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A88141	Elias redivivus: a sermon preached before the honorable House of Commons, in the parish of Saint Margarets West minster, at the publike fast, March 29, 1643. By John Lightfoote, preacher of the Gospel at Bartholomew Exchange, London.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing L2053; Thomason E99_11; ESTC R20324	33,230	56

was a man as may be guessed by his writings of a very shallow wit Yet was he the Author of the like error to most Ecclesiasticall men who cited this mans antiquity for the defence of their part as Irenaeus and whosoever else is of the same opinion with him I will not censure nor condemne the opinion but referre it to superiour examination onely this I cannot but say of it that I doe not remember that ever I heard or read of an opinion of so extreame and monstrous strangenesse that in so short a time hath gotten so great a beliefe and so large an entertainment and neither tongue or pen hath stirred against it It is our hope and prayer that once you may have liberty and leisure from the great rent in the whole peece of the State to looke upon the rippings in the seames of the Church that such opinions as this and others may be taken either by you or by your authority into examination before like Joab and Abishai the sons of Zerviah they grow too strong and defie a tryall The Spirit and power of Elias is held by some to meane but one and the same thing his powerfull Spirit So indeed sometime runneth the sense of the Hebrew stile As in that answer of our Saviour Joh. 14. 6. I am the way the truth and the life the scope of the question that occasioned it seemeth to call it to such a sense I am the true and the living way Others distinguish the meaning with the words and by the Spirit of Elias understand patience and tolerancy of persecution and by the power the prevalent and efficacious virtue of his ministration But we need not to goe farre for interpretations when either the words are of no great difficulty or what they be of will easily be explained by the Scripture it selfe By Elias his Spirit then are we to understand not his owne within him but the Spirit of the Lord or of Prophecy upon him And so his spirit is said to be upon John as Moses his spirit was upon the Elders and the spirit of the same Elias upon Elisha By the power of Elias upon the Baptist is not meant the power of miracles for John wrought none wheras Elias did many but his power of preaching for the conversion of many unto God So that whereas the ancient Prophets of the Law and among them Elias had a double power of the Spirit upon them To foretell things to come and to worke miracles so had John the first Prophet of the Gospell a double power but of another nature and a better He foretold not things to come but he explained those that had him foretold and he wrought not miracles upon bodies but he was miraculously powerfull upon soules Now should we come to compare Elias the Baptist ther we should finde them agree in many parallels as that they both came in very corrupt times that they both restored religion very much in that corruption that they were both persecuted exceedingly for that restoring Elias by Ahab and Jezabell and John by Herod and Herodias and divers other agreements upon which not to insist because they bee obvious to every eye this collection may we take up from the words in hand That Elias is a proper and pregnant patterne for Reformers As when Moses was making the Sanctuary and the appurtenances God often cals upon him to make all things according to the patterne which was shewed him in the mount So in this like worke of yours which you have in hand can you platforme out a reformation by a better patterne then by Elias since you will not doe it but by some patterne from the Mount A man that in the text is a copy to John the Baptist in his reforming And a man that in his owne time restored all things as our Saviour saith of him Mat. 17. 11. And fitly then may he be a patterne for these times of ours He restored perishing religion the decaying law he restored forgotten Prophecy and as the Jews hold forsaken Circumcision for of Circumcision doe they understand those words of Elias himselfe They have forsaken thy Covenant 1 King 19. 14. And of Elias the restorer of Circumcision they misunderstand those words of the Prophet The Angell or Messenger of the Covenant Mal. 3. 1. But I stand not here as a Surgeon over his Anatomy to reade unto you a Lecture of reforming upon the Sceleton of Elias it were beyond good manners as it is beyond my skill Let me addresse my selfe to you that sit by and are spectators of these Worthies as they labour in their worke in a word or two of application and that according to the two words that are before us the Spirit of Elias and his power 1. By the Spirit of Elias I told you is understood the Spirit of God that was upon him Now as the Apostle saith x Cor. 12. 4. the Spirit was but one but the gifts were diverse For looke in the fourth of the Acts and the thirty first it is said of the Apostles there that when they had prayed the place was shaken and they were filled with the Holy Ghost And so they had beene some dayes before namely on Pentecost day Act. 2. 4. Now they having beene filled then how can they be said to be filled againe Why then with the gift of tongues and now with the gift of holy boldnesse for for that it was they prayed ver. 29. Among the diverse gifts then of the holy Spirit that Elias had this is not the last nor the least that made him renowned His extraordinary zeale for the Lord of Hostes So much expresseth he concerning himselfe 1 King 19. 10. 14. And so much seemeth our Saviour to aime at in his answer to his two disciples that would have fire fetched from heaven as Elias had done Ye know not saith he what manner of spirit ye are of Luk. 9. 55. of a zeale beyond your warrant and you would be forward you know not how The thing that you may take notice of from hence is this That no true reformation can be expected which is not carried on with a spirit of zeale The workes of God must be wrought with his Spirit they that desire to forward his glory must do it with a holy forwardnesse It is the honour of Levi Deut. 33. 9. that when he was about the imployment of the Lord he was so zealous in it that he forgot all civill relations and said unto his father and to his mother I have not seene him neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor knew his owne children And so our Saviour in the third of Marke when his mother and kindred would have taken him off from preaching for they said he will faint or he is beside himselfe be it whether it will for the originall word will beare both he was so zealous in the worke in hand that he would not owne

Elias Redivivus A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honorable House OF COMMONS In the Parish of Saint Margarets West minster at the publike Fast March 29 1643. By JOHN LIGHTFOOTE Preacher of the Gospel at Bartholomew Exchange London LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Andrew Crooke and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1643. TO THE HONORABLE the House of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Right Honourable THE great Councell of Ierusalem sate neare the Temple and the greatest managings of the Councell were the matters of Religion Such hath been the posture of your desires and such the bent of your indeavours in all your sitting And as it is ingratitude in any degrees of men not to serve you who strive so much to preserve the State so especially is it in the Ministers of the Temple since you labour so much also to serve the Temple Obedience to your commands is the lowest expression of such a service because it is so naturally due yet is it the highest that my meannesse can reach unto Readinesse being joyned to that obedience These are the two mites that I can tender unto your Corban and the two Turtles that I have to offer at your Altar not having a better or more valuable gift and offering to bring your Noblenesse will please to accept of the gift because of the heart of the giver given with it and like him whom yee represent to account To obey to be better then Sacrifice and to hearken better then the fat of Rams What in obedience to your command was humbly presented to your eares and hearing not long agoe is now upon the like command in the same obedience and humility presented to your eyes and reading If it shall finde acceptance with you it secureth me against al thought or care of inferiors displeasure or exceptions I most humbly and submissively cast it my selfe and all that I am or can at the feete and disposall of your honourable House and because short discourse best fitteth your great occasions cease to trouble you with more words but shall never cease to solicite the Throne of grace for continued defence and blessing upon your persons and indeavours that the Law-giver may never faile till Shiloh come as we desire amongst us And so ever prayeth Your most unworthy but truly devoted Servant John Lightfoote A SERMON Preached before the Honorable House of Commons at the Publike Fast holden March 29. 1643. In the Parish Church of S. Margarets Westminster LUKE 1. 17. And he shall goe before him in the Spirit and power of Elias to turne the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisedome of the just IF ever the Hearts of the Fathers had need to be turned to the children that need is now and if ever the Disobedient had need to be reduced to the wisedome of the just that need is now also but where is the Spirit and where the power where an Elias or where a Baptist to do the worke For if ever those searching and trying times which were spoken of so long agoe by our Saviour in the twelfth of Luk. and the three and fiftieth have overtaken any Nation they have overtaken this of ours Five in one house and they divided three against two and two against three The Father divided against the Sonne and the Sonne against the Father the Mother against the Daughter and the Daughter against the Mother the Mother in law against her Daughter in law and the Daughter in law against her Mother in law And a mans enemies are they of his owne houshold And if ever those irregular and exorbitant behaviours which were spoken of so long agoe by the Prophet Esay in the third of Esay and the fifth have over-runne and forraged any people they have done so by this of ours The people oppressed every one by another and every one by his neighbour the child behaving himselfe proudly against the ancient and the base against the honourable These are our sorrows but where our remedy this our misery but where our redresse For the divisions of Reuben there are great thoughts of heart but who can helpe them for the divisions in the Church for divisions in the State divisions in families divisions in opinions divisions in affections the Lord keepe them out of your two Houses divisions in every division but who can heale them As the Hoste at Nola in the story who when hee was commanded by the Romane Censor to go call the good men of the City to appeare before him went to the Church-yard and there called at the graves of the dead Oh yee good men of Nola come away for the Romane Censor cals for your appearance for hee knew not where to finde a good man alive So in these distractions and distempers of this our Land if we would finde out a joyner of hearts and a moulder of humours that could peece againe the disunited affections and forme againe the unfashioned demeanours of men towards men we might goe and looke for the mansion of Elias or go and knocke at the grave of John the Baptist and call them to come to such a cure as this for they once have wrought so great a cure but who can doe it that is now alive Oh how happy were the case with us if the Spirit and power of Elias were as ready to be found in your two Houses as they were once to be found in John the Baptist and as they are to be seene in the words of the text But as the Arke and the Ephod at the sacking of Nob they which should alwayes have remained together were by that dolefull accident parted asunder and kept at distance even so these two which God once joyned together in Elias and in the Baptist and which the holy Ghost hath joyned together in the words of the text some evill Counsell hath put asunder so that the Spirit is with you but the Power removed a great way off What our Saviour saith concerning offences It cannot be but offences will come but woe to him by whom the offence commeth so may wee dolefully concerning this It is our misery that this divorce is come among us but woe to that Counsell by whom the divorce first came it had beene good for that Counsellour had he never beene borne How happy are those dayes which are spoken of by the Psalmist when mercy and truth are met together and Righteousnesse and Peace doe kisse each other And how happily should we hope to see those dayes and those things in this Land to meet if we could but see these two to meete againe that are now so unhappily removed to distance Well all that we can doe is to seeke to drive them together with our prayers and as Moses for the Vrim and Thummim upon Levi so we for these united upon you to pray in publike and to pray in private to