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<P>The Root of Apo&s;tacy, AND Fountain of true Fortitude. Delivered in a SERMON Before the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, On their late Day of <HI>Thanks-giving</HI> for the Great victory given to Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> and the Forces with him, again&s;t the Army of Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton.</HI> By <HI>Thomas Ca&s;e,</HI> Preacher, at <HI>Milk-&s;treet, London,</HI> And one of the A&s;&s;embly of Divines.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 9.10.</HI></BIBL> They that know thy Name will put their tru&s;t in thee, for thou Lord never faile&s;t them that &s;eek thee.</Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. R.</HI> for <HI>Luke Fawne,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop in <HI>Pauls Churchyard,</HI> at the &s;igne of the <HI>Parrot.</HI> 1644.</P>
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<OPENER><DATE><HI>Die Martis,</HI> 9. <HI>April,</HI> 1644.</DATE></OPENER>
<P>IT is this day Ordered, by the Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that Sir <HI>Willi|am Brereton,</HI> do give thanks from the Hou&s;e, to Mr. <HI>Thomas Ca&s;e,</HI> for the great pains hee took in the Sermon he preached this day, at S^t. <HI>Margarets We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> at the intreaty of the Hou&s;e; It being a day of publique Thank&s;giving, for the great Victory the Forces under the Command of Sir <HI>William Waller,</HI> and Sir <HI>William Balfore</HI> had, again&s;t the Forces under the Command of Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton;</HI> And hee is to de&s;ire him from this Hou&s;e, to Print his Sermon. And it is Orde|red, that no man &s;hall pre&s;ume to Print his Sermon, without being authorized under his hand-writing.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>I. Authorize</HI> Luke Fawne, <HI>to Print my Sermon.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Tho: Ca&s;e.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>TO THE HONORABLE and his highly Honour'd Friend, Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> Knight, Commander <HI>in Chief, of the Parliaments Forces in the We&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Noble Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_TO whom more properly (under that <HI>Grand Councell</HI> of the King|dome, whereof you are a Mem|ber) doth the Dedication of the&s;e &s;udden thoughts belong, then to your Worthy &s;elf, who <HI>wrought with God</HI> on that day, the Salvation whereof, the&s;e poor la|bours, together with a more skilfull hand, were called in to celebrate in <HI>the great Con|gregation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> I may truly &s;ay, you made a great part of my Sermon, and the better part too; for
<PB REF="3">while thou&s;ands there are of all &s;izes, who&s;e <HI>treacherous dealing in the Covenant of God,</HI> comes in to bear &s;ad witne&s;&s;e to the former part of my Text and Sermon; <HI>Free-grace</HI> hath &s;o lookt upon you, that you &s;tand in the fir&s;t divi&s;ion of tho&s;e <HI>Worthies,</HI> to who&s;e fi|delity GOD hath given ample te&s;timony, what <HI>exploits</HI> a people can do, that <HI>know their God:</HI> for certainly, either <HI>you know God,</HI> or el&s;e we know not you.</P>
<P><HI>Darius</HI> once opening a <HI>pomgranate,</HI> and being askt by a &s;tanderby, of what he would de&s;ire to have &s;o many, as there were kernels in the <HI>pomgranate,</HI> an&s;wered, <HI>So many Zopyru&s;&s;es. Zopyrus</HI> was that valiant Knight and Com|mander, who to get the City of <HI>Babylon,</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;t by the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians,</HI> and be&s;ieged by his Mr. <HI>Darius,</HI> cau&s;ed his own no&s;e, ears, and lips, to bee cut off, and his whole face and body &s;o wounded, and mangled all over, that running to the enemies, and making them beleeve hee was &s;o u&s;ed by <HI>Darius,</HI> for per&s;wading him to rai&s;e his Siege, and re|move his Army. They ea&s;ily giving credit to a relation, that &s;eemed to &s;peak truth with &s;o many mouthes, as they &s;aw wounds,
<PB REF="3">admitted him into the City, and made him their <HI>Governour,</HI> by means whereof, hee got opportunity to deliver <HI>it</HI> and <HI>them,</HI> up to his Ma&s;ter.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> If in the behalf of this poor bleed|ing Kingdom, I might have my wi&s;h, I would turn <HI>Darius</HI> his choice, into <HI>&s;o many Wallers:</HI> You having run many, as de&s;pe|rate, though more innocent hazzards, for the re&s;cue of the <HI>Safety</HI> and <HI>Liberties</HI> there|of, now captived by <HI>vile per&s;ons:</HI> And this hath been your Honor, <HI>God hath been with you,</HI> and with tho&s;e gallant
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Noble Sir <HI>William Bal|fore,</HI> worthy Collonell <HI>Brown,</HI> &amp;c.</NOTE> Commanders, and Souldiers that have accompanied you in this Service; to who&s;e <HI>Fidelity</HI> and <HI>Re&s;o|lutions,</HI> Parliament and Kingdome &s;tand much indebted. The Lord be with you &s;till, &amp; make you pro&s;perous whither&s;oever you turn; and cau&s;e his dread to fall upon his and your enemies, that they may not be able to &s;tand before you: And when you have done your &s;hare in this great Service of God, and the Kingdom, He bring you back into the embraces of your Friends, crown'd with <HI>Ho|nour</HI> and <HI>Victory.</HI> Interim, if your grand employments allow you not time, to read a
<PB REF="4">period or two of this poor Sermon, &s;ome|time, do but ca&s;t your eyes, I be&s;eech you, upon <HI>the Text,</HI> and when you go forth, to encounter the enemy, <HI>lay it next your heart,</HI> I dare &s;ay, (through the power of that Lord of Hoa&s;ts, in who&s;e Army you &s;erve) it will, beyond all the <HI>witchcrafts,</HI> and <HI>enchantments</HI> which &s;ome of your enemies, are &s;aid to u&s;e, render you <HI>invulnerable, invincible,</HI> in the day of battell; which therefore, as the riche&s;t pre&s;ent I can &s;end you, I humbly de&s;ire you would plea&s;e to accept, from him, Sir, whom your merits, and love, have made <HI>Yours,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Obliged to honour, and &s;erve you in all Go&s;pell Offices,</HI> THO: CASE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Root of Apo&s;tacy, AND Fountain of true Fortitude.</HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>DAMIEL. 11.32.</HI></BIBL>
<P>And &s;uch as do wickedly again&s;t the Covenant &s;hall be corrupt by flatteries, but the people that know their God, &s;hall be &s;trong and do exploits.</P></Q>
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<P>_THe words hold forth a plot or practice, where|in the&s;e particulars are con&s;iderable.</P>
<P N="1">1. The per&s;on <HI>practizing, He,</HI> he &s;hall cor|rupt.</P>
<P N="2">2. The per&s;ons that are <HI>practized upon,</HI> and they were of two &s;orts: 1. Some <HI>prophane</HI> or <HI>rotten,</HI> who&s;e Character is, <HI>They do wickedly again&s;t the Cove|nant,</HI> 2. Others <HI>&s;incere</HI> and <HI>truely Godly,</HI> and their Character is, <HI>They are a people that know their God.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The <HI>Engine</HI> v&s;ed in this practi&s;e, that is, <HI>Flatteries.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. The <HI>&s;ucce&s;s</HI> of this practice; and that is different, according to the di&s;po&s;ition of the parties charactred before; The prophane or rotten hearted party, they were <HI>wrought upon,</HI> &amp; <HI>corrupted</HI> by the&s;e &s;ubtile Artifices to betray their <HI>Religion</HI> and their <HI>Country.</HI></P>
<P>The Well-affected and Godly party that are de&s;cribed to us by the knowledge of their God, they remain'd not only <HI>vncon|querable,</HI> but <HI>conquerors, they were &s;trong and did exploits.</HI></P>
<PB N="2" REF="5">
<P>Give me leave, the Text thus re&s;olved into its parts, to open them unto you as they lie in this Analy&s;is, and I &s;hall then clo&s;e with tho&s;e doctrinall ob&s;ervations that do naturally offer them|&s;elues to us out of the words; I will be brief in the opening of them.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t then, here you have the <HI>per&s;on</HI> practizing, <HI>He;</HI> And this, take him <HI>literally,</HI> or <HI>Hi&s;torically,</HI> was <HI>Antiochus Epiphanes</HI> younger &s;on to <HI>Antiochus Magnus</HI> that <HI>vile per&s;on,</HI> ver&s;e 21. where you have the fir&s;t mention of him; <HI>There &s;hall &s;tand up a vile per&s;on to whom, &amp;c.</HI> Whom for his vile and bruiti&s;h, tur|bulent and treacherous di&s;po&s;ition,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>in|fanus furio&s;us,</HI> Athen: lib. 2.</NOTE> <HI>Polybius</HI> with the change of a letter or two wittily nick-names <HI>Antiochus Epimanes; Antio|chus</HI> the <HI>Furious</HI> or <HI>mad.</HI> This <HI>vile per&s;on</HI> as he obtained the <HI>Kingdom of Syria</HI> (which by right belonged to his Nephew <HI>De|metrius,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 21.</NOTE> then but young) by flatteries and treacherous in|&s;inuations; pretending that he de&s;igned nothing but the care and protection of his <HI>young Nephew;</HI> &s;o he laboured to propa|gate and enlarge it, by the &s;ame operations and Artifices.</P>
<P>And by the&s;e he wrought &s;o with divers of the <HI>Nobility</HI> and other <HI>State&s;-men</HI> of <HI>Egypt (Ptolemeus Philometer</HI> being then a childe) that he wound him&s;elf into that Kingdome al&s;o:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 26.</NOTE> which when he could not ab&s;olutely conquer, (though he added <HI>Force</HI> to his <HI>Fraud,</HI> no not after a &s;econd or third attempt, as you may &s;ee, ver&s;. 24.25. and 29.) Notwith&s;tanding, that he had pilla|ged and plundered the riche&s;t of the Townes and Cities of <HI>Egypt;</HI> mightily enraged at &s;uch a di&s;appointment of his ex|pectations, ver&s;. 30. He <HI>returnes,</HI> and with the &s;ame Engines of <HI>Fraud</HI> and <HI>Force,</HI> ver&s;. 30, 31. He attemps his entrance into and conque&s;t of <HI>Iudaea</HI> which is the <HI>&s;econd</HI> thing in the Text, <HI>&s;c:</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>per&s;ons operated upon:</HI> Namely, the <HI>Iewes,</HI> as ver&s;. 28, 30. That people whom God had taken to him&s;elf by <HI>Covenant,</HI> and that had over and over again devoted them&s;elves to God, by mutuall a&s;tipulation and
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Dem. 26.17, 18, 19.</NOTE> avouchments.</P>
<P>Among&s;t the&s;e you &s;ee, he findes two &s;orts, as I &s;aid before, 1. Some
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> &s;ignifies both to prevaricate, and to rebell.</NOTE> <HI>Prophane</HI> or <HI>Hipocriticall,</HI> that had nothing of a <HI>Jew</HI> but the <HI>Name</HI> or <HI>face</HI> onely; Their Character is, <HI>They did wick|edly again&s;t the Covenant:</HI> By <HI>Covenant</HI> is meant the whole <HI>Re|ligion
<PB N="3" REF="5">and wor&s;hip of God among</HI> the Jewes: which is therefore called the <HI>Covenant</HI> becau&s;e it was <HI>ratified</HI> and <HI>&s;anciated</HI> be|tween <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Abraham,</HI> by mutuall <HI>Solemne Covenant,</HI> Gen. 17.9. &amp;c. And afterwards <HI>confirmed</HI> between God and <HI>Abra|hams</HI> &s;eed, many and many a time, after their Apo&s;tacies and Captivities upon their true repentance and turning unto God, with like Renewals of their <HI>Covenant.</HI></P>
<P>Again&s;t which Religion and Wor&s;hip there were not a few that <HI>did wickedly,</HI> allowing them&s;elves either in <HI>open prophane|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> or in <HI>&s;ecret Abominations</HI> (as Ezek. 8.) contrary to all their Sacred and &s;olemne <HI>Prote&s;tations,</HI> and <HI>Covenants</HI> and <HI>Oathes,</HI> under which they had &s;o often bound their own &s;oules, as you may &s;ee in <HI>Nehemiah, Ezra,</HI> and divers other places of Scripture; <HI>They did wickedly again&s;t the Covenant:</HI> They made a Covenant to day, and brake it to morrow,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 78.57.</NOTE> <HI>&s;tarting a&s;ide like a broken Bowe.</HI></P>
<P>Others there were of a more noble and Heavenly birth, a peo|ple, as their Character tells you, that <HI>knew their God:</HI> That <HI>knew him,</HI> not in a <HI>Notionall Hi&s;toricall</HI> way onely, but <HI>knew him</HI> in a <HI>&s;aving experimentall</HI> manner, which what it is you &s;hall after hear.</P>
<P>And the&s;e are the people, the people of <HI>Gods Covenant,</HI> the Jewes upon whom this <HI>vile Per&s;on, Antiochus</HI> doth operate.</P>
<P N="3">3. The <HI>Engine</HI> whereby he operates and practi&s;eth upon them, is, <HI>Flatteries:</HI> which in all probability were of two &s;orts.</P>
<P N="1">1. Generall; Such as re&s;pected the <HI>Religion</HI> of the Jewes, and their Civill <HI>Rights</HI> and <HI>Priviledges;</HI> to which in all his Declarations and writings, he was no &s;mall pretender; pro|mi&s;ing and prote&s;ting that he was &s;o far from the lea&s;t thought of offering any violence, either to their <HI>Religion,</HI> or <HI>Civill Liber|ties,</HI> as that he had no higher de&s;igne in his brea&s;t, then to be a <HI>faithfull protector</HI> and <HI>con&s;tant Defender</HI> to both; they &s;hould be to him as his own &s;oul.</P>
<P N="2">2. Or el&s;e <HI>per&s;onall,</HI> promi&s;ing and &s;wearing not onely all <HI>Freedome that any tender Con&s;cience</HI> could de&s;ire, but the great|e&s;t and riche&s;t <HI>rewards,</HI> and <HI>Preferments,</HI> due to the merits of &s;uch as &s;hould fall off to him, and be active for him: as you may read, ver&s;. 30. and my Text.</P>
<PB N="4" REF="6">
<P N="4">4. The <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;e,</HI> is the fourth and la&s;t thing in the divi&s;ion and that was you &s;ee an&s;werable to the per&s;ons he dealt with|all, <HI>&s;c:</HI></P>
<P>With <HI>prophane</HI> and <HI>Rotten</HI> &s;pirits who had no principle of Grace, and therefore made no con&s;cience of Religion, nor of the &s;olemne <HI>Covenants,</HI> whereby they had again and again bound them&s;elues to the maintainance and ob&s;ervation there|of; <HI>The&s;e Artifices took;</HI> they fall off like leaves in <HI>Autumn;</HI></P>
<P>He <HI>did corrupt them,</HI> or <HI>bribe them</HI> by Flatteries; Such were <HI>Simon, Ja&s;on, Menclaus, Alcimus, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But another &s;ort there were of another Temper, that were as far above the&s;e poor and ba&s;e Artifices, as the Sun is above the Witch-craft of the Sub-lunary creatures; they were fixed in an higher Orbe, where they beheld the face of God; were ac|quainted with him, and conver&s;t with him, who therefore (while others fell like fal&s;e, <HI>wandring Starres</HI>) remain'd as unbia&s;t as the Sun in his cour&s;e: As it was &s;aid of <HI>Iudah</HI> at ano|ther time,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;ea 11.12.</NOTE> <HI>Ephraim compa&s;&s;eth me about with lies, and the hou&s;e of I&s;rael with deceits, but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faith|full with the Saints. The people that knew their God were &s;trong</HI> to re&s;i&s;t and &s;corne the&s;e <HI>Flatteries,</HI> and <HI>to do</HI> exploits: <HI>Exploits</HI> is not in the <HI>Hebrew</HI> Text,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> The &s;ame word is u&s;ed 1. Sam. 12.6. The Lord ad|vanced, or, <HI>magnified Mo&s;es R: David Targ|kum,</HI> reads it <HI>qui fecit for|titudinem per|manum Mo&s;eh.</HI></NOTE> but is put in to make up the &s;ence, which would not el&s;e be &s;o full &amp; Emphaticall in our Mother-Tongue, as in the <HI>Hebrew:</HI> The word &s;ignifying &s;ometime not onely <HI>to do</HI> but to do <HI>wonderfully.</HI> The Faithfull party were &s;trengthened to do gallant and famous things: as the Mac|cabees, &amp;c. This is the divi&s;ion and meaning of the words in their <HI>literall &s;ence.</HI></P>
<P>In their typicall &s;ence, the <HI>practice</HI> and <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;e</HI> be the &s;ame, but the <HI>per&s;on practizing,</HI> is, <HI>Anti-chri&s;t,</HI> or any of his Factors and Agents; and the <HI>per&s;ons whom</HI> he practi&s;es upon, are <HI>Chri&s;ti|ans;</HI> upon whom as they are either Rotten or Sincere, the &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e of the temptation is various, <HI>ut. &s;up.</HI></P>
<P>The words thus divided and opened, I come to rai&s;e &s;uch ob&s;ervations, as do naturally offer them&s;elves to us:</P>
<P>The&s;e are vi&s;ible to every eye.</P>
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<HEAD>Doctrines.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t.</HI> A religious Covenant is &s;o proper for tho&s;e that pro|fe&s;&s;e
<PB N="5" REF="6">them&s;elves Gods people, that Religion it &s;elf is called by the Name of a Covenant. <HI>Again&s;t the Covenant.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> <HI>Secondly.</HI> No bonds or cords of Oaths, and Covenants,be they never &s;o Religious and Sacred, are &s;trong enough to binde a people, or per&s;on, who&s;e heart is not upright with God, to walk up with their Engagements; <HI>They will do wickedly again&s;t the Covenant.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> <HI>Thirdly.</HI> It is the policy of Tyrants and Oppre&s;&s;ours,that what they cannot accompli&s;h by force, they labour to compa&s;&s;e by fraud and flatteries, Or,</P>
<P>Flatteries are one great Engine which Tyrants u&s;e, to bring about their own de&s;ignes. He &s;hall corrupt <HI>by Flatteries.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> <HI>Fourthly,</HI> There be in all &s;tates and Societies,even in the Church it &s;elf, &s;ome that will be caught and corruped by the&s;e Frauds and Flatteries. <HI>He &s;hall corrupt.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5"> <HI>Fifthly.</HI> They that are unfound in their profe&s;&s;ion,and un|faithfull to their Covenants made with God in that profe&s;&s;ion, the&s;e be the per&s;ons who will be ea&s;ily fetched off and cor|rupted by Flatteries. <HI>Such as do wickedly again&s;t the Co|venant.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6"> <HI>Sixthly.</HI> God hath a people,in all ages and &s;ucce&s;&s;ions of the Church, that are above all the Flatteries and Enchant|ments of wily Seducers. There is a <HI>people that are &s;trong to do Eploites.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="7"> <HI>Seventhly.</HI> It is the true &s;aving Knowledge of God,that keeps Chri&s;tians true and faithfull to God and his cau&s;e. <HI>The people that know their God.</HI></P>
<P>You &s;ee all the&s;e flow naturally from the words: but I mu&s;t not follow them all, I &s;hall contract what I have to &s;ay, into the&s;e <HI>two</HI> main <HI>Doctrines,</HI> which ly in the face of the Text, lea|ving you to improve the other in your own private thoughts.</P>
<P>Doct. 1. <HI>That a people or per&s;on, who ever they be that live and allow them&s;elves in any known wickedne&s;&s;e again&s;t their So|lemne Covenants made with God, will ea&s;ily be &s;educed and corrupted by Flatteries, to de&s;ert and betray both Church and and &s;tate.</HI></P>
<P>Or thus more briefly:</P>
<PB N="6" REF="7">
<P><HI>Wickedne&s;&s;e again&s;t the Covenant, will upon &s;utable temptati|ons, end in Apo&s;tacie from the Covenant:</HI></P>
<P>Or yet &s;horter.</P>
<P><HI>Covenant breach, is the root of Apo&s;tacy.</HI></P>
<P>Doct. 2. <HI>The true &s;aving knowledge of God, is the fountain and &s;pring of all true gallantne&s;&s;e of &s;pirit and honourable At|chievements.</HI></P>
<P>For the <HI>fir&s;t,</HI> (wherein I &s;hall be the briefer, that I may have the more time to enlarge my &s;elf in the latter.) The Epitome whereof is:
<Q><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Doct."> <HI>Covenant-wickedne&s;&s;e is the root of Apo&s;tacie.</HI></Q></P>
<P>You remember what treachery, or cowardize (I know not whether) there was in a Battell or two, or more, what laying down of weapons, what running away, what a di&s;honourable Compo&s;ition, and Articles; I remember not the <HI>day</HI> of the <HI>Mo|neth</HI> it was, nor <HI>yeer</HI> of <HI>our Lord,</HI> but I can &s;hew you upon Record,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 78.9.</NOTE> <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 78.9. <HI>The children of Ephraim being armed, and carrying Bowes, turned their back in the day of Battell:</HI> What was the matter? Truly you cannot mi&s;&s;e of it, it &s;tands on both &s;ides the Text: They were <HI>a generation that &s;et not their heart aright, and who&s;e &s;pirit was not &s;tedfa&s;t with God,</HI> &s;o ver&s;e 8. that were enough, but the 10. ver&s;e is more expre&s;&s;e; <HI>They kept not the Covenant of God, and refu&s;ed to walke in his Sta|tutes.</HI></P>
<P>See, <HI>Covenant-wickedne&s;&s;e</HI> was at the bottome of this ba&s;e de&s;ertion and Apo&s;tacy.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t not &s;tand to multiply In&s;tances; you can tell where to furni&s;h your &s;elves with enough; How can it bee other|wi&s;e?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Rea&s;ons."> For fir&s;t,How &s;hall they be <HI>faithfull with men,</HI> that are <HI>not faithfull with God?</HI> Will not he break with men, that fir&s;t took the boldne&s;&s;e to break with God? Will hee think you, value o|ther <HI>mens bodies,</HI> and e&s;tates, that puts no price upon his <HI>own &s;oul?</HI> I know in point of honour, <HI>A Roman &s;pirit</HI> may go far, and do gallant &s;ervice, But I mu&s;t tell you this withall, I do verily think &s;uch a &s;pirit was ea&s;ier found in <HI>Rome,</HI> then in <HI>Chri|&s;tendome;</HI> my rea&s;on is, becau&s;e the principles of Chri&s;tianity being purer, and more active, they will either <HI>build,</HI> or <HI>bla&s;t:</HI>
<PB N="7" REF="7">what therefore &s;uch &s;pirits do, that love not, and live not up with the&s;e principles, (for the mo&s;t part) it is but &s;o long as their own ends, and the &s;ervice may &s;tand together: But bring them to a turning, where they mu&s;t part; or bait &s;uch an one with a &s;uitable temptation: To which purpo&s;e, &s;educers have learned of their father the Devill, that great &s;educer, to ob&s;erve the <HI>complexions,</HI> and <HI>di&s;po&s;itions</HI> of men, and to &s;uit the <HI>flattery,</HI> to the <HI>affection.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Be it <HI>Lu&s;t,</HI> bait it with <HI>Beauty.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Be it <HI>Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> with <HI>Gold.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ambition,</HI> with <HI>Preferments.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Timorou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> with <HI>Threatnings,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pride,</HI> with <HI>Prai&s;e,</HI> &amp;c.</ITEM>
</LIST> And <HI>boyle</HI> up the temptation <HI>high</HI> enough: put <HI>ingredients</HI> enough into the golden Cup of <HI>Flattery;</HI> let it &s;parkle in the gla&s;&s;e, let it be as vigorous and rich, as the mans &s;pirit is, and it is not one of ten thou&s;and, but (with <HI>skilfull &s;ollicitation;</HI> ob&s;erving of <HI>opportunities,</HI> and a little <HI>patience,</HI> e&s;pecially if there appear <HI>advantage</HI> on the <HI>enemies &s;ide,</HI> and fair <HI>probabili|ties</HI> of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the <HI>golden apple</HI> of temptation) will bee <HI>wrought off</HI> to ba&s;e and treacherous <HI>compliances</HI> with the <HI>ene|mies</HI> of Religion, and civill Liberties. All the while the man is <HI>higher</HI> then the Temptation, he &s;tands, and doth you, it may be, as good &s;ervice, as the <HI>man after Gods own heart;</HI> but let the Temptation be <HI>above</HI> him, <HI>flatter</HI> him <HI>high enough,</HI> and up|on a <HI>deliberate act of Judgement,</HI> he &s;hall <HI>betray</HI> all the <HI>tru&s;t</HI> that <HI>Church</HI> or <HI>State</HI> hath committed to him. I &s;ay, for the mo&s;t part, you &s;hall find it &s;o.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> For <HI>&s;econdly,</HI> How &s;hould he be able <HI>to &s;tand</HI> at &s;uch a time,&s;ince he wants a <HI>bottom.</HI> Our Saviour hath expre&s;t it under a double Metaphor; of a <HI>Root, Matth.</HI> 13.6. of a <HI>Foundation, Matth.</HI> 7.25, 26. He is not well <HI>earth't,</HI> he mu&s;t needs wither, when the <HI>beams</HI> of <HI>temptation</HI> do &s;corch; hee is built upon the <HI>&s;and</HI> of his own <HI>Re&s;olutions,</HI> or <HI>Imitation</HI> of others, or <HI>Self-ends,</HI> when <HI>&s;torms beat,</HI> and <HI>winds blow,</HI> when all the&s;e out-bid this mans principles, hee mu&s;t needs come down with a ven|geance.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> Thirdly, With a <HI>vengeance</HI> indeed; for, for the mo&s;t part,
<PB N="8" REF="8">there is <HI>divine vengeance</HI> in it: there is a poenall hand of di|vine Ju&s;tice in it,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The&s;&s;. 12.11.</NOTE> puni&s;hing &s;in <HI>with &s;in; want of love to the truth,</HI> with <HI>giving up to beleeve lies; un&s;oundne&s;&s;e in</HI> profe&s;&s;ion, with <HI>apo&s;tacy from</HI> profe&s;&s;ion; <HI>wickedne&s;&s;e again&s;t</HI> the Cove|nant, with <HI>rejection of,</HI> and <HI>defection from</HI> the Covenant.</P>
<P>The &s;adde&s;t judgement of all, the dregs of the cup, an in|fallible forerunner of <HI>finall rejection,</HI> without &s;peedy and mighty repentance.</P>
<P>Would you know how to <HI>improve this truth.</HI></P>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="&V;&s;e"> &V;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t</HI> then it may &s;erve to <HI>di&s;cover the cau&s;e of &s;o much Apo|&s;tacy, and treachery, as may be beheld in the world.</HI> Mark Apo|&s;tates, ob&s;erve them whom you &s;ee fall like lightning from hea|ven, or like the Angels, that kept not their fir&s;t e&s;tates, for the mo&s;t part, ye &s;hall find them <HI>a wicked prophane generation,</HI> that did <HI>wickedly</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Covenant:</HI> whom no oaths, nor pro|te&s;tations, nor covenants, could bind to their good behaviour, they lived in a continuall contradiction to their Vows and Co|venants:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 50.16.</NOTE> <HI>They took the Covenant of God into their mouthes, but they hated to be reformed.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2.17.</NOTE> Or if they &s;eemed to be <HI>Cedars,</HI> they wanted <HI>root;</HI> if they appeared <HI>as &s;tars,</HI> they were not <HI>fixt,</HI> but <HI>wandring &s;tars,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 13.</NOTE> blazing Comets,</HI> that make a blaze for a time, but go out in a <HI>&s;moak,</HI> yea without repentance in <HI>utter darkne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="&V;&s;e"> Secondly,<HI>The more wary had you need bee in your elections,</HI> who are tru&s;ted to make <HI>choice</HI> of tho&s;e per&s;ons, that are to bee employed in places of <HI>Publike tru&s;t</HI> and employment, whe|ther for Church, or State.</P>
<P>They that in &s;uch <HI>Elections, Martiall, Magi&s;teriall, Mini&s;te|&s;teriall,</HI> or what el&s;e you can think on; Chu&s;e for <HI>honour, great|ne&s;&s;e, relations,</HI> or any other <HI>private intere&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>advantages,</HI> and lay Religion a&s;ide, they chu&s;e not as <HI>God chu&s;eth;</HI> who in his choice of a Governour over his people, cho&s;e for nothing in the world but for <HI>fidelity.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 13.14.</NOTE> Hee &s;ought him a man after his own heart,</HI> that &s;hould performe all his coun&s;ell.</P>
<P>It is a thou&s;and pities, that the hearts of men (I would not of Chri&s;tians) are not Bia&s;t another way in their choice. I&s;rael would needs have a <HI>King</HI> over them,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 8.9.</NOTE> though for no other rea&s;on, but <HI>that they might bee like other Nations, &amp;c.</HI> And
<PB N="9" REF="8">hereby the people of God do not a little trouble and plague them&s;elves, and <HI>cro&s;&s;e their own de&s;ignes,</HI> by committing the ma|naging of their affairs into the hands of &s;uch, it may bee &s;ome|times, that think it no point of valour to &s;cruple at &s;o &s;mall a matter as breaking of a Covenant with God: And no won|der if <HI>God cro&s;&s;e them,</HI> &s;ince in &s;uch Elections <HI>they cro&s;&s;e God,</HI> who, in his de&s;ignes, &s;ingles out <HI>the called, and faithfull, and cho|&s;en,</HI> Revel. 17.14. yea they cro&s;&s;e <HI>his great de&s;igne,</HI> which is,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Revel. 17.14.</NOTE> <HI>That no fle&s;h &s;hall glory in his &s;ight:</HI> Therefore doth <HI>he chu&s;e the fooli&s;h things of the world, to confound the wi&s;e: and God hath cho|&s;en the weak things of the world,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 1.27, 28.</NOTE> to confound the things which are mighty: And ba&s;e things of the world, and things which are de&s;pi|&s;ed, hath God cho&s;en, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Honour'd Senators, let me ask you one que&s;tion, I ble&s;&s;e God, I can do it without <HI>flattery.</HI> If God had not &s;tir'd up the hearts of people, in the mo&s;t parts of the <HI>Kingdome,</HI> at what time you were &s;ingled out of <HI>thou&s;ands of England,</HI> for this great and ble&s;&s;ed Service, in which you have &s;ate now above the&s;e three yeers, ble&s;&s;ed be God, to make a better choi&s;e then they did in many places of the Land, <HI>What had become of poor England before this time?</HI> Surely had not the Spirit of God gone forth, and wrought to a wonder of wi&s;dome and power, in be&s;peaking the Votes of the people, for a major part of men, who&s;e &s;pirits were above fears, and above flatteries, &amp;c. We might have &s;ate down long before this time, and <HI>made our wills,</HI> and bequeath'd our poor children, every one of them, <HI>Popery,</HI> and <HI>Slavery,</HI> for their <HI>&s;orrowfull patrimony.</HI></P>
<P>And, <HI>now Honour'd Senators, and Honourable Commanders,</HI> let it be your <HI>honour,</HI> and <HI>piety,</HI> to <HI>recompence</HI> this care and pru|dence, into the bo&s;ome of this now poor <HI>bleeding</HI> Kingdome, with an&s;werable vigilance, even <HI>to a Critici&s;me,</HI> in your Ele|ctions of tho&s;e, in who&s;e hands you tru&s;t the managing of &s;o great and important concernments, as have wrapt up in them the <HI>honour of Chri&s;t,</HI> and the <HI>&s;afety,</HI> and the <HI>very being</HI> of the Kingdom.</P>
<P>Will you give me leave, to &s;peak a word in <HI>plain Engli&s;h,</HI> I know you will; <HI>If you do not purge your Armies, as well as recrute them, you may recrute them, to your own and the Kingdoms confu&s;ion.</HI></P>
<PB N="10" REF="9">
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="&V;&s;e"> Your Armies are <HI>reforming</HI> Armies, let it bee your care to make them <HI>reformed</HI> Armies, and you may humbly expect that God will go out with them, to enable them to do Ex|ploits.</P>
<P>But <HI>thirdly,</HI> to come a little nearer:</P>
<P>Is Covenant treachery the root of Apo&s;tacy?</P>
<P>Then <HI>Chri&s;tians look to your Covenants,</HI> &s;o &s;olemnly made, and &s;o often renewed: What con&s;cienciou&s;ne&s;&s;e can&s;t plead before God, in the <HI>Civill,</HI> and <HI>Politike</HI> reference of thy Cove|nants? What command have the&s;e &s;olemn Covenants had over your <HI>E&s;tates, Intere&s;ts, Per&s;ons,</HI> in all the&s;e &s;everall and &s;ucce&s;|&s;ive Emergencies, which have call'd upon thee to come forth, <HI>to the help of the Lord again&s;t the mighty?</HI> What vigilance, and circum&s;pection in the religious part? What power have your Covenants had over your conver&s;ation, in adorning that accor|ding to the rule? Sit down, I be&s;eech you, and &s;et up a Tribu|nall in your own Con&s;ciences, and let Chri&s;t &s;it as Judge.</P>
<P>And let me tell thee this; That <HI>according to the accompt thou can&s;t bring in, concerning this matter,</HI> thou art like to <HI>&s;tand or fall in the hour of temptation.</HI> I arraigne thee not for thy &s;lips and failings. Every <HI>tre&s;pa&s;&s;e again&s;t</HI> the Covenant, is <HI>not a breach of</HI> the Covenant; provided, thou do&s;t bewail thy failings, watch again&s;t temptations, and own thy Covenant. I &s;peak of the <HI>habituall,</HI> and <HI>generall frame</HI> of thy heart, and &s;tream, and cour&s;e of thy Conver&s;ation, wherein if thy care be to &s;ay with <HI>David, Thy vows are upon me, I will render prai&s;e unto thee, P&s;al.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119.106.</NOTE> 56.12. And, <HI>I have &s;worn, and I will performe it, that I will keep thy righteous Judgements.</HI> If thou can&s;t an&s;wer old temptations, as He did, with <HI>Ego non &s;um ego, I am not the man I was;</HI> If thou can&s;t approve thy &s;elf to God, for a <HI>con&s;cienti|ous re&s;pect</HI> to all <HI>his Commandements,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119.6.</NOTE> and <HI>thy Engagements,</HI> fear not thy &s;tanding, thou &s;halt not be a&s;hamed; <HI>David</HI> a&s;&s;ures thee &s;o much in his own per&s;on, <HI>Then &s;hall I not be a&s;hamed, when I have re&s;pect to all thy Commandements.</HI></P>
<P>But if thou bee&s;t one of <HI>Solomons fools,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 14.9.</NOTE> who <HI>make a mock of &s;in,</HI> If thou allowe&s;t thy &s;elf in <HI>known, habituall wickedne&s;&s;e</HI> again&s;t the Covenant, if thou can&s;t &s;in in the face of the Covenant, and not &s;hrink at it;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pval. 50.</NOTE> <HI>Ha&s;t taken the Covenant of God into thy mouth,
<PB N="11" REF="9">and yet hate&s;t to be reformed;</HI> Fear and tremble, I will not limit God, but this I dare &s;ay, it is a thou&s;and to one, but that when <HI>God</HI> and the <HI>Kingdom</HI> &s;hould have mo&s;t need of thee, thou wilt then <HI>turn Apo&s;tate.</HI> My rea&s;on is, becau&s;e, If <HI>Religion,</HI> and a <HI>Co|venant upon it,</HI> cannot prevail with thee, <HI>to for&s;ake thy lu&s;t;</HI> It is a mighty odds, if thy <HI>lu&s;t</HI> do not prevail with thee, <HI>to for&s;ake thy Religion,</HI> and the <HI>Covenant.</HI> If thou art not <HI>true</HI> to <HI>God</HI> and thine <HI>own &s;oul,</HI> how can&s;t thou think to be <HI>true</HI> to <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>State:</HI> He that will &s;ell his <HI>&s;oul</HI> for a <HI>lu&s;t,</HI> will &s;ell a <HI>Kingdom,</HI> if need be, for <HI>a mor&s;ell of bread.</HI></P>
<P><HI>He that thinketh he &s;tandeth, let him take heed le&s;t he fall.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10.12.</NOTE></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="V&s;e."> <HI>Fourthly,</HI>I &s;hould in the fourth place lay in Cautions to all to take heed of Flatteries, <HI>Religion</HI> Flatteries, <HI>State</HI> Flatteries, <HI>Per&s;onall</HI> Flatteries; &s;ince the&s;e be the <HI>Baits</HI> wherewith poli|tike Seducers beguile <HI>vn&s;table</HI> and <HI>unwary</HI> &s;oules:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 14.15. 1 Cor. 10.15.</NOTE> that would be thought of, Prov. 14.15. <HI>The &s;imple beleeveth every word, but the prudent looketh well to his going:</HI> And I may &s;ay with the Apo&s;tle. <HI>I &s;peak unto wi&s;e men,</HI> you are <HI>prudent,</HI> be not decei|ved with a <HI>parcell of fair words</HI> but look well to your goings; Had I an Enemy whom I might lawfully cur&s;e, I would wi&s;h him no greater plagve then to <HI>be given up to beleeve the flatteries and witchcrafts of men that lie in wait to deceive and de&s;troy;</HI> doubtle&s;&s;e tho&s;e, who by &s;uch Artifices and Engines, for their own private Intere&s;t, &s;hall be corrupted and wrought off, to betray their publike Tru&s;ts and Depo&s;itums, may &s;peed as well as many of tho&s;e in the Text did,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Alcimus, Si|mon, Ja&s;on, Menelaus, &amp;c.</NOTE> who for their <HI>&s;ervice</HI> they did to the Tyrant, were <HI>preferred,</HI> &s;ome to <HI>Bani&s;hment,</HI> others to <HI>Butchery.</HI></P>
<Q>Nec lex e&s;t Ju&s;tior ulla, &amp;c.</Q>
<P>There is nothing <HI>more ju&s;t,</HI> and proper, then that <HI>Treachery</HI> &s;hould be rewarded <HI>with Treachery.</HI> And indeed the hand of Divine Ju&s;tice doth &s;o order the matter (even here) that it is the portion of ba&s;e Apo&s;tats, that while they <HI>betray their tru&s;ts,</HI> they do more <HI>betray them&s;elves;</HI> That principle being written upon the brea&s;t of Tyrants: <HI>though they love the Trea&s;on,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amo proditio|nem, odi pro|ditorem.</NOTE> they hate the Traytor,</HI> while they cannot expect fidelity to their <HI>new Lords,</HI> from them, who came off with perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e to their <HI>Olde.</HI></P>
<PB N="12" REF="10">
<P>But I &s;hall not need to pre&s;&s;e this Caution: Remember the former, and this will be ue&s;ele&s;&s;e. <HI>Fidelity in Covenant is the be&s;t Antidote again&s;t the Enchantments of Flatterers:</HI> The Anti|the&s;is in the Text holds out &s;o much to you, which is the <HI>&s;econd main thing</HI> in the Text, and comes now to be handled. <HI>But the people that know their God &s;hall be &s;trong and do exploits:</HI> from whence;</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Doctrine is,</HEAD>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Doct."> Doct.2. <HI>The right knowledge of God, is the &s;pring and fountain of all true Greatne&s;&s;e, and honourable worthy atchievements.</HI></P>
<P>God him&s;elf hath &s;ealed this truth with his own mouth, while he hath made this <HI>knowledg</HI> of <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> the ground work, or foun|dation of all <HI>Glorying</HI> and <HI>rejoycing; Thus &s;aith the Lord, Let not the wi&s;e man glory in his wi&s;edome,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 9.23.24.</NOTE> neither let the mighty man glory in his might, Let not the rich man glory in his riches, but let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he under&s;tandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exerci&s;e loving kindne&s;&s;e, judgement, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e in the earth: for in the&s;e things I delight, &s;aith the Lord: Jo&s;hua</HI> and <HI>Gideon, Barack, Samp&s;on, Jeptah</HI> and <HI>David</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Samuel</HI> and all the Prophets, with all the worthies of God, before, and &s;ince <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> will come in like a cloude of witne&s;&s;es to give in te&s;timony to this Truth, who by their knowledg of God, <HI>Subdued Kingdomes, wrought Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, obtained promi&s;es,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 11.32, 33, 34.</NOTE> &s;topped the mouthes of Lions, quenched the violence of fire, e&s;caped the edge of the &s;word, out of weakne&s;&s;e were made &s;trong, waxed valiant in fight, Put to flight the Armies of the Aliens.</HI></P>
<P>But before I can demon&s;trate this truth unto you, in the rea|&s;ons of it; I mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity cleer my way by &s;atisfying the&s;e two <HI>Quaeres:</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>How God may be known?</HI> &s;ince he is &s;aid to dwell in an inacce&s;&s;able light?</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>What knowledge it is</HI> that will heighten a people to &s;uch atchievements?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> For the fir&s;t;You may remember what Gods an&s;wer was, to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> his importunate de&s;ire, that <HI>God would &s;hew him his
<PB N="13" REF="10">Glory:</HI> Namely this, <HI>Thou can&s;t not &s;ee my face,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 33.18.</NOTE> for there &s;hall no man &s;ee me and live,</HI> Thou can&s;t not <HI>&s;ee my face:</HI> What is that? Why the <HI>face,</HI> you know,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 20.</NOTE> is the <HI>cleare&s;t di&s;couery</HI> we can take of a mans per&s;on, the <HI>face</HI> is the full <HI>pro&s;pect</HI> of a man; The <HI>&s;eat of beauty,</HI> his <HI>Glory:</HI> And thus likewi&s;e, by the <HI>face of God</HI> is under&s;tood the <HI>full</HI> and <HI>cleer di&s;covery of God</HI> in his <HI>Na|ture, E&s;&s;ence,</HI> and <HI>Glory;</HI> Now no man can <HI>thus &s;ee God,</HI> or <HI>know God,</HI> on this &s;ide Heaven; it is an
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Omne vehe|mens &s;en&s;ibile de&s;truit &s;en&s;um</NOTE> object of &s;uch tran|&s;endent Maje&s;tie and Glory, that the feeble <HI>eye</HI> of <HI>mortality</HI> is not able to bear it, and therefore this <HI>faciall vi&s;ion,</HI> or knowledge of God, is re&s;erved for that time, when <HI>mortality &s;hall be &s;wallowed up of immortality;</HI> When the Organ &s;hall be made <HI>&s;trong</HI> and <HI>&s;pirituall,</HI> &s;utable (in its proportion) to &s;uch an excellent ob|ject, <HI>then &s;hall we &s;ee face to face, then &s;hall we know,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 13.12.</NOTE> even as al&s;o we are known:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Aug.</NOTE>whereupon I remember <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> hath this &s;weet rapture; <HI>Ah Lord I can no man &s;ee thy face and live, then Lord let me dye that I may &s;ee thy face.</HI> In the mean time ob&s;erve further what God tells <HI>Mo&s;es, Thou &s;halt &s;ee my back-parts,</HI> what are the <HI>back-parts</HI> of <HI>Jehovah?</HI> Why you know,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 23.</NOTE> that as the face is the full and cleer pro&s;pect of a man, &s;o his <HI>back-parts</HI> are but the <HI>darke and indi&s;tinct repre&s;entation</HI> of him. If I &s;ee but the back of a man, I take but the confu&s;ed and imperfect di&s;coverie of his &s;tature, and proportion: And &s;uch indeed is the be&s;t and cleere&s;t <HI>knowledge of God</HI> that is attainable on this &s;ide Heaven; we &s;ee but his back-parts; as Divines &s;ay, <HI>our know|ledge of God</HI> here is rather <HI>Negatiue</HI> then <HI>Affirmative,</HI> we know him rather by what <HI>he is not,</HI> then by <HI>what he is.</HI> This know|ledge of God in his <HI>back-parts</HI> con&s;i&s;ts in the&s;e three things.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> In his <HI>Names; Jehovah,</HI>which implies as much as <HI>a Being</HI> con&s;i&s;ting <HI>in it &s;elf,</HI> and <HI>giving Being</HI> to every thing that hath a being: <HI>Lord, God,</HI> &amp;c. which expre&s;&s;e his Greatne&s;&s;e and Soveraignty, and Supremacie over all the world.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> <HI>Secondly,</HI> In <HI>his Attributes,</HI> whether, 1. <HI>Incommunicable,</HI>2. <HI>Communicable,</HI> as <HI>Almighty, Omni&s;cient, Omnipre&s;ent, immu|table, Wi&s;e, Holy, Faithfull, Ju&s;t, Righteous, Good, Gracious, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> <HI>Thirdly,</HI> In his <HI>Relations,</HI> as <HI>Creator, Ma&s;ter, Friend, Father,Husband, &amp;c.</HI> All which I could &s;hew you in Scripture, but I mu&s;t but touch the&s;e things in <HI>tran&s;itu.</HI></P>
<PB N="14" REF="11">
<P>Now this knowledge of God in his
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Names.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Attributes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Relations:</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Is threefold.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> Fir&s;t,<HI>Notionall,</HI> or <HI>Hi&s;toricall</HI> onely, which con&s;i&s;ts onely in a bare intellectuall notion of a God, whereby a man is able to di&s;cour&s;e of &s;uch a Being as God is, even no otherwi&s;e then of any other Being in the world, although perhaps it have no ex|i&s;tence <HI>in rerum natura;</HI> as a Golden mountain, or Ely&s;ium Fields, &amp;c.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> <HI>Secondly,</HI>There is a <HI>credentiall</HI> knowledge; (pardon the word,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">James 2.9.</NOTE> I u&s;e it becau&s;e a fitter offers not it &s;elf) <HI>a beleeving knowledge,</HI> and <HI>&s;o the Divels beleeve and tremble.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> <HI>Thirdly,</HI>There is an <HI>Experimentall</HI> knowledge of God, &s;uch as you &s;aw de&s;cribed, Jer. 9.23. When a man, <HI>as he hath heard, &s;o</HI> (in a proportion) <HI>he hath &s;een;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 48.8.</NOTE> what he hath heard and be|leeved of God, that he hath found by &s;weet and ble&s;&s;ed experi|ence to be in God, namely, that god is that <HI>glorious being,</HI> and <HI>Soveraign Lord,</HI> un&s;peakably full of <HI>Power, Wi&s;edome, Holine&s;&s;e, Ju&s;tice, Faithfulne&s;&s;e, Goodne&s;&s;e, &amp;c.</HI> A Faithfull <HI>Creator,</HI> an unfailing <HI>Friend,</HI> a tender-hearted <HI>Father,</HI> a never dying <HI>Hu&s;|band,</HI> this is <HI>&s;cientia affectiva,</HI> as the Schools call it <HI>an heart-affect|ing</HI> knowledge.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Quaere."> Now for the &s;econd <HI>Quaere:</HI></P>
<P>It mu&s;t be a knowledge that hath all the&s;e heights and Gradati|ons in it that mu&s;t &s;trengthen a people to do exploits, <HI>Hi&s;to|ricall</HI> or <HI>Notionall</HI> knowledge onely will <HI>not do it,</HI> it is but <HI>a painted fire,</HI> it hath no warmth or life in it.</P>
<P><HI>Credentiall</HI> knowledge if it be but meerly an <HI>Hi&s;toricall belief,</HI> will indeed do &s;omewhat, it will <HI>dare a man</HI> much, &s;uch an one will be afraid of doing <HI>again&s;t God.</HI></P>
<P>But it is the <HI>Experimentall</HI> knowledge, that will make a man a <HI>daring man,</HI> to do great things <HI>for God;</HI> and this is the know|ledge in the Text, <HI>The people that know their God,</HI> know him, and know him <HI>in his Relations:</HI> know him, and know him to be <HI>their God in Chri&s;t.</HI> They &s;hall <HI>be &s;trong, and do exploits.</HI></P>
<P>Not that a man cannot attain &s;uch an Heroickne&s;&s;e of &s;pirit without a <HI>pleriphorie,</HI> or <HI>full a&s;&s;urance</HI> of Gods love: Such a
<PB N="15" REF="11">knowledge indeed is <HI>omnipotent:</HI> but that even where the &s;oul hath <HI>ta&s;ted and &s;een how good the Lord is</HI> in &s;uch a degree,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. v, 3.</NOTE> that it hath <HI>cho&s;en God,</HI> and hath <HI>taken</HI> God for its <HI>portion,</HI> as the Church &s;aith; <HI>The Lord is my portion, &s;aith my &s;oul:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lam. 3.24.</NOTE> He &s;ees &s;uch things in God as will rai&s;e him above the flatteries and witch|crafts of a lying world and carry it out not only to <HI>Attempt</HI> but to <HI>Attchieve</HI> great things for God (when it &s;ees its call) beyond it &s;elf.</P>
<P>See <HI>David</HI> going out again&s;t <HI>Goliah.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A&s;ah</HI> with a &s;mall incon&s;iderable party, again&s;t <HI>Zerah</HI> the <HI>Ethiopian,</HI> and his army con&s;i&s;ting of a <HI>Million of men, a thou|&s;and thou&s;and,</HI> 2 Chron. 14.10 11.</P>
<P><HI>Abijah</HI> again&s;t a double proportion of <HI>Jeroboam,</HI> Chap. 13. <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> again&s;t a va&s;t innumerable ho&s;t of <HI>Moabites,</HI> and <HI>Ammonites,</HI> and others, Chap. 20.1, 2.12. And all of them returning with the <HI>Crown of Victory</HI> upon their heads by ver|tue of this <HI>knowledge of their God.</HI></P>
<P>The rea&s;ons of this ble&s;&s;ed truth are briefly the&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Rea&s;ons.</HEAD>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Rea&s;ons."> <HI>Fir&s;t,This knowledg of God gives a man a bottome to &s;tand up|on;</HI> a <HI>Rock, a Rock</HI> that will &s;tand when <HI>the earth is removed,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 46.1, 2. I&s;a. 26.4.</NOTE> and the mountains be carried into the mid&s;t of the Sea: when the foun|dations of Heaven and earth do &s;ink, under the waight. The Rock of ages.</HI> Ages pa&s;&s;e away, one after another; but the <HI>Rock</HI> remains, and therefore <HI>David</HI> de&s;ires no more but this, in the greate&s;t inundations of fears and dangers,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 61.2.</NOTE> when his heart was <HI>over|whelmed, Lead me to the Rock that is higher then I:</HI> I &s;aid he de|&s;ires no more, and yet I mu&s;t recall my &s;elf; when he comes to the rock, he hath another petition, and he is very confident of &s;peeding; <HI>he &s;hall &s;et me upon the rock.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27.</NOTE></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Lord lead me</HI> to the Rock; I cannot finde the way my &s;elf; and then, <HI>&s;et me up;</HI> my neighbour cannot &s;et me up:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 49.7.</NOTE> <HI>no man can redeem his brother;</HI> I cannot &s;et up my &s;elf, if <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> or <HI>Sence</HI> give me their hand, they will <HI>pull me down;</HI> God <HI>mu&s;t,</HI> and God <HI>&s;hall</HI> take me by main &s;trength, and <HI>&s;et me upon the Rock that is higher then I.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Rea&s;on."> <HI>Secondly,</HI>This knowledge <HI>&s;ees enough in God to an&s;wer all ob|jections;</HI> you cannot fancy that objection, which the knowledge
<PB N="16" REF="12">of God cannot an&s;wer. The enemies <HI>mighty,</HI> but God <HI>Almigh|ty;</HI> they <HI>&s;ubtill</HI> and <HI>politique,</HI> yet <HI>hee al&s;o is wi&s;e, and will bring evill upon them,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 31.2.</NOTE> and will not call back his words, but will ari&s;e a|gain&s;t the hou&s;e of the evill doers, and again&s;t the help of them that work iniquity;</HI> they cannot <HI>out-wit</HI> God; they <HI>treacherous,</HI> but he <HI>faithfull, &amp; &s;ic in caet.</HI></P>
<P>Brethren, (in a word) you cannot <HI>dare a man</HI> that knows God, with any objection, when he <HI>&s;ees his call,</HI> becau&s;e he feet <HI>enough in God</HI> to <HI>back</HI> him; He will &s;ay, as once <HI>Luther</HI> to <HI>Me|lanchton</HI> (when hee began to create objections) <HI>If the work bee of God, what &s;hould we fear? if not, let us lay it down.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Rea&s;on."> <HI>Thirdly,</HI>This knowledge <HI>begets tru&s;t: They that know thy Name,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 9.10.</NOTE> will put their tru&s;t in thee, for thou never for&s;ake&s;t them that &s;eek thee.</HI> There were many that &s;aid of <HI>Davids</HI> &s;oul, or <HI>to Davids</HI> &s;oul (for that is the malitious plot of wicked men and devils to drive the people of God to de&s;pair of Gods help) they &s;aid to his &s;oul (when hee was flying before <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI>) <HI>there is no help for him in God:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 3.2.</NOTE> But <HI>David</HI> would not &s;ay &s;o him&s;elf; <HI>he knew God,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver. 3.</NOTE> and therefore hee would <HI>tru&s;t him; But thou, O Lord, art a &s;hield for me; my glory and the lifter up of my head.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Rea&s;on"> <HI>Fourthly,</HI>It may well beget tru&s;t, for <HI>it begets &s;trength;</HI> Oh it is a <HI>joyous</HI> knowledge, <HI>and the joy of the Lord is your &s;trength,</HI> &s;aid holy <HI>Nehemiah,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nehem. 8.10.</NOTE> and &s;o &s;aith my Text; <HI>The people that know their God,</HI> &s;hall bee <HI>&s;trong;</HI> Oh it is <HI>a &s;trength-communicating knowledge.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Joy</HI> is to the <HI>&s;pirit,</HI> that which <HI>marrow</HI> is to the <HI>bones:</HI> bones <HI>full of marrow,</HI> cannot ea&s;ily be <HI>broken;</HI> and a &s;pirit <HI>full of joy,</HI> cannot ea&s;ily bee <HI>conquered:</HI> the joy of the &s;pirit works over &s;trength into the body.</P>
<P>They got not the Land in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion by their own &s;word, neither did their own arm &s;ave them;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 44.3.</NOTE> What then? why, <HI>thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance,</HI> The <HI>light of Gods countenance,</HI> is <HI>the right hand,</HI> and <HI>arm</HI> of the mo&s;t High; and <HI>the right hand of the Lord (mu&s;t needs) do valiantly; the right hand of the Lord brings mighty things to pa&s;&s;e.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 118.16.</NOTE></P>
<P>Truly, the <HI>lea&s;t glimp&s;e</HI> of Gods favour in Chri&s;t, will make a man (as one once gave the Character of a gallant Souldier, whom the mo&s;t of you know) <HI>to live like a Saint, and pray
<PB N="17" REF="12">like an Angel,</HI> and <HI>fight</HI> like a <HI>Devill;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zech. 12.8.</NOTE> or to u&s;e that better lan|guage of Scripture, <HI>He that is weake, to be as David, and he that is as David, to be like an Angel of God.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Rea&s;on"> <HI>Fifthly,</HI> yea in the fifth place; It gives not onely &s;trength,but <HI>life; A life above mortality, This is life eternall,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 17.3.</NOTE> to know thee the onely true God, and Je&s;us Chri&s;t whom thou ha&s;t &s;ent.</HI></P>
<P>There is indeed, no <HI>knowing of God</HI> (after this manner in the Text) but <HI>in Je&s;us Chri&s;t;</HI> and this knowledge is <HI>eternall life;</HI> That man hath begun his Heaven upon earth, that thus knows God.</P>
<P>And this <HI>knowledge of God,</HI> mu&s;t needs <HI>heighten</HI> a people, or per&s;on to do great things: for it is all that the <HI>glorified Saints,</HI> and <HI>holy Angels</HI> have to live upon in Heaven, and it is enough; for <HI>&s;o farre</HI> as any one <HI>knows</HI> God, &s;o far he <HI>lives in God,</HI> yea (in &s;ome &s;ence I may &s;ay) &s;o far, he lives <HI>the life which God him&s;elf lives.</HI> He is <HI>clothed with the Sun, and hath the Moon under his feet,</HI> the Churches Hieroglyphick, <HI>Revel.</HI> 12.1. Hee is clothed with <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and tramples upon the <HI>World;</HI> above fears, and above hopes; above threatnings, and above flatteries; above death, and above life; I had almo&s;t &s;aid, above hell, and above heaven: therefore <HI>Habakkuk</HI> will not fear,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hab. 3.17, 18.</NOTE> <HI>though the fig-tree do not blo&s;&s;ome, neither fruit be in the vine, the labour of the Olive fail, and the fields yeeld no meat, the flock be cut off from the fold, and there bee no herd in the &s;tall; Why?</HI> Hee knew though there &s;hould be a <HI>famine</HI> in <HI>earth,</HI> there was none in <HI>heaven;</HI> he knew God, and had learn'd to <HI>live in</HI> God, and therefore <HI>will rejoyce in the Lord, and joy in the God of his &s;alvation, &amp;c.</HI> He lives an <HI>unchangeable life,</HI> who lives in the <HI>unchangeable God.</HI> Hee that lives in the dying creature, dies a thou&s;and deaths; as oft as the creature dies, or changes, he dies, his hope dies, his heart dies within him, like the heart of <HI>Nabal.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Rea&s;on."> <HI>Sixthly,</HI> Give me leave but to adde one rea&s;on more,to &s;up|port this ble&s;&s;ed truth; and that is this, <HI>This knowledge of God hath the promi&s;e of Gods pre&s;ence, and Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance:</HI> This is a promi&s;e in the Text, <HI>The people that know their God, &s;hall bee &s;trong, they &s;hall do Exploits.</HI></P>
<P>And there is a gracious promi&s;e in the <HI>P&s;alms,</HI> that will both &s;econd, and Paraphra&s;e it.</P>
<PB N="18" REF="13">
<P><HI>Becau&s;e he hath &s;et his love upon me, therefore I will deliver him, I will &s;et him on high,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 91.14, 15.</NOTE> becau&s;e he hath known my Name: Hee &s;hall call upon me, and I will an&s;wer him, I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him, and honour him.</HI></P>
<P>No wonder, the knowledge of God doth enable a people to do wonders, &s;ince by vertue of promi&s;e (upon which a man may &s;et heaven and earth, and it will bear them up) I &s;ay, &s;ince by vertue of promi&s;e, <HI>it brings in</HI> the <HI>wonder-working God</HI> to the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. The knowledge of God, brings in God into the <HI>Coun|&s;ell:</HI> It brings in God into the <HI>Field,</HI> and then what &s;hall bee <HI>impo&s;&s;ible,</HI> or <HI>difficult?</HI></P>
<P>Thus I have &s;hewen you the <HI>Pillars,</HI> upon which this ble&s;|&s;ed truth is &s;upported.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Que&s;tion."> There is a Que&s;tion,that would be re&s;olved <HI>on both &s;ides,</HI> before we can freely proceed to improve this truth; It is this:</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> Fir&s;t,<HI>may not</HI> a people, or per&s;on; yea, <HI>have not</HI> &s;ome <HI>done gallantly,</HI> that <HI>never had</HI> this knowledge of God?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Secondly,have not <HI>many</HI> that <HI>have known God,</HI> come off with <HI>&s;hame</HI> and <HI>lo&s;&s;e,</HI> and done <HI>no</HI> exploits?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="An&s;wer."> To the fir&s;t,I An&s;wer; Providence works for the carrying on of Gods de&s;ignes, <HI>amongst</HI> and <HI>by</HI> the <HI>bad,</HI> and as well as the <HI>good.</HI> What wicked men do, that <HI>know not</HI> God, they do by <HI>Pro|vidence;</HI> what they do, that <HI>know God,</HI> they do by <HI>Promi&s;e;</HI> and let me tell you thus much, They that know God, would not fell this di&s;tinction, for a thou&s;and worlds.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="An&s;wer."> To the &s;econd,I An&s;wer; 1. They that know God, may po&s;&s;ibly <HI>lay ob&s;tructions</HI> in their own way.</P>
<P><HI>The Lords hand is not &s;hortned,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;aiah 49.1, 2.</NOTE> but your iniquities have &s;epara|ted between you, and your God:</HI> Some <HI>accur&s;ed</HI> thing in the camp; &s;ome <HI>Achans;</HI> and if <HI>Jo&s;huah</HI> &s;hould have refu&s;ed to have ca&s;t him out, this mu&s;t needs have e&s;tranged God from the Army.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Secondly,a people, or per&s;on, may know God, and yet &s;ome|times <HI>not Act</HI> their knowledge, their knowledge is <HI>out of the way;</HI> they may know God <HI>habitually,</HI> but not <HI>acknowledge</HI> him <HI>actually,</HI> to live upon him, and act in him, but go out (it may bee) in their <HI>own &s;trength,</HI> and in their <HI>own wi&s;dome, &amp;c.</HI> and then no wonder if God do <HI>&s;hrink up their &s;inews,</HI> and they go <HI>halting.</HI></P>
<PB N="19" REF="13">
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> Thirdly, a people may know God,and yet God may <HI>tempt them,</HI> and <HI>try them,</HI> that <HI>they</HI> may <HI>know him</HI> better, and that <HI>Hee</HI> may <HI>know them</HI> better, or rather that <HI>they</HI> may <HI>know them&s;elves</HI> better, and the <HI>world</HI> may <HI>know them</HI> better, that God and man may &s;ee, they are a people that will <HI>pray,</HI> and <HI>wait,</HI> and <HI>tru&s;t in their God</HI> (with <HI>Job</HI>) <HI>although he kill them.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="&V;&s;e."> All the <HI>&V;&s;e</HI> that I will make of this precious truth,I will reduce to the&s;e two Heads in one <HI>word of Exhortation.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Exhortation."> Is the <HI>knowledge of God the fountain of all true fidelity,gallant|ne&s;&s;e of spirit, and heroick atchievements?</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> Then fir&s;t, if you would be &s;trong and do Exploits,<HI>Labour to know God.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Secondly, when you have been &s;trong and done Exploits,<HI>carry your &s;elves as a people that do know their God.</HI> Lend me a little of your patience to &s;peak &s;omewhat to either of the&s;e.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1,"> Fir&s;t, if you would be &s;trong and do Exploits,<HI>Labour to know God;</HI> &s;tudy God <HI>more,</HI> and the <HI>&s;econd Cau&s;es le&s;&s;e;</HI> beleeve it, you will finde <HI>life</HI> and <HI>&s;trength</HI> in it: And here, I be&s;eech you, fellow me with your patience, and yet truely I &s;hall not need (do not mi&s;con&s;true this confidence of mine, if I &s;ay <HI>I &s;hall not need</HI>) to beg your patience, I &s;hall lead you a <HI>long way</HI> indeed, but it will be through <HI>green pa&s;tures,</HI> by <HI>the rivers of living wa|ters;</HI> I &s;hall lead you, as it were, through the <HI>milkie way of hea|ven,</HI> where you &s;hall behold <HI>vi&s;ions of life</HI> as you go, and look into the <HI>&s;tore-hou&s;es</HI> of heaven, where are laid up the <HI>trea&s;ures</HI> of &s;trength, and of all holy courage and re&s;olution, while I &s;hall invite you to <HI>&s;tudy God,</HI> In his
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Works.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Word.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Names, and Attributes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Relations.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> Fir&s;t, &s;tudy God (I be&s;eech you) <HI>in his Works,</HI>which divide them&s;elves, and your contemplation, into his Works of
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Creation.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Providence.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Redemption.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Therefore &s;tudy God in his works of <HI>Creation,</HI> and there you &s;hall finde him bringing <HI>light</HI> out of <HI>darkne&s;&s;e;</HI> this
<PB N="20" REF="14"><HI>beautifull &s;tructure</HI> of heaven and earth,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4.6.</NOTE> out of a <HI>confu&s;ed Chaos,</HI> and that <HI>Chaos</HI> out of <HI>nothing.</HI> Chri&s;tians when you &s;ee &s;econd cau&s;es at a dead-low-water, and your Creature-hopes ready to give up the Gho&s;t, if you would but remember the <HI>Creation,</HI> it would put life into you, heark how God chides becau&s;e you do not;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 51.12, 13.</NOTE> Who art thou, <HI>that art afraid of a man that &s;hall die, and forgette&s;t the Lord thy Maker,</HI> Who art thou? Art thou a <HI>&s;on of Abraham?</HI> Can&s;t thou call <HI>Jacob Father?</HI> They would have &s;corn'd to have dealt &s;o with me; to be afraid of a dying man, and forget that I am the <HI>the living God, thy Maker,</HI> and the worlds Maker, <HI>who &s;tretched out the heavens, and laid the foun|dations of the earth,</HI> and <HI>ha&s;t feared continually, &amp;c.</HI> See Chri&s;ti|ans, the very remembrance and contemplation of God in <HI>the works of Creation,</HI> would have cured them of their <HI>fears,</HI> while they might have rea&s;oned them&s;elves thus into an holy &s;ecurity; He that <HI>made</HI> the <HI>world,</HI> is not he able to <HI>conquer</HI> an <HI>Armie?</HI> He that <HI>made</HI> his Enemies of <HI>nothing,</HI> is not he able as ea&s;ily to <HI>re|duce</HI> them into their <HI>fir&s;t nothing</HI> again? <HI>&amp; &s;ic in calt.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Secondly,<HI>Study God</HI> in his <HI>works</HI> of <HI>providence,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ordinary,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Extraoxdinary.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Study God in his <HI>ordinary</HI> works of Providence, in the <HI>Go|vernment of the whole world,</HI> and there contemplate &s;ome &s;uch things as the&s;e. What an <HI>Hou&s;e God keeps;</HI> how many
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 145.15.</NOTE> <HI>mouthes</HI> God hath to <HI>feed</HI> every day! How many
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 147.4.</NOTE> <HI>Stars</HI> in the Heaven, and yet he <HI>calls them all by their Names!</HI> how many <HI>men</HI> in the world, and infinitely how many more <HI>haires</HI> upon every one of their heads, and yet
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Matth. 10.30.</NOTE> all the&s;e men, yea all the&s;e haires <HI>numbred.</HI></P>
<P>What antipathy and <HI>fightings</HI> between the Creatures of all rancks and cla&s;&s;es, from <HI>Angels,</HI> down to <HI>wormes,</HI> and yet the <HI>world</HI> kept in Order.</P>
<P>What <HI>Combat</HI> between the <HI>Elements,</HI> and yet the <HI>Creation</HI> not &s;et all into a <HI>Combu&s;tion!</HI> What <HI>Contrariety</HI> in the <HI>Sea&s;ons</HI> and <HI>Complexions</HI> of the yeer; <HI>Summer, Winter, Hot, Cold, Wet, Drie, &amp;c.</HI> and yet all the&s;e, &s;weetly and harmoniou&s;ly <HI>Coordinated</HI> to the &s;ervice of man, and producing the <HI>&s;ame harve&s;t:</HI> In a word, If you would in your greate&s;t dangers, but get &s;o much leave and time, of your Fears and Di&s;tractions, as to read over the&s;e P&s;almes, the 104. the 146.147. and hear what &s;tories of pro|vidence
<PB N="21" REF="14">are told there, to wonder and delight, and then &s;it down and work the con&s;ideration of them upon your hearts; Surely, in &s;pight of all the ods and di&s;advantages you meet with in the world, and in your work and way, whether publike, or per&s;o|nall; you might be able to come off with the <HI>Gallant</HI> P&s;almi&s;t (pardon the Epethite) <HI>The glory of the Lord &s;hall endure for ever,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 104.31.</NOTE> the Lord &s;hall rejoyce in his works,</HI> and not only, <HI>God will rejoyce;</HI> but, <HI>I will &s;ing unto the Lord, as long as I live, I will &s;ing prai&s;e to my God while I have my being.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 33. P&s;al. 146.10.</NOTE> My meditation of him &s;hall be &s;weet; I will be glad in the Lord, &amp;c.</HI> And again, <HI>The Lord &s;hall reign for ever, even thy God O Sion unto all generations, prai&s;e ye the Lord.</HI> It is a very taking con&s;ideration, to ob&s;erve, how in the mid&s;t of &s;traits, wherein the Church, or the P&s;almi&s;t him|&s;elf was, at the times of penning the&s;e P&s;alms; He doth <HI>di&s;|cour&s;e</HI> him&s;elf into <HI>Faith,</HI> from the very mi&s;teries of <HI>providence.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. But then contemplate God in his <HI>extraordinary works</HI> of providence towards his <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>people,</HI> and from thence you might collect the&s;e <HI>&s;ix Ob&s;ervations.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Ob&s;er."> <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI>That <HI>the Churches de&s;pairing times have been Gods help|ing times.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Ob&s;er."> <HI>Secondly,</HI>That God carries on his de&s;ignes not onely <HI>again&s;t</HI> but <HI>by</HI> the <HI>oppo&s;ition and con&s;piracies of his cur&s;ed Enemies.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Ob&s;er."> <HI>Thirdly,</HI> That <HI>the Enemies have been neere&s;t their downfall,</HI>when they have <HI>held up their heads highe&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Ob&s;er."> <HI>Fourthly,</HI> That <HI>you never heard God complaining of too few,</HI>you have heard him &s;ometimes complainig of <HI>too many.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Judges 7.2.</NOTE></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Ob&s;er."> <HI>Fifthly,</HI>That every <HI>turne-back</HI> in a deliverance, is not the <HI>lo&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>De&s;igne;</HI> I&s;rael had many a <HI>turn-back</HI> in <HI>Egypt,</HI> and in the <HI>Wilderne&s;&s;e,</HI> and yet their <HI>deliverance</HI> was carried on.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Ob&s;er."> <HI>Sixthly,</HI> That even in the&s;e pa&s;&s;ages of Providence,<HI>wherein God &s;eems to fight again&s;t his people,</HI> he is <HI>fighting for them;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31.22.</NOTE> and while he &s;eems to <HI>reject</HI> their <HI>praiers</HI> he is <HI>an&s;wering them;</HI></P>
<P><HI>Honored Worthies,</HI> and <HI>beloved Chri&s;tians,</HI> what &s;trength would the&s;e (and the like) <HI>con&s;iderations,</HI> well wrought in, by medi|tation, contribute to your <HI>weak hands</HI> and <HI>feeble knees?</HI> But above all:</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> <HI>Thirdly,</HI>If you would &s;tudy to know God in the glorious <HI>work</HI> and <HI>mi&s;terie of Redemption by Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> there you &s;hall
<PB N="22" REF="15">finde the&s;e <HI>Heart-&s;trengthening, Soul-ray&s;ing wonders.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> Fir&s;t,<HI>The greate&s;t enemies that ever the Church had conquered.</HI> As,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. A <HI>Malignant World.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. An <HI>Enraged Devill.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. A <HI>violate Law.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The <HI>violenced Ju&s;tice of God,</HI> and</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>La&s;tly, <HI>man him&s;elf;</HI> afraid of nothing &s;o much as of his own Salvation: All the&s;e taken off and conquer'd.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Secondly,<HI>The harde&s;t difficulties that ever were heard of, re|conciled; &s;c:</HI> how <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Mercy</HI> might be both <HI>&s;atisfied</HI> in <HI>mans recovery,</HI> how the <HI>cur&s;e</HI> might be both <HI>removed</HI> and <HI>execu|ted.</HI> A <HI>Mother</HI> and yet a <HI>Virgin, God</HI> and yet <HI>die.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> Thirdly,<HI>God at the greate&s;t charges that ever was heard of to bring this about,</HI> it co&s;t him the <HI>thoughts of his heart</HI> from all Eternity, <HI>before time,</HI> and the <HI>beloved Son</HI> out of his <HI>bo&s;ome,</HI> and <HI>Him</HI> the deare&s;t <HI>blood</HI> out of his <HI>heart</HI> in the fulne&s;&s;e of time, all the&s;e were laid out upon this purcha&s;e.</P>
<P>Chri&s;tians con&s;ider, Hath the Church yet &s;uch <HI>Enemies</HI> to <HI>conquer?</HI> hath God yet &s;uch <HI>difficulties</HI> to <HI>reconcile?</HI> will it <HI>co&s;t</HI> God <HI>&s;o much</HI> now to <HI>redeem</HI> his Church &amp; people from <HI>death</HI> &amp; the <HI>wrath of men,</HI> as did from <HI>Hell,</HI> and the <HI>wrath</HI> of <HI>God?</HI> And yet if it &s;hould, I am per&s;waded God would not &s;tick at it, to do it the &s;econd time, rather then his Church and people &s;hould pe|ri&s;h: But it needs not, the price of all the Churches delive|rances was paid in at the fir&s;t purcha&s;e, then it co&s;t him the <HI>blood</HI> of his <HI>beloved Son;</HI> Now it will but co&s;t him the <HI>blood</HI> of his <HI>cur&s;ed Enemies:</HI> upon whom the &s;entence is already pa&s;t, <HI>Tho&s;e mine enemies that would not have me raign over them,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 19.27.</NOTE> bring them hither and &s;lay them before me.</HI> The con&s;ideration of this work of God is of &s;uch a <HI>cordiall Influence,</HI> that God &s;topt the mouthes, and quieted the hearts of his people with the men|tion of it, <HI>even when their hearts have been moved (with fear)</HI> as <HI>the trees of the wood are moved with the winde,</HI> even with this word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 14.</NOTE> <HI>Behold a Virgin &s;hall conceive and bare a Son,</HI> and &s;o again,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 7.2. Mich. 5.5.</NOTE> <HI>This man &s;hall be peace, when the A&s;&s;yrian come into the land, &amp;c.</HI> And all this while this <HI>word</HI> was but yet <HI>in the promi&s;e a far off,</HI> a <HI>Mi&s;tery,</HI> a <HI>Riddle;</HI> Oh what life and &s;trength would it put into a langui&s;hing Spirit well chafed in by medi|tation,
<PB N="23" REF="15">
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Now we &s;ee it in <HI>the full accompli&s;hment.</HI> Rom. 8.32. I&s;a. 43.34.</NOTE> whereby the Soul come to it &s;elf again, might re&s;olve with the Apo&s;tle, <HI>he that &s;pared not his own Son but gave him up for us, how &s;hall he not with him al&s;o freely give us all things?</HI> Surely, he that Spared not his Son for the Churches Re|demption, will not now &s;tick to &s;ay. <HI>I will give men for thy life, and people for thy ran&s;ome,</HI> for certainly all other deliuerances are not worthy to be mentioned on the &s;ame day with this <HI>De|liverance of Deliverances.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, As you &s;hould &s;tudy God, in his works, &s;o &s;tudy him <HI>in his Word;</HI> His Word of
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Truth.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Command.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Threatning.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Promi&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> The <HI>word</HI> of <HI>Truth;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 40.15.</NOTE> and there you &s;hall finde all <HI>Nati|ons as the drop of the Bucket and the du&s;t of the Ballance.</HI></P>
<P>Alas, what is le&s;&s;e con&s;iderable then a <HI>drop</HI> of a <HI>Bucket?</HI> for what is the <HI>Bucket</HI> to the <HI>Well,</HI> and what is the <HI>drop</HI> to the <HI>Buck|et?</HI> behold, the <HI>Well</HI> is neither <HI>fuller</HI> nor <HI>emptier</HI> for the <HI>bucket,</HI> nor the <HI>Bucket</HI> for the <HI>drop;</HI> Or what of le&s;&s;e moment then the <HI>du&s;t?</HI> the &s;mall du&s;t of the Ballance: which turnes the bal|lance, neither this way nor that way; which is blown off, with the lea&s;t breath? Now if all Nations be no more, Then what is one <HI>Nation?</HI> What is a wretched partie, or a <HI>Faction</HI> in a Nation, in an hou&s;e? Surely, not a drop of a drop, not the lea&s;t imaginable part of a &s;mall du&s;t.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> <HI>Secondly,</HI> Know God in the word of <HI>Command;</HI>the &s;um whereof is, <HI>be thou faithfull to the death;</HI> Sirs,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Revel. 2.16.</NOTE> God de&s;ires no more of you, but <HI>fidelity,</HI> look to <HI>duty,</HI> and leave <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;e</HI> to God.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> <HI>Thirdly,</HI> El&s;e hear the word of <HI>Threatning,</HI>and behold it is &s;et on with a <HI>Cur&s;e,</HI> hear it, Oh ye people, a Cur&s;e not from the mouth of a pa&s;&s;ionate Preacher, but an Angel from heaven, the Angel of the <HI>Covenant. Cur&s;e ye Meroz,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Judges. 5.23.</NOTE> &s;aid the Angel of the Lord, <HI>Cur&s;e him bitterly, becau&s;e he came not forth to the helpe of the Lord again&s;t the mighty;</HI> And hear it Oh ye <HI>Nobles,</HI> and <HI>Senators,</HI> and <HI>Commanders,</HI> and Souldiers, <HI>Cur&s;ed be he that doth the worke of the Lord deceitfully,</HI> That <HI>pretends</HI> one thing, and <HI>in|tends</HI>
<PB N="24" REF="16">another; That pretends for <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and intends for <HI>Anti|chri&s;t;</HI> That pretends for GOD and <HI>his people,</HI> but intends for <HI>their enemies;</HI> or that doth the work of the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Sig. fraudare &amp; proijcere.</NOTE> <HI>Lord negligently;</HI> that doth it by halfes, and piece-meals, that turns it off, as if he cared not which end went forward: And <HI>cur&s;ed bee hee that withholdeth his &s;word from bloud;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 King. 20.40.</NOTE> that <HI>spares</HI> when God &s;aith, <HI>&s;trike;</HI> that &s;uffers <HI>tho&s;e</HI> to <HI>e&s;cape,</HI> whom God <HI>hath appointed to utter de&s;truction.</HI> Behold, this may <HI>&s;tartle.</HI></P>
<P>But then on the other &s;ide.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> Fourthly,<HI>&s;tudy</HI> GOD in the <HI>word</HI> of <HI>Promi&s;e,</HI> the &s;umme of all which you &s;hall finde in that word God &s;pake to <HI>Jo&s;huah: Fear not,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 1.5. Heb. 13.5.</NOTE> I will never leave thee, nor for&s;ake thee: And bee thou faithfull to the death,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Revel. 2.10.</NOTE> and I will give thee the crown of life.</HI> There is your <HI>promi&s;e</HI> for <HI>this life, I will be with thee;</HI> and your pro|mi&s;e for the <HI>life to come, I will give thee the Crown, &amp;c.</HI> God with you here, and you with God hereafter: Chri&s;tians, what would you have more? Fidelity &s;hall wear the Crown. This may &s;trengthen.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> Thirdly,&s;tudy to know God in his <HI>Names,</HI> and in his <HI>At|tributes,</HI> and there, if you be <HI>weak,</HI> you &s;hall finde <HI>&s;trength;</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>If <HI>Nonplu&s;t, Wi&s;dome;</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>If <HI>be&s;et with Treachery, Faithfulne&s;&s;e;</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>If <HI>Wronged, Ju&s;tice;</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>If <HI>under oppre&s;&s;ion, goodne&s;&s;e, loving-kindne&s;&s;e, ten|der mercies.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>In a word, if you <HI>have nothing,</HI> bee <HI>nothing,</HI> there you &s;hall finde <HI>all things.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I am God Al&s;ufficient, walk before me, and bee thou perfect,</HI> Gen. 17.1. You &s;hall finde <HI>all</HI> in God, and all this, <HI>yours;</HI> E&s;pecially if you will &s;tudy God.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> In the fourth place,in his <HI>Relations,</HI> look upon him as <HI>Ma|&s;ter, Friend, Father, Husband, &amp;c.</HI> You know of what obli|gation and influence the&s;e are among men <HI>(can a woman forget her &s;ucking childe?)</HI> of how much infinitely more, with God! Oh &s;tudy your <HI>Evidences,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 49.15.</NOTE> for intere&s;t in the&s;e Relations, I tell you <HI>noble Patriots,</HI> and honour'd <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> the time is com|ming, and now is, when one <HI>Evidence</HI> well <HI>cleer'd,</HI> will bee a better <HI>&s;ecurity</HI> to you, then a Million of Armed men, then an
<PB N="25" REF="16">whole <HI>Navy;</HI> &s;uch as &s;hall enable you to <HI>dare</HI> all the powers of the enemy, <HI>I will not bee afraid of ten thou&s;ands of people,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 3.</NOTE> that have &s;et them&s;elves again&s;t me round about;</HI> Odds enough, one would think, <HI>ten thou&s;and</HI> to <HI>one,</HI> and to that one, no way left for an e&s;cape; be&s;et round about with Hoa&s;ts, and Myriades of ene|mies. Why will hee not fear? hear him, hee will tell you; <HI>Ari&s;e O Lord,</HI> Save me, <HI>oh my God:</HI> I there it is.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 61.</NOTE> Hee that can &s;ay (and &s;ay it upon good grounds) <HI>my God,</HI> may &s;ay,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 68.1, 2.</NOTE> <HI>Ari&s;e O Lord;</HI> and if God ari&s;e, <HI>His enemies &s;hall be &s;cattered, they that hate him, &s;hall flie before him,</HI> let them bee never &s;o many thou|&s;ands; <HI>One beleever,</HI> and <HI>his God,</HI> is good enough for all the world: If God be thine, his <HI>Wi&s;dome</HI> is thine, his <HI>Power</HI> is thine, his <HI>faithfulne&s;&s;e</HI> thine, his <HI>mercy,</HI> and <HI>loving-kindne&s;&s;e</HI> thine; All hee <HI>hath,</HI> and all he <HI>is,</HI> is thine, Oh &s;tudy God in his <HI>Relations,</HI> and &s;tudy his Relations in <HI>Evidences:</HI> You have taken up God upon <HI>tru&s;t,</HI> too long already, and thats the rea&s;on,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 1.12.</NOTE> you dare not <HI>tru&s;t</HI> him; now &s;tudy intere&s;t, &s;tudy evidences, <HI>Give all dili|gence to make your calling and election &s;ure.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;tudying of Evidences, is an Evidence.</NOTE> And let me tell you thus much for your comfort, Not only Evidences, but the very <HI>&s;tudying of your Evidences,</HI> will mini&s;ter an holy &s;weet boldne&s;s in the day of trouble, and hour of temptation;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 26.9.</NOTE> when the &s;oul &s;hall be able to &s;ay; <HI>With my &s;oul have I &s;ought thee in the night, yea with my &s;pirit within me, will I &s;eek thee early.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 12.</NOTE> You may &s;ay al&s;o as it there follows, <HI>Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, &amp;c.</HI> See Honourable and beloved, in all the&s;e here is both <HI>engage|ment,</HI> and <HI>encouragement; Engagement,</HI> to do for God what&s;o|ever is in the power of creatures; <HI>Encouragement,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 144.15.</NOTE> to expect from God, what&s;oever is within the power of a God you may be &s;ure of it; <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed are the people, that are in &s;uch a ca&s;e, yea ble&s;&s;ed are the people that thus know and have the Lord for their God.</HI> And thus much for the fir&s;t branch of the <HI>&V;&s;e:</HI></P>
<P>I come now to the &s;econd.</P>
<P><HI>In all the honourable and worthy exploits that are done,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Second Branch of Exhortation</NOTE> or may be done, let us &s;tudy to carry our &s;elves as a people that know their God.</HI></P>
<P>And indeed (Honourable and Beloved) Exploits have been done, both in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and in <HI>England,</HI> in the&s;e later dayes, if ever any &s;ince the beginning of the world. <HI>Thou &s;halt remem|ber,</HI>
<PB N="26" REF="17">&s;ayd God to I&s;rael,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 8.2.</NOTE> <HI>all the way wherein I have led thee the&s;e fourty years.</HI> Alas, I have not time to remember to you the way wherein the Lord hath led us the&s;e five or &s;ix years; At your lei&s;ure peru&s;e your <HI>Journalls,</HI> and you &s;hall finde the way full of <HI>wonders,</HI> almo&s;t <HI>miraculous,</HI> which God hath done <HI>for</HI> and <HI>by</HI> a poor people that <HI>have known</HI> their God. In <HI>Scotland,</HI> The ca&s;ting out of that Popi&s;h
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Service-book,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>and <HI>Prelacy.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Their <HI>fir&s;t</HI> and <HI>&s;econd unbloudy</HI> victories, over tho&s;e formida|ble preparations for warre, which were brought to their very borders, to have forced the yoke of <HI>both</HI> upon their necks, <HI>That yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear.</HI> Oh what exploits were the&s;e?</P>
<P>They will tell you more.</P>
<P>In <HI>England,</HI> for I mu&s;t touch but one of ten, of an hun|dred.</P>
<P>That <HI>little Parliaments great fidelity,</HI> to God and their bre|thren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> in refu&s;ing to contribute a farthing to that unnaturall warre, notwith&s;tanding all the threats, and flatte|ries u&s;ed to <HI>have corrupted them:</HI> truely it was an <HI>exploit,</HI> full of &s;o much power and goodne&s;&s;e of God, as that it turned that <HI>di&s;&s;olution,</HI> which formerly had been a <HI>plague,</HI> into one of the greate&s;t <HI>mercies</HI> that ever <HI>England</HI> received; The &s;ence whereof, while others were mourning for that untimely <HI>breach,</HI> fil'd me with &s;o much joy, as that (I profe&s;&s;e) I felt not (that day) the ground I went on, while I could ble&s;&s;e God, and ble&s;&s;e that Parliament, with the words of <HI>Phineas,</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Eleazar</HI> the Prie&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 22.31.</NOTE> to the two Tribes and an half; <HI>This day we perceive that the Lord is amongst us, becau&s;e you have not committed this tre&s;|pa&s;&s;e again&s;t the Lord: now ye have delivered the children of I&s;ra|el out of the hand of the Lord.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ireland</HI> we may fear is even al|mo&s;t de&s;troyed for that &s;in a|mong&s;t others.</NOTE> Certainly (Brethren) had they contributed but &s;ix-pence to that warre <HI>eo nomine,</HI> they had en|volved the Land in guilt, the guilt of blood, and brought God as an enemie upon us; I could tell you more of this, but I mu&s;t proceed.</P>
<P>The <HI>calling of this Parliamont,</HI> which like another <HI>Phoenix,</HI> &s;prang out of the <HI>others a&s;hes,</HI></P>
<P>Your pulling down of the <HI>Star-Chansber,</HI> and <HI>high-Inqui&s;i|tion;</HI>
<PB N="27" REF="17">that <HI>Mizpah,</HI> and <HI>Tabor,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Mountains of prey,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;ea 5.1.</NOTE> and <HI>Dens of Theeves.</HI></P>
<P>Your <HI>ca&s;ting out of the Prelacie,</HI> fir&s;t out of the <HI>Hou&s;e of Lords,</HI> and now (we hope) out of <HI>the Lords Hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>unburthening</HI> of the <HI>back</HI> of the <HI>State,</HI> and <HI>neck</HI> of the <HI>Church,</HI> of un&s;upportable Monopolies,
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Slavery,</HI> and</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Super&s;tition.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The <HI>di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing</HI> of many Places, and Offices, both in Church and State, <HI>of enemies</HI> to both, and placing <HI>faithfull</HI> men in their rooms, e&s;pecially in this City.</P>
<P>The famous atchievements in your <HI>Martiall affairs</HI> at <HI>Edge|hill, Glouce&s;ter, Newbery,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Neer <HI>Stafford</HI></NOTE> Salt-heath, Che&s;hire, Lanca&s;hire, York-&s;hire,</HI> and now of late in <HI>Pembroke&s;hire,</HI> and other places thereabouts, with this late victory in the We&s;t, for which wee are met together this day to prai&s;e God: The&s;e and many more (for, as I &s;aid, I can touch but one of ten, of an hundred) Oh what <HI>exploits</HI> have they been! of all which we may truely &s;ay, as that our <HI>Noble,</HI> and <HI>worthily honour'd Generall</HI> &s;pake of that one at <HI>Edge-hill; Never was there le&s;&s;e &s;een of man, nor more of God. Surely our &s;alvation hath been of the Lord, his ble&s;&s;ing hath been upon his people:</HI> The <HI>Wonder-working God, hath done all the&s;e works of wonder and mercy for us;</HI></P>
<P>Witne&s;&s;e the&s;e five Demon&s;trations.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> Fir&s;t, That <HI>we never came off with more lo&s;&s;e and &s;hame,</HI>then when <HI>our expectations &s;oared highe&s;t, upon the wings of our own &s;trength and preparations.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Secondly, Nor <HI>ever had greater deliverances, and enlargements,</HI>then <HI>when in our apprehen&s;ions, and in the probability of &s;econd Cau&s;es, we gave all for lo&s;t.</HI> God hath fa&s;hion'd all our delive|rances, and victories, upon the <HI>Modell</HI> he &s;hewed to <HI>Abraham,</HI> what time he made a Covenant with him;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 15.17.</NOTE> <HI>The &s;moaking for|nace</HI> hath u&s;her'd in <HI>the burning lamp;</HI> that is, <HI>dark,</HI> and <HI>&s;ad,</HI> and <HI>gloomy di&s;pen&s;ations of providence,</HI> have let in the <HI>bright and cheer|full, heart-rai&s;ing, and &s;oul-ravi&s;hing goings forth of our God,</HI> for the redemption, and deliverance of a poor langui&s;hing people.</P>
<P>Thirdly, That <HI>all our deliverances and victories, have been the birth of prayer;</HI> Never did any de&s;igne of the Church, ride more
<PB N="28" REF="18">vi&s;ibly and triumphantly, upon the wheels of prayer; wee may &s;ing of <HI>prayer,</HI> and the <HI>&s;word,</HI> in this day of our rejoycing, as they did of <HI>Saul</HI> and <HI>David</HI> in their triumphs: <HI>The &s;word hath &s;lain its Thou&s;ands, but prayer its Ten thou&s;ands.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> <HI>Fourthly,</HI>That in all that hath been done, both in your Parliamentary and Martiall exploits, <HI>there hath been no le&s;&s;e then a miraculous rai&s;ing up of the &s;pirits of men above their own natu|rall proportion,</HI> &s;o that as it was with the worthies, who&s;e Mo|numents &s;tand in Scripture unto this day; <HI>The Spirit of the Lord came upon</HI> Sam&s;on, and the <HI>Spirit of the Lord came upon</HI> Jephta, <HI>and</HI> David, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> So hath it been in our conflicts, <HI>the Spirit of the Lord hath come upon our Noble Generall, Commanders,</HI> The Spi|rit of the Lord hath come upon our <HI>Gallant Gentlemen, Young men faithfull Countrey men, Renowned Citizens,</HI> &s;o that <HI>he that was weak among them is as</HI> David, <HI>and he that was as</HI> David, <HI>hath been as the Angel of the Lord.</HI> Even then when our Armies have been weary and tyred, feeble, and faint, as once <HI>David</HI> him&s;elf was; Some have <HI>retreated,</HI> others it may be, <HI>fled,</HI> and the &s;tate of the Battell very doubtfull and dangerous; yet <HI>even</HI> then hath the Spirit of God come upon them;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zach. 4.6.</NOTE> In all which that word hath been made good: <HI>Not by might nor power but by my Spirit &s;aith the Lord.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5"> <HI>Fifthly,</HI>That whereas the coun&s;ells of the Enemy run all in one channell, with <HI>one free and unanimous Vote,</HI> again&s;t Chri&s;t, and his people; <HI>You have &s;trugled</HI> (and I wi&s;h I might &s;ay onely you <HI>have</HI>) not only again&s;t a <HI>torrent of oppo&s;ition</HI> from the open <HI>profe&s;&s;ed</HI> Enemy; but, <HI>with the &s;ecret tides and &s;treams of cro&s;&s;e Malignant Councells, and projects among your &s;elves,</HI> almo&s;t, in all your <HI>Motions</HI> and <HI>Preparations</HI> throughout the Kingdome, which when I &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider in my private thoughts I wonder not (as &s;ome do) that <HI>more</HI> is not don; but am fil'd rather with wonder and a&s;toni&s;hment, that <HI>&s;o much</HI> is done, as is done; and mu&s;t needs break out with the Churches admira|tion and acknowledgment, <HI>It is the Lords mercies we are not con&s;umed becau&s;e his compa&s;&s;ions fail-not:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lam. 3.22, 23.</NOTE> They are renewed every morning, great is thy faithfulne&s;&s;e!</HI></P>
<P>Had I not named this la&s;t, of <HI>cro&s;&s;e Coun&s;els,</HI> I could have &s;hewed you all the&s;e <HI>impre&s;&s;ions of God,</HI> upon the <HI>Deliverance,</HI>
<PB N="29" REF="18">and <HI>victory,</HI> which we this day celebrate.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> For, <HI>fir&s;t,</HI> was it not in our <HI>de&s;pairing time,</HI>when our hands were weak, and our knees feeble?</P>
<P>Oh, the opportunity of this mercy, how &s;ea&s;onably it came in to refre&s;h and revive our drooping &s;pirits; after that &s;ad blow in the North, wherein the hand of our God was &s;tretched out again&s;t us! how &s;ea&s;onably I &s;ay, to &s;top the mouth of <HI>reproach</HI> and <HI>bla&s;phemie,</HI> in our in&s;ulting adver&s;aries; whom if God had &s;uffered to have &s;econded their former &s;ucce&s;&s;e, with this dayes Victorie al&s;o, &s;urely the earth had not been able to have borne their words. <HI>As with a &s;word in our Bowels,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 42.10.</NOTE> they would have doubled and heightned their reproaches, <HI>what is become of your fa&s;tings and prayers,</HI> yea, <HI>where is your God?</HI></P>
<P>Yea, Oh the <HI>patience</HI> and <HI>free-grace</HI> of our God, which hath triumphed in this deliverance! who when he &s;aw us in our <HI>de|&s;pondencies</HI> and <HI>de&s;pairings,</HI> and might have de&s;troyed us for our <HI>murmure</HI> and <HI>infidelity</HI> (as he did, the I&s;raelites) hath not only look't upon our affliction, but <HI>pitied</HI> and <HI>help't our unbelief</HI> by &s;o wonderfull and unexpected a reviving!</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> <HI>Secondly,</HI>Look upon it under another advantage of the &s;ea|&s;on, namely, as treading upon the heels of our <HI>humiliations,</HI> and &s;o you may behold it a double mercy, <HI>A victory;</HI> and the <HI>return of prayer;</HI> which we may celebrate in <HI>Davids</HI> rapture.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31.22.</NOTE> <HI>I &s;aid in my ha&s;te, I am cut off from before thine eyes, neverthele&s;&s;e thou hearde&s;t the voice of my &s;upplication, when I cried unto thee.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 23.</NOTE> Oh let us follow it on with his, <HI>O love the Lord all you his &s;aints,</HI> and <HI>I love the Lord becau&s;e he hath heard my voyce and my &s;upplication,</HI> P&s;al. 116 1. The <HI>hearing of prayer</HI> &s;hould marveilou&s;ly <HI>endear our hearts to God.</HI></P>
<P>And thirdly, was there not a miraculous <HI>effu&s;ion of Gods Spi|rit</HI> &s;een in this <HI>Criticall day,</HI> wherein the <HI>Enemies came in like a flood,</HI> began to crie victorie; our hands began to hang down, our hearts to faint within us, <HI>the day</HI> was well nigh <HI>lo&s;t,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 59.19.</NOTE> and even then did <HI>the Spirit of the Lord lift up a &s;tandard again&s;t them,</HI> by <HI>rai&s;ing up the &s;pirits</HI> of &s;ome that day to <HI>work with God,</HI> for the turning of the &s;tate of the Battell; whereby their brethren al&s;o were &s;trengthened to returne and re&s;i&s;t the rage and fury of the Enemie, and to pur&s;ue it to a <HI>great &s;laughter,</HI> and a <HI>totall routing</HI>
<PB N="30" REF="19">and <HI>di&s;comfiture</HI> of that <HI>proud daring Armie?</HI> Well we may con|clude, That God was in that dayes worke of a certain, and wrought wonderfully, and immediately for the &s;alvation of his people.</P>
<P>Surely &s;o great a victory with &s;o cheape a lo&s;&s;e, was more then Gods <HI>finger,</HI> it was his <HI>Arme,</HI> his <HI>right-hand</HI> that turnd the que&s;tion of that day, and the <HI>feares</HI> of his people into <HI>incon|querable courage,</HI> and their <HI>mourning</HI> into <HI>triumph</HI> and <HI>re|joycings.</HI></P>
<Q>All that I have to do now, is to be&s;peak you, Honourable and Beloved, that, under this and other Deliverances and Victories we have, and hope for, as they were wrought by the knowledge of God, &s;o we would <HI>be|have our &s;elues as a people that know our God;</HI> let us wear our deliverances as a people that are acquainted with God.</Q>
<P>In the fir&s;t place therefore,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 12.27, 28, 29, 30.</NOTE> let us carry it <HI>thankefully;</HI> let us do with <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> as &s;ometime <HI>Joab</HI> did with <HI>David,</HI> who, when he had taken <HI>Rabbah,</HI> &s;ent for <HI>David,</HI> le&s;t the City &s;hould have been <HI>called after Joabs Name; and &s;et the Kings Crowne</HI> (very weighty and rich with precious &s;tones) <HI>upon the head of David;</HI> Let us us this day bring in our <HI>Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and let not victory be called after <HI>our name,</HI> but let His <HI>Name</HI> be&s;et upon it, <HI>The Lord our Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and &s;trength;</HI> and the <HI>Crowne</HI> upon <HI>his head.</HI></P>
<P>I have read of a <HI>King</HI> going by water, who looking over the bardge, his <HI>Crown</HI> fell into the water; one of the Watermen leapes in, dives, takes up the Crowne, and when he comes up above water, puts the Crowne upon his head, that he might u&s;e both hands to expedite his returne to the Boat. The King proportions his reward thus; for <HI>&s;aving</HI> his <HI>Crown,</HI> he allowes him a <HI>Talent,</HI> but becau&s;e <HI>be put it on,</HI> he <HI>takes off his head</HI> (think|ing that head not fit to &s;tand upon its &s;houlders, that pre&s;umed to weare that Crown, which was made onely for the head of a King) my Politiques, are not &s;ufficient to Critick upon the Ju&s;tice of &s;uch a cen&s;ure: Sure I am, it will be the <HI>highe&s;t act</HI> of <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> in <HI>&V;s,</HI> if we &s;hall put this <HI>Crown</HI> of <HI>victory</HI> upon our own head, upon the head of our own <HI>&s;trength</HI> or <HI>wi&s;dome, &amp;c.</HI>
<PB N="31" REF="19">Which as it was wrought onely by the <HI>hand,</HI> &s;o it was made onely for the <HI>head</HI> of <HI>him</HI> who is the <HI>King of Saints, and Lord of Ho&s;ts;</HI> And the <HI>highe&s;t act of Ju&s;tice</HI> in <HI>him,</HI> if he take away, not the <HI>Crown</HI> onely from our <HI>head</HI> (in refu&s;ing to give us any more victories) but our <HI>heads</HI> too from our &s;houlders, by leaving us to their <HI>Execution,</HI> who&s;e <HI>mercies</HI> are <HI>cruelties:</HI> Let us there|fore with the <HI>Elders</HI> in the Revelation <HI>fall down before him that &s;its upon the Throne,</HI> and <HI>wor&s;hip him that liveth for ever and ever,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Reve. 4.10, 11.</NOTE> and ca&s;t our Crowns down before him,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive Glory, and honour and power, &amp;c.</HI> And there|fore, <HI>Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name give the prai&s;e:</HI> if we &s;tay till God come to demand his Crown, woe unto us.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Let us carry it <HI>obediently: Who&s;o offereth me prai&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 50. la&s;t.</NOTE> Glorifieth me,</HI> It is &s;ome glory indeed to God, and you have done well <HI>Noble Senators,</HI> that <HI>you have &s;et apart a day</HI> to prai&s;e God for this victorie, wherein your re&s;olutions have bin like that of <HI>David, I will not offer to God that which co&s;t me nothing:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 24.24.</NOTE> You have not turned God off with a day that was <HI>his own be|fore;</HI> (though it be a Sabbath dayes work to celebrate his prai&s;e for any Mercy or Deliverance, being all the fruits of that <HI>grand Redemption</HI> which that day doth remember. But you have &s;e|que&s;tred a <HI>&s;peciall day</HI> for a <HI>&s;peciall Mercy,</HI> and you have done well in it, the Lord be ble&s;&s;ed, and the Lord ble&s;&s;e you for it: but yet let me tell you from this Text, This is not all, nay this is the lea&s;t part of that which God expects at your hands, and at all our hands; the <HI>main piece</HI> of <HI>prai&s;e,</HI> is the <HI>Ordering of your conver&s;ations aright;</HI> there is &s;o much <HI>thank|fulne&s;&s;e</HI> in our <HI>hearts,</HI> as there is <HI>holine&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>&s;elfdeniall</HI> in our <HI>Conver&s;ations.</HI> Without this,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 58.5. <HI>Qua&s;i &s;ua offe|rent Deo, &s;eip&s;os. Diabolo.</HI> Bern. <HI>Infidelis di&s;pu|tat contra fidem Improbus Chri|&s;tianus vivit contra fidem, &amp;c.</HI></NOTE> as our <HI>Fa&s;tings</HI> are but <HI>the hold|ing down of the head like a bulru&s;h for a day,</HI> &s;o our <HI>thanksgi|vings</HI> are but the <HI>holding up of the head</HI> like a <HI>Reed</HI> for a day and wee are found guilty of that mockery <HI>Bennard</HI> &s;peaks of, to give <HI>our</HI> Sacrifices to <HI>God,</HI> but Our <HI>&s;elves</HI> to the Devill. I remember, <HI>Augu&s;tin,</HI> comparing the <HI>prophane Heathen,</HI> and <HI>vile Chri&s;tian</HI> together, makes onely this difference between them; <HI>The Heatthen talketh again&s;t the faith, but the Iewd Chri|&s;tian lives again&s;t the faith, &amp;c.</HI> A poor difference, wherein if
<PB N="32" REF="20">either have the better, it is the Heathen without doubt: Let me invert it a little thus; The wretched <HI>Cavalieres,</HI> they <HI>&s;wear</HI> a|gain&s;t <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> The unholy <HI>Parliament-Prote&s;tant lives</HI> again&s;t Chri&s;t; they <HI>bla&s;pheme</HI> Chri&s;t in their <HI>mouthes,</HI> the&s;e <HI>bla&s;pheme</HI> Chri&s;t in their <HI>lives:</HI> And tell mee Chri&s;tians, which di&s;ho|nours God mo&s;t, their <HI>verball,</HI> or our <HI>reall</HI> bla&s;phemies? and what do you think? were it not better God &s;hould be di&s;ho|noured by a people that <HI>profe&s;&s;e open enmity</HI> and warre again&s;t Chri&s;t and his Government, then by a people that makes <HI>&s;uch profe&s;&s;ion of love</HI> to both?
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amos 3.2.</NOTE> <HI>You onely have I known of all the Na|tions of the earth. therefore will I puni&s;h you for all your iniquities.</HI> Surely, our <HI>&s;ecret abominations,</HI> are more hatefull to God then their <HI>open wickedne&s;&s;es,</HI> which they commit in the face of the Sun: And better truely were it for us to peri&s;h by the <HI>lu&s;ts</HI> of our <HI>enemies,</HI> then to peri&s;h by our <HI>own lu&s;ts;</HI> The lu&s;ts of our enemies can <HI>kill</HI> us but <HI>once;</HI> our own lu&s;ts, will <HI>kill</HI> us to the <HI>&s;econd death.</HI></P>
<P>Chri&s;tians, our God doth not onely <HI>speak</HI> peace, and &s;peak mercies,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119.68.</NOTE> but he <HI>gives</HI> peace, and <HI>doth good, Thou art good, and thou do&s;t good.</HI></P>
<P>In our returns of prai&s;e, let us be like our God, and not con|tent our &s;elves to <HI>&s;peak</HI> our thankfulne&s;&s;e, and <HI>&s;ing</HI> our thank|fulne&s;&s;e, but let us <HI>live</HI> our thankfulne&s;&s;e, and <HI>do</HI> our thankful|ne&s;&s;e, and <HI>be</HI> our thankfulne&s;&s;e; Let us take all from <HI>&s;inne,</HI> and <HI>&s;elf,</HI> and give all to Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>If this be our thankfulne&s;&s;e, I dare promi&s;e you in the Name of my God, this &s;hall not be the la&s;t Victory God will give us, for &s;o the P&s;almi&s;t hath yet to tell you; <HI>To him that orders his Conver&s;ation aright, I will &s;hew the &s;alvation of God:</HI> You &s;hall have yet <HI>more &s;alvations,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 50. ult.</NOTE> even on this &s;ide <HI>everla&s;ting &s;alvation.</HI> Brethren, look to your Conver&s;ations, it is both your <HI>thank|fulne&s;&s;e</HI> and your <HI>&s;alvation.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Prayerfully.</HI> This <HI>Victory</HI> hath been the <HI>return</HI> of <HI>prayer,</HI> let <HI>prayer</HI> be the <HI>return</HI> of this <HI>Victory:</HI> So <HI>David</HI> re|&s;olves, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 116.13, 17. <HI>I will take of the cup of &s;alvation, and call upon the Name of the Lord: and ver&s;e</HI> 17. <HI>I will offer to the the &s;acrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the Name of the Lord,</HI></P>
<PB N="33" REF="20">
<P>You that never prayed in all your lives, now learn to pray, and &s;o help to fulfill that Prophe&s;ie <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 65.2. <HI>Oh thou that hea|re&s;t prayers, to thee &s;hall all fle&s;h come.</HI> God hath &s;hewed him&s;elf willing to hear, do you &s;hew your &s;elves willing to pray; and you that have prayed, double your prayers, and with your Ma|&s;ter Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>pray yet more earne&s;tly:</HI> Oh it is a &s;weet and a glorious thing, when <HI>prayer begets deliverances, and deliverances again beget prayer.</HI></P>
<P>Fourthly and la&s;tly, <HI>Believingly.</HI> Brethren, let us lay up this <HI>fre&s;h experience</HI> by us, and learn to <HI>live by faith</HI> in the next try|all. Shall wee yet di&s;tru&s;t our God? Shall wee yet make fle&s;h our Arm? The Lord forbid. Surely, the lea&s;t that God expects and merits at our hands, for this and all other miraculous De|liverances, is this, that wee &s;hould re&s;olve with returning, re|penting <HI>Ephraim. A&s;hur &s;hall not &s;ave us,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 14.3.</NOTE> we will not ride upon hor&s;es, neither will we &s;ay any more to the work of our hands, Yee are our gods, for in thee the fatherle&s;&s;e find mercie.</HI></P>
<P>Chri&s;tians, let us remember this Deliverance, and tru&s;t God as long as wee live. God hath done the&s;e things of purpo&s;e to bribe and &s;upport our faith, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 78 46, 7.</P>
<P>Brethren, this will bee honour to our God, when the Ene|mies &s;hall &s;ee, in our greate&s;t di&s;advantages and dangers, <HI>wee &s;erve a God whom we dare tru&s;t.</HI> And thus Brethren, in carrying our Victories <HI>Thank fully, Obedientially, Prayerfully, Beleevingly,</HI> we &s;hall behave our &s;elves as a people that <HI>know their God,</HI> and for whom God hath done &s;o wonderfull things. I could have been larger, but that I was choicely prevented in the forenoon.</P>
<P>There is a gracious Promi&s;e made to <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> the Lord make it good upon <HI>England; I&s;rael &s;hall cry unto me, My God,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 8.2.</NOTE> I know thee.</HI> It is an <HI>harder matter</HI> (it &s;eems) then ever <HI>I&s;rael</HI> thought of, or then we think of, <HI>to know God.</HI></P>
<P>And you have done well, <HI>noble Senators,</HI> that you have enga|ged your wi&s;dome and zeal, for the promoting of this <HI>ble&s;&s;ed,</HI> and <HI>ble&s;&s;ing-knowledge</HI> of God in this
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> where is a Le|cture every morning at &s;ix of the clock, maintain'd by 7 godly able Divines.</NOTE> place, in the neighbouring City, and in other places of the Kingdome, &s;o far as your power and opportunity have &s;erved you, by removing tho&s;e vile per|&s;ons, who&s;e <HI>lives</HI> and <HI>preaching,</HI> have <HI>tavght nothing but rebel|lion in I&s;rael,</HI> and putting &s;uch in their rooms, that both in
<PB N="34" REF="21"><HI>life</HI> and <HI>doctrine,</HI> &s;hould teach people the good knowledge of the Lord. <HI>You have done well,</HI> I <HI>&s;ay, for you know him that hath &s;aid, Wi&s;dome and knowledge &s;hall bee the &s;tability of thy times, and &s;trength of Salvation:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 33.6.</NOTE> And the good Lord &s;o accompany his own <HI>Word,</HI> and his own <HI>Works,</HI> (by both which hee now is teaching <HI>England</HI>) with his own <HI>Spirit,</HI> and <HI>pre&s;ence,</HI> that at length, not onely <HI>the&s;e places,</HI> but the <HI>whole Kingdome,</HI> even all <HI>England,</HI> may &s;ay, <HI>My God, I know thee.</HI> Amen.</P>
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