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A81152	Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : shewed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their publike thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great successe of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing C752; ESTC R43612	28,502	54

he meaneth himself and they who had adhered to him in that cause I and my friends I and the Common-wealth of Judah I and they shall not die but live A good man never reckons his happinesse alone But how would David imploy that his present and promised felicity How would he bestow that life that prosperous life He doth not say I will now live merrily I will eat and drink and take my pleasure he doth not say I have got down mine enemies I will now as some perhaps slanderously reported him neglect my friends He doth not say I have got power over my opposers now I will use this power to oppresse whom I please David could easier have died or been miserable all his daies among his enemies then to have lived and prospered to these ends Once more He doth not say I shall not die but live to declare my own great works Now the world shall know how succesfull I have been in this warre the Nations round about shall hear what my Generals and Chieftains have done stories shall report to after ages what gallant men Joab and Abishai have been No here is no mention of Himself or of These his declaration runs all upon the works of God I am not dead but alive or I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. The summe of all is as if David had said I well perceive that the design of my enemies was to take away my life or at least the comforts of my life they thought a being in the world too much for me and they were resolved a wel being I should not have but blessed be God notwithstanding all their projects and oppositions I am not dead my life is whole in me still and my state is well mended my enemies have not had their wils on me either to tear my soul from my bodie or to violate the comforts of either I am not dead and more I am alive I and my friends I and they who have embark'd in the same cause and run the same adventures with me We all thrive and flourish we are alive and lives-like And me thinkes from the mountain of this my present felicity I look upon the mercies of many years to come my faith begins to prophesie and my spirituall prospective draws before me the blessings of many generations even blessings for the children yet unborn as I am not dead but alive so I shall not die but live God hath not given me into the hand of these men nor shined upon their counsels against me and now I am confident that he will not The sense and faith which I have of these things pleases me exceedingly but that which is most content full to me and the very project of my soul is that my life shall run out in the honouring of my God that these victories which he hath given me over mine enemies shall overcome me to his service that the greatest work of my reign shall be to make a declaration of what God hath wrought I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. I shall now draw out some particulars from the generall sense thus given And first take an Observation rising equally from either reading That the design of malicious enemies is the ruine of their opposers When David saith I am not dead but alive he intimates that the enemy sought his life or when he saith I shall not die but live he implies the enemy would still go on pursuing his life Jacob fore-saw no lesse danger from his malicious brother Gen. 32. 11. I fear him saith he lest he will come and smite me and the mother upon the children Queen Esther in the sixth of that book shews the malice of Haman acting thus high We are sold I and my people to be destroyed to be slain and to perish If we had been sold for bond-men and bond-women I had held my tongue though the enemy could not countervail the Kings damage but that 's not the thing which will satisfie Haman We are sold to be slain and to be destroyed It is a vexation to malice not to do it's uttermost Some of the Talmudists have observed that the devil was as much wounded with that restraint which God put upon him that he should not take away the life of Job as Job was with all the wounds which the devil inflicted upon his body See he is in thine hand but save his life The devil would have gone to life unlesse he had been stopt Malice hath no bounds and it keeps none but those which an insuperable hand prescribes or imposes The children of Edom are not contented with defacing the beauty with breaking down the battlements or uncovering the roof of Sion their cry is Rase it rase it even to the foundation thereof Psal 137. 7. As Antipathy is not against any one individuall but against the whole kinde so it is not against any one good of the individuall but against all kinde of good which he enjoyes Thus the Prophet describes the Babylonian cruelty against Jerusalem Jer. 51. 34. Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon hath devoured me he hath crushed me he hath made me an empty vessel he hath swallowed me up like a dragon he hath filled his belly with my delicates he hath cast me out By that time all the lusts of wicked men are served they sweep all away That as the Prophet speaks which the Palmer-worm leaves the locust eats and that which the locust leaves the canker-worm eats so we may say that which ambition leaves covetousnesse takes that which covetousnesse leaves cruelty takes that which cruelty leaves gluttony and drunkennesse take and that which gluttony and drunkennesse leave wantonnesse takes away till all 's gone Hence it is that the Lord is so severe against the enemies of his people Revel 16. 6. Thou hast given them bloud to drink for they are worthy they must drink bloud for nothing would satisfie them but bloud And Jer. 51. 35. the Church is prophesied imprecating like vengeance upon Babylon The violence done to me be upon Babylon shall the inhabitant of Zion say and my bloud upon the inhabitants of Caldea shall Jerusalem say And again O daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be who rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Psal 137. 8. In this glasse we may see the face of many of their hearts out of whose hands we rejoyce that we are delivered this day It is nothing but the want of power which hath hindered the execution of utmost rage And therefore where God giveth power what should stand between justice and the execution of it I would not blow up revenges but thus much I say It is as dangerous not to execute justice as it is to take revenge So much in generall from the design of Davids enemies it was death and ruine Take two notes from that reading I am not dead but alive First thus It is a mercy in times

He was ready to die with joy to hear that his son was not only not dead but alive in such an estate of honour This day is witnesse This solemn meeting is a proof That the Kingdom the Parliament of England the City of London do not only live but prosper Ye are not escaped only as Job speaks Chap. 19. 20. with the skin of your teeth but with your Ornaments and Honours with your riches and priviledges Ye have not only breath and a being but strength and a wel-being ye are encompassed with blessings and the Candle of God shines upon your heads Though as the Psalmist speaks Psal 66. 12. Ye have gone thorow much fire and water yet God hath brought you to a wealthy place Ye are not enjoying a life only a life within one step or degree of death but ye live your lives ye have a life that hath abundance of life in it such livelines such vigour your affairs have not had since these troubles began What the Oratour spake with indignation of Catiline a conspiratour against the peace of his countrey Vivit etiam in Senatum venit the man hath honour whose life is more then his due The same may I say with much gratulation of you Noble Patriots Vivitis etiam in Senatum venitis Ye live and ye live still like Senatours Your Honour is great in the salvation which God hath wrought Your Sunne rises in the West Your victories abroad are stupendious Your union which this daies apparance is a great demonstration of I say your union at home is pleasant and harmonious the Two Houses with each other both with the City concentring in this solemn duty I would say this from the sense of this great mercy Right Honourable seeing the Lord hath given you your lives for a prey and added prosperity to your lives let the cause of God not only live but prosper in the land Improve your utmost that Jesus Christ may have not only a being or a breathing in the land and in your lives but that he may raign live gloriously both in the Land and in your lives The Apostle Iohn in his 3d Ep. to Gaius wishes that his body might prosper even as his soul prospered My wish is that all your souls and all the affairs of souls may live and prosper as God hath caused your bodies and outward estates to live and prosper My wish is that all the Churches of Christ may live and prosper even as the Common-wealth prospers The Church of Christ is the soul of that Common-wealth where it is Many Common-wealths have prospered where Christ hath had no Church at all but I think there was never any Common-wealth that prospered where Christ had a Church if that Church did not live up in the same degree of prosperity that the Common-wealth did I mean if the Church had not a flourishing life in it's capacity according to the flourishing of the State wherein it lived I speak not of the Church under the old notion of the Church-men but I speak of the Church as comprehending all the Saints and servants of Jesus Christ all the faithfull in the Land let them all have not only a life but a comfortable life This will answer the mercy of God in giving the State not only a being but such a comfortable being as it hath at this day I know Right Honourable it was farre from your thoughts ever to have spoken like that Roman Tyrant If I must die let fire and earth mingle let all go to confusion if I must die let all the world die too I doubt not but you would have rejoyced though your own lives had been the price to have known that England should live it would have been your comfort that the foundations of mercy to a future generation had been surely laid though in your own ruines Though as Iudah pleads with Ioseph for the return of Benjamin Gen. 44. 30. I verily believe that the life of the Kingdom of England is bound up in the Parliament of England and when this dies that must in the notion here intended But I am sure ye are further off from the speech of that other Roman Tyrant who said Let fire and earth mingle so I may live and prosper so I may have what pleaseth me no matter what becomes of the rest of the world I know ye abhorre to think much more to resolve Now we live and prosper let fire and earth mingle let justice and oppression mingle let Christ and Belial mingle let truth and errour mingle let light and darknesse mingle let good and evil mingle let confusion and disorder appear in the face and live in the body of the whole Nation if they will Therefore as the Lord hath given us in this mercy that you are not dead but alive so let it be I humbly beseech you your care in answer thereunto that the work of God that all who fear God that the cause and people of God that the flook of Jesus Christ may not only not die but live prosperously with and under your Government I now come to the second reading our reading of the Text I shall not die but live So it is a voice of holy confidence and it yeelds this plain Observation That The experience of former mercies and successes is a ground of hope for future and continued mercies and successes Faith turneth this experience I am not dead but alive into this confidence I shall not die but live Hope is the first-born of experience Rom. 5. 4. The Apostle argues so 2 Cor. 1. 10. He hath delivered us from so great a death A great death all death in it self is of one size but the waies of death and the dangers of death are of different sizes and dimensions He hath delivered us from so great a death deadly dangers and he doth deliver us what of that And we trust that he will also deliver us What God hath done and doth is easily believed he will doe The people of Israel being got thorow the red Sea kept a day of Thanksgiving and we finde that they grew confident of getting into Canaan presently Exod. 15. 13 14. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation the people shall hear and be afraid sorrow shall take hold of the inhabitants of Palestina the Dukes of Edom shall be amazed c. Israel had set but a foot as it were beyond the red Sea and yet now they tryumph as if they had a footing in Canaan Was not Moses too forward in this and were not the people over confident No they had a just ground of hope that God would carry them thorow that Wildernesse because he had brought them thorow that red Sea David saw Goliah vanquished in the victory he obtained over a Lion and a Bear this uncircumcised Philistime shall be as one of them I beseech you let your faith

of those Heroes whom God hath used as their Saviours and Protectours Let them all receive and enjoy rewards both of honour and of bounty And let those by whom God is now acting and vvhose most memorable successes in action give the occasion of this dayes joy and solemnity be acknowledged and acknowledged thank't and thank't I am perswaded t' is both honour and reward enough to many of them that they do God and their countrey service but God requires that they vvho serve us should have reward and honour Let not England discourage valour faithfulnes and unwearied industry in Any or in These vvho have given not promises only but proofs of these Three martiall accomplishments To despise the instruments of our civill as well as of our spirituall salvation is to despise the God of our salvation And to all the Members of the Honourable Houses of Parliament who have faithfully staid by tended and watcht with this troubled sick and languishing Nation these five or six years past the whole Kingdome of England is obliged to speak their thanks and to say concerning them as Christ Luk. 22. 28. once did to his Disciples Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptation As a reward of which pains and patience Christ in the next words tell them And I appoint unto you a Kingdom Though we have not a Kingdome to appoint you yet we ought to wish you the best and fairest portions in the Kingdome A Jacobs blessing even the Dew of Heaven and the fatnesse of the earth and plenty of corn and wine all as the gift of God And that the people of the Land in the capacity ye are now in may serve you and the Nation bow down to you Thus it becomes us to blesse our Helpers and to blesse God for our Helpers lest our unthankfulnesse and murmurings cause the Lord as he threatned Israel Isa 3. To take away from England the stay and the staffe not only the stay and the staffe of our Naturall lives Bread and water vers 1. but the stay and the staffe of our Civil and Spirituall lives verse 2 3. The mighty man and the man of warre the Judge and the Prophet and the prudent and the An●ient The Captain of fifty and the honourable man And give children froward men to be our Princes and babes weak and impotent ones to rule over us And now let the Preservers joyne with the preserved They who have laboured with Those who eat the fruit of their labours in blessing and praising the Name of God by whom it is That we are not dead but alive by vvhom it is that vve and our friends are not only alive but as David once complain'd about his enemies Psal 38. 19. lively and strong or as another translation hath it live and are mighty Let us all joyne in praising God vvho hath given us hopes for the future That we shall not die but live and hath given us this present opportunity To declare the works which he hath done These wonderfull works in keeping us alive and lively in filling us with good hope that we shall live to declare more and greater of his works then these That as at this time it is so likewise it shall yet be said in our English Israel WHAT GOD HATH WROVGHT FINIS Die Jovis 26. February 1645. IT is this day Ordered by the Lords in Parliament that this House give thanks to Mr IENKYN for his great pains taken in the Sermon he Preached yesterday in the Abbey Church Westminster before the Lords of Parliament it being the day of the publike Fast And he is hereby desired to Print and publish the same which is not to be Printed by any but by authority under his own hand J. Brown Cler. Parl. I Appoint Christopher Meredith to Print my Sermon William Jenkyn