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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42912	Godliness no friend to rebellion, or enemy to civil government Being the substance of a sermon occasionally preached at Great Yarmouth, Octob. 25. 1673. By a lover of peace and truth.	Lover of peace and truth.	1674 (1674)	Wing G933F; ESTC R215817	19,698	39

used or polluted them At which Feast the terrible hand-writing upon the wall appeared as in the 5th of Daniel Belshazzar notwithstanding the faithful remonstrance and interpretation of Daniel goeth on with his luxurious Feast filling themselves with wine when lo the wrath of God according to his word was ready to fall upon them For that very night Cyrus having by his Engineers and the help of his numerous Army turned the River Euphrates which as I said ran through the City from its usual course in the Chanel thereof with his Army entred the City the people being buried in their wine and drunkenness fully executed what was long before prophefied by Jeremiah Chapt. 51. About this time the Prophets Zechariah and Haggai earnestly stirred up the Princes that were of the Captivity to think of returning and repairing Jerusalem and the Temple But if the work was hard to be attempted under the impious Belshazzar it seems now impossible under the terrible conquering Cyrus for what lenity could they expect to find in him that had made such dreadful havock in the City of Babylon The Prophets to this discouragement opposed two Arguments One of God's Sovereignty as in Zechariah Chapt. 4. ver 7. Who art thou O great Mountain that is Cyrus before Zorobabel thou shalt become a plain he shall bring forth the head-stone thereof with shoutings crying Grace Grace unto it The power and spirit of Cyrus seemed like a great Mountain in the way of their return hard if not impossible to be overcome which yet through the Omnipotencie of God should vanish as to any resistance and impediment to their Journey and work The other Argument was from the Prophesie of Isaiah Chapt. 44. three last Verses That confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the counsel of his Messengers that saith to Jerusalem Thou shalt be inhabited and to the Cities of Judah Ye shall be built and I will raise up the decayed places thereof That saith to the deep Be dry and I will dry up thy rivers That saith of Cyrus He is my shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure even saying to Jerusalem Thou shalt be built and to the Temple Thy foundation shall be laid What great encouragement could the people have than so plain a Prophesie apparently to be fulfilled about this time but their minds viz. of the Jews were either enured to their bondage or disheartned by the inaccessible Majesty of Cyrus so as they were much discouraged and could not tell what to do in that cause when loe the Almighty wrought for them and him whom they could not force God made willing and free to their so much desired liberty For God brought it to pass that the King had a sight of the Jews Law and particularly of the Prophesie of Isaiah Chapt. 44 and 45. written two hundred and ten years before his time concerning himself When he heard it says Josephus he was so astonished at the Greatness and Majesty of God and filled with admiration and zeal to fulfil what was foretold he should perform concerning Jerusalem and the Temple that he wrote Letters to his Princes in all Asia Thus saith Cyrus Seeing God hath made me King of all the world I do believe it is he whom the Jews worship for he hath declared my name by his Prophets before I was born and hath said that I shall build his Temple in Jerusalem which is in the Country of Judea Then he made a Decree as in the first of Ezra we have it for the return of the people of the Jews to their Country Upon which Zorobabel with many whose spirits God stirred up to the work returned to Jerusalem yet many others of the people for their possessions or imployments sake staid behind and did not go up with the rest of their Brethren But this excellent Cyrus lived not long but soon after died in the prosecution of his Wars so as little was done in his time in the work of the Temple After Cyrus came Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes who little favoured the work so as their Enemies took encouragement to hinder it what they could which kept it back all his time which was about nine years To him the Officers of the King and the Jews enemies accused them for building a rebellious City and factious Temple The King believing the report decreed against the work as in the 4th Chapter of Ezra we have at large So as little was done whilst he lived He being cut off in the midst of his impiety by an eminent hand of God Darius succeeded who from a private condition by the consent of the Princes is saluted King of Persia Upon this change the High Priest adviseth Zorobabel to congratulate the Kings promotion and sollicite for liberty and favour to carry on the Temple-work Zorobabel upon his appearance at Court is admitted to favour and made one of the Kings Guard there he was informed of a Vow the King made before he came to the Crown viz. that if ever he obtained the Majesty and Sovereignty of the Empire he would cause the Temple at Jerusalem to be built and the remaining Vessels restored and what should be wanting given to the work This gave him some incouragement but how to improve it he knew not when behold the wonderful Providence of God who boweth the Heavens and is present to order the affairs and spirits of men for the fulfilling of his counsel and will in all things made a plain way for him for Darius having royally treated his Princes that night he could not sleep and as he lay on his bed discoursing with his Guard he gave to three of them whereof Zorobabel was one three Questistions to declaim on the next day making great promises to him that should be adjudged the best learned The next day the King calling his Princes together heard their Orations and all concluded for Zorobabel Then the King required him to ask what he would have He presently answered Oh King all that I ask is that you would remember your promise and make good your Vow made before you came to the Crown viz. that if ever you attained your Dignity you would rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem and restore the golden Vessels taken away The King hearing this embraced him and kissed him and besides many Honours conferred on him gave him ample Letters to his Governours for the carrying on the work as in the 6th of Ezra and to furnish them with all things needful for the worship of God That as verse the 10th they may offer Sacrifices of sweet savour unto God and to pray for the life of the King and for the life of his Sons Thus I have given you a glimpse of God's care and Providence over his Church in her wilderness and captive condition We come now to the words in which the Phrase must be a little opened Sacrifices were of divers kinds and for its nature it was munus foederale as one calls it a federal gift by