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A92869	Zions deliverance and her friends duty: or The grounds of expecting, and meanes of procuring Jerusalems restauration. In a sermon preached at a publicke fast, before the Honourable House of Commons. By William Sedgvvicke, minister of Farnham in Essex.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1642 (1642)	Wing S2392; Thomason E107_2; ESTC R18932	30,447	59

will come but he will have his peoples prayers lead him into the field Dan. 10.12 I came for thy Word Secondly to stirre us up to importunity and constancy that although God seeme to deny to be unwilling to helpe yet we should follow him close Give him no rest Thirdly to shew the certaine power and effect of prayer it is as certaine as if God could notwithstand its force God sayes to Moses Let me alone Exod. 32.10 Fourthly to honour this ordinance of Prayer when God would give us a mercy he gives it into the hand of prayer and prayer shall seeme to doe that which he intends Fifthly it notes the infallibility of the Churches deliverance as God cannot alwayes rest so his Church shall not alwayes suffer God must arise and then his enemies must be scattered Psal 68.1 Till he establish till he make firme The Prophet supposes the worke might meete with dangers and oppositions the foundations might be laid and suffer many shakings before it could be establisht therefore he exhorts them to constancy till the worke were establisht And untill Jerusalem Some interpret Jerusalem literally And of those some looke upon the promise fulfilled viz. by Christs comming in the flesh Jerusalem was then a praise in the earth when our Saviour the Lord of all Isa 61.2.3 was in it And it cannot be denyed but it was in some part fulfilled then for Christ applying part of this Prophesie to himselfe in his owne times sayes Luke 4.21 This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares And so in part it was But the chiefe and maine of this and the rest is yet to come as we shall see anon Others understand it according to the letter but as to come and so expect the calling of the Jewes to a happy estate in their owne Country that they shall againe inhabit Jerusalem but this is subject to controversie and therefore we will wave it and take it in a second sense mystically Jerusalem for the Church and this is most generall and warranted by Scripture in which it is very common to call the Church of the Gentiles Jerusalem and Zion Gal. 4. Heb. 12. A praise in the earth The Church is so First when the deliverance of the Church is eminent and notable such as All the ends of the earth doe see her salvation Ps 98.3 Secondly when the Church derives her light to the world and when the Law Ps 110.2 the red of strength goes out of Zion Thirdly and most fully when through outward prosperity and inward spirituall purity Jerusalem should be the beauty of the earth or deserve the praise of the earth have an eminency of prosperity above all the world The generall parts are two First mercies to be obtained And they are of two sorts First Establishing mercies till he establish Secondly Perfecting mercies make Jerusalem the praise of the earth Secondly the meanes to obtaine these mercies Give him no rest We will not trouble you with any subdivision but cast our discourse into these three points First the Church in the beginnings of her deliverance is subject to dangerous shakings till he establish Secondly the Church of right is and in time shall be a praise in the earth Thirdly every one that makes mention of the Lord must give him no rest till this be accomplished We shall handle the first briefely and by way of Preface the second as the maine point and the third as the application of the second The Church in the beginnings of her deliverance is subject to dangerous shakings The Prophet layeth forth the Church to us in such a condition in this place Here was something done wals built and watch-men upon them Governours and Prophets labouring their utmost night and day in Counselling Preaching Praying but all they did was in danger enemies ready to surprise them and their worke they could take no rest night nor day what they had was imperfect and that little ready to be lost so is it often with the Church it rises through many enemies and mighty oppositions and her beginnings of deliverance many times seeme worse then her lowest sufferings Such was Israels deliverance from Egypt it was long in and difficult while they were in Egypt Nothing but stratagems plots taxations to weaken and ruine them after Moses appeared their burthens were increased after leave to depart many changes and uncertainties sometimes Pharaoh will let them goe sometimes not The last designe upon them worst of all Pharaoh raised Armes against them After that great deliverance through the redsea they were forty yeares in the Wildernesse beset with many wants they want bread and they want water and which was worst they wanted faith and patience they murmure and are weary of their deliverance Let us goe backe to Egypt And of their Deliverer We know not what is become of this Moses and weary of God himselfe Let us make us new gods They were beset with enemies on all sides Amalek Moab Og fighting enemies plotting enemies conjuring enemies and sometimes their sins made God their enemy he fought against them with fiery serpents Plagues Israels deliverance from Babylon was as full of opposition Syrus makes Proclamation for the re-building the Temple Ezra 1. the worke is taken in hand an Altar set up the foundations laid offerings frequented Workemen prepared some adversaries that offered their helpe being refused seduce the King by their evill counsell and then the Reformation is counted Rebellion they are commanded to cease and the worke rests till the second of Darius Ezra 4. ult In Nehemiahs time what threatning Plotting and scoffing was practised by Sand-ballet and Tobiah some of the Nobles were wrought off from the worke and proved treacherous Nehemiah 6.11 and yet God carryed on the worke through many difficulties When Christ came with salvation into the world all Jerusalem was troubled and He●od their King Matth. 2.3 a desperate wickednesse was presently practised Herod that he might kill Christ commands that all the male children should be killed and so their condition was worse then before they lost both their King and their children When he appeared in his Ministery what new Doctrine was Preached Never man taught as he taught What miracles were wrought the whole City receive and embrace their Saviour crying Hosanna with such Joy and chearefulnesse as if Heaven would presently come to the earth but quickly after the people seduced by the Scribes and Pharisees cryes as bitterly Crucifie him Crucifie him He is betrayed accused condemned crucifyed and buryed all steps to our deliverance The reasons of this point are briefly these First God hath no more then he gets by conquest and that out of the hands of many mighty and malignant enemies which never give up power to Christ but with much striving Secondly God suffers difficulties to come in the way to manifest his owne power that he is able to carry on his worke through the strongest opposition Thirdly God doth