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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87519	The return of the sword or a divine prognostick delivered in a sermon at Newcastle : manifesting that breach of covenant is a prognostick of the return of the sword. / By Robert Jenison. Dr. of D.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing J563; Thomason E434_12; ESTC R20621	30,100	36

the Return of the Sword whether from the North or from among our selves again or from forraign Nations God opens our mouths to speak of such things and we find like grounds in Scripture by which now he chiefly speaks to us Heb. 1.11 Op●●ge de sul●●● consuitant qu● 〈◊〉 futu●●um ea●mp●aex prat●●itis ●ament from like threats for like sins which he hath fulfilled and so from like examples of like wrath as here for the same and like sins as we see as particularly here we have the Return of the Sword denounced for mens return to their former sins by breach of Covenant with God and man And so going upon such grounds and seeing God is ever and in all ages like himself we though no extraordinary Prophets yet as Prophets in a larger fence and interpreters of Gods mind and will made known to us in his Word and to us more then to others do still and can give warning and foretel according to the rules of Scripture and method which there God useth and partly by experience what God will do with such a people nation yea and person for we see and observe there how God useth to second and follow former and lesser judgments with greater and at length in case of impenitency to cut off Not to say how God minding to destroy a Nation or to bring evil upon a place seldom if ever doth it indeed till he give warning by his Prophets and by a more peculiar providence both inlighten and excite them to take and give notice of the same that so if men perish they may not say it is because God took them at the worst or watched for occasion against them but that he fairly warned them and that their perishing is on their own head according to that shall there be evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it Amos 3 6 7. Surely the Lord God Will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the Prophets So that by more then bare conjectural Application we can shew men what will be and give warning thereof according to our duty and in so doing we may and ought to say Thus saith the Lord. And God thus confirming his Word spoken by us weak men doth both honor his own truth holiness and justice Psa 145.17 Ezek. 14.23 as also his faithful servants and Ministers thus both proving and approving of them as true Prophets and all other to be time-servers ●ust 〈◊〉 take warning being threatned and not to s●ost Jer. 28.8 9. It will father concern us all of this Nation from the experience we have had of the truth of such forewarnings of the Sword now fulfilled and come to pass whereby he hath confirmed the word of his servants and vouched them to be true Prophets though for their faithfulness in this kind their mouth have been stopped and they forced by the tyrannical power of the high Commission and otherwise to keep silence for any publick discharge of their duty I say now that the evils foretold are come to pass and the mouthes of Gods faithful ones are opened again as Ezekiels was upon the taking of Ierusalem or the news of it it will concern us to give more diligent heed to such forewarnings as are given us by them of the Return of the Sword or of the continuance or renewing of it and to seek by renewing and keeping our Covenants with God and man to prevent the same lest otherwise as Ezekiel having formerly foretold the taking of Ierusalem and thereupon had his mouth stopped yet when upon the news of taking the City his mouth was opened as God had foretold him See and compare Ezek. 3.25 26 27. with Eze. 24.26 27 ch 33.21 22 24 c. to the end he prophesied the destruction or desolation of the whole Land and Gods judgments upon such as mocked him and made light of his prophesie which accordingly came also to pass so Gods true Prophets now having by his mercy their liberty of prophesying restored and foreshewing further judgments the Lord by confirming their word and when such things indeed come to pass do make it fully known and convince such as are now secure and incredulous that he hath not been wanting to them neither first nor last but that a Prophet hath been among them This need not be so strange to us Especially if guilty of like sins that Gods further displeasure in the continuance or renewing of the Sword seems to threaten not the City only but the whole Land especially in these Northern parts when we consider our great security and self-confidence especially upon former good successes whereby among other sins of mocking and despising if not misusing the Prophets of God and faithful Ministers of Christ who are dayly less esteemed then before c. We stand upon our multitude and upon our sword as the Iews did though otherwise we stand still guilty of many pollutions licentious living yea doctrines Ezek. 33.24 25 c. careless performance of vows promises covenants with God and man if not in a manner disavowing the same So that in this our present case of impenitency and that we fully turn not to him that hath smitten us We without presumption or rashness may say that the anger of the Lord is not yet turned away but his hand is stretched out still Seeing Gods method of proceeding with a Nation or City is such as where we profit not by former or present judgments we must expect greater wrath till we perish as Isa 9.11 12 with 13. and as I more fully sh●w in Divine * Preach●d 1625 1626 ' Prognosticks on that text Only in case of a Nations returning to God by Repentance and Humiliation 2 Upon taking warning to hope the evils threatned will be●al o● enemies together with Reformation of life and conversation of Church and State according to Gods Word and true submission thereunto we can both hope and also assure you in the name of God that God will take the cup out of our hands and make the enemies the Popish and Antichristian party especially drink the dreggs of it by turning the dint of the sword and by making war against the beast that as we were the last being with Ireland the remotest Westward who felt the fury of the beast as it was only the last of ten persecutions sc that under Dioclesian which found us out in this Land and reached us for we only for a long time looked on and were spectators of the troubles wars and combustions in all other Kingdoms so if once we were but truly humbled and reformed by occasion of our late troubles and the sword amongst us The devil beast and false prophet having spit out their whole malice throughout the Christian world and ending with us should soon fed the power of Christ or the wrath of the Lamb and be consumed more then ever by the same whilest we should injoy peace with the Gospel