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A27628 A solemn perswasion to most earnest prayer for the revival of the work of God bringing forth the kingdom of Christ, whenever it appears declining under his indignation, whether in our own souls, in the nation to which we belong, in the churches of Christ throughout : upon occasion of the late stroke of divine displeasure in the death of the Queen of so blessed remembrance / by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1695 (1695) Wing B2178; ESTC R18234 20,206 36

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Instruments He pleases as of our Illustrious Queen or of smaller and meaner yet He is not tied to any For his own Arm shall Rule for him his Reward is with him and his Work before him And though on so great a Dispose as this removal of so great a Personage from us we ought to hear his speech and to be afraid to cry out Lord revive thy work In wrath remember mercy Yet to have sure Confidence he will and is near about to take to himself his great Power and to Reign how Angry soever the Nations will be at it And if we are such as Love his Kingdom and Appearance However the Fig-tree do not blossom c. However dark and black things look yet we should glory in the Lord and rejoyce in the God of our Salvation and be Assured he will make our feet like Hindes feet and set us on the High Places of his Kingdom And though Nations labour in the very Fire and weary themselves for very vanity yet it is so ordered by the Lo●d of Hosts because he is just about to Fill the Earth with the Knowledge of his Glory even as the Waters cover the Sea Oh let him come into his Holy Temple and let all the Earth be silent before him A SERMON Preached in MEMORIAL of the Awful Divine Dispose In the DEATH of the QUEEN OF SO Blessed Remembrance to the Whole Nation HABAC iij. 2. Oh Lord I have heard thy Speech and was afraid Oh Lord Revive thy work in the midst of the years in the midst of the years make known in wrath remember mercy I Have thought it necessary in regard of that Great Sense of the Death of the Queen God hath been pleased to Imprint upon all the People of this Nation who have indeed any Sense of his Providences but to the Degree of Common Sobriety I have thought it I say necessary to Reflect upon that Late so Tremendous Providence and to set before you what I look upon to be most Seasonable and most necessary for the Servants of God in the present Circumstances of things to apply their thoughts unto And indeed I do not doubt but that Funeral Remembrances are very much warranted to us by that Example of David bewailing the Death of Saul and of Jonathan which we find 2 Sam. 1. 17. David lamented with this Lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his Son Also he bid them teach the Children of Israel the use of the Bow This some Interpreters understand only to teach the Use of Arms of which at that time the Bow was one of the Principal and became an Emblem of the whole Military Skill and Action But it seems rather according to the Judgement of other Interpreters to be the Title of the Lamentation David made over Saul and Jonathan as some of the Psalms have Titles very peculiar suited to the principal Matter Tunes or Instruments us'd in relation to them So this Lamentation had the Name or Title of the Bow And as a Higher Commendation of it it is said to be written in the Book of Jasher of the upright one or uprightness intimating some most Excellent Record or Records of Greatest Truth and Value Spoken of also Josh 11. 13. He goes on The Beauty of Israel is fallen upon thy high places How are the mighty fallen Tell it not in Gath publish it not in the Streets of Askelon lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoyce lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph That is If it were possible I earnestly desire That the Enemies of God and of his People might have no occasion to Rejoyce and Triumph in that sad stroke on Saul and Jonathan Especially as if the Interest of God and of his Kingdom suffer'd and sunk at all in it For were it not on this Account it might seem wonderful that God should be pleased to ordain that part of his Word should receive this Funeral Lamentation of Saul and Jonathan into it Especially Considering that Saul was a Prince Rejected of God and that God was very Angry with and very severe upon and that He was a Great Enemy to David whom God was pleased to place the Type of the Kingdom of Christ upon and to remove it from Saul Himself But this was undoubtedly the Reason of it Because Saul though in his own Person he was a Prince so rejected of God yet God had made him for a time a Type and the first Type of the Kingdom of Christ and though he rejected him yet he had Anointed him he had given him a Kingdom and set him over the people of Israel which Kingdom was so Eminently a Type of the Kingdom of Christ And therefore David the sweet Psalmist of Israel and the Established Type of the Kingdom of Christ was employed by God in an extraordinary way to make this Lamentation over him And of this he gives a very plain notice when He said The sheild of Saul was vilely cast away as though he had not been Anointed with Oyl His being Anointed with Oyl was a Type of the Great Messiab of the Great Anointing and on that Account David Lamented As this Lamentation may be therefore in General a Foundation for a Funeral Commemoration so especially and very particularly when the Person Lamented had any relation to the Kingdom of Christ Now with regard to the Providence of God upon the Nation in the Removal of the Queen so lately we may say that God hath been pleased as it were by an universal Consent of even the soberest of the Nation to Embalm the Memory of so Excellent a Princess and we may say of Her as Solomon in the Proverbs Many daughters have done vertuously But Thou excellest them all Prov. 31. 29. And as it is said of Tabitha or Dorcas in the Acts of the Apostles They brought forth the works she had wrought Which by the Context Appear to have been prepared as works of Charity So we may say Many have brought forth many Eminent and Excellent Works of this Great Princess They by the Gracious Providence of God towards her Memory have been more spoken of and more Commended and made known than before Although they were certainly and sufficiently known to many Witnesses of Greatest Credit in the time of her Life and to many who had themselves the Experiments of the Great Tenderness and Compassionateness of her Spirit and more especially toward Them who suffered upon the Testimony of the Gospel and on the Account of Conscience Yet the notice taken of them since her Death hath more shaken the House of Dagon than before in her Life But notwithstanding this and much more that might be said and hath been abundantly spoken by those who were most proper to speak of these things there is that particular Relation Her Station and Interest in Government and Her Extraordinary Introduction into it Providence gave Her had to the Kingdom of Christ And this is that which I look upon as more closely and
A SOLEMN PERSWASION TO MOST Earnest PRAYER For the Revival of the WORK of GOD Bringing forth the Kingdom of CHRIST when ever it Appears Declining under his Indignation WHETHER In our own Souls In the Nation to which we belong In the Churches of Christ throughout Upon Occasion of the late STROKE of Divine Displeasure in the Death of the QUEEN of so Blessed Remembrance By T. BEVERLEY Amos 7.2 5. Oh Lord by whom shall Jacob Arise For He is small LONDON Printed for W. Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-Street MDCXCV The PREFACE to the READER IT is indeed a Most Vndoubted Duty as to behold in All Persons in the General Humane Nature Dying the Exemplification of our own Mortality It is a further Duty to consider in Christians the Patterns of a Holy and Religious Conversation God offers to us in any of them And This Duty is Rais'd by the Honour and Dignity of Station and such have been placed in by God On which Account the many Discourses on so Great a Person as our Religious and Gracious Queen are Justified But yet as in All Princes that can bear any Relation to the Church of God There is a Peculiar Attention and Regard Due on which Account It is Remarkable Scripture Takes the Names of Heathen Princes into its Records which had never else Appeared or been Heard of in it but as God made Them Instruments of his Grace or Displeasure to his own People how much more is both the Life and the Death of Princes who are by Profession joyn'd to such a People as the Kings of Israel and Judah though so many Bad But most of All when they were themselves Holy Personages because All Princes over the People of God have an Eminent Relation to the Mercy or Wrath of God upon such Nations and God Changes Times and Seasons as Daniel observes by setting up or Removing such Princes And yet beyond All this there is a Consideration due to that Figure Princes and Governments make in Order to the Kingdom of the Great Son of man Our Lord Jesus Christ On Account of which Daniel had so Great Visions of the four Monarchyes and espec●ally of the Fourth or Roman so immediately in its Expiration Consining on that Kingdom And this is that Highest and most weighty Point of both Discourse as in Publick so of the Prayers and Meditations of Christians in Private on such a Publick Providence as the Death of a Christian Protestant Princess I having therefore through the Gracious Assistance of God set my self by the Books of Scripture wherein the Sure Word of Prophecy is for the Churches of Christ Deposited to find out the Time for the Accomplishing the Desolations of the Sanctuary could not but take Notice of that so Monumental Providence in its Season the late Revolution 1688. Vpon which I then made Publick my Observations to be found still I doubt not in many Hands I looked upon my self therefore under as great Obligation to make most Humble and Awful Remarks upon so Astonishing a Perez a Breach or Stroke upon us in the Death of the Queen 1694. when the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ is so much nearer according to my Computation as in 1697. within Little more than Two Years who sustain'd so Illustrious a Figure in it And though I Fram'd it onely into such a Discourse as was most suited to a Plain Christian Auditory yet because Wise and Good and Considering Persons are not so Confin'd to Curiousness of Words or Artifice of Connexion but are most intent upon Things and can take Short and even the most Free and Natural Intimations of them under more Ample and Accurate Reflections I have Expos'd it to General View mostly as it was at first spoken designing the Substance and Materiality of what I have herein offered to deepest Consideration and leaving the more Critical to Correct the Errors of Form that they to whose Minds the most Plain Discourses have easiest Access may not lose the Benefit And I am Encouraged in making such a Publication in regard of both the main Design which is to Consider How such a Breach upon us is Posited towards the Kingdom of Christ and that Great Revolution of its entring into Succession in 97. as also to Present it in such a Native Freedom and In-Artifice and upon one and the same Account in both That is I have Remarked That no Divine D●spose in our Memory hath brought forth so Abundantly all Kinds of Celebrations of any Person as of our Excellent Princess both in Religious Improvements of so Severe a Chastisement As also Accumulating Highest Praises upon so Worthy and Meritorious a Subject speaking of her with Relation to Men but Abating whatever any may have spoken of Her like the Blasphemies of the Antichrist an Beast against them that dwell in Heaven For all such Praises are in Sacred Style no other than Blasphemies not only against God but Against Those so Celebrated There is therefore in my Esteem no Room for any more Publications on those first Topicks But I have also observed none have Pitched upon the Examination of so Remarkable a Dispose as dating the Review from the Introduction of this Government upon the removal of King James by so out-stretched a Hand nor carrying the Prospect to that much greater Change God is about to make nor giving direction what the Servants of God are so to direct their Faith and Prayers upon Now I having singled out these Points to Address my self unto the Servants of Christ therein to Excite their Meditation and Practise I have taken greater Considence in setting them in an open Light as not Treated upon by any before on this so notable Providence And yet I have not neglected on just occasions to make those Memorials of Praise that Scripture Allowes and hath even set apart to them that Fear the Lord and to Honour the Remembrance of the Queen by them I have also Pointed upon those Duties of Practice so necessary on so Sad and Solemn an Occasion in General And on this very same Account that others have so Abounded in all the Florid parts of such Kind of Discourses I have Hoped that a Sermon in so Ordinary and Vn-Adorned a Dress will be the more gladly Suffered I have therefore been only Intent on this main End that is that every one may earnestly seek of God the coming of the Kingdom of Christ in Power in his own Soul And that Powers and Nations may in General wait for it and wisely Place themselves in a just subordination to it being most Assured if we are not removed from this Earth under the immediate Views of it as we know we may soon be even as this Great Princess hath been it will yet make such Appearances from Heaven in coming upon us as will Amaze the World to behold even its Kingdoms becoming the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ And though the Lord makes use of what greater and more Honourable