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A33474	Vox corvi, or, The voice of a raven that thrice spoke these words distinctly, Look into Colossians the 3d and 15th : the text it self look'd into and opened in a sermon preached at Wigmore in the county of Hereford : to which is added serious addresses to the people of this kingdome, shewing the use we ought to make of this voice from heaven / by Alex. Clogie.	Clogie, Alexander, 1614-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing C4724; ESTC R26607	70,214	178

Proverb says If one will not another will Doeg the Edomite did readily obey the word of Command and made no Bones of it to butcher Fourscore and five persons that did wear a Lin●● Ephod and this Obedience tended to the eternal Destruction of the wicked Commander and cursed Obeyer and for shedding so much innocent Blood in the Massacre of their City Nob. They murdered themselves in the overthrow at Mount Gilboa 1 Sam. 31. 4 5. Servants must not run away at every word as Hagar who tells the truth to the Angel that called to her in her flight slayed her course and sent her back again Hagar Sarah's Maid whence comest thou and whether goest thou And she said I flee from the Face of my Mistress Sarah and the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return unto thy Mistress and submit thy self unto her and she did so and tarried with her till she was brought to Bed of her Son Ishmael and many years afterward for her Son was thirteen Years old when he was Circumcised and Isaac but eight Days Gen. 17. 24. Servants must not answer again with lying and swearing as too many do Gehezi sheltered his base Covetous Mind with Lyes to his Master Elisha to enrich himself by the Bounty of Naaman the Syrian but it brought a plague of Leprosie upon him and his Seed for ever and he went out of his Masters presence a Leper as white as Snow 2 Kin. 5. 27. but came in no more to serve him They must not despise their Masters but count their own Masters worthy of all Honour that the Name of God and his Doctrin be not blasphemed as the Apostle speaks to Timothy 1 Tim. 6. 1 2. They must not speak evil of them as wicked Ziba did of his Master Mephibosheth whom he had falsly accused of High Treason to the King For he said to day shall the House of Israel restore me to the Kingdom of my Father 2 Sam. 16. 3. Upon which false Accusation the King doth rashly bestow all his Estate upon his Treacherous accuser but the Holy Ghost testified his Loyalty to the King who rode out to meet the King at his return and having made the whole time of the the King's absence as it were a day of Humiliation and had neither washsed his Feet nor trimmed his Beard nor washed his Cloaths from the day the King departed until the day he came in Peace 2 Sam. 19. 24. and cleared himself to the King in shewing the baseness of his Servants My Lord O King my Servant deceived me 2 Sam. 19. 26. else I had gone along with Your Majesty for all my Lameness and he also hath slandered thy Servant unto my Lord the King And the King mends the matter well I have said thou and Ziba divide the Land And Mephibosheth said unto the King yea let him take all forasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace into his own House A most noble Expression of a Loyal Subject concerning one that had betraved his Master and look'd for the forfeiture of his Estate that had justly deserved a shameful Death Servants must not discover Family Secrets unless in such a case as Jonathan discovered to his Friend David his Fathers Indignation and bloody design against him Nor purloin their Goods as the Steward of a certain rich Man did that was accused unto him that he had wasted his Goods Luk. 16. from the first verse to the ninth His Master commends his Policy but not his Honesty that cheated his Master for his future Accommodation But and if that Servant say in his Heart my Master delays his coming and shall begin to beat the Men-Servants and Maidens and to eat and drink and to be drunken the Lord of that Servant will come in a day that he looketh not for him and at an hour when he is not aware and cut him in sunder and will appoint him his portion with Hypocrites and Unbelievers Luk. 12. 45 56. saith our Lord. How faithful was Moses in all God's House as a Servant Heb. 3. 5. and Daniel in Darius's House Dan. 6. 3. Joseph in Pharoah's House Mordecay in Ahashuerus's House that discovered the bloody Plot of Treason against his Life Est 2. 21 22. How famous is the History of Eliezer Abraham's Servant that was sent Ambassador to Mesopotamia to the City of Nahor to take a Wife for Isaac How scrupulous is he to undertake so great and so honourable an Embasey How zealous in Prayer to God for his Direction and Blessing How thankful for the return of his Prayer according to his Faith and earnest Desire How Courteous to the Lady that was given in to his Prayer of Faith How careful not to eat nor drink till he had discharged his trust and told his Errand Last of all How resolute to return immediately after he had obtained what he went for His Commission being out he will not stay one day longer but make haste home to his Master that sent him for a Blessing to his Son Isaac all this is very remarkable and imitable by all Servants that fear God and honour their Masters Gen. 24. throughout Gracious and Godly Servants have been and may be Instruments of much good in their Masters House as that little Girl that was taken Prisoner out of the Land of Israel by the Syrians was the occasion of her healing of her foul Leprous Master Naaman the Syrian and of his Conversion also from Idolatry to serve the Lord God of Israel And consequently of his Salvation all she said unto her Mistress was this Would God my Lord were with the Prophet that is in Samaria for he would recover him of his Leprosie He went to him and was healed and converted and made a solemn Protestation that he would cleave to the God of Israel as is recorded by the Holy Ghost 2 Kin. 3 4 5. Sozomen tells us l 2. 6. a like History of the Conversion of the Queen of Iberia by a Captive Christian Maid in the days of Constantine the Great and of the Conversion of the King and Kingdom from Paganism by the same Maid afterward The History is well worth Translating which is thus The Queen being taken with an incurable Disease and miraculously restored to perfect Health at the Invocation of the name of Christ by this Christian Woman devoted her self for ever to Christ her Deliverer The King admiring at the Queen 's so suddain Recovery commands to reward this Captive Damsel with rich Gifts The Queen told him I relate the words of Sozomen that though these things be of great value she regards them no● she cares not for such things the only thing she values is the Worship of her God If therefore we mind to grat●fie her afterwards and live peaceably and happily Let us also worship that powerful God and Saviour for he it is if he please that can make Kings enjoy that degree of Honour in which they are and can easily cast down great

unto me O God! how great is the sum of them If I should count them they are mo in number than the S●n● Psal 139. 17 18. David confesseth in the Contemplation and review of God's Favours that his Arithmetick fails him and comes short in a sacred Hyperbole as being far above our Capacities we cannot so much as tell them in order If you begin at your Conception in the Womb where the Psalmist begins I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made Psal 139. 14. or at God's Election in laying the foundation of your Salvation in Christ before he laid the foundation of the world as the Apostle speaks According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world Eph. 1. 4 where will you end You must in plain terms resolve to say with our Psalmist Such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is high I cannot attain to it Psal 139. 6. Secondly Consider how continual are his Mercies without any Intermission or Interruption They are renewed every Morning saith Jerem As he maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust Matth. 5. 45. as our Lord speaks He holdeth our Soul in Life when we think there is but a step between us and Death as David thought when he fled from Saul 1 Sam. 20. 3. and suffereth not our feet to be moved Psal 66. 9. but according to his pleasure in whom we live and move and have our being Acts 17. 28. as the Apostle speaks The Manna that came from Heaven was not restrained one day in forty years perambulation and peregrination in the wilderness thou with heldest not thy Manna from their mouth saith Nehemiah nor the water that flowed out of the rock but gavest them water for their thirst Notwithstanding the many and great provocations of God's People The Pillar of the Cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way nor the Pillar of fire by night to shew them light in the way that they should go saith Nehem. 9. v. 9. 20. In the Element of his Mercies we draw our Breath continually to stir us up to continual Thankfulness Thirdly Consider how great are the benefits that we receive from God that call with a loud Voice for this duty of Thankfulness for them which makes the Psalmist cry out O how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men The Scripture is quoted by Isaiah Isa 64. 4. and by the Apostle rendered thus Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2. 9. What greater thing hath he prepared or can he prepare for them that love him because he loved them first 1 Joh. 4. 19. as St. John speaks than Jesus Christ the Son of his love Is not this gift of God as our Saviour speaks to the Woman of Samaria Joh. 4 10. the gift of gifts It is then all our duties to acknowledge with Joy and Thankfulness the truth of the Lord and this Mercifulness of God our Saviour in regarding our Vileness so far as to save us from our spiritual Enemies giving for us the ransom of the pretious Blood of his dear Son and to end we ever-more keep a grateful Memory of this benefit he hath appointed the use of the Holy Eucharist a name signifying Thankfulness Exh. Let us then come and rejoyce to the Lord and with a loud and strong Voice acknowledge this Benefit Let us frequent his Holy Table so mercifully set before us in the Gospe● in despight of our Enemies endeavouring to draw one another thereto and to live such a Life as may even silently call the very Adversaries of our profession to the Worship and Service of God whom serving chearfully on Earth for the abundance of all things it may be our portion to enjoy and to sing aloud and thankfully unto in the Heavens with his Holy Saints and glorious Angels and our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Fourthly How undeserved are the Benefits we receive from God that they may provoke us to Thankfulness and how unexpected We deserve nothing but Wrath and the curse of Mount Ebal Deut. 27. 13. or of Cain Gen. 4. 11. or of our Father Adam to whom it was said Cursed is the Earth for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy Life Gen. 3. 17. If God should deal with us according to our demerits our best performances are but glorious Transgressions and we are but unprofitable Servants at the best as our Lord speaks Luk. 17. 10. Jacob pleads his Merit towards Laban stoutly in Gen. 31. from v. 36. to v. 41. And Jacob was wroth and chode with Laban and Jacob answered and said to Laban what is my Transgression or what is my sin that thou hast so hotly pursued after me And he stands upon his guard and justifies himself and challengeth Laban to lay to his Charge any unwarrantable Action in his twenty years service though he had changed his wages ten times as the Prodigal 's elder Brother said to his Father Lo these many years do I serve thee neither did I at any time transgress thy Commandment Luc. 15. 29. But having to deal with God he sets a very low esteem of himself as not deserving the least of God's Mercies I am not worthy of the least of all the Mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy Servant for with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two bands Gen. 32. 10. See also the same dejection and self-denial in his Grand-father Abraham Behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord who am but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 23. and of Mephibosheth when David said unto him Fear not for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy Fathers sake and will restore thee all the Land of thy Father Saul and thou shalt eat Bread at my Table continually And he bowed himself and said What is thy servant that thou shouldst look upon such a dead Dog as I am 2 Sam. 9. 8. The Mercies and Kindnesses of all Men in the World compared to God's undeserved Favours are but as a drop of a bucket of Water to the great Ocean My thoughts are not as your thoughts neither are your ways my ways saith the Lord For as the Heavens are higher than the Earth so are my ways bigher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts Isa 55. 8 9. This Consideration makes sometimes the faithful so earnest in the affection of joy as they seem almost ridiculous in the Eyes of carnal Men as David to Michal when he danced before the Lord 2 Sam. 6. 21. But their Justification is easie it is before the Lord that

5. 20. whom we preach warning to every Man and teaching every Man in all wisdom that we present every Man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1. 28. 2. And for their Works sake And we beseech you Brethren to know them which labour among you And to esteem them very highly for their works sake and be at peace among your selves saith the Apostle to the Thessalonians 1 Thes 5. 12 13. upon which account the Apostle says to the Galatians They received him as an Angel of God even as Christ Jesus and he bears them Record that if it had been possible they would have pluckt out their Eyes and have given them to him Gal. 4. 14 15. 3. And for their own sake These Men are the Servants of the most high God which shew unto us the way of Salvation saith the Pithoness by divine Inspiration Act. 16. 17. They must not hate them and persecute them for speaking the truth of God unto them Am I therefore become your Enemy saith the Apostle because I tell you the truth Gal. 4. 16. As Ahab to his shame professeth concerning Micaiah by whom we enquire of the Lord but I hate him for he doth not Prophesie good concerning me but evil 1 Kin. 22. 8. he received the just reward of his hatred by a shot at RamoahGilead the Jews hated Jeremiah the Prophet but to thei● Destruction Jer. 38. 4. And thus they dealt with our Lord that spake as never Man spake unto them and did what never Man did among them both him and his Followers to their dispersion as at this day for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thess 2. 16. He that seeketh my Life seeketh thy Life saith David to Abiathar that fled from Saul's Massacre of the Priests of the Lord and their Town of Nob but with me thou shalt be in safety 1 Sam. 22. 23. Good Obadiah hid an Hundred Prophets of the Lord by fifty in a Cave and fed them with Bread and Water 1 Kin. 18. 13. from Jez●bel's Cruelty as Rabab the Cauponess as the Caldee Paraphrase styles her hid the Spies from the King of Jerico ' s rage When the Minister shall say at the great day to the Judge of the Quick and Dead Loe I and the Children that God hath gave me Heb. 2. 13. And the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them and they have received them Those that thou gavest me I have ●ept and none of them is lost saith our Saviour Joh. 17. 8 12. The Apostle tells the Thessalonians For what is our Hope or Joy or Crown of Rejoycing Are not even ye in the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming 1 Thes 2. 19 20. 3. To Husband and Wife IF the Peace of God rule in the Heart of Husband and Wife which is the first and dearest Relation in the World and the root of all others unto which they are called in one Body that they should no more be two but one Flesh Gen. 2. 24. Then the Husband will not deal treacherously against the Wife of his youth Mal. 2. 15. that is his Companion and Wife of his Covenant that is Bone of his Bones and Flesh of his Flesh as the first Man speaks but nourish and cherish it as the Lord the Church Eph. 5. 29. as the Apostle speaks of the second Man that is the Lord from Heaven Comfort her as Elkanah did Hannah in her Affliction Hannah why weepest thou and why eatest thou not Am not I better to thee than ten Sons 1 Sam. 1. 8. Not give an occasion of Speech against her to bring up an evil Name upon her that she deserves not Deut. 22. 14. He will rejoyce with the Wife of his youth she shall be to him as a loving H●nd and as a pleasant Roe her Breasts will satisfie him at all times he will be always ravished with her love Prov. 5. 18 19. and never be bitter against her Col. 3. 19. but dwell with her according to knowledge giving Honour to the Wife as the weaker Vessel and as being Heirs together of the Grace of Life that their Prayers be not hindred 1 Pet. 3. 7. He will observe with Joseph the Embrace of a strange Woman whose Mouth is smoother thdn Oyl but the end more bitter than Wormwood sharper than a two-edged Sword her Feet go down to Death her steps take hold on Hell Prov. 5. 3 4 5. Her House saith he is the way to Hell going down to the Chambers of Death Pro. 7. 27 who so pleaseth God shall escape from her but the Sinner shall be taken by her Eccles 7. 26. Live joyfully with the Wife saith he again or enjoy Life whom thou lovest all the days of thy Life of thy Vanity which he hath given thee under the Sun for that is thy Portion in this Life and in thy Labour which thou takest under the Sun saith Solomon that injoyneth Cohabitation Eccles 9. 9. 2. If the Peace of God rule in the Heart of the Wife that was taken out of the Side of her Husband Gen. 2. 21. then she will be as careful to preserve his Life as Michal was that when her Father Saul sent to kill him Lo Michal let David down thro' a Window and he went and fled and escaped 1 Sam. 19. 11 〈◊〉 and she laid a Teraphim in his Be● She will never forsake the guide of her y●uth nor forget the Covenant of her God Prov. 2. 17. that she solemnly entred into in the day of his Espousals in the day of the Gladness of his Heart She will prove another Lucretia so famous among the Romans for Vertue and Hatred of Baseness that when she suffered Violence that she could not resist stabb'd her self to the Heart which indignity occasioned a great change in their Government or rather like the vertuous Woman whose Price is far above Rubies the Heart of her Husband doth safely trust in her Prov. 31. 10 11. because she hath set him as a Seal upon her Heart as a Seal upon her Arm her love to him being as strong as Death Cant. 8. 6. which she will more readily choose to undergo than go aside to Uncleanness with any instead of her Husband upon whom the Spirit of Jealousie shall never come which is cruel as the Grave the Coals thereof are Coals of Fire which hath a most vehement flame the Tryal and Punishment whereof whether just or unjust is most severe as of any Sin whatsoever Numb 5. 21 22. Jealousie saith Solomon is the rage of a Man therefore he will not spare in the day of Vengeanc● he will not regard any Ransom neither will he rest content though thou givest many gifts the Husband will accept of no Ransom to save the Adulterer Prov. 6. 34 35. Her Husband is known in the Gates not by base Scoffs and Nick-names when he sitteth among the Elders of the Land Prov. 31. 23. but by his Wives Godliness and Vertue she will do him Good and not