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A84751	Foure speeches delivered in Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October, 1643. At a common-hall, vpon occasion of desiring the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this warre. / Viz. the [brace] 1. by Mr. Solicitor. 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy. 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes. 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick. Published according to order.	Gardiner, Thomas, Sir, 1591-1652.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing F1671; Thomason E338_1; ESTC R200837	38,460	48

remember in this Ordinance of Parliament you call it Advance money It is called an Ordinance to advance money towards the maintaining of the Parliaments forces and truly it is the highest advance of money to make money an instrument to advance my Religion the Lord give you hearts to beleeve this You shall have the Faiths of both Kingdoms ingaged in this Cause the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England and surely the Publique Faith of Scotland will secure the Publique Faith of England I speak now of secondary causes through Gods blessing I am informed by the Commissioners of Scotland that the Nation of Scotland are now taking the Covenant that wee took the last Lord● day in this City And you know that a Scotch Covenanter is a terrible thing you know what mighty things they did by their last Covenant you know that the name of a Covenanter the very name of it did doe wonders And I am assured by them that there is not one person in the Kingdom of Scotland that is not a Covenanter and there shall not one abide among them that will not take this Covenant and there shall not one of those 21000 that are to come over in this Cause not one of them shall come that will not take this Covenant but they must take this Covenant before they come O that the consideration of these things might work up your hearts to a high degree of Charity to a superlative degree and that the Lord would make you more active and more liberall in this great Cause For my part I speak it in the name of my self and in the name of these 〈◊〉 Ministers wee will not only speak to perswade you to contribute but every one of us that God hath given any estate to wee will all to our utmost power wee will not only say it● but v●●ite wee will not only speak to you to lend but every one of us as wee have already lent so wee will lend to our utmost power and blesse God that wee have it to lend for indeed it is now a time of action and not of speaking only because it is an extraordinary businesse therefore here is an extraordinary appearance of so many Ministers to encourage you in this Cause that you may see how reall the godly Ministery in England is unto this Cause The Gospel it is called a Pearl of price by our Saviour Christ and I hope all you Merchants will part with your goodly pearls to buy this pearl of price You Tradesmen the Gospel is called a Treasure hid in the field so our Saviour Christ calls it I hope you will bee willing to part with your earthly treasures to preserve this blessed treasure that is hid in the field you have parted with some goodly pearls already I hope you will part with your other goodly pearls There is an excellent Story of one Nonlu● a Roman Senator that had a pearl that hee did prize above his life and when Anthony the Triumvir one that was then in great power when hee sent to N●nius to have the pearl hee would not send it him and hee told him that if hee would banish him hee would bee willingly banished so hee might save his pearl if hee would take away his life hee would dye with his pearl hee did not regard his Countrey so hee might have his pearl hee regarded nothing so hee might have his pearl but hee would not part with his pearl what ever hee parted withall This pearl it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that you have professed in this City and I hope you have professed it with power and certainly you have the name of those that have professed the Gospel in the greatest purity of any under heaven This pearl is this Gospel I hope you will part with all willingly and cheerfully rather than part with the Gospel though you goe to prison carry the Gospel with you nay though you lose your lives ●t shall bee with the Gospel and for the Gospel I hope so There is one Argument more and then I have done and that is from the inveterate hatred they have at Oxford against the City of London and against you for your good because you have been so well-affected to this Cause Gentlemen I beseech you give mee leave that am no Statesman not acquainted with the affaires of policy yet give mee leave to put you in minde of this that surely the plundering Army at Oxford conceive that they shall finde a great treasure here in the City though many pretend they have no money Though certainly you have done well and lent much yet the plundering Army give out that if they get possession of the City they shall finde a treasury to bee able to pay all they have been at And if ever you should bee driven which God forbid to make your peace it would cost you twenty times as much then to procure your peace and such a peace it may bee that would bee rather a Warre than a Peace and a death better than that peace which now you may have for a very little a most happy Peace There is a famous story of Zelimus Emperour of Constantinople that after hee had taken Aegypt hee found a great deal of treasure there and the Souldiers came to him and asked him what shall wee doe with the Citizens of Aegypt for wee have found a great treasure among them and wee have taken their Riches O saith hee hang them all up for they are too rich to bee made slaves and this was all the thanks they had for the riches they were spoyled of And it may be● though some of you that stand neute●● or some of you that are dis-affected to the Cause of the Parliament may think that if the Lord for our sins should give up this City unto the Army that is with the King you may think that you shall escape yet bee assured that youngoods will bee Roundheads though you bee not your goods will bee Gybalins though you bee Gwel●s as 〈…〉 is Certainly there will bee no distinction in the plundering of your goods between you and others and therefore let mee beseech you that as the Lord hath made you instruments to doe a great deal of good already for indeed you are the preservers of our Religion and you are the preservers of our Parliament by your liberality and by your former contributions and by your assistance and the Lord hath made you mighty instruments of our good let mee beseech you that you would persevere and now wee are come to the Sheat Anchor wee are now come to the last cast I beseech you you would persevere and hold out and O that my words might adde somewhat to help forward this contribution It hath pleased God to make mee a setled Ministery in this City and I have now been here almost five yeers in this City and though I had never done any good in my place I should now think it a great

one of the best Fathers true Religion is What you lay out to preserve it that one day will returne to preserve you I have ever thought our Religion to be our shield and as he said of his shield so Religion will say to you Defend me and I will defend you It is our shield why preserve your shield you preserve your selfe O that this large Auditory would but remember two or three things that I will speake unto you It is better Friends to keep your Religion with the expence of all you have then to keep all you have with the losse of one dram of Religion and if you should quit the preservation of Religion you shall lose in the event both Religion and your selves too There will be a double losse you may perhaps for the present be at a double cost to keep up Religion but you shall be at a treble losse if you lose Religion you shall lose your lives you shall lose the estates that you keep and you shall lose your soules too and if any thing keeps you it is Religion For if any thing keeps God that keeps all it is the keeping of Religion Now Sirs a● this argument besides al that 〈…〉 for in truth they have left me almost naked that I have nothing to say as this argument may revive those affections that have been stirred up already so methinkes if you looke but upon the very condition of the Church this day I professe unto you it will break your hearts and therefore may certainly open your purses this day Why friends if I am able I may not deny no not one day nor the second day nor the third day nor any time I must not deny to help a poor Lazarus I must not see Lazarus to starve and die at my doores if that I am able to helpe a poore Christian Why if my bowells must extend themselves i● 〈◊〉 helpe must extend it selfe to one Christian how shall I how can I see the Churches of Jesus Christ for to gaspe and give up the Ghost at the feet of bloud There are two sorts of bloud which will lye heavie upon my soule if that I should suffer the guilt of them to be upon my soul there is the bloud of Christ and the bloud of the Churches of Christ If Abel● bloud the bloud of a single person was so heavie upon ●ain what will the bloud of 〈◊〉 Church of all the Churches of Christ let downe upon our fonts if we should now falle to help the Churches of Christ But if there were no other 〈…〉 with you but onely something that might concerns your selves I professe as I am satisfied in my owns Spirit so I am p●rswaded it were enough to perswade you Why Friends you have done already I speak not to flatter you you 〈…〉 already more then all the land hath done even to the preservation of all the Land nay more then all the Christian world hath done to preserve the Cause of Christ And let me tell you that God hath not been behinde hand with you God hath looked upon you as much I meane this City God hath looked upon this City 〈…〉 if not more then upon all the land besides And ●ruly if you will cast east up all accounts betwixt God and your selves though you have done very much yet you are in arre●s ages still unto God God is still before-hand with mercies though in mercy he hath stirred up your hearts to doe thus These are three things methinks wherein the Lord hath shewed himselfe to you that may for ever engage your hearts with all alacrity to spend and to be spent for his cause Why the one is he never would to this day suffer the destroyer notwithstanding all their intentions he would never suffer the destroyer to enter into this City he hath still diverted them as you have observed by some admirable acts of providence when their resolutions have been to come to this place the Lord knowes in what condition you had been by this day if providence had not at one time especially diverted them from it but notwithstanding all this God hath not suffered them to this day to shoot one arrow into your City But then there is another thing as the Lord hath not to this day suffered them to come in a publike hostile way so he hath from time to time discovered all the Treacheries Plots and designes against you When the enemy could not destroy you above board but thought to undermine your Lives and States and all I need not say much to revive your memories of late dayes did God unknowne to you deliver you from destruction and should you now be backward to doe for this God that hath preserved all that you have and all that you are Nay consider one thing more he hath in all the publike services wherein indeed if any people in the Land deserve our acknowledgements and honour this City hath got it from the whole Land But this is that I was saying God hath in all the publike Services and Battails which have of late been fought in the land God hath hanged the shield of salvation upon your shoulders he hath been pleased to cast all the glory not onely of preservation but of the great successe and honour and victory God hath cast it upon the people of London And will you that God hath defended all this while will you that God hath preserved from secret treachery will you that God hath given hearts all this while to stand for God above all the people of the earth will you that God hath done so much for in the times of battaile more then for all the rest wil you fail now to do for God God forbid I beseech you rather that your hearts may be doubled and trebled for that God that is so good to you And not to trouble you long because the truth is I am confident there needs no more to be said you long rather who should most shew his affection at this time to preserve all Why there is one thing more that might bee spoken too that is touching our brethren of Scotland Why so many things have been said already that I can say nothing Our condition worthy Sirs our condition of England mee thinks it is so like the condition of that poore man that went between Jericho and Jerusalem there the Priest hee passes by on the one side never so much as lookes upon him Our Priests and Popish party and another sordid party that cleaves to them they doe not so much as consider the lamentable losse of this poore Kingdom of England the Levite he came and looked on indeed but hee passes by I pray God it ●ee not laid to the charge of some Churches abroad to whom wee have been helpfull that they can have eares to heare of our distresses and wounds but have not hands at all to help us whether they have tongues to pity us wee know not Onely there is the Samaritan Sirs the Samaritan that saw this wounded man and that had compassion and that went to him and that bound up his wounds and that powred in Oyle and Wine Truly Sirs the Samaritans that wee finde on earth for our great Physitian in Heaven wee blesse him still for looking upon us but the Samaritans the onely Samaritans that wee have on earth they are our brethren in Scotland O the tears that they have shed for poore England O the Prayers that they have in solemn manner from time to time sent up to Heaven for poor England O the Petitions that they unknown for a long time to us did direct unto his Majesty if it had been possible to take up all differences and now yet again as if their inward compassions as if their prayings to Heaven as if their petitionings to man were nothing so sensible so affectionate are they to live with us to dye with us that they are ready to come in to adventure their dearest lives to save our lives Why Friends why what will move your hearts if this doth not move your hearts I doe professe it is the greatest equity under heaven to lend our estates some of our moneys to them that are not unwilling to venture their lives for us I know many Objections might bee made You have done much already and the summe is great I say no more There is nothing great to a minde that is great and the Cause is great and though the summe of money bee great yet their love is greater then all you can lay out to answer their love And say not grumbling wee have done often and often I say to you as Christ said to him that asked him How often must I forgive my brother Why 70 times 7 times So will I say for this publique Cause you must doe and you must doe and yet you must doe and yet you must doe as long as there is a penny in thy purse as long as there is strength in thy hand as long as there is breath in thy body you must bee all Servants to Christ and Servants to the Churches of Jesus Christ And so I beseech the God of Heaven that what hath been delivered unto you this day and much hath been spoken I think as much as possibly can unto men that it may bee effectuall to move your hearts that what is done may bee speedily done and fully done lest wee bee for ever undone Nay that wee may bee preserved and not only wee but all the Churches of God preserved And the Lord of Heaven make impression upon your hearts FINIS