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A77859	The necessity of agreement with God: opened in a sermon preached to the Right Honourable the noble House of Peers assembled in Parliament, upon the 29th of October, 1645. being the monethly fast. / By C. Burges, D.D. preacher of the Word to the city of London. Published in obedience to an order of their Lordships.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5673; Thomason E307_19; ESTC R200347	36,324	55

THE NECESSITY OF Agreement with GOD OPENED IN A SERMON Preached to the Right Honourable the Noble House of PEERS assembled in PARLIAMENT Vpon the 29th of October 1645. being the Monethly Fast By C. BURGES D. D. Preacher of the Word to the City of London Published in Obedience to an Order of their Lordships LONDON Printed by G. Miller for Philemon Stephens at the Signe of the golden-Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1645. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE HOVSE OF PEERS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Most Noble LORDS THE main designe of this plain Sermon is to awaken men not yet agreed with GOD out of their golden dreams of nothing but Halcyon dayes and mountains of perpetuall prosperity which the almost innumerable glorious Victories heaped on your Armies seem to promise To effect this I have endeavoured to put all upon the Triall of their Agreement with GOD which being the soul of my Text ought to be the chief subject of my Discourse I have therein insisted most upon the examining our performance of the Nationall Covenant which notwithstanding your pious command to whet the people upon it every Fast day is so much neglected yea despised that he is by some ranged among the dissolute that now will take it and it is made one character of the godly party which they who say stand apart appropriate to refuse it Uniformity which we have Covenanted to promote is become a scorne And they who being sensible of the mischiefs of no Government in the Church presse the setling of a Discipline according to our Covenant do every where hear Rigid Presbyterians Persecutours worse than Bishops and what not but what they are None know now how to Time things but they who while out the times to prevent the setling of any thing at all My Lords it is our happinesse and your honour that you have continued with Christ in his temptations and remained faithfull in the midst of a perfidious generation when the enemy had his hour For what Tiberius once spake to Nero and Drusus in the Senate Tacit. Annal. lib. 4. Ita nati estis ut bona maláque vestra ad Rempublicam pertineant may be much more said of you who are so borne for the Publike that you are engaged in honour to promote that what ever become of your selves There is no Publike act of yours if good but the whole Kingdom fares the better for it no evil that you commit but all the Nation suffers by it Be faithfull unto Christ who had never more need of your Zeal and let him alone with your safety and honour untill he give you a crown of life It is not enough that you act when acted unles you also quicken others to more expedition in that great busines of the Government of the Church It is not sufficient that your selves come up to an Agreement with God unlesse as Josiah you do your utmost with all vigour to draw others into the same also Nor will it suffice that you do good your selves if you wittingly suffer others to do evil against God and Christ without exercising that authority which God hath put into your hands against them You remember Galba who though innocent of much harm which passed under his name yet because he permitted them to commit it whom he ought to have bridled or was ignorant of that which he ought to have known lost reputation and opened a way to his own destruction The Lord of Lords guide quicken and prosper you in all the great affairs which are under your hands make you more and more zealous for Jesus Christ that he may yet further honour you above all your Noble Progenitours and give you hearts so to improve this homely piece that it may further your Account and not rise up in judgement against you in the great day of the Lord Jesus in whom I am and ever shall be Your Lordships most humble servant C. BURGES THE NECESSITY OF Agreement with GOD. AMOS 3.3 Can two walke together except they be agreed I May begin my Sermon with the words of Cyril a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyr. Alex in loc This is a deep Riddle and a darke speech For better unfolding of it be pleased to cast your eyes on the first verse of this Book which will afford some light to these words and to the whole Prophecie There you shall first meet a poor Herdsman of Tekoah a City of Judah six miles south from Jerusalem to wit our Prophet a man bred up among Cattle and a gatherer of sycomore-trees b Amos 7.14 15. suddenly * Amos ruborum mora distringens repentè Propheta effectus est Hieron ad Heliodor called of God as he followed the flock and sent unto Israel yea to prophesie even at Bethel the Kings Chappel and Court and there to denounce destruction to the King and Kingdome by the Assyrian as he after c Amos 7.9 10 11. did There also shall ye discover the People to and against whom he prophesied namely Israel not the whole progeny of Jacob but only the ten Tribes revolted from Rehoboam These being the major part of Israel carried with them that Name Sometimes they are called Ephraim from Jeroboam their first King who was of that Tribe as that party which adhered to the House of David was named Judah because that was the Family from whence sprang their Kings That these Prophecies were directed to these ten Tribes is further manifest by that of Amaziah the Chief Priest of Bethel Chap. 7.12 13. O thou Seer flee thee away into the Land of Judah and there eat bread and prophesie there but prophesie not again any more at Bethel c. which shews plainly that he prophesied only to Israel in that place where Jeroboam the first had erected one of his Calves There Amos for his boldnesse against the Calves received many affronts from Amaziah the Priest and at length a mortall blow with a Club on his head by Amaziahs sonne after which he was carried home to Tekoah where he soon died of that wound as we have it from Epiphanius d In vit Prophet and sundry others e Hieron Doroth. Isidor alijque In that first verse thirdly may you perceive the time when he prophesied It was in the dayes of Vzziah King of Judah and in the dayes of Jeroboam the sonne of Joash King of Israel two years before the earthquake a most remarkable circumstance The mention of those two Kings discovers Amos to have been contemporaneous with Hosea and Joel yea with Isaiah too whose Father he was not although some have so conjectured albeit he began somewhat after them and finished his course many years before them by means of that untimely death but now expressed These Kings reigned long Jeroboam 41 years Vzziah 56 years computing from the 16th year of his age only To the end therefore it might be more exactly known about what time of their severall reignes Amos prophesied it is said two