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A39874	For God's worship and worshipers Both in the purity of the onem and liberty of the other. From the gracious and (oft) miraculous defences that God makes for them both, when exposed to violation or violence. Dedicated to all that desire to worship God, in spirit and truth, John 4. 23, 24.		1683 (1683)	Wing F1427A; ESTC R216420	186,215	385

of Christ the Fall of Antichrist and return of Prayers come all streaming at once in a full tyde of Mercy to the devout and Wrath upon all Atheists and Antichristians and the Times with their Wrath hastens it One Author more I cite T. P. his sober Guess pag. 187. at the end of that little Book where he hints the ruine of that Idolatrous Age that wasted the Church afore and the appearance of our Ark that is of Jesus and so he ends with three Notes 1. That Sorrows steal not on us without the foresight counsel and Predetermination of God 2. That the end and measure of them is set of God though Force and Violence may lett true Religion 't is but for a Time Antiochus Swines Flesh the two Witnesses lying dead Our Lords abode as Jonah's and the Church's two or three days in the Sepulcre Hos 6. 2. are all limited to about the same length as Elijah's three Years and six months and then our dead revive again pag. 188. 3. In all Oppressions of the Saints they never are void of his Presence and a promise of a Deliverance with Faith in its accomplishment and hope that the time is nigh expiration p. 189. So he concludes with one Drs. Saying Viz. Dr. More 's Mystery of Godliness lib. 5. c. 17. of the use of Apolyptical Visions Who affirms A. D. 1660. The scene of things will soon alter for the better in Christendom the time of the Churches appearing purely Apostolical in Life and Doctrine is near by computation of Prophesies when the Witnesses shall arise and the Woman come out of the Wilderness and all the Kingdoms become our Lords to rule for ever Nor is Stability in Kingdoms to be had till the new City is raised whose Walls Foundation Gates and whole Content is but the Replication of twelve i. e. all Apostolick in Doctrine Worship c. Which hope should shake off that Lethargy on us as if it would never be better and it comes not by Rapine and Violence but by Increase of Righteousness And though the time is deferred and many Concussions precede the Conclusion yet are we to wait for it nay to solace our Souls in the frightful signs Preceding it as our Lord bids us to look up in the hope of this Redemption approaching for the Lords roaring out of Zion Joel 3. 16. is but as a Preface to the Hope and Strength that he gives to his and his shaking of all things Hag. 2. 7. is but to establish that Kingdom that shall remain Heb. 12. 28. Never was a glorious reviving of hopes without a grievous Sentence of death Ezek. 37. 10. 2 Cor. 1. 2. The very wild Irish may teach us that on the most stormy day we may lift up our heads as they on the Hills and joy in hope the next is fair Weather by turn Polanus observes that Sesostris King of Aegypt observing one of his Kings drawing of his On Ezek. 1. Chariot ey'd the Wheel ask't the cause he answered that he saw that part that earst was up now was low vice versà on which he made the Moral and applyed it so loosed them from that Slavery For Promotion comes not from East or West but God pulls down one and exalts another Psal 75. 6. Or as in Job setteth on high them that be low Joh. 5. 11. Or as Mary sung exalts them of low degree Luk. 1. 52. Fear not then ye Sons of Zion your King comes meek yet mighty riding on the Ass Zach. 9. 9. that subjects to any burthen Though now you are banisht from the Ark submit and say Here I am 2 Sam. 15. 26. in hope he will yet bring you again For in the days of these Kings 't is by Dan. 2. 44. predicted the God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom that shall not be shaken or given to others And if any ask How that Text v. 34. 45. and it was the Dream of a King shows you Eben di al Bijdian ascissus lapis qui in manibus non est sine manibus Which notes not only that 't is out of the reach of humane hands to prevent that Kingdom the time being come for its commencement but above the help of secular means or hands to advance it I conclude this as one does a Book with warning to Princes to submit to the Redeemer and prevent the shower of Vengeance impending for six Changes are past in the World already and says he a seventh will be Sabbatical giving rest from all your Pride and Ambition And this takes the last place and turn but proves of the greatest extent And I add as the Course and Conjunctions of the caelestial Bodies and also of terrestial do all configure and concenter in this kingdom so the Councels of men and Contests about publick Affairs concur and contribute to it and all contrary Wheels that seem to have a counter motion in the way shal at last center in the same blessed Ends Viz. The sound of the last Trump an Alarm to Babel-Romes Fall whose Waters are now a drying up the pouring out of the last Vial that leaves not Air for her Tyranny to breath in And as that late Dr. says Dr. T. G. in Apoc. pag. 190. The nearer this Kingdom is as a Gulf to swallow all Time the greater Changes will Christ make and to see no Preparations to it may not discourage our Faith since of things extraordinary there needs none being the Efforts of divine hands 3dly And last of all there springs up a Well of Support to devout and constant Souls from the Providence of God that like the eye scouts out to and fro and prevides Perils provides Preservatives and stands armed on Sentinel to secure the main Guard and rescue his Men and Matters assaulted Now this is the Wheel full of Eyes that Christ's Chariot of Love runs upon and is often swift seldom stands never runs idly by Rote or blind Chance and Casualty far less retrogade or to overturn them that are in it for Christ doth guide it Sirs could we take right Measures of Gods Providences in former or latter days instead of a Quarrel we should take up that admiring word Ezek. 10. 13. and say Oh Wheel But 't is hard to see both sides of things at once for often Providences have a dark side at first view presenting to our terrour and after a bright side is seen as that Cloud betwixt Israel and Aegypt had of old but the Lord turned the dark side to the Aegyptian Host and the bright to Israel by Night Exod. 14. 20 24 25. So they were preserved the other bemisted their Wheels took off and they troubled No Fate or Fortune rules in the smallest or most contingent accident a Sparrow or a Hair's Fall to the Ground is under the Eye and Care of the All-seeing Providence And if he inspects so small Trifles will he slight far greater and suffer his Servants to fall in his Work unregarded Now in two

is the former so then is the latter The Assumption is argued from Experience of all Ages the Consequence bears on God's Unchangeableness The Proposition I prove by the Types of the Law which was to them Gospel vail'd as it is to us now revealed For after the Church grew from Domestick to National and God had adopted Israel in Egypt and by 's Arm brought them out to dwell alone Num. 23. 9. under his Wing and had delivered Laws of three sorts to them 1. Moral in ten words perpetually to rule Life 2. Judicial to order the State 3. Ceremonial to direct in Worship that Church while it was National he did in each especially the last sort put certain Rites and Forms of his own Will upon the moving Tent and after on the fixt Temple by which this Truth was typed out and resembled I instance in that over the Tent a glorious Type of our Safety now during our long wandring with the Woman in the Wilderness yet under God's Care and Conduct mixt with much Darkness to which Isa 4. 5 6. and other places allude Also in the Doors of the Temple after to be of Brass so strong and massy that twenty four Men could but open them and again in those Cherubs and Palms on the Door Curtains and Vails and also in the two Cherubims with Wings over the Ark and Mercy-seat Types of God's Protection by Angels over all true Ministry and holy Mysteries of the Gospel But I confine the Proof to that of the Horns of the Altars both that of Incense at the Vail that of Brass for the Sacrifice and that Ezek. 43. 15. all had their Horns and about them a Crown so had the Shew-bread-Table denoting in all the divine Authority put on God's Service that none ought to corrupt invade or infringe and for that of four Horns it signified that from all four Winds God would have Reverence done to his Name Mal. 1. 11. But the placing of Horns on the four Corners of the Altar seems to note its four-fold use as Authors conjecture Dr. A. Willet in Exod. p. 616. 1. For putting the Blood of Atonement on its Horns as Exod. 30. 10. to note the Power and Efficacy of Christ's Plea for us 2. To bind the Sacrifice thereto with Cords that supposed a Reluctancy which was took inauspicious of which in that Psalm 118. 27. 3. To be a Sanctuary to flee to for the guilty as some Passages note see Exod. 11. 14. so did Joab flee for shelter 1 Kings 2. 28. to denote the need of Expiation when by Conscience of Sin Satan pursues us 4. Most to our use To show God's Power in defence of his Suppliants that desire to compass Psal 26. 6. with penitent Hearts and powerful hands of Faith the two last ends are pertinent here the rest teaching This fourth is proper to our end to show God's Altar under the Law had by his order in it self a safe defensive Property or a strange but secret self-revenge and can push for its Attendants at all Assailers and its Sparks can burn the Nests of those that Eagle like sacrilegiously spoil the gift or steal from it what is God's due and tho all the four Winds Mic. 5. 5. Zech. 1. ult oft give it distress the four Horns make its Defence or four Carpenters seven Pastors eight principal Men do fray them away Zech. 9. 13 15. Nay let the Sacrifice be consumed to Ashes and fall under the Altar Rev. 6. 9. yet as sacred Urns the Souls under it cry howling and rest not till revenge is granted which will surely come at last It 's also worth our note That in two places of the Prophets the Title given to the Altar is the Lyon of God in the one the Hill of God Isa 29. 1. Ezck. 43. 15. what bolder stronger than a Lion higher than the Hill of Zion for security Thus the Types lay the first ground A second ground bears on the Properties of God together with the Promises made for it the first shows his prowess for its safety the second his propenseness to it his Nature and Attributes incline him his Promise obliges him so both leaving the time and way to his Wisdom are to our Faith confirmed by his Veracity Divine Properties harmonize with themselves Justice and Goodness tho to us they seem diversa in their Objects they be not opposita they end in eodem tentio i. e. conclude in the good of his own As all Lines meet in the Center so all acts of Justice Wrath Revenge on the evil on the one part and all the Efforts and Emanations of Mercy Grace Kindness on the other part to his amount to this and end in this point that what God is or does is for his Elect that which partakes of his own Nature must needs be under his careful Eye and Protection His Worship is stiled by his Name Exod. 20. 24. so are his People and both are called Dan. 12. 7. Holy and shall not the holy God defend them both so is his Word holy Isa 5. 24. and will he not magnify it Psal 138. 2 3. yea above all his Name so was that glorious Isa 64. 11. and beautiful House stiled Holy all the Appurtenances of divine Worship borrowed the stile Holy of him and shall not that import divine Protection what Absurdities follow were not this true see Mr. St. Charnock of God's Power Char. p. 477 478. all things would fall into a deplorable Chaos This is ground for our Worshippers We admire Princes for their Power in subduing Foes and preserving their Peoples Peace how may we reverence God that rules so vast Empires by a word or beck we sense the Thunder and Storms and some Men as if they were God's what Reverence is due to infinite Power and Wisdom joyntly All Religion bears on two Pillars Power and Goodness without that no benefit by it without this no Entertainment could be Jews say Melech Hagnolam hundreds of times in their Prayers what Faith of success could we have if Power and Mercy could not retain us A little after he notes pag. 484. God is by one truly represented as a Jasper Rev. 4. 3. on his Throne a Stone withstanding the greatest Force so is his Throne described by a fiery Throne Dan. 7. 9. for what Stubble will stand before it so he And for Promises how many has he made how free rich full apt to all our Distresses for his Altar sake by Grace he first made and by Power will surely fulfil them to a tittle When all was lost but Jerusalem to Senacherib see what a Promise is given what a Royal Word I will defend this City for my own sake and my Servant David Isa 37. 35. Two sweet grounds for Faith Oh had London this good hold says he I 'm concerned in my Glory and House for my Name is invocated there and I will not let this black-mouth'd Rayler win it to falsify my Promise and verify his prophane Blasphemies