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kingdom_n	england_n	peace_n	scotland_n	2,736	5	7.8650	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77859	The necessity of agreement with God: opened in a sermon preached to the Right Honourable the noble House of Peers assembled in Parliament, upon the 29th of October, 1645. being the monethly fast. / By C. Burges, D.D. preacher of the Word to the city of London. Published in obedience to an order of their Lordships.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5673; Thomason E307_19; ESTC R200347	36,324	55

all his party they heartily close with his children and servants where ever they meet them and are enemies to all that are enemies to God It is so in all firme Leagues and Feuds He that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him 1 Joh. 5.1 And this Commandement have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also 1 Joh. 4.21 On the contrary If they meet with Gods enemies they dare make this appeal to God Psal 139.21 22. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies Trial. Now consider seriously how you stand affected to the faithfull servants of Jesus Christ Are you for them indeed are they in your hearts to live and die together do you countenance and encourage the faithfull Ministers of Christ Nay rather is not their fidelity to Christ interpreted pride and ambition after exorbitant power are not the godly your greatest eye-sores are they not looked upon as a company of silly ignorant rash peevish men because they will not bow or bend in matters of Religion to humane inventions of any Authority nor depart so much as an hairs bredth from their principles Or if they be sometimes made use of in case of necessity when things cannot be carried on without them are they not afterwards by some cast aside as people not owned or worthy of any respect especially if a new generation of projectors men that are more malleable and fit to be moulded to serve turnes arise and present new notions projects Or if we do make shew of some respect to this or that eminent man as Herod to the Baptist is it in truth of heart for the graces of God shining in them or rather to grace our selves by countenancing of them And how stand we affected to all wicked men are they not our chief at lest our ordinary companions Do we not set more by a scurrilous wit a Buffone then by an holy humble Christian whose speech may administer grace to the hearers Who are the most usuall companions of many that have given themselves out Reformed There is no surer triall of a mans inward temper of spirit then by choice of his company Jehoshaphat may in Courtship comply with Ahab but he shall surely smart for it shouldest thou helpe the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord 2 Chron. 19.2 Let them look to it who do as he did that while they run such a course they may not foolishly dream that God and they are agreed for this bred a quarrell between God and Jehoshaphat although a godly Magistrate and eminent for holinesse of life Thus have I endeavoured to bring all to the Test whereupon I doubt it will appear that we are not the people we would be taken to be being yet very farre from that agreement with God which we stand in need of and rest upon as actually made up between him and us nor can promise to our selves that continuance of Gods walking with us which we do expect but have just cause to fear his sudden departure from us and the exposing of us and the Kingdom to much more wo and misery then ever we have yet felt or feared Vse 3 Wherefore suffer the word of Exhortation unto a two-fold duty 1. Be deeply humbled before the Lord this day for our want of agreement with him that hath done so many so great things for us for that great enmity and malignity that yet remaineth in us against the God of our mercies for our crosse affections and peevish passions whereby we are apt upon all occasions to fly out against him for all our carnall corrupt and base ends and designes which thwart and oppose the wise holy and good purposes and counsels of our God for our standing out and refusing to come into the bond of his Covenant or dealing unfaithfully in it for our want of Zeal for Christ in doing our utmost in our severall places and callings to promote the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland not only in Doctrine and Worship but in Discipline and Government according to our Covenant for our great lukewarmnesse in not endeavouring as we ought to extirpate superstition heresie schisme profanenesse and what ever is contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of godlinesse whereby we do in great part partake of other mens sinnes and bring our selves into apparent danger to receive of their plagues for want of that reality impartiality and constancy in preserving the Priviledges of Parliament and liberties of the Kingdome which we ought upon all occasions to expresse many growing weary of the Parliament and clamouring against it as one of our greatest grievances and abusing the Liberties of the Kingdome to all licentiousnesse and confusion for want of courage and faithfullnesse in the discovery of all Incendiaries Malignants and evil instruments that do palpably and openly hinder and oppose that Reformation of Religion which we have bound our selves by Covenant to promote or that secretly undermine and way-lay all endeavours of Peace between the King and his people or that labour to make division between the two Kingdoms or factions and parties among the people contrary to our Nationall League and Covenant for want of zeal in doing all we can according to our places and interests to maintain and preserve that blessed Peace so happily setled between England and Scotland that they might remain conjoyned in a firme League and union to all posterity and that justice may be done upon the wilfull opposers thereof for our great unwillingnesse constantly to assist and defend all those that in this common Cause of Religion Liberty and Peace of the Kingdomes enter into the Nationall League and Covenant for our aptnesse to be withdrawn from that blessed Vnion and Conjunction to the other side or at lest to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in the Publike Cause which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdoms and the honour of the King for our not humbling our selves even unto this day for our own sinnes and for the sinnes of all the three Kingdomes for undervaluing the Gospel for not receiving Christ into our hearts and walking worthy of him in our lives for want of a true and unfeigned purpose desire and endeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publike and private in all duties we ow to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a reall Reformation that the Lord may turne away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdoms in truth and peace Finally for want of that Christian and brotherly charity and unity that every where appears in many sad rents and dangerous divisions that daily in all places abound