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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

first 6000. yeares of the World as Justine Martyr and after him Lactantius and others have observed And then shal be another condition of the Church which shall be even in this life compared with the former may wel be stiled Triumphant and glorious When Christ that great and mighty Angell shall come downe from Heaven clothed with a Cloud and a Rainbow upon his head and shall set his right foot upon the Sea and his left foot upon the Earth and thereby take to himselfe the dominion of both Revel 10.5.6 which is called taking to himselfe his great power and reigning Revel 11.17 when hee shall give the kingdome and dominion under the whole heaven which was before in the enemies hand unto the Saints of the most High and they shall possesse it for ever and ever When their enemies shall bow down before them and licke the dust under their feet In this militant condition hath the Church of God beene ever since the fall and how long it shall so continue no man can certainly determine But it is the concurrent judgement of our Divines that it drawes neere an end While this estate of the Church lasts their condition will be like that described by the Prophet A day wherein the light shall neither be cleare nor darke Zach. 14.6 full of uncertainties and subject to continuall changes and vicissitudes not so light that they shal say there is an end of our feares nor so darke that they shall say there is an end of our hopes Sometimes they may be under the power of the Enemy as prisoners in a pit wherein there is no water and by and by God will rayse up a deliverer for them that shall proclaime their liberty and be as a covering Cherub to the Ark of God for their defence A resemblance of this condition of the Church we have in the Jewish State which therefore is made the prototype of all the Gentile Churches thorowout the whole Book of the Revelation the Prophesie of the last times An embleme whereof you have in the former Chapters First the children of Israel did evill in the sight of the Lord and he gave them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim the king of Mesopotamia and hee ruled over them eight yeeres Then the Lord raysed up a deliverer to them Oihoniel the sonne of Kenaz Calebs yonger brother and the Land had rest forty yeeres Then the chilren of Israel did evill againe in the sight of the Lord and he strengthned against them Eglon the king of Moab and they served him eighteene yeeres and then the Lord raysed up a deliverer for them Ehud the sonne of Gera and the Land had rest fowrescore yeeres Afterwards they were oppressed by the Philistines and the Lord delivered them by Shamgar the sonne of Anath And they did evill againe in the sight of the Lord and he sold them into the hand of Iabin king of Canaan the most potent of all these enemies for he had nine hundred Chariots of iron and twenty yeeres hee mightily oppressed Israel And then the Lord raysed for their deliverance Deborah the wife of Lapidoth and Barach the son of Abinoham and gave the enemy into their hands Thus God never leaves his people in affliction but provides Saviours aswell as Persecutors not onely hornes but Carpenters also to beat them to pieces Zach. 1.21 A song of thanksgiving for this last victory and deliverance is the contents of this Chapter In which by way of context wee may observe these six particulars all which will helpe us in the duty of the present day 1 First the heart that shal be thankfull for a mercy must be gracious the song must be sung by a Deborah and a Barak they must have golden vials hearts refined and not drossie that shall have the harpes of God in their hands Revel 5.8 And they that shall sing the Lords song must be redeemed from the Earth being the first fruits to God and to the Lambe in whose mouth is found no guile Revel 14.4.5 An earthy spirit may put a man upon a prayer his owne necessity will therein carry him on to howle upon his bed for his corne and wine and oyle but it is a heart only redeemed from the earth that will enable a man to returne prayse so that if there bee ten cleansed we may say with our Saviour Where are the nine 2. Secondly whosoever shal be thankful for a mercy must prize it and rejoyce in it Gaudentis est gratias agere Levit. 3.1 Peace offrings are called in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Retributions and they that thinke they have received little will make little conscience of returning There is an evill generation among the sonnes of men that undervalue mercies and despise them saying Would God we had died in Egypt Canaan is a L●nd that eats up his inhabitants These men are so far from accepting the punishment in an affliction that they accept not the mercy in their redemption Mercies will distinguish men aswell as Judgements Some are delivered to everlasting life some to shame and everlasting contempt Dan. 12.2 O poore murmuring soules to whom mercies are a burthen 3. Thirdly a thankfull heart must stir up it selfe unto prayse Awake Deborah awake awake utter a song arise Barak and let captivity captive Eph. 5.19 thou sonne of Abinoam Thanksgiving is melody in the heart of the Lord and before you can make melody your Instrument must be in tune Awake my glory awake lute and harpe I my selfe will awake right early Yee prophane and unthankfull spirits ingratus est qui injuriam voc at finem voluptatis that repine at blessings Sen. ad Polyb. ● 20 and looke upon your mercies as your injuries incredulous men that are scarce willing to beleeve the things you see that endeavour to bring up an evill report upon all the goodnesse of God procul hinc heere is no place for you in the worke of this day The garment of prayse is comely only for the upright ye wayward spirits that slight the gift because your selves did not chuse the messenger and because you like not the hand that brings it And yee seemingly compassionate that say shall we give thanks for the killing of men and that of our owne Nation in a Civill Warre In this case the Heathen man did forbeare his Triumph and therefore such Thansgivings seeme not only unchristian but inhumane To such I answer The War in which at first ye of this City were eminently ingaged and by you the Kingdom was eyther just or unjust if it were unjust then hide your Tropheyes and be ashamed of your victories for he that gives thankes to God because he prospers in a sinne makes God a patron thereof But if it were just you ought to rejoyce in the successe being the publike execution of divine justice and to glorifie God in those things wherein hee hath glorified himselfe T is farre from us to rejoyce in the bloud of

curse to judgement the sword of the Lord is filled with blood and made fat with fatnes for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea the Vnicornes shall come downe with them and the bullockes with the bulls and their land shall be drunken with bloud and their dust made fat with faines What is the ground of all this fierce wrath its only God doth visit upon them their cruelty to the Saints It is the day of the Lords vengeance and the yeere for the recompences of the controversie of Zion Therefore the streames thereof shall be turned into pitch and the dust into brimstone and the land thereof shall become burning pitch it shall not be quenched night nor day the smoke thereof shall goe up for ever from generation to generation it shall be waste none shall passe through it for ever and ever Zach. 12.3 The Church is compared to a burdensome stone which yet would be a burden to none and would hurt no man if they did not burden themselves with it but if they will their judgement is cutting they shall be cut in peeces The expression in the Hebrew notes two things certainty and extreamity certainty Gen. 2.17 Dying thou shalt die that is thou shalt surely die Extremity and perfection Gen. 22 17. In blessing I will blesse thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the starres of heaven and as the sand upon the sea shore that is I will eminently blesse thee c. It notes excellency and certainty so heere to bee cut in pieces notes great destruction and yet to rayse the judgement the Lord doth heighten the expression cutting they shall be cut in peeces that is they shall certainly perish and that not in an ordinary way but by an eminent and utter destruction Jer. 51.11 Make bright the arrowes gather the shields the Lord hath raysed up the spirit of the Kings of the Medes for his device is against Babylon to destroy it because it is the vengeance of the Lord the vengeance of his Temple And therefore is Romes ruine utter and finall she shall be utterly consumed with fire and the light of a candle shall bee seene no more in her at all and the voyce of the bridegroome and the bride shall be heard no more in her at all because in her will be found the bloud of all the Saints that have beene slaine upon the earth and this bloud God doth visit and avenge upon her 4. Fourthly It shall be such a destruction as all the power of the earth shall not bee able to prevent or resist Zac. 12.3 All that burden themselves with the Church shall be cut in peeces though all the people of the earth be gathered against it The world glory in their multitudes and their confederacies as if they should be able by their owne strength to deliver themselves but the greatest mountayne shall become a plaine before the Church not by power nor by might but by the spirit of the Lord they shall come to an end and none shall helpe them when Assyriah is in her greatest glory Dan. 11.45 a mountayne then must the worme Jacob arise and thresh it and God will rayse up seven shepheards Mich 5.5.6 and eight principall men and they shall distresse Nimrod in the entrances thereof a small party shall prevayle against all the strength of the enemy When the Grecian Monarchy is in its strength the Lord will then bend Judah for him and fill the bow with Ephraim and rayse up the sons of Zion against the sons of Greece Zach. 9.13 and make them as the sword of a mighty man and as his goodly horse for the battell and they shall be broken even without hand Dan. 8.25 When the Turkish Empire shall bee at its height then shall the River Euphrates be dryed up Rev. 16.12 before the Saints to make way for the Kings of the East And in that last and the greatest opposition of Gog and Magog where their number shall bee as the sand upon the sea shore yet then their multitude and their strength shall not preserve them they shall perish not by the sword of a mighty man nor the sword of a meane man shall devoure them Rev. 29.8.9 but a fire shall come downe from God out of heaven There is surely no escaping for those that persevere in the opposition and persecution of the Saints I come now to the last Doctrine so let them perish Apostrophe ad Deum interposit● nos excitat ut singulari affectu Deum tantorum facinorum authorem susprciamus Pet. Martyr that is as these have done in their opposition by the prayers by the power and by the prayses of thy people Some expresse it as a prayer so let them perish by the same meanes and in the same maner that doe rise up against the Saints As Ps 83.9.10 Doe unto them as unto Sisera as to Iabin at the brooke of Kison who perished at Endor they became as the dung of the earth with such a destruction let all thine enemies perish Others looking upon Deborah as one that spake by a propheticall spirit Non tam notandi modo quam predicendi tempore futuro haec Hebraicè enunciantur Qui sic optant agunt atque Deo bellum ita inferre parant si● et●am per●bun● Montan Doct. Dan 8.24 Esay 41.14.15.16 Zach. 4 6. Esay 59 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat flumen angustum rapidum sc magna celeritate magno impetu ad Dominum resertur non ad hostem ab Arnoldo Bo●tio Animadv sacr cap. 2. Zach. 9.13.14 and 10.3 conceive it to bee a prophesie and prediction of the overthrow of all the Churches enemies and they render it so shall all thine enemies perish in the same maner and by the same meanes that these have done The Churches enemies shall perish in their opposition by the power prayers and prayses of the Saints The branches of the point are three 1. By their power A weake people they usually are if ye looke upon them in themselves but yet mighty through God and terrible as an Army with banners In the lowest condition of the Church and when the enemy prevayles over them they ●r● the mighty and the holy people When Jacob is but a worme then hee shall rise and thresh the mountaines for God will ray●e up their spirits fight their battels gird their loynes and strengthen their hands not by power nor by might but by his spirit and when the enemy shall breake in as a floud the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him by raysing the spirits of his people by assisting them mightily and making them victorious against all opposition for the Lord himselfe doth fight against all the enemies and his people are but the weapons that he doth use in the expedition Iudah is his bow and Ehraim his arrow and his goodly horse for the