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A88994	A shadovv of the victory of Christ, represented to the Honourable House of Commons, in a sermon preached at Margarets Westminster on the day of the publick fast, Octob. 28. 1646. / By John Maynard, Minister of the Gospel at Mayfield in Sussex.	Maynard, John, 1600-1665.	1646 (1646)	Wing M1453; Thomason E359_5; ESTC R201167	22,927	30

A SHADOVV OF THE VICTORY OF CHRIST Represented to the Honourable House of COMMONS IN A SERMON Preached at Margarets Westminster on the Day of the publick Fast Octob. 28. 1646. By JOHN MAYNARD Minister of the Gospel at Mayfield in SUSSEX Rev. 17. 12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as Kings one houre with the Beast 13These have one minde and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast 14These shall make war with the Lambe and the Lambe shall overcome them For He is Lord of lords and King of kings and they that are with Him are called and chosen and faithfull LONDON Printed by F Neile for Samuel Gellibrand and are to be sold at his Shop at the Brasen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1646. TO THE HONORABLE House of COMMONS Assembled In PARLIAMENT WHen Joshua was by Jericho there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand and Joshua seemeth in a military way to examine him Art thou for us or for our adversaries Nay saith he but as Captain of the host of the Lord am I now come This answer maketh him fall on his face to the earth and worship acknowledging Him for Commander in chief and humbly subjecting himself to Him as His Lieftenant Generall ready to receive His Commands What saith my Lord unto his servant It is one of the greatest honours the sons of men are capable of here on earth to follow the Ensignes of this victorious Captain of the Lords host and to wait upon his triumphant chariot If herein the Lord hath honoured You above many thousands of your brethren it concerneth You much to imitate Joshua First as he questioned the Son of God whom he knew not in that apparition at the first sight so ye knowing Christ to be that Captain of the Lords host who will subdue all things to Himself ought in an holy jealousie to search your own hearts and to examine all your counsels and proceedings Are we in these things for Christ or for His adversaries for Him or against Him Secondly I beseech You be willing to lye lowe before him and to say What saith our Lord unto His servants Ye expect not His immediate voice and therefore in all humility hear Him by His Ambassadours when they speak according to their Commission as if His mandates were delivered unto You by His own mouth Admirable is that of Valentinian recorded by Theodoret when Ambrose had freely reproved some things amisse in his government said the Emperour I knew well thy zeal and courage and therefore was so far from opposing that I was forward to promote thine election to this pastorall charge Go on therefore to cure the diseases of our Souls according to the prescript of Gods Word And it is reported of Albert Duke of Mickleburgh that when a flattering Courtier sought to incense him against a Preacher for dealing roundly with him He told him he loved the man so much the better and willed him in his name to give him thanks for his pious Sermon If Ye follow Christ as your Captain not turning to the right hand or to the left who knoweth whether after six yeers compassing the w●ls of Jericho they may not on the seventh fall to the ground before You. The Lord Jesus direct You by His Spirit and gird You with His strength to endure unto the end that no man take Your Crown So prayeth Your unworthy Servant in the Lord JOHN MAYNARD Die Mercurii 28 Octob. 1646. ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament That Collonel Stapeley do from this House give thanks to Mr. Maynard for the great pains he took in the Sermon he Preached this day at the intreaty of this House at St. Margarets Westminster it being the Day of publick Humiliation and desire him to Print his Sermon And he is to have the like Priviledge in Printing of it as others in the like kinde usually have had H Elsyng Cler. Parl Dom Com. I Appoint Samuel Gellibrand to Print my Sermon John Maynard A SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of COMMONS Phil. ● 21. According to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself THe Apostle giveth a large testimony to the Saints of Philippi concerning the sincerity and eminency of their graces yet not being satisfied with the measure to which they had attained he presseth them to a farther growth and progresse And for this end having laid before them his own example he exhorteth them Brethren be followers of us and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example Which exhortation he enforceth by two main arguments 1 From the basenesse of their way who took a contrary course and the wofull issue of that way they were enemies to the crosse of Christ their God was their belly their glory was in their shame they minded earthly things the issue is answerable their end is destruction 2 From the excellency of the way wherein he walked and the blessed and glorious issue of that way His way is described in these words Our conversation is in heaven the issue in the words following where he sheweth that as the conversation of the Saints is in heaven so their expectation is from heaven Where may be observed 1. The Person whose appearing they expect The Lord Jesus Christ their Saviour in whom all their hopes are treasured up 2. The fruit of His appearing and that is a glorious change to be wrought in their whole man though that of the body onely be here expressed In this change may be noted foure things 1. The terminus à quo the condition wherein their bodies shall be found before they are transformed a state of vilenesse Secondly The terminus ad quem the condition into which they shall be changed a state of glory Thirdly The pattern according to which they shall be changed the glorious body of Christ Fourthly The power by which this glorious change shall be wrought and that is the efficacy or working of Christ whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself which is the thing I intend to insist upon This change is wonderfull that such vile bodies should be transformed into a condition so exceedingly glorious yet no way incredible if we consider that it shall be done by the working of him of whom it was prophecied of old His Name shall be called Wonderfull The mighty God who wrought such wonders in the dayes of his humiliation and discovered so much of God in the form of a servant and which was the height of wonders when he was dead by his own power by the Almighty working of his eternall Spirit and Divine nature raised himself from death to life So that here we see the Apostle ascendeth very high in asserting this truth which seemeth so far above reason he hath recourse to Christ his omnipotency who hath all

power in heaven and earth and is able to subdue all things to himself and not only the power but the efficacy the working acting exerting of his Almighty arm As if he had said let the materials be never so untoward and seemingly uncapable of that form which is to be put upon them if they fall into the ha●ds of Christ he is able to work them into any shape he can of stones raise up children unto Abraham and of carkasses mouldred into dust raise up bodies like to his own glorious body And in asmuch as the Apostle doth not confine his speech to this particular of changing the bodies of the Saints but enlargeth himself in an universal expression of the efficacy or working of Christs Almighty power whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself I purpose to follow him herein presenting you with this observation from the text that Jesus Christ can and will effectually subdue all things to himself The Spirit of God hath expressed the Majesty and Almighty power of Christ in a lofty style Jesus Christ who is the faithfull witnes and the first begotten of the dead and the Prince of the Kings of the earth Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all the Kinreds of the Earth shall w●y'e because of him even so Amen I am Alpha and Omega The Beginning and the Ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Almighty The Alpha and beginning who gave being and beginning to all things the Omega and the ending who giveth ending unto all or putteth them into their last condition bringeth all things to their uttermost period and finall issue He shall put down all rule and all authority and power For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet By him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth c. all things were created by him and for him The most mighty and excellent among all the creatures were created by him and therefore must be subordinate to him they were created for him and therefore must be subservient to him either by a voluntary submission or a compulsive subjection {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and by him all things consist Their beings have no consistency but would dissolve the frame of their nature would be disjoynted and fall asunder did not he hold them together and therefore how easie is it for him to subdue them to himself He that by the word of his power upholdeth all things from sinking into nothing can without the least difficulty subdue all things to himself A man that holdeth a lump of dust in his hand which hath no consistency but onely by the hand that holdeth it together but would fall asunder and scatter assoone as he leteth it go can easily cast it at his feet and trample on it at his pleasure Much more may Christ who gave being to all the creatures and now supporteth their beings bring them under as he pleaseth For the farther cleering and strengthening of this truth let us consider the various workings and different wayes of exercising this power of his for the subduing of all things to himself First In regard of different objects Secondly In respect of different ends and uses Thirdly In regard of difference of times Fourthly when there seemeth no difference in respect of objects ends or times he may according to the counsell of his own will work diversly for the more glorious manifestatiō of his wisdom and power as a curious artizan may vary his workmanship upon the same kind of materials intended for the same use to give farther proof of his skill and abilities But because these are so complicated and interwoven that the three last will fall in with the first and it would require much time to pursue every one of them distinctly I purpose to insist onely upon the first taking the rest in collaterally These objects which Christ hath to work upon are either rationall creatures or such as are void of the principles of reason The former are Angels or men The Angels which are holy He preserveth in that state of subjection to Himself wherein they continued when the rest left their habitation upholding them not onely in their beings but in the integrity and perfection of their beings whose perfection is their voluntary subordination to the Son of God Christ Jesus who is the Head of all principality and power and so they are ministring Spirits unto Him imployed as a Convoy to his people in the wildernesse of the world untill they arrive at that eternall rest which he hath purchased for them As for the apostate angels by an act of justice and power He cast them down into everlasting chains under darknesse where he holdeth them prisoners untill the great Assize the judgement of the last day And though for the present He is not pleased to keep them close prisoners but seemeth to give them the liberty of the prison and sometime to lengthen their chains suffering them to range abroad for the executing of his judgements in divers kinds upon the wicked and for the exercise and trial of the godly out of all which He getteth glory to His great Name yet still He keepeth them chained that is under the restraint of His Almighty Arm not permitting them to stir an inch beyond the bounds which He hath set them as themselves intimated when they begged leave of Him to enter into the herd of swine and when Satan petitioned the Lord for a Commission to plunder holy Job and then to have it enlarged for afflicting of his person when the Lord gave him greatest liberty it was with limitation But save his life So that the devils now are Christ His prisoners and should not be suffered to walk up and down the world had He not use of them for such ends as those formerly hinted However they stir not one foot without their keeper viz. the over-ruling power of Christ But at the last day they shall be fully and for ever subdued by the almighty power of Christ never to stir more against any of His Yea these apostate angels shall be so absolutely brought under by Christ that His very servants shall sit in judgement upon them I am perswaded it will be a wonderfull torment to these proud spirits who have affected a principality yea a godhead in the world to be convented before men as their judges who were their inferiours by Creation and are of the seed of that woman who was long since vanquished by the devill But as these Angels good and evill are invisible spirits so the workings of Christ in subduing them seem more invisible and secret than those which He exerciseth upon those rationall creatures which are visible viz. men and women which are to be