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A81897	The Parliaments commission: delivered in a sermon, upon Nehemiah chap. 2 vers. 19, 20. / By J. Durham.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing D2821; Thomason E246_10; ESTC R3805	10,053	8

THE Parliaments Commission Delivered in a SERMON UPON NEHEMIAH Chap. 2. Vers 19 20. Sanballat the Horonite and Tobias the servant an Ammonite and Gesem the Arabian heard it and they mocked us and said what is this thing that ye doe do ye fall away from the King And I answered them and said unto them the God of heaven is he that hath granted us prosperity and we his servants will rise up and build and as for you there is no portion and right nor remembrance in Ierusalem By J. DURHAM THese men as they were sad at Nehemiahs first coming when they see that any man found such favour with the King to do good to Jerusalem so now were they almost mad for anger when they heard that they went about to build the wals of Jerusalem Openly to withstand them or forbid them to work they durst not because they had the Kings Commission to do so but so much as they durst they discourage them they mock them they threaten to accuse them and of that which would make any man afraid they lay rebellion to their charge and say They would build that City for no other cause but that they would make themselves strong against the King fall away from him set up a King amongst themselves obey none but use their old liberty and rule all about them as they did afore These men bear some authority in the countrey and like proud beggars and dissembling malicious enemies to God and his Word they would hinder so much as they could this building The world is too full at this day of such like dissembling hypocrites The one sort if they come up of nought and get a badge pricked on their sleeve though they have little yet they look so big and speak so stoutly that they keep the poor under their feet that they dare not route All must be as they say though it be neither true nor honest none dare say the contrary But the dungeon dissembling Papist is more like unto them for he careth not ●y what means to get it by feare or by flatterie so that he can obteine his purpose These men first mocke the Iewes and scornefully despise them for enterprising this building thinking by this means to discourage poor soules that they should not go forward in this worke After that they charge them with Rebellion These two be the old practises of Sathan in his members to hinder the building of Gods house in all ages Iudas in his Epistle saith that in the last dayes there shall come mockers which shall walk after their own wicked lusts Peter and Paul foretold the same 2 Pet. 3. 2 Tim. 3. Our Saviour Christ though he was most spitefully misused many ways yet never worse then when they mocked him both Herod Pilate the Priests and the Iewes It is thought but a small matter to mocke simple soules and so withdraw them from God but Salomon saith Prov. 3. He that mocketh shal be mocked and David Psal. 2. He that dwelleth in the heavens shall mock them and the Lord will laugh them to scorne This shal be the just reward of such scorners It is justly to be feared that as the Iewes were given up to Nebuchadnezzar for mocking the Prophets and Preachers of their time as it is written 2 Chro. 36. so we for our bitter taunting scoffing reviling disdaining and despising Gods true Ministers in these dayes shal be given into our mortall enemies hands What is more common in these days then when such hick-scorners wil be merry at their drunken bankets to fall into talk of some one Minister or other nay they spare none but go from one to another and can spie a mote in other men but cannot spie their own abominations Christ was never more spitefully and disdainly scoft at then when these lusty ruffians open their mouths against his Preachers but the same Lord Christ saith of his disciples that he which despiseth them despiseth him What reward the mockers of Christ shall have every man knoweth Good men with heavy hearts commit themselves and their cause unto the Lord and pray with David Lord deliver my soule from wicked lips and from a deceitfull tongue Salomon saith God will laugh when such shall perish Michol wife to David was barren all her life for mocking her husband when he played on his harpe and danced before the ark of God 2 Sam. 6. The children that mocked Elizeus and said Come up thou bald pate come up were all devoured suddenly of wild beares that came out of the wood hard by 2 King 2. David amongst other miseries that he complaineth of saith That the scorners made their songs of him when they were at their drunken feasts Psal. 69. and when he seeth no remedy how to escape their poysonfull tongues he patiently turneth him unto the Lord committeth all to him and in the latter end of the Psalme God comforteth him and telleth him what sundry mischiefs shall fall on them for their despitefull dealing When Baltshazzar King of Babylon made his drunken feast to his great men and called for the vessels and jewels which Nebuchadnezzar brought from Ierusalem that he and his harlots might eat and drink in them in despite of the living God of Israel Dan. 5. A hand appeared writing on the wall which Daniel expounded when none of his Southsayers could do it and said His Kingdome should be taken from him and so it came to passe for the same night Balteshazzar was slain and Darius King of the Medes possessed his Kingdome A just reward for all such drunken mockers of God his people Religion and Ministers and yet our merry tossepots will take no heed Sarah saw Ismael playing with Isaac her sonne and said to Abraham Cast out the handmaid and her sonne for he shall not be heire with my sonne Gen. 21. but S. Paul alledging the same text calleth this playing persecution Gal. 4. and saith As he that was borne after the flesh did persecute him that was borne after the spirit so it is now but the Scripture saith Cast out the handmaid and her son for he shall not be heire with the son of the free-woman so shall all scornfull mockers jesters and railers on God his Word Religion and People be cast into utter darknesse and not be heires of Gods Kingdome with his children This playing and mocking is bitter persecution and therefore not to be used of good men nor against good men and lovers of religion yet at this day he is counted a merry companion and welcome to great mens tables that can raile bitterly or jest merrily on the Ministers such is our love towards God his Word and Ministers but surely he that loveth God and the Word indeed cannot abide to hear the Preachers ill spoken of undeservedly I cannot tell whether is worse the scoffer or the glad hearer if the one had no pleasure in hearing such lewd talk the other would not tell it The other thing they charge the

Jewes withall is Rebellion falling from the King and setting up a Kingdome amongst themselves When Elias exhorted Achab and the people to return unto the Lord Achab saith unto him Art thou he that troubleth Israel nay said the Prophet It is thou and thy fathers house rebuking him and teaching truth was counted troubling of the commonwealth and the King What was the cause that King Saul and his flatterers hated poor David so much and so cruelly sought his death but that the people sung after that Goliah was slain that Saul had killed a thousand and David his ten thousand which was as much to say as they thought that David was a mightier man than Saul and meeter to be King Daniel set open his windowes and contrary to the Kings commandement prayed thrice a day unto the living Lord Dan. 6. and therefore was accused of disobedience to the King and cast to the lions den to be devoured of them The Israelites in Egypt Exod. 1. when God blessed them and increased them to a great people were accused that they waxed so many and wealthy that they would rebell against the King and therefore to keep them under were oppressed by the task-masters and set to make brick for their buildings When our Lord and Master Christ Iesus was born the wisemen asked where the King of the Iewes was Herod was mad and killed all the children of two yeares old and under Mat. 2. lest any of them should come to be King and put him down When our Saviour Christ said His Kingdome was not of this world then said Pilate Thou art a King then whereupon the Jewes took occasion to accuse him of treason and said Every one that maketh himselfe a King speaketh against the Emperour for we have no King but the Emperour The Apostles were accused that they had troubled the commonwealth by preaching Christ and filled Ierusalem with their doctrine contrary to the commandement of the Priests and Elders Iason was drawn out of his house for lodging Paul being accused that he had troubled the world and disobeyed the Emperour When S. Paul had preached Christ in Athens He was accused for troubling the state by teaching his new doctrine thus ever the building of Gods house by preaching of the Gospell hath been charged with rebellion disobedience to Princes and troubling of the common-wealth and peace But good men have not been dismaid at such big words but with good courage have proceeded in their work having the testimony of a good conscience that they be not guilty of any such thing 20 And I answered This was the first push but not the worst that they had to discourage them from proceeding in this building and not unlike but it made some afraid to hear such big words and so great matters laid to their charge by men of such authority as they were But as they were not ashamed so unjustly to accuse Gods people so Nehemiah steppeth forth as boldly answereth for them all and defendeth their doings A worthy example for all those that be in authority to follow they have not the sword committed to them in vain they ought to defend both by word and deed in their weldoings those that be committed unto them Their duty is not to suffer Gods enemies to invade or hurt slander or blaspheme those that they have charge over but draw the sword if need be to drive away such wolves and punish such wicked tongues It is not as we commonly say when any danger or persecution ariseth for the doctrine or that the Ministers are untruly reported of let the Preachers defend it it is their duty and vocation we are not learned it belongeth not to us our care is for the common-wealth only Religious Magistrates will neither do so nor say so they will not suffer as much as in them lieth the Church Religion doctrine nor the Ministers to be evill spoken of reviled defaced nor over-run They be mouthes to speak for Gods people as Moyses was unto Pharaoh they be hands to fight for them they be Rulers to defend the good and punish the evill Iephthe when the Ammunites fought against Israel Iudg. 11. defended the cause in disputation by words and after in battell with the sword The good King Ezechias 2 King 18. when he received the blasphemous message and letters from Rabshakeh against God his Temple people and Religion he seeketh by all means to defend them all and encourage the people not to fall away from their God in that great danger When Holophernes railed on God and his people Achior and Iudeth defend them and she cutteth off his head When the great Giant Golias 1 Sam. 14. reviled the people of God and provoked them to sight with him hand to hand if they durst for the victory none was found that durst doe it but poore David who with no weapons but his sling and a few stones killed that lusty champion and delivered his people When Dathan Chorah and Abiram with their fellowes railed against Moses and Aaron Gods true Ministers Numb. 16. Moses committing the revenge of it to the Lord warned the people to depart from their company lest they perished with them by that strange death and straight wayes the earth opened and swallowed up them and their goods and tents where they dwelt quicke into hell nay women were not spared for Miriam Moses sister was smitten with a leprosie for railing on Moses her brother Gods lievtenant over them As the Magistrate therefore both with word and sword must defend Gods cause his Religion Temple People Ministers and Doctrine so must the Preacher and those that be learned with their paines prayer preaching and all other meanes that they can yea if our goods or lives were required for the defence of it no state of men ought to refuse it For this end are we born and live to glorifie our God and set forth his praise for this purpose are all things given us and therefore must not be spared but spent and bestowed when his glory requireth I or this cause Esaias the Prophet gave his body to be sawen in sunder with a saw of iron for this cause Ieremiah was cast into a dungeon of mire and filth Ier. 38. Daniel into the Lions den Saint Paul pleadeth his cause oft in chaines at Ierusalem and at Rome afore Festus Felix and Agrippa and our Lord and Master Christ Iesus afore Annas Caiaphas Pilate and Herod Iohn Baptist lost his head for this quarrell and no good men will think any thing too dear to spend in Christs cause For this cause Tertullian Irenaeus Iustinus Athanasius Chrysostom Nazianzen writ great books against the heathens which railed on our Religion What infinite numbers of Martyrs have stood stoutly and given their lives in the same quarrel he that hath seen any learning can bttter tell where to begin then where to make an end of reckoning the number is so infinite and our late daies have given sufficient proof thereof