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A94303	Moderation iustified, and the Lords being at hand emproved, in a sermon at VVestminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: preached at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the county of Norfolke: one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order from that House.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1069; Thomason E23_6	31,603	39

torne and rent with such civill uncivill unnaturall and bloudy distractions If it had beene said to any of thy people foure or five yeares since that they should doe such things as are now done in the midst of thee they would have replied with the indignation of Hazael 2. King 8. 13. Are we dogges destitute of all humanity to doe this and yet wretched things are done by men Christian men Englishmen against Englishmen professing the same Religion protesting the same Cause and End of their quarrell O that thou couldst yet discerne those formidable clouds of bloud in their scattering but alasse they threaten worser evils even to make thee a full sea of bloud within as thou art without surrounded by water for the wofull divisions of England there be great thoughts of heart I will not say as Ieremie 2. 12. Be ye astonished O heavens at this Nor be ashamed ye Husbandmen Ioel 1. 11. But let all those be ashamed and astonished Prophets and people that have not helped to quench but kindle this fire This is indeed a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation Ezek. 19. 14. But to returne from this sad complaint upon our most miserable dissensions a dolefull presage that the Lord is at hand the props of the world decay prodigious sights portend as much and the fainting of mens hearts fore-bode the same I am not ignorant that some convinced by strong evidence of Christs reigning here upon earth before that time understand all these places of that coming of Christ and my purpose is not at all to pry into those hard and hidden moments of Gods owne concealing and sure I am those that wade this way meet with deepe difficulties as bow ●irst all the fore-named Scriptures should be so applied 1 Cor. 10. 11. The ends of the world are come and it is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Romane world or Empire as Luk. 2. 1. And Saint Peter is yet more universally expresse The end of all things is at hand 1 Pet. 4. 7. Secondly the day of judgement is called A great and notable day Act. 2. 20. An appointed day 17. 31. Yet it is more then one one of the dayes of the Sonne of man Luk. 17. 22. 26. Thirdly Who can determine the finals of the Beasts power unlesse the Originals were manifest Rev. 13. 5 c. I might say much of Ancient and Moderne confidences this way but my purpose is to improve the remaining time allotted in the serious consideration of what God himselfe tels we ought all practically learne from the Lords being at hand and the judgements now in the land may and ought to hasten these truths home to our soules First Repentance Speedy Repentance from dead workes reade Act. 17. 30 31. Now he commandeth all men every where to repent because he hath appointed a day in which he will iudge the world c. Many things are here observable but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Now is that I desire to fasten upon you and my selfe for if in Saint Pauls dayes it was an argument of and to Repentance it should much more accelerate us thereunto upon whom the Lord is nearer now by sixteene hundred yeeres Consider with thy selfe then O my soule and suppose thou wert here guilty of some capitall crime for which the Iudge were ready to reckon with thee and passe sentence of death or deliverance as he finds thee couldest thou sleepe or be secure or wouldest thou trifle away thy time would not all thy care be by some meanes or other to gaine favour from the Iudge Be thou assured O my soule That the ungodly shall not stand in the iudgement Psal 1. 5. Thy conscience knows what a load of sinne lies upon thee even a burden too heavie for thee to beare Psal 38. 4. Oh why dost thou not hasten to ease thy selfe of this weight by unfained repentance before the Iudge come and pronounce the irrevocable sentence Read and remember to doe as Act. 3. 19. Repent ye and be converted that your sinnes may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Infinit is the matter of our Humiliation in respect of nature persons and nation of past and present times but this day and those next it have beene heretofore the onely merry season of the yeare and the Devill hath beene served better on those Twelve dayes then on all the twelve moneths beside and our Master Christ hath most unchristianly by many been dishonoured even in those dayes said to be devoted to his glory And I may borrow here the words of Nicholas de Clemangis M. p. 143. touching his Popish Festivities What heathen man if he had come into those feasts seene and heard our Christmas Gamboles would not have taken them rather to be the Floralia of Venus or the Orgia of Bacchus then Christian holy dayes and who can lay his hand upon his heart and say he is innocent as touching this in all respects Ordinance Great cause therefore had your Ordinance to command this day to be kept with more solemne humiliation because it may call to remembrance our sinnes and the sinnes of our fore-fathers who have turned this feast pretending the memory of Christ into an extreme for getfulnesse of him by giving libertie to carnall and sonsuall delights being contrary to the life which Christ himselfe led here upon earth Those dayes were professedly dedicated to extraordinary mirth and rejoycing we read no such thing of our Master Christ at any time but he wept often and offered up many prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares Heb. 5. 7. Our Master Christ was never idle but went about doing good Act. 10. 38. and elsewhere every where in the Gospel but among us it was accounted almost a crime for men or their servants to doe any labour on any of those dayes practises as your Ordinance said truly contrary to the spirituall life of Christ in our soules for the sanctifying and saving whereof Christ was pleased both to take an humane life and to lay it downe againe but the extreme forgetfulnesse of Christ in those dayes of Christ the extreme excesse of carnall and sensuall delights were most extremely distant from that spirituall life should be in Christians who worke out their salvation with feare and trembling Phil. 2. 12. not in secure heathenish and profane merriment They passe the time of their soiourning here in feare 1 Pet. 1. 17. Not onely because he that hath called us is holy and bids us to be so likewise vers 15. 16. but because of our redemption by the precious bloud of Christ c. vers 18 19. therefore we should passe our time in feare not in wanton wild and impious pastimes which doe put men into a posture altogether unmeet for the service of Christ or care of our soules had the Nation no other sinnes to answer for surely without the bloud of Christ whom

combination against them and us a very hard matter I confesse it is to moderate erroneous opinions some have dared into the world that should have been Anonyma not once named as becometh Saints and for the rest I thought sometimes and pardon me if I thinke so still if their Tenents were commanded from them in expresse termes they would appeare either not to be tanti that for them publique tranquillitie should be endangered or else coming forth naked into the world barefaced and in their colours they would be a shame to their abbettors Eightly Papifts The Papists indeed that be Iesuited in respect of their guilt and Irelands bloud expect not your Moderation and surely such should be showne them as may preserve your selves and the Kingdomes from their frauds and cruelties against which you will be now more vigilant then ever because they have revealed now more then ever their evill intentions and can swallow those oathes without chewing which former times of peaceablenesse could not get downe by any art or perswasion and though their very Religion p. 503. like Draco's Lawes be written in bloud as King Iames observed and in the Nether-lands they made a shew of Moderation and called their Edict so yet even that in truth was was felt and was then called Murderation also as Meterane writes p. 46 they had then their Consilium sanguinis they walke by the same Principles and worse Practises yet none of them ever suffered death among us meerely for Religion I had other particulars to have mentioned but I saw the time would not permit me to speak them out of the Pulpit I forbeare them therefore now also Secunda par 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and I come to handle the reason of the Text but Doctrinally and very briefly The Lord is at hand and I shall not insist upon the Lords being at hand by his providentiall approximation to support us in or deliver us from trouble as Psal 22. 11. Be not farre from me O Lord for trouble is neere nor how he is at hand to observe all our actions so keeping us in awe and obedience because All things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to doe Heb. 4. 13. But in this Doctrinall part of the propinquitie of our Lords coming to judgement I shall shew first the parallel Scriptures and secondly the probable reasons thence and then the Application will be in such practicall uses as you shall see Gods Word hold forth visibly in those places where the Text or the sense of it is mentioned First Scripture It is very considerable that the Apostles all so speake as if Christ the Lord would in their dayes come to judgement so many hundred years agoe Thus 1 Cor. 10. 11. We are they upon whom the ends of the world are come So Heb. 10. 37. Yet a little while 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet a very very little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry And Saint Iames 3. Behold the Iudge standeth before the doore 5. 9. And Saint Peter The end of all things is at hand And thus Saint Iohn It is the last time 1 Ioh. 2. 18. And so Saint Iude 18. And if so then a thousand years agoe it is the miracle of miracles that yet the Lord is not come to judgement the succeeding Ages after the Apostles were of the same mind and they watched on Easter Even by ancient tradition as if their Master Christ would in one of those Vigils come to judge the world in similitudinem Aegyptii temporis saith Tertullian As Pharaoh the King rose up in the night p. 107. K. Lactan. 7. 19. Hieron in Matth. 25. August de T. 154. 251. De Vn. Eccl. p. 301. and all his servants and there was a great cry in Egypt c. Exod. 12. 30. And in Cyprians time all things were accomplished as he thought that were forerunning tokens of the worlds end It were easie to heape up the conjectures of severall Centuries but we must all acquiesce in the determination of our Master who shall be the Iudge Matt. 24. 36. Of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angels of heaven but the Father onely But that I may prepare my selfe and you to the serious and practicall consideration of the fore-mentioned Vses observe these Scripture arguments First Reasons There shall be signes in the Sunne and the Moone c. Luk. 21. 25. And if Mathematicians may be credited the celestiall Orbes are not as they were Aret. Probl. p. 1016. the Sunne not so distant from us as at the first but nearer by many Germane miles to say nothing of the prodigious sights and noises seene and heard in our dayes Secondly Mens hearts faile them for feare c. Luk. 21. 26 As lightning is first seene then thunder heard smoke precedes fire and the sea swels before a storme so the soule of man that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist as Synesius cals it droops before danger trembles before it is hurt and by its inward timorousnesse foretels evils to come and that appeares by the severall presagings of men that discover their feares by their conjectures That famous Grebner found out the yeare of the worlds end by the word Iudicium JVDICIVM numerum ruituri continet orbis Problem p. 1057. Ecce Spons ven every letter thereof being numerall but we have already outlived that fancie above thirty years Aretius by some Chronogrammaticall expressions of Scripture proposed this next to be the last yeare of the world Doctor Alabasters conceit out of those two Greeke words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may savour of fancy and feare Thirdly Religion and Holinesse the two pillars of Heaven and Earth are so much decayed and discountenanced as we need no other demonstration that those last and perillous times are come that Saint Paul spake of 2 Tim. 3. 1. For as the old age of man the lesser world is full of corporall infirmities so the greater world in its declining estate abounds with manifold abominations read at leasure the two next verses and see how unhappily these dayes comment upon them if you thinke on any one of those sinnes the same thought will tell you where to find them Fourthly The unnaturall divisions that are up in the world are undenyable presages that the Lord is at hand for when the Disciples privately demanded of their Master what should be the signes of his coming to judgement among others this is recorded by the three Evangelists The brother shall betray the brother to death and the father the sonne c. Mar. 13. 12. Matth. 24. 10. Luk. 21. 16. And we need not enquire among Iewes Turkes and other Nations for the accomplishment hereof but as Christ in another case Luk. 4. 21. I may say This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your cares O England never since thou wert a Nation didst thou see thy selfe so miserably