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A29931	The wicked mans plot defeated, or, The wicked man laughed out of countenance as it was represented in a sermon preached in St. Mary Wool-Church, London, May 11, 1656, by Thomas Baker.	Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More.; Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More. Gods provenance asserted in another sermon preached at St. Buttolphs, Aldergate, London.; Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More. Christs comming to judgement deciphered in a third sermon.	1656 (1656)	Wing B524; ESTC R28339	42,799	212

sumptuous or luxuriant as beeing furnished with nothing but a Carkass Come we now to take a view of the Gu●sts whom yet wee may discern to bee very Noble as being no worse then Princes of which Eagles in their General Notion of Eagles just reason wee look upon as proper Emblems Which is the first Notion wherein we are to contemplate these Guests the Notion of Eagles Wheresoever the Cark●ss is there the Eagls will be gathered together You have already had an intimation that by the Eagles the Saints are hee●e intended Now fo● the Proof of this supposition what Lineaments of Resemblance between the one and the others countenances are to be discovered will not bee unworthy the Expence of some of our Time and Paines for a Summary Enquiry First then Eagles we know are the Kings of Birds You have seene is the Lords own word to his People how I bare you on Eagls Wings Exod. 19. 4. The Pitch the Eagle flyeth at favoureth of a well-feathered Plume It is Potent Princely Royal. For which cause I finde that the Romans the greatest Potentates the Suns Eye ever beheld stil bore the Eagle in their Standard And such Eagls are the Saints The Prince of the Kings of the Earth saith St. Iohn hath made us Kings Apoc. 1. 6. And therefore that Gloss of Saint Greg. upon those words of Iob 36. of his Book 7. Hee withdraweth not his Eyes from the Righteous but with Kings are they on the Throne is well worthy our best Observation Reges sunt quia Tentationum suarum Motibus non consentiendo succumbere sed Regendo Praeesse noverant They are Kings saith he for that they tamely lye not down by con● senting unto temptations but know the way how to master and subdue them Brideling the Intemperance of their Appetites Cooling the Heat of their Lusts Beating down the Height of their Pride Curing the Itch of their Cove●i●e Startling them from the Lees of their Surquedry and plucking off the Disguise of their Hypocrisie and so in him that hath made them such being as the Apostle Rom. 8. 37. in all these more then Conquerours Secondly the Eagles have a property of Renewing themselves and Restoring their youth Making thee young and lusty as an Eagle saith the Kingly Prophet Psal. 103. 5. Now the way of this the Eagles Renovation is by Interpreters variously related St. Augustine would have this to be the manner that when by reason of their Age the upper part of their Beaks so far out-grow the Nether that they are now no longer able to open their Mouths and so for want of Food begin to langu●sh they get them to a craggy Rock against which striking off the excresc●cy of the upper part of their Beaks which hindred their Feeding they hereby enable themselves to Feed afresh and so recover their Youth and strength Athanasius giveth us an Account as of another Malady they labour of so of another Remedy they use for their recovery Caligantibus occulis when their Eyes grow Dim saith hee they drench themselves in a cold Fountain then expose themselves to the heat of the Sun beames whereby the Scales falling from their Eyes they recover their sight and youth Both these wayes of Renovation we shall do well to to take together and to apply to the Saints of God When the Excrescency of our worldly Desires and Carnal Lusts shall so entirely have deaded our spiritual Appetites that as David in another case Psal. 102. 4. we forget to eat our Bread when the Eyes of our understanding wee may finde too sensibly growne so Dim that we neither can nor will any longer discern those things that belong to our peace lest seeing with our Eyes and hearing with our Ears we should be converted and Healed as it is Isa. 6. 10. our parts it shall be to betake us unto the Rock Christ for so 1 Cor. 10. 4. I finde him expresly stiled to put off all manner Dulness and Deadness of the Old Man which is corrupt according to the Deceitful Lusts as it is Ephes. 4. 22. to bathe our selves thorowly in the Laver of unfeigned Repentance and then fixe the Eys of them steadily upon the Sun of Righteousness that Ariseth with Healing in his Wings as it is Mal. 4. 2. Looking unto Jesus saith the above praised Apostle the Author and Finisher ●f our Faith Heb. 12. 2. and so become Renewed in the Spirit of our Minds Ephes. 4. 23. Lastly not to stretch the strings of the Analogy so far as to endanger the cracking them Eagles as in part you have already had intimated Flye a great heighth from the earth a pitch above all other Birds Yea as Araun●h is said to give as a King unto the King 2. Sam. 24. 23. these Kings of Birds get them up near unto the King of Starres the Sunne by the undaunted and unmoved contemplation of whose Rayes they try the Legitimation of their young And this is that which Interpreters would have intended by that of Iob 39. of his Book above praised The Eagle Mounteth up and maketh he● Nest on high and her Eyes beh●ld a farre off The Sonnes of God are still in like manner yea in a far Higher manner Affected They contemplate not onely Christ the Sun of Righteousness but with the woman Apoc. 12. 1. they are clothed with him trampling the Moone in the meane time all earthly things as the Moon inconstant under their Feet And by this Test shall we do well to try our selves whether wee bee the Genuine Sons of God or no. So that then if our Affections shall appear wholly yea but principally set upon earthly things if the Dunghils of this world shall appear to be the Darlings of our souls nay if when the scorching beames of Persecution shall bee darting out from the Body of this Sun of Righteousness and so submit us to all manner sufferings for his sake like the children of Ephraim Psal. 78. 10. though Harnessed and carying Bowes we shall yet turn our Backs in in the Day of Battel chusing rather to become Proteusses of all shapes Came●ions of all colours yea like so many R●lypusses resolve still to be of the complexion of the Present Times rather then expose our Persons or Estates in the least measure to any Peril or Hazard we are as the Apostle Heb. 12. 8. in Down-right termes censured us Bastards and no Sons But what the Poet sometimes of Fame Ingrediturque solo caput inter Nubila condens If whilest as Pilgrims we are walking or rather as Prsmires crawling up and downe the Ant-heapes of this world our Conversation our Burgeship the strength of our Affection shall appear to bee in Heaven at least as a Line drawn through a Circle toucheth the Center but once but the Circumference twice if our hearts shall appear twice as much intent upon Heavenly as Earthly things nay if as Houses built upon Rockes wee shall cheerfully weather the most violent Gusts of all manner of Tribulation

Gravel unless it shall please the Lord to quicken these otherwise dead Meanes with a vertuous efficacy Yea he that is Agens Liberrimum of all Agents the Freest and so may indulge or deny Life when and where he pleaseth unto Means no reason that wee distrust but that without meanes above meanes against means he is able to provide for us without means He giveth light the three first Dayes without the Sun Gen. 1. 2. And causeth Herbs and Plants to Grow without Rain Gen. 2. 16. notwithstanding that either of these are the ordinary means of eithers production Above meanes Hee maketh a little Meal and Oyl to sustain the Widow and the Prophet for a long time 1 King 17. And the Brighthess of his Fathers Glory Feedeth no less then Five thousand Persons with no more then five Loaves and two Fishes Matt● 14. Against meanes The Israelites when they are stung with Fiery Serpents notwithstanding that the sight of Brass is naturally present death unto such as some of the learned Rabbius have observed are yet healed by the bare sight of the Brazen Serpents Num. 21. And Spittle and Clay things in themselves likely to put out the Eyes of him that seeth are yet by our Saviour used as a meanes for the Cure of the Man that is born blinde Ioh. 9. So that then just reason may this same Saviour of ours seem to have for ●is Answer to the Devil when 〈◊〉 the satisfaction of his Hu●●er in his extreme necessi●y he would have perswade● him to make Bread of stones Mat●h 4. Man liveth not by Bread onely but by every Word that proc●●●eth out of the mouth of God Yea and no less our Prophet here for the entituling of the Lord to the preservation of the young Ravens when their Parents which should by the Law of Nature afford them sustenance desert them And Feedeth the young Ravens In the mean time as the Philosopher by his immoderate disswasion of the fear of death occasioned some preposterou●ly and prematurely to cast away their lives and as some unskilful Physitians whilst they labor to comfort the stomack not seldome enflame the Liver I would not willingly have any so farre misconstrue me as to conceive that whilst I minde you of a necessity of Gods Blessing upon your endeavours I would work in you a careles neglect of the means as if his providence were a sufficient warrant to make you improvident or his working in your Actions a protection for your Oscitancy and Idlenes What Metellus sometimes spake of his many False Gods of our onely True God is most sure and certain I isdem Deos Propitios esse aequum est qui fibi non snnt Inimici He will be a Friend to those onely that are not Enemies to themselves That general resolution of the Spartans therefore just reason that every one of us in our several Stations take up Admotam manu Fortunam invocare first to pray to God for a Blessing upon our Designes and then to use the Meanes which God hath appointed to that purpose And as the Israelites do the Work with one Hand and hold the Sword with the other whilest they are Repairing the Temple Neh. 4. 18. with one of our Hands still are we to be conversant about the workes of our Calling whilest with the other we are lifting up the Sword of Prayer for a Blessing upon these workes of ours Naaman is assured by the Prophet that he shall be cured of his Leprosie yet must he go and wash in Jordan seven times 2. Kin. 5. Hez●kiah that hee shall recover of his sickness yet must hee apply a Bunch of Figs to his s●re ●●a 38. Paul that hee shall come 〈◊〉 to Rome but then may not any one of them that are embarqued in a fancied hope of safety forsake the Ship Act. 27. The summe is as we are not to lye sullen in a Ditch looking to be drawn out by others not so carelesly and retchlesly to cast our Care upon God as to neglect the Meanes which hee hath appointed so are we neither to be such Idolaters of second-Causes as to kiss our owne Hands to sacrifice to our own Nets no● to make our own Counsels or Endeavours the sole Ground of our Confidence which without a Blessing from the Highest cannot in the least measure avail us But as they say o● Quail● that whilest one of their Wings may perhaps be a little drenched in the Sea the other still beareth up towards Heaven whilest one of our Hands is solici●ously intent upon the workes of our Vocation still is the other to be l●●ted up to Heaven for a Benediction that we have such respect unto second Causes that st●ll we remember that the due ordering and disposing them commeth from the First that is here emidently said to Feed the young Ravens that call upon him To seal up this point in a word look how some exquisite picture of a Dear Friend which he hath left with us still upon sight thereof reneweth in us the Memory of him that left it in like manner ought every Blessing wee expect or enjoy Iupiter est quodcunque vides as in every of these clearly may wee discerne the Lineaments of such a picture still minde us as the Romish Church pretendeth to use her pictures of praising that God and praying unto him whose pictures they are ' Ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let God still have the first place in our Thoughts yea let him still by us be acknowledged what he proclaimeth himself to be Apoc. 1. 8. A and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sea from which the Source of all Blessings is originally derived upon us and unto whom therefore the Rivolets of our praise are Finally to return Laboret Superbus saith M. Aurelius in an Epistle of his to the King of Sicily Let the Proud and Envious travail as much as they will and the Ambitious sore as high as he can yet of little avail will all Humane Diligence at last appear without Divine Assistance So that then finde wee our Garners stored with plenty Our Bags stuffed with Coin Our Tables served with all manner of varieties And all things succeeding according to our h●arts desires Shall we now say as N●buchadnezzar Dan. 4. 30. Are not these the great Babels which I have built with the strength of mine own Arm No rather as good old Iacob Gen. 32. 10. a consideration the new upstarts of our times you may observe studiously to banish their Memories in Humility of Spirit acknowledge wee I am not worthy the least of thy Mercies with my st●ffe the staffe of a Despicable Fortune came I over this Jordan from this or that mean Beginning and now I am become two Bands I am arrived to this higth of condition Disclaim we whatever Power or Efficacy Flesh and Bloud may assume to it self and ascribe we unto God the Glory of what ever Blessings we enjoy Non nobis Domine non nobis Not unto us Lord not