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A71286 A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ... Walker, George, 1581?-1651. 1645 (1645) Wing W364; ESTC R6426 39,735 52

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Die Mercurij Januar. 29th 1644. ORdered that Sir Thomas Dacres and Master Whitacre doe from this House give thanks to Doctor Wincopp and Master Walker for the great paines they tooke in the Sermons they preached this day at the intreaty of this House at St. Margarets Westminster it being the day of publike Humiliation and to desire them to Print their Sermons and they are to have the like priviledge in printing of them as others in the like kinde usually have had H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Appoynt Nathaniel Webb to Print my Sermon GEORGE WALKER A SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne Monethly Fast Januarie 29th 1644 Wherein these foure necessary Considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures viz. 1. The Bands of the brethren in iniquity the pernicious Brambles the Plague and curse of a Land and Kingdome 2. All the brethren in these Bands sharpe pricks of the cursed bramble sharers in the sinne and subiect to the destruction thereof 3 The righteous kept by God from the full sense and feeling of the mischiefe which they are sharpely set and cruelly bent to bring upon them 4. The terrible sudden and totall destruction of the Bramble and every hurtfull prick thereof by Gods dreadfull storme By GEORGE WALKER Batchelor of Divinity Pastor of Iohn Evangelists London and one of the Assembly of Divines Published by Order of the House of Commons LONDON Printed by T. B. for Nathaniel Webb and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard 1645. TO The Honourable House of COMMONS Now Assembled in PARLIAMENT Renowned Worthies WHEN I received your Message sent to me by one of Your Worthy Members that you had appoynted mee to Preach before You at the Monethly Fast then next to come mine Insufficiency a Age and Weaknesse of Body began immediately to put a just excuse ●● my mouth But the strong obligation in which the whole Land is obliged unto You being the onely powerfull b Saviours under God of Church and State from ruine and destruction when they were allready over-runne and at the poynt to bee swallowed up by the Bands of Antichrist did silence all Excuses Besides I was afraid to incurre the blame or suspicion of ingratitude to them who had delivered me from the paw of the Lyon which thirsted after my bloud and had set mee at liberty after two yeares imprisonment and Voted a just recompence of the wrongs done to mee and a Satisfaction from mine Oppressors for all my losses and dammages by their malice sustained Which recompence through your favour and forwardnesse to relieve mee I had certainely received if the multitude of Malignant spirits then too prevalent among you but now expelled out of your Assemblie had not opposed and hindred the transmission of my Cause in due time to the Honourable House of LORDS I saw also a speciall hand of GOD in calling mee to Preach to so Honourable an Assemblie and his power and providence in frustrating and bringing to nought the Counsells and purposes of the proud persecuting Prelate of CANTERBURIE who on the same day of the VVeeke of the same moneth of the Yeare six yeares before brought mee to answer Ore tenus in the Star-Chamber with full intent to lay a heavie Censure on mee And when the truth of GOD for which I suffered did beare mee out against all his Slanders and false Accusations hee most proudly affirmed and bid me assure my selfe of it That I should never come in a Pulpit to preach any more Vpon these Considerations I did cheerefully submit my shoulders to beare this burthen though it seemed farre heavier then my strength was able to sustaine and undergoe And now Yee Worthies of GODS Israel I humbly begge this favour at Your hands that You will accept of the willingnesse of the Workman to serve You not the worth of the Service it selfe Looke upon the pure precious matter here handled chosen out of a golden Psalme of DAVID the sweet Singer of Israel not on the weake handling of it I conceived it verie seasonable for the Time and Occasion For the present Calamities by which the LORD calls us to publike and generall Fasting and Humiliation proceed from the Bands of the Brethren in Iniquitie which are so many cursed Brambles of severall sorts pestering the whole Land and stinging us with their hurtfull pricks which abound in everie Band Sect and Faction The thing for which wee seeke unto GOD by Fasting and Prayer is Deliverance of our Church and State from the mischiefe which they are sharply set to bring and inflict upon all that are Righteous and Religious in the Land This Deliverance cannot bee fully and perfectly obtained till the Lord our God bee pleased to cut downe these cursed Brambles and to ridde these three Kingdomes of them And this the LORD will doe verie speedily so soone as hee sees us made ripe for Deliverance by true unfeigned repentance and amendment of our lives For then he will take away as with a Storme and Whirle-winde not onely the great Faction of the Antichristian Papists Atheists and Malignants banded together and wageing open VVarre against us but also all the Sects of Anabaptists Antinomians Libertines and Schismaticall Separatists who by opposing the Reformation and union of our Church with the rest of the best Reformed Churches both in Doctrine and Discipline according to the written VVord of God do act strongly for Antichrist and by raising up Divisions and Distractions in the City Countrey and all our Armies doe as much as in them is to weaken us make breaches in our VValls and to lay us open and naked to the violence and furie of our open enemies All these things my Text as I have faithfully opened and expounded it doth offer to your grave and wise consideration and in this Sermon I have proved every particular by cleare testimonies out of holy Scriptures and in obedience to your command I have committed it to the Presse and here humbly present it to your Honourable Assembly with my hearty desire and prayer to God for you that by it and many other most godly and more learned Sermons which sound continually in Your cares You may take occasion to observe and note the danger in which our Land is by reason of those many Sects and Hereticks and Schismaticks which like so many cursed Brambles grow up and increase daily even to the over-spreading of the whole Kingdome which when you come to doe once seriously I doubt not but your zeale will stirre you up to curb so many of them as are curable and to cut off those that are incorrigible even such Thorns and Brambles as David describes in his last words saying The sons of Belial are all of them as Thornes thrust away because they cannot be taken with hands But the man that shall touch them must be fully fenced with Iron and the staffe of a Speare and they shall bee