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A52574	New-Englands duty and interest to be an habitation of justice and mountain of holiness containing doctrine, caution, & comfort : with something relating to the restaurations, reformations, and benedictions promised to the church and world in the latter dayes : with grounds of hope, that America in general & New-England in particular may may have a part therein : preached to the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, at the anniversary election, May 25, 1698 / by Nicholas Noyes ...	Noyes, Nicholas, 1647-1717.	1698 (1698)	Wing N1461; ESTC R16814	53,865	112

so far as it was of moral Equity it ought to be observed in Christian States and Caeteris paribus and Consideratis Considerandis is of Excellent use to all Lawgivers and Judges to the end of the world for that People were under a Theocrasy and their judicial Laws were of divine legislation for the most part If any were otherwise they had at least divine approbation The moral law is all of it of everlasting equity and amiableness as we have shewed as Holy Righteous and Good in Paul's time as in Moses's time Rom. 7.12 And in our times as in Moses's or Pauls For till heaven and earth pass one jot or title of the law shall in no wise pass Math. 5.18 The Assemblies reflection on this text is How much more needful is this Doctrine when men would make all the law void and not obligatory to believers Its Historys are our Examples either of imitation or caution 1 Cor. 10. Now these things were our Examples that is saith the English Annotations God set the punishment of those Israelites as a glass or image before us that we in them might see what we may expect if we sin as they did In the following verses the Apostle dehorts from Idolatry ●ornication Tempting Christ and the sin of Murmuring from ●●amples of caution written of old But saith the Apostle they were written for our Admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come v. 11 So Heb. 3.19 compared with Heb. 4.1 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief Let us therefore ●●ar c. So Esau's Example of selling his birth right for one morsel is urged by way of caution Heb. 12.16 We have also Examples of Imitation taken out of the Old Testament improv'd in the New So in Heb. 11. The Examples of Antediluvian Patriarchs and Postdiluvian Patriarchs and Kings Priests and Prophets Judges and Military Commanders all famous for Exploits of Faith Worship and Obedience are set before Christians for Imitation And the Apostle argues from them Heb. 12.1 That Cloud of Witnesses are to be followed by Christians as the Cloud was followed by the Israelites in the Wilderness So Peter urgeth the Example of holy Women of old and of Sarah in Particular for to teach Christian Women Subjection to their Husbands Conjugal Chastity and Modesty of Apparel So Abrahams faith and his justification by it is set forth for an Example to Christians for their imitation Rom. 4.4 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe The like may be said of Promises and Threatnings which are found Originally in the Old Testament but improved in the New Testament Of Promises some that seem National others Personal are by way of Analogy transferred to Christian People as if they had been made nextly and directly to them So Eph. 6.1 2. The Apostle Exhorting Christian Children to obey honour their Parents urgeth them to this duty 1. By the Intrinsical Goodness and Immutable and Eternal Equity is in what he Exhorts them to Children obey your Parents in the Lord for this is right 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Just 2. By the Authority of the fifth Commandment 3. By the Promise annexed for this is the first Commandment with promise i. e. the first of the Second Table for the second Command hath promise annexed to it Showing mercy to thousands viz. of Generations of them that love me and keep my Commandments i. e. Ordinances and Institutions means of Worship free from Superstition mens Inventions and Will worship When the Apostle saith the first Command with promise he refers to those words that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Which words in their next intention are directed to Jewish Children and mean a long and happy life in the Land of Canaan but the Apostle writing to the Children of the Church at Ephesus that had nothing to do with the Land of Canaan alters the words by Analogy and makes the promise run that it may be well with thee and that thou mayst live long upon the Earth So the promise made nextly to Joshua Josh 1.5 I will never leave thee nor forsake thee is by way of Analogical Accommodation transferred to Christians Heb. 13.5 So Davids confident conclusion Psal 118.6 The Lord is on my side I will not fear What can man do unto me is drawn into argumentation Heb. 13.6 And the words that Solomon sp●ke to his Son Prov. 3.11 is said to speak to the Christian Hebrews Heb. 12.5 Ye have forgotten the Exhortation or that consolatory Exhortation which speaketh unto you as Children My Son dispise not thou the Chastening of the Lord. Of Threatnings also applied by Analogy Heb. 4.7.9 11. I shall on this head only further show that Prophesies in the Old Testament are of use to Christians they help us in the belief of New-Testament Prophesies many of them being already accomplisht others also of them agree with Those in the Revelation and illustrate one another as the Text and the interpretation So also 2 Pet. 3.13 We according to his promise look for New Heavens and a New Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and many Prophesies in the Old Testament that flourish in expressions literally expressing temporal felicity yet were intended as Prophetick Types of Spiritual Blessings under the Messias And they had some kind of accomplishment in Temporal Deliverances Peace Plenty c. before the Coming of Christ but were more fully accomplisht in Spiritual Redemption and the Spiritual Priviledges Benefits and Graces Enjoy'd in the Churches of Christ If we consider what cognation there is between History and Prophesy it will not seem strange For Prophesie is History antedated and History is Postdated Prophesie the same thing is told in both If therefore the History of the Old Testament is Example to us and instructive to us so must needs be Prophesy And many things in the Old Testament are first set forth in Prophesy and afterward in History either of them yea both of them beneficial to the Church Besides Prophesies for the most part contain Promises or Threatnings in them And therefore if Old-Testament Promises and Threatnings are of use and may be by way of accommodation applied to us so may the Prophesies also I have insisted the larger on the foregoing head not only to show how genuine the Doctrines raised from the Text are and to strengthen the foundation on which I build the Superstructure of the Application I further intend but to vindicate the just Reputation of the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament from the indignity done them by those that speak of them as of things formerly useful but now antiquated and out of date as also for the benefit of those that esteem them by way of Direction how to use them that the Old and New-Testament may be used by us as two breasts of Sacred

throughout and Deut. 28. throughout And the way of God was accordingly So that if a man had known before hand now that People would have acted towards God and one another he might have written their History in a good measure before things came to pass Hence they were so condemned for not knowing the way of the Lord which means not only the way of his Doctrine but of his Discipline and Providential Dispensations Jer. 5.4 Therefore I said surely these are poor they are foolish for they know not the way of the Lord nor the judgment of our God Yet must not this be so strictly taken as if God dealt with them according to their deserts for had they been dealt with according to the First Covenant they were never good enough to deserve the Blessings they were always bad enough to deserve greater Wrath than ever fell upon them They were always less then the least of Gods Mercies God always punished them less than their Iniquities deserved and upon their Repentance Humiliation and Reformation God was always ready to pardon and turn their Curses into Blessings as upon their Apostacies and Declensions he turned their Blessings into Curses and was wont to distinguish between weakness and wickedness between Sins of Infirmity and Sins of Enormity His Severities were for the most part against presumptuous Sinners and such Sins as violated the Covenant There were also at that time by Divine Appointment Sacrifices of Expiation and Atonement not only for particular persons but for the Congregation not only for the Sins of private persons but of the Priests Rulers also Hence in Judgment God remembred mercy many a time he forgave them and did not stir up all his wrath and in some instances his Judgments were unaccountable but ordinarily they were as the light and the Equity of them very discernable 4. Gods Judicial Proceedings with the Jews before the Coming of Christ are instructive to people and places professing the Christian Religion that it is like to fare with them as to happiness or misery according as it goeth with them as to Holiness and Righteousness For the proof of this I offer to your consideration the following Arguments which for brevity I shall but name 1 That God is the same now as he was then as holy and righteous as ever he was Did he then love Righteousness and hate iniquity So he doth still therefore his Way and Discipline is like to be much what the same now as it was then 2. His Church is the same Church now though not the same people God hath but One Church Christ hath but one Body from the beginning to the end of the World Cant. 6.9 Eph 5.23 25 27. 3. This Law requiring Holiness and Righteousness is the same not one tittle of it is passed away 4. Gods Name and Honour is alike concerned in the ways and behaviour of his people now as it was then Did the Sins of the Jews give occasion to the Enemies of the Lord to blaspheme 2 Sam 12.14 So do the Sins of Christians now See 1 Tim. 6 1. That his Name and Doctrine be not blasphemed 5. They were under the Covenant of Grace as well as we and we under the authority and direction of the Law as well as they Heb. 4.2 plainly affirms that they had the Gospel preached to them and in James 2.8 it is evident that Christians are required to fulfil the Royal Law When Paul saith Believers are not under the Law he means not under the Curse of the Law though under the Command of it 6. The Apostle speaking of Gods Judicial Proceeding with the Jews in Instances of Severity saith All these things happened unto them for Ensamples and they are written for our instruction upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10.11 7. The Apostle saith that Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 and consequently Ungodliness hath the Threatning of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come And of like import is that 1 Pet. 3.10 11 12. He that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil c. for the Eyes of the Lord are over the Righteous that is his Providence is active about them for good but his face is against them that do evil that is the frowns and rebukes of Divine Providence are against them that do evil 8. Gods Judicial Proceedings with his professing people in the Old World and afterwards till Moses's time were much what the same as they were afterward as the Book called Genesis the Book of Job 2 Epist of Peter and Jude plainly show 9. Experience hath convinced the Christian Churches of this and many of the New-Testament Promises Threatnings Argumentations and Prophesies show the truth of it 10. That this is no new Doctrine may be seen in the Confessions of Faith set forth by the Assembly of Divines and the New England Confession in the Chapter concerning the Law of God Sect. 6. The Threatnings of it viz the Law serve to show what their Sins deserve and what afflictions in this life they may expect for them although freed from the Curse thereof threatned in the Law The Promises of it in like manner shew them Gods approbation of Obedience what Blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof although not as due to them by the Law as a Covenant of Works All this notwithstanding I would not be understood as if the Dispensations of God now did exactly quadrate with his Dispensations to the Jews before Christ came The Church was then in its non-age and under a certain Tutorage proper to that time when the promises and threatnings that relate to the other World were more darkly and more rarely mentioned and temporal promises and threatnings more frequently insisted on and the accomplishment more visible and conspicuous and Dispensations more Corporal God did more visibly plague Disobedience and reward Obedience than now although he hath not left himself without witness but maketh all the Churches to know that he searcheth the hearts and tryeth the reins and renders to his people according to their works Rev. 2.23 And the same is evident by all the Epistles to the Churches of Asia in which it is manifest that our Lord Jesus Christ who hath the Government of the Church and World declareth that he will deal with them as they deal with him Obj. Doth not Solomon say that all things come alike to all and that there is one event to the Righteous and to the Wicked c. Eccle. 9 1 2. A. Solomons meaning is not that it is alwayes so but that it is sometimes so and that notwithstanding temporal promises and threatnings God hath reserves for the display of his Soveraignty whereby unbelievers will be hardned in their sin and good men will be humbled and their faith and patience exercised And

the Valleys of Piedmont and many other places in Europe where for his Name and Gospel sake they have been Killed all the day long What if the Reformed Nations are very much deformed and the spirit and power of the First Reformers seemed to die with them and since hath been a gradual declension till the power life of Godliness is very much decayed and the purity of their Worship abated and Schisms Divisions and Sects strangely multiplied and Luke-warmness in some and Prophaneness in others abominably advanced Yet we ought to hope and pray that God will revive his work and bring on a Second Reformation which when it cometh will carry all before it and it seemeth as if it would not be long first Nebuchadnezzars Image standeth upon his last Leggs and it seemeth as if both of them had received a blow from the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands that maketh them stagger It is probable Delay will not be much longer The Great Turk the Oppressor of the Jews Eastern Christians seemeth to be at his last prayers and they likelier to reconcile him to Hell than to Heaven And considering what is said of the Kings of the East Rev. 16.12 and of the Western Kings Rev. 17.16 We ought to expect and pray for the coming of the time when the Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 At which time it is past all peradventure all that is yet to be fulfilled of the Glorious Things spoken of the City of God will be accomplished and the Restaurations Reformations and Divine Benedictions promised to the Jews or Christian Churches or World will be accomplished The Things that Infidels and Enemies mock at and good Christians understand but darkly and believe but faintly shall be Gloriously Effected And notwithstanding the present bad circumstances of America I know no reason to conclude this Continent shall not partake of the Goodness of God in the latter days nor why the Sun of Righteousness may not go round the Earth as the Sun in the Firmament doth go round Heaven No Scripture asserts the contrary but many seem to favour the Affirmative I suppose that Christ is not called the Sun of Righteousness meerly because of his Light and Heat and quickening vivifick Influences but also because of his Circuition or Circuit round the World by the Preaching of the Gospel and his expanding and extending his saving Virtue to those that Sit in darkness and in the Region and shadow of Death See and consider Psal 19.4 5 6. and compare it with Rom. 10.18 Luk. 1.78 79. Mal. 4 2. Methinks men should not be hasty to Reprobat a Fourth Part of the World without Express Order from Heaven I know not how it came to pass that Conjectures about America have been so various strange and uncomfortable as to its Rise State and final Destiny Burnet M. D. affirms that the Americans in their Progenitors came not out of the Ark that their Progenitors descended not from Noah And indeed they are beholden to him that he let them descend from Adam and did not bring them out of the Slime as he doth Gog and Magog But it is enough to reply to this that it is not only Unscriptural but also Antiscriptural A late Annotator on the Bible who is otherwise a very worthy man but I think misses it in this in his Preface to the New Testament in the separate Edition alloweth the Americans to be descended of Noah but by Cham and thence gathers that they shall not be gathered into the Church To which I reply 1 That it is wholly begg'd that they are the Progeny of Cham and notable Reasons and Authorities may be produced to the contrary 2 That if it were certain it were so yet the Consequence is no way valid as the Multitude of Churches that have been in Africa shew that were undoubtedly the Posterity of Cham. 3 This opinion is wholly founded and the stress of it depends upon a doubtful Interpretation of a dark Prophesie Gen. 9.27 God shall enlarge Japheth So our Version reads it But if Cham with his four Sons hath filled all Africa with a considerable part of Asia and possess all America besides he is certainly enlarged more than Japheth with his Seven Sons and would vie for Number with Shem Japheth too If we prefer the marginal Reading God shall Perswade Japheth and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem this would not gain the point intended for the not mentioning of Cham doth not necessarily exclude Cham no more than when Shem is called the Brother of Japheth Cham is denyed to be the Brother of Japheth or Shem denyed to be the Brother of Cham. Besides Interpreters of great Note go other ways The Hebrew Doctors gathered from this Prophesie that they should speak Japheth's Tongue which in the Ages following was Greek and was fulfilled in the Apostles speaking and writing the Gospel in Greek Ainsworth saith it may imply the grafting of Japheth's Children into the stock of the Church when Shem's Posterity the Jews should be cut off quoting for this Rom. 11.11 12 15 17. As the Reubenites are said to dwell in the Hagarites tents after the Hagarites were subdued and fallen 1 Chron. 5.10 Others read the words God shall enlarge Japheth and He that is God shall dwell in the tents of Shem in the sence of John 1.14 And so make it a famous Prophesie of the Incarnation of the Son of God his taking Flesh of the seed of Shem. Others understand it of God's setting up the Temple and dwelling in it among the Israelites descended of Shem. Certainly it is not reasonable to draw so hard a Conclusion on such a Text that admits of such and so many various Interpretations Seeing it tends to discourage all Endeavours for the Conversion of the Indians and so may greatly prejudice the Souls of Millions of Men and hinder the inlargement of the Kingdom of Christ And indeed it seemeth many ways derogatory to the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Saviour of the World John 4.42 1 Joh. 4 14. If the Angels may be believed His Birth was Joy to All People If the greatest born of Women may be believed He taketh away the sin of the World John 1.29 If the beloved Disciple may be credited He made an Atonement or is the Propotiation for the sins of the whole World And many other such like Expressions there be which must certainly comprehend Some of All Nations And the Redeemed Church acknowledge as much in their Song of Praise Rev. 5.9 10. Nor can I possibly otherwise understand Christ's Commission to his Apostles and their Successors in the Ministry Mark 16.15 Go ye into All the World and Preach the Gospel to Every Creature Matt. 28.19 20. Go ye therefore and teach All Nations c. and lo I am with you alway unto the End of the World Which seemeth as plain as words