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A02698	Gods goodnes and mercy Layd open in a sermon, preached at Pauls-Crosse on the last of Iune. 1622. By Mr Robert Harris, pastour of the church of God in Hanvvell in Oxfordshire.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1622 (1622)	STC 12831; ESTC S116602	18,118	38

things stands in goodnes so the life of goodnesse in action The cheifest goods are most actiue the best good a meere Act the more good we doe the more god-like and excellent wee bee what is the excellency of meates goodnes what of wines goodnes what of grounds goodnes what of all goodnes what is mans comfort in life what in death what after whatever goodnes This is the man Eccle. 12. the whole man no crowne to this in life no comfort to this in death no tombe to this after death no gaine to this in the day of accounts Well done good servant enter into thy masters ioy Glory and honour and peace is to every worker of goodnes Rom. 2. whether Iew or Gentile bond or free rich or poore wise or simple weake or strong if a worker of righteousnesse hee is accepted assisted rewarded therefore worke Now as you must be pressed to Tit. 3. 1. and rich in every good worke so cheifely in the best for kinde or vse that is good spirituall and common for the first as spirituall gifts so acts are most desireable Man never liues till the life of God liue in him and all that he doth be either a spirituall act or at least spiritually acted Zach. 14. holinesse must be written Zacharie tels vs vpon our bridles when we warre vpon our cups when we drinke In short the kingdome of God must first bee sought and set vpp in vs and ours and what we may advanced among others in the meanes of it and maintenance for it And heere the rich may ioyne in one both these goods spirituall and common some Churches you see want men some men Churches and meanes I blush I bleede to speake it able men are ready to hire out themselues for bread and excellent wits hang the head for want of watering gasping like fishes out of the water being out of all both meanes and hopes if there be any true blood yet running in your veines you that can feede Birds and Dogs starue not Grace and Learning Children might be Schollers Obad. last verse Schollers Preachers Preachers Saviours and that of Thousands did not dogs eate the Childrens bread Secondly you must ayme at the common good for that is still the greatest good and heere two rules first if you will be for the publike you must be good in private beare your owne fruite Psal 1. worke in your owne hines man your owne oares and make good your owne standing Happy is that body wherein the eye sees the eare heares the liver sanguifies c. Happy that house wherein the Master rules the man runs the head leades and the body follows Happie that State wherein the Cobler meddles with his last the Tradesman with his shop the Student with his booke the Counseller with State the Prince with the Scepter and each Creature liues in his owne Element but woe be to the Heathens armie when all wil be Captaines and none Souldiers woe to that body that will be all head members misplaced are neither for vse nor ease Secondly we must shoote at the common white that is though you bee private in your standings yet you must be publike in your affections and intendements For the first Richard 1. as King Richard bestowed himselfe diversly at his death so must wee in life Bohemia claimes a part in our loue the Palatinate a part the Churches abroad our Brethren at home a part at home in selling we must be buyers in lending borrowers in visiting patients in comforting mourners abroad we must in our owne peace consider their warres feele them panting see them bleeding heare them scriching O husband O wife O my child my child O mother mother mother my father is slaine my brother is torne my legge is off my guts be out halfe dead halfe aliue worse then either because neither O that wee had heartes to bleede over them and to pray for the peace of Ierusalem For the second our thoughts must all meete in the common good like so many lines in a Center streames in the Sea Christ Iesus pleased not himselfe sayth Saint Paul hee dyed for vs sayth Saint Iohn therefore wee must for our brethren one member will die for all one heathen for manie if we must die for the common good must wee not liue to it If all must must not the more publike person Yes you Lawyers to Instance must be common blessings and not seeke your owne you must with Papinian reiect bad causes and ripen good there goes but a paire of Sheares beween a protracting Lawyer and cheating Mountebanke that sets his Client backward and foreward like a man at Chesse and proues a butcher to the sillie sheepe which ran to him from the Grasier You Land-lords must be common too v. Grin Epist ad Synopsin Hist bominis if with that Duke you will trust your Tennants with your throat you must not hurt theirs you are heads of Townes the head should care for the least toe enclosure if it wound not the heart yet treads it heavie on the toes of a State force not men by wracking rents by over laying Commons and picking quarrels to vndoe themselues betray not Townes as Rome did Carthage with a distinction wee will saue the Cittic but destroy the Towne a poore man in his house is like a Snayle in his shell crush that and you kill him say therefore with thy selfe my Tennant is a man not a beast were he a beast yet a righteous man is mercifull to his beast a breeding Bird must not haue her nest destroyd a yong kidd must not be sod in his mothers milke what will become of me and mine if I destroy the nest of breeding Christians and having chopt them to the pot Mich. 3.3 seethe old and yong in one anothers blood You Patrones must bee for the common good also preferre many soules to one tenth when you be to choose a Shepheard let the question be that of theirs in the Gospell who is worthy and the decision detur digniori when you present present not a Prometheus sacrifice skin and bone without flesh when you haue presented Zach 5.4 feare Zacharies curse against perjurie and sacriledge if perjurie dwell in the Parsonage and robbery in the Mannor the curse of God will pull downe both Lastly when you haue a Prophet bee you Patrones studie his peace as he doth yours what Law it may be after vowes to enquire I doe not know sure I am Salomon sayth it is destruction destruction of some estates of many soules whilst the nurse wants bread the children want milke so both cry and both are heard and woe be to him that hath a crie of Soules against him Nobles I know not whether they frequent this place or not if so I would entreat them to remember what the Story sayth of some men that they are Medicinable from top to toe Plin. li. 28. c. 3. and such should they be First

is pitifull good to our bodies soules estates names friends townes Church State Court Kingdome Oh let these Mercies soke into our hearts till they draw forth teares as they did from Bradford Let the house of Levi say his Mercie endures for ever Let the house of Iudah say his Mercie endures for ever Let the fields say it is his mercy that we be not all spoyled led Let our Cities say it is his mercy that we be not all burnt Let our Churches say it is his mercie that we be not all rasde yea let this Land of all Lands say it is his mercie that sword and fire and pestilence and other miseries doe not prey vpon mee as vpon my Sister-Kingdomes O Lord who is a God like to thee thus to beare thus to blesse had not thy Mercies exceeded all limits our sinnes ere this had sunke vs all Is God ever mercifull Then the Argument is ever good Ioel 2. Iona 3. c. Rom. 2. Turne to the Lord say the Prophets repent saies the Apostle this the vse that Mercy must be put to the better God hath bin to vs the more wee must bleede vnder his reproofes O my people saies God Mich. 6.3 6. c. hee spake it once to Iudah now to England O my people what is the matter that I cannot winne you Wherein haue I wronged your Names that you teare mine When did I grieue you that you grieue mee when was I hard to you that you so hardly affoord me one day in seven What ayles you what ayles you that you will not be ruled by me I would haue you leaue your sinnes you will not I would haue you holy happy you will not I would haue a Covenant of Salt betwixt vs that I might never leaue you you will not no words no stroakes no fights abroad no loue no kindnesse no patience at home can melt you O that yet yet yet we of this land would meete the Lord and make our peace with him whilest peace is in our gates Now what the whole Land in generall that this Chamber in perticular must doe I will suppose your Government your selues present to bee good but what shall wee say of many in the Citty I must turne to Ezek. 22. and speake that to our Ierusalem which the Prophet there doth to his London In thee are they that make Idols v. 3.4 7 c. in thee they shed blood in thee they set light by Father and Mother in thee they oppresse in thee they despise my Holinesse and prophane my Sabbothes in thee they carry tales they cate vppon the Mountaines in thee they commit Whoredome and abhominable filthinesse in thee they take bribes and vsury in thee thy Rulers take dishonest gaine thy Priests hide their Eyes from my Sabbothes thy Prophets daube with vntempered Morter thy people generally vexe oppresse rob and wrong one another thus the Prophet then now I report my selfe to you whether a Prophet may not still take vp his words against this place if so then heare what the Lord further adds I sought for a man among them that should stand in the gap for the Land O vnspeakeable Patience and Mercie when they sought not God God sought them when the most were desperate hee sought for some fewe to stand in the breach and a few should haue ransomed multitudes Now then Much honoured and beloved are there any men amidst you any that can weepe for the Abhominations of the place that can pray and wrestle with heaven Let these stand in the gap Let these stand betweene the living and the dead with their Censers Let them lie betwizt the Porch and the Altar and say O thou God of Mercies spare our Cittie our houses our Churches our streetes and bee Mercifull to our sinnes for they are great And what I say to all I speake to every one now present turne Ho thou that hast beene an Idolater a Swearer an Adulterer a Wanton a Murtherer c Make this vse of Gods patience and kindenes to thee to wit Repent O but my sinnes are many yea but his mercies are more O but they are great his mercies are greater O but I am exceeding bad how bad as Manasses he had mercie for him as Magdalen he had mercie for her as Adam he had mercie for him ô but it is now too late al his mercie is spent no his mercie endureth for ever Beloved the Lord hath sent this day the cheife of Sinners to proclaime thus much in your eares that never yet any perished for want of mercie in God be it that thy sinnes be sinnes of darknesse sinnes of death of blood of hell yet if thou canst finde a heart to repent God will finde in his heart to pardon see thou thy sinnes confesse bewaile abhorre forsake them seeke thou the face of God lie at his foote Call Crie Lord be mercifull to me a sinner get his Sonne his Image and new Obedience and thy case is blessed nay if thou canst not thus repent yet thirst Math. 5. nay if thou canst not thirst yet mourne nay if thou canst not mourne yet bee poore in spirit and being so in truth the blessing is thine and the blood of Iesus Christ shall cleanse thee from all all I say againe all thy sinnes Is God ever merciful then be ye merciful as is your heavenly Father Math. 5. nay hee doth not onely practise mercie but also commaunds it nay commends it nay rewards it nay plagues the neglect of it even to vtter destruction your Elder brother Christ is also mercifull and interprets every kindnesse done to his done to himselfe besides Mercy graces Religion glads the Church fils her mouth with Gods prayses stops the mouth of all adversaries yea mercy preserues the afflicted and refresheth the bowels for Strangers it winns vpon them in point of Religion for thy selfe it comforts thy Soule as an evidence of thy truth easeth thy body being a lighter burden then what else wil oppresse fiercenes and cruelty crownes thy name being that grace that exempts from persecution Cypt. de op elecmos and is most attractiue improues thine estate sanctifieth thy present portion to thy selfe and settles the remainder vpon thy posteritie armes thee against sicknesse and death Psal 41. c. against oblivion in the graue Acts 9. v. 39. against iudgement at the resurrection Iames 2. v. 13. Mat. 25. so that if we eyther respect our Father God or our Saviour Christ or our Mother the Church or our brethren Christians or our observers Enemies or our owne selues and soules here or hereafter wee must be mercifull If you aske me how this mercie must be exercised I must in this hast referre Schollers to the Casuists and the rest of you to other Authors for a fuller answere the summe is this Mercie must haue first a good roote Faith in God Loue to God and man Secondly a good ende Gods glory in mans good and our thankes