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A87669	The messengers preparation for an addresse to the King for a well-grounded peace. As it was delivered in a sermon, at Oxford, on Sunday, Novemb. 24. 1644. Before the commissioners of both kingdomes, the morning before their presenting the propositions to His Majestie. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing K252; Thomason E21_20; ESTC R14495	21,882	36

leave behinde you The Lord never forgets a cup of cold water given to quench the Saints thirst in their necessity how much sooner will it be ingraven upon his heart the providing of cordiall precious portions for his languishing people yea God will provide a compensation for you and yours in all your afflictions Nay you shall treasure up praises for your selves and prayers for your surviving families in the ages that are to come and know this also that God hath riches enough in his Cabinet to make you amends for all you can do or suffer in this way Indeed I have beheld you with such alacrity noble courage expediting your motion endeavouring by all meanes night and day to find out him whom your soules love and long after for the Churches good that the quaere of the Church in the third of the Canticles and the third was to any whom it might concerne your first salute Can you tell us of His Majesty Yea I have seene so much of your unalterable and prepared patience digesting the vulgar curses and affronts as your diet and content with any thing that you might do the Church service that I shall ever blesse God that he yet accommodates the Church with such Friends and the King and Kingdoms with such Worthies who will venture through an host of enemies if possible to fetch water to refresh the Church of God therfore I will spare my self the labour by any more Motives to put you in mind to go on who are ready to run for the Churches and Kingdomes peace All therefore that now remaines is but to hold out to your view some other Observations that I had thought to have handled to complete your preparation for this dayes great Action but in regard you have Summons for the action and but a small parcell of time before you attend His Majesty that I may no way be prejudiciall to your private practice of this preparation or any other becoming so great a work I will briefly shew you the jewells they are ready command me to place them inyour ears at your pleasure and my obedience shall eccho to your order You have heard 1 That Nationall and Personall preparation is necessary for the undertaking any great action for the Church Gather all the Jewes in Shushan I also c. 2 That Representative persons interposing for the Church in a strait deserve representative prayer Fast pray for me 3 Extraordinary and great duty is necessary for the Church in great misery Fast pray night and day eat nor drink c. The fourth you should have heard and I handled is this 4 That messengers of such prayers are ever messengers of praise they are thriving prospering messengers 5 That all selfe must be denied that the Church may be saved We must not thinke of our selves and the Church at one time if we do we shall never go thorough stitch with the work If I perish I perish let me assure you this if you save the Church you cannot lose your selves and if the Church perish juggle and Hocus Pocus it as nearely as you can your sleights will be found out and you cannot save your selves It is no time to feather our nests and build to lay our young when so many stroakes have beene given at the root of the tree seek we great things for our selves for shame no more of it what do we painting our cabines when so many leakes in the ship first stop the leakes get out the water there is a time to trim this cabine afterward Lastly The meanes must be used although our ends are not obtained If we perish we perish For although God can deliver his Church without us yet his usuall method hath been to make choice of some Moses some Ioshuahs Gideons Davids c. for the preservation of his Church nay of Jesus Christ for the salvation of it And now give me leave to wind up all with the practice of that duty for you which I have in this Sermon commended to you Go and the Lord be with you yea the God of heaven blesse you and cause the Kings face to shine upon you and make you glad that he speak nothing but good unto you this day the Lord avert all whispering flattering Doegs this day and returne you with a Message of hope at least if not of present help for these three bleeding Kingdomes yea the Lord make your interposing for the Church as prosperous as Abigails and let the Kings answer be as Davids 1 Sam. 25.31 33 34. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent you this day to meet me and blessed be your advice and blessed be ye which have kept me this day from going on to shed any more of my Subjects innocent blood and from avenging my selfe with my own hand and that he may receive at your hands what you have brought him and say unto you Go up in peace to both my Houses of Parliament see I have karkened to your voyces and accepted your persons give me but favour to add one word in prayer after the Apostles directory 2. Thes 3.16 Now the Lord of peace himselfe give you peace alwaies by all meanes yea now peace and let it be the Lords peace and the Lords free gift of peace let it be peace with him peace with your consciences peace one with another such a peace as all things may prosper with you yea that publike tranquillity and quiet in the Church may follow that it bee not troubled with Schismes and Heresies within or without by persecuting Tyrants ruinating all by slaughters and cruell bloody warres O let every good heart pray for this peace for our Hierusalem that there may be tranquillity in the state and free from forraigne and civill uncivill warres that in the peace thereof we may have peace that these distracted Kingdomes may be in security and void of dangers free from the noise of terrifying alarums and other dangers Yea the Lord give us such a peace that there may be an everlasting Covenant betwixt God and the King betwixt God the King and his people and let us and the whole Church of God heartily cry Amen Amen So be it And so the Lord be with you all to blesse you in the great worke of this day and all other your great imployments for his glory and his Churches good To whom with all our hearts be rendred and ascribed all Honour Glory Power and Praise now and evermore Amen FINIS

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BASILL Earl of DENBIGH VVILLIAM Lord MAYNARD THOMAS Lord Viscount WENMAN William Pierpoint Denzill Hollis and Bulstrode Whitlock Esquires Commissioners of the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of ENGLAND Assembled at Westminster AND JOHN Lord MAITLAND Sir Charles Erskyne and M. Robert Barcklay Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland Sent with the Propositions to His MAJESTY at Oxford Right Honourable Lords and Gentlemen I Speake my experience that if a Souldier succeed well upon his first Charge he is not to be withheld from a second Adventure You favoured this Sermon so much when Preached that I am confident you will not reject it Printed nor this my Dedicatory although I begin not after the common stamp of Dedication with some hoary or gray-headed Apophthegme or some strained sentence out of Tully I professe my selfe a Souldier during this Cause as well as a Schollar and therefore must crave leave to speake in such language as affectionate duty can best expresse it self by the tongue I confesse when I meditate the height of your noble Spirits and withall the flatnesse of my poore abilities as I present this in love so with much feare lest my endeavours convert into a vapour ere they can reach the height of your merit sloope but so low as to cherish them and it shall ever adde to your Honour The antient and moderne custome of Dedication of Bookes to the hands of Emminency was and is either to have them powerfully protected or in affection as devoted or to appeare gratefull for benefits received all these moved me to hover under your wings being confident that you that under God protected me out of the jawes of the Lyons and Beares will also protect me from the greatest Philistims And therefore have I presumed to prefix your names it being none of the smallest hazards I have run to oppose this Sermon to the worlds view whereby I expect to be charged againe and againe and it would conclude me guilty of Poultranisme to feare the Sciopii and Pacientii heere when not the Zosimi at Oxford I well know carping curiosity will have its lash at me too Aelian reports when Diogenes saw certaine Rodian Gallants gorgeously attyred he laughed saying Hic nihil est praeter Fastum And after seeing certaine Laconians in sordid apparell Et hic alius Fastus est said he These poore-clad lines I feare will not passe without envy and without the censure of pride and ambition how ever whilst you keep the Front I fear no charge neither Oxfords sword nor any other two-edged sword of the tongue and the lesse because I perceive opinions and censures are as various as the Arguments on which they discourse Calumny and squint-ey'd detraction violently charging against Christian charity and judgment in these times And to save them a labour I care not to let them know although that many a storm and tempest hath beat against me yet God hath not suffered me to be cast down And whatever they shall say with Apollonius I resolve they may trouble themselves but I will not be troubled at whatsoever the one shall say or the other do I have long before this time Dedicated my life in this Cause to God in the Parliaments Service any thing lesse then the losse of it I can easily endure It must be a long feast to find a dish for every appetite and many in these times will find faults that will not mend one I never indeed intended the publishing this Sermon before the preaching of it nor could ever gain time to refine it since only importunity of some friends and the mis-report that I heard it had to his Majesty made me presume with your Favour to show the world the Truth and implore your Honours to be Judges of it My first thoughts when I meditated this subject were onely to breath into your unfurled sayles such a blast as might give you the advantage to make a saving voyage to your selves if not a more prosperous voyage for the whole Church of God importunate prayer being the fairest wind can blow in the heavens to carry the Church of God to her safe Port. And as David rescuing his wives and recovering his goods from the Enemy was never a whit the lesse honour to him because a young man made way for the discovery so it being your happinesse to be imploy'd in this service so becoming nobility or any of the sonnes of men to seeke peace for the Church of God in which Gods blessing Mat. 5. attends you is it any diminution to your honour that I the meanest of my brethren pointed you the way to prosper It being the constant prayer of my soule daily that you may reape the fruits of those so brave and gallantly mannaged labours yea I hourely expect and look out for a return of those adventures from heaven even when God shall speake by His Majesty to his three Kingdomes Peace which is the hearty prayer as also for all your honours that you may still do worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlehem of him who is Yours devoted even by word and deed to the losse of his utmost drop of bloud To serve you for JESUS CHRIST Samuel Kem. The MESSENGERS Preparation For an Addresse to THE KING For a Well-grounded PEACE Delivered in a SERMON at Oxford UPON ESTHER Chap. 4. Vers 16. Goe gather together all the Jewes that are present in Shushan and fast ye for me and neither eat nor drink three dayes night or day I also and my maydens will fast likewise and so I will go in unto the King which is not according to the Law and if I perish I perish OUr new practices against the Church proceed from old Principles and what an Ocean of Saints bloud hath streamed out from the fountaine of Cains malice as if there were a new project to deluge that with bloud which GOD preserved from water his righteous family the Scriptures plentifully demonstrate but with this observable hint of refreshing that this Red Sea hath in the end ever devoured the devourers and although by division shrunk up it selfe into straits to spare a passage to the Church of God for it's deliverance So that the Church of God is not now to learne to be content to be let blood it may in probability prove good for it to be so afflicted this is not the first plot intended against it for utter extirpation nor you the first messengers called forth by Providence to speake unto Majesty for it's preservation cherish then and augment that courage that I seeme to see seated in your aspects most noble Patriots although invisoned with Enemies invellopt with difficulties to sense no probability to escape revilings nor possibility to return prevailing You have a sufficient call you have a good and all-sufficient God a just Cause unjust Enemies many potent prayers all impotent curses a promise of a blessing a President of good suceesse in this Booke Put on