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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72538	The drumme of deuotion striking out an allarum to prayer, by signes in heauen, and prodigies on earth. Together with the perfume of prayer. In tvvo sermons, preached by William Leigh, Bachilor in Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish in Lancashire.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423.7; ESTC S103218	38,386	111

Bethel Moses meditations were mentall secret and silent when alone he cried to God and yet saide nothing And Dauid a part made his prayer for the adulterous child when groueling vpon the ground hee grieued and groned alone Demissa turba ascendit Iesus in montem solus orare And Peter at Ioppa prayed apart when in an higher roome he fel into a trance and prayed so long that hee languished yet saw the vision and heard the voice that filled his soule with solace I might tell of Iudith her Cell and secret when shee made her turret a temple to pray in All is but this as Bazil saith Oratio secretuÌ„ postulat Soules would be secret in their sanctitie and from euery place there is a passage to his presence The temple the street the chamber the orchard field and wilde desart the mountain dales and wildernes the dungion denne and dunghill are Sanctuaries to Gods Saints are sacred for all our prayers prayses and passages to God in the day of our affliction Thus haue I told you how to pray that yee may bee heard how to call that yee may bee answered It now remaineth wee beware of such impediments lets and hindrances as diuide betwixt God and vs making the Lord lesse gracious in heaven by how much more graceles wee are on earth And so we come to the second part Now that which letteth first is the sinne of not hearing the word That wickednesse is the first wall or partition that beateth backe prayer the arrow of our deliuerance I say wickednesse as in them that pray so in them that are prayed for It must bee purged from both before the Lord will either heare or answere Iustified by that of Salomon Because I have called yee refused I haue stretched forth my hand and none would regard I will laugh at your destruction and mocke when your feare commeth VVhere and if yee read on yee shall finde how such impietie stoppeth all passage to God his care froÌ„ hearing his hand from helping his speech presence from all reliefe Then shall they call mee saith wisdom but I wil not answere they shall seeke mee earely but they shall not finde me because they hated knowledge and did not choose the feare of the Lord. A wofull warning to all such as eyther neglect despise or trample vnder foot the blood of the covenaÌ„t I meane all such as are weary of the word of God and despise preaching they shall call and not be heard they shal crie and not bee answered nay that which is wel worse and yet more dolourous He that turneth away his eare froÌ„ hearing the Law euen his praier shall be abhominable Some thinke they please God if they pray heare not they must bee warned they pester not the Lords presence with so stinking a breath in stead of more sweet perfume and while they would make themselues acceptable to God for their much praying they become not abhominable for their seldome hearing they thinke to bee heard saith our Sauiour for their much babling as and if hee should say correcting that error nay rather they shall bee answered for their diligent hearing Secondly as the eare must bee prepared for hearing that our prayers may haue passage so must wee lift vp pure hands to God that wee may haue audience for a good life must lead a good praier according to that Oratio nisi bona vita praecedat non exauditur or at least â—hey must goe together without distraction for as one hath well said qui rectÃ¨ nouit orare rectÃª nouit viuere Hee that can tell how to pray well knoweth how to liue well God by the Prophet taxeth Israel of great impietie in that their declining estate and therefore would endure no entreaty but vpon their conformity When you shall stretch out your hands I will hide mine eyes from you and though you make many prayers I will not heare for your hands are full of blood but wash you make you cleane take away the euill of your workes from before your eyes cease to doe evill learne to doe well seeke iudgement relieue the oppressed iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widdow Then come and let vs reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes were as crimson they shall bee white as snow though they were red like skarlet they shall be as wooll The same Prophet from the same God and to the same people yet further presseth Israels impietie against the Lord whereby hee seemeth lesse placable whilest they charge him of impotency that he cannot helpe and of dulnesse that he cannot heare but he yeelds them a more solide reason of his restraint euen their wickednesse the wall of separation that keepes them asunder For Behold saith the Prophet The Lords hand is not shortned that hee cannot saue neither is his eare heauy that it cannot heare but your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God and your sinnes haue hid his face from you that hee will not heare Sinnes and what sinnes reade the wordes that follow sinnes of Israel then sinnes of England now what marvell then if wee pray and speed no better then Israel then did for if wee blend in sinne with Israel why should wee not blend in judgements with them And these are the sinnes of Israel and Iudah wherewithall they are charged Ã´ that our English Iudah were well discharged of them Your hands saith God by the Prophet are defiled with blood crueltie is in your waies your fingers are full of iniquitie they receiue bribes and are nimble to spoyle Your lippes speake lies who can be beleeued mel in ore verba lactis fel in corde fraus in factis there is hony in the mouth but gaule in the heart good words but euill deeds 7 No man calleth for iustice truth perisheth in the streete equitie cannot enter and hee that refraineth from euill maketh himselfe a prey The Lord saw this and was displeased with Israel and yet their greatest vanitie was in this that they thought their day of sinning would euer downe they dread no iudgement till it was at their doores and fell vpon them Thus infected my deare brethren with sinne how should wee thinke not to be afflicted for our sin how may we expect from the Lord either audience or answere when we pray Templum domini will serue no turne in this our temporising age if our sins make a separation betweene God and vs. When the cloud of Israels sinne had shadowed the face of the Lord shining Ieremiah laid downe his lamentation thus Thou hast couered thy face with a cloud that our prayers should nor passe through And it was the greatest griefe that euer came to Sauls hart when he said sighing The Lord is departed from me and answereth me no more Where if you marke the storie ye shall find how Sathan found him when the Lord had left him and when the holy Oracle was silent the

to the Altar softer then the heart of Ieroboam The heard harted Iewes then and we now stand by the crosse of Christ as Ieroboam did by the Altar at Bethel we are sadned in our sinnes and senseles of the sorrowes of our Sauiour the earth stones graues are more passionate then we they tremble breake and open at the death of Christ our flintie harts are shut from all compassion and we are a people of no bowels and because we relent not euen now the teares of the clowdes are in their eyes and they drop downe shewres of raigne in greater abundance then vsuall hath beene seene as more passionate then we either for the sins of our soules or death of our Sauiour When I am lifted vp an high saith Christ then will I drawe all men after me and not men onely but earth Stones and graues shall open vnto me woe is my heart we are heauier then earth harder then Rockes more sileÌ„t then the graues we speake not we pray not we praise not we stirre not at the death of our Redeemer he is lifted vp higher then euer he was euen from the crosse of shame to the crowne of glorie and we are pulled downe to all shame and Ignonimy with the weight of our sinnes heauier then a tallent of leade If any man say shewe vs his sufferings and we will greeue with him and for him I answere Dominus in monte verbum in alto Christ is vpon the mountaine of his holines his word is exalted here and elsewhere in the land for what doe we preach other then Christ Iesus and him crucified And doth it drawe all men after it The vaile of this Temple these stones in the pillars this holie ground and dead graues shall stand vp in iudgement one day against this people that they haue beene more prest to heare passionate to feele of the preaching piercing and sufferings of Iesus Christ then the men of this generation for we haue piped vnto you out of the Gospell and ye haue not danced we haue mourned vnto you out of the Law and ye haue not lamented But when wisdome is iustified of her children then shall ye finde it no wisedome but extreme madnes and folly to haue haunted the Tauernes followed your pleasures prophaned the Sabaoths sold Christ at a lower rate then euer Iudas did not for thirtie pence but for a penny shot a goodly price whereat he is valued and euen then alas when Christ is in preaching and agonizing ouer the cuppe of bitter affliction Nay the Queene of the South shall stand vp in that great day so shall the men of Niniuie and the one shall condemne vs in that they repented more speedily and the other that she came more readily to heare the wisdome of Salomon then euer yet we did to heare the wisdome of Christ The vse is good of all I haue said to strike a Selah with our soules in caution of our former future sinning procuring prodigies signes and wonders at Christ his death and our redemption for if one sin of Achan endangered all the campe and if one sinne of Dauid plagued all Israel what maruell then if when all the sinnes of all the world lay so heauily vpon our Christ and pressed him downe to death there was a commotion of all the creatures of God to see and behold so dolorous a spectacle as when the sonne of God gaue his sacred soule a sacrifice for our sinnes who had no shelter but in the graue for that opened to giue him passage when the vaile of the Temple rent and denied him sanctuarie And now spare we a while to passe from these prodigies at Christ his birth and death to the wonders were wrought sithence euen downe to our disasterous daies whereby we may gather the neare approach of Christ his second comming to iudgment The thought wherof so frighted Iob in his frailtie that he wished the graue might be his couer till the griefe thereof was past I might tell of that great day and it was the Lords day when hee mightily declared himselfe to be the sonne of God by the resurrection from the dead and what maruell then if vpon the approach of so glorious a presence Sheal was shaken graues were opened and dead bodies did rise with him and appeared vnto many in the holy citie to the great wonder of all the world And I might tell of that great day and it was the Lords day when at that high feast of penticost the holy Ghost appeared in a visible signe and was powred downe from God and fell vpon his Apostles in so great abundance what maruell I say if vpon the approach of so powerfull a spirit and presence sounds from heauen filled their eares like the rushing of a mightie wind fiery clouen tungs filled their eyes and mouths to speake magnalia dei to all nations vnder heauen I say what meruell if feare with an astonishmeÌ„t filled their eyes eares and hearts when the Lord was about a worke of so great wonder I leaue these holy wonders to the leaues of holy writ wherein you are daily exercised and by your holy patience I will follow the streame of some such signes as sithence haue falleÌ„ out shewing a presence in God prepared to punish without passion in man to preuent the danger by speedie repentance Memorable is the destruction of Ierusalem by Tytus and Vespatian 40. yeares after Christ his painefull passion who prophecied of their ruine because they repented not nor did or would know the day of their visitation she would acknowledge no presence of the Lord in mercy and therefore must feele the presence of her God in iudgement yet not without prodigies signes and wonders as harbingers of his wrath whereof Iosephus writeth much and more then I can now stand to relate being preuented with time but reade his booke de bello Iudaico and there ye shall find how first a blasing Starre was seene in the ayre like vnto a sword hanging ouer the Citie for more then a whole yeare together threatning nothing lesse then fire and desolation for their bloodie sinnes the blood of the Prophets and of that Iust one crying vengeance to God in heauen against that bloodie Citie 2. Againe at the feast of vnleavened bread in a great assemblie of people and at nine of the clocke in the night a bright light was seene in the Temple shining and so continued for the space of halfe an houre In token that because they had quenched the holie lamps and put out the light of the world therefore the glorie of that house should be of no continuance 3. Thirdly at the same feast and in the day time when the High Priest was offering an Heyfer for the Sacrifice she brought foorth a Lambe in the midst of the Temple In signe that though they thought they had killed that Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world and that Moses should still haue

in his death the Lord would tempt vs with a prodigious birth for so vnualuable a losse nor is it strange a sinfull people should be so threatned because it is vsuall with God to punish our pleasures by contrarie passions as he did the daughters of Sion when in steed of sweet sauour hee threatned a stinke and in steed â—f a girdle a rent in steed of brothered haire baldnes in steed of a stomacher a girding of sacke and sunburning for beautie why not England in steed of a Royal religious issue whereof we are vnworthie with a monsterous birth and mishapen broode of that whore of Babel whose Romish faith and faction the Lord he knoweth doth daily breed euen in the bowels of the kingdom wherin there are but to many doublefaced double harted and double handed fawning stil vpon vs and yet threatning our destruction both with eie heart and hand could they but gaine the opportunitie I speake not this to dismay any but to charge vs of vnthankefulnes for yet we are blessed with the hopefull issue of moe Princes and with many drops of much royall blood and by the grace of God this strong gable of so many cords wil neuer be broken if our sinnes burst it not yet with this caution that we repaire the ruines of this our late losse with speedie repentance and pray withall that God would establish the remaine of our religious hope for his sonnes sake and Syons safetie O but he hath left a desolate court I answere as Ambrose did of Theodotius Non sunt destituti quos pietatis sua reliquit haeredes they are not forsaken or left desolate whom he hath left heires and successors of his princely vertues Religion puissance pietie and clemencie the brightnes whereof will shine to Gods glory and Englands honour so long as Chronicles can speake and bookes be opened I might here obserue as many moe haue done what presages fell out vpon the fall of this faire flower and peerelesse Prince how the two glorious creatures of God both Sunne and Monne were troubled the Sunne scarce seene of twentie daies before his death the Moone opposed with a mightie Rainbowe in the dead and and darkenes of the night bended ouer that house of mourning where he died I might tell how the ayre earth and clouds seemed to be sensible of his fall and to condole his death whiles strange windes storms and tempests with continually shewers raignes and floods Many darke daies Clouds and foggie mists were vpon vs to warne vs of our woe as formerly hath beene obserued of Theodotius and Queene Elizabeth before their deaths Nor can I passe without passion what fell out in the sommer before Prince Henry died at Chattam Where and when a swarme of Bees knit vpon the maine mast of that Royall ship he had made for Englands defence tellng vs that ere long Angels foode from heauen more sweet then Hony or the hony Combe should fill the soule of this Saint to glory and Immortalie yea and swarmes of Gods holy Angels should come downe to fetch him from the maine mast of this earthly kingdome aboue the heauen of heauens there to raigne with God and his Christ for euer A blessed Bee dedeliuered from the sting of sinne and death to the endlesse glorie of life and immortalitie neuer to sin or die any more Nay more then all I haue yet said to make good that there is not an euill in the Citie which the Lord will not reuale to some of his Prophets that Prophet who preached in the morning of his sicknes pointed from aboue at the period of his life when he vttered that text and truth Man that is borne of a woman hath but a short time to liue and is full of miserie It was powerfull in the preacher and passionate in the Prince to bring him to the thoughts of his mortalitie And so my deare brethren to conclude and make vse of all these fearefull signes and prodigies let all these together strike out an allarum to praier and repentance yea and to godly sorrow neuer to be repented of by the sweet perfume and priuiledge whereof soules are saued and bodies deliuered from threatned dangers And not bodies onely that is to say particular persons but states and kingdomes are preserued from all malice of the creatures be they neuer so implacable Are there monstrous and vntimely birthes pray to be regenerate and borne a new not of mortall seede but immortall by the word of God that liueth and endureth for euer Are there fearefull thunderclaps making thy wild heart to shake like the wildernes of Cades stand in awe and sinne not common with thine owne heart in thy chamber and be still say withall it is thou Lord onely that makest me dwell in safetie Are the Sonne and Moone eclipsed deficient in their light darke and bloodie The foole chaungeth like the Moone So saith Siracides and thou art changeable Ã´ Christian when by the motion of Gods spirit thou begins to be religious and by and by falles to be sacriligious Sacriligium creatori committitur dum imbecillitas ascribitur creaturae And therefore it s not the Moone that laboureth for her light but it s thou that labourest in thy sinnes it s thou that chaungest like the Moone O if I might say we fooles chaunge like the Moone for shee shortly returnes to her fulnes we fooles linger our conuersation Illa velociter colligit quod amiserat lumen tu nec tarde fidem recipis quam negasti The Moone doth speedily gaine againe her light that she hath lost we fooles doe hardly in any time recouer the faith we haue denied What should I say more Luna defectum luminis patitur tu salutis The Moone suffereth but the losse of her light thou of thy saluation Grauior ergo tua quam lunae mutatio More dangerous therefore by much is the eclipse of thy soule than is the eclipse either of Sunne or Moone But it may be some man will say doth neither Sunne nor Moone labour in the eclipse doubtles they doe and that continually For we cannot denie but they labour with other creatures as the Apostle saith and grone with vs also trauelling in paine together vnto this present desiring the day of their deliuerance out of the vanitie of corruption wherein they are Leaue off therefore to looke vpon the defects of those glorious lights vnles thou looke vpon the staines and blemishes of thy wicked life For how is it possible for the drunkard in his wine the wanton in his lust or the couetous man in his wealth to looke vpon the Moone and see the things that are in heauen when he knoweth not rightly how to vse or discerne of things that are on earth Are there new Stars vncoth and vnknowne Doe they blaze in the heauens and moue thee to wonder what may be the effect Say with the Sages and then art thou wise vidimus stellam eius in oriente

the fiery furnance Lazarus from the graue and Christ from his crosse yea and all his Elect from death and doome when they shall meete him in the cloudes and be caught vp to raigne with him for euermore with palmes in their hands in signe of victorie and crownes vpon their heads in signe of glory Lastly and not the least to our comfort read and you shall find how oftentimes and for the most part the Lord doth answere vs according to that we should aske and not according to that we doe aske as he did Iacob who sought a leader to Haram and God shewed him a ladder to heauen And Saul who sought his fathers asses found a kingdome the Maries sought Christ dead but they found him risen And that Saint at Sychar sought but puddle water at Iacobs well but she found went away with the water of life Surely the rule is true vberior gracia quam precatio Gods grace is more abounding then either we can desire or deserue the theefe vpon the crosse craued but a memento when Christ should come into his kingdome and he had a promise euen that day of a perpetuitie in paradise To iustifie that I haue said Vberior gracia quam precatio and therefore pray with good hope to be heard be your prayers neuer so many powerfull or piercing yet shall ye find his grace wil be euermore abouÌ„ding brimfull and flowing ouer I may not be long and therefore passe to the last part of the text which is the reward crowne and diadem of our prayer bossed with many blessings from the Lord more precious then the Carbuncle Topas or Chrisolite And seldome haue you heard or read of a powerfull prayer from an holy heart without remuneration froÌ„ the Lord for as you here see inuocation is crowned with saluation It shall be that whosoeuer shall call vpon the name of the Lord shall be saued who euer prayed and found not the Lord propitious who euer made intreatie vnto his God and had not a blessing returned into his bosome It is said of Augustus Caesar that neuer suter departed from him disconteÌ„ted that Titus Suetonius thought the day lost wherein he did not good to some A milder more mercifull Sauiour is here then all the Caesars clapt in one euen our good God called Deus a dando God in creating but good in giuing for who hath gone from him discontented who hath trusted in him and beene deceiued Come vnto me all ye that trauell and be heauie loaden I will ease you it is his gracious call Be of good comfort my little flocke it is your fathers will to giue you a kingdome it is his glorious crowne Aske ye shall haue seeke ye shall finde knocke and it shall be opened vnto you it is his irreuocable promise at which the gates of heauen fly open and against which the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile only wrastle with God for a blessing till you haue wearied both God and your selues The aduertisement is good from the prophet Ye that are mindfull of the Lord keepe not silence and giue him no rest till he haue repaired your ruines and set vp Ierusalem the ioy of the world But what may be the different blessings we receiue from God by our prayer and wherunto the Lord hath tyed himselfe by promise for the performance not for our merit but for his mercies sake Surely they are many and they are Remarkable if you please to rancke them thus First by the sufferage of prayer all the creatures of God are sanctified to our vse so saith the blessed Apostle Euery creature of God is good and nothing â—ought to be refused if it be receiued with thankesgiuing for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer Stamped with the word of God vpon the one side and with the perfume of prayer vpon the other then is it a Shikel for the sanctuarie Our meate our drinke our corne our cattell our clothes and lodging our wiues children and families our labours in our vocations our King and kingdome our Church and Common-wealth nay our liues and deaths must be sanctified with our prayer otherwise though the creatures be good in themselues yet are we profane in the vsage And therefore our Sauiour when he had performed all to his death and passion yet shutteth it vp with this powerfull prayer Father now the hower is come glorifie thy Sonne As and if he should haue said I haue prayed I haue preached I haue wached I haue fasted I haue cured malladies and saued soules I haue giuen life and forgiuen sinnes I haue done my fathers busines on earth now let me be glorified in heauen I pray for that which is past that it may be sanctified and I pray for that which is to come that it may be glorified Father now the hower is come glorifie thy Sonne c. Ierom in his booke de laudibus Bethlem doth much commend the Christian carriage of that place and people in the vsage of Gods gifts and creatures euen from the Prince in his Pallace to the Plowman in the field Of whom he saith Arator ad Stiuam semper aliquid cantat dauidieum The Plowman with his stilt in his hand doth still folace his soule with some psalme of Dauid And surely God speed the plowe were no bad prayer when the labourer taketh the stilt in his hand but I feare it is done of fewe And if all our manuall trades were sanctified first and last euery day with prayer and prayses for a blessing they could not but prosper much better There is much pouertie in y e world and it is no maruell for that men worke not yea but many worke and yet are neuer the richer that 's possible too for that men pray not they spend their thrift in drinking when they should bestow their time in praying the creature is not sanctified with the word of God and prayer In the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy Ghost is neither fond begninng nor foolish ending of all thy labours blessed worke so begun blessed worke so done so it be said of conscience and not of course without hypocrisie in the heart or superstition in the thought surely such perfume is like the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed its sweet as balme and therefore breake it its fragrant as Myrrhe and therfore vse it euer dropping from the binges of thy heart lippes and hands A second blessing that commeth by prayer is the forgiuenes of sins for by the sufferage of prayer sinnes are pardoned couered concealed As may appeare by Moses his intreatie with God for the people either to forgiue the trespasse Israel had committed or else to rase him out of the booke of life he had his prayer and the people were both spared and pardoned Blood and prayer shall reconcile God and the people for as the text saith the priest shall

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