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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

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

not see the stone cut off the mountaine without hands i. e. the Kingdome of Christ scorned and trampled on but yet firme and strong as a stone growing bigger and bigger toward a mountaine Thus hath Reformation both in England and Scotland hitherto proceeded Its beginnings were at first contemptible and knew no other name but sedition faction and rebellion yet as it were without hands by rare invisible and unexpected providences beyond what we were able to aske or thinke they have stood and prospered Now are not these the buds and tender leaves of the figures whereby we may conclude the summer is nigh May we not say with our Saviour When you see all these things know that it is neere even at the doores Are not these hopefull signes that the day of the Churches Redemption drawes nigh May we not salute the Church as the Spirit doth Cant. 6.10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning Are not these the mornings of deliverance Sure if our sins doe not blast these blossomes and Hinder good things from us we shall soone reape the fruite of our prayers We dare not limit the holy one of Israel but though the children are come to their birth he may delay the time of bringing forth or make us pay deare for these mercies We may suffer many throwes and pangs but we will say as Joshuah Numb 14.8 If the Lord delight in us he will bring us into this good land If we were fit for it we should now see Jerusalem a praise in the earth Our third point is It is the duty of all that make mention of the Lord to give him no rest till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth Which we purpose to handle by way of application to the former point We see Zion hath right to glorious mercies these mercies are reserved for these latter times God hath not left us without some comfortable hopes that the worke is now begun these things have beene cleared to us The next thing will be seasonable to shew what God requires of us what we must doe to obtaine these blessings The Prophet tels us we must Give him no rest For the handling this we shall shew 1. What we must doe to make God restlesse 2. In what manner it must be done 3. The subject of our worke the things to be laboured for which will make Jerusalem a praise in the earth and so conclude 1 What must we doe that God may have no rest First We must pray earnestly fervently constantly Prayer workes upon him an engine ordained by himselfe to over-come himselfe a cord to binde himselfe a strength that he hath promised to yeeld to yea an authority that he hath promised to obey Concerning the worke of my hands command ye me Esay 45.11 Prayer will over-rule God to any thing that is for our good It will bow downe his eare pull his hand out of his bosome his sword out of his sheath against his enemies put up his sword when it is drawne against his people The Lord is at the call of his peoples prayers Nigh unto all them that call upon him Psall 145.18 Yea to doe for them what ever they aske He will fulfill the desire of them that feare him ver 19. Ready to doe for them and as large in doing he will doe all satisfie their desires Prayer is the worke of Gods Spirit in us and therefore cannot be in vaine Faithfull prayer was never lost nor never shall while God is true We have had experience of the power of it It hath strangely produced meanes qualifyed and fitted meanes wonderfully protected meanes united meanes prospered meanes wrought through difficulties discovered and defeated designes If we cease not begging God will not cease giving While Moses hands are held up Israel must prevaile Therefore you that make mention of Gods name every soule that professes the Lord Jesus pray you that have any interest in a God improve it now you that ever found the sweetnesse of prayer pray now if ever you seriously tooke the name of God into your mouthes set to the worke now pray for life for liberties for Religion ordinances for pretious peace for establishing and perfecting mercies Difficulties are in the way if we continue begging God must yeeld if we be not weary of praying he must be weary of denying Psal 24.6 We hope there are many of Jacobs generation in this Kingdome Let us resolve to lay hold of God to wrastle with him and not to let him goe till he hath given us the blessing If we have Jacobs spirit we shall have his successe and amongst other mercies enjoy this See the face of our King as the face of God as Jacob saw the face of his brother Gen. 33.10 Secondly As we must pray so we must doe worke in prayer and worke with prayer Our prayer must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 James 5.16 working prayer We must Pray without ceasing 1 Thess 5.17 Semper or are est semper operari Aug. To pray alwayes is to follow our prayers with our hands and to be alwayes in our actions what we are in our prayers it is not all the sense of the place but a good glosse God loves to see our prayers live in our deeds It is unbeleefe base feare or worse hypocrisie to say to God in private what we will not act in publicke We should shew more faith and sincerity in our petitions if we would faithfully endevour what we aske and sooner obtaine an answer of our desires And this is a way to give God no rest If God be bound to attend the prayers of his people much more their actions and labours that are for him For there is more of himselfe imployed and laid out in his servants paines more faith more zeale more gifts more wisdome besides the hazard of their persons estates liberties and lives if the worke be as they are commonly dangerous and difficult Therefore as we must watch unto prayer so must we all 1 Pet. 4.7 especially watchmen men of publicke place watch labour travaile never hold their peace consult speake write doe all that their place gives them leave to doe for the repairing of Zions breaches Davids counsell to Solomon is seasonable 1 Chro. 22.16 Arise therefore and be doing and the Lord be with thee While we are working for him he will not be absent they may be sure of his presence and so of assistance and successe that set their hands to the worke of the Lord. If yet any shall thinke that this branch of our instruction doth not naturally flow from the precept of the Prophet here Give him no rest yet let him consider the former verse which commands action and withall that he handle this not onely as a distinct point but as application of the former point so the ingraffing this instruction to doe is reasonable as I conceive in the other respect it is naturall Secondly But how must we pray and worke