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A88420	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: at their late solemn fast, Octob. 28. 1646. in Margarets Westminster. / By Nicholas Lockyer, M.A.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2800; Thomason E359_6; ESTC R201168	23,998	40

that bout by God indeed T is observable here how this Heathen speakes to a Christian as t were in his owne dialect to divert him from doing unlike a Christian Forbeare thee from medling with God who is with me that he destroy thee not Here may I ground such a distinction as this A man may have God with him which hath not God in him as a man may have God in him which oft-times and in many things hath not God with him There be many poore creatures in the Land whose lives possibly nor discretion can by no meanes be pleaded for as being very unworthy of their calling as Christians and yet possibly these may have God with them though not God in them that is they may as that Heathen have the advantage of some parcell of truth against those that come forth to warre against them and so stand capable of divine assistance under that notion from him who is ready to owne every beame of his and to looke upon 't and love it though the Orbe in which it shines be not not move not so sutably as wee would and so it may be dangerous and deadly to set voluntarily upon them and persons and States of great account may split themselves upon persons and States of none and then our shipwracke will be much at one for miserie whether it be upon this rocke or that whether we split our selves upon them that have God in them or them that have God onely with them and not in them Secondly consider honourable Worthies you cannot vote nor act so singly in sin nor at so low and so cheape a rate as the people may they cannot by their vote involve you in guilt let them vote what they will but you may involve them and your selves The vote of the people may make more noise upon earth then yours but yours will make more noise in Heaven then theirs The axe in your hand is an axe to the roote if you cut and wound 't is not one but all you beare or strangle a Nation in a day The poore Heathen Prince had this light and load in his conscience Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him What hast thou done to us that thou hast brought on me and on my Kingdom a great sin and yet Abimalech only the actor his place spread and spattered his sin over all the Kingdom and so will yours You should thinke how strong your breath is and how many you kill or save everie time you goe to speake The speech of Samuell to the people is seasonable here to be considered Come let us Goe to Gilgall and renew the Kingdom there 1. Sam. 11.14 this was spoken upon the unction of Saul The whole Kingdom was at Gilgall because such men were there and about such State businesse So I may say to you honourable Worthies the whole Kingdom is at Westminster because such men as you are there together and upon such State imployments and therefore I beseech you be noble in spirit In terraque patris cur telum perpetiuntur and say like those Come let us goe to Gilgall and renew the Kingdom there call upon one another and stirre up life in one another Come let us goe downe to Westminster and renew the Kingdom there let us goe and be valiant for God his people and this poore dying Land * That the Kingdome may not be base and unable as the Prophet speaks in another case to lift up it selfe Ezek. 17.14 The word for renew is Chadash and doth not note a naked alteration of a thing but such an alteration as hath in it a restauration to renew as the Eagle doth her bill and there is the word used Psal 103.5 and that it notes a restauration read Isa 61.4 where it is so rendered You cannot I know as times and things now stand with us I will accomplish my wrath upon the walls and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter and will say unto you the wall is no more neither they that daubed it Ezek. 13.15 want temptations of all sorts to the contrary Some may flatter but of such I will say unto you as the Prophet When thou art spoiled what wilt thou doe thy lovers will despise thee they will seeke thy life Jer. 4.30 When the Kingdom is destroyed by harkening to flatterers and selfe-seekers what will ye doe If you shall to please fawning men or froward men displease God and betray all into the hands of his wrath what will these unworthy persons advantage you when the guilt of the bloud of thousands lies upon your consciences will you send then for those Clergie men or States men which mislead you why you may and miesrable comforters will they be the Holy Ghost hath told you here what such wil then bee unto you upon such a disadvantage of time they will despise you spit in your face I they will be the first that will seeke your lives Wherefore honourable Worthies be followers of Christ as deare children and of no body else but as they are followers of him and let the pleasure of the Lord prosper in your hands be valiant and faithfull for that for all that and then let smile or frowne who will and I am perswaded you will save your selves and a sinking Kingdom I say for all that because truly when I read that place 1 Sam. 28.18 I tremble it 's God speaking by the Devil to Saul Because thou obey-cast not the voyce of the Lord nor executed'st his fierce wrath upon Amalck therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day He did in part but not in full execute the will of God he spared the fatte and this made him leane a man without a Kingdom a man without the Spirit of God and such a one is a leane creature indeed all the will of the Lord did not prosper in his hand and therefore neither he nor his Kingdom ever prospered afterward Take heed of this and the rather because flatterers fleshly spirits are for abatments even upon truth it selfe if you run to the end of the line say they you will run your selves out of breath and destroy all What if it be the golden line that wee run by such persons and Counsels I doubt indeed out-run conscience and too fast for such an honourable body as you to follow our ruins come not by being faithfull but by being base I speake not of fidelity here in opposition to wisdom nor any other grace for all the vertues of Christ are consistent and like Ladies goe hand in hand unto their Lord and husband Jesus Christ All our ruins at this day are for ought I know the fruits of such counsels and practises as before mentioned Nothing makes the way of a mans spirit so wide and sweet within him as fidelity to God and to his Conscience 't is so in bigger bodies nothing makes the way of a Kingdome more quiet and prosperous within itselfe

then faithfull dealing with God and the advantages it hath by his hand And as for straightes and difficulties which come in this way reade that place Isaiah 48.20 21 22. and it will set you above them all or any man else that hath any thing of the Spirit of God in him Goe yee forth of Babylon flee from the Chaldeans with a voyce of singing c. verse 20. But they might object Lord wee are poore and few in Babylon that have any hearts to this and wee are to goe a long Journey and by many potent enemies and alas wee shall be eaten all up ere we come there what with our owne wants and weaknesses and others violence Observe what a secret answer God gives to this in the verse that followes And they thirsted not when he led them thorow the desarts he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them he clave the rock also and the waters gushed out there is no peace saith the Lord unto the wicked As if the Lord had said 't is not a harder taske for me to provide for you all in your journey from Babylon to Jerusalem then for your Fathers in their journey from Egypt to Canaan whilst they obeyed my will did they or could they want water bread protectiō or provision whither soever they went but when nothing would draw them and keep them on to this then I pronounced them wicked and there was no peace to them Propose my pleasure and to this submit and talke not of wildernesse Serpents Scorpions or any thing else nothing will undoe you but disobedience to my will Let this place be thought on by all when I am gone to mine You are Honourable Worthies going out of Babylon according to the call of God which hath been long upon us by his faithfull servants many of which are scattered and many fallen asleep whose eccho at this day to you am I. Goe out and leave not a hoofe Egypt and Babylon and Rome are one spiritually and answerably should be departed from And doe not carnally object 't will worse become you then any of our Fathers heretofore having seene what you have seene In your wildernesse in your greatest straights God will still appeare and carie you through so much is shadowed and sealed in this Scripture and such persons and Nations as cannot receive this have their doome also sealed No peace shall be unto the wicked saith the Lord. Hitherto I have spoken to direct your cariage to God I have onely a word more to direct your cariage to men and so I shall shut up all Be faithfull to God of which I have at large spoken and towards men be wise and humble Gallant things will now every day come into your hand if you be followers of Christ and faithfull to your God as he was and as they shall still come into your hand chuse such instruments still to be imployed about them as most suite the pleasure of God these and these onely will be the prosperous agents Upon one stone shall be seven eyes Zach 3.9 Be every one of you like that stone Saul immediately after his unction was much surely indowed with wisdome and observe whil'st so whom he takes next to him men whose hearts God had touch'd Saul went home to Gibea and there went with him a band of men whose hearts God had touch'd but the children of Beliall said How shall this man save us And they despised him and brought him no presents but he was as though he had been deafe which was heavenly wisdome indeed Charash which signifies much attention and per antiphrasin no attention at all Surduit siluit 1 Sam. 10.27 To take persons next you whose hearts God hath touch'd will render you disregarded at least if not scorned but by whom by sonnes of Belial Can such a Parliament and such an Army that consists of such Sectaries and strange spirits save us you must diligently heare now that is not at all you must be deafe this will be your wisdome Because God hath given the Judgement of the Whore under the whole Heaven to the Saints of the most High Dan. 7. And the battle-axe of Babylon is the rod of Gods inheritance Jer. 51.19 Upon my mountaines will I tread him under foot saith the Lord of the Assyrian And this is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth Isa 14.25 26. Whom God hath said shall be his battle-axe those doe you thoose and to whom he hath given this Judgement of the Whore to them doe you let his pleasure prosper in your hand You may lose honour presents from sons of Belial this way but you will have honour from the Lord. Neither will the clamour of ignorant unworthie persons alwayes last Adoniah kept a great stirre a while about his title to the Kingdome but at last when he saw how manifestly God was with Solomon he comes with other language to his mother and indeed saith he the Kingdome was my brothers from the Lord 1 King 1.16 So when these shal see the pleasure of the Lord prosper in the hands of his people they will change their note and say the worke was theirs from the Lord and the Parliament did but appoint such as God appointed long agoe Towards men be wise be humble You are in place above others but 't will be your glory to be in spirit below all 'T is very observable what Discipline Kings were to be kept under by the command of God Deuteronomy 17.15 16 17. They were by no meanes to set a stranger over them which was not their brother neither was he when set up to multiply horses nor wives nor silver nor gold but to have the word of God diligently opened and applyed to him that he might feare the Lord and keepe all the words of his Law and that his heart might not be lifted up above his Brethren c. Disparity of place must not take off a brotherly parity of spirit let the place be never so high you cannot want temptation to exalt your selves above what is here written Jesabel said unto Ahab Dost not thou governe the Kingdome Arise and eate bread and let thine heart be merry I will give thee the Vineyard of Naboth the Iezreelite 1 Kings 21.7 Pride is that Jesabel which is apt to creep into the bosome of the best men when in high places What doe not wee governe the Kingdome is not all now in out hands May not we doe what wee list give and take smile and slight as we please I beseech you Honourable Worthies He covereth the faces of the Judges of the earth if not where and who is he Job 9.24 every time you goe through Westminster-Hall and every time you enter in at the Parliament-dores cast your eyes upon both hands possibly of one side or other you may see Christ sit in a poore oppressed condition unpitied by all passers-by Many a poore widow stands with a Petition in her hand written with the heart-bloud of her husband and subscribed with a thousand thousand teares because she can get no eye to reade it no hand to preferre it nor no bowels to dispatch it Sir sir I beseech you read this 't is a very legible lamentable character within and without lamentation mourning and woe like Ezekiels roll and yet every one passeth by and over-lookes her As you may eate up the sins of the people by winking at them so you may doe their miseries How sad is this may you conceive to such a poore soule and how sadning to the Spirit of the Lord that is in you that can so voyde of bowells goe by The tith possibly of some trifling time that is spent by you O what service might it doe to put bread into the mouthes of many that are ready to starve Alas poore creatures of which this Kingdome is now but too full whither should they come but to you The widow hath no husband but you the fatherlesse hath no Father but you the cripple hath no legs but you the wounded have no money to buy plaisters but from you all the oppressed are bid by God to call you Gods Fathers and if you cast them off too when they have cast off all for you or if you shall while them off when they tell you Sir this is our last meale in the barrell and this our last oyle in the cruse I must goe home and eate this and dye if you doe not help me The Lord Jesus be mercifull to us these living rafters of the house will crie out against us all I beseech you I beseech you Neither did she strengthē the hand of the poore and needy therefore I tooke them away as I saw good Ezek. 16.49 50. Honourable Worthies let as little guilt lie at your dores as possible may be I assure you Judgement lies not farre off it I know your necessities are great and yet I professe my heart I feare there be some cases if not more pitied will make your necessities greater Remember 't is but a Kingdome of men which you rule and that the most High also rules in these Kingdomes of men Seven times shall passe over thee said God to that great and lofty Prince till thou know that the most High rules in the Kingdomes of men and giveth it to whom he will Daniel 4.32 Misery enough attends that greatnesse that cannot stoope to hand and heart the condition of the distressed Honourable Worthies I have said and with much simplicitie of heart have I delivered the message of my Master all these things which I have spoken I humbly judge to be the pleasure of the Lord which if they may prosper in your hands I will say of your Kingdome as Daniel speaks of Nebuchadnezars Dan. 4.15 that let the Lord humble us as he pleaseth and make seven times passe over us till there be nothing but a stump left as truly now t is not farre from it yet this stump shall be with a band of iron and brasse Errata FOr patients page 13. line 28. reade patience For art p. 13. l. ult read 〈◊〉 for pretii peccatum p. 4. l. 22. reade peccati pretium FINIS