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A43818	An olive branch of peace and accommodation budding in a sermon preached at Basingshaw Church, to the Lord Mayor Alderman Atkin, together with the representative city, Anno Dom. 1645, on a day of humiliation, appointed on purpose to seek the Lord for the repairing of breaches, and the preventing of further differences growing in the city / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2025; ESTC R25713	39,441	50

the wheel how would people be frustrated of their expectations that have such thoughts of London Be pleased to suffer these things to enter into your most serious thoughts and make it appear that love does spring and that you do not over-love your own Priviledges or any thing that is your own when it comes in competition with the Publique I love every man should love that that is to be loved in a due proportion according to its share with reference to Christ and his Cause There are now great things on foot and blessed be God we have heard some welcom news this day Is not this very comfortable to hear good news in our worshipping of God and seeking for peace as if God would incourage us to pray and endeavor more after it What news is it Seven thousand persons in Taunton relieved where were so many precious souls of the countrey got together and that now when Heaven was besieged with Prayers of the Saints God himself hath been pleased to be overcome and to raise the Siege of the Enemy Here is rich encouragement for the Generation of true Jacobites You have an Army on foot and a great deal of prudent and speedy care is required to consider how it should be maintained and how to manage these publique Affairs most dexterously when there comes a winter season when there is no such time nor need for such vigorous motion in these Enterprizes then dispute your Priviledges and then write Books and then debate what is between the Common-Councel and Court of Aldermen and then enter as serious and deliberate consultation as you will and set the saddle upon the right horse and let every man have his due but take heed now you let not in your Enemy by making a Breach amongst your selves when you keep Court of Guards that costs you so many thousands a year neglect not the Guard of Peace and mutual Love If you give up the City this famous flourishing City into their hands by your division how will Rome and Spain and all the World that are Enemies to the Cause of God Triumph that they have got a Victory over those that they counted their greatest Enemies to their grand Design Where is your love worthy Citizens get this self-absolving heart The Lord grant this may be such a Uniting day that this Church may be a grave to bury all the beginnings of Division and that you may go out of Gods presence glewed together And why should not we expect it though there be so many defilements that may provoke God to blast all he being a God hearing Prayers but all our work is not done when our prayers are done we will observe what good fruit is come of our prayers you will have it in every Book The City had such a meeting and they met together And for what some will say For to humble themselves and to pray to God that they may be United Then the next week the question will be What news of it how we bless God for it If now the Court of Aldermen and Common-Councel might joyn as one man then they should conclude God hath heard their Prayers and accepted of their endeavours Certainly this is a blessed design and most proper for this days work It will not be unseasonable to acquaint you with the prudent carriage of Menenius Agrippa who by a witty Parable no wonder our blessed Savior delighted so much in Parables they being so prevalent to perswade composed the great Distractions amongst the Romans The chief Magistrates were agrieved thinking the inferior Commons had too many advantages Upon a time saith he the other parts of the natural body complained that all their care and industry must be to make provision for the stomack whilest that sits quiet enjoying the pleasures we bring in to it Hereupon the other party combine to tame the stomack by hunger so that the hand would not reach meat to the mouth nor the mouth receive it which suddenly brought the whole body to an extreme Consumption Hence the necessary use of the stomack did most clearly appear that as it received strength from their care so by a reciprocal influx it helped to convey nourishment to the whole There needs no Application In the Body Politick whether of City or Kingdom mutual Help is as necessary let it be as acceptable lest by your jarring you breed a Consumption in the whole Give me leave to subjoyn that which I thought of that in that holy man Ezra He proclaims a Fast at the river Ahava that they might seek of God a right way for themselves and their little ones and all their substance And what was his reason A very pious and worthy one and I would gladly think so well of this worthy City that you had as good a reason for this meeting Because we says he had spoken to our King saying The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him I was ashamed to require of the King a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy Here was a good man had spoke great things of his God and now if he should have gone and desired the King that was but a Heathen Pray Sir let us have a party to guard us through the Countreys what would he have thought of them what have you said such great things of your God that he hath sought you out and what need you my men to guard you He thought this would blemish them and therefore he seeks God that they might finde out a way and not bring a scandal upon him nor give advantage to the bloody enemy that stood watching against them I hope this was the Design of the Right Honorable the Lord Major and the Common-Councel and whoever were Agents in this business you begin to be afraid of some heart-burnings and jealousies and you thought if it should break out how the enemy would triumph therefore you will seek God by Fasting and Prayer for a right way to unite you The Lord be blessed for putting this into your heart surely the Scripture-way is the best way to conquer all those jealousies that have been among you namely Real love one to another and I hope you will have a good fruit of this days prayer in some more sweet harmony of Spirits in the two grand points of Difference amongst you 1. In Church matters 2. In Civil matters First for your love in Church matters there is a great deal of need to preach this Doctrine to London you have had much said to you already concerning unsetledness in Opinion truly it is a sad condition yet I would not have people discouraged at it for it was always so in Reformation-time in Luthers time and others As when the Sun arises in its lustre there are drawn up a great many fogs and vapours so it is when the

and fitter for the work of the Publique then he is he would rejoyce that such a one is called to it this would argue love indeed And then that there is such a deal of censuring Oh! that argues defect in love too How do Brethren censure and tear one another The Lord knows it is too much amongst Ministers I wish All whom it concerns may be humbled for it And people censure their Minister and one another because they do not all concur and comply some are of different Judgements some are of one minde some of another in things of lesser consequence who condemn one another I 'le not say as much as Papists and Protestants but truly it is in danger to grow to it As it is abroad now Lutherans and Calvinists both pretend to be for Religion and Reformation but it is a cause among them that Religion much suffers and the progress of the Gospel is very much obstructed by it Take heed of censuring this is want of love Further here is another Argument not onely from Envy not only from Censuring but indeed from your oppressing others in Taxes and Levies and such kinde of ways when things are carried on with extreme partiality and with unjust indulgence to some and severity unto others what call you this now it is want of love Because didst thou love thy Neighbor as thy self thou wouldst do nothing to thy Neighbor but what thou wouldst have thy Neighbor do to thee in the same posture in the same juncture and concurrence of circumstances which our Savior makes the rule and expression of real love And then likewise when you are so selfish in your designs and undertakings and so far prefer your self-ends before the Publique this is still want of love The Apostle was a Prophet in 2 Tim. 3. beginning In the last day shall be perillous times Why Men shall be lovers of themselves I know not any thing that this day does indanger the Parliament party in England the City party those that are hearty for God and his Cause then the predominancy of self-love for men now love themselves better then the Kingdom better then the Church better then the State love their own Estates their own advantages more then all and this exposes them to abundance of snares because they love themselves inordinately O therefore steer all Publique Councels even according to this very rule I beseech you you that are of the Court of Aldermen and Common-Councel-men consider That the less self-love you bring with you to your City Transactions the better you are to manage all your Affairs Oh! it were a happy thing that every time you come to appear in your Senate-house you could leave self-love behinde you and say I will go now not as such a man and such a man and as I am at home but I 'le go as one of the City and as one of the Representative Body and if Self would step up and put in it self Stand by Self the City must first be concerned and the Publique must first be minded The Lord put this into the hearts of them in Government thus indeed to prefer the Publique good before themselves we should have more cause to rejoyce in that then for any Victory that ever yet the Citizens had And I am confident in this If the Lord would help Parliament and Kingdom and Assembly and Armies to conquer this Bosom Enemy this that leads the Faction here this predominant self-love it would be a greater cause of triumph then ever we had yet for any Victory though we have had many glorious ones as long as ever you are full of Envy or full of Oppression or full of Censuring or full of Selfishness it argues you want love Then give me leave in the next place to bespeak your love it is the work of the day and as you would Approve your selves indeed to God and as you would have confidence in God and as you would expect acceptation to God and would be welcom to the Throne of Grace when you go to Prayer and finde favor with God Then labor to take out this Lesson get a self-absolving heart in this particular that you are sure you have love to the Brethren If there were more love amongst all persons of quality if Common-Councel-men and those in place of Power did often meet together not to nourish prejudices one against another nor foment differences these things would be signs of love and incentives to it You have heard sometimes talk of differences between the Houses Oh! what a sad thing were this as that the House of Commons may be should have some jealousies of the Peers and the Peers sometimes of the House of Commons if there have been any such jealousies or misunderstandings then you know Publique things have not gone on so well And now truly men begin to speak of the City you had better hear of it in this place then from other men who love you not There is difference so between the Court of Aldermen and Common-Councel-men and now they begin to dispute about their Priviledges and there grows Debates and Contentions The Lord if it be his good will hear our Prayers this day Oh! that there might be a spring opened this day that might wash away all prejudices and jealousies and suspitions that both Court and Councel might be made one in reference to the Publike I know not any thing would joynt you and soder and cement you together better then a Spirit of Love If there were but a Spirit of Love to act the Common-Councel and to act the Court of Aldermen you would sweetly imbrace one another And I beseech you take a word though it be out of my Sphaere yet from a Minister of the Gospel take it who desires to be faithful to your souls and to the City It is plain and wholesom advice When there was some small divisions betwixt the Houses of Parliament Oh! says one Citizen would to God they would leave disputing of their Priviledges and joyn against the Common Enemy And when there hath been any clashing in the Armies Oh! would the Commanders would let them alone till they come to their Garisons in the winter and then let them debate it onely now let us go on vigorously against our Enemies I beseech you worthy Citizens do so too If there be any disputes about your Court and Councel let them sleep God forbid you should betray or prostitute any of them onely be so wise as to take the seasonablest time to dispute them if your disputing of them in this nick should set all on fire when you should joyn purses and hands and all against the common Enemy for you to fall all to pieces amongst your selves surely you will disparage your selves and deceive the world that expects so much wisdom and zeal and courage and faithfulness to the publique Cause from London that if now jealousies and misunderstandings should creep in and scotch