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A54483	Sermons and devotions old and new revived and publisht as an oblation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministred to the weak condition of the author, now aged 73 : the sermons at Court were before the war brake forth betwixt King and Parliament : also a discourse of duels, being a collection and translation of other mens opinions, with some addition of his own : and this in special dedicated for their use ... / by Thomas Pestel ...	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1659 (1659)	Wing P1675; ESTC R39086	197,074	355

and none able to answer him a word yet were they still offended at him and even in that offended because he was unanswerable nay the lustre of his Grace and Goodness his temper and sweetness and clearness dis-illustring the highest of their Priests and Princes and Rulers of the people being dazled and madded with the splendor of his Vestigia the prints and proofs the tracts and evidences of his meekness and innocence all along in his active and passive obedience when there was nothing else for the tooth and tongue of envy they took indignation at his very vertues and Pilate knew that for envy they had delivered him to his Judgement 12. And now methinks we have been all this while in America among Negroes black slaves not so much as an Albus dextris but all black toothed and black-mouthed and black-tongued and black-sould people A generation viperous and rising strangly from the earth with spears and swords not in their hands but in their mouths And yet Negroes can but poison arrows to take away mens lives but these opprobrious people corrode the very honour of Gods best servants far more precious then life it self O foul presumption How camest thou into the world to cover and blast both carth and skie and all the Children of the Light and him that is the Father of Light overrunning all with this new Chaos this foul Reconfusion 13. Indeed some read for all the people here all the Mighty and if so that will make Infamy yet more infamous and this world of wickedness worse then it was 'T is best to hold us to our old belief for if with Copernicus we turn the skeme and so let Servi Rex David Christus Domini himself that is the whole Church militant on earth which is his Spouse his Dove his dearly Beloved one body and one Spirit with Christ and dear as his eyes or heart be under a power of such Populorum with the sway and addition of Maximorum that is if Might be added to multitude then will the Church of God be but a miserable Center when those other wheel aloft and thwart their underlinings like the Zodiaque All the bosoms then of all the servants of Jehovah Christus Domin would soon be filled with Reproaches and with deadly arrows like the poor Anatomy in the Almanack Cancer would not only go against the stomack while others lie heavy on the head and heart but every pelting petty Sagittary would be dribbling at the legs and very Aquarius pour out the venom and dregs and bottom of his Tankard upon Vestigia here the Footsteps of Gods people PART 2. ANd then what Remedy against Opprobrium populorum truly if we intend it of Faex populi the skum it is like Babylon they cannot because they will not be cured born and bred like a wild Asses colt saith Job worse saith Isaiah then Ox or Asse know not their own Owner not God that made them Subjects nor Gods anointed set over them for their good Rom. 13. Such stuborn stomacks as are irreducible by moral swasion or any power of Eloquence not Orpheus nor any from hell tune them to a temperate obedience either of that Command in the beginning of the old Testament which God gave Laban concerning Jacob Nequid durius speak no harsh language nor to a fear of that Commination in the end of the New Testament against such as despise Dominions and speak evil of Dignities and of things they know not raging waves foaming out their own shame and concludes the Lord is coming with 10000 of his Saints to execute Judgement upon such impious sinners for all their ungodly deeds and for all their hard speeches Will these regard a Prophet or a Preacher against whom their usual fence is to strike him with the tongue when with such the Lords anointed shall be no longer so if they list to bring their Expurgatory for they can do it as fast as Jesuits or Anababtists That brace of Sects whose Dignity proceeds of themselves like those Chaldeans in the Prophet and who scoff at Kings and Princes are a scorn unto them Hab. 1.10 Nay What Cure for such mad men as think themselves all Kings or as the Devil boasts that all the Kingdoms of the earth are their Doles and Donatives as mad as he that fate in the haven and counted all the ships arriving there his own proper goods Such sots as these may have at times some Lucida but never continue in one mind David for a fit shall be the breath of their Nostrils they will sing his Glory and challenge ten parts in the King But the Son of Bichri a man of Belial may turn all this with one blast and every one of them gone with Opprobrium We have no part in the Son of Jesse 2 Sam. 20. So one while the barbarous people call St. Paul a Murderer and presently a God Gods are come down to us in the shapes of men O run and fetch Garlands and let us sacrifice All on a suddain the wind changes and then this fine speaker Mercury must be stoned But what speak we of Servi Christus Domini was not our Lord himself so tost from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to cruc●fige He They 'l none of him give them Barabbas What was he A thief he was a Robber made Insurrection in the City and committed Murder Did they not make a rare choice Yet such wise men as these are those who to this day first elect themselves and then clep and call their friends and fellows by the names of Saints and Children of God As for Moses and Aaron they are too proud and officious but Core and his complicies are called the people of the Lord and when they saw them go down quick to hell yet next morning at it again the people of the Lord still But is there no Balm no Physitian Yes enough if Mountbanks not mistaken for Doctors and if they prescribed not poison instead of medicine Such leaders seduce and cause a mad people to err The divisions of Reuben were from great thoughts of heart But might not Simeon and Levi these were their Writers and Teachers be the Raisers and Fomenters of such Divisions Sure I am in Num. 16. where the Rubenites conspite against Moses the meekest man on earth and Aaron the Saint of the Lord it is Corah and his company of Levites and that coar of envy in their hearts for the high Priesthood that began the mischief And how oft do we read forewarnings of false Prophets and in Act. 20.20 among your selves saith the Apostle shall rise up men speaking perverse things to draw Disciples after them And I wish such Incendiaries only came from Rome with their charm of the Church Catholique and that we were free from Impostors and Seducers in this sence for drawing Disciples after them and infusing such Doctrines that with Satyr●k Sermons and incentive vociferations they have filled the State and Church both with

Deluge of corruption are yet emergent and bear up against the stream they that in desperate and dissolute times dare yet prove that they fear this Lord of Hosts and think upon his name they are Gods own his peculiar For so first the Rabbins interpret this word Segullah by peculium peculiare proprium speciale praecipuum singulare God hath a propriety a specialty in them But I meddle no further with that first priviledge it hath been the subject of a Sermon already pass we then to the second priviledge Which is That Gods fearfull and faithfull servants are his choice and reserved Rarities He is the great Preserver of men but for his own he hath a special Reserve or Cabinet to lay them by themselves at lest their state and condition is well exprest in the nature and worth of Jewels For this same word is by the same Rabbins also rendred in those term of Argentum Aurum Lapides preciosi in Thesauro Thesaurus dilectus res desider abilis And therefore the Geneva translating a flock are far short of this words Energie which we find but in two places of Scripture beside and both forcible to our present purpose God uses it and chooses it in Exedus 19.5 for the decoring of his own people the house of Israel who there he promises on their obedience shall be his chief treasure And then David with more advantage to us still uses is in 1 Chron. 29.3 to express some reserved choice Jewels which he dedicated and destined to the decoring of the Temple the house he intended and prepared to build for the Lord. Now those pretious stones we call by the name of Jewels are a kind of natural glass made out of a subtile mixture of earth and water saith Albertus Others conceive them to be but purer Metals as Plato imagined the Adamant a further excoction out of Gold Another describes them to be a kind of Light daintily confined to a terrestrial thickness but however sramed by his divine hand who worketh all in all things mention we find of their use and esteem even near the beginning in Job 28. mention of the Onyx Saphir Topaz describing paradise and naming Havilath Moses adds there is Bdellium and the Onyx stone The Israelitts borow Jewels of the Egyptians and 2 Sam. 12.30 David takes the King of Rabbaths Crown of a Talent weight set with preciovs stones And mention again we find of precious stones brought by the Queen of Sheba and by Solomons Navy 1 Reg. 10. And that of the Prophet shews an ordinary use of them Can a Maid forget her Ornaments or a Bride her Jewels But above all other two places of Scripture the 28. of Exodus and the 21 of the Revelation In the first is Aarons Brest-plate with twelve precious stones figuring the twelve Tribes And in the other the new Jerusalem the City of God with her foundation on twelve precious stones shaddowing out the twelve Apostles both conferring much strength to this Assertion 5. To descend then to some but few particulars in this Resemblance look first how the stone or Jewel depends not on the Merchants Report or mad credulity of the vulgar their Honor and Esteem and Approbation is from a skilfull Lapidary an exact Work-man a cunning and profest Jeweller indeed So the Apostle sleights the approof of common breath I pass not to be judged by you not he that commends himself to others or whom others but whom God commends So 't is here a comfort drawn from the Mine You shall be Mine saith the Lord of hosts 'T is I lay claim that will justifie you Who shall lay any thing to the charge not of mans but of Gods Elect Let the base world put you to the touch and trial I will avouch and warrant you sound and good amidst an heap of dross and counterfeits And hence that difference noted by our Saviour That which is vile among men is highty esteemed of God and contrary Men devise to put him by whom God will exalt Psalm 62.4 And no wonder if a gracious servant of God see himself so used God himself was abused so The stone which the Builders refused threw by among the rubbish that God made saith St. Peter elect and precious and set him right in his own place again the Chief the Headstone of the Corner where both wals meet to support both Church and State The world may guild enamel and perfume great ones and proceed in prodigious flattery till it come to Suffumigations and Altars as we read of some both Heathen and Christian and yet these Deifications these Canonizations done to such as are in Gods sight abominable Again it may and often doth account such as dross as have his Image and Superscription such as are encircled with this Motto here of Faciam eos in Gemmas In that day when I make up my jewels The world will say to a righteous man if nor rich nor potent sit here at my footstool but God that sees the heart and beholds the radiance of his wedding Garment and how clear it sits upon his soul will say as in the Gospel Friend sit up higher The world casts dust and obscurity upon them that are good But God makes that true of them which is spoken of Brutus and Cassius in the funerals of Junia Eo ipso praefulgebant quod non visebantur The world cries up the Noble the Rich the Wise God cries them down as fast Not many wise not many noble not many mighty are called The world proceeds in mischief and envy and madness against honest men as the Church of Rome deals with ingenuous Writers Dare he speak full Truth and so disgrace her Impostures Away with him a Spung and a Deleatur shall bedash him and extinguish him But God the true Corrector of the press Judex and Vindex upon a Review comes and commands with his powerfull Inseratur and re-invests with former honor re-instates and re-inthrones his servants and gives them just cause to rejoyce and say This is the Lords doing and it is marvailous in our eyes Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be the Glory Secondly Jewels by reason of Gods working them out of the rough and first Quarrie So dealt he with his dearest Jewel that lay from all Eternity in the bosom of his Father the brightness of his Glory and the engraven form of his Person Heb. 1. in whom though there was no sin to work out yet was in his humane nature cut from the same quarrie clouded with afflictiont and compassed about with all mans infirmities in his birth Daniels stone cut forth without hands Dan. 2.34 and in his death Zacharies stone graven and cut full of eyes all over Zach. 3.9 Not to mention those main Furnaces of affliction whereby he was consecrate and polisht for us And yet as in the midst of all to give a taste of his Divinity God transfigur'd him on the Mountain made him shine as

and he had good store shall slacken my hold upon this Rock shall severe me from that love of God which is in Christ Jesus my Lord. Other Properties they ascribe to precious stones and some such as are marvailous The Jasper sayes Pliny was wont to be worn in all the Oriental Regions as an Amulet against poyson and is of vertue to expel noysome dreams and Visions to clear the eyes and assists against all adversity So the Saphir in a Ring or Amulet contributes toward all prosperity encreases Devotion and helps against Ire Envy Sadness The Sardonix against Pride The Chrysolite against pusillanimity all melancholy fears and follies The Turkese they say deliver from imminent dangers and discovers them when they are near The Topaze from phrensie and sudden death The Chrysoprase availes against covetousness as the Beril is a hater of idleness Finally for I may not reckon all the Diamond for frienship stil'd therefore the stone of Reconciliation The Hyacinth is powerful to procure chearfulness and to preserve from thunder and lightning and all diseases The Amethist good against surfets and drunkenness and advances men to the favour of Kings Others are reported vertuous and those I am use you could wish me to help a man to eloquence and to make him quick of dispatch But now I confess I allow not this for a point of Divinity nor put it to you as a piece of good History for in the stories and traditions of these things I doubt not but there is a mass and mixture of praestigious vanity and untruth yet am not I of their mind utterly that think all Jewels v●id of all efficacy for doubtless as we believe the influences of stars and vertues of medicinal herbs and Roots so t is not disagreeable to Reason that in these glorious creatures the Creatour may have imprest beside their lustre some other secret testimonies of his excellent power which not only for that God vouchsafes here by them to describe the excellency of his Saints and calls his own blessed and beloved son by that Name of a precions stone but also I am the apter to believe by reason of those two places of Scripture which I named before The 28 of Exodus the 21 of the Revelation to which again I reser your reconsiderations Allowing then a possibility for many of these Properties in precious stones we may reduce all to two Specialties 1. They do encourage to good 2. And preservefrom evil both of sin and punishment and herein however qualified in themselves they may surely be of good use for us to make an apt resemblance and to express the condition of righteous souls such servants of God as fear him and think upon his name These are Jewels to the world in example stirring and provoking others to emulation shining in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation And these are they that like Lot in Sodom restrain the vengeance and overwhelming storms of fire from Heaven upon a world of ungodly wretches These are those blameless souls who when Achitophel and Haman are hanged up with all their rotten pollicies and ragioni d●●stato shall shine and whose light God will make to break out as the morning and to rise in obscurity and their darkness to be as the noon day and then they shall be call'd according to their qualities the Repairers of the breach and Restorers of the paths to dwell in Isay 58.12 But the cunning Statesman laughs at this and shakes his head to think that honesty or Religion should prescribe to such Grandees and Superintendents of fine but unrighteous Policy That the Bible or the Rules or the grace indeed deriv'd from thence should afford a way of enabling men in discharge of that Duty which is seen in Governments Lucian he likes but Machiavel admires those are his Scriptures Yet let such a man take the experimental proof of this from secular story Seneca the Jewel of Neroes youth and a braver Defence and Ornament then that so famous Jasper of his wherein he was pourtrai'd arm'd compleatly but his Armour of proof was Seneca preserving him five whole years in a form of Regiment equal to the best of his Predecessors But his Jewel once thrown away he fell to all excess of wickedness Or if a Scripture-story may pass let him look on that 2 Chron. 24. it may serve abundantly for all Examples Joas a yong King yet does right in the sight of the Lord so long as his Jewel lived the Text is plain all the dayes of Jehojada the Priest ver 2. Collections for repair of Gods House Oblations and Sacrifices renewed But when this Jewel was call'd for back to Heaven to be treasur'd there at ver 17. come the Princes of Judah no worse and they crouch make obeysance to the King for what for a change of Religion and how succeeds it as they could wish For the King hearkened to them and so they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers and served groves and Idols And as in States and Common-wealths so in Cities and Towns and private Families Gods servants in the due preservation and practice of Piety and Goodness are as means of encouragement to others so causes also of Restraint from evil of sin many sins of swearing whoring drunkenness and consequently preventers of Gods judgements for such sins As Moses interpos'd himself as a precious Jewel of excellent vertue in his prayer and Aaron with his fire betwixt the living and the dead and caused the Destruction to stop there So no question while just men live the whole Countrey Town Family is the better blest and when they dye God takes them away from the evil to come So far the bodily part of the Sermon in the explication of this second priviledge of Gods servants They are his Jewels Now to infuse a soul by breaking this speculation into practice into such uses as I account the very life of preaching For our first useful extraction then is to teach us wherein consists true Honour Joy Nobility Blessedness 'T is not in the endowments of Nature not in thy large capacity or faithful memory swift apprehension thy penetration of judgement or facility of Elocution not in thy height or depth of learning no nor in the exercise of moral vertue thy valour or thy bounty though these are Ornaments I wish on all my friends much less is it in thy purse or clothes or titles Not though thou wert a Joseph or a Mordecay to feed in Gold be drest in Purple sit next the King and be call'd his cousin which are reckoned in Esdras for the prime favours of an earthly Monarch for alas all these things mayst thou have and yet be but a meer worldling and after devolve to a worse master Kings may give their favourites and Popes bequeath their darlings and their Nephues earth and ayr Title Territory and make them Lords of so many Parks Mannors Honours Towns Counties Yet if but one