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A88385	A brief exposition upon the second Psalme. Wherein wee have that time modestly pointed at, (by the favourable direction of that significant then in the 5th v.) in which the father will in wrath to the (professing, refined) rulers of the world set his Sonne on Sion. And a description of the work the Son then performeth, both by his spirit, and his mysticall body. With usefull observations thereupon. Tending to clear up the scope of the whole Psalme. With application to our times. / By William Llanvædonon of P.H.C.	Llanvædonon, William, of P.H.C.	1655 (1655)	Wing L2619; Thomason E844_9; ESTC R210352	60,620	69

day yet he will have them exhorted and woed to come in unto him that they may be blessed by him yea further notwithstanding this day is a day of great wrath and the world have so provokt him as he cannot find in his heart to intercede for them although his father in wrath enquire into their actions yet with what love and grace and strong perswasions doth he exhort men to come and submit to him that he may blesse them He cannot be contented to see the worlds ruines and the destruction of soules before he hath made one Essay more pleading with the world to consider their present and future condition and accept of him upon his owne Tearmes that he may give Blessednesse to them yea though the wickednesse of this world in this day be such that it's flint hard and made so by love and mercy that our Lord is forc't to make a change alter his voyce from expressions and considerations of love to a threatning of and pointing to his direfull anger to try how that may work yet knowing it 's not the naturall tendency of such a voyce to work thorowly upon the hearts of men his love closes with a blessed Promise of blessednesse as he began his work here on earth in the dayes of his flesh with wonderfull unparallel'd expressions of love so will he finish his work here with the same glory he concludes with a large Promise of rich blessednesse How tender is the heart of Christ He speaks but two or three words that have symptomes of wrath and displeasure in them he hides his gracious and loving countenance but a moment and he can containe no longer but he must unvaile himselfe and appear in the glory of his Mediatorship It is as if he had said I have exhorted you to come and kisse me to submit to me least I be angry and you perish from the way but that hath but little operation upon you therefore now I display my glory before you doe but come to me believe on me trust in me depend and relye upon me onely and alone for happinesse forsake all your Idolls and every thing that is grievous and contrary to me and I will blesse you doe but trust me and I will doe it the father hath given me power to doe it and by that power I am able to doe it and my blood shall speake the willingnesse of my heart to doe it Who ever shed his blood for his enemies such enemies but I and if I had not lov'd them with such a love as would give them the greatest blessings I would never have done it And not one that doth thus trust and believe in me shall goe without the blessing all they that trust in me shall be blessed 4 That though these Kings and Rulers be guilty of most abominable wickednesse beyond all that ever were before them such as moves God to speak in wrath to them yet There 's hope of life and salvation for them if they will hearken to the Gospel of the Kingdome while it 's Preached to them in this Exhortation and kisse the Son before his wrath be kindled but a little 5 That in this day of the fathers wrath Nothing lesse than a hearty and thorow submission to the Son will please him and prevent his wrath breaking forth to our destruction KISSE the Son least he be angry 6 It 's No Treason against the Royall Law of King Jesus whatever it may be against the Lawes of men to seeke to draw men from their obedience to these wicked Kings and perverse Rulers to kisse the Son that they may be blessed with his everlasting blessings 7 That Men must be instructed in the wisedome of God and be filled with the graces and strength of the spirit before they can be inabled to come under the happy influence of this blessed Promise for we see that in order to this submission to the Son men are exhorted to be filled with wisedome and instruction to serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling and then Kisse the Son put your trust in him and you shall be blessed 8 That in this day notwithstanding the cunning deceits and curious coverings of the Rulers yet the Kings and Rulers of the earth and King Jesus are so diametrically contrary to each other in all their wayes and stations as that it is impossible for a man to serve them and be a friend to Christ The Exhortation is Kisse the Son that is kisse none but him give no obedience but to him yield subjection to none but to him alone Come out of her my people come from under obedience to the worlds and Antichrists Kings Rulers and Lawes and become the subjects of Christ submit to the Scepter of the Son Kisse the Son and then you shall be blessed 9 That this Exhortation with the Decree is indeed and in truth no other but the Gospel of the Kingdome the fore-runner of it which is Preached to the world immediately before it 's brought into the world to move them to submit to it when it comes and to call the chosen of God out of the world to prepare themselves to meet their Bridegroome 10 That this Gospel of the Kingdome must chiefly and in the first place be Preached to the Kings Rulers and Magistrates of the world Our Lord directs his speech first to them Be wise yee Kings be instructed yee Judges of the earth It must be preached to them in particular it 's Preached to the rest of the world as it were by the by they are put into the little word all at the very close of the Exhortation therefore how little cause will the Kings and Rulers of the world have to be wroth and angry with the Saints and people of God for preaching this doctrine to them although it sound so dreadfully in their eares You see their Authority they doe but their duty in it to follow their Lord and the dictates of his spirit who hath undertaken this work and they should perish together with you if they should hold their peace and break the Command of their Lord And their end is onely that you may be blessed if you hearken to it what a mighty aggravation of your sin will this be if you persecute oppose and take counsell against this doctrine and the publishers of it The wrath of the Son will be kindled against you and when it 's kindled but a little you perish from the way presently and that inevitably without remedy 11 The time of the Preaching this Gospel Is the evening of the Gospels repenting day The Son of righteousnesse is now setting apace as to sinners and he will arise againe with healings in his wings onely to those that put their trust in him If this voyce be not hearkened to his wrath will be kindled and all his enemies shall perish from the way of Blessednesse there 's no longer day for repentance they have lost the blessing and though with Esau they

Father and the Son concerning the great interest of his Son the sum of which is this second Psalme wherein the father expresses so great love and manifests such strong resolutions to exercise his wisedome and power in doing that for his Son which his love tells him becomes the love of such a father to performe and his deare Son doth deserve The Son seeing his Father so full of wrath and jealousie for his sake going about to make bare the arme of all his wonderfull Attributes and set them all on work to bring to passe his Decree concerning his beloved he steps in declares the Decree to the Sons of men and he doth it with such tendernesse of heart such loving exhortations and invitations that if possible he might perswade them to submit to his Scepter come under his healing wings and be blessed for ever In this Psalme we have First A TIME pointed at Secondly WORKE to be done in that time which is double The worke of God and the Worke of Christ the Son Thirdly The MANNER of Christs doing his work We have Two times pointed at by the holy Ghost in this Scripture 1 All that space of time between Christs first coming in the dayes of his humiliation and his second coming in the day of his power and glory to take the Kingdome to himselfe For the clearing up of this consider 1 That the holy Ghost devides the enemies which Christ shall have in this large Tract of time into three ranks 1 Heathens and People 2 Kings of the Earth And 3 Rulers Heathens and People that is Jewes against Christ for that space of time wherein Heathenish Rome bare rule Kings of the earth while Antichrist Lords it over the Heritage of God And lastly Apostate Rulers men of more refined Principles and professions as will be proved in its place that yet shall prove Apostates such pernicious implacable enemies to Christ in the last dayes such as God shall be no longer able to bear with but shall come forth against them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure 2 And surely The holy Ghost's distinct manner of Characterising them signifies not a little to us concerning this matter What more fit and true Character can be given of Heathenish Rome that great red Dragon than rage What rage did that Beast exercise against the poore flock of Christ How did he rend and teare it to pieces The ten first Persecutions witnesse to it And what vaine things did the people of the Jewes imagine when they thought to extinguish the light of the Gospel that shone in their Horison and to extirpate the profession of Christ out of their Coasts And secondly How directly and particularly doth the holy Ghost point out unto us the ten Hornes that gave their power to the Beast under the notion of the Kings of the earth setting themselves against the Lord and his anointed How openly and stoutly the Kings of the earth have set themselves against the Lord and his anointed in giving their power to maintaine the dominion lusts and blasphemies of the man of sin is evident by the havock they have made in the Church of Christ these many hundred yeares And lastly How exact and precise is the holy Ghost in describing unto us by many notable Characters the constitution of a third sort of Rulers that should come upon the stage of the world in the latter end of those dayes to finish the Tragedy of the old Serpent yet before the Kings of the earth should be totally extinct or put by from prosecuting their work for while the remaining Kings of the earth set themselves these take counsell together against the Lord and his anointed 3 The Apostles and Brethren in the fourth of the Acts are of our mind they begin the fulfilling of this Prophesie with the first coming of Christ when Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and people of Israel were gathered together against Christ in the twenty-seventh Verse 4 As to the finishing-time of this Prophesie we have good and sure ground to receive it for a truth that this Prophesie runs downe to the day of Christs power when all the Kingdomes of this world shall become the Kingdomes of the Lords Christ For 1 Here 's the forbearance and long-sufferance of God at an end He speaks to the world in wrath and vexeth them in his sore displeasure A course God takes not till he hath tryed all other wayes and means and that indeed the world hath fill'd the cup of her iniquity almost full and the mystery of iniquity is almost finish't then God resolves to make a full end of her as he did of the old world when the appointed time came But 2 Christ steps in and by vertue of that authority he hath with his Father he saith he will declare the Decree He procures a little suspension of the devouring wrath of God and undertakes to declare the Decree in the midst of this wrathfull dispensation now the Decree being onely concerning the matter of his Kingdome in the world it 's worthy our serious consideration whether it point at a time past or the time present or to come PAST I conceive it cannot be for we doe not find that this Decree hath been declared in former times accompanied with the weighty and materiall circumstances in the Text viz. Declared as his right and Title to the Kingdomes and possessions of the Kings and Rulers of the earth in opposition to the present Governours of the world though the best and most Saint-like of them who Take COVNSELL against the Lord and his anointed that is act against him hiddenly that it appears not to the vulgar eye and particularly addrest to the Kings and Rulers of the world as matter for their consideration denouncing no lesse than perishing death to those that yeeld not to him pronouncing them blessed who forsaking their former Lords and Rulers put their trust in him Now no time past being able to shew this Decree thus declared therefore it cannot point out to us that part of time 3 Here is but a little time given men to repent in which argues the day is far spent and the night is at hand the glasse is almost run out there 's but a few sands behind to run the voyce was all the day long beseeching and woeing to repentance by loving and patheticall perswasions We beseech you saith the Apostle in Christs stead setting before men the tendernesse of the heart of Christ to sinners and that matchlesse love of his that mov'd him to shed his blood for them pourtraying before them in a lively manner a crucified Christ with his Crowne of Thornes on his head his wounds in his hands and sides blood and water gushing out and all this with the merits of his death and sufferings to perswade men to believe the willingnesse of the heart of Christ to save sinners and that they would come and take him upon his owne tearmes that they

that day 10 Such prayers are no way contrary to the will and mind of God nor unsuitable to a Gospel spirit in Gospel times for we see at this day wherein Christ is taking his Kingdome to set forth the Gospel in all its glory the Command is ASKE of me God will be askt for such things the giving of which ruines this old world and makes way for the new Heavens and new Earth ASKE of me the Heathens for an inheritance the Powers Crownes Scepters of the great men of the world and I will give them to thee ASKE of me the utmost parts of the earth for a possession the whole habitable earth for a place to display thy glory in and I will give it Pray unto me against the Rulers their Apostacy and wickednesses taking secret wylie Counsell combining in leagues and agreements together asosiating themselves with the Kings of the earth against the Lord and his anointed and that to break their bands and cast away their cords Cry aloud unto me against them and these their abominable practices and I will put the iron sword of my wrath and vengeance into thy hand and thou shalt break them with it and my spirit shall so assist thee by an Almighty operation as that there shall be as great ease and facillity without let or hinderance in doing this work of my just wrath and vengeance as there is in dashing a potters vessel against the ground 11 Here is great encouragement to the Saints and people of God to persist and grow valiant in the way of the truth of this truth Lift up your hearts cryes and groanes higher and higher to your God and father against the enemies of your Lord and for the glory and Kingdome of Christ for while you are so doing you are in your fathers way doing his Command ASKE of me saith he Againe you are in the way of the Promise if you aske God hath Promised he will give ASKE of me and I will give thee yea God stands here in a giving posture he waites but for a Petition and when it comes he answers it gratiously he bids you aske that he may give there 's a necessity you must aske saith God I have a gift in my hand worthy a God to bestow but you must aske it ere I can give it that is the order I have set downe to my selfe to walk by and I cannot it becomes not my wisedome to recede from it therefore ASKE of me and I will give thee the Heathen for thy Inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession 12 That there will be in this day a reluctancy and backwardnesse in the people of God to the performance of this great duty this dispensation of the father layes upon them which may come to passe partly through the darknesse of this day the uncertainty and unclearnesse of things that they know not what to judge of them as hath been opened already and partly through that little betternesse in their condition now to what it was under the Government of the Kings through carnality of spirit being ready to sit downe there and partly through unbelief of heart every little hardship and difficulty they phansie to be in the way they look upon as impossibilities and the multiplying-glasse of unbeliefe makes them to seem such tall and mighty Sons of Anake as God cannot pull downe and overcome so that they are ready to cry out Let us make us a Captaine and returne to our Onyons and Garlicke and flesh-pots in Aegypt for it was better then with us than it is now If this were not so this Command ASKE of me were needlesse for otherwise they would be willing enough and forward enough of themselves their owne eternall happinesse and glory is so much concerned in it that it would be a motive strong enough and sufficient to draw them but here God is faine to call upon and command his people ASKE of me 13 The time of Gods giving an answer and returne to all the prayers of the Saints is now come God having filled his hand full of blessings he stands ready to open it and scatter them downe upon his people therefore saith he ASKE and I will give ASKE of me that I may give fill up the measure of your prayers that I may fill up the measure of my gifts I have seene saith God the hard measure you have met with from the world for my Sons sake how ungratefully and unworthily they have dealt with you trampling upon you as dung deriding you as the off-scouring and drosse of mankind but now come ASKE of me and I will give you the reward of all your labour of love a Crowne of glory for your Crowne of Thornes a Royall Exchange indeed O! how tender hath Christ by presenting to his open view the wounds he received the blood he shed and the sufferings he underwent made the heart of his father He can bear no longer he cannot stay till his people come and aske but calls upon them Come my Lambs ASKE of me and I will give ASKE that I may give you the Heathen for an inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for a possession He that commands to aske promises to give this is the time of giving here 's the time of receiving 14 The necessity and mighty force and power of the spirit of prayer saith God ASKE of me that I may give you must aske before I give and ASKE of me and I cannot deny you but I must give you Heathens for an inheritance and utmost parts of the earth for a possession ASKE of me and I must help you and you hall breake your enemies with a rod of iron and dash them to pieces like a potters vessell 15 What a usefull instrument hath God made Syon to be to his Son as Sion must become the hill of Gods holinesse before she can be a fit seat for Christ so before Christ can be exalted and honoured as King he must be seated on Sion he must be seated as a King there before he is in a fit posture to declare the Decree of his father his right and title to the world and as soone as he is settled there he is accomplisht at all points to encounter with the enemies of his Kingdome sends them a defiance a declaration of his right and title to their usurped possessions Sion is his Magazine out of which he fetches all his instruments of war and which he hath made of sufficient force to blow up and bring to ruine all the foundations of rebellion and opposition his enemies have laid against him 16 It 's worthy our taking notice of and of confiderable consequence for us to observe The way of our Lords proceedings in this day wherein he is harnessing himselfe for the battel it 's not the way and course of the politick inventions Machiavillian stratagems under-hand-workings and by the Maximes of State of this world but in a noble plaine heroick way

not be numbred among the Kings of the earth but present your selves to the world as Rulers your Authority and Government to be of my fathers appointment and according to his will yet be instructed in this know this that you and your inventions are of the earth earthy though you will not be Kings of the earth yet you are Judges of the earth though the most refined yet still but earth you your wayes and inventions are not of nor from heaven but of and from the earth Be instructed ye Judges of the earth in the wisedome of God in the service worship and out-goings of God in this your day you have been cunning and wise Counsellors for your selves and in your own wayes and concernments be ye now instructed become as wise and knowing in the ways and concernments of God and his Son in this your day Be wise ye Kings and be instructed ye Judges of the earth hearken unto me or you perish from the way of life and blessednesse and goe into eternall death and misery 2. To worship the true God and him onely Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Here 's both service done to God and rejoycing in God and they are exhorted to mix the one with fear and to mingle trembling with the other and then they will be in the way of the Promise Isa 66.2 To this man will I looke even to him that is poore and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word And Psal 112.1 145.191 Mal. 4.2 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his Commandements He will full fill the desire of them that feare him he also will heare their cry and will save them But unto you that fear my name shall the Son of righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings and ye shall goe forth and grow up as the Calves of the stall 3 To a hearty submission to the Son in this way the father hath set him giving him that honour and those dues the father hath decreed he shall have KISSE THE SON this kisse gives us to understand the most absolute subjection that is possible not that which is onely of the outward man through fear and inability to resist but that which is from the heart and the fruit of the strongest love grounded upon the best and surest Basis of the highest reason 2 The Lord gives the world severall Motives to provoke them to hearken to his advice and Counsell And they are 1 The Consideration of the Sons anger Kisse the Son least he be angry All the day long hitherto we were exhorted to repentance and submission to the Son from the consideration of his love and tender-heartednesse to sinners but now we are call'd upon with a Least he be angry The day of Gods judging this Generation and putting the Decree in execution the time for the full performance of his Promises to his chosen ones is come and now Christs heart is so full of love to his suffering ones that have been so long trampled upon by the world that he is so intense upon giving out the gifts of his father their Crowne to them that he will not tarry nor waite long but his anger will be kindled and then there followes nothing but woe perishing death And least he be angry it strongly implies that he will be angry and angry to the purpose with all those that will not readily and quickly hearken to him inflicting no lesse punishment upon them than perishing eternall death 2 The Consideration of the sad condition we shall be in if his wrath be kindled but a little and ye perish from the way When his wrath is kindled but a little Here 's a perishing woe now his wrath is kindled and kindled but a little there 's no way but death how dangerous is it to provoke the Son in this day when a little kindling of his wrath will perish our soules How strongly ought this to work upon us to move us to make hast and meet him in the way least his wrath be kindled but a little and he accuse us to the Judge not owning us before his father and our portion be to perish with the hypocrite and unbeliever And perish from the way another piece of the Motive and an aggravation of our sin if we hearken not to it While this Exhortation sounds in our eares we are in the way to happinesse the day of Salvation is not quite spent and gone the night hath not yet totally ceazed upon us but if our dull and stubborne hearts by not closing with his gratious motions kindle his wrath but a little we perish the day of salvation is cut off from us the night of judgement and wrath ceazes upon us and we are undone for eternity 3 A Promise of Blessednesse Blessed are all they that put their trust in him Here 's love indeed Come submit to me put your trust in me and I will blesse you if the consideration of my aptnesse to be angry in this day and how dangerous it is to have my wrath kindled but a little if this will not move you but you rather though unworthily and irrationally count me a hard Master yet let this prevaile with you that you shall get no lesse than blessednesse by trusting in me yea none shall goe without it but all they that trust in me shall be blessed yea and be blessed with the highest blessings with all spirituall blessings in heavenly places yea with blessednesse in the abstract BLESSED are all they that put their trust in me blessednesse it selfe the Fountaine of blessednesse shall be their Portion And now come come and be blessed made really happy if you will not hearken to this I have nothing more to say Blessed are all they that put their trust in him With these words the blessed Lamb of God closes up his mouth and goeth about his fathers work From hence we may Observe 1 That although this Decree be concerning the total Amotion of all the Kingdomes of this world and their being given to the Lord Christ yet it must be declared with abundance of love to the soules of men exhorting all to repentance and submission to the Son that they may be blessed 2 That None are exempted no not the greatest of sinners from the benefit of this Exhortation For our Lord directs his speech chiefly and in the first place to his greatest enemies the Kings and Judges of the earth that set themselves and take counsell together against him and his Be wise O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the earth What encouragement is here to all and the greatest of sinners to hearken unto this voyce and come under his healings and they shall be blessed 3 We may here behold The abundant riches of free grace and the immense greatnesse of the love of Christ to sinners That notwithstanding the great and unheard of aggravations of the sins of the Rulers of the world at this