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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

and Governours the streame of the people sometimes turning one way sometimes another as in the story appeares and in the end God sayes that he will root up Israel out of this good Land and pluck up this Reede even by the roots when it hath beene tost a while up and downe So it follows there I will end this Caution with two Rules First be sure you establish nothing but what you have full cleare and generall light for Secondly condemne nothing and suffer nothing to stand condemned in which you in your consciences are doubtfull there may be a truth For if you should build the least Hay and Stubble you will not onely suffer losse but lay a foundation of a new rent and division in the age to come For there is a Spirit mentioned in the Text even the Holy Ghost who will not rest working in mens spirits till the whole building be rightly framed according to the pattern in every piece of it And what ever is amisse and not according to his minde the light of his fire will both discover it and burne it up which leads me to the 5. Observation which is this That God carryes on the work of finishing his Temple not by power nor might but by his Spirit By Spirit he meaneth the holy Ghost by a more immediate hand stirring up mens spirits unto this work turning and convincing them of the truth and of their duty towards it and likewise by coincident acts of Providence so apparently wheeling about to the effecting of it that though might and power be brought to concur in it yet so as his hand alone shall be seene and acknowledged in it And thus his Spirit here is manifestly interpreted in the 10. ver. where it is said that as all should see the Plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel the instrument of building it so they should perceive those seven eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth that is his eyes of Providence called seven because of their perfection these to have so guided and managed all the affairs thereof that all the rayes and beames of Providence issuing from those eyes might be seene to meet in the accomplishment of this as their ultimate aime and scope Now these seven eyes Rev. 5. 6. are called the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth And Rev. 1. 4. are plainly interpreted to be the holy Ghost in his various workings for Grace and Peace is there wished from the seven Spirits Thus much for the explication of it Now that the building of the Temple is thus more immediately carryed on by the working of the holy Ghost you may reade it all along in all the story of the building of this Temple in the Old Testament as likewise in that of the New First the laying the Foundation of this Temple it was done indeed by the power and might of Cyrus but yet Ezra 1. and 2. it is added The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus and how but by a meere act of fore-sight or providence afore-hand about it God had an hundred yeers before his birth by his Spirit written a Prophecie of him and that by name Esay 44. ult. which these Jews shewing him Gods Spirit stirred up his spirit thereby for in his Proclamation himself sayes The Lord hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem so ver. 2. of Ezra 1. And when he had thus given leave to the Jews to goe and build it yet still it was a great matter of self-denyall to them to leave their houses and gardens which they had built and planted at Babylon Jer. 29. 5. Therefore it is further added in the 5. ver. of that 1. of Ezra Then rose up the chiefe of the Fathers and the Priests and Levites with all them whose spirit God had raised up to build the house of the Lord And then again when it came to this second work the Finishing of it they were exceeding backward to it but God sent Two Prophets who convinced them of their duty and therefore Hag. 1. 14. it is expresly and on purpose put in that The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel and the spirit of Jeshuah and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they came and did work in the house of the Lord their God And againe whereas the Persian Kings had made Decrees against the building of it which was the greatest impediment of all the rest God brought Darius his heart at last off to it and that by so unexpected a way as made all the people joyfull So it is expresly said EZra 6. 22. They kept the feast of unleavened bread with joy for the Lord had made them joyfull and had turned the heart of the King of Assyria unto them to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God Yea and his heart was so much stirred in it that he not onely makes a Decree for it ver. 8. but likewise against all those that should oppose it under a capitall punishment ver. 11. yea he curseth all that should put to their hand to alter it ver. 12. so that the enemies that before opposed it were now constrained to further it ver. 13. All this was done as you see Not by power nor by might but by Gods Spirit Thus much for this instance in the Text out of the Old Testament See the like in Gods building his Church in the New Both in setting up his Church in the world at first when Heathenisme backt with the power of the Romane Empire stood in the way of it and likewise in raising it up againe when Antichrist had throwne it downe For the first the Erecting of it Did he use might or power or an Armie as it is varied in the margent to conquer the world by No such matter He chooseth twelve or thirteene men whereof the most were poore fisher-men and he sends them not all together in one troop neither but dispersed apart into severall parts of the world some taking one Country to conquer some another The most ridiculous course in appearance for such a designe that could be imagined Yet as Revel. 6. 2. Christ in these went forth conquering and to conquer and took nothing with him but his Bow as it is there and his Arrowes as it is Psal. 45. 5. the preaching of the Gospel even the foolishnesse of preaching as the Apostle calls it yet hereby the people fell so under him as the Psalmists phrase there is that in three hundred yeares that whole Empire was turned Christian and Heathenish worship throwne downe and this you see not by power nor by might but by his Spirit But then again Antichrist steps up the Beast of Rome and after Him all the world wondered that is the European world Revel. 13. 3. saying Who is like unto the Beast who is able to make warre with him ver. 4. But at the 14. Chap. a Lambe encounters him and but with a

what ever else was or is done in the world In the 87. Psal. ver. 2. The Lord loves the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob The gates of Sion were the gates of the Temple that stood upon mount Sion set open for the Jews to worship in and these he loves more then other Societies or Assemblings though of Jacob and this more then them All take them all together whether civill in their Cities and families or religious in their Synagogues where they were capable but of some few not of all the Ordinances that were in the Temple And the reason of this his love is the great concernment that his publique worship is of unto him God hath but three things deare unto him in this world his Saints his Worship and his Truth and it is hard to say which of these is dearest unto him they are mutuò sibi fines God therefore ordained Saints to be in the world that he might be worshipt and reciprocally appointed these Ordinances of worship as meanes to build up his Saints In the Commandements the Epitome of the Old Testament the institutions of Gods worship have the second place The second Commandment is wholly spent thereon and therein how jealous doth God professe himselfe of any aberration or swerving from his own rules now jealousie you know proceeds from the deepest love Yea the third and fourth Commandements are taken up about it also the one about the manner that his Name for so his worship is called Micah 4. the 5. ver. compared with ver. 2. and 3. might not be taken in vaine the other about the time And then in the Lords Prayer which is the Epitome of the New Testament in the second Petition if not the first the worship and government of his Church comes in for his Worship is his Name as was said and we desire that to be Hallowed nothing is more properly Christs visible Kingdome here then the right administration of Ordinances in his Church which doe set him up as King of Saints To this purpose I shall open that in the 15. of the Revelation where when the Saints had got a Temple over their heads ver. 6. as was before hinted then they call for a true and right worshipping of Christ and this because he was King of Saints They sing Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Who shall not feare thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy and all nations shall come and worship before thee c. There are three paires or conjugata which harmoniously answer one to another First here is a double title and Kingdome given unto Christ 1 Lord Almighty 2 King of Saints or if you will He is King of Nations and King of Saints 1 King of Nations for so in that parallel place Jerem. 10. 7. from whence these words here uttered are evidently taken and therefore it is quoted in the margent he is called so is all one with that expression here Lord God Almighty unto which 2 they adde this other Thou King of Saints And so these two are distinct and both His titles Then secondly here is a double duty sutably due unto him according to these his titles to fear him and to worship him both which are expressed by this generall to glorifie his Name Thirdly here is a double declaration of the justnesse of these titles the ground that calls for both these duties his great and marvellous works in the world declaring him to be Lord God Almighty or King of Nations and therefore Feare is due unto him and accordingly in Jeremy we onely read Who would not feare thee O King of Nations and then there are his just and true wayes declaring him to be King of Saints which these here in their song adde unto that of Jeremy and this calls for Worship from us unto him Who shall not worship thee O King of Saints for true and righteous are thy wayes and judgements In fine here is Christs supremacie acknowledged both in matters Civill and Ecclesiasticall in his government of the world and of his Church And as he is knowne to be King of Nations by his works of Providence abroad in the world so to be King of Saints by those true and righteous wayes wherein his Churches are to walk And a parallel place unto this latter as that of Jeremy was unto the former is that in Psal. 68. 24. where the Psalmist speaking of this worship of Christ sayes They have seene thy goings O God even the goings of my King in the Sanctuary Mark it the goings he speaks of are restrained to his goings in the Sanctuary and spoken of him also as the Churches King My King And so the words are the very same in sense that they in the Temple here doe utter Just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints And the Psalmist evidently speaks of his waies of worship in the Church as appeares by the very next words ver. 25. The singers went before the players on instruments followed after c. expressing the worship of him in his Church in the language of the Old Testament and he as their King in the midst of them going in his greatest state And yet more clearly ver. 26. Blesse ye God in the congregations Yea and all this proves to be New Testament too and a prophecie thereof though uttered in the phrase of and in a prophecy of the Old For what is said in the 18. ver. before of this their King is by the Apostle in Ephes. 4. 8. applyed unto Christs Ascension Thou hast Ascended up on high thou hast led Captivity captive and hast received gifts for men namely the gifts for building of his Church and directing of his worship under the New Testament as it is expounded by the Apostle in the following verses And therefore that which I have even now cited out of that Psal. ver. 24 25 26 c. is to be understood as meant of the worship of the Gospell in the congregations thereof erected after Christs Ascension I shall adde but this These waies are called just and true in opposition to wayes invented by men which on the contrary are unrighteous and false Psal. 119. 104. Through thy precepts I get understanding therefore I hate every false way There is certainly a right Rule or way chalked out for every administration in Gods Sanctuary if we could finde it out To illustrate all this by a similitude from other Kings Two thinges manifest a King to be a King shew forth the glory of his Majesty 1. His power and rule abroad throughout all his Dominions 2. The observance the worship and State ceremonies that are at Court and these shew him to be King as much as the former This we may see in Solomon whose Royalty and Majesty was held forth thereby as much as by his power 2 Chron. 9. 4. When the