are in less Danger in a Fray than quarrelling Ruffians I hope it may quietly go up and down the World a little while I am sure it cannot be long and at last dy in Peace However it speed you see I have at your Request overcome those difficulties which made me loath to venture it abroad And since you would not be denyed my Notes I have made choice of this way to transmit them to you rather than deliver them over to the Tormentors I mean Unskilful Scribes 〈…〉 of whom St. Hierom once complained that they did write Non quod inveniunt sed quod intelligunt dum alienos errores emendare nituntur ostendunt suos I confess I was loath to have my Notes mangled by many written Copies and therefore had rather trust to the Curtesie of one Press than many Pens If it may tend in the least to God's glory the Churche's Peace and the Satisfaction of your self and other worthy Persons that set me upon it I have all I aim at and shall remain Sir Your humble Servant in Christ Henry Glover An Exhortation to PRAYER FOR JERVSALEMS-PEACE PSALM 122. 6. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem THe Author and Pen-man of this Psalm was David in the Title the Time and Occasion of Penning it conceived to be at the Removing of the Ark to Jerusalem 2 Sam. 6. 5. when David danced before it and as some think snng this Psalm to the Harp in that solemnity The Parts of it are Principally Two viz. David's Joy and David's Devotion 1. David's Joy in the first five verses and it ariseth from several Springs or Heads 1. From the Readiness and forwardness of Worshippers in that solemn Religious Transaction Vers 1 2. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the House of the Lord Our Feet shall stand within thy Gates O Jerusalem The People encouraged one another to go up with the Ark and even animated the King to use no delays about it They brought It up with shouting and with the sound of the Trumpet 2 Sam 6. 15. The good King was glad to see his Subjects so forward in that pious service And indeed it 's matter of great Joy to see a joyful harmony of Worshippers in the Service of God to see Families and Housholds encouraging one another to serve the Lord to hear Neighbour calling to Neighbour and Friend to Friend and Family to Family as Isai 2. 3. Come and let us go up to the House of the Lord this is matter of great Joy 2. From the Unity and Concord of the Church of God at that time in matters of Worship and Religion Jerusalem was Conjuncta sibi pariter Vers 3. at unity with it self 2. Sam. 5. 7. The Jebusites were now driven out and the people of God were of one heart and mind They had not divided Churches and Worship and Worshippers as it fell out afterward when the Kingdom was divided but they could all joyn together in the same service Here was Uniformity without an Act. Thither the Tribes went up even the Tribes of the Lord unto the Testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord Vers 4. All the Tribes went up thither Deut. 12. ◠according to God's own appointment This was their happiness and O that it might be ours As long as one is for Paul another for Apollos and a third for Cephas it must needs make a Rupture in the Church and the dividing into parcels is the weakning of the whole By reason of which many are left in the case of which Melancthon once complained Quos fugiamus habemus quos sequamur non intelligimus they know whom to avoid but scarce whom follow God Almighty pour down a Spirit of Peace and Love amongst us that if we cannot come fully up to the Primitive temper of minding and speaking all the same things yet at least small differences in Judgment may not being heightned with animosities make eternal breaches in the Affections of Christians 3. From the due Administration of Justice in that Religious City Vers 5. There were set Thrones of Judgment the Thrones of the house of David Justice and Religion Piety and Policy went here hand in hand Exod. 4. 16. And this is matter of great Joy when Moses and Aaron go out and in together Moses Aaron's hand and Aaron Moses mouth These two I mean Justice and Religion are the two Pillars upon which the Fabrique of a Kingdom stands and therefore the Sampsons of Sedition do usually set their shoulders to both of them at once Though indeed the fall of either of them makes way to the Ruin of the other pull down one and you pull down both These two as they stand opposed to the Flouds of Belial on the right hand and on the left are like the Banks of a great River no sooner beat down or over-born but in comes a whole Sea of Atheism Heresie Violence and Injury to the utter Ruin and Desolation both of Church and