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Sermons vpon solemne occasions preached in severall auditories. By Humphrey Sydenham, rector of Pokington in Somerset.
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Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?
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1637
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STC 23573; ESTC S118116
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swadling band Iob 26.11 breakes up for it his decreed place and sets barrs and gates and saies Hither to shalt thou come no farther and here shall thy proud waves bee stayed Iob 38.9 10. Shall we yet step a staire lower and opening the Jawes of the bottom lesse pit see how powerfully hee displayes his Eanners in the dreadfull dungeon below Behold Hell is naked before him Iob 26.6 and destruction hath no covering This made our Prophet sing more generally The Lord is above all Gods whatsoever pleased him that did He in Heaven and Earth and in the Sea and in all deepe places Psal 135.6 Psal 135.6 Thus you heare God is in the world as the Soule is in the body life and government And as the soule is in every part of the body so is God in every part of the world No Quarter-master nor Vice-gerent He but universall Monarch and Commander Totus in toto Totus in qualibet parte A God every where wholly a God and yet one God every where onely One whom the vaine conjectures of the Heathen dreaming to be moe gave in the Skie the name of Iupiter in the Ayre Iuno in the Water Neptune in the earth Vesta and sometimes Ceres the name of Apollo in the Sunne in the Moone Diana of Aeolus in the windes Ex D. August Hot kerus Eccles pol. l. b. 1. Sect. 3. of Pluto and Proserpine in Hell And in fine so many guides of Nature they imagin'd as they saw there were kinds of things naturall in the world whom they honour'd as having power to worke or cease according to the desires of those that homaged and obey them But unto us there is one onely Guide of all Agents naturall and he both the Creator and Worker of all in all alone to be bless'd honour'd and ador'd by all for evermore And is God the Lord indeed Is he chiefe Soveraigne of the whole world Hath his Power so large a Jurisdiction Doth it circuit and list in Water Earth Aire Fire nay the vaster Territories of Heaven and Hell too How then doth this fraile arme of Flesh dare list it selfe against Omnipotence Why doth it oppose or at least incite the dreadfull Armies of him who is the great Lord of Hosts Why doe we muster up our troupes of Sinnes as if we would set them in battel-aray against the Almighty Scarce a place where he displaies the Ensignes of his Power but man seemes to hang out his flag of Defiance or at least of Provocation and though he hath no strength to conquer yet he hath a will to affront If he cannot batter his Fort he will be playing on his Trenches anger his God though not wound him In the earth he meetes him by his groveling Sinnes of Avarice oppression violence rapine Sacriledge and others of that stye and dunghill In the Water by his flowing sinnes of Drunkennesse Riots Surfets Vomitings and what else of that frothy Tide and Inundation In the Aire by his windy sinnes of Ambition Arrogance Pride Vain-glory and what vapour and exhalation else his fancie relisheth In the Fire by his flaming sins of Lust Choller Revenge Bloud and what else sparkles from that raging furnace In Heaven by his lofty Sinnes of Prophanation Oathes Blasphemies Disputes against the Godhead and the like And lastly as if Hell were with man on earth or man which is but Earth were in Hell already by his damned sins of Imprecations Curses Bannings Execrations and others of that infernall stampe which seeme to breath no lesse than Fire and Sulphure and the very horrors of the burning Lake Thus like those Monsters of old wee lift our Pelion upon Ossa Tumble one mountaine of transgressions upon another no lesse high than fearefull as if they not onely cryed for thunder from above but also dar'd it But wretched man that thou art who shall deliver thee from the horrour of this death 2 Thes 1.8 When the Lord shall reveale himselfe from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that feare him not what Cave shall hide 2 Sam. 22.9.16 or what Rocke cover them At his rebuke the foundations of the world are discovered even at the blast of the breath of his displeasure Out of his mouth commeth a devouring flame and if he do but touch these mountaines they shall smoake Psal 104.32 if he but once lift up his iron Rod he rends and shivers and breaketh in pieces like a Potters vessell he heweth asunder the snares of the ungodly and his enemies he shall consume like the fat of Lambes Psal 37.20 O then let all the earth feare the Lord let all the Inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him let Kings throw downe their Scepters at his feet and the people their knees and hearts at those Scepters from the Cedar of Libanus and the Oke of Basan to the shrub of the Valley and the humble Hysope on the wall let all bow and tremble Princes and all Iudges of the Earth both young men and Maidens old men and children let them all seare and in searing praise and in praising sing of the Name and Power of the Lord God for his Name onely is excellent Psal 148.13 and his power and Glory above Heaven and Earth On the other side is the Lord Omnipotent indeed Hath his Power so wide a Province and extent Is the glory of his mighty Acts thus made knowne to the sounes of men Is his Kingdome not onely a great but an everlasting Kingdome His Dominion through and beyond all Generations Psal 145.13 Doth hee plant and root up prune and graft at his owne pleasure Psal 147.6 Doth hee raise the humble and meeke and bring the ungodly down to the ground Is he with his Ioseph in the prison with Eliah in the Cave with Shadrach in the Furnace with Daniel in the Den Doth hee deliver his anoynted from the persecution of Saul His Prophet from the fury of Iezcbel his Apostle from the bonds of Herod His Saint from the Sword and Fagot of the Insidell Psal 104.21 Doth hee cloath the Lillies of the field Have Lyons roaring after their prey their food from him Doth he give fodder unto the Cattell quench the wild Asses thirst feed the young Ravens that call upon him Doth he stop the mouthes of wilde beasts Quench the violence of fire Abate the edge of the Sword Shake the very powers of the Grave and all for the rescue and preservation of his servants his faithfull his beloved servants Why art thou then so sad O my soule why so sad and why so disquieted within thee Trust in God Psal 147.3 he healeth those that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heale their sick enesse Though thy afflictions be many thy adversaries mighty thy temptations unresistable thy grievances unwieldie thy sinnes numberlesse their weight intollerable yet there is a God above in his provident watch-Tower a God
the hands Gods Word is often in Scripture compar'd to a Sword and a Sword how can a tongue brandish without a hand And therefore the sweet Singer of Israell sayes of the children of Syon that they had Exultationes Dei in gutture gladium hipennem in manu not only the high praises of God in their mouth but a two edged sword in their hand Psal 149.6 And upon this hint belike it was that Christ grounded his Fac hoc vives not Teach this but Doethis and thou shalt-live And therfore your Praedicants of old were called Operarios quia opere magis quam ore praedicare debent as Stella glosses that mittet Operarios suos in messem Luke 10.6 As there was but now a verball and morall kinde of feeding so here a corporall Temporali subsidio Before by Instruction and Example now by Distribution There Practice must confirme our doctrine here Charity our practise And this is Saint Pauls super omnia induimini his vinculum perfectionis Col. 3. The chiefe part of that religion which Saint James calls pura immaculata first Visite the Fatherlesse and the Widow in their affliction relieve them and then the other will follow thou shalt keepe thy selfe unspotted of the World James 1.21 All our profession of sincerity without this is but a tincling Christianity no better then the Apostles Cymball or his sounding brasse Let our congregations ring of justification by Faith only you know who tells you without worke Psal 51.14 Faith is a dead faith Iames 2.17 He that giveth us tongues to sing aloud of his Righteousnesse doth also teach our hands to warre for him and our singers to battle Our Actions fight more for our religion then our words can Psal 144.1 Hee is a Rector indeed saith Saint Augustine that doth as well refresh the hungry with the crummes of his table as feede the ignorant with the bread of his knowledge D. Aug. 13. de div ersis Libenter audit'e jus linguam loquentem cujus expect at dextram porrigentem Let then our Hospitality preach as well as our Pulpit our Almes edify no lesse then our Doctrine Nature doubtlesse intonded nothing superfluous or in vaine so that Optimus Dispensator est quisibinith l reservat S. Hieron ad Nepot Ep. 7. God allotting us two hands and but one tongue would have us distribute as well as talke communicate by our substance as by our knowledge where the mouth is alwaies open and the bowells shut wee have just cause to suspect that mans religion for imperfect seeing God is a God of compassion as wel as jelousie Betweene three Sermons a weeke and but one Almes in an age there is no proportion Let us as well fill the poore mans Belly as his Eares that is the way to glorify God and thanke us I cannot but grieve at the Savagenesse of those dispositions that for bread sometimes give but a stone for a Fish a Scorpion a house of correction instead of an Hospitall a Whip for an Almes Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercy and by the same reason Cursed are the mercilesse for they shall finde no mercy If I am thus unnaturall to my Brother whom I daily see what respect can I have to my God whom I never saw An Angell tells Cornelius that his Almes were come up as a memoriall before the Lord. God doth not only take notice of our charityes Acts 10.4 but inroles them A cup of cold water given in his name doth not lose a reward a reward no not a crowne wee have his owne word for it I was hungry Matth. 25.35 and yee gave mee meate I was thirsty and yet gave mee drinke what is the end of these Their Righteousnesse shall goe into life eternall Math. 25.46 God grant that wee may bee all of us Pastors according to his Heart that wee may so feed our flocks with the spirituall and the temporall bread here that they with us may bee hereafter fed with the Eternal Bread the celestiall Manna the Food of Angells in the Kingdome of Heaven To which the Lord bring us for his Christs sake Amen Amen Gloria in Excelsis Deo FINIS Perlegi has Conciones in quibus nihil reperio sanae fidei aut bonis moribus contrarium ideoque dignas judico quae Typis mandentur THOMAS WYKES R. P. Episc Lond. Cap. domest Lond. July 10. 1637.