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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

of the 3 3. Of the calling of the Gentiles Church should be enlarged unto the Gentiles chap. 60. and the Gospel being preached chap. 61. Christ should be married unto them chap. 62. The fourth and last comfort is That notwithstanding 4 4. Of the recalling of the Iews the rejection of the Jews for their rebellion and obstinate refusall of the salvation purchased by Christ and offered unto them chap. 63 64 65 to 17. yet that in end they should be renewed and recalled again and glorifie God together with the Gentiles from ver 17. of chap. 65. to the end of the Prophecy The Text which I have chosen at this time for this day of our Humiliation doth belong to the first head of these comforts and is annexed thereunto as a duty to be performed by those to whom the promise of comfort is given And seeing the end and purpose of our Solemn Humiliation is to obtain this favour of God That our warfare wherein at the present weare may come to a happy end we may be delivered frō the danger of Babylonian captivity which cannot be hoped for except the condition whereupon it is promised be fulfilled Therefore it will not be out of season to put you in minde of this condition is the duty which is to be intended for the attainment of the comfort which we desire But before I come to speak distinctly of the words of the Text I will desire you to observe two things which Two things to be observed in the promise of deliverance from Babylon made by God the Spirit of God doth much insist upon in the proposall of this first comfort concerning the Churches deliverance out of Babylon The one is That it was God and God alone that would be the Authour of that deliverance The other is an argument to make this former truth evidently apparent unto all alledged thus That because God alone had declared and none but he could declare the end of this great work from the beginning That therefore he alone was to be acknowledged the Authour thereof Both these truths are often repeated and much pressed upon us by the Prophet to be taken notice of and almost in every chapter from the 40. to this 52. the first point is delivered the places are these for the first chap. 40. to 10 11 12 13 21. chap. 41. ver 4. 10 20 21 22 23. chap. 42. ver 8 9. and chap. 43. ver 1 2 3 7 10 11 12 13 15 18 19 25. and chap. 44. ver 6 7 8 24. and chap. 45. ver 5 11 18 19 21 22 23. and chap. 46. ver 4 5 9 10 13. chap. 47. 4. chap. 48. ver 3 4 5 6 7 9 11 12 15 16 20. chap. 52. 6. and in many of those chapters the second also is insisted upon the places are these for the second chap. 41. ver 22 23. and chap. 42. ver 9. chap 43. ver 12. chap. 44. ver 7 8. chap. 45. ver 19 21. chap. 46. ver 10. chap. 48. ver ● 4 5 16. the particular places I will not now mention for brevities sake only I thought it fit to put you in minde of these two Doctrines because the Spirit of God doth so much insist upon the truth of them in this matter namely that he even he and none but he should bring this deliverance to passe and that it should be known that it was he and none but he by this that he declared from the beginning Isa 42. 8 9. the end of his works for herein God doth difference himself from Idols and Men and in this deliverance Isa 41. 20 21 2● 23 24 25 26. especially doth he challenge a peculiar emminency of glory in the manifestation of his power and wisdom namely in this that he doth declare the end from the beginning which he hath done ordinarily both in the letter of the Text in plain-words and in the mystery of his working He told Adam in plain tearms from the beginning Gen. 3. 15. the end of the whole work of our salvation which is that the seed of the woman should tread down the head of the Serpent he told Abraham that in his seed all Gen. 12. 13. the nations of the earth should be blessed he told David that upon his Throne his seed should sit for ever and ordinarily Psal 89. 4 29. he hath foretold unto his people by his servants the Prophets the particular judgements which were to befall unto them with the issue thereof as Amos saith Surely the Lord God will doe nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the Prophets Amos 3. 7. But this is not all for God not only doth declare the end from the beginning in the letter of the word but also in the mystery of his work For the foregoing works of God doe represent and hold out as it were in a picture the manner of his way and the issue of the following works So that the work it self doth speak in one period that which is to fall out in another analogically And thus there is besides the litterall a spirituall Sodom and Egypt in the Revelation of Jesus Christ discovered unto us chap 11. 8. Thus also there is a spirituall Babylon from which the Church under the Gospel is to receive a spirituall deliverance which is not only foretold in plain terms but also represented and delineated unto us in the temporall deliverance of the people of God from earthly Babylon which is Typicall unto the spirituall This I have been willing to observe before I come unto my Text because it will have an influence upon the matter which is to be delivered and cleer that unto your understanding which otherwise might perhaps be doubtfull concerning the mysticall Babylon of which I have Reasons why this text was chosen chosen to speak at this time for two great reasons The first is the importance of the work in it self because the destruction of Babylon and the deliverance of the Church out of it is the great work which God doth intend to accomplish by the Gospel in these latter times The second is the relation wherein we doe stand to it for I conceive that God is not only working our deliverance to bring us out of Babylon at this time but that his purpose is if we marre not our selves to make us instrumentall towards others to help to free them from the bondage of it and therefore it will concern us in a speciall manner above others to regard his work and consider the operation of his hands That when you shall see by the contemplation of this matter that this time of our Humiliation is an acceptable time and a day of our Salvation you may with greater willingnes cheerfulnes of minde follow the call by which all the Israel of God is stirred up to march out of Babylon to come to their spirituall Jerusalem according to the exhortation of my Text Depart