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A18429	Hallelu-jah: or, King David's shrill trumpet, sounding a loude summons to the whole world, to praise God Delivered by way of commentarie and plaine exposition vpon the CXVII. Psalme. By Richard Chapman, minister of the Word of God at Hunmanbie in Yorkshire.	Chapman, Richard, d. 1634.	1635 (1635)	STC 4998; ESTC S122563	120,049	228

with liking makes a remembrance of her graces I know thy workes and thy labour and patience and how thou canst not forbeare them that are evill c. yet vers 4. I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love thy pristine originall purity thy zeale hath lost his ardor and become chilly and cold as Caucasus and for this relapse he threatens the confiscation of her Candlesticke the removing of his favours as they have sufficiently proved in experience remaining under the most inhumane tyrant in the world the Turke in the most irreligious religion the licentious inventions of the Arabian Mahomet Thus will the Lord deale with us for sinne Amos 4. 12. and this is the bitter fruite that springs and sproutes from the cursed roote of this blacke and poysonous Hellebore It cast the Angells from heaven Adam out of Paradise destroyed the old world burned Sodome and Gomorrha and turned them to a sulphureous lake of stinking brimstone cursed the earth defileth the land making Lebanon a Forrest Sharon a wildernesse Carmel a desert For sinne mirabile dictu God disclaimes and disavowes his owne creature the worke of his owne hands the frame of his owne wisedome the care of his owne providence whom he visites every morning Math. 25 12. Verily I say unto you I know you not Miserably wretched then is every wicked man that hath by sinne so distamped the Image of God and moulded himselfe into the similitude of Satan that God will never take notice of such a metamorphosed changeling And for sinne the creature groanes desiring to be delivered and renued which shall shortly come to passe in the conflagration of this goodly and glorious architecture of the vaulted heavens the spangled skies and this strong pillared earth And if we demaund a reason why God so hateth sinne it is Reason 1. because of his owne purity he is of pure eyes and if he looke upon sinne it is but as the pure eyed Sunne shines upon the nasty dunghill and yet remaines pure if he takes notice of it he puts upon himselfe the person of a revengeing Iudge Heb. 13. last verse a consuming-fire cloathes himselfe with majesty and honour puts off his roabes of Mercy and puts on the bloudy garments of fury and anger and glorifies himselfe in his Iustice So odious is sinne that God will not spare it in his most deerely beloved The devill from a bright Angell of light is thrust downe to hell not for any defect in the creature for that is good but for sinne The priviledge of being mother to the worlds Saviour would not have pleaded salvation for the blessed Virgin if she had bin found in the power of sinne without faith and repentance Nay if it had bin found in the spotlesse humanity of our Saviour CHRIST himselfe though the very Sonne and substance of his love it had beene sufficient in the purity of his Iustice to have bound him for ever under the chaines of perpetuall darkenesse The venemous poyson of the aspe viper basiliske Amphisbena having two heads as if she were not hurtfull enough to cast her poyson at one mouth onelie yet they are never hurtfull to themselves But sinne as the Ivie embracing the Oake till it have sucked up his sap leaving him marrowlesse and dead and which is an enemy to all plants as Plinie saith destroyeth the subject in which it is nourished and viper-like devoureth the wombe wherein it was conceived Iam. 1. 13. When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sinne and sinne when it is finished bringeth forth death the wages and guerdon thereof Rom. 6. last verse Reason 2. because it is most repugnant opposite contrary and contradictory to the essence of God and seekes to its utmost power not onely to hurt but even to destroy God extolling and exalting it selfe against him 2 Cor. 10. 5. of which Iob 15. 26. speaking of the wicked man warring with God he runneth uppon him even on his necke upon the thicke bosses of his bucklers as it were to push him with the hornes of his pride and prophanenesse like the Iron hornes of Zedekiah 1 King 22. 11. and to pull him downe from the throne of his eternall happinesse this is Giant-like to wage battle with heaven And yet with Nimrod Gen. 11. thou buildest but the Babell of thine owne confusion for who hath ever beene proud against God and prospered It is Elihu's Axiome in divinity Iob. 35. 6. If thou sinnest what dost thou against him What canst thou do to the impassible God but even as Caligula thunder against the true Iehovah as he against the fained Iove till thou be destroyed with the loude and cloud-rending clappes of true Thunder Ier. 14. 26. I will powre their wickednesse upon them So we see how hatefull sinne is to God and that for it he will plucke off even the branches whom he loves so dearely Though we stood in his favour as Zorobabell the signet upon his finger as Iedidia his beloved yet if we sinne he will chasten us and if we continue in it he will damne us he will deprive us of his word his worship and then bring on the maine Ocean of his anger as he did to the Iewes when the Christians were remooved from them to Pella and make us feele and know that he is not bound to any people or place but sinne breaks the leagues were it as ●rong as the three fold cord of Salomon as unlooseable as the Gordian knot And so much for the Doctrine the Vses follow Seeing then that when the Iewes fell away from God he had the Centiles in store to graffe in their stead and the arme of the Lord is not shortened When any one people will not bring forth the fruite of the Gospell but abuse it he will take it away and bestowe it elsewhere it serves to caveat First the Minister Secondly the whole body of the people Thirdly every particular person First then to thee that ministrest at the Altar and waitest upon the holy things of God 1 Cor. 9. 5. that art set in the place of that good and faithfull steward which should distribute to every one his portion in due season that messenger interpreter one of a thousand that must declare unto man his righteousnesse and deliver him that he goe not downe into the pit Iob. 33. 23. If thou decay in love to God to his word to thy brethren if thou lie in any knowne sinne and grosse impiety it is a meanes to deprive thee either of thy gifts or of thy calling as was done to Iudas when he was found a traytor in his Apostleship he was remooved and the price of bloud required at his hands and Matthias appoynted in his place Acts 1. 26. When Ieremie failed in delivering the Lords message to the people either for feare or impetience the Lord himselfe becomes a Prophet unto him If

off be willing to be drawne from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God that thou mayest receive forgivenesse of sinnes ●nd inheritance among them which are sanctified Acts 26. 18. True faith is afraid to fall and therefore striveth by all meanes to shunne the rockes and shelves of securitie and is farre from rejoycing in any outward estate without the correspondence of obedience As a man upon a high Tower is afraid to fall though he be safely environed with battlements So thou Gentile though now thou bee in grace and under the protection of the most High take heed to thy standing lest in the midst of thy peace the evill one come and sow tares in thy harvest steale away thy graces and leave thee to be cast off with the Iew the certainty of thy standing is in the performance of thy obedience If yee will hearken and obey yee shall eate the good things of the land But for our further instruction let us make a Quaere with the Apostle Rom. 11. 1. Hath God cast away his people God forbid for salvation is of the Iewes Ioh. 4. 22. The royall stocke of Sem are but like Philemons unprofitable servant departed for a season that they may be received for ever If the casting them off be the reeonciling of the world what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead Rom. 11. 15. Though they be now in the depth of Infidelity and obstinacy yet before the consummation of the world they shall beleeve the Messiah as the Prophets have prophecied and the Pen-men and Notaries of the holy Ghost have testified they shall be Choristers of Gods praise Gregory the Great is also of opinion that in the often and earnest calling of the Shulamite Cant. 6. 13. which signified the people of Ierusalem so called of Shalem peace is clearely intimated a prophecie of the finall vocation of the Iewes which have beene so long forsaken as also it is evident by eight Reasons alleadged by the Apostle to this purpose The first being drawen from the end of their rejection which was not to their utter perishing in unbeleife but seeing the calling of the Gentiles they might be provoked to emulation God appointing their fall and rejection not simply but for the end which is good else it were against the divine goodnesse of God which never suffers as Augustine saith any evill to be done but to bring good out of it Second argument is drawen from the lesser to the greater If their fall be riches to the world much more shall their reconciliation be life from the dead Thirdly from the condition of the Patriarch Abraham If the first fruites be holy so it the lumpe if the roote be holy so are the branches but they are 1 Pet. 2. 9. A chosen generation a royall Priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people which is not meant of an actuall holinesse which was in them but that they shall be restored to the holinesse of theyr Fathers Fourthly from Gods omnipotencie who is able to restore them againe as a man to awake out of his sleepe if he be able to raise the dead and give sight to the blind which are miraculous workes above the course of nature then much more to restore them which is but a replantation and grafting in a worke of nature So that fiftly according to likelyhood If God engrafted the wilde olive contrary to nature how much more shall the naturall branches be regrafted into their owne place Sixtly from the prophecies of Esay chap. 59. There shall come out of Zion the deliverer and shall turne away ungodlines from Iacob the testimony of Ieremie which are the Prophets of God and have prophecyed of their Conversion Seventhly from a distinction concerning the Gospell They are enemies for their sakes but as touching election they are beloved for their fathers sake Eightly from a proportion As you Gentiles were sometimes in unbeliefe without God in the world Eph. 2. and by mercy are now called so shall they obtaine mercy to come out of their Cimmerian blindnesse of unbeliefe so shall yee both be ioyned in the unity of faith building up the temple of God perfecting his house joyntly singing unto God your Hallelujahs 〈◊〉 praise and thanksgiving It must teach us then the precept and the practice of the Apostle of the Gentiles Rom. 11. 14. By all meanes to provoke them to emulation that they may be saved as that speach of Moses Deut. 32. 21. is applyed to us Gentiles Who have found him whom we sought not after Esay 65. 1. That they are beloved for their fathers sake honoured with the humanity of CHRIST Rom. 9. 5. for whose salvation theyr Paul was so zealous as for their good he wished himselfe separated from CHRIST Ought not we then which are by grace made partakers of the same roote to feede their dead branches with our living sap by opening unto them that IESVS and worlds Saviour whose sides they pierced Zach. 12. 10. and which was the substance of all their sacrifices Was he not shewed in the old Testament in the Angell Exod. 23. 20. in Aaron Exod. 28. 4. in the scepter Gen. 49. 10. in the brazen serpent Num. 21. 9. in the scape-goate Levit. 16. 21. in Balaams starre Num. 24. 17. c. Was he not seene in the new Testament in his humanity doctrine miracles and death all of them like the finger in a Diall pointing with Iohn Baptists Ecce Iohn 1. 29 at the Messiah agreeing in his parentage person and place of his birth as the wings of the Cherubins which touched each other upon the Mercy-seate 1 Kings 6. 27. the one confirming the others affirmation his infancie answering the Types hee was seene a Starre by the Gentile Prophet and found by a starre of the Gentiles Matth. 2. 10. in Rama was weeping as Ieremie had heard Ier. 31. 15. out of Egypt he was called Hos 11. 1. and was brought up in Nazareth as was prophecied His Life was unreprooveable the Prince of this world could find nothing amisse Ioh. 14. 30. his Miracles sufficiently testifying his Godhead that even his adversaries confessed it his Death as effectually acted as it was foretold Zach. 13. 7. I saw the Shepheard the Lords fellow smitten and the sheepe scattered his being prized and sould for thirty peeces of silver Zach. 11. 12. The purchase of the Potters field the piercing his hands and feet the dividing of his garments c. Two and thirty of which we may see in Matthew and all fulfilled and we may even briefely gather all into one and let it be him against whom they cannot they dare not except their owne Prophet Esay of their blood-royall Chap. 53. wherein the Iew may plainely see that our Evangelists have recorded nothing but what was foretold and to whom can this be applyed but to IESVS whom yee crucified even his death was acted without the gate as the