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The soveraignes desire peace: the subjectes dutie obedience. By Thomas Swadlin.
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Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.
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which could not keepe peace at home were carried away captive with the other Tribes I could give you an instance neerer home nothing hath been the cause of so many slaughters in England as want of peace amongst the English To speake of the Saxons Danes and Normans of the Lancastrian and Yorkish line would be but to tell you a story which it may be you know already â—s well if not better then my selfe I pray God the like story of these times may never come into any Chronicle and that it may not let every good man do his duty and pray Peace to our Ierusalem O God It is every good mans duty to pray for peace because the want of peace causes fractions and Fractions make uneven reckonings nor can you ever give God good account for so doing where Fractions are there are parts and those parts are either equall or unequall if both parts be equall then either part hath but halfe his strength if they be unequall then one hath not so much and that part which hath most it may be hath not enough V. G. Judg. 27. Eleven Tribes came out against Benjamin 400000 strong and their quarrell was good for it was to punish ravishing of a woman to death yet they fell twice before them The like is our case now in England the King saith He taketh up armes to maintaine the Protestant Religion the just Priviledge of Parliament the true property and liberty of the Subject his one just royall Prerogatives and Person and who dares but beleeve what the King sayes is true and who can fight in a better cause The Parliament againe sayes That they are forced to take up armes for the very same ends and withall to punish the great Delinquents the Malignant Party that have disturbed the peace of this kingdome and who would not who does not beleeve the Parliament who would desire who can fight in a better cause The cause seâ—â—eth alike on both sides alike good on both sides but whether side hath a good or bad cause who knoweth on which side the victory is like to fall God ordereth battels he giveth victory to whom he will but commonly and ordinarily he giveth the successe according to the meanes that is used In so much that if the worse part be better prepared if they have men more in number and more valiant if they have more store of ammunition and better they are like to prove Gods rod to punish his children and when they have done that worke they are like to be cast into the fire But in the meane time to prevent the smart of this rod That the King may not fall before the Parliament that the Parliament may not fall before the King I take it to be every good mans duty to pray Peace be to our Ierusalem O God peace betwixt the Head and the Body peace betwixt the King and Parliament And thus farre having proved my Doctrine I now apply it And first Applic. 1 if it be every good mans duty to pray for the peace of Ierusalem surely then they are bad men very bad men they are that practise against the peace of Ierusalem the Iew that wishes it all evill and the Pope his pew fellow that curses it the Heretique that slanders it and the Sohismatick that rents it the Brownist that will have no set for me of prayer no decency of buriall but bury our deceased friends as we burie Dogs the Anabaptist that will have no christening of Infants no superioritie of Laytie or Clergie no proprietie of goods but a communitie of all things wives and all and a paritie of all men the King and the Subject the Peere and the Begger all one and the spawne the Iacobite the Robincomite the Barronist and many more and more then a good maâ—y the troublers of our Ierusalem the disturbers of the peace of our Ierusalem Against these yet I will not pray with S. Paul would to God they were cut off that trouble us No my zeale is not so hot so furious I do not wish them the Hawkes reward for his bold Magnannmitie and sawcie temeritie who for leaving his own game the Partridge and flying too high at the Eagle his Prince was adjudged the next day to the Crowne for the one and the next day after to the Hatchet for the other I wish them not the Asses wages for his equall division twixt the Lion himselfe and the Fox He was put to death because he thought the Lion the King worthy of no more then himselfe a subject No I wish none of them these ends I wish them not cut off with S. Paul but as S. Paul elsewhere advises me to pray for all men so I pray for them O God convert them that they may not longer be the troublers of but the prayers for the peace of our Ierusalem If they will not be converted to us then O God take them from us that we may enjoy what we pray for peace in our Ierusalem peace within our walls and prosperitie within our Palaces For our brethren and companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee to which do you now say Amen and for our Elder brothers and Mediators sake Iesus Christ may God be pleased to say Amen to our peace Amen For for my part I shall never make this day a day of objurgation which our King and Parliament our blessed and peace desiring King our wise and peace-working Parliament hath made a day of Humiliation of Humiliation and devotion of Humiliation for our sinnes and devotion to God for the diversion of the rebellion in Ireland and of the division in England And so for my second use Vse I entreate you to joyne with me in tâ—rning this Hemistichium of King Davids in this Psalme into that Amabaeum of King Davids in another Psalme O give thankes unto the Lord of Lords for he is gracious Ps 136.1 and his mercy endureth for ever O give thanks unto the God of all Gods for his mercy endureth for ever O thanke the Lord of all Lords for his mercy endureth for ever Which only doth great wonders for his mercy c. sayes he there And now let us goe on and say here O God by thy excellent wisdome make Warres to cease in all lands and send peace into our Ierusalem because thy mercy endureth for ever O God by thy excellent power disperse the people that delight in Warre and send peace into our Ierusalem because thy mercy endureth for ever O God by thy excellent might slay mighty Rebels and turne the councell of Achitophell into folly and send peace into our Jerusalem because thy Mercy endureth for ever O God by thy excellent goodnesse remember us now we are in trouble and take our troubles away and send peace into our Ierusalem because thy mercy c. O God by thy Excellent greatnesse deliver us from our enemies and make us all friends by sending peace into our Ierusalem because thy
THE Soveraignes DESIRE PEACE THE SUBIECTS DUTIE OBEDIENCE By Thomas Swadlin London Printed 1643. To the WORLD READER KNow who ever thou art that these lines following were Sermons preached the last Summer in St. Pauls and St. B. Algate London whether they containe any doctrine that is not Catholike and Orthodoxall they appeale to thee for judgment censure freely I beseech thee If praying for peace which is the Kings desire and subject of the former Sermons and preaching of obedience which is the subjects duty and subject of the latter Sermons be at all Malignity at least malignitie enough for the Authors imprisonment from Octo. 29. 1642. Vntill December 26. following now eight weekes and as yet unheard unseene Till now I was not informed of any other fault I stood guilty of But now it pleased the L. Major of Lond. upon my Letter to send for me and tell mee the cause of my Committement before whom when I appeared I found one Iohn Levet a Tallow-Chandler my Accuser upon whose information as I conceive his Lordship was pleased to say The cause of my commitment was because I am an enemy to sinceritie to which I answered all the sincerity that either his Lordship or my selfe had lay within our Breasts and not to be judged of by man But you have opposed the Parliaments proceedings replyed his Lordship to which I made answer againe It did not appeare so by my actions for I had beene and ever would be an humble Oratour to Heaven for the blessings of direction and successe upon their consultations and for mine owne particular I thought the Parliaments of England to be the supreamest Courts of Judicature in the world Yes quoth Master Levet So it seemes for just when the Parliament set forth their late Ordinances You preached a Sermon for Obedience to the higher powers I confessed it and promised a Copie of it and here it is To make me yet more guilty I but you pray for Bishops said the Lord Major To which againe I made answer Yes my Lord I had I doe and ever would untill it pleased the King and His Great Councell to alter the Common prayer Booke and then if I could not comply I could leave the kingdome Have you so and do you so and will you so reply'd the Lord Major And so long as you pray for Bishops so long you shall be a prisoner You see now upon what tearmes you may have your libertie To which once more I was thus bold My good Lord I humbly thanke you but I dare not venture a double Duckart to a single pennie Nature Wife Children doe all strongly sollicite me to accept of liberty upon aâ—â— tearmes but God the Church the King mine own soule do all charge me to refuse it unlesse it be Christian an Act of Parliament besides and mine owne Oath lye upon me and untill the one bee repealed and the other dispensed I dare not leave praying for Bishops And when I had said this his Lordship as I conceived was moved with pittie for he said I perceive you are mistaken and I will now rectifie and better informe your understanding That Act of Parliament was made to confirme King Edwards Common Prayer Booke not this which is now extant for many prayers by the meanes of the wicked Hierarchie are crept into this which never were in that To which yet once more with his Lordships favour I thus addressed my Answer But the prayer for the Bishops my Lord is in King Edwards Common prayer Booke Well well Sir said his Lordship I am a Member of the House and know the Houses Intentions To which last on s and so I was remanded to Prison not where I was before Crossebie House but where I am now Gresham Colledge whence I adde these few words to the world my Judge Happily his Lordship hath done Right in my imprisonment for I have infirmities for I am a man but whether he hath done aright judge For for iniquity impurity or impiety more than what God and mine own soule are privie too I dare the world to taxe me for I and a Christian Protestant and feare not the Tryall summon mee when you will my name is Thomas Swadlin THE SOVERAIGNES DESIRE PSALME 122 6. Pray For the peace of Ierusalem IF ever Prayer were necessary to bee preached it is now now prayer Common prayer being so much preached downe by common preachers and spoke downe by common speakers If ever peace were necessary to bee prayed for it is now now peace being so much in feare by feares and jealousies If ever the peace of Ierusalem were necessary to be prayed for it is now now Ierusalem being so much preyed upon that it can scarce receive Tyth s or Offerings that it is now almost under another curse I hope none of Christs a stone scarce left upon a stone the superstructure of Epise pacie disâ—onoured and the subterstructure of the Inferiour Clergie discountenanced And yet prayer is officium excellentissimum the most excellent duty God requires at our hands For it is his glory And yet peace is Donum excellentissimum the most excellent gift we receive at Gods hands For it is our safety And yet Jerusalem is Subjectum excellentissimum the most excellent Subject wee can pray for For it is the most excellent building of Gods hands It was like a City compactâ—d together and at unity in it selfe And yet Ierusalem that most excellent Subject as being the Church of God cannot have peace that most excellent gift of God without performing this most excellent duty prayer to God These are the pâ—rts of my Text and of these parts by Gods assistance and your patience I shall speake apart And when I have so done I shall give you the It is every good mans duty to pray for the peace of the Church And because they are three such excellencies I wish my selfe an Angels tongue that I might fasten them in their transcendency upon your hearts But alasseâ— I am the meanest of my Tribe and very conscious of mine own infirmities I shall though try my skill and God Almighty give the blessing I begin with tâ—e first Pray And it is a most excellent duty this prayer is No man denies it for it is necessary for it is pâ—ofitable there is a necessity of it Part 1 and there is anâ—â—tility in it First it is Necessary For it is not only Documentum a lesson which wee may learne if we will but it is Iussum an Injunction that wee should obey whether we will or no. The vulgar Latine reads those words of Christ thus Orabitis ye shall pray and Tremâ—lius thus Orate pray both Mandatory Mat. 6. If it were but Ipse dixit He hath said it It were enough to binde our Obedience to it This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though there were no more might stop alâ— oppositions with Pythagoras Schollers because hee hath said it It is true because hee hath said iâ— we must doe