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A77434	Errours and induration, are the great sins and the great judgements of the time. Preached in a sermon before the Right Honourable House of Peers, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, July 30. 1645. the day of the monethly fast: / by Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1645 (1645)	Wing B459; Thomason E294_12; ESTC R200181	39,959	57

person Achan may be stoned to death in the valley of Achor in the midst of Israels triumph The misbelieving Prince in Samaria may see the Plenty but be crushed before he taste thereof Thy hardnesse of heart if it remain will ruine thee What the fury and curse of an angry God hath ever brought on a miserable sinner in this life think upon it for shortly it may be thy portion and which is infinitely worse the whole treasures of the wrath to come a greater then ordinary condemnation for thy impenitency hardnes of heart if thou remain as thou art cannot but fall upon thee The last help I propone is Earnest Prayer A fourth Cure of hardnesse is Prayer Sometimes all the former helps will not do it for the heart is desperately wicked and incredibly hard like that of Leviathan Job 41.24 His heart is firm as a stone as hard as the nether milstone When we finde it thus shall we give over in d●spair Not so For there is yet mercy and power in God to make the rocks flow down to melt the mountains to dissolve the Adamant-stones There is a Warrant Neh. 9. once and again proponed for the people of God to lay hold on Gods mercy and power in the midst of their greatest Rebellion and Induration verse 16. Our father 's dealt proudly and hardned their necks and heackned not to thy Commandments But thon art a God ready to pardon gracious and mercifull thou forsakest them not Also in the 29 verse They dealt proudly and withdrew the shoulder and hardned their necks and would not hear Yet in the 31 verse Neverthelesse thou didst not forsake them for thou art a gracious and mercifull God What heart can be more hard and blinde then Pauls when he made havock of the Church yet the Lord made the scales to fall from his eyes and put in his brest in place of the stone a most gracious soft and spirituall piece of flesh The spectacle of the greatest induration the Jews when the Spirit comes on them their most obdured hearts fall to the greatest mourning Zech. 12. Let it therefore be our care in our greatest hardnesse to lie at the Throne of Grace to cry on still for this mercy of a soft heart who knoweth how soon the Lord may hear and answer When nothing else can help us if he himself come down all will yeeld to his power When the King of Glory comes to assault the most stiff and best closed heart all doors are cast open to him Psal 24.9 He breaketh the gates of brasse and smiteth the bars of iron in sunder Psal 107.16 When he puts his finger in the hole of the door the bowels of the secure Spouse will shortly be moved for him Cant. 5.4 It must be our continuall prayer that the Lord would come to put away the hardnesse of our heart to enlighten it with faith to melt it with repentance to break it with fear that so it may be a fitted Sanctuary for his perpetuall inhabitation If time were not past The last part of the verse exponed there are in the second part of the Text the Churches petition for the Lords return sundry things usefull for the present occasion Look in a little upon the meaning of the words The returning of the Lord is a metaphor taken from finite creatures that go and come But properly the Lord cannot move from place to place for his Essence is infinite he is essentially omni-present God is every where in the heaven in the earth in the Sea Psal 139. If I ascend up unto heaven thou art there if I make my bed in hell thou art there neither so onely but he fills the heaven and the earth Jer. 23.24 Do not I fill the heaven and the earth saith the Lord But not so as if when he filled all things he could be within the circle of the highest heavens 1 Kings 8.27 Behold the heavens and the heaven of heavens could not contain thee We have the reason in Job 11.8 The perfection of God is such that it is as high as heaven deeper then hell longer then the earth and broader then the Sea But beware to conceive of this infinite and immense Essence of God which is in all places and without all places as of a bodily substance for God is a Spirit and that of an infinite simplicity take heed of all grosse imaginations of him left thou turn him to an idol of thine own making Not long ago The zeal of the Court of England against Vorstius heresies Verstius and some of the Arminians in Holland began first to brangle with their Problems and thereafter to deny with their positive assertions these ground-stones of Religion At that time the zeal of England brake out to the joy of all the Churches Then the care of the King and the very Prelats was great not onely to keep Heresies as hellish vapours out of England but to have them suppressed among their neighbours in Holland with all speed We hope it shall never be told to posterity that the zeal of this Parliament was lesse against Errours at home then the Courts wont to be against that evil abroad And however for the present there be nothing so sacred in the Divine Nature and Persons which the boldnesse of Heretikes among us arising onely from impunity dare not wickedly profane yet ere long we expect a remedy to this and many more evils The Returning whereof our Text speaketh is not to be understood of the Divine Effence Nature Substance nor of the Lords common Operations but of his gracious Works of his Mercy and Compassion as we have it expresly Zech. 1.16 I am returned to Jerusalem with mercy And Jer. 12.55 I will return and have compassion on them As a man in his anger turns his back and goeth his way but when reconciled he cometh back So the Lord when grievously provoked with the sins of his people for a time departeth to his place hideth his face withdraweth the signes of his favour but thereafter when appeased he maketh his face to shine and by his Spirit works graciously in the seduced and obdured heart For this the Church here petitions That the Lord would return and make himself sensibly present to her and by the gracious work of his Spirit reclaim her from these errours and that hardnesse of heart whereinto by his absence she had fallen The Ground whereupon the Petition is builded is Gods Relation to them and their Interest in God They were his servants he their Lord and Master as it is in the last verse We are thine thou never barest rule over them they were never called by thy Name Since the Lord had taken them to be his people to serve him this was a ground to them That he would not fully nor finally cast them off but for his interest in them would return This is cleared in the last words his returning to them was not for any good was in

ERROURS And INDURATION ARE The Great Sins and the Great Judgements of the Time Preached in a SERMON Before the Right Honourable House of PEERS in the Abbey-Church at Westminster July 30. 1645. the day of the Monethly Fast By ROBERT BAYLIE Minister at Glasgow 2 Thess 2.10 11 12. Because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a Lye that they all might be damned who believed not the Truth Matth. 7.15 Beware of false Prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves Matth. 15.14 Let them alone they be blinde Leaders of the Blinde and if the Blinde lead the Blinde both shall fall into the Ditch London Printed by R. Raworth for Samuel Gellibrand at the Brasen-Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1645. Die Jovis 31 Julii 1645. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament That Master Baylie who preached yesterday before the Lords of Parliament in the Abbey-Church Westminster it being the day of the Publike Fast is hereby thanked for the great pains he took in his Sermon and desired to print and publish the same which is to be printed by none but such as shall be authorized by the said Master Baylie Job Brown Cler. Parliamentorum Ido appoint Samuel Gellibrand to print my Sermon ROBERT BAYLIE FOR The Equitable READER HOwsoever I have not adventured to offer unto the Right Honourable House of Peers any Dedicatorie Epistle having taken up alreadie so much of their pretious time in their patient and favourable audience of my prolix enough Sermon Yet presuming upon thy courtesie who shalt be willing to reade the subsequent Notes of that which to their Honours was preached without any variation I have made bold to speak in thy eares as the custome is some words of a Preface At the first instant of my calling to this service the words of my Text were cast into my minde where they remained without my least inclination towards any other till I had delivered from them what followeth I have been for a long time in the opinion that Errour and Induration are albeit not the only yet among the principall both sins and miseries of this time and place Hardnesse of heart is ever a sinne The sinfulness of Induration but then most sinfull when most unseasonable If ever there was a time to weep this must be it when not only the mouth of the Lord from his Word is calling but his hand also from the Heaven is drawing us to it He is a stubborn child from whose eye the rod of the Father can draw no water It is a hard stone which the hammer cannot break It is a piece of unnaturall metall wich the fire cannot dissolve And yet this is the complaint of the best discerning Christians every where That though the Lord at this instant be dealing with us by the rod the hammer the fire of his judgements we are so far from heart-melting that in this extraordinarie and untimous hardnesse of our heart more of the wrath and judiciall hand of God doth appear then in any or in all our judgements beside This plague of the Lord on the spirits not only of the World but of many his dear children ought to be the subject of our deepest groans and lowdest cries to the Heaven whence alone the remedie of this our spirits disease can come For there is but one Father and one Lord and one Physitian of the spirits of men My weak endeavours towards this great Cure must be fruitless till his hand make the application of these prescriptions which with all the faithfulnesse and care I was able for the time I have collected only out of the book of his own method of Physick As for the other evill of Errour Error no lesse sinfull then ●ice it hath been the studie and work of some here and elsewhere to extenuate the sinfulnesse thereof and to arme the conscience of all they could perswade against the sense of its burthen as if the conscience ought to be impenetrable and secure from all Wounds which vice and fleshly lusts doe not inflict But I believe if Errour and Vice were Well weighed in the ballance of the Sanctuarie though you put to vice the grossest aggravations whereby the passions of the soul and actions of the bodie make it justly abominable yet if you Will allow to Errour but the grains of its ordinarie circumstances especially that one of our Text Induration its most familiar companion it will be found to have such a weight of malignitie that if betwixt the two any inequality do appear the sinfulnesse of the last will prae-ponder The intoxication of the spirit of the minde by the venome of Errour is as much contrarie to the Divine Nature and Will is as much hatefull to the Spirit of light and truth and as evidently damnable as the corruption of the will and inferiour affections or any member of the bodie with whatsoever vice or more bodily transgression I hope I have proved this by places of Scripture unanswerable Whence it necessarily followeth that it is more Toleration of errours a grievous sin at least no lesse unlawfull for a Christian State to give any libertie or toleration to Errours then to set up in every Citie and Parish of their Dominions Bordels for Vncleannesse Stages for Playes and Lists for Duels That a libertie for Errours is no lesse hatefull to God no lesse hurtfull to men then a freedome without any punishment Without any discouragement for all men when and wheresoever they pleased to kill to steal to rob to commit adultery or to do any of these mischiefs which are most repugnant to the Civill law and destructive of humane societie But that which my Text points at in Errours The errours of our time appear to be judiciall is not so much their sinfulnesse as their judgement That God in his wrath had given over that people to errour If ever the plague of erring from the wayes of truth was sent upon a land it seems this day to lye upon us The Finger of God in this our judgement is demonstrable by divers Characters imprinted upon the face of our present Errours above all that in ordinarie and not judiciall Errours useth to appear I point at four eminent singularities in them Their various multiplicity Their palpable evidence Their incredible increase and in the midst of universall complaints against them A totall neglect of their cure First their variety is prodigious 1 By their variety I cannot say that all which stand in the ancient Hereseologies of Philastrius Epiphanius or Augustine can be found among us or Were ever to be found upon Earth in any one age But this may be confidently averred That more Errours have set up their head and shewed their mis-shapen countenances lately here then in any one place of the world this day are known I adde that there is not any Errour spoken