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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

to sinne but make their peace with God which I heartily desire therefore at the instant importunity of a speciall Christian freind and being much encouraged by the very loving acceptation it found from other Christians that heard it I was content this Sermon should be published if it be judged meet It is indeed brought forth in a time wherein I my self have both much employment and many troubles that I could not afford unto it such serious premeditation nor review as I desired nor have I the helpe of many books usefull for such a purpose nor yet a dexterity in Temporary narrations as those that are skilfull in the times both which were requisite in a Sermon of this subject yet that is but part of the matter and if I mistake not here is some thing usefull for thy soule in whatsoever condition thou art And therefore I pray thee in Christian love either heal or conceale any failing thou findest in it and say as truly thou may'st perhaps it was an oversight for I confesse I am full of infirmities beare with my rudenesse in speech I do assure thee I would be loath to offend any gracious soule But faile thou not to make particular application to thy own selfe of what thou findest most sutable to thy own estate and condition so shall God have the glory and thy soule shall prosper and my soule shall rejoyce with thee This I heartily desire And remain Copdock July 1647. Thine in Christ Benjamin Hubbard DANIEL 5.25 The latter words of that Verse MENE MENE TEKEL VPHARSIN RIght Worshipfull Sapè fit ut aliqua brevis exigua scriptio vocetur liber Matth. 1.1 19.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deut. 24.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and beloved in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of the sixty six books of Sacred Scripture some are more Historicall relating many things done before the writing of them as the books of Moses and the Evangelists some are more doctrinall teaching the rules of a Christian life and a holy conversation as the Epistles of the Apostles and some are more Propheticall and so are the words of my Text Mene Mane Tekel Upharsin There are foure difficulties that doe obscure and veile the meaning of the Text which I shall comprehend in these four words Tempus Locus Lingua Brevitas There is likewise a fourfold consideration that will farther help us to understand the same in some measure take them in these foure words Occasio Quomodo Quibus Eventus Give me leave to speake briefly of these eight particulars Tempus The circumstance of time when when these things were done which are mentioned in this Chapter is very considerable And although those that have beene famous for their studies in Chronologie do not all agree herein yet the difference betwixt most of them is not very much considering the great difficulty of the work In opere Chronologico Anno 3395. An. Mun. 3412 Vide de Annis Captivitatis Babylonicae Chyt Chrono Herodoti 3424. Funct 3425. Perkins 3430. In 2 Chron. 36.23 Dan. 6.1 Dan. 5. ult Ezra ● ● Calvisius sets down these things as done in the yeare of the World 3395 and saith that Cyrus overcame Darius Medus and tooke Babylon 17 yeares after and that the Jews had liberty to return to Judea and build the Temple in the yeare 3418 and that they returned 3419. But Chyiraeus Functius and Mr. Perkins doe write that these things were done about the yeare of the World 3425 and in the last year of the Babylonish captivity for Cyrus began to reigne presently after the death of Belshazzar although his father-in-Law Darius Medus had the Name and Title for honour sake yet Cyrus himselfe in effect had the dominion as Tromellius Junius and Calvin observe Now certain it is that in the first yeare of Cyrus after that he and Darius had wonne Babylon the Jews had free liberty to return out of that captivity 2 Chron. 36.20 And hence I gather that these things were done in the last yeare of the Babylonish captivity Locus The circumstance of the place is also very considerable for as One sayth Time and Place are the two eyes of History Now it is conceived by some that there be three Cities called Babylon in the sacred Scriptures Gen. 11.2 4. Babylon even that City where the Tower was built by men who o●t of the infidelity and pride of their hearts thought by that means to provide for their honour and safety from the floud of Gods displeasure they chose a Plain neer to the great River Euphrates and build the City partly on the one side 2 Chron. 36.20 Psal 137.1 2 3. Dan. 4.30 Gen. 11.8 9. Isa 13.19 Babyl●lon 83.10 lat 3● 50 Ierus 66.0.31.40 Clavius in Io●de Sacro Bosco and partly on the other side of the same River And thither the Jews were carryed into captivity and there they made their lamentation And in it was the Royall Palace of the Kings of Caldea It was at first called Babel for the confusion of Tongues a judgement of God upon the first builders of it as it tended to confusion at the last It was scituate neerest the Rumbe East and by North from Jerusalem and distent from it about eight hundred seventy and five miles Cayro a famous City in Egypt is by some Authors named Babylon and so it is called in Ortelius his Map at which place Fran. Sac. Qu. Funct Com. Chron. Anno Christ 44 45 B●n●ng ●in totius Sa. Scrip. Calvin Beza in 1 Pet. 4.13 Rhem. Annot. in 1 Pet. 5.13 Calvis Chrono in An. post Chri. 64. negat 2 Cor. 11.28 Rom. 15 16 20 Rom. 16. 2 Tim. 4.6 16. Revel 17.4 5. 18.2 Revel 11.8 Revel 17 5. ●ulling Brightman L. Napier Fr. Iuniur Dan. 4.30 some doe conceive Peter the Apostle was when he wrote his first Epistle although some rather hold he was then at another City of that name in Assyria But the Translators of the Rhemish Testament in their Notes upon that place doe say that by Babylon is meant Rome because they would thereby confirme their saying That Peter the Apostle was Bishop of Rome 25 yeares which is contrary to the holy Histories in the Acts of the Apostles and to many passages of the Apostle Paul in his Epistles But is Rome Babylon by their own confession then ex ore tuo by thine own confession ô Papist we conclude Rome is Babylon and the mother of whoredoms and shortly to be destroyed Rome in a figurative and spirituall sense is called Babylon in very deed Revel 18.2 as all Orthodox Modern Expositors doe interpret the same both for their proud uprising superstitious Idolatries and horrible confusion a Rome is also called Egypt because it hath been a prison and bondage to Gods people and truth Revel 11.8 But these things mentioned in this Chapter were done in the City in which both Belshazzar did live and before him Nebuchadnezzar which was first properly