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A77366	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb. 29. 1643. By VVilliam Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods Word at Yarmouth.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4465; Thomason E79_11; ESTC R13662	28,626	38

in his returne to his company he heard in a roome as he passed by the noyse of children as it were pronouncing their Catechize whereupon he put aside the dore where they were and he saw the Ministers wives of the place praying and praysing God with their children upon this Melancthon returned to his company exceeding cheerfull and very joyfull Luther espying his gladsome countenance said thus to him Philip how commeth it to passe that you returne so joyfull that went out even now so sorrowfull He answered Let us be of good comfort for I have seen them that will fight for us and defend us Luther asked what those stout and brave Captaines were Oh sayes Melancthon they are the chast wives and vertuous children of holy men It seemes that holy man Melancthon thought such Carpenters were a great matter in his time Beloved you have many such Carpenters as these at work for you But besides these look into any part of the kingdom and you shal find that where ever any horne is raised up there is a Carpenter at work also some or other that God hath unexpectedly raised up to make resistance Wherefore then lift up your heads oh all ye people of the Lord and be not discouraged what Zechariah saw you shall find Gods promise is your security He will raise up four Carpenters to the foure Hornes Secondly This Doctrine speakes direction to the Carpenters Application 2. it tells them what they ought to do and what is their work The work of the foure Carpenters you see is not onely to fray these hornes away but to cast out the Gentiles Who ever therefore you are whom God hath raised up for this imployment behold your service up and be doing and do it fully Cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently and with holdeth his hand from shedding of blood they are knit together in one verse Ierem. 48. 10. But we are now upon the work of Reformation building Object the Temple and if a man be a man of blood he is not fit for that service Mistake me not it is not in mine intention to call for blood Answ Oh that in this day of our humiliation and address●s to God we could so touch the hemme of Christs garment thtt Englands bloody issue might be stanched I Be as mild as you can so you be like unto Christ who was both a Lamb and a Lion a Lamb in his owne cause a Lion in Gods Meeknesse and Justice may well stand together Moses was the meekest man upon earth you know yet when Israel had defiled themselv●s with Idols in the matter of the golden calfe he stood in the gate of the camp Sam. cap. 2. ut 〈◊〉 eis ne● sibi 〈◊〉 tamen d 〈…〉 nquentes si● pe●secutas est q●os 〈◊〉 ut eos etiam Domino parcente prostern●● et Gr●gor and said Exod. 32. 27. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel put every man his sword by his side and goe in and out from gate to gate through the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his neighbour He doth not say Slay every man his enemy or every man his countreyman but every man his brother and his companion and his neighbour And ver 28. it is said The children of Levi did according to the word of Moses and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men yet the Levites had their hand in Temple-work more then any other Tribe and Moses had the honour to build the Tabernacle You reade also in Zech. 13. of a great and glorious Reformation so high so great and so convincing that the very Priests who were wont to goe in rough garments to deceive the people should throw away their Priest-coats and say ver 5. I am no Prophet I am an husbandman for man taught me to keep cattel from my youth As if they should say severally Though I am able to reade a Chapter yet I am not fit to be a Minister I have no learning but in truth am more fit to goe to the plough Well but now mark I pray how this great change and Reformation is ushered in and brought about not without some kind of holy violence for it is said ver 2. It shall come to passe in that day saith the Lord of hosts that I will cut off the names of the Idols out of the land and they shall be no more remembred and also I will cause the Prophets and the uncleane spirits to passe out of the land And ver 3. It s●all come to passe that wh●n any shall yet prophesie then his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesyeth And ver 6. when any should ask him What are those wounds in thy hands Then he shall answer Those wherewith I was wounded in the house of my friends Another notable Scripture you have for this purpose in Psal 24. when the question is made at the third verse Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place That is who is fit to be a member of a true Church Answer is made to this at the 4. 5. and 6. verses He that hath cleane hands and a pure heart c. Wherefore then saith the Psalmist Lift up your heads O ye gates that is Magistrates that sit in the gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores that is of the Churches for the doores of the Churches are everlasting doores against which the gates of hell shall not prevaile and then the King of glory shall come in that is God will come in and dwell amongst you in his great glory and your very congregations shall be filled with glory But Who is the King of glory The Lord strong and mighty saith the Psalmist the Lord mighty in battell the Lord of Hosts he is the King of glory that is thus will hee bring his glory into the Churches by shewing himselfe to be the Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battell Wherefore then lift up your heads O ye gates and execute you justice and judgement and be you lift up ye everlasting doors of the Churches and be you reformed and the King of glory shall come in with his glory into your congregations But if you ask me who this King of glory is I must tell you he is the Lord of hosts and so he will be known unto you when he bringeth his glory amongst you even the Lord strong and mighty in battell Wherefore I say lift up your heads O you carpenters and servants of the Lord drawn forth to that employment you see your work the Text hath cut it out I beseech you in the Lord CHRIST doe it and doe it throughly Onely let me lay in one Caution which is this When you have frayed away the hornes and cast out the Gentiles take heed that the spirit of the hornes doe not live in the

all our Worthies 3. Your service is and will be most successefull t is truth you stand for And though the truth may labour as Hierom Veritas laborare potest vinci non potest Hier. Quid enim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lo inexpugnabilius v●ritas arcem in coel● collocavit Ps 119. Mend. speakes it cannot be overcome For what saith Mendoza is more impregnable then the Heavens and Truth hath built it selfe a towre there Thy word O Lord is setled in the Heavens Psal 119. Wherefore worthy Sirs as heretofore so now much more be alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord in due time you shall reape if you faint not If you want money to carry on your yet not your but Gods publique Designe remember what was promised unto Cyrus who in regard of re-building the Temple was to doe your worke in the type I will Esay 45. 2 3. goe before thee saith God and make the crooked places streight I will breake in pieces the Gates of brasse and cut in sunder the barres of iron and will give thee the treasures of darknesse and hidden riches of secret places And doth not your owne experience tell you thus even thus hath our God dealt by us for the treasures of darkenesse and hidden riches of secret places have beene brought forth unto us Gold and silver that hath not seene the light for many yeares before God is the same God still and his promise which is your Mint the same If you want outward strength and power then remember how often when the Iews were to build the Temple and therein to meet with enemies the Lord inculcates that his Attribute upon them The Lord of Hosts Thus saith the Lord of Hosts thrice in one verse Zach. 15. 3. and five times in foure short verses Hag. 2. Silver is mine and gold is mine saith the Lord of Hosts I will fill this house with my glory saith the Lord of Hosts c. And if you finde not the hearts of the people comming up alwayes to your forwardnesse then your wisdome knoweth how to improve the heates of their hearts while they last all things you know are easie and beautifull in their season And because men know not time and judgement● therefore their misery is great upon them But above all things let your eye be upon that most which Gods eye is most upon Truth Reformation and pure Religion State-hypocrites desire truth for peace sake godly States-men desire peace for truths sake warre is for peace but peace for truth Wherefore that I may serve you herein I take the boldnesse to lay these few lines before you The Sermon calleth for exactnesse of Reformation if I have not beene exact whilst I have called for exactnesse your goodnesse knoweth as well how to connive at what is mine as to embrace what is God Goe on right worthy Patriots still to defend your Countrey to contend for truth to be willing to lose and be lost for Christ whilst I live I shall live praying for you and when I dye I hope I shal dye praising God for you Your humble servant in the Gospell of Iesus Christ WILLIAM BRIDGE Die Mercurii 29. November 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that Sir Robert Harley doe give thanks unto M. Bridge for the great paines he tooke in the Sermon he preached this da● at the intreaty of the Commons at S. Margarets Westm it being the day of publique Humiliation and to desire him to print his Sermon H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D Com. A SERMON Preached at the Late Fast before the Honourable House of COMMONS ZECHARIAH CHAP. 2. VER 18 19 20 21. And CHAP. 2. VER 1. 18. Then lift I up mine eyes and saw and behold foure borns 19. And I said unto the Angel that talked with me What be these And he answered me These are the horns which have scattered Iudah Israel and Ierusalem 20. And the Lord shewed me foure carpenters 21. Then said I What come these to doe and he spake saying These are the horns which have scattered Iudah so that no man did lift up his head but these are come to fray them to cast out the hornes of the Gentiles which lift up their horne over the land of Iudah to scatter it 1. I lift up mine eyes againe and looked and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand ALthough according to our English Translation these words are parts of severall Chapters yet in many Hebrew Copies the second Chapter begins where my Text doth and they have such connexion that I may not part them Three things there are which this Age of ours hath brought forth Malignant enemies Speciall instruments of their ruine And great endeavours for Reformation Accordingly here are three Visions A Vision of foure hornes ver 18 19. A Vision of foure carpenters ver 20 21. A Vision of a man with a measuring line in his hand Chap. 2. ver 1. Every Vision hath its Narration and Explication The Narration of the first Vision at the 18. verse I saw and behold foure hornes The Explication in the 19. These are the hornes which have scattered Iudah Israel and Ierusalem So that 1. You have the description of the Churches enemies under the vision of foure hornes who are here described 1. From their number or multitude they are foure hornes according to the foure parts of the world Quatuor cornua sunt quatuor mundi partes 2. From their power strength the horn is a word that in Scripture phrase doth note strength He hath raised up a horne of salvation for us Luke 1. 69. that is strong and powerfull salvation 3. From their mischievous and malignant practice They scattered Iudah Israel and Ierusalem 2. In the second Vision you have the description of those speciall instruments that are raised up for their destruction under the similitude of foure carpenters or four smiths who are here described 1. From their number foure And 2. From their work which is to scatter the hornes and to cast out the Gentiles 3. Then commeth in the third Vision the endeavours for Reformation under the similitude of a man with a meas●ring line in his hand which is described two wayes 1. From the instrument thereof a man or as in the Hebrew an excellent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man explained to be Zerubbabel their Governour Chap. 4. 10. 2. From the exactnesse thereof he d●th work by line I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand Give me l●ave to open the words and draw out some short Observations upon them before I come to the maine truths VERSE 18. Then lift I up mine eyes and saw That is I stirred and rowsed up my self with all intensenes to receive this vision Heavenly relations are not to be obtained in a drowsy and sleepy way And behold foure hornes that is enemies from all parts of the world and especially those foure Monarchies who have all in their

the strength of the Lord in the Majesty of the Name of the Lord his God and they shall abide And this man shall be the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land ver 5. So that whosoever doth but seriously consider the strength and anointment of Jesus Christ must needs conclude this Doctrine with me Though God suffer the enemies of his Church and people to be many and great yet in due time he will raise up a proportionable strength against them to suppresse them and to deale by them as they have done by others The application of this Doctrine lookes two wayes To the Saints in generall Carpenters in speciall To the Saints by way of consolation and incouragement To the Carpenters to Gods workemen by way of direction and exhortation First here is consolation and incouragement unto all the Application 1 Saints and people of God Wonder not that in a day of humiliation I speake of consolation Beloved you are never Sanctus dolet de dolo●e gaudet Aug. more fit to mourne for sin then when you can rejoyce in God One grace makes way for another It is the warme beames of Gods love and care must thaw our hearts Two things that we are this day to do To wrastle with God To fight with our enemies You cannot in your wrastling take better hold of God then by the skirt of a promise you cannot fight better against your enemies then by faith The Devil with whom especially we fight in these wars will not be killed with swords and knives This is our victory whereby we overcome the world even our faith It is written in the life of Mr. Tindall that when he was in the Netherlands there was a Conjurer that could command dishes of meat from severall mens tables so that he would invite his friend to a dish of meat from such or such a Princes table divers going to see his exploite Mr. Tindall went with the rest if it might be to hinder it and when he came there he set himself in a way of beleeving to hinder this Conjurers proceedings which he did accordingly for when that wretched man should have done his exploit his hands were held by Mr. Tindalls faith and he cryed out and said I cannot do it there sits the man that hinders me or to that purpose What will not faith do if good What will it not hinder if evil I will not say that in these sad dayes of ours we have to deale with Conjurers but surely with such persons as through their violence and thefts are able not onely to command mens dishes off their tables but all their goods out of their houses Oh that we had but faith enough we might Fides se demittit ad domestica soone beleeve them out of all their plundrings Wherefore that I may raise up your faith a little and keep you from discouragements I lay before you this promise Zechariah his vision is your promise yea it is somewhat more for as we say of Sacraments so I say of these two last visions they are promises unto the eye unto sense When Ioshua was to bring the children of Israel into Canaan and so to meet with many enemies before he went out God Moses and the people bestowed their severall exhortations on him and if you consult the place you shall find that all of them God Moses and people wish him to be of good courage and not to feare Why so Abulensis answereth Rationabiliter enim timere potuit Ioshua Ioshua might rationally feare for he saw how that his master Moses was occasioned by the Rationabiliter ergo timere poterat Josua quod cum ipse ●●agilio● ess●t sacillime peccare pote●at ita ut deus ipsum et populum in hostilem tradert potestatem Tostat in Josu 1. cap. Israelites to sin against God and to be angry in so much as he was kept out of Canaan Whereupon Ioshua might well think thus with himselfe Oh Lord if Moses who was the meekest man on earth was moved to anger the holyest man a man that saw God face to face yet could not do this work but through his failing was denyed entrance into Canaan how shall I be able to lead this people up against all these enemies Well therefore might he feare saith Abulensis lest God should give both him and his people into the hands of his enemies Well but how then doth God remove these feares and relieve his heart Onely thus he strengthneth him with a promise Feare not sayes God neither be dismayed for I am with thee and I will never leave thee nor forsa●e thee So now are there any of you oppr●ss●d with divers seares because of these hornes that are risen up in several parts of the world of this Kingdome The Lord hath said that according to the number of the hornes the carpenters shall be Are there enemies in every part There shall be carpenters in every part Will you say Oh but our en●mies are exceeding many and very cru●ll So were these mentioned in the Text who as Sanctius observeth the words signifie were to doe mischief in quantum potuerunt in quantum voluerunt and as your English hath it so that no man did lift up his head Will you say Oh but I doe not yet see these carpenters at worke But is it not because you do not stir up your s●lves I lift up mine eyes and saw saith Z●chariah Will you say Oh but when I do stir up my selfe to behold things as they are I cannot see foure for foure a proportionable strength on the Churches side raised up against the enemies Well but yet you may see some strength in every place where ever there is any opposition made by enemies some there are in the same place that God hath raised up to resist them And the Text is not that God will raise up strong gigantean carpenters but carpenters foure carpenters some or other that shall doe the work of God though they be never so weak In that Mic. 5. where the promise is to raise up seven shepherds and eight principall men he saith ver 7. The remnant of Iacob shall be as the dew that waiteth not for the sons of men Mark that word that waiteth not for the sons of men When Sisera and all his host were discomfited what were the carpenters were not Deborah and Iael with her hammer amongst them and saith the Text So let all thine enemies perish it is not onely a prayer but a prophecie It is recorded in the life and death of Melancthon that when Charles the 5. and the Pope of Rome threatned the Protestants with fire and sword Luther Melancthon and others got together to seek a way for themselves their little ones and their substance and on a certaine day after long deliberation Philip tired out with labour rose up exceeding sad and very sorrowfull to go speake with some that knockt and enquired after him at the gate