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A28339 Eben-ezer, or, Profitable truths after pestilential times being some meditations upon Isaiah 4, 2, shewing the mercy and the duty of those that have escap'd the slaughtering pestilence : as also, that all slaughter shall end in the exhaltation of Christ and the setting up of his kingdom : together with an epistolary preface to the citizens of London & Westminster / by Thomas Blake. Blake, Thomas. 1666 (1666) Wing B3140; ESTC R24659 97,235 207

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is our Law-giver the Lord is our King he will save us It relates unto a time when Christ shall be glorious The glorious Lord shall be as a place of Broad Rivers and Streams so you have it in the foregoing verse and then there shall be a cry The Lord is our King and he shall be our Law-giver For the present there is great debate between Christ and the Men of the World who should give Laws whose Prerogative it is to rule the Conscience and men say unto Saints Bow down that we may go over they say unto the SOULS of Saints Bow down But when Christ shall be made glorious these controversies shall soon end then a Nation shall come and acknowledge it is Christ is to rule them in every thing Isa 2. decides the Controversie where more then once it is said The Lord ALONE shall be exalted and what then vers 3. Many People shall go and say Come ye and let us go up unto the Mountain of the Lord to the House of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Sion shall go forth the Law and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem and he shall judge among the Nations and shall rebuke many People This is the Spirit that shall be put upon many People and they shall say It is not this and that and the other that pretends Dominion over the Conscience must teach us how to walk but HE will teach us and we will walk in his ways and it is out of Sion the Law shall go forth and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem therefore Numb 24.7 it is said Israel's King shall be higher then Agag and shall carry the day and all the men of the Earth shall be constrained to submit to him 4. Christ shall be glorious in this respect That all the Great Ones of the World shall come and fall at his Foot and acknowledge they are in his hands that Christ can and may dispose of them as he pleaseth It is a business there is much tugging about in the World the Great Ones of the World are loth Christ should take his place they would fain stand upon their own legs and it is from hence all their contrariety and hatred against his People and Ways doth arise intimated in Psal 2.3 The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed saying Let us break their Bands asunder and cast away their Cords from us They cannot think of stooping unto Christ but it is in vain for to this the greatest on Earth shall be brought therefore Christ hath his Name Rev. 19.16 He hath on his Vesture and on his Thigh a Name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS It is written upon his Vesture and Garments which is in the sight and full view of all Men He shall be in the sight of the World owned as KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS and the greatest upon Earth shall be constrained to stoop unto him as is excellently set forth in that typical Psalm Psal 72. where Christs Dominion is much held out The Kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shall bring Presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts yea all Kings shall fall down before him all Nations shall serve him 5. Again The Glory of Christ shall lie in the maintaining and excellent managing of his Power and Government he shall maintain his Government and Glory It is that that eclipses the glory of the Princes of this Earth that they are not able to keep their stations oft times but Christ shall keep and maintain and make good his ground Psal 132.18 His Enemies will I cloath with shame but upon himself shall the Crown flourish Those that would oppose him shall fall before him but he shall maintain his own station at a glorious rate And likewise his Glory shall be in the management of his Government he will put an end to Oppression and judge with Equity he will manage his Government so as that none shall find fault with him It is the misery of the Potentates of this World that their ill management of their Power loseth them their Glory but Christ and all that shall have any power under him shall not do so Isa 32.1 A King shall reign in Righteousness and Princes shall rule in Judgement all matters shall then be managed with much equity and uprightness Isa 11.1 c. is a notable Scripture for this There shall come forth a Rod out of the Stem of Jesse that is Christ the Spirit of the Lord and of Wisdom shall be upon him there is his Glory when he comes to govern he shall do things with wisdom that is Wisdom really for the Wisdom of this World comes to nothing and the ends of the Men of the World are not accomplished but Christ shall rule with Wisdom and also with Equity vers 4. With Righteousness shall he judge the Poor and reprove with Equity for the Meek of the Earth Now Christs thus managing of his Government will render him very glorious Which leads me to the fourth thing propounded Fourthly That Christ in his being glorious shall be glorious for the good of his People those of Israel that shall be carried thorow the distresses and straights they shall meet withal in the World they shall share in and partake of all the Glory of Christ with much comfort Psal 72.7 it is there said In his days shall the righteous flourish when it is well with him it shall not be ill with them So Isa 24. where it is said ver 23. Christ shall reign in Mount Zion and before his Antients gloriously and you shall see vers 16. how it will be with his People From the uttermost parts of the Earth have I heard Songs even Glory to the Righteous When Christ shall be glorified his People shall be glorified with him If the Saints say unto Christ as Joseph did unto Pharaoh's Butler Remeber me when it is well with thee their Desires shall be answered at a better rate then Joseph's were When Christ shall be made glorious in the World as he shall be one day he will not be one day without his Peoples reaping the good and benefit thereof and it must needs be thus for consider First the Union between Christ and his People Christ is the Head and Husband of his Saints And Civilians say Uxor lucet Mariti radiis the Wife partakes of the honour of her Husband so it shall be here the Saints shall partake of and reap the good of that honour that shall be upon the Head of Christ Christ is so full of love to his People that the very love he bears them were there no other tie would engage him to interest them in the good of his Glory Christ is the Head and his People are the Members and if the Head be dignified all the Members must
for a time they shall be dealt withall according to the violence done to the Saints of God The violence done to me and to my Flesh be upon Babylon shall the Inhabitants of Zion say Isa 51.22 23. I have taken the cup of trembling out of thy hand that is out of Zions hand even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it again but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy Soul Bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy Body as the ground and as the street to them that went over They shall suffer too according to the contempt of the Gospel and the dishonour done to Christ that way for he shall come to deal with all them that do not know him and obey not the Gospel and also according to the sin of despising the forbearance of Christ Indeed this day you are escaped and the patience of Christ is exercised towards you but let me tell you if you stand and abide in your sinful state you shall find that the abusing of the patience of Christ is but treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath 5. Those that have escaped and not Israel they shall be compassed about with eternal Sorrows and shall never rise out of them Says the Church Though I fall I shall arise again and though I sit in darkness yet the Lord shall be a light to me Then shall she be confounded that is the Enemies of the Church shame shall cover her That will be the portion of every sinner though he may escape for a season shame shall cover him misery and distress shall abide him for ever VSE III. HAving dispatch'd the Second I come now to a Third Use which the former Uses necessarily lead unto It is a little to encourage the hearts of poor Sinners that possibly may be full of thoughts and desires that they might yet be brought into the number of Israel Methinks I do even hear some poor heart say If it be so well with them that are Gods Israel and so ill with them that are not Gods Israel What is there no hope for me though I am yet none of that number Must I for ever stay in that state of misery in which I am Must an eternal doom of Misery be entaild upon me I acknowledge my state is exceeding desperate and sad but is there no hope in Israel concerning this matter To that I answer If there be any poor sinner sensible of the misery of his condition that would gladly make an escape out of it Soul be not discouraged thy condition is not hopeless but be encouraged for there is a possibility that as thou hast escaped the dread and misery of this present day so thou mayst be delivered from that Christless state wherein thou art There are two Scriptures I would commend to you for this purpose the first is in Isa 44.5 One shall say I am the Lords and another shall call himself by the Name of Jacob and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord and sirname himself by the Name of Israel The words are both a Prophecy and a Promise and they do respect the Gentile-World that were at that time and long after in their sins in their state of estrangement from God here it is prophesied that yet there should be a flocking into Israel the number of Gods Israel should be greatly augmented and encreased It is promised that God would so prevail upon the hearts of some poor Sinners that they shall come and say I am the Lords and shall come and subscribe their hands to the Lord and shall sirname themselves by the Name of Israel that God would conquer them so far that they should see the need they had to be of that number that they shall resign and give up themselves to be of the Israel of God This is an encouraging word to the Sinner there is a possibility for them that were strangers to come and to name themselves by the Name of Jacob and subscribing to the Lord to take up that Name and so partake of the Priviledges of the Israel of God Take another Scripture Isa 19.24 25. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria even a Blessing in the midst of the Land whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless saying Blessed be Egypt my People and Assyria the Work of my hands and Israel my Inheritance The import of the words is this Egypt and Assyria were some of the Enemies of God and his People at a very great distance from him but here is a Promise that they should come to be conquered and brought into subjection to the Lord and to be baptized into the Spirit of Israel to be blessed with the Blessing of Israel they shall speak the Language of Canaan they shall be of one Heart and one Lip with the Lords People Souls were you as Egypt and were you as the Assyrians Enemies to God and his People were you at the greatest distance from God that could be supposed Egypt had neither Ordinances nor Priviledges nor ought else that good was more then the creatures of the Earth and such-like things yet the Lord intimates here to us that they shall come to share in and divide a Blessing with Israel If thy estate were as one of them yet mayest thou as and according to the promise made to them be brought into the number that shall share in the Blessing of the Israel of God Therefore Soul though now thou art not of Israel yet it may be said to thee They have obtained Mercy which had not obtained This is the kindness of God that he is pleased to make blessed overtures of Mercy unto poor vile and unworthy Sinners But more then this for the encouragement of any Soul that may yet be in his Sins I would speak four or five things Thy condition is not desperate but thou mayst be brought into the number of the Israel of God and so partake of the same Mercy with them in thy escaping this day if thou dost consider 1. That Gods Israel came to be the People of God by choice and through the Grace and Goodness of God Israel were not born the People of God He chose Abraham and his Seed from the rest of the World to be a peculiar People to himself Hence it is that Israel often-times are called in Scripture Israel my CHOSEN so Psal 105.4 The Lord hath CHOSEN Jacob for himself and Israel to be his peculiar Treasure and in Isa 44.1 Israel is called there the Chosen of the Lord Yet now hear O Jacob my Servant and Israel whom I have CHOSEN They were chosen meerly from the good pleasure of God Choice it is a free Act in which there is no necessity and constraint so it was in God a free Act to pitch upon Israel to make them his People This account the Lord gives of it Deut.