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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95064	The danger of vowes neglected and the necessitie of reformation: or, A sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, at a late solemne fast in the Abbey Church at Westminster, May 27. 1646. By Francis Taylor B. in D. pastor of Yalding in Kent, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published according to order.	Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing T272; Thomason E338_10*	20,503	31

us praise God that will not let us perish by neglecting to honor him by performance of our vows and so be neglected of him for ever He knows our forgetfulnesse and unthank fulnesse would undoe us and he puts us in mind of our vows to preserve us yea let us praise God that by his ministers this day he admonisheth us of them that we may perform them and prevent further jarres and troubles Sixthly Use 6 here is a lesson of Reformation Let me leave the people and speak to you honorable Lords who have called me to speak to you this day I beseech you give me leave to speak home I have one petition to put up to your Lordships if you deny it me I shall be never the worse if ye grant it me you shall be much the better In brief it is this that ye would begin with a particular and personall and end with a generall and publick reformation Be godly for time to come in earnest and be not content with shewes of godlinesse no more then ye are with the shews of honor Imitate Jacob here being called to reform he not only mends his fault whereof he was admonished but also reforms his family makes them put away their Idols call upon them to cleanse themselves and change their garments which were signes of for saking sin and putting on righteousnes An instrument can never make good musick to others til it be put in tune it self I never look to see any man a through-reformet that is not a godly man A wicked man will ever be afraid of going too far in the work of reformation lest he lash himself or his But a godly man had rather purge away his own sins then other mens Like a charitable Physician that is willing to heale his poore neighbours but will first heale himselfe and his family Charity they say begins at home How can we think your Lordships have charity to healother mens souls if ye have none to your selves nor yours Honour your places more then your places can honour you Remember that Talmedieal saying r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shab fol. 145.2 In my own City my name in another my garment shall eredit me Count piety your greatest ornament it is a Mott● may well become the S●●tcheon of the greatest noble man in the Kingdom Pie●as veranobilitas God linesse makes men likest to God and bring● them neerest to him And what greater preferment can this world afford or that which is to come Your Lordships are stars of the first magnitude in the heaven of this State O shine brightest in the beams of piety You owe most to God and must do most for God God hath betrusted you with the greatest talents and ſ Luke 12.48 expects the greatest account from you t Grandis honos sed grave pondus istius est honoris Greg in Evang Hom. 26. Honos and Onus goe together The fairest Steed must have his Saddle Every honour must bear its burden That measure of piety will not serve a noble man that will surve a meaner person unlesse that measure of honour will serve you You look for much respect from men of a lower spheare● Gods looks for more from you because there is a larger distance between the Creator and the highest creature then can be between the highest and lowest of all the creature Let not the Comm●n● out goe you in piety lest they prove more honorable then you in the end God saith u Psal 82.6 I bu●o said ye are Gods in regard of your power give us cause to say so too in regard of your ho inesse I beseec● you take away from us all occasions of Court-idolatry Teach us in you to honour men more for their worth then for their grea nesse We know not how x Psal 15.4 cordially to honour a proud Haman a loose Amnon a covetous Nabal But we ran lay our heads down at the feet of religious Lords to doe them good Account of honour without piety as the Jewes doe of a body without wisdome They say it is y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like a house without a foundation Carry your selves so that Lords on earth may be Saints in heaven That honour will last when your Lordships are gone and their Royalties that made you Lords From this personall reformation proceed with comfort and courage to the publick We are met now to humble our soules before the supream Lord of heaven and earth to pray to him to cease all our troubles and to take away the great jealousies arising between the two Kingdomes that the plots of those that would set us together by the eares and make our warres worse then ever yet they were may be confounded utterly God will answer Goe to Bethel and perform your vow build an Altar to me Why suffer you some to rob my deerest Son and your onely Saviour of his Deity and goe unpunished Why suffer ye others in print to rob me of so many thousand yeares of praise I should have in heaven by laying z Heb. 12.23 the spirits of just men made perfect asleep with their bodies till the day of judgement Why suffer ye others co countenance all manner of uncleannesse and pollutions of marriage by maintaining a lawfulnesse of putting away mens wives and taking others for causes which I never allowed Why suffer ye books to be printed under colour of maintaining liberty of conscience for the toleration of all forts of heresies and blasphemous religions that I may in my own land be blasphemed to my face by publick authority Why have I advanced you more then others but that ye should be more jealous of my honour then they Would any of you keep a Steward that should deale faithfully with your servants give them their meat in due season and not suffer them to wrong one another but would let them dishonour you to your faces raile upon you and embezle your goods Consider of these things and the Lord make you publick Reformers here and glorious a Mat. 22.30 like the Angels in Heaven Amen FINIS