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A53699 The glory and interest of nations professing the Gospel preached at a private fast, to the Commons assembled in Parliament / published by their command, by J. Owen. Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1659 (1659) Wing O756; ESTC R36623 17,858 32

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is the promise of Christ himself unto them and amongst them ver. 2. He is that branch of Jehovah and that fruit of the earth which is there promised He is the bottome and foundation the spring and fountain of all the good that is or shall be communicated unto us all other promises are but rivulets from that unsearchable ocean of Grace and love that is in the promise of Christ of which afterwards 2. The promises that are derived and flow from hence may be referred unto three heads I. Of beauty and glory ver. 2. 2. Of holiness and purity ver. 3 4. 3. Of preservation and safety ver. 5 6. My Text lies among the last sort and not intending long to detain you I shall passe over the other and immediately close with that of our present concernment Now this promise of v. 5. is of a comprehensive nature and relates to spiritual and temporal safety or preservation Godlinesse though it be not much believed yet indeed hath the promises of this life and that which is to come I shall a little open the words of the verse thereby give light to those which I have chosen peculiarly to insist upon It is as I have said safety and preservation both spiritual and temporal that is here ingaged for and concerning it we have considerable 1. The manner of its production I will create it saith God There is a creating power needful to be exerted for the preservation of Sions remnant Their preservation must be of Gods creation It is not onely not to be educed out of any other principle or to be wrought by any other means but it must as it were by the Almighty power of God be brought out of nothing God must create it At least as there were two sorts of Gods creatures at the beginning that dark body of matter whose rise was meerly from nothing and those things which from that dark confused heap he made to be other things then what they were therein it is of the last sort of creatures if not of the first If the preservation of this Remnant be not out of nothing without any means at all yet it is for the most part from that darknesse and confusion of things which contributes very little or nothing towards it I will create it sath God and whilst he continues possessed of his creating power it shall be well with his Israel 2. For the nature of it it is here set out under the termes of that eminent pledge of the presence of God with the people in the Wildernesse for their guidance and protection in the mid'st of all their difficulties and hazards by a pillar of cloud and a flaming fire this guided them thorow the Sea and continued with them after the setting up of the Tabernacle in the Wildernesse 40. years The use and efficacy of that pillar the intendment of God in it the Advantage of the people by it I cannot stay to unsold It may suffice in general that it was a great and signal pledge of Gods presence with them for their guidance and preservation that they might act according to his will and enjoy safty in so doing Onely whereas this promise here respects Gospel times the nature of the mercy promised is enlarged and thereby somewhat changed In the wildernesse there was but one Tabernacle and so consequently one cloude by day and one pillar of fire by night was a sufficient pledge of the presence of God with the whole people there are now many dwelling places many Assemblies of mount Sion and in the enlargement of mercy and grace under the Gospel the same pledge of Gods presence and favour is promised to every one of them as was before to the whole The word we have translated a dwelling place denotes not a common habitation but a place prepared for God and is the same with the Assemblies and Congregations in the expression following The sum of all is God by his creating power in despite of all opposition will bring forth preservation for his people guiding them in paths wherein they shall finde peace and safty Onely ye may observe the order and dependance of these promises the promise of holinesse v. 4. lies in order before that of safety v. 5. Unlesse our filth and our blood be purged away by a spirit of judgement and a spirit of burning it s in vain for us to look for the pillar and the cloud If we are not interested in holinesse we shall not be interested in safety I mean as it lies in the promise and is a mercy washed in the blood of Jesus for as for the peace of the world I regard it not Let not men of polluted hearts and defiled hands once imagine that God cares for them in an especial manner If our filth and our blood our sin and our corruption abide upon us and we are delivered it will be for a greater ruine the way unto the cloud and pillar is by the spirit of judgement and burning The words of my Text are a recapitulation of the whole verse and are a Gospel promise given out in Law termes or a New Testament mercy under Old Testament expressions I shall then briefly shew you these tow things 1. What is here expressed as to the Type and Figure 2. What is here intended as to the Substance of the mercy promised 1. For the Figure by the Glory and defence a double consort or two paires of things seem to be intended 1. The Ark and the Mercyseat 2. The Tabernacle and the pillar of fire For the first the Ark is oftentimes called the Glory of God Psal. 78. 61. He gave his strength into Captivity and his Glory into the hand of his enemies Where he spakes of the surprisal of the Ark by the Philistines which when it was accomplished Phineas his wife called her son Ichabod and said the Glory is departed 1 Sam. 4. 21. 2. The word which we have rendered a defence properly signifies a covering as was the mercy seat the covering of the Ark So that upon the Glory shall be a defence is as much as unto you the mercy seat shall be on the Ark or you shall have the mercy represented and intimated thereby 2. The Tabernacle and cloud or pillar of fire are also called to mind so the words are expressive of that figure of Gods gracious presence with his people which we have recounted Exod. 40. 34. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the Glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle So it continued the Glory of God was in the tabernacle and the cloud upon it or over it as the word here is and so upon all the glory there was a defence I need not stay to prove that all those things were typical of Christ he was the end of the law represented by the Ark which did contain it Rom. 10. 3 4. he was the mercyseat as he is called and said to be Rom. 3. 25. 1 Joh. 2. 2.