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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66891	Aron-bimnucha, or, An antidote to cure the Calamites of their trembling for fear of the Ark to which is added Mr. Crofton's creed touching church-communion : with a brief answer to the position (pretended to be) taken out of his pocket and added to the end of a scandalous and schismatical pamphlet, entituled Jerubbaal justified.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1663 (1663)	Wing W3335; ESTC R38319	81,961	126

Worship which rendred the Church of England amiable above all the Reformed Churches and a true Copy of that Holy City that New Jerusalem which S. John saw coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband Rev. 21.2 For our many provocations He delivered This our strength into Captivity and This our beauty into the Enemies hands The glory was upon departing from our Israel and I had almost said That the abomination of desolation was set up in the holy place When the most magnificent House of God that we had in our Land was turned into a stable and many men yea many Priests such was their Apostacy had no more reverence for it then the very beasts that perished by a strange vengeance inflicted without doubt upon that sort of Cattle for that Sacrilegious prophanation That Faction which had tyred out the patience of two great Princes * Queen Elizabeth and K. James with Petitions solliciting to have those Walls of Church-Government levelled that Garrison dismantled wherein the Ark of God was in safe custody amongst us They that so often attempted to fire it out with their Squibs of scoffing Pamphlets and to batter it down with their paper bullets for want of better Arguments At last assoon as opportunity and advantage favour'd them for their rage could stay no longer they assaulted it how unlike Christs Lambs and the Servants of the Prince of peace I need not tell you but with Swords and Pistols Pikes and Cannons they assaulted it And because this Ark could not otherwise fall into their hands the chief Priest yea and the Prince too must fall before it as a Sacrifice to their fury And which is more that they might utterly extinguish our hopes and cut off all possibility of its Restitution as much as in them lay they did cut off the Royal line that should protect it and the succession of a regular Priesthood that should minister unto it And now might the devout soul that was pregnant with the passions of grief and love fall in travel and for want of other issue give birth to a lamentation and name that Ichabod for the glory is departed from Israel and we the true Sons of the Church of England in the condition that Israel was in when they sate by the waters of Babylon and wept they hung up their Harps which were now grown uselesse because their sorrows for the desolations of Zion had silenced all their melody And yet we are call'd upon to believe that all these violences were design'd but to shake the dust out of the Badgers skins and to brush the Curtains and to Reform the Tabernacle that the pure gold of the A●k might shine the brighter in the simplicity of its own lustre That is just as the Souldiers came with Swords and Staves from the High Priests to apprehend and secure the Lamb of God and brought him before Pilate out of kindness that he might have the honour to clear and acquit himself But what became of the Ark of God in the midst of these disorders Why we heard of the same at Ephrata Psal 132.6 we found it in the wood some harmless Country people would tell us some tydings of it but it was in the wood Solemnities And yet as forlorn as it was its Captivity was a punishment not only to the Jews but also to the Philistims to them that triumph'd over it as well as to them that had lost the possession and forfeited the blessings of it The adversaries could not destroy it nor could they court it into their assistance The Dagon which they set up for themselves to worship fell before it with the loss of hands and head deprived not of strength only but of counsel too They provided a new Cart for it such was the new Discipline hewn out and rudely put together by Mr. Calvin and others in this last Century and the Classes were the Wheels of it and this the Faction drove on furiously for a while and stop'd not no not at the Red Sea they drove it into a Sea of blood but the Cattle that were yoked together to hurry it away were so unreasonable and head-strong they could not agree where or how to set it up and that they might not hurry it into utter ruine God was pleased to look thorow a frightful Cloud upon them Exod. 14.24 25. and took off their Chariot wheels to trouble and discomfit them At last David the King being preserved and return●n by as great a miracle of providence as the Ark it self in order to his own settlement he gives order to prepare the Tabernacle for the settlement of the Ark and summoneth all the heads of the Priests and Levites with the Nobles and Elders of the people So they brought the Ark of God c. We are no less happy then they in the decent situation of our Ark I pray God we may be no less dutiful in our gratulation for it To which purpose me●hinks every devout soul should be a breathing out that Quaere of the Psalmist Psal 116. Quid Retribuam what shall I render unto the Lord for this great this signal benefit done unto us you can do no better than resolve with him I will come into thy house with burnt offerings I will pay thee my vows Psal 66.13 14. which I promised with my lips and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble for the Ark of God And because God takes no pleasure in the flesh of beasts neither will he drink the blood of Bulls or Goats but requires of us a spiritual a living and a reasonable Sacrifice I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God Rom. 12.1 that ye present your bodies a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service Having nothing else that can be acceptable to him who gave himself for us we should have the same devotion the same mind that was in the holy Martyrs we should have our hearts and wills prepared if duly call'd to it to be made a sacrifice by others in the mean time we should make an Oblation of our selves have our whole spirits souls and bodies devoted to Gods service and the service of his Church Such a devotion was in the great Apostle Phil. 2.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If I be offered up as a libamen a liquid oblation upon the Sacrifice and Liturgy of your faith I joy and rejoyce with you all But Here is a twofold oblation recommended to us by the example before us in the Text. 1. A burnt sacrifice And 2. A peace-offering and such we must offer in a spiritual sense and we must offer 1. A burnt sacrifice and that upon a double account as such sacrifices use to be offered up upon 1. To acknowledge Gods Power and Dominion and Revere his signal Goodness herein demonstrated David hath furnished us with a Psalm to this purpose Psal 124. wherein the Church