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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85443	Zerubbabels encouragement to finish the temple. A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Apr. 27. 1642. By Tho. Goodwin, B.D. Published by order from that House.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1268; Thomason E147_13; ESTC R1423	34,286	63

break in pieces the gates of brasse and cut in sunder the bars of iron all difficulties flew ope and nothing could stand in his way and I will give thee the treasures of darknesse the hidden riches of secret places And why did God doe all this for him For Jacob my servants sake and Israel mine elect For otherwise sayes God of this Cyrus thou hast not known me so ver. 4. All this which God did for him was that he might performe Gods pleasure saying to Jerusalem Be built and to the Temple Thy foundation shall be laid as you had it out of the last ver. of the foregoing Chapter And then again when the foundation thereof was thus happily laid there stood as you see in the Text another Mountaine in the way to the finishing and perfecting of it namely this Samaritan Faction who gained the power of that Persian Monarchy to be against it of which Mountain the Prophet here in like manner sayes that it should be made a Plaine And if the Persian Monarch Dartus had not come off too as he did EZra 6. from the 1. ver. to the end of the Chap. God would have served him as he had done Babylon Be ye wise therefore now O Kings and instructed O ye Judges of the Earth The Reason of all this lies but in three words which God hath spoken once yea twice Aedificabo Ecclesiā meam I will build my Church which have more force in them then all the created power of Heaven Earth or Hell He had said it in the Old Testament as you heard Isai. 44. 28. saying to Hierusalem Thou shalt be built and to the Temple Thy foundation shall be laid And Christ said it over again in the New Testament Mat. 16. 18. I will build my Church He speakes of that Church under the New Testament which in future ages was to come And what follows The Gates of Hell shall not prevaile against it You heard before in the Old Testament that the Brasse Gates were opened to make way for the building of that Temple Isai. 45. 2. But here in the New Testament there are stronger Gates then of Brasse here are the Gates of Hell which yet Christ like another Sampson flings off their hinges As whilst the Devill is god of the world Aedificabo Ecclesiam meam shall be sure to be hindered if he can so whilst Christ is King of this world and hath all power committed to him both in heaven and earth most certainly the Gates of Hell shall never prevaile against it It is this same Aedificabo Ecclesiam meam I will build my Church that hath made all the stirre in the world I remember in the yeare 1619. or 20. or thereabouts when the Wars in Germany began it was reported that a great Brasse Image of the Apostle Peter which had that pretended claime by which Rome would hold her Keyes fairely embossed upon a Roll that hung downe upon the Image in these wordst Tu es Petrus super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam tibi dabo Claves c. Thou art Peter and upon this Rock I will build my Church and I will give to thee the Keyes c. standing as I take it in S. Peters Church at Rome there was a great massie stone fell downe upon it and so shattered it to pieces that not a letter of all that sentence whereon Rome founds her claime was left whole so as to be read saving this one piece of that sentence aedificabo Ecclesiam meam I will build my Church which was left faire and entire That Promise I will build my Church is the Magna Charta yea the Prima Charta the Great and First Charter of the Saints in the New Testament those words in the 16. of Mat. being the first that Christ uttered about it and so contain within them all lesser Promises of all sorts that follow that concerne the building of his Church or any piece of it Now all that concerne the Building of his Church are reducible unto these two heads First the preservation and enlarging of his Church Mysticall and of his Saints on earth and thus considering them personally although they should be scattered each from other or secondly the Building up his Church as gathered in Assemblies to hold forth his publique worship in the world as that place forementioned is apparently to be understood by the next words For he speakes of the Keyes in the following verse whereby are meant all Media cultus all Ordinances of worship whereby his Church is built So then this Reason taken from aedificabo Ecclesiam branches it selfe into two Parts The first is taken from his love to his Church Mysticall on his Saints simply considered as such The second is from his interest in his owne worship for which he loves his Churches that are the Seat of it more then all the world 1. His Love to his Church Mysticall is such that no Mountain of opposition can stand before it to hinder the enlargement building of it up This Reason you have Isai. 43. 3 4. I gave Egypt for thy ransome Ethiopia and Seba for thee since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee therefore will I give Men for thee and People for thy life It is put upon this Reason Quia amavi te because I have loved thee and that more then all the world Or if you will have it exprest in the language of this similitude here in the Text Mountains shall depart and Hills be removed but my kindnesse shall not depart from thee sayes God Isai. 54. 10. It is such a kind of speech as that of Christs Heaven and earth shall passe away but not a tittle of my word c. 2. His love to his Churches holding forth his Name and worship in the world is such as nothing shall withstand the repairing and perfecting of them and of that his worship and every parcell of it If God had not such Assemblies in the world he should have no worship Therefore these Churches are called the Ground and Pillar of Truth both where it growes and where it is held forth 1 Tim. 3. 15. he there speakes of Church assemblies as wherein Timothy was to learne how as an Euangelist to behave himselfe in the ordering and governing of them as you have it in the words immediately fore-going Th●● thou mightest know how to behave thy selfe in the House of God c. And the truth is that that building of the House of God of which only Zachary here gives us occasion to speak was but the compleating all the ordinances of worship It was not so much the building up the Nation of the Jews that was here directly intended but the building of their Temple the seat of worship and introducing the Candlestick c. And their Assemblings there to worship according to Gods owne prescription was more to him and is so still then