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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04605	Londons looking backe to Ierusalem, or, Gods iudgements vpon others, are to be obserued by vs	Jones, John, minister at St. Michael Basenshaw, London.	1633 (1633)	STC 14722; ESTC S119135	33,692	66

the powers of darknesse into the kingdom of thy deare Sonne What shall wee doe that haue thus sinned against thee ô thou preseruer of men whither shall we goe from thy spirit or whither shall we sly from thy presence If we ascend up into heaven thou art there if we make our bed in the deepe thou art there if wee take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea even there shall thy hand finde us No darkenesse can cover us from thy all-seeing eye no place can shelter us from thy almighty hand thy judgements can follow us and thy vengeance take hold on us whithersoever we goe What then shall we doe in this perplexity In all humility wee cast downe our selves before the throne of thy mercy bewailing our misery with bleeding hearts and throbbing soules deploring our misery imploring thy mercy condemning our selues confessing our sins promising purposing and resoluing with all our hearts to forsake our sinnes Though we are out of measure sinfull yet thou art out of measure mercifull thou art infinite in mercy and with thee is plenteous redemption The greater our sins are the greater shall be the glory of thy mercy and of thy Sons merits in forgiving our sinnes which are so many and so great Pardon therefore we pray thee all our sins past wash us from them in the pure laver of thy Sons blood It is not the river Iordan nor all the rivers of Damascus that can cleanse us from our spirituall leprosie onely thy Son thine onely Sonne and that pure fountaine of thy Sonnes blood which thou hast opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem for sin and for uncleannesse In that blood we beseech thee to wash us from our sins from the guilt of sin from the punishment of sin from the power of sin with that blood purge our consciences from dead workes and quicken us by thy Spirit unto a new life that we may serve thee the true and ever-living God zealously without feare universally without partiality sincerely without hypocrisie constantly without apostacy in all righteousnesse and true holinesse all the dayes of our liues that the end of our life may be the end of our faith which is the saluation of our soules And although we are unworthy to pray for our selues yet in the name of thy Sonne we are bold to enlarge our prayers for thy whole Church howsoeuer distressed or whersoever dispersed throughout the parts of the whole earth Give thy Gospell a free passage repaire the ruines of Sion build up the broken walles of Ierusalem and with the breath of thy nostrills blow downe the walls of Iericho In thy due time put an end to the troubles of the Church abroad Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand and doest not plucke it out of thy bosome how long oh Lord how long wilt thou suffer the blood of thy seruants to be spilt upon the ground Thou that didst once heare and regard the blood of Abel one man crying for vengeance wilt thou not heare the blood of many thousands What advantage canst thou have in giving over thy owne children to the fury of their enemies shall thy enemies triumph and thy children perish shall thy enimies reioyce thy children mourne shall the light of thy Gospell be eclipsed the splendour of thy glory obscured thy temple defiled thy name dishonoured thy truth slandered Are they of Babilon better than they of Sion or is there any other people that knoweth thee besides Israel or what generation hath so beleeued thy couenant as Iacob Arise then oh Lord arise plead thy owne cause honour thy owne name defend thy owne altar fight thy owne battaile protect thy owne people behold the pride of the wicked and send thy wrath upon their heads throw downe the forces of all them that haue purposed cruel things against thy Sanctuary against the top of Sion thy hallowed house the place where thine honour dwelleth Make every nation to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power that there is none other that protects thy Church and truth but thou onely Protect thy Church and truth among us and all that thou hast placed in authority over us especially his sacred Maiesty Charles by thy gracious providence King of great Britaine France and Ireland defender of the true ancient Catholick Apostolick faith and in all causes and over all persons as well Ecclesiasticall as civill next under thee and thy Sonne Christ supreme governour Blesse we beseech thee his royall consort Queene Mary beseeching thee that with Mary shee may chuse the better thing that cannot be taken from her Blesse the present pledges of our succeeeding hopes Prince Charles with lady Mary his sister O Lord grant that as they grow in yeares so they may grow in grace and favour with thee and with men Blesse the rest of the Royall progenie beyond the scaes the Lady Elizabeth with her princely issue when thou seemest best settle them againe in their former inheritance that they may be nursing Fathers and mothers unto thy Church Blesse the Right Honorable the privie Councel the true hearted Nobility and Gentrie of our Land the Reverend Iudges all vnto whom thou hast committed the sword of iustice all Ministers vnto whom thou hast committed the sword of the spirit what names or titles soever distinguished whether Archbishops Bishops or inferiour Pastors And that there may be a continuall supply of able men to governe both in Church and common wealth blesse all nurseries of good learning especially the two famous Vniversities of this Land Cambridge and Oxford water the young plants that are in both of them with the dew of thy grace that they may grow vp as Cedars in Lebanon for the building of Sion And comfort all that are comfortlesse oh thou Father of comfort and God of all consolation visite the sicke strengthen the weake heale the wounded bind vp the broken hearted gather the dispersed redeeme them that are enthralled releeue them that are impoverished succour them that are tempted restore them that are fallen by infirmitie and establish them that stand by thy free spirit Finally giue a blessing we pray thee to this our meeting in this thy house vpon this thy day to speake and to heare thy holy word O Lord God I am a child and cannot speake I am of polluted lipes and slow of speech but thou art he that canst giue sight to the blind and speech to the dumbe therefore untie the strings of my stamering tongue and touch it with a coale from thine alter my doctrine shall drop as doth the raine and as the dew vpon the grasse And for this thy people touch their eares and their hearts with the finger of thy blessed spirit that they may heare thy word attentiuely conceiue it rightly beleeue it readily apply it wisely treasure it upon their memories faithfully practise it in their life and conversations conscionably so all our

Lord in Shiloh In this respect Shiloh was the place of God my place saith the Lord the place where I did set my name that is * Calvin in loc Vbi volui arcam residere where I made my Ark to dwell for * 2 Sam. 6.2 the Arke is called by the name of God and the Hebrew word imports a fixed residence my place the place where I appointed my worship and the use of my ordinances by which I am made knowne unto you as a man is made knowne by his name And which is yet more I did not onely set my name there but did set it there at the first In principio before your Temple was built nay before it was known that mount Sion should be the place where I would have a Temple built then was Shiloh my place consecrated to my service All this considered First the propinquity of the place it is Shiloh and that 's but six miles distant from your Citty Secondly the glory of the place together with the sanctity of it that it is my place that which I made choice of above all other places in the world there to set my name to settle my Ark Tabernacle divine worship Thirdly the antiquity of the place and priviledges of it that I did set my name there at the first long before the Temple of Ierusalem was thought on I say all this considered it will bee worth your labour to follow my councell in this Goe yee now c. But to goe thither is not all that were soone done to an Ite you must adde a Videte Go and see as the King of Israel said to his servants 2 Kings 7.14 Your feete your ankles your locomotive faculty were given you to goe the spheares of your eyes these lights this sharpnes of sight were given you to see you are neither lame nor blinde therefore Ite videte Goe and see The Philosopher * Arist lib. de sensu et sensato c. 2. concludes against the Platonists that the fight drawes most after the Element of water for * Arist de Gener Corrupt l. 2. c. 2. as water is hardly kept within his owne or without the limits of his neighbour Elements so the sight denied by nature to see it selfe is never satisfied * Prov. 27.20 with gazing upon other creatures The eye is not satisfied with seeing Eccles 1.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a volubitatè Scapula And there is not more volubillity * Prov. 27.20 in the eye then curiosity in the minde of man to behold strange and uncouth sights If such obiects be neere no lockes can hold us we must out to see Then what needs such a precept as this in our Text Ite videte Goe and see Yes for it is not barely to see to cast their eyes where they list themselves but to fixe them upon that obiect to which God directs them See saith he what I did unto Shiloh for c. Marke the calamity which befell that place which is in situation so neere you in antiquity beyond you in glory and sanctity sometimes equall to that Temple wherein yee trust The calamity of it is recorded 1 Sam. 4. Where yee shall reade that the Israelites being smitten by the Philistims and in great distresse they sent for the Arke out of Shiloh trusting that the Arke being a pledge of Gods presence and assistance might then save them out of the hands of their enemies as if their sinnes were not of force to sever the power of God from the Arke and to make a divorce between the truth and the figure Well the Arke is brought and in it the Law written in tables but it had beene better if they had had the Law written in their hearts when the Arke came into the campe all Israel shouted with a great shout so that the earth rang againe Her 's great joy but to little purpose they triumph before the victory and without the victory for they triumph without God Calvin Hom. 17. in lib 1. Sam. nay against God do they erect their trophees of triumph not being reconciled unto him by faith and repentance The vanity of their triumph may appeare by the issue of the battell for at the presence of the Arke they received a greater overthrow then before The slaughter was very great for there fell of Israel 3 0000. footemen Their young men were consumed and their Priests slaine yea the Arke it selfe the pledge of Gods favour and succour the strength and glory of Israel was taken by the enemies And as S. Ierome * apud Sanctiū in Ier. 7 1● Sic etiam Pellican ibid. observes the place where Shiloh was is utterly ruinated and made desolate Howsoever Shiloh forfeited her Charter and lost her former priviledges * Christophor a Castro ibid. 1 Sam. 7.1 the residence of the Arke For after the Philistimes had brought it to Bethshemesh it was fetcht to Kiriath-jearim and so carried from place to place but never more to Shiloh where it had continued from the dayes of Ioshuah to the death of Eli 369. yeares Ghisler in Ier. 7 12. according to the Chronologie of the Hebrewes or 351. according to the Computation of other Authors This was the calamity which befell Shiloh it ceased for ever to be the place of Gods worship which came not to passe by chance but by the Divine providence See saith the Lord what I did unto it The Philistims were but my instruments in this worke I the chiefe Agent Non vires ferri Anson Epigr. 5. sed ferientis agunt I did it And yet I did it not out of any hatred but in my iustice not because I desired their woe but because I was provoked by their sinne even the Wickednesse of my people Israel My people for so were they in Shiloh as well as you in Ierusalem My people not onely as all by right of possession but as you by the right of confederation and the grace of acceptation But such is the righteousnes of my nature such the purity of mine eyes that I cannot with approbation behold sinne no Amos 3.2 not in mine owne people If they whome I have so much honored as to be my people will so dishoner me as to commit wickednes against me I cannot but glorifie my selfe by doing iustice upon thē Thē consider this ye that now professe your selves to be my people and glory so much in the beautie of your temple Goe yee now c. Hitherto be it spoken of the words exegetically I now come to handle them Doctrinally And now taske your wits and your memories and keepe pace with me for within the compasse of the time I shall runne over these five observations all of them naturally deduced not tyranously inforced from the words 1. Where God doth set his name that 's the peculier place of God 2. The holinesse of the place cannot protect a people except there