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A79475	A plot for the good of posterity. Communicated in a sermon to the Honorable House of Commons for the sanctifying of the monthly fast. March 25. 1646. / By Francis Cheynell.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1646 (1646)	Wing C3814; Thomason E329_11; ESTC R200698	45,495	60

in Your Honorable House Your House is a Paradise but may not the Serpent get into Paradise as great as you are you are under God every one of your Members and the whole House must be at Gods devotion and command if you will walk wisely and safely you must walk in the way of Jehovah and keep in the way of Jehovah the Angels have charge over you as long as you walk in that way and Christ the head of Angels as well as Saints will beat down your Enemies under your feet The way of Christ is the way of Jehovah for he is Jehovah our righteousnesse But you will tell me that learned and godly men cannot agree about the Way of Christ My first motion is That we may not be beaten off from those principles in which we agree because there are some things about which we differ 2. That it may be diligently considered how far we agree few men beleeve that there is so sweet an agreement in so many uniting Principles between godly prudent and charitable men of different perswasions for the preventing and removing of all scandals as indeed there is 3. That those many fair Expedients which are propounded for the healing of breaches and composing of differences may be speedily taken into your most serious thoughts 4. Consider that not onely the eyes of all the Churches abroad but the eyes of God nay the vows of God are upon you and the Word of God is set before you And therefore I beseech you as you tender the good and welfare of three Kingdoms and as you will answer it to the Lord Christ at the dreadfull day of Accounts that you observe the directions of the word How will you satisfie your conscience upon your death-bed how will you look Christ in the face at the day of Judgement if you reject the counsell of Christ I will not question your intentions what am I the last of Ministers and least of Saints that I should judge a Parliament I desire to judge my self and deny my self I was not sent to divine but to preach and I dare not assume to my self the property of God which is to know the hearts of men It is enough for me to remember you that it doth specially concern you in this great work of Reformation to approve your selves to the Searcher of Hearts and Judge of secrets I have no designe upon you I affect not power but desire purity I ask no power of You I have enough already more then I know how to use or answer for It is the free use of power which is desired for purities sake I shall not intreat you to part with any of your Civill Interests to make us friends I submit my self to all that Power which belongs to you as Christian Magistrates but remember that it is a Limited power Christ hath set bounds to Your Power as well as ours and you are obliged to emprove all your Interests and use all your Power for the service of Christ in promoting the great work of Reformation I will not at present so much as state the great question for debate for this is not a fit place or day to dispute the point in controversie and it would be very absurd for me to take that for granted which you expect should be proved I am resolved to follow my conscience and you are obliged to follow yours but if your Conscience be not rightly informed how many thousands are there that will be endangered Far better were it that all our Armies were routed in the Field then that the Parliament of England should be deceived I say but deceived to perish by Act of Parliament is to perish irrecoverably to perish by consent And wise Statesmen have observed that as some Kingdoms have been wasted by Arms so others have been overthrown quite overthrown by Laws My humble motion therefore is That you will not make more haste then good speed in deciding the great Question You may yet be counselled because the work is not yet perfected my motion may seem strange to some but I know full well that though a Kingdom may be quickly corrupted yet it cannot be so suddenly reformed and if you take longer time that the Questions in controversie may be fully debated your Consciences rightly informed and satisfied you 'l gain time and light experience and comfort by such a thrifty expence of time That I may not countenance any politique delayes and may emprove the motion to the heighth be pleased to keep a Private Fast and call some judicious and self-denying men to Preach before you who will deal plainly and faithfully with you in the nicest points My Reasons to back the Motion are briefly these 1. Because you were never in greater danger then now you are exercised with temptations on all hands surely this this is the Houre of Temptation you had need pray hard that you may not be led into temptation 2. Good men are apt to be secure because you are Masters of the Feild and are entring into your much desired Canaan but consider that when the people of Israel were upon the very borders of Canaan and all their Enemies were not able to overthrow them they did by closing with temptations and giving way to their corruptions overthrow themselves 3. The points in agitation are points of high concernment points that have been studied and much perplexed by great Scholers and wittie men on both sides Be not too pleasant though much of this week be spent already yet if you be not very circumspect nay if you do not beg counsell of the Lord you may undo three Kingdoms this week in three dayes 4. When we mingled tears in Private Fasts we had a sweet experience of Gods mercy your fidelitie and resolution even then when you were at lowest and it will be your wisdom and your Honour to walk humbly and closely with God when you are at highest that God may bring upon you all the good that he hath promised to them that rule with God and are faithfull with the most Holy and all his Saints 5. There are sins with you even with you and such as must be reproved but as things now stand it is not so fit to reprove them in a mixed Assembly 6. There are some proposals to be made to you which are not fit to be divulged when they are first presented But I am not worthy to advise a Parliament the motion is humbly presented and though it be rejected with smiles I intend not to appeal from you to the people but give me leave in my Masters Name to present the Peoples Appeal to You Consider the cries and out-cries of the godly part of this Kingdom for a Reformation they speak plain and tell you that 1. They have fasted prayed wept for a Reformation 2. They have exhausted their Treasures many of them 3. Adventured their lives lost their limbs their blood their friends for a

exercise his power and do act in his name and not in the name of the Church saith Mr. Burroughs in his ●ren p. 50. And for my part I shall readily grant that these Officers ought to transact all things which concern the consciences of the people in such a convincing way as may best tend to Common edification and satisfaction Church ordinances are to be dispensed by the Church that is by the Elders with consent of the people saith Mr. Rutherford in his late book p. 398. We should quickly think of some expedients for an happy agreement if You would be pleased to free us from the much feared Commissioners Church power must needs be acknowledged to have the proper notion and character of Authority in the Elders to which the multitude ought by a command from Christ to be subject and obedient as to an ordinance to guide them in their consent and therfore in the sentence of the Elders the ultimate for mall ministeriall act of binding or loosing should consist Christ hath placed a Rule and Authority in these officers over the ●est of the congregation not directing only but binding See the Epistle to Mr. ●ottons book of the Keyes When these officers gathered in Christs name do passe a right judgement upon hereticall congregations or persons declaring them to be such as have no communion with any of the Churches of Christ those hereticall persons or Churches are put out of the kingdom of Christ and consequently put under the power of Satan Heart divisions p. 44. The Rule urged by many is this Nemini fit injuria cui praeponitur Christus we prefer the Authority of Christ above all authoritie of men or societies of men King Parliament people must subject themselves to Iesus Christ None must plead priviledge to live scandalously though Peers of the Realm The Tigurine Divines are accounted most favourable or rather remisse in this point but Guather in his Epistle to Ionvill saith Excommunicatio legibus nostris praecipitur quâ a tribuum Societate publicorum pascuorum usu fructu excluduntur qui contemptis admonitionibus tam publicis quam privatis aliter vivunt quam homines deceat Christianos and Bullinger in his Epistle to Mr. Dathen speaks for them all and saith That if Noble men amongst them were taken in the act of uncleannesse they were publickly degraded Solemus maechos {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} deprehensos honore trabeâ exutos publicè ded●corare And Erastus saith that they who do pertinaciously violate Gods commands may be put to death Confirmat Thes. p. 337. You see that Erastus did not encourage pertinacious offenders They that desire such a monstrous kind of liberty as to live as they list and be accountable to none whatsoever they hold or do are not onely unworthy of Christian but Humane society saith Mr. Burroughes Heart-divisions p. 166. 177. You see what a generall severity is expressed by all that desire any true Reformation though they be men of different perswasions In the judgement of the Assembly None are fit to be admitted to the Sacrament who do usually neglect to pray in and with their families or to instruct them in those principles of Religion the ignorance of which is sufficient cause to debar any one from the Sacrament Be pleased then to take these things into your most retired thoughts and doubt not but the godly Ministers and people of this Kingdom will stick close to you for promoting of a thorough-reformation onely let me intreat you that when bloody Delinquents come to compound 3. things may be excepted 1. That their composition may not authorise them to communicate at the Lords Table with those friends of yours whose fathers brothers c they have slain with wicked hands have not as yet given any publick testimony of their repentance 2. That they may not deprive any Parish of a powerfull Ministry by denying sufficient maintenance to the Minister that they may raise their Fine or a good part of it out of the Impropriations which come into their hand upon their composition 3. That they may not make themselves whole by oppressing and racking those poore Tenants of theirs or their widows or orphans who have been faithfull to You and spent their estates or lost their lives in your Service Help the honest Tenants to an easie composition with their Malignant Landlords If I did not Honour You I would not be thus plain with You I leave it to your wisdom to draw conclusions from all for the putting of your own Order in execution for suspending all that are scandalous sinners from the Sacrament though the sins which they be guilty of be not yet enumerated let all be fairly interpreted as it is humbly presented by him who desires Your perfection Francis Cheynell A SERMON Preached to the Honourable House of COMMONS March 25. 1646. GEN 18. 19. For I know him that he will command his children and his houshold after him and they shall keepe the way of Jehovah to doe Justice and Judgement that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him BE pleased to consider the Forme and Matter of the Text If you looke upon the Forme the Rationall Particle For points backward and shewes you that the Words containe a Reason why God did acquaint Abraham with his Intention concerning Sodom Abraham had the honor to be taken into Covenant with the God of Heaven nay to be stiled the Friend of God and God deales with him as a friend he communicates certain secrets Arcana Imperii to him makes him in some particulars of his Privy-Councell for he imparts to him his great Designe upon wicked Sodom in a kinde of familiar and loving way What saith God shall I conceale this Secret from my Friend Abraham blessed Abraham in whose Seed all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed I know him and love him well and know that he will make a good use of it For I know him that he will command c. Secondly If you looke upon the matter of the Text it is in one word Abrahams Testimoniall subscribed by God himselfe a Divine Testimoni●ll indeed which did not onely certifie what Abraham was for the present but what he should be for the future This is the Testimoniall of a God First for the present God beares witnesse to the integrity of Abraham I know him saith the Lord I know his judgement I know his heart I am well acquainted with the frame of his spirit the inclination of his will and the bent of his affections Secondly For the future God foretels First VVhat Abraham would doe for God he would endeavour to bring all that were under his Command to be at Gods Command Secondly VVhat God would doe for Abraham namely Fulfill his Promise Keepe his Word From the Forme of the Words as they yeeld a reason VVhy God did communicate this Secret to Abraham I raise this