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A30058 The church's request to all her faithful sons and children that they would now pray for her, and stand by her, and help her what they can, and not forsake her in her desolate condition, and the dark time of popery that is coming upon her / written by Digby Bull ... Bull, Digby. 1695 (1695) Wing B5409; ESTC R37486 34,998 41

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David and he shall execute Judgment and Righteousness in the Land In those days shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is his Name whereby he shall be called The Lord our Righteousness And by this Branch of Righteousness is meant our blessed Saviour and therefore under Jerusalem is comprehended the Christian Church And saith the Prophet Isaiah 2.2 And it shall come to pass in the last days that the Mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the Mountains and shall be exalted above the Hills and all Nations shall flow unto it And this seems to be a prediction of the times of the Gospel and this Mountain of the Lord's house to be the Christian Church And saith the Prophet Micah 4.7 And the Lord shall Reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever But this cannot well be understood of any other Reigning over them than in the Christian Church For there is no appearance of God's Reigning over them now in Mount Zion taking it literally for that place in the Land of Judea And that this Legal and Temple-worship of the Jews at Jerusalem was to cease and that God was then to be worshiped after a Spiritual manner even our Blessed Lord sheweth Jo. 4.21 Jesus saith unto her Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in th●s Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father And Ver. 23. But 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 The Jewish way of Worship at the Temple was then to cease and Jerusalem literally taken was no longer to be God's peculiar place of Worship above all others after the Gospel was published and after the death of our Saviour Nor is it that City litterally taken that we are now obliged to pray for above all others But it is the Christian Church which is now to be accounted the true Israel of God and to come in place thereof and is oft comprehended in the name of Jerusalem and meant by it and for this are we now to pray And we may see that Jerusalem is used in a figurative manner for the Church of Christ Gal. 4.26 Saith the Apostle But Jerusalem which is above is free which is the Mother of us all And saith the Apostle speaking of the Christian state of the Church Heb. 12.22 But ye are come unto mount Zion and unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general Assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in Heaven The Christian Church which is in Society with the Saints and Angels above is the Jerusalem that we are now to be so much concerned for and especially for that part of it among us By this exhortation and precept then of the devout Psalmist though it doth primarily respect the Jews are we also taught to seek and pray for the Peace and Prosperity of the true Church of God especially of that part of it that is amongst us and for the Good and Welfare of our own Kingdom and Nation upon which our own Peace and Happiness do depend and to do all the good Offices for them that we can For in such a general sense are we to understand the exhortation and precept here in the Text as I have shewed And First We ought to have a great care that we do no injury and harm to them and no ways disturb the Peace of them In being required and enjoyned to pray for our Jerusalem for the Church of God and for the good of our own Nation and People we are hereby plainly forbid to do any Injury and Wrong to them And it is our Saviour's command that we should be harmless and innocent in all respects Mat. 10.16 Behold saith he I send you forth as sheep in the midst of Wolves be ye therefore wise as Serpents and harmless as Doves And herein especially are we to be so in committing no publick Offences and Crimes against the Church or good of the Nation We are to be very cautious and circumspect that we do not wilfully offend against the common Good and Welfare of the Church or State and to have a great care that we commit no wilful Acts of Violence and Wrong against them and that we lend no helping hand to destroy and overthrow th● Protestant Church and our Good Laws and well-establisht Go●●●●m●●t There is no doubt to me but that the Protestant Church of England is a true and eminent part of the Church of Christ and therefore every Man ought to have a very great care that he doth not any ways help to destroy and pull it down and to introduce Popery in the room of it The Protestant Religion is agreeable to the pure Word of God but Popery is flat contrary to that sacred Word in a multitude of places as you may see in the Protestant's Letter and the Book called the Contrariety of Popery to the blessed Word of God and every good Protestant then ought to chuse rather to die at the Stake than to help to make this change in Religion And those that do so may justly expect the Woe and Curse of God to come upon them for helping to destroy such an eminent part of his Church And we are to have a care that we offer no Wrong and Violence to any of the Members thereof that we no ways annoy and injure the very meanest of them Nor must we help to overthrow our laudable and good Laws and well Establisht Government and to bring the Kingdom under the Popish Yoke and Bondage again If we bear that good will that we ought to our Jerusalem and would observe this precept of the Devout and Royal Psalmist we must refrain from the doing of any of these things and offer no Violence nor Injury to our beloved City or any of the Members of it And to deter us the more from doing any Acts of Violence and Wrong to the Church or any of the faithful Members thereof we may see that Woe and Misery is threatned to such and like to come upon them Our Saviour pronounceth a Woe against the Pharisees for obstructing the Kingdom of Heaven and hindering the progress of the Gospel Mat. 23.13 But woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites saith he for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against Men For ye neither go in your selves neither suffer ye them that are entring to go in And saith he Luc. 11.52 Wo unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entred not in your selves and them that were entring in ye hindred This wo is denounced against them for opposing the Kingdom of Heaven and hindering the increase and advancement of the Church of God And all those that shall now help to destroy the true Church of Christ or to do any wrong to any part