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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60354	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London at Grocers-Hall by Samuel Slater ...	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3975; ESTC R10144	44,686	50

all them that know them Good and Bad Friends and Foes but also their open bold and undaunted owning and professing of Christ whose they are and to whom they resolve to cleave in the darkest days and most menacing dangers Like unto those Benjamites who said 1 Chron. 12.18 Thine are we David and on thy side thou Son of Iesse peace peace be unto thee and peace be to thine helpers for thy God helpeth thee and so he doth our David and him we may set against all his Enemies for in comparison of him they all be they never so many never so mighty are less than nothing Vanity Among many great and precious Promises which are made to the Gospel-Church under the name of Sion that is one Isa. 60.14 The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soals of thy feet and they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Sion of the Holy One of Israel Now Mount Sion is thus made use of as the Type and Figure of the Church of Christ in new Testament-times the times of the Messiah upon such accounts as these First Because of the special Presence of God there above any other place in the World Psal. 132.13 14. The Lord hath chosen Sion he hath desired it for his Habitation This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it It was the place of his choice and of his desire and of his delight It pleas'd him to abide and to give Audience to his People there there he met them and heard their Prayers and made Manifestations of himself to them the House built there he filled with his Glory Now the spiritual and gracious Presence of God is in his Church and with his People From the wicked he stands at a distance he looks upon them afar off We read in the Revelation That mystical Babylon is a Habitation of Devils a Cage of unclean Birds and foul Spirits But the true Church is the Habitation of God there he dwells there he gives forth his Light and his Loves there he makes his People joyful the midst of the golden Candlesticks is the pleasant walk of the blessed Jesus Hence it is that as the Apostle Paul saith in Ephes. 2.21 all the building fuly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord that is the universal Catholick Church doth so that is the Temple of God and then he adds in ver 22. in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Not only the universal Church that which is rightly so called but also particular Churches as that in Ephesus those in London or in any other Country City Town which are called united constituted order'd regularly or according to the Pattern given in the Mount the Divine Will revealed and laid down in the Sacred Scriptures are Temples and Habitations in which the great God doth delight by his holy Spirit to dwell yea and so are particular Saints who have been really sanctified and made partakers of those Gifts which do not only adorn and grace the Person but likewise render those that have them truly gracious Secondly Sion was a Type of the Gospel-Church and its name is therefore fitly given to it because of the proceeding or going forth of the Gospel from thence The fiery Law as you know was given upon and from Mount Sinai in a most terrible manner so that Moses himself fear'd and quak'd but the everlasting Gospel or law of Grace was from Mount Sion Isa. 2.3 Many people shall go and say Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob for he will teach us his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Sion shall go forth the Law and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem The Law i.e. not the law of Works but of Faith. The Law of the Redeemer and the Word i.e. the Word of Reconciliation and Peace the glad tidings of Life and Salvation by him who is the Fountain of Life and the Author of eternal Salvation to all those that accept and obey him This came first out of Sion and Ierusalem from whence it appears that those learned Men did not speak without reason who have asserted that the Church of Ierusalem had the best and most rightful claim to that honourable Title of the Mother Church whatever place besides doth pretend thereunto So consult Psal. 110.2 The Lord will send the rod of thy strength out of Sion Now what is that Rod but the precious Gospel accompanied with the Spirit which is the Power of God to Salvation by which he conquers and subdues a People to himself and also Rules and Governs them Now upon this account the Church may well be called Sion because there are made most blessed Revelations of Jesus Christ and of Mercy Grace and Peace in and thorough him there are the Divine Oracles there are unlocked and sweetly opened those profound and glorious Mysteries which were conceal'd and kept hid from Ages and Generations There is made known unto the Principalities and Powers in heavenly Places 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The manifold Wisdom of God viz. in the whole Oeconomy both of mans Redemption by Christ and of the Government of the Church in its various Ages and Periods from the beginning of the World. Thirdly Sion is fitly used for a Type of the Gospel-Church upon the account of its Eminency it was high and lofty Psal. 68.15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan an high hill as the hill of Bashan That of Bashan was a very high Hill rising up with several tops but not to be compared with Sion for as he saith in the next verse Why leap ye ye high hills this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in yea the Lord will dwell in it for ever So the Church which is the Kingdom of Christ doth excel in Glory all the Kingdoms of the World. It is the most noble Society it needs not go a begging to any other it needs no borrowed Beauty it shines brightest with its own Beams when its Worship is performed according to the Divine will without the addition of humane Inventions when its Ordinances are pure without any Adulteration and imbasing Mixtures when its Members walk in an Holy and Gospel-Order according to the Law and Rule of the new Creature Then is the Beauty of the Lord its God upon it and that Beauty is so great so sweet and ravishing that it may very well despise and abhor Painting and little pitiful Artifices to set it off it need not be beholden to any in the World for Ornaments and Dresses This precious and amiable Spouse of Christ doth then look most lovely and is then the fairest among Women when it hath only its Lords comeliness upon it and doth not appear in any of the rotten Rags