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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

fr●ite of my comming to this City if after five yeers unprofitablenesse I might speak somewhat this afternoon that might enlarge your hearts to a greater measure of liberality All I will say is this Wee Divines say that Perseverance is the only grace that Crowns a Christian Methushelah lived 999 yeers if hee had fallen away from Grace at the 999 yeers end all the good that hee had done before had been quite forgotten I know that God will so uphold his children that they shall never fall away but I bring it as a supposition that suppose that Methushelah had forsaken his righteousnesse all hee had done before had been quite forgotten but God hath made a promise never to forsake his Children and that grace hee hath begun in them hee will finish and I doubt not but that God that hath put it into your hearts to be● so liberall already and to doe so much in this Cause and to bee so cordiall and so reall and to exceed all other parts of the Kingdom I hope that same God now will finish that good work hee hath begun and will crown all his graces in you with the Grace of Perseverance and that God that hath been the Author of all the good you have done I doubt not but that God will bee the Finisher And I beseech God to give a blessing to that hath been spoken Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. Gentlemen PRovidence hath cast this Assembly met for such a weighty occasion as indeed it is the weightiest that hath concerned England in our age to bee late and so perhaps wearisome to many of you but you may well bee content to stay a while although you should bee deprived of a great part of your sleep this night if this Evenings businesse may have the hoped successe of it it may make you sleep quietly and securely many nights after Things of present and absolute necessity call for action not deliberation this work that you have been called unto is such as you must leave objecting against it and rather fall a blessing God that you may bee used in it In the 1 of Chronicles 22. 14. When David and the people had come and offered of their estates freely and bountifully David hee humbles himself then Who am I and who are wee It were happy if you come all with such an humble frame of spirit to admire that God preserves your lives and calls you at this time to such a work so concerning his glory and the good of three Kingdoms yea of the Christian world If ever you that have estates had cause to rejoyce in them then now when God presents such a large opportunity for his service as hee loth and wherein consills mans happinesse but in being serviceable in his generation In these dayes to bee acted by that poore ●ow principle Qui bene lotuit bene vixit that is let us keep our selves safe and quiet keep our estates take heed of appearing too farre wee know not which side may prevaile this is an argument of a vile and a sordid spirit let such a mans name bee writen in the earth Unworthy is such a man to live in such a Generation as this in which God is doing such great things as might enliven the deadest heart quicken the dullest spirit raise the heaviest and inlarge the straitest spirit living upon the earth In former times indeed there was lesse charge called for there was lesse trouble but there was lesse service too and what doe you think to bee the measure of a mans happinesse either little trouble or much service A gratious heart thinks it as great a mercy to lay out for God as to receive from God God in these our dayes is risen on high in his administrations and our hearts should rise together with him Psalm 105. 4 5. Thy mercy O Lord is above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds what followes bee thou then exalted O Lord above the Heavens and let thy glory bee above all the earth This day Gods name Gods great works they are above the heavens they are very high wee behold them let our hearts rise in a suitable way as God rises in his workings and all say and doe as wee say that God may bee exalted now above the heavens indeed God can doe his work without you and doe it certainly hee will howsoever but seeing hee is now laying a foundation of the most glorious building that it is like ever hath been in this world if hee shall bee pleased to call you to bee helpfull in it it will bee Gods mercy and your glory Were it that this one principle were raised in the hearts of people that to doe publique service it is not onely a duty but a dignity how ready how abundant then would men bee in the Work of the Lord There hath lately been the most blessed union of two Nations as ever was in the world lifting up their hands to the high God swearing that they will amend their wayes and seek to reform themselves according unto the Word let us now reach forth our hands and hearts unto our brethren in Scotland let us come up fully unto this our engagement and rejoyce in it for certainly that Nation is a Nation that God doth love a Nation that God doth honour and by those many expressions of his love shewed that hee doth intend to make them speciall instruments of the great things he hath to doe in this latter age of the world It is a Nation that is united the most firmely of any people under heaven Wee may truly call it a Philadelphia and Brightman that famous light in former times 30 or 40 yeers since did parallell the Church of Philadelphia with the Church of Scotland Philadelphia signifies brotherly love When was there ever a Nation such a Church that joyned together in such firm Covenants as they have done had wee had the like union amongst us O what great things had wee done long before this time A Nation it is that hath engaged it self to God in a higher way in a more extraordinary way than any Nation this day upon the face of the earth hath done in the most solemn way Covenanting with the eternall God powring forth their prayers and their tears for joy together with their Covenanting A Nation that hath reformed their lives for so small a time more than ever any people that wee know of in the world have done and a people that have risen up against Antichrist more in another way than ever people have done and that is the great Work of God in these times and therefore God certainly hath a love unto them because they breake the ice and begin the work and arise in such a way as they doe for the pulling down of that man of sin A Nation that God hath honoured by giving as glorious successe unto as ever he did unto any whose low and

they are to continue three moneths and ten dayes in your Service after they come into your Kingdome after the payment of this 100000 l. so that there is full three moneths and ten dayes for these Counties to lie open to the repayment of this Mony for those three moneths they are to be without pay These are the principall things that wee have yet thought upon for the dis-ingaging of us that wee tender to you there are divers others which the Committee hath taken into consideration which they see as much or more certainty in than in any of these that hath been propounded If it were no more than the Publique Faith of both Kingdoms as long as the Kingdoms subsist or the Cause thrives in the hands of one or other this must bee dis-ingaged so that at best it is but a Loan and must bee paid if the Cause survive truely if it doe not survive it being our Religion I know not what reason wee have 〈◊〉 desire to survive it and if wee lose it I am sure wee lose all Truly Gentlemen thus I have but one word more to say The Cause it is Gods if it bee not so let us repent that ever wee medled with it It is the Cause of our Countrey if it bee not so let us now say wee repent and leave it It is the Cause of these three Kingdomes England Ireland and Scotland it is the Cause of Christendom for if this Cause be carryed against us certainly the Protestant Cause throughout all Europe will fare the worse for it this is the Cause this we all know to be the Cause It hath pleased Almighty God out of his Providence to call even us poor creatures to be the managers of this great cause of his we have undertaken it we have formerly by our Protestations engaged our selves to the maintaining of it wee have all of us both Parliament City and all well-affected Subjects of this Kingdom wee have put our shoulders to it wee have of late manifested to God and all the world that wee doe not repent of what wee have done wee have entred into a Solemn League and Covenant I think the solemnest that ever was seen in this Kingdom Gentlemen thus let our cheerfulnesse in this service shew that wee have taken that Covenant and doe affect this businesse with our whole hearts I have done Pray God give his blessing Mr. Edmond Calamy his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. Gentlemen YOU have heard a worthy Gentleman of the House of Commons it is desired by this grave and Reverend Assembly of Ministers that three of the Ministers of this Assembly should likewise speak unto you concerning this great businesse and notwithstanding my indisposition of body being required by them though that Gentleman of the House of Commons hath spoken so abundantly to the purpose yet notwithstanding I am here come to speak something the rather to declare my willingnesse to appear in this Cause that is every way so just and every way so honest and so good that I may truly say as the Martyr did that if I had as many lives as I have haires on my head I would bee willing to sacrifice all these lives in this Cause You know the story of Craesus that though hee never spake in his life yet when hee saw his Father ready to bee killed it untyed the strings of his tongue and then hee cryed out that they would not kill his Father you are not ignorant that England and Ireland lye a dying and though I never appeared in this place yet I blesse God that hath given mee that health this day to speak something in this Cause for the reviving of the dying condition of England and Ireland It is such a Cause as is able to make a very Infant eloquent and a dumb man to speak that never spake in all his life The matter I am desired to speak to is concerning the Contribution to perswade you to bee liberall towards the bringing in of the Scots to help us in this our great necessity The truth is it is a great shame that England should stand in need of another Nation to help it to preserve its Religion and Liberties That England that hath been enriched with the Gospel of Peace and the peace of the Gospel for so many yeers that England that hath been blessed with so many rare Ministers of God so many precious and powerfull servants that have preached the Word of God in season and out of season that England that hath professed the Gospel with so much power and purity that England should stand in need of the help of their Brethren of Scotland for to preserve that Gospel that they have professed so many yeers I confesse to mee it seems a very strange Prodigie and a strange wonder but it hath pleased Almighty God for the sins of England for our great unthankfulnesse and for our unthankfulnesse under these means and for the great blood-guiltinesse and Idolatry and Superstition of this Nation it hath pleased God to suffer a great part of the Kingdom to bee blinded especially those parts where the Word of God hath not been preached in a powerfull manner and there are many in the Kingdom that will not bee perswaded that there is an intention to bring in Popery and to bring in Slavery Many of them I say think that though the Popish Army should prevaile and the plundering Army should prevaile yet they think all would goe well with Religion and with their Liberties I say it hath pleased God to suffer abundance in the Kingdom to bee blinded with this opinion out of a just judgement to punish us for our unthankfulnesse and for our ingratitude and this is the reason that so many men stand Neuters and that so many are Malignants and disaffected to this great Cause in so much that I am concluded under this that there is little probability to finish this Cause without the comming in of the Scots as you heard so worthily by that Member of the House of Commons The sons of Zerviah are grown so strong what through our fearfulnesse what through our covetousnesse what through our malignity that there is little hope I say to finish this great Cause or to bring it to a desired peace without the help of another Nation and by the assistance of God by the help of another Nation it may be done These are two mighty two omnipotent Arguments to prevaile with you to contribute your utmost aide and assistance to that Cause since it cannot speedily bee done without their help by Gods blessing it may speedily be don by their help What would the Kings party doe if they could engage another Nation to their help 21000. if they could engage them to our ruine what would they not doe How much more should wee be willing to contribute our greatest help to engage a Nation that indeed is part of our own Nation within the same Island

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

before hath done If you say why doe wee doe all What if God will give the City the speciall honour yet the Countrey will bee required for a great part besides but the Lords work now to bee done it must bee done especially by his servants and wee know in Ezra when as the adversaries of Judah would have come and helped in the work they would not suffer them to come and help in the work I say not wee should doe so but onely to satisfie ●s in this that wee should not think it much that God should especially honour us in such a work as this is But yet besides know that your interest in this businesse it is more than the interest of other men for other men care not what becomes of Religion what care they for Reformation they are willing to bee slaves to some that they might have others slaves under them But you desire Reformation you therefore shall have the greatest share in the blessing of the issue of this work and therefore if others doe not so much yet you should bee willing to bee forward in the work you are now called to and if you bee willing it is like in a little while you may get such power that you may bring others to doe whatsoever may appear to bee just If it shall bee said I but a great deal is done but to little purpose all this while O my brethren say not so it is an unthankfull voyce this for much hath been done there hath been a check given to the adversary the stream of tyranny and slavery it hath been stopped your lives have all this while been preserved by what hath been done If you think but it is too late and all will bee lost that wee doe Say not so neither this is below a Roman spirit the Romans when Hannibal was at their gates yet would sell their fields at as great a rate and as great a consideration as at any other time Even the field where the Enemy was found buyers when it was put to sale there were enow to buy that field Your spirits would scarce rise so high to give a valuable consideration for the field of your Enemy to bee Fee simple to your selves hee not discouraged you have not only the Faith of both Kingdomes that hath been offered but wee as Divines may offer you this day the Faith of Heaven the Faith of the promises of Heaven they are offered to you and there is nothing will blast that work more than a discouraged heart You know that the very thing that caused God to deprive the children of Israel of Canaan when they were at the borders it was because they were discouraged and said There are children of Anak here and let us not go The Lord is bringing of us to a blessed 〈◊〉 it is true wee are in a wildernesse but wee know God hath brought us into the wildernesse and hee will speak comfortably to us in it and let us not bee afraid of difficulties lest wee bee deprived of that good Land that God is bringing us into and little cause have wee to bee discouraged for those wee have to deal with their spirits are base and vile why should wee fear those uncircumcised Philistines And wee see God hath been with us in every thing that wee have undertaken Wee have never shown our selves like men but God hath shown himself to be like a God for us If you say Well but were it not better wee bent all our forces to some Accommodation To that wee answer you thus You have to deal not only with his Majesty but with a Popish party that are about him and what security you can ever have of your peace as was worthily said before except the Scottish Nation comes in for to fasten it it is easie for any one to judge I will tell you but one story about that and because it is suitable unto you I will therefore relate it here It is a Story that I finde in the Chronicles that in the dayes of King Edward the fixt King Edward sends to this City for assistance against the Lords and the Lords send to the City for their assistance likewise against the Protectour the Earl of Somerset and the Common Councell was called I suppose in this place and there stands up as the story saith a wise discreet Citizen in the Common Councell and makes this speech unto them First hee acknowledges that the cause was right for the Lords for the Kingdom though it were against the will of the King because the King would not then put in execution those Laws that should bee but hindered them but yet saith hee let mee reminde you of that that I have read in Fabians Chronicle it was one George Stadley that stood up let mee reminde you of that when there was a fight between the Lords and the King the Lords send for assistance to the City the City granted their assistance the Lords prevailed the King was taken and his Son a Prisoner afterwards they were both released upon Composition and amongst other things this was one that howsoever the City should bee preserved that the City should suffer nothing for what they had done and this Composition was confirmed by Act of Parliament but saith this Citizen what came of it did the King forgive No nor forget for afterwards all our Liberties were taken away strangers were set over us for our Heads and Governours the bodies and the estates of the Citizens were given away and one misery followed after another and so wee were most miserably persecuted and here was their Accommodation Wherefore then to close all you have heard before that wee come not onely to perswade you but to ingage our selves as well as to perswade you and to doe that that wee would have you doe For our parts as wee have in some proportionable manner done it already so wee are ready to doe it further and it beseemes us well to doe it Wee read in the 3 of Nebemiah that the first that did help to repair the City it was the Priests of the City and about the middle of the City the Priests of the Plain I suppose it is meant the City Ministers and the Countrey Ministers and you shall finde in that Chapter severall sorts of people were there there were the Rulers these specially mentioned I suppose their chief Rulers as their Aldermen c. they were very forward in that work of the Lord Yea there were the Tradesmen there you read much of the Goldsmiths two severall times in that Chapter you read of the Goldsmiths more then others and you read of the Apothecaries that they were ready in their work yea and you read of the Daughters of men how they forwarded their Parents I would I had to speak to many young ones this day I hope I should prevail much with them to bee great forwarders of you that are more ancient that you may doe this freely which you are