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A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

blessed time our eares may heare that happy news and our heares may rejoyce in the joy of the Christian Jews Doct. 2 That the Lord strictly observes the gravity or levity of every soul in the matters of God He doth strictly observe I say for the Text sayth he weigheth as a man that will not trust to a guesse conjecture or a supposed probability of a thing and I say every soule for the Prophet names the King Belshazzar in particular and I use those phrases Vers 22 23 27 of gravity heavinesse ponderousnesse and weightinesse or levity and lightnesse in reference to the word weighed used in the Text which is as I said before a metaphor taken from men that will have currant pay and not counterfeit coyne therefore they bring it first to the Touch-stone and after to the Gold-scales and weigh it for it may be good mettall and yet deficient in the quantity Mal. 3.2 3 4. so the Lord will try the sons of men as Refiners do gold and silver Zech. 13.9 and will come neere to judgement He will bring them through the fire and refine them as silver is refined and try them as gold is tryed Psal 119.119 And then he putteth away all the wicked of the earth like drosse And because the Lord will be very punctuall in his proceedings therefore the Scripture speaking of God according to the manner of men sayth in the person of God himselfe Gen. 18.21 I will goe down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of their sinne Shewing that the Lord as a most wise and just Judge will first enter into strict examination before he proceed to a sentence and severe execution These phrases are equivalent with that in my Text but ye may also take the proofe of it even in the very phrase used in the Text. All the wayes of a man are clean in his own eyes but the Lord weigheth the spirits Prov. 16.2 Prov. 21.2 or he pondereth the hearts which is all one And lastly I say God will observe their gravity or levity in the matters of God for it makes nothing to this point what riches honours or pleasures men have in this world nor how men esteeme us for ye see in the exposition of my Text the great King Belshazzar in all his pompe glory Dan. 5.27 and jollity is found wanting and why so Because his heart was not humbled but on the contrary he lifted up himselfe against the Lord of heaven The Reason is taken from the most exact justice of God Reason Gen. 18.25 Ezek. 18.29 who being Judge of all the world will doe right for all his wayes are indeed most Equall or Weighed as the Originall word signifieth The Lord reigneth Psal 99.1 4. and he loveth judgement he doth establish equity he executeth judgement and righteousnesse As wise men are carefull in every thing neither to deceive nor to be deceived Truly God cannot be deceived Be not deceived God is not mocked 2 Tim. 3.13 Gal. 6.7 Jer. 17.10 2 Cor. 5.10 for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap For Jehovah searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins even to give every man according to his wayes and according to the fruit of his doings The first Use is of Instruction to informe us in severall Use 1 particulars belonging to this point First What it is that God doth weigh and this may be expressed in these four particulars God doth weigh the Spirit or heart of every man the very affections of his soul Prov. 16.2 Prov. 21.2 Deut. 6.5 God doth weigh the Actions of men also 1 Sam. 2.3 God weigheth the Words of men for the Prophet saith Isa 26.7 He weigheth the path of the just And the path doth imply as well words as actions Psal 73.2 with 15. Matth. 12.36 Psal 139.1 Jer. 4.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vanitas i. res quae non est quidpiam aut quae citò desinit ut slatus qui exit abore as appears by the Prophet Asaphs expressing the slipping of his steps by speaking against Gods children Therfore an idle word is a light word in Gods account God doth weigh the Thoughts too For Jeremiah speaks of vain thoughts that they must be washed away now vaine words or thoughts are too light for vanity is a vaine light thing as appeares both by the Comparison the Prophet David useth Psal 62.9 And by the Hebrew word Hebel in the same place signifying a vain light thing as the breath of ones mouth or a bubble on the water or lightnesse in the Abstract Secondly We may be informed of Gods method in this his weighing and trying us 1 Quis Gen 4 4 5. The Lord first weigheth the man and then his performances First the party himselfe and then his proceedings The Lord had respect to Abel and to his offering But unto Cain and to his offering the Lord had not respect The Lord looks first what the man is Heb. 11.6 whether he be in the faith For without faith it is impossible to please God Our wayes and performances the Lord tryeth these because even the godly themselves may be somtimes out of their way therefore he enquireth that I may so say into these particulars concerning our wayes 2 Quid Isai 1.12 Deut. 6.25 1 John 3.4 Deut. 12.32 Deut. 5.33 Matth. 5.18 Whether the thing done spoken or thought be a duty commanded by himselfe for else Who sayth he required this at your hands And this is our righteousnesse to doe whatsoever he hath commanded us It is sin to adde to it or detract from it to turne aside to the right hand or to the left to goe beyond or to fall short an Iota of it 3 Quomodo Gal. 6.16 1 John 2 6. M Allen Doct. Gosp Haec tria perpetuò meditare adverbia Pauli Haec tria sint vitae regula sancta tuae Whether if it be a duty it be performed in that manner it should be and according to the Rule of Gods Word For he that sayth he abideth in Christ ought himself also so to walk even as he walked for God looks to the due manner of performing good works We should live sobriè justè piè soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2.12 Whether the end aimed at be the glory of his own name for as God made all things for his Glory so in all our actions Naturall or Morall we should aime at his glory Whether ye eat or drinke 4 Quorsùm 1 Cor. 10.31 Psal 139.1 2. or whatsoever ye doe doe all to the glory of God And God is acquainted with our ends that we ayme at in performing every action for he perfectly knoweth our thoughts long before or afar off We may be also informed and shewed what is meant by lightnesse or wanting and deficiencie spoken of in the 27 Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and implyed in

SERMO SECVLARIS OR A SERMON To bring to Remembrance the Dealings of JEHOVAH with this Kingdom of ENGLAND and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to HIM in this last Century of years Ab Anno Nativitatis Christi 1547. Usque ad praesentem Annum 1647. PSAL. 107.43 Who so is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. DEUT. 32 6. Doe ye thus requite the LORD O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father that hath bought thee Hath he not made thee and established thee PROV 9.12 If thou be wise thou shalt be wise for thy selfe but if thou scornest thou alone shalt beare it The Time of the Ruine of ROME is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at With sundry Uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people DAN 12 4. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased Tho. Brightmannus Haec obscuritas non omnem intellectum adimet sanctis sed serutandi tantùm diligentiam acuet Preached at Belstead neer Ipswich July 4 1647. By BENJAMIN HUBBARD Preacher of the Word of God at COPDOCK in SUFFOLKE LONDON Printed by R. L. for Nathanael Webb and William Grantbam at the Signe of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1648. To the Right WORSHIPFUL NATHANAEL BACON AND FRANCIS BACON ESQVIRES Members of the Honorable House of Commons now assembled in PARLIAMENT And His MAJESTIES Justices of Peace for the County of SVFFOLK SIRS THere is no Age in which God doth not manifest his infinite Wisdom Goodnesse and Justice Psal 107. ult by some apparent stroaks of His hand and daily observation will teach us experience herein And indeed in the Age even now past or the last Century of yeares Psal 107.1 2. We that are the redeemed of the Lord which he hath delivered from the Egyptian darknesse of Popery and Spains hellish cruelty and from the devillish treachery of others We I say may well sing aloud Psal 111.2 3 4 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for ever His works are honourable and glorious which he hath made to be sought out Psal 105.2 26.7 and remembred of all them that have pleasure therein It is our duty then to search out and to keepe in remembrance Gods gracious providences concerning us in this Land and to confer together of them and declare them to others and especially to raise up our hearts into an holy admiration saying unto God himselfe O! how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee Psal 31.19 which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sonnes of men Psal 66.3 And how terrible art thou in thy works Through the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee And withall consider with our selves 1 Pet. 3.11 What manner of persons should we be in all holy conversation and godlinesse Now that we might so doe I have endeavoured according to my poore ability to bring to remembrance the dealings of JEHOVAH with this Kingdom of England and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him in this by-past Age not at large but briefly humbly begging of every one his largest bounty for the augmenting amplifying and compleating in his own minde the Meditations herein pointed at so shall my single and simple Musick by the good blessing of our God be not onely increased but multiplyed and thanks shall be given to God by many and those far more fit for such a Caelestiall service 2 Cor. 1.11 then I am by my means and all of us together as a well-tuned Quire shall make sweet harmony whereby Gods glory shall be promoted which I know your religious selves conscionably ayme at Therefore most worthy Sirs I am bold to present this Sermon unto your Patronage hereby to testifie both to you my sincere thankfulnesse and love and to the World who hath heard of the fame of your renowned Ancestors for harbouring relieving yea even maintaining many faithfull Ministers being persecuted that the Lord hath not left your Honourable Progenitor being in his time a pattern of Piety destitute of a Worshipfull Posterity M. Allen Preface to Doct. Gosp your selves and your brethren who walke in the steps of your religious Parents and are not onely inheritors of the same earthly Mansions and Possessions and successors in their high places of authority importing dignity and duty but also which is best of all Possessors of the same Spirit of Christ and the graces thereof Rom. 8.9.2 Tim. 1.5 whereby you are enabled to behave your selves in those places and use those estates to his Glory that gave you them Thus humbly intreating Jehovah to counsell and direct you in all the weighty Agitations of this Kingdome to make you doe right worthily and to prosper your selves and yours in soule and body And craving of you to pardon my boldnesse and rudenesse and to extend your wonted favours the Asylum of many faithfull Ministers to me though unworthy who indeed am much more willing Ad vos tanquam ad Asylum consugimus then able to serve you I remain London Sept. 20. Yours in CHRIST JESUS Benjamin Hubbard To the Right WORSHIPFUL THOMAS BLOSSE ESQUIRE HIGH SHERIFFE of the County of SVFFOLK Honoured Sir WHereas by the All-disposing hand of the Almighty this Sermon had its birth in your hearing of which your Worship was pleased to manifest your favourable acceptance now being importuned to publish the same I thought it but equall it should againe returne to your selfe as an humble and thankfull acknowledgement of all your many and great kindnesses both to me and mine and the rather because your former acceptance was no small incouragement hereunto Kind Sir the experience that I have of your wonted benignitie gives me rather assurance then hope that you will not value the same by the imperfections of the worke or writer but by the weighty matter of eternall concernment for every soule contained therein and by the good will of him who sincerely desires the present prosperity and eternall felicity of you and yours Who is also London Septem 20. Yours to command in the service of Christ Benjamin Hubbard To THE READER Christian Reader SEeing a word spoken in his season is admirably good yea it is like apples of gold in pictures of silver and runs cleverly as upon his wheels and that none that I heare of have made this use of the Opportunity which now is past by and gone And considering that he which hath fewest Talents ought to occupy them for his masters advantage and not knowing what power of God may shew it selfe in the weaknesse of his feeble creature in blowing his trumpet and breaking his earthen pitcher it may be some light may break forth to consolate and encourage the people of God to put in a fright his and his peoples enemies that they might tremble and not dare

the Text in the word weigheth this wanting noteth two things then Wanting substantiall weight for the present or wanting convenient supply to stand us in stead for present use for so the word is used in Sacred Scripture Job 30.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as for want of food in famine or lacking of things necessary 1 King 11.22 Wanting may also respect the time to come when a man hath not lands to live on or a continued Trade or employment to continue a livelyhood withall this man may also be said to want although he should have somwhat for his present use and the Originall word is used in this sense also And the barrell of meal wasted not 1 Kings 17.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the cruse of Oile did not fail or wanted not Just thus it is in this case in a spirituall sense Many boast of spirituall riches and yet in very deed have nothing that is good for the present so did the Church of the Laodiceans which may yet well be applyed to many people in England Thou sayst I am rich Revel 3.17 and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked we are ready to thinke highly of our selves and our own works but we should goe unto Christ for all even as he there saith I counsell thee to buy of me gold tryed in the fire Revel 3.18 that thou mayest be rich and white rayment that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakednesse do not appeare and anoint thine eyes with eye salve that thou mayst see For both our selves and our weak endeavours in holy duties which we are bound conscionably to exercise must be accepted of God the Father in and through Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 4.7 Matth. 3.17 Revel 8.3 Isai 64.6 or else our selves shall be unclean and all our righteousnesses but as filthy rags in Gods sight Many have very good gifts and parts Matth. 25.3 and very fair shews of grace too wherewith they seem to shine bright for the present but yet they want a supply Rom. 8 9. Luke 4.18 Matth. 25.4 2 Cor. 12.9 Psal 84.12 because the Holy Ghost dwels not in them himselfe as hee doth in every gracious soul and the Spirit of God is as a vessell of oile to the godly soule whereby he hath a continued and plentifull supply of all graces he stands in need of The Lord will give him both grace and glory and with-hold nothing that is good for him But he that hath not the Spirit of Christ dwelling in him but onely parts and gifts yet when he shall have most need of the use of them they being indeed in themselves considered good gifts of God then they are taken away Matth. 13.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even that hee hath sayth the text And all his fair shews shall also be taken away he shall no longer have them to beguile others or himself withall and therefore another Evangelist expresseth it thus from him shall be taken 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 8.18 even that which he seemeth to have that which he hath in his own or others opinion Lastly we may be informed what sorts of people will be found too light when the Lord tryes the sons of men I might rank them into divers sorts but time being so far spent I will name but two sorts to which I conceive all other may be referred videlicet men openly wicked and hypocrites for so the Psalmist doth speak of them saying As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways Psal 125.5 he means hypocrites that in shew turn to God-ward and to Heaven-ward and yet indeed turn to Satan-ward and to Hel-ward This is crookednesses in very truth M. Henry Ainsworth his translation But they that turn aside to their crookednesses c. as the Original word there signifies and what shall become of them The Lord shall lead them forth as the condemned Malefactor is led out of the City to the execution And with what sort of people shall these be so led with the other sort I mentioned before the workers of iniquity To speak a little more distinctly of these two sorts of people that are too light All grosse sinners openly and professedly wicked and prophane which neither know God nor his ways nor care to know them that can willingly go on in known sinnes and are resolved so to do whether it be in swearing or lying stealing or whoring Sabbath-breaking or drunkennesse pride or crueltie or any other sinne these cast the word of God behinde them and hate to be reformed Psal 50.17 Dan. 5.1 2 3 4 Of this sort was Belshazzar though he was a King yet being a drunkard a prophane man one that praised his gods of gold c. And so dishonoured the living Lord and on the other side he had not humbled his heart before the Lord 18 19.20 21 22 23.27 but lifted up himself against the Lord and had not glorified him in whose hand his breath and all his wayes were Now he was Weighed in the ballance and found wanting Psal 9.17 For the wicked shall be turned into hell with all the people that forget God All sorts of hypocrites howsoever making a shew some of them of holinesse toward God without regard of justice toward men some of them seeming to have great regard to duties of justice toward men and having no respect to the duties of holinesse both these discover themselves to the veiw of judicious Christians but some will make a very fair overture and shew both of pietie to God and equitie to men also and so did the proud Pharisee Luke 18.11 12. he fasted twice in the week and paid tithes of all and many things more they did and abstained from many sinnes And yet our Saviour Christ himselfe saith Matth. 5.20 Except your righteousnesse shall exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdome of heaven And the Apostle Paul gives us the reason saying Rom. 10.3 4. They being ignorant of Gods righteousnesse and going about to establish their own righteousnesse have not submitted themselves unto the righteousnesse of God For Christ is the end of the Law to every one that beleeveth 1 Cor. 1.30 Psal 32. John 15.5 He is our righteousnesse or his righteousnesse is imputed to us and applyed to us by faith for without him we can do nothing that is acceptable unto God Neither beloved is it a meere verball professing of Christ that will serve our turn for many there be in these dayes that talke much of Gods free grace in Christ and yet live gracelesse lives Why say they we are not saved by our own works and Christ his righteousnesse is mine sayes one I have nothing of my own to present unto God if I had I were not poore in spirit