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Hosanna to the son of David, or, A testimony to the Lord Christ shewing his rule and reign over the people of the Jews upon earth a thousand years together with his second personal appearance proved from the Scripture of truth : with a general word of life from the point to saints and sinners / by Samuel Grosvenour.
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Grosvenour, Samuel.
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Hosonna to the Son of David OR A TESTIMONY To the Lord's Christ Shewing His rule and reign over the people of the Jews upon Earth a thousand years together with his second personal appearance proved from the Scripture of Truth With A general word of Use from the point to Saints and Sinners By Samuel Grosvenour And behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a Son and shalt call his name Jesus He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his father David Luke 1.31 32 33. LONDON Printed for L. Chapman at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley 1659. To the Reader IT is observable throughout all generations that truth in its first appearance in the world can be very hardly entertained but rather opposed I am sure of all truths this hath not nor is not like to escape For Gospel-truths will bring Gospel-sufferings and therefore whosoever thou art that wilt inquire into this truth I begge of thee that thou wouldst first sit down and consider what it will cost thee and search the Scriptures whether things be so or no For this is no new Doctrine but that which hath been testified by the mouths of all the Prophets and consider what the Apostle saith For he hath chosen us unto salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth So that every truth is to be looked after by believers because that God who is a God of truth is sweeth to be injoyed in all truth Reader accept of this small mite and the Lord grant that the eyes of thy understanding may be inlightned in the knowledge of Christ as King Priest and Prophet unto thy poor soul and then how sweet will it be unto thee to consider that that King that rules and reigns in thy heart shall ride Conquering and to Conquer untill all his Enemies both within and without in thy heart and my heart and in the world be made a footstool which shall be the desire and prayer of him who is a servant unto the God of Jacob Sam. Grosvenour Hosanna to the Son of David Or A Testimony to the Lords Christ THe most wise God of Heaven and Earth hath so ordered and disposed of all truth revealed in his word that every truth throughout all generations hath broke forth in its due season and truely this truth that I am now speaking of it doth more particularly concern the Saints of the last times I shall make it appear how all along this truth hath been testified unto from the first to the last we shall begin with Gods promise unto Abraham the thirteenth of Genesis and the fifth verse And the Lord 〈◊〉 said unto Abraham after that Lot was separated from him Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art Northward and Southward and Eastward and Westward For all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever This land was the land of Canaan which God promised Abraham yea and a promise that is yet to be fulfilled Object Abraham was in the Land of Canaan and his seed after him Answ. It is true but in what condition they were strangers and Pilgrims there and this they confessed and therefore this could not be a possession of it Ob. I but God in promising Abraham the Land of Canaan it was a Type of the heavenly Canaan Answ. It is true Abraham had an eye of faith to see into the promised rest as all the seed of Abraham that are spiritual Jews have However there is more then this in the promise For observe how God cites this promise unto him it is said After that Lot was separated from him I do not question but that Lot belongeth unto the general Assembly and Church of the first-born whose names are written in Heaven but yet Gods Covenant must be with Abraham now observe the promise For all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever now we know that all the Types of the Law as that of the bloud of Bulls and Coats and others they did all center in Jesus Christ and so every true believer hath entered into that rest but consider what the Lord saith The Land which thou seest the breadth and length of it will I give unto thee and to thy seed for ever And you shall finde in many places of Scripture that when the Lord promises to bring back again the Captivity of the Jews he saith I will bring them into their own Land a Scripture as clear as the Sun for this you may see in Jer. 23.5 6 7 8. Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous branch and a King shall reign and prosper and execute Justice and Judgement in the Earth In his dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called The Lord our righteousnesse and in vers. 8. They shall dwell in their own Land So that here is both the two Tribes and the ten Tribes promised to enjoy their own Land again which is the Land of Canaan under the rule and reign of that righteous branch unto David which is the Lord Jesus Christ for it is said he must execute Justice and Judgement in the earth That Christ is that branch spoken of you may see plainly in the eleventh of Isaiah the first verse the whole Chapter is a sweet discovery of the Kingdom of Christ and in the ninth verse he saith The earth shall he full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea We shall now begin with all the Prophets that have spoken in the name of the Lord and that the Lord might be justified out of the mouths of the wicked stand forth wicked Balaam in the 24th of Numbers and the third verse And he took up his Parable and said Balaam the Son of Beor hath said and the man whose eyes are open hath said Pray observe in the first place it is said in the second verse that the Spirit of God was upon him from whence I would inferre this that a Soul by the common enlightning of the Spirit may come to see into this and other glorious truths and therefore it ought to be our care that we have not onely that Spirit upon us but the Spirit in us and as Christ saith Rejoyce not that the Spirits are subject unto you but rather that your names are written in heaven so I say Rejoyce not in thy knowledge of this Kingdom but rather that Jesus Christ is King in thy heart whereby thou comest to have assurance that thou hast an Interest in this glorious spiritual Kingdom when Jesus Christ shall come to be admired in all them that believe But to go on where we lest Balaam in the seventh verse He shall pour the water out of his buckets speaking of
CHRIST shall Reign So come O Lord O quickly come The Bride shall glory then This is Saints joy that Christ shall come ALLELUIAH AMEN A POST-SCRIPT I Have now but this one thing more to acquaint the Reader withal and that is The reason why this little Treatise is brought forth into the world Know therefore all and every one unto whom this Treatise shall come That on a certain time I entered into a publique Assembly where a great Rabbi did speak against this Truth and called the Professors thereof Hereticks But this I should have minded before That as I was purposing in my heart to go in because I thought I might hear something that was good nevertheless I had this sweet Voice behind me from the Spirit of the Lord My Sheep hear my voice and a stranger they will not follow nevertheless wretched man that I was I went on and came in and while I was hearing I had great strivings and struglings in my soul whether I should speak or no one great Objection was a Declaration from the Higher Powers against the Disturbance of any publick Minister but by Experience have I learned that the truth of Christ is to be vindicated rather then the command of man obeyed But just and righteous was the Lord in that after I had grieved and resisted if not vexed his Spirit that he should leave me to mine own strength and so flesh prevailed and now at what time soever I came to present my self before the Lord the Words of Christ stuck as a Dart in my heart He that is ashamed of me and of my words in this sinful and adulterous generation of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father and of his holy Angels And though I could not for some space of time afterwards see my sin yet now Satan helpt on to the uttermost so that I was in great fear that I was guilty of that Unpardonalle sin but the Lord that watched over my soul for good did first strengthen my faith from the consideration of the unvaluable preciousness of the blood of Christ but still unbelief was very powerful and great tumults there were in my soul yea I may say The bones of my peace were broken sometimes concluding this and sometimes that and at the same time under the guilt of another sin that lay heavy upon me and thus was I afflicted and tossed but not comforted but God that is plentiful in loving kindness visited my soul with so sweet a promise so sutable unto my condition as possibly my soul could wish for when he was working godly sorrow in my soul and gave me a sight of him whom I had pierced yea when I was mourning for the Abomination of others from Isa. 6.5 and had the sence of these sins upon my heart I cried out in my sorrow Lord whither shall I be carried away in this stream of iniquity It was immediatly whispered into my soul by the sweet and still voice of the Spirit of God My Grace is sufficient for thee And faithful is the Lord who hath fulfilled his Promise for whereas before I did finde that he had taken his holy Spirit from me and I had not the pourings forth of the Spirit of Grace and Supplication now his assisting grace was come and now I consessed my sin freely I question not but that also his accepting grace is sufficient for me and his rewarding grace in his due time even for me also on whom the Lord Jesus might have been ashamed Now therefore in the words of my dear Saviour I do counsel every one that hath an ear to hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches Rev. 2. A SONG OF PRAISE A Rise shine forth my Soul thy light is come Stand and admire at free-Grace and Love The morning-Star appears break forth O Sun With thy sweet Rayes descending from above Disperse all Clouds and gather my souls prayse My Love my Choice my Glory and my Crown O Thou who art the Ancient of dayes To Thee be Honour Power and Renown Sam. Grosvenor FINIS Mr. Kâ—â—llys