hindering the groweth of it the increase of it This Mysticall bodie being joyned compacted and knit together it increaseth with the increase of God saith Saint Paul to his Colossians It maketh increase to the edifying of it selfe in love saith the same Apostle to his Ephesians On the other hand being divided rent and torne it withereth wanzeth it groweth not Not but that God can and sometimes doth bring good out of this evill light our of this darkenesse making the truth which is but one a gainer by division improving distractions to the Churches benefit But this is by accident no thanks to these divisions distractions for this gain which being enemies to Vnitie they are in their own nature no friends to the Truth no friends to the Church but enemies to it Enemies hindering the growth of it nay threatning the ruine of it Our Saviour hath sayd it of a Kingdome an House if divided against themselves they cannotstand These Breaches in the Church are like wounds in the bodie though not all mortall yet in their own nature destructive as I shall shew you God willing in the latter part of the Text shaking the Church as well as hindering it And in this respect Christians who bear good will to Israel wish well to the Church should seeke the Cure the Healing of them they are disadvantagious to the Church And Secondly Advantagious to her enemies In this like Breaches made in the walls of a Citie which are an In-let to the Enemie giving him the advantage of entring and taking possession if they be not either repaired or looked to Of such dangerous consequence are these Breaches in the Church they are In-lets to the Adversary In-lets in the first place to Sathan that comon Adversarie who by these breaches breaks in upon the Church as by domesticall breaches he breaks in upon a Family hindering the affaires of it In-lets in the second place to the Instruments of Sathan False-Teachers Seducers who make great advantage of these Breaches to let in their owne pernicious errors by them Even as by the Graecian Horse that fatall Engine was let and drawn in by that Breach which the Trojans themselves had made in their owne Walls to the overthrow of their Citie So dangerous are these breaches disadvantagious to the Church advatagious to her Enemies Great cause why Christians should desire and endeavour our the Cure the Healing of them Dwell we no longer upon Confirmation or Illustration It is a truth I suppose which in Thesi in the generall will easily be granted and yeelded at all hands That which I principally ayme at is the practicall part the bringing it home the setting it on by way of Application which I shall direct these two ways By way of Reprehension Exhortation By way Reprehension is this The duty and practise of every true Israelite to seeke the Healing of Israels breaches What then In the first place shall we say to them who instead of Healing make them Breach-makers whether in the Church or State To let passe the latter of these State-Incendiaries such as have troubled and distracted the Politicke State of this Kingdome for their own private ends and advantages that they might have the better fishing in these troubled waters Them I referre together with the Cure of those breaches by them made to that wise and venerable Colledge of State Phisitians at the present assembled to that purpose The Breaches which my eye is principally upon are Israels breaches Breaches in the Church specially those wherewith the Church in this Kingdome is distracted and torne And here give me leave briefly to tax and censure those which have been or are either the makers or maintainers of them whether Principalls or Accessaries Q But who are they A. For Answer I shall have recourse to the Type who were they which made these breaches in Israel which the Psalmist here complains of I have showen you it already They were either strangers or Israelites Strangers Enemies to their Kingdom and Religion Moabites Edomites Philistines or else Israelites that factious seditious party which cleaved to the House of Saul and so were enemies to the House of David Paralell hereunto behold we also in our Israel two forts of Breach-makers Strangers Israelites First Begin with the former Strangers I mean strangers and Enemies to our Religion Such as though they be amongst us yet they are not of us Papists and persons Popishly affected Amongst whom how ever I cannot think but that there are some blindly zealous poor misguided souls who follow after their Ishhosheth Or Adonijah with simplicity of heart and so are both more quiet and innocent Yet others amongst them there are and that many very active and practicall in this worst piece of Arithmatick which they study more than anvother Division Dividing of Houses Cities Parliaments Kingdoms States Churches Setting Subjects against Subjects In this Hellish Art how many famous I should say infamous Practitioners have there been amongst them in all Ages Witnesse the Histories of the late and frequent Irish Rebellions Some of them Masters in that Science Prosessours in it Those devoted and professed Incendiaries the Jesuites and their schollers Hellish Engineers who make it their work to be continually laying of Trains and springing of Mines for the blowing up the gates and wals of our Jerusalem endeavouring to make Breaches therin that themselves and their party may re-enter and take possession It was the speech of the Syrians and others their Confederates Let us go up against Judah and vex it and let us make a breach therein for us What they determined against Judah that do these Romish Consederates practise against our Israel continually vexing us by their wiles as the Midianites did Israel seeking to make a Breach amongst us for themselves their hopes being founded upon our divisions Upon them in the first place do we charge these our Breaches both in this and the neighbour Kingdomes but charging them we cannot discharge our selves 2. A second sort of these Breach-makers are to be found amongst our selves Israelites men professing the same Religion Protestants by name who to approve themselves such can readily pronounce the Protestants Shibboleth willingly submitting to the late Protestation wherin amongst other things they have vowed and promised to praeserve and maintaine the union and peace of the three Kingdoms and yet they either are or have been Breach-makers breaking the peace of the Church Of these we may take notice of two sorts Pardon my plain and home-dealing in prosecuting of this charge The designe which I aym at is the Healing of Israels Breaches Now a wound you know that it may be Cured it must first be searched This I shall do with as tender and gentle and hand as possible I can that whilest I go about to make up Breaches I may not make any Two sorts of persons there are amongst our selves upon whom
them disdaining that seeming disrespect drew his sword and sheathed it in his bowels runing him through And is it not thus my brethren with some with multitudes amongst us at this day Whilest the neighbour Kingdom is on fire already and our owne in danger the fire of Gods wrath flaming in the one smoaking in the other fearfull breaches made in both breaches in the state and breaches in the Church threatning every one of us in our particulars insomuch as we may say of our selves as it is said of sea-men we know not whether to reckon our selves amongst the living or dead so eminent is our hazard so eminent our danger yet for all this they are wholly taken up with drawing of lines in the dust still wallowing and cumbling in dust minding nothing but earth burying themselves in the dust of worldly thoughts and imployment seeking their own things their own private lucre and gain the increasing of their estates the building and raysing of their houses In the mean time let heaven and earth go together let Church and state sinke or swim or clash one aganst the other to the breaking and drowning of both what care they they regard it not they are not affected with it Too plain an evidence against them that they are but as woden leggs or armes tyed on to this misticall body no true gemime living members of it Which if they were it could not be but that they should be sensible of the wounds and ruptures in it the breaches thereof so sensible of them as to be affected with them And thus let every of us labour to be that we may in the first place finde our Hearts working towards the healing and repairing of these breaches The heart must first work before the hand will work That we may put an hand to the healing of these breaches lay them to heart That we may both desire and indeavour the Cure let us be affected with the Disease Which that we may be let us consider and look upon it these three wayes even as Phisitians are wont to do upon the diseases of their Patients 1. In the Causes 2. In the Symptomes 3. In the Prognosticks of it In the Causes of it breeding and feeding it In the Symptomes or effects attending upon it going along with it In the Prognosticks or events portended by it and following upon it All these three wayes doth David here look upon Israels Disease her Breaches here in the Text First In the Cause of them which he found to be Gods displeasure and anger conceived against them and broke forth upon them for their sinnes O God thou hast cast us off thou hast scattered us thou hast been displeased viz. for our sins which is the onely cause of Gods displeasure So you have it Verse 1. Secondly In the Symptomes of it which were fearfull and terrible The earth trembled it was broken Riven and torn as it were with an Earthquake affected and afflicted with frequent and dangerous Commotions and distractions Verse 2. Thirdly In the Prognosticks of it It shaketh saith the Text i. e. presaging nothing but Ruine and downfall unlesse it be speedily underpropped and the Breaches thereof made up and Healed Thus did David looke upon Israels disease and hereupon it was that he was so deeply affected with it so earnestly desiring the Cure of it That we may be alike affected with the Breaches of our Israel look we also upon this Disease these three wayes First In the causes of it what is the true Cause of all these Breaches which do for the present lye upon this and the neighbour Kingdome Surely it is no other than that which David here pitcheth upon even the wrath and displeasure of God conceived against us for our sins Other Causes may be assigned as Instrumentall but these are the chiefe and principall In Israels case David was not ignorant that some Forraigne enemies Moabites Edomites Philistines together with some of his own Kingdom Israelites that seditious partie which cleaved to the House of Saul had an hand in making and maintaining those Breaches Yet see he rests not here his thoughts rise higher to the first and Primary cause which sets them awork and that he findes to be Gods displeasure against that Kingdom for the sinnes thereof In this and the neighbour Kingdom there have been and are many Instuments which have had hands in making and maintaining there Breaches even all those Breach-makers which I named before yet alas these are but Instruments which move as they are moved the Chiefe and Principal cause is the just anger and Displeasure of God conceived against us for sin And so let us conceive of it When the Plague was broke forth in the Camp of Israel beginning to make a Breach upon them Moses presently tells Aaron There is wrath gone out from the Lord What ever plague or Judgement in what kinde soever it be breaketh in upon a Nation it is but a token and effect of wrath even Divine wrath the wrath of God It is the breath of the Lord which kindleth these Tophets And kindling them bloweth them up It is wrath which both maketh and maintaineth these Breaches Wrath conceived for our sins that is the fewell which this firetaketh hold and feedeth upon Gods wrath taketh hold upon mans sins Where no wood is there the fire goeth out were there no sin there would be no wrath For this is it that the wrath of God cometh upon perticular persons who being sinners bynature they are also by nature children of wrath and being sinners by Practie they are made vessels of wrath treasuring up unto themselves wrath even that wrath which is and shall be revealed from Heaven against all unrighteousnesse of man This wrath is and shall be powred out upon the heads of men for their sins Because of these things saith the Apostle speaking of sinfull lusts cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience And as upon particular persons so upon whole Kingdoms and Nations Never did the wrath of God break forth upon Israel but when he was provoked by their sins The Breach first ever begun on their part in their breaking Covenant with God Still they break with God in breaking his Lawes before he brake in upon them by his judgements which were ever sent onely to avenge the quarrel of his covenant as the Lord himself telleth them And surely my Brethren here is the first rise and spring of all those Evils which either already are Broken in upon us or else do threaten us They are no other but tokens and effects of Gods displeasure against us for sin And so conceive we of all these Breaches at which God himself having been long provoked seemeth now to be breaking in upon us to aveng the quarrell of his Covenant which we have violated and and broken Here are the Causes of this disease In the second place look we upon
2. Israels Cure 3. Israels Physitian Israels Disease Ruptures Breaches the Breaches thereof Israels Cure the making up or healing of those Breaches Heale the Breaches thereof Israels Physitian from whom it is that David here seeks for this Cure viz. God himselfe To him it is that he maketh this his Request as the first word in the Psalme informes us O God heale thou the Breaches thereof Insist wee upon these three particulars severally beginning first with Israels Disease the Breaches thereof What David hereby means I have in part explained already viz. Those Distractions Divisions Politicall Breaches and Ruptures in the body of his Kingdome Shevariah saith the Hebrew Contrit iones Rupturas Fragmenta the Ruptures Breaches Shivers a word which answers the Originall both in sound and sence possibly fetcht from this Hebrew root Shibber to breake or sbiver a Breach this was Israels Disease A Disease in what bodie soever wee meet with it Be it first in the Nature all body whether Inwardly a Rupture or Outwardly salutio continui a cut or Wound whereby the flesh is broken and divided Every such a Breach or Fraction in what part soever it be it is a Maladie a Disease calling for the help of the Physitian or Chirurgion These are Corporall Breaches Or be it Secondly In the Oeconemical Body or Family Breaches whether in the Head betwixt the Governours those unhappy jars betwixt man and wife dividing those whom God hath made One or betwixt the Members Dissensions of Brethren too frequent or the disagreements of Servants all hurtfull and prejudiciall to the familie Domesticall Breaches Or be it Thirdly in the Politicall body the Common-wealth Breaches made upon it by open hostilitie from foraigne enemies or else in it by homebred divisions and dissentions whether betwixt the Prince and Subiects or betwixt Subiects themselves all endangering the state of a Kingdome Politicall Breaches Or be it Fourthly In the Ecclesiasticall Body the Church Breaches in or about matters of Religion Sects Schismes Heresies rending and rearing the Seamelesse Coate of Christ the Church Ecclesiasticall Breaches Of all and every of these I may truly say that they are Diseases and that dangerous ones How dangerous I shall forbeare to shew you for the present reserving that for the latter part of the Text to which properly it belongeth This is the disease which David here speaketh of and complaineth of And this was Israels disease That is the mark which my eve is upon at the present Heale the Breaches thereof viz. Of the Land the Land of Israel Even Israel is subiect to Breaches that is the conclusion which from hence I take up Even Israel is subiect to Breaches So it was with the Literall typicall Israel Davids Kingdome so it may be with spirituall Mysticall Israel the Kingdome of Christ the church of God upon Earth Hereof was Israel a type Davids Kingdome a type of Christs Kingdome the Church upon Earth resembling it both in the King of it and Subiects of it and State of it 1. For the King and Head of it David a type of Christ and a lively type thence is it that Christ is sometimes called by the name of David They shall seeke the Lord their God saith the Prophet Hosea speaking of the Israelites the Iewes and David their King i. e. Christ who as he was of the seed of David the sonne of David so he was most clearely and lively represented and resembled by David To touch upon the particular Resemblances betwixt them as it is besides the Text so it would swallow up more time then for the present I have to spare Secondly For the subiects of it they were Israelites a people that were in covenant with God carrying the seale of that covenant the signe of circumcision in their flesh an holy people professing sanctitie and holinesse And such are the subiects of Christs Kingdome the true members of the Church visible they are Israelites Behold an Israelite such by profession a people in covenant with God partaking of the feals of the covenant a holy people called to holinesse Saints by calling professing sanctitie and holinesse Thirdly for the state of it Davids Kingdome was still in a militant condition for the most part and so is the Kingdome of Christ his Church upon Earth a militant Church where Christ ruleth and raigneth in the midst of his Enemies Thus was Israel a Type of the Church the one literall the other Mysticall Israel And both these shall we finde subject unto Breaches Typicall Israel was Mysticall Israel the Church may be the Text makes good the former let me shew you the latter and for the demonstrating of it cleare unto you these two things 1. What Breaches they are which Israel the church is so subiect to Secondly Now it cometh to passe that it should be so subiect to these Breaches For the former What Breaches they are that the church of God upon earth is so subiect to For answer hereunto give me leave to reflect upon the type and enquire what were Israels Breaches which David here complaineth of In making this enquirie I will not go out of this Psalme wherof the Text is part in the latter part whereof David doth tacitly insinuate unto us what were those Breaches whereof he complayneth in the former They were of two sorts Homebred Foraigne Homebred intestine and civill Breaches made and caused by some of the Israelites themselves Foraigne made by those who were open and professed enemies to their Kingdome and Religion 1. For the former There was as yet a strong partie in Israel which after the death of Ishbosheth cleaved to the house of Saul not acknowledging David for their King but were ready upon all occasions to raise new tumults and commotions thereby seeking to shake off the yoake of Davids government The chiefe and principall places wher this seditious party had their residence and abode were those which the Psalmist mentioneth in the sixth and seventh verses of the Psalme viz. Shechem Succoth Gilead Manasseh Shechem a Citie in the tribe of Ephraim Succoth a Citie in the tribe of Gad. Gilead and Manasseh the utmost borders of the Land of Canaan beyond Iorden These were some of the chiefe places which sided with Ishbosheth whilest he lived as you may see 2. Sam. 2. and as it seemeth they still cleaved to the house of Saul after he was dead not acknowledging David for their King So much David himselfe here insinuates I shall divide Shechem c. i. e. have a full possession of it and the rest which as yet he had not These were intestine and Homebred Breaches made by some of the Israelites themselves Secondly Besides these in the second place David and his Kingdom had many foraigne enemies open and professed enemies not onely to David his House but to the whole Kingdome of Israel Such were the Moabites Edomites Philistines
of whom you have mention ver. 8. Moab shall be my Wash-pott c. Moab the land or people of the Moahites borderers upon the land of Israel that incestuous progenie begotten by Lot in his drunkennesse upon one of his own daughters who having forsaken the true God they were also enemies to his people Israel Edom or Idumea the Edomites the posteririe of Esau who for that prophane act of his in bartring away his birth-right for a messe of red potage was called Edom i. e. redd These also were enemies imbittered and inveterate enemies against Israel so David setteth them forth Psal. 137. Philistia or Palestina the Philistines Chams cursed posteritie open and professed enemies to Israel Shems progenie as appeares in diverse places All these Nations they were afterward subdued and conquered by David and in assured confidence of this conquest David here triumphs aforehand Moab shall be my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shcoe But as yet they stood out upon all occasions ready to make incursions and invasions upon Israel which also frequently they did to the great disturbing and indangering of that Kingdome Put these together and you see the Breaches to which the typicall Israel Davids Kingdome was subjected And in these may you see what are the Breaches which the spirituall Israel the Church of God upon earth is subject Breaches from without and breaches from within I will invert the order From without by open persecution from within by intestine and home-bred Divisions Of both these the Church of God in all ages hath had sufficient experience looke we upon the primitive times during the infancy of the Church however the soundest and entivest Church that ever was yet how was it broken broken as by foraigne persecutions so by homebred divisions Both these wayes was the Church during the Apostles times broken distressed by Enemies from without who persecuted it So was the Church at Hierusalem broken in that great persecution wherein Paul was an actor Stephen a Martyr many of the Saints sufferers who thereupon were dispersed and scattered as you may see Acts 8. there might the Church have taken up the words of the Psalmist in the first verse of this Psalme O God thou hast cast us off thou hast scattered us Thus was the Church at Antioch broken in that persecution raised by the Iewes irritating and stirring up devout and honorable women with the chiefe men of the citie against the Christians wherein Paul himselfe was to suffer to let passe divers other The Churches being thus broken by persecution from enemies without they were also broken by divisions and distractions from within their owne members being divided and severed in their judgements in their affections This fire it began to smoke betimes as you may see in that first Church the Church at Hierusalem kindled by a little sparke a small neglect through the want of convenient Church-officers There arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrewes because their widowes were neglected in the daily ministration Afterwards it broke forth into more open flames hot and eager contests and that about divers points as namely about circumcision whether necessary or no no small dissention about it betwixt Paub and Barnabas and certaine beleevers of Iudeah who made a journey to Antioch as it seemeth to vent their tenents and to undertake a dispute about it After this to let passe personall differences which fell in betwixt their Teachers themselves as viz. that betwixt Paul and Barnabas are sharpe contentions and Paul and Peter how were the people in some of the Churches divided divided in particular about their Teachers Instance in that Church of Corinth where the members thereof were divided into Sects some were Paulites others Apolloites a third Cephites a fourth Christians so divided and broken into sects and that about their Teachers after whose names they affected to be called In the same Church we shall finde other Breaches the members thereof being divided againe as probably about their Gestures in the publike worship and service of God so about the doctrine and manner of administring the Sacrament of the Lords Supper as it may be collected from that 1 Cor. 11. where the Apostle both censures those differences amongst them and for the rectifying of them reduceth them to the first institution Such Breaches were there made in and upon the Church during the time of the Apostles themselves After their departure these Breaches were more and greater In the three first Centuries how was the Church of Christ rent and torne partly by Lyons partly by Wolves By Lyons such as Nero Saint Pauls Lyon was cruell and bloudy persecutours putting the Church into blood powring so much blood at the root of this Vine as hath made it the more fruitfull ever since Of these breaches Histories usually mention ten as most remarkable The ten primitive persecutions under those Romish Heathenish Emperours Thus was it torne by Lyons As by Lyons so by Wolves So Saint Paul foretold that it should be I know that after my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in amongst you not sparing the flocke He spake it of false Prophets and hereticall Teachers which with their pernicious errours schismes and heresies should even rend and teare the flocke of Christ the Church And accordingly it came to passe as the Histories of those times sufficiently testifie Never was the Church more rent and torne by Heresies and Schismes then in those next ages after the Apostles within the compasse of the first 400. yeeres there being little lesse then an hundred of them of note as they are collected and computed out of those two ancient Doctors Epiphanius and Augustine So fruitfull was the Church then in breaches Broken by heathenish persecutions broken by various divisions and distractions and such hath bin the condition of it ever since even in the purest and quietest times never free from breaches in some parts persecuted in others distracted That it hath bin so is out of doubt which maketh good the Assertion that it may be so Israel is subject to breaches Q. But how cometh it so to be to be subject so subject as it is A. I answer briefly This is diversly considered Gods doing Satans doing Gods doing who doth it with an eyeparts to Himselfe His Church 1. With an eye to himselfe his owne glory the glory of his power wisdome goodnesse all which are gloriously manifested as First in the preserving and upholding his Church in the midst of all these Breaches even as the care and skill of a Pilot is showne in stearing a ship in a stresse keeping her above-water in the midst of those raging billowes or as the wisdome and valour of a good Commander is showne in defending the Citie the wals whereof are full of breaches so Secondly in healing and making up of these Breaches which God sometimes
Church and state among our selves Breaches made upon the estates of men upon the liberties of subjects the bodies nay the souls and consciences of Christians which through the goodnesse of God inclining the heart of his Anointed to hearken to his great Councell of state are in part already repaired and made up Besides these other Breaches there are which yet lye upon us Breaches in the Church Breaches in the state both in measure still rent and torne distracted and divided I shall not need to name particulars which are too obvious to every vulgar eye But in all these what is here more then was to be found in Israel at that time when the whole land was shaken that Kingdome divided betwixt the two Houses of Saul and David some siding with the one others with the other taking of parts to the great indangering of the state of the Church therein True it is the enemies of our peace are many Besides a dangerous party at home of such as do in their hearts and affections at least cleave to the House of Saul the old House as they falsly call it Papists and others popishly affected together with a Malignant party of malecontents persons ill affected to Church and state besides these it cannot be thought but that we have enemies abroad enemies to our Religion we are sure many of them vassals to that Man of sinne that Antichrist of Rome who as they at the present insult over our breaches so if occasion were offered we cannot thinke but that they would be ready to breake in at them But herein againe what is our condition other then Israels was at this time when David penned this Psalme when besides that seditious party amongst themselves they had also many foraigne enemies enemies both to their Kingdome and Religion and that almost on every side Moabites Edomites Philistines Moabites and Edomites on the East Philistines on the West Thus paralelling our condition with Israels we finde no great oddes of breaches betwixt them not more in the one then was in the other And therefore to draw towards a conclusion of this point and exercise In the first place let not our adversaries triumph over our breaches Rejoyce not against me O mine enemy Or if they will let them triumph Triumph thou O Philistia because of me or over me Let our adversaries of Rome and their adherents the sedicious and ill affected party amongst our selves triumph and lift up their heads insulting over our breaches in the meane time we could tell them of their owne breaches and enquire of them where their Vnitie was when their Church was divided betwixt two visible Heads at once two Popes I meane both set up and both ruling at the same time the one in Italie the other in France the one at Rome the other at Avignion a considerable number of Cardinals and Prelates siding and taking part with either of them Then was the state of their Church like that of Israel when after the death of Saul some sided with David others with Ishbosheth We could minde them of their own present divisions which long have and still do distract that Church of theirs which howsoever they having more of the Serpent and being wiser in their generations then the children of Light carry more closely with lesse noise wherein I wish we could imitate them yet are they both for nature and number so considerable as that it should make them ashamed either to boast of Vnity amongst themselves or to insult over the Breaches of others One of their own modestly tels us of 20. severall schismes amongst them Another their great Cardinall Bellarmin by name to the everlasting glory of their Churches unity ingenuously acknowledgeth no lesse then 237. differences or contrarieties in Doctrine amongst their own Divines But these we passe by contenting our selves with this this was Israels condition and it may be the condition of the true Church of God to be divided distracted no matter of triumph to them Nor yet in the second and third place of scandall or discouragement to others Not of scandall What though the naturall body of Christ be pierced rent torne with thornes nailes the spear of the souldier yet let none be offended at it Blessed is he saith our Saviour whosoever shall not be offended in me What though the misticall body of Christ the Church be pierced rent and torne pierced with the spear of persecution rent and torne with the thornes and nailes of home-bred divisions and dissentions let none be offended at it Nor yet Discouraged by it The naturall Body of Christ for all it was so pierced rent and torne yet it rose again the third day They are not all the rents breaches divisions distractions in the misticall body of Christ the Church that shall hinder the resurrection of it The Church in Hosea complains that the Lord had torne her and smitten her Yet mark what followeth After two dayes he will revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight God hath at the present done the like by this and the neighbour Nation smitten the one torne the other Smitten the one with the sword of a Civill but Barbarous and Savage enemy Torne the other with unhappy differences and distractions yet let not either of these discourage He that hath torne us he can heal us He that hath smitten us he can binde us up and this we trust in mercy he will yet do It is the speech I remember of the wife of Manoah to her huâ—band If the Lord had had a purpose to destroy us he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things And let us in an holy considence say the like touching the Church of God in this and the neighbour Kingdoms Had God had a purpose to haue cast us off from being a Church from being a people to have unchurch'd us to have taken his Gospel from us surely he would never have accepted our offerings our prayers and the prayers of his people amongst us which we are assured he hath dore having given us most gracious comfortable returnes of them assured evidences of their acceptation Neither would he ever have shewed us all these things Discovered and consounded so many plots so many trecheries and conspiracies of our adversaries still turning their councels upon their own heads carrying the great councell of the Kingdom through so many to flesh and blood insuperable difficulties Nor yet would he have begun to repair and make up our Breaches so as in part already he hath done and we hope is doing Do we see one bestowing cost upon an old garment in darning up the holes drawing up the rents making up the Breaches in it we thereupon conjecture surely it is not his intent as yet to cast it off and to lay it aside Surely beloved such have been Gods
THE HEALING OF ISRAELS BREACHES VVherein is set forth ISRAELS Disease Cure Physitian Danger All paralleld with and applyed to the Present Times As they were delivered in six Sermons at the weekly Lecture in the Church of Great Yarmouth By JOHN BRINSLY Minister of the Word and Pastor of Somerleiton an adjacent village Published by order of a Committee of the House of Commons TEXT PSAL. 60. 2. Heale the Breaches thereof for it shaketh LONDON Printed for JOHN BARTLET at the signe of the golden Cup neere S. Austins gate in S. Pauls Church-yard 1642. To all the Lovers of Truth and Peace specially those in the Towne of Great Yarmouth TO some of you were these Meditations lately preached For all of you they are now Published My Designe in both is that which should bee the Desire of every true Israelite The Healing of the Breaches in this our Israel And my Hopes are that there is not a line within the Circumference of this Tract which is not drawne directly to this Center If any shall thinke otherwise let them mistrust their owne eyes which being dazeled will make the Sun-beames though most direct in themselves seeme distort and crooked Sure I am what ever my lines may seeme to bee my Intentions have beene right These I can approve to God who knowes them and the other I trust shall approve themselves to those who being not prejudiced are able to judge of them If herein I fall short of my Marke let it be enough I have aymed and shot at it In magnis voluisse Yours devoted to the service of Gods Truth and the Churches Peace IOH. BRINSLY ISRAELS DISEASE The first Sermon Anno 1641. Feb. 23. PSAL. 60.2 Heal the Breaches thereof for it is shaken IN these words which I have now singled out upon this solemn aoccasion we have the sum and substance of an earnest request made by David in the behalfe of that Kingdome whereof God had made him the head the Kingdome of Israel This Kingdome it had beene and as yet for the present was in a distressed distracted state and condition So it had beene not onely under the Iudges during whose government it felt of ten or twelue severall commotions or Persecutions as Iacobus de Valentia writing upon this Psalme computes them paralelling and comparing them with the ten Primitive Persecutions of the Church under the Gospell but also under King Saul and sometime after his death during which time it had beene afflicted and distressed partly by foraigne Invasion partly by intestine and homebred sedition By foraigne invasion especially of the Philistines who in that fatall Battle slew King Saul himselfe with his three Sonnes routing his whole Army cutting off the flower and streâ—gth of Israel taking possession of some of the chiefe holds and Cities in that Kingdome having expulsed the Inhabitants the said story whereof you may read 1 Sam. the last 2 Sam. 1. By homebred seditions those raised partly by Saul himselfe during his life partly by his Sonne after his death By Saul himselfe who in an hostile manner causlesly prosecuted and persecuted David as a publique enemy to the State whom God had designed to be next heire to the Crowne so making a great and a dangerous Commotion in that Kingdome withall falling upon the Priests of God with great cruelty rage butchering no lesse then fourescore and five persons of them at once all that were found upon suspition of their siding with David or favouring his cause of both which you may reade 1 Sam. 22. this did Saul in his life After his death Ishbosheth his sonne by Abners instigation laying claime to the Crowne maketh a strong party taketh up Armes purteth the Kingdome into blood distracting and wasting it with a long and a dangerous Civill-warre of which you may reade 2 Sam. 2 3. Cap. Thus that Kingdome had beene afflicted And hereunto Interpreters generally conceive the verses before the sixt to have reference wherein the Psalmist complaines unto God O God thou hast cast us off thou hast scattered us ver. 1. This he had done in that fatall overthrow given to Saul and his Armie Royall by the Philistines at which time the Israelites forsaking their Habitations fled into the Mountaines hiding themselves amongst the Rocks leaving their Cities to be possessed by their enemies themselves being made a dispertion as you may see 1 Sam. c. last v. 7. this God had done to them thereby manifesting his displeasure against them seeing as it were to have cast them off O God thou hast cast us off thou hast scattered us thou hast beene displeased c. Thou hast made the Earth to tremble thou hast broken it So the Psalme goeth on v. 2. with reference as Interpreters conceive it to those homebred divisions those Civill-warres betwixt the two Houses of Saul and David after the death of Saul then did the Earth the Land that Land of Israel as the Chaldee explaines it quake and tremble being broken riven as the word in the Originall signifieth even as the Earth sometimes by Earth-quakes it is riven and torne a sunder with prodigious Chasmaes openings or gapings so was that Kingdome divided in those Civill Commotions the Nobles and Commens taking parts and siding some with David some with Ishbosheth So miserably had that Kingdome beene distressed distracted so it had beene I and as yet for the present in part still was However those stormes were well over and the Heavâ—â— had begun to cleare the Kingdome was somewhat quieted yet still was it in an unsetled tottering condition and that as by reason of those late distemperatures which were not yet thoroughly healed so also by reason of some present distractions wherewith it was still afflicted Still there were Ruptures Breaches in the Kingdome and those more then a few and such as did both unsettle and indanger it shaking the very foundations of it And in regard hereof it is that the Psalmist here prefers this his Petition unto God the summe and substance whereof you have in this short clause which I have now singled out wherein we may take notice of two particulars Davids Request Reason His Request that God would heale the Breaches of his Kingdome Heale the Breaches thereof His Reason or Argument to back and second his Request taken from the eminent danger wherin that his Kingdome then was in case God should not step in into it by mature and timous Prevension it was shaken Heale the Breaches thereof for it shaketh or it is shaken You see the parts of the Text to prosecute them in their Order beginning with the former Davids Request which he presents and puts up as you see in a Metaphoricall straine the Metaphor taken from a Phisitian or Chyrurgion who by ministring and applying sanative Modicines and healing Salves Cures and healeth the Diseases or Ruptures of his patient And therein following the sence of the Metaphor we shall take notice of three particulars 1. Israels Disease
is the wisdome of those who shall contend so hotly and eagerly for some truths being not of the foundation nor neere it as that in the meane time they regard not the setting all on fire rather then part with them Certainly they which will not in a good sence be content to part with some truths and those it may be usefull ones for peace they are not worthy of it nor yet must ever looke to enjoy it upon earth Let it not be mistaken loath I am that any in the darknesse either of ignorance or prejudice should stumble at this truth of parting with truth Part with it How Not by abjuring denying any Truth against conscience This a man may not doe upon any tearmes Peace of conscience must be maintained what ever it cost But by not avowing not openly contending and contesting for it whether by Profession or Practice And for this I thinke we shal need no other warrant then that rule and direction of the Apostle Rom. 14. Hast thou faith have it to thy selfe Faith i. e. acknowledge and assurance either of the truth or lawfulnesse of something indifferent which thou canst not either professe or practice without the offence and scandall of thy weake Brother to the breaking of Peace In this case saith the Apostle have this saith to thy selfe enjoy thine owne knowledge and perswasion but keepe it to thy selfe not letting it breake forth to the scandall of others much lesse to the indangering of the Churches Peace which ought to be of more price and value to us then many of these Truths It is the speech of Elkanah to Hannah his wife when she was so inordinately desirous of a Son that nothing else could give her content Am not I better to thee then ten Sonnes i. e. then many children The like may the Church of God say unto us Am not I better unto you then many children then many fruits and conceptions of your own braines I though issues of truth This I speake not that I would have Truth any truth which I acknowledge to be a part of the image of God sleighted and undervalued Goldsmiths will not cast away the dust and filings of their gold and silver No more should Christians cast away such ends and shreads of truth as God either hath or shall be pleased to reveale unto them Onely my aime is that I would have a higher price set upon Peace then for the most part it is bought and sold at This I am sure what ever may be said for some truths truths of the new Covenant for of them onely it can be said was a peece of that great purchase purchased by the blood of Christ He is our peace saith the Apostle i. e. the Author of it our Peace-maker making peace as it followeth vers. 15. And this he hath done by and through the bloud of Christ as the same Apostle hath it there purchasing peace and not only peace with God but peace with and amongst men Of that peace the Apostle speaketh in that 2 to the Ephesians Peace betixt Jews and Gentiles making them one To this end Christ came downe from Heaven to earth to make peace as in heaven so upon earth Glory be to God on high on earth peace so sings that Quire of Angels at the birth of our Saviour This he purchased and having purchased it he left it bequeathed it Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you saith he to his Disciples when he was to take his last farewell of the world and them And let not us any of us slight this Legacie we will not do so by th Legacie of a dying friend If it be a Ring an embleme of union and concord we will weare it for his sake And shall we not do the like by the Legacie of a dying Saviour make much of it make use of it and be content to part with something for it for the keeping of it if enjoyed for the recovery of it if lost By this means shall we much further this blessed Cure the filling and making up of the breaches in this our Israel by casting every one something into them every one himselfe I have done with the directions which meerly concerne our selves which if they may but be taken and kept not naufeated and cast up again as tuely stomachs are wont to deal with their distastefull Potions I doubt not but that they will have a kindely working conducing much towards the cure desired and intended Passe we in the second place to such directions as may concern others viz. those which are or have been breach-makers amongst us concern them not as agents but as patients teaching us how we are to order and demean our selves towards them what we are to do to them for them or against them for the effecting of this Cure These Breach-makers as I have alreay shewn you the Instrumentall causes of the present breaches in this our Israel they are of two sorts Either Strangers or Israelites Strangers professed enemies to our Religion or Israelites such as professing the same Religion with us for substance have beene through weaknesse seduced and drawne aside either from the wayes of Truth or Peace Now what shall be done to the one and to the other For answer hereunto I shall have recourse againe to the Type in the Text observing what course David here pitcheth upon and intendeth to run with both these which were the causes of those Breaches in tha this Kingdom Strangers Israelites he would deale with both but after a different manner subduing the one reducing the other So you shall finde it in the 6 7 8 verses of the Psalm As for those which were enemies to his Kingdom Moabites Edomites c. He would subdue them and bring them under by force So much is intended in those two emphaticall expressions verse 8. Moab is my wash pot over Edom wil I cast out my shoe Each importing a servile and contumelious subjection as Expositers note upon it Moab should be his wash pot a vessell to wash his feet in according to the custome of those Eastern Countries then and now i. e. the Moabites they being conquered should be imployed about base services and servile offices Over Edom he would cast out his shoe i. e. passe through it as a Conquerour trampling upon it treading down the Inhabitants under foot handling them in a disgracefull and contumelious way as they had done the people of God before Thus would he deale with the professed enemies of his Kingdom As for his own people that seditious party of Israelites which cleaved to the house of Saul he would use means to reduce them to bring them under his Government I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth so you have it verse 6. i. e. I will possesse my selfe of them and rule over them not as a Conquerour and Slaves but as a Lord over subjects
as a Father over Children owing and acknowledging them as mine Gilead is mine and Manasseth is mine ver. 7. i. e. they are my Inheritance and shall be my people my subjects This was the course which David intended to take with these Breach-makers for the making up of the Breaches in his Kingdom And from him learn we what course is to be taken with the Breach-makers amongst us whether in this or the neighbour Kingdom 1. For Strangers Moabites Edomites professed enemies to our Religion the only way is to subdue them and that by bringing under some and keeping under others Those which have been or are the disturbers and troublers of our peace whether in Church or State The Malignant-party of Papists and their Adherents amongst us which have shewed themselves active in these disturbances the way is to bring them under to cast the shoe over them putting a yoak upon their necks Not that I intend what I have no warrant for to excite and stir up any to the unchristian exercises of savage cruelty or yet rigour so to repay them in their own coyne as to return cruelty for cruelty Yet in the mean time I must subscribe to the equitie of that divine Law the Law of Retaliation Levit. 24. As a man hath done so shall it be done unto him againe Breach for breach c. Those which have made a Breach upon us to make a breach upon them were no injustice It is Gods own order to Moses Vex the Midianites and smite them for they vex you with their wiles And it is Joshuahs speech to Achan why hast thou troubled us the Lord shall trouble thee this day Thus to deale with the Midianites the Achans who ever they have been which have vexed and troubled our Israel to vex them to smite them were but sustice But this I leave to the wisedom of Superiours to our Moses and Joshuahs of whom I may say as David did of and to his Son Solomon in a like case They are wise and know what they ought to do unto them To them I referre this act of justice and that as for the suppressing and bringing under of some so for the Repressing and keeping under of others such as being of the same disposition acted and moved by the same principles want nothing but the opportunitie either for the cherishing and fomenting of these or else the kindling and breeding of new distractions Only for our selves let us all of us remember that solemne Vow and Covenant which of late we have made and entred into for the joynt defence of our Royall Soveraign His Parliament and Kingdomes Gods Religion against all that shall rise up against them And remembring it let us by all lawfull wayes and means according to the severall ranks and stations wherein God hath set us be ready to perform it Passe we in the second place to the Breach-makers amongst our selves Israelites our Brethren such as have been and are seduced and drawn aside either from the wayes of Truth or Peace and that through weaknesse Such I have now to deal with not presumptuous malicious opposites to whom the Psalmist would have no mercy extended Be not mercifull unto them which offend of malicious wickednesse so the old Translation reads it but such as erre and stray through infirmity And for such what shall we do to them or for them To this I answer in the generall Seek to Reduce them to heale them That which is lame or turned out of the way let it be healed Heb. 12. And this do we in as gentle and tender away as possibly may be even as we would deal with a bone out of joynt It is the Apostles one Metaphor If any man be overtaken with a fault restore such a one {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Put him in joynt again And this do as it there followeth in the spirit of meeknesse Q But how shall this be effected Ans. For the answer let me descend into particulars shewing you distinctly what every one should do in this case 1. What Publick persons are to do 2. What private For the former Publick person are Magistrates Ministers Begin with the former Magistrates Rulers who being by office as Healers so Shepheards Cyrus my Shepheard they ought to have a care for the reducing and bringing home of straying wandring sheep And to this purpose let me commend unto them a two-fold Direction In the first place let them take stumbling blockes out of the way such as are so in truth what ever it is which being a just ground or obvious occasion of scandall hath either caused any to stray or else confirmeth them in their straying so either making or maintaining these breaches for the reducing of the one and healing of the other this must be removed And this is properly the Magistrates work to do or see done Expresse is that of the Prophet Isaiah Isa. 57. Where the Lord speaking to Darius and Cyrus as Mr. Calvin and others interpret it giveth them this in charge that they should remove and take away all the Remoraes and stumbling-blocks out of the way of his people even what ever might hinder their passage out of Babylon or return to Canaan He i. e. the Lord shall say cast ye up cast ye up prepare the way take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people What ever it is that may keep any of the Lords people in Babylon or upon the Confines and Borders of Babylon keep them from coming out or else make others to think of returning thither again it ought to be removed and taken out of the way Such are all Reliques Monuments Showes and apparances of Idolatrie and Superstition And all these it is the Magistrates dutie to see removed and taken away This being done then in the second place Let them set up a Standard so the same Prophet prosecuring the same charge elsewhere he willeth that for the reducing of the people of God and gathering them into one bodie they should erect and list up a Standard for them Prepare the way c. Gather off the stones i. e. the stumbling stones and lift up a standard for or over the people so I read it according to the Originall not of but for or over the people A Metaphor taken from Princes who gather their Subjects or Commanders who gather their Souldiers into a Warlike posture and order by setting up a Standard which they may repair unto and follow whether it shall be carried before them So you read of the Standard of the Camp of the Children of Judah which was carried in the Front of the Armie Such a Standard should the Commanders of the Lords Armie his Church set up for his people But what Standard why even that saith Bullinger writing upon that Text of the Prophet Esay which Simeon speaks of in the 2. Luke Behold this
â—â—st 4. 13 1 Tim. 3. 15 Psa. 137. 6 2. For our Brethrens sake Gal. 4. 26. Num. 27. 3. For Religions sake 1 Kin. 6. 7. Psa. 74. 6. Gen. 11. 7. Q How shall the Churches breaches be healed A. Meanes of cure By abundance of peace and truth Ier. 6. 14. Seek after both these Peace and Truth 1 Pe. 3. 11 Pro. 23 23 See the next Sermon Both together 1 Th. 5. 3. Quest Answ. Directions for furthering this Cure in this way Two sorts of them 1. Restorative 2. Preservative The former concerning 1. Our selves 2. Others A Prepative Dir. 1. Have Faith to be healed Act. 14. 9. Quest Ex. 17. 12. Answ Faiths supporters in this case two The powor of God Eze. 37. 4. Ioh. 11. 43 His Promise 2 Chr. 7. 14. 1 Sam. 25. 37. vers. 18. Psa. 80. 3. Dir. 1. Have faith to be healed Mat. 13. last Mar. 6. 5. Mar. 9. 23 Isa. 79. Ro. 4. 18. Iohn 11. 40. Iam. 2. 20. 2â— 2. la 5. 15 16. Pray the breaches whole Vers 16. Luk. 7. 6. 7. 2 Chr. 7. 14. Ioyn fastâ—ng to our Prayers 1 Tim. 4. 8. Morbi qui medianon curantur medecina curentur Fernel Math. 17. â—1 Exod. 32. 10. Iob 41. 3. Ioh. 9. 30. Dir. 3. Make up our owne breaches getting our owne sins healed Isa. 59. 2. Ioshua 7. Luke 4. 23. 2 Chr. 7. 14. Specially publick persons Isa. 3 6. 7. Whose sins have a dangerous influence upon the Publicke State Psa. 5. 18. Exod. 32. 25. 2 Sa. 24. 15. Dir. 4. Every one cast in something into these breaches Luke 22. 1. Every man himseie viz. His owne will Luke 9. 23. Selfe the greatest breach-maker therefore ought to be sacrificed 2 Pe. 2. 10 2 Sa. 20. 21. Doctor Staughtons Sermon upon 1â—2 Psal. verse 6. Hoâ— truth may and â—ught to be parted with for Peace Ro. 14. 22. 1 Sa. 1. 8. Peace purchased with the bloud of Christ Eph. 2. 14. vers. 15. Col. 1. 20. Luk. 2. 14. Joh. 14. 27 2. Directions concerning breach-makers what to do them Davids course with the breach-makers in his Kingdome Calvin Mollerus Somnius 1. Prosessed enemies subdue them Lev. 24. 19 20. Nu. 25. 16 Iosh. 7. 25 1 Kin. 2. 9 2. Seduced Brethren Psal. 59. 5. Quest Ans. Reduce them Heb. 12. 13. With gentlenesse Gal. 6. 1. What to be done to this end Directions for Magistars in this case Isa. 41. last 1. Take stumbiing blocks out of the way Isa. 57. 14 2. Set up a Standard for the people Isa. 62. vers. 10. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Super populos Num. 10. 14. viz. Christ in his ordinances Luk. 23. 34. Num. 21. 9. Ioh. 3. 14 Deu. 10. 8. 31. 9. Gal. 3. 1. This is the only way of gathering the people Mat. 23. 37. vers. 7. Let Iudah be the Law-giver Ge. 49. 10 Reve. 5. 5. 2. Directions for ministers Iere. 6. 14 Eze. 34. v. 2 7 8. c. Mat. 18. 12. 1. Let them be blamelesse in their lives 1 Tim. 3. 2. Tit. 2. 13. 1 Pet. 5. 3. 1 Sa. 2. 17 Exod. 28. 36. 38. 2 Painfull in their Callings a Luke 2. 8. b Acts 20. 28. c Ib. verse 31. 2 Tim 4. 5. Num. 4. 11. 2 Sam. 6. v. 6. 8. 2 Tim. 4. 2. 3. Meck and wise in their carriage Mat. 10. 16. 2 Tim. 2. 24. Meek bearing with infirmities of weake Brethren Luke 15. 5. 2 Tim. 2. 25 26 Wise not feeding their weaknesse I am 3. 13. Acts 16 3. Gal. 2. 34. 1 Cor. 9. v. 19 20 21 22. Gal. 2. 12. * The use of the Lords Prayer A warrant for speaking against Brownists whom meant thereby Masters Balls Answer to Master Cans Treatises in the Answer to the Epistles Brownists doe more credit to Antichrist then his chiefe upholders Directions for Private persons 1. Walke in meeknesse Ephes. 4. 1 2. 2. In Wisedome Col. 4. 5. 1 Joh. 2. 19. Gal 1. 12 13. Preservative Directions Joh. 5. 14. For Magistrates Keepe the way cleare from stumbling-blocks by asserting Christian libertie Not suffering Conscience to bee pressed with unnecessary Burdens Acta 15. Vers 28. 29. 2. Having set up a Standard let them make it a Standard Deut. 12. 8. Judg. last cap. and Verse 1 King 7. 27. 30. 37. Prov. 25. 11. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Super Rotis suit Montan. Directions for Ministers 1. Let them look and goe right forwards 1 Sam. 6. 12. Phil. 2. â—1 Luâ—e 2. 14. Labour for unitie amongst themselves Maintaining the credit eaâ—h of other Rom. 14. 3. Avoyding Pulpit-jars Publicke contests M. Hilderch m. Lect. 65. upon Ioh. 4. cap. Acts 20. 20. Comment. sup 1 Sam. in Ep. Dedicat. Directions for Private Persos 1. Labour for Humble hearts Prov. 13. 10. c. 28. v. 25. Rom. 12. 16. Not minding high things above their reach CondesceÌ„ding to weak Christians 2 Cor. 12. 9. Rom. 14. 4. 1 Cor. 12. 22 c. Not being wise in their own Conceits Prov. 3. 7. Esay 5. 21. 2. Follow Holinesse Heb. 12. 14. Studie quietnesse 1 Th. 4. 11. 1 Tim. â— 13. 1 Cor. 7. 20. 24. Beware of Minister-worship 1 Cor. 1. 12. 1 Cor. 3. 5. 1 Tim. 5. 17. Heb. 13. 17. Ministers made Idols 4. wayes See M. Hildershâ—m 66. Lect. upon Joh. 4. Distinguish betwixt a Tender and Scrupulous Conscience D. God is the Healer of Israels Breaches Psal. 103. 6. 1 King 20. 5. Exod. 15. 26. Psal. 41. 4. Psal. 147. 3. Psal. 46. 9. 147. 14. Isa. 30 26. Jer. 30. 17. Jer. 32. 39. R. Hee wounds and Healeth Deur 32. 39. 2 King 5. 7. Hos. 6. 1. This Cure is his though effected by Instruments and means Psal. 107. 20. Mat. 8. 8. Vse 1. Despaire not of a Cure for this and the neighbour Kingdome Icr. 17. 14. Ier. 51. 9. Ier. 15. 18. Lam. 2. 13. Rev. 18. 11. Acts 9. 39. 2 Joh. 3. Psal. 27. 10. Psal. 90. 3. Ier. 30. 12 13. v. 17. Gen. 41. 20. Psal. 121. 1. Hos. 13. 9. Ps. 124. v. last Vse 2. 1. Seek this Cure from God Psal. 6. 2. 2 Chro. 16. 12. Psal. 41. 4. Not but that we may seek it from men Ioh. 4 47. 1 Cor. 9. 2. Acts 17. 28. Ier. 30. 13. 2. Goe our selves unto God Returning unto him 2 Kings 5. 9. Is 19. 22. Hos. 6. 1. Joel 2. 12 13 14. 2 Chro. 7. 14. 1 Sam. 6. 3. Rom. 12. 1. 2. Phil. 1. 27. Vers 11. 3. Rest upon him for this Cure Is 30. 15. Psal. 60. 11. Jer. 17. 5. Not upon Instruments being but an Arme of flesh subject to bee broken Psal. 44. 6. Psal. 18. 34. Job 20. 24. Psal. 18. 34. Psal. 46. 9. Amos 6. 11. Proceres Gregarios seu Plebeios Calvin Gualt. Is 22. 9 10 11. Hos. 5. 13. Ver. 14. Job 13. 4. Esay 28. 16. Give God the Glory of the Cure if ever effected D. Israel subject to shakings Exod. 19. 18. Mat. 16. 18. 2 Sam. 6. 8. 1 Chron. 13. 9. Breaches are shakings The Church subject to shakings through Satans malice Iob 1. 19. 2. Through Gods Providence hereby 1. Sometimes manifesting his displâ—asure Mat. 27. 51. 2. Purging his Church 3. Humbling his people and so preparing theÌ„ for some speciall mercy 1 King 19. 11 12. Vse Be we affected with the shaking of our Israel Seek the healing of her Breaches 2 Sam. 6. Every one in his Place Esay 58. 12. Phil. 49.