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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87669	The messengers preparation for an addresse to the King for a well-grounded peace. As it was delivered in a sermon, at Oxford, on Sunday, Novemb. 24. 1644. Before the commissioners of both kingdomes, the morning before their presenting the propositions to His Majestie. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing K252; Thomason E21_20; ESTC R14495	21,882	36

last leave mocking and deluding the poore Church of God and deale open-heartedly with them we promise and professe we will doe any thing for their ease and yet more then show nothing is done to this day we are like an idle servant alwayes going of an arrant but never goe and doe it For shame now at last let us lessen weaken our sinsthat we may strengthen our prayers the life of three Kingdoms is at stake nay of the Church of God for ought you know pardon my importunity if I sollicite you to be active by a few Motives it being upon life and death of three famous Kingdoms 1. Motive Yours and every one of our Relations to it it is the Church of God of which you are fellow-members it is the ship of which you are partowners in which your lives nay the lives of your precious Soules and all the provisions for your posterities are imbarked Since the storme began I confesse you have rowsed up many a lazie and snorting Jonah nay you have cast most of the unnecessary lumber that was more burthensome then serviceable to the ships use into the Sea shall I say nay some part out of their seas and yet all is not well the poore ship drawes much blood yet swims very deepe in the Red Sea I beseech you rumedgy the ship once more and if you find any seeds-men of Division S. Paul in the 16 of the Romans 17. intreats you to take notice of them as monstous and I have read it is prodigiously ominous to a ship to be haunted with monsters Raysing parties in a family ship or army is a thing of a very sad consequence therefore the Apostle dares give it under his hand That God is not the author of consusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14.33 Truely it is a sad thing to see the members of Jesus Christ out of joynt for Christ falls not of from his members why should the members fall off from one another There can be no such reason given why we should seperate one from another as there can be why Christ might seperate from us It is the glory of Christs body when every member is serviceable to the whole in its right place These are also weighty luggedge and the Apostle adviseth such after admonition to be cast out for these extreamly prevent the exact performance of proportionable duty Lastly let every one search his owne Cabine whether he have not secretly brought no unwarrantable goods aboard for his owne ends that may make the ship liable to forfeiture If so over with them what a shame is it to any man to forfeit a ship for his owne advantage or the Church should perish for concealed abhominations unpardoned sinners are dead men and dead men are prejudiciall to a ship and therefore to be cast over else God will say ere long as to Abimelech Gen. 20.3 Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman thou hast taken so for the sin you have committed and are taken in Why should we joy in any thing whilst the Church may take hurt the Saints of God have ever been as tender of it as their selves and preferred its good before all injoyments If I forget Ierusalem let my right hand forget its cunning It was so deare and went so neere to old Ely the news of its losse when the Ark was taken that it is disputed whether heart or his neck brake first Wherefore I beseech you let your relation to it make you now in its misery to put forth and hazard your selves to the utmost for relieviing Mercy Mordeca's Motive to Esther was it was her Nation it s mine to you they are your Nations it is your Church your Families your Houses your Estates your Children Wives Selves Soules your Gospell Ordinances are aimed at O pray pray Fast and pray cry mightily all 's at stake 2. Motive Because such duty if the Church be sick or Sentenced unto death under a decree Nay although with Ezekiah it hath received a message That it shall dye and not live yet it is of power to procure God to visite it and one of his visites is halfe the recovery of it Psalm 8.14 It is some comfort to men that are labouring under hard undertakings that they labour not in vaine be of good courage and of good comfort Your labour is not in vaine with the Lord for his decreed Church to ruine 3. Motive It is your last refuge it is that besides which you have hardly any thing left you If men have nothing left or have spent all but their fingers ends to maintaine them and their families they had need ply them diligently and cherish them carefully If a house stand but on one pillar it had need oft to be viewed for repaires and to see that be safe and well founded prayer is as it were the onely Pillar of the Church it is as the fingers ends we had need imploy our fingers ends for our selves and our fellow-members in misery if we intend a livelihood 4. Motive You are all sentenced and by your Enemies appoynted to dye I hope no true member of the Church but will speake a word for himselfe I confesse our owne guilt might sow up our lips and we might bee left wordlesse but yet if God offer thee an opportunity ply him for thy life and the Churches safety with importunity for if thou speed not this way thou art undone for ever Your life is on it there is no trifling with life doe you not know what condemned men doe in poynt of life for pardon Improve all their friends all their time all their skill all for a pardon so doe you and prosper 5. Motive Because by this kind of duty if you cannot prevaile with God and that for causes best knowne to himselfe for compleat redemption out of misery Yet you shall for a mittigation of it and for a sanctified use of it and for strength of grace to undergoe it and there is a great deale of difference in mens sufferings and deaths all men dye but some men are kil'd by death It was the saying of a godly man he did aegrotare vitaliter so the godly doe mori vitaliter for nothing can arme death to hurt us but sin otherwise thou art hard sting-free we never feare the noyse of a Fly as the humming of a Bee because it hath no sting So that this kind of duty though it cannot keepe thee and me from dying by the Sword it will keep us from dropping into hell and it is a sweet mercy for the members of the Church with Stephen at their dearh to see heaven opened and to die with the sence of Gods love though of mans cruell malice 6. Motive Your paines in duty for the Church of God in misery what ever it be shall be rewarded to you and yours unto many generations this will intitle you to the most sure inheritance and lasting legacy you can