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A94073	The vengeance of the temple: discovered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major and court of aldermen of the City of London, in Pauls Church, May 17. 1648. Being the day of publique thanksgiving for a victory obtayned by the forces under the command of Colonell Horton, at St. Faggons, neere Cardiffe in Wales. / By William Strong pastor of Dunstans in the west, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing S6011; Thomason E450_20	38,327	55

neighbours that were neyther Heathens by profession nor Jewes by Religion these raysed a great mountaine against them Zach. 4.7 even the power of the whole Empire In the Grecian Monarchy there arose Antiochus that little horne a King of a fierce countenance who did destroy wonderfull and prospered and practised against the holy people waxed great even to the host of heaven and cast downe some of the host and of the starres to the ground and stamped on them Dan. 8.9.10 And in the fourth Monarchy as Pagan there was a great red Dragon that made warre against Michael and his Angels Thus the Church of God hath alwayes met with enemies round about But yet she might expect friends within that those borne in her bosome and brought up upon her knee that they should be true and faythfull to her But heere is the misery that she hath alwayes found the worst enemies to proceed out of her owne bowels Toads they say are most poysonous in the wineseller and the tares most destructive that grow among the wheat If an open enemy besiege Jerusalem Zach. 12.2 Judah erit in obsidione contra Hierusalem Jerom. Montan. some of Iudah will joyne with them in the siege When Jerusalem is taken by the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty Nation yet they feared more then they doe the enemy the Renegado Jewes that fell off to the Chaldeans And in their returne out of the captivity their greatest enemies were the Samaritans Jer. 38.19 that professed to worship the same God with them and would joyne with them in building a Temple to him that by their compliance they might hinder the worke Joseph antiq l. 11. c. 8. And when the Temple was built Manasses the brother of Jaddaeus the high Priest having married a strange wi●e sc the daughter of S●nballet and being therefore by his owne brother put out of the Priesthood he with his father in law did by a Petition to Alexander obtayne leave to build a Temple upon mount Gerazim in hope thereby to destroy the worship of God at Hierusalem and to draw away the hearts of the people from it And the Church of God is never in so much danger as when a S●nballet and a Manasse meet in the conspiracy And wh●n they were setled in their owne land Act. 4.11 Christ is rejected of the builders Esay 8.14 he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel And for the Saints Math. 23.34.35 I send to you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and not one of these can perish out of Hierusalem they that did professe with them the same God and to joyne in the same worship sought to destroy them Let us now come from the Iewish to the Christian Church and we shall see the enmity remayne as soon as the Roman Empire embraced Christianity Satan immediatly casts 〈◊〉 a floud after the woman the floud of Arian heresie and the Arian Christian persecutes the Orthodoxe as much or more then the Pagans had done before But this floud was soone dried up the earth helping the woman against the Arian persecution Now co●●es in a third state of the Empire which is Antichristian there doth arise a beast out of the earth Rev. 13.11 that hath two hornes like a Lambe Surely now nothing is to be expected bu● meekenesse and innocency but this Lamb speakes like the Dragon and the designe of this beast is to weare out the Saints of the most High Dan. 7.25 and to make warre upon them and that with greater cruelty then the Heathens and Arians had done before For Rome trades in the soules of men but many Nations have made defection from Antichrist have come out of Babylon Rev. 18.13 There are ten kingdomes that the Lambe will overcome by their conversion and they shall hate the whore and make her desolate Surely the Saints finde no enemies there there is in the Reformed Churches a sea of glasse mingled with fire both of contention Rev. 15.2 and persecution among themselves And they that slay the witnesses dwell in the same street where their dead bodies he Rev. 11.7.8 So that cast the world into what frame and fashion you wil while the tearm of the Churches militant condition lasts there will be alwayes found a prevayling party whose designe is to weare out the Saints of the most High 2. Secondly They that are the Churches enemies are Gods enemies whether they bee within or without the Church This will appeare upon these fowre grounds 1. First they are Gods enemies because God and his people are in Covenant there is a league offensive and defensive betweene them You have a full expression of such a league in the words of Iehosephat I am as thou art my servants as thy servants my horses as thy horses that is they shal be as truely thine to use as if the necessity were mine owne So Gen. 12.3 the Lord Covenants with Abraham I will blesse them that blesse thee and I will curse them that curse thee I will be an enemy to thine enemies and an adversary to thy adversaries Exod. 23.2 And therefore they that oppose them are sayd to fight against God And if the people of God be worsted at any time they can call to him as their Confederate Arise Lord fight against them that fight against one take hold of the shield and buckler and stand up for my helpe draw out the speare and stop the way against them that persecute me c. 35. Psa 2.3 2. Secondly because their cause is Gods cause therfore their enemies must needs be Gods enemies They intitle God to it Psal 74.22 Arise Lord maintayne thine owne cause And God by his Propht ownes it the battell is not yours but Gods 2. Cron. 20.12 It is for Gods sake that all opposition lights upon them for thy sake are we killed all the day long the reproches of them that reproched thee are fallen upon me and they chuse it rather then God should be dishonoured Malo in nos murmur hominum quam in Deum Bern. de confid bonumest mihi si Deus d●gnetur me uti pro clypeo 3. Thirdly because all Gods enemies be their enemies and all opposition that is made against God in the wayes of his Truth or Worship they take as done to themselves Doe not I hate them that hate thee yea I hate them with a perfect hatred as if they were mine enemies As Gods friends be their friends so all Gods enemies are their enemies And if they answer to their part of the Covenant surely God will not faile in his 4. Fourthly they are a people very deare to God and this makes the Lord to looke upon every thing that concernes them as being interessed in it They are dear to him Zach. 2.5 as the apple of his owne eye The sonnes of his bosome and the Father takes himselfe concerned in all the wrong offered to

first 6000. yeares of the World as Justine Martyr and after him Lactantius and others have observed And then shal be another condition of the Church which shall be even in this life compared with the former may wel be stiled Triumphant and glorious When Christ that great and mighty Angell shall come downe from Heaven clothed with a Cloud and a Rainbow upon his head and shall set his right foot upon the Sea and his left foot upon the Earth and thereby take to himselfe the dominion of both Revel 10.5.6 which is called taking to himselfe his great power and reigning Revel 11.17 when hee shall give the kingdome and dominion under the whole heaven which was before in the enemies hand unto the Saints of the most High and they shall possesse it for ever and ever When their enemies shall bow down before them and licke the dust under their feet In this militant condition hath the Church of God beene ever since the fall and how long it shall so continue no man can certainly determine But it is the concurrent judgement of our Divines that it drawes neere an end While this estate of the Church lasts their condition will be like that described by the Prophet A day wherein the light shall neither be cleare nor darke Zach. 14.6 full of uncertainties and subject to continuall changes and vicissitudes not so light that they shal say there is an end of our feares nor so darke that they shall say there is an end of our hopes Sometimes they may be under the power of the Enemy as prisoners in a pit wherein there is no water and by and by God will rayse up a deliverer for them that shall proclaime their liberty and be as a covering Cherub to the Ark of God for their defence A resemblance of this condition of the Church we have in the Jewish State which therefore is made the prototype of all the Gentile Churches thorowout the whole Book of the Revelation the Prophesie of the last times An embleme whereof you have in the former Chapters First the children of Israel did evill in the sight of the Lord and he gave them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim the king of Mesopotamia and hee ruled over them eight yeeres Then the Lord raysed up a deliverer to them Oihoniel the sonne of Kenaz Calebs yonger brother and the Land had rest forty yeeres Then the chilren of Israel did evill againe in the sight of the Lord and he strengthned against them Eglon the king of Moab and they served him eighteene yeeres and then the Lord raysed up a deliverer for them Ehud the sonne of Gera and the Land had rest fowrescore yeeres Afterwards they were oppressed by the Philistines and the Lord delivered them by Shamgar the sonne of Anath And they did evill againe in the sight of the Lord and he sold them into the hand of Iabin king of Canaan the most potent of all these enemies for he had nine hundred Chariots of iron and twenty yeeres hee mightily oppressed Israel And then the Lord raysed for their deliverance Deborah the wife of Lapidoth and Barach the son of Abinoham and gave the enemy into their hands Thus God never leaves his people in affliction but provides Saviours aswell as Persecutors not onely hornes but Carpenters also to beat them to pieces Zach. 1.21 A song of thanksgiving for this last victory and deliverance is the contents of this Chapter In which by way of context wee may observe these six particulars all which will helpe us in the duty of the present day 1 First the heart that shal be thankfull for a mercy must be gracious the song must be sung by a Deborah and a Barak they must have golden vials hearts refined and not drossie that shall have the harpes of God in their hands Revel 5.8 And they that shall sing the Lords song must be redeemed from the Earth being the first fruits to God and to the Lambe in whose mouth is found no guile Revel 14.4.5 An earthy spirit may put a man upon a prayer his owne necessity will therein carry him on to howle upon his bed for his corne and wine and oyle but it is a heart only redeemed from the earth that will enable a man to returne prayse so that if there bee ten cleansed we may say with our Saviour Where are the nine 2. Secondly whosoever shal be thankful for a mercy must prize it and rejoyce in it Gaudentis est gratias agere Levit. 3.1 Peace offrings are called in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Retributions and they that thinke they have received little will make little conscience of returning There is an evill generation among the sonnes of men that undervalue mercies and despise them saying Would God we had died in Egypt Canaan is a L●nd that eats up his inhabitants These men are so far from accepting the punishment in an affliction that they accept not the mercy in their redemption Mercies will distinguish men aswell as Judgements Some are delivered to everlasting life some to shame and everlasting contempt Dan. 12.2 O poore murmuring soules to whom mercies are a burthen 3. Thirdly a thankfull heart must stir up it selfe unto prayse Awake Deborah awake awake utter a song arise Barak and let captivity captive Eph. 5.19 thou sonne of Abinoam Thanksgiving is melody in the heart of the Lord and before you can make melody your Instrument must be in tune Awake my glory awake lute and harpe I my selfe will awake right early Yee prophane and unthankfull spirits ingratus est qui injuriam voc at finem voluptatis that repine at blessings Sen. ad Polyb. ● 20 and looke upon your mercies as your injuries incredulous men that are scarce willing to beleeve the things you see that endeavour to bring up an evill report upon all the goodnesse of God procul hinc heere is no place for you in the worke of this day The garment of prayse is comely only for the upright ye wayward spirits that slight the gift because your selves did not chuse the messenger and because you like not the hand that brings it And yee seemingly compassionate that say shall we give thanks for the killing of men and that of our owne Nation in a Civill Warre In this case the Heathen man did forbeare his Triumph and therefore such Thansgivings seeme not only unchristian but inhumane To such I answer The War in which at first ye of this City were eminently ingaged and by you the Kingdom was eyther just or unjust if it were unjust then hide your Tropheyes and be ashamed of your victories for he that gives thankes to God because he prospers in a sinne makes God a patron thereof But if it were just you ought to rejoyce in the successe being the publike execution of divine justice and to glorifie God in those things wherein hee hath glorified himselfe T is farre from us to rejoyce in the bloud of