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A52574	New-Englands duty and interest to be an habitation of justice and mountain of holiness containing doctrine, caution, & comfort : with something relating to the restaurations, reformations, and benedictions promised to the church and world in the latter dayes : with grounds of hope, that America in general & New-England in particular may may have a part therein : preached to the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, at the anniversary election, May 25, 1698 / by Nicholas Noyes ...	Noyes, Nicholas, 1647-1717.	1698 (1698)	Wing N1461; ESTC R16814	53,865	112

a man and this is prefaced with The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a new thing indeed for a Woman to be both a Mother and a Virgin at the same time a new thing in deed for a Woman to be the Mother of him that was God though not of the God Head yet of the Humane Nature received into Personal Union with the Son of God A woman shall compass a man viz. the man of Gods Right-hand for whose sake Redemption should come and with it Restauration Reformation and Divine Benediction not only to the Jews but also to the Gentiles for God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself not imputing to them their trespasses and some of the Blessings promised were the manifestation of the New-Covenant the Gathering and Enlarging the Catholick Church writing the Law in the heart c. which the Apostle to the Hebrews refers to Gospel times Heb. 8 10 11.12 And the whole by way of Analogy and just accommodotion may be referred to Kingdoms Countries Places Nations professing the Christian Religion thus the New Testament teacheth us to in●erpret accommodate and apply to our selves Texts of the Old Testament See Rom. 15.4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our Learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope So 1 Co. 10.11 Now all these things hapned unto them for ensamples and are written for our instruction on whom the ends of the world are come So also 2 Tim. 3.16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for Instruction in righteousness Thus having shewed how this text that nextly concerned the Jews comes to affect us and concern these last ages of the professing world I shall only for further Explication of the Text shew what intended by Justice what by a Habitation of Justice and then what by Holiness and what by a Mountain of Holiness and then proceed to give you the Doctrines Q. What intended by Justice A. Sometimes it is more strictly taken for that political virtue whereby such as are in Authority punish evil doers and praise and justify them that do well and that this sence is herein comprehended is without doubt but yet it is intended in a more large sence in this text for here it is joyned with holiness and yet distinguisht from it and when it is so it is taken for conformity to the second Table of the Decalogue or six last Commandments the word rendred Justice might as well be rendred Righteousness they are Synonimous and so the same word in the text rendred Justice is in many other texts rendred Righteousness See Isa 1.26 Afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness Q. What intended by Habitation of Justice or Righteousness A. By Habitation of Righteousness is intended a City or place that abounds in Righteousness and excelleth in it or that is full of righteous persons the Abstract being put for the Concrete Compare it with Isa 1.21 It was full of Judgment Righteousness lodged in it that is Equity Honesty Charity Chastity Truth Justice were not as Strangers in Jerusalem but Inhabitants they dwelt in the Temple in the Courts in the Gates in the Streets in their Houses in their Shops and in all their converse commerce And of the New Heaven and the New Earth it is said Righteousness shall dwell therein that is be not only resident but eminent prevalent permanent and a●●●dant Q. What intended by Holiness A. Some times it is taken in so large a sence as to comprehend in it conformity to the whole Decalogue but when it is joyned with and yet distinguished from righteousness it intends conformity to the first Table of the Law or four first Commandments and with respect to the Holiness and Righteousness mentioned in the text once for all for preventing mistake I declare I intend not only that which is commonly called Morality but conformity to the whole Doctrine which is according to Godliness that Obedience to which men are Created in Christ Jesus that Grace which men derive from him through the holy Spirit in Regeneration and Sanctification whereby they are enabled to live to God and serve him in Holiness and Righteousness Q What intended by a Mountain of Holiness A. As it respect Jerusalem it meaneth that it should regain its ancient purity and be as renowned for Holiness as ever it was that had not only been beautiful for its Situation but for its Sanctification wherein not only Holy men had dwelt but the Holy God there was the holy Temple the holy Oracle the holy Ordinances and holy Assemblies the beauty of holiness the habitation of Gods holiness the Throne of his holiness the Courts of his holiness and where his anointed ones ministred unto him something like as the Angels do in Heaven it was a Comparative Heaven for holiness and a Type of the real Heaven it had been so and should be so again When it is applyed to Christian Countries it means that they should abound in holiness and excel other places therein as much as Judea did other lands and Jerusalem did other Cities in the day that they were Holiness to the Lord So you have the meaning of the Text its words phrases both in the literal sence as it nextly concern'd the Jews and also in its Analogical sence as it concerns Christians of all Kingdoms and Plantations to the end of the world We come now to the Doctrines that result from the Text thus explained which are three The first from the doctrinal hints in the Text the second from the historical hints the third from the Text as it is a Prophesy DOCT. I. That it is the duty of all People or Places professing the Christian Religion to abound and excel in Holiness and Righteousness or to be an Habitation of Righteousness and Mountain of Holiness DOCT. II. That such People and Places as profess the Christian Religion may expect to be Happy or Miserable according as it goeth with them as to Holiness and Righteousness DOCT. III. That although Places that have been Habitations of Righteousness and Mountains of Holiness should become very degenerate and for their Sin be made very desolate yet there is ground of hope that God will again Restore Reform and Bless them The first DOCTRINE Confirm'd by Reasons Reason 1. Because the Moral Law obligeth all mankind to holiness and righteousness from the beginning of the world to the end of it for it was no ways suitable to the Wisdom and Holiness of God to make man a rational Creature which is a cause by counsel of his own actions and so capable of honouring or dishonouring of ob●ying or disobeying him that made him and then leave it to his liberty whether he would own and honour his maker yea or no whether he would worship God according to his Institution or his own or anothers invention Can it

to have cast off a professing people yet he may chuse them a second time it is no more than he hath done in the like case Zech. 2.12 The Lord shall inherit Judah and choose Jerusalem again 4. Notwithstanding wrath is come upon the Jews to the uttermost because they sinned to the uttermost in rejecting and crucifying the Son of God yet not without cause we believe and expect that God will again restore reform and bless them Though they are Unchurched and Unpeopled and have been miserable as misery can make them yet the Oracles of God give incouragement to believe that they shall again be recovered It were endless to quote all the old Testament texts brought by those that write on this Subject among which my Text and Context is improved by Dr. Gouge others Paul in Rom. 11.27 renders it indisputable Obj. If it be granted concerning the Jews what is that to the Christian Gentiles This text speaks of the Jews Thus saith the God of Israel A. That this and many other texts of like import do nextly belong to the Jews I have already granted but that doth not prove that by way of Analogy this and such like texts do not belong to Christian Churches consisting of Jews or Gentiles or both I pray consider who are the Israel of God now Are not all that believe Children of Abraham and heirs according to promise Is not the Blessing of Abraham come upon the Gentiles Is God the God of the Jews only is he not of the Gentiles also Rom. 3.29 Although the Ephesians during their Heathenism were Strangers to the Covenants of promise and aliens from the common wealth of Israel yet I hope they were not so after they were Converted and Christianized No they who before were afar off were made nigh by the blood of Christ who broke down the middle wall of partition and made both one and now they were no more Strangers and Forreigners but fellow Citizens with the Saints and were built upon the foundation of the Prophets as well as Apostles c. What is there Jew and Greek Scythian and Barbarian still surely they are all one in Christ Jesus Eph. 2.12 13 Gal. 3.28 Col. 3.11 5. There be Prophesies in the New-Testament that contain in them promises of Restauration Reformation and Blessing to Churches that were formerly Eminent for Christianity Habitations of Righteousness and Mountains of Holiness but become in time very degenerate and very miserable and desolate first over run with sin then with misery that are either buried in their own ruins or if they flourish it is with Antichristian or Mahometan Inhabitants for the most part yet do Prophetick Scriptures speak of their Resurrection and Restauration What else can be the meaning of the Resurrection of the Witnesses the Spirit of life from God entring into them after they are overcome and stain their standing on their feet and their ascending into Heaven Rev. 11.11 12. The like may be said of the Congratulatory Acclamations of Voices in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 See also Rev. 15.4 All Nations shall come and worship before thee Past all peradventure there is implyed in these Texts that Kingdoms that belong'd to our Lord in Constantin's Time but for their Degeneration were over run with the Romish Idolatry and Tyranny and the Imposture and Oppression of the Mahometans so that they ceased to be the Kingdoms of the Lord as they were before and became the Kingdoms of Antichrist of Mahomet shall again be rescued out of the hand of those cruel Lords and again profess their Subjection unto Jesus Christ which implyes Restitution Reformation and Divine Benediction The Lord Jesus field some kind of possession of the West Empire during the 1260 years of Antichrist's Reign by his Witnesses that Prophesied all that time though in Sackcloth He hath held possession likewise in the East Empire notwithstanding the fury and cruelty of the Arabian and Saracen or Mahometan Harpyes for the Christian Religion is professed there to this day though not with that power purity and glory that it some time was and shall be again Dr Goodwin makes the 144000 mentioned Rev. 14 1. to be the Witnesses that prophesied in Sackcloth and held possession of the West Empire for Christ the 144000 mentioned Rev. 7.4 to be the Witnesses of Christ in the East Empire to be Seal'd for Preservation during the Mahometan Tyranny concludes that our Lord hath all along held possession of both East and West Empire and expects glorious Restaurations and Reformations in both I have done with the Explication and Proof of the three Doctrines and shall croud the Application together with what brevity the present Occasion requires which will not permit a full Application of such copious Theams howsoever useful it might be USE I. Of Instruction To teach us That Holiness and Righteousness have an everlasting amiableness and excellency in them In God they are the Essence of God in Angels and men they are the Image of God they are Essential to the Being of God and they are Essential to the Well-being of Angels and men they are the best adjunct and Epithete that rational creatures are capable of Take Holiness and Righteousness from Angels and they become Devils take them from men and they become like Beasts yea worse not only earthly sensual but devilish also The dignity of mans first Estate consisted in holiness and righteousness after the Image of God the ignominy and damnableness of mans lost Estate consists in his sinning and coming short of the glory of God that is of his glorious Image consisting in holiness and righteousness The sanity and felicity of mans best and last Estate consists in being recovered to the image and favour of God by Jesus Christ Whilst man was holy and righteous God loved him as his Friend and when man became unholy and unrighteous God loath'd him as his Enemy and although God may love him with a love of Benevolence of Beneficence yet ●e cannot love him with a compleat love of complacency and delight till he is recovered to holiness and righteousness again As Sin is a reproach to any person people or place on the contrary holiness and righteousness are a credit and honour to them it was the glory of the City that was the joy and praise of the whole earth that it was a habitation of righteousness mountain of holiness yea it is the glory of the New Jerusalem it is called the Holy City and the Holy Jerusalem Rev 21.2 10. 't is the peculiar excellency of the New Heavens and New Earth that righteousness dwelleth therein 2 Pet. 3.13 The unconceivable glory of the Heaven of Heavens consists more in its holiness than in its heighth though it transcend in both It is the throne of Gods holiness the holy of holyes was but a Type of it The highest excellency

New-Englands Duty and Interest To be an Habitation of JUSTICE AND Mountain of HOLINESS Containing Doctrine Caution Comfort WITH Something relating to the RESTAURATIONS REFORMATIONS and BENEDICTIONS Promised to the Church and World in the latter dayes With grounds of Hope that America in General New-England in Particular may have a Part therein Preached to the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay at the Anniversary ELECTION May 25. 1698. By NICHOLAS NOYES Teacher of the Church at Salem Published by Order of Authority BOSTON in New-England Printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen. Printers to the Governour Council 1698. Isa 1. v. 26. Afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness the faithful City Luke 1. v. 75 In Holiness and Righteousness before Him all the dayes of our Life 2 Pet. 1.20 Knowing this first that no Prophesy of the Scripture is of any Private Interpretation Psalm 86.9 All Nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee O Lord. Si est Gens quam non fecit Deus Non adorabit eum nulla est autem Gens quam non fecit Deus quia fontem omnium Gentium Adam Evam fecit Deus Omnes ergo Gentes fecit Deus Omnes ergo Gentes venient adorabunt Augustin in locum Psalm 100. v. 1. Make a Joyful noise unto the Lord all ye Lands Jam jubilat Domino universa Terra et Quod adhuc non jubilat Jubilabit Augustin in locum The Epistle Dedicatory To His EXCELLENCY RICHARD Earl of Bellomont AND Lord COOTE Colooney in the Kingdom of Ireland GOVERNOUR Of New-England New-York New Hampshire and Vice-Admiral of those Seas May it Please Your Excellency IT is recorded in the Holy Scriptures that the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ though it was of great importance and concernment to all People yet it pleased God that it should by one of the Evangelists be directed in a special manner to a single Person called the most Excellent Theophilus as in Luke 1.6 I write unto thee most excellent Theophilus that thou mayest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed Theophilus signifies A lover of God It is conceived by learned and pious Interpreters to be the proper Name of an Eminent Person who had been Converted to the Christian Faith at Antioch where the followers of Christ were first called Christians and the title Most Excellent given to him renders it very probable that he was in a chief place of Magistracy in that eminent City if not Governour of the whole Province for we read not of that style Most Excellent given to any but such as were Governours of Provinces such as Faelix Festus who were successively Governours of Judea as in Act. 23.25 Claudius Lysias to the most Excellent Governour Faelix c. So why might not this Theophilus be Governour of Syria by the special Providence of God raised up to such a Dignity that by the influence of his Example and Authority he might be a means under God for the Propagation and Progression of Christianity unto many others In like manner this Ensuing Sermon containing one great end of the Gospel of Christ viz. That all Christians should Serve the Lord in Holiness and Righteousness before Him all the dayes of our lives Luke 1.75 It is now presented to Your Self as to our most Excellent Theophilus in concurrence with all New England bowing down themselves before You as to our Governour sent from God and the King We give thanks to God for Your safe Arrival Per varios Casus Per tot discrimina rerum Now as God hath been with those Worthy men whom He hath graciously vouchsafed to bestow on this People to bear Rule over them particularly the Honorable William Stoughton Esq Lieutenant Governour and our Worthy Patriots assisting in Council whose Integrity we can't but remember at all times with Gratitude So we pray for Gods gracious Presence with Your Excellency and His more abundant Blessing upon Your Person Government that the end thereof may be attained that this People may live a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness Honesty The good report of Your Personal qualifications Your Publick appearing for Securing of the Liberties of our dear England and Your good beginnings of Reformation at New-York where You first landed have filled our hopes and raised our Expectations that You are sent from God and are coming amongst us in the Spirit and Power of that Excellent Governour Nehemiah of whom it was said He was a man that came to seek the Welfare of the Children of Israel Neh. 2 10. W●●ch was a grief to their Enemies but matter of great rejoycing to that good People in their afflicted and low condition This People of New England are a People whom God hath Signally owned blessed in our first former times our Fathers coming into these ends of the Earth not upon any Worldly design but meerly on the account of Religion they had much of the gracious Presence of God with them in their Planting and Building Work and in laying the Foundations in Church Common wealth and in the additional blessings of Heaven Earth and Sea Land So that from a day of small things New England in a few years was grown up to be a thriving and flourishing Plantation But alas we their Successors have not answered the Lords Expectation or our own Profession but as we have been multiplyed encreased so we have Sinned and provoked the Lord to anger against us so that of late years He hath Severely witnessed against us by the variety of His Judgments in a Successive way and for a long time So that we are at present an Afflicted poor People greatly diminished impoverished and brought very low through Oppression Affliction and Sorrow as it is in Psal 107. from v. 33 to 42. And as yet it was said of the People of Israel when they were in a distressed condition that the Lord gave them Saviours Neh. 9.27 And with respect unto the latter dayes it is foretold That Saviours shall come up on Mount Sion and the Kingdom shall be the Lords Obad. the last v. This hath been frequently done in these latter times in some degree as might be shewed in many instances it may Suffice to mention Your Grandfather of blessed Memory who was raised up under God with an Heroick Spirit to be the Saviour of Ireland in the day of their distress in 1641. and we hope in God that He hath sent Your Self amongst us as a Saviour to New England bringing with You an Olive Branch of PEACE as a good Omen that the deluge of our Calamities is abated and our hopes encreased that yet New England may live in the sight of God and that under the Shadow of Your Government we may yet be revived and the work of God amongst us be renewed by degrees unto a more flourishing Condition than hitherto that

Lord of Hosts the God of Israel as yet they shall use this Speech in the Land of Judah and in the Cities thereof when I shall bring again their Captivity The Lord bless thee O Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness WE are here presented with a comfortable Vision in the Prophesies of Jeremiah the man who for the most part was filled wi●h bitterness and had his Pen dipped in waters of Gall that like a Comet foretold the fates of Kings and Kingdoms that denounced Sword Famine Pestilence Captivity and such like Judgments against Judah for their Apostacy Impi●t● Iniquity Impenitency and Incorrigibleness and made the Cup of Divine Fury to go round among the Nations he hath now and then a little sweetning put into his mouth for his own and the Churches Consolation accordingly in this and the foregoing Chapter he cometh with milk and honey in his mouth and treats Prophetically of the Restauration of the Jews the Coming and Kingdom of the Messiah the manifestation of the New Covenant the Gathering Enlarging of the Catholick Church consisting of Jews and Gentiles with all the happy turns and returns of the Church of God in general and of the Jews in particular till the time come that they shall not be plucked up nor thrown down any more for ever But I confine my self to my Text. The words read contain a Prophesie with its Preface the Prophesie is in these words as yet they shalt use this Speech in the Land of Judah and in the Cities thereof when I shall bring again their Captivity The Lord bless thee O Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness I call this a Prophesie because the matter and scope are especially Prophetical yet are there Doctrinal and Historical Hints evident enough in them if we consider what is implied as well as what is expressed and it serves our occasion to improve what is Doctrinal and Historical in them as well as what is Prophetical Let us therefore look over the words again and search out the Contents more diligently and distinctly 1. And then we shall find that these words shew forth historically what the Land of Judea and more especially Jerusalem formerly had been viz. a Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness 2. That then they were saluted by men and blessed of God 3. That at the time when this Prophesie was written they were far from being a Habitation of Justice or Mountain of Holiness 4. And that they were as far from being blessed of God and man as they were from being a Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness These four particulars result from the word as yet or yet again as some read it for the particle yet notes not a continuation of something in being but a restauration of something that formerly had been in being but now for some time had been intermitted 2. These words shew forth doctrinally what Judea and Jerusalem always should have been viz. a Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness For if while they were holy and righteous they were happy and prosperous and upon their Degeneration their felicity departed and woful miseries ensued and were like to continue till their reformation no doubt in point of duty they ought always to have been a Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holin £ 3. These words as they are Prophetical are also Promissory they contain a threefold promise 1. The promise of a Happy Restauration from their Captivity in these words When I shall bring again their Captivity that is their Captives the Abstract being put for the Concrete the Dutch Translation hath it when I shall turn away their Captivity the sence is the same with that v. 16. they shall come again from the Land of the Enemy 2. The promise of a Holy Reformation of the Jews from their present Impiety and Iniquity For when it is said they shall use this Speech O Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness it means this Speech shall be duly and truly used Jerusalem should not only be called but really and truly be what men shall call her the phrase is of like import with that Isa 48.8 wa st called a transgressor from the womb that is truly so called for thou wast a Transgressor from the womb so for Peace-makers to be Called the Children of God means they shall be so Mat. 5.9 From the Speech then we may infer God promised that Religion and Righteousness should flourish again in the Land of Judah and in the Cities thereof 3. The promise of a Divine Benediction men should wish it them and God would give it them they shall yet again use this Speech the Lord bless thee which is the instituted form of Blessing contracted and it intends that as for their Sins God had made them a Curse even to a proverb of reproach and de●ision acco●ding as God had threatned them Deut. 28.37 so now on the contrary ●t should be obse●ved that they were again in favour wi●h God and that he had blessed them and did and would bless them and thence men would be encouraged to bless them in the name of the Lord or pray to God to bless them and that more than mans blessing of them is here intended is evident by what follows for in the sequel God plainly promised Temporal and Spiritual Blessings to them so v. 24 there shall d●ell in Judah and all the Cities thereof Husband men and they that go forth with flocks that is they shall have peace and plenty v. 25. I have satiated the weary Soul and I have replenished every sorrowful Soul that is I will as surely do it as if it were done already v. 28. I will watch over them to build and to plant v. 33. I will put my Law in their inward parts I will be their God and they shall be my people v. 34. I will forgive their iniquity and rem mber their Sin no more It is manifest by the premises that the Prophesie and threefold Promise is not intended so much of what men should say but of what God would DO for his people viz. Restore Reform and Bless them So much may serve to explain the Prophesy and what is contained in it The preface renders the whole credible the Doctrine must needs be good and the History certain and the promise and prophesy past all peradventure Thus saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel The Divine Veracity Omnipotency and Covenant benignity of God engageth and stands engaged for the performance of what is promised and it is flat Infidelity not to believe it for God wants neither power nor good will to effect what he hath promised So you have the Text explained as it primarily and nextly stood related to the Jews before the Coming of Christ but the Jews may moreover be considered as a Prophetical Type of the Christian Church in the times of the Messias which times are related to in the very foregoing verse A Woman shall compass