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A02702	Hezekiahs recovery. Or, A sermon, shevving what use Hezekiah did, and all should make of their deliverance from sicknesse. First preached, and now published by Robert Harris, pastor of Hanwell	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1626 (1626)	STC 12836; ESTC S120679	31,744	59

yeare this moneth which may turne to Gods honour a thousand yeares hence How is that Thus Art thou a father of children 1. write Gods mercies upon their names so thou be not phantasticall and let thy children weare therein Gods praises to their graves at least write them in their memories and hearts tell thy children and charge them to deliver it downwards to theirs what God hath beene to thee what great things he hath done in thy dayes and so make walking Libraries and living Bookes of thy children A godly posteritie is a breathing altar 2. Art thou childlesse yet set up an altar in thy house worke thy people to heaven-ward sow good seed amongst thy servants and some of them and theirs may blesse God for thee a hundred dred yeares hence Art thou a poore man bee rich in grace readie to everie good worke and thy name shall live when thou art dead no men in Scripture more commended renowned than poor men and women God himselfe writes their lives and records their good deeds O but I am so poore that I have no meanes of shewing my thankfulnesse Doe not say so hee never wanted meanes that did not want an heart get that and God will fit thee with oportunities as he hath with abilities Never tell mee thou mayst make the world the better for thee a great while hence if thou wilt How 1 If thou wouldest borrow a little from back and belly twentie to one thou moughtest lend God something 2 If that cannot be say with Peter Act. 3.6 Silver and gold I have none but such as I have I give I le pray I le worke I le advise I le plant sow doe something that shall doe good hereaster there is not the least toe but it hath its use and excellency in the bodie Art thou learned doe good that way as Hezekiah did Some conceive him well seene in the Mathematicks belike because of his buildings water-courses and the signe given him by God howsoever wee have his Epistle and Poemeextant and they hold out instruction to the worlds end If God hath given thee sufficiencie in this kinde thou mayest speakethy minde to men yet unborne and convey to them that light which God hath reached to thee Be not too curious this way thou seeft that some in this scribling age set forth their owne wits some their owne folly doe thou set forth Gods praise and ayme at mans good write something as thy gift is that may doe posteritie good We are infinitly bound to God for the blessing of Printing and to our fathers for their labours and wee of England are much to blame if we leave not Arts and Tongues more resined and perfected than we found them and the Scriptures more fully opened no people living better furnished with meanes no writings extant better accepted abroad or to better purpose at home O that in stead of tristers Scholars would make themselves publique and not burie their treasure with them like misers or leave their workes like fatherlesse children to the mercy of strange mid-wives when themselves are gone Art thou rich let King Hezekiah be thy patterne he was a good Common-wealths-man he built much he conveyed water to the Citie hee fortified the land and did good in warre and peace 2. He was a good Church-man he countenanced the Ministerie he restored their meanes and livings hee repaired Gods house aduanced Gods worship defaced the contrarie Thy place haply will not suffer thee to hold pace with him in all yet follow him as thou maist 1. as a citizen and member of the State rast the publique good see what good may be done in thy Ierusalem the towne of thine aboad fre what houses need thy helpe what grounds what neighbours here 's a man over-renied try whether thon-canst not case him there 's a man wants corne for his land stock for his stuffe helpe him there 's a third that hath will and skill to trade but he wants credite there 's a fourth that could live with a little helpe else he and his estate sinke O come quickly before the man be drowned with all his family a fist there is that 's able to breed some but not all his children hence hee is disheartned take away one Lamb and put it to another Ewe 2 When thou hast done so cast thine eyes over Indah with him looke abroad and see how present wants threaten posterity with miserie and as thou canst prevent it I. see how manie grown ones there be that play or steale or beg for want of imployment and set thy wits on work to finde out some trade some husbandry some businesse that may give some imployment 2. see how manie little ones there be that mought be usefull if they had breeding but alas their parents if living have neyther meanes to breed them Scholars nor money to binde them apprentices call upon thy selfe and others saying There 's a wittie childe le ts breed him a Scholar there 's a strong childe le ts traine him up for a Souldier make him an apprentice c. who knowes what service hee may doe the Church or Countrey oneday O what good mought rich men doe this way if they had hearts If they feare to erect publique standing Schooles or Colledges or to give some Fellowships for perpetuitie let them if they minde the common good take some particular children that are most hopefull and breed them 1. in the Country 2. in the Universitie till they be sit for publique service Here 's no danger unlesse they will say these may prove ill which is with the sluggard Pro. 26.13 to lye still left a Lion should be in the street doe thou go on till thou seest thy seed lost and then stop there and try an other ground 2 Bee with Hezekiah a good Churchman 1. repaire Gods house let it never be said that our Churches lye like Barnes and that Our Father lets downe what Pater noster set up 2. Promote Gods worship and allow some oyle to his Lamps doe not Pharaoh-like call for Bricke without materials What expect Sermons many Sermons learning much learning so that our Preacher must be able to answer any question and yet denie him meanes Meanes by all meanes we would have him have a competencie A competencie how much is that who shall judge of that Now the good Lord keepe his Clergie from the vulgars competencie I speake what I know and I speake it with a wet face and a bleeding heart I know Preachers of excellent parts that spend their strength in the Pulpit who cannot lay out sistie shillings in sive yeares upon books but they must fetch it either off the backs or out of the bellies of their poore children Call you this a competencie Well if wee deserve no kindnesse yet doe us justice le ts have what your fathers gave us Hezekiah found things alienated and turned out of course no doubt wits were working then Take heed

it cannot be avoided but such sinne will be committed in thee if not by thee and these sinnes so farre as connivencie and basenesse makes thine will endanger thee When therefore thou hast surveyed thine own wayes cast into the account thine-other-mens-sinnes thine-other-land sinnes thy Dutch sinnes thy French sinnes thy Spanish sinnes thy Italian sinnes thine-owne-countrey-sinnes see whether there be not in thee those that eate upon the mountaines and those that for lucre sake both harbour and hide them Whether in thee there be not such as never yet saw Christs face or heard his voyce in the Assemblies whether in this wonderful light there be not in thee who know not whether Christ be a man or woman whether there be not in thee men who study new oathes and lyes as men doc new fashions whether in thee there be not who never see the Sabbath light but lye eyther buried in bed or drowned in drinke whether in thee children be not so wantonly bred that they sleight father and mother and to make short of a long bed-roll whether in thee there be not wretched men that set open their doores to all the bankrupts unthrifts gamesters robbers cheaters harlots that the countrey pursues whether in thee there be not some that set all to sale wife childe servant name conscience soule all And if upon search these or any of these shall bee found within thy walls or reach O glorisie God in his visitation and save thy selfe by disclayming these sinnes Thine they be not if thou where thou mayest dost reforme them and where thy power fayles dost bewaile them Howbeit this is not all as sinne must be seene so must it be left and therefore thou must proceed and say I le offend no more as a Christian I le reforme my selfe as a parent my children as a Master my family as a Magistrate my charge as a tradsman my courses And to the end thy reformation may be acceptable learne two things more of Elihu first be willing to see and know thy faults pray that GOD would adde to correction instruction that he will open thine heart to heare and some mouth to speake home to thy case thy soule and when light is commin winke not with thine eyes shut not the doore against it Secondly carrie ever about thee this resolution Let God teach I le learne speake I le heare convince me of a sinne I le leave it whatever becomes of me be it my living be it to me as my life if God will say it is a sinne I le leave it in the practise in the purpose in the allowance of it this murtherous sinne that hath slaine my childe my friend so manie of my neighbours nay my Saviour shall never have place againe in my heart or house And this is not onely the way to thankefulnesse but also a proofe and peece of it know that so many sinnes as the love of God constraines us to leave so manie songs are presented to God everie slaine lust is a gratulatorie sacrifice Secondly thou must proceed with Hezekiah and see from what to what God hath brought thee shall a Citie conceive and bring forth in a day it hath beene so with thee I may say of thy sorrowes what Iob speakes of his comforts they have beene swifter than a shuttle Didst thou or anie man living thinke that within one Summer thou shouldest burie so manie and so few weekely could it be imagined that when thy channels were discovered in so low an ebbe that thy banks should be so suddenly filled againe O London looke upon thy selfe and wonder at thy selfe invert now Ieremies lamentation and say How is the solitarie Citie become full how is shee that was barren made fruitfull Sit downe with Hezekiah and consider what thy bitternesse was when death walkt in the streets raged in the chambers when death was in the pot in the bedde in the dish in the hall in the parlour when the bells spake nothing but death the doores presented nothing but death and every man thou sawest thing thou touchedst place thou satest in threatned thee with death consider what thy cares fears griefs thoughts were then and now whilest thine eyes behold as it were a resurrection to life so that now life is in the streetes life in the house life in the Church trading building singing c. alive againe blesse thy GOD that hath wrought this change and get up with Hezekiah to the house of the Lord Strange it was that hee in so short a space should measure the whole distance betwixt death and life yesterday dead in nature as unlikely to live as the sunne to goe backward and to morrow so strong that he could shew himselfe in the Lords courts This is wonderfull and this made him wondrous thankfull And what I pray wants thy deliverance of this how much lesse wonderfull how fast did sicknesse come in how fast did it gallop out how fast did it rise from scores to thousands how fast did it fall againe from thousands to scores London lay these things together and forget not him who hath done so great things for thee In the third place Hezekiah loves not to dispatch all at one journey hee begins his song assoone as mought be but t is not ended yet he hath left a patterne for thee to work by Thinke it not sufficient to complement God with a few words and a short song for along deliverance write this mercy with a pen of Diamond in a book of Marble call upon all within thee as David did within him to speake of this deliverance to childrens children and doe something that may set men on singing 500. yeares hence Thou hast sonnes of all sorts some Enginers some Artists some Poets some of excellent invention some of great activity some very daring and undertaking some strong some wise some rich of all ranks some call upon them some to write some to build some to invent some to give that cirie country Church State sea and land may take occasion thence of blessing God whilst London or England stands Now happy Hezekiah and happy sicknesse of his that ended so well his afflictions sent him to God with prayers his recovery with praises nor God nor man lost by this bargaine God had more service Hezekiah more experience we gaine a good coppy and Hezekiah hath his lease renewed for fifteene yeares And thus afflictions conclude which begin with prayer and end in thankfulnesse London make thy selfe againer by thy losse joine praises to thy former prayers grow more wise holy humble temperate just mercifull fruitfull and thou art a winner thy gaines exceed thy losses present and for the future thou hast opened a faire prospect to a constant peace The best security from future miseries is to profit by former beleeve it thou canst not take a better medecine against the Plague than to profit by what is past Now the Lord hath promised to