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A94303	Moderation iustified, and the Lords being at hand emproved, in a sermon at VVestminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: preached at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the county of Norfolke: one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order from that House.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1069; Thomason E23_6	31,603	39

said The end of all things is at hand addeth this immediate inference Be you therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Yea our Lord himselfe who is a● hand speaks to each of these First Concerning Sobrietie Take heed lest at any time your hearts be overcome with surfetting and drunkennesse and that day come on you unaw●res Luk. 21. 34. Secondly The Evangelists generally for the same reason exhort to watching Matth. 24. 42. Mark 13. 33. and they doe not meane so much abstinence from sleep but from sinne and watching not for worldlinesse but for prayer Thirdly So Luke 21. 36. Watch ye therefore and pray alwayes and in the next words he gives a Directory of Prayer two heads of petitions one That ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe the other that ye may stand before the Sonne of man and if you aske when and how often this must be remembred he tels us that also pray alwayes a dutie needfull ever but most of all now in respect of our own particulars and the Churches of Iesus Christ And for our selves let us pray for pardon of sin strength against lusts standing in judgement and as the Martyrs in prison and at the stake said to themselves and others Pray pray pray so remember the Lord is at hand therefore forget not to pray yea Watch and pray Matth. 26. 41. that ye enter not into tentations into the devouring part thereof Ne intremus in ventr●m tentationis quasi bestiae cujusdam Theophylact as the belly of a beast we know not what calamitous times may be reserved for us but whatsoever they are or may be we cannot be armed against them but by prayer so we must be prepared and this we see by our Apostle who to the Text The Lord is at hand instantly subjoynes Be carefull for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanks giving let your request be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. Pray for me saith Father Latimer to Bishop Ridley again and again pray for me p. 14. for I am sometimes so fearefull that I could creepe into a Mousehole It is his own expression but God doth visit me again with his consolation and then the other answers him unlesse the Lord assists me with his gracious ayde in the time of his service I know I shall play but the part of a white-liver'd Knight p. 15. and yet what Champions what victorious Champions were they both and that by prayer For in the same little Treatise of their comfortable conference during the time of their imprisonment Ridley calles on Latimer as upon an Old beaten Souldier for instruction p. 16. and help to buckle on his harnesse as he phraseth it and Latimer tels him you shall prevaile more with praying then studying p. 36. though mixture be best but forget not to pray Let every one for our selves remember the Lord is at hand Besides the houses we dwell in are made of clay and the calamities of these times are daily battering these Tabernacles of dust that may very soone and suddenly fall about our eares therefore let every one of us alwayes be sober and watchfull unto prayer and pray earnestly to God that he will give us Repentance from dead works that he will weane us from these things below and teach us to persevere in all Divine truth and make us abound in every good word and worke that he will enable us to be patient in tribulation and fill us with the most holy faith in the Lord Iesus Christ And for the Churches of Christ Jer. 30. 7. remember it is their Day the very day of Jacobs trouble all the Israel of our God is in perplexitie pray for them all at home and abroad pray for the overthrow of Antichrist the fall of Babylon pray for the Peace of Hierusalem and the wellfare of Sion yea pray earnestly holily constantly Gen. 32. 26. and as Iacob wrastle with God and doe not let him goe till he give you a blessing And you that make mention of the Lord hold not your peace Esa 62. 6 7. day nor night keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish and till he make Hierusalem the Churches abroad and in these Kingdomes a praise in the earth And let us of this Nation pray pray that God would returne the Head to the Body the King to the Parliament that he will heale our breaches compose our differences and hasten the restauration of a safe and well grounded Peace that yet sticks in the Birth pray that he would lift up the light of his countenance upon England Scotland and Ireland Lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon them and they shall be safe And let all them that love God that love their Religion that love their Countrey that love their Souls say Amen Yea say thou Amen to these things Thou that Art the Amen the faithfull and true Witnesse Revel 3. 14. the beginning of the Creation of God Amen Amen FINIS

MODERATION IVSTIFIED AND THE LORDS BEING AT HAND EMPROVED IN A SERMON AT VVESTMINSTER BEFORE THE HONORABLE HOVSE OF COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Preached at the late solemne Fast December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the County of Norfolke One of the Assembly of Divines Published by Order from that House Matth. 10. 16. Be wise as Serpents and harmelesse as Doves Mensura convenit ne aut nimia remissio reddatur aut nimiaa severitas Ambros. Offic. lib. 2. cap. 22. Si quid corrigendum est adhibeatur ea Moderatio quae Christianos deceat c. Erasm Epist l. 22. p. 916. LONDON Printed by I. L. for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard and for Thomas Slater at the Swan in Duck-Lane 1645. Die Mercurii 25. Decemb. 1644. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament That Master Heveningham and Master Lisle doe from this House give thanks to Master Thorowgood and Master Langley for the great pains they took in the Sermons they Preached this day at the intreaty of this House at S. Margarets Westminster It being the day of Publique Humiliation And to desire them to Print their Sermons And it is Ordered that none shall presume to Print their or either of their Sermons without first obtaining libertie under their hand-writing H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Doe appoint Christopher Meredith and Thomas Slater to Print this Sermon THOMAS THOROVVGOOD TO THE HONORABLE House of Commons Assembled in Parliament at Westminster THe thought of coming into that Pulpit was dreadfull to me and I did unfainedly decline it 1 Sam. 10. 22. as Saul I would willingly have hid my selfe among the stuffe any where rather then undertake the taske Palluit ut 〈◊〉 qui pressit calcibus anguem Et Juvenal Sat. 6. Lugdunensem Rhetor dicturus ad aram Did Advocates change colour pleading at that Barre And should I have no feare being to speake in such a presence where so many of you were and each one resembled the children of a King Judg. 8. 18. as the Kings of Midian said to Gideon in respect of his brethren yea upon whose votes and determinations depends the welfare of three glorious Kingdomes But being summoned to the service it was my duty to runne and prepare my selfe and I found presently my lot was cast upon that very day which the providence of heaven had designed to fall on Christmas Day Gentilet Exam. p. 206. as it is named yet the Metropolitane of all the Festivities so Gaspar Ferrandi called it in the Councel of Trent It was time for me then by consideration recollection and other thoughts to cast out feare 1 Joh. 4. 8. and for my animation the allusion of him to Caesar happily occurred as they that dare confidently speake in your judicious and formidable Assemblie consider not what Constellations you are nor of what Magnitude so those that despondingly be afraid are ignorant of your benigne Aspects and gracious Influences The election of a Theme and the manner of handling it was in my power and by Divine guidance I chose Moderation not because you wanted it but for that some so supposed and I saw even that Christian grace well understood would justifie your proceedings Your eares entertained the Discourse with spontaneous attention with the vertue of the Text which Tertullus beg'd of Felix Act. 24. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you have now required it to the other sense to another censure in publicum formidandumque judicium as Cassiane said upon his like occasion De Incarnat praefat and for my part Pro captu Lectoris habent sua fata libelli though the subject matter I know will meet with fatall judgings and my weakenesses also be ever before me yet I have obeyed your Commands and with the exoptation of Orosius to Austin Utinam tam efficaciter quam libenter Praefat. Hist for now as Dedications have beene made to you of Zeale Righteousnesse Magnanimitie Perseverance c. so the world shall see you Patrons of Moderation also notwithstanding the unpolitique Antichristian and Tyrannicall endevours of your Opposites some of which laboured so much some yeares since to embroyle the Nation against Scotland in irreconciliable and intestine combustions the perfect uniting of whom to ENGLAND was the zealous industrie of the wisest Patriots in former times as our Chronicles relate and who now also by supernaturall providence in Covenant and many other obligations are contrived into a more firme accord then ever Those other horrid Miscreants of Ireland have raked Hell and Rome for the inventions and exercises of such cruel barbarities upon our miserable brethren King Charles Declarat with the advice of his Privie Counsell that no Christian eare can heare without horrour nor Story parallel as his Majestie did declare against those barbarous Rebels I wish that Remonstrance of our Clergie there were commanded to be in every Parish of ENGLAND and the additionall depositions hastened to the Presse that all the good people of the Land might know their good meaning to them And in this Kingdome there was a generation of New Reformers that paved the way to Popery and under the colour of a good worke in hand Holy Table Name and Thing p. 2. p. 192. p. 204. and the pietie of the times were busied in taking the out-workes and that being done they would have a bout with the Fort it selfe It is the language and sentence of him that here may well be credited and our eyes saw then the Innovations so numerous that with a little time and observation it might be demonstrated the lawlesse Mutation even then was greater from the rules and received practise then it is like to be by the Directory so much expected which beside Parliament Authoritie will have the Scriptures and the example of Reformed Churches to give it countenance I thought in this Epistle I might make some further mentioning but I must remember that of Austin to Macedonius Negotiosissimos in Republica viros Ep. 54. Init. non suis sed aliorum utilitatibus attentissimos non debemus occupare prooemio I will turne therefore my prefacing into praying that our God onely wise Rom. 16. 27. would fill every one of you with wisedome Jam. 3. 17. even that wisdome which is from above and is first pure then peaceable gentle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the grace of the Text Ruth 4. 11. Moderate and full of good fruits that gasping Ireland may be recovered by you and as you have done worthily for Scotland you may be famous in ENGLAND and regaining the Kings royall Person and favour you may make him glorious also and raise up in his Dominions the foundations for many generations Isa 58. 12. and be called the Repairers of the breaches the Restorers of the paths to dwell in I shall waite the complement of Gods good providence in you and