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A77434	Errours and induration, are the great sins and the great judgements of the time. Preached in a sermon before the Right Honourable House of Peers, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, July 30. 1645. the day of the monethly fast: / by Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1645 (1645)	Wing B459; Thomason E294_12; ESTC R200181	39,959	57

days of Humiliation and when else their hearts are loosed to mourn do deplore Yet here is our Comfort That in answer to our Supplications the Lord hath stirred up the hearts of those who have power effectually to minde that which we are confident will prove the Remedy of these and many more of our present Evils I mean The setting up without further Delay of the Lords Government in his own House over all the Land The whole Government being transmitted from the Assembly and looked upon by both Houses with a gracious Aspect and sundry Votes already past upon the chief parts thereof it is certainly expected that in a very short time the whole Frame shall be erected and not onely be accompanied with the joyfull Acclamations of this Land and of all the Churches abroad but also filled with so much Grace and Power from the presence of the Lord as shall prove an heavenly Attractive without any need of humane violence to draw the spirits of those who for the time do most dissent and oppose to its admiration and love Waiting and praying for the sight of that happie day I rest Thy Servant in the Lord R. B. A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Lords July 30. 1645. ISAI 63.17 Lord why hast thou made us to erre from thy ways and hardned our hearts from thy fear Return for thy servants sake the Tribes of thine Inheritance IN this and the two next Chapters The Division of the Chapter we have a heavenly Conference and Dialogue betwixt Christ and the Church of Israel in the time of her affliction in Babel The Dialogue hath Three or Six parts Three Questions of the Church and Three Answers of Christ In the first verse of this Chapter The first Pars. we have the first Question and Answer The Church about that time of the Captivity to which this part of the Prophecie relateth was much oppressed with many Enemies God after all his wrath begins to arise and take order with them who long had deyoured her especially with Edom the neerest and most bitter Enemy of Jacob. When she sees the sudden and unexpected Vengeance on Edom admiring who could be the author and worker of it she proposes the Question Who he was that had destroyed Bozra the principall City of the Edomites and was marching in his great and glorious strength from the Land of Edom the service there being ended to other of the Enemies Countreys Unto the Churches Interrogation Christ answers That it was he himself who now by his works was demonstrating the truth of his ancient promises and shewing the might of his power to save his people from the Enemies oppression Observe The Doct●ine When the Church hath wrestled long with her enemies and is ready to faint and give over on a sudden Christ the King and Captain of the Host of Israel comes down and breaks the strength of the prevailing enemy to the Church her great admiration The second part of the Dialogue is in the next five verses The second part of the Chapter The Church finding it was her Lord and God who was begun to take vengeance on her enemies before he go she is desirous of more conference with him and proposes a second Question Wherefore his Garments were red as if he had been treading a Presse of red wine The Lords Answer is That the set time of his Vengeance upon her Enemies was come That though her strength was gone and among all her friends there was none able to stand against her foes yet he alone would do it and by his own Arm had destroyed already some of them with so great a slaughter that all his glorious Raiment was stained with the blood of the slain Hence observe The first Doctrine first When the condition of the Church is most desperate upon earth then is the day and hour of her certain redresse from heaven The Church The second deserted of her self and all men else hath one fast friend who alone is worth many Ten thousands able to draw her out of all deeps In the day of the Lords anger The third wo to all the enemies of the Church When the Lord begins to trample them in the Wine-presse of his Indignation if there were no more but the dashing of their bodies in pieces the watering of the ground with their blood and the staining of the garments of their killers therewith if no more followed it were well to them But they must drink after death in the Cup of the everlasting fury of the Almighty as John comments it Rev. 14.10 They shall be tormented with fire and brimstone for ever and ever In the third part of the Dialogue from the seventh verse The Subdivision of the third part the Church finding her Deliverance sensibly begun but not accomplished for though Edom was destroyed yet Babel was sitting like a Queen over the Nations and most over the rubbish of desclate Jerusalem she turns her self to her present Redeemer and most humbly supplicates him to perfect what he had begun To deliver her fully from the great burdens both of sin and misery that yet lay upon her This Prayer is set down in the remnant of this Chapter and all the next whereunto a large and gracious Answer is returned by Christ in the 65 Chapter thorow the whole The first part of the Prayer is Thanksgiving Its first member from the seventh to the fifteenth To prepare their hearts for petitioning they lay out before the Lord the great goodnesse which he of old had bestowed on the house of Israel his wonders in Egypt his glorious works at the Red Sea and in the Wildernesse the constancy of his kindnesse notwithstanding their Rebellion and vexing of his Spirit Though sometime he punished them for their sins yet he never left them for the glory of his Name and the Multitude of his mercies Not onely Moses his Shepherd but the Angel of his Presence went before them He was afflicted in all their afflictions he bare them and carried them in his arms all these days of old thorow that howling Wildernesse This is the Churches Preface to her subsequent Prayer Hence observe first The first Doctrine Thanksgiving is the meetest usher which a Petitioner can have to the Throne of Grace Praise perfumes the lips of a Supplicant it sweetens it softens it opens the heart of a Seeker and fits it singularly to receive all its desires from God The kindnesse of God in the days of Moses The second and the most ancient times is the Churches Inheritance to the worlds end All the favours of God registred in Scripture all the gracious experiments of the Saints in any time in any place are our Patrimony serving as ruled Cases to strengthen our Faith Hope and Patience in the days of our adversity The sins of many persons The third remove not the favour of God from an elect Nation

to cite they invite you to permit ravening Woolfs freely to enter your streets and tear in peeces all they meet with to come into your Houses and Chambers to devour the souls of your best beloved Wives Sons Daughters Servants and Friends to lead them all out to a ditch and drown them yea which is infinitely worse to cast them all in the pit of damnation These were hard expressions if they were our own and not our betters I mean Christ and his Apostles Would you permit any whom you were able to hinder to rent the Coat of Christ to tear his Skin to cut his Flesh to pull his Arm from his Shoulder These are the things which too long have been done in our eyes It were good that such impious actions so grievous to God so hurtfull to the souls of men at last were stopped Would you count him a gracious parent who should wink at any who brought into his house Vipers and Serpents Woolfs and Tigers to destroy his Children who brought in Boxes of Pestiferous Cloaths and boldly spread them on the Beds and about the Table where himself and family were to sit and lie This is the office and onely exercise of all our Hereticks and Patrons of errour All Christians are obliged to the uttermost of their power to quench the fire of Heresie and Schism but above all other we have a speciall obligation for this duty we have lifted up our hands to the most high God vowing to him in the sight of all the Neighbour-Nations our endeavours in the sincerity of our hearts to extirpate Heresie and Schism and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine without respect of persons If herein we should be negligent would not God avenge our solemn Perjury If respect to any person should make us ever think of breaking that Bond and expressely contrary thereto to begin once to tamper about the toleration of errours contrary to sound Doctrine what might we and the posterity expect from the hand of the God of Justice and Truth Let none object the example of the States of Holland to us in this point The example of Holland an swered For first Where the Will of God is evident the contrary example of men is not to be regarded Secondly The evill example of one State is not to be followed against the good example of all other Protestant Churches Thirdly These States were never bound to God by such a Covenant as we are Fourthly In these States there hath been a connivance at Errours by particular Magistrates for their private gain but to this hour was ever any Sect among them so impudent as to offer a Petition for a Toleration by Law when lately some assayed to do it they repented ever since of that folly Lastly Hath not the Magistrates connivance without any Legall Toleration so much multiplied Sects among them that for this one thing though for many other their renown be great they have become infamous in the Christian World The godly among them have been more grieved with this scandalous sin then with any other and those of them who are wise do see their State this day in greater civill danger by this peece of impious policy and from it apprehend greater hazards of commotion and ruine to their State then from any other ground However the connivence there at Sects and the multiplication of Sects by connivence is no wayes comparable to what is among us but we trust that this kinde of our erring from the wayes of God is near a period and shall shortly be remedied So much for the first part of the Churches complaint The second part of the Complaint exponed followeth the second And hardned our heart from thy fear Not onely they had wanderd out of the wayes of God in divers by-paths of sin but in these sins they were obstinate their hearts had been hard the fear of God moved them not to repentance This was a worse evill then the first so they acknowledge the hand of God and his sore punishment into it and of this make a heavy regrate to him The originall word that here is turned harden What is hardnesse of heart is but once else in Scripture Job 39.16 spoken of the Ostridge She is hardned against her young ones or is removed from her young ones she leaveth them alone It signifies two things To harden or to remove Some of the best Latin Interpreters translate it here Why removest thou our heart from thy fear The Chaldee Paraphrast takes it so also but the Septuagint and the most of other Interpreters old and late translate it as we have it The words will bear both but for shortnesse I shall hold with our own translation onely Hardnesse of heart is a metaphor importing the wilfull obstinate and rebellious disposition of the Spirit against the fear and counsells of God As hard Wax refuseth the stamp while the soft receives the impression A hard Wall puts back the Ball which the soft Ayr letteth passe through A Corslet of Iron holds out the Bullet which the softnesse of the flesh receiveth The way how God hardneth the heart against his fear How God hardeneth the heart is not by infusion of any hardnesse or any evill disposition into the heart but by three other actions First By withdrawing of his gracious spirit whose operation it is that softens the heart and makes it plyable to the Counsells of God and subject to his fear Deut. 29.9 The Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive eyes to see and ears to hear to this day That all they had seen in Egypt and in the Wildernesse had not pierced their heart with the love and fear of God Of this wonderfull hardnesse of the peoples heart this reason is rendered by Moses God had not given them a heart to perceive Beside this negative action of God in hardning the heart he hath two positive He gives over the heart to its own naturall hardnesse that it may be more and more hardened Thus the Lord hardened Pharaohs heart He not onely withheld all the gracious motions of his spirit from him but let his naturall obstinacy work it self to an acquired habit of hardnesse And so what was before naturall became habituall and judiciall This is the judgement spoken of the twelfth of John from the sixth of Isaiah Make the heart of this people fat for their rejecting of my former counsels let their rebellious heart become-worse and worse so that thy ministery do them no more good Thirdly God gives over the heart judicially hardned by it self to Satans tentations whereby it becomes more blinde dead and hard then of it self alone it could be He sent evill Angels among the Egyptians for this evill among others Psal 79.49 2 Thes 2. He sends out Satan to work with Antichrist for to blinde the eye and harden the heart with strong delusions By all this you understand why the Church regrates it here to God

ERROURS And INDURATION ARE The Great Sins and the Great Judgements of the Time Preached in a SERMON Before the Right Honourable House of PEERS in the Abbey-Church at Westminster July 30. 1645. the day of the Monethly Fast By ROBERT BAYLIE Minister at Glasgow 2 Thess 2.10 11 12. Because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a Lye that they all might be damned who believed not the Truth Matth. 7.15 Beware of false Prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves Matth. 15.14 Let them alone they be blinde Leaders of the Blinde and if the Blinde lead the Blinde both shall fall into the Ditch London Printed by R. Raworth for Samuel Gellibrand at the Brasen-Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1645. Die Jovis 31 Julii 1645. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament That Master Baylie who preached yesterday before the Lords of Parliament in the Abbey-Church Westminster it being the day of the Publike Fast is hereby thanked for the great pains he took in his Sermon and desired to print and publish the same which is to be printed by none but such as shall be authorized by the said Master Baylie Job Brown Cler. Parliamentorum Ido appoint Samuel Gellibrand to print my Sermon ROBERT BAYLIE FOR The Equitable READER HOwsoever I have not adventured to offer unto the Right Honourable House of Peers any Dedicatorie Epistle having taken up alreadie so much of their pretious time in their patient and favourable audience of my prolix enough Sermon Yet presuming upon thy courtesie who shalt be willing to reade the subsequent Notes of that which to their Honours was preached without any variation I have made bold to speak in thy eares as the custome is some words of a Preface At the first instant of my calling to this service the words of my Text were cast into my minde where they remained without my least inclination towards any other till I had delivered from them what followeth I have been for a long time in the opinion that Errour and Induration are albeit not the only yet among the principall both sins and miseries of this time and place Hardnesse of heart is ever a sinne The sinfulness of Induration but then most sinfull when most unseasonable If ever there was a time to weep this must be it when not only the mouth of the Lord from his Word is calling but his hand also from the Heaven is drawing us to it He is a stubborn child from whose eye the rod of the Father can draw no water It is a hard stone which the hammer cannot break It is a piece of unnaturall metall wich the fire cannot dissolve And yet this is the complaint of the best discerning Christians every where That though the Lord at this instant be dealing with us by the rod the hammer the fire of his judgements we are so far from heart-melting that in this extraordinarie and untimous hardnesse of our heart more of the wrath and judiciall hand of God doth appear then in any or in all our judgements beside This plague of the Lord on the spirits not only of the World but of many his dear children ought to be the subject of our deepest groans and lowdest cries to the Heaven whence alone the remedie of this our spirits disease can come For there is but one Father and one Lord and one Physitian of the spirits of men My weak endeavours towards this great Cure must be fruitless till his hand make the application of these prescriptions which with all the faithfulnesse and care I was able for the time I have collected only out of the book of his own method of Physick As for the other evill of Errour Error no lesse sinfull then ●ice it hath been the studie and work of some here and elsewhere to extenuate the sinfulnesse thereof and to arme the conscience of all they could perswade against the sense of its burthen as if the conscience ought to be impenetrable and secure from all Wounds which vice and fleshly lusts doe not inflict But I believe if Errour and Vice were Well weighed in the ballance of the Sanctuarie though you put to vice the grossest aggravations whereby the passions of the soul and actions of the bodie make it justly abominable yet if you Will allow to Errour but the grains of its ordinarie circumstances especially that one of our Text Induration its most familiar companion it will be found to have such a weight of malignitie that if betwixt the two any inequality do appear the sinfulnesse of the last will prae-ponder The intoxication of the spirit of the minde by the venome of Errour is as much contrarie to the Divine Nature and Will is as much hatefull to the Spirit of light and truth and as evidently damnable as the corruption of the will and inferiour affections or any member of the bodie with whatsoever vice or more bodily transgression I hope I have proved this by places of Scripture unanswerable Whence it necessarily followeth that it is more Toleration of errours a grievous sin at least no lesse unlawfull for a Christian State to give any libertie or toleration to Errours then to set up in every Citie and Parish of their Dominions Bordels for Vncleannesse Stages for Playes and Lists for Duels That a libertie for Errours is no lesse hatefull to God no lesse hurtfull to men then a freedome without any punishment Without any discouragement for all men when and wheresoever they pleased to kill to steal to rob to commit adultery or to do any of these mischiefs which are most repugnant to the Civill law and destructive of humane societie But that which my Text points at in Errours The errours of our time appear to be judiciall is not so much their sinfulnesse as their judgement That God in his wrath had given over that people to errour If ever the plague of erring from the wayes of truth was sent upon a land it seems this day to lye upon us The Finger of God in this our judgement is demonstrable by divers Characters imprinted upon the face of our present Errours above all that in ordinarie and not judiciall Errours useth to appear I point at four eminent singularities in them Their various multiplicity Their palpable evidence Their incredible increase and in the midst of universall complaints against them A totall neglect of their cure First their variety is prodigious 1 By their variety I cannot say that all which stand in the ancient Hereseologies of Philastrius Epiphanius or Augustine can be found among us or Were ever to be found upon Earth in any one age But this may be confidently averred That more Errours have set up their head and shewed their mis-shapen countenances lately here then in any one place of the world this day are known I adde that there is not any Errour spoken