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A30793	XIII sermons most of them preached before His Majesty, King Charles the II in his exile / by the late Reverend Henry Byam ... ; together with the testimony given of him at his funeral, by Hamnet Ward ...	Byam, Henry, 1580-1669.; Ward, Hamnet.	1675 (1675)	Wing B6375; ESTC R3916	157,315	338

Bored Servants for the time to come Exod. 21. Nor was there any hope of Freedom afterward No marvel then if the poor Woman cryed Clamavit mulier There is a saying Curae Leves loquuntur ingentes stupent Light Sorrows speak when greater silent are And it might seem then somewhat to lessen her Sorrow that she could and did Cry 'T is true In some sudden and unexpected Misery Vox faucibus haeret the unexpectedness and greatness of Sorrow doth stop the Floud-gates and there are found those who could neither weep nor speak for a while But violent Motions are not lasting and the thickest Cloud will be broken and the Rain will fall Tears and Words will find vent Tell me ye Mothers tell me what you would do if you should see the merciless Officer or Souldier seizing on your Child for his prey if but one Child But Vtrumque Filium Both All and All without hope of Redemption Not one left to comfort the poor Mother in her Calamity Me thinks I see Rebecka's swoln heart ready to break Gen. 27. when she counsels Jacob to fly from the fury of his Brother Esau who had sworn his Death O why should I be deprived of both of you in one day And that witty Complaint of the Woman of Tekoa did pierce Davids heart Thy Hand-maid had two Sons they strove they fought and one is slain The Kinred call for Justice and lo they 'l quench my Coal which is left O King without thy help and pardon I shall be deprived of them both Here 's a widow a poor widow deprived of her best Comfort and now like to be robbed of her Children also Well might she have borrowed Jerusalem's mournful Complaint out of Jeremy O ye that pass by behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow Let Fathers speak who exeunt hominem leave off to be men if they leave off natural affection Let Mothers speak if Schools distinguish right their Love is more fervent though the Fathers love be more constant Let all those speak who are so much troubled at every common Cross Loss or Affliction What would they say if Mephibosheth must loose all If they must go hand in hand with Job If with this poor widow Goods and Children and All must be lost and for ought they know without the hope of any Jubile or Restitution Here we may see the affection of Parents towards their Children How many years doth Jacob lament the supposed death of his beloved Joseph How bitterly doth David bewail the untimely death of his ungracious Absolon Anna calls young Toby sorrowing for his Departure the Staff of her old Age the Staff in her hand that she went by Stories will tell you of some Fathers that have given their own eyes to save their Sons of those who have resigned their Crowns their Loves their Lives and all to do their Children good I will add but one Example more though of many in that one in the third Punick War when the choicest young Noble-men were sent away Hostages into Sicily The Mothers accompany them to the Ship with all expressions of sorrow Thence they get up the top of the Rocks and at their going out of sight the Mothers many of them cast themselves head-long into the Sea A sad farewel Yet were their Sons sent away for Hostages and not taken away for Slaves And thus doth Love descend in a full carrier from the Parents to the Children But I fear the Motion is very slow in rising upward from the Children to the Parents Sure this Motion is against the Hill we pause too often The Poet said true Filius ante diem And many say in their hearts what Esau did Gen. 27.41 The dayes of mourning for my Father are at hand He cannot live long And then a sad Suit and a merry heart But beware of that Lex talionis As sure as a day they are paid again in their own Coyn Besides the sting of a guilty Conscience is sure to follow them as long as they live O that Children would but think upon the many Cares and Fears and Cost that Parents are put to for their Children and with what neglect contempt and disobedience 't is oft-times repayed But take heed remember that of the Apostle Eph. 6.1.2 Filii obedite c. Honour thy Father and Mother which is the first Commandement with promise The Promise is long life which all desire And our undutifulness to our Parents cuts of the thread of life and sends men headlong to the grave c. Now come we to those Horse-Leeches whose Teeth are spears as Solomon sayes And they devour the poor of the earth Prov. 30.14 Ecce Creditor The Father is dead The Mother almost distracted The Children in despair The whose little House nought but Tears and Terrour And in comes this Moth-of-men this Canker that hath eaten up many good Houses and their Masters to boot In comes the Vsurer one qui laetatur de lachrymis proximorum when all weep he laughs He hopes to gain wherever the loss fall and he riseth most while by the ruins of the poor Of all Vertues Mercy is the best It conforms us to our Maker and hath the promise of a reward both in this life and in the life to come Matth. 5.7 Blessed are the merciful for they shall be sure of mercy The object of Mercy is Misery To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed Job 6.14 So David Psal 41. Blessed is he that considereth the poor and needy And Solomon He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and look what he giveth God will pay him again Prov. 19.17 Now of all People in misery God regardeth none so much as the Widow and the Fatherless And therefore one special Branch in Moses's Law was a Proviso for them Exod. 22.22 Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child And when ye make a Feast call the fatherless and the widow Deut. 16. Nay thrice in that Chapter you are bid to rejoyce in your Feasts but call the fatherless and the widow No good feasting without them So likewise at Harvest-time at Olive gathering and Grape gathering still Remember the widow and fatherless Deut. 24. And one of the Charges which Asaph gave the Judges was to help the poor and fatherless Psal 82.3 4. When Eliphaz thought to load Job with Reproaches he tells him he had sent away the widows empty and he had not relieved the fatherless Chap. 9 And in Psal 94. one of their crying sins was They slay the widow and the stranger and put the fatherless to death Well then see here one that regardeth nor God nor Man nor Widow nor Fatherless All 's fish that comes to his Net Hee 'l have away the Children And let the Mother break her heart All 's one to him The Debt could not be great But the Forfeit was too great The Debtor was a good man and therefore would not borrow what in

application Do thy first works 1. St. Bernard hath a true saying He that knoweth not his own misery is uncapable of Gods mercy And the Laodiceans in the next Chapter were in a woful case that said they were rich and needed nothing and yet were wretched miserable poor blind naked The first step to repent is to know our offence and the way to arise is to know our selves down The whole need not a Physician but they that are sick Luke 5.31 and the sin-sick Publican call● for mercy Rom. 3.23 Indeed we have all sinned as St. Paul tells us All in many t●●●gs as St James cap. 3.2 A●●●hough Noah w●● 〈…〉 upright man yet it ●●s but in sua 〈◊〉 ●●●one in regard of the time wherei●●e lived and comparatively And Zachary and Elizabeth were just before God that is sine fuco What they did they did unfeignedly and yet just by the favour of acceptation not in the rigour of examination We may not therefore wonder that these Ephesians fell and that their silver was mixed with some dross which could not endure the fire Nor may we think their fall little whom so severe a Commination doth attend as is the removing their Candlestick out of his place 2. The sin laid to their charge is the leaving of their first Love St. Paul tells us Ad Ephes cap. 1.15 16. that he ceased not to give thanks to God for them because they had faith towards Christ and love towards all his Saints St. John tells us 1 Reg. 7.21 they were fallen from this love their faith is not questioned These are the two pillars Jachin and Boas which bear up the entrance or porch into the Temple Faith and Charity must go together Tertul. advers prax of the Trinity and must be numerus sine divisione distinguished they may be divided sundred they cannot be and be at all And therefore it is not said They were fallen from love for so they must have come within the compass of St. Pauls Nothing Lyra in loc Zanch. tomo 7. de perseverant Sanctorum 1 Cor. 13. but they were fallen from their first love à tanto gradu from that fervency which formerly they had Either they loved not all the Saints or they loved them not in that measure they were partial or they were cold in their affections This is that sin which called for so heavy a punishment and without Repentance and Returning to their first estate would notwithstanding their many other religious actions bring on them an everlasting misery And yet do we scarce love any Saints much less all and we never did esteem that doctrine which teacheth us to loose our purse-strings and pour out We have fed our Auditory so long with Sola fides that Charity is frozen amidst the fire of our zeal and Lazarus is dismissed with that cold comfortless Alms in St. James 2 Cap. 16. Ambrose a Hip. a Pap. Depart in peace And most of us are become Custodes non Domini slaves to god Mammon we have not power of our own And if any be so tender hearted as to relieve restore compassionate his brothers misery some shall untruly judge him for no true Christian and other new Reformers shall neer challenge him of old Religion Thus dare presumptuous impiety fall not onely from her first love if she had ever any but from love it self and yet shall challenge heaven for her inheritance She shall add sin to sin Ecclus 7.8 Prov. 5.22 and bind many together and yet forget her self to be holden with the cords of her own sin Shee shall fall never any Ephesian worse few ever like and yet perswades her self she stands upright The Church of Ephesus is onely taxed for defect in love but many of us are like Mephibosheth lame in both feet 2 Sam. 9.13 We are fallen we are fallen not onely from love towards all the Saints Rom. 8.35 but from the faith we had in the Lord Jesus Persecution can separate us from the love of Christ and the blast of affliction can make us throw off the shield of Faith Yea Eph. 6.16 many times we fall away non persecutionis impetu sed voluntario lapsu the demand of a door-keeper or the voice of a Maid will terrifie us as it befell Peter and we are prone upon the least occasion to renounce disclaim defie that excellent Name by which we have hope the blessed name of JESVS Phil. 2.10 11. A Name which every tongue must confess to which every knee must bow then which there is no other Name under heaven whereby we must be saved and of which a Heathen could give this testimony Vt uno verbo exprimi non possit Cic in Verrem lib. 2. of Sotor It is a name of wonder But some have thought it tolerable if not lawful in time of persecution to deny Manente apud animum proposito Tertul. ad 〈◊〉 27. so the mind be free Indeed what have not some thought or what monstrous opinions were there ever heard of but could find some one or other to defend them One commends the quartan Ague another writes in praise of Folly Anaxagoras thinks the Snow is black Danaeus in cap. 4. Aug. de Heros Gab. Prateolus and Catilina si judicatum erit meridie non lucere certus erit competitor He will swear the Sun shines not at noon day The Basilidians the David-Georgians not onely defend that damnable opinion of denying but so commonly doth one absurdity one sin beget another they scoffed at they scorned they cried shame on all the holy Martyrs for their sufferings But we have not so learn'd Christ Those Chameleons live not in our Element nor come they within the verge of the Church Omnis Aristippum decuit color He is none of ours No no the resolved Christian will scorn to bow his knee to Baal He knows there is a woe to him that hath a double-heart and is faint-hearted Ecclus. 2. He knows we may not take the Name of God in vain much less deny him And that we must not fear those which kill the Body and are not able to kill the Soul Math. 10. but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell and that whosoever shall deny his Saviour before men shall one day be denied before God This makes the School-man resolve Thom. Aquin. 〈◊〉 q 3. art 2 that upon pain of damnation we are bound in some cases to abide the trial and confess our faith when it shall conduce either to the honour of God Math 10 2● B King on Jonas Lect. 29. or the profit of our Neighbour And that indulgence of our blessed Saviour of flying from City to City is neither for all men nor all times This made the Saints the servants of God not only not deny but to proclaim themselves Christians and to run upon those unsufferable torments and jaws of