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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

Kingdome is spiritual Rom. 14. 17 Not in meat and drinke but righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost Princes may beare rule over mens persons and estates but Jesus Christ over mens consciences He imprints his Law upon them and gives them power to reflect both on that Law and their own wayes by it he accuseth or excuseth lets terrour or peace into the conscience as seemeth good to him His Commands and Promises carry a blessed spiritualnesse with them and so do his Rewards When you serve him it must be in spirit and truth when you pray it must be in the spirit Jude v. 20. and when you heare it must be what the spirit sayeth to the Churches Rev. 3. 6. If you take on you to preach it must not be with the entising words of mans wisdome but in demonstration of the spirit and with power Col. 2. 4. and if you sing it must be spiritual Songs making melody with grace in the heart to the Lord Col. 3 16. In a word you are as lively stones built up a spiritual house an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. and verse 9. Ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praises of him that hath called you out of darknesse into his marvellous light I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercyes of God that ye present your bodies a lively Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service Rom. 12. 1. 2. His Kingdome is Vniversal over all Saints in all places and ages He is yesterday and to day and the same for ever he ruled Israel of old and he rules his people now his administration was unto them outward and visible and shall it not be so again in the latter dayes Amos 2. 9 10 11. I destroyed the Amorite before them I brought them up from the land of Egypt and led them forty years through the Wildernesse to possesse the land of the Amorits and I raised up of your sons for Prophets and of your young men for Nazarites saith the Lord. He brought up he led he destroyed he raised he did all then and will do all hereafter Rev. 11. 15. The Kingdomes of the world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and his Christ not now one Kingdome or Nation as then not this or that Kingdome and no more but the Kingdomes of the world are become his he shall not alwayes be crouded into a corner of the world but as it is v. 1. 7. He shall take unto himselfe his great power and reigne and reward his servants the Prophets and the Saints that feare his Name both small and great here and there and everywhere 3. Thy Throne oh God is for ever and ever Heb. 1. 8. the heavens perish and waxe old as a garment and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years shall not faile His Kingdome then is Eternal Dan. 2. 44. The God of heaven hath set up a Kingdome which shall never be destroyed and the Kingdome shall not be left to other people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these Kingdomes and it shall stand for ever It shall not be destroyed by any adverse power nor shall it decay of it selfe but it shall break all adverse power and it shall stand for ever and as it is an eternal Kingdome so it determineth men to an eternal state Rev. 1. 18. I live for evermore Amen and have the keyes of Hell and Death wherefore Feare not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather feare him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell Math. 10. 28. 4. Lastly his Kingdome brings in perfect peace and liberty Isa 9. 6. He is the everlasting father and Prince of peace Isa 24. 23. The Lord shall reigne in mount Sion and in Jerusalem before the Ancients gloriously not onely reigne in heaven but in Sion and that gloriously Isa 25. 8. He shall swallow up Death in Victory and the Lord will wipe away teares from all faces and the rebuke of the people shall he take away from all the earth for the Lord hath spoken it Death teares rebuke shall be taken away what safety and hapinesse must then follow Isa 52. 13. Behold my servant shall dwell confidently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high Isa 60. 19. 20. The Sun shall be no more thy light by day neither for brightnesse shall the Moon give light unto thee but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory and the dayes of thy mourning shall be ended Rev. 21. 4. There shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neiiher shall there be any more paine for the former things are passed away 3. The third and last thing that we learne from hence that Christ is King of Saints is the excellency of his Subjects and the glory of his holy ones 1. Christ is King and the holy One of God and his Saints shall be more Saints shall appear to be his holy ones Sanctity shall be more exalted in them then ever yet our eyes have seen Joel 3. 17. Then shall Jerusalem be holy and there shall no strangers passe thorow her any more Zach. 14. 20. In that day shall there be upon the bels of the horses Holinesse to the Lord yea every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holinesse to the Lord of Hosts and there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts 2. They shall live in safety Isa 60. 18. Violence shall no more be heard in thy Land wasting nor destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls salvation and thy gates praise Joel 2. 18. In that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the feild and with the fowles of heaven and I will breake the Bow and the Battel ou● of the earth and will make them to lie down safely 3. Saints enemies shall be brought to ruine Zach. 10. 11. The pride of Assyria shall be brought down and the Scepter of Egypt shall depart away It is usual to expresse the enemies of the Church by the names of the old grand enemies Assyria and Egypt and you see what shall become of them they shall be brought down and depart away Isa 14. 2. The house of Israel shall possesse strangers in the land of the Lord for servants and for handmaids and they shall take them captive whose captives they were and they shall rule over their oppressors Rev. 20. 7 8 9. Satan shall goe out to deceive the Nations which are in the four quarters of the Earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battel But fire shall come down from God out of heaven and

Lord against the mighty Sect. X. The great worke of the latter dayes shall be to exalt holinesse and righteousnesse in Kingdomes and Common-wealths Ezek. 37. 23. They shall not defile themselves any more with their Idols nor with their detestable things nor with any of their transgressions But I will save them out of all their dwelling places wherein they have sinned and will cleanse them so shall they be my people and I will be their God This blessed Covenant shall be made good both to Jews and Gentiles Joel 3. 17. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Sion my holy mountaine Then shall Jerusalem be holy and there shall no strangers passe thorow her any more These Promises have not received their full accomplishment I say their full accomplishment but remaine yet to be fulfilled according to what was laid down in the second Chapter The holinesse and purging spok●n of in these Promises shall not be the portion of Jerusalem onely she alone is not to obtain this holinesse and righteousnesse and others left out But it shall be the portion of other people the Gentiles also according to the Prophesie of John in Rev. 22. 3. There shall be no more Curse then surely there will not be that that causeth the curse which is sin so far as the curse shall not be sin shall not be But the Throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it Now the Thrones of men and of the Beast the Thrones of prophanesse and Idolatry are set up but it shall not be so then but his servants shall serve him Now they serve their own lusts and the wills of men too much but then they shall serve the Lamb Christ and how and wherein Psal 45. 6. The Scepter of his Kingdome is a right Scepter v. 7. Thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse and as Christ loves and hates so shall his servants then eminently they shall have his minde and heart 2 Pet. 3. 13. We according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse When the new heavens and the new earth shall be righteousnesse then shall be no stranger there but a home dweller it shall abide there as in the proper seat of it Sect. XI Saints shall have notable conquests over their adversaries Nnmb. 24. 17 18. The Star out of Jacob and the Scepter that shall rise out of Israel shall smite the corners of Moab Edom shall be a possession and Israel shall do valiantly out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion and shall destroy him that remaineth of the City The names of Moab and Edom and the City hold out the enemies of the Church Israel and Jacob are to be referred to the Israel of God in the Gospel and his people now as well as then and pardon me if I conceive our late domestick Wars and Triumphant Victories to look this way Joel 3. 19. Egypt and Edom shall be a desolation for the violence against the children of Judah because they have shed innocent blood in the land Egypt and Edom comprehend the enemies of Gods people now as well as formerly and precious in the sight of the Lord is the blood of his Saints Tremble and be horribly afraid France Spain Savoy Germany England yea all Nations on whom lieth the heavy guilt of Saints blood he that hath a bottle for their teares will certainly account for their blood and who knows but he may now be upon his Circuit and beginning to repay and to require blood for blood Obad. v. 18. The house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stuble and they shall kindle in them and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it Psal 149. 6 7 8 9. The praises of God shall be in the mouthes of Saints and a two-edged sword in their hands to execute on them the judgement written To execute vengeance on the Heathen and punishment on the people To binde their Kings in chains and their Nobles in links of Iron This honour have all his Saints and this ruine shall all his adversaries have Hag. 2. 22. I will overthrow the Throne of Kingdomes and I will destroy the strength of the Kingdomes of the Heathen and I will overthrow the Charriots and those that ride in them and the horses and their riders shall come down every one by the sword of his Brother Sect. XII This Holinesse and Righteousnesse these glorious Conquests and these great Changes shall not be all at once but be brought on by degrees Thus Moses carries Israel through the Wildernesse but Joshua brings them into Canaan Moses must not do all nor Joshua both have their proper works David provides for the Temple but Solomon he must build it Deut. 7. 22. I will put out these Nations before thee by little and little thou mayst not consume them at once God works and performes his promises now in proportion to what he did formerly and as it was by degrees then so now though its possible God may make more haste God builds up his people as he destroyes his enemies and that is by degrees By the seven Seals he destroyes Heathenish Rome Rev. 6. By the seven Vials successively the Antichristian Romish party Rev. 17. So by degrees he will raise his Church CHAP. XXII Contains the Vses of the former Doctrine namely That Christ is King of Saints HAving declared Christ in the former twelve Sections to be King of Saints Give me leave now to adde a word of application and that 1. By way of an inviting Instruction 2. By way of Exhortation The inviting Instruction you shall finde in these three passages discovering 1. Christs excellency 2. The properties of his Kingdome 3. The glory of his Saints 1. To shew you Christ's excellency in that he is King of Saints None so glorious and therefore none so desirable as Jesus Christ Rev. 15. 3. where he hath that high and mighty Title of King of Saints ascribed to him he is also called Lord God Almighty whose workes are great and marvelous and his wayes just and true Now to elevate your thoughts to his Excellency let me set before you these four things 1. His right and Title 2. His Qualifications 3. His Administrations 4. His Communications 1. His ●ight and Title which you shall finde the justest and highest Title He is no usurper of his Kingdome for he hath it by a fivefold right 1. Of Election 2. Of Donation 3. Of Birth 4. Of Purchase 5. Of Conquest 1. His right is by Election for He is chosen to it by God the Father Isa 42. 1. Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighteth Gods everlasting love is on him and on him for the great work and service of the Mediatorship he hath passed by all in Heaven and Earth and

devour them The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Sion and upon their assemblies a cloud and smoake by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence Isa 4. 5. Happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. 2. Now follows a word of Exhortation to provoke Saints to their dutie All that Saints are and have must be to and for Christ their gifts and graces their offices ordinances and discipline they are from him and should be for him Can you ever serve a better Lord or be subjects to a better King give me leave then to call upon you 1. To know him to entertaine him in all your thoughts your apprehensions and notions can never be raised so high and truely innobled as when He is the object mount your m●ditations to the highest you will meet with that in him which will surpasse all your thoughts How gladly should you follow those Gospel-straines that make the death and resurrection of Christ the Topick places for Faiths Logick heads of arguments for the new creature to reason from Col. 3. 1. It s eternal life to know him Joh. 17. 3. and therefore set this down as a conclusion in your minde with that blessed Apostle who determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified 1 Cor. 2. 2. 2. Learn hence to feare him Rev. 15. 3 4. Oh King of Saints who would not feare thee oh Lord and glorifie thy Name The greatnesse and goodnesse of Christ call for a reverential frame in our hearts How thoughtful and considerate should we be least by our poor and low and unbeseeming carriage he might fall short of his glory Oh the highth and depth of his Wisdome Power Mercy and Justice who is King of Saints and yet how few do honour him It falls on Saints a work it is that lieth on their hands to give him the glory due to his Name and ashamed should they be to be found so backward in this work 3. Repose your trust in him 2 Sam. 22. 2 3. He that is your King is your Rock and Fortress and Deliverer your Sheild horne of Salvation high Tower your Refuge your Saviour that saveth you from violence therefore trust in him Psal 20. 7. Some trust in Chariots and some in Horses but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God I will not trust in my Bow neither shall my Sword save saith David Psal 44. 6. How great is the goodness laid up for them that trust in him before the sons of men Psal 31. 19. None of them shall be desolate Psal 34. 22. Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed and he shall bring thy wayes to pass Psal 37. 3 5. 4. Embrace him with the highest love oh ye Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithful and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer He is the chiefest good most sutable and most communicative and therefore common love will not suffice it must be a Jonathans love 2 Sam. 16. wonderful and passing the love of women The Church compares the power of her love to the power a disease hath that masters the body which all the tossing and tumbling cannot shake off Cant. 2. 5. Stay me with Flaggons and comfort me with Apples for I am sicke of love Remember your King is your Husband and you must tender him the love of your espousals Jer. 2. 2. He draws us with bands of love and cords of a man Hos 11. 4. and our love to him must be constraining carrying you up hill and against the croud 2 Cor. 5. 14. 5. We must by like to him Holy as he is holy it should be like Prince and like people he the King of Saints commanding and they Saints obeying We must consider him who though he were Sions King yet came in all meeknesse and hath left us this command Learne of me for I am lowly and meeke and ye shall finde rest unto your souls Mat. 11. 29. It is written of him Heb. 10. 7. Lo I come to doe thy will oh my God And surely we should be as ready in our proportion to doe his will as he was the Fathers He came to his Crown by the crosse and though he were the Captain of our salvation yet was he made perfect through sufferings and if we will be his Disciples we must deny our selves take up the cross and follow him we must chuse as Moses did to suffer affliction with the people of God and count it greater riches then the treasures of Egypt Heb. 11. 24 25. 6. He is our King and we must glorifie him Kings stand much upon their honour but none so much as Christ This the Psalmist well knew when he indited a Song of loves to praise him with a ready heart and tongue Psal 45. 1. He tells us of his beauty and that he is fairer then the children of men his lips are not ●ipped with grace but grace is poured into his lips well may we fall to blesse him whom God hath blessed and blessed for ever v. 2. He is not onely faire but valiant not onely gracious but mighty yea mighty with glory and majesty v. 3. A rare Majesty v. 4. Truth a horsebacke Majesty illustrious with meekness and righteousness they that praise him glorifie him and they that glorifie him order their conversation aright You must not barely speak his praise but live out his praise and shew your selves to be his disciples indeed by bringing forth much fruit 7. Lastly The King of Saints must not want his obedient subjects obedience is the performance of what is commanded and those commands are wrapped up in the Law I have lately read of some Laws of Nature which I conceive might be handled in a Gospel-way I shall endeavour therefore to bring Scripture-light to them and leave them upon your consciences to be observed 1. The first of them is this That peace is to be sought Rom. 12. 18. If it be possible and as much as in you lieth have peace with all men there is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if it be possible and a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as much as lieth in you live peaceably 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 still be peacing of it How ill doth wrath malice envy contention fighting and brawling become a man and it worse becomes a Saint a man of holinesse Heb. 12. 14. Follow peace with all men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 persecute peace doe that with a good and raised affection by the good spirit of God which wicked men doe against you by a wicked spirit When they persecute you by a spirit of malice they are boyled up to a hight so should you be and move with all your strength after peace He addes a word more that makes the rule

jesting you have met with a mixture of too much folly and vanity in your mirth Giving of thanks should be the language of Saints on earth as it is of Saints and Angels in heaven and then are your tongues your glory and therefore it s brought in with a sed potius but rather giving of thanks Let your speech be gracious always seasoned with salt Col. 4. 6. Mark how God comes to regulate your speech It must be gracious that is as you heard minister grace to the hearers and it must not be so for a fit or a spurt but always There are two notable arguments set down to bridle your tongue First that when your speech doth not minister grace to the hearers you grieve the Spirit of God Eph. 4. 29 30. and how sad should that fall upon us to grieve him by whom we are sealed unto the day of redemption And a second argument is in this sixth verse that you may know how to answer every man Men will be apt to object against you and to object against you from your own words and you cannot be in a capacity to answer them except your speech be gracious It peirceth a godly tender soul to heare the swearing and cursing the blasphemy and railing that your Streets swarme withal to have their eares buffered with uncleane rotten filthy communications But by how much you finde the sinfullnesse and carelessnesse of most men the more ought you to bridle your tongues and aspire to that perfection not to offend in that unruly member and so shew forth that your Religion is not in vain You must not onely be good speakers but doers of that which is good you must be hearers but not onely hearers but doers also but mark what you must be doers of not your own will or the lusts of men but doers of the word not praters but practitioners and there is a strong argument added that you may be blessed in your deed not onely after but in your deed Holinesse carrieth happinesse along with it Rom. 6. 22. they have their fruit unto holinesse and the end everlasting life they have their fruit now hereafter too now in holiness herafter in life everlasting You must deny your selves Matth. 16. 24. you must undoe as well as doe deny as well as grant deny your own carnal reasonings affections experience and conversation Tit. 2. 12. You must deny not some but all ungodlinesse all beginnings thoughts occasions meanes signes and measures of ungodlinesse and though the world should make large proffers to you of pleasure or profit yet you must deny your worldly lust your lust and desire after those worldly things and Moses like refuse the pleasures of sin which are but for a season and account suffering affliction with the people of God greater riches then the treasures of Egypt and as Moses saw him by faith that was invisible so you must deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts upon a ground of faith and hope for so it follows looking for the blessed hope The blessednesse hoped for being duely looked on by an eye of faith is the ready way to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts How contemptible will the world seeme to us when we consider the glorious appearance of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Oh then look on Christ as appearing and on his appearing as glorious look on Jesus Christ as the Great God and the Great God as your Saviour and then you will abominate ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and say to them Get you hence what have I any more to doe with you V. 14. Christ gave himselfe that he might redeeme us from all iniquity How free full is that gift who is able to express the greatness of it He gave himselfe laid aside his own glory and excellency and though he were God equal with the Father was content to be in the form of a servant and though he were the Lord of glory to become of no reputation and why all this to redeeme us from all iniquity It s much according to the heart of Christ that you and your iniquity should be parted and that sin should have no more dominion over you that you should no more be to your own lust or to the lusts of men but a peculiar people to himselfe living soberly righteously and godly in this present world and not onely working what is good but continually zealous of good works working good although evil oppose you Being Saints the Promises are yours and you are the dearely beloved ones and therefore 2 Cor. 7. 1. You must cleanse your selves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit The love of God and the Promises are all so cleansing Gods love cannot indure to see the spots in his Spouse and therefore stricks at all filthinesse filthinesse of flesh and filthinesse of spirit observe its cleansing not onely forbearing your lust for a while but taking away the defilement of it How ever men may conceit of their sins they come to pollute and defile them Now it s the imployment of a Saint to be purging and purging upon spiritual grounds upon the ground of having the Promises and being the dearely beloved ones The being of a Saint lieth in holinesse no holinesse and no Saint and a Saints duty it is to be serious and constant in the perfecting of holinesse and that in the feare of God You must be obedient Phil. 2. 12. and worke out your salvation with feare and trembling V. 13. Doe all things without murmuring V. 14. That you may be the sons of God V. 15. that is that you may appeare to be the sons of God Blameless not onely free from fault but as he said of Caesars wife Oportet uxorem Caesaris non modo a culpa liberam esse sed a suspitione culpae you must be free from the very suspition of fault not onely abstaining from evil but all appearance of evil You must be harmelesse or else you cannot be blamelesse if you be fighting and quarrelling snarling and wrangling you are as the men of the world and not as the sons of God How ready will those men be to reproach you without a cause but if you give a cause oh then what vaunting and triumphing is there whereas it lies on you to walke so as to put to silence the carpings of malicious men You are in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation in the midst of a darke world and God hath made you as so many Stars to have light and to give light Oh let not any league with any sinful lust darken your souls If the light in you be darknesse how great is that darknesse You must like John be burning and shining lights not onely have the light of grace within you to guide you to happinesse but this light must be burning and shining in clearnesse of knowledge and warmness of affection so as to help others when