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A60385	Ergon pseudous kai misthos alētheias, or, The wicked mans sad disappointment and the righteous mans sure recompence being a sermon preached the 17th day of October, 1661, at the solemn funerals of the Right Worshipful Sir Abraham Raynardson, Knight, late alderman of London / by George Smalwood.	Smalwood, George, 1604-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4006; ESTC R10143	27,597	40

of his charity will appear to the comfort of the poor in the several Hospitals of this City and some other places 5. But then the greatest and most eminent Tryall and Testimony of his Righteousness and Integrity was in that fatal year 1648. when the Blood of His Sacred Majesty was shed by cruel and wicked hands then it pleased God to call him to be Lord Mayor of London in which office coming to him in such a stormy time he was stedfast and unmoveable from his Integrity he shewed himself a good Christian a wise Magistrate a loyal Subject and a loving Citizen Indeed Magistratus indicat virum Magistracy is a touchstone which will discover a man whether he be gold or dross he that carrieth himself as he ought in Offices of eminency giveth a great testimony of his wisdom and virtue There are two things that commend a Magistrate Honesty and Courage both these were eminent in him There were three very memoriable passages to be observed in this worthy Knight in managing his publick affairs 1. In reference to the good of the City whereof he was chief Magistrate when a Treaty was concluded upon between His late Majesty of Blessed Memory and the Parliament then sitting and in order thereunto an ingagement was subscribed by most of the Common Council and principal Members of the City for the carrying on of that Treaty Afterwards the Treaty proving ineffectual and the Parliament being dissolved by the unjust violence of the Army and their Abetters a strict inquiry was made after the names of those that subscribed the personal Treaty But the Book wherein the names of the Subscribers on both parts for and against the Treaty were written containing about two Reams of Paper being privately brought to this worthy Knight then Lord Mayor he tendering the good and welfare of all his Brethren and fellow citizens not knowing what might be the ill consequence of it if such a Record should be found extant took it and burnt it to ashes privately in his Chamber that nothing might remain to the prejudice of any how many perhaps here present were deeply ingaged to him for the safety of their estates if not of their lives by that one action certainly it was a work full of wisdom charity and brotherly kindness a most excellent concatenation of Christian Graces 2. When some tumultuous and busie Commoners had contrived a traiterous and wicked Petition to bring His Sacred Majesty and others to a Tryal and were vehemently urgent to have it read and voted in the Common-council that so it might be presented to the then new moulded Parliament as the desire of the whole City This Heroick and Noble Knight stoutly opposed the promoting thereof and would suffer it neither to be read nor voted notwithstanding the rage and violence of the adverse party who neither reverencing the Authority of his venerable office nor regarding the gravity of his person loaded him with reproach and contempt within telling him they would have it voted whether he would or no before their rising and some of them stirred up a tumultuous Rabble against him without Notwithstanding all this unworthy dealing with him he continued like an unmoveable Rock persisting in his resolution and endured those insolencies from eight of the clock in the morning until after eight at night accompanied only with two of his bretheren and would not yield a jot to their unreasonable desires notwithstanding all their clamorous importunities And at last when no reason would prevaile with them not able longer to endure their uncivil behaviour towards him and chiefly that he might to the utmost of his power keep the City and Citizens from being stained with the guilt of that Sacred Innocent Blood he resolutely took up the Sword and departed the Court to his great hazzard All these proceedings he caused to be registred in the book of Records belonging to the City for an evident testimony to after times of his own and the Cities Integrity and Innocency as to that ungodly and execrable Fact of taking away the Kings Life which he heartily abhorred for all which noble and gallant resolutions and performances he had since publick thanks given him by a declaration from the City Thus this worthy Knight might well be called the Sword and Buckler of London as Camillus and Fabius were among the Romans for he defended them from that which is worse then any outward evil viz. from blood guiltiness and that in the highest degree even from the guilt of parracide and shedding the blood of him that was Pater Patriae the Father of their Country This was a great mercy to the City on Gods part and an eminent favour on his part that did it and the whole City have cause to be thankfull to God and him for it When the rest of the children of Israel understood that their brethren the children of Reuben the children of Gad and the Children of Manasseh had not turned from following the Lord by building an Altar for Burnt-Offerings besides the Altar of the Lord their God which was before his Tabernacle but only had built a pattern of the Lords Altar to be a witness between them and their brethren that they and their posterity belonged to the Congregation of Israel and had a part in the Lord and his Service as well as the other Tribes when they understood the Truth of this it is said the thing pleased them and they blessed God and said This day we perceive that the Lord is among us because ye have not committed this trespass against the Lord now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord Joshua 22. 31. They rejoyced that God had kept their bretheren from polluting themselves with that crying sin of Idolatry and turning from the Lord and his Altar and took it as a token of Gods presence among them and as a merciful deliverance of the whole Nation from the avenging hand of God and his fierce wrath which the guilt of that sin would have brought upon them Truly we in this City have great cause to be well pleased and to bless God as well as they for keeping us from being guilty of His Majesties Blood we have reason to interpret this happy providence as they did to be a pledge and token that God would not forsake us but continue his gracious presence among us as blessed be his name he is pleased to do as we see at this day and I hope through mercy shall still see as also to be a merciful deliverance of this City from the fearful wrath and severe vengeance of the most righteous God which the guilt of that Sacred Blood besides its other crying abominations would have brought upon it we have reason to magnifie God for that gracious deliverance and for raising up this worthy Knight to be so happily instrumental therein had it been some faint hearted Ephraimite or covetous Demas he would have turned back in the day of

himself and his Son Jesus Christ and the Spirit of comfort both in the communications of Grace here and the fruition of Glory hereafter So prayeth Novemb. 15. 1661. Madam Your Ladyships humble Sevant in the Lord Jesus GEORGE SMALWOOD The wicked mans sad disappointment and The righteous mans sure recompence PROVERBS 11. 18. The wicked worketh a d●ceitful work but to him that s●weth righteousn●ss shall be a sure reward THis Booke of the Proverls is made up of Divine Aphorismes and short Sentences which as one of the Ancients 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith upon another occasion are very short if you measure the words but full of spiritual energy and Soul-saving Vertue like a little body full of spirits or like juycy clusters of Grapes filled with the noblest liquour and ready to burst forth with new wine Here are heavenly Apophthegmes fit for all occasions for all persons for all actions Here are comforts for the poor counsels for the rich instructions for the ignorant corrections for the obstinate wholsome precepts and precious promises Characters both of good and bad matter for all to work upon It was pen'd by Solomon who himself was a Proverb for his wisedom a man though not without great failings to shew that the Saints have their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their fainting-fits their imperfections and aberrations as well as others and we must expect no absolute perfection in those that dwell in houses of clay Yet he was one in whom much matter of great worth and excellent knowledge was shut up and contained The Holy Ghost saith He spake of trees from the Cedar-tree that is in Lebanon even unto the Hysop that springeth out of the wall He spake also of Beasts and of Fowls and of creeping things and of Fishes and there came of all people to hear the wisedome of Solomon 1 Kings 4. 33 34. It pleased God to use him as one of his Amanuenses or Divine Penmen of holy Writ and so notwithstanding his failings he is to be reckoned inter Sanctos Dei among the holy Ones of God For Saint Peter telleth us that Prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 21. so then he was one of those holy men that were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inspired of God himself and guided by his spirit And this eminently wise man like a careful Physician hath in this Book as it were piled one upon another boxes of Medicines for all diseases cordials to comfort and chear up pious souls in the midst of all troubles and distresses with short inscriptions upon each of them that any man without overburthening his memory may easily learn a compendious and sudden cure for every particular malady and find a Cordial to revive and comfort his heart in any fainting fit whatsoever These words which I have chosen for the subject of my discourse upon this occasion like most of the rest have no dependance at all upon the former but are in themselves two absolute divine sentences or doctrines as contraries one to another as the persons they speak of and so they adde lustre each Contraria juxta se posita magis elucescunt to other For contraries placed together make one another more apparent Now here is an Antithesis or opposition between the state of the wicked and the state of the righteous shewing the vast difference between the one and the other in their respective conclusions or finall events or the issue and result of both their works 1 The wicked mans work how prosperous and happy soever it seems for the present yet at last it proveth vain and deceitfull For the wicked c. 2. The righteous mans work whatever outward evils accompany it for the present yet in the end it proveth most blessed and successful For to him that soweth c. Thus this world is like a common field where both good and bad have ground to work upon But the wicked sow such bad seed that it brings forth nothing but briars and brambles it is all overgrown with thorns and nettles cover the face thereof as it is said of the field of the slothful and the Carduus spinis surgit paliurus acutts Virgil. Vineyard of the man void of understanding Prov. 24. 30 31. And so the wicked work to no good purpose but lose all the fruit they expected and are nigh unto cursing whose end is to be bur●ed Heb. 6. 8. For as the work is false which they do God biding them do one thing and they doing another he commanding them to sow to the spirit and they sowing to the flesh so it proveth a work of falsehood to themselves also wholly frustrating their expectation for it is a deceitfull work It is in the Original the work of a lye or a lying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 work The work of a wicked man telleth him a most notorious lye for it promiseth him good success and he thinks his happiness is placed in it he hugs and applauds himself in his politick enterprises Populus me sibilat sed mihi plaudo domi Horat. as the covetous man in the Poet did in his heaps of money though all the people were ready to hiss at him As the Prophet speaks of the oppressors in his time He sacrificeth unto his net and burneth incense unto his drag because by them his portion is fat and his meat plenteous Habak 1. 16. How many such fishers have fished in our troubled waters and thought themselves the wisest and best men in the Land Thus the wicked mans work makes a fair shew in the beginning nay perhaps it hath a very hopeful progress for a long time for the Tabernacles of robbers may prosper and they that provoke God may be secure into whose hands God may bring abundantly Iob 12. 6. but at last it bringeth nothing but woe and misery and so all his devices fail and vanish into nothing they become a meer lye and there is no truth in them But the righteous sowe the pure corn of righteousness which therefore proveth sincere also and true to their hope it deceiveth not their expectation but bringeth forth the harvest of a plentifull reward which is reaped in Heaven though it were sown upon earth So then these words contain two remarkable dispensations of divine providence 1. The wicked mans sad disappoi●tment after all his tedious toil and labor in the works of iniquity he works a deceitfull work 2. The righteous mans blessed success after he hath laboured in the work of the Lord and passed through many difficulties he loseth not his labor he scattereth not his seed in vain For to him that soweth c. I shall not speak much to the first of these viz. The wicked mans sad disappointment but onely to warn you to take heed of his ways For it is not so sutable to our present occasion save onely to