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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88420	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: at their late solemn fast, Octob. 28. 1646. in Margarets Westminster. / By Nicholas Lockyer, M.A.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2800; Thomason E359_6; ESTC R201168	23,998	40

and said I have found David the Son of Jesse a man after mine owne heart which shall fulfill all my will which is spoken in opposition to Saul who did fulfill but a part Christ did not baulke one title Heaven and Earth shall passe Matth. 5. but one title of the Law shall in no wise passe till all be fulfill'd such parts of Divine will as were most debasing of Christ were fulfilled as well as other parts which were dignifying he stoopt to men who were not worthie to stoop to his shooe latchet Suffer it to be so now for thus it becomes to fulfill all righteousnesse Matthew 3.15 as if Christ had said the will of the Lord shall prosper in my hand though I lie at any ones foot Take the next word in the text and it will carrie it to this sense the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper Tsalach it signifies the carrying on or the carrying thorough of a thing against all difficultie a breaking through or a cutting through with the foote As if God had said My will will be much opposed by Devills and men yet he into whose hand I have put it will breake through all The word is used 1 Samuel the 10. the 6. And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee and thou shalt prophecie The Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee Tsalach will breake in upon thee and thou shalt prophecie whether thou wilt or no. 'T is used in the 2 Sam. 19.17 There went a thousand men of Benjamin over Jordan before the King Tsalach brake through before the King Thus shall he into whose hand Gods will is put breake open the everlasting doores and breake in upon dead soules and breake down whatsoever hinders their eternall life Consider the word in its simple signification or consider it in the time in which it is here put Shall prosper by his hand Which future tense carries us not so much to the futuritie of the worke as to the certaintie of it as noting upon what strong bottome it beares to wit the Justice of God and this in a double respect Gods voluntary chusing Christ and owning him to be his servant 'T is a matter of justice that whom I voluntarily take and owne to any businesse of mine I should cleave to him and assist him as I am able This I take to be the emphasis and life of those words Psalm the 89.20 I have found David my servant with my holy oyle have I anointed him with whom my hands shall be established mine arme also shall strengthen him the enemie shall not exact upon him and I will beate downe his foes before his face c. I have found David my servant c. Matsa I have laid hands upon him or taken hold of him so the word is rendred Psal 116.3 The paines of hell tooke hold upon mee I have laid hands upon my Son and therefore t is but Justice I should keep hold of him and that these hands which I have laid upon him should be every way vertuall to him and they shall be so the enemies shall not exact upon him The word used for exact is Nasha seducere decipere and signifies to seduce cheat and deceive and so is rendred Jer. 29.8 Let not your Prophets deceive you c. As if God had said the times through which my Sonne shall passe will be full of craft and if it were possible to deceive mine elect but it is not possibe because hee is mine elect he is my servant and because my servant he shall deale prudently not the subtlest wit in the world shall put a trick or cheat upon him in order to any punctum of my will The word Nasha hath no affinity with Nasag which signifies to be overtaken and catcht as huntsmen doe their prey Christ is the Hinde of the morning hunted from Sun-rise to Sun-set but having Hindes feet he cannot be taken Thou hast made my feet like hindes feet saith Christ oft in the Old Testament Christ cannot be taken nor overtaken hunt and catch and lay snares who will Saul Judas or all the violent craftie hypocrites in the world A bow of steele is broken by his hand Hell is naked before him not onely open but naked as a thing without all strength or force to hurt because one walking in this furnace with him the support of the God-head You have the Father telling all the world that he goes upon this ground along with the Sonne to wit that he is his chosen servant Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect c. I have put my Spirit upon him my mantle and livery as my servant he shall not faile nor be discouraged not darkned or broken till he hath set Judgement in the earth i. accomplished all my will Isa 43.1 2 3 4. Upon this ground God sticks close to us because his chosen servants see it largely and comfortably set forth by the same Prophet Isa 48.8 9 c. and therefore bid againe and againe though wormes yet not to feare because wormes upon such a ground Shall prosper the futurity of the word points at the certainty of the worke upon another ground of Justice that is Christs merit Christ hath bought and paid to the utmost farthing for all that may accomplish him in order to any part of the pleasure of God towards the creature this is a ground granted by God himselfe in the text When thou shalt make his soule an offering for sinne he shall see the issue thereof c. There be many difficulties about the creature but may be all infolded in one to wit sinne Man would have the heart of God were it not for sinne and he that hath the heart of God hath his hand and can doe any thing Now Christ hath paid the price of sinne fully and presents in our person a primitive state and so hath bought the eare the hand and the heart of God that is a full concurrence of the Father for all executions and accomplishments in order to the creature which is the reason of that strong language of Peter in his converting Sermon VVhom God hath raised up He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 demanded life of thee c. Psal 21. having losed the paines of death because it was not possible that he shorld be holden of it Acts 2.24 Not possible why the reason is rendred verse 27. Thou wilt not suffer thy holy One to see corruption Christ is a holy one that is legally holy thou hast made his soule an offering for sinne bought the soule with a soule an eye with an eye a tooth with a tooth he hath purchased all the fulnesse of the God-head to concurie with him and therefore I should be unholy to a holy one if I should leave his soule in grave c. Compare with this place Isaiah 50.6 7 8 9. verses I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off the haire I hid not my face from

Die Mercurii 28. Octobr. 1646. ORdered by the COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT That Mr Bosevile doe from this House give Thankes to Mr Lockyer for the great paines he tooke in the Sermon he preached this day at the intreaty of this House at Margarets Westminster it being the day of Publique Humiliation and desire him to print his Sermon and he is to have the like priviledge in printing of it as others of the like kind usually have had Hen. Elsynge Cler. Parl. dom Com. I appoint John Rothwell and Hannah Allen to print my Sermon A SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT At their late solemn Fast Octob. 28. 1646. In Margarets Westminster By NICHOLAS LOCKYER M. A. And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches which hath devoured her fruit so that she hath no strong rod to be a Scepter to rule this is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation Ezek. 19.14 And in that day will I wake Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it Zech. 12.3 And he stayed yet other seven dayes and againe he sent forth and the Dove came in to him in the evening and loe in her mouth was an Olive leafe pluckt off Gen. 8.10 11. LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons for John Rothwell at the Sun and Fountaine in Pauls-Church-yard and Han. Allen at the Bible in Popes-head Alley 1646. THE EPISTLE Dedicatory Honourable Worthies WHen the Prophet was to be plaine * Ezeck 3.23.27 God set him upon a plaine and spake to him When you called bowels bid me visit the sick and weake and truly these alone stirr'd all other parts of body and mind were utterly against it and as I went Christ and Conscience in such a case bid me be faithfull lest I brought in two houres the bloud of two Nations upon mine head Jerusalem was pourtrayed to one of the Prophets upon a Tile and some thought was England to mee in you when I was before you and truly I had a good desire to bring forth a Nation of a day to Christ I want ability to give milke to babes much more to give strong meate to such strong men as you and 't were well if friends would indeed believe it and pray for me more Legs are precious limbes to the lame mine owne weaknesse makes the power of God still the more admirable to mee When I left you Jeremies rapture tooke hold on mee Jer. 18.3 Behold he wrought a worke on the wheeles Our acceptation with you was in word and deed for which I account my selfe much obliged to the Lord and you Your way is much in the darke so many persons and things are before your eyes I was willing to get as many prayers for you to set as many dryed cheeks and bowels a blessing of you as I could these will make such great wheeles goe safely and swiftly when wit nor wealth nor any thing else will One Prophet felt in so many dayes what all the people of Israel should feele in so many yeares Ezek. 4. if I had any degree of such an advantage spiritually I should be a better servant to you and my native Countrey then I am both in praying and preaching My petition to Christ oft is that he will make impresse upon my spirit suitable to all his purposes towards this poore bleeding Land I get as neere him as I can and as much out of al noyse to hearken and heare distinctly what he will speake peace or warre life or death and if in this Gospel way God will but grant mee that Prophets favour * Ezek. 12.3 to remove in my sight and to dig through the wall of Englands welfare in my view I hope through the strength of Christ I shall be faithfull to tell her of it though it should cost mee much Would I knew how in this shaking time to eat my bread with confidence and yet with quaking If the pleasure of the Lord were dearer to us 't would ease much the many hard things which are yet before us I came Honourable Worthies very trembling to you and so truly departed from you to thinke how little service I had done for persons and employments of so great consequence as yours At what time I feared I believed which was Christ laying his right hand upon mee like that upon John saying Feare not I am the first and the last * Rev. 1.17 If God be found first or last wherever I come or in what ever I undertake I and all with me will be blessed and so will it be with you and those many thousands for whom you act I would people would be patient and thinke lower thoughts of their owne wisdome and higher of Christs and yours as an Ordinance of God for their good and in all your travels travell with you and cry out for a man mid-wife from heaven for you when you are like to miscarrie and not fill Citie and Country with unnaturall and unchristian clamour I judge a free Parliament the most naturall Ordinance and the nearest that Divine government which once was for the true good of a Nation that would not be slaves to sinne and mans will of any yet knowne or in use in the world and if my Judgement were of any weight in a businesse of this nature I would thinke those the more unnaturall to themselves and others who otherwise speake and act amongst us Our lusts would be Lawes and Judges of them too and may as well one as tother 't is thus with us t is thus with you 't is so in Divinity 't is so in morality 't is so in the first Table 't is so in the second Christ meant civill Government really when he bade us submit to it and pray for it and practised it himselfe by giving to Caesar the things which were Caesars if in these last and worst dayes we need it lesse then then I do not yet understand it Wilde beasts love no bound but if this should be then all the world would be a wildernesse and where should we live without tearing in pieces I thinke just Government in a Turke to be a beame of God and we admire it abroad and trample upon 't at home Violence is risen up into a rod of wickednesse Men are so violent Ezek. 6.11 and yet so voyd of reason that they are a rod to themselves and many sober men complaine of obstructions and yet make them by mad motion a this side truth and their place Christ beares all this about his Kingdome and government and so must you about yours Ezek. 6.5.13 14. Christ will lay the carkasses of men before their Idolls mens persons in preposterous courses fall or their esteeme and then is man a moving carkasse before his Idol pride Purity is indeed of Majestie Ezek. 1.22 wee