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A51907	A commentarie or exposition upon the prophecie of Habakkuk together with many usefull and very seasonable observations / delivered in sundry sermons preacht in the church of St. James Garlick-hith London, many yeeres since, by Edward Marbury ...	Marbury, Edward, 1581-ca. 1655.	1650 (1650)	Wing M568; ESTC R36911	431,426	623

chide with God for his patience and remissenesse toward them you see from thence it is a burthen to man to beare the impieties of their brethren and to behold their uncharitablenesse and therefore it is lawful to complain to God of such and to awake his justice against them And here in Gods answer you see that God can make use of men of evil natures and ungodly lips to execute his will Observe the faults of these Chaldaeans 1. Idolatrous therefore Religion and the whole worship of God and the house of his worship and the Priests and the Ministers of it were like to pay for it Woful is that state that giveth any way to idolatry to enter into it for Amaziah cannot endure Amos to prophecy near the King 2. Fierce and cruel and therefore no mercy to be expected where they may use the sword 3. Proud and imperious so that to serve them was the basest vassalage that might be Such a nation as this will always make a good sharp rod to scourge the Church when it rebelleth against God And let that Land into which such a nation doth come either in a storme by force or in a calme by treaty to have power therein perswade it self that God ows it a whipping and will not be long in debt But in all fears and smart let the comfort of this doctrine season our hearts that God doth use the evils that be in men well and all things shall come to the best to them that feare God Let us remember our lesson let us live in the learning and practice of it feare God and keep his Commandements and let Satan do his worst and let the Catholick Bishop and the Chaldaeans his idolatrous cruel and proud sonnes use either their wit or strength against us si Deus pro nobis if God be for us all is well These thorns shall bear us grapes and these thistles figs We had need to consider that in all machinations and actions of m●s chief against the Church there is also the right hand of the most high dextera excelsi let us take heed that we do not sinne too boldly with that Rather let us await the good issue that his holy will shall produce for all things do work together for our good if we do fear and serve him 2. This serveth to soften that hard Doctrine of our Saviours Vse 2 which goeth so much against the heart of flesh and bloud to blesse those that curse and persecute us and to pray for those that hate us to love our enemies for seeing all their actions be governed and disposed by the providence of God who loveth us so well that he spared not his own Son but gave him unto death for us we may promise our selves good out of all evils that they imagine of execute against us There be two things which must be considered in our enemies to quicken this charity 1. The person of our enemy which teareth though much defaced the image of God and is the same nature with us flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone which we must not hate nor wish ill to 2. The imployment of God in his actions which do offend us for we see that God stirreth him and setreth him awork and manageth the whole operation to his own purpose Therefore think not our Saviours Precept an hard saying who commandeth charity even to an enemie and love to such as hate us For even in the injuries they do to their brethren they do service to God Yet is not God author of the evil done but of the good exracted out of that evil and applyed to the benefite of his Church 2. Their preparation to accomplish this Will of God 1. In their own persons 1. Terrible 2. Wilfull 2. In their military forces 1. Their horses 1. Feirce 2. Speedy 2. Their riders 1. Numerous 2. Speedy 3. Cruell 1. For their own persons no doubt but they should bring with them all the appearance of danger and horrour that might be that God might cast the fear of them upon the Jews that is number choice of souldiers strength of armes 2. For the forces here named horses trained up to the field flesht in bloud with horsemen to manage that feircenesse to the destruction of the Jew This is their preparation wherein we are taught that When God undertaketh to do a work he accommodateth all fit means for a full execution Doctr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all things work together for when he beginneth he will also make an end You all know that God hath no need of means to execute his Will his Will is a law to his creature Yet he chooseth in his great wisedom by visible and sensible means to chasten the rebellion of the Jews that his ways may be know upon earth even the wayes of his judgments that the earth may stand in awe of him God would have his Church know that if he once take displeasure against them he hath the command of armies to fight against them for he is LORD of Hoasts Men partners with them of the same nature shall be fearfull and terrible to them they shall lay aside all humanity and shall arme themselves with malice and cruelty to destroy them they shaall see that God can put mettal into them and into their horses and make all their military provisions mortal to destroy them for who is so great a God as our God Edom had made peace as you heard out of Obadiah with his neighbour nations yet the men of his confederacie put a wound under him Let us not trust our peace with all the world especially with them whose religion is a warrant to them to break with us when they see an advantage Let us make and keep peace with our God and put our sins to silence which cry out for judgments against us for if he be on our side we need not feare the arme of flesh the horse and the rider too will fall fail as in the example of Israel he hath a red sea a judgment of vengeance to follow them one shall chase a thousand A thousand shall fall on thy side and ten thousand at thy right band but shall not come near thee There is Psal 91.7 there can be no danger to them that have the God of Jacob for their refuge When armies fight his battels they are terrible and dreadful when he is on our side there are more with us then against us The name of the Chaldaeans their fiercenesse their hasty violence their number their horses their riders their whole Preparation for warre do all borrow terrour from ego excitabo I will stir up it is God that setteth them a work which putteth this mettal into them Let me learn of the Apostle Saint Paul to apply this terrour to the common use of all those that are despisers of the threatnings of God Beware therefore least that come upon you which is spoken of by the Prophets Acts

the rod of the Spanish inquisition long subject to the sugillations of the Jesuits their mortall enemies But now the sword of massacre is drawn against them before there were some attempts made upon the persons of some few of the Religion or some encroachment made upon their goods They thought it gain to lose all for Christ so that they might win him and be found in him but now the poor distressed Church heareth the voyce of the daughter of Babel crying out against her Nudate Nudate First discerning them and then but who can tell what then the true Church lying at the mercy of Rome shall find her mercies cruel We cannot but take notice of it that the Church of Rome is both a strong and a bloody enemy she is not yet stupannated nor past teeming she aboundeth in continuall sucerescence of new seed Cardinal Bellarm. under the name of Tertus doth wonder why our King should fear the cruell dominion of the Pope under whom all his Tributaries do so well And the humble Supplicants to his Majesty for the liberty of conscience as they call it and for Toleration of the Romish Religion have urged the peaceable state of our neighbours in France where the Papist and Protestant do both exercise their Religion in Peace We now see they feele and smart for it that there can be no peace with Jezebel of Rome 2 Reg. 9.22 so long as her whoredomes and her witchcrafts are so many She lieth lurking in the secret places to murther the innocent her patience is limited with no other bounds but Donec adsint vires till they have strength Nuni proximus ardet Vcalegon They have declared themselves here what they would have done Our comfort is in this Vision and we must tarry and wait the Lords leasure Haman the Jesuit hath got a decree against the Reformed Church in France to root it out and the sword is now drawn against them the Protestants in Bohemia have felt the edge of the Romish sword she that cals her selfe mother of the Christians ostendit ubera verbera producit she pretendeth love Savus amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus And the Church makes pitiful moan saying Shall they therefore empty their not and not spare continually to stay the nations Hab. 1.17 But we know that God is good to Israel to such as be true of heart God hath a sword too and he is whetting of it he hath a quiver and it is full of arrows he is bending of his bowe and preparing his instruments of death and he hath a right hand and that shall find out all his enemies How shall we wear out the weary houres of time till God come and have mercy upon Sion we have many ways to deceive the time 1. The idle think the time long whilst we have therefore time let us do good we have work enough to work out our salvation with feare and trembling to make our Calling and Election sure ro seek the Lord whilst he may be found to wash us and make us clean to put away the evil of our works to cease to do evil to learn to do well to get and keep faith and a good conscience to walk with our God They that well consider what they have to do borrow time from their natural rest from their meats from their recreations to bestow it on the service of God There be that overcharge themselves with the businesses of the world with the care of gathering riches with ambitious thoughts of rising higher with wanton desires of the flesh with sensual surfeits in gluttony and drunkennesse and the day is not long enough for these children of this world to whom I say with the shepheard Quin tu aliquid saltem potius quorum indiget usus Virg Alexis Are these the things you look upon non relinquetur lapis super lapidem There shal not be left a stone upon a stone Walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time because the days are evill Remember your Creation to good works that you should walk in them and whilst you have the light walk in the light Ambulate in luce Ambulate digni luce 2. To sweeten the delay of the vision and to shorten the time of our expectation let us heare our Saviour saying Search the Scriptures There 1. We shall find the promises of God made to his Church in all ages thereof beginning in Paradise at semen mulieris the seed of the woman and so continuing to the fall of the great strumpet the ruine of Babylon in the Revelation wherein we shall find God to be yesterday and to day and the same for ever 2. We shall read the examples of Gods mercy to his Church and judgement of the enemies there of all the Bible through It is a work for the Sabbath as appeareth in the proper Psalm for the day To praise God for this Psal 92. to sing unto the name of the most high The Church professeth it●●● 〈…〉 Thou Lord hast made me glad through thy work Vers 4. I will triumph in the works of thy hands The works of God are these When the wicked spring as grasse and when all the workers of wickednesse do flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever For lo thine enemies O Lord for do thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scartered But my horne shall be exalted like the horne of an Vnicorn I shall be annointed with fresh oyl Mine eye shall see my desire upon mine enemies mine eares shall heare my desire of the wicked that rise up against me The righteous shall flourish like a palme-tree he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God They shall bring forth more fruit in their age they shall be fat and flourishing The use of all To shew that the Lord is upright he is my rock and there is no unrighteousuesse in him These be meditations of a Sabbath of rest and the word of God giveth full examples of this truth and daily experience in our own times offereth it 3. The Scripture doth put into our mouths Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs teaching us to sing and to make melody to God in our hearts Excellent to this purpose are the Psalms of the Bible and if we sing merrily to the God of our salvation this will passe away the time of our waiting for the promise of God cheerfully we shall not think it long For this did David desire to live Oh let me live and I wil praise thy name 4. The Scripture is full of heavenly consolations to establish the heart that it shall not sinke under the burthen of this expectation for in the Scriptures the Spirit of God speaketh Let him that hath ears to hear hear what the Spirit speaks to the Churches this Spirit Christ hath left in his Church