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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

abominations and the perdition also of seduced soules Fifthly Cam. op succis part 1. p. 262. This may be currant doctrine among the Turks and the Grand Signior told his Mufti that is his chiefe Priest As a Garden is beautified with varietie of flowers so his Empire would be adorned with diversities of religion let such toleration find allowance in the Turks Paradise it shall never I trust be planted in the Paradise of God Sixthly We have undertaken all in the Nationall Covenant the establishment of Vniformitie and how that can stand with this Omniformitie indeed Nulliformitie I understand not it was a prodigious thing in the dayes of Ieremiah the Prophet Ier. 2. 28. According to the number of thy cities are thy Gods O Iudah here would soon appeare another kind of multiplying and increase but though this fancy be never so plausible Divine providence hath shut it out of our Campe by our Covenant Fourth Vse of Instruction Vse 4. If our Moderation must be knowne unto all men in some cases then it is not unlawfull to cause our light to shine not purposely proclaiming our righteousnesse in the Market or sounding a Trumpet but first a man may be his owne Encomiast if his innocency be suspected or besmeared thus did Samuel 1 Sam. 12. 3. Secondly if a Preachers doctrine be traduced he may make his own Apologie as Saint Paul did Act. 22. 1. Thirdly By the same example a man may stirre up others to emulation by magnifying his office so we read Rom. 11. 13. Fourthly Thus it is said if a man be tempted to despaire it is wisdome to remember good actions past as Iob when he was staggered by the reproaches of his friends thought of his former integritie which kept him standing and I have read of another that in his tentations to pride objected his sinne against himselfe which brought him to humiliation and in his fits of despaire he reflected upon his righteousnesse and was so preserved from falling and Moderation must not be known for pompe and ostentation Plus laborandam est celare virtutes quam vitia It is not so dangerous to hide our vertues as our vices the revealing even of piety may be sinne but the confession of sinne is pietie and if a mans righteous performances be occasionally divulged God must have the praise for it who is the donour of it Like vessels of gold and silver that receive not into them the Sun-shining splendour but by reverberation returne it whence it came so doe the Saints in all their gifts and graces well called in our language gifts that nothing be assumed unto man but all ascribed to Christ the King of Saints Revel 15. 3. from whom proceedeth every good and perfect gift Iam. 1. 17. Fifth Vse of Exhortation Vse 5. 1. will speake as it is of private and publique concernment and first A sensu diviso ad sensum compositum Let every mans Moderation be known to all men all men in sensu composito aggregato that is the Parliament which is indeed the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Parliament of England is the All men of England now if my voice could reach to every native and free-born of this Kingdome my Text should ring loud in their eares Let your Moderation in thought word and action be known to All men be shown to this All men for these considerable reasons First They are your selves you sent them hither you remaine here virtually in them and with them doe not vitiously suspect or prejudicate their endeavours doe not perfidiously I might say self-feloniously desert and oppose them as some have done Qui sibi nequam cui bonus it is self-injury and iniquitie to be injurious to them Secondly The Parliament is the supreame Magistracy of the Kingdome and it is a law in the Old Testament not repealed in the New but reinforced Exod. 22. 28. Thou shalt not revile the Gods that is the Iudges and Governours as the word is in the preceding Chapter 21. 6. and so it is Act. 23. 5. Thou shalt not speake evill of the Ruler of thy people Thirdly They have studyed to breake off every heavy yoke and deliver you from that vassallage was brought upon you by the tyranny of evill counsellours Consider well Old Israel felt their lives bitter by their cruell bondage in Egypt Exod. 1. 14. And because of it they hearkened not to Moses Exod. 6. 9. Such a spirit of bondage was upon you you cryed for a Parliament God heard you and will you now murmure against Moses and fight against your Deliverers Fourthly All the evill that is come upon you and the kingdome is from your selves in this very particular some groane under burdenous taxations in other places the warre and plundering devoure all in a grievous and bloody manner the former would not have been the other could not have been done if you had been true to your selves and your moderation known and shown to this All men and in them to your own peace and happinesse Fifthly And yet let it be so manifested because the odium envy and danger that is upon them from their opposites is for endeavouring your good let them therefore have your prayers your purses your persons your power because their perill is from their Moderation they would confine and regulate the evill counsels about the King in Religious and Civill affaires this is and hath been their great offence which is indeed their praise and I shall speake to them as I say it of them elsewhere they are ready to embrace any Moderation that is consistent with the safetie of Religion King and Kingdome And now Worthy Senators 2. I beseech you suffer ye also a word of Exhortation Gods truths you know are above beyond mans power one Nation presumes not to give Lawes to another and if all the Nations in the world were conveened in an Occumenicall Assembly they should have no Authoritie to moderate any one Doctrine of the most High there be some circumstantials concerning which my Text speaks to you Let your Moderation be known unto all men First Modus regendi In the manner of enforcing them fierce and furious prosecution even of a good cause is rather prejudice then promotion but Eckius told Melancthon as it was Tua Philippe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pontani 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plurimum adjuverunt causam vestram Vit. Melanct. pag. 335. per M. Ada. that his Modeartion and the faire language of Pontanus did exceedingly further them when Iames and Iohn saw the Samaritans would not receive Christ they said Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them as Elias did but he turned and rebuked them and said Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of Luk. 9. 54 55. We must verily even tenaciously adhere to all divine truths our selves and with our wisest Moderation labour to plant and propagate them in others and I would