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mercy_n	commit_v	great_a	sin_n	5,813	5	5.3912	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96519	The gainefull cost. As it was delivered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, on VVednesday the 27. of November, being the day appointed for solemn and publike humiliation. By Henry Wilkinson, B.D. Pastor of Faiths under Pauls.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1610-1675.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2222; Thomason E23_2; ESTC R20564	35,536	37

THE Gainefull Cost As it was delivered in A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable House of LORDS In the Abbey Church at Westminster on Wednesday the 27. of November being the day appointed for solemn and publike Humiliation By Henry Wilkinson B. D. Pastor of Faiths under Pauls 2 CHRON. 31. 10. c. Since the people began to bring the offrings into the house of the Lord we have had enough to eat and have left plenty for the Lord hath blessed his people and that which is left is this great store VERS 21. In every work that hee began in the service of the house of God and in the Law and in the Commandements to seek his God he did it with all his heart and prospered LONDON Printed for CHR. MEREDITH and SA GELLIBRAND dwelling in Pauls Church-yard 1644. To the Right Honourable House of LORDS assembled in PARLIAMENT Right Honourable PErsons of highest rank and eminent qualifications are satis amplum alter alteri theatrum but persons so qualified when they are employed in matters of greatest and most publike concernment as your Lordships are become a * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spectacle to the world and to angels and to men 1 Cor. 4. 9. Look well how you behave your selves for you now act either to the greatest prejudice or profit of the Kingdome and the Church of God If the great wheel stands still the wheel within the wheel cannot move and they had need move very cautiously who if they move irregularly prove fatall Crosse motions in the superiour orbs of a State doe as much trouble wise men to reconcile them to the principles of peace and government as the Astronomers are troubled to save the Phoenomena by ●a●ning of Epicycles and Concentricks and Eccentricks God forbid that any should be put to the labour of coyning distinctions to salve the counter-passages or planetary motions in those spheres in which the brightest flarres of our State doe move It was a pious as well as politick inscription in the Court at Ratisbon Quisquis Senator curiam officii causa ingrederis ante hoc ostium privatos affectus omnes abjicito Camer Cent. 1. c. 33. iram vim odium amicitiam adulationem Reip. personam curam subjicito nam ut aliis aequus aut iniquus fueris ita quoque Dei judicium expectabis aut sustinebis It is an inscription not so fit to bee written on a Parliament house doore as on every Parliament mans heart Your Lordships are not ignorant how much there is not of weak man but of wicked man in the great transactions of the Church and State And I doubt not but you see and loath that generation and there be many of them who betake themselves to a side meerly for hopes interests and engagements sake these are their summa credendorum agendorum by these they act and beleeve no further then these doe reach these to them are the Law and Prophets It is well enough known that the interrogatory that Saul made to the Benjamites is a most 1 Sam. 22. 7. concluding topick to mercenaries Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards and make you all Captaines of thousands and Captaines of hundreds These be they whose Cynosura and polestar is profit and the Kingdom their prey and gold their god We hope that your Lordships will take care that such as these are shall never be great and that great men shall never be such I shall not trouble your Honours any further nor will I in the least kinde anticipate the book by giving so much as a taste of the heads before hand only thus much I could heartily wish that as it is a Sermon of cost so it were a costly Sermon every line of which were worthy to be written in letters of gold the Authour would never think it too good to be thus dedicated since to be employed for your Lordships good is the crown and happinesse of Your Honours most devoted Servant in Christ HENRY WILKINSON A SERMON PREACHED before the Right Honourable House of LORDS At the publique Fast Novemb. 27. 1644. 1 CHRON. 21. 24. And King David said to Ornan Nay but I will verily buy it for the full price for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord nor offer burnt offerings without cost IN this Chapter you have David sinning in numbring the people v. 1 2 8. and begging pardon Then you have the Lord punishing vers 14 15. after that you have David and the Elders humbling themselves before the Lord vers 16. Now upon this great sinne of David and Gods great judgement upon that sinne and Davids great humiliation upon that judgement you have one of the greatest mercies and favours vouchsafed to David that his heart could wish for you have a command given to David to goe and set up an Altar in the threshing Floore of Ornan the Iebusite v. 18. which place was afterward the place where Salomons Temple was built 2 Chron. 3. 1. whereupon David did presently set about the work which was to prepare for the building of that Temple chap. 22. 1 Chron. Thus it pleaseth God to order things that great sinnes being committed great judgements are inflicted and great judgements produce great humiliations and great humiliations are great preparations for the greatest mercies Our case is somewhat alike we have sinned grievously God hath punished us fearefully we have humbled our selves I could wish I were able to say as David did and I doubt not but the issue will bee nay wee see it in some measure the building the Lords house of which Salomons Temple was but a Type The words are a loving and noble answer to a loving and noble offer here is a pious contention betwixt two Kings for Araunah was a King 2 Sam. 24. 3. who should be at most cost for God Araunah thought that upon such an occasion and at such a time he could not doe too much and therefore he offers his threshing Floor and the Oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing instruments for wood and the wheat for a meat offering vers 23. but as Ornan thought he could not offer too much so David thought he should have offered too little if he had taken this and as it were have paid his own debts to God upon another mans charges We have two parts in the words 1. Davids answer to Ornans offer 2. Davids reason of that answer In the first you have first the purchaser King David Secondly the purchase he was to make Thirdly the price in grosse Fourthly the fulnesse of it David doth not beat his bargaine and bring it as low as he can but is ready to give as much as the things were worth to the full Doct. It becomes persons of highest rank and quality to offer and ●●pend at the highest rate for God In the second generall which is Davids reason first observe his justice It is thine and I will not doe