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A81992	Seismos megas. Or Heaven & earth shaken. A treatise shewing how kings, princes, and their governments are turned and changed by Jesus Christ as [brace] King of Kings, and King of Saints. / By John Davis, M.A. sometime lecturer at Christ Church in London, and now pastour of a congregation in Dover.	Davis, John, pastor of a congregation in Dover.	1655 (1655)	Wing D422; Thomason E1601_2	153,991	331

he forgives them but hides them from men also should men know all our faults we should never live by them in quiet yet some faults one or two may know but when they divulge what they know when it s neither for the good of the offender nor warning of others this is detraction and evil communication which the Apostle tels us corrupts good manners 3. Suppose thy Brother sin and his sin be open and know yet when you aggravate that sin beyond measure aggravate it more then a greater sin in your selves when you meditate how to render him odious and hated rather then reformed and amended yea though his soul be humbled you continue to hold sin and guilt upon him is not this to reproach him 4. What meane you to blame the Intention of any man when you cannot blame the Action Surely in this case we go beyond our line and make our selves judges of evil thoughts and render our selves condemned for want of love and Christian affection Again we may indirectly reproach another when we deal unduely with the good of another Qui negat aut tacuit minuit laudatque remisse 1. When we deny that good that is in them God is bountiful in giving of his grace and our duty it is to own his grace in others as well as in our selves now when we deny it what do we but offer injury to God and to those who have his grace to God who gave and to them who have received it we make by denying as if he had not given nor they received such grace from him 2. When we hide or cloud anothers gifts or graces It s the due of grace to be transparent that those that have it may be honoured and God in them and others may be exampled but when we draw a mist over it and seek to darken that which shines we discover our selves too much unlike the children of light 3. Gifts and graces are ofttimes so great and so drawn out into action by Gods providence that they cannot be hid Now to go about to lessen them in the esteem of others to render those graces low and weake which indeed are high and mighty This I say is a most unworthy and unchristian practice Thus they dealt with our Saviour they could not deny but that a great miracle was wrought but they envyed him the honour of doing of it and therefore they say He casteth out Devils by Beelzebub the prince of Devils But I hope God will teach us to abhor this devilish spirit 4. When God causeth his grace given to others to shine we are not onely to praise him for it but to praise his grace in them and to praise them in whom God hath planted this grace and our commendation should be according to the truth and highth of grace with highest commendations Now when the lustre of anothers gifts or grace is such that it draweth forth praise from us and we cannot but represent it as worthy yet when we praise it poorly with but 's and stopps with ifs and ands with disparaging circumlocutions God and wise men cannot but accuse us of reproaching in such a faint praising 7. A seventh Law of Nature is against Pride against all undue exalting of our selves attributing too much to and vaunting our selves Now see how much the Gospel-Doctrine is an enemy to this pride It tells you that pride of life is in the world and not of the Father 1 Joh. 2. 26. That God scattereth the proud from the imaginations of their hearts Luk. 1. 51. Be ye therefore cloathed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God and he shall exalt you in due time 1 Pet. 5. 5 6. 8. To be just to give every one their due and not to respect persons in judgement is surely a loude speaking Law highly commanded and commended in the Gospel Rom. 13. 7. Render therefore to all their dues Tribute to whom tribute honour to whom honour is due I wonder how those who from their practice have procured the name of Quakers can pretend so much to justice as indeed they do and yet deny honour to those in authority Respect is their due as well as obedience reverent deportment toward and before them as well as performing their commands and if they say they must not gratifie the flesh in giving Titles to men I may more truely say they gratifie their own flesh by not giving of them 9. It follows as that conclusion which cannot be denied That we must deale well with them who are the meanes of our peace Supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks must be for those that are in authority 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. and why because they are meanes of our quiet and peaceable living The Elders that rule well that labour in word and doctrine must be accounted worthy of double honour 1 Tim. 5. 17. We must obey and submit our selves to them for they watch for our souls as they that must give account Heb. 13 17. 10. It s a general conclusion that enemies must be opposed There be some enemies are like the Amalekites with whom we must never make peace we must give our old man with its affections and lusts no quarter we must mortifie and crucifie them Eph. 6. 12. You must wrastle against principalities and powers the rulers of the darknesse of this world against spiritual wickednesse in high places Therefore be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might V. 10. Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand and withstand in the evil day V. 11. 13. Stand therefore with your loynes girt about with truth having on the brestplate of righteousnesse the sheild of faith the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit There be other enemies which we must pitty and pray for do good to them although they deale ill with us Math. 5. 44. Love your enemies and do good to them that hate you is a sweet Gospel-straine and of a high nature and there be many more such precious passages which you shall not meet with in the Naturalists some of them we shall gather together and now set before you You are borne again of the spirit 1 Pet. 1. 3. you have union with Jesus Christ who is a spiritual living Principle and hath life in himselfe as the Father hath and hence flowes your spiritnal activity and joy your lively hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead The best the world can brag of is but a dead hope but your hope is lively and the livelinesse of your hope ariseth from a life after death a resurrection yea from the resurrection of Christ and so from his life and death You are in Christ as branches in the Vine and members in the head one with him as husband and wife are one

Indians and English in the West-India All his golden Mines will never be so sweet as the vengeance will be bitter Let his cursed cruel Inquisition be as precious to him as his right eye yet God will plucke it out God will cast it down He will no more beare with an Inquisition in Spain then with an High-Commission Court in England I wish that France and Savoy would consider of their Massacres and if they do not all the world shall acknowledge Christ his just shaking-devastations in many years war and other wayes of vengeance on them 3. Will Christ account with Princes and shake them then surely meaner men shall not escape Magistrates Ministers Counsellers Captains Parents Masters look about you Christ is on his circuit hath began his Audit look well to your accounts Princes are not too great nor you too little for him to account withal he will deale punctually he will not shuffle over things with you Hearken he calls venite ad judicium Come to judgement what can you answer for your times and talents your meanes and mercies your deliverances and salvations your covenants and engagements Are you yet more holy heavenly watchful faithful fruitful will your relations blesse God for you for your counsel instruction reprehension exhortations prayers and examples Can you say you are free from the blood of your people children souldiers and servants If they perish is it on their own account you having freed your souls in the faithful discharge of your duty 4. In all oppression from powers its a just ground for people to appeale to Christ whose Office it is to supervise their actings and to shake them Exod. 2. 23. Israel sighed by reason of their bondage and their cry came up to God we tread on wormes and goe over where the hedge is lowest It s no new thing for might to oppresse right but if men cannot have right on earth there is none can hinder a man from looking to heaven it was a notable appeale of David from King Saul to Jehovah 1 Sam. 24. 15. The Lord be judge and judge between me and thee and plead my cause and judge me on thee its emphatical that thrice he repeats the word judge The Lord be judge and judge between me and thee and judge me out of thy hand How pathetically doth the same David addresse himselfe to God Psalm 35. 23. Stir up thy selfe and awake to my judgement unto my cause my God and my Lord. Evigila expergiscere watch and arise and surely he will do so I remember what Mr. Henry Burton a late Martyr told me that being in trouble before the highest powers and having appealed to the King and finding no redresse he expressed himselfe thus Well I appeale to the King of Kings and so may we in like cases Learne farther that judicial proceedings against Princes is stamped with remarkable Characters of Christ on them for he shakes them Thus in the prophesies of John Revel 6. The sixe Seales containe the several steps of plaguing the heathenish Roman Empire At the opening of the first Seale v. 2. there appears a white Horse Christ riding on the word of truth and going on Conquering and to Conquer heathenisme The second Seale and red Horse shews the bloody wars that Christ raiseth against them The third Seale and black Horse denotes scarcity of bread by which Christ afflicts them The fourth Seale and pale Horse includes warres famine plague and all which Christ brought in upon them Upon opening the fifth Seale you have the cry of the Saints under their persecutions which Christ heares attentively The sixth Seale utterly ruines the heathenish Empire the great day of Christ his wrath being come upon it so that it was not able to stand The opening of the seventh Seale presents you with a Vision of seven Angels with seven Trumpets and they relate Christs his shaking and ruinating the Empire while Christian and no marvel seeing it became Arrian and persecuting Totus Mundus Arrianus The foure first Trumpets sound the fatal ruine of the Westerne Empire when Christ stirred up the Goths and Vandals in four incursions upon it The fifth and sixth Trumpet which are two of the Vae Tubae the woe Trumpets they sound out Christ his shaking of the Easterne Empire in that he gives passage to Mahomet and his company in the fifth Trumpet and in the sixth Trumpet to the Turkes We read in Rev. 16. 1. of seven Vials which contain Christ his shaking the Kingdome of Antichrist for they are the last plagues on the Beast Thus you see eminent Characters of Christ his judging all his adversaries even from Johns time to this very day both his Heathenish and Antichristian enemies To those who are in high place of power I beseech them to suffer a word of exhortation from one who daily prays for them Oh! how good is it for men to meditate on Christ and his shaking on Christ and his accounting with them think not because you have Sword and Counsel Armies and Navies that now your mountaine is so strong it shall never be moved They once thought so who are now shaken out and the entertainment of such thoughts again will be the ready way to a repeated shaking T is true God hath blessed you with a series of good successes and by them turned others out of their seats and placed you in I hope and heartily wish that their sinnes their crying sinnes may never be found among you for if they be Christ can raise up others to shake you out as he raised up you to shake others The good God forbid that ever that day should arise among us But rather of the riches of his mercy grant your establishment by Judgement and Righteousnesse that so you may be called repairers of our breaches the restorers of paths to dwell in Much of the impetuous violence of the streames of wickednesse would be dryed up by the due consideration of Christ his coming to shake Princes are great Masters and subjects are their servants and Col. 4. 1. Masters give unto your servants that which is just and equal knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven Let all that know and feare God give unto Christ the honour due unto his Name In that he shakes Kings and Princes he is decked with glory and sets up his Throne for vengeance Thus the Church doth Rev. 5. 12. Worthy is the Lamb to receive power and riches and wisdome and strength and honour and glory and blessing CHAP. VIII Shewes 1. That All power is in Christ 2. It s his due upon taking our nature 3. Though it be his due yet is it given to him 4. Though it be his due and given him yet he hath little glory of it 5. He will exalt himselfe in great Turnes to take up his glory by them Vses of Instruction and Exhortation KIngs and Princes are the greatest persons and the

WE have seen Christ on the Throne and the World under his feet and what he works as being Lord paramount of the earth Let us now raise our thoughts and hearts unto a farther consideration and behold the Turns of the World from Christ as King of Saints and that your thoughts may be more collected I shall represent you in this Chap. with twelve Sections Sect. I. Jesus Christ is King of Saints as well as King of the World God the Father glories in this that he hath set him his King upon his holy hill Psal 2. 6. Let the Kings set against him and seek to break his cords all their power and malice cannot in the least unsetle him Psal 110. 4. He sweares and will not repent God the Father is fully satisfied in the great glory put on Christ so as he will never have a recoyling thought concerning it It s the blessed burden of the Song of Moses and the Lamb Rev. 15. 3. Just and true are thy ways oh thou King of Saints And let wise and holy Daniel tell you what work this makes Dan. 2. 44. His Kingdome shall break in pieces and consume all these Kingdomes and it shall be for ever Sect. II. Jesus Christ hath this high honour of being King of Saints upon his sufferings The 22. Psalm is a Psalm of Christ and his sufferings as appears from v. 1. to 22. The meek shall eate and be satisfied and the Kingdoms of the Nations shall worship yea the fat ones upon earth v. 25. shall eate and worship and the ground you have v. 28. The Kingdome is the Lords and he is Governour among the Nations Phil. 2. 7 8 9. He made himselfe of no reputation though he were in the forme of God yet he took on him the forme of a servant thus he humbled himselfe but God highly exalted him and upon this follows a Name above every Name the bowing of every knee to him and the confession of every tongue That he is Lord. It is a proper honour due unto him from these his sufferings that is such an honour as had not accrewed to him if he had not suffered Jesus Christ had experience of many Turnes in his sufferings Now his glory shall correspond with his sufferings and not be in one straine or streame but in diverse Turnes and alterations Sect. III. Jesus Christ puts forth His power he hath as King of the Nations for his people to whom he is King of Saints 1 Chron. 16. 20 21. When they went from Nation to Nation from one Kingdome to another People He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved Kings for their sakes He must be King of the World that he may be their King that in their wanderings he might help them and if Kings oppose them he as King of Kings will reprove them Rev. 12. 16. The earth helps the woman The world helps the Church Christ makes the Goths and Vandales break the Arrian faction by which the Dragon sought to carry away the Church Isa 43. 14. Thus saith the Lord your Redeemer For your sakes I have sent to Babylon and have brought down all their Nobles Jehovah considered as the Redeemer and holy One of Israel puts forth his power as he is King of Nations and makes it subservient to that power he hath as he is the Redeemer of his people He sends to Babylon and brings down all their Nobles there he appears King of Kings but it s for their sakes for Israels sake there he appears the holy One and their Redeemer the Redeemer of his holy ones Sect. IV. Jesus Christ shall have more visible glory in this world then ever hitherto he hath had the glory of this relation of being King of Saints His Subjects appeare in this world as Saints they here shine as lights in a dark world and the world hates them because they are Saints holy ones because by their holinesse they convince and condemn the world and do they appeare for Christ and will not Christ appeare for them They appeare for him visibly upon earth before men and Christ will take to himselfe his great power and Dan. 7. 22. Time shall come when the Saints shall possesse the Kingdome He had a government over Israel so as he had not over other Nations and the Nations knew it Exod. 14. 25. Let us flee say the Egyptians from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them Deut. 32. 31. Their Rock is not as our Rock even our enemies themselves being judges And surely Christ shall again appeare to have the government of Saints and Saints shall know it more and their enemies too when he shall be revealed from heaven to take vengeance on them that know not God and 2 Thes 1. 10. shall come to be glorified in his Saints and admired in all them that believe Thus Rev. 15. when Christ sends his last plagues in which are filled up the the wrath of God on his Churches enemies then is Christ honoured v. 3. as King of Saints Sect. V. Bitternesse doth and shall mingle with all Governments among all Nations that so Christs Government may be rendred sweet Look on Governments by single Persons or by Councils in Kingdomes or in Common-wealths look on this or that form of Government whatsoever it be you will finde so much weaknesse and wickednesse so much corruption self-seeking and undue exaltation of themselves breaking forth as that men will be weary of it To maintaine their pride you will finde men apt to oppresse to maintaine their oppression you will finde them dextrous either to straine or new coyne Laws and so far from removing heavy burdens that they will lay more on Observe observe narrowly and you will meet with such undue biassings in them that rule to their friends kindred relations and interests that due deserving worth cannot mount to preferment Look on the right or left hand you will finde no helper oh how wellcome will Christ be in such a conjunction of affairs When he was to be borne into the world he stay'd till men had made void his Law till the Pharisees by their glosses and traditions had made the word of God of no effect and when he shall come to take the Kingdome to himselfe is shall be when men have corrupted and so inbittered all rule and government Israel must be under hard Task-masters that make them serve with rigour before Moses and Aaron can be hearkned unto Rev. 17. 13 14. The ten Hornes that is the ten Kings of Europe give their power and strength to the Beast and make war with the Lamb that is the condition of Governours before Christ come But the Lamb shall come and overcome them for he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and they that are with him as called and chosen and faithful Sect. VI. Christ pours out on his people a mighty spirit of prayer which he in his government as King