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A86504	A sermon, preached before the Right Honourable, Thomas Foote, Lord Maior, and the right worshipfull the aldermen, sheriffs, and severall companies of the City of London. Vpon the generall day of thanksgiving, October the 8. 1650. at Christ-Church, London. / By Doctor Nathanael Homes, teacher of the Church at Mary Staynings, London.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2576; Thomason E614_4; ESTC R202565	34,476	51

and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive POWER and glory c. And every CREATURE in heaven and ON THE EARTH c. heard I saying Blessing honour glory and power c. Surely if God will honour his people by glorious performances they shall honour him with praise Psal 50. Psal 113. 7 And last word is SUCH honour namely to subdue Kings and Nobles and Nations If as 't is twice spoken and almost together Rev. 21. to wit vers 24. and v. 26. The Kings and Nations shall so love the light and glory of Ierusalem that is of the holy people to WALK in it and bring their honour and glory to it well If not they all fall before and under my Text The Holy people shall execute vengeance upon the Nations and punishments upon the people To binde their Kings with chains and their Nobles with fetters of iron THIS HONOUR HAVE ALL HIS SAINTS And for that the Saints shall praise as 't is in the Text. HALLELU-JAH Praise ye the Lord as the 19 of Revel sings concent and consort to it Hallelu-Iah Hallelu-Iah Hallelu-Iah Hallelu-Iah Hallelu-Iah Praise ye the Lord so often is the repetition in the first six verses because the Lord judgeth the whore and the beast and the false prophet and kills their army with the edge of the sword as is the close of the Chapter Then shall the Saints begin to have a Rest upon earth Satan being bound Revel 20. according to the type of the Israelites rest in Canaan after their subduing those Kings and Nations as we have a clear hint Heb. 4. touched afore To this things will come be sure of it Thus of all the seven words of the Doctrine according to the terms of the Text The Antitypicall consideration of the Doctrine and Termes of the Text. considered typically Next a word of all joyncly considered anti-typically and I have done We do blessed be God bless the Lord this day with Gospel-celebrations of singing praying preaching praising as the Iews did in this Psalm with religious musick and dancings And why praise we Because on this day in a most eminent manner and measure this text is fulfilled in our cars Bear witness and wonder Have not the Holy people had SUCH honour as to binde a King and some Nobles and to execute judgement upon them Have not the Holy people as this days mercies tell us taken Nobles prisoners of War named in our Narrative and executed vengeance upon the Nations now of the Scots as before of the Irish and English enemies to Godliness They all 't is plain now at last drave on the same designe and therefore I justly put them together this day as the sword of the Lord and of Gideon blessed be Jehovah hath put them together into the same mortall incapacitie to hurt us any more The meer name Scots pleads but little perswasive Oratorie in mine eares to put the generality of them in any higher predicament then the English or Irish enemies afore named Of these we have had sure intelliligence partly by letters and partly by them that have seen and beard the mannerof these things and partly by the carriage of their commissionministers here The High-landers are Heathens Their Common-people as they confesse are Vassals to their Lords and we know they are to great vices The best of their Ministers for the generality sweare at least petty oathes Their discipline of their Stoole of repentance and their iron hoop which they call Christs yoake put upon them that will not ascend that stool to a verbal recantation are but ridicles Their Classes are Claves keyes to shut mens mouthes that nothing may be debated out of the Scriptures beyond their stinted common roade A wofull hinderance to the increase of the light of the Gospell I will not trouble my self to set forth the treacherous and hypocriticall dealings of their Parliament with ours because our Parliament hath limb'd them out to the life in their several Declarations and Editions of the Scotish Letters and papers and our armyes swords are now convincing them whom words would never convince And these things hath God adjourned enquire the cause untill now Whiles the generality of the Parliaments were not Holy people little was done Whiles the Army in general was not so Holy a people little was won And whiles Non-Saints were the Non-such in places of Trust there was little hope of any thing to be done God you see reserved this honour to the generality of the Holy-people in all those rankes They that have eyes to see let them see least they stumble and tumble and utterly fall before they open their eyes For they that uphold the upholders of Antichrist are opposite to Christ and Christians and must therefore fall But they that uphold the present Kings of the earth uphold the upholders of Antichrist call experience to testifie therfore those that uphold such upholders must fall Call experience againe to testifie this Nor English either Bishops or Barons or Bores that took part with the late king nor after them the Irish nor last of all the Scots and Scotish and Scotified adherents do stand From the Declarations Letters and Sermons of this third and last party named partly to be seen in print the late proceedings against the King had their first maine rise Since they have changed their cause God hath changed their successe but they will not see it Therfore that of Isai 26.11 and chap. 10.6 threatens them Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the people I will send the rod of anger against an hypocriticall nation The hypocriticall Pharisees are by Christ accounted worse then Publicans and Harlots Lay all together and the result soon appeares the more the holy people in place increase and the hypocrisie of the enemies break forth to the prejudice of Christs interest Mat. 21.17 the sooner they fall before the Holy people Is it not yet possible for men to see that all that will not joyne with the Holy people of the Parliament Council Army Fleet Magistrates and Ministers fall under them and fall a maine God suffered a long time the World to domineer over the Holy people But now God no longer trusts his Holy people in the hands of the World but makes the World to trust themselves in the hands of the Holy people And the world work themselves amaine if men can see into this condition If Military men will not manifest themselves meet to guard the peace of the state Regiments of the Holy people must If the great Dons will not be fit for place of Magistrates a choice from among the Holy people must If Kings will not rule the Holy people well the Holy people shall rule them well If the Irish Nation murderously rebel and the Scotish Nation unrighteously invade neither submitting to Equity though tendred

or convinced by spirituall meanes to comply with the Holy people is not a judgement punishment or vengeance according to the language of the Text but an high mercy Sixthly Add to all that God hath already not onely of late but anciently fulfilled this Text literally to make his Holy people subdue Kings Nobles and Nations 1 Chron. 16.21 Psal 105. with many instances in the Old Testament and promises yea Prophesies hee will doe likewise for future of which the Revelation is full as we shall hint by and by From all with all care thus explained this Doctrinall observation naturally springs up Doct. The Lord Jehovah performing his promise of honouring his Holy people to be instrumentall in the overthrow of Kings Nobles and Nations their enemies commands those his holy people reciprocally to praise him For illation and inference t is so eeven to the Text that he that sees the one sees the other And agreeably to the Text the Doctrine sounds of a holy people armed as well as the Text. For confirmation you cannot but see by this time that the Doctrine is the absolute quintessence of the Text and the inmost minde of the very soule thereof and that the Psalme it selfe if looked on but Narratively is in the head and heel thereof the Saints duty of praise and in the middle the heart and liver that minister good blood and life spirits to nourish that praise is The dignities of victories and vengeance and judgements of equity on opposing princes and peoples that the Saints shall attain unto But if this Psalme be looked upon prophetically according to the proper nature idiom and very minde thereof we shall finde it to have a long prospect terminated with nothing but the full salvation and settlement of Jews and Gentiles into a most glorious Church So that if in part it be fulfilled in any eminent atchievements afore that they are but types one greater then another of some greatest thing to come at last They are but as panelia severall Images of the Sun formed in the upper elements the weaker or dimmer next us whereby we look to the next which is brighter and so at last to the Sun it selfe They are but severall marches of the Holy Army of the Lord of Hosts severall Forlorne Hopes and Parties skirmishing and conquering before the whole Field be won in a set Battalio Therefore Israel new delivered from Pharaoh in AEgypt now marching in the Wildernesse towards Canaan praying and fighting against Amaleck assaulting them utterly overthrowing Amaleck in a pitcht Battell Exod. 17. 't is written in tables Exod. 20. I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of the Land of AEgipt which they carried with them as their Motto in a Standard to presignifie to them what God would in future do for them and by them against the Kings and Nations in their way towards and in Canaan and therefore they should obey his Commandements Accordingly God againe appearing for them inabling them to conquer severall Kings and their Nations as they marched on towards Canaan to wit Sihon King of the Amorites and Og the King of Bashan Numb 21. as after the Kings and Nations in Canaan as we have it in the Book of Joshuah 't is put upon record and turned into a Divine Act or Law still in force unrepealed Psalm 136. to command all Saints in the present Tense in their severall generations then in present being three times together in the beginning of that Psalme Hodu Hodu Hodu that is O now give thanks O now give thanks O now give thanks unto the Lord c. descanting the wherefore the causes Viz. the Victories aforesayd in parts to wit Vers 18. c. O give thanks to him which smote great Kings for his mercy endures for ever And slew famous Kings for his mercy endures for ever which conveniently comprehend the Kings in Canaan having spoken of the overthrow of Pharaoh King of AEgypt afore Vers 15. And then nameth the Kings whom Israel overthrew afore they came into Canaan He slew Sihon the King of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for ever And Og the King of Bashan for his mercy endures for ever And gave their Land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for ever Even an heritage to Israel for his mercy endures for ever Who remembred us in our Low estate for his mercy endures for ever And hath Redeemed us from our Enemies for his mercy endures for ever As if the Psalmist should say These performances are pledges that Gods mercy endureth for ever to make his people doe the like exploytes in future Ages Which very thing of the Israelites Conquests unto the attaining of Canaan the Apostle extends as the true intent thereof downe to all Ages till the Saints or Holy people attaine the Great rest of all Epistle to the Hebrewes Chap. 4. Vers 4 5 6 7 8 9. Where evidently the Apostles designe is to prove that to that day wherein he wrote to the Hebrewes there remained yet a Rest for them c. that were the people of God How doth the Apostle prove it With what premises Marke he layes downe two First because God instituted a rest for his people from the creation But that was but weekly Viz. the seventh day Vers 4. For hee spake in a certaine place of the seventh day on this wise and God did rest the seventh day from all his workes Secondly Because God did give them a certain rest in Canaan for some hundreds of years by Joshua v. 8. by Jesus that is Joshua so in your margin in your Bibles But that rest also was but for a time and since all this God speaks of another rest saith the Apostle v. 5 6 7. namely by David in Psal 95. that people should not harden their hearts to hinder them from entering into his rest From all which premises the Apostle solemnly concludes v. 9. THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD. As if the Apostle should have said for they that have their eyes open and acute can make no less of it that the former RESTS and in particular that in Ganaan were but types of a greater Rest on earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the Apostle cannot mean by Rest or SABBATISM as he calls it in the Greek the state of supernal glory as we have demonstrated in another Treatise but to adde one word now he calling this Rest THE WORLD TO COME names it in the Greek with great emphasis * Heb. 2.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That INHABITED WORLD that is to come I speak short in this because I have been large in another Treatise which I hope the world shall see ere long And this name of the world when the Apostle speaks of the world to come is the name used to signifie the world when 't is said all the world was to be taxed Luk. 2.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that 't is the same world wherein the

diexris Say a man is unthankful and say he is any thing 'T is a paunch of vices Therefore by the Canon of contraries Thankfullness is comprehensive of many Vertues The best Spirits are most praysefull prayse being the common work of Angels Luke 2. and the acclamations of the Seraphims Isai 5. To whose pattrn we are to conform as is hinted to us in the Lords prayer Mat. 6.10 Thy will be done on earth as t is in Heaven David the Saint that above all others hath the stile of being a man after Gods own heart 1 Sam. 13.14 is called the sweet Psalmist of Israel 2 Sam. 23.1 And was the maine Author of the book of Psalmes which in the Hebrew as we sayd are called Prayses And therefore men cannot I should think refuse to prayse out of much Conscience but by reason of a defect in Conscience 1. As if the Conscience be either a dark Conscience which seekes light onely of the Hemisphere of Night-starrs and of the same elevation and magnitude with it self not of morning-starrs which promise more light in the case that is put 2. Or a made Conscience not native and genuine but formed by borrowed debates agreement and example of others 3. Or an engaged Conscience praise not consisting with its interest and designe 4. Or an ill principled Conscience that disownes the Commanders as well as the Command of prayse and therefore cannot speak the language of prayse in Scotish or Irish Surely with much sorrow we may speak it that if it be possible that some Saints cannot see the least cause to praise in great deliverances they are Saints under great temptations and not with a little offence given to the generality of Saints The tongue of a holy man is called his Glory Psal 16.9 because as 't is the glory of members so more in the mouthes of Saints and most in the act of prayse A Non-praysing Saint to ordinary Divine reason are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a contradiction in the adject whiles such For Saint or Holy people is 2. A word of Obligation Saints or Holy-people signifies that such are bound over by grace to the duty of praise Psal 30.4 Psal 52.9 Psal 89.5.132 9 16. Psal 145.10 Psal 33.1 Psal 118.1 2 3. because holy Therfore the Psalmist oft sets them this ditty and song Sing unto the Lord O YE SAINTS OF HIS Prayse is good before thy SAINTS Thy faithfulnesse shall be praysed in the Congregatìon of SAINTS Let thy SAINTS shout for joy Saints shall shout aloud for joy Thy SAINTS shall blesse thee Prayse is comely for the UPRIGHT Praise the Lord O YE SERVANTS of the Lord. O give thankes unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Let ISRAEL now say that his mercy endureth for ever Let the house of AARON now say that his mercy endureth for ever Let them that FEARE the Lord say that his mercy endureth for ever If Gods people praise the holy Ministry must not be divided from them in that duty Wee heard afore that when the four Brigades of the Camp of God in Revel praysed the four and twenty Elders did also Saints have as more divine reason wherefore so more wherewith to prayse Holynesse implies that Saints are partakers of a holy God in and through an holy Christ by holy grace and so are partakers of all and of him that is more then all Rom. 8.32.1 Cor. 3. the three last verses So that all yea all adverse things work together for their good Rom. 8. well therefore might the Apostle say 1 Thess 5. In EVERY thing give thankes But if two Armies meet in the field upon the Case of Nationall wrongs the wrong-doer refuseth to make satisfaction when desired they are both resolved to try it out by the sword to Conquer or be Conquered no middle of participation between the wronged party is set upon by the wrong-doer once againe and a third time the wronged party still beating them to at last a total rout and full victory can any gratious heart chuse but see the the righteous hand of God in this against the wrong-doer Can any English man having any true English blood running in his Veines choose but prayse God for this delivernnce of the Nation Surely the case thus put truely as 't was by the two Armies then resolved to win all or loose all we must either say it was a mercy that England conquered or else it had been a mercy if Scotland had conquered And if any were of that monstrous minde they might have considered that they might have bequeathed good will and kindness to the Scots at a cheaper rate then to set their own houses on fire to rost their neighbours egges that is to loose the English nation to pleasure the Scotish But of this more anon though I even faint to think on some among us not the worst of men Quibus non suaseris etiamsi persuaseris who though they are convicted yet will not be converted in their opinions and judgment touching this thing Saint Redeas ad teipsum return to thy self and to thy duty If thou art a Saint thou hast all matter and mercies of prayse Yea all things to thee are mercies upon every thing thou hast 't is written as upon a deveut mans house in every corner Ergo landes therefore praise If Saints have personall mercies none so injoys them as he A Stranger sayth Solomon intermeddles not with his joy And his name saith S. Iohn in his white stone none knowes but he If Oeconomicall mercies The fire-stickes and fuell of comfort is layd closer together to set his joy on flame then others If Nationall none shares in such mereies so much as the Saints The preservation of this nation is the preservation of their choyse delights namely piety and liberty which the Almost-Christians and Semi-religious slavish spirits deem not Therefore if some mens spirits be discomposed to prayse shall the generality of Saints be uncomposed If miscomplexioned mindes not prizing the Donation prayse not the Donor shall not the Common Chore of Holy people sing and say Hallelujah praysed be Iehovah the Army is safe and the Parliament sits our Nation is in peace this City in prosperity Religion is preserved and our Liberty secure Psal 107.1 2. O give thankes unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath REDEEMED from the HAND of the enemy The Case of Deborahs praysing when other Tribes would not Deborah and her Army of holy people namely the Tribes of Ephraim of Benjamin of Zebulon of Naphthali and Issachar will fight and conquering will praise Judg. 5. though the Tribe of Reuben be divided in his spirit and practice abiding among the sheepfolds Gilead is beyond Jordan Dan is in ships Asher is on the sea-shore See here is wicked tyrannical Jabin and Sisera as bad enemies to Israel as the Irish rebels to us