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A94303	Moderation iustified, and the Lords being at hand emproved, in a sermon at VVestminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: preached at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the county of Norfolke: one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order from that House.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1069; Thomason E23_6	31,603	39

torne and rent with such civill uncivill unnaturall and bloudy distractions If it had beene said to any of thy people foure or five yeares since that they should doe such things as are now done in the midst of thee they would have replied with the indignation of Hazael 2. King 8. 13. Are we dogges destitute of all humanity to doe this and yet wretched things are done by men Christian men Englishmen against Englishmen professing the same Religion protesting the same Cause and End of their quarrell O that thou couldst yet discerne those formidable clouds of bloud in their scattering but alasse they threaten worser evils even to make thee a full sea of bloud within as thou art without surrounded by water for the wofull divisions of England there be great thoughts of heart I will not say as Ieremie 2. 12. Be ye astonished O heavens at this Nor be ashamed ye Husbandmen Ioel 1. 11. But let all those be ashamed and astonished Prophets and people that have not helped to quench but kindle this fire This is indeed a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation Ezek. 19. 14. But to returne from this sad complaint upon our most miserable dissensions a dolefull presage that the Lord is at hand the props of the world decay prodigious sights portend as much and the fainting of mens hearts fore-bode the same I am not ignorant that some convinced by strong evidence of Christs reigning here upon earth before that time understand all these places of that coming of Christ and my purpose is not at all to pry into those hard and hidden moments of Gods owne concealing and sure I am those that wade this way meet with deepe difficulties as bow ●irst all the fore-named Scriptures should be so applied 1 Cor. 10. 11. The ends of the world are come and it is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Romane world or Empire as Luk. 2. 1. And Saint Peter is yet more universally expresse The end of all things is at hand 1 Pet. 4. 7. Secondly the day of judgement is called A great and notable day Act. 2. 20. An appointed day 17. 31. Yet it is more then one one of the dayes of the Sonne of man Luk. 17. 22. 26. Thirdly Who can determine the finals of the Beasts power unlesse the Originals were manifest Rev. 13. 5 c. I might say much of Ancient and Moderne confidences this way but my purpose is to improve the remaining time allotted in the serious consideration of what God himselfe tels we ought all practically learne from the Lords being at hand and the judgements now in the land may and ought to hasten these truths home to our soules First Repentance Speedy Repentance from dead workes reade Act. 17. 30 31. Now he commandeth all men every where to repent because he hath appointed a day in which he will iudge the world c. Many things are here observable but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Now is that I desire to fasten upon you and my selfe for if in Saint Pauls dayes it was an argument of and to Repentance it should much more accelerate us thereunto upon whom the Lord is nearer now by sixteene hundred yeeres Consider with thy selfe then O my soule and suppose thou wert here guilty of some capitall crime for which the Iudge were ready to reckon with thee and passe sentence of death or deliverance as he finds thee couldest thou sleepe or be secure or wouldest thou trifle away thy time would not all thy care be by some meanes or other to gaine favour from the Iudge Be thou assured O my soule That the ungodly shall not stand in the iudgement Psal 1. 5. Thy conscience knows what a load of sinne lies upon thee even a burden too heavie for thee to beare Psal 38. 4. Oh why dost thou not hasten to ease thy selfe of this weight by unfained repentance before the Iudge come and pronounce the irrevocable sentence Read and remember to doe as Act. 3. 19. Repent ye and be converted that your sinnes may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Infinit is the matter of our Humiliation in respect of nature persons and nation of past and present times but this day and those next it have beene heretofore the onely merry season of the yeare and the Devill hath beene served better on those Twelve dayes then on all the twelve moneths beside and our Master Christ hath most unchristianly by many been dishonoured even in those dayes said to be devoted to his glory And I may borrow here the words of Nicholas de Clemangis M. p. 143. touching his Popish Festivities What heathen man if he had come into those feasts seene and heard our Christmas Gamboles would not have taken them rather to be the Floralia of Venus or the Orgia of Bacchus then Christian holy dayes and who can lay his hand upon his heart and say he is innocent as touching this in all respects Ordinance Great cause therefore had your Ordinance to command this day to be kept with more solemne humiliation because it may call to remembrance our sinnes and the sinnes of our fore-fathers who have turned this feast pretending the memory of Christ into an extreme for getfulnesse of him by giving libertie to carnall and sonsuall delights being contrary to the life which Christ himselfe led here upon earth Those dayes were professedly dedicated to extraordinary mirth and rejoycing we read no such thing of our Master Christ at any time but he wept often and offered up many prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares Heb. 5. 7. Our Master Christ was never idle but went about doing good Act. 10. 38. and elsewhere every where in the Gospel but among us it was accounted almost a crime for men or their servants to doe any labour on any of those dayes practises as your Ordinance said truly contrary to the spirituall life of Christ in our soules for the sanctifying and saving whereof Christ was pleased both to take an humane life and to lay it downe againe but the extreme forgetfulnesse of Christ in those dayes of Christ the extreme excesse of carnall and sensuall delights were most extremely distant from that spirituall life should be in Christians who worke out their salvation with feare and trembling Phil. 2. 12. not in secure heathenish and profane merriment They passe the time of their soiourning here in feare 1 Pet. 1. 17. Not onely because he that hath called us is holy and bids us to be so likewise vers 15. 16. but because of our redemption by the precious bloud of Christ c. vers 18 19. therefore we should passe our time in feare not in wanton wild and impious pastimes which doe put men into a posture altogether unmeet for the service of Christ or care of our soules had the Nation no other sinnes to answer for surely without the bloud of Christ whom

and yet God not robbed of his honour care being taken that their sports be not sinfull nor they in them and if any Sermon or Lecture occasionally be in the place and on the day of their refreshings that they repaire thither also for even the Canons of 1604. required Schoolemasters to bring their Schollers to the Sermons see them quietly and civilly behave themselves there and examine them at times convenient what they have learned by such comming Yea their condition then both inwardly and outwardly will bee much bettered Can. 79. And to the other part of the Objection I say First I wish on mine owne behalfe and others that those heathenish mad and riotous usages had never been knowne among Christians and that now they might be quite abandoned for ever but let the neighbour-hood and charity of those times at least in some time of the yeere be continued sure I am that some who had withered hands all the yeere beside did at that season stretch them out to the poore Secondly Though this day of Christs Birth be thus overcome by our monethly Fast yet our Saviours Nativitie hath and shall have its Commemoration not onely in the Day solemnized for his Resurrection in which is involved all the Complement and Consummation of Christs doing and suffering and Exaltation but further the Lords Day is thought to be the very determinate Day of the weeke when Christ was borne for those that mention the Priviledges of the elder Brother the first Day of the weeke say it was not onely the first Day of the world no night went before it Alb. M. Comp. p. 158. but it shall be the last day and no night shall come after it and that it was the very Day of Christs Birth and Baptisme c. Thirdly If the serious disquisition of Historians and Mathematicians shall calculate and designe the moneth the day I shall not vote against the Christian celebration therof but as at Berne when the Gospel was first reintroduced they set their prisoners at libertie and proclaimed freedome and we observe a Day in memory of our Deliverance from that Hellish Romish Powder Plot so if God please to deliver us from the Diabolicall designes of these times I hope you will appoint a Day in Commemoration thereof Fifthly Jejunia And for Fasting Dayes your Christian Moderation is already made known not twice or thrice in the weeke which they said of old might savour of vain-glory Vit. Pat. part 2. p. 150. 4. neither have you commanded such rigourous observation as Luther blamed in Melanct. macerating his body Vit. ubi sup quasi ferrum aut saxum esset nor as Bernard who confessed he did too much debilitate his body by abstinence and watching but as Zach. 8. 19. The Fast of the fourth moneth c. and yet besides this you have had many other occasionall dayes of Humiliation that which you had the last weeke among your selves was most remarkable among men and acceptable we are assured unto your God also and yet I crave leave to invite unto one Solemn Fast more Oh that a Trumpet were blown in Sion and a Fast sanctified but I would have it sanctified thorow both the Armies in all the Kingdome and though your power reach not so farre I wish it were tendered to them and triall were made of them however two most memorable occasions implore Divine direction and blessing upon your unwearied labours First Treatie of Pacification is in your serious endeavours that the Kingdoms may yet be happy in a safe and well-grounded Peace it is high time to hasten it the whole Land almost is already laid waste by the Sword which if not speedily sheathed is bringing upon us a worse evill unavoydably a Famine for they that be slain with the sword are better then they that be slain with hunger c. Lam. 4. 9. but let not the feare of Sword or Famine scare you into any other Peace then that which is the Peace of God made in Christ joyned with truth else a greater mischiefe will fall upon the Nation then warre or hunger Not a famine of bread or a thirst for water but of hearing the word of God c. Amos 8. 11. Great cause have we therefore now to cry mightily unto God and seeke of him a right way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance Ezr. 8. 21. Secondly The great change in Ecclesiasticals that is to appeare suddenly in the Kingdome in respect of Worship and Government may well double our devotions in this very time Prolog in Matth. Hierome Writes that when Cerinthus Ebion and other heretiques denyed Christs coming in the flesh the holy men of those times desired Saint Iohn the Evangelist to write his Gospel in their confutation which he promised upon their undertaking to Fast and Pray for Gods blessing which done Saint Iohn he said was full of the holy Ghost and wrote In the beginning was the Word c. Joh. 1. 1. And indeed when the greatnesse of this worke is looked upon with the multitude of opposers there is great reason we should all with our holiest diligence invocate the Majestie of heaven that these things may tend to his glory and finde acceptation in the souls hearts and lives of the people Sixthly Ecclesiastici The men of my Profession desire to have a share in your Moderation also and indeed I cannot think but that of Titus otherwhere called Joseph de B. J. 7. lib. c. 13. deliciae humani generis favoured not of humanitie when his souldiers had taken the Temple at Hierusalem and the Priests begged their lives he denyed them saying they should perish together I wish all the evils of these men were destroyed but doe none of their persons deserve favour did none of them to their power withstand the inundation of superstition When the Monks and Nunnes here thrust themselves out of their unclean Cages they had salaries for their lives and in other countreys Exire poterunt ad laborem Mycou Vit. Zuingli coniugium literas quis erat animus They were dismissed from their employment but had stipends to their death You have already herein declared your Moderation in assigning a portion for the support of wife and children and it were well if no complaints were brought before you against some that are so loath to part there with Seventhly Heterodoxi Another sort of men call for your Moderation yea and plead merit too I know not what to call them but I meane the men of many opinions though I hope they be neither so numerous nor faultie as their opposites suggest and yet to as many of them as pretend to godlinesse and be with us in Covenant I say no more but wish them to read it to study it to keep it in the rest I would wonder with what conscience or wisdome they abstaine from that bond when the Romanists universally are in armed