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A77366	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb. 29. 1643. By VVilliam Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods Word at Yarmouth.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4465; Thomason E79_11; ESTC R13662	28,626	38

in his returne to his company he heard in a roome as he passed by the noyse of children as it were pronouncing their Catechize whereupon he put aside the dore where they were and he saw the Ministers wives of the place praying and praysing God with their children upon this Melancthon returned to his company exceeding cheerfull and very joyfull Luther espying his gladsome countenance said thus to him Philip how commeth it to passe that you returne so joyfull that went out even now so sorrowfull He answered Let us be of good comfort for I have seen them that will fight for us and defend us Luther asked what those stout and brave Captaines were Oh sayes Melancthon they are the chast wives and vertuous children of holy men It seemes that holy man Melancthon thought such Carpenters were a great matter in his time Beloved you have many such Carpenters as these at work for you But besides these look into any part of the kingdom and you shal find that where ever any horne is raised up there is a Carpenter at work also some or other that God hath unexpectedly raised up to make resistance Wherefore then lift up your heads oh all ye people of the Lord and be not discouraged what Zechariah saw you shall find Gods promise is your security He will raise up four Carpenters to the foure Hornes Secondly This Doctrine speakes direction to the Carpenters Application 2. it tells them what they ought to do and what is their work The work of the foure Carpenters you see is not onely to fray these hornes away but to cast out the Gentiles Who ever therefore you are whom God hath raised up for this imployment behold your service up and be doing and do it fully Cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently and with holdeth his hand from shedding of blood they are knit together in one verse Ierem. 48. 10. But we are now upon the work of Reformation building Object the Temple and if a man be a man of blood he is not fit for that service Mistake me not it is not in mine intention to call for blood Answ Oh that in this day of our humiliation and address●s to God we could so touch the hemme of Christs garment thtt Englands bloody issue might be stanched I Be as mild as you can so you be like unto Christ who was both a Lamb and a Lion a Lamb in his owne cause a Lion in Gods Meeknesse and Justice may well stand together Moses was the meekest man upon earth you know yet when Israel had defiled themselv●s with Idols in the matter of the golden calfe he stood in the gate of the camp Sam. cap. 2. ut 〈◊〉 eis ne● sibi 〈◊〉 tamen d 〈…〉 nquentes si● pe●secutas est q●os 〈◊〉 ut eos etiam Domino parcente prostern●● et Gr●gor and said Exod. 32. 27. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel put every man his sword by his side and goe in and out from gate to gate through the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his neighbour He doth not say Slay every man his enemy or every man his countreyman but every man his brother and his companion and his neighbour And ver 28. it is said The children of Levi did according to the word of Moses and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men yet the Levites had their hand in Temple-work more then any other Tribe and Moses had the honour to build the Tabernacle You reade also in Zech. 13. of a great and glorious Reformation so high so great and so convincing that the very Priests who were wont to goe in rough garments to deceive the people should throw away their Priest-coats and say ver 5. I am no Prophet I am an husbandman for man taught me to keep cattel from my youth As if they should say severally Though I am able to reade a Chapter yet I am not fit to be a Minister I have no learning but in truth am more fit to goe to the plough Well but now mark I pray how this great change and Reformation is ushered in and brought about not without some kind of holy violence for it is said ver 2. It shall come to passe in that day saith the Lord of hosts that I will cut off the names of the Idols out of the land and they shall be no more remembred and also I will cause the Prophets and the uncleane spirits to passe out of the land And ver 3. It s●all come to passe that wh●n any shall yet prophesie then his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesyeth And ver 6. when any should ask him What are those wounds in thy hands Then he shall answer Those wherewith I was wounded in the house of my friends Another notable Scripture you have for this purpose in Psal 24. when the question is made at the third verse Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place That is who is fit to be a member of a true Church Answer is made to this at the 4. 5. and 6. verses He that hath cleane hands and a pure heart c. Wherefore then saith the Psalmist Lift up your heads O ye gates that is Magistrates that sit in the gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores that is of the Churches for the doores of the Churches are everlasting doores against which the gates of hell shall not prevaile and then the King of glory shall come in that is God will come in and dwell amongst you in his great glory and your very congregations shall be filled with glory But Who is the King of glory The Lord strong and mighty saith the Psalmist the Lord mighty in battell the Lord of Hosts he is the King of glory that is thus will hee bring his glory into the Churches by shewing himselfe to be the Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battell Wherefore then lift up your heads O ye gates and execute you justice and judgement and be you lift up ye everlasting doors of the Churches and be you reformed and the King of glory shall come in with his glory into your congregations But if you ask me who this King of glory is I must tell you he is the Lord of hosts and so he will be known unto you when he bringeth his glory amongst you even the Lord strong and mighty in battell Wherefore I say lift up your heads O you carpenters and servants of the Lord drawn forth to that employment you see your work the Text hath cut it out I beseech you in the Lord CHRIST doe it and doe it throughly Onely let me lay in one Caution which is this When you have frayed away the hornes and cast out the Gentiles take heed that the spirit of the hornes doe not live in the

the strength of the Lord in the Majesty of the Name of the Lord his God and they shall abide And this man shall be the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land ver 5. So that whosoever doth but seriously consider the strength and anointment of Jesus Christ must needs conclude this Doctrine with me Though God suffer the enemies of his Church and people to be many and great yet in due time he will raise up a proportionable strength against them to suppresse them and to deale by them as they have done by others The application of this Doctrine lookes two wayes To the Saints in generall Carpenters in speciall To the Saints by way of consolation and incouragement To the Carpenters to Gods workemen by way of direction and exhortation First here is consolation and incouragement unto all the Application 1 Saints and people of God Wonder not that in a day of humiliation I speake of consolation Beloved you are never Sanctus dolet de dolo●e gaudet Aug. more fit to mourne for sin then when you can rejoyce in God One grace makes way for another It is the warme beames of Gods love and care must thaw our hearts Two things that we are this day to do To wrastle with God To fight with our enemies You cannot in your wrastling take better hold of God then by the skirt of a promise you cannot fight better against your enemies then by faith The Devil with whom especially we fight in these wars will not be killed with swords and knives This is our victory whereby we overcome the world even our faith It is written in the life of Mr. Tindall that when he was in the Netherlands there was a Conjurer that could command dishes of meat from severall mens tables so that he would invite his friend to a dish of meat from such or such a Princes table divers going to see his exploite Mr. Tindall went with the rest if it might be to hinder it and when he came there he set himself in a way of beleeving to hinder this Conjurers proceedings which he did accordingly for when that wretched man should have done his exploit his hands were held by Mr. Tindalls faith and he cryed out and said I cannot do it there sits the man that hinders me or to that purpose What will not faith do if good What will it not hinder if evil I will not say that in these sad dayes of ours we have to deale with Conjurers but surely with such persons as through their violence and thefts are able not onely to command mens dishes off their tables but all their goods out of their houses Oh that we had but faith enough we might Fides se demittit ad domestica soone beleeve them out of all their plundrings Wherefore that I may raise up your faith a little and keep you from discouragements I lay before you this promise Zechariah his vision is your promise yea it is somewhat more for as we say of Sacraments so I say of these two last visions they are promises unto the eye unto sense When Ioshua was to bring the children of Israel into Canaan and so to meet with many enemies before he went out God Moses and the people bestowed their severall exhortations on him and if you consult the place you shall find that all of them God Moses and people wish him to be of good courage and not to feare Why so Abulensis answereth Rationabiliter enim timere potuit Ioshua Ioshua might rationally feare for he saw how that his master Moses was occasioned by the Rationabiliter ergo timere poterat Josua quod cum ipse ●●agilio● ess●t sacillime peccare pote●at ita ut deus ipsum et populum in hostilem tradert potestatem Tostat in Josu 1. cap. Israelites to sin against God and to be angry in so much as he was kept out of Canaan Whereupon Ioshua might well think thus with himselfe Oh Lord if Moses who was the meekest man on earth was moved to anger the holyest man a man that saw God face to face yet could not do this work but through his failing was denyed entrance into Canaan how shall I be able to lead this people up against all these enemies Well therefore might he feare saith Abulensis lest God should give both him and his people into the hands of his enemies Well but how then doth God remove these feares and relieve his heart Onely thus he strengthneth him with a promise Feare not sayes God neither be dismayed for I am with thee and I will never leave thee nor forsa●e thee So now are there any of you oppr●ss●d with divers seares because of these hornes that are risen up in several parts of the world of this Kingdome The Lord hath said that according to the number of the hornes the carpenters shall be Are there enemies in every part There shall be carpenters in every part Will you say Oh but our en●mies are exceeding many and very cru●ll So were these mentioned in the Text who as Sanctius observeth the words signifie were to doe mischief in quantum potuerunt in quantum voluerunt and as your English hath it so that no man did lift up his head Will you say Oh but I doe not yet see these carpenters at worke But is it not because you do not stir up your s●lves I lift up mine eyes and saw saith Z●chariah Will you say Oh but when I do stir up my selfe to behold things as they are I cannot see foure for foure a proportionable strength on the Churches side raised up against the enemies Well but yet you may see some strength in every place where ever there is any opposition made by enemies some there are in the same place that God hath raised up to resist them And the Text is not that God will raise up strong gigantean carpenters but carpenters foure carpenters some or other that shall doe the work of God though they be never so weak In that Mic. 5. where the promise is to raise up seven shepherds and eight principall men he saith ver 7. The remnant of Iacob shall be as the dew that waiteth not for the sons of men Mark that word that waiteth not for the sons of men When Sisera and all his host were discomfited what were the carpenters were not Deborah and Iael with her hammer amongst them and saith the Text So let all thine enemies perish it is not onely a prayer but a prophecie It is recorded in the life and death of Melancthon that when Charles the 5. and the Pope of Rome threatned the Protestants with fire and sword Luther Melancthon and others got together to seek a way for themselves their little ones and their substance and on a certaine day after long deliberation Philip tired out with labour rose up exceeding sad and very sorrowfull to go speake with some that knockt and enquired after him at the gate