A SEASONABLE SERMON FOR THESE TROVBLESOME TIMES Preached to the Right Worshipfull COMPANIE of the HABERDASHERS NOVEMB 23. 1641. In the Parish-Church of St. Mary Stainings in LONDON BY SAMVEL FAVVCET Pastor there Stirring up every one to lay to heart the Publique troubles and to doe what is in his power to remedy them ESA. 61. 1. For Zions sake will I not hold my peace LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Joh. Sweeting and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Angell in Popes-head-Alley neere Lumbardstreet 1641. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL THE MASTER WARDENS ALDERMEN ASSISTANTS And the rest of the Society of the HABERDASHERS THis Sermon Worthy Sirs is Dedicated to you because Preached by your appoyntment and now published through the importunity of many of you who heard it It was neither ability in the Author nor choysenesse in the Work that caused this Sermon to take so well among so many of you but the sutablenesse of the Subject to the present times and it may be the familiar plainenesse of the Sermon did worke much with some Ferrum potest quod Aurum non potest Iron may doe that which Gold cannot doe A blunt Sermon may by Gods blessing worke more upon the hearts of the hearers than that which is more acute and in it selfe more excellent as for other reasons so from the nature of the thing because most sutable to the most of hearers that which the understanding doth not reach cannot take the affections The Authour studyed not to please but to profit he prepared and delivered this plaine Sermon with a heart bleeding for the present troubles of our Israel and breathing after the publique peace and common good as the spirit of the whole Sermon shewes and he doth confesse that no importunity should have prevailed with him to have given it this unthought of second birth had he not beene withall prest unto it by his owne perswasion that that which was accepted being heard may being published doe good to many who heard it not Some little is added in a place or two which was prepared but through want of time was omitted in the delivery What ever it is Worthy Sirs it is yours if you please to owne it and so is the Authour of it yours who desires to be reckoned among those who respect and honour you and pray for you and acknowledgeth himselfe your debtor for many favours and rests Your Worships ever in the Lord SAMVEL FAVVCET A SEASONABLE SERMON FOR THESE TROVBLESOME TIMES PSALME 25. 22. Deliver or redeeme Israel O God out of all his troubles THE Ministers of God though they may not be time-servers yet they may and ought to be time-observers speaking their words in due season to that purpose Right Worshipfull and well-beloved Fathers and Brethren ye being by Gods gracious providence here met and presenting your selves at this time as members of a publique Societie and that Society one chiefe branch of this great Citie and this Citie a principall part of the common bodie of this whole Land I looking upon you in this your publique relation shall endeavour at this time to quicken in you publique affections and raise up in you publique spirits to seeke the common good and lay to heart the common cause and I know there is none of you such a stranger in Israel but considering the present state of things and face of the times will acknowledge this subject seasonable and this Text full and pertinent for my purpose Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles In which words I shall consider 1. The partie whose good and welfare is laid to heart Israel 2. The meanes used to procure Israels good and welfare viz. prayer deliver Israel O God 3. The mercy craved in behalfe of Israel delirance from troubles from many troubles Deliver or redeeme Israel O God out of all his troubles I begin with the first of these the party whose good and welfare is laid to heart Israel Israel signifieth a prevailer with God a name first given to Jacob and from him to that whole Nation that sprang of him sometimes the name doth relate to the Church of Israel sometimes to the civill state of Israel Sometimes to both and so here in this place this Text is for substance the same with that prayer of David Psalme 51. 18. Doe good in thy good pleasure unto Sion build thou the wals of Jerusalem make up Lord those sad breaches that are made both in Church and Common-wealth So here in the Text Lord finde a way to ease thy people of their many pressures to quiet the many and publique troubles that are amongst us Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles The Prophet David having throughout the whole Psalme put up many great petitions for himselfe and his owne particular and personall concernements now he endeth and closeth the Psalme with this zealous petition for the common cause as if he had said Lord how ever it fares with mee doe well to thy Church and people how ever my cause speeds let the common cause prosper though I should have all granted that I have asked for my selfe yet that would not satisfie me without it may be well with Israel the publique troubles trouble me most therefore deliver not onely David but also Israel O God out of all his troubles Now this disposition and affection which appeares here in this holy man to the common good is the same which is and ought to be in all true Israelites in all the people of God and that shall be my first Observation from these words which I propound thus Doctr. 1 Observ. It is the duty of every one to stand well affected to the common good of the Church and state wherein he lives First I say it is the dutie of every one be he high or low rich or poore of what ranke and condition soever Magistrate Minister private person every one that hath any relation to Israel Secondly it is his duty to stand well affected to the common good that is first in his mind highly to esteem it above all his owne private concernements secondly in his will and affections to desire it earnestly to rejoyce in it heartily to mourne for the want of it deepely thirdly in his actions to endeavour it zealously to studie it speak for it plead for it to labor every way possible to promote it This is to stand wel affected Thirdly To the Common good both of Church and State Israel in my Text includes both they are both one and the same Israel so neere allied that the same men are the subject of both though under a diverse notion the Church and Civill state of Israel doe reciprocally imbrace one another like twins the State defends and upholds the Church and Religion and the Church blesseth and upholds the State as the Widow maintained the Prophet and the Prophet the Widow if it goe ill with the one the other cannot thrive
that are committed in the middest thereof How few how cold how formall are our Prayers for a happy successe of those great affaires that are in hand How little doe we in these stirring times towards the carrying on of the great worke of Beformation We are ready to cal unto the great Assembly of State Lords Knights Gentlemen helpe us for the Lords sake helpe us now by your wisdome by your courage by your counsell helpe to settle our Peace to make up our breaches to prevent our dangers or we are undone And those Worthies and Heads of our Tribes on the other side are readie to cry backe againe to us doe you helpe too or we can doe nothing the worke is too heavy for us we find great rubbes in our way while we are labouring the publique good great Mountaines which we can neither remove nor leape over we are at a stand helpe by your strong cries and strivings in Prayer to God for us that he would open a way or we cannot helpe the present dangers are beyond the skill of the wisest Pilots unlesse God himselfe allay the windes and stormes which arise still more and more unlesse God helpe us to cast overhoord those Jonasses which are yet too hard for us all our rowing and tugging cannot bring the Ship to land all will miscarrie when we have toyled our selves to the utmost Beloved this is the voyce of those who sit at the Helme the voyce of our Parliament-worthies and yet how many of the people of this Land yea of this City are still asleepe and will not heare this voyce nor be affected with the present dangers nay how many amongst us are so farre from helping our Parliament-Worthies in their promoting the common good that they doe what they can to hinder them by slighting their persons depraving their actions mis-judging of their intentions dis-regarding what they propound what they order pulling backward all they can not affording them a good word for all their paines and care and cost and hazarding daily their very lives for the publique safetie yet how little all this is regarded by many and how ill requited I cannot speake without griefe and shame the Lord lay not this sin to our charge Those people are farre from promoting the publique good who doe what they can to dis-hearten and discourage those who are promoting it That for reproofe Vse 3 Let us now in the last place be exhorted and perswaded for Gods sake for our owne sake for the Churches sake for the Kingdomes sake for Posterities sake now at length to looke about us and see which way it is possible for any of us to contribute any helpe to the common cause and let us set about it considering that all our private concernements will be losse if the publique miscarrie O that great men in publique place and Noble men would shew Noble Spirits and with good Nehemiah improve all their greatnesse and interest at Court for the publique good O that all the representative bodie of the Kingdome would shew themselves more and more to be men of publique aimes we may pray for the publique cause they can speake for it plead for it act for it Oh that every one of them would consider what they are intrusted with Me thinkes not one of them should dare to betray that trust but rather hazard all in a faithfull discharge of it as Hester did If I perish I perish it is the cause of God of Religion of the whole Kingdome it is better to doe worthily and perish for a Kingdome than unworthily and perish with a Kingdome And you worthy Citizens especially who are in any publique place take to you publique spirits This Citie is truely said to be the looking-glasse for the whole Kingdome to dresse it selfe by the whole Kingdome hath from time to time beene beholding to you both for your helpe and for your example Ye being a great and verie considerable bodie may doe much much to discourage the common enemies much to encourage our Parliament-Worthies by your countenance and concurrence of your mindes and hearts with them by your assistance by your strength by your purses Yee have done much alreadie we blesse God for you and we blesse you in the name of the Lord and the Lord blesseth you and will blesse you be not wearie of well-doing Now Ireland calls for your helpe the fire is begunne there and who knows whether it may burne if it be not timely quenched those Romish Ignatians and antichristian brood have begunne that fire there who doubtlesse are blowing the coales at this time here amongst us also Well God hath brought all their mischievous designes upon their owne heads hitherto and I am confident so he will still but yet we must do our dutie everie one must bestirre himselfe and bring his bucket of water towards the quenching of this common flame especially sith no man is so meane and weake but he may contribute something towards this great worke If he cannot lend a pennie he may give a Subsidie of Praiers towards the taking off of Israels troubles and that is the second Generall observed in the Text We have considered the partie whose good and welfare is laid to heart Israel I come now to consider the meanes used to procure Israels good and welfare it is Prayer Deliver Israel O God Hence Doctr. 2 The second Observation ariseth thus Though every man cannot helpe forward the publique good every manner of way yet every man may and ought to doe it by Prayer A man must endeavour to helpe Israel out of troubles by the use of all the lawful meanes which God hath put into his hands every way he can but whether hee can helpe any other way or no yet hee must Pray this is an universall indispensable dutie charged upon all orders rankes and conditions of men 1. Kings and Magistrates must command and rule for the common good but they must Rule and Pray 2. Statesmen must consult and set their heads on work to study the common good but they must consult and Pray 3. Ministers must Preach and spend themselves in the common service but they must Preach and Pray 4. Souldiers must fight and offer themselves willingly for the defence of their Country but they must Fight and Pray 5. Rich men must Contribute and open their purses freely when the common cause calls for it but they must Contribute and Pray 6. Lastly He that can do none of these things neither Command nor Advise nor Preach nor Fight nor Contribute yet he must Pray none are exempted from paying this Subsidie of Prayers as there is no impossibility in the thing it may be done of all so there is a necessity it must bee done of all a double necessity 1. Necessitas praecepti all are commanded to pray Pray for the peace of Jerusalem 2. Necessitas medii there is no meane to be used that can bee successefull to helpe Israel out of
experience showes that the ruine of Civill States proves the ruine of Churches and decay of Religion and the ruine of Churches and decay of Religion proves the ruine of Civill states When Christ had removed the Candlestickes from Epbesus from Smyrna from Laodicea c. those famous Cities were quickely laid in tho dust Therefore the Doctrine saith That it is the duty of every one to stand well affected to the common good both of the Church and State wherein be lives Religion admits not of that distinction betweene a good man and a good Citizen it is impossible that he should be a good Common-wealthsman who is not a true friend unto the Church nor can he be a good Church man who is not a true friend to the Common-wealth as there is no trusting of that man to be true in his Religion who is not true in his Loyaltie so there is no trusting of that man to be true in his Loyaltie who is not true in his Religion These things being thus explicated I come now to the proofe of the point and here first it were easie to bring forth variety of examples of godly persons of all conditions whose pulses have continually beate towards the common good sometimes endeavouring it sometimes rejoycing in it sometimes bewailing the want of it sometimes praying for it sometimes preferring it before their owne private concernments yea before their owne lives I will instance in two or three examples instead of all Looke on Moses a publique person indeed and a man of a publique spirit The people of Israel having sinned against God and provoked his wrath against them the Lord saith to Moses Let me alone and I will utterly consume this people and thou shalt lose nothing by it for I will make of thee a great Nation but how likes Moses this preferment upon these tearmes sde the verse following how he takes on Lord I beseech thee what ever becomes of me spare the people and doe them good God forbid that my honor greatnes shold be raised out of the common ruine Such a publique spirit also was in Mordicai when he was raised to high honour all his care was to improve all his preferment to the common benefit it is said that he sought the publique good and welfare of his people So Hester engaged all she had and all she was for the common good Remembring that she was raised to honour for that purpose that she might doe publique service What should I speake of David how doth he lament and mourne for the overthrow of Israel even in that battle wherein Saul and Jonathan were slaine though the Crowne came thereby to his owne head the joy for his owne gaine and honour was drowned in his griefe for the publique losse The truth is it hath alwaies beene the disposition of all the godly never to desire to rejoyce but with the joy of Gods people nor to be glad but with Gods inheritance as the Psalmist speakes but still to stand affected one way or other as it goes well or ill with the common cause and such a publique spirit should possesse us all and that for these reasons First In respect of God the people of God must tender Gods honour above all things and desire that God may be glorified Now God is most glorified and honoured in the world when his Church and Religion fiourisheth but the decay of Gods people is the decay of Religion the decay of Gods Worship an occasion of triumph to the adversary and of reproaching and blaspheming saying Where is now their God and therefore holy men when they begge of God for the common cause pleade thus Lord doe it for thine owne sake for thy names sake for thy glory sake Secondly in respect of others for my Brethren and Companions sake saith the Psalmist we are all members of the same body and members sympathize one with another and all with the whole body they are rotten members that feele no paine when the bodie is out of temper we ought not to minde every one his owne things but every one the things of others he is the best man who is most usefull and instrumentall to the common good the very Heathen could say so non nobis ipsis solum nati sumus c. we are not borne onely for our selves and Virbonus est commune bonum a good man is a common good the whole Neighborhood and Communitie is the better for him yea the whole Kingdome the whole world the better any man is the more ready he is to promote the common good Thirdly in respect of our selves Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee there is no true prospering but in the prosperity of Jerusalem in the publique weale the thriving of one member when the whole bodie pines as it is in nature monstrous so it cannot be in time lasting What folly and madnesse is it for a man at Sea to be decking and trimming up his owne private cabin and in the meane time take no care of saving the whole Ship which is in danger as the Lord said to Baruch Behold I am plucking up this whole Land and seekest thou great things to thy selfe seeke them not This is not a time to have our thoughts altogether taken up about our owne private and personall concernements when the publique cause lyeth a bleeding In this behalfe there is great reason we should have publique spirits and labour all we can the common good because every one of our private comforts or discomforts are involved in the publique weale or woe Hence is that charge Jer. 29. 7. Seeke the peace of the City wherein yee shall dwell that in the peace thereof ye may have peace and therefore Psalme 128. it is promised to a man that feareth the Lord as the very top and Crowne of all his comforts that he shall see Jerusalem in prosperity and peace upon Israel the blessings promised him before that his wife should be as a fruitfull Vine upon the walls of his house and his children like Olive Plants round about his table had beene but sad blessings without publique peace the publique flourishing of Church and State hath a great influence upon all our private affaires and so hath the publique woe and wracke By this time I hope ye are all satisfied That it is every mans duty to stand well affected to the common good both of the Church and Civill state wherein be lives and by all possible meanes within his reach to preferre it before his owne private concernements Now this Doctrine I shall apply by way 1. Of Conviction 2. Of Reproofe 3. Of Exhortation Vse 1 First this Doctrine convinceth of falsehood that malicious slander and reproach which hath beene cast upon Religion and Religious men by the devill and his instruments in all ages it hath beene the policy of the devill to labour to bring Religion into disgrace
with Princes suggesting that it is a disturber of the common peace a troubler of states It was so in Saint Paules time he was indeed a man of peace and prayeth in all his Epistles for all the Churches Peace be unto you and wisheth that they were even cut off that trouble them and cause divisions and rents among them and for the Civill state he every where presseth obedience to Kings and all in Authority yet he is traduced as a state-troubler and a raiser of sedition among the people So Christ himselfe is accused to be an enemie to Caesar as if his Kingdome and Caesars could not stand together So Jeremie a man of that publique spirit that he melted himselfe into teares for the common cause yet he is accused to be a conspirator against the State It was so with David though he had ventured his life for the common safety in that combate with Goliah yet Sauls flatterers present him to Saul as a man disaffected to the weale publique It was so with Elias a man who was indeed the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof yet he is charged to his face by Ahab to be the troubler of Israel It seemes it is the genius of Religion to be thus scandalized in all ages but the truth is Religious men are the best Common-wealthsmen as this Doctrine hath proved and best friends to the Church and state wherein they live the very supporters and holders up of Kingdomes they who are not onely peaceable in the Land but peace-makers and peace-procurers from the God of Peace and yet as leud people beget bastards and then lay them at other mens doores so the incendiaries of the world who like the Sea cannot be quiet but are enemies unto peace raise commotions and combustions in states and then lay the fault on them who least deserve it It was so in Hamans time he was the great kindle-coale himselfe and yet see how he accused the poore people of the Jewes who lived quietly There are a rebellious people amongst us saith he who will not obey the Kings Lawes and it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them No doubt it did exceedingly grieve Mordecai and the rest of the Jewes to lie under such an aspersion but God found a time and meanes to cleare their innocencie and to discover the grand troubler and peace-breaker as the story showes And so God will in his good time finde out all Church and statetroublers who stand in the gappe indeed but in a bad sense to keepe it from closing and to make the breach wider It was said of some of the Counsellers of Aurelian that by them the good and honest Emperour who might know nothing but what they pleased to informe him was even bought and sold So many good Princes well inclined by their owne naturall dispositions are often infinitely abused by false suggestions and many times learne at last by sad experience who be their true friends and who their enemies in the meane time all that are true-hearted Israelites must commit their cause to God and labour not by words onely but by deeds to convince the slanders of their adversaries That it is possible for some men to carry foule hearts under painted habits and pretend Religion and intend rebellion none will deny but Religion hath no principles of sedition or rebellion in it but all that are taught of God are alwayes friends to the publique good that which runnes most in their mindes is the welfare of Israel Vse 2 In the second place this Doctrine may reprove diverse sorts of men First Those base and unworthy spirits who as if they were borne onely for themselves live onely to themselves make onely themselves the center of all their aimes and actions have no publique thoughts publique endeavours seeke not at all the publique welfare but the feathering of their owne private nests is their utmost end some there are who minde not the publique cause at all they care not what dammage come to the weale publique so they may sucke to themselves thereby some private advantage nay some care not though whole Kingdomes be set on fire so they may warme themselves by the flames thereof Secondly those also are to be reproved who though they be not actors in the common hurt yet are abettors or at least not opposers How many men in place and authority have thereby opportunity to stop much evill and to doe much good for the common cause if they had hearts but they have no courage for the truth as the Prophet speakes men can appeare for themselves and appeare for their friends but not for God or for the publique cause O that men would beleeve that neutrality in this case is all one with opposition Curse ye Meroz curse the Inhabitants thereof because they come not forth to helpe silence is not alwayes consent but when we ought to speake it is when God sets a man in place and gives ability and offers him opportunity to show himselfe in a good cause then and there for a man to doe nothing is to doe evill and to make himselfe guilty of all the hurt that possibly might have been prevented if hee had done what was in his power to doe This may be applyed to every one whom God hath called to any publique imployment and given opportunity unto to doe any publique service if ye doe not for the Church for the Common-wealth what ye may doe ye betray it and what ever hurt the troublers of Israel doe whom ye have not to your power opposed will be set upon your score Thirdly This reproofe may yet be brought downe lower even to men of private condition wee heard that even such ought to have publique spirits and not minde onely their owne things but the publique cause But how many among us even in these stormie and tumultuous times when the whole ship of Church and State is in danger to be drowned how many of us like Jonah are asleepe still and minde nothing lay nothing to heart put to no hand to helpe the common cause Alas ye will say we stand low what can we doe I tell you every one of you may and ought to doe something for the common cause as the Master of the ship said to Jonah what meanest thou O sleeper arise call upon thy God that we perish not We are all busie and is this a time for thee to sleepe doe something to helpe if thou canst not sit at the sterne nor handle the ropes and tacklings nor mannage the Oares yet thou mayest pray at least call upon thy God that we perish not What a sad thing is it to consider that though the dangers of Church and State are at this time so great that the greatest wisedome in the Kingdome knowes not where to begin to set about the cure yet how few lay any thing to heart How few mourners are there in Jerusalem for all the abominations
have hearts to pray for Israel we may by writing after these Copies learne the Art how to doe it in a manner acceptable to God and comfortable to our owne soules and advantagious to the common cause which we intercede for And thus I have done also with the second thing observed in the Text the meane used to procune Israels good and welfare viz. Prayer Deliver Israel O God I should now come to the third generall of the Text the mercy prayed for in behalfe of Israel Deliverance from troubles from many troubles and hence we may observe that Doctr. 3 3. Observ. The Israel of God Churches and States professing true Religion may be molested with troubles with many troubles This is no new thing as were easie to shew as also the reasons of it but time will not suffer I will here onely acquaint you with some of the troublers of Israel that ye may take heed that none of you be of that number and that ye may the better know how to direct your Prayers to God for Israels reliefe I passe over here the troublers of Israel from without and will onely touch upon such as may harbour within Israels bosome First Evill Magistrates are troublers of Israel the Scripture saith so My Father hath troubled Israel saith Jonathan 1 Sam. 14. 29. Thou art he that troubleth Israel saith Elias to Ahab 1 King 18. 18. If the pillars of Church and Common-weale bee out of frame the foundations out of course if the great wheeles which move all goe wrong if Authority discountenance Religion violate Lawes if injustice and oppression be in the seate of Judgement this must needs trouble Israel That must needs be a miserable State where wickednesse is got into high places and the waters are troubled and mudded at the Fountaine-head when there is no helpe to be got by appeale but the higher a man goes the worse it is as the Prophet Jeremy complaines that it was in his time hee could not finde a man in Place and Authority who executed judgement a hard case he found the inferiour ranke nought and hee saith I will get me to the great men and he findes them worst of all Jer. 5. 1. 4. 5. Therefore when ye pray for the reliefe of Israels troubles pray that God would make Kings nursing Fathers and Queenes nursing Mothers unto his Church pray that God would restore our Judges as at the first and our Counsellers as at the beginning pray that judgement may runne downe as waters and Righteousnesse as a mighty streame that Justice may bee executed for so long as Agags are spared Jonasses not throwne over boord Achans not brought forth and stoned Israel must looke for troubles Secondly As evill Magistrates so evill Ministers are troublers of Israel Church-men may be State-troublers I need not tell you that the world sees it how some men who say they are in holy Orders may have a great hand in putting all things out of Order I will not inlarge my selfe in this complaint it is in all your mouthes my part is as my Text guides me to put you in minde to turne this complaint into a Prayer that God would purge the Sonnes of Levi that from the Prophets of Jerusalem profanenesse may no longer goe forth over all the Land that they who should be studying to save Soules may not busie themselves about troubling States and Kingdomes Pray that God would send forth faithfull Labourers into his Harvest and provide a burning and shining Light for every Candlesticke of this Land if the Gospell of Peace were well Preached throughout the Kingdome it would be a singular meanes to settle and maintaine the Peace of the Gospell Thirdly I must yet further put you in minde of other troublers of Israel the Pope and his adherents all Jesuited papists and their abetters are arch Church-troublers and State-troublers and ever were And so long as these Canaanites live among us and hold up their heads let us never looke for peace Is it peace Jehu saith Joram the answer is What peace So long as Idolatrie is countenanced in Israel Have we not found by experience this Antichristian and Babylonish sect to be alwayes enemies unto Peace and fomenters of division betweene King and people Kingdome and Kingdome What a sad thing is it to thinke that this generation of Vipers which have so often stung us should yet be nourished in our bosomes shall they lodge there till they eate out our hearts Sic notus Vlysses Will we beleeve nothing untill their knives be at our throates and their swords in our bowels pardon my zeale in this behalfe it is the cause of God and the common cause I would they were cut off that trouble you saith Paul and yet he was no uncharitable man Mercy to them is cruelty to the whole Kingdome it hath proved so hitherto Yee know what a fire this generation of men have now kindled in Ireland they are blowing the coales here and God knowes how soone the flame may breake out I heare sometimes in this City some men cry out vehemently against Puritans puritans what monsters they are and some amongst us say they had rather side with Papists than Puritans I beseech you let mee speake freely I am not yet learned enough to interpret the meaning of that word Puritan I know that with that staffe the prophane world beates all that are better than themselves I would be loth to countenance the intemperancies and wilde courses of a froward Generation amongst us who shame the Religion they pretend unto of whom more presently but yet I would desire that reasonable men would consider whether partie they had rather trust their throates with if it should come to that the Papists or the Puritans and whether partie hath been greater plotters against States and Kingdomes Fourthly I doe not yet deny but that there are troublers of Israel on that other hand also such as professe a strict way of Religion yet walke not according to the Rules of Religion some despise Authority contemne Lawes disturbe common Order runne out of ranke Some in these daies usurpe upon the Office of the Ministery uncalled to the great offence of Authoritie and hinderance of the Reformation in hand Some usurpe upon the Office of the Magistrate who being private men take upon them to be publique Reformers not knowing of what spirit they are nor considering in what Station God hath set them Doubtlesse many things are amisse in Church and Common-weale and it becomes every one to the utmost of his power to promote the desired Reformation but in a right way and due Order every one must consider not only what is fit to be done but what is fit for him or one in his place to doe lest instead of making up of the breach we prove makers of breaches as it fell out in the case of Vzzab Fifthly I must also bring into this Catalogue of troublers of Israel the