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A42782	The temple re-built. A discourse on Zachary 6.13. Preached at a generall meeting of the associated ministers of the county of Cumberland at Keswick, May 19. By Richard Gilpin, pastor of the church at Graistock in Cumberland.	Gilpin, Richard, 1625-1700.	1658 (1658)	Wing G778; ESTC R201007	33,134	48

pits brink and then delivers them so far he carries them that they might see the worth of their deliverance and the seasonableness of their escape and no further because he intends not to destroy them How seasonable is meat to the fainting Soul Even unsavory and bitter things are precious and sweet to the hungry how seasonable and glorious is deliverance to a Church wasted and desolate When his servant are ready to say The Lord hath forgotten to be gracious or as Lam. 3.17 18. Thou hast removed my Soul far off from peace I forgat prosperity and I said My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord Then for God to step in betwixt them and dispair and so seasonably to recover them when they give all for lost how glorious a mercy is it 5. God will do his work in a glorious way the manner and means will be miraculous and wonderful thus he brought Israel out of the house of bondage with signs and wonder and in after times though the Church cannot expect the very same miracles of killing the first born of their enemies dividing the red Sea c. yet God hath promised he will set those before him as his pattern and that there shall be some resemblance and correspondency betwixt their deliverances that out of Egypt Mich. 7.15 According to the dayes of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things David when he returns thanks to God for delivering him out of the hand of all his enemies 2 Sam. 22.8 9 Vide Dickson on Psal 18. c. he alludes to the most glorious manifestations of God in the behalf of his people as if they were the same miracles acted over again which God shewed 1. At Sinai in giving the Law The earth shook and trembled c. v. 8. 2. At the battel against the five Kings Josh 10.11 whom God overthrew with hail-stones The Lord thundred ut of Heaven he sent forth his arrows and scattered them v. 14. And 3. at the red sea The channels of water were seen c. v. 15. If David being but one single person finds in his deliverances something resembling those noble act of God much more may the Church and if Gods waies were seriously studied we should find wonders and miracles in every deliverance 6. God will raise the Glory of his enterprize upon the confusion and astonishment of his adversaries it was the custome of the Romanes and others to reserve many of their Captives to augment the glory of their triumphs Thus will God do when he will redeem Zion he will give the stout adversaries as dust to their sword and as driven stubble to their bow He will make them arise and thresh the mountains Esa 41.2 15. and beat the hills as chaff where will then be the glory of their proud looks This is excellently set forth in Mich 7.10 16. When God brings his servants to the light Then she that is mine enemy shall see it and shame shall cover her which said Where is the Lord thy God The Nations shall see and be confounded at all their might they shall lay their hand upon their mouth their ears shall be deaf they shall lick the dust like a Serpent they shall move out of their holes like wormes of the earth they shall be afraid of the Lord our God and shall fear because of thee 7. There is one thing more which will beautify the Church when God comes to plead her cause she shall beside what is inherent have a derivative glory a ray of the beauty and majesty of Christ her Lord and husband shall be upon her as Moses his face became shining by Converesing with God It is true the Church hath no beauty which is not borrowed she is comely by the comeliness which Christ puts upon her but this is a radiancy occasional and for the time begetting a greater reverance and awe from her adversaries this seems to be spoken of Psal 90.17 Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us and Esa 4.5 I will create upon every dwelling place in mount Sion and upon her assemblies a cloud and smoak by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night and upon all the glory shall be a defence Where God alludes to the pillar of fire and his glory coming down upon the Tabernacle that as in those glorious appearances the Tabernacle did shine with the glory of God So should his Church when he appears gloriously in it and this shall highten the admiration of the spirits of men towards his people 3. The third thing comes now to be spoken to The third Branch of the Doctrine viz. That whoever be the instrument yet the chief honour of the work is Christs this will be easily cleared 1. The Father committed this work and all power to manage it into Christs hand Matth 28.18 All power is given to me in Heaven and in earth to Christ as Mediator belongs sole supreme and absolute authority for the gathering upholding and governing his Church and hence he gives encouragement and commission to the Apostles to go and preach Go ye therefore and teach all Nations v. 19. I need not here trouble that Question about the twofold Kingdome of Christ as God and as Mediator or whether Magistracy be from Christ as head of the Church Gillespy Aarons Rod. lib. 2. cap. 6. Iranes it is enough to our present purpose to take what is already granted by all that the Mediator is God equal with the Father and so Rules over all and as God-man he hath a least all Ecclesiastical power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kingly Government Yea and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a power and over-ruling Providence by which he can dispose of all things for his glory and his Churches good this will prove the building of the Temple to be his work and then it is easy to infer that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the glory of it is his also Men indeed are instruments in this employment and they are stiled fellow-workers but they can do nothing alone no more then the tool can work without the workman and if they could yet seeing they are but servants Christ hath the honour of all that is done by them 2 Sam. 21.22 and that upon a more unquestionable account then the victories of David servants are ascribed to David himself not unto us let his servants say but to thy name be the praise 2. The glorious perfection which he brings his work unto shews it to be beyond the power or skill of men and Angels We may perceive the traces of infinite power wisdom and love in every parcel and piece of it much more then when we see the whole frame together Church reparation is the creating of new Heavens new Earth and who will ascribe such a thing to man In Esa 54.11 he declares the state of his restored Church thus I will lay thy stones with fair