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A92843	Englands condition parralelld with Iacobs for [brace] troubles. Salvations. Hopes. Laid open in two sermons, lately preached at Marlborough in Wilts. By Iohn Sedgwick, Batchelour in Divinity and Pastor of the Church at Alphage neere Cripplegate, London.	Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing S2360; Thomason E115_23; ESTC R18288	48,093	63

and entertaining errors against the foundation formality in Religion decaying in her first love want of compassion to other bleeding Churches be not expiated in the bloud of Christ England will bee an undone and miserable Nation What peace so long as the whoredomes 2 Kings ● 22. of they mother Iezabell and her witchcrafts are so many O that we could tender up JESUS CHRIST unto God for Englands sins 2 To bee much in Nationall humiliation the whole Land must bee mourned for ô that wee could weepe over England and grieve for the sins of England surely the whole Land must mourne and grieve or it cannot long stand a Nation 3. To desire and further a Nationall reformation there must bee a purging of the Church from its drosse there must be the setting up the power and purity of Ordinances every man must strive to reforme and amend else the Kingdome will soone fall asunder 4. To cast out the endangering enemies of our Kingdome if you shall suffer men of bloud and cruelty enemies to God and Religion and not doe justice upon them the kingdome cannot but be ruined 5. To give off your daily course of sinning if God finde us a people set on our sinnes and that we will not give off the love and practise of iniquity hee will not spare us how can wee expect the avo dance of troublous times or the continuance of peacefull times when we fill up the times with iniquities Vse 7 Seventhly and lastly Let us be farre from procuring troublous times unto the Churches of God I know that it is a great sin to bee an efficient malicious cause of trouble to the state of GODS Church the Apostle doth wish them cut off that were Church troublers and Iosuah proceeding to judgement against Ach●n Galath 5. 12. said why hast thou troubled us the Lord shall trouble thee this day Josbuah 7. 25. it is no small crime to be a troubler of Israel and here give me leave to acquaint you with the truth for I finde that you are abused by the false suggestions of some who beare no good will to the Parliament or the welfare of Sion There are some who are said to bee the troublers of the State of the Church and Kingdome among us who are no more guiltie of that charge then holy Elijah was it s not those worthies now assembled in Parliament who seeke to their utmost to preserve Gods Religion and all your liberties and estates that have troubled the state of our times was it ever known that right Protestant English spirits did ever repute their chosen Knights Burgesses and Citizens who are the repairers of their breaches and the restorers of pathes to dwell in troublers of Church and State Did you know but the fidelity and Loyalty of their hearts to the KING and kingdome and behold their constant paines and diligence for the good of us and all our posterity you would blesse God for them and account as they doe indeed deserve worthily of them There are others who are reall and actuall disturbers and troublers Who are so troublers o● our times of our times namely 1. Proud and discontented Prelates together with their idle and scandalous followers whose spirits are swolne so bigge that they scorning reformation have throwne PETERS Keyes into Tibur and have taken Pauls sword in their hands setting on that warre in the Land which may truly be called Bellum Episcopale 2. Papists and popishly affected persons who having received the marke of the beast doe seeke to maintaine Idolatry among us and for their idols resolve to fight tanquam pro aris focis beleeve me that it is the smoake which commeth out of the Popes Kitching that 's ready to choake the Church and doth make so many aking he●rts and weeping eyes among us and our Warre is bellum papale 3. Guiltie and convicted persons who having formerly by unjust courses illegall patents and other wayes of oppression deceived us in our meates drinkes and apparell doe now feare the sentence and lash of the I aw and seeke rather to imbroile the Subjects in war then to yeeld them a just satisfaction 4. And in a word many endebted and upstart Nobles with other beggarly and discontented Cavaliers men without callings and Conscience even birds of prey who flutter up and downe drinking healths to the Divell and their owne damnation if they overthrow not the Parliament and hang up the Round Heads by whom they meane the truely godly of the Land these and the like are the malignant and molesting party into whose secret let none of your soules come with them have no confederacy nay rather discover their plots resist their persons and according to your Protestation joyne with those who are ready to live and die to doe you and yours good to bring them to condigne punishment Thus when wee have done our utmost to prevent troublous times if God shall bring in troubles among us wee shall enjoy the peace of our Consciences and may expect in his owne time the promised salvation and deliverance laid downe in the next part Englands Salvations But he shall be saved out of it HEre wee have the light side of the Text viz. the promise of salvation out of their great trouble and misery times of deliverance should follow times of trouble we know that there is a threefold Salvation belonging to GODS Churches 1. One spirituall which is the soules salvation from the power A Threefold salvation of sin in the sanctification of their natures when men are sanctified then are they saved 2. Another eternall which is the delivery of soule and body from hells damnation in the glorification of their persons when men are brought to heaven then are they saved 3. A third is Temporall which is their freedome from outward miseries into which their sins have cast them of this salvation our Text speaketh The sense is this that though they were for the present under many and great miseries by their captivity yet a time was designed and decreed by heaven for their deliverance they should not alwayes bee bond-men in the hands of the Caldeans and Babilonians there should come the yeare of Inbilee when the prisons should be opened and the prisoners set free enjoying themselves and their ordinances and their wonted peace and priviledges whence I gather this point That God hath his times and meanes wherein and whereby hee Doct. 2. Gods Churches have salvation will save and deliver his Churches out of their great and desperate troubles Consider sometimes God doth save his Churches and people from From troubles they are exempted from destructions Noah is saved when the old world was drowned and Lot was saved when Sodom was burned there was 7000. saved from Iezabels fury UNIT = In and wee read of a remnant that escaped Sometimes God doth save his servants in In their troubles though they are involved in the common miseries of others yet care is

since there began to be a Nation unto that same time 2. The strength of these grounds if any man will bee satisfied in the causes of the Churches troubleous times they are these Reason 1 First Meritoriously troublous times doe spring from the 4. Causes of the Churches troublous times sinnes of the Churches of God as the needle drawes on the threed so our sinfull dayes being upon us our miserable dayes there is nothing which doth enter men into sorrowes more than their sins sin is the mother and trouble the daughter there had never been a bad day or sad houre upon earth had not man sinned this is the Achan that troubleth Israel when Israel sinned then Psalm ●8 32 33 God consumed their dayes in trouble and brought them down Ahab meeting Elijah calls him the troubler of Israel the Prophet deales plainely and roundly with the King and tells him to his face that it was he and his Fathers house in forsaking the commandements 1 Kings 18. 18. of the Lord and following Baalim that troubled Israel Hence is it that God saith Make a Chaine for the Land is full of bloudy crimes the City is full of violence wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen and they shall possesse their houses I Ezek. 7. 23. 24 25 26 27. will also make the pomp of the strong to cease and their holy places shall be desiled destruction commeth and they shall seeke peace and there shall be none mischiefe shall come upon mischiefe and rumor shall bee upon rumour the King shall mourne and the Prince shall be clothed with desolation and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled I will doe unto them after their way and according to their deserts will I judge them reason 2 Secondly furtheringly troublous times do flow from the Malignant Party Satan and his angels Satan himselfe is full of rage and malice against the Church the glory thereof is his envie and therefore he doth put out himselfe in the power of the Dragon and in the policie of the Serpent to create what trouble hee can to the same hee is the great kindle Coale hee it was that stood at the right hand of Josuah the High Priest standing Zech. 3. 1. before the Angell of the Lord to resist him he it was that stood Rev. 12. 4. before the woman which was ready to bee delivered for to devoure the Child as soone as it was borne and hee is that Serp●nt ver 15. which cast out of his mouth wter as a floud after the woman that hee might cause her to be carried away of the floud when Satan is let loose and hath his houre he will set the whole world into combustion Nay wee have another Malignant party who are Rev. 2. ●● the spirit and spawne of Satan men of prophane hearts and lives who doe act over the Devill and worke that businesse for him which hee cannot worke for himselfe I am sure where grace is wanting and prophannesse raigning there the spirit of spite and misery of disturbance is to bee found men desperately set on sin have imbitterd spirits against the quiet of the Church yea such an enmity is there betweene the two seeds that wicked men are alwayes bending their wits laying their plots and putting out themselves to disturbe the quiet in the land these are so set on sire of hell that they decline peace and delight in bloud and Warre Ishmael like they must have their hands against every man and Salamander like they love to live and lie in the fire Whence did all the tumults and uproares in Thessalonica arise Acts 17. 5 6. did not the unbeleeving Jewes who were moved with envie take unto them lewd fellowes of the baser sort a company of vagabonds and wicked fellowes These are fit instruments to trouble a Church and State and Kingdome I have observed that there are sixe things in wicked men making them troublous to Gods people 1. Their ignorance of the wayes and Religion of God These ● Things make wicked men to betroubl us Ioh. 1● ●● things will they doe unto you for my names sake because they have not knowne him that sent mee And again They shall put you out of the Synagogues yea the time commeth that whosoever killeth you will thinke that hee doth God service and these things will they doe ●● 16. 2 unto you because they have not knowne the Father nor me Your blackest clouds and darkest nights do foretell the greatest storms and wh●re ignorance and blindnesse doth most possesse the mind there is your grea●est opposition against God and his cause Paul was then a persecutor when hee was under ignorance 1 Tim. 1. 13. 2. Their Pride of spirit a spirit of pride is a spirit of contention a proud heart will set Kingdomes on sire if Haman cannot get the knee from Mord●c●i he wil devise a bloudy decree against the Iewes if Herod and Domitian feare the loosing of their Crowns and Honours they will command that all those who are of the stocke of David in Iwry bee slaine and if proud and accursed Prelates bee put off their Cushions and cast out from honours what mischiefes will they not further They will sell themselves to their shirts to recover their places through pride commeth contention 3. Their exceeding Covetousnesse of heart filthy luker and horrid cruelty are seldome disjoyned when Demetrius and the crafts men saw that the hope of their gaine was gone now they stirre against Paul and Sylas and raise a mighty storme in Maccdonia Acts 16. 19 20 21 c. can you imagine that those covetous wretches whose godlinesse is their gaine are idle at this day and doe not blow the Coale Certainely Covetousnesse which is the Roote of all evill must bee the cause of much trouble 4. Their envious spirits it was the spirit of envie in Caine 1 Iohn ● 12. which made him to murther his brother Abel and the Caldeans and Courtiers envying the advancement of Daniel and his fellowes above themselves devised a meanes to destroy them Dan 3. 8 6 3 4. 5. Their pronenesse unto Idolatry heate is not more inseperable to sire then cruelty is unto idolatry the love of Idols in all ages hath beene the Churches trou●le what stickling was there at Acts 19. 28. 34. Ephesus for Diana and we know that Iezabels Idols disturbed the kingdome of Israel 6. Their contentednesse with formality in Religion when men must have Religion in mans dresse and are taken up more with formes of godlinesse then the power of it this makes the times to be troublous and perillous 2 Tim. 3. 1 4 5. Out of all this you see that troublous times are from wicked men who never cease from troubling untill they dye these are Iob 3. ●7 the earewigs and the biting Fleas still troubling the state of Gods people Reason 3 Thirdly inflictingly the Churches troublous times arise from

toward us not onely Germany and Ireland are all on a fire and flame but we have the breakings out of the same among us by most unhappy divisions between Prince and people O for the divisions of Reuben there should bee great thoughts of heart Thirdly Time troubling enemies we have lodging and lurking among us men of no Religion swarmes of Atheists men of a false Religion a great Popish party men of no rank and quality whose mouths are full of scoffes and hands full of bloud unworthy and base Cavaliers whose onely hopes lye in this that shortly they shall ravish our virgins defloure our wives cut our throates and divide our estates what meaneth the countenancing and maintaining those vermine and of-scouring of the Land but that troublous times are at hand certainly the kingdom cannot vomit out these frogs or quit it selfe of these Locusts without much adoe Fourthly time troubling opinions all heresies are bitter springs and can produce nothing but troubles within a Church when the Heresies of Arrius Pelagius Arminius Socinus and others crept into the Churches they did not a little encrease the troubles of the easterne and westerne parts of the world and for mine own part I cannot beleeve but that the like effects wil follow in this kingdom by mens deserting of old truths and embracing of new errors when people turne Anabaptists Eatonists Tra●kites Antinomians Familists and what not this will fill a Land with trouble and division Fifthly time troubling actions men study nothing more than how to be unquiet each man is full of discontent and set upon thwarting and crossing who almost among us is not for his owne will and way and so that their egge may be roasted they care not though the kingdome burne for it Finding these things among us wee have great cause to feare that God is going about to make our times troublous Secondly It is to bee suspected that our long enjoyment of peaceable times hath eaten up our expectation of and preparation for troublous times we dreame of a durable peace and put away the evill day from us as did the Iewes few persons doe thinke of Amos 6. 3. troubles before hand and most wil not believe that they shall have troubles though they see nothing above them but a cloud of bloud and behold nothing beneath them but a red Sea Thirdly That troublous times are therefore to hard for many because they are not well prepared and fitted for them and indeed every the least trouble will bee too strong for an unarmed and unprepared Christian But happily you will say what would you have us to doe that when troublous times come we may look up and hold out My advice is this First Keepe faire quarter with heaven let not God bee your enemy or one that frownes upon you when troubles come acquaint 10. Preparatives against troublous times Iob 22. 21. your selves With him and be at peace and thereby good shall come unto you if men are in covenant with God and reconciled unto God in and through the Lord Jesus they cannot bee und one by troublous times the favour and love of God will bee security enough to Christians in evill times this was Noahs Arke that hee found grace in the eyes of God hee had a friend in heaven Secondly preserve purity and peace within let not Conscience bee filthy or unquiet the meeting of a foule Sea and blustring stormes doe make the passage of the ship very troublous and thus it is when a mans conscience is filthy and defiled by the love and power of lusts that there are seven abominations in it if troubles come he cannot tell what to do with himselfe for now conscience is more unquiet then the times beleeve me in this that if troublous times and a troubled conscience do meete together you will be of all men most miserable O therefore make it your worke to get your Consciences pacified and purified through the sprinkling of the bloud of Christ labour that Conscience may learne to read its own acquittall from the guilts of sin and that it may be very holy and spirituall and then though you are cast into the Seas and doe meete with the greatest of dangers you are well provided for if conscience be not your hell you are well enough for heaven Thirdly Affect not a life of ease and delicacy could wee now me our selves to hardnesse wee should the better endure troublous times if wee shall daily pamper our bodies and remaine under our wonted nicenesse being all for pleasure and ease if the meate that we are to ease is never sine enough if the wine and beare wee drinke can never be strong or sweete enough if the beds whereon wee are to lie are not soft enough and the clothes that we are to put on fashionable enough to us pray tell me what shall we doe in troublous times Good Christians consider how will you be able to runne before a bloudy Cavalier without stockings and shooes for tenne twenty or thirtie miles together to save your lives if you use now your feete to that nicenesse that you c●n scarce endure to tread upon a stone how will you bee able to make the field your bed or a stone your Pillow if that you do not now use your selves to hard lodgings I pity most of you who now put your heads in a bagge and must have hoodes for your faces and what not for bravery and pleasure Alas should God bring many of you into the condition of your poore sisters in Ireland what would you doe how could you endure to be stript of your clothing to hide your selves in dennes and caves to drinke up puddle water and to make acornes a feast unto you ô that I could prevaile with you now to inure your selves unto hardnesse it would put you into a fit temper for troublous times it is noted of holy Bilney that being perswaded he should be burned for the Gospell he would often put his finger into the Candle to see if he could be able to endure the fire before he came into the fire I wish that in England this point were more pressed and thought upon Fourthly Get quit of the Creature in point of heart interest this you shall finde that those waters which are running downe to the maine Ocean are more unquiet then waters that are narrowed up in a well and of this I am certaine that a worldly temper is most unfit for a troublous time if troubles should come then to have a Child in the heart and an estate in the heart will prove a greater trouble to a man then the trouble it selfe O then get the Moone under your feete and the world out of your hearts Seeke not great things and engage not your hearts to worldly things trouble not the little world by the great world be as was the holy Martyrs who made nor Wife nor Children nor Estates a blocke to them in the way and could cry out