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A91736	The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657. Before the honorable East-India company. By Edward Reynolds, D.D.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1242; Thomason E934_4*; ESTC R207682	18,609	36

for the happy management of them For in the multitude of Counsellors is safety Prov. 11. 14. 5. His pious courage animating his Brethren bearing up himself against envious aspersions of the enemy and drawing in his Brethren into an unanimous society in great and honorable works and all upon grounds of Faith giving assurance of divine help Chap. 2. 17. 18 20. 3. per totum 4. 1 5 14. Faith is a foundation of courage no grace so valiant as that Heb. 11. 33 34. 1 Joh. 5. 4. and Courage a foundation of constancy 2 Tim. 4. 17 18. And therefore Faith and fortitude are necessary graces for those who will go with resolution through great and difficult undertakings And therein a special wisdom to work all in a sweet and amicable concurrence to draw one way and to joyn with special accord hearts and hands in the same work for differences and divisions will unjoynt the frame of great actions and as a breach in a Wall will minister unto adversaries an occasion of advantage 6. His wise discovery of adverse counsels and preparations Chap. 4. 8 9 15. There never was any great enterprise without special opposition Zorobabel met with mountainous obstructions in the great work which he went about Zach. 4. 7. onely these Obstructions are more secret and invisible then Mountains and therefore men that engage in great works must ever have their eyes running to and fro to discover dangers that they may prevent them Prov. 22. 3. 7. His special care upon all emergent occasions to call the people together for new and further counsels Chap. 4. 19 20. Great businesses being full of variety of incidental and circumstantial contingencies will frequently call for further resolutions and renewed consultations will like great Vessels many times spring a leak and require immediate application of remedies And therefore it is a part of necessary wisdom as in great Cities so in great actions to have Physitians always within call who may timely advise upon all needful expedients for safety Judg. 19. 30. 8. His indefatigable labor night and day being not onely a commander but an example of unwearied patience to all the people Verse 22 23. And all great actions will require this part of self-denial A man either of sensual or sluggish principles is very unfit for the management of any arduous and weighty affairs It was a great business but one would think a sad one for a man to sacrifice his beloved son and yet Abraham rose up early to go about it Gen. 22. 3. 9. His compassionate zeal mixed with wisdom impartiality and self-denial for the poor which were oppressed rebuking the oppressors and forbearing his own just allowances and preventing the injuries of servants and officers Chap. 5. 14 15. In great employments which pass through many mens hands it is neither impossible nor improbable for innocency many times to suffer and much wrong to be done and that reductivè even by good men themselves if their ears be too much open to misrepresentations as we see it was in the case of Ziba and Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 16. 1 4. Unless much care wisdom and courage be used to require all Officers to do the things belonging unto them with Justice and expedition And here give me leave to commend unto you the care of your poor Brethren a duty which Apostles themselves have put one another in minde of Gal. 2. 10. You cannot be without many objects of that kinde even amongst those who serve you in these Expeditions sick Mariners desolate Widows poor Children It would be a work of a sweet savor to God to have a steady stock going for the advantage of these as well as of the Merchants Their Prayers may be wind in your Sails and bring down a blessing on all your undertakings 10. His bounty to the work He bought no Land but spent himself upon the service and upon hospitality to the people Chap. 5. 16 17 18. Covetousness is not onely a bar and obstruction to all honorable undertakings but doth miserably corrupt and spoil them by a self-seeking management when men drive on and interweave domestical interests under the specious pretence of publick good And therefore all great works do require great and large hearts for the promoting of them It was a great work the building of the Sanctuary and the Lord gave greatness of heart to the people to contribute unto it Exod. 36. 5. It was a great work the building of the Temple and God gave an immense largeness of heart to David and his Princes in offering thereunto For the sums offered were so great as surpassed the treasures of any other Princes which we read of Sardanapalus onely excepted as the learned Breerwood and Sir Walter Raleigh have observed 1 Chro. 22. 14. 29. 14. See Isa. 60. 6 7. 11. His undiscouraged constancy notwithstanding all the threats slanders letters prophecies misreports and wicked artifices purposely used by the subtle enemies to weaken and dishearten his resolutions Chap. 6. None are fit for great actions who are not men of constant and undanted spirits who cannot go through evil report as well as good whom the integrity of their own Consciences cannot bear up above the reproaches of enemies 1 Cor. 4. 3. 2 Cor. 6. 8 9 10. 12. His wise and pious care to communicate part of the charge unto faithful coadjutors whom he advanced not barely for their relation unto him but for their fidelity to the service Chap. 7. 2 3. Since it is impossible for great actions to be managed without much concurrence singular care is to be used that good and faithful men by whose care and prudence and prayers they may be promoted be employed in the transaction of them that even near relations do not prevail with us to entrust great works in the hands of weak or wicked men Consanguinity hath a strong byass even with good men Barnabas did earnestly contend to take Mark along in his and Pauls expedition to visit the Churches which Paul opposed Acts 15. 37 38. The Apostle doth implicitely give us the reason of it in another place Col. 4. 10. where he telleth us that Mark was sisters son to Barnabas 13. His singular zeal for the purity of the people of God that they might be an Holy Seed and for the Offices of Gods house that they might not be polluted Chap. 7. His care of the Worship of God Preaching Praying Fasting renewing Covenant restoring intermitted Duties Chap. 8. 9 10. Of the Chambers of Gods house that they might not be defiled Chap. 13. 7 9. Of the Portions of the Priests and Levites that they might not be detained Vers 10 14. Of the Sabbath that it might be duly sanctified Vers 15 22. Of the courses and services of the Priests and Levites that they might be appointed Vers 30 31. Of the Holy Seed that that might not be by Heathenish marriages corrupted Vers 23 30. Of the Name of God that that might