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A32786 A sermon preached in Saint Pavles chvrch the tenth of October, 1641 by Mr. Thomas Chisheare ... ; vvherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these times. Cheshire, Thomas, b. 1600 or 1601. 1641 (1641) Wing C3780; ESTC R18461 9,416 17

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A SERMON PREACHED IN SAINT PAVLES CHVRCH THE tenth of October 1641. By Mr. Thomas Chisheare Master of Arts of Brasennose Colledge in Oxford VVherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these Times Printed at London in the yeare of our Lord 1641. A SERMON PREACHed at Saint Paules Church the tenth of October 1641. Vpon Psalme 148. ver. 12. and part of the 13. Young men and maidens old men and children let them Praise the name of the Lord MY whole alotted time would be to short to stand either to speak of the Pen-man heere the holy Prophet David or this his worke in generall or this his Psalme in particular For himselfe he was a man after Gods owne heart that is his greatest title and he went beyond all the Sonnes of Adam who was a King and a Prophet in all causes both Ecclesiasticall and pollitique in foure particulars never yet paralleld A Shepherd a Musition a Souldier and a Prophet For the first ye know what service he did he slew a Lion and a Beare an absolute tipe of Death and Hell to be overcome by this victorious Lion of the Tribe of Iudah For a Musitian he was the sweet singer of Israel yea he was able to charme the Devill himselfe and quit that evill Spirit which vexed Saul For a Souldier he was most famous witnesse that Battell wherein he slew Goliah and beheaded that great Champion of the Philistines with his owne sword For a Prophet none so fully and so clearly foretels the Person Incarnation Passion and resurrection of Christ foretold as David did he in his owne person did oftentimes intimate many other men so that his divine writings are the Compendium of all the sacred Scripture it seemes Christ himselfe set much by this booke for you may observe that he used the sayings of the Prophet David more then any other Prophet yea more then all the Prophets together Moreover when the Devill tempted Christ he arged a Text out of this Prophet as if the Devill had observed how greatly Davids sayings were respected Our Church considering the usefull excellency of this part of Scripture hath ordained a more frequent use then of any other part of Divine write But I must stay no longer in the commendation of this our Prophet or his booke of Psalmes he rather bids as practise what we finde written young Men and Maidens c. Which wordes are the Conclusion of a Psalme which we may not unfitly stile by the name of a Divine Masque where is scarce any Creature in the whole world but the Species are in this Psalme Here are Angels and all Hosts Sun and Moone and Starres of light The Heaven and Heavens and the waters that be above the Heavens The Earth the Dragons and all Depths Fire Hayle Snow and vapours and stormy winds Mountaines and all Hils Fruitfull trees and all Cedars Beasts and all cattell creeping things and flying Foules Kings of the earth and all People Princes and all Iudges of the earth And in the words of my text Both Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children let them praise the Name of the Lord You that desire strange and rare sights O come hither and view the whole troope of Gods creatures a Chorus that is led by Angells followed by men and directed by God himselfe and yet stay not too long in contemplating of them for thou they selfe also of what degree soever have a part to act as well as the rest Young Men and Maidens c. For my better proceeding herein I shall first observe the connection of these wordes with the precedent Secondly the duty that is commanded and that is praise to God And thirdly the Actors and those are Iuvenes virgines c. So that you see the Text like the Iron gate to Peter opens unto us of its owne accord and to looke for more abroad were like Esaw to hunt for Venison a farre off when like Iacob wee may have it neere our hand I will treat of this Text very plainely for Ita non debet loqui Theologus ut possit intelligi sed ut non possit non intelligi First that we may know that this Masque is worth our labour and not unbeseeming so glorious a creature as man is our Prophet shewes us that it befits the Angels in Heaven yea it is the height of their felicity to comfort themselves in Anthems of praise to Almighty God So saith Saint Luk. And suddenly there was with the Angels a multitude of the heavenly Hosts praising God The Angels leaped out of Heaven for ioy to congratulate mankinde with a morning Antheme of praise and thankes Thus you see the part we have of act is nothing derogatory unto our worth since the glorious Angels themselves are imployed in the same But to go on this our Prophet shews that the very Beasts and Trees and Foules can performe that which the Devill would perswade us is so difficult The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider So heere our Prophet would have us to take notice of Beasts and Foules of the aire nay the aire it selfe wind and stormes fulfilling his word Christ tels the Iewes that the Queen of the South should rise up in Iudgement against them at the last day and not onely the Queene of the South but the arie wind of the South shall as it were rise up in Iudgement against us at the last day because that also doth performe the will of God Which man will not doe Now I come to that which I chiefly 〈◊〉 at Young men and Maidens c. The Duty here inioyned is a duty of Praise but not so much 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 for then the Pharisee would have acted his part best our praise must be both Ore Opere Cora● Christ forbidding swearing in that Divine Sermon of his upon the mount shewes us a Method how to affirme or deny any thing Let your communication be yea yea nay 〈◊〉 for whatsoever is more then these commeth of evill On which place I remember one glosseth well Christ doth not intend saith he that we should pronounce yea twice or nay twice with our tongues but that the heart should first consent or refuse and then the tongue should follow either in yea or nay there should be an agreement betweene the tongue and the heart let your communication be yea yea nay nay so likewise in preaching the name of God it must be first performed by the heart and then ecchoed out by the tongue and afterward commented upon in all our actions as yea may see in this Psalme where the Prophet calling upon the creatures to praise God urgeth them thereunto with an argument taken from the wind and storme fulfilling his word So that it is not enough for the wind to whisle or the raine to rattle if we should
were to come before an earthly Prince how would we thinke with our selves before hand what gesture and language we should use before we came into his presence Doe you thinke this fitting to be done to an earthly King and shall the King of Kings my beloved be thus dishonoured in many places of this your City Surburbs by Anabaptists S●peratists Burtonists and Brownists and I shall acquaint you with the passage concerning the first founder of the last of these sects It was one Browne a Minister who would preach no where but in private houses and desert places and the like and the reason that he alleadged was because we had no true Church but marke the event a good benefice was offered this Brown which he willingly accepted of and he that before would not acknowledge a Church in England was content to be a Parson of A-Church a certaine towne in Northampton-shire loe here you may behold the sincerity together with the antiquity of these Brownists We read in the vision of Elijah that there was a Whirle-wind but God was not in the whirle-wind next an earthquake next a fire but last of all a still small voice and there God was When was there a greater whirle-wind and Tempest in the Land then now is and is there not an earth-quake in this land of ours when one shall goe away with five or 600. poundes a yeare and a poore Vicar for 40. pounds shall undergoe all the burthen There was also a fire but God was not in it when many of our protestant Martyrs in the Marian days were carried up to heaven like Elijah in chariots of fire But as for us throughout our second Deborah's days our second Solomons days in the raigne of our second Iosiah whom God long preserve among us we have do heare the still smal voice of the preaching of the Gospell of Christ Iesus we have had free liberty for the publike Worship and service of God even the full age of a man till now of late these disturbers of the peace of our Church have risen and the wind hath begun to blow againe in the whisling and blustering of these Brownists I know there are some who are ready to taske us for medling with these things we have nothing to doe with but one answere is what things are out of our reach or what men in points of Religion I am sure our commission extends to the highest Cedars in Lebanon as will as the Hysop that groweth upon the wall We are dogs of the flock and therefore when we see cause we may bark and live too Now I come to give you a view of the actors and those Young Men and Maidens c. The parties are mentioned by couples being tied two and two together Young men and Maidens old Men and Children c. And here is a double Caveat first against presumption and secondly against Despaire First that the younger sort might desire to praise God they are exhorted to addresse themselves to the service of God to remember their Creator in the days of their youth Secondly for aged men that they might not doubt of the acceptation of their service our Prophet exhorts them also for the first you know David cals upon the Sun and the Moone to praise God Should the Sun reply I will not doe it in the morning or at noone time but when I am about to sit or the Moone reply I will not in the full but in the waine or the Tree not in the spring-time or Summer but at the fall of the leafe so likewise thou Young man deferre not the time of Praising God take the swinge of thy youth do not deferre to apply thy self to the service of God till thy old age but remember that for all these things thou shalt come to judgement He that stiles himselfe by the title I am cares not for I will be or I have been but he that is at this present take heed therefore thou strong and lustie young Man the Divell that holds the now will every day tie a new cord about thee Qui non est hodiè cras minùs aptus erit consider this you that are yet yong whom the morning Sun of light adornes with his glorious rayes every-one doth not live to be old Let us not procrastinate Gods service For the longer we deferre to serve God the farther God's grace is distant from us and the dominion of Sathan is more strenghthened in our hearts the more we delay the more is our debt the greater our sin and lesse our grace I will commend this lesson unto all He that doth not repent to day bath a day more to repent of and a day lesse to repent in I shall only conclude this point with an hearty exortation for us all of what sect Age and degree soever I could wish that all our lives might end like this booke of Psalmes in blessing and praising Almighty God I will hold your patience no longer in suspence but will consummate all with the Psalmist Let young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children praise the name of the Lord Yea this name especially the name of our Lord Iesus Christ to whom with the Father and Holy Spirit be all honour Praise and glory now and for evermore Amen FINIS verse 2. verse 3. verse 4. verse 7. verse 8. verse 9. verse 10. verse 11. verse 2. Luk. 2. verse 13. Esa 1. verse 3. Mat. 5. verse 37. verse 8. verse 4. Ruth 1. verse 16. and 17. verse 5. 1 Chro. 1● verse 13. 2 Chro. 36. verse 16. 1 King 6. verse 7.