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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

them but because they were The Tribes of his Inheritance Among all the inhabitants of the earth he had chosen for his portion the Tribes of Jacob as the word signifies the Rods or Branches that sprang out of the Root of Jacob for his peculiar possession Deut. 32.8 When the Most high divided to the Nations their Inheritance when he separated the sons of Adam the Lords portion was his people and Jacob the lot of his inheritance Out of the whole world he chose Israel for his peculiar portion as it is in Amos 4. Thee on●ly have I known of all the families of the earth Not for any good in them but alone for his own love and good will as it is Deut. 7.8 Were not the time past we would have enlarged these Observations First Observ 1 The proper the sovereign the onely Cure of an erring spirit and hardned heart is the presence the return the gracious entrance of God in the heart Secondly When the Lord upon entreaty hath come into the heart and begins to enlighten and soften it he would be entertained with much love humility fear care All in the heart that may grieve his holy eye would be swept out lest if again he depart in anger the last estate be worse then the first Thirdly A Land wherein the spirit of Errour and Induration doth predomine cannot enjoy the gracious presence of the Spirit of Truth 2 Cor. 6.15 What communion hath light with darknesse What concord hath Christ with Belial Fourthly All who plead for a Liberty of habitation to errenious spirits in this Land require in plain English a Liberty so far as is in them to banish God out of England Fifthly When by the Judgement of God the spirit of Errour hath entred a Land there is no putting of him out but by Gods own Arm for he is a great deal stronger then men Zech. 13.2 It is the Lord who takes it on him to cause the false Prophets and the unclean spirit that leads them to passe out of the Land Sixthly Though the Judgement of Erring and Induration cannot be cured but by the return of the Lord though the subduing of the spirit of Errour and Obstinacie be the work of Gods hand yet every good man according to his place and calling above all the Nobles of a Land and the Houses of Parliament would employ their whole strength to help the Lord against that strong one We tempt God when we neglect to use the means for doing of that work wherein he hath the principall hand Because we live in God Shall we not eat and drink and keep our selves from seen dangers It is the Lord that subdues our enemies under us therefore shall not our Souldiers fight The Lords Spirit is the subduer of the spirit of Errour therefore Assemblies and Parliaments need to have no care of this matter When Satan reasoned thus with Christ He hath given his Angels charge over thee therefore cast thy self down headlong he replieth wisely Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Seventhly God will return for his servants sake in the most desperate times When Calamities have wracked the State when Errour and Obstinacy and these Judiciall lie on the spirits of a people the faithfull expect believe pray for favour upon the ground of their relation to God still remaining in the mids both of sins and miseries they are his servants and he their Lord. The conscience of a desire to serve the Lord is a Ground of hope in our hardest conditions Eighthly No hope of a deliverance by God in mercy from any Judgement unlesse we be willing to serve him as an absolute Master The greatest enemies of a State are those who would evert or enervate the Relation of master and servant between God and a people for this Relation is the ground-stone of all the Protection of all the Deliverance we may expect or pray for from God Popes Kings Bishops have been striving to be lords over Gods Flock that ambition hath cost all the three dear Let Christ alone by his own Laws his own Officers and his own Courts have the full Spirituall and Ecclesiastick Government of his Churches The taking of this from him may spoil us of his protection Those men that are most carefull to vindicate the right of Christ are best servants to the State for they lay a sure foundation of Christs favour and protection to that State wherein they settle Christ as the onely King Lord and Master of the Church Ninthly Consider the unexpressible benignity of God chusing out among the children of sinfull and miserable men some to be his own inheritance That the Infinite and All-sufficient God who hath need of nothing and to whom all creatures can adde no perfection in all Agesshould delight to have a possession and inheritance among men as his peculiar treasure they to be his and he to be theirs it s a wonderfull love to men Tenthly Gods Inheritance his peculiar People his dearest Children if they will venture on sin they shall be sure of Plagues both Spirituall and Temporall rather then any other people of the world For their sins are greatest being against a most loving Father It concerns him in honour and glory not to let them go with their scandalous trespasses He would be blasphemed if they went unpunished Thee onely have I known of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish thee for all thy transgressions Eleventhly The Spirit of Adoption under great sins and grievous punishments therefore moves the children of God to lay hold on their priviledges for the melting of their heart and bringing them to Repentance Finally The sweetest exercise of a Christian is the improving of the priviledge in band The making use daily of this mutuall Relation We are Gods Inheritance and God is our Portion A soul truely religious must give it self up fully to be possest and filled by God to be replenished in minde will affections memory conscience and every faculty with the whole fulnesse of God as an inhabitant as a due proper and onely heritor On the other part it will claim and lay hold by faith on the power the glory the truth the mercy and all that is in God as its own peculiar portion as the onely heritage which either in earth or heaven it desireth to enjoy But being cut off by time from enlarging these things I commend them and the rest to your meditation and the blessing of God FINIS

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