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A fannaticks mite cast into the Kings treasury being a sermon printed to the King because not preach'd before the King / by Henry Adis.
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Adis, Henry.
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1660
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Wing A581; ESTC R28080
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number the People may some say Answ. I Answer That to tell over or number the People simply so considered is not sin for then it were a sin for Joshua to number the People Josh. 8. 10. Or to number the Eleven Acts 1. 26. who were numbred For they gave forth the Lots and the Lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbred with the Eleven But to number the People so as to put Confidence in an Arm of Flesh to number the People so as to depart from the Lord this is an accursed thing for so saith the Prophet Jer. 17. 5. Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his Arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord And this I humbly conceive might be Davids sin for if we cast our eye but into 1 Chron. 20. we shall find Joab the Captain of Davids Host destroying the Country of the Children of Ammon and Rabbah and slaying three Giants in three several Overthrows of the Philistines and the Devil knoweth right well how to make his Advantages He knew that God was jealous of his Honour and if he could but work up Danid to put confidence in an Arm of flesh or to give glory to the multitude of his Armed men this was an advantage good enough against Israel this was that which would cause God to weaken his strength by taking them away and have a Controversie with them And thus God doth in Mercy to his People when they begin to put â—…fidence or set their hearts upon Creature-comforts God is then reaâ—… 〈◊〉 take them away and thus God is said to hedge up their way with Thorns Hos. 2. 6 7. And to make a Wall that they shall not find their wâ—…y and they shall follow after their Lovers but shall not overtake them they shall seek after them but not find them for saith the Pro Isai. 57. 13. The wind shall carry them away vanity shall take them We may see this Assertion farther proved in the Egyptians in those ten Plagues that came upon them for the hardness of the heart of Pharaoh their King What misery did they endure in that weeks time of the waters of the Rivers being turned into Blood Exod. 7. 20 27. What did they endure by reason of the Plagues of Froggs Lice and Flies Exod. 8. 3 17 24. in those Plagues of Murrion and Hail Exod. 9. 2 10 23. in those Plagues of Locusts and Darkness Exod. 10. 4 22. and in the Death of all their first-born both of Man and Beast Exod. 12. 29. The like we may see threatned against Israel of old by reason of the misactings of their Princes Judges Priests and Prophets Micah 3. 9. Hear I pray you saith the Prophet ye Heads of the House of Jacob and Princes of the House of Israel that abhor Judgement and pervert all Equity v. 10. That build up Zion with Blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity v. 11. The Heads thereof judge for Reward and the Priests thereof teach for Hire and the Prophets thereof Divine for Money like the Priests and Prophets of England at this day and they likewise as those of old will lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us no evil can come upon us But though they say thus What saith the Prophet Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a Field and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the Mountain of the Lords House as the high places of the Forrest So that we may see That for the mis-actings of Church-men that teach for Hire and Divine for Money Zion or the Church shall be punished yea plowed as a Field and laid waste and the Mountain of the Lords House become as the high places of the Forrest As well as for the perverting of Judgement and Equity by the Princes and Judges Jerusalem or the Kingdom shall become heaps for there will be a scattering of the Sheep for the negligence of the Shepherd yea so saith the Prophet Isa. 10. 21. For the Pastors are become brutish have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not Prosper and all their Flock shall be scattered And so saith the Lord Christ by John the Revelator speaking to the Angel or the Pastor of the Church of Ephesus Revelation 2. 5. Remember saith he from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first work or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy Candlestick oâ—…t of his place except thou Repent As if he should say Thou art the Light of the Church and the Feeder of the Flock the Church or People are the Candlestick that upholds thee and the Flock that employes thee and unless thou repent of thy deadness thy dulness thy drowsiness thy coldness thy carelesness and thy carnality I will suddenly remove thy Candlestick I will soon disperse the flock And then what will become of thee who wilt thou feed who wilt thou light Thy Talent will then be under a Bushel and not on a Candlestick to give light to those that are in the House This Assertion we may also see made good in or upon private Families That God many times punisheth a People for the misactings of their Governours whether in Church State or particular Families When Abraham was journying into Egypt with his Wife Sarah being driven thither by a Famine Gen. 12. he said unto Sarah his Wife v. 11 c. Behold now I know that thou art a fair Woman to look upon therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians shall see thee that they shall say This is his Wife and they shall kill me but they will save thee alive say I pray thee thou art my Sister that it may be well with me for thy sake that my Soul may live because of thee Whence by the way we may note First That Famine and outward distresses possibly may attend the dearest of Gods Children for we see Abraham that friend of God was driven into Egypt by reason that the Famine was grievous in the Land v. 10. And secondly That the fear of the loss of life may stand with the nature of true Faith for Abraham the Father of the Faithful said When the Egyptians shall see thee they will say this is his Wife and they will kill me therefore say thou art my Sister And Paul the Apostle a faithful Soul whose life being laid wait for was let down by the Wall in a Basket Acts 9. 25. Yea the Lord Christ himself refused to walk in Jury but walked in Galilee because the Jews sought to kill him John 7. 1. But to our Matter upon Abrahams saying that Sarah was his Sister vers. 19. and upon the Commendations of Sarah to Pharaoh by his Princes Sarah was taken into Pharaohs House and Abraham was well entreated by Pharaoh for Sarahs sake v. 15 16. Yet the Lord Plagued Pharaoh and his house with great Plagues because of Sarah Abrahams Wife v. 17. Pharaoh sins and that ignorantly too in taking Abrahams
A Fannaticks Mite Cast into the Kings Treasury BEING A SERMON Printed to the KING Because not Preach'd before the KING The Second EDITION Corrected and Amended By HENRY ADIS a Baptized Believer undergoing the Name of a Free-Willer and also most ignomineously by the tongue of Infamy called a Fannatick or a mad man Silver and Gold have I none but such as I have give I Thee Acts 3. 6. First Read then Judge and Judge nothing before the time because the Wise Man saith That to him that Iudgeth a matter before he heareth it it is folly and shame Prov. 18. 13. LONDON Printed by S. Dover for the Author 1660. DElivered into the KINGS own-Hands by the Author the 26th day of Chisleu in Scripture so called Zech. 7. 1. which is the 9th Month and therefore vulgarly called November 1660. TO CHARLES the II OF England Scotland France and Ireland KING May it please Thee O King I Am come now to present Thee with that MITE the Composing of which I have been very much pressed to in spirit ever since Thou wast brought again into this Land of Thy Nativity with that great Solemnity and Triumph the noise of which hath rejoyced the hearts of forregn Princes daunted the spirits of thy Domestick Enemies made thy Friends merry and the rude multitude mad even to the sadning the hearts of the truly vertuous and as I judge not because thou art restored again for the meerly Rational may plainly behold in it an high Act of Divine Providence But the Moon-sick madness of the multitude yet unrepented of together with the revived and dayly continued Acts of abomination in Stage-playes May-games and Pastimes with the many bitter and most horrid Oaths and Execrations uttered almost in every corner by Nine-Pinn Nine-Hole and PigeonHole-Players and to the poysoning the youth of our Age in that multitude of dammy and debauched Bawdy-houses even the foul and detestible shame of a Christian Kingdom is that they fear is gathering into a black thick Cloud over the Land and in special over rude revelling ranting London out of which it is to be feared unless Nineveâ—…s Repentance intervene will be poured out one or more of those three heavy Judgments of God Plague Sword or Famine Therefore O King I have brought Thee an Antidote both for Thee and Thine the which haply may prove bitter to the taste and will hardly go down yet let me assure thee upon the word of an honest man there is nothing hurtful in it there is not so much as an unwholsome Bud nor a stinking Weed but all precious Flowers and wholsom Herbs newly gathered out of the Garden of God by a faithful Hand and tempered together by a sincere heart and is a Potion of that rare Vertue that if it be willingly taken and well digested it will take down the Tinpany of Pride and utterly dry up the Dropsicall humours of all Abomnations it will perfectly recover out of the Consumption of Vertues and fortifie the heart against all vice whatsoever it will strengthen the stomack both to receive and retain wholsom and sound Doctrine and perfectly purge out the Iniquity of all your Holy Things it will purge the Brain from all fansical formal frenzy and cause it only to study the Great Things of Gods Law it will perfectly purge out Melancholy and generate Joy unspeakable and full of glory it will dry up the overflowing Issues of Sin and nourish up a Soul unto Eternal Life it will Operate upon the inward Man so as that there will be a sudden change in the outward it will make the proud person Humble the Lofty Lowly the Careless Careful the Rich in this World Rich in Good Works the Spotted and painted face truly panitent To be short it will operate upon the Luxurious Lascivious and Licentious and indeed upon all so as that it will take down the Inordinate beat of Lust and make such a sweet Composure as that it will set Love Joy Fear Zeal Pitty and Piety upon their right Objects it will perfectly purge out all Envy and Malice Blood-thirstiness Hatred with all uncharitableness and Create in the room thereof Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness with Meekness and Temperance it will operate upon all Complexions and Sexes and upon all Ranks and Subordinations of men of all ages and as I said before if willingly Received and well Digested it will make the PRINCE Pittiful Just and Pious and the SUBJECT Loving Faithful Loyal it will make Great persons Noble with that true Berean Nobility and joyn Goodness to their Greatness a Rarity indeed it will make the middle sort of men Moderate and cause them to use the World as if they used it not yea it will make the very Beggers of the Blood Royal of Heaven and Children of God yea Kings and Priests to God and to Christ it will make the Sluggish and Slothful watchfully Vigilant and the Vitious truly Vertuous it will make the Child Dutiful and the Parents Indulgent the Servant Painful and the Master Pittiful it will keep the Virgin Chaste and breed Loyalty in the Married it will make Youth Sage and Grave and gray Hairs truly Honourable it will make the Bond-man Free and the Free-man a Fellow Citizen with the Saints and of the Household of God it will make the Poor man truly Rich and the Rich by Poverty of Spirit blessedly Poor it will Corroborate the Cow-hearted and cause the Coward earnestly to contend for the Faith In fine it will so purge out the old Leaven as that it will make a man become a new Lump it will make a meer Natural man truly Gratious and cause him to put off that old man with all his deeds and put on that new Man which after God is created in Righteousness and true Hulyness And thus when old things are passed away ye may evidently behold all things to become new for though a spiritual man be produced yet he is not like a Spirit So as to be invisible but apparently you may behold his Dialect changed and his Aspect altered for that tongue that in the old man was an unruly member and full of deadly Poyson Oaths Execrations and debauched Abominations is in the new Man an Instrument to set forth the Praise of God and to tell what God hath done for his Soul to talk of the Majesty of Christs Kingdom and to declare his Power The Eye that was never better satisfied then when it was beholding vanity is now looking within the vail where the Forerunner is entred it is now beholding the goodness of the Lord and enquiring in his Temple and diligently seeking after that one thing necessary that once Mary chose The feet which before were swiftly running to shed blood are now in Zions Pathes readily running the way of Gods Commandements The hands which before were other wayes employed are now handling of the Word of Life which their Eyes have seen and their ears have heard the which their