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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04091	A sermon preached before the honorable assembly of knights, citizens, and burgesses of the lower house of Parliament, February the last, 1623 by Isaac Bargrave ...	Bargrave, Isaac, 1586-1643.	1624 (1624)	STC 1415.5; ESTC S1423	12,591	44

A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honorable Assembly of Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the lower House of Parliament February the last 1623. BY ISAAC BARGRAVE Doctor in Diuinity Chaplaine to the Prince's Highnes and Pastor of St MARGARETS Church in WESTMINSTER LONDON Printed by G. P. for Iohn Bartlet and Iohn Spencer and are to be sold at the Gilded Cup in Cheap-side 1624. TO THE HONORABLE MOST RELIGIOVS And Loyall Assembly of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament IN the opinion of the most Accurate a Sermon once deliuered goeth afterward to the Presse as to execution And where-euer there is but an equall part of Plato's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in pronuntiation Quintilians Rule will no Lib. 11. cap. 3. question proue true Ita quisque vt audit movetur But my ayme is alwayes more at the heart than at the eare and in my present Endeuours my chiefe ambition is to serue you while you serue the Common-Good That by your command is now in a dead Letter which lately by your sufferance liued in the mouth of the Speaker Your fauour calling me to the Pulpit made me truely feele my weakenes And nothing but your Authority commanding me to the Presse is able to sustaine it The speedy execution of your cōmaund gaue me no time to perfect what in too little time I had conceiued how-euer with me to speake honestly is to speake Eloquently My soule professeth I could willingly haue spent the whole labour of my life vpon so worthy an Assembly to expresse the desire wherof by the encouragement of many of your owne Body I shall speedily annexe to this two other Sermons the one against Bribery and the other against Selfe-Policy both which I will bee bold to call The Character of mine owne heart toward the publike good of our Church and Common-wealth For this in particular be pleased to accept what your selues haue commanded and fauour me with the liberty of this Apologie Vt si quid peccatum siet fecisse Plaut me dicant de vostra sententia We all blesse our selues in the contemplation of these times for hauing such a God such a King such a Parliament Quid non speremus amantes The God of Blessing so dispose of your Councels that you may keepe the spirit of vnity in the bond of Peace Your humble and ready seruant in the LORD ISAAC BARGRAVE A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable Assembly of the Commons House of Parliament on Sunday being the last of February 1623. PSALM 26. 6. I will wash my hands in innocency O Lord and so will I goe to thine Altar THe prime end of the Creature is the glory of the Creatour this end cannot bee attained without the preseruation of the Creature The common good of the whole world in generall and of euery part and Common-wealth in particular Vpon this ground all actions receiuing perfection from their end all vnderstanding men haue beene wont to Praeface all great Consultations for the common good with some such religious Acts as did best conduce to the glory of God A Ioue Principium was the law of Nature the Gentiles were wont to begin from their Altars and their Oracles It was euer the stile of the Ciuill Law to begin A Deo optimo maximo and our old Saxon Lawes had the ten great Praecepts of the Decalogue prefixed in their Front But Gods Children euer vsed especially to consult vvith GOD to auspicate all their solemne Actions with Prayers fastings sacrifices Sacraments making their Creatour who is the Alpha and Omega of all Creatures the beginning and the end of all their actions We find in the old Testament that the Israelites beeing to warre against the Beniamites Three seueral times they went vp to aske counsell at the mouth of God Iudg. 20. 26. And it is remarkable in the New that though the holy Ghost himselfe had separated Barnabas and Saul to that great Worke the Conuersion of the Gentiles yet the Church would not dismisse them till they were consecrated by fasting prayer and imposition of hands Act. 13. 3. For Sacraments in particular those two notable actions in the holy Story The first that powerfull deliuery of the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt was Vsher'd in with the cebelratiō of the holy Passeouer And the second that memorable Redemption of mankinde from the bondage of sinne by the Passion of CHRIST our Sauiour blessed for euer Hee himselfe aggrauated by the solemne Sacrament of his last Supper Would we haue yet a closer Instāce my Text suggests it if Dauid be to oppose a common Aduersary hee enquires of the Lord for counsell and againe he enquires of the Lord. 1 Sam. 23. v. 1. et 4. And if he be to prouide for the wel-fare of his owne Kingdome as now he was when he composed this Hymne euen presently after his third Vnction he thinkes the Altar the best Preparatiue to the administration of his Kingdome and washing his hands in Innocēcy the best Preparatiue to the Altar I will wash my c. Good lucke then in the Name of the Lord to this honourable Assembly euen in this Honorable that with the custome of all good Christians Christian assemblies Ye auspicate your worthy designes in the House and at the Altar of God God that made all things for his owne glory is certainly the best assistant to his own end Hath not thinke you the deuill domineer'd in their hearts who haue set a marke vpon your two last Parlamentary Assemblies as if your endeuors prospered not because you receiued the Eucharist as if the Sacrament impeached the Worke or the Worke the Sacrament Oh the Power of Satan Shall we accuse Gods Ordināce from the effect of mans weaknesse Careat successibus opto Quisquis ab euentu factanotanda putat Had you not intended Gods glory certainely you would neuer haue begun with Gods Sacrament But two coole words with these malicious obiectors Was their Gun-powder Plot the worse for their Sacramēt or their Sacrament the worse for that plot Indeed there is a communicatiue power in euill as well as in good an Idolatrous Sacrifice was a well fitted Preface to a murderous end But is there no difference betwixt their washing their hands in bloud our washing our hands in innocency Betwixt the intention of butchering of Kings and Kingdomes and preseruing of Kings and Kingdomes But I remember we are going to the Altar the GOD of mercy conuert the hearts of these malicious furies these wily Gibeonites who while they dwell among vs labour to deceiue vs with the pretence of Antiquitie their old shooes of S. Peter their old garments of their owne merit their old mouldy Bread of Transubstantiation with all which though put on but yesterday they endeuour to deceiue Ioshua and his people and wee finde they did it too but it was because they asked not counsell of the Lord Ios 9. 14. Let vs therfore to preuent the like wiles goe