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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92134	Roma ruens. Dagon falling before the Arke, or, The glory of Christ over-shadowing all other glories. / As it was delivered in a sermon before. the right Honourable Lord Major, and the right worshipful aldermen his brethren, at Mercers Chappel. By Nicholas Rust, chaplaine to the right Honourable Lord Major. Magna veritas & prævalet.	Rust, Nicholas, b. 1617 or 18.	1650 (1650)	Wing R2369; Thomason E597_9; ESTC R206294	17,713	31

dispensation of the Gospel yea such an essentiall qualification as if without it none could be inabled for the holding forth the word of life now this doth detract from the alfufficiency of Christ 2 Cor. 12.9 as if he could not furnish his Saints with the tongue of the learned to speak a word in season to those that are weary without acquired arts and Sciences I do not speak against gifts and learning they are excellent ornements unto nature and for ought I know unto grace also for the gold did beautifie the Temple though the Temple did Sanctifie the gold but I speak against the axalting them before Christ you know a candle is of good use in a darkeroome but when you light it up before the Sun it is outshined and made useless God maketh foolishnesse the wisdome of this world confoundeth the understanding of the prudent and doth destroy and blast the glory of all humane excellencies yea doth powre contempt upon them when they exalt themselves before him therefore if Christ doth begin to overshadow these creature-glories let 's not crie them up for though we should never so endeavour to quicken the admiration of them in the hearts of men yet we shall not be able to keep up their esteem and preserve their glory when they begin to die and fade the spirit of the Lord blowing upon them We have had experience of this 1 Sam. 5.2 for we set up the Dagon of mans invented worship before the Arke of God but the power and Majesty of the truth of God made him lick the dust for down he tumbled before the Arke and though the hand of God was exceedingly against us in this desinge yet such was our blind zeal that we would not desist but lent Dagon our hand again and gave him the other lift and helped him into his seat again yea we fasted for him and prayed for him until we had set him up but in the morning this Dagon was fallen unto the earth again and had broke his neck and hands and nothing but the stump of Dagon remaines for nothing doth so deface and deform mans worship as the light of truth shining forth Truely we would have healed Babylon but she would not be healed even let us give her over as incurable And honourable Senators 1 Kings 18. if Baal be a god let him plead for himself lend him your power no more for he layeth claim to a Jus Divinum now if he be as he pretends of the stock and linage of David if he be as Johns Baptisme from heaven he is armed from heaven and strengthened with a divine power against all wayes that do oppose him and therefore need not be afraid to looke the light in the face or lift up his head before the Arke Also let 's not set up humane power in competition with Christ let 's not depend upon it as if a man could be delivered by much strength let 's not glory as if our hil were made so strong that it could never be moved when the arm of flesh is with us but especially take heed of setting up humane power against Christ least it be broken like a potters vessel You have seen these powers of the beast and Dagon fall before the Arke and if Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews before whom Hamon hath begun to fall Esther 6.13 he will fall and rise no more Oh let all proud Hamans cease persecuting poor Mordecai least they bring an odium upon themselves before the Lord for let them engage their wisdome power and greatnesse against the wayes of Christ Magna est veritas praevalet the power of Christ even in babes and sucklings persons mean and contemptible will bear them down before it Psal 8.2 for great is the Lord and his glory doth out-shine all other glories If we would not be troubled at the breaking forth of the light and glory of Christ Vse 3. let 's be willing this bright cloud should overshadow us willing to be abased and decrease John 3.30 that Christ may be exalted and encrease Beloved I do discover the cloud arising and it wil overshadow us for though for present it appeareth about the bignesse of a mans hand 1 Kings 18.45 it will encrease until it overspread the heaven and darken al the glory of man Beloved if my Astrologie fail not the glory of flesh wil suffer a great eclips Isay 40.6 and it wil be visible with us if the aire be cleare indeed for present it is somewhat darkened with the smoke of the bottomlesse pit Rev. 9.3 but there is hope that darknesse wil be dispelled with the beames of the Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4. now this prognostication though calculated properly for England yet it may serve indifferently for the whole world for all the Nations round about us though they be stout and lofty must bring their glory unto him who is to be all in all Rev. 21.26 This prediction is grounded upon that 24 of Matthew which place though understood of Christs last coming Mat. 24.29 yet is true also of his coming in the ministry of his Gospel which doth darken the Sun Moon and Stars all these inferior luminaries of earthly glory wax pale and dim when the Son of man appeareth in his glory but although the Moon of earthly glory which is subject to encrease and wane and many changes be thus eclipsed yet our glorious Sun shal never be eclipsed from the soul of his people yea it shall never go down Isay 60.19 for the Lord shal be their everlasting light and God their glory but from others it will be eclipsed there may be an interposition of thick clouds and darknesse being upon them they cannot see the King in his beauty Jer. 17.5 or as it is in Jeremiah 17. they shall not see good when it cometh Mat. 11.25 the grace love glory and goodness of God in Christ shall be hidden from them or the Devil may interpose the body of the earth betwixt their souls and the Sun of righteousnesse and so depriv them of the joy and comfort of his enlivening and in lightening influence Mal. 4.2 Therefore to conclude your opposition will be against the Gospel if your glory and life be hid in creatures because your very life is destroyed when creature-glory is overshadowed if you live and glory in things below the Lord Jesus Mat. 2.3 with Herod you will be troubled to hear of a Christ with those in the Revelations Rev. 16.10 you will be found to gnaw your tongues for paine and blaspheme the God of heaven because of the prevailing power of truth and breaking forth of Gospel-light and with the Merchants of Babylon Rev. 18.16 to weep and waile crying Alas alas because of the downfal of the Kingdome of the Beast But if your life be hid with Christ in God Col. 3.3 you will rejoyce when he appeareth and you will be found in the number of those that did shout untill the earth rang againe when the Arke came into the Camp of Israel 1 Sam. 4.5 Rev. 19.1 or of those that cry Hallelujah Hallelujah for the Lord rejoyceth So welcome will the appearance of Christ in his Gospel be unto your soules that this will be your joyful acclamation John 12.13 Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna to the Son of David Christians study these truths I leave them with you and I commend you to the grace and goodness of our Redeemer Luke 19.38 FINIS

ashes Oh how low doth the glory of Christ lay the glory of man for when the glory of God appeared unto Isaiah he was so astonished and confounded Isay 6.5 that he cries out woe is me I am undone I have seen the Lord I am a man of polluted lips I am a sinful man said Peter when he had seen the Lord Jesus nothing doth so manifest to the creature its emptinesse and insufficiency as a sight of that eminency and fulnesse that is in Christ then we see that we are nothing that we have nothing and can do nothing when the Lord discovereth himself to be all in all for his glorious righteousnesse doth overshadow and eclips the glory of all earthly righteousnesse Fourthly The glory of Christs truth and worship doth quite blast and overshadow the glory of mans worship that is to say a wil-worship according to the commandments of men Oh how have we lived upon this worship and fetched all our refreshment from it speaking peace to our own souls for the perfunctory and formal performance of any particular act of this worship Isay 50. ult 29.13 though according to the commandments of men But when that glorious Sun of Divine truth hath arisen upon us and caused his light and glory to dawne upon our darke hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 this well of our former refreshment hath been utterly exhausted we could no longer find comfort or satisfaction in mens formalities we might famish for any soul-nourishment that we could find in them they have appeared to us so void of the presence of Jesus Christ Luke 24.5 that we should seek the living among the dead to seek him there so that the discovery of Christ in his truth and Gospel hath disovered the emptinesse Isay and destroyed the very being of those things whereon we have lived for the glory of Christ doth overshadow all other glory Now Divine worship cannot but darken the glory of Wil-worship for the truth of God must needs overcome and vanquish the devised worship of men many are the devises of men but the councels of God must stand the word is powerful for the subversion of strong-holds and bringing down humane imaginations therefore this may comfort us in the middest of all the errours of the enemies wherein we live truth shall get ground of errour but errour shall not get ground of truth for truth is armed from heaven against opposers therefore we are resolved in this cause of Christs to put it to the utmost triall which be strongest the lies and falshoods of men or the truth and Gospel of Jesus Christ Heb. 1. surely the brightnesse of this glory will out-shine all other glories for can darknesse stand before the light if the day break the shadowes must flie away Cant. 4.6 the Kingdome of the beast was ruined by the preaching of the Gospel because it was full of darknesse that kingdome is an effect of darknesse Revel 16.10 and a cause of darknesse brought forth by darkenesse Ex quibus nascimur ex iisdem nutrimur Luke 2.32 2 Pet. 1.19 Rev 2.28 supported by darknesse it maintaines darknesse and is maintained by darknesse now Christ is a light to lighten the Gentiles a light shining in a darke place the bright morning-star that very light and glory of the Father which must needs be destructive to the kingdome of darknesse which cannot abide the brightnesse of his coming for the lustre of it is above all other glory 2 Thes 2.8 Yea further Wil-worship is set forth in way of comparison by wax which melteth before the fire the doctrines and traditions of men melt and dissolve when the Sun of Gospel-light and truth waxeth hot Rev. 9.2 will-Wil-worship is the smoke of the bottomlesse pit now smoke doth vanish clouds are scattered and dissipated when the Sun ariseth Let God arise Psal 68.1 let truth break forth and what shall be contrary to truth and God will be scattered even as smoke vanisheth so it will be driven away and as wax melteth at the fire so it will perish at the presence of the truth of God so that hay and stubble will not endure the fire 1 Cor. 3.12 which must try every mans worke of what sort it is The Prophet Malachi saith of Christ Mal. 4.3 Who shall abide his coming for his coming is as a refiners fire and fullers soape He alludeth to the custome of the refiners of subterraneal treasures who by fire purifie the silver and gold ore separating the dross from it so this refiner the Lord Jesus will cause all the drosse of humane inventions in the worship of God to passe away to go forth as that scum and filth which will not abide the purity of his coming for no mixture of humanity will endure the refiners fire for the truth of God carrieth all before it dashing the brats of Babylon against the stones breaking not onely her Idols of courser materials as of wood and stone but even those of purer matter as of gold and silver and precious sto●es Rev. 18.12 dlso vering not onely the mysterie of iniquity in grosse formes For the man of sin hath various forms and though he acteth in a new form yet he is the old serpent but even that which is more specious and spun with a finer thred for the word of the Lord is quick and powerfull sharper then a two-edged sword c. Thus the glory of Christs truth and worship doth overshadow and put out the glory of al humane carnal ordinances for the Angel which cometh down from heaven with the everlasting Gospel hath great power and the earth is lightened with his glory Rev. 18.1 Lastly the glory of Christs promises and prophesies of his will and councels do overshadow and out-shine all the devises and wills of men that is the devises councels and wills of men are not able to stand before the will and councel of God Isay 46.10 11 for first the promises and prophesies of God must be fulfilled and must take place Isay 14.24 maugre all the actings and conncels of men Glorious things are prophesied of the Church of Christ in time of the new Testament that her foundations shall be laid with Saphirs and Carbuncles Isay 54.11 her gates shall be made of Agats and all her borders of pretious stones all which are of high esteeme and value with our Lapidaries that know the vertues of these stones now the enemies of the Church of Christ Isay 54.15 gather together to hinder this glorious worke and to keep off the fulfilling of these blessed Prophesies for they had rather see Sions stones Psul 102.14 lie scattered in the dust then compacted together to become a holy temple in the Lord but all their engagements are in vaine for when they rise up thus against the worke of God they fall Verse 15. when they gather together against it they are scattered Verse