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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

Die Mercurii Febr. 25. 1645. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that S. Robert Harlow and Col. Purfrey do give thanks to M. Burgesse and M. Goodwin for the great pains they took in the Sermons they preached this day at the intreaty of the House of Commons at S. Margarets Westminster it being the day of publick Humiliation and to desire them to print their Sermons It is also ordered That none shall presume to print their Sermons without licence under their hand-writing Hen. Els Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Thomas Underhill to print my Sermon and no man else ANTHONY BURGESSE 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 LONDON Printed by J. Y. for Thomas Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet M.DC.XLVI TO The Honourable House OF COMMONS Assembled in Parliament at WESTMINSTER Worthy SENATORS THE Vicissitude of Gods Providence to men in great place somtimes pulling down those who are lifted up on high and again raising up those who were laid prostrate may justly provoke all Magistrates to walk with fear and trembling knowing there is a greater then they are All earthly Potentates and Principalities are before God but as so much pin-dust which when hee breatheth on is soon scattered away Hence Psalm 2. the great Ones of the earth are exhorted to kisse the Sonne lest hee be angry and a little of his anger is too heavie for the shoulders of any mortall men Be affected therefore with your own nothingnesse comparatively to Gods greatnesse and advance his Truth Worship and Government Many States have stumbled upon Christ as a Stone of offence and hee again hath fallen upon them grinding them to powder The Lord make you so blessed that you may not be offended at any thing which is Christs and fill you so with faith that you may be fully perswaded in your hearts that the surest posture of defence for the Kingdome is when it is put into a submission unto the Scepter of Christ Jesus Although God hath done much for you yet great is the need you still have of his Goodnesse Wisdome and power to you The shippe coming into the harbour may miscarry as well as that in the wide Ocean And certainly the businesses of your Warre and Peace of the Church and State of Divisions and Reconciliations are of so great concernment that hee seeth nothing at all who doth not judge you in as great a necessity of Gods good Providence as at the very first Therefore after all the great successe which God hath vouchsafed unto you be not high-minded but fear keep a sure interest in God and provoke him not by any sinnes but so manage all things belonging to God and men with piety and justice that God from heaven may prosper you and men on earth praise you Your humble servant in CHRIST ANTHONY BURGESSE A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House OF COMMONS At the publick Fast Febr. 25. 1645. NUMB. 11.12 Have I conceived all this people Have I begotten them that thou shouldest say unto mee Carry them in thy bosome as a nursing father beareth the sucking-childe unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers THe Deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt that iron furnace and the conducting of them through the wildernesse unto the land of Canaan is so famous and remarkable an history that many after-deliverances given unto the Church of God are described allusively to this Thus the bringing out of Babylon temporall The rescuing of the Church out of Babylon spirituall is set down with words relating to this grand mercy yea it is made typicall of that great redemption purchased by Christs bloud For this is a peculiar thing to Gods word that not onely words but things themselves do signifie onely we must not make a type or allegory but where the holy Ghost giveth ground lest wee should have tot sacramenta quot ingenii acumina as was said of Origen as many mysterious notions as men have fancies This History therefore will serve for our Meridian and there is scarce any Kingdome or Church but they have had their Egypts their Pharaoh's their bricks to make and God in great mercy doth sometimes raise up some Moses's and Aarons for them providing a land of Canaan as the comfortable issue of their former labours The slavish and miserable condition of the Israelites is related Exod. 2. as also Gods pitie to them in most emphaticall words ver 24 25. hee heard their groaning remembred his covenant looked upon them and had respect unto their cause This heap of words doth expresse after the manner of men the great affection and bowels of God to help though this was delayed to very extremity according to that known saying Quando duplicantur lateres venit Moses Now after the people of Israel had been freed from this bondage instructed in the will of God covenanted obedience with him seen his wonderfull power injoyed his mighty presence so that they could not be more safe then they were under his protection not more free then they were under his lawes not more rich then they were under his provision yet in this Chapter begins a narration of their manifold mutinies against God and their faithfull governours so true is that Subditis semper gravis est praesens status and Vulgus est semper querulum not knowing how to bear either their miseries or their remedies The first mutiny seemeth to be for their long march ver 1. whereupon a fire from the Lord consumed them It is to be observed that in all their former rebellions before the Law was given except that of the Calfe God never punished them but since the Law given hee punished them severely This was say some to shew the nature of the Law that it worketh wrath or because their sins committed after the Law given were against greater knowledge and ingagement The second mutiny begins ver 4. for I cannot be of their minde that make the former and this all one and this was occasioned first by the mixed multitude that was with them viz. the Egyptians and other nations and the plague upon them did quickly infect the Israelites They murmure because they have nothing but Manna and because this was a sacrament and a type of Christ and his graces their sin was spirituall as well as corporall whereupon Moses to shew their ingratitude taketh occasion to describe this Manna what it was The peoples rage and ingratitude putteth Moses into a sinfull passionate distemper though there was also good zeal in it The popish Interpreters make this zeal of Moses pure fire but that cannot be and instruunt Patriarchae etiam errantes the errours of the godly may teach as well as their piety That Moses his