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FOVRE SPEECHES Delivered in GVILD-HALL ON Friday the &s;ixth of <HI>October,</HI> 1643.</P>
<P>At a COMMON-HALL, Vpon occa&s;ion of de&s;iring the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of our Brethren of <HI>SCOTLAND</HI> in this WARRE.</P>
<P>VIZ. The
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<ITEM>1. by M^r. <HI>Solicitor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. by M^r. <HI>Edmund Calamy.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. by M^r. <HI>Jeremiah Burroughes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. by M^r. <HI>Obadiah Sedgewick.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>R. Cotes,</HI> for <HI>Jo. Bellamie,</HI> and are to bee &s;old at his &s;hop at the &s;ign of the three Golden Lions in <HI>Cornhill,</HI> neer the <HI>Royall Exchange.</HI> 1646.</P>
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Foure SPEECHES Delivered In Guild-Hall, on Friday the &s;ixth of <HI>October,</HI> 1643. At a Common-Hall.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Solicitor</HI> his Speech at Guild-Hall, <DATE>on Friday, October <HI>6. 1643.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Worthy Aldermen, and Gentlemen, and Citizens of this Famous City of London,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe cau&s;e of the calling of this A&s;&s;embly of this Common-Hall, it was the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Scotland,</HI> I thinke it is not unknowne to many of you, that about two months &s;ince both the Hou&s;es of Parliament did &s;end a Committee into <HI>Scotland</HI> to de|&s;ire the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of our brethren of <HI>Scot|land</HI> in this Warre: the Committee hath from thence &s;ent Propo&s;itions to both the Hou&s;es, whereby wee &s;ee their willingne&s;&s;e to come to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance: but one part of it is, that without &s;ome &s;upplyes of Money, they are not able at all
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to come into this a&s;&s;i&s;tance, The Hou&s;es con&s;idering the nece&s;&s;ity of their comming in, and of &s;peedy &s;upplyes of Money to that purpo&s;e, they did &s;end a Committee, and did de&s;ire that a Com|mon-Councell might be called, which was done upon Munday la&s;t, and they did thither &s;end a Committee, with de&s;ire that the Common-Councell would take that into con&s;ideration, that is, the nece&s;&s;ity of their comming, and &s;peedy &s;upplies to bee rai&s;ed. And for the effecting of this, not having any other means &s;o neare at hand as that, they did de&s;ire that the Common-Councell would appoint a Committee out of them&s;elves to con&s;ider of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e with the Committee of the Hou&s;e of Commons: The&s;e they met, and have been together the&s;e two dayes con&s;idering of it, that is, <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> and <HI>Thur&s;day,</HI> and they did intend, and doe &s;till, to &s;end to divers of tho&s;e that are able and rich of this City, to the intent that they might &s;ee, what they would lend to this bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e; and to tender to them &s;uch &s;ecurity, as they conceive to be very convenient and fitting for tho&s;e that are willing to lend Mo|ney: but when they had entred upon the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and&punc; con&s;ide|ring the &s;peed, and the nece&s;&s;ity that the &s;upply &s;hould be expedi|ted, they thought that would be too long a way, yet re&s;olved to pro&s;ecute it &s;till, but withall they did de&s;ire, that my Lord Major would be plea&s;ed to call a Court of Aldermen this morning, (which hee did) and likewi&s;e a Common-Hall, to the intent that the nece&s;&s;ity of the rai&s;ing of this money &s;peedily might be decla|red to you, becau&s;e the other would be a longer way; which though it be intended &s;till to be pro&s;ecuted; yet when you are all here together, we may the better know your affections to this bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e, and that the Money may be &s;peedily rai&s;ed, though not the whole, yet it will be &s;omewhat to the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, if &s;ome con&s;idera|ble &s;umme might &s;peedily be &s;ent away.</P>
<P>I conceive there is no need to acquaint you with the benefits that will redound to this kingdome, and the advantages wee &s;hall have by a nearer a&s;&s;ociation with them, and by their comming in, to this purpo&s;e for our a&s;&s;i&s;tance; the benefits certainly when wee con&s;ider of them, are many. As fir&s;t,</P>
<P>This great cau&s;e which is now in agitation, that by this means will be much &s;ecur'd; it will bee a&s;&s;ur'd to us, that the event, and the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of it (by Gods ble&s;&s;ing) will bee made a great deale the
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certainer: If they do not come in, then we are to con&s;ider how we &s;tand. Certainly, the Parties they are very equall in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and where the Parties are equall, the &s;ucce&s;&s;e mu&s;t needs bee dan|gerous, and very uncertain. Now we all of us &s;ee, that all ranks and degrees of men, even from the highe&s;t Lords, to the meane&s;t Commoners, they are engaged on both &s;ides; and if the advan|tage be of either &s;ide, it is in the other, becau&s;e that the greater part of the Nobility and Gentry we know they are the other way. Likewi&s;e if we con&s;ider the Citi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> and Townes of this kingdom, that there is <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> that there is <HI>York-&s;hire,</HI> that there is <HI>Shrew&s;|bury,</HI> that there is <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> that there is <HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> and that there is <HI>Exeter,</HI> and divers others Cities and great Townes in their cu&s;to|dy.</P>
<P>If we goe through all the Counties of the Kingdome, wee &s;ee there the greate&s;t parts of the Northerne parts po&s;&s;e&s;s'd wholly by the Earle of <HI>Newca&s;tle, Northumberland, Cumberland, We&s;tmer|land, York-&s;hire,</HI> and &s;ome other parts. So in the We&s;t, goe to other Counties, there is a mixture in all of them, that we cannot &s;ay there is any part of the Kingdome free; &s;o that the mixture &s;eemes to be of the people likewi&s;e, if not the greater party the o|ther way.</P>
<P>If we con&s;ider likewi&s;e the events and &s;ucce&s;&s;es; as we on the one &s;ide have taken <HI>Port&s;mouth, Chiche&s;ter,</HI> and &s;ome other places, &s;o they on the other &s;ide have taken <HI>Exeter,</HI> and <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and other places. If we con&s;ider the events of the Skirmi&s;hes, Fights, and Battailes that have been; we cannot &s;ay, that on any &s;ide hath been any compleat Victory; that at <HI>Edgehill,</HI> it plea&s;ed God to give us a deliverance, we finde it was no compleat Victory, by tho&s;e things that followed; &s;o this at <HI>Newbury</HI> lately no com|pleat victory, for had it been &s;o, the Warre had been at an end, &s;o that which way &s;oever we looke, unle&s;&s;e wee call them in to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance, certainly the Parties on both &s;ides, are very equally en|gaged; and certainly when two men of equall &s;trength doe wre|&s;tle, it is an even lay which of them will give the fall; as long as the ballances &s;tand &s;o even, it is very uncertain which way they will weigh down.</P>
<P>We are to con&s;ider, (that in re&s;pect that the danger is &s;uch, and the event of the Warre &s;o uncertaine, without their comming in)
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what the cau&s;e is that is lo&s;t, in ca&s;e the day &s;hould be theirs; cer|tainly con&s;idering that the Papi&s;ts in <HI>Ireland</HI> are wholly engaged, that the Papi&s;ts in <HI>England</HI> are wholly engaged, that the Prelates and their Party are wholly engaged, that there are divers that are Neuters, and ill-di&s;po&s;ed men, that they likewi&s;e encline that way: Con&s;idering that that Party is acted by Je&s;uiticall Coun&s;ells, for certainly they are behinde the Curtaine, though they are not &s;o vi&s;ible to us: I &s;ay, when this is con&s;idered, who are the Parties that &s;hall get this day, it is very ea&s;ie to progno&s;ticate what the lo&s;&s;e will be, no le&s;&s;e then of Religion, and of our Lawes, and of our Liberties: In a word, if that that Party doe prevaile, I am affraid we have lo&s;t all; and therefore tho&s;e other things, they will not be &s;o con&s;iderable which I &s;hall tell you of. Wee know the great Loanes and Contributions that have been made by the Worthy Citizens of this City, and by divers other well-affected per&s;ons throughout the Kingdome; the Money, the Plate, the Hor&s;es, and other things for this Warre too, they will bee lo&s;t: but not onely &s;o, but certainly, that the&s;e have been lent to the Parliament for the maintaining of the Warre, again&s;t that Party, this will b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e good rea&s;on why they &s;hould take all away. The publike Faith likewi&s;e of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and &s;o the whole King|dome, certainly that mu&s;t be violated, and if that &s;hould bee &s;o, if that we &s;hould be ove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">born in this cau&s;e, it will ea&s;ily be fore&s;eene, whether any future Parliament will be enabled to &s;tand up for the defence of Religion, and the Liberties of the People. Wee may adde to this the Charters and the Franchi&s;es of this great City, it will be ea&s;ily fore&s;een, what will be the event of that, whether they wil be continued to you, yea or no, con&s;idering what affection you have born to this cau&s;e. Certainly in former time<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, the Charters and the priviledges of this City, they have been confirmed by Par|liaments, as doth appear in King <HI>Johns</HI> time, in <HI>Henry</HI> the third, <HI>Ri|chard</HI> &s;econd, &amp; always after the ending of tho&s;e great Wars, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|in no doubt, the City (as hath been &s;een in that) did engage them|&s;elves, as now, in the Parliaments cau&s;e; therefore for their &s;ecu|rity, their Charters were alwayes confirmed; which wee need not doubt will be done in this cau&s;e; but in ca&s;e the event &s;hould bee otherwi&s;e, what the lo&s;&s;e will be in that way, you may ea&s;ily &s;ee; &s;o that all is at &s;take, and if we bring not them in to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance,
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for ought I know, we are at fairs to lo&s;e the game, as win<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> it, and if any mana e&s;tate here, &s;tood upon the like c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lty, I believe hee would give &s;ome con&s;iderable &s;umme to en&s;ure it, in the office of Policies&punc; Thus we &s;tand in ca&s;e they are no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> called in the lo&s;&s;e &s;o great, that is the lo&s;&s;e of all, the event &s;o uncertaine.</P>
<P>In ca&s;e they be called in, we are to con&s;ider then what alterati|on this is like to make&punc; we are therefore to con&s;ider how it comes about that the Party comes to be &s;o equall, that &s;o many &s;hould en|gage them&s;elves on the other Party, as we &s;ee they doe; certainly a great many of them doe it, being uncertaine in their judgements to which &s;ide to cleave. Another Party they doe it, becau&s;e that they out of feare de&s;ire to keep their E&s;tates, and &s;tand Neu|ters. For the fir&s;t of tho&s;e, certainly both at home and abroad, tho&s;e that are aver&s;e, they looke upon us as a Prote&s;tant Kingdom, but divided among our &s;elves; they heare Prote&s;tations on both &s;ides, that both Parties doe prote&s;t to maintaine the Prote&s;tant Religion, the Laws of the Kingdome, and the Liberty of the Sub|ject; and they &s;ee and read the Declarations that goe out on both &s;ides, and the matter of fact being that that makes the cau&s;e, they know not what to believe of that; for when they read the &s;eve|rall Declarations, they &s;ee that affirmed by one party, that is de|nyed of the other, &s;o that indeed they know not which way to bend them&s;elves to beleeve, (of the matter of fact, I meane:) But now a great many after the ca&s;e hath been &s;tated, as it hath been on both &s;ides b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the&s;e Declarations, when they &s;hall &s;ee that this King|dome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> to which Declarations have been &s;ent by both Parties, (for &s;o they have, the King hath &s;ent on his &s;ide, and the Parliament hath &s;ent on their &s;ide al&s;o) when they &s;hall &s;ee the Kingdome of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cotland</HI> hath &s;ent a Committee into this Kingdom, to informe them&s;elves of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e how it &s;tood, to the intent they might know how to carry them&s;elves between both Parties; I &s;ay, when after all this, they &s;hall &s;ee a whole Prote&s;tant King|dom, as one Man, a Prote&s;tant Kingdome that hath had differen|ces heretofore, and tho&s;e differences have beene &s;etled, when they have beene in the &s;ame di&s;tractions as wee have, and &s;o &s;etled, as that it hath beene with a cleare Declarati|on of their innocencies, that they had ju&s;t cau&s;e to doe, what they had dont, and went away as they did, with that full &s;atisfa|ction
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they have given to the world: I &s;ay, when they &s;hall &s;ee &s;uch men, as have for &s;o long a time &s;tood by as a third Party, and Spe|ctators onely, and lookens on; when they &s;hall &s;ee a Kingdome, that is altogether unbya&s;s'd, that hath the &s;ame King&punc; lives in the &s;ame I&s;land, that hath the &s;ame Religion: I &s;ay, when they &s;hall behold a whole Kingdome to declare for the one Party, that is, for our Party; when they &s;hall &s;ee them not onely doe &s;o, but en|ter into a League and Covenant, and that by oath with us, for the maintaining of this Religion: when they &s;hall &s;ee them en|gaging their whole Kingdome as one man, in a War for the main|taining of this cau&s;e: I &s;ay, certainly that mu&s;t bee a convincing, &s;ilencing argument to all the&s;e men, that this is the Party that doth maintain really, and in truth, the true Prote&s;tant Religion, the Laws of the Realme, and the Liberties of the Subject: That is for the fir&s;t.</P>
<P>The &s;econd is, there is another Party, that are well enough &s;a|tisfied in their judgements, but out of feare of their e&s;tates, and other &s;ini&s;ter, by and ba&s;e ends, (for &s;o they may be called, for as this Covenant calls it a dete&s;table Neutrality&punc; &s;o may wee) I &s;ay, when the&s;e Parties &s;hall &s;ee &s;uch an addition of &s;trength to the one &s;ide, their owne principles of feare will reach them to goe to that that is the &s;tronger &s;ide. But admitting that men &s;tood in their judgments, and in Neutrality, as they now doe, and that their comming in did not alter one man; yet we are to con&s;ider what the &s;trength is that they doe bring in wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h them, and what that is like to doe, admitting the parties to bee as equally engaged, as now they be; and that is by their owne Propo&s;itions, that when they come in, they intend to come in with 18000 Foot, with 1000&punc; Dragoneers, and 2000 Hor&s;e, with 21000 Hor&s;e and Foot, with a Traine of Artillery proportionable and &s;uitable to &s;uch an Ar|my: Certainly, by the ble&s;&s;ing of God, &s;uch a force to bee added to the one Party, that is now even, it cannot but in all likelihood cary down the &s;cales, and alter the whole <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ame, and the &s;tate of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Why? certainly two again&s;t one in all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ine&s;&s;es, that makes oddes. If we have the addition of that whole Kingdome to this Party that is even with the other, or neare &s;o, now wee may ea&s;ily judge of the event. This is the fir&s;t benefit I &s;hall pro|pound to you, wee are like to reap by their comming in, that
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is, the a&s;&s;uring of this great cau&s;e, that &s;o much conc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">nes us.</P>
<P>The &s;econd is this, which I &s;hall propound to you, that is&punc; that it will bee for our profit, that it will ea&s;e the Warre, that it will make the charge&punc; and the burthen of it to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> This doth ari&s;e partly out of what hath been &s;aid, that their comming in, it will &s;horten the Warre, for as long as the parties ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> equall, it mu&s;t needes lengthen and protract the Warre; when two &s;cales are al|mo&s;t equally ballanced, wee know for a great while it falls on the right hand, and on the left hand, and it is a great while before they &s;tand &s;till; &s;o that if the War bee protracted and lengthened, that will bee &s;pent in time, and a great deal more, then a good round &s;umme will be in making a &s;udden conclu&s;ion of it; I think every Le&s;&s;ee, hee had rather pay a good round Fine, than for ma|ny <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ers together, to &s;it upon a great Rent&punc; this may bee our con|dition, if wee doe not bring them in, be&s;ides the lo&s;&s;e of all at la&s;t; But the benefit will appear, by the &s;hortning of the Warre, in this further:</P>
<P>By tho&s;e mi&s;eries, and that poverty&punc; and that calamity, which a long Warre mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity bring with it; The wealth of this Kingdome (I &s;uppo&s;e&punc;) it ari&s;es out of the &s;oyle, and the ground of the Kingdom, and it ari&s;es out of the M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nufactures, and out of the Trade of the Kingdom; The&s;e again do con&s;i&s;t principally in Rents and in Debts; certainly Debtors by having their e&s;tates plundered, and wholly taken away from them, and the lives from many&punc; debts will cea&s;e&punc; there will bee no debts to bee paid; the &s;ame will bee likewi&s;e of Rents, when the Cattle &s;hall bee killed up, and the Tenants plundered of all they have, there will bee no Rents paid: How will it bee like, if the Warres continue, that the Trade will bee continued? for the materialls of Trade by a long Warre, will bee wholly de&s;troyed, and taken from us; The Sheep of the Kingdom that bring our Woall, and the Hor&s;es, and the Cattle, that bring our Leather and our Tallow; the&s;e three, the Wooll, Leather, and Tallow, and divers other things, wee know how many hundred Trades, even from the greate&s;t Mer|chant, to the lowe&s;t Handicraft&s;-man, how many they imploy&punc; the&s;e, they will bee de&s;troyed, not onely by the con&s;umption, which the Souldier makes, that is wa&s;tefull, but even the policy
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of Warre will require of the Enemy, (as wee &s;ee of late about <HI>Glou|ce&s;ter,</HI> in the Vale of <HI>E&s;um,</HI> the policy of War will cau&s;e, I &s;ay, one party) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o kill and de&s;troy all Cattle, when the nece&s;&s;ity of Warre r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">qui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t, to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arve out the Enemy; Be&s;ides the daily lo&s;&s;e of Towns and Cities, what a lo&s;&s;e will that bee to Trading, and in particular to this City? I beleeve it is a &s;en&s;ible thing to many of you&punc; the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aking o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ter, the taking of <HI>Bri&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and the Trade of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> &s;topped, and &s;ome other Cities, what a great lo&s;&s;e, even in point of debt, it hath been to many worthy Citizens, of this City; Be&s;ides, a long Warre it will con&s;ume, the very ma|terialls of life, of food and rayment, wee &s;hall neither have meat, drink, nor cloathing, if the War con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">inue, con&s;idering the bur|nings and deva&s;tations that goe along with it&punc; &s;o that for my own part, I think it is a very clear ca&s;e, that wee had better buy out with a round &s;umme, a &s;hort War, then to have a long War con|tinued, though it bee without any charge at all; If all our hor&s;e and foot, and trayn of Artillery, and Garri&s;ons, were all paid to our hand, wee had better buy a &s;hort Peace, by bringing them in, than to have a long War without charge, becau&s;e of that ine|vitable poverty, that a long War mu&s;t needs bring to a Kingdom; this fir&s;t thing that I have offered, is in point of time, the &s;horten|ing of Warre, the Benefit and Profit that it will bee to the King|dome.</P>
<P>Secondly, Wee all know this Warre hath contracted a great debt upon the Kingdom, and it will contract farre more; In ca&s;e this &s;hall bee hereafter to bee paid in &s;heere Money and Coyn, I am afraid the Kingdom is not able to pay it at once, (I beleeve that all men know) Suppo&s;e this then &s;hall bee appointed to bee paid at certain yeers and times, what will bee the event of that? I am afraid the de&s;truction of the Kingdom, for then the ca&s;e will bee thus, the greate&s;t part of the Lords and Gentry are ingaged in the other way, and here lies a great debt annually to bee paid by the Kingdom, and certainly this will di&s;affect people to all other Par|liaments, when they &s;hall yeerly bee under the payments of &s;uch mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eys, that the Parliament hath contracted upon them; And then con&s;idering who it is will operate upon the other party&punc; for there is another party that will not bee ea&s;ily reconciled to the party that hath been on the other &s;ide, and &s;o this other party
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&s;triking in the other way, what this is like to produce, is very dangerous to mee; whereas on the other &s;ide, as long as the par|ties are equally engaged, as wee are, without their comming, I am afraid there will not bee that force on the one &s;ide, as to make the other &s;ide, (that is, the Papi&s;ts, and the Prelates, and the other Malignants) out of their e&s;tates to pay the&s;e debts, which their comming in, in all likelihood will make us doe&punc; which if the&s;e debts bee paid out of their e&s;tates and Lands&punc; I know no incon|venience will come to the Kingdom by it; for here is the ca&s;e, they that have it now in their hands, to imploy i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for the de&s;truction of the Kingdom, it will bee onely putting it in their hands, that &s;hew their good affections to the Kingdom; &s;o that way I con|ceive the debt of the Kingdom, will bee no lo&s;&s;e at all to the King|dom.</P>
<P>The third benefit is, that even the pre&s;ent War it will bee made le&s;&s;e chargeable to us&punc; and that in this&punc; They not being come in, wee have not <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> there is <HI>Nottingh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m&s;hire, York<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> that great Country, a great part of <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">oln&s;hire,</HI> the Bi&s;hopri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> of <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r|ham, Northumberland, Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erland, W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">merland,</HI> the great<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> part of the We&s;t, the riche&s;t part, I know, in this Kingdom, except this City&punc; I &s;ay, in ca&s;e they come not in, they are all under contri|bution&punc; to the other &s;ide; their comming in gaines <HI>New<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters">le,</HI> it gaines&punc; as much, as the money to bring them in will co&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> the very gaining of that Town; and likewi&s;e when they come in, it brings all tho&s;e Countries under contribution; &s;o that the very contribution&punc; that tho&s;e Northern Countries will yeeld, it will not only pay the <HI>Scotch</HI> Army, but is likely (as it is beleeved) it will make an addition for our other For<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s, that wee &s;hall have to &s;pare for other Forces, by that which their comming in will gain of the con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ributions of tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;o that I have now done with tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> that will come <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o you in point of Pro|fit, and likewi&s;e the a&s;&s;uring of this great Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>The third is this, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> doe come to a peace, when Gods time is come that wee &s;hall have one&punc; yet their co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|ming in&punc; in all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> will cau&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s to have a better a &s;urer&punc; and b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tter g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">dunded <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> then if they doe not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">om<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in&punc; And likewi&s;e, what peace <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> that it will bee p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et and bee the &s;co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> for us, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> our po&s;terity to reap the benefit
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of it: Fir&s;t, that their comming in will make our Peace, in all probability the better; I be&s;eech you, without their comming in, what is it like to bee? The p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ties are equall, the partie that is again&s;t us, they con&s;i&s;t of P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s, and P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">elates, &amp;c. if wee come to compound this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, what is it like to bee? but that our com|po&s;ition will bee indeed the de&s;truction of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and of our Liberties; I am afraid it is very like to bee the ending of that controver&s;ie between the two women for the Childe, who &s;hould bee the Mother of it, that is, that the Childe &s;hould bee divided; Wee know that our divi&s;ion mu&s;t have cau&s;ed death, I am afraid wee &s;hall then come to bee half Prote&s;tants, and half Papi&s;ts, and this neutrality of both, I am afraid it will bee the de&s;truction of the one; If it prove not de&s;tructive, yet certainly it will prove very dangerous to us; In di&s;ea&s;es, if Nature bee not able wholly to expell the malignity of the di&s;ea&s;e, it afterwards breakes out in botches, and one malady o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> another: A &s;ore not cured at bottome, it afterwards fe&s;ters, and breaks out, and after|wards endangers the per&s;on, as much as before; If they come not in, con&s;idering the engagements on both &s;ides, and con&s;idering the parties, who wee mu&s;t compound with, I &s;ay, the cure is like to bee very imperfect, their comming in I hope will make it per|fect; Be&s;ides, what ever the Peace is, if it bee good without their comming in, it is likely wee and our po&s;terity &s;hall reap the fruit of it, certainly, wee have had great experiences in the times of our Ance&s;tors, that when divi&s;ions of this nature have been, as when the Statute of <HI>Magna Cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">a,</HI> was fir&s;t obtained, which was with all the care the w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t of man could devi&s;e, there was the Oath of the King, and all the Nobility of the Kingdom, yet it was bro|ken within twelve moneths after; In his Sons time twelve of the Nobility were appointed to &s;ee it kept, that would not doe the work, afterwards they appointed Gentlemen in every Countrey, that they &s;hould &s;ee to it&punc; this did not the work, it broke out from time to time; But what &s;hould wee goe further? Tho&s;e Lawes that have been made again&s;t Papi&s;ts in our memories, are not the Laws full, that no Papi&s;t is to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> how &s;ee wee that put in execution, and that two pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ates to bee &s;eized&punc; when wee &s;ee nothing at all hath been done <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat way. For the Petition of Right, in our memory, how was that kept? Again, our neigh|bours
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the Netherlanders, when they made that peace with the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> they called in this Kingdom and <HI>France,</HI> to bee witne&s;&s;es to it; wee &s;ee how that calling us in, to bee witne&s;&s;es, how that hath engaged both parties to that State at this time, and how wee have been a&s;&s;i&s;tant to them, and expre&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> our de&s;ires to have them thrive; But how is it like to bee, when there &s;hall not onely bee our own Kingdom, but a brother Kingdom, an entire Kingdom, one of the &s;ame Religion, with us, one that loves their Liberties, as well as wee, when they &s;hall bee engaged in point of intere&s;t with us, when the &s;ame Law, the &s;ame Acts of Parliament that &s;hall compo&s;e the differences, when if it hee broken on our parts, in a|ny thing that concerns us, they cannot conceive but it may be their ca&s;e the next day, becau&s;e it all depends upon one Law, one and the &s;ame Title, and their intere&s;t is the &s;ame; So that it there were nothing el&s;e in it, but that wee were like to have the better Peace, and on the better termes, and what ever it bee; it is likely to bee kept the better, to us and our po&s;terity, if nothing el&s;e were in it, that were much to our advantage &s;urely, if by &s;ome con&s;i|derable &s;umme of money, wee might have them brought in, and have them at the end of this Peace, and intere&s;ted in it as well as our &s;elves; So that I have now done with tho&s;e Benefits, I have offered to you, that wee &s;hall have by their a&s;&s;i&s;tance and comming in; I make no doubt but that mo&s;t of the&s;e things were known to you all before, and that this part hath been to very little purpo&s;e, that I have &s;poken&punc; for when that both the Hou&s;es of Parliament, have &s;een the nece&s;&s;ity and benefit of it, when it was propounded to the Common Councell, that they likewi&s;e &s;aw the nece&s;&s;ity of it, I know it will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee bootle&s;&s;e to u&s;e any further Arguments to you, that you may &s;ee the benefits that will redownd by their com|ming to us&punc;</P>
<P>But it will bee asked, notwith&s;tanding wee may receive benefit by it, how may wee bee a&s;&s;ured that they are willing? Truely, for that, by what hath been done&punc; it will bee &s;ufficiently clear; Both Hou&s;es &s;ent a Committee to them, that in a little time did pro|duce the Covenant there, approved of by their A&s;&s;embly of Di|vines, and by the Convention of E&s;tates, it is co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> hither, it hath been agreed here, it hath been taken here by the Hou&s;e of Com|mons already, and by a great many of this City; A worthy Lord,
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my Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> (I may name him here) at a Common-Coun|cell, he did declare to my Lord Major and Aldermen, that their Hou&s;e would in few dayes likewi&s;e take it; this Covenant &s;hews their willingne&s;&s;e (in the fir&s;t place) for wee by that are bound to the mutuall defence of our Religion, and pre&s;ervation of our ci|vill Liberties, for by that we are bound to the pre&s;ervation of the Liberties of Parliaments; and that Delinquents and Malignants may be brought to their ju&s;t triall; &s;o this is already done.</P>
<P>It was likewi&s;e declared by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that they did not doubt, but by this time they were taking it in that Kingdome; and their Commi&s;&s;ioners here they have taken it al|ready; &s;o that they have joyned them&s;elves to us by oath, for the mutuall pre&s;ervation of Religion and Lawes.</P>
<P>In the &s;econd place, they have &s;hewed their con&s;ent by the Pro|po&s;itions they have &s;ent to us, which are the termes upon which they are to come in; they have not &s;tayed here but they have pro|ceeded to action; they have named the Generall of their Army, which is my Lord Generall <HI>Le&s;ley,</HI> which was their Generall when they came into this Kingdome.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e they have granted Commi&s;&s;ions into all the Shires of <HI>Scotland</HI> for the rai&s;ing of Hor&s;e and Foot, and named their Colonells, Captaines, and other Officers, and li&s;ted them. There is a further progre&s;&s;e likewi&s;e, that is, that we have taken <HI>Berwicke</HI> already, for the facilitating of their comming in, which may bee a place of retreat for them, and a Magazine for their Ammuniti|on and Victualls. And &s;ince this hath been taken by the Parlia|ment, they have &s;ent &s;ome Troops of Hor&s;e, and certain Foot for the &s;ecuring of that Town: and if they had before knowne the con&s;ent of the Parliament for their having the u&s;e of <HI>Berwicke,</HI> they had put in their Ammunition and Victuall before this time into <HI>Berwicke,</HI> which before this time &s;urely they d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> know; and therefore we doubt not, but they have done the other.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e further, when they come in, they intend to goe on in their march, though it be farre in the yeare, and not to &s;it downe in their quarters. Wee know my Lord of <HI>Newca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">le</HI> did it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t yeare, we know they are as farre Northern borne, they are both in a colder Cly<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">te&punc; and therefore wee doubt not of it, and &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> long, we hope to heare of the taking of <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> which what
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reliefe it will be to this City in the point of Coales, and other Trade, you may ea&s;ily &s;ee: Mo&s;t of this to the Common-Coun|cell was declared by two Worthy Commi&s;&s;ioners that were &s;ent out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> my Lord <HI>Mackland,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Hender&s;on.</HI> But it may be &s;aid, if they be &s;o willing, and &s;o ready to come, and have all things ready, what is the rea&s;on wee heare not of their com|ming into the Kingdome? They have an&s;wered us by their Pro|po&s;itions, that it is impo&s;&s;ible for them to doe it, without &s;ome &s;um of Money: and that this is no pretence, but that it is really &s;o, we have it from our owne Committee there, wee have it from all hands there: and if we con&s;ider how they have been exhau&s;ted heretofore, I thinke we may ea&s;ily believe it our &s;elves: and that their Army that is in <HI>Ireland</HI> have been 14 moneths without any pay at all, they are &s;aine to &s;upply them with nece&s;&s;ities, which hath been foure &s;core thou&s;and pound, el&s;e that Army mu&s;t have &s;tarved. We know they had two years Warre, we promi&s;ed them a brotherly a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and there is an act for it, but it is knowne by rea&s;on of the troubles we have here at home, we have not paid them that; &s;o that con&s;idering the poverty of that Kingdome (without offence I thinke we may &s;ay &s;o) I &s;ay, con&s;idering the poverty of that Kingdome, it is certaine, it is not a pretence of theirs, but it is really &s;o. Neither indeed can we pre&s;ume it, when as the Covenant and Oath they take, binde them as well as us, that they &s;hould come to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance; it binds them as much to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance, as that Oath binde our &s;elves to our owne a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and therefore wee cannot pre&s;ume, that they would (being di&s;-inga|ged of an Oath, afterward) be willing to take that Oath, unle&s;&s;e they did likewi&s;e know their owne nece&s;&s;ity, that they could not come in without &s;ome &s;umme of Money; and truly I &s;uppo&s;e that they cannot come in without Money, (as hath been declared to you) and that we mu&s;t ground upon and build upon, for wee are a&s;&s;ured it on all hands.</P>
<P>It will be then &s;aid, what is that &s;umme? Why truly the &s;umme that they have &s;ent in their Propo&s;itions, is 100000 <HI>l.</HI> I confe&s;&s;e a great &s;umm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, and that that I know not how to mention in this A&s;&s;embly, con&s;idering how this City hath been exhau&s;ted former|ly by tho&s;e great Contribution<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, and by tho&s;e aides that they have given in this ca&s;e. But on the other &s;ide, though I cannot indeed
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tell how, when I con&s;ider the &s;umto pre&s;&s;e it: yet when I doe con|&s;ider the inevitable danger that follows, and the great advantages that we lo&s;e by every dayes delay in it. I &s;ay, when I con&s;ider them, I cannot on the other &s;ide but pre&s;&s;e it. Let us therefore con&s;ider, in ca&s;e this bee not within &s;ome convenient time rai&s;ed, what an infinite di&s;advantage comes by it to us.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t of all, all tho&s;e preparations they will bee in a manner lo&s;t, if that it be not pre&s;ently rai&s;ed, there will be no comming in this Winter, if there be no comming in this Winter, no gaining of <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> if no gaining of <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> no Coales, nor materials for Fewell. Nay, that is not all, but if they doe not come in now, and if wee doe not provide this Money, I &s;hall de&s;paire of their comming in at all, and that upon this ground, that if wee bee not able now to rai&s;e the &s;umme of Money, the continuance of this Warre, it will more and more every day, and that &s;en&s;ible&punc; di&s;-en|able us to doe it at another time. If we cannot doe it now, wee &s;hall be le&s;&s;e able to doe it, a weeke, a moneth, a quarter of a yeare hence; for the Warre you &s;ee de&s;troyes all Trade, (that hath been opened to you before) wee &s;hall grow poorer, our Enemies &s;tron|ger; if we be not able to bring them in now, we &s;hall never bee able to bring them in at all.</P>
<P>It will be de&s;ired, if it bee po&s;&s;ible to rai&s;e this great &s;umme of Money, what is the &s;ecurity &s;hall be given? for truly it was never de&s;ired of this city, that &s;o much mony &s;hould be given to them, but it is de&s;ired it &s;hould be onely lent, for if they come not in in time, the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e is as good as lo&s;t: they have therefore (con&s;idering this) already engaged the Publike Faith of that Kingdome, with the Publike faith of this Kingdome, for the rai&s;ing of 200000 <HI>l.</HI> either by borrowing of it here, or in Forain parts. Therefore this is the fir&s;t Security that is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">endered to you now, that money is a borrowing in Parts beyond the Sea; that Mony that is &s;o bor|rowed, &s;hall goe on towards the repayment of this, what ever it is that &s;hall be lent. But be&s;ides this Publike Faith, there are di|vers wayes vi&s;ible how this Publike Faith will bee di&s;-engaged, that is, by the Seque&s;trations, for there is an Ordinance of both Hou&s;es for 30000 <HI>l.</HI> to be rai&s;ed for them out of the Seque&s;trati|ons. Now this &s;hall not need to di&s;courage any that &s;o little hath bin rai&s;ed out of the Seque&s;trations hitherto, for the Hou&s;es have
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been preparing the bu&s;ine&s;&s;es a great while, and now <HI>Michaelmas</HI> is come, all the Rents are ready, within few weeks to bring it in; that is for &s;o much.</P>
<P>Their comming in, it gaines <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> the gaining of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> gaines a great ma&s;&s;e of Coales that are there ready already, when they come in; and out of that there will bee likewi&s;e an Annuall or a Monethly payment of the Coales, for the di&s;-engaging of tho&s;e that &s;hall lend this &s;umme. Be&s;ides, when they come in, if they cleare tho&s;e Countrys, wee know how full of Papi&s;ts, &amp; how full of Prelates, tho&s;e Northern Countreys are, as <HI>York-&s;hire,</HI> but e&s;pecially the whole Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Durham,</HI> a whole County, <HI>Nor|thumberland, Cumberland,</HI> &amp;c. full of Papists, full of tho&s;e of the Prelaticall party, full of Malignants, when they come in, tho&s;e parts are cleared, they will be free for three whole moneths, and ten dayes, for the di&s;-engaging of this, (which I forgot to tell you before what the <HI>Scots</HI> are to doe for this 100000 <HI>l.)</HI> for they are to bring in their Traine of Artillery, their 21000 Hor&s;e and Foot, they are to continue three moneths and ten dayes in your Service, after they come into your Kingdome, after the payment of this 100000 <HI>l.</HI> &s;o that there is full three moneths and ten dayes for the&s;e Counties to lie open to the repayment of this Mony; for tho&s;e three moneths they are to be without pay.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the principall things, that wee have yet thought up|on for the di&s;-ingaging of us, that wee tender to you; there are divers others, which the Committee hath taken into con&s;iderati|on, which they &s;ee as much or more certainty in, than in any of the&s;e that hath been propounded; If it were no more than the Publique Faith of both Kingdoms, as long as the Kingdoms &s;ub|&s;i&s;t, or the Cau&s;e thrives in the hands of one or other, this mu&s;t bee di&s;-ingaged, &s;o that at be&s;t it is but a Loan, and mu&s;t bee paid if the Cau&s;e &s;urvive, truely, if it doe not &s;urvive, it being our Re|ligion, I know not what rea&s;on wee have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> de&s;ire to &s;urvive it, and if wee lo&s;e it, I am &s;ure wee lo&s;e all.</P>
<P>Truly Gentlemen, thus, I have but one word more to &s;ay; The Cau&s;e it is Gods, if it bee not &s;o, let us repent that ever wee med|led with it; It is the Cau&s;e of our Countrey, if it bee not &s;o, let us now &s;ay, wee repent, and leave it; It is the Cau&s;e of the&s;e three Kingdomes, <HI>England, Ireland,</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> it is the Cau&s;e of Chri|&s;tendom,
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for if this Cau&s;e be carryed again&s;t us, certainly the Pro|te&s;tant Cau&s;e throughout all <HI>Europe,</HI> will fare the wor&s;e for it: this is the Cau&s;e, &amp; this we all know to be the Cau&s;e. It hath plea&s;ed Al|mighty God out of his Providence to call even us poor creatures, to be the managers of this great cau&s;e of his, we have undertaken it, we have formerly by our Prote&s;tations engaged our &s;elves to the main|taining of it, wee have all of us, both Parliament, City, and all well-affected Subjects, of this Kingdom, wee have put our &s;houl|ders to it, wee have of late manife&s;ted to God and all the world, that wee doe not repent of what wee have done, wee have entred into a Solemn League and Covenant; I think the &s;olemne&s;t that ever was &s;een in this Kingdom, Gentlemen thus, let our cheerful|ne&s;&s;e in this &s;ervice &s;hew, that wee have taken that Covenant, and doe affect this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, with our whole hearts; I have done, <HI>Pray God give his ble&s;&s;ing.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Edmond Calamy</HI> his &s;peech in <HI>Guild-hall</HI> <DATE>on Friday the &s;ixt of <HI>October, 1643.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOU have heard a worthy Gentleman of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, it is de&s;ired by this grave and Reverend A&s;&s;embly of Mini&s;ters, that three of the Mini&s;ters of this A&s;&s;embly, &s;hould likewi&s;e &s;peak unto you concerning this great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and not|with&s;tanding my indi&s;po&s;ition of body, being required by them, though that Gentleman of the Hou&s;e of Commons hath &s;poken &s;o abundantly to the purpo&s;e, yet notwith&s;tanding I am here come to &s;peak &s;omething, the rather to declare my willingne&s;&s;e to ap|pear in this Cau&s;e, that is every way &s;o ju&s;t, and every way &s;o ho|ne&s;t, and &s;o good, that I may truly &s;ay, as the Martyr did, that if I had as many lives, as I have haires on my head, I would bee willing to &s;acrifice all the&s;e lives in this Cau&s;e; You know the &s;tory of <HI>Crae&s;us,</HI> that though hee never &s;pake in his life, yet when hee &s;aw his Father ready to bee killed, it untyed the &s;trings of his tongue, and then hee cryed out, that they would not kill his Fa|ther; you are not ignorant that <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> lye a dying,
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and though I never appeared in this place, yet I ble&s;&s;e God that hath given mee that health, this day, to &s;peak &s;omething in this Cau&s;e, for the reviving of the dying condition of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> It is &s;uch a Cau&s;e as is able to make a very Infant elo|quent, and a dumb man to &s;peak that never &s;pake in all his life; The matter I am de&s;ired to &s;peak to, is, concerning the Contri|bution, to per&s;wade you to bee liberall towards the bringing in of the <HI>Scots,</HI> to help us in this our great nece&s;&s;ity; The truth is, it is a great &s;hame that <HI>England</HI> &s;hould &s;tand in need of another Nation, to help it to pre&s;erve its Religion and Liberties: That <HI>England,</HI> that hath been enriched with the Go&s;pel of Peace, and the peace of the Go&s;pel for &s;o many yeers, that <HI>England,</HI> that hath been ble&s;&s;ed with &s;o many rare Mini&s;ters of God, &s;o many preci|ous, and powerfull &s;ervants, that have preached the Word of God in &s;ea&s;on and out of &s;ea&s;on; that <HI>England,</HI> that hath profe&s;&s;ed the Go&s;pel with &s;o much power and purity; that <HI>England</HI> &s;hould &s;tand in need, of the help of their Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> for to pre&s;erve that Go&s;pel that they have profe&s;&s;ed &s;o many yeers; I confe&s;&s;e to mee it &s;eems a very &s;trange Prodigie, and a &s;trange wonder; but it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God for the &s;ins of <HI>England,</HI> for our great unthankfulne&s;&s;e, and for our unthankfulne&s;&s;e under the&s;e means, and for the great blood-guiltine&s;&s;e, and Idolatry, and Su|per&s;tition of this Nation, it hath plea&s;ed God to &s;uffer a great part of the Kingdom, to bee blinded, e&s;pecially tho&s;e parts, where the Word of God hath not been preached in a powerfull man|ner; and there are many in the Kingdom, that will not bee per|&s;waded, that there is an intention to bring in Popery, and to bring in Slavery; Many of them (I &s;ay) think that though the Popi&s;h Army &s;hould prevaile, and the plundering Army &s;hould prevaile, yet they think all would goe well with Religion, and with their Liberties; I &s;ay, it hath plea&s;ed God to &s;uffer abundance in the Kingdom, to bee blinded with this opinion, out of a ju&s;t judge|ment to puni&s;h us for our unthankfulne&s;&s;e, and for our ingratitude; and this is the rea&s;on that &s;o many men &s;tand Neuters, and that &s;o many are Malignants, and di&s;affected to this great Cau&s;e, in &s;o much that I am concluded under this, that there is little pro|bability to fini&s;h this Cau&s;e, without the comming in of the <HI>Scots</HI> (as you heard &s;o worthily by that Member of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons;)
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The &s;ons of <HI>Zerviah</HI> are grown &s;o &s;trong, what through our fearfulne&s;&s;e, what through our covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, what through our malignity, that there is little hope (I &s;ay) to fini&s;h this great Cau&s;e, or to bring it to a de&s;ired peace, without the help of another Nation, and by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of God, by the help of another Nati|on it may be done; The&s;e are two mighty, two omnipotent Argu|ments, to prevaile with you to contribute your utmo&s;t aide and a&s;|&s;i&s;tance to that Cau&s;e; &s;ince it cannot &s;peedily bee done without their help, &amp; by Gods ble&s;&s;ing, it may &s;peedily be don by their help.</P>
<P>What would the Kings party doe, if they could engage another Nation to their help? 21000. if they could engage them to our ruine; what would they not doe? How much more &s;hould wee be willing to contribute our greate&s;t help to engage a Nation, that in|deed is part of our own Nation, within the &s;ame I&s;land, and our Brethren, &s;o faithfull, and &s;o well affected to this Cau&s;e, what &s;hould wee not bee willing to doe to ingage &s;o great a party? I would intreat you to remember, that it is not many yeers agoe, &s;ince our Brethren of <HI>Scotland</HI> came hither into <HI>England,</HI> in a war|like manner, and yet with peaceable affections, and that you would reminde your &s;elves, what good they did to you, when they were then in <HI>England,</HI> they were the chiefe Cau&s;es of this Par|liament, that now wee doe enjoy, and of all the good that hath been reaped by this Parliament; (as you may well remember) By their comming in you know this Parliament was procured, and their &s;econd comming in (through Gods mercy) may bee a means to confirm this Parliament, and to e&s;tabli&s;h it, and to uphold it in its dignity, and in the priviledges of it, and to keep it from being ruined; and if the Parliament bee ruined, you all well know that our Religion, and our Liberties are ruined, for the Parliament is the great Con&s;ervatour of Religion and Liber|ties; and I may truly &s;ay, as you know <HI>Caligula</HI> did once wi&s;h, that all <HI>Rome</HI> were one neck that hee might cut it off at one blow; They that intend to ruine the Parliament, they ruine your Reli|gion and Liberties, &amp; all <HI>England</HI> at one blow; Now (I &s;ay) as their fir&s;t comming was a meanes to produce this Parliament, &s;o their &s;econd comming in (through Gods ble&s;&s;ing) may bee a means to e&s;tabli&s;h it, and to confirme it&punc; And when they were here, you know how faithfully they carryed them&s;elves, and when they had
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done their work, how willingly they went away without doing any hurt, and I doubt not of the &s;ame faithfullne&s;&s;e, nay, you ought all to beleeve, that they will likewi&s;e, when they have done the worke they are called too in <HI>England,</HI> they will likewi&s;e with the &s;ame faithfullne&s;&s;e depart, for it is Religion that brings them here, and the &s;ame Religion will make them willingly leave us, and goe home to their owne Countrey, when they have done that worke for which they came. I am a&s;&s;ured that the great hope at <HI>Oxford</HI> is, that they will never prevaile for the petting of Money for to bring them in; and if they once &s;ee the matter of Money effected, and if they once heare of the Scots comming in, it will worke &s;uch a terrour there, as I am a&s;&s;ured, that it will (through Gods mercy) produce a notable complyance of that Party with the Par|liament for an effectuall peace, &s;uch as all the godly of the Land &s;hall ble&s;&s;e God for.</P>
<P>I fore&s;ee there are many Objections that may be brought to hinder this worke, many mountaines of oppo&s;ition that will lye in the way: And likewi&s;e that the Malignants will bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> many things in your eares, if it be po&s;&s;ible to put &s;ome great rub in the way, to hinder the effecting of this work, but I hope, the love you have to God, and to your Religion, and to the Go&s;pel, and to yours wives and children, will &s;wallow down all the&s;e objections, and conquer them all; Ile name &s;ome few objections, and give you &s;ome &s;hort an&s;wer.</P>
<P>Some it may bee, will put you in minde, to call in que&s;tion the lawfulne&s;&s;e of contributing towards the bringing in of the <HI>Scots</HI> to this Nation; But for this, Ile give you an ea&s;ie an&s;wer, Cer|tainly Gentlemen, it is as lawfull for the Parliament to call in our brethren of <HI>Scotland</HI> to their help, as it is lawfull for mee, when my hou&s;e is on fire, and not able to quench it my &s;elf, to call in my neighbour to quench my hou&s;e, that is ready to burn down; The Kingdom is all on fire, wee are not able with that &s;peed to quench it, as wee wi&s;h, wee call in our brethren in <HI>Scotland</HI> to help us to quench the flames that are kindled among us; It is as law|full as it is for the Ma&s;ter and Marriners of a Ship, when it is rea|dy to &s;ink through a mighty Tempe&s;t, to call in other Marriners to help to keep the Ship from &s;inking; It is the condition of our Kingdom now, it is ready to &s;ink, and it is our de&s;ire that our
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brethren of <HI>Scotland</HI> would come in to our aide, to keep it from &s;inking.</P>
<P>Others it may be will object and &s;ay to you, it is rebellion, e&s;pe|cially to call in another Nation to your helpe. But I be&s;eech you give me leave to put you in minde, that when the <HI>Scots</HI> came la&s;t into <HI>England,</HI> there was a Proclamation out again&s;t them, wherein they were called Rebels, and there were prayers to bee &s;aid in our Churches (as you well remember) in which we were to pray a|gain&s;t them as Rebells, and there was Money likewi&s;e contributed then, for to hinder their comming in, and to rai&s;e an Army to drive them out of the Kingdome, and I doubt not but you may re|member, all the ill-affected did contribute Mony to keep them out of this Kingdom, and from tarrying in; but it plea&s;ed Almighty God through his great mercy, &s;o to change and alter the &s;tate of things, that within a little while, the Nation of <HI>Scotland,</HI> even by Act of Parliament, they were proclaimed and made the true and loyall Subjects of the King, and in tho&s;e Churches in which they were prayed again&s;t as Rebells, even in tho&s;e very Churches, they were pronounced the good Subjects of the King; this I doubt not but you remember, &amp; I doubt not, but through the mercy of God, the Lord rai&s;ing up our hearts, I doubt not but the &s;ame effect, will come of their &s;econd comming into this Kingdom; and they that now tell you they are Rebels, and you do an act of Rebellion, in the contribution to the bringing of them in. I doubt not but you &s;hall &s;ee an Act of Parliament to call them his Loyall Subjects, (wherein I hope our King will concurre with his Parliament) and likewi&s;e Prayers made; nay, a day of thank&s;giving, as was after their fir&s;t comming, a day of Thank&s;giving for the mercy of God, in &s;tirring up their hearts to be willing to come unto our help.</P>
<P>But it may be &s;ome others will object and &s;ay, why &s;hould we that are Mini&s;ters, engage our &s;elves &s;o much in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e? to &s;ee a Reverend A&s;&s;embly of grave Mini&s;ters to appeare here in &s;o great an A&s;&s;embly. This it may be, will bee a mighty objection to &s;ome, but I be&s;eech you give me leave to give you a &s;hort an&s;wer did I not think that that that &s;hal be &s;aid this day, would mightily conduce to peace, for my part, I would not have been the month of the A&s;&s;embly; did I thinke any other way to produce a &s;olid and a &s;etled peace, a Religious peace. I that am a Mini&s;ter of peace,
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an Amba&s;&s;ador of peace; I would not have been a Trumpeter to this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e this day: the truth is, if you would have peace with Popery, a Peace with &s;lavery; if you would have a <HI>Judas</HI> peace, or a <HI>Joab</HI> his peace, you know the Story, he ki&s;s'd <HI>Ama&s;a,</HI> and then killed him; if you would have a peace that may bring a ma&s;&s;acre with it, a French peace, if you would have &s;uch a peace, it may be had ea&s;ily; but if you would have a peace that may continue the Go&s;pel among you, and may bring in a Reformation, &s;uch as all the godly in the Kingdome doe de&s;ire, I am concluded under this, and am confident that &s;uch a peace cannot bee had without contribution towards the bringing in of the Scots, and that is the rea&s;on for the promoting of this peace, this ble&s;&s;ed peace, that we have appeared here this day: and me thinks (Gentlemen) the very &s;ight of the&s;e worthy Divines, me thinkes &s;o many Divines, &s;o many Orators, &s;o many &s;ilent Orators to plead with you, to bee willing to engage your &s;elves to the utmo&s;t to help forward the Nation of <HI>Scotland</HI> to come to our help. And likewi&s;e I would put you in mind of the 10&punc; of <HI>Numbers,</HI> there you &s;hal read that there were two &s;ilver Trumpets; and as there were Prie&s;ts appointed for the convocation of their A&s;&s;emblies, &s;o there were Prie&s;ts to &s;ound the &s;ilver Trumpets to proclaime the Warre. And likewi&s;e in the 20. of <HI>Deuteronomy,</HI> you &s;hall finde there, that when the children of I&s;rael would goe out to Warre, the &s;onnes of <HI>Levi,</HI> one of the Prie&s;ts, was to make a &s;peech to encourage them. And certainly, if this were the way of God in the Old Te&s;tament, certainly much more in &s;uch a Cau&s;e as this, in which Cau&s;e Religion is &s;o in|twin'd, and indeed &s;o interlac'd, that Religion and this Cau&s;e, they are like <HI>Hippocrates</HI> his twins, they mu&s;t live and die together. And (Gentlemen) if Religion were not concerned in this Cau&s;e, and mightily concerned; and if Religion did not live and die with it, we had not appeared this day; And I hope this will be a &s;uffici|ent an&s;wer unto this Objection.</P>
<P>But there is another Objection which I will an&s;wer, and then briefly give leave to my other Reverend Brethren, that likewi&s;e are prepared to &s;peake here. The great Objection of all is this, that the City is already exhau&s;ted, and &s;o much Money hath been lent already, that there is no hope of lending any more; this is the grand Objection, But truly (Gentlemen) for my part, this is one
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of the chiefe Arguments I have to per&s;wade you to lend a little more, becau&s;e you have lent &s;o much: give me leave to put you in minde of that Story, in the 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 13. the Story of King <HI>Joa&s;h,</HI> that came to vi&s;it the Prophet <HI>Eli&s;ha,</HI> when he was ready to breath out his la&s;t, the Prophet <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> gives him a bow and arrows, and bids him &s;hoot, hee &s;hootes, and bids him &s;mite, hee &s;mites the ground thrice, and then he cea&s;ed, the Prophet was exceeding an|gry with him, and tells him, you &s;hould have &s;mote the ground 5 or 6 times, and then you &s;hould have utterly con&s;umed the <HI>A&s;&s;y|rians,</HI> whereas now you &s;hall &s;mite them but three times. Give me leave to apply this, Gentlemen, you have &s;mote the ground thrice, you have lent once, twice, and thrice, indeed you have been the fame of <HI>England,</HI> and the Repairers of <HI>England,</HI> and the Orna|ments of <HI>England,</HI> you have lent much, but let mee tell you, you mu&s;t &s;mite the ground 5 or 6 times, if ever you look to con&s;ume the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians,</HI> if ever you look to bring this Warre to a happy Peace, that your po&s;terities may rejoyce in this Peace, you mu&s;t &s;hoot one arrow more, and then through Gods ble&s;&s;ing, you may utterly con&s;ume the&s;e Enemies, that you and your po&s;terity may rejoyce in a happy peace; It is a famous &s;tory of <HI>Johannes Eleemo|zinarius,</HI> that when hee had given even almo&s;t all hee had to the poore, his friends were exceeding angry with him, and told him hee had undone him&s;elf, what was his an&s;wer? O (&s;aith hee) I have not yet &s;hed my blood for Je&s;us Chri&s;t; Je&s;us Chri&s;t hee em|ptied him&s;elf of his Divinity, to make us rich, hee became poore, and &s;hed his blood for you; You have not yet made your &s;elves &s;o poore as Je&s;us Chri&s;t was, that had no hou&s;e to lodge in, and he did all this for your &s;akes; You have not yet &s;hed your blood for the Cau&s;e of Chri&s;t; Wee read that <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was willing to bee blotted out of the book of life, for the Cau&s;e of God; and wee read of <HI>Paul,</HI> that hee was willing to bee accur&s;ed, for the people of <HI>I&s;raels</HI> &s;ake; And will you not bee willing to venture your earthly provi&s;ions for &s;o good a Cau&s;e as this is, which (I &s;ay) <HI>England</HI> was never engaged in the like.</P>
<P>Religion hath produced all the wealth you have, all your wealth is but the childe of Religion, wee have a &s;aying, <HI>Religio peperit di|vitias, &amp; divitiae devoravunt matrem;</HI> Religion hath begot wealth, and the Daughter hath devoured the Mother; &amp; <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">lia devoravit</HI>
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<HI>matrem;</HI> but give mee leave, and I hope (through Gods ble&s;&s;ing) you will invert this &s;aying, Religion hath got you all the wealth you have, you Gentlemen, and I hope the Daughter now will pre|&s;erve the Mother; I hope Riches will pre&s;erve Religion, and not de&s;troy Religion. A famous example of <HI>Polan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Noli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> that when hee had given all that hee had away, and being asked, why hee would give &s;o much to the poor, hee gave this an&s;wer, <HI>&V;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> levi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> a&s;cenderem &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">alam Ja<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i,</HI> that I might the ea&s;ier get up <HI>Jacobs</HI> lad|der; And let mee a&s;&s;ure you, in the word of a Mini&s;ter, the con|tributing to this Cau&s;e for Gods &s;ake, and for the glory of God, and for the peace of the Go&s;pel, (I &s;ay) will bee a means to make you the &s;ooner a&s;cend up <HI>Jacobs</HI> Ladder; not for the giving of the money, but for the evidence of your Faith, through the merits of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, by your giving of the money; And cer|tainly that man will never get up <HI>Jacobs</HI> Ladder, that hath the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t of his money to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ar witne&s;&s;e again&s;t him, at the day of Judge|ment, e&s;pecially at &s;uch a time as this. Give mee leave to put you in minde of one other &s;tory, and that is of one <HI>Bernardinu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> that was &s;o liberall to the poore, that every penny that hee gave to the poore, hee would call it a holy penny, and a happy penny&punc; and hee would ble&s;&s;e God&punc; that hee had that penny to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> indeed hee was a Papi&s;t, and his ordinary &s;peech was, O happy penny, that hath purcha&s;ed immortality to mee; indeed this &s;peech was not good, for it is not our money that doth purcha&s;e heaven, that is an evidence of the truth of our Faith, that layes hold upon Chri&s;t for &s;alvation; But let mee tell you, if ever (Gentlemen) you might u&s;e this &s;peech, O happy penny; you may u&s;e it now, Happy money that will purcha&s;e my Go&s;pel, happy money that will purcha&s;e Religion, and purcha&s;e a Reformation, to my po|&s;terity, O happy money, and ble&s;&s;ed bee God that I have it to lend. And I count it the greate&s;t opportunity that ever God did offer to the godly of this Kingdom, to give them &s;ome money to lend to this Cau&s;e; And I remember in this Ordinance of Parliament, you call it Advance money; It is called an Ordinance to advance mo|ney towards the maintaining of the Parliaments forces&punc; and tru|ly it is the highe&s;t advance of money, to make money an in&s;tru|ment to advance my Religion; the Lord give you hearts to beleeve this.</P>
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You &s;hall have the Faiths of both Kingdoms ingaged in this Cau&s;e, the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and &s;urely the Publique Faith of <HI>Scotland</HI> will &s;ecure the Publique Faith of <HI>England;</HI> I &s;peak now of &s;econdary cau&s;es&punc; through Gods ble&s;&s;ing. I am informed by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that the Nation of <HI>Scotland</HI> are now taking the Covenant, (that wee took the la&s;t Lord<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> day in this City&punc;) And you know that a <HI>Scotch</HI> Covenanter is a terrible thing; you know what mighty things they did, by their la&s;t Covenant; you know that the name of a Covenanter, the very name of it, did doe wonders; And I am a&s;&s;ured by them, that there is not one per&s;on in the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> that is not a Covenanter, and there &s;hall not one abide among them, that will not take this Covenant, and there &s;hall not one of tho&s;e 21000 that are to come over in this Cau&s;e, not one of them &s;hall come, that will not take this Covenant, but they mu&s;t take this Covenant before they come; O that the con&s;idera|tion of the&s;e things, might work up your hearts to a high degree of Charity, to a &s;uperlative degree, and that the Lord would make you more active and more liberall in this great Cau&s;e; For my part, I &s;peak it in the name of my &s;elf, and in the name of the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Mini&s;ters, wee will not only &s;peak to per&s;wade you to contribute, but every one of us, that God hath given any e&s;tate to, wee will all to our utmo&s;t power, wee will not only &s;ay <HI>it<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> but <HI>v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ite,</HI> wee will not only &s;peak to you to lend, but every one of us, as wee have already lent, &s;o wee will lend to our utmo&s;t pow|er, and ble&s;&s;e God that wee have it to lend; for indeed it is now a time of action, and not of &s;peaking only, becau&s;e it is an extra|ordinary bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, therefore here is an extraordinary appearance of &s;o many Mini&s;ters, to encourage you in this Cau&s;e, that you may &s;ee how reall the godly Mini&s;tery in <HI>England,</HI> is unto this Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>The Go&s;pel it is called a Pearl of price, by our Saviour Chri&s;t, and I hope all you Merchants, will part with your goodly pearls to buy this pearl of price; You Trade&s;men, the Go&s;pel is called a Trea&s;ure hid in the field, &s;o our Saviour Chri&s;t calls it, I hope you will bee willing to part with your earthly trea&s;ures, to pre&s;erve this ble&s;&s;ed trea&s;ure, that is hid in the field; you have parted with &s;ome goodly pearls already, I hope you will part with your other
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goodly pearls: There is an excellent Story of one <HI>Nonlu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> a <HI>Ro|man</HI> Senator, that had a pearl that hee did prize above his life, and when <HI>Anthony</HI> the <HI>Triumvir,</HI> one that was then in great power, when hee &s;ent to <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nius</HI> to have the pearl, hee would not &s;end it him, and hee told him, that if hee would bani&s;h him, hee would bee willingly bani&s;hed, &s;o hee might &s;ave his pearl, if hee would take away his life, hee would dye with his pearl; hee did not re|gard his Countrey, &s;o hee might have his pearl&punc; hee regarded nothing, &s;o hee might have his pearl; but hee would not part with his pearl, what ever hee parted withall; This pearl it is the Go|&s;pel of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, that you have profe&s;&s;ed in this City, and I hope you have profe&s;&s;ed it with power; and certainly, you have the name of tho&s;e that have profe&s;&s;ed the Go&s;pel in the greate&s;t purity of any under heaven; This pearl is this Go&s;pel, I hope you will part with all willingly and cheerfully, rather than part with the Go&s;pel, though you goe to pri&s;on, carry the Go&s;pel with you, nay, though you lo&s;e your lives, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;hall bee with the Go&s;pel, and for the Go&s;pel; I hope &s;o.</P>
<P>There is one Argument more, and then I have done, and that is from the inveterate hatred they have at <HI>Oxford,</HI> again&s;t the City of <HI>London,</HI> and again&s;t you for your good, becau&s;e you have been &s;o well-affected to this Cau&s;e. Gentlemen, I be&s;eech you give mee leave (that am no State&s;man, not acquainted with the affaires of policy, yet give mee leave) to put you in minde of this, that &s;ure|ly the plundering Army at <HI>Oxford</HI> conceive that they &s;hall finde a great trea&s;ure here in the City, though many pretend they have no money; Though certainly you have done well, and lent much, yet the plundering Army give out, that if they get po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the City, they &s;hall finde a trea&s;ury to bee able to pay all they have been at: And if ever you &s;hould bee driven (which God for|bid) to make your peace, it would co&s;t you twenty times as much then to procure your peace, and &s;uch a peace it may bee, that would bee rather a Warre than a Peace, and a death better than that peace, which now you may have for a very little, a mo&s;t happy Peace.</P>
<P>There is a famous &s;tory of <HI>Zelimus</HI> Emperour of <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> that after hee had taken <HI>Aegypt,</HI> hee found a great deal of trea&s;ure there, and the Souldiers came to him, and asked him, what &s;hall
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wee doe with the Citizens of <HI>Aegypt,</HI> for wee have found a great trea&s;ure among them, and wee have taken their Riches? O&punc; (&s;aith hee) hang them all up, for they are too rich to bee made &s;laves; and this was all the thanks they had for the riches they were &s;poy|led of; And it may be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, though &s;ome of you that &s;tand neute<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, or &s;ome of you that are di&s;-affected to the Cau&s;e of the Parliament, may think that if the Lord for our &s;ins, &s;hould give up this City unto the Army that is with the King, you may think that you &s;hall e&s;cape, yet bee a&s;&s;ured that youngoods will bee Roundheads, though you bee not, your goods will bee <HI>Gybalins,</HI> though you bee <HI>Gwel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> is; Certainly, there will bee no di&s;tincti|on, in the plundering of your goods, between you and others; and therefore let mee be&s;eech you, that as the Lord hath made you in&s;truments to doe a great deal of good already, for indeed you are the pre&s;ervers of our Religion, and you are the pre&s;er|vers of our Parliament, by your liberality, and by your former contributions, and by your a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and the Lord hath made you mighty in&s;truments of our good, let mee be&s;eech you, that you would per&s;evere, and now wee are come to the Sheat Anchor, wee are now come to the la&s;t ca&s;t, I be&s;eech you, you would per|&s;evere, and hold out; and O that my words might adde &s;ome|what to help forward this contribution! It hath plea&s;ed God to make mee a &s;etled Mini&s;tery in this City, and I have now been here almo&s;t five yeers in this City, and though I had never done any good in my place, I &s;hould now think it a great fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ite of my com|ming to this City, if after five yeers unprofitablene&s;&s;e, I might &s;peak &s;omewhat this afternoon, that might enlarge your hearts to a greater mea&s;ure of liberality; All I will &s;ay is this: Wee Di|vines &s;ay, that Per&s;everance is the only grace that Crowns a Chri|&s;tian; <HI>Methu&s;helah</HI> lived 999 yeers, if hee had fallen away from Grace, at the 999 yeers end, all the good that hee had done be|fore, had been quite forgotten; I know that God will &s;o uphold his children, that they &s;hall never fall away, but I bring it as a &s;uppo&s;ition, that &s;uppo&s;e that <HI>Methu&s;helah</HI> had for&s;aken his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, all hee had done before, had been quite forgot|ten; but God hath made a promi&s;e, never to for&s;ake his Chil|dren, and that grace hee hath begun in them, hee will fini&s;h, and I doubt not but that God, that hath put it into your hearts to be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">
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&s;o liberall already, and to doe &s;o much in this Cau&s;e, and to bee &s;o cordiall, and &s;o reall, and to exceed all other parts of the Kingdom, I hope that &s;ame God now will fini&s;h that good work hee hath begun, and will crown all his graces in you, with the Grace of Per&s;everance; and that God that hath been the Author of all the good you have done, I doubt not; but that God will bee the Fini&s;her; <HI>And I be&s;eech God to give a ble&s;&s;ing to that hath been &s;poken.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Jeremiah Burroughes</HI> his &s;peech in <HI>Guild-hall</HI> <DATE>on Friday the &s;ixt of <HI>October, 1643.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>PRovidence hath ca&s;t this A&s;&s;embly, met for &s;uch a weighty occa&s;ion (as indeed it is the weightie&s;t, that hath concerned <HI>England</HI> in our age) to bee late, and &s;o perhaps weari&s;ome to ma|ny of you, but you may well bee content to &s;tay a while, although you &s;hould bee deprived of a great part of your &s;leep this night, if this Evenings bu&s;ine&s;&s;e may have the hoped &s;ucce&s;&s;e of it, it may make you &s;leep quietly and &s;ecurely many nights after. Things of pre&s;ent and ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity, call for action, not deliberati|on; this work that you have been called unto, is &s;uch, as you mu&s;t leave objecting again&s;t it, and rather fall a ble&s;&s;ing God, that you may bee u&s;ed in it; In the 1 of <HI>Chronicles</HI> 22. 14. When <HI>Da|vid</HI> and the people had come and offered of their e&s;tates freely, and bountifully; <HI>David</HI> hee humbles him&s;elf then, Who am I? and who are wee? It were happy if you come all with &s;uch an humble frame of &s;pirit, to admire that God pre&s;erves your lives, and calls you at this time to &s;uch a work, &s;o concerning his glo|ry, and the good of three Kingdoms, yea of the Chri&s;tian world; If ever you that have e&s;tates had cau&s;e to rejoyce in them, then now when God pre&s;ents &s;uch a large opportunity for his &s;ervice as hee loth; and wherein con&s;ills mans happine&s;&s;e, but in being &s;er|viceable in his generation? In the&s;e dayes to bee acted by that poore, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow principle, <HI>Qui bene lotuit, bene vixit;</HI> that is, let us keep
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our &s;elves &s;afe, and quiet, keep our e&s;tates, take heed of appear|ing too farre, wee know not which &s;ide may prevaile; this is an argument of a vile and a &s;ordid &s;pirit; let &s;uch a mans name bee writen in the earth; Unworthy is &s;uch a man to live in &s;uch a Ge|neration as this, in which God is doing &s;uch great things, as might enliven the deade&s;t heart, quicken the dulle&s;t &s;pirit, rai&s;e the hea|vie&s;t, and inlarge the &s;traite&s;t &s;pirit living upon the earth; In for|mer times indeed there was le&s;&s;e charge called for, there was le&s;&s;e trouble, but there was le&s;&s;e &s;ervice too, and what doe you think to bee the mea&s;ure of a mans happine&s;&s;e, either little trouble, or much &s;ervice? A gratious heart thinks it as great a mercy to lay out for God, as to receive from God; God in the&s;e our dayes is ri&s;en on high in his admini&s;trations, and our hearts &s;hould ri&s;e together with him; <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 105. 4, 5. Thy mercy O Lord is above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds&punc; what fol|lowes? bee thou then exalted, O Lord, above the Heavens, and let thy glory bee above all the earth; This day Gods name, Gods great works they are above the heavens, they are very high, wee behold them, let our hearts ri&s;e in a &s;uitable way, as God ri&s;es in his workings, and all &s;ay, and doe as wee &s;ay, that God may bee exalted now above the heavens indeed.</P>
<P>God can doe his work without you, and doe it certainly hee will, how&s;oever, but &s;eeing hee is now laying a foundation of the mo&s;t glorious building, that it is like ever hath been in this world, if hee &s;hall bee plea&s;ed to call you to bee helpfull in it, it will bee Gods mercy, and your glory; Were it that this one principle were rai|&s;ed in the hearts of people, that to doe publique &s;ervice, it is not onely a duty, but a dignity, how ready, how abundant then would men bee in the Work of the Lord? There hath lately been the mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed union of two Nations, as ever was in the world, lifting up their hands to the high God, &s;wearing that they will amend their wayes, and &s;eek to reform them&s;elves according un|to the Word, let us now reach forth our hands and hearts, unto our brethren in <HI>Scotland,</HI> let us come up fully unto this our en|gagement, and rejoyce in it, for certainly that Nation is a Nati|on that God doth love, a Nation that God doth honour, and by tho&s;e many expre&s;&s;ions of his love, &s;hewed that hee doth in|tend to make them &s;peciall in&s;truments of the great things he hath
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to doe in this latter age of the world; It is a Nation that is uni|ted the mo&s;t firmely of any people under heaven, Wee may tru|ly call it a <HI>Philadelphia,</HI> and <HI>Brightman</HI> (that famous light in for|mer times, 30 or 40 yeers &s;ince) did parallell the Church of <HI>Phi|ladelphia</HI> with the Church of <HI>Scotland; Philadelphia</HI> &s;ignifies bro|therly love; When was there ever a Nation, &s;uch a Church, that joyned together in &s;uch firm Covenants as they have done? had wee had the like union among&s;t us, O what great things had wee done long before this time?</P>
<P>A Nation it is that hath engaged it &s;elf to God in a higher way, in a more extraordinary way, than any Nation this day upon the face of the earth hath done; in the mo&s;t &s;olemn way Covenan|ting with the eternall God, powring forth their prayers, and their tears for joy, together with their Covenanting; A Nation that hath reformed their lives for &s;o &s;mall a time more than ever any people that wee know of in the world have done, and a people that have ri&s;en up again&s;t Antichri&s;t more in another way, than ever people have done, and that is the great Work of God in the&s;e times, and therefore God certainly hath a love unto them, becau&s;e they breake the ice, and begin the work, and ari&s;e in &s;uch a way as they doe for the pulling down of that man of &s;in. A Nation that God hath honoured by giving as glorious &s;ucce&s;&s;e unto, as ever he did unto any; who&s;e low and meane beginnings hee hath rai&s;ed to as great a height, as ever low beginnings in any Coun|trey were: How hath God di&s;&s;ipated and bia&s;ted the Coun&s;ells of their adver&s;aries? how hath he di&s;covered all their Treacheries? al|though they be in them&s;elves (comparatively at lea&s;t) a poor peo|ple, and of little &s;trength, (as the Church of <HI>Philadelphia</HI> was) yet they have kept the word of Gods patience, and God hath kept them in the houre of temptation; God therefore is with them: (How happy &s;hould we bee, if we may have them in a neare union with us?) And a people that have carryed them&s;elves with as great honour and faithfulne&s;&s;e, with as great wi&s;dome and order in the mo&s;t difficult worke that ever a people did undertake, in tho&s;e by and intricate paths that were before uncrodden. Certainly that they undertooke at the beginning of their wor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e, but a few years &s;ince, it could not but be looked upon with the eye of rea&s;on, as the mo&s;t unlikely worke ever to have proceeded, as any work<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">
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hath ever done, and yet how hath the Lord been with them, and with what wi&s;dome and graciou&s;ne&s;&s;e have they carryed it? Was there ever &s;uch an example &s;ince the world began, of a people com|ming out of a poorer Countrey, into a fat and richer Countrey, and having tho&s;e opportunities that they had to enrich them&s;elves to goe away &s;o as they did? (their greate&s;t enemies they now ad|mire at them.) A people they are that began to ri&s;e for their Liber|ties, when the generality of this people here, were ready ba&s;ely to bow down their backs, and put their necks under the yoke: and had it not been that they had been willing to have endured the brunt, we had all been &s;laves (it is like) at this day. A people that are exceeding &s;en&s;ible of our condition, witne&s;&s;e that when our Let|ters from the Reverend A&s;&s;embly came unto them, they received them with teares, and much meltings of &s;pirit, in their Generall Kirke A&s;&s;embly; witne&s;&s;e their readine&s;&s;e and willingne&s;&s;e to come now, though in winter &s;ea&s;on, in times that wee dare not ven|ture our &s;elves abroad; witne&s;&s;e the temptations that they have had unto the contrary, and yet carryed through all.</P>
<P>They now de&s;ire 100000 <HI>l.</HI> what is this to 300000 <HI>l.</HI> in pay? what is this to five Counties? what is this to the plunder of a whole City? what rea&s;onable termes doe they proffer to come a|mong you? doe but give them 100000 <HI>l.</HI> advance, and they engage them&s;elves for three moneths and ten dayes, and in the winter time to be in the Kingdome, not to have a foot of Land granted unto them, or a&s;&s;ured them, but willing to depart againe without any more, when they have done their worke; this certainly cannot but &s;atisfie any &s;pirit that is never &s;o malignant, at lea&s;t it may &s;top his mouth. A Nation it is that wee are engaged unto likewi&s;e, that that now is de&s;ired of you, is no more indeed then is their due, it is due already to them, but they de&s;ire it not in that way. Where|fore &s;hall &s;uch an opportunity as this is be lo&s;t for want of Money? God forbid; &s;hall a people to whom God hath given &s;uch te&s;timo|ny of his acceptance, be rejected by us, when they would come in and help us? Their Liberties are &s;etled, why they, though on the other &s;ide of <HI>Jordan,</HI> they are not therein &s;atisfied, to &s;it &s;till, but are willing to come them&s;elves, and come into the brunt, and hazard them&s;elves, for the &s;etling of their brethren in the inheri|tance of the Lord likewi&s;e.</P>
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And it is not only the number of tho&s;e that &s;hal come in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">1000 that is our advantage, but the great bu&s;ines is, the ingagement of a king|dom, the incouragement of &s;uch a Kingdom, that God hath given &s;uch te&s;timony to, that that Kingdom &s;hall be by this everla&s;ting|ly engaged in what is deare unto us, in our peace and our &s;ecuri|ty, that is the advantage of all. And as the Lord hath a delight in this place, in this Nation, he hath no le&s;&s;e &s;urely in this renow|ned City; this City whom indeed our adver&s;aries have found out nick-names for, and call it the rebellious City, (as formerly <HI>Re|hum</HI> the Chancelor, and <HI>Shim&s;bai</HI> the Scribe, <HI>Ezra</HI> 4. called the City of <HI>Jeru&s;alem)</HI> but God hath other names for you, it is the City of the Lord of Ho&s;ts, it is the faithfull City, and God hath much mercy certainly for this place. There is no City in the world, that hath &s;uch a cloud of incen&s;e of prayers goe daily up to heaven (I verily believe) as doth from this City. Yea, put all the Cities of the earth together, I &s;carce thinke that God is &s;o much honoured in family duties in them all together, as he is in this place. A City that hath had the powerfull preaching of the Go&s;pel, beyond all Cities upon the face of the earth; and the Mi|ni&s;ters of it receiving more encouragement here, then they have done in any other parts of the world. A City that hath more of the power and life of godline&s;&s;e, then any place yet upon the face of the earth; &s;urely God intendeth good to this City, and doth likewi&s;e delight in it, and he hath great things for this City to do, and great mercy to be&s;tow upon them.</P>
<P>You have been the bulwark of that honourable A&s;&s;embly in both Hou&s;es of Parliament, you have been their &s;afety, you have been their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, their lives have been pre&s;erved by you, and God will remember it another day, and hee hath mercy in &s;tore for that labour of your love, and that hazard that you endured in that thing: You have been the refuge of the bani&s;hed Mini&s;ters, and Saints of, God in mo&s;t parts of this Kingdome, and in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the ble&s;&s;ing of tho&s;e that are ready to peri&s;h, it is much upon this City night &amp; day. Never did the Lord &s;tir up &s;o many young ones, as he hath done in this city at this time, that promi&s;es great mercy, that &s;peaks aloud to us, that God intendeth to do great things by them. Never was there &s;o many godly ones, or more, (to &s;peak with mode&s;ty) together in place of power in this City, then there is at
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this day. You have the ble&s;&s;ing of all the prayers of all the &s;er|vants of God throughout this Kingdome, Parents &s;hall teach their children to ble&s;&s;e God for <HI>London,</HI> as long as they live, yea for ma|ny generations, when they have any fruit by the Go&s;pel, they &s;hall teach their children to acknowledge it to the glory of God; chil|dren thanke God for <HI>London,</HI> thanke God that ever you heard of Chri&s;t, had it not been for the forwardne&s;&s;e, the zeale, the active|ne&s;&s;e of the Spirits of tho&s;e in <HI>London,</HI> you had never come to en|joy the&s;e Liberties of the Go&s;pel, as now you doe. And now &s;hall this City withdraw them&s;elves from &s;uch a noble and great work of God, as they are called unto at this time, and let it fall becau&s;e of them? for it is in your power, either to rai&s;e it, or to let it fall, (that is the Engli&s;h of it) it is in your power now, either to &s;ave us, or to undoe us, and &s;hall this be let fall now out of love of Mony? &s;hall I &s;ay, Let the Mony of tho&s;e men peri&s;h with them? No, I came not hither to threaten, but to per&s;wade; con&s;ider that the mercies that you have from Chri&s;t, co&s;t Chri&s;t more then money&punc; they co&s;t Chri&s;t his deare heart bloud: Who is it that rai&s;ed your e&s;tates more then others? have not many of you come hither low, as <HI>Jacob,</HI> with your &s;taffe to this City, and now behold the&s;e bands, this e&s;tate? who knows but that you are rai&s;ed for &s;uch a time as this? Have not you engaged your &s;elves many times in prayer to God, when fir&s;t you entred into Covenant to God, did not you give up all your e&s;tate then to God, to bee employed in his Service, God cals for his due at this time from you? Oftentimes up|on your &s;ick beds, and death beds (in your apprehen&s;ion of death, that they would have been death beds) you have then given up all again to God, and vowed that if God did rai&s;e you up, you would live to his &s;ervice, you would employ your &s;trength in his Service. God calls for all tho&s;e vows, you have now an opportunity to ful|fill all tho&s;e vowes: And &s;eeing providence hath ca&s;t it &s;o, that a Reverend A&s;&s;embly of Divines, hath appointed us to &s;peake thus unto you, give us leave to &s;peak in the name of God unto you, and to call upon you in the name of God; for the fulfilling of all the vows that you have made upon your &s;ick beds, to give up your &s;elves and your e&s;tates for the &s;ervice of the Lord: And know that if you &s;hall keep your e&s;tates otherwi&s;e then God would have you, it will be to you as the Manna was to the I&s;raelites, they kept it
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longer than they &s;hould, and there was wormes in it; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> that was pre&s;erved no longer than Gods time, was &s;weet, but that that was kept afterwards, it had wormes breeding in it; Your e&s;tates you have now, you mu&s;t not think will alwayes bee &s;o &s;weet as they have been unto you, if you pre&s;erve them longer than God would have you, there will wormes breed in them, yea the cur&s;e of God will bee in them.</P>
<P>Have not you &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nt up many prayers to God, for this great Cau&s;e, that God would ble&s;&s;e it? (I appeal to you) then you have engaged your &s;elves to Heaven by all your prayers; therfore I be|&s;eech and intreat you now, by all the prayers you have made, (as before by your vowes, by all the prayers you have made) upon your Fa&s;ting dayes, that God would pre&s;erve his Cau&s;e, that you would now doe as much as in you lies, to maintain his Cau&s;e, otherwi&s;e how doe you trifle with the great God, and mock him in your prayers, that you &s;eek to him to maintain it, and when there is an opportunity in your hands, you will not doe wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t lies in you. It may bee you will &s;ay, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e have done much alrea|dy; Wee acknowledge it, and ble&s;&s;ed bee God for it, but know the Cau&s;e is a great Cau&s;e, and it is a great God that you doe for; <HI>Philo Judaeus</HI> tells us, it was enough among &s;ome heatheni&s;h peo|ple, but to &s;ay to them, <HI>Libertas agitur,</HI> the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e is your Li|berty, that is afoot, enough to venture their e&s;tates and lives; It is not Liberty alone, but Religion (as you have heard:) But be|cau&s;e &s;ome may perhaps ca&s;t &s;uch a &s;cruple into your mindes, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> we have heard of it; That what warrant have wee to take up Armes to maintain Religion? that is not at pre&s;ent to bee di&s;cu&s;&s;ed, but only this, to &s;atisfie and &s;top all their mouths with one word:</P>
<P>Thus farre none can deny it, but it is lawfull to take up armes, to maintain that civill right wee have to our Religion, and this wee doe; For wee have not onely a right to our Religion, by the Law of God, but wee have a Civill right to this our Religion, that other Chri&s;tians have not had, and therefore there can bee no &s;cru|ple in this, to retard you in &s;uch a work as this, you have done much, but a gratious heart will ever think what hee hath done for God, it is but poore and low; That example is famous of <HI>David,</HI> that had done &s;o much for preparing the Temple of God, in the 1 of <HI>Chronicles</HI> 22. 14. It was 1000000 talents of &s;ilver, and
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1000 talents of gold; which &s;ome compute a matter of 33 Cart loads of &s;ilver, allowing 20000 <HI>li.</HI> to every Cart load, and 70 mil|lions of <HI>French</HI> Crowns of gold, this <HI>David</HI> had done preparing but for the hou&s;e of the Lord, and yet hee &s;aith that out of his poverty hee had done all this; all this was but a poor and low thing for him to doe in compari&s;on of the great God; why, have you done more then this? therefore &s;eeing it is for the high God, you have done it, look upon what you have done, but as low, and &s;till goe on in the work of the Lord; You have done much, and &s;o have the adver&s;aries too; Wee would have you to weigh this, that the adver&s;ary hath been at as much charge, as you have been, as bountifull and free as you have been; in the 46 of <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 6. Wee read that the Idolaters did lavi&s;h out their gold upon their Idols, yea, they lavi&s;hed their gold out of their bagges: Certainly, our adver&s;ary hath felt the burthen of this, and hath been at the charge of it, as much as you; You have done much, but yet you have not gone in a good work &s;o farre as a <HI>Herod</HI> hath done; <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> in his 15 Book of <HI>Antiquities,</HI> and about the 12 Chapter, tells us of <HI>Herod</HI> the King, that in the time of &s;carcity, hee &s;old away all his moveables, all the plate that was &s;erved to his table, and fetch|ed corn from <HI>Aegypt,</HI> and bought it for the poor, and cloathed them, yea, and gave &s;eed corn to the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians</HI> his neighbours; Why now, in this our Kingdom, wee may &s;ee much Plate &s;till at many Noble mens tables; yea, at many Gentlemens tables, a great deal of Plate re&s;erved, they have not &s;old all their moveables, and Plate to give away; it is but a proportion of their e&s;tates, and but to lend upon &s;o good &s;ecurity.</P>
<P>And take this one con&s;ideration further, your having done much, is a mighty preparation, to make your doing now to bee formidable to your adver&s;aries; for what is the hope of your ad|ver&s;ary? but that you are drawn dry; They triumph in this, and they tell the world, that there mu&s;t bee &s;uch petty wayes, to &s;eek to the City, to get petty &s;ummes of money, and all is even gone, and therefore wee &s;hall have them to bee a prey ere long; but when they &s;hall &s;ee, that after &s;o much hath been expended here, that you have &s;uch free &s;pirits, and to come out &s;till abundantly with further trea&s;ure, this will more daunt their hearts; this 100000 <HI>li.</HI> will daunt their hearts more than 2000000 <HI>li.</HI> before hath done; If you &s;ay, why doe wee doe all? What if God will give the Ci|ty,
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the &s;peciall honour, yet the Countrey will bee required for a great part be&s;ides; but the Lords work now to bee done, it mu&s;t bee done e&s;pecially by his &s;ervants; and wee know in <HI>Ezra,</HI> when as the adver&s;aries of <HI>Judah</HI> would have come and helped in the work, they would not &s;uffer them to come and help in the work; I &s;ay not, wee &s;hould doe &s;o; but onely to &s;atisfie <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s in this, that wee &s;hould not think it much, that God &s;hould e&s;pecially honour us in &s;uch a work as this is; But yet be&s;ides know, that your in|tere&s;t in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, it is more than the intere&s;t of other men; for other men care not what becomes of Religion, what care they for Reformation? they are willing to bee &s;laves to &s;ome, that they might have others &s;laves under them; But you de&s;ire Refor|mation, you therefore &s;hall have the greate&s;t &s;hare in the ble&s;&s;ing of the i&s;&s;ue of this work; and therefore if others doe not &s;o much, yet you &s;hould bee willing to bee forward in the work you are now called to; and if you bee willing, it is like in a little while, you may get &s;uch power, that you may bring others to doe what&s;o|ever may appear to bee ju&s;t; If it &s;hall bee &s;aid, I, but a great deal is done, but to little purpo&s;e all this while; O (my brethren) &s;ay not &s;o, it is an unthankfull voyce, this, for much hath been done, there hath been a check given to the adver&s;ary, the &s;tream of tyran|ny and &s;lavery, it hath been &s;topped, your lives have all this while been pre&s;erved by what hath been done; If you think, but it is too late, and all will bee lo&s;t that wee doe; Say not &s;o neither, this is below a <HI>Roman</HI> &s;pirit, the <HI>Romans</HI> when <HI>Hannibal</HI> was at their gates, yet would &s;ell their fields at as great a rate, and as great a con&s;ideration, as at any other time&punc; Even the field where the Enemy was, found buyers, when it was put to &s;ale, there were e|now to buy that field; Your &s;pirits would &s;carce ri&s;e &s;o high to give a valuable con&s;ideration, for the field of your Enemy, to bee Fee &s;imple to your &s;elves; hee not di&s;couraged, you have not only the Faith of both Kingdomes, (that hath been offered) but wee as Divines may offer you this day the Faith of Heaven, the Faith of the promi&s;es of Heaven, they are offered to you, and there is nothing will bla&s;t that work more than a di&s;couraged heart; You know that the very thing that cau&s;ed God to deprive the children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of <HI>Canaan,</HI> when they were at the borders, it was, becau&s;e they were di&s;couraged, and &s;aid, There are children of <HI>Anak</HI> here,
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and let us not go; The Lord is bringing of us to a ble&s;&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> it is true, wee are in a wilderne&s;&s;e, but wee know God hath brought us into the wilderne&s;&s;e, and hee will &s;peak comfortably to us in it; and let us not bee afraid of difficulties, le&s;t wee bee deprived of that good Land that God is bringing us into; and little cau&s;e have wee to bee di&s;couraged, for tho&s;e wee have to deal with, their &s;pi|rits are ba&s;e and vile; why &s;hould wee fear tho&s;e uncircumci&s;ed <HI>Phili&s;tines?</HI></P>
<P>And wee &s;ee God hath been with us, in every thing that wee have undertaken; Wee have never &s;hown our &s;elves like men, but God hath &s;hown him&s;elf to be like a God for us. If you &s;ay, Well, but were it not better wee bent all our forces to &s;ome Accommo|dation? To that wee an&s;wer you thus: You have to deal not on|ly with his Maje&s;ty, but with a Popi&s;h party that are about him, and what &s;ecurity you can ever have of your peace, (as was wor|thily &s;aid before) except the Scotti&s;h Nation comes in for to fa&s;ten it, it is ea&s;ie for any one to judge. I will tell you but one &s;tory a|bout that, and becau&s;e it is &s;uitable unto you, I will therefore re|late it here: It is a Story that I finde in the Chronicles, that in the dayes of King <HI>Edward</HI> the fixt, King <HI>Edward</HI> &s;ends to this Ci|ty for a&s;&s;i&s;tance again&s;t the Lords, and the Lords &s;end to the City for their a&s;&s;i&s;tance likewi&s;e, again&s;t the Protectour, the Earl of <HI>So|mer&s;et;</HI> and the Common Councell was called, (I &s;uppo&s;e in this place,) and there &s;tands up, as the &s;tory &s;aith, a wi&s;e di&s;creet Ci|tizen, in the Common Councell&punc; and makes this &s;peech unto them; Fir&s;t, hee acknowledges that the cau&s;e was right for the Lords, for the Kingdom, though it were again&s;t the will of the King, becau&s;e the King would not then put in execution tho&s;e Laws that &s;hould bee, but hindered them, but yet (&s;aith hee) let mee reminde you of that that I have read in <HI>Fabians</HI> Chronicle, (it was one <HI>George Stadley</HI> that &s;tood up, let mee reminde you of that) when there was a fight between the Lords and the King, the Lords &s;end for a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the City, the City granted their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, the Lords prevailed, the King was taken, and his Son a Pri&s;oner; afterwards they were both relea&s;ed upon Compo&s;ition, and among&s;t other things, this was one, that how&s;oever the City &s;hould bee pre&s;er|ved, that the City &s;hould &s;uffer nothing for what they had done; and this Compo&s;ition was confirmed by Act of Parliament, but
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(&s;aith this Citizen) what came of it? did the King forgive? No&punc; nor forget, for afterwards all our Liberties were taken away, &s;tran|gers were &s;et over us, for our Heads and Governours; the bodies and the e&s;tates of the Citizens were given away, and one mi&s;ery followed after another; and &s;o wee were mo&s;t mi&s;erably per&s;ecu|ted; and here was their Accommodation.</P>
<P>Wherefore then (to clo&s;e all) you have heard before, that wee come not onely to per&s;wade you, but to ingage our &s;elves as well as to per&s;wade you, and to doe that, that wee would have you doe: For our parts, as wee have in &s;ome proportionable manner done it already, &s;o wee are ready to doe it further, and it be&s;eemes us well to doe it; Wee read in the 3 of <HI>Nebemiah,</HI> that the fir&s;t that did help to repair the City, it was the Prie&s;ts of the City, and about the middle of the City, the Prie&s;ts of the Plain; I &s;uppo&s;e it is meant, the City Mini&s;ters, and the Countrey Mini&s;ters, and you &s;hall finde in that Chapter, &s;everall &s;orts of people were there, there were the Rulers these &s;pecially mentioned; I &s;uppo&s;e their chief Rulers, as their Aldermen, &amp;c. they were very forward in that work of the Lord; Yea, there were the Trade&s;men, there you read much of the Gold&s;miths, two &s;everall times in that Chapter, you read of the Gold&s;miths, more then others, and you read of the Apothecaries, that they were ready in their work; yea, and you read of the Daughters of men, how they forwarded their Pa|rents; I would I had to &s;peak to many young ones this day, I hope I &s;hould prevail much with them, to bee great forwarders of you that are more ancient, that you may doe this freely, which you are here exhorted to.</P>
<P>Have not many of you &s;pent your blood in this Cau&s;e, yea, how many young ones in this City have lo&s;t their blood? Mee thinks a &s;pirit of indignation &s;hould ri&s;e in you, to vindicate the lo&s;&s;e of the blood of your Servants and Children&punc; many precious ones, that might have lived many yeers, to have done good &s;ervice for the Lord; Even the children of the City, they ri&s;e and cry, <HI>Ho&s;an|na, Ho&s;anna, O ble&s;&s;ed is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee that commeth in the name of the Lord!</HI> O then l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t old Citizens bee forward, mee thinks Elders &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee forward in this Cau&s;e&punc; for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e thinks they &s;hould not think them|&s;elves men of this world, In the 17 of <HI>John,</HI> Chri&s;t &s;peaks of him|&s;elf, when hee was going out of the world, <HI>I am not in the World;</HI>
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and &s;o &s;hould you going out of the world, even &s;ay, you are not in the world; and therefore let your clo&s;e in going out of the world, be a happy clo&s;e in &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ed work as this is. And know there &s;hall come a day, wherein you &s;hall bee calling and crying to God for mercy; the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of this evenings work will bee re|corded again&s;t that day, when you &s;hall cry for mercy. I con|clude all with applying the words of <HI>Jotham</HI> to the men of <HI>Se|chem,</HI> in the 9 of <HI>Judges</HI> 7. <HI>Hearken to me, that God may hearken to you:</HI> So (I &s;ay) hearken to that worthy Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, unto that Reverend Divine before, and to him that &s;hall come after: Hearken unto <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s this day, that God may hear|ken unto you.</P>
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<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Obadiah Sedgewick</HI> his &s;peech in <HI>Guild-hall</HI> <DATE>on Friday the &s;ixt of <HI>October, 1643.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am commanded by the A&s;&s;embly of Divines, and they by a command from the Hou&s;e of Commons, to bee pre&s;ent at this &s;olemne and publike meeting, and from them to move for that, which I confidently pre&s;ume is granted already, a helping heart, and a helping hand, to pre&s;erve (O that we mu&s;t be forced to &s;ay &s;o, and yet ble&s;&s;ed be God that we are alive to &s;ay &s;o, to pre&s;erve!) our Religion, our lives, and the lives of ours. It is I confe&s;&s;e my happine&s;&s;e, that I am not to &s;peak unto &s;uch who have made our troubles, and that laugh at them, but unto them that &s;ee our di|&s;tre&s;&s;es, &amp; know how to compa&s;&s;ionate them: the per&s;wa&s;ion is the more hopeful, when the compa&s;&s;ion is beforehand afoot: if that ho|norable Gentleman that &s;pake fir&s;t, had bin &s;ent with fire to de&s;troy your City, or others with Swords from that grave Senate, to have de&s;troyed your lives, or with armed power to have compelled and plundered your e&s;tates; there I confe&s;&s;e a refu&s;all, nay a contempt had been the mo&s;t proper an&s;wer. But Sirs, their addre&s;&s;e unto you is paternall, it is humble and full of efficacy, it is but to re|que&s;t you to pre&s;erve your own lives, it is but to reque&s;t you that you would not &s;uffer your &s;elves, your wives, your children, your
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City, your Religion to be de&s;troyed. I confe&s;&s;e that I had prepa|red divers things to have worked on you; but they that have &s;po|ken before me, have &s;carce left me any new matter to &s;ay, but all (which I wi&s;h with all my heart were wrought in you, as well as in my &s;elfe, nothing le&s;t but) to doe.</P>
<P>The Religion that we have all our lives profe&s;&s;ed, if it bee not worth thy money, trample it under thy feet: Religion (brethren) is an invaluable thing, it is farre above our e&s;tates, farre above our lives, nay it is far above our &s;oules. For our e&s;tates, the Heathen &s;ay &s;o much, That our e&s;tates were not to be in&s;i&s;ted on, when Re|ligion was in danger, and therefore &s;ome of them have according to their imaginary Religion, (the &s;trength of it) they have neg|lected their goods to pre&s;erve their Gods; nay they hare (as <HI>Al|vinus</HI> did) neglect his owne wife and children, to take care of that vaine Deity that they &s;acrificed unto. It is (I confe&s;&s;e to mee) a mo&s;t remarkable thing that <HI>Pliny</HI> reports, (and good Gentlemen, let not Heathens exceed Chri&s;tians, in love either to their Country or Religion:) You know that <HI>Hanniball</HI> was a &s;ore enemy to the <HI>Romans,</HI> and the <HI>Romans,</HI> when they to maintaine them&s;elves a|gain&s;t them had exhau&s;ted all their publique trea&s;ury&punc; a Con&s;ull in the Senate be&s;pake the people that they would all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ring out their per&s;onall e&s;tates, (&s;omething like what is this day moved unto you) it was &s;o in&s;tantly, it was &s;o univer&s;ally reli&s;hed, that all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">orts of people brought in abundantly, and (might I give but a &s;ugge&s;t un|to the grave Senators, that) the Citizens, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Senator in <HI>Rome,</HI> left not him&s;elfe, (&s;o prodigall was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> for th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">fety of the publike, he left not unto him&s;elfe) for to keep him&s;elfe and hou&s;hold, above the value of 16 Crowns. O &s;hal heathens be &s;o pro|digall to pre&s;erve them&s;elves again&s;t a <HI>Hanniball&punc;</HI> &amp; &s;hal not Chri|&s;tians be as carefull to pre&s;erve their Religion again&s;t Antichri&s;t.</P>
<P>Well Sirs, as that which you are de&s;ired to expend &s;omething of your e&s;tates for is Religion, that is farre beyond all your e&s;tates, &s;o it is that, that is farre beyond all your lives: For I be&s;eech you what are all your lives for value unto Religion, what will your lives bee to you for comfort, when the Sunne is taken out of the Firmament, and the Go&s;pel is removed out of this En|gli&s;h horizon? if&punc; you &s;hould outlive the Go&s;pel, why (the Lord bee mercifull to you) what would your lives availe you?
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were it not better to make Religion and the Go&s;pel your Execu|tors, then to make Idolaters your Executors? were it not better to make Religion your Executors, then to make your &s;elves, or your po&s;terities heires of Idolatry? When <HI>Troy</HI> was taken, <HI>An|chi&s;es</HI> di&s;dained to take his Sonnes coun&s;ell, to &s;ave his life: Away! live when <HI>Troy</HI> is taken? And truly (Friends) if there bee in any of you, (a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> I per&s;wade my &s;elfe there is in all of you that heare me this da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">) a &s;en&s;e of God, a &s;en&s;e of your &s;oules, a &s;en&s;e of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t, why you mu&s;t acknowledge now, that all your comforts are lo&s;t, that all your hopes on earth are lo&s;t, and all your hopes in heaven are gone, if the Go&s;pel, if that Religion bee gone. Nay, (as I &s;aid at the beginning) it is that, that no not your &s;oules can &s;tand in competition with; I confe&s;&s;e the &s;oule of man is a precious thing, it is as the ring of Gold, yet if I doe not mi|&s;take my &s;elfe) Religion is the mo&s;t precious Diamond in that ring. The bu&s;ines of Religion, why, it is the &s;alvation of your &s;ouls, no le&s;&s;e then your &s;ouls, and higher I cannot &s;peak. And if this will not move you, at this time to lend out your &s;trength, to pre&s;erve your lives, your e&s;tates, your Religion, that which pre&s;erves your &s;oules to eternity, I can &s;ay nothing more. But then Sirs ob&s;erve one thing, there is not onely this dignity in Religion that may challenge all that you are and have; but there is likewi&s;e an effi|cacy in Religion: It is one of the be&s;t Ma&s;ters, and one of the be&s;t Fathers, true Religion is. What you lay out to pre&s;erve it, that one day will returne to pre&s;erve you. I have ever thought our Re|ligion to be our &s;hield; and as he &s;aid of his &s;hield, &s;o Religion will &s;ay to you, Defend me, and I will defend you. It is our &s;hield, why, pre&s;erve your &s;hield, you pre&s;erve your &s;elfe: O that this large Auditory would but remember two or three things, that I will &s;peake unto you. It is better (Friends) to keep your Reli|gion with the expence of all you have, then to keep all you have with the lo&s;&s;e of one dram of Religion; and if you &s;hould quit the pre&s;ervation of Religion, you &s;hall lo&s;e in the event, both Reli|gion and your &s;elves too. There will be a double lo&s;&s;e; you may perhaps for the pre&s;ent be at a double co&s;t to keep up Religion, but you &s;hall be at a treble lo&s;&s;e if you lo&s;e Religion; you &s;hall lo&s;e your lives, you &s;hall lo&s;e the e&s;tates that you keep, and you &s;hall lo&s;e your &s;oules too; and if any thing keeps you, it is Reli|gion.
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For if any thing keeps God, that keeps all, it is the keeping of Religion. Now Sirs, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> this argument (be&s;ides al that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> for in truth, they have left me almo&s;t naked, that I have nothing to &s;ay; as this argument)&punc; may revive tho&s;e affections that have been &s;tirred up already, &s;o methinkes, if you looke but upon the very condition of the Church this day, I profe&s;&s;e unto you, it will break your hearts; and therefore may certainly open your pur&s;es this day: Why, (friends) if I am able, I may not deny, no, not one day, nor the &s;econd day, nor the third day, nor any time, I mu&s;t not deny to help a poor <HI>Lazarus;</HI> I mu&s;t not &s;ee <HI>Lazarus</HI> to &s;tarve and die at my doores, if that I am able to helpe a poore Chri&s;tian: Why, if my bowells mu&s;t extend them&s;elves, i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> helpe mu&s;t extend it &s;elfe to one Chri&s;tian, how &s;hall I, how can I &s;ee, the Churches of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, for to&punc;ga&s;pe and give up the Gho&s;t at the feet of bloud? There are two &s;orts of bloud which will lye heavie upon my &s;oule, if that I &s;hould &s;uffer the guilt of them to be upon my &s;oul&punc; there is the bloud of Chri&s;t, and the bloud of the Churches of Chri&s;t: If <HI>Abel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> bloud, the bloud of a &s;ingle per&s;on, was &s;o heavie upon <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ain,</HI> what will the bloud of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Church, of all the Churches of Chri&s;t, let downe upon our fonts&punc; if we &s;hould now falle to help the Churches of Chri&s;t&punc; But if there were no other <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> with you&punc; but onely &s;ome|thing that might concerns your &s;elves, I profe&s;&s;e, as I am &s;atisfied in my owns Spirit, &s;o I am p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;waded it were enough to per&s;wade you. Why, (Friends) you have done already, (I &s;peak not to flatter you, you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> already) more then all the land hath done, even to the pre&s;ervation of all the Land, nay more then all the Chri&s;tian world hath done to pre&s;erve the Cau&s;e of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> And let me tell you, that God hath not been behinde hand with you, God hath looked upon you, as much (I meane this City&punc; God hath looked upon this City, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> if not more, then up|on all the land be&s;ides. And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ruly, if you will ca&s;t ea&s;t up all ac|counts betwixt God and your &s;elves, though you have done very much, yet you are in arre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s ages &s;till unto God; God is &s;till before|hand with mercies&punc; though in mercy he hath &s;tirred up your hearts to doe thus.</P>
<P>These are three things methinks, wherein the Lord hath &s;hew|ed him&s;elfe to you, that may for ever engage your hearts,
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with all alacrity to &s;pend, and to be &s;pent for his cau&s;e: Why, the one is, he never would to this day &s;uffer the de&s;troyer, notwith|&s;tanding all their intentions, (he would never &s;uffer the de&s;troyer) to enter into this City; he hath &s;till diverted them, as you have ob&s;erved by &s;ome admirable acts of providence, when their re&s;o|lutions have been to come to this place, (the Lord knowes in what condition you had been by this day, if providence had not (at one time e&s;pecially) diverted them from it; but notwith&s;tanding all this, God hath not &s;uffered them to this day, to &s;hoot one ar|row into your City. But then there is another thing; as the Lord hath not to this day &s;uffered them to come in a publike ho&s;tile way, &s;o he hath from time to time di&s;covered all the Treacheries, Plots, and de&s;ignes again&s;t you. When the enemy could not de|&s;troy you above board, but thought to undermine your Lives and States, and all (I need not &s;ay much to revive your memories,) of late dayes, did God unknowne to you, deliver you from de&s;tructi|on, and &s;hould you now be backward to doe for this God, that hath pre&s;erved all that you have, and all that you are? Nay, con|&s;ider one thing more; he hath in all the publike &s;ervices; wherein indeed, if any people in the Land de&s;erve our acknowledgements and honour, this City hath got it from the whole Land. But this is that I was &s;aying, God hath in all the publike Services and Bat|tails which have of late been fought in the land, God hath hanged the &s;hield of &s;alvation upon your &s;houlders, he hath been plea&s;ed to ca&s;t all the glory, not onely of pre&s;ervation, but of the great &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and honour, and victory, God hath ca&s;t it upon the peo|ple of <HI>London.</HI> And will you, that God hath defended all this while; will you that God hath pre&s;erved from &s;ecret treachery; will you, that God hath given hearts all this while to &s;tand for <HI>God</HI> above all the people of the earth: will you that God hath done &s;o much for in the times of battaile, more then for all the re&s;t, wil you fail now to do for God? God forbid, I be&s;eech you rather that your hearts may be doubled and trebled for that God that is &s;o good to you. And not to trouble you long, becau&s;e the truth is, I am confident there needs no more to be &s;aid, you long ra|ther who &s;hould mo&s;t &s;hew his affection at this time to pre&s;erve all: Why, there is one thing more that might bee &s;poken too, that is, touching our brethren of <HI>Scotland:</HI> Why, &s;o ma|ny
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things have been &s;aid already, that I can &s;ay nothing.</P>
<P>Our condition (worthy Sirs, our condition) of <HI>England,</HI> mee thinks it is &s;o like the condition of that poore man, that went between <HI>Jericho</HI> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> there the Prie&s;t hee pa&s;&s;es by on the one &s;ide, never &s;o much as lookes upon him; Our Prie&s;ts and Popi&s;h party; and another &s;ordid party that cleaves to them, they doe not &s;o much as con&s;ider the lamentable lo&s;&s;e of this poore Kingdom of <HI>England;</HI> the Levite he came, and looked on indeed, but hee pa&s;&s;es by: I pray God it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee not laid to the charge of &s;ome Churches abroad, to whom wee have been helpfull, that they can have eares, to heare of our di&s;tre&s;&s;es, and wounds, but have not hands at all to help us, whether they have tongues to pity us, wee know not; Onely there is the Samaritan (Sirs, the Sa|maritan) that &s;aw this wounded man, and that had compa&s;&s;ion, and that went to him, and that bound up his wounds, and that powred in Oyle and Wine; Truly (Sirs) the Samaritans that wee finde on earth, (for our great Phy&s;itian in Heaven, wee ble&s;&s;e him &s;till for looking upon us; but the Samaritans, the onely Sama|ritans that wee have on earth) they are our brethren in <HI>Scotland;</HI> O the tears that they have &s;hed for poore <HI>England!</HI> O the Prayers that they have in &s;olemn manner, from time to time, &s;ent up to Heaven for poor <HI>England!</HI> O the Petitions that they unknown for a long time to us, did direct unto his Maje&s;ty, if it had been po&s;|&s;ible to take up all differences! and now yet again, as if their in|ward compa&s;&s;ions, as if their prayings to Heaven, as if their peti|tionings to man were nothing, &s;o &s;en&s;ible, &s;o affectionate are they, to live with us, to dye with us, that they are ready to come in, to adventure their deare&s;t lives, to &s;ave our lives; Why (Friends, why) what will move your hearts, if this doth not move your hearts? I doe profe&s;&s;e it is the greate&s;t equity under heaven, to lend our e&s;tates, &s;ome of our moneys to them, that are not unwilling to venture their lives for us.</P>
<P>I know many Objections might bee made; You have done much already, and the &s;umme is great; I &s;ay no more, There is nothing great, to a minde that is great, and the Cau&s;e is great, and though the &s;umme of money bee great, yet their love is greater, then all you can lay out to an&s;wer their love; And &s;ay not (grumbling) wee have done often and often; I &s;ay to you, as Chri&s;t &s;aid to
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him that asked him, How often mu&s;t I forgive my brother&punc; Why, 70 times 7 times; So will I &s;ay for this publique Cau&s;e, you mu&s;t doe, and you mu&s;t doe, and yet you mu&s;t doe, and yet you mu&s;t doe, as long as there is a penny in thy pur&s;e, as long as there is &s;trength in thy hand, as long as there is breath in thy body, you mu&s;t bee all Servants to Chri&s;t, and Servants to the Churches of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>And &s;o I be&s;eech the God of Heaven, that what hath been deli|vered unto you this day, (and much hath been &s;poken, I think as much as po&s;&s;ibly can unto men) that it may bee effectuall, to move your hearts, that what is done, may bee &s;peedily done, and fully done, le&s;t wee bee for ever undone; Nay, that wee may bee pre|&s;erved, and not only wee, but all the Churches of God pre&s;erved. <HI>And the Lord of Heaven make impre&s;&s;ion upon your hearts.</HI></P>
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