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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61129	Of trust in God, or, A discourse concerning the duty of casting our care upon God in all our difficulties together with An exhortation to patient suffering for righteousness, in a sermon on 1 S. Pet. III. 14, 15 / by Nathaniel Spinckes ...	Spinckes, Nathaniel, 1654-1727.	1696 (1696)	Wing S4978; ESTC R1589	208,951	357

who deny a Providence and choose rather to ascribe all events either to Chance or Mechanism than to the hand of God And the same Prediction our blessed Saviour repeated assuring them that their magnificent Temple wherein they so highly gloried S. Matt. 24.2 should not have one stone left upon another that should not be thrown down and that S. Luk 1943 44. their Enemies should cast a trench about them and compass them round and keep them in on every side and should lay their City even with the ground and its Children within it and as to the time of this vengeance that it was not to be deferred beyond the present age For so saith our Saviour S. Mat. 24 34. Verily I say unto you this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled A Prediction as true as it seemed to the Jews to be improbable For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orig. c. Cels l. 4. not many years had passed after they had barbarously put to death the Lord of Glory when whilst part of that Generation were yet alive Titus Vespasian the Roman General came against them and cut them off with a very great slaughter as De bello Jud. l. 4. c. 21 c. Josephus their own Historian reports at large their Temburied in its ruines At which time L. 7. c. 17. were slain by the Enemy no fewer than eleven hundred thousand persons and ninety seven thousand carried captive besides the vast numbers that had perished before by the famine and the pestilence and the intestine fury of their fellow-citizens and country-men And that which makes the completion of this Prediction the more remarkable is what L. 23. Ammianus Marcellinus has recorded concerning Julian's fruitless attempt for rebuilding this Temple thus destroyed namely that when Alypius of Antioch with the assistance of the Governour of the Province had undertaken it fearfull balls of fire issuing forth near the foundation and sometimes burning the work-men rendered the place inaccessible and constrained them to desist from their enterprize The very same account that is given both by Hist Eccl. l. 3. c. 20. Socrates and Hid. Eccl. l. 5. c. 22. Sozomen except that the former of them differs in this circumstance that he speaks of the fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not as arising from the foundation but descending from above and the other adds a material intimation omitted by other Authors that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what they did in this case was done on purpose to deseat our Saviour's Prophecy And Adv. Judaeos l. 2. S. Chrysostome together with this mentions also two other attempts to this purpose the one under Adrian the other under Constantine which both proved likewise abortive though not interrupted in so miraculous a manner And though there was a City built by the Emperour Aelius Adrianus in the room of Jerusalem yet neither was it called Jerusalem but Aelius Adrianus à quo postea de ruinis Hierusalem urbs Aelia condita est D. Hieron in Dan. 9. ult 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb Hist Eccl. l. 4. c. 6. Aelia from the Emperour who built it nor was it ever the Metropolis of the Jews as Jerusalem was but on the contrary had a Baron Annal. To. 2.137.2 3. Sow and Pigs set over its Gate towards Bethlehem as it were in direct opposition to the Jews nor was it ever famous for any thing besides our Saviour's Tomb there 2. The Dissolution of the Jewish Polity and Dispersion of the Jews into all parts to continue a lasting Monument of God's just vengeance upon them for all their impieties and especially for their intolerable rage and malice in procuring the crucifixion of our ever-blessed Saviour S. Luk. 21.23 There was to be great distress in the land and wrath upon this People Ver. 24. They were to fall by the edge of the Sword and to be led captive into all Nations and Jerusalem to be trodden down of the Gentiles untill the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled according to our Saviour's Prediction And thus much Adv Jud. l. 2. S. Chrysostome urges to have been declared by the Prophet Daniel and admitted for truth by Josephus in that the Prophet from the information of the Angel Gabriel fore-telling their Captivity by Antiochus Epiphanes limited it to a certain time after which they should be delivered from his Tyranny as they had also long before had a time prefix'd for their Deliverance out of Egypt and had been delivered accordingly but in this Prophecy of the overthrow of their City and Nation by the Romans he makes no mention of any recovery but affirms at large that their City and Temple should be destroyed acquainting them with the Sufferings that were to come upon them but giving them no encouragement to hope for a release from them Which it might have been expected that he would have done if he had foreseen that they should be delivered again as they had been formerly Dan. 9.27 ch 12.11 The Sacrifice and Oblation was also utterly to cease Mal. 1.11 and a pure Offering to succeed instead hereof a more holy and spiritual Worship supplying the place of their Carnal Ordinances and Legal Offerings And to this purpose our Saviour informed the Woman of Samaria S. Joh. 4.21 23 24. that the wonted Ceremonious Worship should have an end there should be no Sacrifice in Jerusalem no Image at Samaria no Ephod at Jerusalem no Teraphim at Samaria as the learned Third part of the Harmony of the four Evangelists Dr. Lightfoot comments upon our Saviour's words but that those places and that manner of Worship should fall and be abolished and that it was therefore needless for her to enquire whether Jerusalem or Gerizim were the more eminent place of Worship for the time was just now in coming when neither the one nor the other should be the place of Worship at all Woman believe me saith our Saviour the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father The hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth And not only their Worship but their Polity too was to have a period put to it by the just Judgment of God upon them for their sins Gen. 49.10 The Scepter was to depart from Judah and the Law-giver from between his feet He that had the Dominion was to be taken away from Judah and the Scribe from his Children's Children as the Chaldee Paraphrast expounds this Prophecy Or as the Jerusalem Targum has it to the same effect Kings or as Jonathan's Kings and Princes or Presidents were to cease from the House of Judah and Doctors that teach the Law from his Children's Children This indeed was not to be accomplished till the coming of the Shiloh † ‑ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Messiah says