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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

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

to sinne but make their peace with God which I heartily desire therefore at the instant importunity of a speciall Christian freind and being much encouraged by the very loving acceptation it found from other Christians that heard it I was content this Sermon should be published if it be judged meet It is indeed brought forth in a time wherein I my self have both much employment and many troubles that I could not afford unto it such serious premeditation nor review as I desired nor have I the helpe of many books usefull for such a purpose nor yet a dexterity in Temporary narrations as those that are skilfull in the times both which were requisite in a Sermon of this subject yet that is but part of the matter and if I mistake not here is some thing usefull for thy soule in whatsoever condition thou art And therefore I pray thee in Christian love either heal or conceale any failing thou findest in it and say as truly thou may'st perhaps it was an oversight for I confesse I am full of infirmities beare with my rudenesse in speech I do assure thee I would be loath to offend any gracious soule But faile thou not to make particular application to thy own selfe of what thou findest most sutable to thy own estate and condition so shall God have the glory and thy soule shall prosper and my soule shall rejoyce with thee This I heartily desire And remain Copdock July 1647. Thine in Christ Benjamin Hubbard DANIEL 5.25 The latter words of that Verse MENE MENE TEKEL VPHARSIN RIght Worshipfull Sapè fit ut aliqua brevis exigua scriptio vocetur liber Matth. 1.1 19.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deut. 24.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and beloved in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of the sixty six books of Sacred Scripture some are more Historicall relating many things done before the writing of them as the books of Moses and the Evangelists some are more doctrinall teaching the rules of a Christian life and a holy conversation as the Epistles of the Apostles and some are more Propheticall and so are the words of my Text Mene Mane Tekel Upharsin There are foure difficulties that doe obscure and veile the meaning of the Text which I shall comprehend in these four words Tempus Locus Lingua Brevitas There is likewise a fourfold consideration that will farther help us to understand the same in some measure take them in these foure words Occasio Quomodo Quibus Eventus Give me leave to speake briefly of these eight particulars Tempus The circumstance of time when when these things were done which are mentioned in this Chapter is very considerable And although those that have beene famous for their studies in Chronologie do not all agree herein yet the difference betwixt most of them is not very much considering the great difficulty of the work In opere Chronologico Anno 3395. An. Mun. 3412 Vide de Annis Captivitatis Babylonicae Chyt Chrono Herodoti 3424. Funct 3425. Perkins 3430. In 2 Chron. 36.23 Dan. 6.1 Dan. 5. ult Ezra ● ● Calvisius sets down these things as done in the yeare of the World 3395 and saith that Cyrus overcame Darius Medus and tooke Babylon 17 yeares after and that the Jews had liberty to return to Judea and build the Temple in the yeare 3418 and that they returned 3419. But Chyiraeus Functius and Mr. Perkins doe write that these things were done about the yeare of the World 3425 and in the last year of the Babylonish captivity for Cyrus began to reigne presently after the death of Belshazzar although his father-in-Law Darius Medus had the Name and Title for honour sake yet Cyrus himselfe in effect had the dominion as Tromellius Junius and Calvin observe Now certain it is that in the first yeare of Cyrus after that he and Darius had wonne Babylon the Jews had free liberty to return out of that captivity 2 Chron. 36.20 And hence I gather that these things were done in the last yeare of the Babylonish captivity Locus The circumstance of the place is also very considerable for as One sayth Time and Place are the two eyes of History Now it is conceived by some that there be three Cities called Babylon in the sacred Scriptures Gen. 11.2 4. Babylon even that City where the Tower was built by men who o●t of the infidelity and pride of their hearts thought by that means to provide for their honour and safety from the floud of Gods displeasure they chose a Plain neer to the great River Euphrates and build the City partly on the one side 2 Chron. 36.20 Psal 137.1 2 3. Dan. 4.30 Gen. 11.8 9. Isa 13.19 Babyl●lon 83.10 lat 3● 50 Ierus 66.0.31.40 Clavius in Io●de Sacro Bosco and partly on the other side of the same River And thither the Jews were carryed into captivity and there they made their lamentation And in it was the Royall Palace of the Kings of Caldea It was at first called Babel for the confusion of Tongues a judgement of God upon the first builders of it as it tended to confusion at the last It was scituate neerest the Rumbe East and by North from Jerusalem and distent from it about eight hundred seventy and five miles Cayro a famous City in Egypt is by some Authors named Babylon and so it is called in Ortelius his Map at which place Fran. Sac. Qu. Funct Com. Chron. Anno Christ 44 45 B●n●ng ●in totius Sa. Scrip. Calvin Beza in 1 Pet. 4.13 Rhem. Annot. in 1 Pet. 5.13 Calvis Chrono in An. post Chri. 64. negat 2 Cor. 11.28 Rom. 15 16 20 Rom. 16. 2 Tim. 4.6 16. Revel 17.4 5. 18.2 Revel 11.8 Revel 17 5. ●ulling Brightman L. Napier Fr. Iuniur Dan. 4.30 some doe conceive Peter the Apostle was when he wrote his first Epistle although some rather hold he was then at another City of that name in Assyria But the Translators of the Rhemish Testament in their Notes upon that place doe say that by Babylon is meant Rome because they would thereby confirme their saying That Peter the Apostle was Bishop of Rome 25 yeares which is contrary to the holy Histories in the Acts of the Apostles and to many passages of the Apostle Paul in his Epistles But is Rome Babylon by their own confession then ex ore tuo by thine own confession ô Papist we conclude Rome is Babylon and the mother of whoredoms and shortly to be destroyed Rome in a figurative and spirituall sense is called Babylon in very deed Revel 18.2 as all Orthodox Modern Expositors doe interpret the same both for their proud uprising superstitious Idolatries and horrible confusion a Rome is also called Egypt because it hath been a prison and bondage to Gods people and truth Revel 11.8 But these things mentioned in this Chapter were done in the City in which both Belshazzar did live and before him Nebuchadnezzar which was first properly

number the same too And the numbring of Gods dealing out mercies and judgements is of two speciall uses to the poore soule To stir up humilitie by considering Gods mercies and our own unworthinesse of them as Jacob said Minor sum Gen. 32.10 nullus sum I am lesse then all thy favours To stir up thankfulnesse for the same as David when he stirs up his soule effectually to thankfulnesse he saith My soule praise the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy Name My soule praise the Lord and forget not all his benefits As if he should say although thou forgettest many of them yet be sure not to forget all of them And then he reckons up diverse of Gods mercies to himself to his people generally and to all the world universally for as a late worthie Divine well observed M. Sam. Ward A foole cannot a proud man will not be thankfull For the one cannot reckon up Gods dealings with him and the other will not acknowledge them from the truth of his heart to be free favours Therefore let us I beseech you beloved look back a little while upon the Nationall favours judgements and warnings of this Kingdome onely and that in this last Centurie of yeares for as they say Seculum Speculum an Age is a looking-glasse wherein we may see Gods mercies our own ingratitude his Chastisements our incorrigiblenesse and by his grace we may be made more humble more thankfull and obedient to God I cannot largely repeat things neither will the time give way thereunto as Moses did in 4 Chapters together Deut. 1.2 3 4. Chapters I shall onely point at some things briefly I pray be larger in your Meditation and application of them to your own soules Gen. 18.17 18 19. Psal 78.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. to your Children and servants as it is the dutie of every godly parent by vertue of a Statute Law in Israel ordained by Jehovah himselfe and obeyed by all his people And the rather shall I make bold at this time it being the hundreth yeare of Englands Reformation and coming out of Popish captivitie and idolatry An. Christi 1547 KIng EDWARD the Sixth the religious Josiah of England began to reigne M. Fox Acts. Mon. Vol. 2. 651. 652. K. Edward the VI. his Injunctions printed July 1547. Vol. 2. p 654. M. Hooper Vol. 3. p. ●45 Iohn Alasco Vol. 3. p. 40. being but nine years of age and yet a gracious Governour And it is this moneth just a hundred yeares since he began Reformation and to put down Idolatry which did not a little cheare and revive the hearts of the godly in England and many other came over to enjoy the liberty with them of which some were our own country-men before that time fled from persecutors there and some were godly people of other Nations An. Christi 1548 The same day and houre when the Images were burned openly in London Vol. 2. p. 669. the English Protestants put the Scottish Papists with their Idol gods altars and popish trinkets to the worse in Musoleborough field where though the number of the Scots far exceeded ours yet in that field were slain of them between 13 and 14 thousand and not above a hundred English men An. Christi 1549 The Rebels in Davonshire Vol. 2. p. 666 667 668 669. requiring popery againe to be established were first by the King most lovingly and wisely answered and after with their consecrated god in whom they trusted the Pax under his canopie riding in a cart which they brought into the battell with masses crosses banners candlesticks holy bread and holy water plentie were they vanquished many being slaine their chieftains and two priests taken with their Idoll god and his trumpery about him An. Christi 1550 Reverend Mr. Hooper opposed certaine ceremonies Acts Mon. Vol 3 p. 145 146 147. but was over-powred by the Arch Bishop of Canterbury although K. Edward the Duke of Sommerset with others and also the Earle of Warwick wrote to the Arch-Bishop desiring he might be borne withall An. Christi 1552 The gracious and truly Noble Duke of Sommerset Acts Mon. Vol. 2. p. 754. the Kings Uncle and Protector of his person was executed An. Christi 1553 Calvisius That famous King lento veneno departed out of this life having reigned prosperously 6 yeares and 8 moneths Acts Mon. Vol. 3. p. 13. Lady Jane the Duke of Suffolke his daughter was by the Kings Testament and consent of the Nobles proclaimed Queen An. Christi 1553 Acts. Mon. Vol. 3. p. 15. QUeen Mary by the help of the Suffolk Gospellers got the Crown promising them not to alter the Religion then established Yet shee hasted to restore both Popery and the Popes power in England P. 16. And then were the Saints of God persecuted Vol. 3. who as they had taught the Gospel sincerely so did they hold it forth most clearely in the bright flames of fire Many hundreds of Gods precious servants suffered death in her few and evill dayes An. Christi 1554 The estate both of the Church and Common-wealth An. Christi 1554 was further endangered by the marryage first concluded and after effected between Philip Prince of Spaine Acts Mon. Vol 3. p. 31. and Mary Queen of England which occasioned Wyats conspiracie for which he was executed P. 114 115. Much talke was there the same yeare that Queen Mary had conceived and was quick with childe but it proved rather a conceit then a conception for shee and they also were deceived P. 953. although they were very confident thereof P. 114 115 116. as by an Act of Parliament their Prayers and provisions for it did appeare An. Christi 1556 P. 953. A great dearth was in England so that many poore people were fain to feed of acornes for want of corn An. Christi 1558 P. 669. P. 953. P. 952. P 954. Queen Mary lost Calice and being left desolate by K. Philip her husband in great griefe she dyed having reigned marvellous unprosperously five yeares and five moneths P. 943. to P. 952. P. 704. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In which Maryan times though many hundreds suffered for the Truth yet diverse God mercifully preserved as the Lady Elizabeth though in prison some were hidden in their own houses Martyres or Witnesses Acts 1.8 Thom. Hubbard was my grandfather Vol. 3. p. 1020. P. 920. Vol. 3. p 976. P. 979. Vol. 3 p. 954. to 963. D. Rainolds in Psal 8.47 c. as the Mendlesham Martyrs who oft-times openly professed the truth and some even miraculously were delivered from the fury of their persecutors as Laremouth Crosmons wife and many others An. Christi 1558 QUeen Elizabeth of famous memory in the beginning of her reigne restored the Reformation begun in King Edwards time to the great joy of the godly and Gods just judgements fell upon many malicious persecutors An.

first in the Treason and laboured in the Myne Everard Digby Knight Ambrose Rookewood Francis Tresham Esquires John Grant gentleman and Robert Keyes were acquainted with it though nor personally labouring in the Myne nor in the Cellar These traitors intended to have blown up the King Queene Prince the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and then * A Song of Thanksgiving they meant to lay that horrid fact to the charge of the Puritans and so to have taken up some pretence to have rooted out if possibly they could all the true professors of Christ and to establish popery in this Kingdome But our good God over-ruled them so that by their owne letter with the Kings Majestie 's most wise construction his faithfull Counsells diligent and discreet inquisition was it discovered although they tooke the Sacrament of secrecy and the time was neere for the performance thereof Thus was our great danger by our gracious Jehovah prevented An. 3. Jacob. Regis Act. Parl. In a Prayer Thanksgiving appointed for Novemb. 5. and their own by themselves procured the remembrance whereof we ought with all thankfullnesse in solemne manner to Celebrate to Gods praise every fifth day of November And entreat we the Lord to root out that Babylonish and Antichristian sect whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose Practice is murthering of souls bodies An. Christi 1612 Prince Henry that Royall and hopefull branch departed out of this life An. Christi 1613 Master Randall Bates a reverend Preacher dyed in prison having lyen in the Gate-house about twenty moneths onely for opposing the Lordly Prelacy and the ceremonies then used in the Church An. Christi 1623 Our present Soveraign Lord King CHARLES then being Prince went into Spain and returned safe for which we ought to praise the Lord. An. Christi 1623 Drury a Priest who drew the people awry indeed being at Masse in the Black-fryers at London Dru aw ry In Roman Account Nov. 5. Occidit una domus sed non domus una perire digna fuit and much people of high degree and others being there the chamber fell down slew the Priest himselfe and many of those that were hearing him and maymed others A faire warning to all that neglect the means of grace doubtlesse many houses or housholds have deserved the same punishment as also it is a sure presage of the downfall of Popery An. Christi 1625 King Iames of blessed memory departed in peace having reigned in great tranquility in England two and twenty yeares and in Scotland about 58 yeares An. Christi 1625 KIng CHARLES our most gracious Soveraign Lord began to Reign over Great Brittain and continued the Reformation before established except that by degrees it did degenerate and the prelacie laded us with more Popish innovations or at least the same burthen bound more streightly upon us An. Christi 1628 God from heaven gave warning to this Nation by a Sight in the aire which many saw being a lively representation of Warres towards the North and after a round Church appeared which when I saw I did even then conceive and say that which since I have observed to be in a great measure fulfilled videlicet That there would be terrible wars I feared in this my Deare Native Countrey but in the conclusion the Church should be reformed more and more and not so deformed by conforming to the Orders or rather disorders then practized An. Christi 1630 The plague was at Cambridge which forced the Students of that ancient and famous Universitie my self being at that time one of them to a long discontinuance and in diverse respects it was a great affliction to most parts of this Kingdome if not to all and therefore not to be forgotten by us An. Christi 1639 The Bishops endeavouring to establish Episcopacy in Scotland there was great danger of engaging England in a warre against our brethren in Scotland which it also pleased God to prevent shewing much mercie to us and them An. Christi 1639 About which time Sixtie six Spanish ships lay neere to Dover for what end I know not it was feared they came for no good but they were fought with by Seven Holland ships at first and after there came in to helpe those 7 seventeen more of them And among them all in a short time about 2000 men were slain and we but Spectators onely of that tragoedie An. Christi 1640 The Lordly Prelates to strengthen their own Kingdome here increased the number of popish Ceremonies and enjoyned them by New Canons and overcharged them with an Odious Oath which shortly after in their discharge ruined themselves The Lord is known by the judgement he executeth O quanta veritatis potentia Psal 9.16 the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah or Medit andum Selah So let all thine enemies perish O God An. Christi 1640 This present Parliament began as the fruit of many prayers T. H. for when the people of God in this land were full of feares and troubles their hearts failing them and they ready to say What shall we doe whither shall we flee The Lord gave to them the Spirit of supplication abundantly and indeed shewed himself to be The God that heareth prayer by giving a Parliament and such succesfull beginnings thereunto as opened a fountaine in this Jawbone to revive the fainting Church of his here An. Christi 1641 The Protestation was taken all this Kingdome over An. Christi 1642 The late lamentable Warres began yet God was good to us in discovering and preventing many secret treacheries and assisting us in great difficulties An. Christi 1643 The Covenant was taken wherein we all lifted up our hands to the most high God that we will endeavour the Reformation of the Church according to Gods Word the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Schisme and Prophanenesse and each one to go before another in the example of a reall reformation And many superstitious reliques were abolished which neither we nor our godly fathers as ye have heard were able to beare Since which time ye know many Witches have been discovered by their own confessions and executed Englands Remembrancer from June 13 to Feb. 4. 1645. Many glorious victories obtained beyond any mans expectation and places of strength yielded above seventy in eight moneths space This is none other but the Lord himselfe hath done it For when our enemies sometime said They have nothing to help themselves with but prayer It seemed fully sufficient or rather the Lord who was prayed unto S. B. As one that doubtlesse is now with God wrote to me being absent Then then in due season when Gods people had nothing to leane to but a God alone in Christ but why should I say nothing when they had an All-sufficient God to goe unto and it proved all in all unto them And this is to be admired as the wonderfull goodnesse of God that