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A94072	The trust and the account of a stevvard, laid open in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster; upon Wednesday the the [sic] 28. of April 1647. being the day of their publique humiliation. / By William Strong.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing S6009; Thomason E385_12; ESTC R201462	31,291	38

Die Mercurii 28. April 1647. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Mr. Ball doe from this House give thankes unto Mr. Strong for the great paines he tooke in the Sermon he preached on this day at Margarets Westminster before the House of Commons it being a day of publique Humiliation and that he doe desire him to Print his Sermon VVherein he is to have the like Priviledge in Printing of it as others in the like kinde usually have had H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Jo. Benson and Jo. Saywell to Print my Sermon William Strong THE TRUST AND THE ACCOVNT OF A STEVVARD Laid open in a Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at Margarets Westminster upon Wednesday the the 28. of April 1647. being the day of their Publique Humiliation By William Strong Potes officio jurisdictionistuae fungi humanitatis memisse vel quia vos sub gladio estis Tertul. ad Scapulum c. 4 Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est non in praerupto tantum illic stabis sed in lubrico Sen. Ep. 14. LONDON Printed by Tho. Harper for John Benson and John Saywell and are to be sold at their Shops in Dunstans Church-Yard and at the Greyhound in Little-Britaine 1647. To the Honourable House of Commons Assembled in Parliament I Could not minde you of any thing better then that which God would have alwaies before your eyes your latter end and your last account that it is appointed for all men once to dye and after death the judgement that after death a mans workes follow him either in eternall punishment or rewards and that with God there is no respect of persons he that hath received but one talent shall give an account for no more and he that hath received five shall give an account for five the trust indeede and honour is the greater but so will also the account be to whom much is given of him much will be required It will be a dreadfull thing for all men with naked consciences to appeare before the Judgement Seate of Christ when the Thrones shall be set and the Bookes shal be opened and the dead shall be judged out of those things which are written in the bookes according to their workes But above all others the Accounts of Kingdomes and the accounts of soules must needes be dreadfull And yet Angels and men may stand amazed to consider with how much precipitancy and inadvertency men rush upon both these as in sinne men abstract the pleasure from the sting and therefore powre out themselves with greedinesse so in rule men abstract the honour and advancement from the account and judgement and then it s no wonder if with violence they are carryed after the one when they wholy cast off thoughts of the other I beseech you therefore let my counsell be acceptable to you which I know yee will all wish you had taken in the great day of your account Bee holy your selves even as the Lord is holy in all manner of conversation these white Robes and Crownes become none so well as they doe the Elders that as yee judge with God so God may dwell in you that yee may have a double Image not onely his Image upon you as Magistrates but his Image in you as Saints Yee have greater opportunities to improove greater temptations to resist greater oppositions to conflict with and which is most of all to be considered a greater account to make then other men and therefore neede more of Gods grace more of Gods presence and his blessing Yee have begun a worke of Reformation and yee have professed a more close walking with God then other men and are the first Parliament in this Nation that have undertaken by a publique Covenant with hands lifted up to the most high God to endeavour a perfect Reformation and that to begin at home in reforming your owne wayes 〈◊〉 l. 1. c. ● so that wee mry safely and without flattery give you the same encomium that is given by Lactantius to Constantine the Great Primus Romanorum Principum quirepudiatis erroribus Mijestatem Dei singulariis acveri cognovisti honor●sti These are the Titles that yee hold forth to the world knowne and read of all men therefore the eyes of the whole Christian world are upon you and the expectations of all the reformed Churches The Lord teach you to answere them That ye may have something which is suetable to your profession without that that may not be objected to you as a reproach which the Father doth to the Philosophers 〈◊〉 l. 3. c. 15. Quos non aliter intueri decet quàm medices quorum titusiremedia habent pixides venen● Least yee make sad the hearts and shame the hopes of the Saints and cause those who are both enemies to holinesse and to you to blaspheme Let not pollicy give rules to piety and set the bounds to your Religion an evill that hath interwoven it selfe into even the very constitution and fabricke of most Christian States to appeare for God so farre as still to take care of themselves and to venture into this sea of Reformation so as they may see a safe harbour to put themselves into This is the way to lose all your labour It s an empty win● that brings forth fruit to it selfe if men fast to themselves rule for themselves live to themselves they will also dye to themselves what pretences soever men may fancy to themselves and what plea●s they may have ut honeste piccare videantur Bee also a refuge to the Saints love holynesse in others there is not a greater testimony of holynesse in a mans selfe then i● he love the same in another God loves his owne Image wheresoever it is so should yee also there is nothing will honour you more before God and men Davids eyes in his Government were upon the faithfull so let yours be and let not the Kingdome have cause to continue the complaint that none are preferred or respected by you but friends kindred or creatures and if he be never so faithfull to God and never so serviceable to you if he come not under one of the fermer Titles whatever his desert or his condition be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orat. adver Julian 1. p. 64 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ethic. l. 8. c. 12. Hister Aminahum par 2 c 4. Brisson de repub l. 8. c. 1 S. 19. Camerar operat succifiv l. 1. c. 12. yee have no respect to him no pray on him Surely that precept extends to you also doe go● to all but specially to the household of faith Nazian speakes it both of the goodnesse and wisdome of Constantius that he did in his government affect nothing more and laboured nothing more then the encrease of Christian Religion and the flour shing thereof For he wisely considered that as Christianity flourished so did Rome and the encrease of