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A85659	Nehemiah's teares and prayers for Judah's affliction, and the ruines and repaire of Jerusalem. Delivered in a sermon in the Church of Magarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their monethly humiliation, April 24. 1644. By John Greene Master of Arts, late pastour of Pencomb in the countie of Hereford.	Greene, John, Master of Arts.	1644 (1644)	Wing G1822; Thomason E48_7; ESTC R14498	37,819	46

that all was at a stand for Jerusalem The remnant of the people that are left were in great affliction and reproach the wall of the citie remained broken downe and the gates thereof burnt with fire An expected end God had promised and questionlesse the people of the Jewes had long looked for the accomplishment of this promise but it must not come yet they had more affliction to suffer the wals of Jerusalem must remaine longer in their ruines and the gates in their ashes Thus we shall find the Lord often dealing with his Church and people they seldome injoy any great blessing or enter upon the fruition of any speciall promised mercie but it costs them deare God made a mercifull Promise to Abraham that he would give Gen. 15. 7. him and his posteritie that goodly land of Canaan yet they must pay deare for this before they had it Know of a surety saith God that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and ver 13. they shall serve them and they shall afflict them foure hundred yeares They must not look to have so pleasant and fruitfull a land for nothing No it must cost them deare many yeares hard service a great deale of affliction they must go through an iron furnace Deut. 4. 20. Gen. 15. 17. Gen. 37. 5 6 7 8 9. Psa 105. 17 ●8 Divino ju l●●io quod de●l●r are conatisunt rea●tendo ser●●erunt Greg Moral l 6. c 1● Ideò venditus est à ●ra●r●b●s Ioseph ne a●oraretur ●ed ●deò est adoratus quia venditus sic div●●um consil●um du●● devitatur impletur sic bumanasaptentia du n reluctatur comprehend t●r Id ibid. Isai 65 17 18 19. Rev. 21 1 2 3 4. 2 Pet. 3. 13. so is Egypt called represented as it may seeme to Abraham in his vision in that smoaking furnace another instance may be that of Joseph who was assured that he should have the honour which his dreames had promised but it must cost him his being sold for a servant his casting into prison his feet hurt with fetters he was laid in it on or as the margent his soule came into iron and hitherto he was brought into a far lower condition then he was at the time of his dreames yet see the over-ruling Providence of the most wise God so disposing that every descent into a lower condition was made unto him as a staire to ascend unto that honour which his dreames had promised To come neerer unto our selves and that which concernes the Church in this latter age of the world there was a glorious Promise made to the Church by that Evangelicall Prophet Isay Behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembred nor come into minde But be you glad and rejoyce for ever in that which I create And John the Propheticall Evangelist gives the Church such assurance of this as if he had then seene it performed I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away And I John saw the holy citie new Jerusalem comming downe from God out of heaven And the Church expecteth the accomplishment hereof We saith the Apostle according to his Promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse It is now the Churches expectation we looke with John to see this new heaven and new earth and to behold that holy Citie comming downe from Heaven we hope the Lord at this present is about this worke but goe back to the former part of this prophecie and you shall finde that the Church must not have this new heaven and new earth till it hath paid deare for them you may see from the eighth Chapter to Rev. 12. 3 4 13 15 17. this 21. what the Church paid for this before she had it I will instance only in the 12. and 13. Chapters in the former you have a great red dragon that is as our best Interpreters take it the Devill and what mischiefe he did to the Church you may find in severall passages of that Chapter he stood before the woman which was to be delivered for to devoure her childe as soon as it was borne not being able to devoure the childe he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man childe casting out of his mouth water as a floud after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the floud and when no prevailing against her he went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keepe the Commandements of God and have the testimonie of Jesus Christ Rev. 13 1 7 ●1 14. In the next Chapter there is one beast rising out of the sea having seven heads and ten hornes the heathenish Romane Empire And to him it was given to make war with the Saints and to overcome them ver 7. in ver 11. there is another beast rising out of the earth the Papacie which had the power of the first beast and did by many lying wonders deceive them that dwell on the earth what the Church hath suffered by the crueltie and subtiltie of these two beasts the histories of the Church doe abundantly manifest It cost the Primitive times the tortures and bloud of many thousand Martyrs before truth and peace setled by Constantine and Theodosius I need not tell you what our owne Kingdome Germanie and France paid for the beginning of Reformation If you would have my thoughts why the Lord in his wisdome selleth his choice mercies at so deare a rate I conceive it may be Reas 1 1. To try what esteem his Church hath of those mercies it looks for the Church of God in all places expects great mercies we of this land at this time look for speciall favours we look for the Reformation of what is amisse in Church and State for an establishment of Truth and Peace the Lord now would trie how we esteeme these how we prize them what we are willing to pay for the injoyment of them we will not give much for that which we value at little large offers argue an high esteeme God is now trying the hearts of England great matters are expected but how doe we prize them surely it cannot be better knowne then by what we will give for the purchase of them Will we part with all to injoy them Doe we thinke our whole estates our children our neerest friends our dearest bloud not too deare a price to pay for them It is an undoubted evidence that we highly prize those things which we neither will nor can want whatsoever they cost us when all that we have and more if we had it shall freely goe for them and questionlesse that wise merchant could no way so fully manifest his Matth. 13 46. esteeme of the pearle to be more worth then all he had then when he sold all that he had and bought it Reas 2 The Lord doth this to

Die Mercurii 24. April 1644. IT is this day ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Sr Robert Harley and Sr Robert Pye do from this House give thanks unto Doctor Stanton and Master Greene for the great paines they tooke in the Sermons they preached this day at St Magarets Westminster at the intreatie of this House it being the day of publike Humiliation And they are desired to print their Sermons And it is ordered that none shall presume to print their or either of their Sermons but by the Authoritie of their hands writing H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Philemon Stephens to print my Sermon John Greene. NEHEMIAH'S Teares and Prayers FOR JVDAH'S AFFLICTION And the ruines and repaire of JERVSALEM Delivered in a SERMON in the Church of Magarets Westminster before the Honourable House of COMMONS upon the day of their Monethly Humiliation April 24. 1644. BY JOHN GREENE Master of Arts late Pastour of Pencomb in the Countie of Hereford Isai 22. 4. Look away from me I will weep bitterly labour not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people Ver. 9. Ye have seen also the breaches of the citie of David that they are many Psal 51. 18. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Sion build thou the wals of Jerusalem LONDON Printed by G. M. for Philemon Stephens and are to be sold at his shop at the golden Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1644. PIISSIMO PRVDENTISSIMO AMPLISSIMOQVE SENATVI DOMVS COMMVNIVM IN PARLIAMENTO CLEMENTISSIMA DEI PROVIDENTIA CONVOCATO POTENTISSIMA DEI TUTELA CONTINUATO MEDITATIVNCVLAS HAS SVAS TENUICULAS JUSSU è SUGGESTO EDITAS HORTATU VESTRO TYPIS EVULGATAS HONORIS ET OBSERVANTIAE ERGO SUMMA CUM HUMILITATE D. O. V. Amplitudini vestrae in Domino obsequentissimus Joh. Greene. A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House of COMMONS at their Monethly Fast on April 24. 1644. NEHEMIAH 1. 3 4. And they said unto me The remnant that are left of the captivitie there in the Province are in great affliction and reproach the wall of Ierusalem also is broken down and the gates thereof burnt with fire And it came to passe when I heard these words that I sate downe and wept and mourned certaine dayes and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven THe first Verse of the words read if you look back to that next before are the answer of Hanani and certain Vers 1. men of Judah unto a question moved by Nehemiah being then in Shushan the Palace the winter-house Lavater ex Athenaeo lib. 1● cap. 3. Antiquitar lib. 10. cap. 5. of the Kings of Persia Josephus relates the storie thus Nehemiah meeting certaine strangers entring the gates of the Citie Shushan perceiving them to have come a long journey and hearing them speaking one to another in the Hebrew tongue he demanded of them whence they came they answering that they came out of Judea he puts a two-fold question unto them one how it stood with the people of the Jewes that were returned out of the captivitie and then in the province of Judea the other what the condition of Jerusalem And in the former words of the Text they give answer to both and it was a sad answer for the Jewes that came out of the captivitie they are in a very miserable condition in great affliction and reproach under many hard pressures full of scorne and contempt and for Jerusalem it remaines still in its old ruines the wals continue broken downe the gates burnt with fire and if we shall adde to these the time Nehem. 1. 1. 2. ● when this report was made which will appeare by comparing the first verse of this Chapter with the first of the second to have been in the twentieth yeare of Artaxerxes the King we have as I conceive the summe of that which the former verse holds out In the latter you may see how this sad report affected Nehemiah it put him also into a sad condition when he heard how it was with the people how with Jerusalem he wept and mourned and it was not a little suddain melancholick fit for a time but it held out certain dayes and to shew that this mourning of his was reall did really affect him that it came indeed from bowels of pitie and compassion towards the people and the citie it put him upon those meanes that if any would minister reliefe to the citie and people and make way for their freedome from former pressures and expedite the repaire of present ruines And these are two he fasted and he prayed and in the latter you may consider unto whom he prayes to the God of heaven if you looke to the last verse of this Chapter you shall finde Nehemiahs maine request was to the King that he might finde favour in his sight his suit was to a man on earth so he calleth him in that verse this man yet he goes to heaven for the obtaining of it as knowing it would little availe him to goe unto the King unlesse he went first unto God to move the Kings heart he had small hope that his petition could speed with man which had not first been presented unto God Here is ground you see for varietie of observations I shall doe as you use when you goe to a shop furnished with choice of severall wares you will not take all that may be had but only such as best fit your occasions So shall I by Gods assistance out of this varietie observable from the Text endeavour to single out what I conceive will best suit with our present times and somewhat further the duties of this day Observ 1. Jer. ●9 10 11. You shall heare the Lord before the Captivitie making a gratious promise by the Prophet Jeremiah unto the people of the Jewes when 70 yeares are accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and performe my good word towards you in causing you to return to this place for I know the thoughts that I think towards you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evill to give you an expected end Here was a pretious Promise made before they knew the miserie that should make them stand in need of such a Promise And the Lord began to make this good when in the first yeere of Cyrus according to that Promise the Lord stirred up the Ezra 1● 2 ● spirit of Cyrus by Proclamation to grant free liberty unto all the people to goe up unto Jerusalem and to build the Temple And if ver 5. you goe to verse the fifth you shall see how fairely the work proceeded The Lord stirred up also the spirits of the chiefe of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin and the Priests and the Levites with all them whose spirit God had raised to goe up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem And yet many yeares after as you shall heare in the following passages comes this sad report to Nehemiah