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A95662	Hiervsalem: or A vision of peace. In a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the honourable House of Commons at their monethly fast, Aug. 28. 1644. By Christopher Tesdale, Pastor at Husborn Tarrant, in the county of Southampton, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Tesdale, Christopher, b. 1591 or 2.	1644 (1644)	Wing T792; Thomason E7_19; ESTC R2601	22,081	35

young murthered and butchered without number and without mercy Nay the same hands have acted over the same bloody parts with us what plundering what leading captive what imprisoning what starving what hanging what murthering and massacring have wee had As if our owne breed brats of the same litter had vied with those Monsters of Ireland for blood and cruelty Peerlesse Lords incomparable Knights Patriots much of our brave Gentry truehearted Yeomanry have sacrificed their dearest Lives in this unhappy quarrell lives too precious to be so vilely cast away though with infinite oddes upon the scumme of the Land men baser then the earth and yet for all this the wrath of the Lord is not turned away the Sword is not yet sheathed the unnaturall issue of blood in the body of the Kingdome is not stopped nor stanched yet Is it not high time then for Aaron to take his Censer in his hand and runne between the living and the dead O pray for the Peace c. The men of Israel have turned their backs and falne too before the men of A●… Is it not time then for godly Joshua and the Elders of Israel to rent their cloathes and with blubbering teares cry unto the Lord O pray for peace Israel and Amalek joine battaile daily should not then Moses hands be lifted up in prayer and Aaron and Hur help sustaine them till the Lord hath avenged us of our enemies O pray for peace When Christs Sheepe are but a little flock their enemies many you may call them Legion and as bloody and ravenous as evening Wolves should not the Vine branches out of a sense of their naturall weaknesse twine and pleat as it were hand in hand and arme in arme should the Lambs appointed for the slaughter amidst such a world of Butchers straggle one from another breake into factions and schismes and so gratifie the common enemy Hoc I hacus velit et magno mercentur Atridae Should they not rather enfold associate keep close together and sweetly accord among themselves O pray for the Peace When so many Kings have given their power to the Beast to wage warre against the Lamb and the Israel of God should not Hierusalem be a City that is at unity in it selfe O pray for the Peace of Hierusalem Now that the great Cause of the whole Kingdome is handling and debating in the High Court of Parliament should the people of the Land suffer their own suit forwant of incouragement to starve upon their hands Now that the great Argosie the ship royal of Church commonwealth is in danger to dash upon the rocks or be swallowed up of Quicksands by an Euroclydon the Malignity of crosse and contrary winds unlesse those worthy Pilots who sit at Stern by some propitious gale from Heaven be able to guide and conduct her to the faire Havens of Peace should wee not all lend an helping hand should wee not all have an Oare in this Boat when we have all adventures in it should we not cry and shout after it Peace Peace Peace bee within thy walls for my brethren and companions sake I will now say Peace bee within thee O pray for the Peace c. Surely we Christians ought to prize as a meane of our greatest good the peaceable frequenting publike assemblies and our future serving of God Merchants are more glad of a calme then common Mariners and make too a higher use of it So should we Christians of halcyon dayes of Peace then Heathens forasmuch as wee may and ought to improve them to richer ends of Gods glory and our owne salvation But is' t no more now but aske and have pray and and speed must we stand still and see the salvation of God Faith and dependance upon God doth not evacuate our own indeavours prayer doth not justifie the neglect but presupposeth the use of all other meanes which God shall put into our hands we may put forth the arme of flesh but must not rely upon it Indeed prayer alone will doe the deed in them that have no strength and God no doubt will help his people in such a case even by a miracle yet we must not tempt God and expect that Manna in Canaan which he intends but for the Wildernesse For David to stand fidling with an Harpe in his hand hoping to charm the evill Spirit when Saul stands desparately armed with a Javelin in his who can commend his wisdome or promise him any security 'T is time now to lay hold on Goliahs Sword and well advised hee was there is none to that Co●nsell and strength are for the warre Rabshakeh was right in this Fas est ab hoste doceri Counsell that is your work honoured Senators and it should be sound and secret the everlasting Counsellor make it such that you may decree a thing and the Lord may bring it to passe and let him never prosper if there be yet any false Brother any close Spy in your bosome to reveale arcana Imperii to your enemies there must bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as either 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moses in the Mount praying Aaron and Hur staying up his hands and Joshua beneath with an Army fighting with Amalek And here my heart is toward the Governours among the people those noble Commanders and Valiants of Israel whether of our owne Nation or our brethren of Scotland whose affection was so enflamed towards us that the sharpest winter season could not abate it whose love was so great that many waters could not quench it nor the floods drowne it all that jeopard their lives unto the death in the high places of the field and among these as high in merit those lightning Legions of the City bands who so willingly offer themselves to the help of the Lord the help of the Lord against the mighty The good Lord remember them for this and reward all their kindnesse an hundred-fold into their bosome and let this be written for the Generations that are to come that the people that are unborn may praise the Lord. And verily they that come not in now fall deservedly under Meroz curse how much more they that help the mighty against the Lord who Nero-like rip up the bowels of their owne Mother the men of Smyrna had but a poore and beggerly kind of charity yet they prayed for their neighbours of Chios but these are so farre from praying for them that they prey upon them and more inhumane then the very Cannibals devoure those of their own Countrey but let them take heed lest as Philip branded a Souldier that would have begged the Land of his honest host with ingratus hospes ungrateful wretch up on his forehead so God brand them for their base thoughts of making our worthy Patriots a trampled footstool to their ambition raising their broken fortune upon the ruines of the three Kingdoms and cause their

HIERVSALEM OR A VISION of PEACE IN A SERMON PREACHED At Margarets in Westminster before the Honourable House of COMMONS at their Monethly Fast Aug. 28. 1644. By CHRISTOPHER TESDALE Pastor at Husborn Tarrant in the County of Southampton and a Member of the Assembly of DIVINES ISA. 28. 18. O that thou hadst harkned to my Commandements then had thy Peace been as a River JUDG 5. 8. They chose new gods then was warre in the gates LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Phil. Stephens and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Golden Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1644. Die Mercurii 28 Augusti 1644. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Mr. Cawley and Mr. Herle doe from this House give thanks to Mr. Tesdale for the great paines hee took in the Sermon he Preached this day at the intreaty of this House at St. Margarets Westminster it being the day of publick humiliation and to desire him to Print his Sermon And it is ordered that none shall presume to Paint his Sermon without Licence under his hand writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I doe give licence to Philemon Stephens onely to print my Sermon Christopher Tesdale TO THE HONOVRABLE THE HOVSE of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Worthy Fathers of your Country IT is said of the Ambassadours of the King of Persia that comming to Athens the Metropolis of Learning in the time of the seven Wise men they desired that each of them would deliver in his sentence that they might report unto their Master the wisedome of Greece which accordingly they did only one of them was silent which the Ambassadors observing intreated him also to cast in his symbole with the rest Tell your Prince quoth hee there are of the Grecians that can hold their peace Verily it had been my wisdome altogether to have held my Peace in such an Audience or having spoken once to have proceeded no further but as this Sermon such as it is came to the birth by your Authority so your Command now is the Midwifery to bring it forth The ice thus broken I shall make a double vertue of this necessity First by supplying and making out the failings of mine own unfaithfull Memory and this done though there were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in mee yet I hope to finde an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an act of oblivion from you Secondly I shall bee your remembrancer by restoring the losse of the care to the eye Words wee say are wind and unlesse they bee taken upon the wing even while they are flying and brought to the Presse they are gone and lost You know whose wish it was Oh that my words were now written Oh that they were Printed in a Book as if that were the onely way to preserve the memory of things and to imprint them so deeply in the m●nde as never to bee forgotten And though I may seeme hereby to serve in your cloyed appetites with a Crambe his cocta and obtrude upon you that which is no way worthy to bee laid up in those full fraught promptuaries of better notions it may bee yet of some use to meaner understandings and by this meanes too that wh●ch was delivered in the ears of one Congregat●on shall be offered to the publ●ck view of all who so will may take and read and if by any thing herein I may for the promoting the great cause in hand in the least measure put more life into our Devotions more speed and quicknesse into our motions I have my end And now Ever honoured Patriots that I have been Gods remembrancer to you I will bee bold to bee your remembrancer to God that the Lord of Peace himselfe would give you peace alwayes and by all meanes that hee would let you see Hierusalem in prospe●ity and peace upon Israel and in recompence of all your work of Faith and labour of Love and Patience of Hope hee would fill you with length of honourable time here and with a glorious eternity hereafter Yours in the Lord the meanest and lowest of all my Masters Servants CHRISTOPHER TESDALE HIERVSALEM OR A VISION of PEACE PSAL. 122. 6. O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem THE inspired Penman of this Psalme and Song of Degrees recounting with joy of heart the present flourishing estate of Hierusalem the City of the great King and the holy Sanctuary the place where Gods honour dwelt and under that the inestimable blessing the people of Israel injoyed in the pure Ordinances and worship of God and the due administration of Judgement and Justice in the Land by way of apostrophe turnes him to the godly of those times and cals in the Auxiliary help of their pious devotions for the happy continuance of this welfare of the Church and people of God O pray for the peace of Hierusalem Wherein we discover first the divine Oratory of the man of God putting life into his Doctrine Secondly his zealous affection exciting others to holy duties O pray Thirdly his able direction pointing out 1. The right means of obtaining al good blessings pray 2. A choyce subject of Prayer peace 3. A choyce subject of peace Hierusalem A word or two of the former of these by way of Introduction as not altogether beg'd at the doore of the Text The first is a divine kind of Rhetorick a powerfull delivery becomming him that speaketh the Oracles of God which no Academy can teach no quaint straines of Arts or parts can reach onely a supernaturall principle of Grace true zeale at the heart heavenly affections sutable to the life and spirit of the Word will naturally produce it without straining The people were able to say then by their own happy experience that our Saviour Christ taught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as one having authority and not as the Scribes and Pharisees those dull Doctors of the Law that were never able to keep Moses chaire warme but cold Sermons made bold sinners This was it which made the Disciples hearts whilst Christ opened Moses and the Prophets to them to burn within them this made Apollo eloquent in the Scriptures and Paul mistaken for Heavens Mercury quite putting down Tertullus the Oratour and the Town-clerk in the Acts so as it was one of Aust●…ns wishes to have seen Paulum in ore to have heard Paul in the Pulpit the most Seraphicall Preacher of the Doctrine of Grace Multum intererit Davusne loquatur an herus insomuch as the same Sermon from sundry mens mouths differs as much as the flight of an Arrow from the arme of a Giant and the hand of a childe Praise saith Solomon is uncomely in the mouth of a Foole he cannot frame his speech to that Dialect he hath no skill in the language of Canaan But oh how savoury doe words come from gracefull lips and a gratious heart how doe they carry with them the very breathings of Gods owne mouth how doe they warme the coldest hearts and quicken the deadest spirits A man