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A55582	Long lasting newes: or Newes for newters Or, The check cause cure of halting. With 31 doores of hope for the good successe of the then publick cause of the nation. Delivered in a sermon, November 27. 1644 in the Colledge of Glocester, before that valiant and vigilant governour Colonell Massy, being the day of publick humiliation. By Walter Powell, M.A. vicar of Standish.; Newes for newters.	Powell, Walter, b. 1590 or 91.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3096; ESTC R219540	57,188	61

hope of an harvest Prov. 3.9 now is our seed time for the preservation of a Land for Reformation of Religion therefore honour God with thy substance let not this conceit hatched in thy head cause thee to halt in thy heart but remember Those that honour the Lord he will honour 1 Sam. 2.30 Feare of Plundering makes many stagger in respect of part-taking with either 6. Cause If they reveale themselves they are made a prey to the will of the adversaries therefore so they may sleepe in a whole skin they dread not the danger of a tattered Conscience Yet when these unsiding ones have used all their power and policy to escape Answ the enemy have oft-times come and been as cruell to them as to the most upright Many that for feare have been most unhelpfull and deceitfull to their Countrey have felt the hand of their conceited friends as heavy upon them as upon their neighbours estate and their hypocrisie could not be a sufficient protection to them But why shouldest thou feare Plundering and so make the feare more than the hurt They who have been Plundered their feare is already past and thou makest thy selfe by thy tormenting feare all thy life long subject to this fiend as if death were approached the King of feare Doest thou not know that either thou must be plundered from the world or the world from thee Art thou now being deprived of estate friends libertie in any other estate than thou wast in when thou camest into the world or shalt be when thou goest out of the world If thou couldest but plunder thy selfe in thy contemplation before others doe in action it would not be so grievous unto thee As Anaxagoras being told of the death of his Sonne I am not much troubled therewith said he because I long confidered before Mat. 6. that he was but mortall Did not our Saviour foretell that heere thieves should breake through and steale and cautioned us thereby to lay up Treasure there where thieves could not breake through and steale Vilescunt temporaria dum recordantur aeterna The losse of under-Moone contents Creature-Comforts cannot disturbe when the presence of spirituall mercies doe affect us Had not many been miserable for ever if they had not been miserable once Their present belly-blessings had prevented the comfort of their insuing eternall Glory The Arch Plunderer the Devill under whom others are but instruments might have snatched away their soules at their deaths and where had they then been O foole this night will they fetch away thy soule and where then shall these things he Thy Executors then had not been more nimble to have carried thy body to the grave than this unsatiable Plunderer would have been like a nimble under-Sheriffe quickly ready to take all into execution and carry thy soule into Hell Feare not therefore though they have or can hurt the body and can doe no more Mat. 10. intimating that they would hurt the soule also if they could It is true the outward condition of plundered persons deprived of some libertie wealth wife children comforts hath had a sad aspect to looke upon by the eye of reason But consider deare Christians are you driven from the Creature to the Creator what if forced from the lower yet hasted to the upper springs from the streame to the fountaine from worldly to heavenly Enjoyments Whether the losse in the one be greater than the gaine in the other Before these troubles you had Ordinances common with other beleevers but now your daily food is choicest morsells waters of life superlative refections Benjamins Messe the love of God the power of Christ the Spirit of Glory the care of Angels the prayers of Saints are all upon the wing for your present welfare your Earth is dissolved before your body your Heaven prevents you before your time your joyes are immediate you reape without sowing you feed on the kernell and breake not the shell you rest from your labours in this life the bloud of Christ the vision of God the joy of the Spirit the food of Angels 2 Pet. 1.4 the many great exceeding precious promises whereby you are made partakers of the divine nature are not these the daily repasts of your soules Such honour have all Gods Saints they have Heaven whilst they are here on Earth and can they then be in a miserable distressed condition Such are to be looked upon I doe not know whether with more compassion or holy emulation to whom it is given not only to beleeve but to suffer for the sake of Christ Philip. 1.29 Whether the depth of misery or the weight of Glory by greater in these is hard to distinguish halt not therefore at this stone Selfe-seeking Gau. 7. with the neglect of the Publique makes men goe in a lazie or limping pace when men so looke to things at home for their own private ends as that they neglect the Publique If mens eyes be seriously fixed on their own pleasure or profit their hearts cannot be guided by a right rule When our Saviour propounded the Parable of the husbandmen unto the Scribes and Pharisees saying What shall be done to these husbandmen The Jewes answered Mat. 21.41 Luk. 20.16 He shall miserably destroy these husbandmen Yet in another Gospel where our Saviour said He should miserably destroy them the Jewes answered God forbid In one Gospel their answer is related to be He shall miserably destroy them in the other Gospel the Answer is related to be on the contrary God forbid How can these agree Yes saith Chrysostome for first they say He will miserably destroy these but handmen But when they perceived Christ aymed at them then they said God forbid so helpfull to halting for owne ends and selfe-indangering-respects Many seerned forward for the Parliament at the beginning before the wars were raited but when they saw the King oppose the Parliament then they fall off likewise like Beasts that cropt the Thees that gave them shelten being resolved to account Kings to be Gods that they themselves may be accounted Kings But truth standeth in the open field knowes neither father nor mother house nor home Land nor Lordship all goe down to Church and Common-wealth may stand Christ and his Gospel may be set up But is it not reason every man should looke to himselfe I answer Object Sol. 1. is it not greater reason every man should looke to the Publique wherein every good mans private doth consist Pray for the Peace of the Citie Ier. 29.7 said the Prophet to the captived oner Knowest thou not that in the Peace thereof thou shalt have Peace What place should be left for reasoning about reason when faith should have the predominance Sol. 2. Da mihi baptizatam rationem Mortified reason saith one this is your victory that overcometh the world and all worldly reasoning even your faith 1 Ioh. 5.4 Naturall reason may be a drawer of water for

Joshuahs time the Lord fought for Israel Ios 10.14 't was his owne cause made therefore the Sun and Moon stand still untill the people avenged themselves of their enemies In his own cause he hearkened to the voyce of a man but in an evill cause will regard voyce of many Johs Acts 9.4 Samuels Daniels Angels Saul Saul Why persecutest thou me in my members on earth now I am in heaven Be not afraid said the propheticall Levite unto Jehosophat and the people for this great multitude 2 Chro. 20 15. for the battell is not yours but Gods The Dragon and his Angels fought against Michael and his Angels Rev. 12.7 8. but the Dragon and his Angels were cast out of heaven unto the earth because they fought against Michael and his Angels Christ hath overcome the World Doore 23 Death Devill and shall these overcome him again Iohn 16.33 Col. 2.15 Rev. 17.14 It 's incredible impossible Be ye of good comfort in me ye shall have peace I have over come the world He hath openly triumphed over them on his Crosse This Lamb hath overcome all Lions Can Satan be stronger than God The efficacle of Christ his prayer Doore 24 He was heard on earth and shall he not be heard in heaven Rom. 8.33 1 Pet. 3.14 making intercession for his people Who is he that will harm you if ye follow that which is good Who harme us wicked ones will Yet blessed are you if ye suffer for righteousnesse sake Feare not their feare nor be ye troubled The conviction and conversion of Adversaries Doore 25 God enlightning them to see what they did not see before It is beyond the thoughts and expectation of man thae the Lord Inchequin seduced by the Jesuitical faction should be changed from a destroyer to Champion for God and a preserver of his cause The many cries Doore 26 prayers teares of Fathers Children Widowes for vengeance Doth not the Lord heare their cries and know their sorrowes The Lord heard the voyce of the Lad Ishmael Exod. 3.7 Gen. 21.17 Psa 146.9 weeping before him and will he not heare the voyce of thousands of Children for their parents and parents for their children wives for their husbands and friends for friends He relieveth the Fatherlesse and Widowes In whom can the Fatherlesse finde mercy but in him Hos 14.3 Luke 18.7 If an unrighteous Judge did the importune Widow justice against her adversary shall not God avenge his elect that cry day and night unto him The cry of the multiplicity of the blood that hath been shed Doore 27. Shall not the blood of so many Saints call for vengeance Gen. 4.10 Rev. 6.10 when the blood of one Abel cryed unto the Lord and he heard it The soules of the Saints slaine cry Dost thou not avenge our blood● Groans are registred teares botled and shall not blood be booked Did God enquire for one Abel will he not for thousands The Relation of God towards his Church Doore 28. God sayth he is worse than an Infidell that provides not for his family 1 Tim. 5.8 Is not he a Father And will a Father give stones to children that ask bread He is to his Church a Husband a Master a Captain a King Sheepheard Creator Redeemer wise Builder He is a Sun and a Shield hath his Rod and his Staffe both for direction and preservation The great rage of Satan sheweth that his time is but short Doore 29. When the Devil was to be cast forth out of the dumb Rev. 12.12 Mat. 9.22.26 he casts him into the fire and into the water and rent him soare cryed and then came out of him Violent things continue not long in extremity especially such showers of blood The many differences between forraigne nations Doore 30. who would have joyned hand in hand against the Kingdome had they not been set together by the eares in their own lands This is none of the least of Gods mercies to our nation at this time they having enough to doe at home have the lesse leasure to be imployed as the Devils and Popes Armour-bearers abroad The prevention of many inconveniences which might ensue Doore 31. 1. Some godly ones might put forth their hands to wickednesse Psa 125.3 if the rod of the wicked should long lye on the lot of the righteous 2. That the wicked might not deny Gods power providence justice which they see executed here on earth 3. Truth of the Scriptures may not bee questioned Tribulation bringeth forth patience patience experience experience hope Rom. 5.4 Now lay all these considerations together that have been mentioned before and I beleeve they will administer joy in the times of sorrow and keep up mens hearts lesse to doubt the successe of the common cause 1. Considering God is a God of power able to finish what he hath begun 2. It stands with his wisdome the foundation laid to perfect his building 3. God is the God of order what confusion else would be 4. Kindnesse had been unkindnesse Better to have had no cluster of grapes than not to be brought into Canaan 5. Weak ones would suspect God used some stratagem to draw men out as the men of Ai to destroy them or as to gather Bees and to burn them 6. They would doubt God would not doe as much for his people now as he hath done heretofore Our Fathers trusted in him and were delivered but we have trusted in him and are not delivered 7. Gods friends would put forth their hands to wickednesse 8. His enemies blasphemies boastings cruelties would be the greater They would endeavour to build Babels to scale if possible the very walts of heaven 9. God spared the kingdome for a long season when sin was committed and with greedinesse acted Ezek. 22.30 and will he not spare it now when sinne is confessed lamented and many stand up in the gap to turn away his wrath and reform impieties according to his desire and promise 10. The courage of the Parliament Commanders Captaines Souldiers beyond ordinary expectation naturall Relations carrying Gods Ark towards Bethshemesh their wives children houses lands goods liberties lives being not deere unto them doe all confirme our hearts in the promises of the Lord that his help is at hand to deliver the Nation from slavery and Popery I beseech you by the many mercies of God that have been daily manifested and infallibly expected to lay out your selves to give up your bodies spirits estates your All for your selves posterity Cities and people of God It was dying Joshuabs argument to the Israelites to move them to a constant obedience to Gods commandements that they had experimentall knowledge in their hearts that nothing failed of all the good things that the Lord had promised to them all came to passe And have wee not as great a portion participation in Gods promises and performances as the Israelites had We may say of Gods mercies to Israel and England as one spake of Demosthenes and Tully Cicero effecit ne Demosthenes esses solus Orator Demosthenes ne Cicero primus foret The Israelites were the cause we could not be the first people whome God did so extraordinarily blesse and favour But we are the cause that they could not boast themselves to be the only people in Gods love And if Gods mercies in any age for height length depth breadth might be boasted of rejoyced in then in our dayes in this Parliament in these warres where good is fetcht out of evill light out of darknesse And if these things will be marvellous in the eares of all posterity shall they not in our hearts before whose eyes the same have been accomplished Wherefore I conclude as I began being high time to take my worke off the Loome Why halt ye so long between two opinions If Baal be God then follow him so shall you fall from sin the Suburbs into Hell it selfe the place portion expectation of all cursed neutralizing Balaaks for whom are reserved torments which are endlesse easelesse and remedilesse If the Lord be God then follow him so shall you come to see him that is invisible and shall change the society of men for Angels Earth for Heaven and the company of Lions for fellowship with the Lamb for ever Where shall be all light without any darknesse truth without error joy without sorrow health without ficknesse liberty without restraint peace without perturbation eternity without end where the Quire of Angels shall be musick to our eares where the fight of God shall be the object to our eyes where the joyes of heaven shall be the possession of our soules Unto the hearing of which Angellicall musick unto the beholding of which beatificall vision unto the possession of which celestiall joyes the Lord that is Author of all vouchsafe to bring us all let all Gods people say Amen And let the Lord Jesus Christ whose words are Yea and Amen put to his hand and seale and say Amen Amen I have now done for speaking you have now done for hearing his Chaire and Pulpit is in heaven that must perswade you to put in practice those things which I have delivered in precept which that he may doe unto him let us pray Soli Deo laus FINIS

God and his Conscience enforce this confestion He much wondred at himselfe how he could so long be transported to assist in a way to destroy that Parliament which he had tooke the Protestation in Parliament to preserve Ponder well the speech of this Person The many Prayers Fastings Teares Doore 6. for the successe of the Common Cause Ambrose told Monica Augustines Mother that it could not be A Woman or Mother of so many Teares and Prayers should bring forth a Sonne to be lost It cannot be that an Assembly a Parliament a Kingdome of so many Fasts Prayers Teares brought and kept with so much difficultie together should miscarry God that hath prepared Englands hearts to pray hath prepared his eare to heare Psal 10.17 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble Thou wilt prepare their heart Thou wilt cause thine eare to heare to helpe the fatherlesse and oppressed that the men of the Earth may no more exalt themselves Manoah said to his wife Wee shall surely dye Iudg. 13.22 23. But his wife said unto him If the Lord would kill us he would not have received a meate offering and a burnt offering at our hands neither would he have shewed or told us all these things that these Devile in the likenesse of men yet very Monsters could no otherwise be cast forth but by prayer and fasting Therefore hath the Lord God made so many precious promises that his people might have their spirits kept up and they learne to trust in him for ever Thus saith the Lord of Hostes who hath appointed these as speciall weapons in the times of warre the fast of the fourth moneth Zach. 8.19 and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth moneth shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladnesse and prosperous high feasts Therefore observe with care and conscience such feasts as you desire to shew your love to Truth and peace For if such Fastes of foure severall moneths observing have such promises What harvest of hope shall the seeds of twenty foure moneths fasting bring forth when they come to the yeares of perfection Were not the Jewes fasting dayes in the time of Queene Esther Est 8.16 17 and 9.22 turned to them from sorrow to joy and from mourning into joyfull dayes and times of feasting Wherein they had occasion to send presente every man to his neighbour and gifts to the poore in comemoration of Gods bounty shewed to them in their poore and low condition The neglecters of such dayes of fasting have professed themselves Traytors to the State and whole Kingdome The many Blasphemies and villanies of the enemies Doore 7. doe foretell Gods Justice approaching and his hand ready to be reached forth to cast them into that pit they have digged for others A Popish Doctor of Physicke confessed that the Catholike Cause never suffered so much dishonour as by that barbarous cruelty that was shewed in Ireland in the savage murdering of men When the Towne of Bolton was taken Where is the Round-heads God now said one of them Surely he is turned Cavalier I give this Roundhead one blow more said another to send him quickly to the Devill They bad William Boulton whom they found praying to call on his God to save him Yonder lyes one of the strongest Roundheads said the murtherer that ever I met with For one of my Pistols discharged at his heart would not enter but I thinke I sent him to the Devill with a vengeance with the other Oh Heaven oh Earth oh England oh the Judge of all beare witnesse of this calamitie crueltie Blasphemie when thou makest inquisition after bloud The patience of Gods people Doore 8. notwithstanding all Souldiers Quartering all their Payments all their Plunderings Bondage Imprisonments Mockings Deaths Here is the Patience of the Saints not onely to beare witnesse to the Truth but also that they are objects of Deliverance Where the Precept is Phil. 4.5 Be yee patient the promise is added For the Lord is at hand not onely to see but also to helpe When Gods servants humble themselves under his hand with patient submission to his correction saying He hath spoyled and he will heale us he hath wounded and he will binde us up Faith steps in Hos 6.1 2. to assure them that after two dayes i. a short time he will revive them and in the third day he will raise them and they shall live in his sight The Liberalitie of the Londoners Doore 9. and others for the Publique Cause Many have done much without compulsion the love of Christ Religion Kingdome as well as their own liberties lives constrained them I heard some Citizens say they had done thus and thus in severall Disbursements and yet beleeve they had not the lesse because God blessed the rest the better Some said since the losse in the West they would lend more than before They that sowed so plentifully feared not to reape sparingly The Discovery of so many Plots Doore 10. touching the whole Land Scotland the Parliament London and many other particular places and persons have infallibly demonstrated Surely the finger of the Lord was in them All Intelligencers in the world could not have discovered more than hath been revealed If the Lord would have destroyed the Kingdome would he have shewed Iudg. 13.23 and revealed such and such things Though the woman was weak in sexe yet was shee stronger in Faith herein than was her husband The many successfull Victories Doore 11. when few have discomfited many notwithstanding all the assistance by Papists and prophane ones secretly and openly against our Armies The many Armies of Gods Saints prayed marching before and piercing the Heavens for helpe Scarce any Fast in publique observed but thereon people were mightily encouraged to meete the Lord in prayers that daily met them even on those dayes with new mercies and matter of praises the Fasts have been sweetned with figues of feasting which occasioned our Forces in the Field to implore the unanimous Intercessions of the Saints unto the Lord of Hostes for helpe Zach. 4.10 Who art thou that despisest the Day of small things It s hopefull that those that have forsaken all for God shall never be forsaken by God he that hath wrought so on their hearts can and will worke more by their hands As this Countie is almost cleared of rude and robbing persons so may shortly the whole Kingdome be delivered He that hath delivered us 2 Cor. ● 10 doth deliver in him wee trust that he also will deliver the whole Nation The great opposition by Princes Priests People presage great mercies Doore 1 to ensue great miseries When she ayre is sharpest the weather is nighest breaking When the night is darkest the dayes dawning is nearest When the Womans Throubbes are thickest her delivery is speediest Violent things are not of long continuance 1 King 1 34.