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A84751	Foure speeches delivered in Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October, 1643. At a common-hall, vpon occasion of desiring the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this warre. / Viz. the [brace] 1. by Mr. Solicitor. 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy. 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes. 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick. Published according to order.	Gardiner, Thomas, Sir, 1591-1652.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing F1671; Thomason E338_1; ESTC R200837	38,460	48

here exhorted to Have not many of you spent your blood in this Cause yea how many young ones in this City have lost their blood Mee thinks a spirit of indignation should rise in you to vindicate the losse of the blood of your Servants and Children many precious ones that might have lived many yeers to have done good service for the Lord Even the children of the City they rise and cry Hosanna Hosanna O blessed is ●ee that commeth in the name of the Lord O then l●t old Citizens bee forward mee thinks Elders should ●ee forward in this Cause for ●●e thinks they should not think themselves men of this world In the 17 of John Christ speaks of himself when hee was going out of the world I am not in the World and so should you going out of the world even say you are not in the world and therefore let your close in going out of the world be a happy close in such a blessed work as this is And know there shall come a day wherein you shall bee calling and crying to God for mercy the successe of this evenings work will bee recorded against that day when you shall cry for mercy I conclude all with applying the words of Jotham to the men of Sechem in the 9 of Judges 7. Hearken to me that God may hearken to you So I say hearken to that worthy Member of the House of Commons unto that Reverend Divine before and to him that shall come after Hearken unto ●s this day that God may hearken unto you Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. Gentlemen I Am commanded by the Assembly of Divines and they by a command from the House of Commons to bee present at this solemne and publike meeting and from them to move for that which I confidently presume is granted already a helping heart and a helping hand to preserve O that we must be forced to say so and yet blessed be God that we are alive to say so to preserve our Religion our lives and the lives of ours It is I confesse my happinesse that I am not to speak unto such who have made our troubles and that laugh at them but unto them that see our distresses know how to compassionate them the perswasion is the more hopeful when the compassion is beforehand afoot if that honorable Gentleman that spake first had bin sent with fire to destroy your City or others with Swords from that grave Senate to have destroyed your lives or with armed power to have compelled and plundered your estates there I confesse a refusall nay a contempt had been the most proper answer But Sirs their addresse unto you is paternall it is humble and full of efficacy it is but to request you to preserve your own lives it is but to request you that you would not suffer your selves your wives your children your City your Religion to be destroyed I confesse that I had prepared divers things to have worked on you but they that have spoken before me have scarce left me any new matter to say but all which I wish with all my heart were wrought in you as well as in my selfe nothing lest but to doe The Religion that we have all our lives professed if it bee not worth thy money trample it under thy feet Religion brethren is an invaluable thing it is farre above our estates farre above our lives nay it is far above our soules For our estates the Heathen say so much That our estates were not to be insisted on when Religion was in danger and therefore some of them have according to their imaginary Religion the strength of it they have neglected their goods to preserve their Gods nay they hare as Alvinus did neglect his owne wife and children to take care of that vaine Deity that they sacrificed unto It is I confesse to mee a most remarkable thing that Pliny reports and good Gentlemen let not Heathens exceed Christians in love either to their Country or Religion You know that Hanniball was a sore enemy to the Romans and the Romans when they to maintaine themselves against them had exhausted all their publique treasury a Consull in the Senate bespake the people that they would all ●ring out their personall estates something like what is this day moved unto you it was so instantly it was so universally relished that all ●orts of people brought in abundantly and might I give but a suggest unto the grave Senators that the Citizens and 〈…〉 Senator in Rome left not himselfe so prodigall was 〈◊〉 for th●●●fety of the publike he left not unto himselfe for to keep himselfe and houshold above the value of 16 Crowns O shal heathens be so prodigall to preserve themselves against a Hanniball shal not Christians be as carefull to preserve their Religion against Antichrist Well Sirs as that which you are desired to expend something of your estates for is Religion that is farre beyond all your estates so it is that that is farre beyond all your lives For I beseech you what are all your lives for value unto Religion what will your lives bee to you for comfort when the Sunne is taken out of the Firmament and the Gospel is removed out of this English horizon if you should outlive the Gospel why the Lord bee mercifull to you what would your lives availe you were it not better to make Religion and the Gospel your Executors then to make Idolaters your Executors were it not better to make Religion your Executors then to make your selves or your posterities heires of Idolatry When Troy was taken Anchises disdained to take his Sonnes counsell to save his life Away live when Troy is taken And truly Friends if there bee in any of you a● I perswade my selfe there is in all of you that heare me this da● a sense of God a sense of your soules a sense of the Gospel of Christ why you must acknowledge now that all your comforts are lost that all your hopes on earth are lost and all your hopes in heaven are gone if the Gospel if that Religion bee gone Nay as I said at the beginning it is that that no not your soules can stand in competition with I confesse the soule of man is a precious thing it is as the ring of Gold yet if I doe not mistake my selfe Religion is the most precious Diamond in that ring The busines of Religion why it is the salvation of your souls no lesse then your souls and higher I cannot speak And if this will not move you at this time to lend out your strength to preserve your lives your estates your Religion that which preserves your soules to eternity I can say nothing more But then Sirs observe one thing there is not onely this dignity in Religion that may challenge all that you are and have but there is likewise an efficacy in Religion It is one of the best Masters and

before hath done If you say why doe wee doe all What if God will give the City the speciall honour yet the Countrey will bee required for a great part besides but the Lords work now to bee done it must bee done especially by his servants and wee know in Ezra when as the adversaries of Judah would have come and helped in the work they would not suffer them to come and help in the work I say not wee should doe so but onely to satisfie ●s in this that wee should not think it much that God should especially honour us in such a work as this is But yet besides know that your interest in this businesse it is more than the interest of other men for other men care not what becomes of Religion what care they for Reformation they are willing to bee slaves to some that they might have others slaves under them But you desire Reformation you therefore shall have the greatest share in the blessing of the issue of this work and therefore if others doe not so much yet you should bee willing to bee forward in the work you are now called to and if you bee willing it is like in a little while you may get such power that you may bring others to doe whatsoever may appear to bee just If it shall bee said I but a great deal is done but to little purpose all this while O my brethren say not so it is an unthankfull voyce this for much hath been done there hath been a check given to the adversary the stream of tyranny and slavery it hath been stopped your lives have all this while been preserved by what hath been done If you think but it is too late and all will bee lost that wee doe Say not so neither this is below a Roman spirit the Romans when Hannibal was at their gates yet would sell their fields at as great a rate and as great a consideration as at any other time Even the field where the Enemy was found buyers when it was put to sale there were enow to buy that field Your spirits would scarce rise so high to give a valuable consideration for the field of your Enemy to bee Fee simple to your selves hee not discouraged you have not only the Faith of both Kingdomes that hath been offered but wee as Divines may offer you this day the Faith of Heaven the Faith of the promises of Heaven they are offered to you and there is nothing will blast that work more than a discouraged heart You know that the very thing that caused God to deprive the children of Israel of Canaan when they were at the borders it was because they were discouraged and said There are children of Anak here and let us not go The Lord is bringing of us to a blessed 〈◊〉 it is true wee are in a wildernesse but wee know God hath brought us into the wildernesse and hee will speak comfortably to us in it and let us not bee afraid of difficulties lest wee bee deprived of that good Land that God is bringing us into and little cause have wee to bee discouraged for those wee have to deal with their spirits are base and vile why should wee fear those uncircumcised Philistines And wee see God hath been with us in every thing that wee have undertaken Wee have never shown our selves like men but God hath shown himself to be like a God for us If you say Well but were it not better wee bent all our forces to some Accommodation To that wee answer you thus You have to deal not only with his Majesty but with a Popish party that are about him and what security you can ever have of your peace as was worthily said before except the Scottish Nation comes in for to fasten it it is easie for any one to judge I will tell you but one story about that and because it is suitable unto you I will therefore relate it here It is a Story that I finde in the Chronicles that in the dayes of King Edward the fixt King Edward sends to this City for assistance against the Lords and the Lords send to the City for their assistance likewise against the Protectour the Earl of Somerset and the Common Councell was called I suppose in this place and there stands up as the story saith a wise discreet Citizen in the Common Councell and makes this speech unto them First hee acknowledges that the cause was right for the Lords for the Kingdom though it were against the will of the King because the King would not then put in execution those Laws that should bee but hindered them but yet saith hee let mee reminde you of that that I have read in Fabians Chronicle it was one George Stadley that stood up let mee reminde you of that when there was a fight between the Lords and the King the Lords send for assistance to the City the City granted their assistance the Lords prevailed the King was taken and his Son a Prisoner afterwards they were both released upon Composition and amongst other things this was one that howsoever the City should bee preserved that the City should suffer nothing for what they had done and this Composition was confirmed by Act of Parliament but saith this Citizen what came of it did the King forgive No nor forget for afterwards all our Liberties were taken away strangers were set over us for our Heads and Governours the bodies and the estates of the Citizens were given away and one misery followed after another and so wee were most miserably persecuted and here was their Accommodation Wherefore then to close all you have heard before that wee come not onely to perswade you but to ingage our selves as well as to perswade you and to doe that that wee would have you doe For our parts as wee have in some proportionable manner done it already so wee are ready to doe it further and it beseemes us well to doe it Wee read in the 3 of Nebemiah that the first that did help to repair the City it was the Priests of the City and about the middle of the City the Priests of the Plain I suppose it is meant the City Ministers and the Countrey Ministers and you shall finde in that Chapter severall sorts of people were there there were the Rulers these specially mentioned I suppose their chief Rulers as their Aldermen c. they were very forward in that work of the Lord Yea there were the Tradesmen there you read much of the Goldsmiths two severall times in that Chapter you read of the Goldsmiths more then others and you read of the Apothecaries that they were ready in their work yea and you read of the Daughters of men how they forwarded their Parents I would I had to speak to many young ones this day I hope I should prevail much with them to bee great forwarders of you that are more ancient that you may doe this freely which you are