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A81219	The saints thankfull acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdome. Delivered in a sermon at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, upon the day of their solemne thanksgiving unto God, for the great victory given our armie, under the command of the noble Lord Fairfax, at Selby in Yorke-shire and to other the Parliaments forces in Pembrock-shire, April 23d, 1644. By Joseph Caryl preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inne.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1644 (1644)	Wing C787; Thomason E48_1; ESTC R7648	36,302	59

And as sorrow attended them all the time of their witnessing so death attends the accomplishment of it And when they shall have finished their Testimonie the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomelesse pit shall make warre against them and evercome them and kill them v. 7. As we have learned the length of their daies from Ezekiels Kalender so we may learne the kind of their death from Ezekiels vision his dry bones Chap. 37. can speake as well as heare v. 4. and tell you that to die is sometimes to be in great distresse in captivity and under the power of mercilesse men This is to die daily to be in deaths often As to live in sinne so to live in sorrow is to be dead while we live Yet this death cannot swallow up these dead but shall it self be swallow'd up in victory The grave had no victory at all over them and death had but a short one The people shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves v. 9. And after three daies and a halfe the spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood upon their feet v. 11 Christ arose the third day His witnesses arise after three dayes and a halfe All the servants of Christ shall enter into their Masters joy and these eminent ones are admitted in the letter within halfe a degree of their Masters priviledge As in Scripture language imminent dangers are a death so eminent deliverances are a resurrection What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead Rom. 11. 15. And because the justice and goodnesse of God will not be satisfied with the bare reparation of his oppressed servants for their wrongs and a putting of them in statu quo But he will give them an addition of double honour in every land where they have been put to shame Therefore these witnesses shall not only arise but they shall ascend Christ will make them what they were and more They ascended up to Heaven in a cloud and their enemies beheld them v. 12. Great changes produce great effects The blessing of God upon his people portends a curse to his enemies That act of mercy which raiseth Sion ruines Babylon Every advancement of the truth is the downfall of error No sooner doe these witnesses ascend But the same houre there was a great earthquake and the tenth part of the City fell v. 13. And so great is the fall thereof that presently the seventh Angell sounds This sound produces a second effect great voices v. 15. And there were great voices in Heaven saying c. These voices have a double sound in them First The sound of faith and holy confidence in God Secondly The voice of joy and thankfulnesse unto God The voice of faith is so confident as if it spake from the dictates of sense and saw yea enjoyed all in these beginnings as already done The Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall raigne for ever and ever v. 15. This heightn'd faith brings forth joy as its immediate issue joy is the fruit of faith This joy brings forth praise to God praise is the Reuben of joy its first-borne the beginning Prov. 27. 16. of its strength the excellency of its dignity Joy cannot be silent it is the ointment in the Saints right-hand which bewrayeth it selfe in perfuming the Name of God in making his Name like an ointment powred out The Saints were so full of holy joy that they could not keepe their seates And the foure and twenty Elders which sate before God on their seates fell upon their faces and worshipped God saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty c. The studies of the learned both Antient and Moderne have been very great and their conceptions as various about the meaning of this prophecy All that I shall say is That I beleeve the providence of God is now about to open and give the unerring interpretation of it The actions of these times are now a making and will shortly make a full exposition of this Scripture I am sure the businesse of this day will be as a Comment upon that part of it read unto you For though we should not now hit the very nick of time about that I will not strive which the Spirit of God aimes at in this solemne Hallelujah of these Elders Yet this duty becomes the Elders at all or any of those times wherein they behold the Lord God Almighty taking to himselfe his great power and raigning The generall subject of these words is the praise of God about which they hold out foure things distinctly Division of the text considerable First the persons who performe this duty of praise to God 2ly The manner in which they praise God 3ly The notions under which they praise God 4ly The grounds or reasons for which they praise God 1 The persons are described in those words And the foure and twenty Elders which sate upon their seates This description of the persons hath three things observable First the number of the persons Four and twenty 2ly Their State or Qualitie they were Elders 3ly Their posture or condition They sate upon seats before God 2. In the manner of their praising God we may note two things 1. Their praises were very humble and devout They fell upon their faces and worshipped 2. Their praises were vocall and explicit They spake out Saying we give thee thanks 3. The Notions under which they praise God are two 1. His omnipotency O Lord God Almighty 2ly His eternity Which art and wast and art to come 4. The grounds or reasons moving them to this duty of praising God are likewise two First the assuming of his power Thou hast taken to thee thy great power 2ly The setling of his kingdome And hast raigned And the four and twenty Elders By these Elders we may Explication of the text understand all the faithfull people of God especially their chiefes and leaders godly Magistrates and godly Ministers going before stirring them up and directing them to magnifie the name of the Lord. Among the Saints some are Elders by Office many in regard of Age all in regard of that reall gravity and dignity which spirituall wisdom and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prov. 16. ●1 holinesse casts upon them Wisdome and holinesse are the gray-haires of young-men The hoary head is a crowne of Glory when it is found in the way of righteousnesse And the wayes of righteousnesse are a crowne of glorie upon the greenest head These Elders are numbred foure and twenty either first in allusion to that distribution of the Levites who attended the service of God or of the people attending the service of the King each being cast into twenty foure divisions 1 Chron. ch 24. Chap. 25. Chap. 26. Chap. 27. From whence Mr Brightman concludes thus Seeing therefore the whole Bright in Apoc c. 4. v. 4. company of the children