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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91760	The wall & glory of Jerusalem, in a sermon preached in St. Pauls-Church London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermen, Common Council, and companies of the Honorable City of London, February 28. 1659. Being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God, for restoring the Parliament and Common Council, and for preserving the City. By Edward Reynolds D.D.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1302; Thomason E1017_6; ESTC R203437	15,921	40

to suffer Honorably as well as to do so facere pati fortia Romanum est The Lillie is as beautiful in the midst of Thorns as in a bed of Spices We have seen how the Lord is a Defence and protection to his people a Wall of separation from the World of conjunction within themselves of protection from danger by his Promise by his power by his Providence by his Grace a present Defence a proportionable Defence A Wall of Fire by a Terrible and conspicuous an impregnable and invincible a constant and perpetual an active and efficacious Defence A Wall of Fire to Jerusalem his most proper and most precious resting place unto which he is by choicest Love and Fidelity engaged A Wall round about to prevent Enemies which are round about The protection suitable to the danger The Glory in the midst of it by his gracious presence by his Holy Ordinances by the happy State of the Church in the glorious Relations of Justification and Adoption in the glorious Habits of Holiness Peace and Blessedness In glorious Priviledges of Christian Liberty communion of Saints Boldness in prayer Victory over Temptations and Afflictions with many other the like I shall add but a short word of Application and suddenly have done 1. We Learn hence what a folly as well as wickedness it is for Samaritans to oppose the building of Jerusalem or the Temple for any Enemies to set themselves against the Church of God as great a madness as for Briars to contend with Flames for stubble to wage War with fire for a Sheafe as the Prophet makes the instance Zach. 12 6. to enter into battail with a flaming Torch Isai. 27 4 5. The Whale may swallow Jonah but it shall not digest him The Grave may devour Christ but he will kill Death in its own dominion as Benaiah did the Lyon in his own Pit A man may drink down a Cup of Poyson but it will suddenly be revenged on him It is madness to provoke the Lord being weaker then he 1 Cor. 10. 12. Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker Isai. 45. 9. 2. We need not make use of carnal Wisdom and sinful means for protection against Danger for God can be alone a Wall of Fire unto his people Use not oppression or violence to help your selves for Power and Mercy belong unto God Psal. 62. 10. 12. David was advised by those about him once and again to kill Saul when he was in his power and so to secure himself but he answered God forbid that I should touch the Lords annointed he trusted in God and would not use Carnal Wisdom for his own safety 1 Sam. 24. 47. 26. 8. 11. This Wall of Fire can better protect us then all the broad or high Walls of Jerico or Babylon It is good keeping in Jerusalem in Gods presence in his way so long we are within a Wall of Fire 3. This is great Comfort unto Holy men That the very Terrors of God are their protection The Terrors of God at Sinai and in the Wilderness were for the Salvation of Gods people Habak. 3 13. As the mercy of God will not save those that despise it so the fury of God will be a defence unto those that tremble at it No attribute of God but faith can suck comfort from it 4. Envie not the Glory of the World nor the Pomps and Pleasures thereof to those whose Portion is in this Life but rest abundantly satisfied with the Glory of Gods presence shining in the face of Christ and those unmatchable Riches wherewith he endoweth the Church in comparison whereof all the glories of the World are but dross and dung If God would have the Honor of his Church to stand in outward things The Silver is his and the Gold is his Hag. 2 8. The Cattel on a Thousand Mountains his Psal. 50 10. But as Abraham gave portions to his other Children but the Inheritance to Isaac even all that he had Gen. 25 5. As Princes at their Coronation give Wine and Monie to the Multitude but Honors to their Favorites So the Lord giveth Earthly things many times more liberally to the men of the World but bestoweth himself for a Portion and exceeding great reward unto his own people and they esteem him precious 1 Pet. 2 7. And his Promises precious 2 Pet. 1 4. and his Redemption precious Psal. 49 8. And the very Afflictions which they suffer for his sake precious 1 Pet. 1 7. 5. Above all things hold fast God and his presence A City is never without Walls or Gates without glory and splendor till they are without God Your glory departs when his Ordinauces are removed You may confidently promife your self his protection while you make his Habitation in the midst of you your greatest Glory And therefore as he hath a long time been a Wall of Fire about you in all the confusions of a bloody War no alarm hath startled or stormed you though there were angry men who shooke their Arm against London as the Assyrian against Jerusalem Isai. 10 32. That said it would never be well with England till London were in a flame yet you have had no flame about you but a Wall of Fire and Chariots of Fire as the Prophet had 2 Reg. 6 17. As therefore the Lord hath protected you and been the Glory in the midst of London for I am perswaded it is a sober Truth that no City in the Christian World hath had a more glorious presence of God by the Light of his Word and the purity of his Worship and Ordinances then London hath had So make it your business in an answerable proportion to bring Glory to God by zeal for the Truth by Love to the Ordinances by comforting the Ministers and encourageing them in the work of the Lord by executeing Justice and Judgment reforming all abuses setting up the Name of God in your Families preserving those that belong unto you from the Contagion of dangerous and dividing Doctrines God will be with you while you are with him he never breaks with a people first do you give Glory to him and he will be Glory to you Lastly If God be thus your Glory let your glorying be in him alone Glory not in your Strength or Wisdom or Wealth or Splendor in your Ships or Trade or in the Harvest of the River glory only in your Wall of Fire and in this that the Lord hath been hitherto so nigh unto you And truly you have great Reason to bless the Lord and to make your boast of him all the day long as for Remoter mercies which you must not forget though I cannot now recount them so for those signal Mercies for the celebration whereof you are met together at this time What a deluge of Confusion these poor Nations were running into how deep the discontents of the people how ready the Tinder of unsatisfied Spirits in all parts of the Nation to take Fire