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A90064	Jerusalems vvatch-men, the Lords remembrancers: a sermon preached at the Abbie at VVestminster, before both Houses of Parliament, and the Assembly of Divines, upon their solemn fast, Iuly 7. 1643. / By Matth: Nevvcomen M.A. and Minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Published by order of both Houses of Parliament.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing N911; Thomason E63_7; ESTC R8797	23,198	43

with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Fourthly 4. By improving this light to the working of holinesse God makes his Church a praise by improving sanctifying this knowledge to the working of holinesse in the hearts and lives of his people this was the praise of Ierusalem it was a holy City this is the praise of the Church they are a holy people Deut. 26.18 19. The Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people as he hath promised thee and that thou shouldest keep all his Commandements and to make thee high above all Nations which he hath made and that thou maiest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God as he hath spoken Abundance of light unsanctifyed would make the Church if it were possible rather hell then heaven and make men but like the devills who know much but are the more desperately wicked therefore we must pray that God would sanctify that knowledge wherewith he filleth his Church that so the beauty thereof may be perfect Yee that are the Lords Remembrancers keep no silence give him norest till he make Ierusalem thus a praise Fifthly God makes his Church a praise 5. By encreasing his Church by encreasing his Church by enlarging the tents and extending the cords of it this is a blessing God calls his Church to rejoyce in Esay 51.1 2 3. Sing O barren c. break forth into singing c. enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations spare not lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left and thy seed shall inherite the Gentiles and make the desolate Cities to be inhabited We are to pray that God would make his Church a praise thus also Thus you have Right Honourable Honourable Reverent and beloved in our Lord Iesus the sense of this doctrine as fully as my weak thoughts in the little time I had to bestow upon this work were able to comprehend it yee see for whom we are to pray Ierusalem the Church of God in generall our own in particular yee see what it is we are to desire for the one for the other truth peace and praise such a trinity of blessings as the blessed Trinity hath none better to bestow upon the dearly beloved of his soul while she sojourns upon earth I know I speak to an Auditory so rationall as I shal not need confirm this truth by reasons to so cordiall to the Church of God as I shall as little need to stir you up to the practice of this truth by application The point confirmed by examples else I might fill up a large portion of the time remaining in telling you how all the Lords remembranters in all the ages of the Church under the Law under the Gospell have exemplified this truth under the Law before the Captivity Moses Samuel David Isaiah Ieremy which of the Lords Prophets have not made the establishing and beautifying of Ierusalem the burthen of their prayers In the captivity though they had lost their Vrim and Thummim and the fire of the Sanctuary that came from heaven yet they had not lost this holy heavenly disposition of praying for Ierusalem see abundant evidence of it in Ezekiel Daniel Mordecai and after the captivity in Ezra Nehemiah and others And now in the times of the Gospell the same spirit still animates Gods children and enclines their hearts still to seek the good of Ierusalem how doe the Apostles in severall Epistles testify this disposition in them Rom. 1.9 God is my witnesse whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son that without ceasing I make mention of you saith that Apostle to the Church of Rome alwayes in my prayers so Ephes 1.16 17. making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glory may give unto you c. Yea so much religion have the Saints of God before us placed in this duty of praying for Ierusalem that they have deprecated the neglect of this as a most abominable sinne 1 Sam. 12.23 As for mee God forbid that I should sinne against you in ceasing to pray for you nay have imprecated a curse upon themselves if ever they should be so wretched Psal 137.5 6. If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning if I doe not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth if I prefer not Ierusalem above my chiefe joy it is one of the greatest judgements that can befall a Prophet to be silenced witnesse Zachary whose unbeleef God punished with this as an only judgement witnesse those amongst our selves that have had their mouths stopped by the violent hand of man who know what it is to have the word of God as a fire in their bones and no vent for it yet even to this doth the Prophet here curse himselfe If I forget thee O Ierusalem if I doe not remember to mourn for thee to pray for thee let me never pray more let mee never speak more if I forget to speak for thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth The good Lord be mercifull to every one of us and pardon all our forgetfulnesse of Ierusalem whom we have as much cause and reason to remember as ever any had Proved by Reasons For 1 is not Ierusalem a Heb. 12.22 the city of God the b 1 Tim. 3.15 house of God the c Psal 135.4 Titus 2.14 peculiar of God the d Isaiah 62.4 delight of God e Isay 62.2 the crown of glory the royall diadem in the hand of God is not f Cant. 5.2 the Love the dove the Spouse the sister g Eph 1.23 the body h Eph 1.23 the fulnesse i 2 Cor. 8.23 the glory of Iesus Christ and in all these respects doth it not deserve our prayers And secondly are not earth and hell up in armes against Ierusalem are not men and devils in league together to confound and destroy Ierusalem Psalm 83.3 4. They have taken crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones They have said Come and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance Geball and Ammon and Amalek c. And doth not Ierusalem in this respect now need our prayers And thirdly hath not the Lord made promises unto Ierusalem of these things we are to pray for of truth and peace Ierem. 33.6 I will cure them and reveal abundance of truth and peace unto them as also of praise v. 9. It shall be to me a name of joy a praise and an honour before all the Nations of the earth and Zeph. 3.20 I will make you a name and a praise among all the people of the earth And is not the Lord able to accomplish