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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

holy people shall have a better rest then ever they had onely 't is saith the Apostle a world to come as if the world did newly begin by the destruction of the old world of all the obstinate enemies against the Saints which the holy people shall subdue or destroy just as we say the old world afore the Flood And Melchizedek that is H. b. 7.3 Son the son of Noah is said to be without beginning of days and end of life because he lived many yeers in both worlds that is in the old before the slood and in the new after the flood If we cannot yet see and that were strange if we cannot that every great deliverance of the Holy people is a type of a future greater and in particular that Joshua and his holy Army were a Type of greater Victories yet to come since the Apostles to wit more general and effectual then consult with Josh 1.5 compared with Hebr. 13.5 6. In that of Ioshua the words are to Ioshua and in relation to his Wars against the Kings and Nations of Canaan There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life as I was with Moses so will I be with thee See how there also is an intimation of one mercy to be a type and pledge of another But the last words I aim at viz. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee These last words to confirm the former in the business of conquest in War to and by Ioshua are applied in Heb. 13.5 6. to all the holy people in all their wars and wants and difficulties whatsoever with a non-such or unparallell'd vehemency of speech in five Negatives in the Greek Let your conversation be without greediness after silver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and be content c. for he hath said I will NEVER LEAVE THEE NOR FORSAKE THEE so that we may boldly say The Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me Which last words sound of help in Wars and oppositions of men as the former of all other supplies And then presently gives us an experiment how well God hath dealt with his people of godly conversation in all ages And then addes a demonstration of all namely because Christ is yesterday and to day and the same for ever viz. unchangeable to deal in the same gracious way with all his people in all ages Thus you see how in the Old Testament former victories and deliverances were types and pledges of future The same also will plainly appear in the New Testament by S. Iohn in the Revelation the peculiar Prophet and Prophesies for our times who carries on the meaning of the holy Peoples exploits in the Old Testament in all their warlike victories to be Typical and praemitial patterns and pledges of future greater things that the holy people shall do and attain in our times and downward For the manner of the Israelites lying in Camp in expeditions of War was the Ark in the middle the four and twenty Orders of their Priests and Levites round that and the whole body of the Army round them in four Brigades three Tribes to a Brigade or Post towards the four Quarters of heaven And the first Tribe of each Brigade or Squadron consisting I say of three did bear the Standard for all three And the four Standards or Colours of the four Brigades were A Lion an Ox or Calf the Face of a man and a Flying eagle as appears both by Scripture * Ezek. 1.5 6 7 8 9 c. Compare M. Mede on Rev. 4. now translated in English and Jewish Antiquities* which I cannot now stay to discuss And thus just doth S. Iohn in the Revelation bring in the holy people in the like posture conquering and praising in our times and downwards So in Level 4.8.9 10. the Throne answerable to the Ark is in the middle And the four Beasts Greek Animals that is the whole Camp of the holy people or Host of God signified by four Beasts or Animals that antiently was in the Israelites Standards or Colours rest not praising saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Mark how the praise refers to Gods Power and holiness and unchangeableness to hate the unholy and so from time to time to impower his holy people to conquer the unholy their enemies And when the four Animals the Camp of the people of God once begin their Anthem in the Chore then presently the four and twenty Elders the Godly Ministery see cause and solemnly sing or praise And when those Beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sate on the throne who liveth FOR EVER AND EVER observe still how Gods power and unchangeableness is minded the four and twenty Elders fall down before him that sate upon the Throne and worship him that liveth for ever c. You see yet still the praise hath a special eye to Gods power keeping the throne and his immutability living for ever intimating God would still be the same to his holy people and more and more to make them subdue all their enemies Which is so often repeated because 't is the main proposition of the whole book of the Revelation and designe of Christ for his people Revel 1.5 6 7 8. Studie it well Which and our particular in hand is again represented to us in Rev. 7. where the holy people the Host of the Lord of Hosts is mustered one hundred fourty and four thousand and Auxiliaries without number with palms in their hands signals of Victory praising saying Salvation to our God who sits on the Throne and to the Lamb. And all the Angels stood round about the Throne and about the ELDERS and the four Beasts c. and worshipped saying Amen blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and MIGHT be unto our God for EVER and EVER Amers Still Gods power and authority is minded And in what garb and posture do these praise Answ In the foresaid manner of four Animals representing the Camp of Gods holy people with their Ministers signified in the four and twenty Elders v. 11. If you say these places are dim for the thing urged and that light that is in them glimmers rather of spiritual wars and victories then corporal we will give you some plainer places and for the literal sence of corporal victories as well as spiritual The first place shall be in the fifth Chapter of the Revelation conveniently placed between the fourth and seventh afore alleadged the better to expound them Rev. 5.1 God is brought in on the Throne sutable to the Ark in the middle of the ●amp of Israel and to signifie his authority and power and presence with his holy people and Christ at his right hand to tell us his minde and to prevail with him for our assistance For which typified in the opening of a book the four Beasts or Animals

and the four and twenty Elders whose signification you have heard already fall down in prayer-wise vers 8 c. singing a new song that is for new mercies as v. 1. before my Text saying Thou art worthy to take the book and open the seals for thou wast slain and hast redcemed us to God by thy blood c. there is our spiritual victories and hast made us to our God Kings and Priests and we shall reign on the EARTH On the earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is more then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See also the Syr. Arai Bio Gall. not onely in the earth The Syrtack and Arabian Translation is over the earth Here plainly is the holy peoples corporal victories We will pin this yet faster with that in Rev. 11.11 c. The Witnesses rose and stood on their feet and great fear fell on them that saw them The seventh Angel sounds and then the Kingdoms of THIS WORLD are become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ And the four and twenty elders praised saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty which art and wast and art to come that thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned and the Nations were ANGRY All which cannot be compatible and consistent with supernal glory or the ultimate Judgement but with a state on earth afore We will trouble you but with the naming of two places more Rev. 14. vers 1. to 9. The Camp of Gods holy people to the number of one hundred fourty and four thousand marked in the forehead not without allusion to the ancient marking of souldiers * So the Rom. Antiqu and under the notion of four and twenty elders and the four Animals sing a new song of praise to God for the fall of BABYLON which cannot possibly be meant but of material places and perdition on earth In the nineteenth Chapter of the Revelation in the first six verses we have five times HALLELU-JAH and once PRAISE to the Lord God omnipotent By whom Answ By the Host or Camp of the four animals and four and twenty elders called several times much people For what Answer For judging the Whore and avenging the blood of the Saints on her How Answer By casting the Beast and the false prophet into the lake of fire and destroying their Army by the sword so that the Fowles were filled with their flesh All which how it can be understood of meer Spiritualls let them devise that are contrary minded for I and others of greater learning cannot Mede c. I need say no more for confirmation of the Doctrine For Explication I have already somthing anticipated my self afore viz. That Gods speciall honouring the Saints with victories over their enemies and the Saints reciprocally honouring God with praise for the same relate mainly to our times and downward For my part I have delivered to you not any new notion as new to me as if formed by late successes but that I have been settled in for these eight yeares last past at least and did not for bear to give a little notice of it in publique when there was no great safety for one to utter such things I have for about so long foreseen by the Word of God that 1650. or thereabouts would be a time full of great and glorious wonders Post Mille sexcentos quirquagesimus annus Omnibus elapsis dignior annus erit That which guided me to this expectation were three places of scripture The first Scripture Dan. 12. Daniel hearing of the wonderfull times of Michaels beginning to deliver his people ver 1 2 3. wherein after great difficulties the Saints shall begin to be so glorious upon the earth for that in the second verse cannot be meant of the last general resurrection because it mentions onely the rising of SOME also of Converting men the question is put v. 6. How long should it be to the end of those wonders The answer is ver 7. for a time and times and half a time that is for three ages and an half that is 100. 200. and 50. in all 350. Which computed according to the most learned with the time that the Turk became the greatest pest and misery to the Jewes in or about the year 1300. the end of the reckoning falls upon 1650. The second Scripture is in the 11. ver of that 12 of Dan. where Daniel not satisfied with the former answer askes a further explanation ver 9. The answer is given ver 11. From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety dayes that is yeares * Ezek. 4.4 5 6. where 390 and 40 dayes signifie so many years I have appointed thee each day for a year as is the common phrase of the Prophets otherwise nothing can be made of it to comfort Daniel or the people of God either Iewes or Gentiles Now the ceasing of the Iewish daily sacrifice was accomplished with so many visible footstsps and degrees and with such eminent note in the most famous Histories as the thing cannot possibly be hid from our eyes First Upon some rising of the Jewes against the Roman Empire Titus son to Vespatian Emperour came and destroyed their Temple about seventy yeares after Christ according to Christs Prophesie Matth. 24.1 2. Then the in daily sacrifices ceased in the Temple so that the Jews yet zealous of their sacrifices after that sacrificed in the City likely as ne●r the remaining ruines of the Temple as they could But upon some revolt of the Jewes from the Roman Empire Adrian the Roman Emperour came in his time and about the year 134 after Christ demolished the City whereby the daily sacrifice was also taken away from the City and by the Jewes was carried away to Mamre where of old God appeared unto Abraham There they build an Altar and sacrifice and force Merchants also to sacrifice or else inhibited their trade Which Christian Constantine the great coming to the Empire with conquest of his heathen Colleagues about the year 313 being not able to endure beat down their Altar and built there a publique place or Church as the common phrase is for Christians to worship God in Then the Jews driven to their last shist return to reedifie Hierusalem By this time Inlian is Emperour and had ere long obtained his other name of Apostata for revolting from the Christian Religion which a while he had professed who in defiance of Christ and the Christian religion encouraged the Jews to rebuild their Temple c. But fire and tempest from Heaven destroying their work burning their tools and hurting and terlifying the workmen the Jewes never sacrificed more Now all know that know any thing of History or Chronologie that Inlian came to be Emperour near about three hundred and sixty years after Christ and soon after so encouraged the Jewes to that their ruine Adde now three hundred and

regard to any of his Ordinances when men in them make solemn addresses to him how many failings soever there be in the men and their manner of personnance of them Yea and we all generally doe thinke so as in the matter of swearing men that have no grace for Witnesse which is an ordinance of appeal to God We acquiesce in their Testimonie Jonah Chap. 1. as being assured such men feare to sweare falsly least their implied imprecation should fall upon them And we see often wretched men that dare speake falsly dare not sweare falsly Now marke in the Story of Jonah his Sea-voyage Prayer and casting of lots are both Ordinances of solemn addresses and appeale to God The Heathen Marriners use both they cryed everie one to his God and roused up sleepy Jonah also to call upon his God and by common consent also cast lots to find who was the malefactor in the ship that caused this tempest These Prayers thus made by these Heathens and this lot so cast by the same hand are answered by a most just determination upon Jonah They all acquiesce in it as just Jonah submits and is content to be thrown into the Sea rather then the ship and all the men should perish Why should I inlarge upon that which you can easily make out your selves And what can you make lesse of it but that the Scots and We are in this worse then these Heathens if after so many dayes of Fastings and Prayers by both of us appealing to God God answering in a worke of wonder we should not own it as his Answer 4. Furthermore God is not in vain called THE LORD OF HOSTS and which is not inconsiderable to the Point in hand It was our word the day of Battle when the hand that had been lift up in Prayer was now lift up in fight to make experiment what would be the minde of God in answer to those Prayers By which Lord of Hosts in the day of our Victory against the Scots there were so many great things done above all humane Power as cannot without impietie be ascribed to any but to the Lord of Hosts I shall rehearse but some of those Particulars we had first from the Councill of State and after from the Parliament First That 22000. all fully ready for fight and afore hand with us and had all advantages of the ground did not stand against 6000. of Us. Secondly not an houre Thirdly Upon this oddes at least 4000. of the Scots slaine upon the place and in pursuit Fourthly above twice as many taken Prisoners And that fiftly when our men many of them were sickly many of them wearied with wants foul weather and some of them as I know by Letters under their hands much fainting in their spirits The Enemy much heightned afore the fight with our long retreat Sixthly Not 40. of our men killed Who would not who could not say Behold Digitus Dei here is the very Finger of God appeares in this 5. Lastly the Parliament and all their Friends have deepe impressions on their hearts in Prayer Prayse publicke Edicts c. that herein was the manifest determination of the minde of God against the unrighteousnesse of the Scots dealing with us And such impressions as are on Godly mens hearts generally and in solemne addresses to God the Searcher of the heart 1. John 5. and in publicke Professions before the whole World are not to be slieghted as nothing There is Rom. 8.16 saith the Apostle the Testimonie of a Saints owne Spirit beside the Spirit of God to be considered in his Confidence or Diffidence So that though the Scots and Scottish owne not this Divine Determination as from God but some of them if singular Testimonie faile me not in a manner ascribe it to the Devill alleadging Our Army used some inchantment to know or doe and the best of them thinke it to be matter of Faith as their letters out of Edenborough Castle intimate to beleeve this Victory was but as a Contingencie and so harden themselves I feare as Pharaoh did by means of the Enchanters c. perhaps to their further destruction as he did yet we cannot but owne it as Gods Determination and owne it with Admiration and with the more the more we thinke of it Because the contrary minded are onely afflicted in their mindes by this crosse to their vaine hopes We are delivered from our rationall feares and reall dangers to our Lives our Estates our Liberties Civill and Evangelicall For they had as appeares by the Writings in the Chancellours purse that was taken in warres brought in the accused thing And had the report of Our retreat lasted but foure dayes longer I am assured by them that know the Word had been given to England according to Levens speech at their Councell of Warre before the fight and the thousands of Scotified and Royalized in the severall Counties and Cities in England listed for this purpose whereof I am full sure had risen to welcome in the Scots with their accursed thing But now they may keepe it and without repentance perish with it O ye Parliament People Magistrates Ministers that will be owned of Christ in the glorious times approaching praise yee the Lord all your dayes And when you would meditate on our deliverance Reade Psalm 16. Judg. 5.1 Sam. 2. and the Narrative of the Act for this Day of Thankesgiving and at the end of every Period say as in Psal 136. For his mercy endures for ever And then close with the Text This honour have all his Saints Praise ye the Lord Amen FINIS This Auther hath latly Published a small Treatise intituled The mischeife of mixt Communions fully discussed Wherein all Arguments on both sides are fully handled sould by William Raybould at the Vnicorne in Pauls Church-Yard