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A94073	The vengeance of the temple: discovered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major and court of aldermen of the City of London, in Pauls Church, May 17. 1648. Being the day of publique thanksgiving for a victory obtayned by the forces under the command of Colonell Horton, at St. Faggons, neere Cardiffe in Wales. / By William Strong pastor of Dunstans in the west, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing S6011; Thomason E450_20	38,327	55

men much lesse of our brethren but yet if Christ will set up his Throne upon the carkases of the slaine heerein we may and will rejoyce 4. Fourthly he that will be thankfull must enlarge his thoughts by the remembrance of former mercies and all the circumstances of mercies present So doeth Deborah vers 4.5 Lord when thou wentest out of Seir when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom the earth trembled and the heavens dropped the clouds also dropped waters the mountaines melted from before the Lord even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel You must prayse God from the fountayne of Israel and sing both the song of Moses and of the Lambe And you must enlarge your thoughts in all the circumstances of the present mercies so doth Deborah by the violence of the enemy the kings came and sought then fought the kings of Canaan in Tanach by the waters of Megiddo they tooke no gaine of money By their confident expectations and their hopes Why is his chariot so long a comming why tarry the wheeles of his chariot have they not sped have they not divided the prey to every man a damsell or two to Sisera a prey of divers colours a prey of divers colours of needle worke of divers colours of needle worke of both sides meet for the necks of them that take the spoyle By the falshood and desertion of their friends Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds to heare the bleatings of the flocke for the divisions of Ruben were great thoughts of heart Gilead abode beyond Iordan and why did Dan remaine in ships Ashur continued on the sea shore and abode in his breaches Curse ye Meroz curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not out to the helpe of the Lord to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty By the immediate hand of God in the deliverance his arme was made bare They fought from heaven the starres in their courses fought against Sisera the River Kishon swept them away that ancient River the River Kishon 5. Fifthly a heart truly thankfull gives the instruments their due honour those that God hath honoured in the worke doe you honour also and God in them Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek after Benjamin among the people Zebulon and Nephthali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field Blessed above women shall Iahel the wife of Heber the Kenite be blessed shall she bee above women in the Tent. It is the property of a beast to crop the Tree that shelters it and of an unskilfull soldier to dismantle that Towne that must defend him Israel was never in a worse condition then when all their businesse was to murmur under their present sufferings and to quarrell with the Instruments of their deliverances 6. Sixthly mercies received with prayses must be followed with prayers As prayer should engage the heart to prayse so prayses should encourage the heart to prayer and those prayses are heartlesse and faithles that doe not end in prayers for when God is giving is our fittest season to be asking So heere prayse for a deliverance from one enemy drawes out the hearts in prayer against all Gods enemies So let all thine enemies perish ô Lord. Thus we are come home to the Text. The particuculars thereof are three 1. The persons prayed against Gods enemies with their note of universality All thine enemies 2. Secondly the end of these men Let them perish with that particle which directs us to the maner with an eminent utter and finall overthrow So let them perish 3. Thirdly the meanes which is by the power the prayses and the prayers of the Saints Hence the points are also three 1. First All the Churches enemies are Gods enemies 2. Secondly That perishing is their portion 3. Thirdly That they shall perish under the power by the prayers and prayses of the Saints All the Churches enemies Gods enemies Doctrine It is a question the Schoolmen usually put Num Deus possit odio haberi Whether it be possible for the creature to be an enemy to God who is goodnesse it selfe seeing evill onely is the object of hatred which is not to be found in him It is answered That as God is bonum universale hee cannot bee hated by the creature but inparticulari being a good that is contrary to us so men doe hate the Lord. For Men and Angels in their fall as some Schoolemen observe lost three things in respect of God Delectationem pulchritudinis adorationem Majestatis imitationem bonitatis They neyther delight in his beauty nor adore his glory nor imitate his goodnesse Thus all men by nature are Gods enemies But the enemies heere spoken of are Israels enemies enemies to God in his Church as Psal 78.1 Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered Isay 57.23 I know they going forth and comming in and thy rage against me Yea even all their neglects and omissions towards the Church referre to God and hee will judge them accordingly at the last day I was hungry and ye gave me no meat inasmuch as ye did it not to the least of these ye did it not to me Therefore Gods enemies heere spoken of are his Churches enemies In the opening of this point there are three things to be explayned First the Church of God in all ages and places hath met with enemies Secondly that these enemies are not onely theirs but Gods Thirdly some short discoveries who these enemies are First the Church of God hath from the beginning met with enemies For the nature of Christs kingdome in this world is to rule in the midst of his enemies in the world to come he shall rule over them The Apostle sayth There is a schema a fashion of the world that passeth away 1 Cor. 7.31 it continues not alwayes in one fashion but yet cast it into what shape you will and the Church of God hath alwayes found enemies in it and usually they have beene the greatest persons and the most prevayling party These enemies are of two sorts from without or from within While the Church was wandring among the Heathen as sheepe among wolves what else could be expected When Israel went downe into Aegypt they met with a Leviathan who by cruelty and subtilty sought to destroy them Ps 74.14 and when they came into the Land of Canaan they were as a speckled bird all the bordering Nations hated them Jer. 12.9 There arose fowre great Monarchies or principall kingdoms in the world called Beasts Dan. 7.1.2 chiefly for their cruelty to the Saints Under the Chaldean Monarchy Israel is as a scattered sheepe the Lions have driven him away the former Kings of Assyria Tiglath Pileser and Salmanaser have devoured him and Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon hath broken his bones Jer. 50.17 In the Persian Monarchy there was an Haman and a Cambises who with a Samaritan faction of their

battell And when the Lord will use an ungodly people as weapons in his hand they shall mightily prevayle If hee will use Babylon as his battle axe Jer 51.20 he will with him breake in peeces the Nations and destroy the Kingdoms how much more when he will make Judah his battle axe and his weapons of war Joannes Foxe in Comment suis whom he doth much more delight to use and honour some do conceive that in reference to this victory heere by the waters of Megiddo that last great battell hath its name which shall bee betweene Christ and Antichrist called therefore the battell Armageddon Brightm Rev. 16.16 which some render mons deliciarum the mountayne of delights unto God and his people and others render it mons excidii Par. the mountayne of slaughter and destruction to the Churches enemies The Churches enemies have comonly fallen by their hand in the end Esa 31.8.9 The Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a mighty man and the sword not of a meane man shall devoure him Whence then shall his destruction come Not so much from any instrument but from the hand of God made bare therein Ignem hanc accendi foveri dicit in medio populi sui ut significet impios non impune Ecclesiam persequi c. Calv. in loc and the Lords fire is in Zion and his furnace in Ierusalem it is out of Zion that the fire comes that consumes the enemies and it is into this fiery fornace they are cast when they are destroyed Ezech. 24.14 I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they shall doe in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury saith the Lord God They that are with the Lamb called and chosen and faithfull Rev. 17 14 18 6. they shall burne Rome with fire and reward her according as she hath rewarded them and shall double to her double according to her works in the cup that shee filled to them they shall fill unto her double 2. By their prayers Rom. 4 13. The Lord Jesus having made the Saints together with himselfe Heyres of the world hee hath also given them a great hand in the Governement of the world as they shall have in the Judgement of it at the last and great day 1 Cor. 6 1 2. therefore their prayers are Decrees as wel as the prayers of the Angels and are called by the same name Iob. 22.28 Dan. 4.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the great executions and transactions of things in the world doe passe through their hands Psal 49 8 9. they binde Kings in chaynes and Nobles with fetters of iron this honour have all his Saints It s observable that in all the great turnings of the world the prayers of the Saints have had the great hand Exod. 14 15 16 17. Exod. 17 11 12. Psal 76 2. Aegypt is destroyed in the red sea but it is by the prayer of Moses Amaleck is routed by prayer Thereby armies discomfited victories woon in Salem God breakes the arrowes of the bow the shield the sword and the battell And they that scape the fiercest pursuers among men prayer will overtake them hee that escapes the sword of Hazael and Iehu shall Elisha slay 1 King 19 17. Gladionon corporali sed spirituali A Lap. Ad horribilem famem sub Joram refertur quia Deo impe travit Elisaeus cum ab idololatria Israelitae nollent discedere Pet. Martyr in loc Rev. 4 5. Rev. 6 10. and yet we know he was not a man of war one that did handle the sword onely the word did goe out of his mouth and tooke effect upon them And all the great turnings in the Christian world since Christs time have beene no other then the fruit of the praiers of the Saints The Seales in the booke of the Revelation set forth the judgement of God upon Pagan Rome and they are all in answer to prayers for out of the throne sc the presence of the Lord in the midst of his people proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voyces And in answer to the cry of the soules under the Altar who cryed with a loud voyce How long Lord holy and true doest thou not judge and avenge our bloud on them that dwell on the earth The Trumpets set foorth the judgements executed upon Rome Christian and these also proceede from the prayers of the Saints for the fire cast upon the earth in those plagues was taken off the Altar Rev. 8 5. and there were voices and thundrings and lightnings and an earthquake c. The Trumpets sounded but it was in answer to prayer after there had beene silence in heaven for the space of halfe an howre sc during the time of the incense offering The Vialls set forth the judgements of God upon Rome Antichristian and the great voice that commanded these Angels to powre out their Vials upon the earth came out of the Temple that is Rev. 16 1. De Templo venit quando precibus sanctorum aliquid impetratur quibus mandandi partes hic tribuntur ut sciamus quantam vim habent fideles precationes Brightm Rev. 11 5 6. from the prayers of the Saints and whosoever shall observe the great changes in the world that all these set forth wil be forced to acknowledge what a mighty power there is in the prayers of the Saints And that it may appeare it was not only so in ancient times he sayth the witnesses even in these latter dayes shall have a power to shut heaven that it shall not raine to turne waters into bloud and to smite the earth with plagues as often as they will And that this is the misery of all the Churches enemies If any man will hurt them fire shall proceed out of their mouthes and devour them and who ever he be he must in this maner be killed 3. By their praises for out of the mouthes of babes the Lord hath ordained them Psal 8 2. that he should still the enemy and the avenger when Iehosophat and all the people promised God in the beauty of holinesse the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon Moab 2 Chron. 20 22 23. and Mount Sei●… which were come against Iudah and they smote one another When Paul and Silas sung in the prison the earth did quake and so it commonly doth at the praises of the Saints The enemies of the Church doe fall before their praises as well as their prayers Let us now come to the Application of these three points for a conclusion They serve for Admonition for consolation and direction First Vse 1 for Admonition unto all the enemies of the Church cease your rage against them your plots your hopes refraine from them let them alone they are but passengers and Pilgrims they are going unto Canaan if the world be your countrey let them quietly and peaceably passe through it without