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A81152	Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : shewed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their publike thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great successe of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing C752; ESTC R43612	28,502	54

He was ready to die with joy to hear that his son was not only not dead but alive in such an estate of honour This day is witnesse This solemn meeting is a proof That the Kingdom the Parliament of England the City of London do not only live but prosper Ye are not escaped only as Job speaks Chap. 19. 20. with the skin of your teeth but with your Ornaments and Honours with your riches and priviledges Ye have not only breath and a being but strength and a wel-being ye are encompassed with blessings and the Candle of God shines upon your heads Though as the Psalmist speaks Psal 66. 12. Ye have gone thorow much fire and water yet God hath brought you to a wealthy place Ye are not enjoying a life only a life within one step or degree of death but ye live your lives ye have a life that hath abundance of life in it such livelines such vigour your affairs have not had since these troubles began What the Oratour spake with indignation of Catiline a conspiratour against the peace of his countrey Vivit etiam in Senatum venit the man hath honour whose life is more then his due The same may I say with much gratulation of you Noble Patriots Vivitis etiam in Senatum venitis Ye live and ye live still like Senatours Your Honour is great in the salvation which God hath wrought Your Sunne rises in the West Your victories abroad are stupendious Your union which this daies apparance is a great demonstration of I say your union at home is pleasant and harmonious the Two Houses with each other both with the City concentring in this solemn duty I would say this from the sense of this great mercy Right Honourable seeing the Lord hath given you your lives for a prey and added prosperity to your lives let the cause of God not only live but prosper in the land Improve your utmost that Jesus Christ may have not only a being or a breathing in the land and in your lives but that he may raign live gloriously both in the Land and in your lives The Apostle Iohn in his 3d Ep. to Gaius wishes that his body might prosper even as his soul prospered My wish is that all your souls and all the affairs of souls may live and prosper as God hath caused your bodies and outward estates to live and prosper My wish is that all the Churches of Christ may live and prosper even as the Common-wealth prospers The Church of Christ is the soul of that Common-wealth where it is Many Common-wealths have prospered where Christ hath had no Church at all but I think there was never any Common-wealth that prospered where Christ had a Church if that Church did not live up in the same degree of prosperity that the Common-wealth did I mean if the Church had not a flourishing life in it's capacity according to the flourishing of the State wherein it lived I speak not of the Church under the old notion of the Church-men but I speak of the Church as comprehending all the Saints and servants of Jesus Christ all the faithfull in the Land let them all have not only a life but a comfortable life This will answer the mercy of God in giving the State not only a being but such a comfortable being as it hath at this day I know Right Honourable it was farre from your thoughts ever to have spoken like that Roman Tyrant If I must die let fire and earth mingle let all go to confusion if I must die let all the world die too I doubt not but you would have rejoyced though your own lives had been the price to have known that England should live it would have been your comfort that the foundations of mercy to a future generation had been surely laid though in your own ruines Though as Iudah pleads with Ioseph for the return of Benjamin Gen. 44. 30. I verily believe that the life of the Kingdom of England is bound up in the Parliament of England and when this dies that must in the notion here intended But I am sure ye are further off from the speech of that other Roman Tyrant who said Let fire and earth mingle so I may live and prosper so I may have what pleaseth me no matter what becomes of the rest of the world I know ye abhorre to think much more to resolve Now we live and prosper let fire and earth mingle let justice and oppression mingle let Christ and Belial mingle let truth and errour mingle let light and darknesse mingle let good and evil mingle let confusion and disorder appear in the face and live in the body of the whole Nation if they will Therefore as the Lord hath given us in this mercy that you are not dead but alive so let it be I humbly beseech you your care in answer thereunto that the work of God that all who fear God that the cause and people of God that the flook of Jesus Christ may not only not die but live prosperously with and under your Government I now come to the second reading our reading of the Text I shall not die but live So it is a voice of holy confidence and it yeelds this plain Observation That The experience of former mercies and successes is a ground of hope for future and continued mercies and successes Faith turneth this experience I am not dead but alive into this confidence I shall not die but live Hope is the first-born of experience Rom. 5. 4. The Apostle argues so 2 Cor. 1. 10. He hath delivered us from so great a death A great death all death in it self is of one size but the waies of death and the dangers of death are of different sizes and dimensions He hath delivered us from so great a death deadly dangers and he doth deliver us what of that And we trust that he will also deliver us What God hath done and doth is easily believed he will doe The people of Israel being got thorow the red Sea kept a day of Thanksgiving and we finde that they grew confident of getting into Canaan presently Exod. 15. 13 14. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation the people shall hear and be afraid sorrow shall take hold of the inhabitants of Palestina the Dukes of Edom shall be amazed c. Israel had set but a foot as it were beyond the red Sea and yet now they tryumph as if they had a footing in Canaan Was not Moses too forward in this and were not the people over confident No they had a just ground of hope that God would carry them thorow that Wildernesse because he had brought them thorow that red Sea David saw Goliah vanquished in the victory he obtained over a Lion and a Bear this uncircumcised Philistime shall be as one of them I beseech you let your faith

yet I will lead him also and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners God doth not usually heal the wounds of judgement till the wounds of sin are healed yet sometimes he doth And what know we but the Lord may once again make a parallel mercy to that promised his ancient people and restore comfort to those hearts Who goe on as this Objection charges frowardly in the way of their hearts Secondly Others may object what so much confidence of a succession of mercies Look to the Church and to the matter of the worship Superstition is gone but prophanenesse stands at the door Prelacy is gone but Anarchy is feared and can we yet be confident Sure to invite to a day of rejoycing when we are in such a condition is but like bidding the sons of Zion to sing one of their songs at the waters of Babylon I acknowledge there is little reason to rejoyce in the light of this world whilest the Gospel is under a cloud that there is very little reason to take warmth at the heat of any Sunne while Christ the Sunne of righteousnesse is eclipsed by the interposition of any sublunary interest whatsoever But must we despond and give all for lost because light hath not supposing that it hath not that free and kinde entertainment which we desire Must we resolve that Christ shall lose his right suppose it so because he hath it not or because he hath it not by the day set in our Kalendar Possibly the Kalendar of Heaven hath a post-date to ours A woe belongs to those who neglect to finish the work of the Lord like them in the Prophet upon this surmise The time is not come the time that the Lords house should be built Yet a woe lies not against those who conscientiously endeavouring to build cannot finish it Christ accounts those his enemies and cals them out to destruction who say We will not have this man to raign over us But they may be in the roll of Christs friends and he may be preparing salvations for them who being seriously upon that design yet fail in advancing his raign If that be not our case I grant there is no reason any mans faith should have life that we shall live But if it be as I believe it is our faith hath reason to hold up in life and strength too that we shall live For we know Christ works by degrees in the hearts of his people Light comes not in all at once In the prophecy of Ezekiel The waters of the Temple were first but to the ancles and then to the knees and then to the loins and then it was a river of waters to swimme in a river that could not be passed over We must give providence leave to go it 's own pace Things are still under consideration The plummet is still in the hand of Zerobbabel and who knows to what perfection the work may be brought in a short time It is not the doing of what comes short of the minde of Christ but a resolving not to do the minde of Christ which makes a people hopelesse When Christ was in the world he was not received presently Did he therefore fire the world presently about their ears and destroy those places which received him not When some perswaded him to doe so he tels them Ye know not of what spirit ye are There 's many a good man who if he knew his own spirit would be asham'd of it Christ is not so fierce as many Christians are It 's true his anger when it burns is infinitely fierce and who can abide it But we know he is patient and he is patient very long even unto those who knowingly abuse him much more toward those who are sincerely seeking after him He is patient to those who abuse him and patient so long that they take occasion cause they have none to scorn and mock him Where is the promise of his comming And Let the Lord hasten his work that we may see it Much more will he be patient towards those who are praying consulting and enquiring though as yet they should not come up to give him the honour due unto his name When the Jewish worship was cast out and the Ceremoniall Law abolished the Apostles themselves being alive and preaching it Christian worship was not received in a day or in a year the Apostles were long working it into the hearts of believers And we may read in the 14 t● Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans how much bearing there was exercised and how much forbearing towards those who were not yet come up to Gospel heights either of their dutie or of their priviledge Therefore I say though this Objection should stand a while in the letter of it yet we need not fall in our hopes though we are not where we should be either in worship or in Government yet Christ will bear while we are seeking and enquiring with sincerity that we may Christ will at last break those who wilfully break his bands and cast away his coards from them And all they who in uprightnesse pray and endeavour that his Government may be set up shall be heard and blessed though perhaps not in their own way A third Objection lies thus But there are many errours and strange opinions amongst us Tares grow up and are like to overgrow the wheat sores and sicknesses over-run many mindes Can a people thrive who have such diseases upon them Can the Physitians who behold these distempers offer us any hope that the patient shall live I think no fore-head can deny that there are errours amongst us and some very dangerous destructive and damnable perverting souls and wasting the vitals of religion Errours are not to be sported with Who can love Christ and errour too much lesse plead for and give it patronage Christ is truth And though persons erring may have our charity yet no errour ought to have our love though many who erre may have much of our patience yet there is no errour how small soever should any of our have countenance But to this sad Objection I answer First Possibly there are more errours named then are All is not errour which every one thinks to be errour We know who spake it After the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Act. 24. 14. and they were no mean no unlearned men who called that way heresie And I shall never believe all Heresiographers for his sake who put Aerius into his Catalogue for opposing Prelacy There may be an errour in taxing somewith errours But secondly Whatsoever is an errour or an heresie whatsoever is contrary to wholesome Doctrine such opinions are knowable else all rules about dealing with them were vain Whatsoever I say is an errour or heresie let all the penalties which Christ hath charged upon it be executed to the utmost If we favour errour I know not how we can with confidence lift up our eyes to