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A77480	Satan the leader in chief to all who resist the reparation of Sion. As it was cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, Febr. 28. 1643. By Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B468; Thomason E35_17; ESTC R209954	47,169	63

whereof the Father is the first the Son the second This Person alone is incarnate uniting in the fulnesse of time to his Divine Person the nature of Man The holy Ghost is the third and yet all three are equall in Glory in Eternitie and every Divine attribute Hold fast in thy minde these plain Catechetick Scripturall Notions of God Beware to make to thy self an Idoll in thy brain to frame a false erroneous and unwritten conception of the true God If thou worship the Trinity as three divers Gods thou becomest a Pagan abolishing by the multitude of Gods the Unity of the divine Nature If thou apprehend God so much one as not three Persons thou turnest Turk a Jew an old Arian and Macedonian Heretike and which is all these in one a Socinian a reall Atheist for it is Christs own Conclusion Who honoureth not the Son Ioh. 5 23. honoureth not the Father which hath sent him The neglect the contempt the denyall of any one Person reflecteth alike on all the three and the whole God-head A third Observation upon the Reproof if time did permit A fourth Observation would be the holy and gracious practice of Christ in his hotest zeal he bringeth no false 2 Pet 1.11 no railing accusation against the devill himself the farthest he goeth against this arch-enemy is to commit him to God to be rebuked Lyes calumnies railings agianst the devill are inexcusable and would not be countenanced It is a foolish policy and a profane zeal to advance the Cause of God by the arts of the devill Lying calumnies malicious bitternesse are hellish weapons a gracious hand must not take them up were it against their very author The Arsenall of God is not so unprovided of lawfull Arms his Quiver not so disfurnished of his own Arrows that we need go borrow from Askelon or Gath from hell it self these poysoned Darts dipped in the venome of Asps in the blood of that old Serpent the father of Lyes the great Calumniator from the beginning A fourth Observation A fifth Observation God rebuketh Satan before his finall destruction his children in this are heirs to their father After a little time death will put all the wicked in a full possession of their inheritance their souls first and after the Resurrection their bodies also shall be placed in these lakes of fire but before they are to be infeoffed and seized they are to have the earnest of their fathers portion they are to be rebuked of God their secret wickednesse is to be brought to light their well-covered villanies to be proclaimed on the house tops shame and confusion to be poured on their faces their malice and violence is to be restrained their pushing horns to be hammered off by the Carpenters Satan and they will bee coopt up within so narrow a circle and bee bound with so short a chain that all may understand they are rebuked of God Also it would be a comfortable consideration to meditate on the zeal of Christ for Sion A sixth Observation against all her enemies He speaketh here as a man in a passion repeating and ingeminating his angry words The Lord rebuke thee even the Lord rebuke thee The Lord proclaimeth the sounding of his Bowels before he got Flesh the tendernesse of his compassion towards the Church before his Incarnation Certainly the sympathie of his heart and his fellow feeling with us in all our afflictions is not now diminished but rather if possible increased after his experimentall knowledge on the earth in his own person of these evils which Satan and wicked men inflict upon the godly From the Reasons which the Lord useth for Satans reproof A seventh we may behold the Devill his end and intention in molesting of Joshua the thing he seeketh is the overthrow of Jerusalem Satan driveth most at the eversion of the publike Phil. 2 21. Therefore the preservation of the publike ought to go neerest our heart Many seek their own things and not those of Jesus Christ They minde themselves much more then either Church or State This self-wisedom is foolish for if the Ship wherein thou sailest be drowned what will become of thy Goods if the house wherein thou art locked be burnt how shall thy life be saved From the first Reason the choosing of Jerusalem observe An eighth That Election is a principall ground of comfort against all Satans tentations True the difference is wide betwixt a nationall and personall Election betwixt the choice of Jerusalem or any other place to be the seat and habitation of the Church and betwixt the Election of persons to grace and glory This I may not stand to cleer onely strive to make our personall Election sure for upon the grounded assurance thereof we come to a glorious confidence that no creature neither Satan nor the World nor conscience nor any other shall ever be able to confound us Rom 8.33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed One of the sweetest private fruits of such a dayes exercise is to get our calling and our Election sealed Verily a penitent soul who throughly hath mourned for sin and fled to Christ for mercy who hath gotten of his spirit for a reall and sincere beginning of a through Sanctification and amendment in every thing which either within or without hath been amisse A soul this farre proceeded in Grace useth to receive the stamp of the Spirit The inward unction and witnesse that they are the Sons of God Elect and called who shall be glorified Rom 8.17 2 Pet. 1.11 after they have suffered a while to such an entrance useth to be ministred aboundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of Christ From the last Reason take but some few brief notes An ninth Jerusalem the Church of God and Joshua the chief Member of it for the time were like a Stick half burnt in the fire of the Babylonish Captivitie Out of that fire they were pulled in Gods mercy to be preserved against all the malicious assaults of Satan and his instruments From hence you see the best beloved people of God by the Devill and wicked men may be brought exceeding low and so neer to utter destruction as a stick burning in the fire is to Ashes So it was with Israel in Egypt in Babel and oft elsewhere We therefore in our most desperate cases must not despair Exod 3 2. Isai 43 2. Dan. 3.25 The burning Bush will not be consumed God hath promised to be with us in fire and water One like the Son of man walketh in the fiery Furnace with the three Children When to the eye of the World our condition is most desperate when sence maketh us cry out Lam. 3.48 ●3 My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord They have cut of my life in the dungeon and cast a stone upon me yet

adhere to the Originall and justly omit that addition to the Hebrew Text for by adding to the words they diminish from the sense Doubtlesse the Lord was the giver of all these visions to the Prophet but beside the operation of God the ministry of Angels is here imployed The Angels are ministring spirits to the Church and all the Saints as for many good uses so for this in speciall to reveale and declare the will of God to his servants the Prophets That in this place not the Lord onely but also his Angel is understood appeares by the beginning of the next Chapter The Angel that talked with me and awaked me came againe so in this preceding Revelation he had been with the Prophet and shewed him the Vision Consider further from the first Chapter verse 9. that Zachariah had to doe with three kindes so to speak of Angels one particularly deputed to him for his information designed oft by this phrase The Angel that talked with me A second called a man sitting on a red horse in the bottome of the valley among the Myrtle-trees A third called horsemen on red white and speckled horses comming and going as the second Angel imployed them in his errands Our words must be understood of the first for the second was Christ the Angel before whom Joshua here stands who in the first Chapter when there is none to help the Church is mounted on the back of his red fiery horse though he appeare not but lye in ambush in the bottome among the trees ready in his season to make eruption with his Army of the third Angels to fight against the wicked oppressors of his poore people The next word imports the way of information How doth a sleeping man see He shewed unto me In the Originall He made me see It was in the night as is cleare from the first Chapter verse 8. I saw by night and behold The eyes of his body were closed but his imagination was open so the Angel spoke in him as it is in the Originall not to him in audible sounds to his eare The Angel framed the species as they are called of these things which are the objects of hearing or seeing or any outward sense within the Prophets imagination This was an ordinary way how God of old did communicate himselfe to the Prophets by dreamet and visions Numbers 6.12 sometimes immediately by himselfe alone sometimes also by the ministry of Angels by this meanes a blinde man a sleeping man Gen. 15.12 17 may see So Abraham though in a deep sleep is said to see and heare Acts 10 11. Acts 9.12 Peter in a trance saw the sheet full of beasts Paul though blind did see Ananias Though God alone who searches the heart and the reines hath power to worke immediately on the understanding yet Angels both good and evill when God either permits or directs them have power to work immediately on the inward senses both of men and beasts as well sleeping as waking and to print upon their fancie all these objects which use to be transmitted from any of the outward senses As for the third word the person informed Me What Zachary is this it is the Prophet Zachary There be many Zacharies in Scripture and which is considerable there be two who are called the sonnes of Barachiah the one of whom Christ saies Mat. 23.39 that he was slaine between the Porch and the Altar the sonne of Jehojada the high Priest called also Johanan and Barachiah Another Zachary the son of Barachiah is our Prophet stiled a young man the grand child of Iddo that he was not slaine betwixt the Porch and the Altar many reasons doe prove which for shortnesse I omit This is he who by another name is called Matth. 27.12 Jeremy the Prophet except you will read that place of Matthew with the Syriack Translatour without the word Jeremy for it is hard to admit the corruption of the Originall Text by the negligence of the Transcribers mistaking the contracted word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as some will have it and it is harder with Origen and Ierome to admit any apocrypha parts of the Prophet Jeremy now not extant and hardest of all with Augustine to grant a mnemonick errour a slip of memorie in the holy Evangelist From these words thus exponed I draw but one doctrine That God discovers and makes open to the eye The doctrine The most secret plots against the Church will be discovered the most secret plots against his work and his servants about it As here what the divell himselfe is acting in greatest privacie against Ioshua is made open Wicked men have many deep conspiracies against God and his people Satan joynes his craft to their counsels when the deeps of Satan are joyned to the depths of crafty men whose heart of it selfe is very profound the plot is digged as deep as hell the plotters become secure and are not feared for any discovery they say in their heart Who sees us yet the Lord sees and brings all to light for their shame Isa 29.13 The wisdome of their wise men shall perish Woe unto them that seeke deep to hide their counsell from the Lord and their workes are in the darke and they say Who sees us Surely your turning of things upside downe shall be esteemed as the Potters clay The wise men of this world by their hid and deep policies are confident to deceive their simple neighbours by the greatnesse of their wit to turne all businesse up or downe at their pleasure but the Lord by his light discovers their deepest and darkest Mines by his power he breaks in pieces as a Potters vessell their subtilest devices Dan. 2.22 he revealeth deep and secret things he knoweth what is in the darknesse and the light dwelleth with him Proverbs 15.11 Hell and destruction are before the Lord how much more the hearts of the children of men Job 12.22 He discovereth deep things out of darknesse and bringeth out to light the shadow of death In the Scripturall proofe you see a cleare reason of the point The first Reason the judgment of God upon the profound Politicians of this world who by their wit assisted with Satans cunning assay to digge their projects so deeply under the ground as the shallow wits of other weak men cannot reach them but behold the plague of God upon their projects his light shines in their darknesse he draws up their designs though as deep as hell he brings out all their devices and layes them before the eyes of the Sun for the contrivers utter disgrace Another reason is The second Reason the goodnesse of God to his people the hellish plots of the wicked are to blow them up on a sudden Psal 64. They commune to lay snares privily they say Who shall see us their thoughts are very deep that they may shoot suddenly at the upright in heart The Lord marks

holinesse none can see his face such of our selves we are not we are like to our Father old Adam till we become ingraffed in a new stock till Christ become to us a head it is he that sends down into us as living members the influence of his Spirit which begins continues and increaseth in us that life that light that love which makes us like our heavenly Father partakers of the divine nature 2. Pet. 1.4 Phil. 2.14 Iohn 15.5 Of our selves we cannot think a good thought It is he that works in us to will and to do without him we can do nothing out of him we are but lifelesse saplesse withered branches fit for nothing but the fire but in him we are the trees of righteousnesse bringing forth all manner of fruit in due season The use of this doctrine is The first use first for our information of the true cause why much of our devotion is fruitles oft times we draw neer to God but have no accesse we cry and call at the door of heaven but there is no hearing no opening no answer The reason is we have mistaken our way we have gone to the wrong door we have run ever alone in the vehemencie of our owne spirit in the fervour of our naturall desires we have forgotten our Mediator and gone to the Father without the Son or if we have begun to take him with us at once as foolish children we have run before our guide No wonder then we be disciplined for that error that Christ permitting us to assay how much we can do of our selves without him we feel our labours lost our prayers in vain no marvell there commeth no voice no message no fire from heaven on our sacrifice to give us any assurance of our acceptation Matth. 3.17 God will not shew himself well pleased with us for any thing we do when we come without the Son in whom alone he is well pleased A second use A second Use is for direction Hold fast to Christ in all thy wayes especially in thy approaches to God most of all in thy solemne Prayers on such a day as this Set Christ betwixt thee and God let all be offered up by his hand he is thy only Priest no man was permitted under the Law to offer his own sacrifice all was put in the Priests hand who laid all upon the Altar Christ is the true Altar which sanctifieth and maketh acceptable all that is laid on him When we draw neere to God by him he covereth all our infirmities he supplyeth all our defects he enableth all who seek their life in him to do every duty in such a way as is well-pleasing in the sight of God he taketh all our desires and prayers in his hand put teth them in his golden censer he kindleth them with his own fire Revel 8.3 and perfumeth them with the incense of his own merits that so dressed they may have a sweet savour in the nostrils of the Father A third use is for caution in our magnifying of Christ A third use for caution against the Antinomians beware of an old trick of the devill which of late he hath resumed and by it done more mischiefe then ever Grace and wantounesse in themselvs are most opposite yet Satan striveth to conjoyn them To turn the grace of God into wantonnesse Iude 4. Mat. 27.29 It is no new thing to adore Christ in shew while you buffet him in truth There is a generation of people who under the colour of magnifying the free grace of God of setting Christ in his Throne of advancing a Gospel way of crying down nature and legall righteousnesse with these glorious shows and pleasant words they are misled by a spirit of delusion to patronize profanity to grieve and extinguish the Spirit of grace to scoffe at repentance and sorrow for sinne to foster the fruits of the flesh to bring in the highest degree of all wickednesse a dedolence of minde a reprobation of spirit when a man has committed all wickednesse with greedinesse to be nothing grieved for it as if the Spirit of the just Lord were nothing offended with it Among the many devils who very boldly this day are walking up and down the land this is one of the worst albeit masked with the fairest shews of piety and reason Who magnifies not the Lord Iesus let him be Anathema maranatha let Iesus be all in all to thy soule make him alone thy Righteousnesse thy Sanctification thy Redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 but for all that beware to divide Christ from his Spirit his death from his life his blood from his grace Separate not faith from repentance dash out none of thy Lords commandements so long as thou livest wert thou never so holy thou hast need from thy heart to beg pardon for thy sins whosoever will neglect repentance must perish who ever will have true comfort must be a mourner Christ eurseth them that laugh now and no laughter more devillish then in the act of sin he blesseth them that mourn now and no mourning in a child of God more pious then for the offending of God and grieving of his Spirit by sinne I thought to have laid open other stratagems of Satan by occasion of the words in hand and pointed at some other very dangerous errors wher with lately this land was overgrown and which to this day are not altogether evanished First that Idolatry of the Papists in their standing before Angels and Saints for intercession before images for adoration further no Papist ever went and thus far Court-Divines here were wont to preach and print 2. Against the Arminians That wickednes of Arminius denying the commerce of the Israelites with the Angel of the Covenant taking away the knowledg of Christ from the very Patriarchs and Prophets that however Christ speak expresly of Abrahams seeing of his day reioicing therin yet the Lord must have the open lie and Abrahams both sight and joy must go no further then to his son Isaac the type of Christ they must be terminate in the shadow and not go through to the substance It is the lesse wonder that this man and his followers should steal Christ out of the Law since under the Gospel they really remove him from the hearts of the people putting free-will in the place of grace and in stead of our justification by Christ would teach us that old fundamental error of the Papists justification by works and inherent righteousness to wit by faith as a worke in us Strange that any Protestant Divines should yet stumble upon that infamous stone 3. Against the Socinians That horrible wickednesse of the Socinians denying the Angel of our Text to be Christ because he had no being before his conception denying his Incarnation abolishing his divine nature blaspheming the Trinity A wonder that so foul a spirit should ever have gotten entrance in any famous Divine or other man