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A91760	The wall & glory of Jerusalem, in a sermon preached in St. Pauls-Church London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermen, Common Council, and companies of the Honorable City of London, February 28. 1659. Being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God, for restoring the Parliament and Common Council, and for preserving the City. By Edward Reynolds D.D.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1302; Thomason E1017_6; ESTC R203437	15,921	40

THE Wall Glory OF JERUSALEM IN A SERMON Preached in St. PAULS-Church LONDON Before the Right Honorable The Lord Mayor Lord General Aldermen Common Council and Companies of the Honorable City of London February 28. 1659. Being a Day of Solemn Thanksgiving unto God for restoring the Parliament and Common Council and for preserving the City By Edward Reynolds D. D. London Printed by Tho Newcomb for George Thomason at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. To the Right Honorable THOMAS ALEYN Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON The Court of Aldermen and COMMON COUNCIL Right Honorable AMongst all the exceeding great and precious Promises which the Lord hath made unto his People these are of a very radiant Lustre and special Magnitude That he would appoint a place for them and plant them that they should dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither should the Children of Wickedness afflict them any more as before time That he would build them and not pull them down and plant them and not pluck them up and give them an Heart to know him and to return unto him with their whole Heart Whereby we understand that Stability and Sanctity Healing and Holiness are two most Eminent and Signal Mercies of God unto a People who have been long exercised with Breach upon Breach and emptied from Vessel into Vessel How sad the Condition of these discomposed and dilacerated Nations hath been how doleful the Earthquakes and Concussions both in Church and State how daring the Insolencies and Attempts of men of unstable minds destitute of solid and steady Principles acted by the various and quotidian Conduct of changeable and domestical Interests have been against our Jachin and our Boaz Authority in our Parliaments and Ministry in our Churches hath been so well known both at home and abroad as to render these Nations a Shame to themselves and a Ludibrium to the World What the great Works are which the Lord by the wonderful Series and Vicissitudes of Providence is doing in the midst of us the Hearts of his Servants hanging in suspence between Hope and Fear do tremulously attend upon and labor to understand When we consider the maturity of our mighty Sins we have great reason to fear his Wrath and when we observe the progress of his Wonderful works we have some comfortable Encouragement to hope for the renewall of his Mercy And that so much the rather because he hath stirred up your hearts in this great City to return unto him the glory due unto his name for his goodness to these Nations in restoring the Parliament and unto your selves in restoring your Council and healing the Wound inflicted on the Honor of this Renowned City That the Lord will be graciously pleased to crown and consummate the Mercies which he hath begun in guideing the hearts of the people to chuse for this next Parliament men of Eminency for Piety and Prudence who may come with healing Spirits and make it their business to repair our Breaches and be the Restorers of Paths to dwell in who may lay to heart the Interest of Christ and his Church and promote purity of Doctrine and Worship due Administration of Holy Ordinances and whatever may conduce to the Power of Godliness and the Comfort of all that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity That he will be pleased to set his Eye and his Heart upon this City for good and to dwell in it night and day to be a Wall of Fire about it and the Glory in the midst of it to appoint Salvation for Walls and Bulwarks unto it is and shall be the hearty Prayer of Your most humble and Faithful Servant in the Lord EDWARD REYNOLDS March 14. 1659. THE WALL and GLORY OF JERUSALEM In a SERMON Preached in Pauls Church London Zach. 2. 5. For I saith the Lord will be unto her a Wall of Fire round about and will be the Glory in the midst of her TWo gracious Visions the Lord giveth our Prophet in the former Chapter One of a man riding amongst the Mirtile-trees in the bottom Christ in his despised Church at Babylon The other of Four Carpenters sent to fray and cast out the Horns which had scattered the Church by both giving an assurance that he would disappoint the Enemies of his afflicted people We have here in this Chapter another Vision of a man with a measuring Line in his hand to shew that the Lord was now in a readiness to build and restore the City Temple the former we find accordingly done by the care of Nehemiah cap. 3 cap. 6. 15. the latter by Joshua and Zerubbabel Ezra 6 14 15. Now whereas it is here said ver. 4. That Jerusalem should be inhabited as Towns without Walls which may seem first to cross the History Neh. 6. 15. where we find that the Wall was finished 2. To discourage the people who having such potent and malicious Adversaries round about as they had should by that means be exposed to all the assaults and impressions which they should make upon them The meaning is that though the city within the Walls were very spacious yet the people should return in so great abundance as Josephus reports they did that multitudes should be constrained to lie without the Walls unto whom the Lord promiseth to be himself a Wall and Defence They were now called to build the city and Temple two great discouragements they Scorn Nehem. 4. 8. 1. 3. 7 8 9. Nehem. 6. 1. 10. Ezra 4. 4 5. The Lord here by a gracious promise fortifieth them against the fear of both against the fear of Danger by promising to be their Protection and against the fear of Scorn by promising to be their Glory When they are without Walls I will be their Wall when they are without Gates I will be their Gate my Salvation shall be a Bulwark unto them they shall call their Walls Salvation and their Gates praise Isai. 26 1. 60. 18. The Words set forth the Lord opposing all the Enemies removing all the fears of his people by a double promise of Protection against all powerfull oppositions of Honor against all reproachfull Insultations In both is considerable First The Author and Substance of it I saith the Lord 2. The Subject of it Jerusalem I will be unto her 3. The Description of it 1. Of the Protection by the Metaphors of a Wall and of Fire and the place of that in Circuitu round about 2. of the Honor and the place of that I will be for Glory or the Glory in the midst of her A weak people met together about an hated and invidious Enterprize opposed by strong subtle vigilant active malicious Adversaries had need have a help to defend them I saith the Lord will be an Help a Wall unto them But potent Enemies can batter Walls and scale them Ezek. 21. 22. Prov. 21. 22. nay saith the Lord I will prevent that fear I

good thing which rendereth them considerable in the Eyes of others and is esteemed their Glory Some famous for Gold and Silver as Ophir some for Spices and precious Fruits of the earth as India some for Corn as Egypt some for Balsomes as Palestine some for Valor and Justice as the Romans some for Arts and Learning as the Graecians but the superlative Glory of Jerusalem is that their God is their Glory Isai. 60 19. Jer. 2 11. It is true worldly Glory is in much more abundance amongst other men The great Monarchies of the World have been amongst Assyrians Chaldeans Persians Graecians Romans and therefore Symmachus an Heathen useth this as an Argument why we should adhere to the Old Roman Heathen Religion because that flourished but Christianity was persecuted But this External Glory though it dazle the Eye and tickle the Fancy hath no solid and permanent Goodness or proportion to immortal Souls It cannot remove the guilt of one sin it cannot give one grain of quiet to a troubled Conscience much less replenish the Soul in the Latitude of its desires God alone brings fulness with him Eph. 3. 19. All other people of the World have the Glory of his Works and so he is not far from any of them Act. 17 27. Praesentemque refert quaelibet herba Deum And yet they are said to be without God in the World Eph. 2 12. But the Lord is in the midst of his Church 1. By his Spiritual Residence and gracious presence with them Moses Prayers I beseech thee shew me thy Glory Exod. 33 18. and God answers I will make all my goodness to pass before thee he shews his Glory when he proclaimes his Goodness In Israel is the perfection of Glory Psal. 50 2. to Israel pertains the Adoption and therefore the Glory Rom. 9 4. Of the Church only are glorious things spoken Psal. 87 3. The Church is his Throne the World but his Footstoole Jer. 17 12. In the Church is the splendor of his Royal Majesty principally seen Evidences whereof in the Tabernacle and Temple were the Cloud which filled the House 1 Reg. 8 11. and the voice which spake from off the mercy seat Num. 7 89. 2. He is the Glory in the midst of his Church by his Holy Ordinances the means of Life and Salvation The Apostle calleth it a Glorious Gospel 1 Tim. 1 11. And frequently maketh mention of the Riches of the Glory thereof Rom. 9 23. Eph. 3 8. Col. 1 27. to take off the scandal and contempt which ignorant men might be apt to cast upon it Therein all Divine Excellencies are more radiant and resplendent then in all his other works he hath magnified his word above all his name Psal. 138. 2. Therein is conspicuous his manifold Wisdom in contriving a way to punish the sin and yet to save the sinner to reconcile the seeming Cross demands both of Justice and Mercy that the one may be satisfied and the other magnified Eph. 3 10. His free and glorious Grace so superabounding above all the abundance of our sins Eph. 1 6. Rom. 5 20 21. His mighty power in rescuing us out of the Kingdom of darkness in changing our Wills subduing our Lusts captivating our Thoughts cleansing our Consciences pulling down Strong-holds and imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the Knowledge of God 2. Cor. 10 4 5. Eph. 1 19 20. His glorious Holiness transforming us into the Image of his dear Son 2 Cor. 3 18. Luke 1 74 75. His Eternal Blessedness who in the Gospel is set forth as the Hope and Treasure the Life and Salvation of those that trust in him Col. 1. 27. 3 3 4. For Glory arising from a manifestation of Excellencies all the Divine Vertues and Excellencies of God are more conspicuous in the Gospel of Grace then in all other his works or dispensations The saving Light of supernatural Mysteries the heavenly beauties of spiritual worship the shining Lustre of Evangelical Obedience all set forth the Glory of those Ordinances wherein they are discovered and prescribed 3. As by his gracious presence and his Divine Ordinances so by the most Happy State whereinto we are translated is the Lord the Glory in the midst of his Church That State standeth in glorious Relations glorious Habits and glorious Priviledges There are two Glorious Relations belonging to this Happy State 1. A Relation of Righteousness the Guilt of sin being removed and the sinner by the Gift of the Righteousness of Christ reconciled unto God and so enabled to Glory though not in himself yet in the Lord 1 Cor. 1 31. 2. A Relation of Sonship whereby we are estated by gracious Adoption in an heavenly Nobility and have right to a glorious Inheritance 1 John 3 1. are a kind of first fruits of the Creatures Jam. 1 18 Fellow Heirs with Christ Rom. 8. 17. Princes of the people Psal. 47 9. Nobles of men Act. 17. 11. All the World is not able to heap so much Honor upon a man as this one {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or dignity of being the Sons of God 2. In Glorious Habits whereby we are transformed into the Image of Christ who is the glory of God for God doth most notably express his Glory in any Creature by fashioning that Creature to the likeness of his Son This Image standeth in these three things 1. In Holiness Eph. 4 24. Holiness sets forth Gods own Glory he is Glorious in Holiness Exod. 15. 11. The Angels are honored with the Title of Saints Deut. 33. 2. and our primitive condition wherein we were created after the Image of God is called a State of Honor Psal. 49 20. 149 9. 2. In Peace and spiritual Joy for faith in the promises of Salvation giving a kind of Pre-existence unto the Glory to come and causing a Beleever to waite with quiet assurance in the hope thereof doth thereupon fill the Soul with the Peace of God which passeth understanding and causeth it to rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of Glory 1 Pet. 1 8. 3. In Blessedness which is the consummation of Holiness and Peace in the presence of God which is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} called by the name of Glory Col. 3 4. 3. In Glorious Priviledges and Immunities belonging to the Citizens of Jerusalem Liberty from the Tyranny of Satan and powers of darkness Communion in the Love and prayers of all Saints 1. John 1 7. Boldness to come unto the Throne of Grace Eph. 3 12. Heb. 4 16. Victory over Enemies and Temptations nothing being able to separate us from the Love of God the Spirit of Glory resting upon us even in our sufferings enabling us to glory in them Rom. 5 3. Act. 5 41. As the Cloud in the Temple is called the Glory of the Lord 1 Reg. 8 10 11. So the Lord is the Glory of his people even when they are filled with Clouds of affliction It is a great Glory

to suffer Honorably as well as to do so facere pati fortia Romanum est The Lillie is as beautiful in the midst of Thorns as in a bed of Spices We have seen how the Lord is a Defence and protection to his people a Wall of separation from the World of conjunction within themselves of protection from danger by his Promise by his power by his Providence by his Grace a present Defence a proportionable Defence A Wall of Fire by a Terrible and conspicuous an impregnable and invincible a constant and perpetual an active and efficacious Defence A Wall of Fire to Jerusalem his most proper and most precious resting place unto which he is by choicest Love and Fidelity engaged A Wall round about to prevent Enemies which are round about The protection suitable to the danger The Glory in the midst of it by his gracious presence by his Holy Ordinances by the happy State of the Church in the glorious Relations of Justification and Adoption in the glorious Habits of Holiness Peace and Blessedness In glorious Priviledges of Christian Liberty communion of Saints Boldness in prayer Victory over Temptations and Afflictions with many other the like I shall add but a short word of Application and suddenly have done 1. We Learn hence what a folly as well as wickedness it is for Samaritans to oppose the building of Jerusalem or the Temple for any Enemies to set themselves against the Church of God as great a madness as for Briars to contend with Flames for stubble to wage War with fire for a Sheafe as the Prophet makes the instance Zach. 12 6. to enter into battail with a flaming Torch Isai. 27 4 5. The Whale may swallow Jonah but it shall not digest him The Grave may devour Christ but he will kill Death in its own dominion as Benaiah did the Lyon in his own Pit A man may drink down a Cup of Poyson but it will suddenly be revenged on him It is madness to provoke the Lord being weaker then he 1 Cor. 10. 12. Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker Isai. 45. 9. 2. We need not make use of carnal Wisdom and sinful means for protection against Danger for God can be alone a Wall of Fire unto his people Use not oppression or violence to help your selves for Power and Mercy belong unto God Psal. 62. 10. 12. David was advised by those about him once and again to kill Saul when he was in his power and so to secure himself but he answered God forbid that I should touch the Lords annointed he trusted in God and would not use Carnal Wisdom for his own safety 1 Sam. 24. 47. 26. 8. 11. This Wall of Fire can better protect us then all the broad or high Walls of Jerico or Babylon It is good keeping in Jerusalem in Gods presence in his way so long we are within a Wall of Fire 3. This is great Comfort unto Holy men That the very Terrors of God are their protection The Terrors of God at Sinai and in the Wilderness were for the Salvation of Gods people Habak. 3 13. As the mercy of God will not save those that despise it so the fury of God will be a defence unto those that tremble at it No attribute of God but faith can suck comfort from it 4. Envie not the Glory of the World nor the Pomps and Pleasures thereof to those whose Portion is in this Life but rest abundantly satisfied with the Glory of Gods presence shining in the face of Christ and those unmatchable Riches wherewith he endoweth the Church in comparison whereof all the glories of the World are but dross and dung If God would have the Honor of his Church to stand in outward things The Silver is his and the Gold is his Hag. 2 8. The Cattel on a Thousand Mountains his Psal. 50 10. But as Abraham gave portions to his other Children but the Inheritance to Isaac even all that he had Gen. 25 5. As Princes at their Coronation give Wine and Monie to the Multitude but Honors to their Favorites So the Lord giveth Earthly things many times more liberally to the men of the World but bestoweth himself for a Portion and exceeding great reward unto his own people and they esteem him precious 1 Pet. 2 7. And his Promises precious 2 Pet. 1 4. and his Redemption precious Psal. 49 8. And the very Afflictions which they suffer for his sake precious 1 Pet. 1 7. 5. Above all things hold fast God and his presence A City is never without Walls or Gates without glory and splendor till they are without God Your glory departs when his Ordinauces are removed You may confidently promife your self his protection while you make his Habitation in the midst of you your greatest Glory And therefore as he hath a long time been a Wall of Fire about you in all the confusions of a bloody War no alarm hath startled or stormed you though there were angry men who shooke their Arm against London as the Assyrian against Jerusalem Isai. 10 32. That said it would never be well with England till London were in a flame yet you have had no flame about you but a Wall of Fire and Chariots of Fire as the Prophet had 2 Reg. 6 17. As therefore the Lord hath protected you and been the Glory in the midst of London for I am perswaded it is a sober Truth that no City in the Christian World hath had a more glorious presence of God by the Light of his Word and the purity of his Worship and Ordinances then London hath had So make it your business in an answerable proportion to bring Glory to God by zeal for the Truth by Love to the Ordinances by comforting the Ministers and encourageing them in the work of the Lord by executeing Justice and Judgment reforming all abuses setting up the Name of God in your Families preserving those that belong unto you from the Contagion of dangerous and dividing Doctrines God will be with you while you are with him he never breaks with a people first do you give Glory to him and he will be Glory to you Lastly If God be thus your Glory let your glorying be in him alone Glory not in your Strength or Wisdom or Wealth or Splendor in your Ships or Trade or in the Harvest of the River glory only in your Wall of Fire and in this that the Lord hath been hitherto so nigh unto you And truly you have great Reason to bless the Lord and to make your boast of him all the day long as for Remoter mercies which you must not forget though I cannot now recount them so for those signal Mercies for the celebration whereof you are met together at this time What a deluge of Confusion these poor Nations were running into how deep the discontents of the people how ready the Tinder of unsatisfied Spirits in all parts of the Nation to take Fire