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A90064	Jerusalems vvatch-men, the Lords remembrancers: a sermon preached at the Abbie at VVestminster, before both Houses of Parliament, and the Assembly of Divines, upon their solemn fast, Iuly 7. 1643. / By Matth: Nevvcomen M.A. and Minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Published by order of both Houses of Parliament.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing N911; Thomason E63_7; ESTC R8797	23,198	43

with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Fourthly 4. By improving this light to the working of holinesse God makes his Church a praise by improving sanctifying this knowledge to the working of holinesse in the hearts and lives of his people this was the praise of Ierusalem it was a holy City this is the praise of the Church they are a holy people Deut. 26.18 19. The Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people as he hath promised thee and that thou shouldest keep all his Commandements and to make thee high above all Nations which he hath made and that thou maiest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God as he hath spoken Abundance of light unsanctifyed would make the Church if it were possible rather hell then heaven and make men but like the devills who know much but are the more desperately wicked therefore we must pray that God would sanctify that knowledge wherewith he filleth his Church that so the beauty thereof may be perfect Yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him norest till he make Ierusalem thus a praise Fifthly God makes his Church a praise 5. By encreasing his Church by encreasing his Church by enlarging the tents and extending the cords of it this is a blessing God calls his Church to rejoyce in Esay 51.1 2 3. Sing O barren c. break forth into singing c. enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations spare not lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left and thy seed shall inherite the Gentiles and make the desolate Cities to be inhabited We are to pray that God would make his Church a praise thus also Thus you have Right Honourable Honourable Reverent and beloved in our Lord Iesus the sense of this doctrine as fully as my weak thoughts in the little time I had to bestow upon this work were able to comprehend it yee see for whom we are to pray Ierusalem the Church of God in generall our own in particular yee see what it is we are to desire for the one for the other truth peace and praise such a trinity of blessings as the blessed Trinity hath none better to bestow upon the dearly beloved of his soul while she sojourns upon earth I know I speak to an Auditory so rationall as I shal not need confirm this truth by reasons to so cordiall to the Church of God as I shall as little need to stir you up to the practice of this truth by application The point confirmed by examples else I might fill up a large portion of the time remaining in telling you how all the Lords remembranters in all the ages of the Church under the Law under the Gospell have exemplified this truth under the Law before the Captivity Moses Samuel David Isaiah Ieremy which of the Lords Prophets have not made the establishing and beautifying of Ierusalem the burthen of their prayers In the captivity though they had lost their Vrim and Thummim and the fire of the Sanctuary that came from heaven yet they had not lost this holy heavenly disposition of praying for Ierusalem see abundant evidence of it in Ezekiel Daniel Mordecai and after the captivity in Ezra Nehemiah and others And now in the times of the Gospell the same spirit still animates Gods children and enclines their hearts still to seek the good of Ierusalem how doe the Apostles in severall Epistles testify this disposition in them Rom. 1.9 God is my witnesse whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son that without ceasing I make mention of you saith that Apostle to the Church of Rome alwayes in my prayers so Ephes 1.16 17. making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glory may give unto you c. Yea so much religion have the Saints of God before us placed in this duty of praying for Ierusalem that they have deprecated the neglect of this as a most abominable sinne 1 Sam. 12.23 As for mee God forbid that I should sinne against you in ceasing to pray for you nay have imprecated a curse upon themselves if ever they should be so wretched Psal 137.5 6. If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning if I doe not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth if I prefer not Ierusalem above my chiefe joy it is one of the greatest judgements that can befall a Prophet to be silenced witnesse Zachary whose unbeleef God punished with this as an only judgement witnesse those amongst our selves that have had their mouths stopped by the violent hand of man who know what it is to have the word of God as a fire in their bones and no vent for it yet even to this doth the Prophet here curse himselfe If I forget thee O Ierusalem if I doe not remember to mourn for thee to pray for thee let me never pray more let mee never speak more if I forget to speak for thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth The good Lord be mercifull to every one of us and pardon all our forgetfulnesse of Ierusalem whom we have as much cause and reason to remember as ever any had Proved by Reasons For 1 is not Ierusalem a Heb. 12.22 the city of God the b 1 Tim. 3.15 house of God the c Psal 135.4 Titus 2.14 peculiar of God the d Isaiah 62.4 delight of God e Isay 62.2 the crown of glory the royall diadem in the hand of God is not f Cant. 5.2 the Love the dove the Spouse the sister g Eph 1.23 the body h Eph 1.23 the fulnesse i 2 Cor. 8.23 the glory of Iesus Christ and in all these respects doth it not deserve our prayers And secondly are not earth and hell up in armes against Ierusalem are not men and devils in league together to confound and destroy Ierusalem Psalm 83.3 4. They have taken crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones They have said Come and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance Geball and Ammon and Amalek c. And doth not Ierusalem in this respect now need our prayers And thirdly hath not the Lord made promises unto Ierusalem of these things we are to pray for of truth and peace Ierem. 33.6 I will cure them and reveal abundance of truth and peace unto them as also of praise v. 9. It shall be to me a name of joy a praise and an honour before all the Nations of the earth and Zeph. 3.20 I will make you a name and a praise among all the people of the earth And is not the Lord able to accomplish

in urable ruptures in the Church which is one of the greatest and saddest mischiefs and miseries can fall upon the Church or the Church fall under That God who makes men to be of one minde in a house as the greek reads that of the 68. Psalme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that God I say can make men of one mind in a Church in a Nation in Ierusalem and hath promised that he will doe it Ezek. 11.19 I will give them one heart and Zeph. 3.6 I will turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent O happy happy we if God would fulfill these promises in us happy we if we could obtain this at the hands of God by our prayers yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest till he establish his Church in this peace Thirdly Spirituall or Celestiall Thirdly there is spirituall or celestiall peace peace between God and his Church wee must pray that God would establish his Church in that also that God would so watch over and work in his Church that no sin may take hold and spread upon it which might cause a quarrell between his Church and him or cause the Lord to say Mine heritage is to me as a speckled bird Ier. 12.9 That God would so order all the wayes of his Church before him and towards him that he may never know her by any other then those precious and lovefull names of Ammi and Ruhamah Hephzibah and Beulah Yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest till he establish Ierusalem his Church in this peace also Thus you see the first thing we are to pray for that God would establish his Church upon the two pillars of truth and peace as Solomon did the proch of the Temple upon those two brazen pillars Iachin and Boaz. The second thing we must pray for That God would make his Church a praise Yet there is one thing more that this Text commands us to pray for that is that God would make Ierusalem a praise Yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest til hee establish and till he make Ierusalem a praise in the earth In the former we pray that God would fortifie his Church in this that God would beautify his Church make it cleare as the morning faire as the moon glorious as the sun terrible as an army with banners lovely as Tirzah comely as Ierusalem the praise of all the earth This God doth by five things Now God makes his Church a praise in the earth specially by these five things First by furnishing his Church with fulnesse of ordinances Secondly by ruling his Church according to his own orders Thirdly by filling his Church with abundance of light and knowledge Fourthly by improving this knowledge to the working of holinesse Fifthly by enlarging and encreasing his Church by these meanes First by furnishing it with ordinances First God makes his Church a praise in the earth by furnishing it with fulnesse of ordinances this was that which was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle calls it Rom. 3. the preheminency of the Church of the Iewes above all other Nations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first of all and chiefly it was this that to them were committed the oracles of God this is that which God himself tells his people should make them glorious and praise-worthy in the eyes of all the Nations of the world Deut. 4.6 7 8. This is your wisdome and your understanding in the sight of the Nations which shall hear all these statutes and say Surely this Nation is a wise understanding people for what Nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for And what Nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgements so righteous as all this law that I set before you this day Now when God bestowes his oracles and ordinances upon a people first his word and then appending ordinances seales Sabbaths censures administred in purity and in power then he makes them a praise Yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest til he thus make his Church a praise Secondly 2. By ruling it according to his own orders God makes his Church a praise by ruling it according to his own order 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are the two great destroyers of the Church of God it is equally prejudiciall to the Church not to be ordered at all as to be ordered after the lusts wils of men God who is the God of order not the author of confusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14.33 would have all things in all Churches be done decently and in order v. 40. now when all ordinances and offices are administred in the Church according as God hath ordered then is that Church a praise in heaven and earth with God and Saints 1 Cor. 11.2 Now I praise you brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered them unto you And on the other side disorder or deflection from the rule of Christ though but in one administration is a blemish and doth detract from the Churches praise as appears in the same chepter v. 17. Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not that you come together not for the better but for the worse and v. 22. What have you not houses to eat and to drink in or despise you the Church of God and shame them that have not what shall I say to you shall I praise you in this I praise you not one aberration from the rule of Christ in the administration of this one ordinance of the supper of the Lord casts a cloud upon this Churches glory and causes a great diminution of their praise therefore we must pray that God would help his Church in all things to keep the ordinances as they are delivered unto us Yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest til he make his Church thus a praise Thirdly 3. By filling it with abundance of light and knowledge God makes his Church a praise when he fills it with abundance of light and knowledge when after a night of ignorance or error that had swallowed up and buried the Church of God the Church hath a resurrection and looks forth as the morning Cant. 6.10 cleare as the sun faire as the moon it ravisheth all eyes and fixeth them upon it selfe in admiration that men say Who is this that locketh forth as the morning Cant. 6.10 Yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him no rest til he make Ierusalem thus a praise remember him of that which he hath promised Isaiah 11.9 All the earth shall be filled