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A77846	Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgesse, pastour of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5653; Thomason E325_5; ESTC R200622	19,054	30

to the 17th 10. To venture against all fears and dangers Thus the father and mother doe for their little ones chusing it should rather fall upon themselves then the fruit of their loins Thus wee see Nehemiah and Zerubbabel not daunted at any oppositions their zeal for the publick made them like Job's Leviathan laugh at the spear To go against friends relations enemies for to save the publick argueth a fatherly couragious heart Praesis ut prosis 11. To hasten the accomplishment of their misery Luther called peace Coelum Paradisum a very Heaven and Paradise but it must be a peace which doth not divorce it selfe from truth Maledicta sit illa pax saith Hierome nor in qua involutum est bellum They are therefore so to hasten it as God speaks concerning the accomplishment of mercies for his people Isa 60.22 I the Lord will hasten it in his time Hezekiah hath an emphaticall expression about the Kingdomes calamity in his time Isa 37.3 where the land is compared to a woman in travell that is tortured with many pangs and throbs now we know what care and industry useth to be taken in such extremities The heavenly bodies communicate their influence not in quantum cailda sed in quantum velocis motûs Grounds 1. From the example of God and Christ himself No wonder Moses is to be so tender when God himself is so Deu. 32.10 11 12. where God is said to finde his people as so many straying sheep to lead him about or to compasse him as the Greek translateth it Thus David saith Ps 32.7 Thou wilt compasse me about with safe deliverance Hee kept them as the apple of his eye that is with all diligent care And this providence of God is further resembled to the Eagle which fluttereth over her young ones It is the same word with Gen. 1.2 The Spirit of God moved so that it implyeth the cheerfull influence which God put into them Shee taketh them if they be negligent and beareth them upon her wings not in her talons wherewith she carrieth her prey See in this passage a lively description what Governours in place and office should be to their people Thus Hos 11.3 4. I taught Ephraim to goe taking them by their arms and I was unto them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws and I laid meat to them Here Gods government is described to be full of meeknesse he used them not as beasts but children yea he took off the yokes others had put on And as for Christs government over his people how gentle that is appeareth Isa 40.10 Hee shall gather his lambs in his arm and carry them in his bosome and shall gently lead those that are with young Hee therefore said truely Nulla creatura humilior Christo 2. From the greatnesse of that God to whom all in place and office are accountable Howsoever when men in place look beneath them they may be apt to puffe up themselves and grow lofty yet comparatively to God they are nothing All the Nations of the world are but a drop and how little art thou who art not the thousand part of that drop The Scripture delighteth to speak of Gods greatnesse to men for till God be great to us every man and power is great but nothing is great to him to whom God is great According to thy fear so is thy wrath by fear may be meant the word of God as Psal 19. The fear of the Lord is excellent so that Gods wrath is so great as the word revealeth it though men may despise or lessen it Consider diligently that place Isa 40.21 22 23. We shall not govern with contemptuous carriage when we apprehend that we are but as so much small dust which God will blow away when he pleaseth It is with men as with letters that have great and glorious superscriptions Right Honourable c. but when opened there is nothing but a little black ink and dust upon them so though men have great places and offices yet within there is but a little black bloud and dust to cover it 3. This is the onely way to have the hearts and consciences of people Piety and justice doe onely convince men when all carnall policies will be like a blazing starre that makes a great gaze for a while but endeth at last in slime and noisomenesse Herod feared John because he was a just and holy man When the consciences and affections of a people are to their Governours they are tyed by stronger bonds then power or fear can put upon them How successefull then will it prove when as God by raising up of men to places gives them the titles of God so likewise he communicateth unto them the justice the holinesse of a God by which the people are kept in awe and love Some Heathens before they went to warre sacrificed to Love implying that none would truly fight but those that had love to the Common-wealth and so it holdeth in all other publick actions Let men therefore in place and office so deport themselves that all the people may cry out and say God so love you and yours as you have loved us and the Common-wealth 4. This is a sure clear way to keep from confusion They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy saith Jonah by experience A plain upright way proveth in the event to all the owners thereof the best policy Commentators observe of David that he was never brought into streights but when he left Gods way Psal 119. Then I shall not be confounded when I have respect to all the commandements A man shall never be brought to this O wretch that I am Would to God I had taken another way or another side It is a sad thing to read of Tully when he saw all publick events to make against him complaining O turpem senectutem O me nunquam sapientem And to such a tragicall end have many meer Polititians been brought Lege historiam nè fias historia said hee It was Gregory Nazianzene's meditation by the sea-side when he saw many fishes carried with the stream they were hurried upon the land then a torrent would fetch them off again presently they would be landed again but he observed other fishes that stuck to a rock and they were alwaies in the same place howsoever the waves did rage and rowle up and down Thus hee applied it The former sort of fishes were like men that adhere to these fading creatures and the latter to those that stick fast to Christ Fabius Maximus though a Soothsayer yet would say Optimis auspiciis ea geri quae pro salute Reipublicae gerentur quae contra Rempub. ferrentur contra auspicia ferri What did Ahithophel get by his carnall wisdome Might he not say as Jonathan Behold I have tasted a little honey and now I must die I have injoyed a little applause and greatnesse and now I must be damned 5. The greater places of trust the greater

Die Mercurii Febr. 25. 1645. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that S. Robert Harlow and Col. Purfrey do give thanks to M. Burgesse and M. Goodwin for the great pains they took in the Sermons they preached this day at the intreaty of the House of Commons at S. Margarets Westminster it being the day of publick Humiliation and to desire them to print their Sermons It is also ordered That none shall presume to print their Sermons without licence under their hand-writing Hen. Els Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Thomas Underhill to print my Sermon and no man else ANTHONY BURGESSE Publick Affections PRESSED IN A SERMON Before the Honourable House of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Upon the Solemn day of Humiliation Febr. 25. 1645. By ANTHONY BURGESSE Pastour of Sutton-Cold-field Now Minister at Laurence Jewry London and a Member of the Assembly of DIVINES Published by Order of that House LONDON Printed by J. Y. for Thomas Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet M.DC.XLVI TO The Honourable House OF COMMONS Assembled in Parliament at WESTMINSTER Worthy SENATORS THE Vicissitude of Gods Providence to men in great place somtimes pulling down those who are lifted up on high and again raising up those who were laid prostrate may justly provoke all Magistrates to walk with fear and trembling knowing there is a greater then they are All earthly Potentates and Principalities are before God but as so much pin-dust which when hee breatheth on is soon scattered away Hence Psalm 2. the great Ones of the earth are exhorted to kisse the Sonne lest hee be angry and a little of his anger is too heavie for the shoulders of any mortall men Be affected therefore with your own nothingnesse comparatively to Gods greatnesse and advance his Truth Worship and Government Many States have stumbled upon Christ as a Stone of offence and hee again hath fallen upon them grinding them to powder The Lord make you so blessed that you may not be offended at any thing which is Christs and fill you so with faith that you may be fully perswaded in your hearts that the surest posture of defence for the Kingdome is when it is put into a submission unto the Scepter of Christ Jesus Although God hath done much for you yet great is the need you still have of his Goodnesse Wisdome and power to you The shippe coming into the harbour may miscarry as well as that in the wide Ocean And certainly the businesses of your Warre and Peace of the Church and State of Divisions and Reconciliations are of so great concernment that hee seeth nothing at all who doth not judge you in as great a necessity of Gods good Providence as at the very first Therefore after all the great successe which God hath vouchsafed unto you be not high-minded but fear keep a sure interest in God and provoke him not by any sinnes but so manage all things belonging to God and men with piety and justice that God from heaven may prosper you and men on earth praise you Your humble servant in CHRIST ANTHONY BURGESSE A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House OF COMMONS At the publick Fast Febr. 25. 1645. NUMB. 11.12 Have I conceived all this people Have I begotten them that thou shouldest say unto mee Carry them in thy bosome as a nursing father beareth the sucking-childe unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers THe Deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt that iron furnace and the conducting of them through the wildernesse unto the land of Canaan is so famous and remarkable an history that many after-deliverances given unto the Church of God are described allusively to this Thus the bringing out of Babylon temporall The rescuing of the Church out of Babylon spirituall is set down with words relating to this grand mercy yea it is made typicall of that great redemption purchased by Christs bloud For this is a peculiar thing to Gods word that not onely words but things themselves do signifie onely we must not make a type or allegory but where the holy Ghost giveth ground lest wee should have tot sacramenta quot ingenii acumina as was said of Origen as many mysterious notions as men have fancies This History therefore will serve for our Meridian and there is scarce any Kingdome or Church but they have had their Egypts their Pharaoh's their bricks to make and God in great mercy doth sometimes raise up some Moses's and Aarons for them providing a land of Canaan as the comfortable issue of their former labours The slavish and miserable condition of the Israelites is related Exod. 2. as also Gods pitie to them in most emphaticall words ver 24 25. hee heard their groaning remembred his covenant looked upon them and had respect unto their cause This heap of words doth expresse after the manner of men the great affection and bowels of God to help though this was delayed to very extremity according to that known saying Quando duplicantur lateres venit Moses Now after the people of Israel had been freed from this bondage instructed in the will of God covenanted obedience with him seen his wonderfull power injoyed his mighty presence so that they could not be more safe then they were under his protection not more free then they were under his lawes not more rich then they were under his provision yet in this Chapter begins a narration of their manifold mutinies against God and their faithfull governours so true is that Subditis semper gravis est praesens status and Vulgus est semper querulum not knowing how to bear either their miseries or their remedies The first mutiny seemeth to be for their long march ver 1. whereupon a fire from the Lord consumed them It is to be observed that in all their former rebellions before the Law was given except that of the Calfe God never punished them but since the Law given hee punished them severely This was say some to shew the nature of the Law that it worketh wrath or because their sins committed after the Law given were against greater knowledge and ingagement The second mutiny begins ver 4. for I cannot be of their minde that make the former and this all one and this was occasioned first by the mixed multitude that was with them viz. the Egyptians and other nations and the plague upon them did quickly infect the Israelites They murmure because they have nothing but Manna and because this was a sacrament and a type of Christ and his graces their sin was spirituall as well as corporall whereupon Moses to shew their ingratitude taketh occasion to describe this Manna what it was The peoples rage and ingratitude putteth Moses into a sinfull passionate distemper though there was also good zeal in it The popish Interpreters make this zeal of Moses pure fire but that cannot be and instruunt Patriarchae etiam errantes the errours of the godly may teach as well as their piety That Moses his

glory upon those who are subservient therein Again meditate on the difficulty and rarity of this disposition and affection in men of trust How few are there that look upon themselves as for the publick and not the publick for themselves Yea and suppose we be mounted up so high by generous principles as to give the preheminence to the publick yet to do this with godly sincere aims and ends is a further difficulty Jehu how high did he go in a Reformation yet would not yeeld to take away Jeroboam's Calves though hee did zealously destroy Baals Priests Thus it is an easier matter to consent that the Antichristian yoke and burden shall be removed then to set up Christs order and government But when our Saviour invited those that were heavie laden and burdened under the Pharisaicall government and traditions as some learned men expound it lest they should think this were all he bids them take his yoke upon them Mens corruptions may make them willing to have Antichrist pulled down yea their advantages and self-interests may incline them that way but there are required many positive graces to set up the wayes and orders of Christ And certainly there was something in it that the Heathens did so universally object against the Christian Religion and way as incompatible with Common-wealths and Magistracy not that indeed there was any contradiction but onely it is hard for States to bring up every thing in their Kingdome to the Scripture way This must be laid down as a most certain principle saith Luther that Gods word will not attemper it self or condescend to Princes and States but they must bring themselves to that And therefore we ought the more earnestly to strive in prayer unto God for such that are in authority and to rejoyce in seeing the clusters of grapes though as yet wee are not entered into Canaan Now let mee instance in some particulars wherein your tender bowels may be wonderfully expressed As First In the setting up of a faithfull learned Ministry in all the parts of the Kingdome And blessed be God you have shewed much readinesse to this work It was your enemies designe to put that down although it proved a work as impossible to them as to put fetters and gyves upon the Sun to hinder it in its course Herein our Saviour shewed his bowels and imitate him Matth. 9.36 37. The people then injoyed the reading of the Scriptures every Sabbath day with the Pharisees explication of it that was not wholly unusefull for then our Saviour would not have bid the people heare them yet for all this his bowels yearned to them as sheep without a shepherd What pity is it to have a great harvest and no labourers to inne it The Ministers are the light and salt of the earth and how necessary are they especially if wee consider the great darknesse and unsavoury manners of most people These are like Orpheus to use the harp of Gods word whereby those who are as wilde as beasts and stupid as trees may be new-moulded and become the people of God Some have thought that therefore Christ would use spittle in the curing of the blind man to shew that it must be something which goeth out of his mouth the word preached that would indeed give the true eye-sight But I will not abide by that notion A second thing wherein compassionate bowels may be seen is as much as lyeth in you to stop the infection and contagion of heresies How many men are there who may be called as Origen was Centauri for the divers monstrous opinions they hold There is a Book called The compassionate Samaritan who makes it a great act of pity to give an unbounded and illimited toleration to every man But certainly this is such a pity as St. Francis had that would take the beggars lice and put them into his own bosome The Scripture speaketh much of the cordiall affections that ought to be in us against them Gal. 1.8 9. Though we or an Angel should preach any other doctrine let him be accursed So again 2 Joh. 10 11. If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house nor bid him God speed and mark the reason He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evill deeds Hee calleth evill doctrines evill deeds there Rev. 2.2 Thou canst not bear them which are evill and thou hast tryed them which say they are Apostles and are not so ver 14 15. It s made their sin that they had such as taught the doctrine of the Nicolaitans and others Learn of this Moses Deut. 9.9 How did he mourn before the Lord fasting forty dayes and nights because the people had committed idolatry in his absence Not but that instruction by way of reason ought to goe before all rejection of them It is the Apostles rule To rebuke in all doctrine so that there are none who would have the suppression of heresies and errours but they likewise presse a rationall admonition and information that so the obstinacy of men gainsaying may appear to all the world Musculus hath a memorable story in his Common-place de haeresi that there were some Anabaptists who had been four yeers in prison and there were some who cried to have them put to death but others more moderate dealt with them by way of argument and in such a spirit of meeknesse that they were convinced their salvation and not confusion was sought for And by this means they changed their mindes and one being a pretty scholar was chosen Deacon in a Church and by his means many more were drawn from Anabaptisme It 's no disparagement to the Reformation but rather an argument of the truth of it that when the good seed is sown the Divell is so industrious to sow his tares The April showres that make the grasse grow and the flowers sweet do likewise cause many croaking frogs to come forth But as this is not to be cast upon the Reformation so ought those that are in authority to be the more vigilant knowing that then Satan is more busie then ever The tares were sown when men were asleep Again Look to this That while you suppresse heresies you still leave a way for the improvement and growth of mens abilities and parts lest in time it be thought heresie to have more learning then another as when Reformation began the Papists made it a suspicion of heresie to understand Greek and Hebrew Lastly Let not every opinion in matters of lesse consequence be accounted heresie for then it will fall out as among one kind of people that made only Treason capitall and to be punished by death but then the Judges had a device to finde every offence Treason and so indeed all sins were capitall These cautions and such like laid down you ought to be zealous and vigorous against them 2. Another Use may be to us Ministers For certainly we need as much the pressing of publick