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A96870	Lex talionis: or, God paying every man in his own coyn. Held forth in a sermon preached at Margarets Westminster, before the Honorable House of Commons, on their solemn fast, July 30th, 1645. / By Francis Woodcock, minister at Olaves Southwark, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.	Woodcock, Francis, 1614?-1651.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3431; Thomason E294_13; ESTC R200182	17,870	31

this Gods honour hath suffered exceedingly by them and therefore are they fallen under all this dishonour Vse 2 Again Are any of your selves under a cloud Are you suspected Do you perceive your selves lesse in the esteem of good men then heretofore and are therefore pensive and dejected Consider then have you not abated unto God somewhat of that honour you have formerly given him I charge no man only thinke with your selves are you not departed from what you sometimes were Are you not taken off from that forwardnesse for God and that faithfulnesse to your Countrey you have formerly at leastwaies made a shew of It will be worth your while to try For commonly God doth not cast any of us under shame but having been himself before by us dishonoured Vse 3 Further It shews the folly of them that shall once hope to hide their own shame by attempting any thing to Gods dishonour David did so who to cover the shame of his adultery first makes Vriah drunk and when that design fails afterward murthers him but what got he by it but a world of more dishonour It is many times a remedy worse then the disease and fares with such as with a man slipt into a bogg or quagmire who endeavouring with one foot to help the other sticks that deeper and faster then the other It is sin that first brings shame upon us and shall we be so foolish as by adding to sin to hope to cover it Vse 4 Once more Will God pour shame on them that doe dishonour him Doe you so too and when you see any setting God in his waies at nought let such an one be set at nought by you also As 't is the good mans character to honour them that fear the Lord as we say before so likewise saies the same Psalmist is it to despise such vile persons as doe dishonour him And should you doe otherwaies and heap your honours on them from whom God hath none have you not cause to fear it may be told you as once it was unto Jehoshaphat Shouldst thou honour the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord therefore is wrath 2 Chron. 19. 2. upon thee from before the Lord. God takes it well from you when you honour them that honour him but when you countenance and favour those who despise the Lord what greater affront can be done to him Vse 5 And will God indeed pour shame on those that do him dishonour Oh let it prevail with all of us as ever we would not consult perpetuall reproach unto our selves and names at no hand to dishonour God Let no man that any whit regards his fame and estimation do it If we of the ministery do it think but what became of those that went before us what tribe of men notwithstanding their late greatnesse are more low and abject then the Prelates and their c. are at this day They were not so high ere-while but now they are as vile and contemptible and what was it that lost the house of Eli the Priestly dignity but their dishonouring God If you of the souldiery do it who professe your selves the servants of honour more then any you will misse of it experience shews men blasted and infamous that dishonor God you will be laid aside you will die inglorious if you dishonour God Methinks this should take with generous spirits for who is there of that number had not rather die then live with infamy Vita fama pari passu ambulant Nay 't is worse then death to many divers have chose to lay violent hands upon themselves and so destroy body and soul together rather then live to see themselves infamous And the Italians I have read exceedingly wondered at the Spanish Generall of the Armado in 88. that being so foyld he did not make himself away they wondered much how he could overlive so much dishonour And shall not this prevail on you most honoured Worthies Oh do not you dishonour God Oh be there none among your number a drunkard a swearer an unclean liver a scorner of the waies of God or any such like profane and vile person especially as you are Members of that great and noble body be it farre from any of you to be acted either by bad or private ends to be a seeming friend a secret enemy and one that might be tempted to betray all into the hands of bloud and violence Should any of you be such you will be discovered carry it never so warily and be assured your heads shall never be laid in the grave with honour But above all as a Parliament do not dishonour God I know not that yet you have I beseech you at no hand begin now you will do so if you establish any wickednes by a law God will be dishonour'd if all things be carried among you by interests and sidings It will be so if you refuse men common justice and give them cause to wish the former times again It will be so if you neglect Religion and after you have serv'd your turn of it and it 's most sincere professours shall then endeavour fairly to discharge your selves of both You will do so if doors shall be flung open foul profane unwashen ones have leave as well as any to share the holy things of God It will be so if upon any pretence you shall give up our states and liberties wherewith you are trusted into their power from whom of late years it hath cost us so many lives and so much bloud to recover them Oh! do not you dishonour God the chiefest among us have not scaped contempt and infamie they presuming to despise and dishonour God I appeal to you Honourable Beloved when the Cabinet-councel was made publike for now upon the reading of the Cabinet letters who of us is not of the Cabinet-councel I say I appeal to you was Majesty it self * When the Cabinet Letters were read at the Guild-hal on that day a sacred thing among the people or rather the highest among them daring to dishonour God what honour of word or action or person is now left unto them Beloved you have seen when of your own number a party forsaking their trust and banding themselves against you besides all the scorn by us cast upon them for a reward of all the hazard travel losse they have sustain'd are counted even by him that first imployed them a MVNGREL PARLIAMENT Kings Letter And therefore to draw to a conclusion Would you not be the scorn of men a publike infamy for God can pour contempt on Parliaments as well as Princes Oh do not then dishonour God not as Christians not as Parliament men but above all not as a Parliament dishonour God But on the contrary make but his honour your businesse let this only contention be among you who shall bring God most honour and so expect more honour more successes greater and greater glorie to be daily added to you expect that when the names of them that have betray'd their Countrey shall either be forgotten and lost or to their shame and infamie remembred your names shall be as an ointment poured out leaving an odourand fragrancie to all that follow after And though I cannot promise you Titles the vilest of men having at the present ingross'd them however you shall want no honour good men will make up that want they you have seen will be sure to honour you God will not fail to honour you Himself assures you so much in the Text Them that honour me I will honour and them that despise me shall be lightly esteemed FINIS

can it in the least be impaired but rather when God is weighed in our balance and found as once Belshazzar was too light and we conceive mean undervaluing thoughts of him in no wise comming up to that excellency of his which every where shines forth and further when we speak sleightingly of him as also make light of his commands this is without all peradventure to dishonour God Thus when the Heathen are so low in their thoughts as to conceive the God-head like unto silver and gold and God himself like unto a bird a beast a creeping thing and in such likenesses worship him this Act. 17. 29. Rom. 1. 21 2● 23. in Pauls account is to dishonour God Likewise when we see a Jew a zealous preacher of the law pressing it in all it's weight and burden upon others yet none in practice making lighter of it then himself the same Apostle tels us That through breaking the Law such an one dishonoureth Rom. 2. 23. God So I have answered the former Query by this time and you see clearly what it is to honour and despise God As for the later I mean the proving of the point The point is so expresse Scripture that 't is needlesse to stay you in confirmation of it only let me present it more fully to your thoughts by a few instances A first shall be of Israel what people so renowned and famous as they were and what 's the reason Why from no Nation nay not from all the world had God so much honour as from them and therefore they above all the world were honoured by him Moses a man greatly honouring God as any and was he not accordingly honoured by him Did not God set him a Prince over his people for Moses was a King in Jeshurun and did not he impresse such high Deut. 33. 5. thoughts of him upon that people and they so doted on him that when he died God was fain to hide his body lest by the peoples idolizing of it the body might doe Deut 34. 6. him more dishonour being dead then it did him honour while it was alive David may be another instance a man wholly devoted to honour God and did not God abundantly Psal 18. 70 71 72. recompense him He was taken from a sheephook to a Scepter from following feeding sheep to feed and rule the most renowned people in the world and although the top of honour be a stippery place and those that are advanced to it doe not long keep their standing for man being in honour abideth not yet because David to the last honours God God to the last continues to honour Psal 49. 1● him He sets cleer and unclouded for saies the holy Ghost of him He died in a good old age full of daies and full of honour Hezekiah had honoured God in his life and 1 Chro. 29. 28. 2 Chron. 32. ●3 saies the Text all Jerusalem and Judah came to doe him honour at his death One instance more and 't is of our Saviour himself all whose thought life businesse it was to honour God and was it not requited when God gives him a name alove every name and therefore commits all Phil. 2. ● Ioh. 5. 13. judgement to him to the intent that all men might honour the Sonne as they honour the Father Time would fail me to adde modern instances of Princes Souldiers Scholars who by their Swords writings lives have honoured God and have accordingly been honoured by him Take but a pair of instances of our own Nation I mean that blessed Edward the sixth and his sister Queen Elizabeth surely God had much honour from them both and was it not as amply repay'd As for him who hath found a more honourable mention in the records of fame then he hath Reade * Cardan de geneturis Obiit Euv●●dus ille sanctissimus Rex quo adolescente nescio a● sol doctiorem pro●etate atque prudentiorem u●quam videriz Pet. Martyr Orat. Cardan a stranger and of a differing Religion read our own Cambden see what they say of him when he dies Reter Martyr leaves this of him to posterity saies he That most godly King Edward is dead and I doubt whether for his age the world ever beheld one wiser or more learned And of Queen Elizabeth a * Sixtus Quintus 〈◊〉 Hist l. 82. Pope could lay that he saw but two in all the world that were fit for Rule and with whom he could consult in weighty matters meaning Henry King of Navar and Queen Elizabeth And there are those among us of the present generation honouring God whose memories I doubt not shall be honoured while we are a Nation And on the contrary That those that have dishonoured God have been as much dishonoured and sleighted by him Nebuchadnezzar is a famous instance who endeavouring to swell into an equality with God I will Isa 14. 14. saies he be like the most high I will extoll my self above the starrs of God is thrown down into an estate below the meanest of men and most meet it was that he who was not content to be man should be depos'd as he was into Dan. 4. 33. to the condition of a very beast I could adde Saul another example who dishonouring God in disobeying of him and sparing Agag and the fat Cattle is therefore fain even shamefully to beg of Samuel to honour him before 1 Sam. 15. 30. the people and not without much adoe prevails with him I intend you a taste only not a surset of instances else I could shew you Idolaters transforming the glorious God into the likenesse of a beast and God in requitall transforming them into the nature of beasts they God into Rom. 1. 23 24 25 26. the likenesse them God into the nature of beasts Nor are there wanting of our own Nation who having sleighted and dishonoured God will therefore be infamous and a scorn to all posterity And there 's good reason for this manner of dealing for what more sutable to that excellent nature that is in God then to repay honour to those from whom himself receives honour The Scripture stiles the Lord a man of warre Exod. 15. 3. may I not say also he is a man of honour and if so wherein can it better appear then in bestowing honour on those from whom hee hath it what could God doe lesse in point of honour then to so retaliate On the other hand how equall a thing is it that those that sleight and dishonour God should by him also be sleighted and dishonoured 't is but paying men in their own coyn the justest law of retribution that can be Me thinks there 's nothing more equall then if the Moon which borrows all her light of the Sun shall notwithstanding eclipse and darken the Sunnes glory the Sunne should sometime withdraw and leave her over to her owne darknesse And that those vapours which being lifted up from the