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A18429	Hallelu-jah: or, King David's shrill trumpet, sounding a loude summons to the whole world, to praise God Delivered by way of commentarie and plaine exposition vpon the CXVII. Psalme. By Richard Chapman, minister of the Word of God at Hunmanbie in Yorkshire.	Chapman, Richard, d. 1634.	1635 (1635)	STC 4998; ESTC S122563	120,049	228

and the promise Rom. 9. 8. The children of the promise are counted for the seede we which were a farre off Zach. 6. 15. must come to build in the temple of the Lord the last house whose glory shall exceed the first Hag. 2. 10 that is the spirituall Temple not that which was reedified by Cyrus for to this came the liberality of Alexander and the kings of Egypt with many other nor the magnificence of Seleucus 2 Machab. 3. 3. a king of Asia who of his owne rents was liberall toward the materiall temple But we are called to build the spirituall Temple as it came to passe at the calling of the Gentiles how many Master builders more cunning than Vitruvius came in to lay the lively stones of this spirituall structure as Luke the Evangelist from Antioch Barnabas from Cyprus Timothy and Titus from Greece Aristarchus Aquila Dionysius Areopagita Onesiphorus Hermes with infinite more and in ages following Irenaeus Tertullian Hierom Basill Ambrose Augustine c. To come nearer to our own times what famous Luminaries and lights have shined from Belgia and other parts as Luther Calvin Oecolampadius Marlorat Bucer Bullinger In our owne times out of our owne nation our owne tribes and families reverend Fulke Whitaker Raynolds Field Willet Perkins Andrewes the late Byshop of Winchester and the present famous Doctor Hall now Bishop of Exeter all which have issued out of the darke celles of gentilisme which have brought their gold theit silver and some their lives to the building of this spirituall Temple What should this I say teach us but in tender compassion to the Iewish nation to pray heartily for their restoring since they were cut off that we might be grafted on Rom. 11. 19 they were the holy seede the first borne the first and naturall heires to the Gospell Mat. 15. 22. I am not sent but unto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel God chose them above all nations Deut. 7 6. he loved them Deut. 10. 15. Iacob was his portion Deut. 32. 8. and he hath promised though for their ingratitude he hath for a while rejected them and suffers them as Caines and vagabonds to wander without any abiding place yet in the end to call them home Zach. 12. 10. He will poure upon the house of Iacob and the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and supplication that is the Holy Ghost with the graces thereof and which restoring Paul proves Rom. 9. and 11. that they shall be called and acknowledge CHRIST and wisheth to be separated from CHRIST in the ardency of his love toward them so that they might be restored O pray then for the peace of Ierusalem that thy God would performe his promise in their conversion with David Psal 51. 18. Be favourable unto Sion and build the wals of Ierusalem and Paul my hearty desire for Israel is that they may be saved Let thy heart be greived then to see the horrid desolation of them as Nehemiah 1. nothing could be so pleasant unto him as the desolation of Ierusalem was greivous He is but a mercilesse Samaritane that neglects his duty and woe to him that is an enemie to Israels common wealth but let us pray for Ierusalem that prosperity may be within her wals and peace within her pallaces People that is as we formerly noted the Iewe of the stocke of Sem which God knew before all nations Amos 3 2. and thus beloved were they not in regard of themselves but of Gods free election So the difference betwixt these two seedes is not because the one embraced CHRIST and the other refused him for how can there be a refusall where the Messias was not knowne but among the Gentiles he was not so much as named Rom. 15. 20. as their owne Doctor witnesseth These Iewes were Gideons fleece which was watered when all the world beside was a barren desert the name of God the Gospell of CHRIST his love and favours were appropriated onely to the land of Iury Mat. 10. 5. Goe not into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritanes enter ye not They thought his providentiall care reached no farther but was limited within the narrow skirts of Palestina and onely to have a care over them as Theodorit speakes of them they were as the signet upon his right hand as the apple of his eye he that cursed them was cursed and they that blessed them were blessed nay there is no inchantment against Iacob nor divination against Israel Num. 22. 23. he set a beautifull crowne upon their heads Ezech. 16. 12. that is established the Kingdome of his grace among them Yet when they yeelded not correspondence to his word in dutifull obedience and thanksgiving it came to passe as truth it selfe had denounced against them Math. 21. 43. The kingdome of God which was their crowne and honour should be taken from them and given to a nation that should bring forth the fruites thereof Ierusalem was the city which the Lord did choose to place his name there 2 Chron. 6. 6. She was a faithfull citie Esay 1. 21. How is the faithfull city become an Harlot But departing from her former stepps crucifying the Sonne of God and killing his Saints she was rejected and cast off a voyce from heaven giving warning of her imminent rejection saying Let us depart hence And Almighty God like old Iacob layes his right hand upon the head of Ephraim the younger and his left hand upon Manasses the elder Gen. 48. 14. Now one cluster of the grapes of Ephraim are better than a whole Vintage of Abiezer Iudg. 8. 2. So now the right hand of honour is laid upon the Gentile and the Iewes degraded as the birth-right was convayed from Esau to Iacob the Priesthood translated from Abiathar to Zadock and the regall dignity from Saul to David the prodigall Gentile must have the fat calfe killed and be brought into the Kings Cellar when the Elder hath not wherewith to make merry with his friends Luke 15. 23 c. Hence this doctrine God is not tyed to any place or people If the chosen Iewes will not bring forth fruits worthy of the Gospell but despise it hee will provoke them to envie even by a people which sought him not and for sinne will remove his love and favour his word and worship and make it a free passage for the flood-gates of his wrath to their inevitable destruction and unavoydable ruine For confirmation of this truth wee need goe no further than our proposed patterne and example of this people which was a chosen Cedar among all the trees of the Forest so long as holinesse kept residence there the Cisterne into which the Fountaine of all grace powred his blessings by many Conduit-pipes and meanes but they left their first love Rev. 2. 4. cryed loud for Christs bloud to fall upon them and their children Math. 27. 25. and so

off be willing to be drawne from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God that thou mayest receive forgivenesse of sinnes ●nd inheritance among them which are sanctified Acts 26. 18. True faith is afraid to fall and therefore striveth by all meanes to shunne the rockes and shelves of securitie and is farre from rejoycing in any outward estate without the correspondence of obedience As a man upon a high Tower is afraid to fall though he be safely environed with battlements So thou Gentile though now thou bee in grace and under the protection of the most High take heed to thy standing lest in the midst of thy peace the evill one come and sow tares in thy harvest steale away thy graces and leave thee to be cast off with the Iew the certainty of thy standing is in the performance of thy obedience If yee will hearken and obey yee shall eate the good things of the land But for our further instruction let us make a Quaere with the Apostle Rom. 11. 1. Hath God cast away his people God forbid for salvation is of the Iewes Ioh. 4. 22. The royall stocke of Sem are but like Philemons unprofitable servant departed for a season that they may be received for ever If the casting them off be the reeonciling of the world what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead Rom. 11. 15. Though they be now in the depth of Infidelity and obstinacy yet before the consummation of the world they shall beleeve the Messiah as the Prophets have prophecied and the Pen-men and Notaries of the holy Ghost have testified they shall be Choristers of Gods praise Gregory the Great is also of opinion that in the often and earnest calling of the Shulamite Cant. 6. 13. which signified the people of Ierusalem so called of Shalem peace is clearely intimated a prophecie of the finall vocation of the Iewes which have beene so long forsaken as also it is evident by eight Reasons alleadged by the Apostle to this purpose The first being drawen from the end of their rejection which was not to their utter perishing in unbeleife but seeing the calling of the Gentiles they might be provoked to emulation God appointing their fall and rejection not simply but for the end which is good else it were against the divine goodnesse of God which never suffers as Augustine saith any evill to be done but to bring good out of it Second argument is drawen from the lesser to the greater If their fall be riches to the world much more shall their reconciliation be life from the dead Thirdly from the condition of the Patriarch Abraham If the first fruites be holy so it the lumpe if the roote be holy so are the branches but they are 1 Pet. 2. 9. A chosen generation a royall Priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people which is not meant of an actuall holinesse which was in them but that they shall be restored to the holinesse of theyr Fathers Fourthly from Gods omnipotencie who is able to restore them againe as a man to awake out of his sleepe if he be able to raise the dead and give sight to the blind which are miraculous workes above the course of nature then much more to restore them which is but a replantation and grafting in a worke of nature So that fiftly according to likelyhood If God engrafted the wilde olive contrary to nature how much more shall the naturall branches be regrafted into their owne place Sixtly from the prophecies of Esay chap. 59. There shall come out of Zion the deliverer and shall turne away ungodlines from Iacob the testimony of Ieremie which are the Prophets of God and have prophecyed of their Conversion Seventhly from a distinction concerning the Gospell They are enemies for their sakes but as touching election they are beloved for their fathers sake Eightly from a proportion As you Gentiles were sometimes in unbeliefe without God in the world Eph. 2. and by mercy are now called so shall they obtaine mercy to come out of their Cimmerian blindnesse of unbeliefe so shall yee both be ioyned in the unity of faith building up the temple of God perfecting his house joyntly singing unto God your Hallelujahs 〈◊〉 praise and thanksgiving It must teach us then the precept and the practice of the Apostle of the Gentiles Rom. 11. 14. By all meanes to provoke them to emulation that they may be saved as that speach of Moses Deut. 32. 21. is applyed to us Gentiles Who have found him whom we sought not after Esay 65. 1. That they are beloved for their fathers sake honoured with the humanity of CHRIST Rom. 9. 5. for whose salvation theyr Paul was so zealous as for their good he wished himselfe separated from CHRIST Ought not we then which are by grace made partakers of the same roote to feede their dead branches with our living sap by opening unto them that IESVS and worlds Saviour whose sides they pierced Zach. 12. 10. and which was the substance of all their sacrifices Was he not shewed in the old Testament in the Angell Exod. 23. 20. in Aaron Exod. 28. 4. in the scepter Gen. 49. 10. in the brazen serpent Num. 21. 9. in the scape-goate Levit. 16. 21. in Balaams starre Num. 24. 17. c. Was he not seene in the new Testament in his humanity doctrine miracles and death all of them like the finger in a Diall pointing with Iohn Baptists Ecce Iohn 1. 29 at the Messiah agreeing in his parentage person and place of his birth as the wings of the Cherubins which touched each other upon the Mercy-seate 1 Kings 6. 27. the one confirming the others affirmation his infancie answering the Types hee was seene a Starre by the Gentile Prophet and found by a starre of the Gentiles Matth. 2. 10. in Rama was weeping as Ieremie had heard Ier. 31. 15. out of Egypt he was called Hos 11. 1. and was brought up in Nazareth as was prophecied His Life was unreprooveable the Prince of this world could find nothing amisse Ioh. 14. 30. his Miracles sufficiently testifying his Godhead that even his adversaries confessed it his Death as effectually acted as it was foretold Zach. 13. 7. I saw the Shepheard the Lords fellow smitten and the sheepe scattered his being prized and sould for thirty peeces of silver Zach. 11. 12. The purchase of the Potters field the piercing his hands and feet the dividing of his garments c. Two and thirty of which we may see in Matthew and all fulfilled and we may even briefely gather all into one and let it be him against whom they cannot they dare not except their owne Prophet Esay of their blood-royall Chap. 53. wherein the Iew may plainely see that our Evangelists have recorded nothing but what was foretold and to whom can this be applyed but to IESVS whom yee crucified even his death was acted without the gate as the

engraven us upon the palmes of his hands verse 16. sometime in the tendernesse of hennes to their Chickens Mat. 23. 37. which how tender it is we see in the continuall care that she hath in hatching feeding and to her power in defending her young and yet all these are but shadowes in regard of substantiall and everlasting love which CHRIST IESVS the heavenly Henne hath over his beloved ones his love is as himselfe infinite for whatsoever is in God is God his mercy his justice c. and all those backe-parts of the mighty IEHOVAH Exod. 34. 6. When he is called mercifull what is he but mercy it selfe in the abstract saith Savanorola if they were al gathered together that are in heaven and earth and it be demaunded of them how they have been saved they all stand as a cloud of witnesses to testifie Gods free mercies and to say with the Church Psal 115. 1. Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the praise Now consider further that the mercifull kindnesse of God is 1. Generall 2. Speciall The generall is his providentiall care over all his creatures in creating preserving sustaining and maintaining of them Psal 36. 6. Thou O Lord wilt save both man and beast Mat. 5. 45. He maketh the Sunne to rise on the evill and the good and sendeth raine upon the just and unjust Iohn 5. 17. My Father yet worketh and I worke with him meaning in his generall care in the supporting of the creature this is called Psalme 51. 1. Loving kindnesse or benignity extending it selfe to the very Ravens Psal 147. 9. Luke 12. 24. The speciall mercy is that by which hee loves his owne in CHRIST redeemes sanctifies and saves them by his free grace 1 Tim. 4. 10. He is the Saviour of all men especially of those that beleeve this he exerciseth toward us both in giving and forgiving both which Moses describes at large Exod. 34. 6. Mercifull in which he doth as it were clothe himselfe in the affections of man Ier. 31. 10. His bowels are troubled for Ephraim Matth. 9. 36. His bowels even earned in compassion to see the multitude wandring as sheepe without a shepheard how pathetically he perswades the reformation of his Church Cant. 6. 7. Returne returne O Shu●●mite returne how passionately he deplores Ierusalem Luke 19. 42. If thou haddest knowne even thou in this thy day the things which belong to thy peace in a word he rejoyceth in his owne mercie but sorrowes for our miserie Gracious which intimates a forwardnesse to doe us good he is never weary in doing it Iam. 1. 5. he gives liberally to all Slow to anger full of patience Gen. 6. 3. How long did he wait the repentance of the old world in his mercy stopping the course of his deserved vengeance Psal 95. 10. Fourty yeares long did he suffer the murmuring Idolators and Adulterers in the wildernesse Psal 106. 43. Many a time did they provoke him to anger by their Counsels yet Is 30. 18. he waits that he may have mercie Aboundant in goodnesse and truth noting his disposition by kindnesse to win men the immutable constancie of his promises which is the inexhaustible fountain of his mercies he reserves them for thousands his goodnes is not like the morning dew dispierced and exhaled by the Sunne nor like the Coffers of the greatest Potentate which may be drawen dry but a Lamp which is fed by the oyle of Immortalitie and which makes up the measure he forgives iniquity transgression and sinne no marvell than if David call them in his experience the multitude of his tender compassions in which he tenderly embowelleth his chosen as the womb enfoldeth nourisheth the new conceived Embryo where he shewes mercies he shewes them by multitudes if the royall heart of Alexander thought it not honourable to give small things how much more than shall the all-sufficient God give that exceeds him as much as the maine Ocean the least riveret he is ready to forgive Isa 55. 7. Father of mercies and God of all comfort 2 Cor. 1. 3. Very pittifull and full of mercy Iam. 5. 11. The heighth length bredth and depth thereof passeth all understanding Eph. 3. 18. All these compassions and mercifull kindnesses may be reduced to a sixe-fold ranke First preventing Mercies whereby hee did us good when we knew not keeping us from many sins which otherwise we had committed many and many have we cōmitted against him but far more should we have done if his mercie had not prevented us acknowledg than Gods mercy toward thee even in those sins which thou hast not cōmitted If thou seest one which is debtor to me for a sin and I forgave him know also that thou art a debtor to me because I prevented thee from the like because there is in every mans corrupted brest since the fall of Adam the Seminarie and seed-plot of all iniquitie springing from the bitter root of that originall Corruption the match and tinder the fuell and fountaine of every actuall transgreson so that there is no enormitie which the most debauched wretch hath committed but thou hadst acted the like if grace had not preuented boast not thy selfe then in this but with devoute Bernard extoll the mercie of the Almighty Secondly are his sparing mercies experienced in his longanimitie and patience in which thou mayest say I have sinned and thou heldest thy tongue I have transgressed and thou hast spared me when thou lookedst upon Zimri and Cosbi slaine in the act of uncleannesse Ananias and Saphira the old world Sodome and Gomorrha Iulian Herod with thousands more the dierfull spectacles of Gods powerfull Iustice hast thou not sufficient cause to glorifie that God that hath so long suffered thee to wallow in the puddles of thine iniquitie and hath not sunke thee downe to the pit of perdition but still waites that hee may have mercie Thirdly his pardoning mercies else what benefit were it to be long spared and at last paid home as it shall be with every impenitent though he enjoy the sun-shine of Gods patience yet in the end the wrath of God shall burne as an Oven as Tophet against him though now he see the hand of Gods justice behind his backe clouded and vailed in his daily continued mercies yet the conclusion will prove a tragicall Catastrophe though he passe with a slow pace yet he goes in order though with leaden feet yet with Iron hands but this feare is taken away by these pardoning mercies by which in the bloud of Christ he makes us as cleane as if he never had been poluted Psal 32. 1. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sinne Fourthly are his renuing mercies by which he gives not onely remission of sinnes but also the grace of renovation by which they become new creatures trees of righteousnesse bearing and abounding in the fruits