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A73373 Christs kingdome Described in seuen fruitfull sermons vpon the second Psalme. By Richard Web preacher of Gods word. The contents whereof follows after the epistles. Webb, Richard, preacher of God's word. 1611 (1611) STC 25150A; ESTC S123316 169,960 226

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shall finde both Kings and Princes as well domesticall as forreine banding and assembling themselues against him it is apparant by the record of all the Euangelists that as the whole body and Commons of Israel were set against our Sauiour Iesus Christ so were the States of the land and the chiefe men of place therein most deadly foes and enimies vnto him As they banded themselues together to make their faction and side strong against him so they had their often assemblies and meetings for counsell and aduice which way to bring him vnto his death Herod and Pontius Pilate two kings as it were amongst them though they did iarre and disagree betwixt themselues yet now they could ioyne together against Christ and become friends as we may see in Luk. 23.12 in these words And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together for before they were enimies one vnto the other Here is the banding of the Kings of the earth together when these two agree in one like good friends who were before at ods and do assemble together at Ierusalem against our sweet Sauiour the Lords Annointed For now at this time both of them were at Ierusalem and so as well together in place as in heart as it is in the 7 verse of the same chapter of Luke But for their consulting together and the meeting of their Princes in assemblies for counsell and aduice against him there are many places in the Euangelists declaring the same but I will touch onely two at this time The one of them is in Iohn the 11 chapter and 47 verse with some others following For there we find that after Christ had raised vp Lazarus from the dead the high Priests and Pharisees who were the chiefe rulers of the people and as Princes among them gathered a Councell and assembled as it were in a Parliament against him plodding and deuising what were best to do vnto him and as it is in verse 53 of the same chapter from that day forth consulting together to put him to death The other of them is in Math. 26.30 where we reade that the chiefe Priests and the Scribes and the Elders of the people assembled together into the hall of the high Priest called Caiaphas and consulted how they might take him by subtiltie and kill him In regard of all which things now shortly touched you see that this is most true which is here recorded namely that the Kings of the earth banded themselues and the Princes are assembled together against the Lord and his Annointed The which thing the faithfull that liued after Christ was ascended into heauen and were eye-witnesses of those things which were done vnto him do in their prayer to God acknowledge and confesse saying For doubtlesse against thine holy Sonne Iesus whom thou hast annointed both Herod Pontius Pilate with the Gentles and the people of Israel gathered themselues together to do whatsoeuer thine hand and thy counsell had determined before to be done Acts 4.27.28 Hauing thus shewed the meaning of the text and confirmed the truth thereof let vs now come to the vse and benefit which we may make of the same Out of it we may gather two principall doctrines One from the persons rebelling the other from the manner of their rebellion Out of the persons rebelling we collect this doctrine Doctr. That great States mighty men of this world are oftentimes enimies vnto the truth and deadly foes vnto holy and vpright courses This the Prophet Esay doth shew when he doth call the Princes of Iudah and of Ierusalem the Princes of Sodome Esay 1.10 for Sodome was a city so wicked and the Princes thereof so leude and filthie that God could not spare them but for their abhominations he brought downe fire and brimstone from heauen and consumed them all as we find in the 19 chapter of Genesis This Ieremie doth shew when he saith I will get me to the great men and will speake vnto them for they haue knowne the way of the Lord and the iudgement of their God but these haue altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds Ier. 5.5 This Hosea doth shew when he saith They are all hot as an ouen and haue deuoured their Iudges all their kings are fallen there is none among them that calleth vnto me saith the Lord. Hos 7.7 This Amaziah though a wicked man doth shew when he said to Amos the Lords Prophet O thou Seer go flye thou away into the land of Iudah and there eate thy bread and prophesie there but prophesie no more at Bethel for it is the kings Chappell and it is the kings Court Amos 7.11.12 This the story of the Acts of the Apostles doth shew when they were apprehended cast into prison beaten and put to death by Herod by the high Priests and other officers and states men for gouernment as we may see in the 4.5.12 and other chapters of the same booke This the complaint of the Church doth shew when she doth say The watchmen that went about the citie found me they smote me and wounded me the watchmen of the wals tooke away my veile from me Cant. 5.7 for by watchmen here are meant the chiefe rulers of the Church who should watch ouer her for her good and not thus persecute her and wound her as they did This the storie of the ten persecutions doth shew when Nero Domitian Traian Antonie Seuerus Maximinus Decius Valerian Aurelian and Dioclesian most bloudy Emperours of Rome did make hauocke of the Church of God and persecute to the death such as did call vpon his holy name This lastly the example of all ages doth shew and daily experience with men of our time when we with our owne eyes do see and with our owne eares do heare what bloudy things are decreed in the Church of Rome in Spaine and in other places against true Protestants and the sincere seruants of the Lord euen by them that are in the highest roomes and do beare the chiefest sway amongst men in those dominions But how may this come to passe Reason may some man say that the highest persons and the chiefest for wealth and authoritie do thus oppose themselues against the Lord and his most holy and blessed wayes For of all men in the word they are most beholding vnto God and haue greater causes as one should iudge to loue him and to worship him then the meaner and poorer people haue For first they are daintily educated and with great charges brought vp in all good literature and learning Secondly they haue abundance of riches and worldly wealth to supply their wants at all times Thirdly they haue great honor and reputation amongst the sonnes of men in all places for gouernment and the matters of this world Lastly they excell all others for the most part in their persons both for wit and other naturall qualities of the mind and also for pulchritude and other goodly properties of the body Surely for all these causes
be collected out of Paules words Ans in the 8. Chap. of his Epistle to the Romanes and the latter end thereof which were touched before where he doth declare that though we be killed all day long and bee counted as sheepe for the slaughter yet we be notwithstanding that euen then therein conquerours yea more then conquerours through him that loueth vs. Howsoeuer this may seeme a parodoxe to flesh and bloud and be as a riddle vnto some of Gods owne children themselues yet it is an aphorisme in true Diuinity and a cleare point to them whose eyes are opened to behold the mysteries of the Almighty and to see the deepe things of the Lord. For I pray tell me is not he a conquerour yea more then a conquerour that doth so subdue his enimie that he can no more rise vp against him A man may vanquish his enimie and beate him cleane out of the field yet afterward he may gather a power against him againe and put him to the worst But here Satan the world and all our enimies are so beaten downe and troden vnder foote by all such as suffer and die for the truth that they can neuer assault them any more or stirre as it were either tongue or hand againe to do them any hurt For they goe immediately vpon that their death and passion to heauen and vnto all that happinesse which is prouided there for them as Iohn doth shew in Reuel 14.13 saying Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord euen so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours and their workes do follow them It is good for vs to know this Vse as also to thinke oftentimes vpon it For first by it we may learne to take heed that we goe not about any thing which may be hurtfull or pernicious vnto Gods children For if we do we see here our labour shal be in vaine we shall not preuaile against them but they shall preuaile against vs. He is a very foole that will attempt a thing which he knowes for certainty he cannot bring to passe and which he is sure will bee his bane and destruction But wee know that we cannot preuaile against the faithfull and wee are sure that our plots against them will turne to our ouerthrow And therefore beware we that we lift not vp our selues against them at any time Againe from hence we learne euen so many of vs as do truely serue the Lord feare him from our hearts that there is no cause why we should feare man or what he can doe against vs because the victory shall alwaies goe on our side and not against vs. Oh we may reioyce and be glad as it is required of vs in Zeph. 3.14 c. and in 1. Pet. 3.14 which places you may reade at your leasure Feare not beloued but be of a good comfort though you haue enimies in euery corner yet be not discouraged you shall haue the conquest the Lord your God shall deliuer you out of all your troubles according to Dauids saying in Psal 34.19 when he saith Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all He is wise he doth know how to do it and he is omnipotent he is able for to do it and as for his willingnesse he is ready at all times to accomplish it as iust occasion shall require it Wherfore be I say of a good comfort and feare not but trust in the Lord and commit your waies vnto him he shall bring all things to passe according to your owne hearts desire in the end He that deliuered Noah from the floud Lot from Sodom Iacob from Esau Ioseph from Potiphar Moses from Pharaoh Israel from Aegypt Elijah from Ahab Elisha from the Syrians Daniel from the Lyons the three children from the fire Peter from Herod Mordecay from Haman and here Christ and Dauid from all sorts of enimies he euen he will deliuer you from all troubles If you say that your enimies are many and that the whole world is against you I will say againe to you with Elisha the Prophet and Hezekiah the king that there are more with vs then are against vs. 2. Kings 6.16 2. Chron. 32.7 For God and all the hoast of heauen is for vs. If you say againe that your enimies are wise and politicke and that they are able to ouer-reach you by their craft cunning considering you are but simple and innocent like doues I will answere you with the Apostle that the foolishnesse of our God who is on our side is wiser then their best wisedome 1. Cor. 1.25 and that he will destroy their wisedome and bring their vnderstanding to nought 1. Cor. 1.19 to doe vs good If you say in the third place that your enimies haue so hemmed you in and compassed you about that it is vnpossible for you to escape them I will answere you with the Angel Gabriel that with God shall nothing be vnpossible Luke 1.37 And with the three children Shadrach Meshach and Abednego that God both can and will deliuer you Dan. 3.17 When they say Behold our God whom we serue is able to deliuer vs from the hot fiery furnace and he will deliuer vs out of thine hand ô King If you say lastly that your enimies haue already taken you and do put you daily vnto death I will answere you with Paul in Rom. 8.37 which place was touched before and with Iohn in Reuel 12.11 That by this meanes you doe ouercome your enimies most of all For when you resist thus vnto bloud and die for the truth you giue your enimies such an ouerthrow that they neuer rise vp against you any more as for your selues you enter presently into heauen the onely place which you striue for Euen as he hath the victory most in this world who doth enter into the citty and take all the spoyle thereof and doth so confound his aduersaries that they can neuer stirre any more against him In consideration of all which things cleaue fast I beseech you vnto the Lord feare no danger or perill but reioyce in the Lord and be glad alwaies fighting for the crowne of righteousnesse which shall be giuen vnto euery one who doth with patience waite for the appearing of our Lord Iesus and loue the same Now to the third point As wisedome cals vpon men for repentance and amendment of life in Prou. 1.22.23 saying O yee foolish how long will yee loue foolishnesse and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning and the fooles hate knowledge Turne you at my correction Lo I will powre out my minde vnto you and make you vnderstand my words So doth the Lord here in the three last verses of this Psalme call vpon men for the like repentance and amendment of life saying Be wise now therefore ye Kings be learned ye Iudges of the earth c. to the end of the Psalme Wherehence shortly we gather this doctrine Doct.