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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77846	Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgesse, pastour of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5653; Thomason E325_5; ESTC R200622	19,054	30

are our accounts Sicut crescunt dona sic crescunt rationes donorum Where God giveth more there he requireth more O let every one then that is called to steare the ship especially in these tempests and storms imitate Solomon praying unto God for wisdome to administer that office and this was so acceptable to God that hee gave him all other abundance Take heed lest the Divell set thee not up upon the pinnacle of the Temple hoping to throw thee down headlong You are at the day of judgement not onely to give an account for your personall sins but Common-wealth sins O tremble in the thoughts of such an account Bernard said well Descendamus in infernum viventes nè descendamus morientes Let us goe into hell while we are alive by meditation and consideration lest we go into it while we are dead How necessary is it that you whose labour and praise it is to set the Church and State at liberty should have your own hearts also at liberty from all corrupt aimes and respects Be not offended at these things Genus quoddam martyri● est non ignobile reprehendentes aequanimiter ferre It is a noble kind of martyrdome to bear reproofs patiently 6. Their Titles and Names are for this duty Hence they are called gods and fathers their government is said to be feeding yea the King of Tyre is called Cherub either ironically or because he thought so Ezek. 28.14 for as God doth give sometimes the names from earthly powers to Angels as when they are called thrones and dominions Col. 1.16 so he doth take the names of those heavenly spirits and adorneth Governours in the earth with them Now they are spirits of service to others that as the Sun hath its name from a word that signifieth to administer and to be serviceable because the light is not for it selfe but others so likewise all the power and honour that God giveth men is for the publick and not for themselves Let therefore new titles and places raise up the heart to sutable operations and upon miscarriages let us reflect and say How ill doth this action and title agree together 7. Acts of unrighteousnesse have a great guilt for they are not onely against a spirituall conscience but a naturall and when that is awakened what adoe is there to have it graciously appeased When Paul preached of justice and temperance sinnes which a naturall conscience doth condemne he made Felix to tremble Though you have a priviledge Honourable and Worthy that no man can arrest or implead you yet you know full well that there is no priviledge from the arrests of conscience and the impleading of Gods word It is necessary to consider we have to doe with God and not man and if Socrates though an Heathen could rise up to that resolution I will obey God rather then men the very same words which the Apostle used how much rather ought Christians 8. The people doe expect this from them even as they doe that the Sun should shine and the clouds rain For this they give themselves and their families to be plundred and undone that piety and righteousnesse may be established When they come up hither out of the Countrey they think they are come to the gates of the kingdome of heaven where righteousnesse shall presently enter they forget all the pangs and troubles their soules have travelled in because of the hopes of that man-childe of Reformation which shall be brought forth They think when they have been stung by any serpents full of poison and venome it is but their looking upon you and they should be healed presently Solomons administration is excellently described Psal 72.6 Hee shall come down like rain upon the mowen grasse The Originall word signifieth also a shorn fleece of wooll and some make it an allusion to Gideons fleece that had dew fell on it but it may well be retained as in our Translation for the grasse mowen craveth rain as the people did righteousnesse and the Psalmist doth again expresse this righteousnesse by showres The word is used only in this place and hath its signification of dispersing hereby representing the scattering of justice abroad as the drops of raine are to make fertill the ground Use Suffer worthy Patriots a word of exhortation from what hath been said Certainly if ever here are occasions and objects of all the graces requisite in such offices So walk and doe that the Common-wealth may look upon you as their Josephs their Mosesses their Mordecaies Humble your selves this day before God for any neglect or omission What hath been done with publick affections and unbyassed respects to God and his cause will be incredible joy and gladnesse to you afterwards Observe how much Nehemiah refreshed himselfe with this Neh. 5.19 Think upon mee my God for good according to all that I have done for this people So Chap. 13.14 Remember mee O my God and wipe not out the good deeds that I have done for the house of my God So ver 22. Remember me according to this and spare me according to the greatnesse of thy mercy and ver 31. Remember mee O my God for good See here what comfortable incouragements he hath Is not this more then if the King had given him many Provinces and Kingdomes to rule over Thus Hezekiah 2 King 20.3 when he heard the sentence of death passed upon him what supported him but an upright heart in that Reformation he had begun I know the heart set upon great things in the world is apt to contemn these truths of God as too pusillanimous and emasculating their courage But as Dionysius if I mistake him not who being a Stoick wrote a book that pain was nothing it was but an imagination yet when he fell sick of the Stone and felt the torture of it he cryed out All that he had written was false as he now felt by experience So men who in their life times have greedily pursued the great and glorious things of this world when dying when appearing before God will cry out They were but all dreams and imaginations And this destroyeth men that they take these things as the words of meer men and beleeve them not as the undeniable truths of God even as young Samuel thought the voice he heard to be the voice of Eli of a man and no more therefore goeth to sleep again till he understood it to be the voice of God Consider likewise the honour that God puts upon you when he makes you instruments to relieve the oppressed Church and State If a drop of cold water shall not go without a reward how acceptable then will it be when men have been ready to give many drops of their warm bloud God when he made heaven and earth took no instruments no not Angels themselves in that work of Creation but when he makes new heavens and new earth as the Scripture phrase is about the Reformation and good change of a Kingdome he putteth much