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A97297	Hopes incovragement pointed at in a sermon, preached in St. Margarets Westminster, before the honorable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament: at the last solemn fast, February 28. 1643. by Tho. Young. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Young, Thomas, 1587-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing Y92; Thomason E35_18; ESTC R4946	32,973	44

cause of a holy God your solemne Covenant into which you have lately entred tells the world that it is your deliberate resolution not onely to preserve and reforme Religion c. but you have also professed before God and the world your desires to bee humbled for your owne sins and for the sinnes of the Kingdome and you have testified that it is your unfained desire and purpose to amend your lives and to strive each one to goe before another in the example of a reall reformation c. are not these solemne promises strong engagements to oblige you to a holy and close walking with your God whom you professe to know and promise to serve hee that stands for pietie and is not pious God knowes doth not a little weaken the cause of pietie whilst hee seeks to advance it It is storied of Justinus the second that hee defended the orthodox faith not onely amongst his owne Subjects against hereticall pravity but also hee aided forraine Christians against the injuries they sustained of others for hee had warre with the Persians in their defence O but what of all this his sinfull life defiled with pleasures with covetousnesse with crueltie against his owne blood c. with the durt of these sinfull courses was his defence of the truth eclipsed stained and obscured yea and hee smarted for it Honorable Worthies this I speake to encourage you in the way of a holy practise you know what was said of old Qui monet ut facias quod jam facis ipse monendo Laudat hortatu comprobat acta suo This I speake to stirre up your holy minds to aspire more and more by your religious lives to beautifie and adorne the holy cause of Religion for which you appeare this day did the Lord require holinesse of his people Ess 52.11 who carried the vessells of the Lord which was spoken of the time in which they were to carry backe from Babylon the vessels of the Lords house taken away by Nebuchadnezzar before O then what holinesse will the Lord require of you that stand up to carry on the holy worke of the holy God when your exemplary holinesse layes open the way to others in the practise thereof in your selves if they be not wonne by your example to follow it then have you quitted your owne soules and they are left without excuse when you have laboured to have truth held forth to them as a guide and followed it in your owne practise O that it might bee said of all you in your houses as of that pious Emperor Theodosius the younger cujus regia non dissimilis crat monasterio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the morning his custome was to sing Psalmes unto the Lord hee was so well instructed in the Scriptures that hee could discourse of them with the Bishops as if hee had beene one himselfe hee was not given to unadvised anger nor base revenge impotent passions too usually attending upon greatnesse In the pious ordering of his personall carriage and family hee had a warrantable precedent before his time even Constant M. whose Court was as a Church for pietie so saith the Historian that pens his life it was his custome to call his family together read the sacred Scriptures to them and pray with them by which meanes was his royall Palace together with his Comtiers and Souldiers inured to holinesse and breathed after Christ yea such as were not sound in the truth were yet convinced by his practise Here are precedents worthy to bee followed by you great men men of eminent place even Emperours had so learned Christ as not to bee ashamed to bee eminent for the practise of pietie as well as for worldly government It was not deemed in those dayes a schismaticall and unwarrantable practise unbeseeming greatnesse for great men and potentates to studie to bee pious themselves and to promote godlinesse in their charges so doe you and God will sill you with courage to fulfill what hee requires of you in your places an unholy heart may boast of God but can never bee truely bold for God and goodnesse the guiltie conscience will occasion feares which will daunt courage when it is most required most necessary and usefull therefore as you are Christians follow holinesse in your profession and practise which will raise up your hearts with that courage which cannot easily bee quelled But I must speake further to you in another capacitie as you are publicke persons sharing in that legisllative power which hath influence upon the whole kingdome to the faithfull discharge of which condition courage is more requisite then to the former as you are Christian men for if any bee sure to bee opposed it is men called out to rule and governe others and if courage bee conducing to the well ordering of any calling it is to the Magistrates in the first place hence is it that amongst the meete qualifications of an able Ruler in Jethro his judgment courage is ranked in the first place Ex. 18. Now that you may attaine to it in this capacitie in which you stand at present I shall commend unto you soure things whch are proper to you in your legisllative station 1. Make no Lawes against Religion and pietie 2. Recall such as have been made in the times of ignorance against the same 3. Study to uphold and maintaine such profitable and wholesome Lawes as have been formerly enacted for God and his people 4. Improve what was well begun by others before you and not perfected by them First the Governour who desires to manage his authoritie with courage and comfort must beware hee give no consent or have no hand in the enacting of a Law that makes against God or his cause for such never prospered Dan. 6. The Rulers and Governours sollicited King Darius to make a law decree which was derogatory to the glory of God as it was invented for a snare to Daniel and have you not read how they sped Did not this among other things adde to Constant M. his renoune though in all things his care was to advance divine worship tamen in legibus condendis vel maxime Eminent governours have stained the glory of their government by enacting Lawes which stand in opposition to Gods Law Valentinian the great beginning to alienate his affection from his royall consort the cause I spare to relate casting his affection upon Justina thereupon makes it free by Law for any that would to have two wives and after the promulgation of that Law presently he married her how inconsistent his Law was with the Law of God I need not speake Secondly goe farther if the times of former ignorance have led your Noble Ancestors to decree and publish any Law repugnant to godlinesse make hast to repeale such as well as others which in your grave judgements you find dangerous to the present state of the commonwealth There were two grand evills countenanced by Law in Rome before