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A94069	The saints communion with God, and Gods communion with them in ordinances. As it was delivered in severall sermons / by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. William Strong, late minister at Westminster.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1655 (1655)	Wing S6006; Thomason E1693_2; ESTC R209425	55,425	233

a law written These things I have already spoken to The words which I have read are a promise made unto the places of Gods publique worship which were typicall for respect to places is done away John 4.21 The houre commeth when ye shall neither in this mountaine nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father All acts of worship are to be done to God as a Father respect of places beeing done away now children may every where worship their Father The whole Jewish Religion lay in these 4. things 1. In holy times 2. In holy places 3. In holy persons 4. In holy things The Apostle 1 Jam. 27. hath wrapt up a Religiō under the new Testamēt pure Religion and underfiled before God and the Father is this To visit the Fatherlesse and widdowes in their afflictions and keepe himselfe unspotted from the world Jesus Christ was made known foure waies in the old Testament by promises by prophecies by Types shaddowes by Apparition The blessing in this Text comes under an Apparition for it is nothing else but the appearance of God in divine Ordinances now respect to places being done away by the promulgation of the Gospell The promise though it doe not relate to the place yet it doth relate to the Ordinances so that in all places if you lift up holy hands without wrath and doubting and worship the Father in spirit this blessing belongs to you In all places where I record my name c. The words themselves being a promise have these particulars in them First the Author of it that 's God the Father Secondly the extent of it and that is all places where I record my name Thirdly the nature of the promise and that in two branches 1. Of communion I will come unto you 2. Of benediction I will blesse you Wherein you have 3. things 1. The union of them meeting and blessing 2. The order of them first meeting and then blessing 3. The Object of them the sincere seekers of God I will come unto thee and I will blesse thee Ther 's but one thing in the Text that is difficult In the place where I record my name In the Hebrew t is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 becol hammakom asher azkir etsheni that is In every place where I shall cause or make my name to bee remembred or in every place where I shall mention or make mention of my name for the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 azkir is in the conjugation hiphil which usually imports an action done or caused to be done by another as here I will cause to bee remembred the name of God hath severall acceptations in Scripture By name of God is here meant the publique worship and service of God Jer. 7.12 Goe yee tó 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shil●h the place where I have set my name that is my worship service So its said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jehovah echad ushemo echad Jehovah shall be one and his name one that is he shall be so worshipped as he is one in essence In all places where I record my name I will meet you and blesse you For the explication and confirmation of the two chiefe heads the text points at viz. 1. That by recording remembring or mentioning the name of God is meant the setting up the worship of God in his Ordinances and 2. that wheresoever the name of God is thus recorded remembred or mentioned that is wheresoever God is worshipped in his Ordinances there hee doth promise and command a blessing or there he will meet those that record his name in the worshipping of himselfe with a blessing There are two or three other parallell places of Scripture deserving speciall consideration as 1. for the first point there is a most remarkable expression Psal 22.27 All the nations of the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jizkeru the same Hebrew root with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 azkir here in the Text shall remember why what is that or what shall they remember even this they shall turne to the Lord and worship him his name in his Ordinances as is explained in the words following of the verse And all the families of the nations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jishtachavu shall bow downe themselves or worship before thee c. and so Psalme 86.4 All nations whom thou hast made shall come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vejishtachavu and they shall worship before thee And how shall they doe so even by recording remembring making mention of the glory of thy name as in the words following 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vicabbedu lishmecha and they shall glorifie thy name 2. For the second point that the Lord as he hath promised so he doth come and meet those with a blessing who doe thus glorifie and worship his name in his Ordinances so that they shall never doe it in vaine and for nothing see those two precious texts in Isaiah his prophesie viz. Jsa 64.5 45.19 first in Isaiah 64. v. 4. The incomprehensible mercies and goodnesse of God which he hath laid up and prepared for his people is set forth since the beginning of the world men have not perceived by eare neither hath the eye seen c. And then marke what followeth verse 5. Where the Prophet describeth those whō the Lord will come and meet with all those incomprehensible blessings viz. Those who waite upon him and rejoyce in his worship working righteousnesse and remembring his name in his waies and Ordinances Thou meerest him that rejoyceth and worketh righteousnesse those who remember thee in thy waies c. So that no lesse then blessings incomprehensible by the understanding minde of man do waite upon those who wait upon God who remember his name in his worship waies and Ordinances And therefore that other cited text Isa 45.9 is fully verified that never did any of the sonnes of Jacob true Israelites seeke God in his waies worship and ordinances in vain I said not unto the seed of Jacob seek ye me in vaine or for a void or empty nothing as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tohu importeth no the sincere seekers of God in his worship ordinances shal not be sent away with tohu vacuity and emptinesse but with their cup overflowing with all the fulnesse of incomprehensible blessings Thus doth the Lord come and meet them with a blessing who remember his name in his worship and ordinances in all places where I record my name I will meet you and blesse you But we are to consider that in relation to Ordinances there be foure sorts of men 1. Some they are altogether below Ordinances 2. Others are altogether above Ordināces they look upon them as milke fit for babes but not as meat fit for strong men they looke upon them as the shadwes of the evening fit to be stretched over the persons whose knowledge is not very high 2 Pet. 1.19 We have a more sure word of Prophesie where unto ye do well

THE SAINTS COMMUNION With GOD And GODS Communion with them in ORDINANCES As it was delivered in Severall SERMONS By that Faithfull servant of Christ Mr. WILLIAM STRONG Late Minister at Westminster LONDON Printed for George Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill and Ro Gibbs in Chancery Lane 1656. To his Honourable friend Collonell William Purefoy Recorder of the famous City of Coventry SIR THis Book falling by Providence into my hands and the earnest intreaty of divers Christian and pious friends in London having drawn from me the Epistle to the Reader as also having heard much of your being an admirer of the Author hereof Reverend Master Strong now blessed in the Eternall Mansions above I made bold to commend the book also to your selfe as an humble acknowledgment of the faithfull service I owe you by the same way of fellowship and communion in Gospell-Ordinances with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord we must all attain to that blessed and eternall communion where the presence of God Christ in glory shall transcend the purest Ordinances here below But if either we turn our backs upon holy and pretious truths received and once publickly professed or let our zeal cool or by sitting still go not forward we both lose the comfort of communion here and shall have lesse communion in glory No doubt Sir but it is a wild age wherein we live many stupendious changes strange turnings and amazing alterations we have seen both in Church and State and who knowes what yet any of us must undergo we have therefore more need to stick to our principles more faithfully to own Gods name and to maintain our practise in holinesse with more vigor and constancy that in the end we may reap if we faint not Which that you Sir my Honourable friend may still perform and bring a greater glory to God and do more good to that my native City of Coventry where I was once an unworthy Lecturer and to the whole Country better service shining more gloriously in the end of your daies that so when you have finished your course with joy and kept the faith the houre of temptation which now is upon all the earth that then you may receive the Crown laid up for you which your Son Wife now both blessed and glorious are enjoying to all eternity is and shall be the hearty and earnest prayer of him who doubts not of your candid acceptation of this my bold presumption but desires in all things ever to be found Sir Your most humble and faithfull servant upon the best accompt JOHN HERING From my Study Brides-Church-yard London Christian Reader AT the earnest intreaty and request of some Pious and Christian Friends who finde sweet Communion with God in Gospell-Ordinances I am bold to commend the reading of this book unto thee The Author hereof I believe is now in Heaven receiving his wages after his work is done and a glorified Saint enjoying eternall Communion with God above Ordinances We must all confesse that in respect of human frailties we are not so STRONG but that weaknesse will attend the best of us whilest here below in our pilgrimage to that Heavenly Canaan He will be much deceived that reckons this World his Heaven but doth and will finde it his Wildernesse and at best but his passage through the Red-Sea and here we have need of Moses not only to kill the Aegyptian for us and to bring us out of Egypt and also lift up his Rod and stretch forth his Hand and so divide the Red-Sea that our passage may be safe but also of a Joshua to bring us into Canaan and this is our Lord Jesus Christ who is God blessed for evermore No true Saint in this life can live without or above Ordinances no more then the naturall body can live without food and raiment God in his infinite wisdome and mercy hath admitted the Churches new born babes in all ages to Ordinances whereby Grace and the seeds of Regeneration may be through mercy conveyed to them and are not Saints to the end of their daies perfected by them also as the Apostle speaks Ephes 5.26 27. Some waters are contained in Springs and Wells some in Conduits and Pipes and some also in the main Ocean yet they are all conveyances of Water for the several uses of the sonnes of men and they are all bounded within their due limits And so it is with Gospell Ordinances there 's the Wells and springs of life there 's the Pipes of spirituall Comfort and there 's the Ocean of mercy and all the priviledges of free Grace conveyed to the believing soule All those in these licentious daies which God will require some where that cry down Ordinances are forc'd themselves to devise new waies of conveying their apprehended spirit unto us And should we refuse the waies of Gods own appointment Whereever God shall record his Name shall we deny to worship him there How then will God come unto us and blesse us as he hath promised Let those wild men of this Age that have been at Jericho in stead of Ierusalem resolve the question how the Lord will appear in waies and Ordinances that are not of his own institution and allowance Will he not sadly personally and publickly say to them at the great day who hath required these things at your hands bring no more vain oblations Reader I will say no more but beseech thee to turn thy reading into prayer and thy praying into humble and holy practise that thou maist know the Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity which reason cannot understand and maist enjoy soule-Communion with all the Persons in the Trinity by Faith in Gospell-Ordinances and that both in the Temple and also in every Administration of the Lord Jesus to thee thou maist cordially affectionately and with comfort say Iehovah Shammah the Lord is there And with Iacob in his Pilgrimage be able to confesse Surely the Lord is in this place though sometimes I knew it not through mine own default And that thou maist finde all mercies and glories bottomed on thy spirituall Communion with God reconciled to thee in Christ thy Redeemer is the desire of him who thirsts after more Communion with God and Christ in holy Ordinances and begs alwaies to be found upon a spirituall account Thine in the Lord Christ IOHN HERING From my Study in Brides Church-yard London Octo. 27. 1655. The Saints Communion with God and Gods Communion with them in O dinances Exod. 20.24 The latter part In all places where I record my name or where I cause my name to be remembred I will come unto thee and I will blesse thee THe whole Chapter is made up of Gods giving the morall Law In the giving forth of which law there are many remarkable passages as why it must be given from Mount Sinai why immediately after their deliverance out of Egypt why in thunderings and lightnings why the world in its infancy lived without