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A77007	Salvation in a mystery: or A prospective glasse for Englands case. As it was laid forth in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their monthly fast, March 27. 1644. / By John Bond, B.LL. late lecturer in the city of Exceter, now preacher at the Savoy in London. A member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the Commons House.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3574; Thomason E43_2; ESTC R1754	41,396	73

Die Mercurii 27 Martii 1644. IT is this day ordered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament That Master BOND and Master NICOLLS do from this Howse give Thanks unto Master BOND for his great pains he tooke in the Sermon he preached this day at MARGRET WESTMINSTER at the intreaty of this House it being the day of Publike Humiliation And they are to desire him to print his Sermon And it is Ordered that none presume to print or reprent his Sermon without being authorised vnder the hand wrighting of the said Master BOND H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I do appoint Francis Eglesfeild to Print my Sermon John Bond. SALVATION IN A MYSTERY Or A PROSPECTIVE GLASSE for ENGLANDS Case As it was laid forth in a Sermon preached at MARGARETS in Westminster before the Honourable House of Commons at their monthly Fast March 27. 1644. BY JOHN BOND B. LL. late Lecturer in the City of Exceter now Preacher at the Savoy in London A Member of the Assembly of Divines Published by Order of the Commons House EXOD. 3. v. 2. The Bush burned with fire and the Bush was not consumed JUDG 14. v. 14. Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetnesse LONDON Printed by L. N. for Francis Eglesfeild and are to be sold at the figne of the Marygold in Pauls Church-yard 1644. TO THE HONOVRABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS NOW ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT HONOURABLE WORTHIES THAT which by your first command was in part presented to your eares from the Pulpit is here at your second command fully represented to your eyes from the Presse It is a piece I dare say as rare and usefull for the Plot and Subject which are immediatly the Lords as it is plaine and homely in my stile and method In the dresse thereof I thought it a duty to put off Ornaments for although it was Preached upon the yeerly day of the Kings Inauguration March 27. yet that season was also the Monthly day of the Kingdoms Humiliation when you did endeavour to Weepe Pray and Fast for the Royall Familie whilst others perhaps at Oxford did Drinke Blaspheme and Debauch themselves to shew their Loyaltie to His Majesty The subject of this sermon is like the two Pillars which guided our type Israel through the Wildernesse to Canaan by day and night The one was a Cloude which might well signifie the Lord hiding himselfe The other of Fire importing him to be the Saviour of Israel even whilst he was in that Cloude There is much talke now a dayes of now light and that new light as it is held forth by some is nothing lesse then old darknesse I may safely promise you in this Treatise at least the dawning of a light that is new Orthodoxe and certaine By which I have endavoured to begin the discovery of a hidden Mine of precious Providence though all my labours have scarcely opened the uppermost surface of the ground I shall leave the accurate searching of the veynes to more able observers I confesse that I did make an Essay upon his very Text in my native climate before my banishment but being plundered of those speculative thoughts and having since that time in some measure experimented this text I conceive my selfe bound in conscience to give you some meate out of my Eater Surely there is a vast difference betweene hearing of the Lord by the hearing of the eare and when our eyes have seene him Job 42.5 May it please you therefore to travell over this unusuall discourse once againe because Mysteries commonly are not understood at the first perusall Sure I am that never any Parliament in England had greater need of Viatica than your selves You are made a Spectacle to Angels and Men And beleeve it you are set up for the fall and rising againe of many in England The Lord hath cut off all bridges behind you and blessed be his name that they are cut off And now together with you all the Treasures of great Britaine and Ireland are imbarqued And according to your standing or falling in this great Cause must the present Generation and their Posterities in the three Kingdoms begin the dates of their perpetuall weal or woe for pure Reformation or open Popery ingenious Liberty or Norman Slavery must now be made the settled Master Nay to allude to Caesars speech you do now carry the whole Protestant Cause withall its Fortunes For mine owne part there is nothing upon earth that doth more amaze mine intellectualls then the prodigious Lethargie that doth still rest upon the heads and hearts of cursed Neuters and Protestant Malignants in the Land even now when both parties do abhor indifferency and that the excreable Rebels of Ireland are brought over But I might silence my selfe in this Quos perdece vult Jupiter cos dementat Surely the Lord hath smitten the generallity of the Land with madnesse and blindnesse and astonishment of heart as he threatned the Iews Deut. 28.28 Otherwise they could never dreame of defending Parliaments by Malefactors Property by Desperado's and Protestanisme by Irish Rebels May we not fear lest the Spanish or Irish or other Forreigners may beg the whole Land of the King and obtaine it alleadging that the Nation is not Compos mentis But my hope shall be that after the Lord hath deeply humbled us for our old and new abominations Dan. 4.14 and broken us as he did Nebuchadnezzer when he hath hewen us downe cut off our branches shaken off our leaves and scattered our fruits Vers 25. when he hath driven us from men and suffered our haires to grow like Eagles feathers and our nayles like Birds clawes Vers 33. then at the end of the dayes mens reason and understanding shall returne to them againe and perhaps our glory also At least I am confident Zeph. 3.12 that God will leave in the middest of us an afflicted and poore people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord. Meane while it is my Petition to you and for you worthy Patriots that you may hold-out through all those seas of difficulties which are before you Heb. 6.10 And that you may remember that God is not unrighteous to forget your worke and labour of love which you have shewed toward his name Yea 2. Thes 3.3 you may take it for a positive promise The Lord is faithfull who shall stablish you and keepe you from evill Vers 4. and we have confidence in the Lord touching you that you both do and will do the things which he commands you Vers 5. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patient wayting for Christ This is the fixed hope and shall ever be the fervent prayer of From my Study at the Savoy April 20. 1644. Your Humble and willing Servant JOHN BOND A SERMON PREACHED at a late Fast before the Honourable House of COMMONS ISAIAH 45.15 Verily Thou art a God that hidest

whom he conceived to be lost Simeon and Benjamin are cast in to boot Thus five are returned for one This was an ambushment of mercy And finally as for Ioseph him selfe he must have a double blessing and portion and is made the head of two Tribes one of which Ephraim in short time after the throne was erected did get away ten of the twelve Tribes from the Scepter of Iudah Was not this a mystery of mysteries Thus farre concerning the salvation of Iacob and his family when they were carried from Canaan into Egypt But in the next place 〈◊〉 in Egypt the preservation of the seed of Iacob in Egypt and their returne from thence to Canaan againe at the end of foure hundred and thirty yeares was more admirable then their first going thither their strange preservation in Egypt was shadowed in that Emblem of a fiery bush not consumed Exod. 3. ver 2. And the Angell of the Lord appeared unto Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush c. a token of Israels continuance in the midst of the iron-fiery-furnace Their salvation or deliverance was in this manner Moses not while he was in favour in Pharaohs Court but after that he was a fugitive an exile being a stammering shepherd must be the principall instrument in the work and hee together with his brother Aaron another contemptible Levite with a rod in their hands must fetch out of Egypt in spite of an hardned King and all his Magicians how many guesse yee six hundred thousand men besides a mixt multitude with women and children Hee that can deny this to be a heape a cluster of wonders let himselfe be recorded for a wonder of stupidity Once more a third instance in the time of the Iudges From Midian See but that great salvation and deliverance of Israel out of the hand of the Midianites and their confederates and let us cast our eye equally upon both parties the Oppressors and the Delivered First look upon the Oppressors consider their power their cruelty In Iudg. 6. in the first verse you shall reade that Israel had served an apprentiship of seven yeares under their tyranny In the 2 3 4 and 5. verses you shall reade that poore Israel was faine to run into dens of the mountaines and caves and strong-holds that their fruits were destroyed assoone as they came forth that their enemies came up as grashoppers and left no sustenance for Israel neither sheepe nor oxe nor asse and this fury still increased for vers 5. they came up with their cattell and their tents and they came as grashoppers for multitude for both they and their camels were without number That for the enemies part Next look upon Israel the Delivered and consider their power and strength Their Generall would you know what he was He was Gideon a Thresher afterward called Jerubbaal a man called away from the barne from the threshing floore Iudg. 6.16 His family poor in Manasses and himself the least in that poor family a man taken from the very flaile to be a Captain-Generall And for his Forces it is true at the first they were a considerable number they were the text saith two and thirty thousand but then the Lord falleth to lessening of them First he beginneth with a Proclamation and thereupon some two and twenty thousand of them do go away Next the Lord hath another experiment of lapping and by that meanes hee sends away all the remaining ten thousand except only poore three hundred So that now about the hundredth part of Gideons forces is left This handfull under the command of Gideon the Thresher must go against the numberlesse Midianites But yet an handfull with choyce weapons at some advantages may do great things True but in the next place looke upon their Armes both defensive and offensive Iudg. 7.20 they were to go with empty pitchers and lamps within the pitchers in one hand and in the other hand they must hold a trumpet and with blowing those trumpets breaking the pitchers and holding out the lamps they shall beat the Midianites Here is a Mystery with a witnesse A numberlesse armie totally routed and cut in pieces without any weapon appearing against them broken in pieces with the breaking of pitchers frightned with the sight of lamps and utterly blown away by the sound of trumpets This is Gods great salvation carried on in a Mystery Yea but what is all this to salvation from Babylon That I confesse is the HYPOTHESIS In Hypothesi and may as strangely and fully be shewen and proved as the generall even that Gods salvations from Babylon are carried-on in a mystery There are two Babylons mentioned in Scripture First Babylon the Easterne which was that in Chaldea the literall Babylon and Babylon the Westerne which is that in Italy Rome the mysticall Babylon Concerning both these I could shew you distinctly that Gods great salvations out of them are commonly carried-on in a mystery First From Eastern Babylon concerning salvation and redemption out of the hand of literall Easterne Chaldean-Babylon we find no lesse then foure whole bookes of the Scriptures spent to shew the extraordinary deliverances of Gods people from thence Two of these books are historicall as Ezra and Nehemiah other two are propheticall as Haggai and Zechariah It would be too long for me to epitomize all the expressions of those books and of some others which doe shew the wonderfull mysterious carriage of that worke Only take notice of two places to this purpose First of that vision of Ezekiel which as I conceive doth typifie the Jewish returne from Babylon Ezek. 1. The whole vision is large in it there is mention of a whirle-wind out of the North a great cloud a selfe-infolding fire and out of the midst thereof the colour of Amber vers 4. Also out of the same midst the likenesse of foure living creatures like men vers 5. they had foure faces foure wings they had the feet of Calves the hands of men c. vers 6 7 c. Strange mixtures and varieties I will only pitch upon that piece which concernes the wheeles Those wheeles as Interpreters conceive do signifie the Lords providence and the motions of the wheeles the severall acts and turnings of that providence in the deliverance of his people from Babylon the Easterne therefore vers 18. it is said the wheeles were full of eyes round about The eyes of the Lord do runne thorow the world But I would especially take notice there of the involucra providentiae the intricate involutions and incirclings of those wheeles it is set downe ver 16. Their worke was as it were a wheele in the middle of a wheele to signifie the eccentricall and concentrical motions of that peoples return from Babylon where Ezekiel was now a captive amongst them as you may reade vers 1. But a more full and cleare place to shew the mysteriousnesse of the deliverance of Israel from Babylon