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A30793	XIII sermons most of them preached before His Majesty, King Charles the II in his exile / by the late Reverend Henry Byam ... ; together with the testimony given of him at his funeral, by Hamnet Ward ...	Byam, Henry, 1580-1669.; Ward, Hamnet.	1675 (1675)	Wing B6375; ESTC R3916	157,315	338

entertain every broken Cause for his Fee If a Toby who if he hear the bleating of a Kid cryes redde away with it restore it no stollen Goods shall come within his Doors If a Timothy who will be sure to keep his Faith and a good Conscience If a Licurgus who contra Gentes will restore the Crown to the right owner and be a faithful Subject rather than a perfidious Usurper Mark such considerate Behold them thorowly such just such upright men for the end of such men is peace Which is the second General Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Here 's the Reward of his Integrity and Holiness Here 's David's Beatus vir Psal 1. As for the ungodly it is not so with them but they are like the chaff which the wind scattereth away from the face of the Earth Psal 73. Ponuntur in Praecipitiis They are set in slippery places and in a moment brought to desolation Cut off from the Earth and rooted out of it for their transgressions Prov. 2. the last Verse Their memory all shall rot But finis hujus hominis pax He may encounter with many difficulties in the course of his life and many miseries may intervene But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pax His last end is Peace In the ninth of St. Matthew you have one twelve years diseased at length a Physician was found who could and did cure In the fifth of John one lies impotent thirty eight years at the Pool Bethesda at length comes one who with a Surge makes him sound Another blind from his Nativity with an easie remedy came seeing John 9. So as I said the good man meets with many difficulties in the course of his life But Finis pax All 's well at last his end is happy I see Abraham driven from place to place at one time ready to starve another time his wife in jeopardy to loose her honour crossed in his Children unhappy in his Friends Kinred every way and yet his Bosome now a receptacle for the Saints of God As much might I say of Moses Elias and many others Yea John the Baptist whose head was smitten from his Body yet was not that his last end But that which was said of him Multi in ejus Nativitate gaudebunt afterwards came to pass the day of his Birth was made sacred to all Posterity and was solemnized by the very Heathen themselves in St. Bernards dayes Take heed therefore what Conclusions you draw from the present condition or success of things Thus did Shimei deal by David Nunc ad calculos redactus est Come out thou bloudy man thou man of Belial now thou pay●st for all the blood that hath been shed 2 Sam. 16. Yet shortly after you have him on his knees and begging pardon The King is restored the Rebels perish Thus did the Barbarians pass sentence on St. Paul Acts 28. A murderer whom Vengeance suffered not to live Yet shortly after their minds are changed and they take him for a God Thus do our Adversaries who puffed up with their success and our misfortunes conclude thence as the Turk may do as much the goodness of their Cause But stay our last end is not yet come no nor theirs neither Ante obitum nemo c. You know what Solon said And though I undertake not to Devine yet I dare say with him Num. 16.29 If these men die the common death of all men then the Lord hath not sent me However there 's an end and a last end and that Balaam saw when he would have his last end like the Israelites Numb 23. And Amalek might die in his bed but his last end was to perish everlastingly Numb 24. And therefore in Moses's words and Mose's wish God make us wise and that we may consider our last end 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am sure 't will go well with the perfect and upright man at the last his end or his last end will sure be Peace There is a fourfold peace First a Peace from War and that is the peace of the Common-wealth Secondly the Peace of the Body the Eucrasie and temperature of the Humours A peace from Sickness and Diseases Thirdly The peace of Conscience a peace from sin and sins deserved punishments Fourthly A Peace supra pacem such a peace as never shall be taken from us in the highest Heavens eternal peace First The Peace of our Country and Common-wealth were a Peace much to be desired Pax optima rerum Quas homini novisse datum est pax una triumphis Innumeris potior Silius 'T is bonum desiderabile as she said of the Tree Gen. 3. O those blessed dayes when men might sit down under their own Vine and Fig tree and might eat the labours of their own hands When they were not awaked with the Drum and Trumpet nor terrified with the clashing of Armour and the violence of Souldiers Veteres migrate Coloni was not heard in our Streets But the Mountains did bring peace Psal 72. The barren Mountain requited the cost bestowed on them plentifully A blessed peace and this by Gods grace we shall have in the end And yet secondly Behold a better Pax Corporis The peace of the Body Abraham was much disquieted for want of Children Gen. 15. Ahab for his Neighbours Vineyard Haman at the very sight of Mordecai Hoster 5. So much troubled that neither his Riches Children nor Honour nought could do him good as long as he saw Mordecai the Jew sitting at the Kings Gate And if he had his purpose in this too yet what would all avail him if he could not have his health The gouty Cardinal would give his Cardinals Cap a thousand times that he might be freed of his Disease Let him speak who hath the Stone or Strangury nay be it but the Tooth-ach his courage strength appetite all is gone The Valetudinary man is like St. Pauls widow Vivens mortua 1 Tim. 5.6 as good as dead while he is alive So that Pax corporis the health of the body is no small blessing and God hath blessed the most of us with this And yet is not this Pax illa Thirdly there is another and a better peace The Peace of Conscience and this may he have who with Lazarus sits at Dives gate or with distressed Job lies stinking on a Dung-hill He fears not though the Earth be moved and the Mountains carried into the middest of the Sea This Peace had the Saints and Martyrs in the height of their Torments Now begin I to be Corn for my Saviour saith one And verte aliud latus saith another rosting on the Gridiron There was Justitia causae justitia personae both the Cause was good the Sufferers perfect and upright and therefore all went well whiles the Mind and Conscience was at peace This made David say I will lay me down in peace and sleep yea even then when his Enemies compassed him round

serm 30. and nothing should be dearer than his Soul I shall I do beseech such an one to be merciful to his own life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Get thee to some learned Priest open thy grief to the Physician of thy Soul He will compassionate thy case with a fatherly affection shew unto him without blushing those secret sores of thine and he will or be he branded for ever with the ignominy of Irregularity he will save thy credit and salve thy wound Credit alas alas What 's Credit if the Soul must perish or what 's Reputation which cannot compass one drop of water to cool a flaming tongue And you whom God suffered to fall and yet of his infinite mercy vouchsafed graciously to bring home not only to your Country and Kindred but to the profession of your first Faith and to the Church and Sacraments again Let me say to you but in a better hour as sometime Joshua to Achan Give glory to God sing praises to him who hath delivered your Soul from the nethermost Hell Magnifie him for his unspeakable goodness and mercy towards you labour not either to cover or lessen your offence When I think upon your Turkish Attire that Embleme of Apostacy and witness of your woful fall I do remember Adam and his fig-leave Breeches they could neither conceal his shame nor cover his nakedness I do think upon David clad in Sauls Armour 1 Sam. 17. and his helmet of Brass I cannot go with these saith David How could you hope in this unsanctified habit to attain Heaven how could you clad in this unchristian weed how could you but with horrour and astonishment think on the white-Robe of the innocent Martyrs which you had lost Revel 6 1● How could you go in these rewards of Iniquity and guerdons of Apostacy and with what face could you behold your self and others I do assure my self the torments you endured were grievous and the hope for your delivery was little or none but Seneca puts it down for an Axiom That a man cannot be much grieved and long together and that the pains will be either sufferable or short if it be not alwaies so Yet what saith Cicero of Trebonius miserably slain by Dolobella Ep. 97. Philip. de●●ma Sickness doth oft times punish many of us here as much and much more then stripes could torment you there However the longest day hath a night and the Torments and Tormentors cannot last for ever but Montes uruntur durant Tertul. 76. Etna and Vesuvius burn and continue We should think upon the pains of Hell which last for ever I know you were young so was Daniel and the three Children Euseb lib. 6. c 40. Gr 41. Euseb lib. 5. ca. 1. Fox Zuinger so were Dioscorus the Confessor and Ponticus the Martyr add if you please our English Mekins who all at fifteen years of Age endured manfully whatsoever the fury of the Persecutors pleased to inflict upon them I might adjoyn to these some of ten years old and Vitus of seven And though we call them the weaker Sex yet hath the Church her Women-Martyrs not a few who have endured as couragiously as ever any then did Witness St. Agnes at 12 years old Ambrose de virgin lib. 1. Cecilia Agatha and a world besides In a word Youth and Torments and whatever else may be alleadged do somewhat lessen ●nd extenuate the sin but they cannot clear the Conscience We are bound without fainting to resist unto the death I would be loath to break a bruised Reed or add affliction to affliction Let not what is said or done encourage any of you to rejoyce in your Neighbours fal● nor triumph in his misery Far be all unchristian upbr●idings reproaches twictings from your Christian hearts but as St. Paul said of Onesimus Receive him as a beloved Brother for ever and do it with the spirit of meekness considering your selves lest you also be tempted God forbid that any of you should grieve his Soul Gal. 6.1 Illo hodie ego cras so ●lle apud Ber● de resurrect Dom. serm 2. for whose return the Angels do rejoyce in Heaven Prophets Patriarchs Apostles Angels have fallen and who is he that is assured of his strength or who can say He shall stand fast for ever Though you traffick not for Turkie yet may you be Apostata's at home Tit. 1.16 1 Tim. 5.8 denying in deeds and worse than Infidels But you that go down to the Sea in Ships and occupy your business in great Waters for the State of the World cannot stand without Buying and Selling Traffick and Transportation what shall I say of you Pittacus reckons you neither amongst the dead nor the living The Grave is alway open before your face and but the thickness of an inch or twain that keeps you from it One breath flaw gust may end your voyage But if Paul scape drowning yet he sees a Viper on the shoar and if all dangers of the Sea quit you yet a mischief from the Land may overtake you That African Monster to which so many poor Souls have been made a prey The Turk which God forbid may bring you under his Lee And as our Saviour said of Peter John 21.18 you shall stretch forth your hands and he shall gird you and lead you whither you would not If such a calamity should ever befal any of you yet remember your first love the God of love your blessed Saviour 1 T m. 1. fight a good fight keeping faith and a good Conscience So shall Christ hear when you call and shall deliver you in the needful time of trouble He shall bring you back unto your home in safety and as you have confessed him before men so shall he confess you before his Father which is in Heaven The first works come now in the last place to be spoken of this is one of the lissoms or twists of that cord which will hardly be broken Remember repent and do the first works Eecles 4.12 Works must be one or it will never hold but add them and you shall make St. Bernards Rope Serm. 16. in Cantica strong enough to draw Souls out of the Devil's Goal I should here tell this poor penitent what one tells the Citizens of Luca. P. Martyr It behoveth him to make good what he hath formerly and faintingly denyed He must cast off his barbarous Barbarian habit and putting on a Christian resolution he must boldly confess his Saviour in the same place where he did first deny him or because Durus est hic sermo as they say in the 6. of St. John This is an hard saying and it is indeed and requires a special fortitude and most heavenly resolution and non omnes capiunt it must be given them from above yet in the whole course of his life let his repentance be made manifest and let him ingrave in his heart those words of the