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A90993	Mans delinquencie attended by divine justice intermixt with mercy. Display'd in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abby Church at Westminster, Novemb. 25. 1646. being the solemn day of their monethly fast. / By William Price, B.D. Pastor of Waltam-Abby; and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Price, William, d. 1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3401; Thomason E363_1; ESTC R201226	28,963	60

him than of Power The holyest man is the noblest on earth saith Clement alluding to that of Solomon Proverbs ●● 26 The Righteous is better than his Reighbour Hierome would say of Paula 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strom. 7. Genere nobilis sanctitate nobilior Nescio quo pacto veritas in Nobili plus placet forte quia plus cares a virgin descending on the father side from Aenaeas on the mothers from Agamemnon Shee was noble in Stock but nobler in sanctitie And Bernard wittily to Sophia the virgin God is no respecter of persons yet I know not how goodnesse in the Noble takes us most perhaps because it is usually more wanting in them 8. As you must be good so do good be devoted to the publick good the one profits onely your selves the other us all Be not felfish tread not inwards Pompey being upon an expedition to Sicilie of purveyance for corn when it grew scarce in Rome and disswaded by his friends Necesse est ut eam non ut vivam objecting the danger of the voyage answered them It is more necessary that I should goe then live An heavie peece of iron like a good Patriot will leave its particular relation to the load-stane and falling expresse its homage to the earth the common centre of heavie bodies If your Lordships be invested with these qualifications and expresse them it will never be said that the unjust are set over the Law the impious over Religion ignorance over Learning or monsters over men And it may be written over your House door as over the Court of Justice in Zant Hic locus odit amat punit conservat honorat Nequitiam pacem crimin● jura probos This place hates wickednesse loves peace punishes guilt preserves law and right and honours and incourages the good We have all of all sorts heard our duties set out and had I time to set them on by perswasive putheticall convictive incentives I cannot select better then the last verse of my Text offers to my hand coming as uninforced as honey dropping from the comb Consider what wee have and what wee would have what wee injoy and what wee-expect and desire we may eccho forth Ezra's word here Wee have reason to celebrate as well as Ezra or Israel the Grace shewn to us from the Lord our God For a little space ●ath grace been ●hewed Grace Hee hath loved this Kingdome because hee would love it the ground of his love is in his immutable self and not in us as it is said of his love to Israel Deut. 7.7 8. The Lord did set his love upon you because hee loved you And what is such a love but free-grace For we were fitter to set his foot then his heart upon And this grace could no more conceal it self then the Sunne Shewed it hath shewn it self in so many rivulets and streams in so many mercies full choice seasonable melting mercies that wee if any Nation under heaven may say wee have comprehended or rather been comprehended by the breadth and length and depth and height of Gods love The Philosophers tel us but of three dimensions the Apostle hath found out four in Gods mercy Eph. 3.18 And wee have had a large share in this grace that Ezra memorizeth in the Text I 'll walk on his grounds In grace mercy remembred amidst judgement in allayes remitting and relaxation of Gods heavie hand Hee hath not let out all his wrath but corrected us in judgement weight and measure Vltra citra condigmem His punishents fall on this side his mercies goe beyond our merits as David sings Psal 103.10 Hee takes away a part that might have stript us of all as Anitus said of Alcibiades in Plutarch He sends a feaver that might cast into everlasting burning He scourges with rods that might with Scorpions Hee begins that might make an end of us He hath afflicted us three or four yeers with a Civill sword that might have delivered us to a seventy yeeres Babylonish Captivity A share wee have had in his reserving-mercy Leaving us a remnant to escape Isa 6. ult leaving us a remnant to escape but decimating tything us when hee might have left us but a tenth as hee did to Israel Nay wee were all forfeited to his justice hee hath laid no more on us then hee hath enabled us to bear and given us a door a passage out as S. Paul speaks 1 Cor. 10.13 A share in his setling grace A nail in c. Jer. 22.23 giving us a naile in his holy place his Church Establishing us as Eliakim Making us a nail in a sure place The Gospel hath irradiated and shed his cleer beams without setting or eclipse for above four score yeers upon us We have been a Goshen wee have dwelt in his Tabernacle and holy Hill as it is promised Psal 15.1 ult though wee have neglected the conditions there specified in the Psalm Wee have deserved to be un-nation'd un-Church'd by a Bill of divorce from heaven to be tumbled about as a ball into strange lands as it is Jer. 22.18 Israel complains Isa 63.18 they had possest the Sanctuary but a little while Wee cannot say so Ezra is gratefull in the Text for grace a little space what owe we for so long a possession To lighten our eyes God hath also lightned our eyes By outward favours Sam. 14.29 as Jonathans were by honey and wee as hee have received our honey at the end of a rod that wee might the more value it By favours of an higher alloy hee hath lightned our eyes that had the shadow of death upon them Which was Oecolampadius his support his name signifies a lamp or light on his death-bed who when his friends asked him Whether the light of the candle did not trouble him clapt his hand on his brest and said Here I have sufficient light the light of Gods countenance In a word To revive our hearts to defraud your patience no longer God hath revived our hearts as Ezra speaks in the close of the Text wee are even raised from the grave of an intestine Warre and comforted with hopes that wee shall not like raised Lazarus fall back into the same grave again And this comfort at the height of affliction is like mercy at the block like welcome showres to the chopped ground or like the Sun-beams after this flood like a shadow a bower against scorching heat Man would never thus have spared man and therefore David calls his kindnesse to the house of Saul that deserved ill at his hands the kindnesse of God 2 Sam. 9.3 and not of man Comfort is here entitled Reviving or Re-enlivening in the Hebrew Idiome It is a kinde of resurrection But I must take leave Let mee borrow Rhetorick from S. Paul I beseech Rom. 12.1 or conjure you men brethren and Fathers by all these mercies and pledges of Gods love and such others as we know not of for it is with mercy as with the Globe Terra incognit● it is thought the unknown part of the world is greater then what is discovered I beseech you that these mercies may be as nails fastened by the master of Assemblies as Solomon elegantly to rivet the former propounded duties into your heads hearts and lives let the mercy of God lead us to shame and sorrow for our sins Let Gods Justice tutor us to be just Let Gods moderation and forbearance make an impression of mercy on us toward each other and let us not by reiterating repeating the same sins be guilty of the worst of crimes ingratitude nor by our obstinacy our iron sinew exasperate God to Judgement Isa 28.21 Gen. 3.8 which is called his strange work Toward which he walked so slowly when he went to doomb Adam and deferred it to the cool of the day whereas he ran to meet the returning Prodigal and renews his mercies every morning and is still afore-hand with us Like the Sun bidding us good morrow afore we are up That we may not move God to put his mercies into suit and to recover them out of our hands as God chooses to expresse himself by the Prophet Hos 2.9 I will recover my wool and my flaxe that I lent But if neither judgement nor mercy neither glad nor sad tidings neither the dark nor the bright side of the cloud of Providence be operative with us you put your Ministers to a stand and pose us who with Moses and S. Paul would have our owne Names blotted out of the book of life assoon as yours Exod. 32.32 Rom. 9.3 if we could help you but Gods counsel shall stand However we by dealing freely with you shall free our owne soules from being guilty of your blood And as the Prophet incourages himself though once he thought to give over preaching conceiving he laboured and expended his strength in vaine Isa 49.4 Well Yet my worke is with the Lord and though Israel be not gathered my reward is with my God I close with that of S. Paul to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 10.15 I speak to men of understanding judge ye what I say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS

with us and bear us in your armes by love in your hearts by care Male terrore● neratio acqui●tur timor abi● secedas m●netmor in odium mor timor in ●veren●iam ver● tat Max. on your shoulders by patience Reverence as ill purchas'd by terrifying when you are gone fear goes too but love will remrine fear converts to hatred but love to veneration saith Plinius 2. Some seeme so to be angry with others vices as if they envied them idem A debonaire gentlenes is a grace to you Sic irascuntur quasi invideant Geminio Id. Art●●in● when you temper and allay your severe gravity with so much mildnesse as may weigh against it It will be rare in you so to abstain from sin as if you pardoned no man and yet so to pardon as if your selves were daily offenders you should be our Noahs putting forth your hand to pluck opprest ones into the Arke of your protection when floods are abroad Jerome wished Pammachius a noble man Coecorum ocul●● manus d●bilium claudorum pes Justis suppliciis illachrym●vit to be an cie to the blind an hand to the weak and a foot to the lame Vespasian would mourne over just punishments and when he was to signe the death of any would say I would I could not a letter of the book Vtinamnesciren● literd● What difference between a man and a brazen statue of man but that one hath bowells and the other hath none Sylla was a divel to command Marcus Pletorius to be slain on the place Nov●● 〈◊〉 miseri●●dia Val. Max. l. 9. c. 2. because he fell into a swoun at the sight of the execution of Marius a new punisher of mercie The first that ever was reveng'd on vertue It was a sad thing that the Jews were fain to purchase leave to weep You resemble God whom you represent no way neerer than by mercy the lovelyest of his Attributes and should he take his advantage 〈◊〉 nolle ●bile ●is est pro●sse Leoni we were all lost men You are never more like your selves than when mercifull it is noble not to do all you are able To lie prostrate to a Lyon saves the life To be on the higher ground should be no advantage to a generous spirit onely cowards and the ignoble are cruel The ancient Nobility of Rome ●●t Qu. Rom. ●●27 ●●v 12.1 and Arcadia wore moons on their shooes to mind them of the worlds mutability The highest may come to stand in need of mercy with what hearts can they expect it what face ask it ●●m 2.13 ●●iv Decad. 1. that denyed it Judgement mercilesse to them that show no mercy Appius took away all appeals in case of life and death and when he came to need an appeal he was justly denyed it Eutropius endeavoured to take away the relief of Sanctuaries and himself was afterward hail'd out of Sanctuary from the very hornes of the Altar ●d Pop. 36.51 To show mercy saith Chrysostome is a greater worke than to build magnificent Temples nay to raise the dead Fourthly Shall I adde love and inclineablenesse too and studiousnesse of peace adornes you War I trust shall ever be your refuge never your choice To war as to marriage not lust of gaine or dissention but procreation of peace should be the motive Esto bellando pacificus Aug. Carry peace in your hearts when the sword is in your hands Hercules club was made of the Olive the embleme of peace it is a fit speech for a Spanish mouth that the smell of Gun-powder in the Field is as sweet as of incense at the Altar Love of blood-shed becoms the Scarlet whore of Rome whose Religion was planted in and watered with blood Let the killing of twelve millions in two and forty yeers in the West-Indies attested by Bartholomeus A Casa a Bishop there Let French-massacres Sicilian even-songs Spanish Inquisitions which Heinsius aptly calls the fourth Fury let these stuffe Popish Chronicles and not furnish out ours Fifthly Nemo regere potest nisi qui regi Sen. de Ir● Patience and temper-render you honourable in mens eies passion exposeth to contempt None can rule well that cannot rule themselves but are overruled by passion He that cannot guide a boat in a River is unfit to steere a ship in a storme It would make the most furious spirit dispassionate to hear of the great cruelty of the Emperor Theodosius when he gave life to his Passion though otherwise he be by Ambrose and others fam'd for a most Temperate Mercifull Religious Prince because a servant of his was slain in an uprore in Thessalonica he in a rage caused a Massacre to passe on the City so that in three houres seven thousand innocents were butchered Ye had need set a strong guard on your passions Sixthly Humility lowlinesse becomes the high as well as the low Non magni●●co sed tumor Sen. Nobilis facta humilitate nobilier Hier. Epita Marcel Inopum cellas dignanter intr●cas your Saviour condescended to wash Judas feet those feet that trudged up and down to betray him and that soyl off which he contracted with those walkes Pride is no true greatnesse but a swelling excrescence Noblesse is by humility made more noble It was Jeromes advice to Pammachius Vouchsafe to enter somtimes the lowest cells of the meanest The proud in ascending descend the humble in descending ascend in the esteem of God and all good men Seventhly Religion deeks ye Jethro's Magistrates were to be men fearing God ●xod 18.21 ●emmata quid ●ciunt ●iremur te non ●a miserum 〈◊〉 aliorum in●mbere famae ●uvenal ●abiles quadam ●cessitate con●ringuntur ne 〈◊〉 antiquorum ●robitate dege●rent though you are Gods before men You are but men before God Plead not your descent unlesse you answer the worth of your Predecessors Let not that be escheat and buried with the owners We had rather admire you than your stem it is wretched to glister with borrowed lustre Nobles saith Hierome are constrained by a kind of necessity not to degenerate from the probitie of their Ancestors Else as the people did worship Isis and not the creature that bore the image think when we show you reverence we mean it to your Ancestors As Mariners have your eie upon heaven when your hand is on the helme Why should not great and good stand together God is Optimus Maximus Best and Greatest and they have met and been concentred in men As Joseph Hester Mordecai Obediah Nehemiah Daniel the Lord Deputie of Cyprus in the Acts Acts 8.27 Phil. 4.22 the E●●●●ch of Queene Candace Flavianus in Vespasianus Court Derotheus in Dioclesians Terentius in Valentinians durst be good Indeed there is no true greatnesse disjoyned from goodnesse Exod. 30.15 Gratius einomen 〈◊〉 quem p●●●statis Apol. adv Gen. c. 34. Every man is as he is in Gods books Tertullian said of Augustas the name of Pietie was more gracious to