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A85659	Nehemiah's teares and prayers for Judah's affliction, and the ruines and repaire of Jerusalem. Delivered in a sermon in the Church of Magarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their monethly humiliation, April 24. 1644. By John Greene Master of Arts, late pastour of Pencomb in the countie of Hereford.	Greene, John, Master of Arts.	1644 (1644)	Wing G1822; Thomason E48_7; ESTC R14498	37,819	46

that all was at a stand for Jerusalem The remnant of the people that are left were in great affliction and reproach the wall of the citie remained broken downe and the gates thereof burnt with fire An expected end God had promised and questionlesse the people of the Jewes had long looked for the accomplishment of this promise but it must not come yet they had more affliction to suffer the wals of Jerusalem must remaine longer in their ruines and the gates in their ashes Thus we shall find the Lord often dealing with his Church and people they seldome injoy any great blessing or enter upon the fruition of any speciall promised mercie but it costs them deare God made a mercifull Promise to Abraham that he would give Gen. 15. 7. him and his posteritie that goodly land of Canaan yet they must pay deare for this before they had it Know of a surety saith God that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and ver 13. they shall serve them and they shall afflict them foure hundred yeares They must not look to have so pleasant and fruitfull a land for nothing No it must cost them deare many yeares hard service a great deale of affliction they must go through an iron furnace Deut. 4. 20. Gen. 15. 17. Gen. 37. 5 6 7 8 9. Psa 105. 17 ●8 Divino ju l●●io quod de●l●r are conatisunt rea●tendo ser●●erunt Greg Moral l 6. c 1● Ideò venditus est à ●ra●r●b●s Ioseph ne a●oraretur ●ed ●deò est adoratus quia venditus sic div●●um consil●um du●● devitatur impletur sic bumanasaptentia du n reluctatur comprehend t●r Id ibid. Isai 65 17 18 19. Rev. 21 1 2 3 4. 2 Pet. 3. 13. so is Egypt called represented as it may seeme to Abraham in his vision in that smoaking furnace another instance may be that of Joseph who was assured that he should have the honour which his dreames had promised but it must cost him his being sold for a servant his casting into prison his feet hurt with fetters he was laid in it on or as the margent his soule came into iron and hitherto he was brought into a far lower condition then he was at the time of his dreames yet see the over-ruling Providence of the most wise God so disposing that every descent into a lower condition was made unto him as a staire to ascend unto that honour which his dreames had promised To come neerer unto our selves and that which concernes the Church in this latter age of the world there was a glorious Promise made to the Church by that Evangelicall Prophet Isay Behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembred nor come into minde But be you glad and rejoyce for ever in that which I create And John the Propheticall Evangelist gives the Church such assurance of this as if he had then seene it performed I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away And I John saw the holy citie new Jerusalem comming downe from God out of heaven And the Church expecteth the accomplishment hereof We saith the Apostle according to his Promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse It is now the Churches expectation we looke with John to see this new heaven and new earth and to behold that holy Citie comming downe from Heaven we hope the Lord at this present is about this worke but goe back to the former part of this prophecie and you shall finde that the Church must not have this new heaven and new earth till it hath paid deare for them you may see from the eighth Chapter to Rev. 12. 3 4 13 15 17. this 21. what the Church paid for this before she had it I will instance only in the 12. and 13. Chapters in the former you have a great red dragon that is as our best Interpreters take it the Devill and what mischiefe he did to the Church you may find in severall passages of that Chapter he stood before the woman which was to be delivered for to devoure her childe as soon as it was borne not being able to devoure the childe he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man childe casting out of his mouth water as a floud after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the floud and when no prevailing against her he went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keepe the Commandements of God and have the testimonie of Jesus Christ Rev. 13 1 7 ●1 14. In the next Chapter there is one beast rising out of the sea having seven heads and ten hornes the heathenish Romane Empire And to him it was given to make war with the Saints and to overcome them ver 7. in ver 11. there is another beast rising out of the earth the Papacie which had the power of the first beast and did by many lying wonders deceive them that dwell on the earth what the Church hath suffered by the crueltie and subtiltie of these two beasts the histories of the Church doe abundantly manifest It cost the Primitive times the tortures and bloud of many thousand Martyrs before truth and peace setled by Constantine and Theodosius I need not tell you what our owne Kingdome Germanie and France paid for the beginning of Reformation If you would have my thoughts why the Lord in his wisdome selleth his choice mercies at so deare a rate I conceive it may be Reas 1 1. To try what esteem his Church hath of those mercies it looks for the Church of God in all places expects great mercies we of this land at this time look for speciall favours we look for the Reformation of what is amisse in Church and State for an establishment of Truth and Peace the Lord now would trie how we esteeme these how we prize them what we are willing to pay for the injoyment of them we will not give much for that which we value at little large offers argue an high esteeme God is now trying the hearts of England great matters are expected but how doe we prize them surely it cannot be better knowne then by what we will give for the purchase of them Will we part with all to injoy them Doe we thinke our whole estates our children our neerest friends our dearest bloud not too deare a price to pay for them It is an undoubted evidence that we highly prize those things which we neither will nor can want whatsoever they cost us when all that we have and more if we had it shall freely goe for them and questionlesse that wise merchant could no way so fully manifest his Matth. 13 46. esteeme of the pearle to be more worth then all he had then when he sold all that he had and bought it Reas 2 The Lord doth this to