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A94303	Moderation iustified, and the Lords being at hand emproved, in a sermon at VVestminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: preached at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the county of Norfolke: one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order from that House.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1069; Thomason E23_6	31,603	39

MODERATION IVSTIFIED AND THE LORDS BEING AT HAND EMPROVED IN A SERMON AT VVESTMINSTER BEFORE THE HONORABLE HOVSE OF COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Preached at the late solemne Fast December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the County of Norfolke One of the Assembly of Divines Published by Order from that House Matth. 10. 16. Be wise as Serpents and harmelesse as Doves Mensura convenit ne aut nimia remissio reddatur aut nimiaa severitas Ambros. Offic. lib. 2. cap. 22. Si quid corrigendum est adhibeatur ea Moderatio quae Christianos deceat c. Erasm Epist l. 22. p. 916. LONDON Printed by I. L. for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard and for Thomas Slater at the Swan in Duck-Lane 1645. Die Mercurii 25. Decemb. 1644. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament That Master Heveningham and Master Lisle doe from this House give thanks to Master Thorowgood and Master Langley for the great pains they took in the Sermons they Preached this day at the intreaty of this House at S. Margarets Westminster It being the day of Publique Humiliation And to desire them to Print their Sermons And it is Ordered that none shall presume to Print their or either of their Sermons without first obtaining libertie under their hand-writing H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Doe appoint Christopher Meredith and Thomas Slater to Print this Sermon THOMAS THOROVVGOOD TO THE HONORABLE House of Commons Assembled in Parliament at Westminster THe thought of coming into that Pulpit was dreadfull to me and I did unfainedly decline it 1 Sam. 10. 22. as Saul I would willingly have hid my selfe among the stuffe any where rather then undertake the taske Palluit ut 〈◊〉 qui pressit calcibus anguem Et Juvenal Sat. 6. Lugdunensem Rhetor dicturus ad aram Did Advocates change colour pleading at that Barre And should I have no feare being to speake in such a presence where so many of you were and each one resembled the children of a King Judg. 8. 18. as the Kings of Midian said to Gideon in respect of his brethren yea upon whose votes and determinations depends the welfare of three glorious Kingdomes But being summoned to the service it was my duty to runne and prepare my selfe and I found presently my lot was cast upon that very day which the providence of heaven had designed to fall on Christmas Day Gentilet Exam. p. 206. as it is named yet the Metropolitane of all the Festivities so Gaspar Ferrandi called it in the Councel of Trent It was time for me then by consideration recollection and other thoughts to cast out feare 1 Joh. 4. 8. and for my animation the allusion of him to Caesar happily occurred as they that dare confidently speake in your judicious and formidable Assemblie consider not what Constellations you are nor of what Magnitude so those that despondingly be afraid are ignorant of your benigne Aspects and gracious Influences The election of a Theme and the manner of handling it was in my power and by Divine guidance I chose Moderation not because you wanted it but for that some so supposed and I saw even that Christian grace well understood would justifie your proceedings Your eares entertained the Discourse with spontaneous attention with the vertue of the Text which Tertullus beg'd of Felix Act. 24. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you have now required it to the other sense to another censure in publicum formidandumque judicium as Cassiane said upon his like occasion De Incarnat praefat and for my part Pro captu Lectoris habent sua fata libelli though the subject matter I know will meet with fatall judgings and my weakenesses also be ever before me yet I have obeyed your Commands and with the exoptation of Orosius to Austin Utinam tam efficaciter quam libenter Praefat. Hist for now as Dedications have beene made to you of Zeale Righteousnesse Magnanimitie Perseverance c. so the world shall see you Patrons of Moderation also notwithstanding the unpolitique Antichristian and Tyrannicall endevours of your Opposites some of which laboured so much some yeares since to embroyle the Nation against Scotland in irreconciliable and intestine combustions the perfect uniting of whom to ENGLAND was the zealous industrie of the wisest Patriots in former times as our Chronicles relate and who now also by supernaturall providence in Covenant and many other obligations are contrived into a more firme accord then ever Those other horrid Miscreants of Ireland have raked Hell and Rome for the inventions and exercises of such cruel barbarities upon our miserable brethren King Charles Declarat with the advice of his Privie Counsell that no Christian eare can heare without horrour nor Story parallel as his Majestie did declare against those barbarous Rebels I wish that Remonstrance of our Clergie there were commanded to be in every Parish of ENGLAND and the additionall depositions hastened to the Presse that all the good people of the Land might know their good meaning to them And in this Kingdome there was a generation of New Reformers that paved the way to Popery and under the colour of a good worke in hand Holy Table Name and Thing p. 2. p. 192. p. 204. and the pietie of the times were busied in taking the out-workes and that being done they would have a bout with the Fort it selfe It is the language and sentence of him that here may well be credited and our eyes saw then the Innovations so numerous that with a little time and observation it might be demonstrated the lawlesse Mutation even then was greater from the rules and received practise then it is like to be by the Directory so much expected which beside Parliament Authoritie will have the Scriptures and the example of Reformed Churches to give it countenance I thought in this Epistle I might make some further mentioning but I must remember that of Austin to Macedonius Negotiosissimos in Republica viros Ep. 54. Init. non suis sed aliorum utilitatibus attentissimos non debemus occupare prooemio I will turne therefore my prefacing into praying that our God onely wise Rom. 16. 27. would fill every one of you with wisedome Jam. 3. 17. even that wisdome which is from above and is first pure then peaceable gentle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the grace of the Text Ruth 4. 11. Moderate and full of good fruits that gasping Ireland may be recovered by you and as you have done worthily for Scotland you may be famous in ENGLAND and regaining the Kings royall Person and favour you may make him glorious also and raise up in his Dominions the foundations for many generations Isa 58. 12. and be called the Repairers of the breaches the Restorers of the paths to dwell in I shall waite the complement of Gods good providence in you and

and yet God not robbed of his honour care being taken that their sports be not sinfull nor they in them and if any Sermon or Lecture occasionally be in the place and on the day of their refreshings that they repaire thither also for even the Canons of 1604. required Schoolemasters to bring their Schollers to the Sermons see them quietly and civilly behave themselves there and examine them at times convenient what they have learned by such comming Yea their condition then both inwardly and outwardly will bee much bettered Can. 79. And to the other part of the Objection I say First I wish on mine owne behalfe and others that those heathenish mad and riotous usages had never been knowne among Christians and that now they might be quite abandoned for ever but let the neighbour-hood and charity of those times at least in some time of the yeere be continued sure I am that some who had withered hands all the yeere beside did at that season stretch them out to the poore Secondly Though this day of Christs Birth be thus overcome by our monethly Fast yet our Saviours Nativitie hath and shall have its Commemoration not onely in the Day solemnized for his Resurrection in which is involved all the Complement and Consummation of Christs doing and suffering and Exaltation but further the Lords Day is thought to be the very determinate Day of the weeke when Christ was borne for those that mention the Priviledges of the elder Brother the first Day of the weeke say it was not onely the first Day of the world no night went before it Alb. M. Comp. p. 158. but it shall be the last day and no night shall come after it and that it was the very Day of Christs Birth and Baptisme c. Thirdly If the serious disquisition of Historians and Mathematicians shall calculate and designe the moneth the day I shall not vote against the Christian celebration therof but as at Berne when the Gospel was first reintroduced they set their prisoners at libertie and proclaimed freedome and we observe a Day in memory of our Deliverance from that Hellish Romish Powder Plot so if God please to deliver us from the Diabolicall designes of these times I hope you will appoint a Day in Commemoration thereof Fifthly Jejunia And for Fasting Dayes your Christian Moderation is already made known not twice or thrice in the weeke which they said of old might savour of vain-glory Vit. Pat. part 2. p. 150. 4. neither have you commanded such rigourous observation as Luther blamed in Melanct. macerating his body Vit. ubi sup quasi ferrum aut saxum esset nor as Bernard who confessed he did too much debilitate his body by abstinence and watching but as Zach. 8. 19. The Fast of the fourth moneth c. and yet besides this you have had many other occasionall dayes of Humiliation that which you had the last weeke among your selves was most remarkable among men and acceptable we are assured unto your God also and yet I crave leave to invite unto one Solemn Fast more Oh that a Trumpet were blown in Sion and a Fast sanctified but I would have it sanctified thorow both the Armies in all the Kingdome and though your power reach not so farre I wish it were tendered to them and triall were made of them however two most memorable occasions implore Divine direction and blessing upon your unwearied labours First Treatie of Pacification is in your serious endeavours that the Kingdoms may yet be happy in a safe and well-grounded Peace it is high time to hasten it the whole Land almost is already laid waste by the Sword which if not speedily sheathed is bringing upon us a worse evill unavoydably a Famine for they that be slain with the sword are better then they that be slain with hunger c. Lam. 4. 9. but let not the feare of Sword or Famine scare you into any other Peace then that which is the Peace of God made in Christ joyned with truth else a greater mischiefe will fall upon the Nation then warre or hunger Not a famine of bread or a thirst for water but of hearing the word of God c. Amos 8. 11. Great cause have we therefore now to cry mightily unto God and seeke of him a right way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance Ezr. 8. 21. Secondly The great change in Ecclesiasticals that is to appeare suddenly in the Kingdome in respect of Worship and Government may well double our devotions in this very time Prolog in Matth. Hierome Writes that when Cerinthus Ebion and other heretiques denyed Christs coming in the flesh the holy men of those times desired Saint Iohn the Evangelist to write his Gospel in their confutation which he promised upon their undertaking to Fast and Pray for Gods blessing which done Saint Iohn he said was full of the holy Ghost and wrote In the beginning was the Word c. Joh. 1. 1. And indeed when the greatnesse of this worke is looked upon with the multitude of opposers there is great reason we should all with our holiest diligence invocate the Majestie of heaven that these things may tend to his glory and finde acceptation in the souls hearts and lives of the people Sixthly Ecclesiastici The men of my Profession desire to have a share in your Moderation also and indeed I cannot think but that of Titus otherwhere called Joseph de B. J. 7. lib. c. 13. deliciae humani generis favoured not of humanitie when his souldiers had taken the Temple at Hierusalem and the Priests begged their lives he denyed them saying they should perish together I wish all the evils of these men were destroyed but doe none of their persons deserve favour did none of them to their power withstand the inundation of superstition When the Monks and Nunnes here thrust themselves out of their unclean Cages they had salaries for their lives and in other countreys Exire poterunt ad laborem Mycou Vit. Zuingli coniugium literas quis erat animus They were dismissed from their employment but had stipends to their death You have already herein declared your Moderation in assigning a portion for the support of wife and children and it were well if no complaints were brought before you against some that are so loath to part there with Seventhly Heterodoxi Another sort of men call for your Moderation yea and plead merit too I know not what to call them but I meane the men of many opinions though I hope they be neither so numerous nor faultie as their opposites suggest and yet to as many of them as pretend to godlinesse and be with us in Covenant I say no more but wish them to read it to study it to keep it in the rest I would wonder with what conscience or wisdome they abstaine from that bond when the Romanists universally are in armed

combination against them and us a very hard matter I confesse it is to moderate erroneous opinions some have dared into the world that should have been Anonyma not once named as becometh Saints and for the rest I thought sometimes and pardon me if I thinke so still if their Tenents were commanded from them in expresse termes they would appeare either not to be tanti that for them publique tranquillitie should be endangered or else coming forth naked into the world barefaced and in their colours they would be a shame to their abbettors Eightly Papifts The Papists indeed that be Iesuited in respect of their guilt and Irelands bloud expect not your Moderation and surely such should be showne them as may preserve your selves and the Kingdomes from their frauds and cruelties against which you will be now more vigilant then ever because they have revealed now more then ever their evill intentions and can swallow those oathes without chewing which former times of peaceablenesse could not get downe by any art or perswasion and though their very Religion p. 503. like Draco's Lawes be written in bloud as King Iames observed and in the Nether-lands they made a shew of Moderation and called their Edict so yet even that in truth was was felt and was then called Murderation also as Meterane writes p. 46 they had then their Consilium sanguinis they walke by the same Principles and worse Practises yet none of them ever suffered death among us meerely for Religion I had other particulars to have mentioned but I saw the time would not permit me to speak them out of the Pulpit I forbeare them therefore now also Secunda par 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and I come to handle the reason of the Text but Doctrinally and very briefly The Lord is at hand and I shall not insist upon the Lords being at hand by his providentiall approximation to support us in or deliver us from trouble as Psal 22. 11. Be not farre from me O Lord for trouble is neere nor how he is at hand to observe all our actions so keeping us in awe and obedience because All things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to doe Heb. 4. 13. But in this Doctrinall part of the propinquitie of our Lords coming to judgement I shall shew first the parallel Scriptures and secondly the probable reasons thence and then the Application will be in such practicall uses as you shall see Gods Word hold forth visibly in those places where the Text or the sense of it is mentioned First Scripture It is very considerable that the Apostles all so speake as if Christ the Lord would in their dayes come to judgement so many hundred years agoe Thus 1 Cor. 10. 11. We are they upon whom the ends of the world are come So Heb. 10. 37. Yet a little while 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet a very very little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry And Saint Iames 3. Behold the Iudge standeth before the doore 5. 9. And Saint Peter The end of all things is at hand And thus Saint Iohn It is the last time 1 Ioh. 2. 18. And so Saint Iude 18. And if so then a thousand years agoe it is the miracle of miracles that yet the Lord is not come to judgement the succeeding Ages after the Apostles were of the same mind and they watched on Easter Even by ancient tradition as if their Master Christ would in one of those Vigils come to judge the world in similitudinem Aegyptii temporis saith Tertullian As Pharaoh the King rose up in the night p. 107. K. Lactan. 7. 19. Hieron in Matth. 25. August de T. 154. 251. De Vn. Eccl. p. 301. and all his servants and there was a great cry in Egypt c. Exod. 12. 30. And in Cyprians time all things were accomplished as he thought that were forerunning tokens of the worlds end It were easie to heape up the conjectures of severall Centuries but we must all acquiesce in the determination of our Master who shall be the Iudge Matt. 24. 36. Of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angels of heaven but the Father onely But that I may prepare my selfe and you to the serious and practicall consideration of the fore-mentioned Vses observe these Scripture arguments First Reasons There shall be signes in the Sunne and the Moone c. Luk. 21. 25. And if Mathematicians may be credited the celestiall Orbes are not as they were Aret. Probl. p. 1016. the Sunne not so distant from us as at the first but nearer by many Germane miles to say nothing of the prodigious sights and noises seene and heard in our dayes Secondly Mens hearts faile them for feare c. Luk. 21. 26 As lightning is first seene then thunder heard smoke precedes fire and the sea swels before a storme so the soule of man that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist as Synesius cals it droops before danger trembles before it is hurt and by its inward timorousnesse foretels evils to come and that appeares by the severall presagings of men that discover their feares by their conjectures That famous Grebner found out the yeare of the worlds end by the word Iudicium JVDICIVM numerum ruituri continet orbis Problem p. 1057. Ecce Spons ven every letter thereof being numerall but we have already outlived that fancie above thirty years Aretius by some Chronogrammaticall expressions of Scripture proposed this next to be the last yeare of the world Doctor Alabasters conceit out of those two Greeke words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may savour of fancy and feare Thirdly Religion and Holinesse the two pillars of Heaven and Earth are so much decayed and discountenanced as we need no other demonstration that those last and perillous times are come that Saint Paul spake of 2 Tim. 3. 1. For as the old age of man the lesser world is full of corporall infirmities so the greater world in its declining estate abounds with manifold abominations read at leasure the two next verses and see how unhappily these dayes comment upon them if you thinke on any one of those sinnes the same thought will tell you where to find them Fourthly The unnaturall divisions that are up in the world are undenyable presages that the Lord is at hand for when the Disciples privately demanded of their Master what should be the signes of his coming to judgement among others this is recorded by the three Evangelists The brother shall betray the brother to death and the father the sonne c. Mar. 13. 12. Matth. 24. 10. Luk. 21. 16. And we need not enquire among Iewes Turkes and other Nations for the accomplishment hereof but as Christ in another case Luk. 4. 21. I may say This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your cares O England never since thou wert a Nation didst thou see thy selfe so miserably