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A86310	Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing H1748; Thomason E338_11; ESTC R200845	22,360	35

without skin without flesh without life the Church of God as Isaac bound hand and foot the knife at the throat the fire burning as Jonah in the belly of the Whale in hell as Christ in the Grave How desperate was the condition of the Jewish Estate in the Reign of King Ahaz they were so low that they knew not by what possibly they could rise again God said to him Aske a sign of the Lord thy God aske it either in the depth or in the height above But Ahaz said I will not aske and why would not he He thought nothing in heaven nor in earth could do him good Israel was in Egypt as a burning Lamp in a smoaking furnace as Abraham in a deep sleep full of horror and of great darknesse in Babylon as a Lyon dead in Rome as men kild whose bodies lie unburied the Church sometimes passeth through the waters through the Rivers through the fire through the flame Christ the head of the Church therefore much more the Church was as a Plant or Root in a dry ground without forme without comelinesse without beauty despised rejected of men a man of sorrows one acquainted with griefes Yea the Heroes the worthies they of the first Three they are sometimes necessitated to passe through the Pikes to break through an Host an Army to gain a little water You your selves the Worthies of the Kingdome have you not severall times received the sentence of death within your selves have you not been at your stands at your losse God will raise up Mountains of opposition that you may be nothing in your selves that you may be all in him Let them perish that bring the people of God into the hazard of perishing Haman the common enemy that plotted and contrived the utter ruin of the people of God was himself hanged upon the same gallows that he prepared for Mordecai nec lex est justior Nor did Haman dye alone as the head of the Malignant partee but Hamans ten sons drank of the same cup yea they that would have acted in so hellish a design the Jews put to the sword 76000 men it is worthy of your observation the Jews that stood up for their Liberties for their Religion yet the Text twice expresly Records That they layd not their hands on the Prey See what the Gibeonites asked of David 2 Sam. 21.3 4 5 6. What shall I do for you and wherewith shall I make the Atonement that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord And the Gibeonites said unto him We will have no silver nor gold of Saul nor of his house neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel And he said What ye shall say that will I do for you And they answered the King The man that consumed us and that devised against us that we should be destroyed for remaining in any of the coasts of Israel Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul whom the Lord did chuse And the King said I will give them I do not deny but the Law of God doth it self allow composition for mens lives men may in some cases redeem their lives with their Estates Ismael did not slay them that said They had treasure in the field But if there be any whom God hath marked out for destruction they that give their lives to them their lives may go for their lives Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently All are not involved in the same guilt that are in the same Action 200 joyned themselves to Absolon in his treasonable practise yet they went in the simplicity of their hearts Yet there are a partee that are leaders to the blind that Justice may not shut her eye against them in Babylon there are some that have not the mark of the Beast upon them they are to be invited to be called out to be received in but they that have the name the number the marke of the beast they must dye without mercy and like milstones be thrown into the midst of the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone the commands of God are not onely peremptory Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup that she hath filled fill to her double but a blessednesse is promised to them that execute this command O daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones peruse that of the Lamentations and you shall see who they are that are to be destroyed and how to be destroyed Render unto them a recompence O Lord according unto the work of their hands give them sorrow of heart thy curse unto them persecute and destroy them in anger from under the Heavens of the Lord Give them sorrow of heart there is their character there is their marke by which they are set out for destruction there is that black beane that fatall robe which designs them for death the margent of your Bible reads it give them obstinacy of heart an hard heart is a great evill but an heart hardned an obstinate heart obstinacy of heart such a heart that will not that cannot be softned one reads it give them a veil upon their heart they upon whose heart there is a vail that when Gods hand is lifted up they will not see give them a shield upon their heart a shield not to defend them from the fiery darts of Sathan but as the Interlineary glosse reads it ne penetrentur jaculo praedicationis The sin against the holy Ghost is unpardonable and could we distinctly know that sin men should not pardon it more then God blasphemy was to be punished by death this sin the highest blasphemy I beleeve there are many at this day that are guilty of this sin to sin against mighty convincement so Christ argueth against the Pharisees is to sin this sin they that fight against God as the Jews did that opposed Stephen who were not able to resist the spirit by which he spake yet they were cut to their heart they gnashed on him with their teeth they stopped their eares they stoned him to death if some are not guilty of this sin against the holy Ghost yet there are many that are guilty of that sin which is unto death of that sin which leads unto death which shall never return again that have stood out against the Word of God the Providences of God the mercies of God that have grieved the Holy Spirit resisted the Holy Ghost quenched the Spirit and done despight unto the Spirit of grace Christ would not spare the figtree above three years they that stand out this year after the master of the Vineyard hath been at so great cost and hath taken so great

All their tears and intreaties could no more prevail with him then Dido's did with Aeneas when Jupiter commanded his departure For my brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ Moses full of zeal and compassion when wrath was going forth against Israel when the destroying Angel was waving his sword over them his sword furbished and garnished to make a sore slaughter He bows his knee to the father of Jesus Christ he cryeth out O this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin and if not blot me I pray thee out of thy Book which thou hast written He speaks after the manner of men in whom compassion and passion stops passage to further speech an abrupt kind of speaking an imperfect sentence wherein much more is implyed then was expressed Luther would to Wormes though there were as many devils as tiles and Antonius Marinarius said standing up in the Councell of Trent Though heaven fall and the whole world run headlong yet I will look up to the goodnesse of God and though an Angel from heaven should perswade me the contrary yet I would say Anathema to him A French Cavalier protested for the recovery of Callis he would be content to lye two years in hell A reverend Bishop lying at the point of death spake zealously and soberly Me moriente let me dye so the Church may flourish Sejan with the hazzard of his own life did bear off the burthen that would have crusht Tiberius to death and our Santleger received the Arrow into his own brest that would have pierced the King to the heart Those Worthies did worthily that presented the first Petition at York and this Parliament shall live for ever for the first Remonstrance and Protestation This is a duty that we all owe to God to our Religion and Country which all that are eminently godly truely religious and zealous Patriots have ever preferred before their particular estates honours and Lives I shall but commend one Precept to you with an example to illustrate and back it you have them both in one verse of the same chapter 1 Iohn 3. v. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he hath laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren the example is the highest that can be given and the Precept in every word emphaticall we ought in point of duty it is not arbitrary nor voluntary a necessity lies upon us and woe unto us if we lay not down our lives for the brethren to lay down freely and of our own accord not by constraint and of necessity but of choyse and desire Our lives the highest thing in our power higher then our honours our estates our liberties our priviledges our present comforts for the brethren the Saints the servants of God The Reasons that strengthen this Doctrine are mighty convincing and strong to invite if not to inforce the obedience to it This we ought to do in point of Equity Honour and Policy 1. In point of equity what can we stake in Gods cause and our Countries that we have not received from God and for Gods purposes The Lord hath made all things for himselfe the Lord found nothing made to his hand what is there in heaven and earth that can stand out against God and say I made my selfe it was a blaspheming sin no sin of ignorance which King Pharoah belched forth Who is the Lord that I should obey his voyce to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go The great Turke blasphemed God in heaven when he cryed out O God hast thou not enough to do with thine own businesse in heaven but thou interesteth and interposeth thy self with mine on earth it was sordid base flattery Jupiter in coelis God ruleth in heaven Caesar on earth the Tyrant set his mouth against heaven when he said Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the Kingdome by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty And as God made all himself so he made all for himself whē he made them he made no overture of his interest propriety All that man hath all that man is is from God and therfore all that he hath and all that he is must be for God Of him and to him there is S. Pauls Alpha and Omega when God endowed man with the greatest trust power and prerogative when he made him his Vice-Roy his Vicegerent his Lieutenant Generall when he gave the foul of the Ayre the beast of the field the fish in the sea the trees in the Garden to his command yet then the Lord laid this restraint but of the tree in the midst of the Garden thou shalt not eate That tree could then baffle Adam when all the creatures besides would bow unto him and give homage and obedience then that would stand upright and say Adam touch me not passe by lay no hand on me lest thou dyest what can we lay out for God which we have not received from God for Gods purposes if we lay out much of our silver and gold for God God therfore hath given us much because we should use much Of thine own saith David we have given unto thee when the Kings and Princes offered liberally towards the building of the Temple If we have large parts hearts and heads inlarged as the sand on the sea shore so that we had as many choise notions as sands on the sea shore God intended to make large use of them Wisedome and Understanding calls God Father life it self was bestowed on man by God that it might be bestowed on God by man The Lord Jesus Christ himself received a body not that he needed a body but that with that body he might serve the great design of Gods Predestination and so he understood and acknowledged it A body hast thou prepared for me I come to do thy will O God The whole Church resolves according to this My beloved is mine and I am his He is mine in all he hath he is mine in all he did in all he suffer'd he for my sake encountred with the malice of men with the rage of devils with the wrath of God and therefore good reason I should be His His in all I have His in all I am His in all I can do and suffer O saith Spira Were it with me as in times post I would scorn the threats of the most cruell Tyrant with invincible Resolution and glory in the outward profession of Christ till I were choaked in the flame and my body consumed to Ashes Certainly they are to be beg'd as fools and to be esteem'd as mad that rise against the Parliament that hath stood for them we have received all from God Judge ye owe we

County but now she sits like a Widdow desolate the hand of God hath lately gone out against them the onely Town untouch'd by the Enemy and the onely town in all the County stroke of God The Priests the Ministers of the Lord that did bear the Ark of God upon their shoulders there were sixteen of them in that Parish and now I know but one one alone as Eliah left to do the service of the Lord and he is upon tiptoe ready to take his flight scarce having bread through the wickednesse of the times the great revenues of the Church being unjustly withheld from him to put into his childrens mouth the Wals of the Garrison they moulder away and what the Enemy could never do time hath made wide breaches in their Works and there is not at this time that I know of five souldiers to keep the Garrison these things in a Petition they have lately laid at your feet Give me leave in theirs and others behalf to say Let not so great labour of Love be forgotten Let the blessing of them that are ready to perish be upon you Comfort them yea comfort them according to the time wherein they have been afflicted yea give them double for what they have done There are many Uses that I could make of this Doctrine but time and strength would both fail me I will conclude all with a short meditation peruse 1 Kings 22.19 20. And he said hear thou therefore the Word of the Lord I saw the Lord sitting upon his Throne and all the Host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left And the Lord said Who shall perswade Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead and one said on this manner and another said on that Be pleased to conceive a Parliament at this time conveen'd in Heaven and God on his Throne asking this Question Shall I destroy England And so some Answers after this manner and some after that One stands up and sayes England must be destroyed Elijah a bold and daring man he makes intercession to God against Israel Lord they have killed thy Prophets and digged down thine Altars thou hast consumed with the Spirit of thy mouth and hast consumed with the brightnesse of thy comming the great Antichrist the Grand Imposter the man of sin the son of Perdition the wicked one and behold there are many Antichrists many wicked ones that are risen up in the room of him there are little Foxes that spoyl the Vines those Vines that have tender Grapes and they are not taken away A Second seconds the former and saith England must be destroyed there is a great cry of injustice of oppression of wrong of injury blood toucheth blood Courts of Justice Committees are Courts of Robbery and spoyl the poor sheep flyes to the bush for shelter and loseth his fleece Papists Malignants compound and they oppresse their poor Tenants that have engaged themselves in the publike for the Lord against their lords A third assents to what the two former hath said England must be destroyed wrath is begun amongst them they begin to imbrue their hands in each others blood and because others cannot murther them they will kill one another Lord what fears what suspicions what jealousies what sad divisions amongst thine own people they that Affliction made friends prosperity makes enemies they whom one heaven will contain one Church cannot A fourth confirmes and concludes with the three former England must be destroyed they have broke the Covenant they have falsified the Oath of God Oaths and Covenants are like Sampsons coards every one makes use of them to their own Interests To these agreed many more there was a great cry heard in the house Down with it down with it even to the ground God looked from his throne and wondred there was not one found not one to stand in the Gap to make an Atonement to speak in the behalf of England After a short silence one arose from his seat and said Lord wilt thou destroy England England for whom thou hast done so great things amongst whom thou hast magnified thy Name hast done Wonders What Nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord their God is in all things they have called upon him for and what Nation is there so great that have Statutes and judgements so righteous Aske now of the dayes that are past which were before thee since the day that God created man upon Earth and aske from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like it Did ever people hear the Voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live or hath God assayed to go take him a Nation from the midst of another Nation by temptation by signes and by wonders and by War and by a mighty hand and by a stretched out Arme and by great terrors according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes God never did more by Josuah by Macchabeus by Alexander by the King of Sweden then by the Parliaments Army this year wilt thou destroy what thine hand hath done what will the Atheists the Papists the Malignants say Surely God was not able to save them save them for thy great Names sake A second ariseth and saith England must not be destroyed Lord wilt thou destroy a righteous Nation if there be fifty forty thirty twenty ten righteous there shall not the Judge of all the Earth do that that is right there are seven thousand at least that have not bowed their knees to Baal there are sixty thousand and more yea then sixty hundred thousand that cannot discern betwixt the right hand and the left thou never didst destroy a praying a reforming people wilt thou now do what was never in thy thoughts before A third ariseth after the second and pleads the same cause England must not be destroyed there is a Parliament in the midst of them Physitians of great value God hath been amongst them and in the midst of them and they are still acting for God and the Kingdomes safety did ever Parliament perish before After all these the fourth ariseth that there might not appear fewer to speak for then there was to speak against England England must not be destroyed they cannot dye alone the three Kingdomes must dye with them yea the Protestant Churches throughout the world hast thou not said That hell gates shall not prevail against thy people To these many more joyn'd in heart and Vote there was a considerable partee of both sides nor could it be determin'd whether had more voyces they that spake for the destruction or they that spake for the salvation of England and having said they were silent And behold as we read in the Revelation there was in heaven great silence for half an houre both