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A88628	An image of our reforming times: or, Jehu in his proper colours; displayed in some exercitations on 2 Kings 9 and 10 chapters: setting forth the opportunity was given him to do his work in. cause he had committed to him to manage. Also, his policie, zeal, profession, hypocrisie: with his sins, and their aggravations. reason for all this. In all which he is proved to be a particular character of our times: by which, as in a glass, we may see the state and condition we have brought our selves into, by our deviations. Concluding with a word to Jehu, Jehonadah his counsellor, and the despised persecuted people of God. /	[Lane, Edward, Col.].	1654 (1654)	Wing L335; Thomason E808_11; ESTC R207527	55,583	61

he made Solomons prayer he should have had Solomons return and had been a ruler after Gods own heart as David was and so have been made partaker of Davids full enjoyments of God in his Ordinances But 2. To be a ruler over the Lords people it 's of great advantage for what was he not able to do by their mighty power and force in faith and prayer If we look into the Scripture and see what wonderful things have been done by the faith and prayers of the Lords people we cannot but say of a truth Iehu had as great an advantage to become a second Solomon for wisdom not State-policy a second David for valour and might in conquering enemies as ever man had It 's more to be ruler over the Lords people then to be Emperor of the whole world besides to be ruler over the Lords people that have the mighty and faithful God so neerly and strongly tied and bound to them by so many great irrevocable and infallible promises as he hath made to them in his word and hath so often sworn the certainty and truth of them with the highest and greatest oath a people that have done and are still able to do such mighty and wonderful things by faith and prayer yea had done such great wonders before this Iehu's eyes witness the acts of Elijah Elisha and many other of the Lords Prophets in those dayes to be ruler over such a people what greater thing could be done for a man on earth what greater advantage over the world could be given to him Yet against all this Jehu sins though God made him ruler over his people to these and these ends and purposes and thereby gives him so many and great advantages yet he steers a contrary course in stead of leading the people to Jerusalem to worship he leads them to his calves at Dan and Bethel instead of pulling down all those inventions of their own which provoked God to so great wrath he pulls down onely those new more gross inventions which he could with no credit nor any the least shadow of conscience keep up but the old ancient fundamental bounds and limits of an Idolatrous kingdom Jeroboam's sins they must stand still and keep the people of God from going up to Jerusalem to worship from behaving themselves like the Lords people when God had carried himself so like a gracious God towards them they must stand still for the same reason and upon the same account they were first invented All that God had done for Jehu did not convince his dark minde nor his hard Idolatrous heart of the folly of those things and the reason on which they were founded nor of the equity safety happiness honour and glory that there was in and to be found in obeying the will of the Lord in leading his people up to Jerusalem to worship in Gods own appointments Now truely we need not Diogenes lantern and candle to finde out that man whom God hath made taller by the head and shoulders then the rest of his brethren and made leader of his people in this our day who hath led the people of the Lord on prosperously to the destruction of our Ahabs c. on whom the eyes of the Lords people have been fixed even to high and great expectations of the performance of many vows and promises and when we have found him shall we not see him taking up his station among the calves those antient inventions that our fore-Fathers found out to maintain an Idolatrous-kingdom and making them his own and if so will he not make that great wrath and punishment God hath so often entail'd upon them his own too shall we not behold him leading the people back again into those wayes to redeem his people out of which God hath made bare such a mighty arm of power and providence and it 's my prayer that our eager marching back towards Egypt may not hurry us to the brink of the red-sea ere we make a stand A sixth aggravation of Jehu's sin was His deceiving Gods expectations But Jehu took no heed to walk in the way of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart Saith God I have done thus and thus for Jehu anointed him King over Israel honoured him in executing my judgements upon mine enemies by him and because he hath done all that was in my heart against the house of Ahab mine and my peoples enemies I have given him the kingdom and now I expected he should have brought forth fruit answerable to my kindness with all his heart But Jehu took no heed to that Will not the loving kindness of thy God work upon thee O Jehu what will then Love in its effects is like the Sun it either softens or hardens one of these two are the inseparable effects of its influences Whether wilt thou be hardened with Pharaoh and drowned in the Red-sea or softened with Hezekiah and have thy dayes prolonged canst thou remember the goodness of God to thee and bring forth no hearty fruit answerable to his expectations but deceive him totally Well Jehu thou wilt repent of this when it is too late I fear How have we in our dayes been guilty of this deceiving the expectations of our God in not in any measure answering the mercies of our God What returnes have we made to him for his mercy at Naseby Dunbar Worcester and many other places Yea such is the deceit and hypocrisie of our hearts that we cannot tell how to perform those LITTLE VOWES that the glory of those mercies extorted from us in the present ravishment of our hearts with their glorious beauty The Seventh and last aggravation of Jehu's sin is necessarily implied in the words that it was against all the faith and prayers of the people of God Can it be supposed that such a man as Jehu was so full of holy profession so outwardly zealous for God and the performance of his word who would not have one tittle of it fall to the ground should not such a man as this have a large-share in the hearts of Gods people and so in their faith and prayer and yet to deceive them and sin against these What mighty sins were these sins of Jehu's guilty of such aggravations surely the sins of Corah Dathan and Abiram were but Pigmies to these Giants if their sins opened the earth to the swallowing them up alive certainly the head of these reach heaven it self and cry aloud for veangeance and wrath And may not our Jehu's cry guilty here too what faith what confidence of Gods performing his promises now to the latter ages of the world what a spirit of prayer hath been amongst the people of God in these dayes by beholding the glorious out-goings of God in his providences and his beginning to execute his wrath upon Babylon the kingdom of the Beast and have not you sinned against these consider it have not you frustated and deceived the expectations of the people of

which draws nigh to be given to you for an inheritance but I shall leave that as the work of one more knowing in those great and deep mysteries of the Fathers love then my self being one who hath more need to learn and to be taught of the meanest and weakest amongst you and indeed none can make you sensible of these things but the Spirit himself Onely I have out of that feast of far things of marrow and wine upon the lees well refined that God hath prepared for his chosen ones I say Out of that feast I have gathered a collation for you made up of such dainties as I conceive most suitable to your present state and condition Mal. 3.16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name Mic. 4.13 Arise and thresi● O daughter of Sion for I will make thy ●orn iron and I will make thy hoofs brass and thou shalt beat in pieces many people and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth Isa 17.13 14. The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters but God shall rebuke them and they shall flee far off and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the winde and as a rolling thing before the whirlwinde and behold at evening-tide trouble and before the morning he is not this is the portion of them that spoil us and the lot of them that rob us Isa 4.2 3 4 5. In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel and it shall come to pass that he that is left in Sion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy even every one that is written among the living in Ierusalem when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Sion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning and the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Sion and upon her assemblies a cloud and smoak by day and the shining of flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence Yea the Lord will answer Joel 2.19 32. and say unto his people Behold I will send you corn and wine and oil and ye shall be satisfied therewith and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen and it shall come to pass that whosover shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered for in mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the Lord hath said and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call For unto us a child is born Isa 9.6 7. unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of peace Of the encrease of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and to estabish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever Fear thou not for I am with thee ch 41.10 11. be not thou dismaid for I am thy God I will strengthen the yea I will help thee yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness Behold all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded they shall be as nothing and they that strive with thee shall perish Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable ch 43.4 and I have loved thee therefore I will give men for thee and people for thy life And the ransomed of the Lord shall return Isa 35.10 and come to Sion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away The meek also shall encrease their ch 29.19 20 21. joy in the Lord and the poor among men shall rejoyce in the holy One of Israel for the terrible one is brought to nought and the scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut off that make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate and turn aside the just for a thing of nought ch 54.17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me saith the Lord. Mal. 4.1 2 3. For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch but unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with hea●ing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall and ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the Lord of hosts Fear not O land Joel 2.21 be glad and rejoyce for the Lord will do great things The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this Isa 9.7 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nations ch 14.32 that the Lord hath founded Sion and the poor of his people shall trust in it Make hast my beloved Cant. 8.14 and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountaines of spices I am come into my garden Cant. 5.1 my sister my spouse I have gathered my myrrhe with my spice I have eaten my hony-combe with my hony I have drunk my wine with my milk eat O friends drink yea drink abundantly O beloved Zac. 12.3 And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burthensome stone for all people all that burthen themselves with it shall be cut in peices though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it Luke 21.34 And take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts he overcharged with surfeting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares FINIS

too he puts the Levites away from performing that service God had appointed them to in his worship and having instituted a new worship of his own devising he constitutes new Ministers and Priests to serve in that worship Quest If it be asked How I can say this is a resemblance of our times surely we have learned and high-minded Ministers that minde high things Answ If ever there were a time wherein the lowest of the people were made Ministers in the worship of God it 's now I confess it and that with joy there are many considered by themselves precious holy servants of the Lord true Ministers of the Gospel in this our Nation of England but by that time these great Kings whoredome drunkenness swearing lying covetousness eating the poors bread ignorance and pride have ranged their subjects under their banners from among the Ministers of England the remaining number will be so few that I fear God will hardly have his Tythe duely set out and if these be not of the lowest of the people I know not who are The truth of these things is so obvious to every man that I suppose it 's not required of me to prove this great charge Thirdly Another of Jeroboams sins that Iehu would not depart from was his devising new wayes of worship and that as like the true worship of God as his received worldly principles and interest would permit him whereby to take the hearts of the people and draw them after him the more Though he would have a worship as like Gods worship as possible might be yet Gods worship he would not have because he thought it contrary to his worldly interest O saith he now shall the kingdom return to the house of David if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Ierusalem then shall the hearts of this people return again unto their King even unto Rehoboam and they shall kill me But saith Ieroboam I will prevent that by my wisdom and policie I will have new Gods and new Worship and new Priests and suffer not the people to go up to Ierusalem to worship If the peoples worshipping the true God according to his own appointments will in his apprehension hinder his enjoyment of his outward worldly interest then farewel Priests worship and God too I will finde out new wayes of my own devising that shall be as bulwarks to secure my state and compel the people to walk in them and if any dare rebuke my doings I 'll venture the withering of mine arm by stretching it out against them But stay for all your hasty fury you may be glad to beg the Prophets prayers on your behalf for mercy Something appeares like this now in our dayes and it 's to be feared more will follow this I am sure of the people of God had gone a great way further then they have in destroying the remainders of Babylon and Antichrist among us and had ere this time taken away the antient political bounds that hindred the people from going up to Ierusalem to worship had not something hindered Cursed be those Achitophels whose pernicious counsels have hindered the Son of David from raigning but this is our comfort that whosoever they be they shall but hinder for a season when the appointed time comes will they nill they they shall be removed and Christ will take to himself his great power and raign in the midst of his people But Aggravations of Jehu's sin Secondly consider the aggravations of this mans Iehu's sin beyond those that went before him they are great and many 1. Iehu had the example of the wrath of God upon three Kings before him for the same sins Ieroboam first committed this sin but had no presidents of the warth of God to scare him it 's true he had presidents good and many of the wrath of God upon Idolaters but the temptation under which he lay the fear of losing his Kingdom made him to think that good and righteous end of securing his Kingdom and making good the word of the Lord in establishing it to himself would bear him out But Iehu had no excuse at all but the perverse unbelief of his own hard heart and the wicked tendency of his soul for he saw that notwithstanding the plausible and in some measure righteous pretence of Ieroboam the wrath of God consumed him and his house he had the presidents of the wrath of God upon Ieroboam the inventer and Baasha the follower of these sins in such a terrible manner as to cut them off from the face of the earth and he executes the severe vengeance of God upon the head of a third transgressor of the same kinde and yet to provoke this jealous God to more and greater wrath who but a Iehu a heart hardened by love and mercy could or durst do it Alas how little doth the by-past judgements of God move our hard and flinty hearts in these our dayes although the generation before us fresh in memory God hath made them as dung upon the face of the earth and scattered them that they are not found and brought them to nothing yet we will not be warned but we have made that which was but as a mote in their eye a beam in our own we have gotten into their places and are fallen to commit adultery with their sins and we will not depart from those sins that have made God so terrible to them and to do such wonders in our dayes to the dying his garments red in blood Who durst do thus but those whose hearts are made fat eyes blinde and ears deaf and that by mercy as if indeed we were a people fatted for slaughter and prepared for utter destruction 2. Another aggravation of this sin was this he had an enlightned conscience so much light as that he could bring the word of God to confirm every action of his And certainly he knew much of the minde of God he was much acquainted both with the promises and prophesies of God to and concerning his people as the story throughout sufficiently evidences he had so much light and knowledge that God did justly expect he should walk in his law with all his heart vers 31. but his heart his heart was faulty O that little thing within us hath more deceit in it then a whole world of other creatures have his light enabled him to make the most glorious profession that ever any King of Israel did that we read of since Solomons daies his light made him bold couragious and full of outward zeal yet against all this he sins when so much of the work was done as that he could sit down and taste the sweetness of present enjoyments though mutable and earthly his heart waxes fat presently and could go no further his light goes out and he becomes blinde at noon-day the sight of the glory of an earthly kingdom though none had more experience of the uncertainty vanity and vexation

eyes of God as his people are for he saith They are as the apple of his eye must be trampled upon brought under Let us learn from hence Not to trust to man whose breath is in his nostrils but in the living God who is onely faithful and true to the end 2. We may here observe The utmost limits that a Iehonadab will go he will run on to the very gates of heaven but he is so swoln with the venome of self-righteousness the honour and glory of this world that he cannot enter that straight gate but in matters of the worship of God the golden Calves the inventions of mens devising will satisfie him well enough that that will please his Prince will content him he will be outwardly holy and zealous for God make good and wholesome Laws for the regulating of the outward man he will command his houshold and family to exercise the vertue of temperance Ye shall drink no wine neither ye nor your sons for ever He will not have a drunkard in his house he will go higher yet command covetousness from among his family and followers they must not build houses nor sow seed nor plant vineyards nor have any See how vertuous our Jehonadab is where shall we finde his fellow surely there 's none like him Thus Jehonadab inherits the praises of the earth the reward of his vertue But here 's a spot in this beautiful face HIS END which is onely this That they may live long in the world That ye may live many dayes in the land c. all his advantages could raise him no higher then the world notwithstanding all his seeming contempt of the world yet he places his happiness here below for this is the end wherefore he ordained his precepts and That he would have his children and followers aim at in their obedience to them that they may live many dayes in the land and this end by their obedience they obtained For thus saith the Lord Iehonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever God gives them their desire and their aim in all their devotions To live long in the world and their posterity not be rooted out so long as there 's a being in the earth for the generation among whom they live that I conceive is onely meant by not wanting a man to stand before God for ever Thus we see Iehonadab's resting place that all his endeavours and works follow after Not in God but in the world But again further he will in a measure own the present cause of God the truth and work of the present generation He comes to meet Iehu to meet him to congratulate him and bid him God speed who can say now Black is his eye Iehu could not He Questions not the affection of his heart to the work but TO HIM to his interest Is thy heart right as my heart is with thy heart Here 's a supposal that Iehonadab's heart was right to the work otherwise why should Iehu say As my heart is with thy heart If he had not thought his heart right to the work that was THEN doing Iehu's heart could not be right with his for Iehu's heart was really set upon that present work of rooting out and destroying the house of Ahab and Baal but Iehu knew Iehonadab's heart was right to the work of reformation and he professes his so too And here lies the Question Is thy heart right FOR ME for my person my interest my sitting on the throne my governing the people in the place of Ahab as my heart is right with thy heart for that which thou desirest Reformation These Jehonadab's will rise up in judg●ment against the Jehonadab's of our times being men mo●● righteous by far th●●●ou●s wa●●ing exactly up to their prof●st principles 〈◊〉 ou● Jehonadab's are as ●a● from doing as th●●●st is from the ●●st ●●n ●d no 〈◊〉 in any particular he that hath but h●●s●n●y cannot but ●ee it pl●●●y If their g●ea● g●a●d father old Jehonadab were alive how would he ●●dew his gray hairs with tears ●o ●ee how un●●k him th●se his children are if so then what can these m●n expect but to have a heavier weight of wrath laid upon them by how much their sins have exceeded their predecessors Now all Iehonadab's excellencies vertues righteousness and holiness could not preserve him from striking up the bargaine entering into covenant with Iehu to be for him And Iehonadab answered It is and upon this they strike hands and ratifie the covenant If thou wilt be for me I am for thee and he gave him his hand and he took him up to him into the chariot they are become one presently and now Iehonadab is set on high in the chariot made a privy counsellor and entered into covenant with his King to be for him and to strengthen his hands he becomes a LAW-MAKER prescribes precepts and directions for the ordering future ages as hath been already mentioned but among all those Laws there 's not a word of going up to Ierusalem to worship and sanctifying Gods name in drawing nigh unto him in his most holy place in those sanctified appointments he hath ordained to be worshipped in no that would not stand with the new-made interest of his Prince and therefore like a good subject and friend he is silent as to that leaves it for some other and more fit season But to satisfie his conscience and to salve his reputation among good men he makes Orders for the outward deportment between man and man and sets no such an end to be his scope as hath the face of a promise withit yea is part of a promse but it 's but the outside the bottom of the promise his heart never dives into it 's not the enjoyment of God himself in a promise but of this world in a promise that is the great aim and end of all his wayes That your dayes may be long in the land not that you may enjoy God in his own high appointments at Ierusalem no that would offend his Prince and alas tender heart he is loth to grieve him to whom he is so much beholden Thus we see how far a Jehonadab will go no further then he can drag his Prince along with him if he stay at the Calves and admire their golden glory Jehonadab will do so too but the glory of a holy God in his own Ordinances he is a stranger to ignorant of This consideration exhorts us to seek out other leaders and not to follow after any Iehonadab whatsoever if we do they will lead us to the Calves into wayes of their own invention instead of Ierusalem There 's not a Iehonadab will venter his carkase for Christ if the worldly powers will not go along with him he will stay with them rather then run a hazard in going a little onward alone to seek out the Lambe who is the faithful leader of his people But let us diligently seek