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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64233	Pray for the peace of Jerusalem a visitation sermon. / preached at Gainsbrough, May 7th 1691 by Nathanael Taylor ...	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1691 (1691)	Wing T547; ESTC R33904	20,217	32

Pray for the Peace of JERUSALEM A Visitation Sermon PREACHED AT Gainsbrough May 7 th 1691. By NATHANAEL TAYLOR M. A. and Master of the Grammar-School at Brigg in Lincolnshire Psalm 133.1 Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in Vnity LONDON Printed for Abel Roper at the Mitre in Fleetstreet 1691. TO THE Reverend Mr. JOHN HVTTON ARCHDEACON of STOVV And my Brethren of the Clergy in that Archdeaconry in the County of LINCOLN All Present and Future Happiness WHen I was obliged to appear to preach a Visitation Sermon amongst you I made it my business not to court Applause nor use a popular Text but to insist on what might really be suitable to our Times and serviceable to our Church and Holy Calling And considering the Foreign War our Nation is engaged in the intestine Schism our Church and Religion suffers by I could not suppose a more fit Subject might be found than what I chose to oblige the Prayers and Endeavours of all our Church's Members for its Peace which I am sure none can be against but such Incendiaries as delight in publick Miseries When I appeared I must gratefully own the Serenity of your Complexions shewed what you are happy in and my Endeavours wanted an inward Goodness and Candour But tho' my Sermon was then received so kindly by many of you yet have I and it met with such Censures and Reflections since that I am forced to let it speak for it self And as I never yet was concerned in the least Prosecution of any Dissenter tho living always in the midst of them I endeavoured by Reasons to reconcile them to our Church So I hope these Pages will demonstrate me to have had no other Design than the uniting us at home that our Church and Nation may be happy whose Felicity next to Gods Glory I shall ever make the great End of my Study who am Brigg School May 23. 1691. Your Humble Servant Nathanael Taylor Psalm 122.6 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem They shall prosper that love thee THIS Psalm as also the two preceeding and Twelve succeeding Psalms are stiled Psalms or Songs of degrees whether because * Godwin 's Jewish Antiq. l. 2. c. 1. p. 65.6 Ainsworth on Psal 120. Pelling's Good old way p. 50. sung upon the 15 Steps that went up into the House of the Lord as R. David Kimchi on Psal 120 thought and the Chaldee Interpretation favours or because they were select Psalms chosen and sung by the Jews at their return from their Babylonian Captivity as other Expositors † Diodate in Assembly lec Wilson 's new Diestonary suppose I shall not determine both may be probable these Psalms generally speaking of 1 Psal 124.1 2 3.132.5 13.133.3 the excellency of the Temple inviting to it and directing to Duty in i● and some of them expresly 2 Psal 124.6 7.126.1.2 mentioning their Slavery under and happy deliverance out of their Captivity of Babylon However about the penning of this Psalm Expositors ‖ 〈◊〉 Jans ●●n ●●emel agree 't was penned by the Prophet David after he had conquered Jerusalem 3 2 Sam. 5 6 7 8. which was then held by the Jebusites and had brought the Ark of God thither 4 2 Sam. 6.15 Psal 122.4 and made Jerusalem the place of the publick Worship of God who after owns Jerusalem and Mount Zion as the place where he would dwell and where his Rest should be as appears fully at Solomon's 1 2 Chron. 7.12 ●… 18. Dedication of the Temple Jerusalem in the Original of the Text is expressed in the Dual Number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and some * Pasor 's Lex on the Word thence think it to refer to the Earthly Jerusalem the place of God's publick Worship here and the Heavenly Jerusalem where his Throne of Glory is and his Saints with him shall enjoy happiness hereafter And indeed St. John Rev. 21.2 expresseth that place of Glory by Jerusalem But because those Heavenly Mansions are no ways disturbed with noise or clamour can't be infested with Schism or Heresy nor can the fury of Men or Devils disturb their Peace I shall humbly beg leave to suppose another sense of it and that is that Jerusalem in the Text refers to the Church Militant on Earth whether of Jews as literally before Christ or the Christian Church of both Jew and Gentile by Allegory since Christ as St. Paul useth it Gal. 4.26 And then besides some Modern Expositors † Bucer Jansen the ancient Father St. Prosper ‖ St. Prosper in Psal 122.2 expounds the place of the Christian Church Non in ista Hierusalem quae occidit Prophetas lapidavit ob se missos quae ad impietates multas stare non potuit sed in illa Coelesti Hierusalem quae est Sanctorum omnium Mater Filii ipsius stare laetantur Qui licet invia sint adhue illo tendunt ita tamen quasi pervenerint guadent quia de Adipiscendis fide forma non dubitat And if the Prophet David and the Jewish Nation were so joyful under their Oeconomy much more cause have the Christians to rejoyce under the Gospel Dispensation they had but the shadow we the substance they believed in a Christ to come we in a Christ already come And of all Christians we the Ministers and Members of this best of Churches the Church of England have reason to bless God for and rejoyce in the happiness as yet continued to us that we have Peace in our Jerusalem that we may go into the House of the Lord that we have liberty to dispence and you to hear and receive the Gospel and its Ordinances But since the Ambition of some and the fiery Zeal of others from abroad endeavour to consume us the Schisms and Heresies at home to undermine us many to divide us the remisness in our Office and irregularity in the Lives of our Members to betray us it concerns every Christian and Minister to practise the Duty of the Text. Nor is it beneath the greatest Prelate or above the meanest Laick while in the Church Militant on Earth with David 1 Psal 122.1 to 6. in this Psalm to delight in and to be zealous for our Religion himself and entreat others in the words of the Text to Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and let all prosper that love her In the words are Three Parts Divis of the Text. I. A Precept 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 70 Expetite Jun. Trimel II. What to Pray for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Peace of Jerusalem that there may be no War without to disturb her nor Schisms within to divide her III. The motive to this Prayer They shall prosper that love thee Of these in their Order I. Here is a Precept to a Duty Pray not coldly Part I. but earnestly for Jerusalem's welfare Every mercy for our private use or the publick Good comes from