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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88385	A brief exposition upon the second Psalme. Wherein wee have that time modestly pointed at, (by the favourable direction of that significant then in the 5th v.) in which the father will in wrath to the (professing, refined) rulers of the world set his Sonne on Sion. And a description of the work the Son then performeth, both by his spirit, and his mysticall body. With usefull observations thereupon. Tending to clear up the scope of the whole Psalme. With application to our times. / By William Llanvædonon of P.H.C.	Llanvædonon, William, of P.H.C.	1655 (1655)	Wing L2619; Thomason E844_9; ESTC R210352	60,620	69

love the Gospel was glad Tidings but now the word is a word of wrath threatning judgement and destruction to the world for their wicked Apostacies and rebellions against the Lord and his anointed O say they this is no Gospel spirit but a spirit of delusion although it 's but the same Dialect the Holy Ghost useth throughout the Revelation against spiritual Babylon Antichrist At this they stumble and cast the word of life far from them thinking they have good ground so to doe 4 The Apostacy of false Brethren from the truth this is a great stumbling-block to the world by this the world blindly judgeth that the way of the truth is but a meer phansie and hath not that real good in it the world hath otherwise these men would not change their station they cannot think they would take worse for better thus they stumble and fall and perish This is also the judgement of God upon the world 5 The spirituality of the truth At this also the men of the world stumble being blind and not apprehending the truth aright put strange glosses upon it and draw unworthy and uncouth conclusions from it representing it Satan helping them to themselves and others in a monstrous shape at which they stumble and fall and perish As those men did John 6. when Christ had been treating of that great and spiritual Mystery of union with him it is said ver 66. From that time many of his Disciples went back and walked no more with him And vex them or trouble them as it is in the margent in his sore displeasure When God speaks in wrath surely it cannot but bring great trouble to men When God spake in wrath to Saul that he had rejected him and given the Kingdome to a neighbour of his better then he how did it vex and trouble his soule What feare ceized on him How did it torment him when he perceived the Lord being departed from him was with David Oh saith he to his Son Thou Son of a perverse woman doe I not know thou hast chosen the Son of Jesse to thine owne confusion for as long as the Son of Jesse liveth upon the ground thou shalt not be established nor thy Kingdome How was that most excellent King Solomon troubled when God spake in wrath that he had given the greatest part of his Kingdome to another And what trouble and vexation of spirit did it bring to all the Kings of Judah and Israel when at any time God spake unto them in his wrath concerning the matters of their Kingdome The whole History of the Kings make it evident And vex them in his sore displeasure That must needs be a dreadfull and terrible trouble great anxiety of spirit that comes from the sore displeasure of the great God If we can imagine any trouble and vexation to be greater and more deadly then another that must needs be it Vex them in his sore displeasure O dreadfull what horrors what gastly terrours of death will encompasse men about in that day If they turne to the left hand to their Cisternes they have hewne out to themselves behold they are broken and hold no water If to the props they thought to have upheld themselves with behold they are rotten and will not bear them up and if to the arm of flesh the strength of Aegypt they trusted to behold it 's a broken reed and pierceth their hands If to the right hand from whence they are fallen behold nothing but the frowning brow of a wrathfull God and the fiery spirit of an enraged people whose heart burneth with the zeale of God for the honour and glory of their God What killing disappointments are here What no hope Alas alas very little or none at all What is the feared fruit this brings forth Why they repent not but blaspheme the God of Heaven Quest But what is this that God speaks to them that thus troubles them Answ The Answer you will find in the Text Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion It 's the word of the Kingdome that God will take their Crownes from off their heads and set them on the head of Christ How was Herod troubled and all Jerusalem with him when he heard but a where is he that is borne King of the Jewes How greatly did the tidings of a rightfull King trouble him His conscience flyes in his face and stings him his jealousie and feare of loosing what he had surreptitiously gotten rent his heart with a thousand anxieties which vented themselves in unheard of cruelties against poore Innocents And the Stories of the Martyrs tell us that some Emperors after the example of Herod have been so troubled with the fear of and jealous of King Jesus his robbing them of their Thrones they have sought the destruction of the whole lineage of David And at this day what a dreadfull troublesome story is it to the Kings and Rulers of the earth to heare the doctrine of the Kingdome of Christ is asserted and preached to the people How jealous and full of wrath are they How doth it trouble them Quest Why should men be troubled and vexed at this word Answ Truly there 's some reason why the men of the world should be troubled 1 Because the word is spoken as that which God hath already done I HAVE set my King upon my holy hill of Sion I have done it saith God and the subsequent is easily drawne you must submit to him or you perish If the doctrine were this That Christ should have a Kingdome many hundred yeares to come the people of God might preach it while their lungs lasted and meet with no opposition from the men of the world let them alone till that day think they but when the word comes so neere them as to say now is the time God hath already done it the time of performance is come This galls them rubs on the sore too hard and troubles them 2 Because this Doctrine is preacht in opposition to them YET have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion YET though you have taken counsell against the Lord and his anointed to break their bands asunder and cast away their cords to keep them at a low and under rate as Pharoah did that they may be your subjects and servants and never be able to become your Lords Yet saith God I will speak to you in wrath and trouble you with this I have set my King upon my holy hill of Sion I will doe it you shall know and find that I am above you in that wherein you are so subtilly wise in spite of you he shall be King and raigne it 's his right and he shall have it I have promised him and I will give the Kingdome to him maugre all your envy and malice I would not suffer the Heathen to keep the Kingdome from him and have brought downe to the dust those Kings of the earth you have slaine for their attempts

144000 singing their new song now the end of all being to bring men to repentance exhorting them to turne to the true God worship him onely and submit to the Son that they may be blessed by him and this being a reall act in God intending the salvation of men it cannot be but all this must be done before the day of repentance and salvation is finish● and gone when the night cometh no man can worke and if so then it must of necessity be granted also that these things must be done before the fourth Viall is powered out for after that Viall is once gone forth there remaines no place for repentance the day of repentance and salvation is spent and gone for the Text expresly saith that men blasphemed the name of God and repented not to give him glory When the two Witnesses rise which we have good ground to believe will be at or before the powring out of the fourth Viall and execute some part of the wrath and judgements of God the day of repentance and salvation being not yet past over and gone it 's recorded Rev. 11.13 that the remnant of men left gave glory to the God of heaven a true and excellent fruit of true repentance but here the day of repentance and salvation being finisht and mens hearts hardened that is recorded also that men blasphemed and repented not to give him glory And in this 14th of the Revelation immediately upon the preaching of this Gospel Babilon Rome falls and suddenly upon the neck of that God by the mouth of an Angel pronounces them cursed without remedy that then worship the Beast and his Image and receive his marke and the Son of man followes with his sharp sickle reaps his harvest and gathers the Vine of the earth treads the wine-presse of the wrath of God What God may doe in a more than ordinary way with any particular soule I leave it but there 's no generall Time of repentance and salvation interveening these executions of the wrath of God when once the fourth Viall is powred out Not being able to answer these Reasons I am fully perswaded to believe the truth of this Assertion And whether Daniels little stone's smiting and the rise of the two Witnesses be not contemporary with Davids hill of Sion and John's Mount Sion Christ being seated on it whether all these Prophecies will not be fulfilled at one the same time yea whether they signifie not to us one and the same thing onely one one part of the work of God at that day another another part of it I leave to the serious consideration and narrow scrutiny of the godly wise at this day And let none be discouraged from believing these things because of the unlikelinesse of them to come to passe in our dayes for the flood of Gods wrath upon the old world was as unlikely to that worlds understanding to overflow when it did as these things can be to this and the Scripture saith the coming of the Son of man shall be like unto those dayes Againe the Scripture saith He shall come at midnight a time when men asleep least expect him And againe When they that dwell upon the earth shall be in the height of their mirth and jollity FVLL OF PEACE rejoycing and sending gifts one to another then the spirit of life from God enters into the two Witnesses and fills those rejoycing earthen soules with great feare brings an Earth-quake slayes a part of the world and affrights the remnant that are left extorting from them glory to the God of heaven Yet againe though the whorish woman Babylon may come to such prosperity as to say in her heart I sit a Queen and am no Widdow and shall see no sorrow her plagues shall come in one day death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burnt with fire for strong is the Lord who judgeth her Let our hearts ponder these things and we shall tremble as the word of God for judgement is at the doore In the second place I am to give my judgement how far we are come at this day or rather how neare the great God in his providence is come to us at what part of this Psalme thus expounded we may lay our finger and say this is our state and condition this is the work God would have us to doe in this our day To doe this is a great work but to doe it with demonstration to convince the understandings of men and stop the mouth of the gain-sayer is a far greater work which I despaire to performe yet according to the measure of light the Lord hath given me I shall make an Essay towards a clear evidencing of the Truth I conceive We are come to the dawning of that day wherein God will in wrath to the worlds Rulers set his King upon Sion the hill of his holinesse and the Lamb will stand on Mount Sion with his 144000 his chosen ones about him wherein the Son will declare the Decree and the 144000 will be singing their new song before the Throne of God according to the import of that Command of the father to his Son in this second Psalme ASKE OF ME And that the present Kings and Rulers of the world but especially the Rulers who are the head of this gathering together against the Lord and his anointed are those against whom the father will engage in this day of his wrath and jealousie for his Son speaking to them in wrath and vexing them in his sore displeasure even with this his setting his King upon Sion the hill of his holinesse The Reasons for this my Assertion are 1 Because we are already gotten under if not towards the latter end of the third Viall to prove this that it may be as valid a reason to you as it is to me I intreat thee Courteous Reader let thine eyes accompanied with thy mind take a journey through Mr. Tillinghast's Treatise upon the Vialls where you will finde so much Reason and such strong Arguments for this assertion as I presume will be so satisfactory as it will not be expected I should say any thing more to the point And if so then upon my former proofe it appears the dawning of this day of blessednesse to the Saints and of wrath to the world with its Rulers hath ceazed upon us But 2 The first fruits of the qualifications of Gods hill of holinesse Christs 144000 the sprinklings of the spirit of that day the beginnings of Christs being received as King in Sion are to be found in the midst of a despised people among us in this our day Let us view over the Qualifications of Christs 144000 consider them and put on a paire of those excellent spectacles made of pure love and our dim eyes will not behold men like Trees but like the purchased inheritance of the Son qualified according to the Decree to such and such a work at such a time I say the first fruits the

beginnings of these though yet imperfect will appeare plainly to our view And let us with simplicity and singlenesse of heart look out at the Casements of our soules and we shall behold the sprinklings of the spirit of that glorious day The work of the day shewes us the spirit of the day The Saints in that day sing a new song before the Throne of God c. which is such a song as is so uncouth so strange to so contrary and above the nature Principles and reason of the world as they cannot learne it no man without this hill of holinesse none but the 144000 can learne to sing this song What is this strange song that is so hard to be learnt Why consider it and you will find it to be the Decree the Son in the second Psalme undertakes to declare If we consider this particular also we shall find plainly to appeare in this our day some sprinklings the beginnings of the mighty workings of this spirit Let us yet make a stand and consider the temper and spirit of the Lords people in this our day and we shall find Christ to have a little footing on Sion already his 144000 begin to look upon him to consider him as their King and their hearts are cleaving to him apace If we consider these things we shall behold an Emblem of a glorious fabrick to be erected in its due season which cannot be far off for when the singing of Birds is heard they fly chirping from bough to bough it 's a signe the winter is past and the spring is come Now is the Time in which Christ will or doth call to his beloved Rise up my love my faire one and come away Follow me O my Dove that art in the clefts of the rock in the secret place of the staires Gods hiding-place for his people in a day of wrath Let me see thy countenance let me heare thy voyce For sweet is thy voyce and thy countenance is comely Take us the Foxes the little Foxes those that are lesse discernable and least mistrusted to doe mischief that spoyle the Vines for our Vines have tender Grapes Cant. 2.10 11 12. What though this Kingdome of Heaven be now but as a graine of Mustard-seed the smallest of graines yet it 's water'd with the dewes of the spirit and it will it shall grow up to a Tree able to give shelter to the Fowles of Heaven Elijah's Cloud of blessings although at first it appeare but as the little hand of a man yet in a short time it spreads over the whole Heavens When we fee the day begin to break can we be so stupid as not to believe the Sun makes hast in his course to arise upon our Horizon When these things appeare such signes of the Times are given to us what willfull sins of ignorance shall we be guilty of if we not minding them believe not what is a coming We can tell by the signes thereof whether it will be faire weather or soule to day And why are we ignorant of the signes of the Times Surely it 's a token of a hypocriticall spirit whose damnation will be very great Let none say that which I seem to plead for is encompassed about with such infirmities so much of the spirit of man such contrarieties to some Gospel rules as we cannot believe it to be of God For this plea will be found no good plea at the Sons Tribunall it 's but a fond excuse at best lay what stresse you will upon it it will not hold This day is a day of wrath and the word spoken is spoken in wrath and except we dive into its glory through the vailes of wrath upon it and hearken to it and embrace it giving obedience to it we shall perish from the way of blessednesse Againe let us consider the signes of this day of Christs coming to his Sion that other Scriptures afford and we shall find them to be such as will signifie no such thing to any but to those who have the most precious faith of this Gospel waiting for the consolation of Israel the Holy Ghost will be upon them and let them see the blessed fruit of their expectation There shall come in the last dayes scoffers walking after their owne lusts and saying where is the Promise of his coming For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation 2 Pet. 3.3 In heart saying our Lord delayes his coming smiting fellow servants eating and drinking with the drunken Mat. 24.48 49. And though the Son of God hath told us that his father will avenge his owne Elect speedily which cry day and night unto him neverthelesse When he comes shall he find faith on earth Luke 18.7 8. yet The Lord is not slack concerning his Promise 2 Pet. 3.9 But is it not to this end That the Tryall of your faith the faith of Gods chosen being much more precious then of gold that perisheth though it be tryed with fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.7 If these things be so how ought we with all diligence to walk with feare and trembling least we stumble and fall upon those stumbling-blocks of wrath God throwes in the worlds way and perish upon them together with the world And my Reasons why I conceive the present Rulers of this world are those enemies of Christ God will speake to in wrath and vex in his sore displeasure are 1 Because I find the Scripture expresly saith That those who shall be the Rulers of the world at this day of Gods setting his Son upon Sion will oppose and take counsell together against the Lord and his anointed Therefore hath he said He will speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure with setting his King upon Sion the hill of his holinesse And seeing it 's a truth that we are come to the dawning of the day wherein the father will set his Son on his Sion it must follow that these are the Rulers that will be the subjects of the direfull displeasure and wrath of the Great GOD. 2 Because I perceive the Rulers are already taking Counsell together to make their hands strong against the Lord and his anointed and to break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from them And the faithfull Almighty God hath said He will then speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure and if they hearken not to the Gospel of the Kingdome preached to them they shall without remedy perish from the way of blessednesse speedy and swife destruction will be their portion To prove this to the vulgar understanding is very hard yet if we will but consider these few things we may learne somewhat of the businesse 1 That the Characteristicall worke of these Rulers is not their acting but TAKING COVNCELL against the Lord and his anointed for as it