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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48929	An olive-leaf, or, A bud of the spring viz. Christ's resurrection and its end, viz. the conversion of sinners and a Christians compleat reliefe / opened by Nicholas Lockyer ...	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1650 (1650)	Wing L2798; ESTC R31562	34,017	92

of God invisible and this is spiritualized by the Apostle and applied to sinne and grace 2 Cor. 6.14 What fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what communion hath light with darknesse That the heart is made of darknesse light that these two are separated and continually keepe so that grace and corruption continually conflict and are continually contradictory this is by a secret power of God invisible But then God hath a visible power these are all his Ordinances Magistracy Ministery these are Jakin and Boas the two externall pillars of all grace and good in this world the pipes by which and in which he conveyeth vigour and force against sinne and unto good How persons in authority may be subservient to this great designe to turne men from their sinnes is set forth in two places Gen. 4.7 If thou dost well shalt thou not be obeyed and shall not thy younger brother be subject to thee and acknowledge thy birth-right and be guided and ruled by thee thus Ainsworth comments upon this place Holinesse in men of place makes majesty and terrour upon all unholinesse cleare as the Sunne and then terrible as an Army with Banners be learned yea be holy ye that sway the Scepter or else ye will not be instrumentall in the hand of Christ to turn men from sinne but to draw them to it The second Scripture is in the 2 Chron. 17. at the third and fourth verses you have Iehosaphats holinesse and answerably Gods owning of him And the Lord was with Iehosaphat because he walked in the first waies of his father David and sought not unto Balaant but sought the Lord God of his father and walked in his commandements therefore the Lord established the Kingdome in his hand and all Judah brought to Jehosaphat presents and he had riches and honour in abundance and his heart was listed up in the waies of the Lord. Also in the third yeer of his raigne he said to the Princes even to Ben●ail and to Obadiah and to Zechariah and to Nethanel and to Micah to teach in the Cities of Judah and with them he sent Levites even Shemajah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah c. and they taught in Judah and had the Law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the Cities of Judah and taught the people And the feare of the Lord fell upon all the Kingdomes of the Land that were round thout Iudah so that they made no warre against Iehosaphat Iehosaphats heart was lifted * up in the waies of the Lord * Gabah and here used to be of same force wi●h ●he Hebrew 〈◊〉 of Sarah principem se gessit used of Iacob see Hos 2.3 4. i. he carried himselfe boldly and freely without base feare and carnall respect the word is Gabah and of the same force with Sarah Principem se gessit behaved himselfe Princely in and for the waies of the Lord this was for his personall holinesse and how he improved his place and power to turn people from their sinnes you have heard in Vers 7 8. and this brought plenty and peace round about Two things you see concern men in place to subserve Christ in this great worke of turning sinners from their sinnes to be holy themselves and to plant the means of holinesse neglect these and reglect all to bring peace and plenty into this poore Land Wherefore stirre up your selves unto these things and in this worke tender not one place but all England Wales Ireland Gentiles yea and the Jewes think if it be possible how you may be instrumentall for the good of that forlorne people and now you are removing guilt from the Land that you would doe it throughly and leave if possible none upon us respecting Jew or Gentile The Scriptures by which I would urge to this are two and of two sorts one of promise the other of severe threat That of promise is Isa 32 20. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters that send forth thither the sect of the Oxe and the Asse 'T is a blessed worke to be sowing beside all waters to be propagating the Gospell every where to be breaking up all grounds that lie fallow and silling the world with weeds and tares but to send forth thither the Ox and the Asse that is painfull instruments to that poore people the Jews to call upon that Shulamite returne is peculiarly and eminently blessed and the multiplication of this expression Returne O Shulamite return returne which Master Brightm●n applies to the Jewes makes me to think it is not a vaine repitition but to intimate that various Gentile Nations shall call that poore forlorne people to embrace Christ i. contribute the utmost of their assistance to bring that elder sister to returne to her first husband that it may be much better with her then it is now and O how gladly would I have England be the foremost in this blessed worke to give the first call to the Shulamite who were the first I am afraid that gave sharpe repulse and expulse unto them The other Scripture I would urge you with is threatning to all that shall deale hardly with that people Zach. 2.8 9. For thus saith the Lord of Hosts after the glory hath he sent me to the Nations which spoyled you for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye for behold I will shake mine hand upon them and they shall be a spoyle to their servants and ye shall know that the Lord of hoasts hath sent me After the glory hath he sent me to the Nations that spoyled you i. after God hath accomplished the restitution of this people who shall be the visible glory of all Nations then will God visit all those Nations who have been injurious to this people and by this people injured be revenged upon them like as Mordecai and his brethren upon Haman and his followers for this remnant of Iacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a Lyon among the beasts of the Forrest as a young Lyon in the midst of the flocks of sheep or goats the originall is either who if he goe thorough both treads it down and teares it in pieces and none can deliver Mica 5.8 To this agrees Mica 4.13 Arise and thresh O daughter of Zion for I will make thy horne iron and I will make thy hoofes brasse and thou shalt beat in pieces many people c. Isa 16.4 In mercy shall the throne be established this is in that place added I remember Gods speech to Moab Let mine outcasts dwell with thee Moab but it would not be and answerably they smarted The Jews are Gods outcasts but surely we may collect from the threats that are made to them which hardly use them that Gods call to the Nations as to Moab that we would let his outcasts dwell with us and dwell comfortably with us and be as tender of injuring them as of injuring the apple of our eye for truely