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city_n	afflict_v	lord_n	zion_n	100	3	9.4044	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31085	Sermons preached upon several occasions by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.; Loggan, David, 1635-1700?	1679 (1679)	Wing B958; ESTC R36644	220,889	535

same time and upon the same occasion with this Psalm and in the 89. Psalm the benefits of this same covenant are called the mercies of David O Lord God turn not away the face of thine Anointed remember the mercies of David thy servant saith Solomon And My mercy saith God will I keep with him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him and My faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him that is my faithful or sure mercy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the LXX and S. Paul with them in the Acts render this place of Isaiah And in the Song of Zachary we have one passage of this Promise cited and applied to the times of the Gospel Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised up a horn of Salvation in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets viz. by the mouth of this Prophetical Psalmist here where 't is said There will I make the horn of David to bud and in the parallel Psal. 89. In my Name shall his horn be exalted To omit those many places where our Saviour in correspondence to this Promise is affirmed to possess the throne of his father David and to rule over the house of Jacob for ever Moreover 3. That by the Sion here mentioned is not chiefly meant that material Mountain in Judaea but rather that mystical Rock of Divine Grace and Evangelical Truth upon which the Christian Church the only everlasting Temple of God is unmovably seated is very probable or rather manifestly certain by the Prophets constant acception thereof in this sense when they assign the character of perpetual durability thereto As in Isa. 60. where he thus prophesies of the Christian Church The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee The City of the Lord The Sion of the Holy One of Israel Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee I will make thee an eternal excellency a joy of many generations Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles and shalt suck the breasts of Kings c. And the Prophet Micah speaking of the last days that is of the Evangelical Times when the mountain of the House of the Lord should be established in the top of the mountains saith thus And I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast far off a strong Nation and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from henceforth even for ever And the Prophet Joel speaking of the same times when God would pour out his Spirit upon all flesh hath these words So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Sion my holy mountain then shall Jerusalem be holy and there shall no strangers pass through her any more All which places no man can reasonably doubt and all Christians do firmly consent to respect the Christian Church To which we may add that passage of the Authour to the Hebrews ch 12. v. 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem that is to the Christian Church 4. The manner of this Covenant's delivery and confirmation by the Divine Oath argues the inconditionate irreversible and perpetual constitution thereof for to God's most absolute and immutable Decrees this most august and solemn confimation doth peculiarly agree So the Apostle to the Hebrews seems to intimate Wherein saith he God willing more abundantly to demonstrate the immutability of his counsel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 interposed an oath We may therefore I suppose upon these grounds solidly and safely conclude that this Promise doth principally belong and shall therefore infallibly be made good to the Christian Priesthood to those who in the Christian Church by offering Spiritual Sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving by directing and instructing the people in the knowledge of the Evangelical Law by imploring for and pronouncing upon them the Divine benedictions do bear analogy with and supply the room of the Jewish Priesthood From which discourse we may by the way deduce this Corollary That the title of Priest although it did as most certainly it doth not properly and primarily signifie a Jewish Sacrificer or Slaughterer of Beasts doth yet no-wise deserve that reproach which is by some inconsiderately not to say profanely upon that mistaken ground commonly cast upon it since the Holy Scripture it self we see doth here even in that sense most obnoxious to exception ascribe it to the Christian Pastours And so likewise doth the Prophet Isaiah And I will also take of them for Priests and for Levites saith the Lord speaking as the context plainly declares of the Gentiles which should be converted and aggregated to God's Church And the Prophet Jeremiah Neither shall the Priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings and to do sacrifice continually Which Prophecy also evidently concerns the same time and state of things of which the Prophet Malachi thus foretels For from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place Incense shall be offered to my Name and a pure offering It were desirable therefore that men would better consider before they entertain such groundless offences or pass so uncharitable censures upon either words or persons or things But I proceed to the III. Particular which is the Matter of the Promise Cloathing with salvation Where we may observe First That the usual metaphor of being cloathed doth in the Sacred dialect denote a compleat endowment with a plentiful enjoyment of or an entire application to that thing or quality with which a person is said to be cloathed So is God himself said to be cloathed with majesty and strength And David prays that they might be cloathed with shame and dishonour that did magnifie themselves against him And in Ezekiel The Princes of the Isles being amazed by the ruine of Tyre are said to cloath themselves with trembling And that bitter adversary of David in Psal. 109. did cloath himself with cursing as with a garment And Job avoucheth of himself I put on righteousness and it cloathed me my judgment was as a robe and a diadem And S. Peter advises us to put on or to be cloathed with humility Finally Isaiah introduces our Saviour speaking thus I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord my soul shall be joyful in my God for he hath cloathed me with the garments of salvation he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments and as a bride adorneth her self with her jewels So that as by these instances we may