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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56700	A sermon preached in the chappel of St. James's before His Highness the Prince of Orange, the 20th of January, 1688 by Symon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing P846; ESTC R23233	16,187	39

help assistance and comfort And so the meaning of the Prophet is that such persons as were so full of hatred before our Saviour's coming that they did not only contend and quarrel but also worry and devour one another should in the days of Christ become new Creatures and laying aside their Enmities and Oppositions their Variance and Emulation their Bloody Strife and Contention live in such Love and Peace together as they are wont to do who dwell in the same House that is as Brethren and Sisters or who lie in the same Bed that is as Husband and Wife between whom there is the strongest and dearest league of Friendship This I doubt not is the general sense of the words If there be any particular rank of persons designed by these several sorts of Creatures I can make no more of them than this That by Lions in the better sense of the word as in the Blessing of Judah may be meant Princely persons as Epiphanius himself interprets that place * Haeres 77. numb 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by the Fatlings their Wealthy and Happy Subjects by the Wolf and the Leopard the Strong and the Mighty and by the Lambs and Kids the Weak and Infirm by the Bear such as are fierce rough and warlike and by the Cow the gentle tame and peaceable People and lastly by the Asp and the Cockatrice which are mentioned in the Verses following my Text the angry and envenomed Spirits and by the sucking Children all meek and good-natur'd persons And so the meaning may be that Christ shall come to make the World so happy that Princes and People the mighty and the meaner sort the violent and they that have no power or no will to resist the Soldier and the peaceable Country-man the Waspish people and they that are of a sweet Disposition shall all be brought under the same Discipline and submit to the same Laws not to hurt or molest one another but to promote the Common Good of the whole body to which they belong For they shall be conducted by the most tender-hearted peaceable and gentle Guides who perhaps are meant in the latter end of my Text and a little child shall lead them By this name of his Children our Lord calls his Apostles whom he sent to gather and feed his Flock and both they and their Successors are called in the Holy Language 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Leaders of his People to Guide and Conduct them into the way of truth and peace Thus far none can make any difficulty to yield their Assent but will easily grant this Prophecy sets forth the happy days under Christ's Kingdom and Government in such words as the very Heathen Poets or Prophets as they called them 1. Tit. 12. were wont to use when they would represent the like peace and prosperity under their Kings and Princes For Virgil congratulates to Pollio the Birth of his Son and pretends to presage the Happiness which should be in his time in words as like to these of Isaiah as if he had borrow'd them from his Writings And to ingratiate himself with Augustus he speaks in the same Stile concerning Julius Caesar as all know who are acquainted with his Poems † Erlog IV. V. The Greatest Difficulty will be to show the Truth of what the Prophet here writes and to make his Words applicable to our Blessed Saviour For when were there such Happy Times may some say Did we ever yet see the Enmities of Mankind laid aside or so much as laid asleep Hath not even the Christian World been ever full of Strife and Contention of Hatred and bitter Opposition of Violence and Oppression nay of Wars and Bloodshed which besmears the Face of Christ's Flock as well as other people Do not our Eyes still see men devouring and destroying one another Are not our Ears filled with the doleful Complaints and Lamentations of miserable wretches The Mighty in many places even in neighbouring Countries not far off from us roaring like Lions for their prey and poor harmless people trembling before them like so many Lambs that have no helper Nay are not the meaner sort engaged in perpetual brawls and endless janglings Are they not fraught with envy wrath and malice Do they not sting one another and perhaps their betters with bitter words as if the poison of Asps were under their lips And more than this are they not ready to sheath their Swords in one another's Bowels with such a furious zeal as if to kill their opposites were to do our Lord good service How can all this be denied and if it cannot what appearance of truth is there that Jesus is that Christ under whose Government the Prophet saith there shall be a most blessed accord I answer all this is true and yet it is as true that our Lord Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and the Saviour of the World. Which is the Second and the principal part of my Discourse wherein I undertook to demonstrate That this Prophecy was exactly fulfilled in him as will be confessed if I make good these three things II. First That it was the apparent design of our Saviour's coming to make such an happy accord among men as the Prophet here describes Secondly That the nature of his Religion is such as is apt to produce this effect which he designed Thirdly That this effect was actually produced in those that heartily embraced his Religion I. The first of these is so unquestionable that I may be excused if I wholly omit it for fear of being tedious Or it may be sufficient to say that as he was called by this Prophet ch IX v. 6. the Prince of peace long before he was born so at his birth the Angels tell us plainly enough what his business was when they welcom'd him into the World with this joyful Hymn Glory be to God in the highest and on earth peace good-will towards or among men Luke II. 14. And when he was to enter upon his Office John Baptist was sent before him to prepare his way by turning the hearts of the fathers to the children so the same Angel describes his Commission i. e. to make them all of one mind and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just Luke I. 17. Which Wisdom you know is pure and peaceable gentle and easy to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality without hypocrisie as it is described by one of the Apostles of our Lord Jam. III. 17. Whose whole Conversation in the world was such a rare Pattern of meekness and peacebleness that he did not strive nor cry neither did any man hear his voice in the streets as St. Matthew observes ch XII 19. out of this Prophet that is he would not contend with those that opposed and provoked him nor make a clamorous noise when he was abused nor move the smallest disturbance how ill soever he was treated No not so much as break