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A68609	Certaine sermons preached by Iohn Prideaux, rector of Exeter Colledge, his Maiestie's professor in divinity in Oxford, and chaplaine in ordinary; Sermons. Selected sermons	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1636 (1636)	STC 20345; ESTC S115233	325,201	634

Neginoth's and Mahaloth's Tehillah's and Tephillah's must be framed by the Learned Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. 10. And here if the matter it selfe rowze not your meditations little helpe can bee expected from any vncomposed straines You that haue read of so many heathenish tyrannies and Turkish cruelties you that haue had occasion to travell amongst any barbarous nations or sauage Cannibals you that haue heard of the most prodigious treasons and massacnes that euer were attempted or thought on vnder the Sunne haue you ever read or seene or heard of any monstrous immanity comparable to this of the Powder-Treason Haue ever Turkes or Tartars any Nero'es or Caligula's made vse of powder or such engines of furie to ruine whole States at one blow Nay to blow vp their owne darlings their owne Patrons their owne innocent kinred that never offended them but onely these spuria vitulamina these bastard imps of the Whore of Babylon If the ruine of your liuing Countrymen had no way affected you what had the monuments of the dead deserued that so many sepulchres of ancient Kings must be laid on heapes and vtterly defaced what fault was in the dumbe stones and stately Edifices of your forefathers that they should be left as spectacles of your merciles crueltie But now perchance they repent it and are ashamed of the Actors and their courses O no that scarlet Harlot hath not learned to blush They are pictured for Confessours and Martyres their zeale is commended the State condemned for punishing their Ring-leaders vniustly and their Proselytes here amongst vs which I grieue to speake of follow the same doctrine that led them vnto it and are animated to the like attempts when their ability shall grow sufficient For marke but these few words of Bannes a Spanish Schooleman whom a man would take to be none of the worst especially in comparison of the Iesuites Angli saith he sunt excusandi quia nonse eximunt à Superiorum potestate nec bellum contra eos gerunt quia non suppetunt ill is vires ad consequentia pericula In 2.2 Aquin. q. 12. art 2. The English Catholikes are to be excused for not taking armes against their Superiours because they want sufficient power to goe through with the businesse Tolerate them then but to grow to a head and to make their party good and their natural bond to Prince or Country should little dismay them from venturing vpon the like Powder-plots Where be then our Higgaions Selah's Beloued for the stopping of this brood of vipers that their force should not bee answerable to their malice As the Israelites had their Pascha and Purim Holydaies set apart for the acknowledgement of their grand deliuerance frō Pharaoh and Hamans treason why should not this dayes solemnity bee continued with everlasting thankfulnesse for the miraculous discouery of the Powder-plot Let the people learne from our Pulpits with what kinde of Salt-peter their Catholicisme is powdred let our children vnderstand in our streets the barbarousnesse of the plot the profession of the actours the danger that would haue falne on their innocent heads If the Lord in Iudgement to the enginers and in mercy to vs had not prevented it and snared the wicked in the worke of their own hands At the mentioning of our Church or King at the beholding or remembrance of our Parliaments and chiefe places of Iustice let the villany of the Powder-proiect bee never forgotten In the celebrating of the holy Eucharist let our thankfulnesse for this deliuerance bee an especiall part of our Sacrifice Finally let vs joyntly conclude as our Prophet here beginneth this Psalme Wee will prayse thee O Lord with our whole heart we wil shew forth all thy wonderous Workes Wee will bee glad and reioyce in thee wee will sing prayse to thy Name O thou most High For our enemies are turned backe they haue falne and perished at thy presence for thou hast maintained our right and our cause thou sittest in the Throne iudging right Now to this God the Father God the Sonne and God the Holy Ghost three Persons and one Lord who is knowne by the Iudgement which he executeth and hath snared the wicked in the worke of his owne hands be ascribed with Higgaion and Selah all praises power and glory from this time forth for evermore AMEN HEZEKIAHS SICKNESSE AND RECOVERY A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE KINGS MAIESTIE at Woodstocke By IOHN PRIDEAVX Doctor of Divinity Regius Professor and Rector of Exeter Colledge OXFORD Imprinted by LEONARD LICHFIELD Anno Salutis 1636. HEZEKIAHS SICKNESSE AND RECOVERY 2. CHRON. 32. 24. In those daies Hezekiah was sicke to the death and prayed vnto the Lord and hee spake vnto him and he gaue him a signe 1. MY Text is a type of the Worlds vncertainty Mans security and Gods mercy to those that depend on him Wherein wee haue a view of our misery with the meanes and Author of our surest deliverance The instance is in Hezechiah a King a fit patterne for the best the remedy Prayer the chiefest refuge for the devoutest Which is effectuall onely by the good will of him in the bush who relieueth ever at a pinch by speaking and giuing a signe for our convenient comfort I will not trespasse on your patience by a tedious rehearsall of the connection with that which went before let it suffice therefore to take in by the way for an entrance First a touch of Hezechiah's laudable life expressed more at large in the 2. of Kings the 18. and 19. chapters all one in a manner with the 36. the 37. and 38. of Isaiah And secondly of his wonderfull deliverance whereof I am now to speake His goodnes and zeale is summarily here compriz'd First towards the Church The Levites must carry the filthinesse out of it verse 5. The Priests must rowze themselues vp to bee carefull in their places My sonnes saith he be not now negligent for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him and serue him verse 11. He restoreth the Church-goods and sacrifices by strict command vers 19. and 24. and reviueth the auncient solemnities of Trumpets and Church-musicke ordained and ordered by his predecessor David verse 27. and 30. And surely the best method in a reformation beginneth ever with God for from thence proceeds a Blessing to prosper all that followes His care for the Common-wealth in the next place comes not short of this He fortifies his citty saith the sonne of Syrach and by digging thorow a hard rocke with Iron brought water into the middest thereof Chap. 48. Hee built the wall that was broken and raysed vp the towers and another wall without prepared Millo made darts and shields in abundance set Captaines of warre over his people by the councell of his Princes and Mighty men and his owne comfortable encouragements verse the 3. and forward It were his Courtiers and the men of Iudah no doubt by his example and good directions that copyed

carefull to remember it and be sure hold them to it But who almost lookes as he should after the promises concerning his Eternall happinesse Who studies the case in these points Who examines the thoughts Evidences Who searches the Records where they lye Avicenna the Mahumetane could get the Alcaron without booke and wee haue the verses of one R. Saadiah a Iew wherein he striues to shew how many times every letter of the Hebrew Alphabet is found through the old Testament But we are better seene in other matters I presse this no farther There may I confesse be an abuse by vaine-glory and scrupulosity in the very text of Scripture as that by Anabaptists and others But few of vs I perswade my selfe offend in such excesse Rather we intrench vpon the abuse of Gods gratious promises as though in the New Covenant hee had tied himselfe to make good all on his part and nothing rested of vs on our part to bee performed Thus in our practise wee take Gods decrees without the meanes a speculatiue faith without the fruit thereof a working grace without any indeavours of our illuminated vnderstanding and convicted will as though if wee speed not well the fault were Gods and not ours And this I conceiue to be the colourablest cause why our doctrine of Iustification by faith alone Art 11. which our Church Articles terme a wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort together with that of Gods preventing and working grace hath beene of late so dangerously impugned by some of our owne side in regard our neglect of good workes and abuse of our freed Abilities haue given such inexcusable occasions But new cloath must not be added to old garments to make the greater rent I follow my text They must then be here no promise breakers nor promise challengers where none are made nor misconceiuers of promise to take that to themselues which belongs not to them or that for absolute which was but conditionall But sonnes of promise and performers of promise are those and onely they that may looke for this land of promise according to this promise which brings in the Expectation the Tenure or manner of Holding my third Circumstance that now succeeds to be examined 7 Wee looke for It is the Fashion of the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Cor. 7.31 to be so ill Grammarians that they bee all for the present but little for the preterperfect or the future tense Though S. Paul tell vs that the fashion of this world passeth away and wisheth vs not to fashion our selues according to this world and S. Peter here not to stand too much vpon that which we now possesse but to thinke vpon and provide for that we must Looke for Our surest good therefore is not in possession but in Expectation for we are saued by hope Rom. 8.24 but hope that is seene is not hope for that a man seeth why doth he hope for but if we hope for that we see not then doe wee with patience wait for it And is not faith it selfe the ground or substance of things hoped for Heb. 11.1 and the evidence of things not seene The Schooles distinguish to this purpose betweene the three Theologicall virtues faith hope and charity that faith layes the present ground Hope seaseth on the future good and Charity leads vs along to the full possession of it for wee shall hardly possesse hereafter that which wee never hoped for and no reason haue we to hope where there is no ground All these then must goe together the one to second and third the other Our Apostle calles vs here and sets vs vpon the Claime to our future inheritance If wee here set vp our rest and think wee are well we may faile of our hopes hereafter It was a notable caveat that the Lord commanded Ieremy to deliuer to Baruch Behold that which I haue built I will breake downe and that which I haue planted J will plucke vp Ier. 45.4 and seekest thou great things for thy selfe seeke them not Our Saviour told Pilate that his Kingdome was not of this world Iohn 18.36 And in what place should our possessions lye but where our Saviour hath purchased them for vs Abraham hauing a pattent or grant of the Kingdome of Canaan for a Donatiue notwithstanding looked farther Heb. 11.10 for a City which hath foundations Foundations then as it should seeme in his conceipt were wanting to any building that should be heere erected before in this vale of misery Iacob professeth himselfe Gen. 47.9 to King Pharaoh that he was but a Pilgrim King David at his highest that hee was a stranger and soiourner as all his fathers were Psal 39.14 Luke 12. When the ground of that rich man in the gospell brought forth plenteously and his resolution was to pull downe his barnes and build greater that all his fruits and goods might be therein housed when he applauded himselfe as he thought in this thrifty course and sung a Requiem to his soule Soul thou hast much goods laid vp for many yeares take thine ease eate drinke and be merry How did God say Amen to this Thou foole this night thy soule shall be required of thee and then whose shall these things be which thou hast provided Our Saviours close vpon it may not be omitted so is he that heapeth vp treasures for himselfe and is not rich towards God who is all for hauing here and lookes for nothing hereafter liues that he may eate and eats that he may liue is melancholique at the thought of sicknesse crosses age or afflictions the inviting fore-runners to his future Inheritance would part with all his interest in that vpon easier terines then Esau did with his birth-right or Iudas with his master So farre sensuality in vs prevaileth and faith faileth So deare is present possession and doubtfull our future Expectation 8 The tongue of men and Angells would be heere needfull to set on this doctrine to our soules and consciences Not because it is thought doubtfull but because it is little thought on by the most of vs I shall not transgresse then I hope if in our Apostles way discouered here in the first verse I venture to stirre vp your pure minds by way of remembrance Remember therefore then Beloued what a vanity and hazzard it is to fixe our hearts here vpon that which can never satisfy All the felicity it is possible for vs Pilgrims in our passage to touch vpon Arist Eth. 1. is reduced by the Philosopher to these three heads the Ornaments of the mind as wit learning discretion the abilities of the body as health strength beauty the gifts as they call them of fortune as Riches Honour successe in vndertakeings and the like But what content giue any of these when they are throughly weighed I will not speake of the ignorance of our knowledge the weaknesse of our strength the ficklenesse of our fortunes and the fondnesse of