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A86088	The loyall subiect's retiring-roome, opened in a sermon at St Maries, on the 13th day of Iuly, (being Act-Sunday) in the after-noone. A.D. 1645, before the Honourable members of both Houses of Parliament, assembled in Oxford. / By R, H. M, A. [sic].	Harwood, Richard, d. 1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1107; Thomason E300_1; ESTC R200251	23,584	36

heaven but the stoutest Rebels against their King on earth O malice where are thy bounds Is it not enough that thou hast banished us from our cities our country our houses but wilt thou disfranchize us of the new Jerusalem disinherit us of heaven our truest home Is it not sufficient that thou hast stiptus of our dearest friends and fortunes but wilt thou rob us of our God too Is it no ease to thee to condemne us for dead men while we live and to make us uncapable to serve God and the King but wilt thou pursue us in our gaves and persecute us to the sentence of an eternall rume Though I ever esteemed S. Ribad in vit S. Aug Augustine the more prosound Doctor for being called by the Manichees Prado anima●…am the Pyrate of soules Tortus p 97. King Iames the founder Protestant for being the Popes Heretike you the more orthodox Christians because you are the Traytors Papists yet I pray God our wicked lives have not atticulated this Blasphemy to them For will you esteem Him a Roman that always walkes in a Persian habite Him an Israelite whose language is pure Aegyptian or Him an Englishman whom nature hath died a very Aethiopian If we are God's people true Israelites indeed we should weare the habite speak the language and live according to the Lawes and Constitutions of his Kingdom When the Curashier Bishop was presented to the Pope Speed Hen. 4. he would not owne him for his Sonne Hae non est tunica filij This is not the eoate of my Sonne And when God shall behold us in our exotike fashions dressed with the vanities of all forraigne Nations when the times call for sack-cloth and ashes when he shall heare us speake in that infernall language of execrations and blasphemies when bleeding England begs for our prayes When he shall see our faces speckled and pyed to court and adulterous eye when our present miseries should bedew them with teares to pacifie our angry God what can we except but a Non novi I know you not This is not the habite the language nor complexion of my people very true in the old law where we do not read that every your strang spotted beasts were accepted for sacrifice The claime God layes to us is by right of a Colof 1.16.17 dominion and so we owe him subjection by right of purchase b 1. Cor. 6.20 so gratitude by right of c Rom. 6.18 Con quest so Homage by d Exek 16.8 Covenant so Fidelity yea by a sweer e 1. Cor. 15.10 Communion and so we owe him our dearest affection And cannot all the cords of love binde our Allegiance Into what a sacred snare hath the Almighty brought himself whereby he is chain'd up as it were and bound to be Our God and yet no bonds can hold us to our Obedience Necessity hath forced the proudest heart to be assistance of that hand which prosperity taught him to scorne And me thinks if there were no other argument left us but our owne misery it should teach us so much wisdome as to keeepe God our friend The Church of England hath long called upon her lovers but she finds them as her elder Sister did False Lament 1.19 Deceperunt me they have deceived me Humane friendship is like Quick-silver which you may incorporate into Gold but cast it into the fire and 't will steale away as if it scorn'd it's acquaintance but the divine love is not made of such running mettall The Christian cannot be cast into a Furnace of affliction that is too hot for his maker 'T is a fiery tryall indeed but of God's love as well as the Christian's faith As the King of Arragon was sayling into Sicily he observ'd the brids attending the ship Panormitan lib. 1. derelus gest Alphonsi whil'st he threw corne to them but when they had eaten that up away they flew whereupon saies he Persimiles his garriss purpur all curiales mei My Peeres and Courtiers are very like these birds I shall have their company by sea and land so long as I feed and dignifie them but if my treasure fayle they take their wings leaving me and the ship to the mercy of the storme Great Alphonsus thy Court is but the emble me of all mankind so Scottish and coveteo us are the hearts of men that there cannot be a true loves-knott tyed amongst them but in chaines of gold and threds of silver but our God is no mercenary diety He followes not our ship for booty or pillage but as Queene Elizabeth one styled her self Speed Cron. the poore man's Queene so out God is the Banish't Imprisoned Plundered poore mans God My people Lord whom dost thou speak to wilt thou owne us in our bloud and look upon us in our misery We have been indeed Gens deo chara A nation beloved but now O our misfortune Invisa deo Abhorr'd of the Almighty Once Rignum Dei the Kingdome of God but now O our fall Magnum latrocinium A den of Theeves May we not say with Rebecca if it be so why am I thus if we are still thy people Lord why are we thus efflicted But did you never heare what Ausonius answer'd Caesar when he desir'd a copy of his Verses Epist ad Aug. Cas Non habed idingenij I have not so good a fancy O Emperour but command me and I shall have Cur me poRe negern poRe quodille putat why should I say I cannot doe what he thinks I can So if God still call us his people why should we think we are not Did he owne us in our Sinnes and will he disclaime us in our Sorrowes could our very Injuries move him to compassion and shall our calamities enrage him against us Is it his custome to make men miserable and then obhorre them If he chasten every Sonne whom he loves adversity sure is but an argument of his dearer affection Will any man take the paines to prune a Vine that is none of his owne or weede the Garden that is another mans Propriety is the ground of care and by this we know we are his people that he careth for us Ezek. 34.11.15 When King Edward told John of France his Prisoner that he should have his liberty if he would but doe him homage for the Realme of France French Hist in Iohn 51. King He answered him freely like a King That he must not speak to him of that which he neither ought nor would doe to alienate a right inalienable Affliction may engage my person but never the invielable right of my Crowne And doe you think the God of heaven will debase himselfe to doe homage to those two proud usurpers the World and Devill for his dominions no His Propriety is as in alienable and immort all as Himselfe Though now our ship be almost sinking yet because it is his Vessell 't is an undoubted argument to me that

Outer and an Inner The outer in the Letter Christian Prudence The inner in the Allegory Christian Patience Prudence in a seasonable flight when a danger threatens Enter thou into thy chambers shut the doores about thee c. Gen. 27.44 As Rebecca commanded Iacob to fly to Haran Exod. 11.22 till Fsau's sury was asswaged or as the Israelites came not out of doores till the morning when the destroying Angell was abroad So when a Persecution rageth we must nor stand to our-face it but retire into our chambers This sense Athanasius gives the words who grounded his Apology profugá on the letter of the text Patience in a quiet expectation of the Divine pleasure A Lapide c. Enter into thy chambers c. Not the chambers of Death Purgatory Limbus-patrum or the Grave as the Popish Commentators interpret it of the retirements of mortality till the day of Judgment Nor the chambers of pleasure such chambering hath wantonesse alwayes behind the Hangings Carthusian B●… Muse●… but the chambers of devotion patiently waiting for the salvation of the Lord. For if you please to light one candle by another this of the Prophet Luther in locum Cubicula ingredimur susecreta mer●… nostrae in●… m●… 〈…〉 illicita 〈◊〉 ria●…●…us Greg. 1.4 mor. 6.26 by that of the Psal Luther sales they give the same light Frett not thy selfe because of the ungodly rest in the Lord and waite patiently for him Psal 77. 7 O if this candle burne too dimme will you borrow a Taper of the Fathers Cubicula ingredimur saies Gregory we enter into our chambers when we retire into the secret closets of our soules we shut the doores about us when we coerce unlawfull desires or as the ordinary glosse when we put a watch before the doores of our lipps least the greatnesse of our misery Pone custodiam ori ne ex vehememia tribulationis verkaper rumant in offensam dei Gloss ordin prompt our tongues to blasphemy and murmuring Lastly the Argument of both drawne from 1. The brevity of Affliction Paululum ad momentum for a very little moment If there be any ods in minutes take the least of them and that not multiplyed but donec pertranseat ira till the indignation be over past 'T is a verbe of speed and bids you look up to the skie and see how fast this cloude posts away on the wings of the winde 2. The speedy releife we shall have from 1. Heaven Ecce venit dominus behold the Lord commeth c. 2. Earth Terra revelabit the earth shall reveale her blouds and no longer cover her slaine These are the parts of our present discourse and for their multiplicity I shall need no other apology then that they are like the six cities of refuge each a Sanctuary and I cannot throw open too many in these times of Persecution yet because he that hath many places to visit must not stay long in a place I shall discover them to you with all possible brevity beginning with that which begins all our discourse the Complement in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My people And a meere complement you may think it indeed 1. The Complement that he should call a company of poore captive Iewes His people He is not a true Courtier on earth that will bestow more then a Complement on men in misery But there is no such base Courtship in heaven All God's complements are reall performances He is not ashamed to owne his people when they are at the worst In captivity as well as in liberty the worst condition In Babylon as well as Jerusalem the worst place Populi mei my people in both Nay when all happinesse and comfort seem to disclame them then he invites them to himselfe Come my people Come Lord they have but a short step to thee who art alwayes present with them When the world was covered with a Sea Gen. 6.17 for fecit inhabitare he brought a flood of waters upon the earth Ierome reads it Deus inhabitans God dwelt upon the deluge He would not trust his little world in the Arke but li●e another Neptune he must sit upon the waters and seeme to venture the hazard of a shiprack with it Ere Israel trode a step towards Aegypt I will go downe with thee Gen. 46.4 saith the Lord. Downe what a word is that for a Deity into Aegypt what a place that for his holynesse Yet O the humility of our God! He never thinks himselfe low enough to doe his people good no place too had for his society which made it a rule among the Hebrew Doctors Menos Ben. Isr in Gen. that God and his peole are inseparable he will beare a share in their misfortunes Moses had the Hieroglyphick of it when he appeared to him in a burning bush A strange throne for such a majestie yet here he laies aside the state of a Deity and to rescue his people from the fire puts himself into the mid'st of it Will you but knock at Josephs prison doore and there they will tell you Dominus cum illo Gen 39.21 the Lord was with him Will you but cast your eye with Nabuchadnezar into the Fornace and with Darius peep into Daniels denne and in both Angelus Domini the Angell of the Lord put nature to a contradiction you have a fire burning and not consuming The devourers devoured by their own prey My people are gone into captivity Isai 52.4 5. Ashur hath afflicted them without a cause Et quià mihi nunc hìc saies the the Lord what do I now here why where would'st thou be O Lord but in heaven is not that the Palace of thy Majesty yet he seemes to be at little ease in heaven whil'st his people are in durance on earth his bondage is their captivity and there is no heaven to him like his peoples Prison or if you will read it otherwise as some doe Quid mihi nunc what is now left me you will wonder the more that in the losse of a few Jewels he should esteem himselfe Plundered of the whole Cabinet Yet as the rights of the Crowne are all equall and by slipping off one of those flowers 't is a shrewd figne given all may be lyable so the divine providence hath an even property in all his Saints and if he should suffer some to be lost he would bring his originall right in question But this hath bin disputed by a deluge and that could not obliterate with the flames and they would not consume with age and that could not antiquate with all the powers of darknesse and they could never get it by conquest It hath puzled the whole Presbytery of hell to forge a Smectimuus against this Iure divine But what a bold enemy hath God now upon earth that dares out law whole kingdoms and dash a nation at once out of the book of life as if none were truely Subjects to the King of