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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

Psal 107.1 2. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for ever Let the redeemed of the Lord say so for of all men in the world they have most cause to know and acknowledge the same Use 2 The next Use is a Use of Exhortatiō to us all Col. 1.10 11. to walk worthy of these mercies liberties opportunities that we enjoy and to be fruitfull in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulnesse walk humbly with thy God do justly Micah 6.8 love mercie walk before the Lord in the land of the living Now especially having such an opportunitie Ezek. 18.34 while God calls for Reformation Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit Or beg earnestly of God Psal 51.10 Luke 11.13 to create in you a cleane heart and to give you his holy Spirit Why will ye dy O house of Israel Now now I say while those in authority do also call for Reformation Prov. 17.16 why should we be so foolish not to lay hold of a price thus put into our hands The Apostle sayth Gal. 6.10 as wee have therefore Opportunity or a season for so the same word is translated in the verse going before it let us doe good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 6.9 redeeme we therefore the opportunity or season 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 5.15 16 by double diligence walking circumspectly not as fooles but as wise Let me stir up My selfe and You hereunto with these three Motives 1 Motive Acts Mon. Vol. 3. p. 168. John 8.56 Acts Mon. Vol. ● p. 367. Acts Mon. Vol. 3. p. 877. 878. Our godly parents by faith foresaw and longed for these times and rejoyced that we their posterity should enjoy them As Christ told the Jews Your Father Abraham saw my day and rejoyced did they pray for this opportunity as for a great mercie and did they rejoyce in the expectation of it and are we entered into the possession of the fruits of their prayers and of the harvest of their endeavours and doe not we make use of this season nor rejoyce in it How shall we answer God or our Parents at the day of judgement Will not they then be ashamed of such Children as we 2 Pet. 3.11 do but thinke what manner of persons they expect we should be 2 Motive Covenant Another Motive may be drawn from the Covenant we have lifted up our hands to the most high God and engaged our selves to goe each before others in a reall Reformation Beware that be not verified of us which was said of Israel They have spoken words swearing falsely in making a Covenant Hosea 10.4 John 5.45 Mal. 3.5 M. Tho. Case in his Epistle before Quar. Covenant Levit. 26.25 for then Christ in whom we say we believe he I say himselfe will be a swift witnesse against the false swearers And as a worthy Labourer in the Lords harvest lately wrote If God be dallyed withall in this Covenant I tremble to thinke what will become of us It is the strongest Physick that ever the Kingdom tooke and I am almost confident saith he That as in the publike State it wil either put a period to our distempers or to our being so in thy personall condition it will either blast thy lusts or stay thy soule My reason is because God is engaged If we be found conscientious of this Covenant he is engaged to us against our enemies without and our lusts within and they shall not be able to stand upon us If after so solemne an Obligation we shall be found to mock God we have engaged him against us and adde the Almighty to the number of our enemies a swift and a powerfull witnesse and avenger of our perfidiousnesse Nor will refusall of this Covenant help us when God shall come to interpret It will be found Job 22.17 I feare sayth he in most but a depart from us And when God shall answer the daring sinner in his own language Psal 78.9 10 36 37. Levit. 26.25 Deut. 29.24 25 3 Motive woe to the poore wretch that ever he was borne Be not therefore like the children of Ephraim for he will avenge the quarrell of the Covenant Again the more Exhortations Excitations and Opportunities we have to put us upon this duty if we neglect it the greater will our condemnation be We having exhortations from Magistrates and Ministers what shall we say for our selves how shall we excuse our neglect Our Fathers would run hazards to heare the word of God and humbled themselves before God in private when they could not be suffered in publike so to doe and we their children by nature not by grace refuse the same in publike though we be not onely encouraged but also required and commanded to performe these duties both by our present most gracious Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty The religious observation of the monethly Fast and his high and Honourable Parliament How can this neglect and contempt both of the Laws of God and of the land be answered And so in regard of the plenty of the means of grace which we enjoy Matth. 11.21 22.23 it shall be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment then for such as have had abundance of means and not made good use thereof the higher they be lifted up the lower they shall be thrown down Heb. 2.1.2 3. Therefore we I may well say ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest as any time we should let them slip For if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him Our own consciences shall first accuse secondly beare witnesse against thirdly judge and condemne lastly execute and torment our own selves O wicked wretch that I was I had so many such opportunities as few had the like and yet I like a fool trifled and wasted away such pretious times and seasons 1 John 3.20 And if our consciences shall conditione us God will much more condemne us because God is infinitely great Every one of us in this condition without repentance shall mourn at the last Prov. 5.11 12 15 14. and say How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproofe and I have not obeyed the voyce of my teachers c. Use 3 This Doctrine also affords sweet consolation to the godly soul for all the power of earthly Kingdoms their Latitude and Longitude their breadth and length their extent their continuance and duration are