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A93924	A paraphrasticall explication of the prophecie of Habakkuk, which is a prophecie that may supply us with fit matter of meditation for these times.	Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5718; Thomason E314_30; ESTC R200510	27,751	36

that barbarous People guilty of so many so grosse sinnes as they are CAP. II. 1. AFter these sad and scrupulous Queries and Objections which presented themselves unto me I could doe no other then as a Prophet a Watch-man a seer of Israell betake my selfe to my Watch-tower and with all Reverence and Patience expect what the Divine Oracle would discover unto me and make me able to returne to others as the best solution of those Doubts and a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 argumentum vel argumentatio ut Iob. 23.1 nostra Transl rectè habet Interrogatories of my former Discourse 2. And such did the Solution prove to be that others have as much reason to observe it as I have Therefore was I commanded by God himselfe so clearly to deliver and explain the Vision which I shall now relate that it might be given down to Posterity as a thing written in faire and Capitall Letters so that he that runnes might read it and see b Or in tables of some durable substance ut antiquitus in buxo cedro c. in it as in a little Mappe or Table a draught of those waies of God's Divine Wisdome and Iustice in the ordering and disposing of things below farre beyond thereach of our weake judgement and apprehension 3. And beyond the little compasse of our time too for it lookes c Heb. in tempus determinatum farther then our short and evill daies Yet as they that live to see it accomplished will account the hardest part of it to be slipt over as in a dreame so we that by the eye of Faith can look forward and fix our thoughts upon that end which will prove the end of our Miserte and the end of our Enemies Prosperity may see it posting on as all our Times doe with such speed d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in notione sufflandi as if it were carried upon the wings of the winde For all which speed nothing that is foretold of it will faile or come short of the truth Therefore let no seeming delay take off our expectation and hope in Gods Promises which will come at last and e Hebr. veniendo veniet cannot come stowly to a Heart that is ready and prepared for it and wants not that solace wherewith it may in the mean while support it selfe 4. But that heavie faint distrustfull soule that f Ita exponitur hic locus Hebr. 10.38 ubr in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apparet vestigium antiq lect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qui autem malūt adhae●●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apte possunt exponere de superbiâ confidentiâ in propriis viribus quae Nebuchad Chaldoeos ad interitum produxit cùm fides interim in deum pros Israelitas vivos conservaret pristinae etiam Paci restitueret drawes back with feares and sad apprehensions of danger faster then affiance in divine promises can incite it forward that soule is not yet in the right posture wherein it should be Nay it wants that which is the very life of a Soule that is in the right indeed For it is by a g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fidem veritatem constantiam complectitur ex naturâ vocis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 true constant Faith that the righteous 〈…〉 hold upon Life It is his Faith and Confidence in the truth of Gods word and Promise which makes him h Quod refertur ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 10.38 accopted in the sight of God and is a good meanes both to keep him a constant fervant of God in all Piety and Obedience which prepares him the more for the wayes of his present deliverly and to fornish him with a modest security of happinesse hereafter For he that is made righteous or i Sic Rom. 1.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 construitur cum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idem est quod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut apparet ex scopo mente totius Epist ad Romanos justified by Faith shall live for ever 5. Now he that labours for such a Faith is a fit Auditor for such a Prophecie as this which after this Preface I will now proceed to declare that you may with mee in this Vision and divine speculation from my Propheticall Watch-tower plainly foresee what our common enemie the Chaldaean will prove after all the insolencies and presumptions upon his own fortunate successes and our sadde afflictions You might see him then k This may allude to proud Baltassar and his Chaldeans that in a drunken fit made bold with the sacred Vessells of the Temple and were that night showed the uncertain estate of humane greatnesse falling then from their former height of glory command to little lesse then slavery under the Medes and Persians drunk with wine and drunk with Pride And as a drunken man l Our English Translation expresseth all very well in one word he shall not indure i. he shall not hould out in that condition not continue in that prosperity he was The hebrew signifies properly he shall have no sure mansion he shall be like one turned out of his house to seek his fortune as we use to say And this word is well put into this Ital by Diod Non dimorerà in casâ suâ so shall he afterward be tottering in his fortunes various and inconsistent to himselfe and to what he was every way reeling and wavering and tumbled about from his highest and most prosperous estate to worse and worse It was his own covetous and ambitious desire that set him on worke and thrust him on forward till he got up at last to that high pitch of Honour and abundance of Wealth from which he must beginne his heavier ruine and downefall For the longing of his greedie Soule in his filthie Avarice was inlarged like Hell as if he would have the Divell and all and in his Malice and cruelty he gaped after our destruction like Death the Grave that will never be satisfied The Addition of whole Nations and severall sorts of People either slaine by his sword or subdued and united to his former too vast Empire could not worke so much upon him as to make him think that he had enough either of their blood or of their wealth 6. Will you see after all this how he shall be exposed to the scorn and derision of them whom he hath rifled and plundered and abused at his own pleasure The time is comming on apace when they shall take up a gibing taunt and Tarable against him and say Woe to him that had too much of his owne and yet would never leave scraping and heaping more and more together out of others little store How long will he thus toyle and bustle in the World to take from them And how little a while shall he live to enjoy it His heapes of gold and silver which he

me chearfully in the way to those high places and Sanctuaries above where I shall be set out of the feare of all danger in everlasting blisse And as a Testimony of my Ioy and Solace in that I will take order with the chiefe Master of the Musicke to have this Prayer set to some Instrument that may help to rouse up my spirits and my solace in God my Saviour A farther enlargement in contemplation of the Melodious Musick here defended and the sad Discord of these Times THe Honour and Praise of that our gratious Lord and Saviour is the everlasting Ioy and Song of the holy Quire above Where that it may be ours after the more-then Babylonish Confusion and Captivity that we may live to see here in the persecution of our Soules as well as of our Bodies Let us use the Prophet Habakkuk's Prayer with his Spirit and labour as he did to place all our delight and content in God alone and in his Glory And as men desirous to joyne with that heavenly Quire and adde our Musick to theirs which seems to be the summe of the Royall Prophets earnest invitation in the last Psalme Let us follow that Prophets advice that saith Praise him in his * Psal 150.1 Our latter Translation doth well expresse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Sanctuary as it is taken Psal 68 24. 78.55 and elsewhere Sanctuary In his holy Temple above all other places whatsoever some begin to say let him have those solemne melodious Praises And praise him there while we may Not only upon the Neginoth as the Prophet Habakkuk doth here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and calls for him that excelleth in that kind calls for him at the commemoration of a heavie and publick calamity for such was the occasion of the Prophets Prayer Not only so But if you will goe on with the sweet Singer of Israel that put all his dolefull Penitentiall Prayers into Musicall Psalmes and therefore sure would leave out none of his Church-Musick for any other occasions Praise him in the sound of the Trumpet Psal 150.3 praise him upon the Lute and Harpe Praise him in the Cymbals and Dances praise him upon the Strings and Pipe Praise him upon the well-tuned Cymbals praise him upon the loud Cymbals Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. All this may well befit the Service of God in his materiall Temples here below And in that above not made with hands where all make but one Congregation and one Quire if they doe any thing else then praise God yet they doe nothing more willingly We may find them busie at it in sundry places of the Apocalypse In the 4th Chapter after the Doxologies of the foure Creatures Rev. 4.8 10. we have the 24 Elders casting their Crownes before the throne and falling to their Acclamations of divine Praise And Chap. 5.8 10 11. in the next Chapter we have them every one with Harps and golden Phiales full of odours which are the Prayers of the Saints Prayers there againe accompanied with heavenly Musick And at the Close of their Song Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousand thousands have no other taske but that In the 7th Chapter C. 7. 11. All the Angels round about the throne fall downe upon their faces with the like joyfull worship After all this C. 14. 2 3. The 14th Chapter acquaints us with the sweet voyce of Harpers and their Angelicall Harmony accompanied with a new Song in the mouth of a hundred forty foure thousand which were bought from the Earth Then againe in the 15th Chapter C. 15. 2 3. there is another great number that have the Harpes of God and sing the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lambe And lastly C. 19. 1 3. The 19th Chapter tells us againe and againe of a great multitude at their severall Halelujahs Now if we must flye to mysticall expositions somewhat may be seen out of what hath been said They specially cannot but see it that can understand greater mysteries of this Revelation if they please Therefore after all this Musick in Heaven and Earth in the Prophet Habakkuk's Neginoth in King David's Psaltery in the Angells Harpes and Voyces in all which Musick and Prayers as well as Musick and Praises are put together After all this let us leave our vaine Scruples obey the Dictates of our Mother Church and with so good Company desire to joyne all together both in our Prayers and in our hearty Praise and Service and Glory to God which is the happy and welcome employment of the glorious Angels and Saints above They cease not day nor night inviting one another and saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Rev. 4.8 which was and which is and which is to come I Have said the more of Celestiall Musick in this kind because I desire we should all fall in love with it or at least with that sweet Accord and Harmony and Consent which is most eminent in that For we are a miserable distracted Nation out of all Tune and out of all Order even to the wonder and astonishment of those that are about us who not long since were as much taken with the admiration of our Conformity and our happy Peace But we are now so much or rather so all for Jarres and Discords that we are for nothing else We are growne such Strangers or rather such deadly Enemies to Vnity and Concord and Vniformity that we cannot indure a motion for them and are troubled at the very name and offended with all that will not dance after our Pipe while we are so disordered And all this by reason of some idle fancies and crotchets of our owne that have had too much hold of our Thoughts and carried them almost beyond the hope of all Recovery and true Reformation If all this be spoken not only out of that Duty and Charity that binds us to call upon others which we think are ready to fall into a dangerous pit but with an eye to that Truth also which every true Christian is bound to obey then why should not that which is said be heard with Patience and gladly received of those who say They fight for Truth though they take away our Peace But if any thing be suspected as spoken in the defence of some grand Error Let not that Error be shewed us out of some new Revelations which must undertake to discover more then ever appeared to Saint John who by his Eagle seemes to be pointed out as the quickest sighted of all the divine Apostles and as the loving Disciple doth so earnestly exhort us to Love one another and so urge the necessity of that Love that the serious consideration of what he writes were enough to make whole Armies of Christians throw downe their weapons fall to mutuall embraces and resolve rather to be Armies of Martyrs then what they are From such Acts of Love that are called for by the spirit