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A60259	Reformations preservation opened in a sermon preached at Westminster before the honourable House of Commons, at the late solemne fast, July 26, 1643 / by Sidr. Simpson.	Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing S3825; ESTC R24543	22,494	36

but meerely to mens owne soules Levit. 26.40 unto 44. if they doe accept of the punishment and humble themselves yet the land shall lie desolate and enjoy her Sabbaths The Lord grant this bee not our condition because wee have beene often threatned and afflicted but have not returned the light it is true shines very gloriously Object and it hath broke out of the clouds that covered it Answ but the Sunne shines most brightly a little before it sets Jerusalem had never better preaching then a little before its ruine then shee had Christ and the Apostles Obj. There are many that desire reformation its true Ans but looke in that place of Revel 11.7 when that the witnesse of the measure of the temple was delivered they were all slaine and Antichrist came to sit in his Throne with greater quietnesse than ever before for now all that would trouble them were taken away What would the misery of this land bee should Religion perish shall I present it to you in the carriage of Phineas wife 1 Sam. 4.20 the griefe of it made her miscarry shee is senselesse of any other griefe but the losse of the Arke and Glory sencelesse of the death of her Husband of the paines of her travell yea of the parting of her soule and body she is deaf to all comforts comforts of life of children of friends and she cryes out not as one in pains of death but going to hell The glory is departed the glory is departed Come I beseech you and stand by the death-bed of this dying Saint heare her groaning out her soul and taking her farewell of the world and all her friends and shee saith thus My life is a burden my children nothing the land a hell to mee the glory is departed the death of my Husband the losse of my Father tenderer to me then he I could have borne might I but have injoyed Religion Had I but bread and water though I had made a hard shift for my selfe and my poore children I should have been satisfied but now speake unto mee no word of comfort let me alone to dye I have lived in glory and I cannot live otherwise and dying she breathes out her soule and these words together The Arke the Arke the Glory the Glory is departed and it was not a feminine passion though that Jeremiah was made like a brasen Wall yet he saith in one place his eyes wept in secret Ier. 13.17 Si totus vertar in fletum nequaquam guttae sint lachrymarum sed abundantia fluminis non satis dignè flevero Hieron ad locum Psal 84.2 and he could not weep enough Jer. 9.1 Isaiah Isa 22.3 cryes out Let me alone I will weep bitterly I will not bee comforted David that had the heart of a Lion yet sayes My flesh cryes the word that is translated cries when as it is given to any thing but the voice it signifieth bedewed cheekes blubbered eyes pale face wasted spirits yet all this was in David because he was put from the house of God Can you can you my beloved love these sinnes that brings this losse can you love your selves who have done these sins can you part with Gods glory your owne glory your defence too and not be troubled The sin for which God suffers Religion to be corrupted and by which it is corrupted are the greatest sins because they are against Gods Crowne and Glory if these move not what will Iudg. 18.23 24. Micah could not let his Idols goe but he cryed out and can you let the Gospel go and Christ goe and not doe so much Jesus Christ who never shed a teare for all he suffered wept and could not speake for weeping when the Gospel was departing hee wept and said O that thou hadst knowne and hee could goe no farther every word hee spake was uttered with a sigh and pointed with a teare and hee could goe no further then O that thou hadst knowne at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace Shall the thoughts of it make Christ weep and not the feeling of it make you Let me but set before you as in a vision the state of soules when as the glory is gone Religion is corrupted Popery which you feared brought in one soule lyes dying in its sinne another gasping after comforts a third possest with legions of temptations a fourth bleeding to death and there is none to stanch the issue the cure that is given worse then the disease a fift looking on this side and that saying Who will give me of the waters of life O that one day of the Son of man might now be afforded one Sermon one instruction one promise opened but all in vaine the glory is gone And if this doe not melt you yet let good nature move you for when the glory is gone your defence is gone your workes shall be sleighted your walls rased your Armies discomfited your name bee rotten and corrupted your wives ravished your children murthered your houses plundered and which shall lye upon you with the losse of all and which is worst of all that all this is come because the glory hath not been regarded If ever you would have the glory stay my beloved and have it returne from the threshold into the midst of the Temple it must bee by intreaty and intreaty with teares in Ezek. 43.10 If they be ashamed of all they have done then shew them the forme of the house And so I have done with that Use Vse 3 Thirdly if upon the glory there shall be a defence be not therefore fearfull but beleeve set downe this Your purity is your safety It is an ordinary word God defend when any danger or evill is foretold God will not defend except you be a glory He will defend when you are What meane these trembling hands and shaking knees and discouraging words all will come to nothing the cause will be lost what could you doe more if you had no defence and what defence would you have if this bee not enough God Shall hee that is on a Rocke feare underminings There is nothing makes more strong then faith because it makes Gods power mans I am able to doe all things through him that strengtheneth mee There is nothing makes more weake then feare because it doth not onely put God from man who is his Help but sets God against man as his enemy the promise armes God and girds him with strength faith in the promise brings God to the use of his armes it saith unto him as Dalilah did unto Samson The Philistines are upon thee shew thy selfe or as God speakes in the Prophet pursue and follow and destroy so saith Faith Now they are in armes rout them ruine them now they have lift up their hands against thee make an utter end of them doe what thou canst who canst do what thou wilt It is worth your observation the Israelites had never met with so many

troubles in going to the land of Canaan had not their hearts been full of so many doubts and feares If you will not beleeve you shall not be established Isa 7.9 Compare together the causes of your feare and your defence what are your enemies but creatures your defence God Man is against you God is for you if so be they be raine you have a covert if they be a storme you have a rocke if so be they bee heat you have a tabernacle Shall the Lion dread the Lamb and the strong the weake the Gyant the Pigmy Why busie you your selves about the thing belongs not to you Look you to the glory God will to your defence and safety You must provide meanes God will find successe There is a carelesnesse of faith as well as a carelesnesse of security Ezek. 28.16 it is promised they should dwell safely and the same word Isa 32.9 is translated carelesse Why doe yee feare O ye of little faith who ever perished being innocent what Church ever suffered while it retained it's glory Ephesus was delivered up but they lost their love first Iudg. 5.8 Rev. 2. there were wars in the gates of Israel but there were dols first where there is no drosse to purge God will not cast into the fire What doe you make of God in thinking that while you are about his work he will not defend you but unfaithfull in not keeping his promise unkinde to leave you who are his Church and Spouse unto the rage of men uniust to take part with the wicked adversaries against you yea unnaturall not to regard his owne glory and happinesse Ob. But you will say there are many oppositions in the way of reformation Ans I answere Isa 48.22 with 57.20 21. else you needed no defence the wicked will alwaies be like the raging sea they will cast forth mire and dirt when once God doth reduce and bring his people back to such an estate of glory Truth is brought into the world with pain it 's born in bloud there never was nor never shall be a thorow Reformation without troubles for the most are alwayes the worst and will not indure it Act. 2 19 20. Mal. 4.1 c. Ob. The meanes are very low Ans Marke my Text Hee will create on Mount Sion a desence and creation is out of nothing Ob. Our sinnes are many Ans But God will create in Creation God hath no Partner and hee useth this word here in this thing that you may know he is moved onely by his owne will Ob. But they suffer most who are for the glory Ans 1 Many pretend they are for the glory they are for reformation or when they are but for revenge or for some particular ends of their owne as one turned Turke that so he might be revenged on one that struck him so many-turne Christians turne unto a good cause that they may meet with them that did oppose them Jehu said hee was for God when hee was for his Crowne Ans 2 Secondly if those who are for the glory suffer their sufferings preserves the glory suffering puts an accent a note of observation upon that for which it is and saith this is a practise a truth to be stood for unto the death in this there is a better thing then in life it selfe Ans 3 Thirdly by the sufferings of some there are many preserved from sufferings for it is in Martyrdome as in punishment Poena ad paucos timor ad omnes many escape because some feele in Heb. 11. they stopped the mouths of Lions that is as it may bee expounded by what we finde in the story of the Roman Empire it was forbidden to put any more of the Christians to death because say they they make nothing of death Ob. But when shall this be that wee shall have this defence when will the speares be broken into Plow-shares when will the Lord arise and save Ans When you have the glory and let me tell you this you have made a reformation when you have made a resolution if it be on good grounds And I will prove it from Scripture too 2 Chron. 30.19 20. they were not sanctified according to the purification of the Sanctuary who came up unto the Passover but their heart was set to be so and the Text saith God healed the Land Fourthly set on I beseech you on the worke of Reformation You may reforme things that are amisse you have a Law of God for it Ezra 5.1 they began to build the Temple the decree of King Darius came after in Chap. 6.12 You have a Fundamentall law for it a Law of Nature it is for your defence upon all the glory there shall be a defence Reformation is your Militia your Army your Bul-warkes your all in all but be sure when you goe about Reformation you make it a Glory the foundation of utter ruine is layde in first Reformation commonly or in reformation 1 Chron. 15.13 there was but one circumstance of person out of Order and you see it cost the life of some it hindred the bringing home the Ark unto all They look't into the Arke who were the persons that should not 1 Sam. 16.19 and it cost the lives of 50000. of them more perished in that then in the Warre Zephan 1. The Prophet comes in Iosiah the Reformers time and saith he will pluck downe utterly and the reason of it was because there were the Chemarims men that went in black to the heeles in garments of more precisenesse and holines than others though their harts were not after Gods Statutes there was something left in Court and Country and they brought all to nothing that is very hardly changed afterwards that passeth in reforming times as the errours in the first concoction are not mended in the second the reason of the fall of the House lies not so much in the strength of the storme as because the foundation was not layed well at first Archiep. C. in Stari-ch Mat. 7. You know who it was that said when he brought in so many Popish things hee intended but onely to bring things to the first and Primitive Reformation to King Edwards time because there was then but a little step gone in many things from Popery And if you would make a thorough Reformation give me leave from the Scripture to propound some such things as not being observed may hinder it First take heed of Policy Gen. 34.22 23.25 26. The Sichemites to get the Estates of the People would be circumcised but you know it cost them their lives Policy doth with Religion as Amnon did with Tamar when it hath it's will of it and serv'd it's turne it thrusts it out of doores Ieroboam to preserve his Kingdome set up the Calves least the Romans should come in and take the City of Jerusalem the Iewes would not receive the Gospell but they lost both Hieron Iuschismatis remedium to prevent schisme they would have one