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A84751	Foure speeches delivered in Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October, 1643. At a common-hall, vpon occasion of desiring the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this warre. / Viz. the [brace] 1. by Mr. Solicitor. 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy. 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes. 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick. Published according to order.	Gardiner, Thomas, Sir, 1591-1652.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing F1671; Thomason E338_1; ESTC R200837	38,460	48

fr●ite of my comming to this City if after five yeers unprofitablenesse I might speak somewhat this afternoon that might enlarge your hearts to a greater measure of liberality All I will say is this Wee Divines say that Perseverance is the only grace that Crowns a Christian Methushelah lived 999 yeers if hee had fallen away from Grace at the 999 yeers end all the good that hee had done before had been quite forgotten I know that God will so uphold his children that they shall never fall away but I bring it as a supposition that suppose that Methushelah had forsaken his righteousnesse all hee had done before had been quite forgotten but God hath made a promise never to forsake his Children and that grace hee hath begun in them hee will finish and I doubt not but that God that hath put it into your hearts to be● so liberall already and to doe so much in this Cause and to bee so cordiall and so reall and to exceed all other parts of the Kingdom I hope that same God now will finish that good work hee hath begun and will crown all his graces in you with the Grace of Perseverance and that God that hath been the Author of all the good you have done I doubt not but that God will bee the Finisher And I beseech God to give a blessing to that hath been spoken Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. Gentlemen PRovidence hath cast this Assembly met for such a weighty occasion as indeed it is the weightiest that hath concerned England in our age to bee late and so perhaps wearisome to many of you but you may well bee content to stay a while although you should bee deprived of a great part of your sleep this night if this Evenings businesse may have the hoped successe of it it may make you sleep quietly and securely many nights after Things of present and absolute necessity call for action not deliberation this work that you have been called unto is such as you must leave objecting against it and rather fall a blessing God that you may bee used in it In the 1 of Chronicles 22. 14. When David and the people had come and offered of their estates freely and bountifully David hee humbles himself then Who am I and who are wee It were happy if you come all with such an humble frame of spirit to admire that God preserves your lives and calls you at this time to such a work so concerning his glory and the good of three Kingdoms yea of the Christian world If ever you that have estates had cause to rejoyce in them then now when God presents such a large opportunity for his service as hee loth and wherein consills mans happinesse but in being serviceable in his generation In these dayes to bee acted by that poore ●ow principle Qui bene lotuit bene vixit that is let us keep our selves safe and quiet keep our estates take heed of appearing too farre wee know not which side may prevaile this is an argument of a vile and a sordid spirit let such a mans name bee writen in the earth Unworthy is such a man to live in such a Generation as this in which God is doing such great things as might enliven the deadest heart quicken the dullest spirit raise the heaviest and inlarge the straitest spirit living upon the earth In former times indeed there was lesse charge called for there was lesse trouble but there was lesse service too and what doe you think to bee the measure of a mans happinesse either little trouble or much service A gratious heart thinks it as great a mercy to lay out for God as to receive from God God in these our dayes is risen on high in his administrations and our hearts should rise together with him Psalm 105. 4 5. Thy mercy O Lord is above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds what followes bee thou then exalted O Lord above the Heavens and let thy glory bee above all the earth This day Gods name Gods great works they are above the heavens they are very high wee behold them let our hearts rise in a suitable way as God rises in his workings and all say and doe as wee say that God may bee exalted now above the heavens indeed God can doe his work without you and doe it certainly hee will howsoever but seeing hee is now laying a foundation of the most glorious building that it is like ever hath been in this world if hee shall bee pleased to call you to bee helpfull in it it will bee Gods mercy and your glory Were it that this one principle were raised in the hearts of people that to doe publique service it is not onely a duty but a dignity how ready how abundant then would men bee in the Work of the Lord There hath lately been the most blessed union of two Nations as ever was in the world lifting up their hands to the high God swearing that they will amend their wayes and seek to reform themselves according unto the Word let us now reach forth our hands and hearts unto our brethren in Scotland let us come up fully unto this our engagement and rejoyce in it for certainly that Nation is a Nation that God doth love a Nation that God doth honour and by those many expressions of his love shewed that hee doth intend to make them speciall instruments of the great things he hath to doe in this latter age of the world It is a Nation that is united the most firmely of any people under heaven Wee may truly call it a Philadelphia and Brightman that famous light in former times 30 or 40 yeers since did parallell the Church of Philadelphia with the Church of Scotland Philadelphia signifies brotherly love When was there ever a Nation such a Church that joyned together in such firm Covenants as they have done had wee had the like union amongst us O what great things had wee done long before this time A Nation it is that hath engaged it self to God in a higher way in a more extraordinary way than any Nation this day upon the face of the earth hath done in the most solemn way Covenanting with the eternall God powring forth their prayers and their tears for joy together with their Covenanting A Nation that hath reformed their lives for so small a time more than ever any people that wee know of in the world have done and a people that have risen up against Antichrist more in another way than ever people have done and that is the great Work of God in these times and therefore God certainly hath a love unto them because they breake the ice and begin the work and arise in such a way as they doe for the pulling down of that man of sin A Nation that God hath honoured by giving as glorious successe unto as ever he did unto any whose low and

one of the best Fathers true Religion is What you lay out to preserve it that one day will returne to preserve you I have ever thought our Religion to be our shield and as he said of his shield so Religion will say to you Defend me and I will defend you It is our shield why preserve your shield you preserve your selfe O that this large Auditory would but remember two or three things that I will speake unto you It is better Friends to keep your Religion with the expence of all you have then to keep all you have with the losse of one dram of Religion and if you should quit the preservation of Religion you shall lose in the event both Religion and your selves too There will be a double losse you may perhaps for the present be at a double cost to keep up Religion but you shall be at a treble losse if you lose Religion you shall lose your lives you shall lose the estates that you keep and you shall lose your soules too and if any thing keeps you it is Religion For if any thing keeps God that keeps all it is the keeping of Religion Now Sirs a● this argument besides al that 〈…〉 for in truth they have left me almost naked that I have nothing to say as this argument may revive those affections that have been stirred up already so methinkes if you looke but upon the very condition of the Church this day I professe unto you it will break your hearts and therefore may certainly open your purses this day Why friends if I am able I may not deny no not one day nor the second day nor the third day nor any time I must not deny to help a poor Lazarus I must not see Lazarus to starve and die at my doores if that I am able to helpe a poore Christian Why if my bowells must extend themselves i● 〈◊〉 helpe must extend it selfe to one Christian how shall I how can I see the Churches of Jesus Christ for to gaspe and give up the Ghost at the feet of bloud There are two sorts of bloud which will lye heavie upon my soule if that I should suffer the guilt of them to be upon my soul there is the bloud of Christ and the bloud of the Churches of Christ If Abel● bloud the bloud of a single person was so heavie upon ●ain what will the bloud of 〈◊〉 Church of all the Churches of Christ let downe upon our fonts if we should now falle to help the Churches of Christ But if there were no other 〈…〉 with you but onely something that might concerns your selves I professe as I am satisfied in my owns Spirit so I am p●rswaded it were enough to perswade you Why Friends you have done already I speak not to flatter you you 〈…〉 already more then all the land hath done even to the preservation of all the Land nay more then all the Christian world hath done to preserve the Cause of Christ And let me tell you that God hath not been behinde hand with you God hath looked upon you as much I meane this City God hath looked upon this City 〈…〉 if not more then upon all the land besides And ●ruly if you will cast east up all accounts betwixt God and your selves though you have done very much yet you are in arre●s ages still unto God God is still before-hand with mercies though in mercy he hath stirred up your hearts to doe thus These are three things methinks wherein the Lord hath shewed himselfe to you that may for ever engage your hearts with all alacrity to spend and to be spent for his cause Why the one is he never would to this day suffer the destroyer notwithstanding all their intentions he would never suffer the destroyer to enter into this City he hath still diverted them as you have observed by some admirable acts of providence when their resolutions have been to come to this place the Lord knowes in what condition you had been by this day if providence had not at one time especially diverted them from it but notwithstanding all this God hath not suffered them to this day to shoot one arrow into your City But then there is another thing as the Lord hath not to this day suffered them to come in a publike hostile way so he hath from time to time discovered all the Treacheries Plots and designes against you When the enemy could not destroy you above board but thought to undermine your Lives and States and all I need not say much to revive your memories of late dayes did God unknowne to you deliver you from destruction and should you now be backward to doe for this God that hath preserved all that you have and all that you are Nay consider one thing more he hath in all the publike services wherein indeed if any people in the Land deserve our acknowledgements and honour this City hath got it from the whole Land But this is that I was saying God hath in all the publike Services and Battails which have of late been fought in the land God hath hanged the shield of salvation upon your shoulders he hath been pleased to cast all the glory not onely of preservation but of the great successe and honour and victory God hath cast it upon the people of London And will you that God hath defended all this while will you that God hath preserved from secret treachery will you that God hath given hearts all this while to stand for God above all the people of the earth will you that God hath done so much for in the times of battaile more then for all the rest wil you fail now to do for God God forbid I beseech you rather that your hearts may be doubled and trebled for that God that is so good to you And not to trouble you long because the truth is I am confident there needs no more to be said you long rather who should most shew his affection at this time to preserve all Why there is one thing more that might bee spoken too that is touching our brethren of Scotland Why so many things have been said already that I can say nothing Our condition worthy Sirs our condition of England mee thinks it is so like the condition of that poore man that went between Jericho and Jerusalem there the Priest hee passes by on the one side never so much as lookes upon him Our Priests and Popish party and another sordid party that cleaves to them they doe not so much as consider the lamentable losse of this poore Kingdom of England the Levite he came and looked on indeed but hee passes by I pray God it ●ee not laid to the charge of some Churches abroad to whom wee have been helpfull that they can have eares to heare of our distresses and wounds but have not hands at all to help us whether they have tongues to pity us wee know not Onely there is the Samaritan Sirs the Samaritan that saw this wounded man and that had compassion and that went to him and that bound up his wounds and that powred in Oyle and Wine Truly Sirs the Samaritans that wee finde on earth for our great Physitian in Heaven wee blesse him still for looking upon us but the Samaritans the onely Samaritans that wee have on earth they are our brethren in Scotland O the tears that they have shed for poore England O the Prayers that they have in solemn manner from time to time sent up to Heaven for poor England O the Petitions that they unknown for a long time to us did direct unto his Majesty if it had been possible to take up all differences and now yet again as if their inward compassions as if their prayings to Heaven as if their petitionings to man were nothing so sensible so affectionate are they to live with us to dye with us that they are ready to come in to adventure their dearest lives to save our lives Why Friends why what will move your hearts if this doth not move your hearts I doe professe it is the greatest equity under heaven to lend our estates some of our moneys to them that are not unwilling to venture their lives for us I know many Objections might bee made You have done much already and the summe is great I say no more There is nothing great to a minde that is great and the Cause is great and though the summe of money bee great yet their love is greater then all you can lay out to answer their love And say not grumbling wee have done often and often I say to you as Christ said to him that asked him How often must I forgive my brother Why 70 times 7 times So will I say for this publique Cause you must doe and you must doe and yet you must doe and yet you must doe as long as there is a penny in thy purse as long as there is strength in thy hand as long as there is breath in thy body you must bee all Servants to Christ and Servants to the Churches of Jesus Christ And so I beseech the God of Heaven that what hath been delivered unto you this day and much hath been spoken I think as much as possibly can unto men that it may bee effectuall to move your hearts that what is done may bee speedily done and fully done lest wee bee for ever undone Nay that wee may bee preserved and not only wee but all the Churches of God preserved And the Lord of Heaven make impression upon your hearts FINIS

here exhorted to Have not many of you spent your blood in this Cause yea how many young ones in this City have lost their blood Mee thinks a spirit of indignation should rise in you to vindicate the losse of the blood of your Servants and Children many precious ones that might have lived many yeers to have done good service for the Lord Even the children of the City they rise and cry Hosanna Hosanna O blessed is ●ee that commeth in the name of the Lord O then l●t old Citizens bee forward mee thinks Elders should ●ee forward in this Cause for ●●e thinks they should not think themselves men of this world In the 17 of John Christ speaks of himself when hee was going out of the world I am not in the World and so should you going out of the world even say you are not in the world and therefore let your close in going out of the world be a happy close in such a blessed work as this is And know there shall come a day wherein you shall bee calling and crying to God for mercy the successe of this evenings work will bee recorded against that day when you shall cry for mercy I conclude all with applying the words of Jotham to the men of Sechem in the 9 of Judges 7. Hearken to me that God may hearken to you So I say hearken to that worthy Member of the House of Commons unto that Reverend Divine before and to him that shall come after Hearken unto ●s this day that God may hearken unto you Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. Gentlemen I Am commanded by the Assembly of Divines and they by a command from the House of Commons to bee present at this solemne and publike meeting and from them to move for that which I confidently presume is granted already a helping heart and a helping hand to preserve O that we must be forced to say so and yet blessed be God that we are alive to say so to preserve our Religion our lives and the lives of ours It is I confesse my happinesse that I am not to speak unto such who have made our troubles and that laugh at them but unto them that see our distresses know how to compassionate them the perswasion is the more hopeful when the compassion is beforehand afoot if that honorable Gentleman that spake first had bin sent with fire to destroy your City or others with Swords from that grave Senate to have destroyed your lives or with armed power to have compelled and plundered your estates there I confesse a refusall nay a contempt had been the most proper answer But Sirs their addresse unto you is paternall it is humble and full of efficacy it is but to request you to preserve your own lives it is but to request you that you would not suffer your selves your wives your children your City your Religion to be destroyed I confesse that I had prepared divers things to have worked on you but they that have spoken before me have scarce left me any new matter to say but all which I wish with all my heart were wrought in you as well as in my selfe nothing lest but to doe The Religion that we have all our lives professed if it bee not worth thy money trample it under thy feet Religion brethren is an invaluable thing it is farre above our estates farre above our lives nay it is far above our soules For our estates the Heathen say so much That our estates were not to be insisted on when Religion was in danger and therefore some of them have according to their imaginary Religion the strength of it they have neglected their goods to preserve their Gods nay they hare as Alvinus did neglect his owne wife and children to take care of that vaine Deity that they sacrificed unto It is I confesse to mee a most remarkable thing that Pliny reports and good Gentlemen let not Heathens exceed Christians in love either to their Country or Religion You know that Hanniball was a sore enemy to the Romans and the Romans when they to maintaine themselves against them had exhausted all their publique treasury a Consull in the Senate bespake the people that they would all ●ring out their personall estates something like what is this day moved unto you it was so instantly it was so universally relished that all ●orts of people brought in abundantly and might I give but a suggest unto the grave Senators that the Citizens and 〈…〉 Senator in Rome left not himselfe so prodigall was 〈◊〉 for th●●●fety of the publike he left not unto himselfe for to keep himselfe and houshold above the value of 16 Crowns O shal heathens be so prodigall to preserve themselves against a Hanniball shal not Christians be as carefull to preserve their Religion against Antichrist Well Sirs as that which you are desired to expend something of your estates for is Religion that is farre beyond all your estates so it is that that is farre beyond all your lives For I beseech you what are all your lives for value unto Religion what will your lives bee to you for comfort when the Sunne is taken out of the Firmament and the Gospel is removed out of this English horizon if you should outlive the Gospel why the Lord bee mercifull to you what would your lives availe you were it not better to make Religion and the Gospel your Executors then to make Idolaters your Executors were it not better to make Religion your Executors then to make your selves or your posterities heires of Idolatry When Troy was taken Anchises disdained to take his Sonnes counsell to save his life Away live when Troy is taken And truly Friends if there bee in any of you a● I perswade my selfe there is in all of you that heare me this da● a sense of God a sense of your soules a sense of the Gospel of Christ why you must acknowledge now that all your comforts are lost that all your hopes on earth are lost and all your hopes in heaven are gone if the Gospel if that Religion bee gone Nay as I said at the beginning it is that that no not your soules can stand in competition with I confesse the soule of man is a precious thing it is as the ring of Gold yet if I doe not mistake my selfe Religion is the most precious Diamond in that ring The busines of Religion why it is the salvation of your souls no lesse then your souls and higher I cannot speak And if this will not move you at this time to lend out your strength to preserve your lives your estates your Religion that which preserves your soules to eternity I can say nothing more But then Sirs observe one thing there is not onely this dignity in Religion that may challenge all that you are and have but there is likewise an efficacy in Religion It is one of the best Masters and