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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

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and shut the wombe saith thy God That which makes me possesse my soule with an assurance of successe and a gratious issue in your great transactions is this because I see a Iacob and an Esau in the womb of the great designe and I am sure the elder shall serve the younger I finde a competition betwixt the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent and I am sure the seed of the woman shall break the head of the Serpent whereas the Serpent shall but bruise the heele of the Church Gen. 3. 15. the wound in the head shall be incurable that in the heele shall not be mortall I perceive there is a great contention betwixt malice and envie and pride and tyranny luxury and rebellion with the rest of that black guard of Hell on the one side and faith and prayers on the other Now I am sure that this is the victory which overcommeth the world even faith 1 Ioh. 5. 4. And I am sure that prayer can ingage the whole Militia of Heaven and the Lord of Hosts on its side I perceive that Babylon and its supporters and Sion and its Builders are put in the Ballances as it were And I find a Mene i. e. God hath numbred thy Kingdome and finished it and a Tekel thou art weighed in the ballances and art found wanting Dan. 5. 24. 25. written over the one Scale And I see the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 over the other we are more then Conquerours Wherefore if Amalek or Midian or Canaanites or Philistims or Babylonians can Conquer the Israel of God who was therefore Christned Israel because as a Prince he did prevaile with God and he should prevaile with men Gen. 32. 28. If now the Lords Counsell may bee frustrated or his strength mastered or if there be any that can speak the word and it commeth to passe and the Lord commandeth it not Lam. 3. 37. then actum est periistis You are all dead men and the cause is gone but if that be true which the Lord speaks Ezek. 12. 25. you need not feare He sayes I am the Lord I will speak and the word that I shall speak shall come to passe I will say the word and will performe it saith the Lord God Now God hath spoken the word a terrible word and a word of confusion against Babylon and hee hath spoken the word and that a gracious word for the restauration of Zion and building up the wals of Ierusalem and therefore let your Faith hang out its conquering and triumphing Flag and let Emmanuel be the Motto and then you may bid an open defiance to all your enemies and with a kinde of exultation say with the Apostle Rom. 8. 31. Si Deus nobiscum c. If God be for us who can bee against us Now that the Lord may bee with you and for you it is the constant instant prayer of Your obliged and most devoted Servant HENRY WILKINSON Die Mercurii 25. Oct. 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Mr. Poole and Mr. Rous doe from this House give thanks unto Master Wilkinson and Master Salwey for the great paines they took in the Sermons they preached this day at the intreaty of this House at S. Margarets in the City of Westminster It being the day of publike Humiliation and to desire them to Print their Sermons And it is Ordered that none doe presume to Print their Sermons but such as shall be authorized under their hands writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Chr. Meredith and Sa. Gellibrand to Print this Sermon HENRY WILKINSON A SERMON Preached before The Honourable House OF COMMONS At the Publike Fast October 25. 1643. ZECH. 1. 18. 19. 20. 21. Then I lift up mine eyes and saw and behold foure hornes And I said unto the Angel that talked with me What be these Babylons ruine Ierusalems raising And he answered me These are the hornes which have scattered Iudah Israel and Jerusalem And the Lord shewed me foure carpenters Then said I What come these to doe And he spake saying These are the hornes which have scattered Iudah so that no man did lift up his head but these are come to fray them to cast out the hornes of the Gentiles which lift up their horn over the land of Iudah to scatter it IN these words is represented a double vision and the interpretation of both here is a vision of ruine and a vision of rescue a vision of destruction and a vision of deliverance although both of the visions be unlocked and opened yet some things require some clearing First let us see what is meant by hornes and secondly who they are that are pointed at in this place and thirdly why foure hornes In hominibus cornu significat potentiam virtutem gloriam fortitudinem Glassius de metaphor lib. 5. Tract 1. c. 11. By hornes we understand the enemies of Gods people it being a metaphor taken from those beasts that weare hornes which are the instruments in which they shew their strength and fiercenesse both in defending and offending also Cornu with respect to men doth signifie power and vertue and glory and fortitude 1 Sam. 2. 1. Iob 16. 15. Psal 25. 11. Psal 89. 18. 25. In speciall Cornu signifies a Kingdom whose majesty consists in power and fortitude 1 Sam. 2. 10. So that the strength and In specie significat regnum cujus majestas in potentia fortitudine ●obere consistit Glass ibid. greatnesse and fiercenesse of a Nation is hereby set forth 1 Kings 22. 11. Dan. 7. 7. 8. 21. and Dan. 8. 3. 4. Rev. 12. 3. 13. 1. 17. 3. 7. 12. 16. So cornupetere to push is all one with praeliari and potentiam pugnando exerere Observ 1 Whence wee may note that the enemies of Gods people are both fierce and powerfull fighters against them The other two things to be considered both for the persons and number they will fall in together Some understand by the foure hornes the foure Monarchies of the world But as Luther Melanchthon and Calvin say it cannot be in regard this vision respects a thing actually done but some of the Mornarchies had not their being in the world for many years after and therefore they conjecture better who by foure hornes understand the enemies of God from the foure quarters of the world On the North the Assyrians and Babylonians as our Babylonian enemies lie most northward on the East the Ammonites and Moabites on the South Egypt and the Edomites on the West the Philistines Observ 2 It is the lot of Gods people to be environed with fierce and powerfull enemies on all sides from all quarters of the world It is the lot of the godly to be beleaguered with horned Beasts Now let us see what these Carpenters are here is foure to The Originall word signifies Omnis generis Artifices Luth. foure Luther observes out of the originall