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A81992	Seismos megas. Or Heaven & earth shaken. A treatise shewing how kings, princes, and their governments are turned and changed by Jesus Christ as [brace] King of Kings, and King of Saints. / By John Davis, M.A. sometime lecturer at Christ Church in London, and now pastour of a congregation in Dover.	Davis, John, pastor of a congregation in Dover.	1655 (1655)	Wing D422; Thomason E1601_2	153,991	331

Indians and English in the West-India All his golden Mines will never be so sweet as the vengeance will be bitter Let his cursed cruel Inquisition be as precious to him as his right eye yet God will plucke it out God will cast it down He will no more beare with an Inquisition in Spain then with an High-Commission Court in England I wish that France and Savoy would consider of their Massacres and if they do not all the world shall acknowledge Christ his just shaking-devastations in many years war and other wayes of vengeance on them 3. Will Christ account with Princes and shake them then surely meaner men shall not escape Magistrates Ministers Counsellers Captains Parents Masters look about you Christ is on his circuit hath began his Audit look well to your accounts Princes are not too great nor you too little for him to account withal he will deale punctually he will not shuffle over things with you Hearken he calls venite ad judicium Come to judgement what can you answer for your times and talents your meanes and mercies your deliverances and salvations your covenants and engagements Are you yet more holy heavenly watchful faithful fruitful will your relations blesse God for you for your counsel instruction reprehension exhortations prayers and examples Can you say you are free from the blood of your people children souldiers and servants If they perish is it on their own account you having freed your souls in the faithful discharge of your duty 4. In all oppression from powers its a just ground for people to appeale to Christ whose Office it is to supervise their actings and to shake them Exod. 2. 23. Israel sighed by reason of their bondage and their cry came up to God we tread on wormes and goe over where the hedge is lowest It s no new thing for might to oppresse right but if men cannot have right on earth there is none can hinder a man from looking to heaven it was a notable appeale of David from King Saul to Jehovah 1 Sam. 24. 15. The Lord be judge and judge between me and thee and plead my cause and judge me on thee its emphatical that thrice he repeats the word judge The Lord be judge and judge between me and thee and judge me out of thy hand How pathetically doth the same David addresse himselfe to God Psalm 35. 23. Stir up thy selfe and awake to my judgement unto my cause my God and my Lord. Evigila expergiscere watch and arise and surely he will do so I remember what Mr. Henry Burton a late Martyr told me that being in trouble before the highest powers and having appealed to the King and finding no redresse he expressed himselfe thus Well I appeale to the King of Kings and so may we in like cases Learne farther that judicial proceedings against Princes is stamped with remarkable Characters of Christ on them for he shakes them Thus in the prophesies of John Revel 6. The sixe Seales containe the several steps of plaguing the heathenish Roman Empire At the opening of the first Seale v. 2. there appears a white Horse Christ riding on the word of truth and going on Conquering and to Conquer heathenisme The second Seale and red Horse shews the bloody wars that Christ raiseth against them The third Seale and black Horse denotes scarcity of bread by which Christ afflicts them The fourth Seale and pale Horse includes warres famine plague and all which Christ brought in upon them Upon opening the fifth Seale you have the cry of the Saints under their persecutions which Christ heares attentively The sixth Seale utterly ruines the heathenish Empire the great day of Christ his wrath being come upon it so that it was not able to stand The opening of the seventh Seale presents you with a Vision of seven Angels with seven Trumpets and they relate Christs his shaking and ruinating the Empire while Christian and no marvel seeing it became Arrian and persecuting Totus Mundus Arrianus The foure first Trumpets sound the fatal ruine of the Westerne Empire when Christ stirred up the Goths and Vandals in four incursions upon it The fifth and sixth Trumpet which are two of the Vae Tubae the woe Trumpets they sound out Christ his shaking of the Easterne Empire in that he gives passage to Mahomet and his company in the fifth Trumpet and in the sixth Trumpet to the Turkes We read in Rev. 16. 1. of seven Vials which contain Christ his shaking the Kingdome of Antichrist for they are the last plagues on the Beast Thus you see eminent Characters of Christ his judging all his adversaries even from Johns time to this very day both his Heathenish and Antichristian enemies To those who are in high place of power I beseech them to suffer a word of exhortation from one who daily prays for them Oh! how good is it for men to meditate on Christ and his shaking on Christ and his accounting with them think not because you have Sword and Counsel Armies and Navies that now your mountaine is so strong it shall never be moved They once thought so who are now shaken out and the entertainment of such thoughts again will be the ready way to a repeated shaking T is true God hath blessed you with a series of good successes and by them turned others out of their seats and placed you in I hope and heartily wish that their sinnes their crying sinnes may never be found among you for if they be Christ can raise up others to shake you out as he raised up you to shake others The good God forbid that ever that day should arise among us But rather of the riches of his mercy grant your establishment by Judgement and Righteousnesse that so you may be called repairers of our breaches the restorers of paths to dwell in Much of the impetuous violence of the streames of wickednesse would be dryed up by the due consideration of Christ his coming to shake Princes are great Masters and subjects are their servants and Col. 4. 1. Masters give unto your servants that which is just and equal knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven Let all that know and feare God give unto Christ the honour due unto his Name In that he shakes Kings and Princes he is decked with glory and sets up his Throne for vengeance Thus the Church doth Rev. 5. 12. Worthy is the Lamb to receive power and riches and wisdome and strength and honour and glory and blessing CHAP. VIII Shewes 1. That All power is in Christ 2. It s his due upon taking our nature 3. Though it be his due yet is it given to him 4. Though it be his due and given him yet he hath little glory of it 5. He will exalt himselfe in great Turnes to take up his glory by them Vses of Instruction and Exhortation KIngs and Princes are the greatest persons and the

to the third proposition are to be taken in the largest extent Again observe this promise and prophesie of Haggai receives according to what is laid down in the fourth proposition sundry degrees of fulfilling It was truly performed when Christ was born into the world then Angels and Men Heaven and Earth were moved but this is not all for the Author to the Hebrews tells us of another shaking at another coming of Christ when we shall receive a Kingdome that cannot be moved Heb. 12. 26. Besides when the Prophet Haggai names the Temple and the House he meanes all the frame of worship and not barely the Fabrick and building that was reared up When he names Zorobabel and Joshua he meanes not onely those two particular persons but all governours and deliverers of Gods people in several places and ages are included which is the direction that the fifth proposition gives us Moreover the great and glorious alterations that God will make in these last dayes is here expressed by a phrase relating to Gods wonderful dealing with his people Israel we finde Exod. 19. 18. at the appearance of God on Mount Sinai it s said the wh●le mount quaked greatly and when God appears to make these turnes he is said by the Prophet here to shake heaven and earth which agrees fully with the sixth proposition The shaking of all Nations here what doth it meane else but the execution of vengeance on the Nations thus plainly in v. 21. 22. of this 2. Chap. where the shaking of heaven and ear●h is repeated v. 21. and expounded v. 22. by this phrase I will overthrow the throne of Kingdomes and I will destroy the strength of the Kingdomes of the Heathen but for what end v. 23. It was to exalt Zorobabel to be as a Signet it was to make way for his Churches good which was the lesson taught in the eight proposition Lastly the time of these great turnes is plainly expressed to be at the coming of Christ Christ is yet to come in the judgement of all one way or another and all his comings produce notable changes as the eight proposition shewed And thus having brought down what was spoken in general in the propositions to this particular prophesie of Haggai I shall onely adde one word about the coherence of these two verses with the former part of the Chapter and then descend to the explication of the words It 's plain v. 2. and 3. that Zorobabel Joshua and the people were under discouragement about building of the Temple we build a Temple say they but what is it a poor meane frame Solomons Temple was a stately Edifice but this is nothing to that were it not better for us to give over then to goe forward with such a work Now in the fourth and fifth verse God calls upon them 1. To be strong be strong be strong 2. To worke and not give over 3. To be confident and not feare Now the Arguments are three 1. I am with you v. four 2. My Spirit shall remain among you v. five 3. I will shake Heaven and earth for you and the desire of all Nations shall come and fill this house with glory v. 6. 7. So then these words are brought in as an argument to take off their feare and render them confident to strengthen them in the work God called them unto Thus they cohere with the former words let us now proceed to explication of them we shall begin with those words Thus sayth the Lord of Hosts Thus sayth The Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated Sayeth it denotes in Scripture phrase five things 1. To declare the minde by speaking Dixit 1. locu●us est to expresse our thoughts or motions of heart by words so Gen. 20. 5. speaking of Sarah she even she her selfe said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is my Brother that is she uttered so much in speech or words that another might understand and thus God spake by his Prophet 2. It 's put to hold out a speaking before hand what shall come to passe afterward Dixit 1. prophetavit He said that is he prophesied and a word so spoken is a prophetical word thus Gen. 41. 54. the seven yeares of dearth began according as Joseph had said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dixerat that is according as he had prophesied 3. It signifies a speaking to ones selfe a speaking in a way of thought or meditation Dixit 1. cogitavit He saith that is he thought he sayth in himselfe Our thoughts are our communication with our selves when we are serious in meditation of our own hearts or wayes we are said to return to our hearts and to speak in our hearts thus 2 Sam. 21. 16. Goliah the Giant thought to kill David the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 et dicebat percutere He said he would kill him that is he spake so to himselfe it was the language of his thoughts 4. To say is to speak with authority to speak by way of command Dixit 1. imperavit He said that is as much as he commanded so Jonah 2. 11. The Lord spake to the Fish that is he commanded it 5. And lastly to speake is not barely to declare ones minde to think or to command but it holds out such a speaking wherein the speaker engageth himselfe dixit 1. promisit he said that is he promised it and so it 's taken here Thus saith the Lord of hosts that is Thus promiseth the Lord of Hosts that phrase viz. the Lord of Hosts we shall not open here onely now draw these 2. Observations That the Lord in all ages dispenseth himselfe to his people by way of a promise so here That when his people are under discouragement and feare he strengthens them by holding forth himselfe to be the Lord of Hosts I will shake I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I Jehovah who have my being of my selfe and give being to my word of promise I who have all creatures and times in my power and disposal I even I will shake All refer this shaking to God but some refer this to God in the person of the Father as Hierom. G●o●g Eden and so they make the meaning to be I that am the Father of Jesus Chris● and in him your Father and the Father of mercies I will shake the Heavens But the Author to the Hebrews refers it to Christ and so I that is I that am Emanuel King of Kings and Lord of Lords who was dead but am alive and now live for evermore I who am the brightnesse of my Fathers glory and the expresse image of his person who have seven eyes and seven hornes all-seeing and all-working power I that have made and hold up the pillars of the world I will shake The Author to the Hebrews adds an expression shewing that this shaking was done suddainly and with ease It s but a word speaking it