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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90263	The branch of the Lord, the beauty of Sion: or, The glory of the Church, in it's relation unto Christ· Opened in two sermons; one preached at Berwick, the other at Edinburgh. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1650 (1650)	Wing O715; Thomason E618_2; ESTC R203084	26,947	47

THE BRANCH OF THE LORD The Beauty of SION OR The Glory of the CHURCH in It's Relation unto CHRIST Opened in Two SERMONS one preached at Berwick the other at Edinburgh By John Owen Minister of the Gospel PSAL. 48. 12 13 14. Walk about sion and go round about her tell the Towres thereof Mark ye wel her Bulwarks consider her Palaces that you may tell it to the Generation following For this God is our God for ever and ever he will be our Guide unto death EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler in the year 1650. To His EXCELLENCY the Lord General CROMWELL c. MY LORD IT was with Thoughts of Peace that I embraced my Call to this Place and Time of Warre As all Peace that is from God is precious to my spirit so incomparably that between the Father his Elect which is established and carried on in the Blood and Grace of Jesus Christ The Ministeriall dispensation of this Peace being through free Grace committed even unto me also I desire that in every place my whole may be to declare it to the men of Gods good pleasure That this was my chief design in answer to the Call of God upon me even to poure out a savour of the Gospel upon the Sons of Peace in this place I hope is manifest to the Consciences of all with whom since my coming hither in the Work of the Ministery I have had to do The Enmity between God and us began on our Part The Peace which he hath made begins and ends with himself This is the way of God with sinners when he might justly continue their Enemy and fight against them to their Eternal ruine he drawes forth Love and beseeches them to be reconciled who have done the wrong and them to accept of Peace who cannot abide the Battell Certainly the bearing forth of this Message which is so worthy of all Acceptation and ought to be so welcome cannot but have sweetnes enough to season all the Pressures and temptations wherewith it is somtimes attended This hath bin my desire to pursue and that with the weapons which are not carnal And though some may be so seasoned with the leaven of contention about carnal things or at best the tithing of Mint and Cummin as to disrelish the weightier things of the Gospel yet the great Owner of the Vineyard hath not left me without a comfortable assurance that even this labour in the Lord hath not been in vain The following Sermons which I desire to present unto your Excellency were preached one at Berwick upon your first advance into Scotland the other at Edinburgh My willingnes to serve the Inheritance of Christ here even in my Ablence caused me to close with the desires that wercheld out to this purpose And I do present them to your Excellency not only because the Rise of my Call to this service under God was from you but also because in the carrying of it on I have received from you in the weaknesses and temptations wherewith I am encompassed that dayly spirituall Refreshment and support by inquiry into and discovery of the deep and hidden dispensations of God towards his secret ones which my spirit is taught to value The carrying on of the Interest of the Lord Jesus amongst his Saints in all his wayes which are Truth and Righteousnesse the matter pointed at in this Discourse being the Ayme of your spirit in your great under-takings it bears another Respect unto you I am not unacquainted with it's meannesse yea it 's coming short in respect of use and fruit of what the Lord hath since and by others drawn forth but such as it is having by Providence stepped first into the world I wholly commend it to him for an Incense who graciously supplyed the seed to the sower beseeching him that we may have joy unspeakable and glorious in the Acceptance of that Peace which he gives us in the Son of his Love whilest the Peace whose desire in the midst of warre you continually bear forth to him and to others is by them rejected to their hurt Edinb. Nov. 26. 1650. Your Excellencies most humble servant in our dearest Lord John Owen ISAIAH 56. Chap. 7. verse For mine House shall be called an House of Prayer for all People FRom the 3d verse of this Chapter to the 8th you have Promises and Predictions of calling in Gentiles and Strangers to the Church of God notwithstanding any Objections or hinderances laid in their way By Ceremoniall and Typicall constitutions they being all to be removed in the Crosse of Christ Ephes. 2. 13 14 15 16 Colos. 2. 14. making way for the accomplishment of that signall Promise which is given in the 2 Chapt of this Prophesie 2 3. And it shall come to passe in the last dayes that the Mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountaines and shall be exalted above the hills and ALL NATIONS shall flow unto it And MANY PEOPLE shall go and say Come ye let us go up c. The words of the 7th verse are a RecapiTulation of the whole holding out summarily the calling of the Gentiles to the Holy Mount or spirituall Church of Christ Where also you have a description of the services performed by them upon their coming Their burnt offerings and sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine Altar Answerable to that eminent prediction of the solemne worship of the called Gentiles Mal. 1. 11. For from the rising of the Sun even to the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place Incense shall be offered unto my Name and a peace offering for my Name shall be great among the Heathen saith the Lord of Hosts The Spirituall services of the Saints of the Gentiles are in each place set forth by those Ceremoniall Ordinances of Incense Altar and Sacrifice as were then most acceptable from the Lords own appointment Now this whole promise is once again straightned without losse of life or beauty and comprized in the words of the Text That which before he termed sacrifice and burnt-offerings here he calleth Prayer and those who before were the sons of the stranger are here all People some many of all sorts the whole world all men without distinction the Partition Wall being broken down My House shall be called c. The Thing here spoken of is Gods House described 1. By its Appropriation unto him it is his peculiar My House 2. By its extent of receipt in respect of others it is for all People 3. By the employment of its Inhabitants that is Prayer it shall be called an House of Prayer House here may be taken two wayes 1. Properly as it was in the Type for the Materiall Temple at Hierusalem whereunto these words are applyed by our Saviour Math. 21. but that is no farther concerned herein but as the spirituall Holinesse of the Antitype could not be represented without a Ceremoniall Holinesse