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A17142	Dauids strait A sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, Iuly 8. 1621. By Samuel Buggs Bachelor of Diuinitie, sometime Fellow of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge: and now minister of the word of God in Couentrie.	Buggs, Samuel.	1622 (1622)	STC 4022; ESTC S106913	31,160	62

that saw themselues in an euill case but they knew not how to helpe it While he is thus ruminating of this hard bargaine Gad tarries for an answer and now impatient of further delay demands a speedy resolution Verse 13. that hee may returne an answer to him that sent him Thus then at the length out of the abundant sorrow of his heart his trembling lips and tongue vtter these or the like words of passion Oh man of God pray for me vnto the Lord that if it be possible this pride of my heart may be forgiuen me Oh carry God my sighes and teares perhaps that sweet incense may appease him Present vnto my louing God my straitned soule and see if that will satisfie him tell him my soule cries out of the grate of misery for grace and mercy My sinne hath so ingaged my soule vnto God that my heart is broken and such a sacrifice my God will not despise But here the Seer interrupts him Dauid now leaue off passion and arme thy selfe with patience The decree of God is set down and God will neuer grant decree vpon decree the sentence is past and may not be reuersed thy sinne was great Note so must be thy punishment As no counsell though of thy friend could diuert thee from the one so no prayer though neuer so carnest shall auert from thee the other Herein was Gad a faithfull messenger but a miserable comforter The diuell ought Israel a spight and now he hath payed it them When Nathan told Dauid of his adultery and murder hee presently absolues him vpon his repentance The Lord hath put away thy sinne Why may not Gad say as much Hath God forgotten to be gracious Oh but if we well remember the child borne of that adulterous bed dyed for Dauids sinne and hath God forgotten to be iust Thus is Dauid still in a great strait Had hee beene now numbring of his dayes he had applyed his heart to wisedome but now in numbring the people his heart gaue way to folly Now not only is he brought to the Logicians dilemma but indeed to Trilemma as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vsed in war cast it any way and still one poynt lies vpward obuious to the face and hurtfull to the foote Now I conceiue your iudicious apprehensions ready to forestall me and already to conceiue a Doctrine which I shall propound as a true borne Childe lawfully begotten from Dauids case and my premised discourse Doct. That it is a farre easier matter to yeeld to sinne then to answere for it Sampson was bound with seuen greene cordes and hee brake them from his armes like a third Dauid is now tyed with one twist of a threefold cord and cannot get loose I haue heard and read of some Noctambulones that haue left their beds in their sleepe and haue clombe vp such daungerous places that waking they could scarse tell how to get downe againe So fares it with the wilfull sonnes of men who being lulled asleepe in sinne questionlesse dreame of great security but when their slumber is past when the word or their conscience shall awake them then their voyce is the voyce of Dauid Angustior It may be sayde of Sinne as the Poets sayd of Venus Laeta venire Venus tristis abire solet For sinne still presents to men vtile iucundum or honestum which being by and by apprehended Sathan suggests man consents and both their fingers itch till the fear be wrought which being once effected the pleasure of sinne lasting but for a season is withdrawne and gone Sathan deales as Ammon did by Thamar thrusts him out bolts the doore and takes no notice of the poore sinner Then is poore man left to himselfe and hath no company but a wounded conscience and then hee finds himselfe in a strange perplexity in a wonderfull strait And what I now beloued say concerning one sinner I say of all When neither the voyce of reason can reuoke them the bridle of Religion restraine them nor the checke of conscience moue them they that in the heat of sinne will bee like Dauid vsing the vtmost of their liberty shall in the height of punishment find themselues like Dauid in a great strait But that I may not seeme to want proofe within the confines of my Text fixe we but our eies on Dauid T is a braue thing to number the people it was indeed so is a Waspe a pretty thing to see too but it beares a sting in the taile So is Sinne Mulier formosa supernè outwardly and vpwardly faire but desinit in piscem whatsoeuer the premises or the promises of sinne may be the Sinner may in the end say to it as dying Agrippa did to his dogge Abi hinc in malam rem qui perdidisti animam meam See here what Dauids numbring or practice in Arithmetique came too Addition of sinne Substraction of liberty Multiplication of sorrow Diuision like the diuision of Reuben euen great thoughts of heart It is the manner of Worldlings to deale in sin as Prodigals doe in expences spend and call and neuer mind the reckoning no nor their generall estate till pouertie come vpon them like an armed man And thus the sinner multiplies his transgressions neuer minding the fearefull euent and dire Catastrophe of his wickednesse when as indeed he should like the wise builder sit downe and casts vp his reckoning But Satan like a cunning Sophister sets the best side forward separates the end from the meanes as if Sinne and sorrow were of no acquaintance and did not vse to kisse each other S. Iohn did eate the booke which the Angell gaue him in his mouth it was as sweet as honey but in his belly as bitter as gall But he that swallowes the bait which Satan giues him shal find the pleasures of sinne to last but for a season and in the end bitternesse bitternesse Eue saw the apple that it was faire to the eye but after could haue wished that she had neuer seene it The Foxe mentioned by Horace got easily into the Garner of corne but hauing eaten his fill could not so soone get out The hunters horne debts liuely embleme is easily entred but hard in the egresse A man falling downe with the tyde may easily shoot the bridge but to returne against the streame hic labor hoc opus est Facilis descensus Auerni Iunenal Diues may slip into hell and misery without either spoiling his purple garments or pinching his well-fed belly But then there is magnum Chaos not a wall but a world of seperation betwixt him and happinesse The vnthrifty Tradesman that makes the Tauerne his shop the Play-house his Exchange gaming his traffique and whores his customers when need and debt en-Counter him and his former follies like Spiders poison him that he breaks then and not till then is hee made sensible of his owne misery then his letters certifie his friends and his tongue cries out to his Creditors I am in

TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL Mr MAIOR of the City of Couentry and the rest Worshipfull Aldermen and Sheriffes of that INCORPORATION S. B. wisheth encrease of grace in this life and assurance of glory in the life to come RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL WHen I first deliuered that small Treatise by word of mouth it was the farthest part of my thought euer to aduenture the exposall of it to the view of any as considering mine owne weaknes and the worlds peeuishnesse But it fared with this Sermon as with a Meteor which being gently drawne vp by the kindly heate of the Sunne resides for a time in the Ayre and hath there indeed a beeing but shineth not till kindled by the Antiperistasis and circumstant cold of the ayre So this my Labour receiuing some warmth and beeing by the gentle breath and vndeserued approbation of some was not yet seene of the world vntill it tooke fire by some who being at the deliuery of it circumstant did in their causlesse and vndeserued humours giue such cold entertainment vnto both it and me that I was by the vulgar reported to bee taken by the great Fleet or at the least shrewdly encountred Whereupon I thought it fit for mine owne defence and satisfaction of others that the things before demisla per aurem should be now oculis subiect a fidelibus that what was before in the aire and in the eare should now be in the eye that the Christian Reader may iudge whether it deserued reproofe or censure yea or no and whether herein I haue laboured to keepe a good conscience toward God and men I appeale to the iudgements of them who being cleare of any thing against which I might seeme to inueigh are fittest and the onely competent Iudges in this kind Your Worships can I trust beare me witnesse that I neuer amongst you for these many years haue shewed my selfe any way to be of a factious and a turbulent spirit but haue alwaies laboured and prayed for the peace of Ierusalem and hope to prosper the better because I loue her Now when these forenamed passages had caused me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 willing nilling for my owne safeguard to adiudge this poore booke to be prest although I might haue seemed wise in choice of some greater patronage I thought fittest to appropriate some part of my labours to this place where I was borne brought vp and haue spent my dayes euer since I was called first to the Ministery and so much the rather in regard of your vndeserued loues which I can neyther deny nor conceale lest I should be iniurious and also your godly and religious dispositions wherein this City doth equall without flattery be it spoken the most ciuilly gouerned or most eminently religious places of this Kingdome Such as it is it pleades in my name and I in the name of Truth that it may finde acceptance with your Worships and as many as loue the truth and if in any thing I shall be blamed I will not bee so presumptuous as with Pilate to say What I haue written I haue written but as the Ecclesiasticall Historian If I haue done well it is that which I desired but if slenderly and meanly it is that which I could attaine vnto If hereby any taking paines to reade is shall reape any benefit it shall be a full satisfaction for my labour and the comfort of my heart Now the God of loue and peace multiply his blessings vpon this City that it may be happy in gouernment holy in profession the true member of the mysticall body of Christ partaking the promises of godlinesse euen those of this life and of the life to come Euen so be it Lord Iesus Amen Amen Your Worships in all Christian duties to be commanded Samuel Buggs DAVIDS STRAIT 2 SAM 24.14 And Dauid said vnto Gad I am in a great strait THere is a two-fold euill whereunto all the sonnes of Adam are subiect as long as they liue in these houses of Clay malum culpae and malum poenae an euill of sin and an euill of punishment Semblable whereunto the whole duty of man is comprised in these two words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a patient bearing of the euill of affliction and a conscionable forbearing the euill of sinne In this actiue and passiue life as all other Saints and Seruants of God so Dauid a man after his owne heart was much exercised wherein hee so carried himselfe that much praise and renown did accrew both to his worthy person and holy profession In the passiue part of his life Qui hominum patientior aut qui tolerantior Meeke as a Doue in persecution mild as a Lambe in prosecution of his hate-worthy enemies especially toward Saul when God had put him into his hands hee was so farre from touching his person as that hee was content to sit downe with much wrong and bee the sole patient of vndeserued hatred Iames 3.2 But for the actiue part as In many things we offend all 2 Sam. 11.4 12.9 so Dauid himselfe was faulty in two maine matters for being made King of his hopes hee offended in the matter of Vriah the Hittite whom he wronged in his second selfe defiling his wife and after in his owne selfe betraying his life slaying him with the sword of the children of Ammon And now againe is mentioned to make vp his sinnes a number a second sinne of numbring the people from which sinne because by disswasion he would not be hindred wrath was gone out from God and he could not be helped Gad the Seer was sent in the morning vnto him to propound a hard and yet necessary choice of three and those most fearfull euils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Famine for three yeares Warre for three months Pestilence for three daies By these fearfull punishments as by thunder Dauid being awaked from his security and from the wine of selfe-conceipt 1 Chron. 21.1 wherewith Satan had before intoxicated him hearing this terrible embassage opens his eyes and seeing three such furies of Hell aduancing towards him cries out in the anguish and bitternesse of a perplexed soule I am in a great strait Which few words though may seeme at the first sight hard as the rocke in the wildernesse yet haue I discouered flowing thereout as from Eden foure seuerall streames wherein a Christian may wash like Naaman and bee cleansed or like the blind man and returne seeing prouided that wash both hands and head to giue attention and yeeld practice to the remarkable points herein contained 1 Quo peccato incidit How Dauid came into this strait 2 Quo animo apprehenderit How he conceiued of this strait 3 Quâ patientiâ pertulerit How he bare this strait 4 Quâ prudentiâ cuaserit How he gate out of this strait The first is for admonition the second for instruction the third for imitation the fourth for consolation Euery of them being compounded by your Christian wisedome as by the Art of the