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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65440	Ferguson's text explain'd and apply'd, in a sermon before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Geffery, Kt., Lord Mayor of London, at Guild-Hall Chappel, December the 6th, anno 1685 by Robert Wensley ...	Wensley, Robert, 1647-1689.	1686 (1686)	Wing W1352; ESTC R15240	16,002	36

Ferguson's Text Explain'd and Apply'd IN A SERMON Before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Geffery Kt. Lord Mayor of LONDON AT Guild-Hall Chappel December the 6th Anno Dom. 1685. BY Robert Wensley Vicar of Chesthunt Hartfordshire LONDON Printed by Tho. Milbourn for Benjamin Tooke at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1686. Imprimatur C. ALSTON R. P. D. HEN. Episc Lond. a Sacris Domesticis To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Geffery Kt. Lord Mayor OF THE City of LONDON MY Lord THE so extraordinary Civility Your Lordship was pleas'd to express to me for this SERMON which I can attribute to nothing but the design of it viz. Loyalty which is and always hath been most grateful to Your Lordship hath however so highly oblig'd me that I should think my self guilty of no less Ingratitude than that which I blame in others should I refuse to submit it to Your Lordships Disposal I beg leave to tell Your Lordship That this Discourse was first Preach'd mutatis mutandis when the late Duke of Monmouth was in the heighth of his Rebellion in my own Parish where not only Castares but Ferguson himself that Bloodiest of all the Rebels was formerly at The Conventicle at Theobalds a Frequent and amongst his Followers a most Celebrated Preacher Wherefore I thought it my Duty to let my People see how much they had been abused by him and such Seducers and to Preach up Loyalty amongst them from his own Text which as I was then Inform'd he had wrested to Rebellious Designs By this Your Lordship may plainly see that I have always even in the worst of Times endeavoured to do my Duty to God and the King with all Faithfulness though I am forced to tell Your Lordship because I live by some ill Neighbours who seek to do me all the Mischief they can only because by all means Lawful I endeavour to make them do their Duties That I have Laboured under the greatest Disadvantage and Discouragement and suffered the greatest Persecution for it of any Man in England that I know of of my Age and Station All that I can return to Your Lordship for your great kindness is only like Beggars to have Recourse to my Prayers for you That Your Lordships Name may be as Famous in all Ages for Loyalty and for the Just and Honourable Rewards of it as now it is in your Self the Loyal Lord Mayor of London and in the Great and Loyal Lord Chancellor of England And if the Infinite Happiness of Heaven can admit of Degrees That your Lordship may enjoy in the World to come a degree of Glory as much above other Men as You do at this present Which is and shall be the Hearty Prayer of My Lord Your Lordships most Faithful and Obedient Servant Robert Wensley A SERMON PREACH'D AT Guild-Hall Chappel December the 6th Anno Dom. 1685. EZEKIEL Ch. XXI v. 25 26 27. And thou prophane wicked Prince of Israel whose Day is come when Iniquity shall have an End Thus saith the Lord God Remove the Diadem and take off the Crown Exalt him that is low and abase him that is high I will over-turn over-turn over-turn it and it shall be no more until he come whose right it is and I will give it him OF all the Sacred Writings none are more easily wrested to ill Purposes than the Prophesies of the Old Testament and the Revelations of the New Strength of Imagination and the litteral Sound of the Words supplying the place in the Vulgar of strong Sense sound Reason and all manner of Helps of Interpretation So that they are easily brought to believe any thing that their Seditious Teachers deliver to them as a Mystery grounded on some obscure Text of the Prophets or the Apocalypse Amongst all the Prophetical Writings if we may believe Report none hath been more abused than this Text by that Grand Traytor and Trumpeter of Hell Ferguson who whil'st he pretended to be a Preacher of the Gospel of Peace sounded an Alarum to Rebellion with these Words against which nothing can be a greater Argument if rightly Explain'd and Apply'd Wherefore it cannot be amiss for me to endeavour rightly to Explain and Apply them both to Things and Persons First then to Explain the Words it will be necessary 1st The Explication of the Words to enquire I. Who this Prince was of which we have here so severe a Character II. What his Crimes were for which he is here so dreadfully threatned As to the First I need but refer you to the I. Who this Prince was Words of St. Hierom who expresly saith * Post urbis Hierosclymae subversionem captivitatem Populi ad Ducem Israelis sermo dirigitur quem nemini dubium est significari Sedechiam St. Hierom Commentarium in Textum After the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Captivity of the Jews this Speech is directed to the King of Israel whom no body doubts to be Zedekiah Whose sad Story you may read at your Leasure in the 24 th and 25 th Chapters of the 2 d. of Kings and in the Last Chapter of Jeremy The summ of it in brief is this Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon besieged Jerusalem and took it with Jehoiakim the King and all his Nobles All which after he had destroyed the Temple together with all the rich Vessels belonging to it all the Treasures of the King's House and the Riches of all the City he carried away with him into Babylon and deposed Jehoiakim and made Mattaniah his Father's Brother King in his stead and changed his Name to Zedekiah Who notwithstanding all this Rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar and being overcome by him had his Sons slain before his Eyes and that he might never see a better Object his own Eyes were put out and he carried in Chains to Babylon And Jehoiakim was by Evilmerodack the Babylonian King re-placed upon the Throne of his Ancestors Thus was the Prophesie in the Text fulfilled even to a Word For Zedekiah's Day of Punishment came unexpectedly upon him and his Iniquity had its Reward His Diadem was removed and his Crown was taken off Jehoiakim that was low was exalted from a Prison to his Throne and Zedekiah that was high was abased from his Throne to a Prison Thus did God Almighty utterly Over-turn all Israel till the Kingdom was given unto him whose Right it was As to the further Sense of this Prophecy the same St. Hierom diverting his Speech to Zedekiah gives it us in these following Words † Venit inquit tibi dies quae longo tempore praefinita est in te propter te Sacerdotium Regnum interiit Judaeorum Iniquitatem ponam tibi in perpetuum quoe non statim tibi reputata est sed donec veniat Christus cujus est judicium tradet ei Pater Regnum Sacerdotium vel Ecclesiam de Gentibus Congregatam Id. St. Hieronimus ibid. The Day is come which was long before determined concerning Thee and for