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A66069	Babylons ruine, Jerusalems rising set forth in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons on the 25 Octob. being the day appointed for the monthly fast, solemnly to be observed / by Henry Wilkinson ...	Wilkinson, Henry, 1610-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2220; ESTC R40697	33,450	42

Moses did shrink and distrust and was very hardly brought on to the work Whatever the work be yet it matters not so God be in it he fits men for the work and carries them through it though it may seem difficult and impossible Ier. 1. 17 18. 19. If God makes use though of a worm that worm shall thresh Mountaines in peeces Isa 41. 14 15 16. The poor Church trampled on like a worm which as it is least able to help it selfe so it is most exposed to injury yet it shall crush in pieces those that tread it under foot the wheeles moved as the living creatures moved and the living creatures moved as the Spirit moved Ezek 1. 19 20 21. when he sets the wheeles of the creature going there is nothing can stay them there is no standing against those whom God sends on his errand Deut. 30. 32. Ier. 51. 20 21. It is spoke of Luther how Coelesti● ille Germanus Lutherus Antichristum antea terribilem omnibus so â oris buc●ina conterruit parva sodalium infirm tatis contra potentiam simplicitatis contra fraudes humilitatis contra fastum contra crudelitatem patientia arma coniungentium stipatus manu in restitutione evange● fecit progressum ●ans in Orat. pro German invincibly and irresistibly he went on in the opposing of the whole body of Antichrist the whole Kingdome of Satan and the beast could not stand before him Whence it follows by way of inference and corollary full of sweetnesse and comfort that those whom God employes in his service they shall conquer all opposition Mountains shall be plained Zech. 4. 7. Anakims shall lye prostrate like Dagon before the Arke 1 Sam. 5. 3. Iericho walls shall fall down Iosh 6. 20. If God gives commission to Armies of Flyes and Locusts they will make a puissant people stoop Exod. 8. 21 25. and 10. 16 17. though the opposition be great and the meanes to encounter it small that is all one one to a thousand and two to ten thousand is mighty oddes in number and strength and yet they shall conquer Deut. 32. 30. It followes secondly for encouragement that no plots or designes no conspiracies and combinations against those that God sets on worke shall prosper Isa 8. 9 10. Iob 12. 16 17. Isa 29. 14. Honourable and Beloved this Truth hath been sealed to you by many experiments and by a concurrence of providences many and strange and visible so visible indeed to any but he that will not see that you and we must needs confesse and say there was Digitus Dei and another time brachium Altissimi and here again Iehovah-Iireh and againe If the Lord himselfe had not been on our side Psal 124. 1 2 3 4 5 6. c. This deliverance you may ascribe Deo liberatori to God our Redeemer and this Victory Deo adjutori to God my helper and this blow and wound given to the adversary Deo vindici to God to whom vengeance belongeth you and we must needs say here This is the Lords own doing and it is marvellous in our eyes How often hath it been made good to you that surely there is no inchantment against Iacob neither is there any divination against Israel Num. 23. 23. Here you may write a Selah here an Higgaion Selah there being matter of astonishment and admiration in Gods mercies to you How often has God shewed himselfe then when indeed there was dignus vindice nodus it being past humane help How often have you been brought to those straits that you have been all puzled and non-pluss'd you have been at a stand and when you stood still you then saw the salvation of the Lord your standing still was Gods chiefe time of working Exod. 14. 13. The truth is the House in which you sit hath been the Mount of the Lord a Mount of mercies and a Mount of deliverances so that you of all men may truly say God is our refuge and strength a very present help in time of trouble Psal 46. 1. and the Lord of Hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge v. 7. Selah The vessell hath bin so neer sinking that with the Apostles you have cyred out Lord save us we perish and he hath saved you and you have not perished Object But it may be said that you find many incombrances and difficulties by way of discouragement more hornes seem to spring up in the place of the old and when one mountain is removed it doth but give place and make room for a greater as if the removing of one difficulty were but the creation of a greater Answ This should be so farre from discouraging you that it should cause you rather to double your files this should increase your by way of retortion for encouragement the more zeal and courage for true Zeal increaseth by opposition and like the Palme riseth up with a kind of indignation against that weight that is laid upon it You may well think that when the Carpenters fall upon the hornes with their hammers axes and sawes the beasts that weare them will be outragious this should encourage you the more it is a sign you draw nigh the root It is a hopefull sign that many a devill is neer upon casting out of the Land It is to be hoped that many a drunken prophane formall superstitious idolatrous ceremoniall devill many a foule spirit is ready to be dispossessed in regard they have rent and torne our Kingdome so miserably like that Devill Mar. 9. 25. 26. when he was to bee cast out rent the possessed ●ore insomuch as he was a dead man for the present we hope that whole legeons are ready to be cast out you must conceive that those that rake in waspes nests and in the holes of Aspes and Cockatrices may meet with stings and poyson Besides by how much the more diligent you be in your work by so much the more diligent will Satan be to resist you Rev. 12. 4. The Dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered to devoure the child so soone as it was born now that you are in travell ready to be delivered of a male child of some good designe the Dragon stands before you not to be a Mid-wife to deliver but an Executioner to strangle the child in the birth or to devoure it so soone as it is borne Since you have to do with a brood of Serpents you must expect that the Serpent will send out of his mouth a flood as he did after the woman Rev. 12. 15. waters of Persecutions from all parts When Ioshuah the High Priest appeared before the Lord Satan stood at his right hand to hinder him Zech. 3. 1. but God rebuked him ver 2. Furthermore whatsoever may be objected almost by way of discouragement Particular objections answered by way of parallel drawn from the Type and the antitype from the builders of Ierusalem of old and the builders of Gods house

under the last times of the Gospel to you you may find to have fallen upon those that built the Temple of Ierusalem who were your Type and you shall finde that notwithstanding all discouragements the building went on which certainly must needs animate and quicken you when you finde the parallel to be sutable It is said that the businesse is very sad and mournfull Ans It is true there is cause of mourning but there is cause of rejoycing too Ezra 3. 12. at the laying of the foundation of the Temple there was weeping I confesse upon another stile and there was rejoycing to because the foundation was laid that there was some pregnant hopes of a building towards which they might hope would come to an accomplishment in due time Secondly we are scandalized and reproched and the work vilified and scorned Answ Ezr. 4. 12. there you have an invective and Neh. 2. 19. when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem heard of it they laughed us to scorne and despised us and said What is this thing that yee doe will yee rebell against the K. but take notice of the pious answer ver 20. Again Neh. 4. 1. 2. 3. You shall finde reproaches full of venome and indignation against the building and the builders but yet for all this the building went on Thirdly we are not only reproached but the Adversary is in Armes against us Answ This was the case of the builders of Ierusalem for when the enemies saw they could not laugh and scorne them from the work they then levied forces to beat them from the work Neh. 4. 8. but yet the work went on and by that meanes it went on see v. 9. But if it be so how can it be expected that we should both defend and build Answ How did the builders of Ierusalem they fought and built at once Neh. 4. 16. 17. 18. and they did prosper and goe on Nay such was their constant opposition that they were compelled to watch so constantly and diligently That they did not put off their clothes saving for washing ver 23. Fourthly the businesse is now grown to that passe that it is so heavie and so chargeable that there is a great cry and clamour of the people by reason of taxations and by reason of continuall watching and labouring at the works men are constrained to leave their Trades and Trade decaying men now spend upon the stock nay many a mans stock is already spent so that they are compelled to borrow upon use whereupon there be many murmurings and repinings amongst us Answ This was just the case of them that built Jerusalem Neh. 5. 1. 2. 3. 〈◊〉 the very selfe-same words that were then spoken are now taken up and there is much like the same reasons and grounds But observe the wisdome and zeale of Nehemiah in this case how he behaved himselfe in the verses following from the 6th to the 12th and consider the issue most happy in the verses after Fifthly but the people of the land are disaffected both to us and the work Answ Ez. 4. 4. 5. The people of the land weakned the hands of the people of Iudah and troubled them in building and hired Counsellours against them c. Sixthly our Adveriaries lay their designes deep they work under ground Answ So it was with them anciently Neh. 4. 11. their Adversaries said They shall not know neither see till we come in the midst among them and slay them and cause the work to cease Seventhly many great ones draw back the Nobles many of them will not put their hand to the work Answ So it was anciently Neh. 3. 5. The Nobles put not their neck to the work of the Lord. Eightly we are dealt withall by way of treaty and friendly accommodation places of meeting are proposed and the truth is their traines of love are trains of powder to blow us up Answ So it was with Nehemiah 6. 2. he was sent to by Sanballat and Geshem saying Come let us meet together in some one of the Villages in the plaine of Ono but they thought to doe me a mischiefe Whether the case at a Town not farre off be not much like this and whether mischiefe were not intended let the event speak but observe what answer Nehemiah made v. 3. Nay they sent to him foure times but he gave them the same answer He had a great work in hand so that I cannot come down c. I will not undertake to prescribe what answer you should give Ninthly we have open Declarations against us and the world is told that we rebell and that we think upon strong matters such things as never entred into our hearts Answ Just so it was with Nehemiah c. 6. v. 5. 6. they send an open letter to them to that purpose it might be known to the world and that they might affright them with that terrible word of Rebellion Nay it is said that they employed Prophets to Preach their Rebellious intentions that they might be communicated more easily and effectually to the people this was said then v. 7. and let the same answer that Nehemiah made be now made also ver 8. Tenthly we had those that are set on purpose to draw and entice us into unwarrantable courses that so there might be a just matter of acculation against us some have been tempted on purpose for that end that so we might lie open to their imputations Answ This was Nehemiahs case c. 6. v. 10. hee was allured by Shemaiah to goe with him into the house of God pretending it was not safe for Nehemiah to be in the City now this would have engaged Nehemiah in a dishonourable act to flie into the Temple this might have favoured of feare and then others might have been disheartned and therefore he entertaines the offer with indignation and said Should such a man as I flee v. 11. Secondly it would have engaged Nehemiah in an unlawfull act for Iunius and Tremelius observe that it was not lawfull for him to go into the Temple and to that purpose they urge that Law Numb 3. 38. and Nehemiah seems to intimate the unlawfulnesse of the thing v. 12. he sayes and loe I perceived that God had not sent him but that he was hired to make him afraid and sinne v. 13. Eleventhly but we have those that do entertain commerce and entercourse with our Adversaries Answ So it was antiently Neh. 6. 17. It is said in those dayes the Nobles of Iudah sent many letters unto Tobiah and the letters of Tobiah came unto them It seems the Nobles were rotten in those dayes some of them nay more many of them in Iudah some were sworn to Tobiah because he was the Sonne-in-Law of Shecaniah it should seeme he was well allyed ver 18. in the 19. ver you may see the end of the letters why they were sent and why they told the proceedings of Nehemiah to his Adversaries Twelfthly the people of the Land are unprepared and are