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A86088	The loyall subiect's retiring-roome, opened in a sermon at St Maries, on the 13th day of Iuly, (being Act-Sunday) in the after-noone. A.D. 1645, before the Honourable members of both Houses of Parliament, assembled in Oxford. / By R, H. M, A. [sic].	Harwood, Richard, d. 1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1107; Thomason E300_1; ESTC R200251	23,584	36

Dyall and denote the twelve houres of the days God hath signes about his Watch too Faith Repentance c. but Deliverance is one of the last now would you have the clocke strike Twelve before One deliverance before repentance this is against the order of Numeration The hand must point at Repentance and newnesse of life ere it stand at Deliverance But will you give me leave to follow Luther's advices to put this noment in the Predicament of relation Luther in Psal 2. and then he saith it will Absorbere praedicamentum quantitatis quite swallow up the predicament of quantity that is compare the time of our sufferings with that other of our sinnes and the vasteternity which expects us hereafter and you will confesse 't is not halfe a moment First looke upon your sinnes on both sides Their Guilt and Duration The Guilt is eternall though the Act be transient Chrysost in 5. Joh. Caten part gr For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God judgeth not alwayes of sinne by it's Continuance but it's Nautre Now what proportion betweene a temporall punishment and an eternall one due The very meditation of an everlasting fire Aug. Med. made Austine cry out Hie ure hic feca modo in aeternum parcas Burne me O Lord cut me in peices here so thou would'st spare me for ever O mercifull God doe we murmur under a short Purgatory in this life when we are liable to an eternall torment if every sinne merit everlasting death how many eternities of misery are due to out many crying sinnes yet thou hast given us but a Sip of sorrow that by a Praelibation of this bitter cup we may prevent the drinking the very dregs in Hell that by atast of tempor all misery we may never be devoured by an eternali 2 King 17.5 But will you as Elijah upon the Widowes Son stretch this moment upon your sinnes lay mouth to mouth and hands to hands and what a vast disproportion will you find betweene this Little David and that Huge Goliah A Childe of foure yeares old Our present sorrowes and this Philistin of threescore Our past iniquities The very fingar of this man of Gath Our sinnes is bigger then the whole body of our sufferings Job compares his sinnes to the sands of the Sea and if you will sit downe and tell the sands of the Sea and your sufferings together what Alpes what mountaines of sinne will you lay aside for one little heape of sorrow O our Impanitency is our greatest Calamity This hath spun out the moment into so many yeares already For Warre is an Itinerary not a mansionary evill It is going it circuit through the World and would soone passe through England did not our many crimes deteine it in so long an Assize with us Aske no more Jer. 4.21 22. How long shall I behold the Standard and heare the sound of the Trumpet When God doth still complaine My People are foolish they have not knowne me they are wise to doe evill but to doe good they have no knowledge Wonder not that the desire of our hearts Peace hath been so long an abomination to our Enemies when the Almighty doth yet stretch out his hands te Vs a disobedient and goine saying People Lord what Vnreasonable Creatures are we Salv. l. 6. de gub dei Volumus delinquere nolumus Verberari We would of offend and not suffer for it Thou must remove thy judgements O God but we may reteine our sinnes Thou must not afflict us but we may dishonour thee I see I must be plaine with you Is there a nasty drunkard a rotten adulterer or a damned swearer the lesse for these sad times Are we not all more undone in our manners then our estates and have we not lesse of virtue left us then of our substance Nay would Salvian's complaint were not verified Assiduitas calamitatum augmentum criminum ô Incredible The Continuance of our misery doth but increase our iniquity like that snaky monster that multiplyed the more for the beheading Boast not to me what a good Subject thou art when thou dost recruit the King with thy mony and rout him with thy sinnes Tell me not what a freind thou art to thy Native Country when thou wilt not expend a lust to save it from ruine How farre short art thou of the very Heathens piety who did not thinke the safety of their Nation too deare at the price of their bloud and yet thou wilt not part with one of thy sinnes to redeeme it from destruction Never speake of peace more so long as thou art thus at open Warre with Heaven If you would have God keep his moment in punishing why doe not you observe your modicum in sinning Can you blame the Physitian if the disease continues when the Patient will not forbeare the meates that nourish it An intemperate stomack doth but poyson physick and so feed the malady with the medicine And will you thinke the Almighty cruell That the Warre lasts when Nos per nostrum non patimur seelus c. Our sinnes will not suffer the Enraged Diety to put up his Sword Alas His moment hath hitherto waited upon Ours O Jerusalem wilt thou not be made cleane when will it once be For God's sake for the King's sake yea for Sion's sake let this be the day God hath even put Deliverance in our owne power and why will you deferre your happinesse any longer Humble your Soules under the mighty hand of God and he will bend the stubborne hearts of our Enemies to Peace Doe but Repent of your sinnes and the Warre is ended make your Peace with God and goe Proclaime Peace throughout all England But Once more Compare the time of your suffering on Earth to that of your raigning in Heaven and if a Thousand yeares be but as a day in that Kingdome we have not yet suffered the hundred thousand'th minute of an houre of that day The vast circumference of the Earth conteines more then two thousand and five hundred miles yet the Mathematician will prove 't is but a Point in respect of the Heavens Kecher Geograph because from any superficies he doth not lesse behold halfethe Heavens then if he were in the Center of the Earth So the many thousand yeares extension of sorrow is butan Instant in respect of eternity Because eternity seems not lesse eternall if you look upon it from the very Center of misery Will you see it tryed by Saint Paul who stept up into the Third Heaven to wrigh the Crosse and the Crowne And returned with this joyfull Probatum est The most ponderous Crosse is but a feather in the scales 2. Cor. 4.17 a Momentary lightnesse in comparison of that surpassing exceeding eternall where shall I stay weighty Crowne of glory Complaine not then of thy short paine when an eternall ease expects thee Thinke not that sorrow long that ends in everlasting joy but hold out this little moment thou hast but this one step to thy Crowne Bishop Fisher in Hen. 8. And as the Bishop when he was going to suffer threw away his staffe and bid his legges doe their duty He should not trouble them farre So command thy Faith and Patience to doe their last office Jàm patùm itineris restat Thou art almost at thy journyes end at the very gates of Immortality And what a dishonour to faint at the end of the Race what a misfortune to suffer shipwracke in the Haven stretch thy patience but a moment and what a blessed Change wilt thou finde it To breath thy Soule out of sorrowes into joy out of misery into happinesse out of terments into pleasures for evermore For our present affliction will but adde to the degrees of our Happinesse and we shall be the more blessed that we were once so miserable O deare Lorà so inflame our hearts with the love of Aeternity that the longest affliction may seeme short the heaviest light in comparison of that everlasting blisse which thou hast prepared for us in thy Kingdome Vnto which bring us for the merits of Jesus to whom with thee and the holy Spirit be ascribed all Honour and Glory for ever Amen FINIS ERRATA PAg. 7. l. 8. r. Their bondage is His captivity l. 21. for would r. could

he will rebuke the tempest and bring it safe to land Doe you thinke the God of heaven will loose his right Though our Soveraigne be now persecuted his life and honour yet because He is God's Anoynted you may be confident he will restore him to his Crowne and Dignity Doe you thinke the God of heaven will loose his right Though the Church ne now almost buried in her owne ruines yet because it is His house He will repaire it into it's former Beauty and Lustre Did you ever know the God of heaven cheated of his right In a word where ever we cast our eyes now we behold nothing but misery and destruction yet because he is still pleased to owne us as His peculiar people we may assure our selves that notwithstanding our manifold provocations he will yet looke upon us for good Malach 3.17 and in the day that he maketh up his fewels sparens as a man spareth his owne Sonne Never thinks the God of heaven will loose his right But that we may still take the boldnesse to present our selves before him as his owne in Christ and with the Preist between the Porch and the Altar make it the argument of our devotion Iocl 2.17.18 spare thy people O God and give not thy heritage to reproach And so least you should think I meant to entertaine you only with a Complement I descend to the Counsell my second generall And therein First the Advice of the Letter Christian Prudence in a seasonable flight Enter thou into thy Chambers shut the doores about thee and hide thy selfe A Chamber was never but safe and delightfull to a contemplative mind 2. The Counsell but now so much the better as the world is worse 1. Literall 'T is a happinesse not to be a witnesse of the mischeife of the times which 't is as hard to behold and be innocent as to converse with and be safe so that he who needs not a chamber for contemplation may for Protection The old law opened cities of refuge Math. 10.23 and sure the Gospell hath not shut them He that gave the persecuted counsell to fly out of one city into another allowes every man the choyce of his owne Sanctuary When a danger approaches so neere that there is no safety in staying and God offers us the wings of a Dove faire and certaine meanes of escape not to fly then Athonasus Apolog. pro fuga were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Athanasius phrase to condemne providence it selfe to scorne deliverance when 't is kindly administred For though God be omnipotent and can fetch a deliverance for us out of an Impossibility yet because his power is commanded by his will and his will is to save by meanes Abomnipotentiâ Dei non est inferendum quidlibet We must not presume to inferre more from his omnipotency then what is authorized by his will else we should make no more use of God's imperiall power then we do of juglers only to shew tricks to the world to please every man's humour with a fresh miracle Who can read without admiration that God should fly from a weake man that he before whom the earth moves and the seas goe backward Apoca. 20. v. 11 should be put to this poore shift to save his life from him Psal 104.7 whom a despicable worme could conquer yet our Saviour fled into Aegypt leaving us an example that we might follow his steps 1. Pet. 2. v. 21. He could have commanded an officer of heaven to have stroke Herod dead or call'd out a Legion of Angels for his life-guard but that he would instruct our presumption not to expect an Act of grace where the Common-Law may relieve us not to look for a Miracle where ordinary prudence will protect us Why doe you not call home your Armies and dismount your Ordinance if you can ortaine the victory by sounding of Rams-hornes and breaking of Pitchers yet with such an Artillery Israel battered Iericho to the ground Nay why so much provision for a Seidge if you can perswade the heavens to fill your Magazins with Manna enough yet they were so curteous to the Israelites campe but if you dare not trust such an Artillery or Sucklers to your Army why will you venture your lives on a certaine danger upon the presumption of an extraodinary and disingaged providence Nor doth it excuse the rashnesse that Persecution is God's visitation For what evill is not The sword of Pestilence as well as the sword of Warre both are weapons of divine justice And why will you court one more then the other doe you make any difference whether you perish by a stab or by an infection Since then the danger is equall why not to be declined with equall prudence Lot did not think it safe staying among the flames of Sodome because they came from heaven nor would the people embrace the Leper for the divine hand that smote him This were not to perish by Gods visitation but our owne presumption and to fetch in a judgment not to have it sent us he that bid us fly when we are persecuted did not except himselfe when with reverence be it spoken he became a Persecuter But whether can we fly from God's hand Can we be too nimble for our destiny or cheat the fates by changing our Hemisphere No as Alexander of Alexandria told Athanasius whom he had elected his Successour in that See but saw him decline it so our destiny saies Ribadin in vit Athnasi Fugere licet Athanasi non tamen effugies Fly thou maist Athanasius but thou salt not escape Death is a common debt we owe to nature yet he is not so cruell a Creditour as to demand it before'tis due The time of payment is set downe in God's booke and so long as we have any lawfull meanes to preserve our lives the dare is not yet expired Ierom. in Ioh. Nomest nostrum arripere mortem sed illatam libentèr accipere We must bid death welcome when he comes but not hale him to us and put the sit he in his hand whether he willor no this were to antidare our owne ruine and to make death it selfe guilty of murder by cutting us down before our time Though Martyr dome be the Crowne of Christianity yet we may not be so ambitious of it as to betray our selves to the Prison or Stake Furiosum genus hominum Aug. epist ad Bonifac. as those furious Heretiques the Circumcellions in Austines time that went up and downe begging Martyr dome Come Plunder Stab Burne us and if none would be so kind as to kill them they were so cruell as to become their owne executioners The Fryers relate of their good Saint Francis that he went up and down to Majorka Bonavent Ribadin in vitâ Francisci and Minorka among the Mahometans desiring to be put to death for Christ's sake pitty he should goe so farre for a halter that