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A40637	Gamaliel Palipsuchos, or, Seasonable advice in trying times delivered in a sermon preached at Little-Wakering in Essex, Wednesday the 22th of December, being the fast appointed for the farther discovery of the popish-plot, by John Fuller.	Fuller, John, b. 1640 or 41.	1681 (1681)	Wing F2393; ESTC R35508	8,261	18

best Comment on the Apocalyps And though we must not deny but that Popery flourisheth even at this day yet in abating the strength thereof God hath done great things yea he hath done great things already whereof we rejoyce Was it not a wonder that Luther a poor Fryar should give the Man of Sin such a foil if not a fall that since he could never recover himself This is the work of the Lord and it will seem marvelous in our Eyes hereby Antichrist hath his wings cut his train clipped his talons pared his strength and wealth abated So that the Pope hath just cause to make more Fasts and fewer Festivals in his Calander many Countries are fallen from him others fastned to him rather by Cruelty than Conscience So that in despight of all the Perfumes they burn in their Churches their rotten Superstition stinks in the nostrils of discreet Christians What said Zeresh to Haman her Husband Esther 6.13 If Mordecay be of the Seed of the Jews before whom thou hast begun to fall thou shalt not prevail against him but surely fall before him And so seeing Antichrist hath begun to reel he will come to ruine it remains then that we patiently expect the time when the Lordshall consume him with the Spirit of his mouth as welcome to us as woful to him and shall destroy him with the brightness of his coming For their Religion I mean the dominative points wherein they differ from us is a Religion of men Of men devised ●ound on Traditions without footing in Scripture by men propogated I mean driven in the strength of humane not to say divelish policy their very Prayers to men directed though glorifyed Saints in Heaven and all these things for men intended for the advancing of the pride and profit of the Pope and his Adherents and therefore seeing their Counsel and work is of men it will it shall it must in Gods due time come to nought Vse Do any then desire to have their designs blest with Success let them truely entitle God to the Cause let them lay the Foundation Stone in Grace and then they shall lay the Top Stone in Glory Now one may assure his Cause to be of God and not of Men if he observe these Rules 1. At the entrance into it beg Gods Blessing and Assistance When David 1. K. 36. had appointed Solomon to be King over Israel Benaiah the Son of Jehoiada answered David and said Amen and the Lord God of my Lord say so too Let us in the first place beg Gods Amen to our Councels and Works our Amen is but a Petition Gods Amen is a Charter ours is Optative begging what we would have Gods is Imparative commanding what shall be 2. Besure the thing thou takest in hand be lawful and warrantable in it self otherwise to desire Gods Blessing to a wicked Design is mockingly to ask God leave to dishonour him or with Judas to cry Hail-Master and then betray him 3. Be careful to manage the matter in hand by the Rule of Gods Will in his Word See sayeth God to Moses that thou makest all things according to the Pattern in the Mount So be thou sure not to differ the least dash or willingly to vary the least tittle from Gods revealed Will in his Word Remember what St. James sayeth Chap. 1.29 The wrath of man worketh not the Righteousness of God and therefore beware of mingling thy carnal Interest of mixing thy partial ends of blending thy private Respects with Gods Cause least it fare the worse for so unfitting a Conjunction 4. Aim and level all thy Actions principally at the Glory of God Thy own honour may in a refracted degree subsist with Gods Glory if neither preferred before it nor contrariant to it but subordinate unto it At the Coronation of the Kings of England when the Noblemen have first seen the Crown Imperial solely set upon his Majesties head then the Dukes Marquesses Earls and Viscounts claim by prescription to put on their own Coronets First advance the Honour of God see him crowned promote his Glory and then in the second place it will be no Sacriledg to seek the promotion of thy own private Good and particular Commodity If these Rules be warily observed then whatsoever thy Design be good luck have thou with thine Honour ride on go up and prosper we wish you good Success in the name of the Lord the Lord prosper the work of thy hands the Lord prosper thy handy work If God be with you who shall be against you But be not disheartned and dismaid be not discouraged and discomfited if God at the first and for a time humble thee with bad success know as I said before that then God punisheth thee for thy Sins and take up for thy Motto the words of the Prophet Mic. 7.9 I will bear the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him until he plead my Cause and execute Judgment for me Let not the badness of the Success at the first put thee out of Love with a good Cause but rather pray to God It is thou Lord that inflicts it it is I that deserve it it comes from thy Justice it lights on my Sins Oh! Afflictions are bitter to the tast but wholsome to eat wherefore beat Lord and thy Servant shall bow strike Lord and thy Servant shall stoop But Oh! spill the man but spare the Cause punish the one but perish not the other the Sins are mine but the Cause is thine Let not thy Glory suffer in my Sufferings but in due time give thy Cause good suceess far be it from presumptious dust and ashes to prescribe to the Lord of Heaven time or place or meanes or manner Do it Lord when thou wilt where thou wilt how thou wilt and by whom thou wilt but do it Lord in thy due time for thy Name-sake for thy Promise-sake for thy Sons sake for thy self-sake wherefore should the Wicked say Where is now their God All that is required of thee is patiently to expect the good time when God will accomplish his Promise Seventimes did Elias send his Servant to the Sea 1 Kin. 18.43 to bring some tidings of the probability of Rain and at the seventh time behold there arose out of the Sea a little Cloud like a mans hand what shall I say seven times yea seventy seven times send and see for good success stand on the tiptoes of thy Soul heighten thy expectation watch and wait and long and look and pry and pray to day and to morrow and dext day next week next month next year next seven years next seven seven years if thy life lasts so long and at last if it be for Gods Glory and thy good the success that shall come will come and will not tarry And yet I cannot confidently assure any that he in his own Person shall live to see good success on every good Cause he shall undertake Great was the favour afforded to good old Simeon that he should sing his Nunc dimittis after his Eyes had seen Gods Salvation but it is not granted to all Saints of God some are taken out of this World before they see pious Councels crowned with happiness And indeed the infidelity and carnal distrust whereof the best in some degree are guilty may justly move God not to honour us with so welcome a Spectacle but suffer Death to prevent us or else with that unbelieving Prince who dyed in the Gates of Samaria our Eyes may see the plenty that our Mouths shall never tast However let us imitate the Example of the godly Patriarchs of whom it is said Heb. 11.13 These all dyed in the Faith not having received the Promises but having seen them afar off Besides let that Cordial comfort us that That Honour God vonchfaseth not to us our Posterity shall certainly possess Come then ye little Children come ye that can of your selves or else your be led by the hands of Maids or brought in the Arms of your Nurses nay come ye Babes unborn that are carried in the Wombs Bodies of your Mothers If the design we seek to advance be good there is good Success due unto us by the Promise of God and yet it is uncertain whether we our selves shall ever live to enjoy it wherefore here in the Name of God Amen we make you our Heirs we appoint you our Executors and bequeath this Legacy unto you or rather before hand by deed of Gift we Sign and Seal unto you all Joy Comfort Contentment Solace Felicity and Happiness to you and to your Heirs which shall amount from the good Success of a good Cause when you behold it count it not amongst desperate Debts for you shall infallibly enjoy it We perchance shall first be gathered to our Fathers and fall asleep in our Graves and be cloathed with Clay and be turned to dust whilst our Souls we hope shall be in Heaven blessed the day happy the hour welcome the moment But you shall survive and what Moses never did that Joshnah shall behold You shall see that that Cause which is grounded on Gods Word managed by his Will and levelled at his Honour shall at last be Crowned with Success for Truth hath spoken it and Faith believes it God hath said it we have heard it and you shall see it The Holy Cause will have happy Success what is gracious in the beginning though crost in the middle will be crowned in the ending For if this Councel or Work be of men it will come to nought Soli DEO Gloria

Γαμαλιὴλ Παλίψνχοσ OR Seasonable Advice IN Trying Times DELIVERED In a Sermon Preached at Little-Wakering in Essex Wednesday the 22 th of December Being the Fast appointed for the farther discovery of the Popish-PLOT By JOHN FVLLER M. A. Discite Justitiam moniti nec temnite Divos LONDON Printed for the Author By John Gain Living in Merchant-Taylers Rents at the Lower End of Moor-Lane 1681. TO HIS Deservedly Honoured Friend GEORGE ASSER of BARLING in ESSEX Gentleman Dear Sir SOme Men admire what Jacob meant by so small a Present to so great a Person as Joseph was then in Aegypt a little Balm and a little Honey Nuts and Almonds c. But the Text clears all Gen. 43.11 They were the Best Fruits of the Land I shall likewise be condemned for making so mean a Return to so mighty Obligations I lye under My Excuse is It is the best my present Condition is capable of Here I freely confess it was not the Importunity of any wrested this small Treatise from me Nor was it an Itch to be in Print I understand well enough the Humors of a Censorious Age that every Innocent Discourse must run the Gantelope therein and receive a Lash from all Dissenting Parties But I hoped it might do good to some for whom I ought to have a Real kindness However hereby I shall take occasion to declare to the World my resentment of your great Civilities And he that hath an Hand to receive and not a Tongue to return Thanks deserves for the future to be both Lame and Dumb which Punishment that it may not light on me Accept this acknowledgment of your many Favours bestowed on Your devoted Friend Servant JOHN FULLER ACTS 5. V. 38. For if this Councel or this Work be of Men it will come to nought IN this Chapter we have the Speech of a learned Jew his Name Gamaliel his Profession a Pharisee his Degree a Doctor of Law his Dignity had in Reputation amongst all the People We have him pleading freely without a Fee for poor Clyents the persecuted Disciples The Drift and Purport of his Speech is to perswade that the Disciples might not be so suddenly and severely proceeded against but for a time respited and reprieved to see what would become of their persons and Preaching This he enforceth by a double Instance of Theudas and Judas two famous Impostors who in former times like rowling Snow-balls had gathered much People together but melting at last brought both themselves and Followers to confusion Hence he rationally inferreth That if this Doctrine of the Disciples were only of humane invention it would sink of it self and save them the pains to oppose it if it were of Men it were needless if of God impossible to resist it Oh! It is excellent to be familiarly acquainted with the memorable Accidents of former Ages You that desire to be wise keep a Court of Records in your own Bosoms file up all remarkable Passages in your Breasts that remembring things past and comparing them with things present you may probably conjecture of things to come Then shall the Destructions of others prove Instructions to you the Shipwracks of others shall be Sea-marks to you and the purchase of Wit which others have dearly bought with their Wo you shall both get gratis and peaceably possess For thus Gamaliel by quoting of former Presidents and observing ancient Accidents in Theudas and Judas doth judicially collect and difinitively conclude That all wicked projects though like Comets they blaze for a season will fade of themselves For if this Councel or this Work be of Men c. Observe in the Text 1. a Supposition If this Councel or Work be of Men 2. a Position It will come to nought But before we go further methinks I hear some hacking and hewing at the Root of my Text with this sharp Objection Objection I. Why may some say What was Gamaliel to us are we bund to believe him or does his Advices and Instructions concern and conclude us Gamaliel at the best he was but a learned Jew having but a twilight of Knowledg and if we cast up the total Sum of his Religion it can amount to no more than Agrippa's half a Christian Besides by Profession he was a Pharisee and this may justly render his Councel suspected What Christian had not rather fast than feed on the Bread of the Pharisees for sear some of their Leaven should be in it We therefore are not bound to hear what is spoken or to believe what we hear from the mouth of Gamaliel Answer I answer if the Doctrine of Gamaliel did any way border entrench or confine on Pharisaical Principles we might justly be jealous thereof But seeing no such matter let us not refuse to receive a precious Pearl though from the hand of the blackest Negro Yea let none think scorn to be taught by Gamaliel's mouth at whose Feet St. Paul was brought up and if any will not believe my Text for Gamaliel's let them believe it for God's Sake The Lacedemonians had a Law that if a wicked man in the Senate chanced to give good Counsel he was presently to stand by and a good Senator was to rise up and speak the same words that so the Counsel might be the better relished coming from a grateful Person Grant Gamaliel to be as bad a man as Malice can suppose him yet seeing Gods Spirit hath been pleased to record his Speech with which Reason and Religion do concur take it now as coming from God and hearken to him that he may hearken to you Objection II. But it may be further objected That he that reads the justness of a Cause by the joyfulness of the Event holds the wrong end of the Book upwards Careat Successibus opto quisquis ab eventu facta notanda putat Have we not often seen Piety and Prosperity at such terms of distance that they could not harbour under the same Roof Disce puer virtutem ex me verumque laborem fortunam ex aliis Wherefore this Doctrine to measure the goodness of a Cause by the Success is often falfe always uncertain at the best but dangerous good only to puff up the hearts of prosperous Sinners with pride and to break the Souls of sorrowfull Saints with drooping dispair Solution We must spend some time in clearing the Text from the Ambushment of this Objection for the better effecting whereof we will lay down these three Propositions Prop. 1. Wicked men may and often do thrive in their wicked Designs for a time Hereof the reason in nature is this because though they bring a bad Cause they are the best Sollicitors sparing neither care nor cost nor price nor pains to accomplish their wicked desires Their cract Title they will sodder up with their own Industry and to their lame Cause which lacks Legs they will give Wings by their dayly diligence They watch for all tides and wait for all times and work by all meanes and