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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

affections upon us as any other How hardly doe we finde such bowels in us as were in Paul Gal. 4.19 My little children of whom I travell in birth again So 1 Thess 2.7 We were gentle among you even as the nurse cherisheth her children thus Paul whom Chrysostome calls the terrestriall Angel yea more Cor Pauli est cor Christi And certainly if these bowels were in us it would keep us from pride self-seeking and tyranny And what is preached from inward bowels doth more good then things of meer invention and parts how excellent soever as the milk that cometh warm out of the brest nourisheth more then that which is heated at the fire What a ridiculous thing was that of Bernard to excommunicate flies because they were troublesome to a Chappell And how cruelly hath that spirituall sword been drawn out in Popery meerly for want of bowels So that in preaching dispensation of Sacraments and infliction of spirituall censures there is required much prudence zeal holinesse love all which cannot be done without tender bowels and compassions Many times wee Ministers are like Samsons dead Lion though others may finde honey in us yet we our selves feel not the sweetnesse of it Christ said thrice to Peter Feed my sheep but not once Milk them or Shear them So that I know not what more necessary to be prayed for this day then to say Give Lord to Magistrates give to Ministers give to Committees give to Souldiers What shalt thou give them Fatherly bowels This will be a living spring to carry us forward in our work when all other principles are but a land-floud that will quickly be dried up Many disputes divisions and jealousies would be extinct if this inward love were effectuall The bowels of the true mother will by no means endure the sword should divide the childe I shall conclude desiring to all that temper which Paul commends in Timothy Phil. 2.20 naturally to take care for the publick and so shall we avoid that charge the Apostle layeth upon many that they seek their own and not the things of Jesus Christ I come to the 2d Observation which is that The ingratitude and discontent of people is such under Reformers that they make their Governours lives hard and miserable Moses though a man noted for such meeknesse yet is quite wearied out with the work and sometimes the people talk of stoning him as the cause of all their calamity They could not be more bitter and violent against Pharaoh and his task-masters then now they are against Moses and Aaron Thus they deal with their Worthies as beasts with trees that run to shelter themselves under them while the storm and tempest is and after that is over then they browze upon the boughs and break down the branches thereof So that there is no safe rule to go by in publick administrations not self-interests not present successe not applause of the people but a faithfull eying and owning of God in all In the amplifying of this Doctrine wee will take notice of the particulars Wherein and How the Israelites murmured under the faithfull conduct of Moses Their murmuring is excellently described Exod. 16.2 to be a beastly sin for the word doth signifie such howlings as beasts use to make when they are ready to be famished What an horrid noise do dogs and such creatures make the same did the Israelites against Moses and Aaron And first Consider they charge their Governours as the cause of the calamities that are come upon them Numb 16.13 Moses is there charged with a designe to bring them out of Egypt to kill them in the wildernesse and that he intended to make himself a Prince over them and mark their expression v. 14. Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men that is Doe you think so to blind them that they should not espie out your fraud O horrible ingratitude Moses was much incensed at this and see how his integrity comforted him I have not taken one asse from them the vilest beast nor hurt one of them Thus the good Prophets were judged the troublers of Israel Thus the ignorant people blame the Physick and Physician as if they made them sick when it is the corrupt humour within And are there not men now adaies that in stead of charging their Idolatries Oaths and Blasphemies as the causes of the miserable calamities upon us lay all the blame upon those that would reform things amisse 2. Though the servants of God laboured by arguments to allay their frowardnesse yet this melodious harp could not drive out that evill spirit in them Num. 14.9 10. Exod. 6.9 Though they were told what great things God had done for them though they make it appear God had forsaken their enemies yet they hearken to nothing To bid men in distresse not consider the dead womb of the creature but the power of God is as ridiculous to their carnall hearts as that mock-charity James speaks of which saith Goe home and be warmed but doth nothing at all Though you draw buckets of water out of the wels of the Scripture yet you can hardly quench the fire of impatiency when it hath inflamed a people 3. A third expression of their discontent is To magnifie their former life though never so miserable Exod. 16.3 When we sate down by the flesh-pots Sate down as if they had such ease and plenty not one word of their brick and straw Numb 16.13 They tell Moses he had brought them out of a land that flowed with milk and honey That which was an iron furnace in which they groaned and were weary of their lives they here call A land flowing with milk and honey the same phrase that is given to Canaan And are there not many such mutiners to this day amongst us Have not people forgotten the pressures the State and Church burdens that once they crouched under Did they not long for a redemption and now when it is working for them they make an Egypt as good as a Canaan 4. To be willing for their ease-sake to go back to their condition again Numb 14.4 Let us make our selves a Captain and go down into Egypt And doth not many a man wish for the Popish innovations again rather then to be undone thus continually as they account it But what good would peace and plenty doe to a gracious heart if he must drink again of streams muddied by the inventions of men and have gravell again put into the bread he must eat Certainly corrupt Doctrine and Worship is more to be feared then the devouring sword 5. They are onely discontented because of outward streights and miseries and when indeed they should complain we have not a word fall from them When Aaron was indeed in blame for making a golden calfe they could bear that well enough When he said To morrow shall be a feast to the Lord none opened his mouth crying It is Idolatry we dare not do it but in hunger and drought in