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A81992	Seismos megas. Or Heaven & earth shaken. A treatise shewing how kings, princes, and their governments are turned and changed by Jesus Christ as [brace] King of Kings, and King of Saints. / By John Davis, M.A. sometime lecturer at Christ Church in London, and now pastour of a congregation in Dover.	Davis, John, pastor of a congregation in Dover.	1655 (1655)	Wing D422; Thomason E1601_2	153,991	331

deal with Kingdomes and Nations without these Signes But since he hath these creatures he will make use of them yea and their extravagances shall do him good service Men stop their eares at the voyce of the ordinary course of Heaven and Earth and will not hear but when he turnes their courses into Signes and wonders then they shall heare By this meanes he speakes to all the World when Christ himselfe speaks it must be with a mighty voyce We low creatures doe but mutter and whisper and few there be that heare our voyce but when he speaks heaven and earth and all the world shall heare him When he speakes by the word of his Gospel every creature must hear Mar. 16. 15. and his Apostles which were the Teachers they must have the gift of tongues and be able to speak the language of every Nation where they come that so the Parthians Medes and Elamites might heare as well as the Jewes Their line is gone out into all the earth Psal 19. 4. Christ hath another way of speaking to all the world namely by signes in heaven and earth those that will not hear his Gospel yet will listen to their language Signes have their voyce as well as men Exod. 4. 8. If they will not believe the voyce of the first signe Turkes Jewes Heathens Prophane persons which regard not the sound of the Gospel yet will now be Auriti quick of hearing as Christ in his preaching spake as one having authority So he speakes now and commands attention Prov. 18. 23. The poor useth intreaties and its the poverty of Christs messengers that they come beseeching and intreating but Christ himselfe speakes in a commanding way to let all men know bad as well as good that he is about his worke and his great work Earthly men minde the earth speak of it account it their own and Christ will meet them there and speake from and by the Earth to them This way of working Signes mindes us that the creatures are not in that state he intendes them By this change upon them he hints unto us their re●●auration into the liberty of the sonnes of God Rom. 8. 21. In their ordinary course while they serve those who do disservice to Christ they groane Rom. 8. 21. and to step out of this road to subserve Christ it is a forerunner of their liberty 'T is plaine God gave man dominion over the Fish of the Sea and over the Fowls of the Aire and over the Cattel and over all the Earth Gen. 1. 26. To man that is true but to what man to man in what condition it was not given to finful man but to man after Gods Image and likenesse as it is in the same verse to man before his fall to righteous man to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to man made upright as it is Eccles 7. 29. Upright according to the rule of his Creation not to wicked and ungodly man So that the prime end of all creatures service is directed to righteous man to man after Gods Image and likenesse But to serve wicked and unrighteous man is beside their prime end and therefore according to their nature they groane that is they are not pleased because they obtain not their first end t is true they are not intelligent and so they know it not but yet it s against the first Law of their creation It s not fit they should know it for then it would grieve them and they have not sinned and so have not let in greife upon themselves The Mathematical Bee and the Artificial Spider make their combs and houses according to the rules of reason yet they know not what they do So those creatures serve but not according to their prime end though they know it not yet God knowes it and will right it and by using of them in this extraordinary way he tells us so and would not suffer them thus to groane but that he knowes how to honour himselfe and restore them By these Turnes and appearances in natural bodies Christ knowes how to draw forth spiritual actings in his people Let it thunder or lighten though his people are assured of his love and favour and that they lie in his bosome yet they entertaine him in that his voyce with an awful feare and reverence that his mighty voyce makes them in a holy way to tremble and yet to trust When signes are in Heaven and Earth Saints rest not in the admiration of what they see or hear but search into the blessed word of truth for the meaning of those signes Grace makes a servant to be divine in drudgery and not to eat and drink but to Gods glory So likewise not to see or heare the signes in heaven and earth but to eye him that works in and by them If Heathens and Strangers heare their voyce sure his own people and servants much more and more to purpose Others wonder at what they know not these know and wonder Others are afraid and troubled these feare and believe believe and waite waite and pray See hence the excellency of Christ the Gospel glories to hold out that excellency and Saints glory to see the reflection of it in the Gospel and heaven and earth here glory to trumpet it out View this excellency 1. In that he causeth these alterations in Heaven and Earth and that exalts him Men cannot make them they cannot stop nor open the bottels of the clouds or the windowes of heaven but Christ can They can neither raise nor cease the st●rme and tempest but Christ can 2. This tells you he that can do this can do more he can make enemies become friends and friends more friendly He can change counsels and decrees yea the thoughts and frames of our hearts Laban came with a heart boy●ing in passion against Jacob but God met him and suffered him not to hurt him Ravens are greedy fowles and devour their prey and yet as greedy as they are they must bring the prophet bread It s a vaine thing to set against Christ Job 9. 4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath hardned himselfe against him and hath prospered If heaven and earth cannot serve fully in their ordinary course he will change their course and serve himselfe by that change Exod. 14. 25. He takes off the Chariot wheeles and makes them drive heavily whereupon the Egyptians cry out Let us flie from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them you are surely much over matched when you have heaven and earth and the God of both against you It s no hard thing to believe that the promises concerning this life should be performed while we remember what he doth in Earth as well as Heaven The meeke shall inherit the earth and obedient ones shall eat the good things of the Land Psal 37. 11. Prov. 3. 16. Length of dayes are in Wisdomes right hand and in her left hand

riches and honour Say not your enemies are many mighty crafty and malicious and you are few and weake and how shall your tranquillity be Remember Christ hath this power to change their strength into weaknesse and your weaknesse into strength Lastly let it exhort you to these four things 1. Consider Christ in all changes on the creatures and this will make natural Philosophy to become spiritual Are there Ecclipses of the Sun blazing Stars Meteors unusual Winds and Stormes Haile Snow Thunder and Lightning Then let your souls mount up in thoughts and feare of Christ while Astrologers are vexing their mindes with strained applications of these things here you are taught whether to refer them Remember Christ in the dry years we have had in the unusual high Tydes and such like Occurences 2. Feare before Christ more then men when they are angry you are troubled when they frowne you feare and is there not more cause to feare him that over-rules the constellations turnes about the winds Jer. 5. 22. Fear you not me saith the Lord and will ye not tremble at my person who have placed the sand for the bound of the Sea 3. Advance your faith to a great expectation and the expectation of great things A little faith will not suffice when God speaks and workes we must be strong in faith if we will give glory to God not considering the carnal reasons examples customes and experiences which may be produced and pressed but to goe on in our perswasion that God which hath made Heaven and Earth will compleat his work for his own and his Sons glory 4. Surely Christ is to be exalted in praise that can worke about turnes in natural things to be subservient unto spiritual Signes in heaven and earth have an aspect to the performance of promises and fulfilling of prophesies and we should be heavenly and spiritual Mathematicians and Astrologers to take the true motion and dimension of these things to the elevation of his Name and our hearts to his praise CHAP. VI. Shewes the change and the ministration of Angels in these Turnes Thus First Christ is head of Angels 2. They must serve his Saints 3. They serve in destruction of their enemies 4. They must have apparent honour for this service 5. They are in the visions and so in the execution 6. They have Kingdome-worke 7. They and Saints are joyned together 8. They are used in the last which are the best dispensations 9. Christ must have his Angels as well as the Dragon Use of Instruction and Exhortation Concerning Heaven and Earth taken properly you heard in the former Chapter Look on heaven and earth now as spoken by a figure setting down the thing containing for the thing contained and so heaven containing the Angels is put for the Angels contained in heaven but then the question will be How are these Heavens shaken or plainly thus How are these Angels in Heaven said to be changed Angels are called Heavens because they dwell there Caeli quia caelicol● Heavens because the inhabitants of heaven thus Job 15. 15. The Heavens are not cleane in his sight that is the Angels of heaven are not cleane Not that they have any sin to pollute them but weighing them with him who is the holy holy holy One they can beare no weight Ne ipsi quidem caeli mundi sunt cum ipso collati quantumvis a terrenis istis faecibus immunes Beza The heavens although free from earthly dregs are not cleare compared with him His eyes are more pure then to behold any iniquity his holinesse is himselfe and so unmeasurable The Angels though holy yet is their holinesse by measure their holinesse is limited they are but creatures though holy and heavenly creatures and compared with that infinite One they are said not to be cleane Job 4. 18. Behold he put no trust in his servants and his Angels he charged with folly Nullo modo conferenda est illorum justitia cum justitia Dei quae modis omnibus infinita est Their righteousnesse is no way to be compared with his which is altogether infinite and this it may be is hinted in those latter words In his sight They are cleane indeed in our sight and we can finde no impurity in them but not so in his sight Mat. 6. 20. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven that is by the Angels in heaven Now how these heavens these Angels may be said to be shaken is the great Question We speake here of good Angels whom we look on as confirmed in their state by Christ and how then are they shaken Philip Melanchthon who was called Germaniae Luscinia Germanies Nightingale referring this prophesie of Haggai to Christ his comming in the flesh saith Movit coelos quia Deus assumpsit humanam Naturam He shooke the heavens because God assumed humane nature and there is a certain truth in that although the wordes carry more in them It was a great shake of Heaven when Christ who was higher then the heavens took our nature on him Carthusian referrs it to the appearance of Angels at the birth of Christ Movet coelos quando cives coelestes apparuerunt hominibus concinnentes Wh●n the Multitude of the heavenly hosts appeared p●aysing God and saying Glory to God in 〈◊〉 highest Luke 2. 13 14. Others refer it to the great admiration that even the Angels were in at the preaching of the Gospel 1 Pet. 1. 12. which things namely the things o th● G●●pel the Angels desire to look into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from a word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incurvo me ut 〈◊〉 which signifies I bow down my selfe that I may see arguing an a●dency of affection and the undergoing as it were some difficulty to obtain a Vision They admired and looked and ●he more they looked the more they admired like those that could not satisfie themselves in what they liked and looked after Now when God reveales New things to Angels then in some regard they receive a change for they then know that which they knew not before and in that reception of new Revelations may truly be said to be under some mutation or change And who knowes but God may reveale new things to them concerning the great workes which he is about to doe in the World Angels know some things and much more then we but not all they know not so much but they may know more Angels may grow in knowledge as well as men and all growth is a change a change from a l●sse quantity to a greater Angels are Gods servants and his speaking to them is his illigh●ning of them to know his will and knowing to do it Christ is said to shake the Angels in regard of that new employment he puts them to It is true Angels have a perfection et quod perf●ctum est non recipit mutationem in p●jus saith Drusius

yet if you weigh things in a Sanctuary Ballance you will finde such actings and workings as faith can rise up unto although sense cannot And when God will worke more of his great works by them then he will highthen our faith to apprehend them more Doth Christ in these great turnes use the ministration of Angels then surely he himselfe is far above them the Lord is above the servant and he to whom the administration is is above them that minister above them then he is and above them in these turnes for Heb. 1. 2. He is said to make the worlds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secula the several ages of the world Mr. Dixon in his Commentary on the place saith he callet● it the worlds for the variety of times and ages and fleeces of the creatures one succeeding another You wrong Jesus Christ if you converse not with him in all these inferiour motions he is the primum mobile the first mover and other things move after him The whole first Chapter to the Hebrews sets forth the excellency of Christ far above that of Angels which here I shall give you a briefe account of Take notice How he gives the full due to Angels the full due of their glory It s granted they are the sonnes of God as Ad●m is said to be Luke 3. 38. in that they had their immediate being from him and accordinly sang unto him and sh●uted for joy Job 38. 7. They have an excellent name which implyes an excellent nature Names are put to expresse the natures of things and excellent names to excellent things among which Angels are to be rank●d Th●y are His Angels of him and for him and therefore excellent They are spirits having a simple unc●mpounded being and therefore an excellent being They are as flames of fire of lightning that speedily execute his will ministring spirits as v. 14. But now Jesus Christ hath by inheritance obtained a far more excellent name then they they are made very good but he is made far better He is so a Son as they are not a Son by way of eminency he is a Son and first b●gotten which they are not He is appointed heir of all things which the Angels are not but even they are part of his possession given to be his servants He is the brightnesse of the Fathers glory so are not Angels Angels hold forth much of God but they are not the Character of his Person as Christ is They are used in the government of this world but he upholds all things by the word of his power Truth it is they do much service and do it cheerfully and vigorously but they can never do that service that Christ doth He by himselfe purged our sin which is a worke too great for them he takes his place where they cannot they may stand about the Throne and waite the pleasure of God but he sits down at the right hand of his glory He is God and they are but ●●eatures and owe him for their being v. 7. as do the Heaven and Earth v. 10. In regard of his humane nature He hath the oyl of gladnesse above his fellows and so loves righteousnesse and hates iniquity more then Angels He hath a Throne and that for ever and its honour enough for Angels to waite about it Many are the enemies of this Throne and Kingdome but God will make them his footstoole Thus you see Angels are but Ministers although glorious Ministers Christ is more glorious then they Let me adde one word more to exhort you 1. To draw your eyes to behold these glorious workes It s a curious study to search into Gods providences he imprints much of himselfe upon them and that by his choice servants his Angels 2. Let no discouragement seize upon you as to the Times Measures Methods Instruments of these things God hath his own houshold servants which he can and will imploy at his pleasure 3. And shall not this afford some elevation of your hearts in love to God when he doth on your behalfe imploy his best attendance 4. Lastly let it mightily provoke all the servants of God his precious Worthies to come forth and goe on in the service of these latter times It s no worse businesse you are called forth unto then Christ puts his Angels about Oh! then let not your hands hang down nor your knees be feeble Study what worke is put into your hands and do it with all your might Are you called to counsel or to act at home or abroad by Sea or by Land Oh! lift up your heads and rejoyce that God hath counted you worthy to be under-powers in these transactions value it as your happinesse to have been in his hand Let not the thoughts of danger or difficulty discourage you you are about Angels worke and you should have Angels spirits you have their help and you shall have a reward not inferiour to their condition I should now according to the opening of the words as we have spoken of the inhabitants of heaven and their shaking so proceed to shew the shaking of the Inhabitants of that part of the earth that is called a Continent as also the shaking of the inhabitants of the Sea and the inhabitants of Islands but these things I shall not handle now but hasten to what I intend in this Book CHAP. VII Opens the shake of Kings and Princes because 1. They make the great turns in the Earth 2. They pretend exemption from mans power 3. Dealing with them is a compendious way of dealing with the Nations 4. Being decked with worldly glory they seem to be Christs match Vses of Instruction and Exhortation HEaven as you heard Cháp 3 denotes by a Metaphor the highest things Thus when the Prophet Moses speaks of the high walls of a City D●ut 1. 28. He tells them of a City walled up to heaven It is the language of the Prophets to compare a Kingdome to a World and what is highest in a Kingdome to what is highest in the World Satan is called 2 Cor. 4. 4. The god of this World and when he was in the highest of his ●ff●ctual working in the children of disobedience when he wrought so in them that they exalted him as a God by worshipping of him when he had his heathenish Priests Altars Sacrifices Feast-dayes in the time of the Emperours as Jehovah God had his among his people Israel then is Satan said to be in Heaven because in so great hight in the World Rev. 12. 7 8. The Dragon is said to be in heaven in regard that he was exalted and observed as a God But when his Tempels Idols and Altars were demolished he is there and then said to be cast out of heaven The heathenish Kings and Princes that were most forward and shining in this hellish heaven are called Stars Isa 61. 15 16. When God brings Israel out