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A81992	Seismos megas. Or Heaven & earth shaken. A treatise shewing how kings, princes, and their governments are turned and changed by Jesus Christ as [brace] King of Kings, and King of Saints. / By John Davis, M.A. sometime lecturer at Christ Church in London, and now pastour of a congregation in Dover.	Davis, John, pastor of a congregation in Dover.	1655 (1655)	Wing D422; Thomason E1601_2	153,991	331

they are in the darke and that your zeale may provoke very may You must hold out the word of life you have not onely the word of light but the word of life within you which to you is a quickning word dividing asunder between the joynts and marrow and this word of light and life this living word you are to hold out for your light must shine before men that they may see your good works before men most men are in darknesse and sit in darknesse carnal sensual men cannot receive the things of God and yet God requires such a shining in you that these men these blind men may some way see and here again observe it must be good works and good works with light not barely good words or good profession that will convince them you may talke long enough and these men will never see any good unlesse you worke it frequently and constantly You must glorifie your Father which is in heaven and they by you It was Christ his work upon earth and it s yours and he finished that work and so should you Joh. 17. Herein is my Father glorified that you bring forth much fruit so shall ye be my Disciples You must be abounding and abounding alway in the work of the Lord knowing your labour is not in vain filled with the fruits of righteousnesse which are by Christ to the glory of the Father giving all diligence and adding to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly-kindnesse and to brotherly-kindnesse love These things must be in you and abound in you that ye may not be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ You have been the servants of sin long enough now it concerns you to obey from the heart the form of Doctrine into which you were delivered It lies upon you to raise common things by holy ends and to turne outward objects into spiritual converse If you do but eat and drink walk or work work or recreate what ever ye do in word or deed it must be all to the glory of God in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ giving thanks to God the Father by him Eating and drinking are but natural actions but they must have Gods glory as their end Nature may teach you to give thanks but it s the Gospel that teacheth you in your thanksgiving to haverecourse to God the Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus The meanesse of your condition must not hinder the raisednesse of you holinesse Suppose you are servants the Gospel teacheth you how to make your service to become divine Col. 3. 22. Servants obey in all things your Masters not with eye-service as men-pleasers but in singlenesse of heart fearing God and whatever you do do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive a reward for ye serve the Lord Christ You must obey your Masters but so as you must declare you are fearing God while you are obeying them you must render them service but not eye-service God requires the heart for himselfe and when he requires your respect to another he requires your heart thereto How unlike is your complemental expression of saying Your servant your humble servant Sir to the singlenesse of heart here mentioned You must please men and yet not be men-pleasers but please God in the pleasing of them you must do and do heartily but as to the Lord and not to men and there 's good reason for it for of him you must receive the reward for ye serve the Lord Christ he tells you of serving men and serving Christ yea serving Christ in serving men and thus you greaten little and highten low things You should be persons of a raised manner of behaviour in all actions states and conditions in all holy conversation and godlinesse But most of all when you come to worship God who will be sanctified in his nigh ones and glorified before all the people Levit. 10. 3. To worship God is to be neer to him you are then under a promise of his special presence But then he will be sanctified either you must sanctifie him or he will sanctifie himselfe he must be sanctified either in and by you in the holinesse of your hearts or upon you in the execution of his just judgements You must not think to content your selves with pretence to worship God alone in your Closet or Family but you must worship him also before all the people and that is a glorifying him You must worship the Father Joh. 4. 24. but it must be in spirit and truth Gospel-worship hath lesse outward pompe and ceremony then that under the Law and therefore it must have more of plainesse and purity else God should be a loser You must pray alwayes Eph. 6. 18. with all manner of prayer and supplication not prate but pray repetition of words in form of confessions or petition are not prayer your praying must be in the spirit your spirits in prayer must be drawn forth and acted by Gods spirit your affections must be spiritual or you cannot pray it may be babling and howling but praying it is not unlesse it be in the spirit your heads may work and your lips may move but it s no prayer if the heart lie still the voice of words is not the voice of prayer but the sighs and groans that cannot be uttered Rom. 8. 26 27. You must lift up your souls in prayer lay hold on the strength of the Almighty and wrastle with him not letting him alone until he blesse you Jesus Christ hath set up and set open a Throne of grace and given us a boldnesse of accesse Eph. 3. 12. You must come in his Name with confidence Aske and you shall bave seeke and you shall finde knock and it shall be opened to you You must watch and pray yea watch unto prayer with all perseverance and joy Eph. 6. 18. You lose many sweet praying opportunities by not watching your season you lose the acting and improvement of many graces and obtaining of many precious comforts and sweet returnes by not persevering in prayer Far be it from you to pray as a task or as a work which you are soon weary of and glad when it is over but you must persevere in prayer and pray with joy and joy to pray You must attend at the posts of Wisdomes door Prov 8. 34. Laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyes and all evil speakings as new born babes desire the sincere milke of the word that you may grow thereby 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sincere milke the form of wholesome words not sugared with the wisdome of words but coming in the demonstration of the spirit and with power That word desire and desire as new born babes out of

Isa 9. 6 Vnto us a Childe is borne unto us a Son is given faith in the promise speaks him born and given although this was a long while after Isa 7. 14. The Lord himselfe shall give you a signe Behold a Virgin shall conceive which is rendred in the Gospel of Matthew by t●o words one is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tha● which was spoken holding out the proph●si● for Isaiah is called a Prophet and his speaking is prophetical speaking for it was sp●ken of the Lord by him The other word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it might be fulfilled holds out the performance of that promise which is when the event answers and makes up what was in the promise That proph●sie that the Gospel should shine on the darke 〈◊〉 entiles is in the way of a promise Isa 9. 2. So in Hag. 2. 7. the prophesie we intend to open in the next Chapter Thus saith the Lord of Hosts is by the Author to the Hebrews rendred Heb. 12. 26. Now he hath promised spoken by way of promise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the ground of this is the overflowings of Gods love which cannot speak of things a farre off but withal tells you how he is and will be engaged about them what doth concern the present time is too narrow to expresse his love and therefore he speaks it out in things that are to come New Testament promises are declared in Old Testament language Thus the erecting of Gospel Churches the new edition and reformation of them is called in a phrase of the Old Testament a Temple Rev. 11. 1. John is bid to measure the Temple when he speaks of Gospel Churches The happy state of the Church is termed by a Jewish phrase The Tabernacle of God among men Rev. 21. 3. signifying the glorious state of Gospel times and thus in the place afore named filling the house with glory implyes the same thing Babylon was of old an enemy to Israel and the great enemies in Gospel-times are called Babylon also and the destruction of those enemies in Gospel-times is termed the fall of Babylon Rev. 14. 8. The Visions concerning Church affairs are now and so formerly in the Prophets expressed by Angels Horses Trumpets Women and as they agree in the instructing language so in the promising language also and the reason why our promises are thus express●d may be 1. Because the same spirit breaths in both the T●staments Old as well as New To them was the Gospel preached Heb. 4. 2. as well as to us no marvel then if the promises be in the same language 2. God would have the Gentiles to know his heart is now as full to them as it was to his Israel of old and therefore he speaks to them in the same language he spake to Israel 3. God will have his ancient people the Jewes whom he will convert to understand his love fully which that they may the better do he speaks unto them in his their own proper language That these Promises and Prophesies are to be taken in the largest extent in the letter and mystery according to the scope of the place and Analogie of faith Thus. Babylons falling Rev. 14. meanes that the Seat Power Doctrine Subjects and all are ready to tumble down Promises and prophesies hold out the raisednesse of Gods wisdom and love and therefore must be of large extent They speak to and of all persons times and conditions therefore must be large Prophesies contain largnesse of wisdom and knowledge and promises largenesse of love and therefore there must be a largenesse of expression to hold them forth When God said unto Jacob Gen. 32. 9 13. I will do th●e good Jacob understood it largly for he turnes it into an argument of prayer and twice repeats it Litteral sense doth not undermine the mystery nor that overthrow the litteral sense Gods promises are suitable to his commands keeping pace with them they are conjoyned as Arteries and Veines in the body Now the commands are exceeding large Psal 119. 96. and so are the promises Math. 5. 28. tells from our Saviour that looking and lusting is committing Adultery and the promise of giving Christ includes in Pauls arguing the giving of all other good things Rom. 8. 32. The spirit hath framed up Faith with a large make and frame and promises are for our faith in the largenesse of it and so must be large also Prophesies and promises are expressions of Gods minde Now we must not limite the holy One of Israel but take him in the fullnesse of his expressions That these Prophesies and Promises admit of divers Degrees Seasons and Manner of fulfilling thus Hos 11. 1. I called my Son out of Egypt was truly made good when Moses brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt for Israel was Gods sonne but it had a farther degree of fulfilling in Christ Math. 2. 15. Jer. 31. 15. concerning Rachels weeping Bis hic locus impletus est The place was twice fulfilled saith Musculus Rachel was the Mother of Benjamin and so the mother of the Benjamites the Tribe that kept close to the house of David She was buried neer Bethlehem and is put to denote the whole Land of Judah which was in a mourning condition at the time when they were carried away captive and then Rachel is said to weep and moreover when the children are slaine in Bethlehem she weeps again Mat. 2. 17. Isa 53. 4. Surely he hath borne our greifes was fulfilled in the sorrow that fell on the person of the Lord as Mediator as one in our roome and stead that is one manner of fulfilling but is not all Mat. 8. 17. It s brought in as a ground of healing the sicke and casting out of evil spi its Psal 78. 2. The Prophet Asaph is said to open his mouth in a Parable but it 's applyed to Christ and his preaching Mat. 13. 35. Zach. 11. 12. Speaking about the thirty pieces of Silver it was true of Zacharie and their ignoble dealing with him as with a base labourer allotting so meane a price to a faithful Prophet but fulfilled farther in that thirty pieces for which Judas sold his Master Mat. 27. 9. Psal 22. 18. They parted my garments amongst them it possibly may be verified in David Omnia in Davidem convenire poss●nt as Arias M●ntanus saith David his destroyers being confident that he could not return they fell upon the spoile but t is fully performed in Christ Joh. 19. 23. Isa 61. 1. He hath sent me to preach liberty to the captives was made good in the person of the Prophet Isaiah preaching about their freedom from the Babylonish Captivity though more fully in Christ Luke 4. 21. Psal 41. 9. My own familiar friend which eat bread at my Table It 's true of Davids Courtiers performed also in Judas against Christ John 13. 14.

flesh nay as he is one with the Father Now 2 Cor. 5. 17. as many as are in Christ must be new creatures not new in some outward circumstances but in their whole frame not new from ontward restraint and present occurrences that mould them but new from a new inward disposition and so old thoughts indulging of sense and appetite unrulinesse and unreasonablnesse of passion unduenesse of aims and ends all these old things must passe away and all become new You are partakers of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. He doth not say you are partakers of Nature for that is common to all creatures nor of a reasonable nature for that is common to all men But a Divine Nature which is as far above the reasonable as the reasonable Nature is above the brutish it s such a Nature as ariseth from the great and precious Promises that are given to us and by which world lust and corruption are escaped You are Gods workmanship Eph. 2. 10. Those upon whom God leaves and manifesteth his special power and grace you are a created workmanship answerable to that work which called light out of darkness and created in Christ as well as by him and therefore you must answer Gods great ordination by being dedicate unto good workes and walking in them your motion must be progression and your progresse must be continued Your minds must be filled with the knowledge of his will Col. 1. 9. The manifestation of his minde must be imprinted on yours his word is his will revealed and his will is that which we must know yea know so as that there must be no deficiency you must be filled with it you must not onely be rational but wise not onely understanding but spiritual yea filled with all wisdome and spiritual understanding Eph. 1. 17. makes mention of the spirit of wisdome and revelation Of wisdome raising you to exalt the best good as your highest end and directing you to the aptest meanes for obtaining that good and what your natural power cannot reach unto he reveals and therefore it concerns you not onely to have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 knowledge but the acknowment of his will knowledge upon knowledge experimental approving knowledge Your understanding must be inlightned v. 18. light upon light spiritual upon natural light and then you are searching into not the nicetyes and curiosities of knowledge but to know his call and the hope of it his calling you out of darknesse into marvelous light and laying up a Crown of glory for your hope you have the exceeding greatnesse of his power working you to believe and the glorious riches of the inheritance in the Saints and all for you to know You must be transformed by the renewing of your minde Rom. 12. 2. Transformation and renovation must go together to make up this Christian metamorphosis and then you will not be quarrelling and snarling at the word as if it were a hard saying not to be borne but then you will prove the will of God to be good and perfect and it will be exceeding acceptable to you You must know the love of God which passeth knowledge Eph. 3. 19. A strange paradoxe to know that which passeth knowledge and yet its most true and most sweet for its a filling knowledge a knowledge with a fullnesse yea the fullest fullnesse for it is with all the fullnesse of God Your hearts must be abounding in sincerity of love to Jesus Christ his truth and all Saints They are under the Anathema maranatha that love not the Lord Jesus Christ and the power and deceitfulnesse of Satan works in them that receive not the love of the truth loving is more then liking it s a deliberate act of will closing with a sutable good Christ and his truth his wayes and his Saints are most sutable and agreeable to us when we are in love with him Your desires must not be faint and weak but hungrings and thirstings and that after righteousnesse strong desires for the apprehension of the excellency of the object and necessity of enjoying desires from an inward sense of want and unsatisfied without the enjoyment of what is desired and yet are you truely blessed in your desire after those things You must be walking in the feare of the Lord and comforts of the holy Ghost Act. 9. 31. Happy is the man that feareth alway that is in the actual apprehension of Gods greatnesse and goodnesse and so is troubled left his carriage should not answer them both Holy comforts do not make men idle or wanton but walking and fearing walking in the comforts of the holy Ghost and if sorrows and mournings overtake them they have comforts in them for its godly sorrow causing repentance never to be repented of The great duty of your heart is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ that you may be saved to see him in the excellency of his person and that he is able to save to the uttermost and that he is the onely one there being no other name given whereby you can be saved saved from sin and wrath from guilt and power hence you leane rest and stay on him roule your selves into his armes and if you perish resolve to perish there and so believing in hope against hope are strong in faith and give glory to God Rom. 4. 18. 20. and this faith must purifi● your hearts so that when others are transported with unruly passions you must be shewing forth all meeknesse kindnesse and gentlenesse You must rejoyce in the Lord allway Phil. 4. 4. Your faith gives a sweet enjoyment of Christ and that enjoyment doth inlarge your heart with joy unsp eakable and full of glory which make up that peace that passeth all understanding It is no light or loose joy but that which guards the heart and minde from the assaults and insults of sin and Satan and make up that new name that none can read but he that hath it Your mouths must correspond with your hearts and no corrupt communication is to proceed out of your mouth our mouths are made instruments to communicate our thoughts but this communication must not be corrupt in us or tending in the least to corrupt others it must be good not corrupt but useful and profitable good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers grace in you may draw forth grace in them good communication in you may promote good communication in them No foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a virtue with Aristotle is set down by the Apostle as a thing not convenient Talking is then foolish when it promotes not the feare of God and the good ends we should prosecute and mark how the Apostle joynes jesting with foolish talking I dare appeale to your experience that when you have garbled your