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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

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an opportunity of temptation are fallen away and are become actors and advocates for those things and persons which before they were resolute against and all their former deliverances are but a Resurrection to shame Dan. 12.2 The Iewes in their first deliverance are to meet with such trouble as they had not since they became a Nation which is to last five and forty yeeres in which time many that had a share in the first deliverance shall be discovered to be unsound and false hearted and their former deliverance shall bee to their eternall shame and dishonour before the Saints Surely there are trying times coming when no house will stand but that which is built upon the Rocke It s the righteous onely that is an everlasting Foundation There are three observations which I desire to adde to the explication before I come to the reasons and grounds of this emnity First Obs 1 when mens hearts are once in judgement turned to hate the Saints the maine pleasure of their lives comes in by their opposition to them and they take very much delight in it As Sathan not having yet his full torment the maine pleasure that he takes is in opposition against God and to see his plots to take in a way of revenge so it is with the enemies who are acted in a high degree by the spirit of Sathan in their opposition against the Saints A mans meat and drinke in the Scripture Fruitionem denotat delectationem Glass Rhetor. sacr p. 373. is that by which the pleasure and the comfort of his life cometh in It is my meat to doe the will of him that sent me and to finish his worke Jo. 4.34 And to note that the mayne pleasure of the enemies lies in their opposition it is said to be their meat and drinke It is their meat Psal 14.4 They eat up my people as they would eat bread they are the food that their malice feeds upon Mos est in urbibus Palestinae usque hod ie peromnem Judaeam vetus consuetudo servatur ut in vicculis oppidis castellis rotundi ponantur lapides gravissimi ponderis ad quos juvenes exercere se soleant eos pro varietate virium sublevare alii ad genua alii ad umbilicum alii ad humeros capur nonnulli super verticem erectis junctisque manibus pondus extollunt and this is their drink also Rev. 17.6 I saw the woman drunken with the bloud of the Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus Though it prove a cup of poyson and of trembling in the end yet they drinke if downe as sweet wine Zach. 12.2 This is their recreation also and that wherin they shew forth their strength and activity which Hierome conceives to be intended by the Holy Ghost in that expression of a burdensome stone Zach. 12.3 alluding therein to the custome of the Iewes and of all those Easterne Countreys where in every towne and village were great round stones which the yong men for recreation and to shew forth their strength did use to lift pro virium varietate some to their knees some to the loynes some to the head c. And thus as matter of recreation are the enemies lifting at the Church every man according to his ability and as any one dare doe more then other this way hee accounts himselfe the more valiant and gallant man which made Saul in this zeale this way which he after saw to be madnesse to go beyond his fellowes The last enemies of the Church shall surely be the worst Obser 2 The fourth beast was divers from all the other beasts that went before and exceeding dreadfull whose teeth were of brasse Dan. 7.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sept. But upon the last head of the fourth beast there arise ten hornes for the Romane Empire is broken into ten Kingdomes and after them o behinde them there doth arise a little horne that speakes great words against the most High and whose design is to we are out the Saints 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dicitur de calceamentis inveteratis Josh 6.13 de pannis affritis Jer. 38.11 Dan. 7.24.25 The Originall word doth sign●fi● to weare out a thing with long and continued use or as a Garment is worn out by degrees with long and constant wearing so under this little Horne which must be Antichrist because hee riseth with the ten hornes upon the last head of the fourth beast and in whose judgement the beast is slaine and his body destroyed given to the burning flame ver 11. the witnesses prophesie in sackcloth and ashes 1260 dayes in a persecuted mournefull and afflicted condition that by a long and continuall oppression they may be worne out even as a garment Thirdly the last acts of these enemies shall be filled with the greatest cruelty and with a rage that shall reach to heaven Antichrist shall make it his businesse during all the time of his raigne to weare out the Saints but at last they shall be killed Rev. 11.7.8 and that in the most inhumane maner their dead bodies shall be cast out into the street and they shall rejoyce in their death and deny them a buriall in the last attempts they shall expresse more cruelty and bitternesse Rev. 16.16 then in many hundred yeeres before And after the resurrection of the witnesses and Romes downefall they shall attempt with greater violence when the Kings of the earth and of the whole world shall be gathered together to the battell Armageddon Rev. 20.8.9 And lastly when Gog and M●gog shall gather the Nations together to battell from the fowre quarters of the earth in number as the sands of the sea and they shall go upon the bredth of the earth and compasse the campe of the Saints round about and the beloved City Satan shall have great indignation seeing his time is short For in the last dayes shall be the most glorious Reformation the greatest refinements shall passe upon the world by him who sits as a refiner answerable to the degrees of reformation Mal. 3.3 such shall the degrees of opposition be when there shall be the perfectest reformation there shall then be the highest opposition and the bitterest persecution 2 Tim. 3.5 In the last dayes the opposition to Godlinesse in the power of it shal be by them that have a forme and the persecution of Religion shall in a great measure be under a profession therof men sinning against greater light and higher workes whose hearts the Divel hath touched 1 Jo. 5.18 and left a speciall impression of divellishnesse upon and who are thereby qualified for a higher way of sinning In the last dayes shall the great and glorious deliverances of the Churches be when all the persecu●ing Monarchies shall be destroyed Esay 2 2● and the mountayne of the Lords house be exalted on the top of the mountaynes that all Nations may flow to

they ever prevayle to root out godlinesse or a godly party out of this Kingdome but they shall encrease by persecution raised against them for as the ten Kingdomes did at first give their power to the Beast to set him up so he will turne their hearts to hate the whore and they shall plucke her downe for the Lambe shall overcome the ten kingdomes not in a way of destruction but in a way of conversion and hee will win ground upon them dayly and will have a prevayling party in them who shall bee the more stirred up against her for her last cruelty and they shall hate her eat her flesh and burne her with fire The last use is for direction to those that feare the Lord Vse 3 and that in three particulars and I will conclude First let this present mercy raise your hopes and revive your now drooping and sinking spirits truly had you no pledge given 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suff●●tum corejus Montan. yet there is ground enough of encouragement in the Lord Ps 112.7.8 Trusting in the Lord his heart is established the word signifies underpropped which of it selfe would fall and sincke But much more when God gives in mercy for an earnest Rom. 5.4 experience should bring forth hope This shewes that God hath not yet sold us into the hands of our enemies that he will yet goe forth with our armies let this bee added to the former manifold experiments that you have had and let it be as the head of Leviathan Psal 74 1● food for your fayth to feed upon in the wildernesse which as yet ye are to passe through before ye enter into rest 2. Secondly though your power bee small and your party few and weake that by power you have little hope to prevable yet by the meanes you have prayers and prayses and by them God hath ordayned that ye shall still the enemy and the avenger Psal 8.2 Rev. 11.5 the fire with which they must bee killed must proceed out of your mouths Flie to the old refuge of fasting and prayer in a communion of Saints formerly practised when persecuted but now wholly neglected when it may with liberty be enjoyed truely in these your strength lyes and prayer never comes too late In the time of Eliah when it rained not upon the earth in three yeares and fix moneths one would have thought now the rootes of all hearbes and trees were withered in the grownd and prayer now could do little good but Eliah prays and God sends raine and the earth yeeld her fruit as in times past Prayer in the most desperate state of things comes not too late because God can never come too late 3. Thirdly that you may unite your prayers labour to unite your hearts and if you desire that God should shew himselfe against your enemies Prima iratum tela sunt maledicta quicquid non possumus imbccilli optamus irati Salv. de gub l. 3. Dr. Reynoldes selfe-denyall be not ye enemies one to another let all jealousies evill surmisings all bitternesse slanders and reproaches be layd aside as becomes persons professing Godlinesse speake not evill one of another the judge stands before the doore It is well observed by a learned Divine of our owne that the former division of Conformists and non-Conformists in this Kingdome was cherished and fomented by an Episcopall interest that they might spend themselves one against another Ez●ch 37.19 Rev. 22.1 Homines docti Ecclesiarum Ministri pace ingrati ac busi sunt ac multas contentiones rix●s simplici doctrinae immiscuerunt acmutuo intercedi gladiantes simplicem populum ab unitate Ecclesiae in varias sectas adduxere Castigavit igitur Deus Ecclesiam suam propter contentiones ●ixas scismata non tantum Ariana persecutione sed nova ethnica c. Bulling de persecutionibus Eccles Christian and the other might have objects for their favours and their frownes to worke upon in them both Some such principle evidently workes in our present divisions that both parties spending their strength and being so zealously busied one against another A third party being neglected if I may not say courted by both may secretly and insensibly grow up and come in to deside the controversie which I assure my selfe they at this day confidently expect there is a glorious union promised to be betwene the people of God in the latter daies the long breach betweene the ten and two Tribes among the Jewes shal be made up and the two sticks became one in the Prophets hand and the fi●e that is in the Sea of glasse in the reformed Churches shall be put out and shall againe become cleere as Christall but it will be some great affliction that must make up this union being melted they will soder but not else It is observed that after the reformation in Constantines time there arose great divisions and contentions amongst themselves especially in the Ministry and therefore God gave them up in Iulians time into the hand of the Heathen so Rome Pagan had for three yeeres and halfe a reviving so shall Rome Antichristian have three years and halfe and the growned of it I feare will be our own divisions also This Parents use to doe if children cannot agree among themselves they whip them both And every man knowes that no man gaines by the differences between brethren but he that is an enemy to both I thinke every one that is wise hearted doth more feare our owne divisions then all the enemies combinations for what is sayd of England may be as truely sayd of those that feare God in it It is a mighty creature that can never dye unlesse it kill it selfe My humble request is that of Nazian to Theodosius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that you would use all your Authority and interest to put an end to the differences between these that are godly and act upon conscientious principles Our differences are not so great Nos quantum in nobis est propter haereticos cum collegis coepiscopis nostris non contendimus cum quibus divinam concordiam dominicam pacem tenemus Servatur a nobis patienter firmiter collegii honor vinculum fidei concordia Sacerdotii Cyprian ad Jubaian Epist 73. Zach. 12.3 that wee stand at such a distance that to hold an opinion a man should hazard his destruction In Cyprians time they could keepe the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace with those that did not onely thinke but teach that which was contrary to what was received in things of lesser concernment and surely wee might in our differences at least so far agree as to act together if pride and party were layd aside and wee acted by the same spirit of humility and brotherly love that the ancient Saints and Churches were And if this designe of union might take place though the enemy threaten and the clouds gather and grow black every day more and more yet I should assure my selfe that all that burthen themselves with the Saints should be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth should be gathered together against them FINIS