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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87669	The messengers preparation for an addresse to the King for a well-grounded peace. As it was delivered in a sermon, at Oxford, on Sunday, Novemb. 24. 1644. Before the commissioners of both kingdomes, the morning before their presenting the propositions to His Majestie. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing K252; Thomason E21_20; ESTC R14495	21,882	36

for his own children lie dangerously weak under sad divisions yea so that the whole body is out of joynt and then what strength we might have prevailed for the Kings heart it being in Gods hand before this day For why might not we if rightly quallified obtaine a heart out of our hands and in the Lords hand for the good of a Nation nay three bleeding Nations as well as he for himselfe and his family Gen. 33.4 you have an incouraging president where killing is come to kissing sheding of blood to sheding of teares They both wept The charging each other is the imbracing each other It will be an argument against us of Nationall weakenesse and wickednesse that one shall doe more then so many with God And if this be Truth we have none more no cry out of then our selves for the continuation of our sorrow may not the Lord say as sometimes to Israel Perditin tua ex te we may thank our selves his hand is not shortned that it cannot save nor his care heavie that it cannot heare but our prayers are weake because our hearts are wicked that cannot hold out a wrestle with God Indeed we act dutie but not proportionable for the Churches necessity or as cordially sensible of its misery and speedy calamity not as if we see no way but one for it or beheld it sentenced to death under a dooree no we look most of us as Eliahs servant upon the first command 1 King 18.4 when misery was on Germany Ireland and Scotland being often perswaded by the Eliahs of those times to look out what we could see the return of our hearts was that we saw nothing Indeed we laid it not to heart as any thing Nay when at this day comanded to look out those within Lines of Communication and fenced Garrisons can see but a little cloud out of the Sea like a mans hand we esteeme all the Protestant blood nay the Saints blood that hath been shed as nothing do all the Cruelties Murders Woundings Imprisonings Fireings Plunderings Deformings Reproachings of the Saints as yet appear as nothing How many sighing groaning lamentable complaining sad-hearted good Christians may you see in many parts of this distracted Kingdome seeking for bread and glad to part with their former pleasant things to relieve their families pressing necessities How doth many a gallant family sit solitary How many beautifull houses forlorne Yea how many are aggrevating their misery by viewing over the records of their former injoyments How in many places doth the Enemy magnifie himself against God and his people having possessed and dispossessed our Congregations and destroyed the place of the Assembly How doth the blood of the Church spring forth as wine out of the wine-presse and lyes spilt on the ground abroad the Sword consuming at home lofty and sad divisions even the wills of men like wilde horses renting limbe from limbe the poore Church of God the Enemy hearing of this trouble and being glad Nay in a word The cause of God in three Kingdomes crying with them in the 1 Lament Vers 12. Is it nothing to you O all ye that passe by Is there any sorrow like to my sorrow and yet who with Mordeoa● although it be past beyond a decree and come to the Haman-like acting of cruelty against the Church before your faces even at the doores and gates of your Cities in heart yet saith Is it any thing Nay let me add somthing more Although God be so angry as to license his enemies to pull out his own eyes for his Church is as deare to him as the apple of his eye and he must be incensed highly when he will permit this yet who layes this to heart as any thing Nay even now although God hearken and hear who speaketh aright at all or if but for a day and then every man with the day casts off the duty and returneth with the dog to his vomit and with the wrinsed sow to wallow in the mire Had Mordecai lookt thus a squint on the condition of the Jewes he had never laid it to heart and if never laid to heart it had not been communicated to every one that in probability might conveigh it to Esthers eares and had she slightly entertained it as newes onely it had never come to the hazzarding of her life in the Churches cause or prescribing an order for so serious preparation for the Churches preservation Will you license me to advise you I know you wil you called me to that purpose to this duty this day Why then as the Prophet 1 King 10. Prepare your chariots so you and I wish the whole Church of God their hearts and improve you all your interests noble Patriots of the Cause of God and let them improve theirs by proportionable and importunate duty for successe this day suitable to the Churches necessity and misery Esa 22.4 you have the story of the invading the land of Jewrie by the Persians by reason whereof the Church of God and the Kingdome were like to be brought into a sad condition it was like to be a day of trouble and treading downe and of perplexity by the Lord breaking down walls and breaches seen in the city of David mark in the 4. Vers what the Prophet puts immediately in practice to divert it Therefore said I look away from me mind me not of any thing else I have nothing else comparatively to look after this is the businesse of the time what I will weep bitterly or as the Originall hath it I will be bitter in weeping Labour not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people Jer. 8.21 22. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt I am blacke astonishment hath taken hold on me c. i. grief to an extasie hath seized on me that I am not my selfe the hurt of the Church is his hurt I then he seekes propoationably a remedy Moses when God is angry with the people he fals sensibly to the work and being to wrastle out reconciliation and a diversion of Gods expresse resolution against them he is at it 40. dayes and nights together So againe upon another provocation Numb 14.11 How long will this people provoke me Vers 12. I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and now God if Moses had any selfe-ends or aimes proposeth somthing to take him off and stop his mouth for he promiseth to make him a multiplying nation Indeed selfe-aiming men that shall look to their own ends will never stand the Church in a strait in any stead No he saw the people threatned to ruine See how Moses argues and wrastles with God Vers 13 14 15 16. and then closeth and gaines upon God by prayer giving as it were the other hug in this wrastle in the 17 18 19. Verses Pardon I beseech thee the iniquity of the people See Vers 20. And the Lord said I have pardoned according to thy Word See

tongue to blesse him read 1 Sam. 26.25 Princes hearts have been nay they still are there you see it is but improving of proportionable Nationall and Personall interests and strength with our God in duty and without all question we may gaine this eminent mercy and have his heart with us before his person who thinks on or grudgeth his hazardous voyage to the Indies when he considereth a probability of getting gold pearles and diamonds we never think of the hardships of warfare and the difficulty of duties when we are bent upon honour and were we resolved for Nationall mercy and such a blessing as the Kings heart to subscribe to the just desires of all his Kingdomes we should not stick at any duty if we were but a little love-sick of mercy it would break a little more out of our lips And thus having given you reasons for this truth I shall supplicate you for a little patience whilest I apply it Vse 1. for information of us how much they are to blame that do not at this day supply the lamentable imploring necessities of the Church of God in both Kingdomes But are extreame short in dutie if they consider the length heighth depth and bredth of their misery little water will not quench or decrease a great fire no rather increase the flame the taking away a little blood will not cure a calenture the body must in such a case be brought low the leaving of a few grosse sins not cure the Churches evill nor the simple performance of monethly duties no the Church of God is brought low but our hearts are not brought low no they must if we will ever do good on it be brought much lower yet 2 Such as consider not at all or take no notice or looke a squint on the Churches misery Amos 6.1 Woe to those that are at ease in Zion and trust in the mountaines of Samaria that put farre from them the evill of the Nation and lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves on couches and cat the lambs out of the flock and calves out of the shall and so Vers 3.6 That chaunt to the sound of the viole and invent to themselves instruments of musiick That drink wine-in bowles and annoint themselves with the chiefe oyntments but they are not grieved for the affliction of Ioseph How many in the Kingdome keeping the Churches fasting dayes as feasting dases instead of neither eating nor drinking day nor night drinke if not cat day and night 3 Such as delay the answering the Churclies necessity in misery by performance of proportionable dutie like Salemons sluggard A little more sleep a little more slumber and a little more folding of the hands and so misery cats in like a gangrene it is an old saying Quod cito fit bis fit An opportune remedy is a double curtesie he that helps at a pinch helpes to purpose he that cryeth spare the child when the stripes are given gives little ease gets little thanks O that we would know what belongs to the Churches peace Luk. 19.41 in this our day before these recovering mercies are hid from our eyes he speaks too late to the Judge for a reprieve when the ladder is turned It may be God will now heare and grant to morrow he will not In Cant. 2. the Church that drowsily neglected her safety after in the third Chapter seeks it night and day but found it not It 's good stepping into the poole upon the motion of the waters if you misse your wind you may lose your voyage the season hath pantings and swounding fits already take heed it go not away in one of these fits Fourthly they also are much to blame who proportion their duties to the measure of their own pressing necessities and so are injurious to the cause of the Church of God Jeremy was not hurt for the hurt of himself but the daughter of his people Many are praying and fasting for their owne interests no Esther thinks not of her self but her people so it must not be thy life or my life or thine or my goods estate children c. or thy personall suffering that must affect thee and afflict thee but the sufferings of all the members of Jesus Christ In all their afflictions thou must be afflicted and for them all thou hast must be hazarded And now Right Honourable and wel-beloved suffer me to come to you in a word of Exhortation with some few Motives and I shall conclude all with supplications for God to guide your hearts to such personall preparations that you may this day find favour in the sight of God and the King and return at least with hopes of Peace or some small branch to show the waters are abated and that God in due time will cause the Arke which is the Church of God to rest safe upon the mountaines of hope 2. Use of Exhortation That by way of preparation for your addresse to His Majesty for the Churches preservation you and the Church of God would learne and practice that lesson that you may be praisefull and powerfull You see Esthers practice for her distressed people Nay you see the three Kingdomes like that man that fell among theeves wounded and bleeding to death Oh be not like the hard-hearted Priests and Levites that minded more the market then their neigbours misery But put on the good Samaritans compassion and goe and doe likewise let your bowels yerne towards the poore wounded Lazerated halfe dead kingdomes looke out for oyle betimes to poure into the deepe wounds of it O apply such playsters as may eate out the putrifying cores and if yet you cannot heale yet keepe open and sweet the wounds of the Church of God I know you are men of skill and know how to doe it you indeed with those Honourable Houses that sent you under God are the Physitians must doe it It is you that must heale up the wounds make up the breaches that must bring backe God to his people and fetch the Kings heart to his God and your selves and his People And I heartily pray there may be found no Mountebanks amongst you who are more affected with the goods of the Nation then the good of the Nation such who mount the Stage to vent old drugs by faire bumbasted expressions for wholesome and new Physick The Lord give you skill also to discover all such if any before they too much retard the Churches cure The Lord make you all men of affections and bowels to lay to heart and pitty the Kingdomes wounds Nay thirdly men of diligence neglecting no opportunity the losse of time may be the losse of life Now if ever pray for good successe Indeed the condition of the three Kingdomes doth not onely require it but the distressed of the Land expect that you croud thorough all difficulties and carnall reasonings and by any meanes represent their condition to the Lord in the way of extraordinary duty I could wish we would at