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A85436	The great interest of states & kingdomes. A sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Feb. 25. 1645. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D. one of the Assembly of Divines.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1246A; Thomason E325_4; ESTC R200620	40,978	64

THE GREAT INTEREST OF States Kingdomes A SERMON Preached before the Honorable House of COMMONS At their Late Solemne FAST Feb. 25. 1645. By THO GOODWIN B. D. One of the Assembly of Divines REVEL 17. 14. These shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them For he is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull LONDON Printed for R. DAWLMAN M DC XLVI To the Honourable House of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT I Here present you with one piece of the Counsels of God next those of his disposing the eternall conditions of persons of all other the greatest as which concerneth the temporall salvation or destruction of Kingdomes and Nations which next to his Saints therein are dearest to God as his patience towards them shews A subject which had it been set out according to the merit of it would of it self have faln at your feet who are the Representative Body of this Nation and Kingdom and entitled it selfe to no other Dedication then to you But Providence having brought it forth in the way of an ordinance of God preaching in your eares though rudely and you having beene pleased to owne it it is become yours by all sorts of Interest It is certaine that God did not bring that last and fatall desolation upon the Iews untill all states and ranks of men amongst them had conspired against the Lord and his Anointed and his followers nor did he bring upon them that their first captivity untill all sorts had corrupted themselves the great men had broken the yoke Jer. 5. the Prophet prophecyed falsly the Priests did bear rule by their means and the people loved to have it so and then as the Prophet addes What will you do in the end thereof And yet therein God did not regard so much what the People as what their Rulers did I said speaking of the people Surely these are poore ver 4 these are foolish I will get me to the GREAT men but THESE have ALL TOGETHER broke the yoke 5. and burst the bands Our comfort therefore is we cannot be undone without you nor you without failing in this which is our GREATEST INTEREST An Errour which if this Kingdome should after so much bleeding erre a second time is like hereafter never to be mended Your preservation and guidance in this is above all other the constant and daily prayer of Your most humble servant THO GOODWIN THE INTEREST OF ENGLAND A Sermon preached at the late Fast before the Commons House of PARLIAMENT PSAL. 105. 14 14. He suffered no man to doe them wrong yea he reproved Kings for their sakes Saying Touch not mine anointed THe words I have read and those from the 10. verse as they hold forth the first rearing of the Church of the Jews in Abraham and the Patriarchs so they are intended as the first Primitive Instance and Originall patterne of Gods care and protection over his people in all Ages and likewise of his proceedings with all States and Kingdomes according unto their dealings with his people where ever cast among them to the end of the world exemplified in what was done for their sakes and towards them and their Families The Storie it selfe of Abraham Isaac and Jacob which these words refer to and how God reproved Abimelech King of Gerar and Pharaoh King of Egypt and others for their sakes you may reade in the 12 20 and 26. Chapters of Genesis and of commands given forth concerning them to doe them no wrong yea not to touch them Gen. 20. 7. declaring also of Abraham that he was a Prophet and so not to be injured Onely what in the Story is uttered scatteredly and in severall places is by the Prophet David summarily put together Touch not mine anointed and doe my Prophets no harme There is a Controversie upon these words Touch not mine anointed that they should be intended principally of Kings and of these Patriarchs as under the notion of Kings I shall but clear it in a word Whether these Patriarchs were Kings or no I will not now dispute Abraham is called a mighty Prince by the children of Heth Gen. 23. 6. yet however here the holy Ghost speaks of Abraham Isaac and Jacob as representing the people of Israel and his scope is to shew Gods care and protection of his people by their example which is cleare 1. by all the current and streame of the whole Psalme all that goes before and which followes after is wholly to shew his care of the people of Israel from first to last But as for Kings or Gods care over them as such we may say as Paul in another case Heb. 7. 14. Of that Tribe the holy Ghost speaks nothing that is in this Psa nothing as touching Monarchie as he there sayes nothing as concerning the Priesthood And 2. then the words in the 12. verse which speak of the persons of these Patriarchs when they were but a few men in number yea very few refer not to Kings nor unto these Patriarchs as such for he speaks of their whole families their wives children and servants Yea these three Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob they were all alive at once Isaac was above 70. years old afore Abraham dyed and Jacob 15. and but one of these could have been King at once and yet you see he speaks of them all complexedly and as making a company together when they were few and very few he said Touch not mine anointed Yea 3. It is so farre from being meant of them as Kings that it is expresly said in the words of the Text He reproved Kings for their sakes therein speaking of them as of a sort of people distinct from Kings and yet of a higher and dearer value with God then those Kings reproved for them But it will be said that if it should not be meant of them under the relation of Kings yet however as of persons extraordinary and therefore this charge and instance cannot be drawne into a pattern of Gods care and protection over all Saints and the people of God which is the scope which I have put upon the words I answer that though indeed their persons were extraordinary yet here they are withall set forth as representing the people of God whom they were the fathers of It is cleare by the eighth verso He hath remembred his Covenant for ever the word which he commanded to a thousand generations The performance of which Covenant to confirme the truth of it he exemplifies by the story of Gods providence over these What therefore he saith of these anointed ones here it extendeth to a thousand generations to come and as Abraham in other things was a Common person in faith justifying he is made such Rom. 3. In faith as sanctifying Jam. 2. In being heire of the world Rom. 4. 13. so is he here also and Isaac and Jacob with him in their anointing

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Festum Triumphale celebravit Whitak contr 3. quaest 4. for it was Jesus Christ his eminent work Eph. 2. 14. He is our PEACE who hath made both one and hath broken downe the partition wall between us having abolish in his flesh the enmity and a greater enmity was betwixt Jews and Gentiles then among us He did it by his blood doe you mingle his blood with faith and mingle therewith but the Rules given by the Apostles by which they effected this as in Rom. 14. when one beleeved that he might eate all things another that was weake durst not but eate hearbs ver 2. Let not him that eateth sayes he in this case despise him that eateth not and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth And ver 14. Let us not judge one another any more Certainly this rule with such others reduced to practice as are found in their writings would heale all I shall not stand to dispute that place now I shall onely upon occasion thereof acquaint you with an Observation which to me was strange having considered former proceedings when I first found it In the late Book of Canons that were made just afore this Parliament and stirs began when the Bishops would have brought in bowing towards the Communion Table the Altar as it was called after many specious colours prefaced thereto they close all with this In the practice or omission of this Rite we desire that the RULE OF CHARITY prescribed by THE APOSTLE may be observed which is That they which use this Rite DESPISE NOT them who use it not that they who use it not CONDEMNE NOT those that use it Could they not have said so sooner The observing this very rule about those other things urged by them had ended all the quarrels prevented all the oppressions of tender consciences that were during all their dayes it had saved and prevented the silencing of how many faithfull Ministers by them But God who who afore he punisheth usually takes evidence or at least layes a ground of their conviction whom he punisheth when he had once drawne this out from them though they did it for an end to facilitate the introduction of that which was a novelty yet then ex ore tuo out of their owne mouthes he condemnes them and stayes not a moment from the execution But from that time and word uttered by them and published to the world began their ruine it hastned and hastned instantly I am confident of it that Christ that King of Saints that is in heaven he will not rest till such time as hee hath made us one if not in judgement yet in fobearance and that if we will not take warning and will not agree it that either Antichrist or Jesus Christ himselfe will come in upon us and we shall be made to doe it one way or other But if this great designe of reconciling all the Saints could be brought to a full issue and perfection and if this your Interest a regard had to all the Saints in this Kingdome which to me upon all the grounds fore-mentioned is the greatest Interest of this Kingdome be followed and maintained I would not feare though as the Prophet Zachary saith of Jerusalem Chap. 3. ver 3. all the people of the earth were gathered together against us We feare forraigne Forces certainly let us keep to our owne proper Interest and then if all the Nations of the world were gathered together against us I beleeve they would have the hardest pull of this Nation that ever was of any THE LORD IS HERE as the Prophet speaks Ezek. 35. 10. or let me expresse it in those similitudes Zachary there useth if they should come and think to devoure us they will find this Kingdome to be a cup of poyson to them ver 2. so t is in your margents but we reade it a cup of trembling which they must not onely vomit up againe but will be their death and destruction they will finde it to be a burthensome stone as ver 3. which while they goe about to overturne or stirre or meddle withall it shall fall back upon them and cut them to pieces I will make Jerusalem a burthensome stone for all people all that burthen themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it And you that are the GOVERNORS OF JUDAH as at the 6. ver shal be as an harth of fire among the wood and a torch of fire in a sheafe and all that oppose you and rise up against you shall be but as so many strawes Take a stack of straw great for bulk and number and lay it upon a few coales of fire upon an hearth and what will become of them all though they cover the fire a while yet they will soone be consume I and burnt up Read the 6. ver I will make saith God THE GOVERNORS of Judah like a harth of fire among the wood and like a torch of fire in a sheafe and they shall devoure all the people round about on the right hand and on the left I shall onely end with what is further spoken there of these Governours of Judah in the 5. verse which is the summe of what I have said THE GOVERNORS OF Judah SHALL SAY IN THEIR HEARTS as comforting themselves thereby The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my STRENGTH in the Lord of Hosts THEIR GOD. And so say you the Saints of this our Jerusalem are our greatest INTEREST and security through the Lord of Hosts his being our God And let this saying be ever in your hearts to encourage and to guide you FINIS Die Mercurii 25. Feb. 1645. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Sir Robert Harley and Master Purefoy doe from this House give Thanks to Master Thomas Goodwin for the great paines he took in the Sermon he preached this day at the intreaty of this House at S. Margarets Westminster it being the day of Publique Humiliation And to desire him to print his Sermon And it is Ordered that none shall print his Sermon without license under his hand writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. I doe appoint Robert Dawlman to print this Sermon Tho Goodwin Die Mercurii Febr. 25. 1645. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that S. Robert Harlow and Col. Purfrey do give thanks to M. Burgesse and M. Goodwin for the great pains they took in the Sermons they preached this day at the intreaty of the House of Commons at S. Margarets Westminster it being the day of publick Humiliation and to desire them to print their Sermons It is also ordered That none shall presume to print their Sermons without licence under their hand-writing Hen. Els Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Thomas Underhill to print my Sermon and no man else ANTHONY BURGESSE