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A28659 A doore of hope, also holy and loyall activity two treatises delivered in severall sermons, in Excester / by Iohn Bond ...; Doore of hope Bond, John, 1612-1676. 1641 (1641) Wing B3569; ESTC R23253 104,423 165

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also how Phineas and his posterity came to have the Priest-hood setled upon them it was his publike zeale which procured that and therfore see what is said of him and his Num. 25.10 ver 11. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Phineas the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel c. Wherefore say Behold ver 12. J give unto him my Covenant of peace and he shall have it and his seed after him ver 13. even the Covenant of an everlasting Priesthood because he was zealous for his God c. Would we then Brethren upon a blessed time in a blessed worke follow the presidents of our blessed Predecessours now in glory Would we adorne our high Calling confirme our selves in it and perhaps entaile the same upon our posterities after us In a word would we make us and ours rich in mercies of all sorts Lo now now is that precious time in which we above others are called in an holy and loyall way to informe the minds to kindle the hearts to open the eyes and mouthes and to strengthen the hands of all our people for the furtherance of the blessed worke of Reformation And let me say further unto you all and to my selfe in the last place somewhat like that of Mordecai to Esther Est 4.14 Who knoweth whether wee are come to our places to our callings yea into the world for such a time as this 3. Particular Lesson to Parents and Masters to all Governours of Families True ye are no publike Magistrates nor Ministers yet know that to your own Families ye are in a private way both as Kings and Prophets Kings to governe and Prophets to instruct them Exercise therfore both these offices now towards your children and servants for the furtherance of the present great publick work in these two duties 1. As Kings reforme and purge your severall Families especially from those obstructive sins which may hinder the publick Deliverance and Reformation When Moses was imployed to be the Deliverer of Israel it had almost cost him his life Ex 4.14 for that he had neglected Family reforming And it came to passe by the way in the Inne that the Lord met him and sought to kill him ver 25. But wherfore You may see the cause by the effect Then Zipporah tooke a sharpe stone and cut off the foreskin of her sonne c. He had neglected Circumcision in his own house and therfore could not safely be an instrument of the great and publick work So when King Asa did sweare and set himself to reforme the Kingdome he takes not the last turn to his own Idolatrous Mother Maacha who 't is like was one of his family 2 Chro. 15.16 He remooved her from being Queene because she had made an Idoll in a Grove and Asa cut downe her Idoll and stamped it and burnt it at the brooke Kidron Let every Governour of a Family follow that president now in his house let him purge it from all Superstition Atheisme Halting Profanenesse From all Vnbeliefe murmurings and unthankefullnesse which might hinder approaching mercies Once more to this purpose look upon Iacobs example many evils and dangers had befallen him after his returne from Laban Gen. 34. especially about Shalem a City of Shechem there his only daughter is ravished two of his elder sons do commit murther and now the name of Iacob doth stinke among the Inhabitants of the land But what shall he doe in this case to deliver himselfe and all his Behold Family-Reformation is his only means for their generall preservation and the Lord himself doth direct him to this course Gen. 35.1 Arise Goe up to Bethel and dwell there and make an Altar unto God c But how may this be done He must and doth first purge his owne houshold Then Jacob said unto his Houshold and to all that were with him put away the strange gods that are among you ver 2 3 4 c. and be cleane and change your garments So in these times whosoever would be an instrument of the publick Deliverance let him first be a private Reformer and set his owne house in order That must you do as Kings 2. As Prophets Catechize your children and servants in the state of these times so farre as shall be fit for their condition Quest But how farre is that and what is it Answ 1. Shew them all the publike execrable things and persons unvailed that they may be able in some measure to discerne betweene the righteous and the wicked that they may know what to choose and what to abhorre for whom to pray and against what Thus this act of Amalck in the Text is commanded of God to be written by Moses not only for all the children of that age but also to be declared to the Generations unborne And the Lord said unto Moses write this for a memoriall in a booke and rehearse it in the eares of Joshuah c. Much more ought we to catechize this present age 2. Acquaint them also with the hopes of Deliverance and Reformation begun that so they may be directed and kindled to put up right praises and prayers and to use all other holy and loyall meanes in their power towards the promotion of this great worke of providence Thus the Israclitish Parents were commanded to instruct their children concerning the Lords Passeover in Aegypt Ex. 12.26 27. I pray remember those two duties That 's your Lesson 4. Lesson to all Particular Single and Private Persons There are many things which ye may doe towards the great worke What Lesson among all my six generall ones may not be practised by you viz. First To humble for and to purge from your former cowardice and pollutions Next To come over heartily to the right side and engage your selves unto it Then To value and prize degrees of Deliverance and Reformation received Fourthly To take use and improove the first fruits and hansels of mercy Next To informe at least the Informers against all offensive things and persons greevers and greevances And finally To praise and pray with all manner of Supplications Behold all these things are in the power of private persons to doe them in some degree Be ye of courage therfore and let every one of us play the man in an holy and loyall way for our God our King our Religion Lawes Parliaments and Priviledges against all the race of Amalek OBIECTIONS Bu● I know that your private single inferiour persons are full of Objections against this Exhortation I shall endeavour therfore to answer the most materiall ones fully though briefly This deserveth to be mentioned in the first place 1. OBIECTION I am but one and what can one man doe by himselfe towards a publike Reformation Ans I answer to the whole Objection together 1. There may be more active spirits nearer at hand then thou thinkest 1 Kin.
were certainly going But to remove that deceit of heart consider these particulars 1. First that some were utterly and actually already gone and driven out and this both East and West can too truly testifie Looke Eastward into Holland and how many of our choyce and extraordinary Teachers were driven thither and durst not shew their heads here untill this Parliament for fear of Prisons and Pursevants and all for scrupling at a few Ceremonies confessed by the Innovators themselves to be indifferent Look but upon the books of those Ministers which they have sent over since their banishment Looke upon their Sermons and services done for us besides the damnage to cloathing occasioned by their departure and then you cannot but acknowledge that many of our choise Ministers were driven away actually into the East to our great damnage But the West can tell us of a farre greater number now wandring in the Deserts of America One man of God is a precious Jewell in a Kingdome and may doe much for the publick safety and Reformation of a whole Land in time of need as we see in Elijah and Elisha 2 Kin. 2.12 what a losse is it then to one poore Island to have scores of such Chariots and Horse-men driven away at a clap 2. Others if not quite gone yet were going apace How many honest Kenites were packing up their Fardels 1 Sam. 15. v. 6. how many powerfull Pastours in England were just now upon the hiding point Some for Ceremonies others for faithfullnesse in their Ministry were fain to fly from chamber to chamber to hide themselves These beginnings of Ministers banishment may ensure and convince us sufficiently that the Continuance of those that remain is a mercy yea a favour Superlative Secondly and as of Ministers so for the continuance of all other Spirituall and Nationall good things which I say again stood a tiptoe and were as it were upon the wing they are all new given unto us We may say of them all as the father of his returning Prodigall Lu. 15. v. 24. They were dying and are alive againe they were losing and are found Hast thou an estate of Lands or houses goe home and new date thy leases let them all run from the yeare 1640. I say againe One thousand Six hundred and fourty for then was thy tearme renewed I mean that very yeare might thy lands have been Aceldama the stage of warres and thine houses fewell for wilde-fire In a word hast thou but a wife children yea a life of thine owne to lose I tell thee man all these are new given thee too in the same yeare 1640. And therefore as the Lord by Moses said to Israel concerning the Moneth Abib Exod. 12. v. ● This moneth shall be unto you the beginning of moneths it shall be the first moneth of the yeare to you So may I say of this very yeare unto us all and especially to Ministers of the moneth November in this particular that this deserves to be accounted the beginning of our yeares and moneths In a word in them we received our second first being Consider therefore to close this point how all our old good things are now become new 5. Head of this Deliverance we called Addition or Increase The present great worke of Mercy is so full of rich particulars that 't is like a speciall messe of meat which we may turne againe and againe and still find in it another choise or delicate morsell and therefore though we have heard of Stoppage Removall Prevention and Continuance already yet there is a fifth list of Additions now to be spread before your eyes In setting them forth I may chance to touch upon some instances or particulars which have been named before but if I doe it shall be under another Notion and to a different end How common an objection is it especially amongst Atheists and Delinquents that they see no such great things already done for us by this present Parliament Object as some over-working heads doe seeme to intimate I answer first to the Persons Sol. perhaps those men doe look through the wrong end of the Perspectiveglasse and then great things may seem very little unto them Perhaps their Organ is vitiated their judgement is corrupted and then they put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter But secondly to the point it self I answer he that hath the heart of a Protestant the mind of a good Subject or the eyes of a reasonable Creature and doth not wincke with those eyes that he might not see he must both see and say that the Lord hath done many great things for us already for which we have cause to rejoyce If any man ask me for an exact Enumeration of them I answer as he Oceani fluctus me numerare jubes In Scripture phrase they are more then J am able to expresse I must give them in by heaps We heard before of a Paralell to all the ten plagues of Aegypt but what if I should now shew a Catalogue of great works of this Parliament out-stripping yea doubling that number I will not over-lay your attentions before hand with a promise of prolixity but let us observe some famous particulars done already and those for the Glory of our God the perpetuall Honor of our dread Soveraigne and the lasting praise of this Parliament 1. The first observable Addition must be that Act for the Confirmation of the Treaty of Pacification I cannot but set it in the fore-front of my catalogue as the first lincke in this golden chaine and the basis of all the rest of our late mercies The whole Act is true 't is large but to me so much the sweeter let him that can for me reade it over with dry eyes I meane for joy for I thinke that Act is looked upon by diverse sorts of men as was the foundation of the second Temple among the Jewes 'T is said that Many wept with a loud voyce and many shouted aloud for joy Ezr. 3.11 12. So doubtlesse all that wish well to our Zion and Jerusalem to Church and State they cannot but rejoyce in reading thereof but as many as are contrary-minded like enough doe repine and howle in secret to see so blessed a close of so perilous a businesse Brethren let me commend the serious reading or hearing of that Act to every judicious and fit Protestant and Subject now present and also if they please to all those which have bin so loud fierce and active heretofore against our Bretheren of Scotland Oh let these latter reade blush repent and change their minds with shame and sorrow but the former let them be confirmed and lifted up in their holy loyall intentions and proceedings The substance of the whole Act or Statute may be reduced to these three heads First there are I doe not trifle away holy time about secular things the Commissions upon which that treaty at Rippon was grounded As oft as I reade them over and doe