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A66069	Babylons ruine, Jerusalems rising set forth in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons on the 25 Octob. being the day appointed for the monthly fast, solemnly to be observed / by Henry Wilkinson ...	Wilkinson, Henry, 1610-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2220; ESTC R40697	33,450	42

encouragements that triple combination of three Kingdomes will shake the Triple Crown for it was the course that Antichrist took to establish his Throne by confederacies and oathes Rev. 13. 16 17. the mark there may be taken for that indelible character which those that were in orders did receive as the Papists affirm when they did bind themselves by oath to defend and promote the Papall See or it may be taken for that solemn Oath which a So Ot●o primus anno 942. swore to Iohn 12 Pope Se●sanctam ecclesiam Rom. Iohan. rector 〈◊〉 ej●s exaltaturum s●cundum posses●u● Distinct 63. 〈◊〉 Tibi domino And lib. Pontifical the Emperours Oath is set downe prom●tut spondet polli●●tur at que jurat coram Deo ●ea●o Petro se de caetero protectorum procuratorem difeaserem ●ore summi 〈◊〉 sancte Ecclesiae Rom. c. Clement Lib. 2. Tit. De jurejurand● Emperours took in which they did sweare allegeance to the Pope others also did usually swear to maintain the Church of Rome and there was an oath framed not long since with an c. in it in which wee must have sworn up Prelacie and something else Now as the Papall Hierarchy hath been sworn up so it must be sworn down the sealed servants of God Rev. 7. 2. i. e. those that have bound themselves by oath and Covenant to him for oathes are seales shall confound the marked servants of the Beast 6 There be many intimations and prognosticks of the overthrow of Babylon and of the reedifying of Ierusalem of the rising of the one and of the ruine of the other amongst many I will point out some few 1 The Churches of God are brought to a very low ebbe and a most past hopes they have travelled with sorrow and brought forth Benonies teares the issues of sorrow now the time of the Churches groaning and sighing is the time in which the Embryo of deliverance and mercy is begun in the womb and the acutest throwes and pangs of the Church have been immediate fore-runners of some child of promise of some Isaac to the Church In the mount it shall be seen So it was with Israel Exod. 2. 23 24 25. and Psal 102. from the 2. to the 13. is set forth the low condition of the Church and vers 13. is Gods time set forth to arise for the help of his people 2 The pride cruelty and impudence of the Churches enemies shew that they are ripe for ruine the iniquity of the Amorites is almost full the filling up of the measure of their iniquity is not onely a fore-runner but a cause and provocation to their ruine and the emptying of the vialls of Gods wrath when they are on the highest pinnacles of glory and ambition and insolencie then they are neerest their downfall Isa 14. 13 14 15 16. and Apoc. 18. 7 8. 3 The generall shakings and earth-quakes of Kingdomes For when Christ doth doe any notable things for his Church against his adversaries he shakes the foundations and pillars of States and Kingdoms The truth is when the Lord doth any notable things in the world you shall find that there hath beene great tumults and commotions in States Jer. 5. ult Ioel 3. 16. At the ruine and fall of the Caesarean Empire after the death of Iulian there was mighty earth-quakes and also great commotions and shakings of Nations a Ammian Marcel l. 26. c. 31. H●ron vita Hi●ionis Ammian ibid. in c. ●0 Socrat l. 4. c. 27. Paul Diac. Hist Miscell lib. 12. c. 14. Med. Apost of the latter times into Christi 367. which was about the time of the ruine of Rome heathen gravis extit●t terrae m●tus velut per universum orbem Rom. bellicum canontibus buccinis excitatae gentes saevissimae limites si●i proximos persultabant Gallians Rhaetiasqu● simul Alemann● popu●abantur Sarmatae l'ann●n●am Quadi●●icti Saxones Scoti A●●acorti Britannos aerumnis ve●avere continuis A●oriani Ma●r caeque a●iae gentes Africam solito acrius incursabant Thraci●s diripiebant praedatorii 〈◊〉 Gothorum Persarum Rex Armeniis manus ini●ctabat C●luver hist. Epit. 〈◊〉 Oros lib. 7. cap. 3● Certainely God hath some great work in hand otherwise he would not thus shake the Heavens and Earth as he now doth 4 The great number of choice and excellent spirits ●itted on purpose for some extraordinary employments you shall find still when God had any notable designe he raised up some eminent instrument which he would honour so farre as to make use of to bring the businesse to passe The truth is those that have appeared in the world in any more notable degree of eminence and have been singled out for noble and heroick services it hath pleased God to imprint some speciall characters upon their spirit that so thereby he might as it were authorize them for employments So Moses Ioshuah Samuel Deborah Gedeon Sampson David Solomon Cyrus Zorobabel Nehemiah I might instance in Prophets and Apostles which came to those great places and designes to which they were called with certain impressions of a Divinity upon them this makes me think there is some notable design which God is now bringing 〈◊〉 in regard he hath prepared so many instruments to set on work I doe beleeve the world never had the spirits of men more elevated and raised up to the highest pitch aiming at nothing under a thorow Reformation Zion and Ierusalem is in their eye and in their heart continually Men seem to be aspiring and even ambitious to contribute something to that work which shall be the glory of the world 5 The generall talk throughout the houshold among the domesticks is that Christ their King is comming to take possession of his Throne they doe not onely whisper this and tell it in the eare but they speak it publikely now you know that before that Kings do go to a place their purpose is first known among their domestick servants it is talked of within doores first and then it is published abroad and you shall have harbingers to prepare their way This hath been the newes quite through the houshold and harbingers have been sent abroad it is a sign that he is not far off it will not be long before he will come 6 The Gods of Babylon are in disgrace and scorned and trampled on an evident sign of approaching ruine if once the Gods of a Nation be taken and captivated the Nation must not cannot stand long Now the Idols of Rome are in great discredit and those are the gods of Rome for the Idols of a place are called in Scripture the gods of a place Ier. 16. 13. The Idols the Pictures Images Crucifixes superstitious practices Reliques and Ceremonies Rites and Customes with the Lawes of their Gods are scorned and disdained and loathed Is 46. 1. 2. It is said Bel boweth down Nebo stoopeth c. the famous Idol gods fall down Gods judgements were executed upon them Babylon doth

they have spent their stock of hopes long before the time and season in which we should most hope Vse 2 This teacheth us to wait the Lords leisure although we doe see hornes that have pushed the Church and scattered it it will not be long before we shall see Carpenters nay our comfort is we doe see them and they are at work already on the hornes and have knocked some of them off Since God stayes long in our apprehensions before he delivers and we cannot accelerate or hinder the course of his Providence it behoves us to wait upon it and to follow it but not to out-runne it considering also that as we cannot conduct and lead on the motions and periods of Providence so it often falls out that when things are desperate in the eyes of man then in the course of Gods Providence and Chronology there be the greatest emergencies for new expectations This therefore should teach us dependance on this God which commands deliverances when things are deplored and desperate that can work salvation out of ruines Let us remember that he which believeth will not make hast but as it is 2 Chron. 20. 12 he will have his eyes on the Lord remembring that Hab 2. 3. 4. The vision I may say of the Carpenters is for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lie though it tarry yet wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry c. Vse 3 This should comfort Gods people very much in regard they have a God who can and doth bring in a full sea of comforts when they are at the lowest ebbe of misery there is alwayes a remedy very neer their misery The Church may be in Hagars condition all her stock of hopes may be spent and she may give her children for lost as Hagar did she may sit and weep for want of reliefe and yet there is a well of mercy close by her though she doth not see it as there was close by Hagar Gen. 21. 15 16 17 18 19. Here is a comfort that for every danger there is a deliverer laid in for and bespoke before-hand that he should be in a readinesse the provident God hath fore-cast for every horn a Carpenter and the Carpenter which God sets on work proves too hard for the horn there is a builder for every breaker downe and a repayrer for every destroyer It must needs be a very great comfort whilst we consider how that the Church never did receive any great blow by a push from any horn but God provided a present remedy God that fore-saw the enemies of the people of God provided a Ioshuah raised up the valiant Iudges and Kings and Prophets and Apostles c. for his people God provided a David for a Goliah a Mordecai and Hester for Haman a Cyrus for Babylon You shall find for your comfort in Ecclesiasticall story that if any heresie did arise as a horn against the truth God provided a Carpenter with his Mallet to knock down that horn whence our famous Divines are called Haereticorum mallei For the a Hist Conc. Nic. prae Con. Nic. ex ed. Bin. Tom. 1. Conc. Tom. 1. Conc. Gen. provi● Ephes Conc. par 〈◊〉 Act. 1. ex ed. Binii ex lib. Nestor collect Arrian Heresie that struck at the Divinity of Christ you had the first great Councell of Nice Then for the Heresie of Nestorius b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then followes the sentence of condemnation from the whole Synod c Tom 2. Gen. provin Conc. ed. 〈◊〉 Bi● Ephes Conc. par 2. act 1. d Tom. 1. Con. Ep Leonis 81. 95. de blasphemiis Nestorii Eutych ex Sur ed. Tom. 3. Conc Chalced. 2. par Act. 4. ex ed. ●in Vid. 〈◊〉 Conc. Constant 〈◊〉 1. Conc. Bin. that made two persons in Christ the Ephesine Councell was called and the heresie condemned As for the heresie of Macedonius that denyed the Divinity of the Holy Ghost the Councell of Constantinople to suppresse that And then for the heresie of Eutyches which affirmed but one nature in Christ the Councell of Chalcedon was called for the extirpation of that I might be large in this kinde but I forbeare I now come to the second Proposition which was the sixt That when God raiseth up Carpenters they shall carry on the worke The 2. Propos both for plucking down and building up maugre all opposition whatsoever to the contrary The Babylonian hornes which hindered the deliverance of Gods people and the building of the Temple were knocked off and broken down by Cyrus and others that God raised up and the building of Ierusalem went on Ezra 1. 1 2 3. c. Then afterwards the enemies prevailed so far that they hindered the building Ezra 5 6. 24. then cap. 6. 1 2. c. you have a Decree for the building Then Haggai's and Zacharies prophesies stirred them up to build Ezr. 5. 1. Zech. 4. 7. the Mountaine that stood before Zorobabel is made plain The reason of this is plain Zech 4. 6. because when God sets men on worke where there be least hopes of doing any good yet the work shall go on Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit sayes God It is not thus to be understood as if he would make use of no instruments for he did then make use of Carpenters for the building of Ierusalem but by my Spirit i. e. I will so rule and order and dispose of things by my Spirit those means that I shall use that it shall appeare I did it and that my name was written upon every part of the businesse It appeares to be Gods Spirit and hand in bringing things to passe first when a matter falls out unexpectedly and strangely and suddenly as we see that deliverance of David 1 Sam. 23. 26 27. Or secondly when God workes by contraries Psal 112. 4. as when light springs out of darknesse or when that which was intended for ruine becomes an Antidote when the wicked are taken in their owne crafts Psal 7. 15 16. Thirdly when God works by weak and contemptible meanes 1 Cor. 27. 28. Fourthly when many casualties and accidents falling in together are wisely ordered to advance a businesse as appeares in Mordecai's case Esth 6. 1 2 3 6 7. So that when God calls men to any speciall service it shall be done for he engageth himselfe in a speciall manner for the doing of it Whence it is that God for the encouragement of his servants in great businesses tells them ●o I am with you as if he should say my wisdom and power shall be with you both for the ordering and effecting of the designe When God called Moses to that great worke of leading his people out of Egypt he speaks that encouraging language Exod. 3. 10 11 12. I will be with thee and chap. 4. 10 11 12. he confirmes him in like manner though