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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43579	Israel's lamentation after the Lord, or, A discourse, wherein every well-wisher to Zion is excited, and directed how to lament after the Lord with prayers and tears, to maintain the ordinances of God, or God's presence with his ordinances amongst us being some meditations upon 1 Sam. 7.2.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1768; ESTC R22352	67,400	163

in pleasant places we have a goodly Heritage 4. Aged persons and housholders you that are Parents have reason to lament after the Lord of the Ark and the Ark of the Lord that the Waters of the Sanctuary may run both with a clear and strong stream to your Families and Posterity Alas we that have Children have been Instruments to propagate filth and guilt and wrath to our Off-spring and what can we do to heal and help them But if the Lord would be our God he hath promised to be the God of our Seed God forbid we should intail a Curse on our Posterity and give them occasion to curse us to all eternity What unworthy Parents are those that have fair Estates left them and by their Prodigality leave their Children Beggars or Bankrupts But oh how sad would this be to deprive our Posterity of this Gospel-Legacy it will be both their loss and our own Lord suffer us not to go off the Stage in a snuff and leave such a stink behind us Better we had never been born than to fry and blaze in Hell flames we and our poor Children bundled up in Faggots together God thinks good to bind up Parents and their Seed in the Bond of the Covenant Oh Lord we are resolved to follow after thee for the sure mercies of David Be thou our God and we shall have better hopes for our Seed O remember that word Isa 59.21 As for me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord my Spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy Seed nor out of the mouth of thy Seeds Seed saith the Lord from henceforth and forever This word is full and satisfying 1. Thy Spirit shall be upon me and mine in Sanctification 2. Thy words in my mouth and Childrens mouths in profession solemn Worship 3. They shall not depart from my Seeds Seed to many Generations 4. No not for ever 5. God even Jehovah undertakes this 6. It 's through Christ the Redeemer that 's come to Sion 7. It 's a new Covenant-mercy 8. It doth concern all Converts and such as turn from transgression in Jacob and am not I one of these My dear Lord make thou this word good to me and mine thou that livest for ever and ever I shall live in my Posterity when I shall be here no more let the Gospel-message survive me and the Gospel-grace live in them when I am gone Oh! cut not off thy kindness from my Seed let not them that follow me be deprived of that which I have found so much sweetness in O that Ishmaels may live in thy sight What will become of such as are born in sin if they want means of Conviction and Conversion There 's much ado to awake the sleepy Consciences of our dead Posterity under quickening Ordinances Oh! what then will become of these when such helps are gone How can I endure to see or foresee the destruction of my own bowels Oh! it cuts me to the heart to think of the damning of any much more my own flesh Lord prevent I will pray in hope live in hope die in hopes of the continuance of Gospel-Priviledges 5. Ministers must make it their work to lament after the Lord You you are the Persons mainly concerned You must sound an alarum to awake others you are appointed by the Lord as Instruments to carry on this work and if ever God do return he will excite his Servants to quicken themselves and others to this work as Samuel here Gird your selves and lament ye Priests howl ye Ministers of the Altar come lye all night in sackcloth ye Ministers of my God Yea let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weep between the Porch and the Altar and let them say Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the People Where is their God Alas my brethren have you been so long cast out of Gods publick Work and Worship even twenty long years and have you not yet leavned to lament shall our Master cashie us his service and not judg us worthy to blow our triumpets of Rams horns break a pitcher or hold the lamps for him Surely he is very sore provoked shall I say three Shepherds he cut off in one month nay near three thousand in one day And hath drawn out his wrath a great length and is there no fault in us Yes certainly our Father would not have spit in our face or poured contempt upon us upon us peculiarly but he hath found great fault in us he hath doubtless seen much amiss in us He doth not use to single out a sort of men to shoot his arrows at without fault we cannot excuse instruments but certainly we have deserved all this at God's hands is not God punishing Eli's house for the iniquity he knoweth of Let us my Brethren deal faithfully and impartially with our selves before God and the world cast the first stone at our selves at last justify the Lord by taking shame to our selves Hath God set us in this office only to tell others of their faults Have we not reason to call to remembrance our own faults this day I hope such as are truly gracious have made this reflection many times Nor is this my present work to rake in this dirty Channel only it becomes us to enquire why God hath made us contemptible and base before all the People Mal. 2.1 9. My present work is to quicken our lamenting after the Lord that if it be possible we may fetch him again I may say as Mal. 1.9 And now I pray you beseech God that he will be gracious unto us This hath been by your means O it 's well if our People have not reason to say so of their Ministers how beit sincere Repentance will not make men throw it off themselves by laying it on others but we may sadly eccho Yes yes it hath been by our means we have put out our Candles by the Thief we have lodged therein We having obscured our glory by sinning We have robbed our People of the Ark and exposed them to Seduction and destruction by the abominations that have been found amongst us Let us fall close to our work of Preaching reforming praying calling God again who knows but if we mourn to our People but they may lament Our watery eyes may affect Peoples hard hearts If the Fishers mourn and such as cast angles into brooks lament our People will be moved God will hear our universal cry and awake for us Some will needs have our wearing black to import our mourning If so let us not be Hypocrites but lament indeed not in shew Some observe that People are much formed after the preaching examples dispositions of their Teachers But it 's to be feared they

house and is gone to another coast Psal 78.58 61. Mat. 21.43 Qu. Why were not they of Kiriath jearim afraid of Bethshemesh's punishment Ans they knew that plague was not for the Arks sake but for their Irreverence and Curiosity now they resolve to reform that and take warning as David did 1 Chron. 15.13 it becomes persons that suffer in Ordinances not to find fault with God or them but Charge it on themselves and amend what is amiss mens own sins are the procuring Gods justice the imposing cause of troubles that 's a good Scholar that learns these two Lessons under Gods hand I shall not trouble you with enumerating the several places in which the Ark rested amongst the Isralites before it was brought by David into Obed Edoms house 2 Sam. 6.10 Nor what this Sanctifying Eleazar or ordaining him to the Sacred Ministry what this keeping the Ark is that nothing be taken away or no uncomly thing be done to it or about it nor why Eleazar the Son and not Abinadab the father was imployed about it whether Abinadab was old and decrepid or dead or busie about household affairs or Eleazar was more holy is not much material to inquire But it may be asked whether the Ark was only twenty years there Ans 1. The Ark was there all the days of Saul which was above forty years but this was jam annus vigesimus the twentieth till this time of Samuels Preaching his Sermon in the following verse or before Israel much inquired after it or were sensible of their loss of it So deeply were the roots of impiety and idolatry fastened in them The text contains 1. The Ark's recess 2. Israel's repentance 1. for the former in the Arks recess Observe 1. The place where in Kirjath-jearim more particularly Abinadabs house v. 1 2. 2. The time or duration 20 years a long time indeed Qu. 1. What 's meant by the Ark here Ans 'T is needless to explain the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth a Chest or Coffin Gen 50.26 or to put money in 2 Kin. 12.10 but this Ark was appointed by God where the Tables of the Law were laid up therefore called the Ark of the Testimony there God communed with Israel hence called the Ark of his presence Exod. 25.22 here the People of Israel were to Worship and inquire Gods mind at it and it guided their journeyings Numb 10.35 36. And though the Ark have many significations yet good Expositors think that what the Ark of God was to the Israelites of old that the Gospel Ordinances are to us which are means of grace tokens of Gods presence and institutions of Worship Qu. 2. What 's meant by the Arks being in Aibnadab 's house in Kirjath-jearim Ans It imports its privacy Solitude i. e. comparatively few could few would frequent it as formerly at Shiloh 1. Because this city was near the Philistins upon the borders of the land and so the other tribes could not so commodiously resort to it for devotion or they durst not lest the Philistins should set upon them if any numbers come together for that end as indeed they did v. 7. Never is the Devil and his Imps more enraged against God's people than when they meet to worship God for the Philistins had interdicted Israel to meet together and now they suspect them of Sedition and Rebellion 2. Because the Ark being but in a private house few could meet there at once to worship God or hear the word some it 's possible cared not for it had other ways of their own hearts they followed others had a months mind to it but being aged or infirm could not get thither or continue comfortably before the Lord there but were subject to many inconveniences others were afraid of the scoffs and reproaches of their adversaries and few would be at the pains to go attend on God in his appointments Qu. 3. had the People no publick Ordinances or Instructions all this time A. 'T is likely they had ordinary Levites and Priests to offer Sacrifices and instruct the People though in the time of several Judges there was sad work both in civils spirituals sometimes there was no King or publick Magistrate in Israel and then every man did that which was right in his own eyes hence Micah gets a house of graven Images a Levite to be his Priest Judg. 17.5 18. certainly there was sad ignorance and woful degeneracy into impiety and Idolatry as is aparent by many instances Expositors observe but two Prophets in all the time of the Judges which was 450 years Act. 13.20 the one was Debora a Prophetess Judg. 4.4 and that Judg. 6.8 the Lord sent a prophet except that Angel that came up from Gilgal to Bochim ch 2.1 by a Prophet So that Peter begins to number the Prophets from Samuel Act. 3.24 and Paul mentions Samuel the Prophet as not an ordinary Person yea he broke forth like a certain glorious Sun out of the night of darkness both of sin and errour and till those days the word of the Lord was precious 1 Sam. 3.1 i. e. it was 1. rarus 2. charus either rare because there were few Prophets to declare Gods Word to the People rarely did the Lord reveal himself and therefore was it the more precious and highly esteemed by all but that text saith further there was no open vision that seems to be an interpretation of my Text no Vision diffused or sprinkled abroad common multiplyed but shut up in a fence pail or within walls so the word signifys 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no broken vision a loaf that 's whole nourisheth not a book closed up instructs not a fountain shut up waters not the open preaching of the word distributes it abroad to all parts members of the mystical body this is the multiplication of seeds bread as in Christ's miracles distributed amongst thousands but alas there was none to break the bread of life to souls till Samuel arose and then the word of Samuel came to all Israel 1 Sam. 4.1 he now preached repentance to all and that they should make an expedition against the Philistins however for want of reformation it proved not successful but that evil was brought on them to promote their humiliation possibly Samuel foretold this fall to them as a punishment of their Sin And now Samuel renews his Exhortation providence producing this Argument to reinforce the duty of Repentance and though this lamenting after the Lord be mentioned before his Sermon yet it 's probable it was the consequent thereupon as their reformation also was ver 4. yea it may be this is the same with their drawing water and pouring it out before the Lord ver 6. which some understand of penitent tears Take some general observations from the context thus explained 1. God gives his People sensible tokens of his special presence visible Ark audible voice betoken spiritual invisible grace so the Ark