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A88385	A brief exposition upon the second Psalme. Wherein wee have that time modestly pointed at, (by the favourable direction of that significant then in the 5th v.) in which the father will in wrath to the (professing, refined) rulers of the world set his Sonne on Sion. And a description of the work the Son then performeth, both by his spirit, and his mysticall body. With usefull observations thereupon. Tending to clear up the scope of the whole Psalme. With application to our times. / By William Llanvædonon of P.H.C.	Llanvædonon, William, of P.H.C.	1655 (1655)	Wing L2619; Thomason E844_9; ESTC R210352	60,620	69

let them goe forth Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver but their owne soules by their righteousnesse saith the Lord God And now it 's come into the same predicament againe the world hath run its round and is gotten into a like posture it was in when a flood of wrath overwhelmed it What a sad condition is this world now in It 's tottering and there 's none to underprop it it 's sinking and there 's none to uphold it The wrath of God is hovering over it ready to fall upon it and there 's none to plead to undertake for it Surely the world is beholding to the intercession of Christ for its standing and now that ceases the foundations thereof are out of course and it 's falling The day of the Lord is coming upon it as a Theef in the night wherein the Heavens shall flee away as a scrowle the Elements shall melt with fervent heat and the earth with the workes therein shall be burnt up The second part of our work is To search into the worke to be done in this remarkable time Here is the work of the father and of the Son 1 The work of the father which is two-fold A worke of wrath to his enemies which is amplified by a double expression speaking in wrath and vexing them in his sore displeasure And secondly A work of love and faithfullnesse to his Son Then shall he speake unto them in his wrath God speaks to men in divers manners by the voyce of his providences the voyce of his mercies the voyce of his rod and the voyce of his judgements and when God speaks by all in wrath his providences blinding their eyes his mercies hardening their hearts his rod driving them from him and as the fruit of the former his judgements cease upon them here 's a dreadfull day of wrath indeed now God speaks to them in wrath But his hath speciall relation to the voyce of his ward for what doth he peak to them in wrath The Text tells us Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Syon the Gospel of the Kingdome And that must needs be a day of wrath and terrors indeed when that word which was wont to be a word of salvation a word of love and good will shall now be a word of wrath in wrath O sad God speaks his word in wrath to a people 1 When it hath contrary effects upon them a savour of death unto death instead of a savour of life unto life As in Isa 6.9 10 11 12. This Evangelicall Prophet Esay must make the hearts of this people fat their eares heavy and shut their eyes and that by speaking such gracious words unto them as he doth throughout his whole Prophesie Certainly this is none other but the wrath of God upon a wanton and backsliding people 2 When God layes stumbling-blocks before a people that they receive not nor hearken to the word but stumble and fall upon it and perish according to that in Jer. 6.21 Therefore thus saith the Lord behold I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them The neighbour and his friend shall perish This also is none other but the wrath of God upon a stubborne rebellious people They had said they would not heare and saith God let it be so they shall not heare he throwes stumbling-blocks in their way least they should follow the voyce of his word and he should blesse them Yet these stumbling-blocks are not such as in the least extenuate or lessen their iniquity by giving them good and right ground to plead a necessity for their doings but such as men make to themselves True God layes stumbling-blocks before them yet it's themselves that make those so to them they are not so to a sanctified heart he by the wing of faith can fly over them but to an earthy lump of clay whose eye is fixed upon no higher than a carnall and worldly glory As 1 Gods making use of obscure mean foolish instruments in the worlds eye to publish his word and Decree to the world He hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise the weake to confound those which are mighty and the base and despised things of the world and things that are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence This hath been his course all along since the world began none must deliver his people from a devouring famine but a despised Joseph The Message of rebuke and threatning judgement to a Prince in Israel good old Ely must be sent by Samuel a weak Child unskilfull in the word of Prophesie And as if none of the Princes and Royall blood could be moulded after Gods owne heart he must take David from the sheepfold and make him a mean shepheard Governour over and a deliverer of his chosen people And who are his Heralds to proclaime the Gospel of the Kingdome but a company of poore despicable Fishermen He leaves the wise and learned Rabbies Scribes and holy Pharisees of the times and chooseth the fooles of the world makes them prevalent to pull downe Principalities powers and strong holds and they shall one day prevaile to the trampling their enemies under their feet as the mire in the streets Thus out of the mouths of Babes and sucklings he ordaining strength perfecting his praise the spirituall man can discerne the glory of it his heart will admire and adore it But the men of this world they take offence stumble and fall to the perishing of their soules What! will God forsake our wise and holy men that excell in most excellent virtues and speak by such Idiots rash fooles vainebablers and mad men as they are No they cannot they will not believe it If Peter and his brethren be filled with the holy Ghost they are drunken If Paul speak of the true God he is a vaine-babler and reason of Temperance and Judgement to come much learning hath made him mad This is the sence and judgement of the world 2 The infirmities of his Messengers their not walking up fully to their profession of the glorious Gospel nor so exactly as they ought by the line of the word of truth in their mouth Now the men of this world drawing the line of their judgement from a wrong point they think those mens Principles nought and hypocrittically rotten the word of truth in their mouth an errour a delusion a lye not remembring the best of men must have their graines of allowance Here they take offence stumble and fall rising up with their backs towards the truth This God permits in judgement and wrath to the world that they may stumble and fall and perish 3 The manner of delivering the word of truth in this day of wrath is a great stumbling-block to the world God speaks to them in wrath he was wont to speak in

love the Gospel was glad Tidings but now the word is a word of wrath threatning judgement and destruction to the world for their wicked Apostacies and rebellions against the Lord and his anointed O say they this is no Gospel spirit but a spirit of delusion although it 's but the same Dialect the Holy Ghost useth throughout the Revelation against spiritual Babylon Antichrist At this they stumble and cast the word of life far from them thinking they have good ground so to doe 4 The Apostacy of false Brethren from the truth this is a great stumbling-block to the world by this the world blindly judgeth that the way of the truth is but a meer phansie and hath not that real good in it the world hath otherwise these men would not change their station they cannot think they would take worse for better thus they stumble and fall and perish This is also the judgement of God upon the world 5 The spirituality of the truth At this also the men of the world stumble being blind and not apprehending the truth aright put strange glosses upon it and draw unworthy and uncouth conclusions from it representing it Satan helping them to themselves and others in a monstrous shape at which they stumble and fall and perish As those men did John 6. when Christ had been treating of that great and spiritual Mystery of union with him it is said ver 66. From that time many of his Disciples went back and walked no more with him And vex them or trouble them as it is in the margent in his sore displeasure When God speaks in wrath surely it cannot but bring great trouble to men When God spake in wrath to Saul that he had rejected him and given the Kingdome to a neighbour of his better then he how did it vex and trouble his soule What feare ceized on him How did it torment him when he perceived the Lord being departed from him was with David Oh saith he to his Son Thou Son of a perverse woman doe I not know thou hast chosen the Son of Jesse to thine owne confusion for as long as the Son of Jesse liveth upon the ground thou shalt not be established nor thy Kingdome How was that most excellent King Solomon troubled when God spake in wrath that he had given the greatest part of his Kingdome to another And what trouble and vexation of spirit did it bring to all the Kings of Judah and Israel when at any time God spake unto them in his wrath concerning the matters of their Kingdome The whole History of the Kings make it evident And vex them in his sore displeasure That must needs be a dreadfull and terrible trouble great anxiety of spirit that comes from the sore displeasure of the great God If we can imagine any trouble and vexation to be greater and more deadly then another that must needs be it Vex them in his sore displeasure O dreadfull what horrors what gastly terrours of death will encompasse men about in that day If they turne to the left hand to their Cisternes they have hewne out to themselves behold they are broken and hold no water If to the props they thought to have upheld themselves with behold they are rotten and will not bear them up and if to the arm of flesh the strength of Aegypt they trusted to behold it 's a broken reed and pierceth their hands If to the right hand from whence they are fallen behold nothing but the frowning brow of a wrathfull God and the fiery spirit of an enraged people whose heart burneth with the zeale of God for the honour and glory of their God What killing disappointments are here What no hope Alas alas very little or none at all What is the feared fruit this brings forth Why they repent not but blaspheme the God of Heaven Quest But what is this that God speaks to them that thus troubles them Answ The Answer you will find in the Text Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion It 's the word of the Kingdome that God will take their Crownes from off their heads and set them on the head of Christ How was Herod troubled and all Jerusalem with him when he heard but a where is he that is borne King of the Jewes How greatly did the tidings of a rightfull King trouble him His conscience flyes in his face and stings him his jealousie and feare of loosing what he had surreptitiously gotten rent his heart with a thousand anxieties which vented themselves in unheard of cruelties against poore Innocents And the Stories of the Martyrs tell us that some Emperors after the example of Herod have been so troubled with the fear of and jealous of King Jesus his robbing them of their Thrones they have sought the destruction of the whole lineage of David And at this day what a dreadfull troublesome story is it to the Kings and Rulers of the earth to heare the doctrine of the Kingdome of Christ is asserted and preached to the people How jealous and full of wrath are they How doth it trouble them Quest Why should men be troubled and vexed at this word Answ Truly there 's some reason why the men of the world should be troubled 1 Because the word is spoken as that which God hath already done I HAVE set my King upon my holy hill of Sion I have done it saith God and the subsequent is easily drawne you must submit to him or you perish If the doctrine were this That Christ should have a Kingdome many hundred yeares to come the people of God might preach it while their lungs lasted and meet with no opposition from the men of the world let them alone till that day think they but when the word comes so neere them as to say now is the time God hath already done it the time of performance is come This galls them rubs on the sore too hard and troubles them 2 Because this Doctrine is preacht in opposition to them YET have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion YET though you have taken counsell against the Lord and his anointed to break their bands asunder and cast away their cords to keep them at a low and under rate as Pharoah did that they may be your subjects and servants and never be able to become your Lords Yet saith God I will speak to you in wrath and trouble you with this I have set my King upon my holy hill of Sion I will doe it you shall know and find that I am above you in that wherein you are so subtilly wise in spite of you he shall be King and raigne it 's his right and he shall have it I have promised him and I will give the Kingdome to him maugre all your envy and malice I would not suffer the Heathen to keep the Kingdome from him and have brought downe to the dust those Kings of the earth you have slaine for their attempts

cast downe a third part of the Stars to the earth and when the Stars fall from heaven what bitternesse will betide the Children of men Without question these Rulers by their malevolent influence will throw downe many who have been as shining lights to the losse of their glorious profession How great will be the distracting darknesse of this day When the cunning of these Counsellors working underboard not shewing openly their intentions shall amuse men that the most sharp-sighted observer can scarcely discerne the temper of the times so as to demonstrate the truth of his observation to the understanding of others for we must remember that Satan now is at his last game though men refuse to worship the Beast and to receive his mark yet if they keep but within the number of his name he will esteem them as his good subjects and be therewith content Here are Devils in the shape of Saints carrying things in such a posture as that almost all men are in a maze not knowing what to dream the issue of things will be surely this day may truly be called neither day nor night neither Satans night of darknesse nor Gods day of light in which men not having light enough to see clearly nor wisedome enough to light up their Candles goe poreing in the dark ready to stumble at every straw of infirmity they meet with in the sincere hearts of the times in the mean while hazard a choaking swallowing downe the Camels of State abominations yet notwithstanding all this God hath promised that at evening time it shall be light What a distracting day of division is this among Gods own people When some good soules exercising their charity shall consider the Rulers former good actions and plead them with their apprehensions of their present good intentions in what they doe to those who being of a quicker insight into the state of businesses shall discover and assert their Apostacies to perswade them into a favourable construction of their proceedings and when on the other side those who retaining their sincerity in the life of it being enlightened by the spirit of God in the worke of the day both as to the work God would have done and the counter-workings of the evill one shall cry out amaine against those abominations that God may not be without witnesse to the vindication of his honour which men would lay in the dust what inward fends and heart-burnings What breach of all Gospel rules will be the sad fruit of this dismall day Let none say these things are far fetcht and have no connexion with the Text if men will seriously with unbiassed judgements weight the ground-work I conceive they cannot but see these things a necessary deduction from the premises 4 The great faithfullnesse and love of God to his Son Jesus Christ his anointed one that although out of his long-suffering he bore long with men in their actings against his Son in the contest concerning his Priestly and Propheticall Office though then at his appointed time he met with them to their confusion yet when it comes to the matter of his Kingdome which the father is so strongly engaged to give him and wherein his honour and glory is so abundantly concerned THEN will he waite no longer but even while they are taking counsell while they are but thinking of it while they are consulting the wisest and most feasible way to bring to passe their purposes it so enrages the eyes of his glory to behold it that he will not suffer them to break so much as a piece of a band but he will make bare his arme and speak to them in wrath by the mighty working of his power The Lord will breake the staffe of the wicked and the Scepter of the Rulers 5 It 's worthy our observation That those who bring up the reare of the enemies of the Lord and his anointed are Counsellors Or if you will thus That the last and so the most subtill refined designe of Satan against the Lord and his anointed is managed by A COVNCILL They take counsell together such as having the example of all the feates of policy former times have brought forth and the advantage of that patterne of prudence and wisedome the old subtill Serpent hath been drawing from the beginning of the world to this day shall be so crafty and wylie as that God by that shall be engaged to rouse up himselfe in his might least they prevaile The Rulers of the world taking counsell become wise against the Lord and his anointed Their excesse in humane wisedome and policy engages God to shew forth the super-excellency of his Divine wisedome being above them in that wherein they deale proudly 6 Although the fins of these Rulers be not so grosly prophane as their predecessors but their thred is of a finer spin yet they are guilty of such aggravations as the Lord Jesus cannot brooke They provoke him him who is the onely Mediator for sinners that he will not speak one word to his father on their behalfe Though God come with fury in his face asking the reason of their doings why is it so and his wrath wax hot against them we see our Lord Jesus appears not pleads not a sillable for them we read not a word of his intercession in this place Formerly notwithstanding their sins were more grosse and far greater in themselves to the slaying the Lord of glory he prayes Father forgive them for they know not what they doe and the Martyrs as Stephen did could beg on behalfe of their murderers Lord lay not this sin to their charge But now men are become wise knowing sinners against his glory Hypocrites be hath not a word to speak for them all that he will doe is to declare the Decree I will declare the Decree to the world and them if they will hear well but if not they shall feele his wrath and perish from the way 7 That when the world and its Rulers come to this manner and measure of sin they are excluded the intercession of Christ he prayes not for them neither is it the fathers mind he should when God puts him upon asking it 's not any thing for them but their possessions and usurpations for himselfe and a rod of iron to punish and destroy them and so the prayers of the Saints We ought not to pray for them and for that for whom and for which Christ prayed not his intercession ought to be the patterne of our prayers otherwise our petitions are not acceptable for in his beloved he accepts us It hath been severall times at this passe with the world Pray not thou for this people neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee God loves not to hear his people make such requests he hath no mind to grant Though Moses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be towards this people cast them out of my sight and