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A86310	Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing H1748; Thomason E338_11; ESTC R200845	22,360	35

All their tears and intreaties could no more prevail with him then Dido's did with Aeneas when Jupiter commanded his departure For my brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ Moses full of zeal and compassion when wrath was going forth against Israel when the destroying Angel was waving his sword over them his sword furbished and garnished to make a sore slaughter He bows his knee to the father of Jesus Christ he cryeth out O this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin and if not blot me I pray thee out of thy Book which thou hast written He speaks after the manner of men in whom compassion and passion stops passage to further speech an abrupt kind of speaking an imperfect sentence wherein much more is implyed then was expressed Luther would to Wormes though there were as many devils as tiles and Antonius Marinarius said standing up in the Councell of Trent Though heaven fall and the whole world run headlong yet I will look up to the goodnesse of God and though an Angel from heaven should perswade me the contrary yet I would say Anathema to him A French Cavalier protested for the recovery of Callis he would be content to lye two years in hell A reverend Bishop lying at the point of death spake zealously and soberly Me moriente let me dye so the Church may flourish Sejan with the hazzard of his own life did bear off the burthen that would have crusht Tiberius to death and our Santleger received the Arrow into his own brest that would have pierced the King to the heart Those Worthies did worthily that presented the first Petition at York and this Parliament shall live for ever for the first Remonstrance and Protestation This is a duty that we all owe to God to our Religion and Country which all that are eminently godly truely religious and zealous Patriots have ever preferred before their particular estates honours and Lives I shall but commend one Precept to you with an example to illustrate and back it you have them both in one verse of the same chapter 1 Iohn 3. v. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he hath laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren the example is the highest that can be given and the Precept in every word emphaticall we ought in point of duty it is not arbitrary nor voluntary a necessity lies upon us and woe unto us if we lay not down our lives for the brethren to lay down freely and of our own accord not by constraint and of necessity but of choyse and desire Our lives the highest thing in our power higher then our honours our estates our liberties our priviledges our present comforts for the brethren the Saints the servants of God The Reasons that strengthen this Doctrine are mighty convincing and strong to invite if not to inforce the obedience to it This we ought to do in point of Equity Honour and Policy 1. In point of equity what can we stake in Gods cause and our Countries that we have not received from God and for Gods purposes The Lord hath made all things for himselfe the Lord found nothing made to his hand what is there in heaven and earth that can stand out against God and say I made my selfe it was a blaspheming sin no sin of ignorance which King Pharoah belched forth Who is the Lord that I should obey his voyce to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go The great Turke blasphemed God in heaven when he cryed out O God hast thou not enough to do with thine own businesse in heaven but thou interesteth and interposeth thy self with mine on earth it was sordid base flattery Jupiter in coelis God ruleth in heaven Caesar on earth the Tyrant set his mouth against heaven when he said Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the Kingdome by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty And as God made all himself so he made all for himself whē he made them he made no overture of his interest propriety All that man hath all that man is is from God and therfore all that he hath and all that he is must be for God Of him and to him there is S. Pauls Alpha and Omega when God endowed man with the greatest trust power and prerogative when he made him his Vice-Roy his Vicegerent his Lieutenant Generall when he gave the foul of the Ayre the beast of the field the fish in the sea the trees in the Garden to his command yet then the Lord laid this restraint but of the tree in the midst of the Garden thou shalt not eate That tree could then baffle Adam when all the creatures besides would bow unto him and give homage and obedience then that would stand upright and say Adam touch me not passe by lay no hand on me lest thou dyest what can we lay out for God which we have not received from God for Gods purposes if we lay out much of our silver and gold for God God therfore hath given us much because we should use much Of thine own saith David we have given unto thee when the Kings and Princes offered liberally towards the building of the Temple If we have large parts hearts and heads inlarged as the sand on the sea shore so that we had as many choise notions as sands on the sea shore God intended to make large use of them Wisedome and Understanding calls God Father life it self was bestowed on man by God that it might be bestowed on God by man The Lord Jesus Christ himself received a body not that he needed a body but that with that body he might serve the great design of Gods Predestination and so he understood and acknowledged it A body hast thou prepared for me I come to do thy will O God The whole Church resolves according to this My beloved is mine and I am his He is mine in all he hath he is mine in all he did in all he suffer'd he for my sake encountred with the malice of men with the rage of devils with the wrath of God and therefore good reason I should be His His in all I have His in all I am His in all I can do and suffer O saith Spira Were it with me as in times post I would scorn the threats of the most cruell Tyrant with invincible Resolution and glory in the outward profession of Christ till I were choaked in the flame and my body consumed to Ashes Certainly they are to be beg'd as fools and to be esteem'd as mad that rise against the Parliament that hath stood for them we have received all from God Judge ye owe we

as her predecessor Vasthi how easie had it been for her to have over-looked the calamity of her people she that before neglected her Husband her Soveraign how would she have here under-valued her servants her subjects her wise Ladies would have perswaded her yea she would have said her self it had been an unnecessary anxiety to have interrupted her mirth with the thought of their misery a businesse beneath the State of a Queen to undertake the rescue of a few despised Country-men especially with the hazzard of the forfeiture of her honour the high displeasure of the King the danger of the Law the hazzard of her life the small hope of successe This certainly would have been her voyce if they perish they perish but Religious Esther she more esteemeth of her peoples safety then her own her life is bound up in theirs if they perish she could not live she would have been more miserable had she surviv'd their Misery who could desire to live when the Country is dead all owe more to their Country then to themselves this Esther knew which thus strengthned her resolution together with the preservation of her Religion a second consideration 2. Religion is the very Nerves and sinews of the Common-wealth the very heart and prime fountain of life and livelihood the Crown the glory of a Nation the beauty the strength the perfection the Spirit the soul of a Kingdome In Religion is Embarqued the publike safety when that is aimed at the danger is dreadfull the losse beyond recovery Eli's heart trembled whilst the Arke was in the field in doubtfull disputation but when he heard the Arke was taken he fell from his seat whose heart was sooner broken then his neck yet with that he dyed Happy death that made him not out-live the losse of the Arke none but Atheists that know no life but the present but they make Religion the first thing The Heathen is recorded to all ages for the laying aside his Father Wife and Children and taking the care of his Country gods few make Religion their businesse especially they that sit at the top of the wheel cloath'd in soft rayment dandled on the knee and lul'd in the bosome of soveraignty there are that will sell Paradise for Paris and will launce no farther forth then they may return safe again but Esther is of a more divine temper she stands up for the defence of her Religion In her Religion she saw the glory of God had founded it and it could not be ruin'd without a manifest hurt to the glory of that God which was dearer to her then her own life the third and last encouragement Nothing is more dear yea so dear to a Religious soul as the glory of God the glory of its own soul is valued at a cheap rate in respect of this Gods glory is the supream the highest glory the sun of glory if that be darkned though all the stars shine it is still night whereas if that shines in its glory though no stars shine yet it is day Chrysostome professed he loved nor honoured Rome so much for her Antiquity her multitude of inhabitants her sumptuous fair buildings the great priviledges and immunities of the Citizens the beauty and glory of the City as for that the Lord of Glory was held forth there in the preaching of Peter and Paul Heaven it self is not so glorious as a poor Country Village where the King of glory is preached Queen Esther rather then the glory of God should be obscured by a black cloud of his servants blood rather then the miscarriage and downfall of Religion should open the mouth of blasphemy to spit reproach in the face of Gods people she will stake her owne soul lay her life at pawn to redeem the glory of God from such an injury Finis dat amabilitatem the end beautifies the enterprize if any end can adde glory to any surely this doth multiply on the head of Ester she is resolved actum est it is done already in her unbended resolution she cloaths her self with Virtue and puts on courage with her Jewels Thus accompanied with Divine beauty and heavenly Valour she sets forward to her already bleeding Nation her Weapons are faith and prayer her Armour courage and resolution her Attendants beauty and virtue her word Si pereo pereo nor can danger difficulty or impossibility Haman Death nor Devill turn her back again Go I will Thus you have heard with what cautions with what courage and wisdome Queen Esther and by her Example every good Christian ought to enter into a Resolution here was an absolute integrity of all concurrencies which made this resolution good acceptable to God comfortable to her self profitable to her people The person that made it fitly qualified the end moving sufficiently warrantable the circumstances honest and seasonable the means direct and lawfull Here was no defect iniquity and exorbitancy of any particular but a generall combination of all requisites The Resolution was necessary and religious which will the better appear if we compare what Queen Esther did in Persia with what the Scriptures testifie the Saints and servants of God have done at other times and ought to do at all times which is my second thing the Doctrine and the confirmation of it In the Cause of God Religion and our Countries we are not to passe for perishing Gratious and Religious spirits neither are nor ought to be out-dared in the cause of God Religion and their Countries safety by the fear and danger of perishing They that are on Gods side as Moses proclaimed in the gate they are to know neither father nor mother but every one to stay his brother companion and neighbour Christ teacheth us to hate father and mother and wife and children and Brethren and Sisters yea and our own lives also when they stand in competition with God Saint Paul saith 1 Cor. 16.22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha he speaks not of the Jews and Heathens but of Christians the Apostle blesseth those and prayes for them that love Jesus Christ in sincerity Ephes 6.24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity as the blessing is so is the curse Anathema Maranatha to them that love not the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity None can love Jesus Christ in sincerity that love their lives before and above Christ Saint Jerome protested he would trample upon Father and Mother if they hindred his way to Christ Cursed be he said that noble Marquesse that counts the whole world to one houres enjoyment of Jesus Christ Saint Paul could not by the prayers and teares of his friends be kept back from going to Hierusalem though the Spirit witnessed Bonds and afflictions did attend him there why do ye break my heart for I am ready not to be bound onely but also to dye at Hierusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus

pains after he hath done so great things that heaven and earth are astonished I fear not to say they have sin'd this sin which is to death which God will not which men should not pardon but if your charity be yet above my faith That you beleeve there are that have not sin'd neither the one nor the other yet your sence cryes loud unto you they have shed innocent blood pretious blood the blood of the sons of God which God will not nor you may not pardon they have not onely fil'd Jerusalem shed the blood of many of your Citizens but they have fil'd England Scotland Ireland with blood Recompence them according to their worke they whose sword hath made many childlesse let your sword make their mothers childlesse Recompence them according to their work yea give them double not onely according to the work of their hands but according to the mischiefe of their heart which far exceeds the work of their hands yea it is double unto it and therefore God which sees their bloody minds bids his people recompence them according to what they have done double unto them according to what they would have done It was a bloody speech of one once your prisoner now Governour of a strong hold that yet stands out against you If the King commanded him he would not care but glory in it to burn all the Cities of the Kingdome to lay the Land as Sodome and Gomorrah to sow this Garden of Eden with salt O let not these sons of Zerviah that have shed the blood of war in peace and have put the blood of war upon their girdle and in their shooes that were on their feet let not their hoary head go down to the grave in peace they have been the troublers of Israel God and you trouble them enter into your chamber and shut the doors upon you and then revolve again and again all the sad stories of these mens cruelty sum up whatever losse or dammage the three Kingdomes have suffered by them yea exact not the principall but the utmost farthing of Use and Interest Our Saviour Christ tels the Pharisees That they have fil'd the measure of their sins and that they had brought upon them all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of Righteous Abell unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias whom they slew between the Temple and the Altar these men are guilty of all the blood that hath been shed in this Kingdome in the cause of Liberty of Priviledge of Religion God will lay all the blood to their charge he will not loose one drop of the blood of his Saints Abels blood yet cryes for vengeance God when he comes to make Inquisition for blood he will account for every drop of blood he that pardons all other sins will not pardon innocent blood Teares shall not wipe away the guilt of blood Reformation cannot hinder when God inquires for blood God may defer his Visitation yet come he will and he will enquire whether there be any of the house of Babylon alive to make restitution for blood The same Spirit that actuated Cain to kill his brother Abell actuated the Pharisees to kill the servants the sons of God the same have actuated these men to kill the Saints The devill was a Murtherer from the beginning the whole world lies in the wicked one they all walk by the same bloody principles they have the same inraged spirit with the same hellish rage which reacheth up to heaven by which they have shed any of the blood of the Saints they would have shed all if all the blood that were shed from Abell to this time did run in the veines of any one child of God they would open that vein and let out that blood and spill it as water upon the ground Caligula's bloody wish is in all their hearts O that all the Saints and servants of God had but one head that with one blow I might strike it off Neither let your eyes spare though there are great ones that are guilty Queen Vasthi too curiously wedded to the observation of the Persian Law which inhibits women to be seen of strangers and too much doting upon her own beauty and Majesty refuseth to come though the King sends a first and second time and therefore she shall never come more the King and his Councell Decree it and give a Morall Reason for it greatnesse and wickednesse may not twin together Princes have not any licence to offend Queens themselves have not an Obstante for sin 'T is the misery of greatnesse the offence is as great as the offender the sin as soveraign as the Person great Persons do not so much commit sin as teach it their disobedience is ever Masculine and it begets followers of it as of their Persons they are of a diffusive and spreading nature The highest Court may reach the highest Persons Causes and not Persons are to be heard in Your Parliament I le conclude this with that of Ezra chap. 7. ver. 26. Whosoever will not do the Law of thy God nor the law of the King let judgement be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to Imprisonment Let not them Perish that have adventured the perishing that you the Kingdome might not perish Esther found favor in the eies of the king the king gave her Hamans house It was the Piety of David that he inquired Whether there was any of the house of Saul that he might shew the kindnesse of God unto him and it was a commendable custome in the Courts of Persia to have the good Acts of the Subjects Chronicled Mordecai was found in the History and the King highly advanced him for it Would you be pleased to peruse your own Records you may finde some places that now like Mordecai lyes sad and desolate in the gate that did you admirable service whereof you did rejoyce and glory pardon my zeal if I name the Town and Parish of Manchester unto you a Town famous for Religion ever since the Reformation beleeve it it hath been a Goshen a place of light when most places of the Land have been places of darknesse it hath been an hiding-place a place of refuge and sanctuary against the Tyranny of Prelacy the stormes and tempest of persecution They were with the first that jeoparded themselves in the high places of the Earth that ventured the perishing in the cause of God the Kingdome They offered themselves willingly amongst the people and they laid out themselves in what they had for the publike service yea I know there were that like the Widdow threw in all their treasure into the publike Treasury God did great things by them and for them I fear not to say they preserved the North Manchester was the publike Magazine the Sanctuary to poor Exiles the Prison to proud Enemies the Bulwark to the