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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96104	Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders imployed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1131; Thomason E1856_4; ESTC R210370	59,985	120

is commanded to return that is to his promise in Bethel That if God would bring him safe to his Fathers house he should be his God Now God had performed his promise but Jacob had failed in his in that his sons had broken their Covenant with Shechem and Hamer Object Well but what doth God call Jacob to go to Bethel or to his promise in Bethel to do Answ It was to take notice that he had broke his promise and therefore he commands Jacob to build an Altar there for he would not answer him on that Altar El Elosie Israel or in the breaking of the Covenant but in Bethel or his owning of him to be his God and therefore Jacobs first work is to cleanse and purge his house of Idols as you may read in the 35th Chapter and to bury them in Shechem before he could go up to Bethel and tells his Family that they must change their garments and be clean and then arise and go to build an Altar in Bethel and seek the Lord that answered him in his distress and by that means a terrour did strike into the hearts of the neighbouring Cities that they journed safely Secondly Israel had purchased Gods displeasure not long before this engagement was made with the Gibeonites as is instanced in the 7th Chapter of Joshuah and the 11th verse Israel hath sinned saith the Lord in breaking their Covenant which I commanded them they have also stolen and have put it amongst their own stuff and therefore they could not stand before their enemies So you may see plainly that God is very exact to have Israel keep his Law and Commandments and had they not entered into Covenant with the Gibeonites to let them live they durst not have preserved any of their lives but seeing they had engaged to do it though it was unknown to them of their living in that place God was pleased better with it than if they had broke their Covenant and Gibeon is not the last in process of time that laid their helping hand to build the Temple of the Lord in Judah as you have in the third Chapter of Nehemiah and the 7th verse which shews that God was well pleased with Israel for their keeping their Covenant in accepting of the Gibeonites into his favour for Israels sake whereas Achan offending against him when there was no Obligation to urge him to it he will not be friends with him nor with Israel till they have destroyed him but Israel must fall before the men of Aie yea and those that have not offended with polluting themselves in the forbidden inticements therefore it is not that men do fall before their enemies alwayes for the sins that they commit themselves but for the pollutions of others Israel is said to sin in that one had sinned even Achan and God would suffer even 36 of the Israelites to dye before the men of Aie and the rest to flee for Achans offence therefore I would entreat every man whatever that professeth himself to be a Christian to take heed of offending God in this or any other thing for be sure if God do not take up a controversie against us for our backsliding yet we may be the occasion of his fury against others that are more innocent than we for God will not be friends with Israel till the Babylonish garment be burned and Achan stoned Look to it as well as you please you know your pay will be according to your work I need not tell you that there are more Babylonish garments than one and I sear some that profess high Notions have clothed themselves with them from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot onely wearing a religious cloak over it to deceive O men look well to your selves and let not your own hearts condemn you before God and before I will not condemn you but I speak my mind plainly because there is too too many that heal your wound too slightly even as the Prophet Jeremiah complains in the 6th Chapter of his Prophesie and the 14th verse They have healed the hurt of my Daughter slightly crying peace peace when there is no peace So it hath plainly appeared in our time that we have pretended to a great measure of light in Religion But where is the man that cryed We are all fell short But rather accounting that the Judgement that is fallen upon thee O England belonged to Rome and the Beast accounting of Christs Reign in person and not minding to set up his Power in our hearts just as the Children of Israel did account themselves happier in the Land of Canaan whilst they were in the Wildernesse than they did in the pleasure of God by which they were to enjoy it and so fell to murmering and repining at Gods dealing with them according to his pleasure therefore he slew that generation of men and would not suffer them to enter into the Land at all so may I say of thee O England that hast had more discourse of the throwing down of Babylon than thou hast had zeal to the God that should throw Babylon down into the bottomlesse pit if pretences could have done it I must confess thou mightest have gone a great way in it but you sought to cleanse onely the outside and did not furbish the inside to answer it it would be a very small satisfaction to thee to have Christ reigne a thousand years upon the earth and to begin his reign before he hath been lifted up in thy heart therefore first seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof and then ●e sure all other things shall be added unto you and do not think to dwell with the Father unless ye eat the flesh of the Son and if ye eat the flesh of the Son ye shall live by him even as he liveth by the Father John 6.56 57. Therefore do not think of satisfying your selves with any thing below him but be sure to eat that which the Scriptures doth manifest to be in him Thus wishing the one Almighty and infinite being to direct both you and I that we may not look at things as they appear customary but as they are in reality and truth that we may believe in him that is our peace By adding vertue to our Faith and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledg Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly Kindness and to Brotherly Kindness Charity and if these things be in you and abound you will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8. For so is the Will of God that with well-doing you might put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free and not using your liberty for a cloak of malitiousness but as the Servants of God 1 Pet. 2.15 16. And if you have so learned Christ as ●o observe and do these things that you are invited to you need not fear what man can do unto you but you will get into a stronger harbour take your repose and wait till you hear the voice of the Bridegroom crying Come my People enter thou into thy Chamber and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until the indignation be over-past Esay 26.20 FINIS

himself happy in each step that he addeth to his journey wherein he discerneth that he getteth ground you need not to urge such a one to be wary for he cannot but discern when he getteth ground and when he hath lost for if all men speak well of him and assure him of peace yet if he in searching find any corner of his heart not swept be sure he will not cry peace to himself but will take the Besom of righteousness and truth and will carefully sweep it out and make all clean within for he cannot sleep in quiet till he hath got his house clean As no earthly man can take his rest when he knoweth that there is a thief within his house that will take all advantage to rob him but will rather rise and lock up his chiefest Jewels that they may not be taken away from him if in case he cannot get him forth of the house but though they are locked never so fast and there be not any thief within his house yet if he hath any treasure that he taketh much delight in he will be watchful lest any one should break into his house unexpected and bereave him of that in which he so much delighteth Even so a discerning Christian that knoweth there is a thief within his house he cannot but dread the worst of things so long as any suspected enemy is within his confines but if he know that there is none but he hath tryed all of them thorowly yet he will stand upon his watch and keep his doors locked about him when he is at home and when he goeth abroad he is wary with whom he doth confer as associates fit for his result so that whether he is with the Lord at his home or whether in the turba of the mind yet he will be watchful that strangers do not intermedle with his joy in any way to deprive him of that enjoyment by which he can convey his soul to its most fixed bliss no man can beat him off of this his watchfulness when he hath once tasted the love of God so as to witness that he is satisfied with it not that I think it is enough to seem satisfied or to talk of being satisfied but I speak of them that are really and indeed satisfied you have a notable Text of Scripture in the 4th of John Christ tells the woman of Samaria that he that drinketh of that water that he shall give them shall never thirst again and in the 6th of John he tells the Jews that their Fathers did eat Manna in the Wilderness and were dead but whosoever shall eat of that Bread which I shall give them shall live for ever I will not say but many may taste of this Bread in some measure in many degrees and yet never hardly stand upon their watch to keep Dogs from eating of it out of their mouths as I may so say and carrying it away out of their sight and bring them some of their old dyet even Garlick and Onions these are such as were taken in the Parable for the stony ground in which the seed wanted root yea the heat of the Sun caused it to wither but that which fell on good ground brought forth plentifully even unto the harvest Therefore I say he that warreth in this life must be sure to watch when the enemy doth seek to assault and batter down his Walls and to defame his Weapons and to poyson them with his intermingled seeming delights whereby he doth lye in wait to infect us even as a Fisher doth lay baite for to catch his intended prey So that you shall have baited hooks such as you will think are very rare and agreeable to suit with your disposition as near as may be and to advance his own ends he will fit you if it be possible for he hath variety of pleasant dainties if you will but be perswaded to deal with him he will deal for small profit rather than loose your acquaintance if it be but a making slight of your word or a self-conceitedness in your worship or to worship for custom or to believe because others say it is true when it may be you have no warrant in your own hearts that it is true but because others say it is so therefore you will believe it for you are sure that such men would not say it if it were not so as I have heard many say when they have had no other reason to believe it but because other men have affirmed it Alas my poor Friends you that have no other ground for your Faith than what another doth give you I say that you that satisfie your selves with what others say and do not enquire whether it be according to Gods Holy Word that is left us for an Example you are far from knowing what you fix your Faith upon and you will be like to the Children of Israel that could follow Moses because they saw that God did work many Miracles by him but when Moses was longer in the Mount than they supposed he would have stayed they are presently at a loss and charge Aaron to make them a God to go before them Exod. 32.1 and as we read they were forty years under his Preaching to them and yet it is recorded of them that they knew not the wayes of God there is many Writers that affirm them to be a peculiar and absolute People by their deserts but I find no such thing recorded in Scriptures therefore I shall speak what is made manifest to me though I know it will seem harsh to many to believe what I have here inserted but I would have them to take notice that it is one thing for a People to be made happy by desert and obedience and it is another to be made happy by Gods infinite mercy and forgiveness as you have Israel made happy by Gods love and compassion to them in the Wildernesse but not by desert there is a great difference between Gods loving a People a Peoples obeying God therefore I would desire every one to seriously consider when they read or hear what is the occasion of the words spoken and the time when it was spoken and the dispensation that the People were under when it was spoken and what degree of faith the People were heirs of by knowledge that it was effectually to be made theirs for if your enemy can but intrap you he will soon be more potent if it be possible for he hath an apple for Eve and so to betray Adam and a discontended pride in Cain to bring him to murther Abel Gen. 12. and a fear in Abraham to make him deny that Sarah was his Wife and a Feast for Noah to make him commit fornication with his two Daughters and a Covetousness in Jacob to deny his Brother a Mess of Pottage unless he would assign him his Birth-right Gen. 25. and afterwards he feared that God was not able to help him to the blessing of Isaac