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The saints thankful acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials…The saints thankfull acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials…
The saints thankful acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdom. Delivered in a sermon at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, upon the day of their solemn thanksgiving unto God, for the great victory given our army, under the command of the noble Lord Fairfax, at Selby in York-shire and to other the Parliaments forces in Pembroke-shire, April 23d, 1644. By Joseph Caryl preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn.The saints thankfull acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdome. Delivered in a sermon at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, upon the day of their solemne thanksgiving unto God, for the great victory given our armie, under the command of the noble Lord Fairfax, at Selby in Yorke-shire and to other the Parliaments forces in Pembrock-shire, April 23d, 1644. By Joseph Caryl preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inne.
London: printed by G.M. for Giles Calvert, 1644
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The outward condition wherein they prophesied was such as might have caused them to reckon every day a year: and yet the inward comfort and assistance was such, as might make them reckon every year, but as a day. To be clothed in sack-cloth is to be clothed with sorrow, to be wrapped about with affliction. The habit of these Witnesses was an Emblem of actual mourning, They prophesied clothed in sack-cloth, v. 3.
The outward condition wherin they prophesied was such as might have caused them to reckon every day a yeare: and yet the inward comfort and assistance was such, as might make them reckon every yeare, but as a day. To be cloathed in sack-cloth is to be cloathed with sorrow, to be wrapt about with affliction. The habit of these Witnesses was an Embleme of actuall mourning, They prophesied cloathed in sack-cloth, v. 3.
And as sorrow attended them all the time of their witnessing, so death attends the accomplishment of it. And when they shall have finished their Testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit, shall make war against them and overcome them and kill them, v. 7.
And as sorrow attended them all the time of their witnessing, so death attends the accomplishment of it. And when they shall have finished their Testimonie, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomelesse pit, shall make warre against them and evercome them and kill them, v. 7.
As we have learned the length of their days from Ezekiels Calendar, so we may learn the kind of their ⟨p. 3⟩death from Ezekiels vision: his dry bones (Chap. 37.) can speak (as well as hear, v. 4.) and tell you that to die, is sometimes to be in great distress, in captivity, and under the power of merciless men. This is to die daily, to be in deaths often. As to live in sin, so to live in sorrow, is to be dead while we live. Yet this death cannot swallow up these dead, but shall it self be swallowed up in victory. The grave had no victory at all over them, and death had but a short one. The people shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves, v. 9. And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, v. 11, Christ arose the third day. His witnesses arise after three days and a half; All the servants of Christ shall enter into their Masters joy, and these eminent ones are admitted (in the letter) within half a degree of their Masters privilege. As in Scripture language, imminent dangers are a death, so eminent deliverances are a resurrection. What shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?