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A92843	Englands condition parralelld with Iacobs for [brace] troubles. Salvations. Hopes. Laid open in two sermons, lately preached at Marlborough in Wilts. By Iohn Sedgwick, Batchelour in Divinity and Pastor of the Church at Alphage neere Cripplegate, London.	Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing S2360; Thomason E115_23; ESTC R18288	48,093	63

ENGLANDS CONDITION PARRALELLD WITH IACOBS For Troubles Salvations Hopes Laid open in two Sermons lately preached at Marlborough in WILTS By Iohn Sedgwick Batchelour in Divinity and Pastor of the Church at Alphage neere Cripplegate London MICAH 7. 8. Rejoyce not against mee O mine enemy when I fall I shall arise when I sit in darkenesse the Lord shall bee a light unto mee LONDON Printed by R. B. for Samuell Gellibrand at the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-Yard 1642. To the worshipfull Philip Smith and Iohn Franklyn Esquiers Members of the Honourable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament Encrease of Courage and Constancy of Spirit SIRS Those who chose you unto your places of great trust and toyle might have justly by nativenesse of soyle expressions of Love and earnestnesse of desires challenged the dedication yet they being many and you their representative body in an eminent and publike way I hope it shall neither displease them or trouble you that the ensuing Sermons doe passe under your names to the publike view I wish them in their printing their happie successe in their preaching they were words in season to the best and words of vexation to the worst Our ministry cannot please the one but it must displease the other How ever its sit that every one have his portion It is my comfort that by the happie successe of the Gospell in the hearts of the people Marlborough is a Towne honouring and cleaving fast to the Parliament they chose not Burgesses either to disgrace or to desert them neither you nor they come under the censure of Solon's Law to the Athenians who adjudged him to die and unworthy to live that in time of civill Garboyles as carelesse of the weale publike withdrew himselfe and became a Neuter As you have not been drawne into unfaithfulnesse by the ill examples of Revolters from their fidelity to their Country so they have not beene betrayers of their owne liberties in joyning with any persons th●ugh great in place in any illegall courses of division twixt King and people If these Sermons had an influence on them why may they not have an effect on you The times are encreased in their troubles the Cloud is growne blacker and bigger some men are desperate others despaire most see their dangers few can believe and hope for deliverance Out of my generall respect to the Times Lamentation and for the raising up of yours with other mens spirits under our sad conditions I have gathered up my scattered Meditations which for substance are what I then delivered though they have received their further additions Sirs I will be no further troublesome to my selfe or you know that the eyes of many are upon you the prayers of many are for You Nay there are more with you then against you as you have begun well so end well and the great God who is the King of Kings even the supreame Iudge of all the world hold up your spirits against all discouragements and carry on your great works unto perfection against all oppositions giving unto you reward with himselfe so daily prayeth for you Yours in the Faith and Truth John Sedgwicke ENGLAND'S Troubles JEREM. 30. ver 7. Alas for that day is great so that none is like it it is even the time of Jacobs trouble but hee shall bee saved out of it THis Text so suitable to our times may not be unfitly resembled to that Cloud by which God led the Israelites through the dreadfull and desolate Wildernesse as that so this hath in it First a darke side viz. a dismall time for trouble and misery the face of the times gathered blackenesse the cloud of trouble appeared and calamities did so come on and encrease that nothing else could bee found among the Iewes but troubles great troubles even such as no age could parallell or foregoing president equall which makes the Prophet to cry out Alas for that day is great so that none is like it it is even the time of Jacobs trouble Secondly A light side viz. a gracious promise for salvation and deliverance though for the present they were as men in graves and deeps under many pinchings and pressures by miseries yet a day and time shall come wherein the Lord would be light and life and salvation unto them but he shall be saved out of it I might from the conjunction of the parts spend much time in opening this excellent truth That out of the same mouth proceeds both threatnings and Threatning of misery and promise of mercy conjoyned promises to the Churches of God a Christian hath but one GOD though many conditions and as God hath one heavie hand upon so hath ●ee another easing hand under his Churches as hee strikes so hee stroakes them as hee doth sad so hee doth cheare them seldome or never shall you finde the Prophets in their messages to Gods people more terrible then comfortable where they threaten misery they also promise mercy The wise Physitian roles his bitter pill in sugar Reason 1 Now God doth sweeten messages of misery with the openings of mercy partly to make it knowne that in the midst of wrath hee doth remember mercy and that in his strict proceedings against his servants hee sits upon his throne of grace what ever scourging rod God takes into his hand and what ever in●ittering course God takes with his Children hee is never of the Throne of grace and the remembrance of his mercies Reason 2 partly to teach that Christians cast downe outwardly should not despaire inwardly God will not that miserable times should bee despairing times to his people Though under sensible evills there will be the workings of feare yet there should be no sinking of spirits even in sad times faith must have its working and the heart ought to be raized above the present se se of evill to an expectation of much good the eye that sees those dangers which are upon the Seas may behold the safeties which are in the harbors God would have Christians to know that they lie not at the mercy of any condition and that when they are in misery they are under mercy simply to bee threatned is a curse but to have a mingling of a promise with the threatning argues both love from God and good to man unto my understanding the bitter of all threatnings is taken off by the sweet of a promise and if God will vouchsafé to men a promise of delivery they need not over feare the threatning Cloud of misery it s not the least of a Christians comforts that as hee hath a threatning so he hath a promising God This meditation I shall leave with you and betake my selfe to the words of my Text. In the darke side whereof we may take notice of these two things 1. The deep impression which he troubles of the Church made upon the heart of the Prophet laid downe in the word alas a word of sorrow and compassion all one in meaning with woe

since there began to be a Nation unto that same time 2. The strength of these grounds if any man will bee satisfied in the causes of the Churches troubleous times they are these Reason 1 First Meritoriously troublous times doe spring from the 4. Causes of the Churches troublous times sinnes of the Churches of God as the needle drawes on the threed so our sinfull dayes being upon us our miserable dayes there is nothing which doth enter men into sorrowes more than their sins sin is the mother and trouble the daughter there had never been a bad day or sad houre upon earth had not man sinned this is the Achan that troubleth Israel when Israel sinned then Psalm ●8 32 33 God consumed their dayes in trouble and brought them down Ahab meeting Elijah calls him the troubler of Israel the Prophet deales plainely and roundly with the King and tells him to his face that it was he and his Fathers house in forsaking the commandements 1 Kings 18. 18. of the Lord and following Baalim that troubled Israel Hence is it that God saith Make a Chaine for the Land is full of bloudy crimes the City is full of violence wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen and they shall possesse their houses I Ezek. 7. 23. 24 25 26 27. will also make the pomp of the strong to cease and their holy places shall be desiled destruction commeth and they shall seeke peace and there shall be none mischiefe shall come upon mischiefe and rumor shall bee upon rumour the King shall mourne and the Prince shall be clothed with desolation and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled I will doe unto them after their way and according to their deserts will I judge them reason 2 Secondly furtheringly troublous times do flow from the Malignant Party Satan and his angels Satan himselfe is full of rage and malice against the Church the glory thereof is his envie and therefore he doth put out himselfe in the power of the Dragon and in the policie of the Serpent to create what trouble hee can to the same hee is the great kindle Coale hee it was that stood at the right hand of Josuah the High Priest standing Zech. 3. 1. before the Angell of the Lord to resist him he it was that stood Rev. 12. 4. before the woman which was ready to bee delivered for to devoure the Child as soone as it was borne and hee is that Serp●nt ver 15. which cast out of his mouth wter as a floud after the woman that hee might cause her to be carried away of the floud when Satan is let loose and hath his houre he will set the whole world into combustion Nay wee have another Malignant party who are Rev. 2. ●● the spirit and spawne of Satan men of prophane hearts and lives who doe act over the Devill and worke that businesse for him which hee cannot worke for himselfe I am sure where grace is wanting and prophannesse raigning there the spirit of spite and misery of disturbance is to bee found men desperately set on sin have imbitterd spirits against the quiet of the Church yea such an enmity is there betweene the two seeds that wicked men are alwayes bending their wits laying their plots and putting out themselves to disturbe the quiet in the land these are so set on sire of hell that they decline peace and delight in bloud and Warre Ishmael like they must have their hands against every man and Salamander like they love to live and lie in the fire Whence did all the tumults and uproares in Thessalonica arise Acts 17. 5 6. did not the unbeleeving Jewes who were moved with envie take unto them lewd fellowes of the baser sort a company of vagabonds and wicked fellowes These are fit instruments to trouble a Church and State and Kingdome I have observed that there are sixe things in wicked men making them troublous to Gods people 1. Their ignorance of the wayes and Religion of God These ● Things make wicked men to betroubl us Ioh. 1● ●● things will they doe unto you for my names sake because they have not knowne him that sent mee And again They shall put you out of the Synagogues yea the time commeth that whosoever killeth you will thinke that hee doth God service and these things will they doe ●● 16. 2 unto you because they have not knowne the Father nor me Your blackest clouds and darkest nights do foretell the greatest storms and wh●re ignorance and blindnesse doth most possesse the mind there is your grea●est opposition against God and his cause Paul was then a persecutor when hee was under ignorance 1 Tim. 1. 13. 2. Their Pride of spirit a spirit of pride is a spirit of contention a proud heart will set Kingdomes on sire if Haman cannot get the knee from Mord●c●i he wil devise a bloudy decree against the Iewes if Herod and Domitian feare the loosing of their Crowns and Honours they will command that all those who are of the stocke of David in Iwry bee slaine and if proud and accursed Prelates bee put off their Cushions and cast out from honours what mischiefes will they not further They will sell themselves to their shirts to recover their places through pride commeth contention 3. Their exceeding Covetousnesse of heart filthy luker and horrid cruelty are seldome disjoyned when Demetrius and the crafts men saw that the hope of their gaine was gone now they stirre against Paul and Sylas and raise a mighty storme in Maccdonia Acts 16. 19 20 21 c. can you imagine that those covetous wretches whose godlinesse is their gaine are idle at this day and doe not blow the Coale Certainely Covetousnesse which is the Roote of all evill must bee the cause of much trouble 4. Their envious spirits it was the spirit of envie in Caine 1 Iohn ● 12. which made him to murther his brother Abel and the Caldeans and Courtiers envying the advancement of Daniel and his fellowes above themselves devised a meanes to destroy them Dan 3. 8 6 3 4. 5. Their pronenesse unto Idolatry heate is not more inseperable to sire then cruelty is unto idolatry the love of Idols in all ages hath beene the Churches trou●le what stickling was there at Acts 19. 28. 34. Ephesus for Diana and we know that Iezabels Idols disturbed the kingdome of Israel 6. Their contentednesse with formality in Religion when men must have Religion in mans dresse and are taken up more with formes of godlinesse then the power of it this makes the times to be troublous and perillous 2 Tim. 3. 1 4 5. Out of all this you see that troublous times are from wicked men who never cease from troubling untill they dye these are Iob 3. ●7 the earewigs and the biting Fleas still troubling the state of Gods people Reason 3 Thirdly inflictingly the Churches troublous times arise from

taken for them that they shall be safe Ieremiah was taken prisoner and carried captive into Babylon yet God so orders the matter that not a haire falls from his head hee was in more safety among the Heathens then he could be among his owne people Sometimes God doth save 〈…〉 his people out of their troubles when he shall let them fall into great and sore troubles that their case seemes to bee desperate even such as threatens death and ruine unto them and out of which no possibility of deliverance by ordinary meanes doth appeare even now when they are as a Lamb or Sheepe in the mouth and paw of a Beare or Lion shall salvation come in upon them and a doore for deliverance shall be opened to them 2. You must know that God doth save his out of troublous 2 Sam. 10 ●● times and conditions sometimes immediately by his owne mightie arme and power no creature being used sometimes mediately by the hand and help of those creatures whether Angels or men whom he is pleased to make choice of not out of any necessity that he hath of them but to shew his Soveraignty over them and that readinesse of disposition that is in them to obey his will and helpe his Churches wee reade of salvation by Angels and of salvation by Josuah and the Judges whom God raised up to bee both Typicall and temporall Saviours and deliverers unto his Neh. 9. 2● people 3. You must understand that salvation out of troubles being a temporall and outward mercy is vouchsafed to Churches in generall and unto Christians in particular upon Gods tearmes and conditions that is 1. If God see it to be good for them there are certaine times when God though hee can by his power yet hee will not in his wisedome save and deliver his out of troubles v. g. 1 When the truth is to be sealed and ratified with the bloud of his Times when God will not save his out of misery Saints the Lord will sometimes have his owne people to beare witnesse unto the Gospell by dying 2. When the Church is to be enlarged the bloud of the Martyrs ganguis martyrum 〈…〉 is the seed of the Church and when God will have it grow and encrease hee doth sow and water it with the bloud of his Saints the Church before and about the times of the tyrannicall Heathen Emperors when they slew tenne thousands and hundred thousands of her members did more increase them at other times 3. When enemies are preparing for and hastning unto their fearefull destruction God will give them time to ripen and fill up the measure of their sinnes to act out and over the wickednesse and poyion that is in them which they cannot doe if the Churches should have their present deliverances 4. When Christians are to bee manifested a sacrifice of sweete Savour unto God and the world wee know that perfumes are sweetest when they are throwne into the fire and spices doe send out their smell when they are bruised in the morter and Christians do send out the sweet f●vour of their graces then when they lie and die under their troubles 2. Then when God seeth it to be best for them Gods time for deliverance and salvation is the best time alwayes outward deliverance is not best for Churches and Christians many times wee would have our mercies before that we are fitted for our mercies all unseasonable deliverers would be hurtfull deliverances GOD Es●y 60. 22. saith I the Lord will hasten it in his time our times are in Gods hands and all our conditions for their kind and degree and time he doth set downe when Israel shall goe into captivity and how Times when the Churches shall be saved long she must remaine under it before she be saved out of it this I conceive that Gods times for his Churches deliverance out of troubles are these 1. When misery is come to its height mans extremity is Gods opportunity in the Mount will the Lord be seene when things Genesis 22. 14. to sense are as bad as may be so that there is little or no hope of amendment appearing then shall deliverance come and salvation appeare and that in a s●eciall and remarkeable way when miseri●s do seeme to enclose and encompasse Churches that they are as a City besieged round about having all its passages stopt up when miseries doe presse and oppresse the Spirits to their misery yea when miseries are lengthned out and have boyled out themselves to their utmost then men can scarcely see how a Church or people can bee more miserable this is the time which God takes to save his Churches as may appeare in the salvation of Israel in the Red Sea and of the Iewes in Hamans time 2. When enemies are judgement ripe God will let wicked men alone in their worke for a while they shall have their day and yeare wherein they may fill up the measure of their wickednesse as did the Amonites and this being done the Church shall have salvation according to that saying of God to Abraham But in the fourth generation they shall come hither againe for the iniquitie of the Amorites is not yet full● wicked men have much 〈…〉 wickednes to commit before the Churches come to be delivered 3 When Churches are humbled under sinnes and well prepared for deliverance God He never brings Churches out of miserabled evills till they are humbled for their sinfull evi●ls An unhumbled people are sure to be an afflicted people but when the spirit of a people is brought downe and layd low before God in all humilitie when a people is thus fitted for deliverance it is at hand as we may see in Manasses and the Israelites 〈…〉 12 13. 〈…〉 4. When prayers are sounding usually the Lord doth make the spirit of prayer the Iohn Baptist to the work of deliverance I meane hee makes men to bee much and mightie in prayer he gives them enlarged hearts in prayer they shall strive and wrastle with him in prayer and then salvation shall come in we see that Daniel was much in praying when the Church was neare unto her deliverance and the Christians met in prayer the same night that Peter was delivered 3. In that way which se m●th good in his own eyes God will go his own way in the saving of his somtimes he will effect their salvation ordinarily in an usuall and common way of providence sometimes he will give them silvation extraordinarily in a marvail us and miraculous way of providence even by weake means no meanes and against meanes as may appeare in Israels deliverance out of Aegrpt and at the Red Sea and in the deliverance of the three Children out of the fiery furnace and Daniel in the Lions denne together with many others The truth of this proposition will appeare unto us 1. By the witnesse of these Scriptures Blessed art thou O Israel who is like to thee O people