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A75734 Thunder from heaven against the back-sliders and apostates of the times. In some meditations on the 24 chapter of Isaiah. / By W.A. Aspinwall, William, fl. 1648-1662. 1655 (1655) Wing A4009; Thomason E831_26; ESTC R207507 30,084 39

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tears but you shal reap in joy Psal 126. 5. 6. You are imprisoned and hated for the sake of Christ but he wil shortly appear to your joy and your adversaries shal be ashamed Isa 66 5. You hope for beleeve and pray for the coming of Christ to rule over the world in righteousness Behold it is but a little while and he that shall come will come and wil not tarry Heb 10. 37 You are now underlings to the world and now you suffer for Christ but you shal reign as Kings upon Earth Revel 5 10. Read the Sermon of the fifth Monarchy preached by Mr. Thomas Goodwyn and printed by Livewel Chapman in Popeshead-Ally Only be careful to keep your garments unspotted of the world and hold fast the word of Christs patience that no man take your crown Rev 3. 10 11. And when you see nothing but fire and sword devouring on every hand and the powers of Heaven shaken and mens harts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth Then lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh Finally to conclude let me speak a word or two to my Brethren in New England I know you are ●ot the Land of which this Prophet speaks in particular yet I may analogically apply the same to you I could shew you how you have passed under two of these forms of Government in some measure and degree how sometimes you were under FEAR lest the Magistrate should have assumed too much power to themselves although it was more your fear then any reality and you took a speedy course to prevent that and now you are fallen into the PIT and have the main power residing in your Deputier Beware lest you come to another change of your own devising for that will certainly become a SNARE To you therefore give me leave to commend this word of advice and counsel as from God that you may avoid the SNARE Remember you had an old Prophet of the Lord amongst you who is now at rest and he according to the wisdom given him of God collected a whole Sistemee or body of Laws as you cal it out of the word of God with a divine stamp upon them and presented the same to your general Court to have been ratified by their professed subjection therunto which had you done it might have saved you many thousands of pounds that since have been spent in making and repealing of Laws of your own framing wheras as Christs Laws are made to your hand are unrepealable I know you wil acknowledg your own Laws are not perfect some capitals only excepted wherein you followed the advice of that antient Prophet and you wil also acknowledg that there is no imperfection in the Laws given by Jesus Christ our King Therfore I beseech you again to revise what was commended to you by that faithful servant of Christ Mr Cotton I mean and weigh with your selves whether Christs Laws be not equally as wise compleat and perfect touching the civil administrations of Judgment and Justice in the Common-wealth as in the matters that concern his Church and if so then be perswaded in the Lord to take his Laws for yours and make them your Magna charta And let all your administrations of Judgment be according to that perfect platform only that it may be said of your Judgments they are not yours but the Lords I might give you sundry arguments and motives hereunto as first from the example of that Nation whereof the Prophet here speaks which after tryal of sundry forms of Government finds nothing but FEAR and a PIT and a SNARE in them all 2ly Your solemn Ingagement before God in your Church covenants to submit your selves wholly to Jesus Christ as your King and the dangerous consequences which wil follow the breach of that everlasting covenant in so main a part of it But 3ly and principally let me press this argument as most suitable for Evangelical christians You wil hereby greatly honour the Lord Jesus your King when you own his wisdom faithfulness and perfection as wel in civils as in spirituals And you wil hereby become exemplary to all other christian Nations whose eys are upon your actings And let me tel you this that your desert herein hath greatly impeded the work of Christ with us For wel may men reason a minori ad majus that if the Laws of Christ our King be not sufficient to guide a smal colonie much less can they be thought an adaequate rule for administration of Judgment and Justice in such great and populous Nations I might have added much more but verba sapienti sat est I could have answered many Objections which are usually made by such as would grasp into their hands a share with Christ in making Laws but I judg it not fit for this place and this time And I know you have many amongst your selves that are far better able to obviate such slight pretences shadows these things I thought it my duty to recommend to you as one that hath spent upwards of 22 years amongst you and stil cordially affects the peace of your Jerusalem I may assure you of this that if old England Christians who walk in holy fellowship together had had the opportunity which you have had and still have they would ere this have set up Jesus Christ as King not only in their churches but in the common-wealth also You are a as a Beacon set on a Hil. Great things God hath done for you and great things he expects from you Do not you therfore so unkindly requite him as to dishonour his Son by withdrawing your necks from under his Yoak whose Yoak is easie and his burden light And the Lord that perswades Japhet perswade you the Sons of Japhet to dwel in the Tents of Shem FINIS
the name of Jehovah the God of Israel 16 From the wing of this land we have heard songs glory to the righteous but I said my leannesse my leannesse wo unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously yea the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously 17 FEAR and the PIT and she SNARE upon thee O inhabitants of that land 18 And it shal come to passe he that flies from the noyse of the FEAR shall fall into the PIT and he that ascends out of the middest of the PIT shall be taken in the SNARE for the windows from the MOST HIGH are opened and the foundations of the land do shake 19 The land is sore bruised the land is utterly broken the land is quite displaced 20 The land shal reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage for the transgression thereof shal be heavy upon it and it shall fall and never rise any more 21 And it shal come to passe in that very day Jehovah will punish the Militia of that HIGH ONE with that HIGH ONE and the Kings of the earth upon the earth 22 And they shall be gathered together with a gathering a prisoner for the dungeon and very many dayes shal they be punished 23 Then the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed for the LORD OF HOSTS shal reign in mount Zyon and in Jerusalem and before his Ancients gloriously THis Chapter and the three subsequent Chapters are exactly calcualted for this very Age wherein we live as in the ensuing Discourse will more fully appear But this 24 chapter doth in a speciall manner contain the sad and inex●●icable calamities that will befall the unbeleeving world towards the end of their worldly governments a little before the glorious coming of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus which in the later end of the fourth Monarchy will be slighted and yet dreaded insomuch that men will be troubled to hear of it as sometime Herod was and the carnal Church also when it was reported that this King Jesus was born Mat. 2. 3. But let men of earthly spirits who mind more the Mammon of this world and the dignities thereof then the coming of Christs kingdom which he taught his disciples to pray for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 6. 10 I say let them deem as they please and make a scoff at it as Peter tells us they will 2 Pet. 3. 3. in the later end of dayss saying Where is the promise of his coming which is spoken of this very age wherin we live yet let such know that for all this God will bring them to judgement Eccles 11. 9. And the day of Christs coming which now they slight wil be to them as a thief in the night 2 Thess 5. 2. And these mockers of what rank soever shal cry to the mountains and to the rocks to fall upon them and cover them from the wrath of the Lamb and him that sits upon the Throne whom now they persecute in his poore members Rev. 6. from v. 12. to the end of the chapter Therefore be wise O ye Kings be instructed O yee Judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little Now ere I come to the words of the explication of this Prophesie let me premise these three things to be considered 1. That there is no prediction of judgement nor promise of mercy in Scripture but it relates to some particular thing person nation or time or else generally to all things persons nations and times under the same or the like condition 2. That whatsoever is particularly applied to some particular thing person nation or time may be applied Analogically and by way of proportion unto any other things persons nations and times upon the same or the like terms 3. That particular judgements threatned in case of repentance may be obviated and prevented in whole or in part and so also mercies in case of apostasie and backsliding These things premised I shall briefly come to a particular disquisition of this Prophesie which nameth no particular person nation or time and explicate as I go along what is most obstruce without just offence to any submitting what I shall hold forth to the judgement of those who are able to judge of spirituall things and willing to weigh all things in the ballance of the Sanctuary In this Prophesie of Isaiah as in other of the Prophets you may observe particular Prophesies against particular countries As against Babylon in the 13 14. 21. and 47. chapters Against Moab in the 15 and 16. chapters against Damascus in the 17. chapter against Ethiopia in the 18 chapter against Egypt in the 19 chapter and against both of them in the 20 chapter against Edom and Arabia in the 21 chapter against Ephraim in the 28 chap. against Judah Jerusalem in the 29 30 31 chapters against the Idols of Babell chapter 46. All which may be applyed by way of proportion against any other Idols Persons Nations and Places in any other age upon the same or the like termes This 24 chapter is a Prophesie against a particular Land or Nation as hereafter will more clearly appeare but giveth no name to it And probably it may be thought that the Land whereof he speaks was not at that time peopled nor subjected to Government and therefore not named If any should suppose it to relate to Tyrus of which mention is made in the chapter foregoing I conceive it cannot be so for these Reasons 1. The Prophet in the close of the foregoing chapter foretells the restauration and flourishing state of Tyrus after her visitation and therefore what he speaks of this Land cannot well be understood of Tyre 2ly The Land here spoken of is an Island or Islands environed with Sea as appeares from the 14 and 15 verses whereas Tyrus is an haven town upon the main Continent 3ly The judgement denounced against Tyrus was long since executed whereas the judgements here threatned to befall this Land shall be in the latter dayes not long before the Conversion of the Jewes and the coming of the glorious Kingdome of our Lord Jesus wherefore I take it to be a Prophesie of or concerning some particular Land or Islands in these latter times But ere I come to a particular examination of the words in their order I shall give you this brief Analysis of the Prophets method in this chapter First he shews the various changes and alterations of Government in that Land in the soure first verses 2ly The ground and cause thereof to wit their hypocrisie and apostacie in the 5 verse 3ly The sad consequents both of their sin and of those alterations from the 5 verse to the end of the 12. 4ly Gods reservation of a remnant which shall glorifie him in those Islands ver 13 14 15 and part of the 16.