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A92869	Zions deliverance and her friends duty: or The grounds of expecting, and meanes of procuring Jerusalems restauration. In a sermon preached at a publicke fast, before the Honourable House of Commons. By William Sedgvvicke, minister of Farnham in Essex.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1642 (1642)	Wing S2392; Thomason E107_2; ESTC R18932	30,447	59

so as God may be affected and have no rest That 's our second thing and for our direction in it First We must be such whose persons are accepted and qualified Such the Prophet calls to the worke as make mention of the Lord such they had need to be men that make mention of the Lord in Truth men of particular interest in God Esa 48.1 and speciall acquaintance with him As for wicked men their Prayers are an abomination and so are all their services God cares not for the helpe of his enemies Such as are admirted to the present worke of the Lord had need be holy because they will have often occasion to come into his presence for assistance counsell direction incouragement and God will be sanctified of all those that draw neare to him God smote Uzzah for laying his hand upon the Arke for want of a Leviticall and ceremoniall holinesse how much more displeasing will it be for men to intrude themselses upon Gods worke without true and spirituall holinesse you cannot worke for God nor from God except you be in God not from divine strength nor to divine ends and so will want comfort and successe You are to conflict with spirituall enemies To wrastle with Principalities Powers the Rulers of the darknesse of this world against spirituall wickednesses in high places that I may allude to that of the Apostle 2 Cor. 10.4 Ephe. 6.12 And therefore you had need of spirituall weapons You are to helpe build a spirituall house so the Church is called 1 Pet. 2.5 And therefore need spirituall tooles You have Church-worke as well as Common-wealth-worke to remove superstition as well as oppression How can you tender the consciences of others if your owne consciences be not tender How will you provide sincere milke of the word for poore babes 1 Pet. 2.2.3 that cry to you if you have not tasted that the Lord is gracious You had need be as patriots of your Country so friends of Christ and children of the Kingdome Otherwise if God should prosper the worke in your hands and inable you to build up a mountaine of holinesse you would effect that which when you have done you could not affect Or doe as it is said of them that built Noahs Arke that they perished in the flood you may saye a poore Kingdome from shipwracke and perish in the condemnation of the world Grace is honourable and fits men for the most honourable service We may say of parts and learning that they have done vertuously Prov. 31.29 but Grace excelleth them all This is the first Men that will give him no rest must be men that know him and are knowne of him he will receive petitions by hands of them in office to him by servants and Secretaries Secondly They that will give God no rest must pray and worke in faith Faith workes upon his promise and so prevailes with him It is very powerfull James 5.15 The prayer of Faith shall save the sicke Faith hath a strange faculty to knocke at Gods doore yea at his breast goe into his presence plead and reason with him require an account of his Promise Power and faithfulnesse Where is thy promise in which thou causedst me to trust Yea to dive into his bowels and search into them Where are thy bowels Faith is as necessary in working as in praying Faith is mighty yea can doe what God can doe To beleeve is difficult but to him that beleeves Matth. 17.20 nothing is impossible If ye have faith as a graine of mustard seed ye shall say unto this mountaine Remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove And nothing shall be unpossible unto you Faith as a graine of Mustard-seed parva humilis small of no account but it must be as Mustard-seed acris fervida it must be lively have acrimony and vivacity and then it may remove mountaines It is an Hyperbole and here is the summe of it what ever may be to the glory of God or the good of his Church be it never so difficult Faith will effect it Yea a little active faith shall doe great things a graine remove a mountaine Although things be as stout and unyeelding as mountaines as strong and firme as mountaines as ancient as the everlasting hils yet faith may remove them if they stand in the way of Gods glory You may read of the nobleacts of Faith Heb. 11. Amongst other wonders in ver 33. By Faith men overcame Kingdomes If faith could conquer Kingdomes can it not preserve Kingdomes and reforme them Faith workes by that power that accounts the Nations as a deep of a Bucket Isa 40.15 as the small dust of the ballance and 〈◊〉 take up the Isles as a very little thing Therefore in all your great consultations act in faith Faith will keepe you to a rule and so make you exact in justice Faith will waite upon God for a command and so will never be found in any unwarranted course It saith as Moses to God Exod. 33.15 If thy presence goe not with me carry us not hence Faith will have a finger of direction and then doubts not of a hand of protection It will have a word of precept and then distrusts not another of promise Faith will goe forth in no strength but Gods not in the strength of parts policy or multitude as David went out against the Philistine not with sword speare and shield But saith he I come against thee in the name of the Lord of Hoastes See now he couches himselfe under this name of God by Faith when he was beset with dangers Psal 118.9 10 11 12. It is better ta●●ust in the Lord then to put confidence in Princes He makes a wise choyce Princes may erre and faile but I le take part with God and his cause being thus resolved for God rather then men though Princes he proposes his enemies ver 10. All Nations compassed me about No lesse then Nations against buth yea all Nations and they compassing him about Well let the 〈◊〉 he knew whom he had beleeved In the name of the Lord will I destroy them They come upon him againe with renewed strength and malice ver 11. They compassed me about yea they compassed me about he kept to his first strength In the name of the Lord will I destroy them His adversaries are more inraged ver 12. They compassed me about as Bees Bees for multitude winged with fury armed with weapons stings yet they could not afright nor weary his faith his old shield was sure For in the name of the Lord I will destroy them Faith would make us impregnable invincible Take therefore Davids resolution in another place Psal 44.67 I will not trust in my bow neither shall my sword save me But thou hast saved us from our enemies and hast put them to shame that hated us Faith onely can furnish you with weapons fit for those you have to deale with Your adversaries are Antichristian

it to fit us for mercies what we gaine with difficulty we highly prize and what we easily obtaine we soone despise As God fits us for mercies so the mercies for us things of greatest excellency are longest under the hammer and file the choycest blessings must passe through the fire of affliction Fourthly God suffers it for the tryall of his people When the Church prospers she shall have many followers more then true friends therefore God sends a Sword to pierce that the thoughts of many hearts may be discovered as Simeon prophecies Luk. 2.35 Therefore are the tryals God brought upon Israel in the Wildernesse called provings I have proved thee at the waters of Meriba Psalm 81.7 In great undertakings God doth as he did by Gideons Army there was thirty thousand armed against Midian Judges 7. God discharged as many as were fearefull twenty two thousand upon second thoughts were wiser then to venture themselves against such an enemy and depart and yet the people are too many God hath an other discovering device in the 5. and 6. verses they that lay downe or bowed themselves to drinke men of low spirits given to satisfie their bellies or as some conjecture they that had used to bow to Baal and had not forgot their superstition but bowed to drinke God would have none of them onely three hundred active men that lapt their water they were fit for the service So God many times suffers the tree of the Church to be shaken that rotten fruite may drop off To build Jerusalem is an honourable service onely choyce spirits shall have the dignity to have their hands in it To apply this a little Vse 1 Let not the present troubles seeme strange to you We could not expect to finde the Dragon asleepe and so steale away the golden fleece of Reformation neither could we imagine that so many cages of uncleane Birds such beds of Snakes such nests of Waspes should suffer the Refiners fire with patience and quietnesse or that such heapes of idle and superstitious Ministers such swarmes and hives of Papists such dunghils of prophanenesse such mighty Nimrods and devouring oppressours should suffer themselves to be dispossessed without resistance and opposition It is with us as it was with the mans sonne Mark 9.26 When our Saviour came to cast out the dumbe and deafe spirit The Devill rent him sore and laid him as dead till Jesus tooke him by the hand So is it with us there have been some attempts to cast out the dumbe and deafe spirit of this Kingdome but now Christ comes to doe it indeed he raves and teares and foames and blasphemes shakes the very pillars of the Kingdome crackes the foundation of Government and threatens confusion to the whole but we hope by the helpe of Christs hands the issue will be good God seldome doth great things without great commotions Paul and Silas were delivered but there was an Earthquake Act. 16.26 When the two witnesses were raised the two Testaments set up to guide mens lives and to governe the Church as some or the faithfull Preachers of the Word restored to their office and liberty as others there was an Earthquake Revel 11.13 When Antichrist fals another Earthquake Revel 16.18 and therefore though we grieve to see it we could not expect our Reformation without earth-quakes Church-quakes and Kingdome-quakes Let it stirre you up as to expect Vse 2 so to prepare for difficulties Let opposition double and not weaken your resolutions Noble and generous dispositions are confirmed and exasperated by oppositions Take heed of forsaking a good cause for bad enemies that is apparent your cause the best your enemies the worst which is sufficient encouragement It were madnesse to leape out of the ship because the windes blow or to forsake the Church because of some dangers while you stand the devill and wicked men are your enemies if you turne God and the prayers of his people will be upon the backe of you If Heaven and Earth should make warre there would be no corner of the world so safe as on Gods and the Churches side In the midst of dangers looke upon feare with Nehemiahs eyes Nehe. 6.13 as a reproachfull sinne we may incourage you as Caesar did his fearefull shipmaster in a storme Feare not thou carryest Caesar and all his fortunes So say I to you Feare not you carry Christ his Ordinances his People and their liberties David incourages himselfe upon the same ground Psalme 46. I will not feare though the earth be removed and though the mountaines be carryed into the midst of the Sea though the waters thereof roare and be troubled though the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof His comfort was verse 5. God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved Therefore if stormes arise doe not lessen your courage but double your skill and diligence The Arke though tossed a while will at last find a mount Ararat to rest upon The Churches deliverance was never the further for Christs sufferings but the nearer When the Egyptian bondage grew heavy Moses was borne in that time Act. 7.20 When God smote Jacob that he halted he quickly blessed him the more heavy and violent the affliction be the more sudden the deliverance therefore hold up your spirits He that faints in the day of adversity his strength is but small Amalek fights Moses prayes the wicked rage the godly beleeve the devils storme but Christ holds the sterne Let the malicious Designes of your enemies stirre you up to stedfastnesse and unity Take the Apostles counsell Philip. 1.27 28. Stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel and in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of Salvation and that of God Would you give us an evident signe of our approaching deliverance it would be as an Oracle of God your undaunted stedfastnesse Nothing can more comfort the good and discomfort the evill then this and the more you are opposed the more unite Give me leave to present our requests unto you in the Apostles following words Phil. 2.1 2 3. If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfill our Joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one minde Let nothing be done through strife or vaine-glory Nothing can be more acceptable to us then your unanimity nothing more grievous then the thoughts of division And while opposition hath this effect to confirme and unite you it will be as it hath beene to your and our advantage Nothing is more cleare and manifest that it is with you as it was with the Apostle Philip. 1.12 The things which happened unto me have falne out rather to the furtherance of the Gospell So what ever hath beene done against you hath beene to the shame of the practisers So beleeve

Zion God will adde as much more he is resolved no Creature shall equall him in love to his Church Take heed of being low spirited for God of haltings and halvings in Reformation Wee have seene the mischiefes of such a way already yea many times we lose all because we would be contented with some The Prophet was angry with Joash that when he was to smite the Syrians he smote but thrice 2 King 13.18 19. God honours and prospers them that doe all his will Jehu did much was very zealous but the Text sayes He tooke not heed to walke in the Law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart For he departed not from the sinne of Jeroboam 2 King 10.31 And the evill effect it had is noted in the next vers 32. In those dayes the Lord began to cut Israel short The same measure that you mete to him he will mete to you as you sow in spirituals you shall reape in carnals if you cut Reformation short he will cut your priviledges and the Kingdomes peace short It is safe and successefull to aime at great matters for God We may thankefully imbrace what we can get but seeke no lesse than perfection Magna audent quoniam magni sunt qua audent obtinent Bern. They that are truely noble and magnanimous they will attempt great things for God and what they doe attempt they shall obtaine Thinke of no lesse then making Jerusalem a praise in the earth despaire not to see her in all her beauty and brightnesse In outward things use your discretion be as moderate as you see cause but in the cause of God Moses his resolution is worth imitation he would not leave a hoofe behinde him In this case Jehoshophat gives good Counsell to his Judges the Lord write it in your hearts 2 Chron. 19.6 Take heed what you doe for you judge not for man but for the Lord. Thirdly Wherein should this labour be imployed I shall be your remembrance● onely for two things Doe them and God will doe the rest To make Jerusalem a praise in the Earth First You must set up light This is as you have heard a chiefe pait of the Churches beauty advance the light of powerfull Preaching and that will advance the Truth Religion Peace Christ and all The Hieroglyphicke of life amongst the Egyptians was light a burning lampe and though ignorance be the Mother of Romish devotion such lampes are the life of Religion powerfull Preaching It was the worke of some to doe all they could to put out the light the most horrid hellish and unnaturall wickednesse that can be to deny men the joy and comfort of our soules the more malicious they were in suppressing of it the more paines must be taken in freeing of it You have done much this way and intend more our prayers shall joyne with your indevours That the Word may runne and be glorified 2 Thess 3.1 That it may be said of England as it was of Antioch Act. 13.49 The Word of the Lord was published throughout all the Region Nothing so excellent but 〈◊〉 are displeased with it The light is offensure to sore eyes Some complained of Prometheus for reaching the use of fire as the Poets say and many amongst us Preach against Preaching But they that quarrell with the light Act. 13.48 quarrell with Christ himselfe who is the Light of the Gentiles Men complaine against the Seers as Isay 30.10 11. See not prophesie not right things But their anger is against him that sent them let them speake out and they say Cause the holy One of Israel to cease from before us The light it selfe stands in the light of their wicked wayes as the Angell in Bal●●ms way to his sinne and that 's the reason They hate the light because their workes are evill Men father divisions upon the light when as the present distractions and mistakes are because it is but halfe day the mist is not quite dispelled Darkenesse causes divisions and those most dangerous as quarrels in the night The more ●●stours and Teachers and the Worke of the Ministery the nearer we come to the unity of the Faith Let light scatter and it will pull downe the Kingdome of darknesse You and the Truth and Christ have no such enemy as ignorance Secondly Advance holinesse This is another winning and prevailing blessing Oh that Righteousnesse might be as waves of the Sea And then our Peace will be as a River Isay 48.18 Labor for holy Laws holy worship holy Sabbaths holy families For a holy Court and then holinesse will be in fashion For holy Universities and then they will be filled not with sonnes of Beliall but with sons of the Prophets But above all for a holy Ministry From the Prophets of Jerusalem is prophanenesse gone forth into all the Land Jer. 23.15 and from them must the people learne holinesse And a holy Magistracy if God would restore our Judges as at first Let us injoy faithfull Moseses Joshua's c. Then should we be called the City of righteousnesse the faithfull City Isay 1.26 Nothing but sinne can hurt us and sinne will not onely make all your good purposes of Reformation abortive but Gods too Jer. 18.9 10. At what instant I say concerning a Nation and Kingdome to build and plant it if it doe evill in my sight that it obey not my voyce then will I repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit it Seeke first the Kingdome of God in light and helinesse and then all other things shall be administred unto you What ever difficulties hinder the execution let these be first in your intentions These directions God hath given you by me a weake creature I hope you need not much to quicken you Iudg. 5.9 We desire with Deborah to blesse the Lord that made the governours of Israel to offer themselves willingly Remember the place God hath called you to the Kingdome is in a broken and shatterd condition you are our watchmen we say to you as Moses to Hobab Num. 10.31 in the Wildernesse thou art to us instead of eyes you are our eyes to see our dangers and our hands to defend us from them We cannot better expresse that trust that lies upon you then God himselfe hath done concerning Moses Exod. 4.16 thou shalt be to him instead of a God Governours are stiled Gods in Scripture but those best deserve it that are delivering rulers such was Moses such to us instead of a God are you and then thinke you what Wisdome justice firmnesse and stability is required in you The trust is heavy our expectations great and the account will be dreadfull If you were alone in this worke you would sinke under it but God hath promised his presence and God is in you of a truth It is the sword of the Lord and the sword of Gideon Gods people see it with comfort his enemies shall feele it with shame What the people observed of Ionathan we may observe in you 1 Sam. 14.45 he hath wrought with God this day so you have and so you will we hope and then Gamaliels words will hold Act. 5.39 if it be of God you cannot overthrow it You labor with God and for God because you labour for Zion you travaile for her that travailed with you For the Church that must stand and prosper Christ hath promised the gates of hell shall not prevayle against her not the gate● in which was their strength in the gates the elders sat and so their polity as well as their strength was in the gates yet both shall not prevayle against the Church God is gone before you travailing in the greatnesse of his strength challenging countries Isa 63.1 and people he saith I will divide Shechem mete out the valley of Succoth Gilead is mine over Edom will I cast out my shooe c. Psal 60.6.7.8 And the prayers of Gods people are gone like the Arke before the campe of Israel three dayes journey to seeke out a resting place Num. 10.33 they are before you preparing your way hewing downe difficulties It is safe following such a conduct And God hath made the people willing in the day of his power Psal 1●0 3 That of the Psalmist is considerable Psalm 47.9 The Princes of the people are gathered together the marginall lection is the voluntary of the people the generous of the people God hath the hearts of all men in his hand And the shields of the earth belong unto the Lord The Militia of the world is his And all these shall second them that seeke his glory and Zions Peace Therefore proceed chearefully to make use of this sweete opportunity to honour God and heale our breaches Heaven we hope is bigge with blessings The Tabernacle of God is comming downe to dwell with men what ever darke clouds appeare let us continue praying waiting labouring beleeving God will at last establish and make Jerusalem a praise in the earth FINIS Die Mercurii 29. Junii 1642. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons now Assembled in Parliament that Sir Thomas Barrington doe returne thankes to Mr. Sedgwicke for the great paines he tooke in the Sermon he Preacht this day at St. Margarets Church in Westminster at the intreaty of the Commons House of Parliament this being the day of the publicke Fast And that he be desired to Print his Sermon And that no man presume to Print it but such as he shall appoint till the House shall take further Order H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint John Bellamy and Ralph Smith to Print my Sermon WILLIAM SEDGVVICKE