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spirit_n	adoption_n	father_n	receive_v	8,589	5	5.7408	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

it shall be then when he shall Raise up the Tabernacle of David that is fallen Ames 9.11.12 i.e. bring in the Jewes for then shall they possesse the remnant of Edom the Gentiles that yet lye out and the Heathen that are called by my name those that are already come in and when these shall be possessed by the Jewes then will God for altogether close up all breaches and raise up all ruines and so establish them together the praise of the earth Thirdly the Churches happinesse must succeed Antichrists ruine as Babylon fals so shall Zion rise Dan. 7.21 22. He prevailed against them till the ancient of dayes came and judgement was given to the Saints of the most High and the time came that the Saints possessed the Kingdome Antichrist now sits in the temple of God and keepes out the Church Christ must dispossesse him before the Saints shall be possessed of the Kingdome The whore is first judged and then follow Halelujahs Rev. 19.1 The first is yet to come and so by consequence the latter so much power as he hath so much misery the Church lyeth under Fourthly Our fourth worke is to cleare that the time of this happinesse is now approaching that that Sunne is arising that shall not goe downe againe Isa 60.20 We doe not undertake determinately to demonstate any thing Times and seasons are in the Fathers hands but shall onely endevour to discover some probable conjecturall grounds that God hath afforded for the quickning our faith and the encouraging of our hope As First That abundance of the spirit of prayer that God hath in these times powred out upon his people much praying certainely prognosticates some speciall mercy God doth not set his people to pray but when he intends to give When the 70. yeares were accomplished and deliverance presently to be wrought then he set Daniel on praying Dan. 9.2 3. He prayed before but then he was set on to pray And this was not the frame of Daniels spirit onely but of all the people of God in those times as God foretold by Jeremiah it should be Jer. 29.12 13. Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall goe and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you And ye shall seeke me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart Though they had prayed before yet they should pray now as they had not done before there should be somewhat peculiar in those prayers they should goe and doe it with all their hearts And doe not the people of God in these times pray as though they were even set on to it by God Are there not gone forth Armies of prayers steeled with faith and bold importunity that are not daunted with the greatest difficulties Are there not thousands that are resolved neither to rest themselves nor give God any rest till Christ is upon the throne and his enemies under his feet And therefore surely our bondage begins to expire when his people shake off the spirit of bondage and having received the spirit of adoption have learned to cry Abba Father Secondly The multitude and continuall encrease of converts a comfortable fore-runner of a rising condition Act. 7.17 When the time of the promise drew nigh the people grew and multiplyed in Egypt Cutting of stones and hewing of timber is a signe God is about to build not to pull downe God doth not use to beget children to the murtherer nor encrease his fold to fat the sword of his enemies When God is framing judgements He takes away his people from the evill to come Isa 57.1 It is barrennesse presages destruction but when he takes away their barrennesse he takes away their shame Isa 54.2 3 4. When the Church hath many children Psal 127.5 she shall not be afraid of her enemies in the gate Thirdly The multitude of active and publicke spirits when God sets Watchmen upon the wals he entends not his people for a prey to their enemies It is not ordinary for God to raise up singular meanes and then to blast it nor to set up Moses and Phineas in the gap to save his people and then to trample upon them Spirits zealously affecting the honour of God and the good of his people are too precious to be lost There is good hope we are going out of Babylon when the Hee-goates goe before the Floches Ier. 50.8 men of publicke place and authority are active for reformation When the Governours of Israel offer themselves willingly Iudg. 5.9 among the people there is blessing at hand Fourthly The lights encrease This also is a signe of deliverance Dan. 12.4 Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be encreased when the end should come then this should be There is much darkenesse remaines among us but the light scatters and daily more stanes appeare in our firmament and the truth as readily embraced as it is dispersed The morning beginnes to dawne and we hope it will shine to perfect day Fifthly We may read deliverance in the enemies rage their wickednesse speakes the Churches mercy Their destruction and the Churches salvation ripen together with their sins The devils rage when it is violent it is not long Apoc. 12.12 Rejoyce ye heavens i.e. the Saints Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth and of the Sea i. e. the wicked and ungodly For the devill is come downe having great wrath What can this be matter of joy Yes because he hath but a short time Men that resist the truth shall proceed no further when their folly becomes manifest to all men 2 Tim. 3.8 9. When mens wickednesse makes them publicke fooles it will not prevaile much longer When mens wickednesse is so notorious that the world can point them out then Gods judgement will quickly find them out And such are there in our times so hellish is their malice their oathes their blasphemies that they are become an abhorring to men and therefore surely God will ere long case himselfe and his Church of them doubtlesse the devill rides his servants so furiously that they will quickely be at their journeyes end Sixthly The shaking of the Germaine Empire that great Bulwark of the beast speakes the wrath of God bordering upon the man of sin It is neerer then a borderer God hath powred out some wrath upon the very Throne of the Beast Prelacy is by some late and sound Expositours conceived to be that Throne and we have seene it pulled downe in Scotland darkned in England Yea may not a strict observer see the beginnings of dissolution and breakings in the very Kingdome of the beast it selfe Dan. 2 41.42 Doe not the toes of the feet of the image discover themselves to be part iron and part clay the clay the people wearyed and worne out with the weight and hardnesse and roughnesse of the iron i. e. papall tyranny and oppression beginne to unclose and crumble off from them Seventhly Dan. 2.34 44.45 May we