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A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

15.13 Jer. 29 10. Dan 9 24. so their Calamity from the time of Daniel unto Christ even so the Captivity of the Church under Antichrist is also limited to a certain set time Revel 17.17 namely 1260 dayes Revel 11.3 Revel 11.2 Revel 13.5 Revel 12.6 which is contemporary and of equall duration with the 42 moneths and the time times and halfe a time or three yeares and a halfe reckoning 30 dayes to a moneth 12 moneths to a yeare By a thousand two hundred and three score dayes in that place is not meant so many naturall dayes Revel 12.6 Ezek. 4.6 but a propheticall day is a yeare as in Ezekiel I have appointed thee each day for a yeare The womans flight into the Wildernesse was presently after that war by which the Dragon was cast out Revel 12.6 7 8 9. and there was no more place found in heaven for him That those 1260 years must not begin as some have thought at the victory of Constantine the Great though he indeed began that Warre because that after his time heathenish Idolatry was again used in publike in the dayes of Julian the Apostate But we must begin that number of * De qua victoria Claudianus ita canit O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat aether c. Et coniurati veniunt ad classica venti yeares at the last victory of that famous Theodosius in his Battell against the Pagans under Eugenius Which Theodosius did root out Satanicall worsh●p so that it never in the same kinde prevailed since his time in Rome And for the time when this Battell was fought as the Romane Histories do not wholly faile us so neither do they so certainly report the time to us as were to be desired For Functius puts the same Battel of Theodosius against Eugenius An. Christi 395. 1260. in the yeare of Christ 398 but yet Calvisius who herein seemes more exact 1655. hath it in the yeare 395 and some doe abate of those years also An Christi 398. 1260. Whereupon some reverend and judicious Divines doe thinke that the downfall of Rome shall be either in the yeare 1658 1658. or before and that it shall not stand longer then that yeare at the most Object To prevent an objection That the conclusion doth too much depend upon humane writings and Chronologies Answ You are to know beloved that all that do open Propheticall Scriptures doe very well to clear the fulfilling of the Prophesies by the true histories of the times to which they do properly belong although but Humane Writers And this practice is also warranted in the Book of Hester Hist 10.2 where the Holy Ghost doth refer the readers of that age unto the Chronicles of the Medes and Persians which were the Civill Annals or Histories writ and kept by those Heathens that there they might reade a more large declaration of those things which were more concisely and briefly related in that Book Titus 1.12 Acts 17.28 so that for amplification and illustration such writings may be used though not for sufficient and single probations of divine truths Use 4 The last Use shall be an Use of Vivification or quickning to revive our languishing spirits which in these sad times are too too ready to give in Lift up I say your heads with joy Luke 21.28 Heb. 12.12 13. the dayes of your consolation are nigh Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make streight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed and as the Apostle Peter exhorteth 1 Pet. 1.13 Gird up the loyns of your minde be sober and hope unto the end In that phrase Gird up he alludes unto the long-side garments which the Jews did wear which if they were not girded up 1 Kings 18 46. did hinder their activity now this he applies metaphorically to the minde which must be girded up but let it be with the girdle of truth sirs and it shall fortifie our slack mindes to these duties Ephes 6.14 To Christian Moderation of spirit concerning sublunarie things an excellent grace in these so doubtfull times Aequa mens tranquilitas mentis usefull it is in prosperity and adversity not being too greedy in getting or keeping the things of this life nor too much fearing the losse of them Let your moderation be known unto all men The Lord is at hand Phil. 4.5 It should arme us with Patience to undergoe whatsoever God shall call us to suffer in the meane time Me thinks I may safely say we are the last generation that shall dye in the field fighting against Antichrist if we doe not over live him as it may please God many of us may but beasts in the killing when they have the pangs of death on them use to struggle and kick very strongly and so doubtlesse will he do let us therefore with patience wait in hope for the time of his utter destruction for now in the mean time Rom. 8.25 Heb. 10.36 wee have as much need of patience as ever Christians had It should quicken Faith It was a worthy speech and well-becomming a gracious Minister on his death-bed M. Rob. Bolton Psal 27.14 Hold out faith and patience your work will speedily be at an end Remember Davids charge Wait on the Lord Isa 26 22. be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart Wait I say on the Lord. Hide you in your chamber Psal 91.1 2. in the secret place of the most High abide under the shadow of the Almighty trust in him make him thy refuge till these calamities be over past Psal 57.1 Psal 37.5 Roll thy way upon the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe It will quicken prayer for the Church of the Jews they long agoe prayed for the Gentile Churches saying Psal 67.1 2. God be mercifull unto us and cause his face to shine upon us Selah That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all Nations Let us requite to our power the labour of the love of their forefathers and consider the fulnesse of the Gentiles also shall come in with them Rom. 11.12 15 which shall be much more riches and as life from the dead to us Gentiles our own joy is wrapt up in theirs And therefore every one of us have good reaspn to pray with that Princely Psalmist who tryumpheth in Hebrew rythme Remember me O Lord Psal 106.4 5. Liroth betobath bechirecha Lismoach besimcbath goiecha Lehithhall alim nachalechecha with thy favour that thou be arest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation that I may see the good of thy chosen that I may rejoyce in the gladnesse of thy Nation that I may glory with thine inheritance For perhaps yet before we die many of us I mean our eyes may see that

all numbred by the Lord The wicked hate Psal 137.7 oppose and would root out the godly but God limits them and they shall doe no more then shall make for Gods glory and his peoples good Rom. 8.28 they are like mad men in chains and can goe no farther then the chaine permits them Psal 76.10 Psal 2.12 Psal 55.23 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shall thou restrain They st●… perish in the mid-way of such their plots and designes they shall not live out halfe their dayes which is either halfe the time themselves dream of or that one would think according to their naturall constitution they might live rather then they shall proceed a step farther then may make for Gods glory Luke 12.19 20 Thou fool this night when thou least thinkest of it thy soul must be required of thee And so the rod of the wicked shall not alwayes lye upon the back of the Righteous Psal 125. their power and time is numbred In regard of particular persons and godly souls the Lord doth try them but yet all their afflictions are in measure not to make a full end of them Jer. 30.11 and therefore God hath a double measure 2 Cor. 5.10 Psal 7.16 Psal 9.16 A measure of justice whereby as a Judge he measureth out to the wicked a punishment proportionable to their wickednesse a part of which they receive even in this life often times A measure of mercie whereby as a tender Father and loving Physitian he faithfully chasteneth his Sonnes for their faults Psal 103.10 1 Cor. 10.13 not according to what they have deserved but according to what they have deserved but according to their ability with respect to their profit how much will doe them good And in case they want strength and grace Heb. 12 10. 2 Cor. 12.9 Revel 2.10 he puts into them strength and grace sufficient And he measures the time also how long it shall continue In regard of the Church Acts 9.31 An. Christi 34. Acts 12.1 An. Christi 43. for although the state of the Church hitherto hath been such that somtimes they have had some breathing times of peace yet it was not long before persecutions came again But there is doubtlesse a time a coming and now even very neer too in which this shall be fulfilled Moreover 2 Sam. 7.10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more as before time And though this place may most properly be applyed to the Christian Church of the Jews after their conversion to Christ which we now expect yet the true Christians of those times of what Nation soever by birth and not being Jews are as children of the same Church implyed therein as appears in another Prophesie Arise shine Isa 60.1 for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee This seems to be spoken to the Jews onely but by and by he sayth And the Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising Lift up thine eyes round about and see all they gather themselves together they come to thee thy sons shall come from far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side Then thou shalt see and flow together and thine heart shall feare and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee the forces of the Gentiles shal come unto thee Micah 4.2 The which times the Prophet Micah also sore-telleth at large saying And many Nations shall come and say Come and let us goe up to the Mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his wayes and we will walke in his paths And of the great peace of those times he sayth they shall beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks Nation shall not lift up a sword against Nation neither shall they learn war any more But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree and none shall make them afraid And he confirms this truth saying for the mouth of the LORD of Hosts hath spoken it And he shews the resolution of Gods people then shall this be We will walke in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever Quest But when shall these things be will some one say or rather will many say for I observe of late a great despondencie of spirit in many Christians Answ Although I will not limit the holy one of Israel to set a certain day or yeare Yet we may conclude the beginning of those times is very nigh upon two Scripture grounds for I love to build upon no other foundation in matters of this nature Because the servants of the Lord are enlarged in prayer for the Church of the Jews Psal 102.13 14 they take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof hence the Prophet concludeth Thou shalt arise and have mercie upon Zion for the time to favour her Exod. 17.11 Calvis Chron. An. Christi 394. Acts Mon. Vol. 1. p. 66. 67. yea the set time is come For when the servants of Christ lift up their hands and hearts in fervent faithfull prayer their enemies fall to fearfull ruine as appears in the Sacred story of Moses and Amalek the Ecclesiasticall History of Theodosius and the Letter of Marcus Aurelius Antonius Emperour to the Senate and people of Rome Because we may understand so much by Books to wit the Books of Gods Word Dan. 9.2 Jer. 25.12 as Daniel understood by reading the Prophesie of Jeremiah I wil therefore propound some things and leave them to your serious and wise considerations hoping they will give some light unto this truth That famous and faithfull countrey-man of ours and indeed a reverend Divine and if I may without offence hyperbolize a little the Prophet of this Centurie the bright burning light of our age Master Thomas Brightman in his Commentaries both of the Revelations and Solomons Song In Apoc. 19.1 2 3 4. Cant. 6.9 doth suppose the first calling of the Jews to be in the yeare 1650 and that Rome shall be destroyed some short time before the calling of that new people Yet wil I make bold to propound some Scripture-grounds why some other godly learned and judicious Divines doe rather refer these things to a time somwhat longer hence take the substance of them in these few propositions God hath all times and seasons in his own hands Acts. 1.7 Amos 3.7 Dan. 12.4 and doth reveale things usefull for his Church to his servants the Prophets We finde in the Sacred Scripture that God hath limited all the great captivities and afflictions of his Church as their bondage in Egypt the Babylonish Captivity Gen