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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17142	Dauids strait A sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, Iuly 8. 1621. By Samuel Buggs Bachelor of Diuinitie, sometime Fellow of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge: and now minister of the word of God in Couentrie.	Buggs, Samuel.	1622 (1622)	STC 4022; ESTC S106913	31,160	62

TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL Mr MAIOR of the City of Couentry and the rest Worshipfull Aldermen and Sheriffes of that INCORPORATION S. B. wisheth encrease of grace in this life and assurance of glory in the life to come RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL WHen I first deliuered that small Treatise by word of mouth it was the farthest part of my thought euer to aduenture the exposall of it to the view of any as considering mine owne weaknes and the worlds peeuishnesse But it fared with this Sermon as with a Meteor which being gently drawne vp by the kindly heate of the Sunne resides for a time in the Ayre and hath there indeed a beeing but shineth not till kindled by the Antiperistasis and circumstant cold of the ayre So this my Labour receiuing some warmth and beeing by the gentle breath and vndeserued approbation of some was not yet seene of the world vntill it tooke fire by some who being at the deliuery of it circumstant did in their causlesse and vndeserued humours giue such cold entertainment vnto both it and me that I was by the vulgar reported to bee taken by the great Fleet or at the least shrewdly encountred Whereupon I thought it fit for mine owne defence and satisfaction of others that the things before demisla per aurem should be now oculis subiect a fidelibus that what was before in the aire and in the eare should now be in the eye that the Christian Reader may iudge whether it deserued reproofe or censure yea or no and whether herein I haue laboured to keepe a good conscience toward God and men I appeale to the iudgements of them who being cleare of any thing against which I might seeme to inueigh are fittest and the onely competent Iudges in this kind Your Worships can I trust beare me witnesse that I neuer amongst you for these many years haue shewed my selfe any way to be of a factious and a turbulent spirit but haue alwaies laboured and prayed for the peace of Ierusalem and hope to prosper the better because I loue her Now when these forenamed passages had caused me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 willing nilling for my owne safeguard to adiudge this poore booke to be prest although I might haue seemed wise in choice of some greater patronage I thought fittest to appropriate some part of my labours to this place where I was borne brought vp and haue spent my dayes euer since I was called first to the Ministery and so much the rather in regard of your vndeserued loues which I can neyther deny nor conceale lest I should be iniurious and also your godly and religious dispositions wherein this City doth equall without flattery be it spoken the most ciuilly gouerned or most eminently religious places of this Kingdome Such as it is it pleades in my name and I in the name of Truth that it may finde acceptance with your Worships and as many as loue the truth and if in any thing I shall be blamed I will not bee so presumptuous as with Pilate to say What I haue written I haue written but as the Ecclesiasticall Historian If I haue done well it is that which I desired but if slenderly and meanly it is that which I could attaine vnto If hereby any taking paines to reade is shall reape any benefit it shall be a full satisfaction for my labour and the comfort of my heart Now the God of loue and peace multiply his blessings vpon this City that it may be happy in gouernment holy in profession the true member of the mysticall body of Christ partaking the promises of godlinesse euen those of this life and of the life to come Euen so be it Lord Iesus Amen Amen Your Worships in all Christian duties to be commanded Samuel Buggs DAVIDS STRAIT 2 SAM 24.14 And Dauid said vnto Gad I am in a great strait THere is a two-fold euill whereunto all the sonnes of Adam are subiect as long as they liue in these houses of Clay malum culpae and malum poenae an euill of sin and an euill of punishment Semblable whereunto the whole duty of man is comprised in these two words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a patient bearing of the euill of affliction and a conscionable forbearing the euill of sinne In this actiue and passiue life as all other Saints and Seruants of God so Dauid a man after his owne heart was much exercised wherein hee so carried himselfe that much praise and renown did accrew both to his worthy person and holy profession In the passiue part of his life Qui hominum patientior aut qui tolerantior Meeke as a Doue in persecution mild as a Lambe in prosecution of his hate-worthy enemies especially toward Saul when God had put him into his hands hee was so farre from touching his person as that hee was content to sit downe with much wrong and bee the sole patient of vndeserued hatred Iames 3.2 But for the actiue part as In many things we offend all 2 Sam. 11.4 12.9 so Dauid himselfe was faulty in two maine matters for being made King of his hopes hee offended in the matter of Vriah the Hittite whom he wronged in his second selfe defiling his wife and after in his owne selfe betraying his life slaying him with the sword of the children of Ammon And now againe is mentioned to make vp his sinnes a number a second sinne of numbring the people from which sinne because by disswasion he would not be hindred wrath was gone out from God and he could not be helped Gad the Seer was sent in the morning vnto him to propound a hard and yet necessary choice of three and those most fearfull euils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Famine for three yeares Warre for three months Pestilence for three daies By these fearfull punishments as by thunder Dauid being awaked from his security and from the wine of selfe-conceipt 1 Chron. 21.1 wherewith Satan had before intoxicated him hearing this terrible embassage opens his eyes and seeing three such furies of Hell aduancing towards him cries out in the anguish and bitternesse of a perplexed soule I am in a great strait Which few words though may seeme at the first sight hard as the rocke in the wildernesse yet haue I discouered flowing thereout as from Eden foure seuerall streames wherein a Christian may wash like Naaman and bee cleansed or like the blind man and returne seeing prouided that wash both hands and head to giue attention and yeeld practice to the remarkable points herein contained 1 Quo peccato incidit How Dauid came into this strait 2 Quo animo apprehenderit How he conceiued of this strait 3 Quâ patientiâ pertulerit How he bare this strait 4 Quâ prudentiâ cuaserit How he gate out of this strait The first is for admonition the second for instruction the third for imitation the fourth for consolation Euery of them being compounded by your Christian wisedome as by the Art of the