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A53716 Ouranōn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled on April 19, a day set apart for extraordinary humiliation / by John Owen. Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1649 (1649) Wing O789; ESTC R575 33,598 48

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Heavens are the Angels their blessed Inhabitants both shaken or stricken with amazement upon the nativity of Christ and preaching of the Gospel The heavens were shaken when so great things were accomplished as that the Angels themselves desired to look intt hem 1 Pet. 1. 12. And the Earth was filled with amazement when the holy Ghost being powred out upon the Apostles for the preaching of the Gospel men of every Nation under Heaven were amazed and marvelled at it Act. 2. 5 6 7. Thus Ro●locus Piscator and sundry other famous Divines But 1. The shaking here intimated by the Apostle was then when he wrote under the Promise not actually accomplished as were the things by them recounted for the holds it forth as an issue of that great Power of Christ which he would one day exercise for the further establishment of his kingdom 2. This that now is to be done must excell that which formerly was done at the giving of the Law as is clearly intimated in the inference Then he sho●k the Earth but now the Heavens also it is a gradation to an higher demonstration of the power of Christ which that the things of this interpretation are is not apparent 3. It is marvellous these learned men observed not that the Heavens and Earth shaken v. 26. are the things to be removed ver. 27. Now how are Angels and men removed by Christ Are they not rather gathered up into one spirituall body and communion Hence ver 27. they interpret the shaken things to be Judaic●ll Ceremonies which v. 26. they had said to be men and Angels 2. Others by heaven and earth understand the materiall parts of the worlds fabrick commonly so called and by their shaking those portentous signes and prodigies with Earthquakes which appeared in them at the birth and death of the Lord Jesus A new Star preternaturall darknesse shaking of the Earth opening of graves renting of Rocks and the like are to them this shaking of Heaven and Earth So Junius and after him most of ours But this Interpretation is obnoxious to the same Exceptions with the former and also others for 1. These things being past before how can they be held out under a Promise 2. How are these shaken things removed which with their shaking they must certainly be as in my Text 3. This shaking of Heaven and Earth is ascribed to the power of Christ as Mediator whereunto these signes and prodigies cannot rationally be assigned but rather to the soveraignty of the Father bea●ing witnesse to the Nativity and death of his Son so that neither can this conception be fastned on the words 3. The fabrick of Heaven and Earth is by others also intended not in respect of the signes and prodigies formerly wrought in them but of that dissolution or as they suppose Alteration which they shall receive at the last day So Paraeus Grotius many more Now though these avoid the Rock of holding out as accomplished what is onely promised yet this Glosse also is a dresse disfiguring the minde of God in the Text For 1. The things here said to be shaken do stand in a plain opposition to the things that cannot be shaken nor removed and therefore they are to be removed that these may be brought in Now the things to be brought in are the things of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus what opposition I pray do the materiall fabrick of Heaven and Earth stand in to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus doubtlesse none at all being the proper seat of that kingdom 2. There will on this ground be no bringing in of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus untill indeed that kingdom in the sense here insisted on is to cease that is after the day of judgement when the kingdom of Grace shall have place no more Those are the most materiall and likely mistakes about the words I could easily give out and pluck in again 3. or 4. other warping senses but I hope few in these dayes of accomplishing will once stumble at them The true minde of the Spirit by the help of that Spirit of truth comes next to be unfolded And first what are the things that are shaken 1. As the Apostle here applyes a part of the Prophesie of Haggai so that Prophesie even in the next words gives light into the meaning of the Apostle Look what Heaven and Earth the Prophet speaks of of those and no other speaks the Apostle The Spirit of God in the Scripture is his own best interpreter See then the order of the words as they lye in the Prophet Hagg. 2. 6 7. I will shake heaven and earth I will shake all Nations God then shakes Heaven and Earth when he shakes all Nations that is he shakes the Heaven and Earth of the Nations I will shake Heaven and Earth and I will shake all Nations is a Pleonasme for I will shake the Heaven and Earth of all Nations These are the things shaken in my Text The Heavens of the Nations what are they even their Politicall heights and glory those Forms of Government which they have framed for themselves and their own interest with the grandeur and lustre of their Dominions The Nations Earth is the multitudes of their people their strength and power whereby their Heavens or politicall heights are supported It is then neither the materiall Heavens and Earth nor yet Mosaicall Ordinances but the Politicall Heights and splendour the popular multitudes and strength of the Nations of the Earth that are thus to be shaken as shall be proved That the Earth in propheticall descriptions or predictions of things is frequently yea almost alwayes taken for the people and multitudes of the Earth needs not much proving One or two instances shall suffice Revel. 12. 16. The Earth helped the woman against the stood of the Dragon which that it was the multitudes of earthly people none doubts That an Earthquake or shaking of the Earth are popular commotions is no lesse evident from Revel. 11. 13. where by an Earthquake great Babylon receives a fatall blowe And for the Heavens whether they be the Politicall heights of the Nations or the grandeur of Potentates let the Scripture be judge I mean when used in this sense of shaking or establishment Isa. 51. 15 16. I am the Lord thy God who divided the Sea whose waves roared the Lord of hosts is his name And I have put my words in thy mouth and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand that I may plant the Heavens and lay the foundations of the Earth and say unto Sion Thou art my people By a repetition of what he hath done he establisheth his people in expectation of what 1. he will do And first he minds them of that wonderfull deliverance from an Army behind them and an Ocean before them by his miraculous preparing dry paths for them in the deep I am the Lord who divided the Sea whose waves