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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57199	Babylons ruining-earthquake and the restavration of Zion delivered in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons at Margarets Westminster, at their publique fast, August 28, 1644 / by William Reyner ...	Reyner, William, d. 1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing R1324; ESTC R18099	51,389	67

building and as strange a worship would they have set up Quest Whom doth God use to preserve in these great calamities Answ Some of divers sorts as First a convenient number of Saints already called not all but a sufficient number There is I take it such a distinction intimated Dan. 12.1 At that time thy people shall be delivered not all in general but every one that shall be found written in the book implying that some of Daniels people the Saints are written in the booke of life that is of naturall life for escape but not all see also Isa 4.3 God must have a number of these called ones first to be the constant objects of his love and grace secondly to praise and serve him and thirdly to be the pillar and ground of truth to support it before the world and then fourthly if I may use so loe a comparison as those that write of Bees report the Bees still send out some of their old ones with the new swarmes to manage their work so God will have a competent number of called ones preserved to carry on his worke of Reformation Secondly all the Elect that are not yet called at lest till they be effectually converted else their election would be frustrated which is impossible Thus 2 Pet. 3.9 The Lord is long-suffering towards the world so that he destroyes it not because he is not willing that any should perish i. e. not any of his own chosen should perish but that all meaning all they should come to repentance Thirdly the progenitors of the Elect to come for otherwise the Elect that are to come of them would be prevented And this I take to be our Saviours meaning Mat. 24 2● where speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem he saith that except those dayes should be shortned no flesh should be saved but all the Jewes should have been destroyed Why were they not might some man say they that escaped were as bad as those that perished why saith our Saviour for the Elects sake those dayes shall be shortned i. e. for the Elects sake that are to come of them it may be seventeene hundred or two thousand yeeres after And to the same sense are those words Isa 65.8 As the new wine is found in the cluster and one saith destroy it not for a blessing is in at that is let it grow till the vintage and there will be a blessing viz. good wine in it so will I doe for my servants sake that I may not destroy them all that is I would destroy all this sinfull generation were there not a blessing in them namely were it not for mine elect servants sakes that are to proceed from them Fourthly haply some may be saved out of a generall deluge in some relation or respect to others of Gods people to whom they belong as bad children for the godly Parents sakes And backe againe wicked Parents that they may nurse up children that are elect these deliverances are blessings not so much to the wicked themselves as to the godly to whom they relate They in the ship were saved for Pauls sake Acts 27.24.44 that they might be of some use to his person and their deliverance some honour to his office Reprobates thus saved shall be as the Gibeonites hewers of wood and drawers of water to the people of God they shall doe some baser drudgeries for them study Arts and Sciences for them as the heathen Philosophers did God taking from him that hath not giving unto him that hath bestowing the use benefit of wicked mens gifts not upon themselus but upon the godly The third Impediment of the Churches restauration taken away by these great earth-quakes Imped is errour haeresie false worship idolatry c. You cannot preach nor pray them downe directly and immediately though all other meanes depend upon these and the Saints must own the thing God is terrible out of his holy places Psa 68.35 Well that which the Word cannot do the sword shall that which the water cannot wash out the fire will burn out Unto this particular the Apostle applies this very text in part namely concerning the shaking of the Heavens Heb 12.26 27. Yet once more I shake not earth onely but also heaven c. An earth-quake as we have heard was appointed to shake downe the ceremoniall Ordinances now if this were necessary for the abolition of that divine worship which had sometimes been by Gods owne holy institution how much more shall that which hath been of humane invention yea the very fumes and fogs of the bottomlesse pit to Gods infinite displeasure and dishonour be tumbled downe with violence and vengeance to hell from whence it came And therefore as the heathenish idolatry fel with such a terrible earthquake as shook down both it and all its supporters both Emperors and Empire even so shall antichristian idolatry and haeresie with Babylon their Mother the Beast their Father and all their intoxicated and dementated defenders be throwne like a Mil-stone into the bottome of the sea Rev. 18.21 The third generall Reason of these great Earth-quakes before the Churches restauration is that the Saints may be prepared and qualified for the right use of such a state and condition of happinesse and prosperity and so made capable thereof Reas 3 The qualifications required and whereof the earth-quake is a meanes by the operation of Gods Spirit in the Saints are these First they are thereby made humble for so the Lord humbles his c. that he may do them good in the latter end Deut. 8.16 The people of the Jew 's before the captivity were exceeding proud despised Gods Word spoken by his Prophets c. 2 Chron. 26 16. yea in the time of the captivity when all was broken in peeces Yet so proud and stubborne were they that they would not beare the yoake of the King of Babylon though the Lord would have had them promising them in so doing safety and blessing many of them would needs into Egypt and when they came there would worship the Queene of heaven the Sunne Moone and Starres though the Lord by Jeremi●h under great penalties expresly forbad both the one and the other Ier. 42 43. 44. But after the Lord ●ad hammer'd them thoroughly by 70. yeers captivity and hard bondage how humble were they and tame as Lambs now you may doe any thing with them now they come weeping to seeke the Lord and exhorting one another to enter into a covenant with their God never to be forgotten Ier. 50.4.5 and so they did as we may see at large Nehem. 9 10. where they undertake some things that it is probable they never did before as to live in Boothes in the feast of Tabernacles and though they were very poore yet they charged themselves deeply for the maintainance of the publique worship of God Secondly they are thereby made hungry after Christ Isa 4.1.2 when the Lord hath wasted them in the publique