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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81919	Israels call to march out of Babylon unto Jerusalem: opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 26, 1645, being the day of publique humiliation. / By John Durye, a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1646 (1646)	Wing D2867; Thomason E310_3; ESTC R9717	35,715	55

it proposeth unto it self are chiefly two Policie and Power The greatnes of this world doth walk upon these two leggs Rabsakeh doth acknowledge that counsell and strength are for warre and all the states of Isa 36. 5. this world are states of warre for there is no peace to the wicked saith the Lord Isa 48. 22. By policy we understand all the contrivances of humane wit and reason to compasse self-ends and whether the contrivance be fair or foul if it but reach the end it will serve the turne of a naturall states-man Babylon doth boast of her wisdom Isa 47. 10 12 13. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge hath perverted thee saith the Prophet and immediately before Thou hast trusted in thy wickednes thou hast said None seeth me The men of this world lay their plots deep they seek deep to hide their counsell from the Lord their works are in the dark and they say Who seeth us who knoweth us Isa 29. 15. But the children of light delight to walk in the light and in the presence of their God to doe all things openly because they know that nothing is hid but it shall be revealed The counsells of Babylon are not only such as proceed from the principles of naturall truth honest and justice whereunto all pretend for their own ends but such as admit of all craft subtilty and deceit nay of witch-craft sorceries and inchantments Stand now with thine inchantments and the multitude of thy sorceries wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth saith the Prophet And this is the finall result of all humane deceits and policies which tend to wickednes Satan becomes their oracle The power of Babylon is all the riches the strength and the authority which it can purchase to make it self considerable whereby it doth exalt it self in comparison of others and what with allurements on the one side and with terrours on the other or with actuall violence it laboureth to bring all into subjection to it self But the means by which the City of God doth compasse the end of her government are also two namely the word and the spirit This is my Covenant with them saith the Lord my Spirit which is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed The Covenant on Gods part is to furnish his Church with the Word and Spirit these are the two guides of truth to lead all that come to God in all his truth by these two namely through the spirit according to the word the Church is setled in a way of government under Christ with diversities of offices and differences of gifts of administrations and of operations answerable thereunto the office of ministring the Word 1 Cor. 1● and Sacraments the office of ruling and overseeing the flock the office of distributing unto the necessities of the Saints are the principall and ordinary means of bringing the Citizens of Jerusalem to have communion with God The administration of Instruction of Exhortation of Comfort of Reproof and of Correction in the way of government judgement and discipline by the use of the keys of the Kingdome of Heaven to shut it upon the refractory and to open it unto the penitent sinners are the duties of those to whom the offices are committed all which they must doe not in a Lordly way but according to the rule as stewards of the mysteries and manifold gifts and graces of God ordained for the edification of the Children of God in the household of Faith The manner of dealing which Babylon useth towards 4 4. In their opposite manner of dealing Revel 17. 3. her subjects is that which men use towards beasts she rideth upon the beast I understand this of the beastly part of humane nature for the corruption of our nature in that which is sensuall and carnall doth put us in the case and condition of beasts to be ruled and governed as they are this way of ruling men as beasts is practised when with absolute power she doth bring her subjects unto absolute obedience when they are bound to doe all by an implicite faith ignorantly only because she doth command it to be done even as a horse turneth this or that way only because he that rideth on him doth draw the bridle to the right or left hand When they are led by baits and sensuall allurements of pleasure or profit or imaginary greatnes and when they are over-awed with the whip and the spurre and driven to doe whatsoever she doth please without any respect to reason or conscience for their own good but only to exalt her greatnes in this world And this is the way of all humane government which is meerly naturall nay the use of naturall reason as it reflecteth upon outward things without respect unto God doth teach the great ones of this world none other way to deal with their subjects and herein the great Romish whore of Babylon the Mother of Fornication hath outstript all the rest of the Earth in policy and shewed to all the Kings of the earth the depth of the mystery of iniquity in this government so that they have drunk out of the cup of her fornications and their statesmen have committed adultery with her But the manner of dealing which is used in the City of God towards the inhabitants of Jerusalem is not at all Arbitrary it is altogether Legall there is but one Law-giver Jesus Christ and under him the government is to be administred even as he himself when he was in the flesh did behave himself in the administration thereof towards his subjects He was not as a Lord over them but as their servant in love to admit of them and to receive them to the glory of God His way of dealing was to inlighten their understandings to exhort them and to lead them forth in the way wherein they were to walk and to go before them By this rule all the officers of his Kingdom are to walk towards his servants all his true servants are his members and these have as great a right in him as those whom he hath made rulers over them in him they are all but fellow-servants and Brethren and the meanest of them in case of any offence may call the greatest nay though he were an Apostle yea and the chiefest of the Apostles as we see it fell out in Acts chap. 11. to an account to shew the grounds and reason of his proceeding in any matter and to this effect Thrones of judgement are set even Thrones of the house of D●vid within Jerusalem By the means of these thrones all the liberties and priviledges of the Children of God are preserved and none for all are alike accountable to them is suffered to live and doe what he pleaseth in an Arbitrary way whether he be high or low to the throne of Christ he must stoop or be