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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

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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

vers thou saidst AHA against my Sanctuary when it was profaned and against the Land of Israel when it was desolate and against the House of Judah when they went into captivity they did not help it forward only cryed Aha Therefore saith God v. 4. I wil deliver thee to the men of the East for a possession and ver 6. Because as in speech as afore so in gesture they expressed the like joy at it thou hast clapped thy hands and stamped with the feet and rejoyced in heart with all thy despight against the Land of Israel Behold therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee and will deliver thee for a spoyle to the Heathen I will destroy thee c. The next that hee mentioneth is Moab 2. Moab Shee did but cast out a word so vers 8. She did but onely say this Behold the House of Judah is like unto all the Heathen now laid wast as they and there is no difference in the protection of their God over them more than over the Heathen themselves it was but this word cast out yet therefore saith the Lord ver 9. Behold I will open the side of Moab He would break through and open his strong Frontier Cities as the next words explain it break his ribs so enter into his bowels and ver 10. the Ammonites shall be no more remembred among the Nations No other sin in mentioned but this word about his people He comes next to Edom 3. Edom. ver 12. who was the posterity of Esau and their brother as you shall hear anon and of them he saith Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and greatly offended and revenged himselfe upon him THEREFORE saith he ver 13. I will cut off man and beast from it and make it desolate He riseth still in his punishments proportionable to their sins and to their dealings with his people And I will doe it sayes he by the hand of my own people ver 14. that were oppressed by them From Edom he carryes the cup to Philistia 4. Philistia who because they had an old grudge against the Israelites a despightfull heart to destroy them for the old hatred ver 15. THEREFORE I will execute great vengeance on them ver 16 17. In the next place 5. Tyre he comes to Tyre poore Tyre I call her so because as of all the Nations they were the most ingenious in themselves In so much as Christ sayes They would have repented c. and most ingenuous of all Nations else unto the Jewes that helped them to build the Temple and were confederates with David and Solomon And what was her fault A meere temptation of love to her selfe such as might befall any in the like case Read Chap. 26. 2. Son of man because Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem Aha she is broken that was the gates of the people I SHALL BE REPLENISHED now she is laid waste The meaning is this I shall now have all the trade You know Tyre lay nigh to Jerusalem and it was a place of the greatest trade and merchandise then in the world she was the Mart of Nations so she is called in Esay 23. and in Ezek. 27. 3. and though she had the greater trade of the two already yet she rejoyced in this that Jerusalem should be laid waste who had been the gates of the people whither much people came for traffique as well as to me Now thinks she and it was but a selfe-loving thought all the trade will wholly come to me and I shall be replenished and encreased No more Yet because it fell out to be uttered against the Church for this and for no other sinne there mentioned must Tyre be destroyed as she was by Nebuchadnezzar though to fulfill the Prophesie he served twelve yeares in the siege thereof And see how God proportioned her punishment to her sinne Wouldst thou have more customers Thou shalt have enow Behold I will cause many Nations to come up What for traffique No to come up against thee as the sea causeth his waves to come up the Babylonian Souldiers shall be thy Merchants that shall take off thy goods off thy hands And because that Tyre was a most glorious people he therefore spends two or three Chapters upon the description of her ruine In the 26. 6. AEgypt Chapter he comes to Egypt Egypt had been broken once afore as you heard by the people of Israel and reproved for Abrahams sake They were a false-hearted Nation that even Rabshekah could afore-hand prophesie so of them in Esay 36. 6. Lo saith he thou trustest on the staffe of this broken reede whereon if a man will leane it will goe into his hand and pierce it so is Pharaoh King of Egypt to all that trust in him T was the Genius of that Nation to all that dealt with them And as Rabshekah had foretold of them so it fell out and therefore the Prophet Ezech. utters their sin against the Church in Rabshekahs language Chap. 29. 7. Because they have been a staffe of reed to the house of Israel It is a most elegant comparison the similitude it looks many wayes 1. A Reed was a Hieroglyphick of that Country Sanctius upon those words Psalm 68. 30. Rebuke the company of the Spearmen so we translate it but look in the margent of your Bibles and likewise the Originall will beare it it is Rebuke the beast of the Reeds and he interpreteth this to be meant of Egypt the Chaldee Paraphrase also interpreting it of that Nation it being a Country of Reeds On the bank of Nylus and so throughout the whole Countrey through the overflowing of that River there were and are such Reeds Canes growing Lib. 16. ● 36. as no where in the world againe besides so Pliny saith serving for Pens Speares Arrowes * Hence Arundo for Sagitta with the Latines and the same word for a Reed and a Spear as here in the Scripture as Pliny there so for Staves Arkes Exodus 2. 3. And Egypt is called a BEAST of reeds alluding further as I take it to the Crocodile the proper beast of that Countrey which is an Amphibion living both in land and water and so usually lies amongst the reeds by the river side As the Elephant also is said to doe Job 40. 21. and there shrowds her self against the heat And suitably we finde that Augustus having conquered Anthony and Cleopatra the Queene of Egypt caused by way of triumph to be stamped on his Coyne a Crocodile and a Reed And in Adrians coynes of gold also as that which was put for the Hieroglyphick of that Country as the manner of the Romans was And the holy Ghost here in Ezechiel long before seemes to have given the same Coat of Armes for that Country and Kingdome perhaps according to the common use using both these apart of Egypt also For first in the third verse of this Chap.