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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86660	The happiness of a people in the wisdome of their rulers directing and in the obedience of their brethren attending unto what Israel ougho [sic] to do recommended in a sermon before the Honourable Governour and Council, and the respected Deputies of Mattachusets [sic] colony in New-England. : Preached at Boston, May 3d, 1676, being the day of election there. / By William Hubbard ...	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.	1676 (1676)	Wing H3209; ESTC W12661	72,888	77

any Temptation upon the minds of them that were concerned in that work to swerve there from to the right hand or to the left Or if any disposition or the least inclination had been discerned that way had you not power to have laid those aside placed others in their room and stead Much might be said here if there were need 2. If you enquire into the succession of our Leaders and succenturiation of the persons called to supply the room of them that having served their generation are now fallen asleep in the Lord. Have they not acted according to former principles and shewed the same spirit of Faith and Holiness Zeal for Gods glory and purity of worship the same love to God and his wayes Have they built hay or stubble upon the Foundation formerly laid It hath alwayes been the humour of those that follow to be ready to complain of the present age wherein they live which Solomon checks as proceeding from want of judgment Eccless 7.10 Thou enquirest not wisely concerning this matter Every age doth not yield a David nor a Solomon Yet it is observed things went well in Judah in Rehoboams time 2 Chron. 12.12 so long as the ordinances were duly observed about Gods worship good judgment and justice executed and in many of the Princes and people good things were found Much more was this to be acknowledged in the reign of Asa and Jehosaphat though of them it might be said non nulla desiderantur yet they aimed at the best patern in Sincerity Their hearts were perfect with the Lord their God as was the heart of David their father Possibly some upon every Check and frown of providence against us may be ready with Saul to call for the Lot to be cast and will be too forward without a perfect Lot to say the cause is in Saul or in Jonathnn or in the people Or else adde there is some Achan in the camp and Jonas in the Ship that must immediately be made a sacrifice to divine Justice as they may misconceive We must not lye for God and need be carefull we doe not entitle divine Providence to the mistakes of our minds and make God speak that by his providence which never entred into his heart Of many outward changes it is most certain that we can know neither love nor hatred thereby Some men may be ready to say there is too much indulgence towards men of corrupt mindes and it is to be feared in some of our Rulers too It is two to one if some doe not say the contrary For we know what animadversions have been made by men of other perswasions none had need give any occasion to such misconstructions of Gods hand by an ungrounded suiting of times with events Were it not a more probable way for us to know our own duty that is the surest way to know the mind of God concerning our selves and engage to doe it letting alone those things wherein possibly we may not be all of one minde Forgetting therefore those things that are behind as the Apostle speaks let us set upon those things that are before us wherein we are all agreed upon our duty leaving the other to the decision of further light and after times Deus et dies revelabit A divided language hindred the building of Babel and forced the undertakers to desist as the Poet expresses it one sayes make that rope fast the other lets it fly How then can we conceive it should tend to build up Sion No doubt but an unguided and indiscreet zeal in many to promote or profess their opinions in the most publick manner hath done much mi●chief in the world And possibly a like errour to suppress them by undue meanes hath done some Let no mans good be evill spoken of Peradventure some men might have let fall their opinions or errors as the Traveller did his cloake if they had not been too boisterously and rudely set upon by their opposites If we find cor bonum honestum as one said of Swenkfeld though there want caput regulatum Calvini we should not cast away the gold because of the dross mingled with it Although they are in a great error that out of love to the wine swallow down the dregs after it yet they are in a greater that refuse the good liquor because of the Lees in the bottome The best wheat hath its chaff God may reveal more of his mind to those that differ from us as well as to our selves could we but have patience to wait his leisure And we should the rather commiserate the infirmityes of other mens understandings because our own are not as yet arrived at perfection So much modesty becomes every Christian as not to condemn all he doth not understand so neither to call for fire from heaven against any that may differ from him Nor is every one to be taxed as a party in the case that is not so forward as another to call for a civill sword to end the controversie Possibly some in the world have already experienced the verification of our Saviours words in this sense they that take up the sword shall perish with the sword Paul tells us Rom. 14.5.6 he that keepeth or regardeth the day regardeth it to the Lord He that regardeth not the day to the Lord he doth not regard it All mans Consciences are not enlightened in the same degree Were it not better to debate the cause with our neighbours with those we dissent from and not so pe●emptorily to entitle Gods truth to the private apprehensions of our selves or our owne party in such cases where possibly the whole truth is not revealed such proceedings it may be doe but embolden disengaged slanders by to complain of both as befell Beza Erastus in their contest about Lay-Elders 4. It cannot be denied but that these corruptions have too too many abounded amongst us that usually are concomitant with long peace and outward prosperity Standing waters are more apt to corrupt and grow putrid The best tempered blades are apt to abate of their edge by disuse or to be eaten with rust But are not all scandalous evils been witnessed against by Authority both Civil and Ecclesiastical by executing wholsome Laws and Church censures are not evil doers removed that all Israel may hear and fear to run into presumptuous evils and are there not many hopeful buds springing up amongst the rising Generation on whom that blessed promise Isai 44.3 begins to take place I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed and my Blessing upon thy off spring Is there not sound in them a great readiness to give up themselves to the work and service of their Generation Such as have offered themselves willingly and have not loved their lives to the death You have had Presidents of your Colonies and Colledges that have been bred or brought up in the Country Hath not God in a great measure been ready to make good what he hath spoken