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A32786	A sermon preached in Saint Pavles chvrch the tenth of October, 1641 by Mr. Thomas Chisheare ... ; vvherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these times.	Cheshire, Thomas, b. 1600 or 1601.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3780; ESTC R18461	9,416	17

were to come before an earthly Prince how would we thinke with our selves before hand what gesture and language we should use before we came into his presence Doe you thinke this fitting to be done to an earthly King and shall the King of Kings my beloved be thus dishonoured in many places of this your City Surburbs by Anabaptists S●peratists Burtonists and Brownists and I shall acquaint you with the passage concerning the first founder of the last of these sects It was one Browne a Minister who would preach no where but in private houses and desert places and the like and the reason that he alleadged was because we had no true Church but marke the event a good benefice was offered this Brown which he willingly accepted of and he that before would not acknowledge a Church in England was content to be a Parson of A-Church a certaine towne in Northampton-shire loe here you may behold the sincerity together with the antiquity of these Brownists We read in the vision of Elijah that there was a Whirle-wind but God was not in the whirle-wind next an earthquake next a fire but last of all a still small voice and there God was When was there a greater whirle-wind and Tempest in the Land then now is and is there not an earth-quake in this land of ours when one shall goe away with five or 600. poundes a yeare and a poore Vicar for 40. pounds shall undergoe all the burthen There was also a fire but God was not in it when many of our protestant Martyrs in the Marian days were carried up to heaven like Elijah in chariots of fire But as for us throughout our second Deborah's days our second Solomons days in the raigne of our second Iosiah whom God long preserve among us we have do heare the still smal voice of the preaching of the Gospell of Christ Iesus we have had free liberty for the publike Worship and service of God even the full age of a man till now of late these disturbers of the peace of our Church have risen and the wind hath begun to blow againe in the whisling and blustering of these Brownists I know there are some who are ready to taske us for medling with these things we have nothing to doe with but one answere is what things are out of our reach or what men in points of Religion I am sure our commission extends to the highest Cedars in Lebanon as will as the Hysop that groweth upon the wall We are dogs of the flock and therefore when we see cause we may bark and live too Now I come to give you a view of the actors and those Young Men and Maidens c. The parties are mentioned by couples being tied two and two together Young men and Maidens old Men and Children c. And here is a double Caveat first against presumption and secondly against Despaire First that the younger sort might desire to praise God they are exhorted to addresse themselves to the service of God to remember their Creator in the days of their youth Secondly for aged men that they might not doubt of the acceptation of their service our Prophet exhorts them also for the first you know David cals upon the Sun and the Moone to praise God Should the Sun reply I will not doe it in the morning or at noone time but when I am about to sit or the Moone reply I will not in the full but in the waine or the Tree not in the spring-time or Summer but at the fall of the leafe so likewise thou Young man deferre not the time of Praising God take the swinge of thy youth do not deferre to apply thy self to the service of God till thy old age but remember that for all these things thou shalt come to judgement He that stiles himselfe by the title I am cares not for I will be or I have been but he that is at this present take heed therefore thou strong and lustie young Man the Divell that holds the now will every day tie a new cord about thee Qui non est hodiè cras minùs aptus erit consider this you that are yet yong whom the morning Sun of light adornes with his glorious rayes every-one doth not live to be old Let us not procrastinate Gods service For the longer we deferre to serve God the farther God's grace is distant from us and the dominion of Sathan is more strenghthened in our hearts the more we delay the more is our debt the greater our sin and lesse our grace I will commend this lesson unto all He that doth not repent to day bath a day more to repent of and a day lesse to repent in I shall only conclude this point with an hearty exortation for us all of what sect Age and degree soever I could wish that all our lives might end like this booke of Psalmes in blessing and praising Almighty God I will hold your patience no longer in suspence but will consummate all with the Psalmist Let young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children praise the name of the Lord Yea this name especially the name of our Lord Iesus Christ to whom with the Father and Holy Spirit be all honour Praise and glory now and for evermore Amen FINIS verse 2. verse 3. verse 4. verse 7. verse 8. verse 9. verse 10. verse 11. verse 2. Luk. 2. verse 13. Esa 1. verse 3. Mat. 5. verse 37. verse 8. verse 4. Ruth 1. verse 16. and 17. verse 5. 1 Chro. 1● verse 13. 2 Chro. 36. verse 16. 1 King 6. verse 7.

Praise God as wee ought it must by fulfilling his word What is that instrument of ten strings which our Prophet speaketh of but the devout heart of a Christian tuned and rightly set to the ten commandements This Musick sounds sweetest in the eares of Heaven so saith Saint Augustine more at large in that excellent worke of his de decem chordis Good works should say to orall confession as Ruth did to Naomi And Ruth said intreat me not to leave thee or to returne from following after thee for whither thou goest I will goe c. And where a godly conversation doth not concomitate orall confession that praise sounds harsh in the eares of God Ergo as the Father saith Noli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We must have brace-lets as well as Earerings good deeds as well as courteous language or the ornament which our spirituall Isaack gives to his Rebechah and which he most esteemeth these are they which make him take pleasure in our beauty therefore let us take pleasure not onely to speake and heare but do the same for this is truely to praise the name of the Lord and as we must praise God in thought word and worke we must labour to keep an agreement between them all for if one onely string be out of tune although all the rest be rightly set yet this one will so jar that the lesson playd upon it to a skilfull eare will sound as bad as if all were out of tune If thou doest forsake drunkennesse Whoredome or such like and yet dost cleave to covetousnesse it comes all to on reckoning for he that offends in one point is guilty of all saith the Apostle looke therefore to thy bosome sin and never leave striving untill thou quite extirpate the same How many are there of us that will pray in necessity but will not praise in prosperity The husband-man so long as the corne is growing will hedge and fence the field with all care and dilligence but when it is reaped then he lets it lye open for Hogs and other Beasts to treade and trample in When we have what we looked for then welet the reine slip in a storme we would be glad to shelter our selves under the branches of that tree which afterward we are ready to cut downe and burne it After the same manner the ungratefull Athenians delt with Themistocles when there was any sedition or uproare in the City then who but Themistocles but when by his discreet wisedome and good Counsell all was quieted then who more vile who more contemptible then poore Themistocles I wish this might be applyed to too many of our times who are fitly compared to a Herd of Hoggs the keeper beates them downe acornes and they eate them up greedily but never look up to the tree onely when they find their store spent grunt a little for more like as when some wholesome potion is boyled in a brasse vessell yet the brasse gives it such a relish that it becomes good for nothing Prayers and praise in a good mans mouth is like sweet incense but in others it is like brasse and savours too strong of the Cask and therefore the wise man saith that praise is not seemly in the mouth of a Sinner The husband man when he is like to have a good harvest or the Merchant a good returne from Sea He will give praise to God but with such a relation to his gaine that a man may easily perceive it was not of free will neither indeed willingly did he give praise to Almighty God and indeed men doe behave themselves so as if they were bound no more to give God praise then he is to give them benefits The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away saith Iob blessed be the Name of the Lord Quando tibi benè est lauda misericordiam Dei quando male lauda iusticiam Dei And that lustily and with a good courage Our prophet David calling upon the creatures to praise the Lord he joyneth a reason For saith he Let them praise the Lord for he commanded and they were created But we have much more cause for besides we have the benefit common with them we have above all other creatures a great benefit of redemption by Iesus Christ in this God hath exalted men above Angels in giving unto them his onely begotten Sonne as his power was manifest in the creating of the world so the riches of his love was never so fully shewed as in sending his onely begotten Sonne to suffer for us I remember a story of one Saleucus who made a law that all adulterers should be punished with the losse of both their eyes on a time it came to passe his owne son was taken in the same fault his good old Father being perplexed much thereat at last resolved on this course that the executioner should pull out one of his owne eyes and another of his Sonnes that so both iustice might be satisfied and mercy shewed We likewise were in danger both of loosing this life and that which is to come as also of suffering a double Death temporall and eternall but God hath found out a meanes for our delivery Christ came in and suffered one Death himselfe to free us from the other Death Plato gave thankes unto the Gods First that he was a man and not a Beast Secondly that he was a Graetian and not a Barharian Thirdly that he was not one of the common rout but a Philosopher But besides we are men we are Christian men who live in peace and plenty with the free passage of the Gospell of Iesus Christ Therefore let us both Young Men and Maidens old Men and Babes praise the name of the Lord Gratiarum actio respicit gratiam dantis ubi igitur est gratia maior dantis ibi gratia maior accipientis Assure thy self of one thing as Saint Augustine hath Qui non vult laudare in hoc seculo obmutescet in futuro God at the last day will say to such an one as the King did to him that had not on the wedding garment I should be too tedious if I should stand to reckon up the manifold mercys that God hath be stowed on this our land beyond all the world besides our Peace and Plenty with the Gospell of Christ our many and great deliverances both from forreigne enemies and Domesticke Traytors so that we may rightly say Ignem aquam transivimus God hath delivered us from the Spanish invasion and the Gun-powder treason and hath placed us in a wealthy land Be ye therefore filled with the Spirit saith our Prophet David speaking to your selves in Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall songs and here I might speak of the godly care of our Church which hath ordeined singing of Psalmes both before and after Sermon and indeed are very fitting to be sung in order for the better stirring up of our affections And here I have a iust cause to taske them of