uniformity and to labour the extirpation of heresies sects and schismes which how we can make good if every one take liberty to reare up a modell and platforme according to his owne principles without respect unto publique Authority I cannot see How can it be avoyded but there will be divisions in the worke when those that should carry it on act severall wayes without any regard to one another I wish such would consider that zeale in Religion though it be exceeding good and necessary yet it needes a sober guide much wisedome is requisite to prescribe when and where and how far and in what manner and order to proceede in carrying on a worke of so great consequence as a publique Church-Reformation is Zeale except it be ordered aright in conflicting with corruptions and abuses whether reall or pretended useth the razor sometimes with such eagernesse that Religion it selfe is thereby endangered and through hatred of tares the good corne in the field of God is pluckt up That which Isocrates said of strength is as true of zeale that if it be tempered with sound wisedome and a right Judgement it doth much good but without such a mixture it doth much mischiefe to our selves and others like Granadoes and other fire Workes which if they be not well looked to and discreetly ordered when they break do more hurt to those that cast them then to the enemy no man can be ignorant of the ill effects of an indiscreet and ill governed zeale which like unto a fire when it burnes out of compasse sets all the house and towne in a combustion It may perhaps justly be doubted whether a too slack moderation or an over-violent zeale be worse seeing the one does no good and the other does much hurt discretion without zeale is slow paced and zeale without discretion heady take therefore St. Bernards counsell let zeale spur on discretion and discretion reine zeale joyne them both together and the conjunction will be lovely I would not willingly drop one word to quench one sparke of any true Heaven-bred zeale my errand is as our Saviours was rather to kindle this fire Luke 12.49 which every Sacrifice must be salted with Marke 9.4 Let us all labour to blow up and to keepe alive this Sacred fire upon the Altar of our hearts that it may inflame our devotion towards God kindle our love towards men and burne out all our owne corruptions let it never coole with age nor abate with opposition nor be quenched with any floods of persecution whatsoever 1. As the Apostle said of patience so may I of zeale we have all neede of it especially Reformers 1. Because of the glory of God which we ought to have a tender resentment of more then of our owne lives or whatsoever is deare or precious unto us in this world Our Saviour resented the injuries and reproaches offered unto God as done unto himselfe Rom. 15.2 Because of the honour and happinesse of the Church which we ought to prefer before all our owne Interests Psal. 137.6 I have read of Ambrose that he was so zealous for the Church that he wished any storme might light upon himselfe rather then the State of it should be endangered Reverend Calvin would be content to saile over ten Seas for an uniforme draught of Religion amongst the Evangelicall Churches Moses and Paul were so transcendent in this kinde of zeale that they would have redeemed the Churches losses with their owne damnation 3 Because of the great difficulties and obstructions which we must make account to encounter with If you set your faces towards Sion the Jebusites hold it which you must remove with an Host of Idolls to boote even the blind and the lame the abhorring of Davids soule or else you shall never take the Fort 2 Sam. 5 6 7. If you will endeavour with Elias to put down the Priests of Baal Jezabel will send you a message of defiance threatning to make the Land too hot for us There are many Lyons that lye in our way it s onely a zealous violence that can Sampson-like get victory over them and honey out of them If we declare our for heaven all the faction and power of hell will be up in Armes against us Therefore we have neede of much violence 2. This will stand us in much stead 1. It will make us bold and daring it will put us upon the uttermost adventures Love and zeale will if neede be run upon the Cannons mouth dare through deaths gauntlet Cant. 8.7 Esther knew not whether she should prevaile yet she would venture though to the apparent hazarding of her Crowne and life Est 4.16 Zeale and love blush at the Name of difficulty 2. It will quicken you up to mighty endeavours a bow full bent will violently deliver the Arrow and carry it home to the marke with full strength a peece full charged will go off with great force A zealous Christian is like a ship saith Clemens carried on with full sayles towards heaven 3. It will make you constant and steady That 's no heaven-borne violence which tract of time or opposition weares out True zeal is like the Philosophers {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a sparkling firy stone no floods can quench it 4. It will make us prevalent and successefull in our endeavours if any thing in the world can Love is a pleasing Tyrant saith Chrysostome the power of it is above all power it raignes over all impediments in heaven and earth prevailing both with God and man as Jacob did This zeale then being so necessary and usefull labour we to get our hearts stored with it and see that it be of the right stampe sincere and upright ayming onely at the right end Gods glory and the Churches good Let there be no sonnes of Zebedee among us to project for themselves places of honour at the right hand or the left when Christ comes into his Kingdome away with all private designes preserve we our intentions single and sincere and we shall prosper the better 2. Let our zeale flame out upon all occasions let nothing smother the operation of it Aristotle writes of the bathes in the Pythecusian Islands that they are fiery hot yet send out no flame I cannot commend such a zeale which is smothered and pent up in the heart and gets no vent hath no externall operation a treasure concealed and an hidden vertue are both alike When that prophane King had burnt the Roll the Prophet wrote it over againe with an addition of many other like words Jer. 36.32 The more Gods Worship Ordinances Servants are opposed the more will true-hearted Zealots appeare for them to assist and vindicate them They write of a fish that hath a sword but no heart but I hope better things of you 3. Let your zeale be guided by the right Rule which is the Word of God In al your consultations and
Throne that he may raigne in heaven and earth and in the hearts of men Though it be a difficult a painefull and chargeable designe yet this I must and will drive to the worlds end let other things sink or swim prosper or wither it skills not the Gospell of Christ shall prevaile with me universally let the world lye at six and seven this course I must and will follow though all the dust of the earth sands on the shore and tyles of houses were devills this I will set in hand with come what will come such a resolution as this is violent and it will overcome all resistance and make a man with a full purpose of heart cleave unto God Act. 11.29 We may see a lively portraict of such a spirit in the Apostle S. Paul Act. 20.22 He went bound in the spirit as in a chaine to Jerusalem and though he knew himselfe and others told him too by the inspiration and instinct of the spirit That nothing but bonds and imprisonments waited for him in euery City yet all this could not move him he had such a magnanimous and adamantine resolution to go through with his work and fulfill his ministery that his life was not at all deare unto him neither did he set any value on it in comparison of the service which he was now upon So true is that of the Spouse Cant. 8.6 7. Love is as strong as death zeale as hard i.e. inexorable as the grave much water cannot quench it neither can the floods drown it no difficulties or oppositions can allay or abate much lesse extinguish the heate of it If a man would give all the substance of his house for it it would be utterly contemned The whole world though vayled with the most glorious and glistering temptations would be scorned as too meane and poore a bribe to draw off the heart of a man from the kingdom of God when it is once well fixed and steeled with a firme and adamantine resolution no diswasions sloth feare policy covetousnesse ficklenesse nor any other thing can either divert or stop or interrupt him in his enterprize When a man is thus obstinately and couragiously bent unto his worke this is violence well pleasing unto God The Jewes have a saying That a man should set his face as a flint and that his countenance should be like a Leopard stout and stearn and obstinate to do the will of his father in heaven 3. This consists in strong and serious endeavours A man is not violent in matters of the Kingdome of God if he do not put forth himselfe into action trying every conclusion rolling every stone and leaving nothing unattempted that may conduce to the atchieving of his end Every man saith the Philosopher workes as he is and his acts and operations are such as his principles If the inward principles of his desires beat faintly if his purposes faulter and reele and be not steady and constant then his Actings in like manner will either be none at all or feeble and unspirited and consequently fruitlesse and bootlesse as an arrow weakely shot off will not carry home but fall short of the mark and short shooting we say looseth many a game it doth so in religion also but now when the desires are as hot as a flame and the purposes as strong as steele then to be sure vigorous and Spirited endeavours will follow unavoydably The Church in Solomons Song may serve for an instance to cleer this for a long time she lay languishing and as I may say wind-bound no excitations wooings or entreaties of her lover could prevaile to get her up out of her warme bed her secure and slumbring condition some velleities and imperfect wishings and wouldings she had but still the door was locked against Christ her will was not bowed there lay the inward impediment the will was but halfe stirred and therefore no arising no motion till Christ comes and puts in his hand to the hole of the doore and takes away the bar shoots the bolt removes the Impediments and then her bowels were affected and moved towards him Then she arose and sought him with a curious diligence every where her hands bestirred themselves till they sweat till they dropt againe her feete trudges up and down the streets to finde him whom her soule loved and a world now for them that could tell her of any tydings of him Cant. 5.2 3 4 5 c. It s a true saying That love is the roote and principle of all the motions of the soul for though there be other affections and those active yet all are reducible to love and in the strength thereof they Act and put all the wheeles of the soule in motion as David when his heart was caught with a violent passion of love towards God how doth he extend and spread out his armes and put forth all oares and sailes in a strong pursuance after him Psal. 63.8 My soule followeth hard after thee there was never a more difficult and in humane view a more unfeasible design then that of the Jewes in Nehemiahs time when they were to build the house of God they had a potent faction at Court and malignant Councellours at home to retard and stop the proceedings of the work they were faine to build with a trowell in one hand and a sword in the other yet they prevailed against all difficulties and this is given in account at the reason of it The people had a minde to worke Neh. 4.6 You see now what this violence is and wherein it consists see in the next place how it workes either in relation to the good which it reacheth after and would obtaine or else in relation to the evill which it would remove and be rid of In the relation to the good which it desires to obtaine 1. It stirreth up a generous and mighty ambition to excell in the inward gifts and graces of the Spirit which are necessary qualifications for all them that would have a share in the Kingdome of God A man that is in a violent straine he cannot rest in any mediocrities never thinkes he hath vertue and grace enough still he is aspiring and reaching after more He gives all diligence to adde unto his faith vertue knowledge temperance brotherly kindnesse godlinesse all the rest of that chaine of pearls which the Apostle stringeth up 2 Peter 1.5 6 7 as well knowing that if these be in him and abound they will make that he shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of Christ and then to be sure an entrance shall be ministred unto him abundantly into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ v. 11. As a scholler thinkes he can never have learning enough and a covetous man thinks that he can never have wealth and riches enough so is it with a Christian of a violent Spirit he never rests contented with his present pitch but labours still to abound
imputations of treason and Rebellion Jehoiada did but endeavour to put down unjust usurpation and to set up the right heire in this throne and to draw the people into a Covenant with God and yet Athalia cryed Treason treason Oh but sayes Saint Peter if ye suffer reproach for Christs sake hapyy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you 1 Pet. 4 14. A Christian is never so glorious as when he suffers most reproach and ignominy for Christs sake There is nothing in the world saith Chrisostome nothing at all comparable to that glory When men revile and persecute you and say all manner of evill against you falsly for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad saith our Saviour for great is your reward in heaven Math. 5.11 A dram of credit well lost in a good cause and for a good conscience will amount to as much in the returne of it as an eternall Crown of glory is worth but we may haply yet further endanger our liberties forfeit our dearest contentments incurre the displeasure of our friends lose our interests yea our lives and all we have in this world we could never bring them to a better market we shall gaine an hundred for one take his Word for it who cannot lye you cannot desire better assurance it being all which heaven and earth have to shew for their continuance Luke 18.29 Verily I say unto you there is no man that hath left house or Parents or brethren or wife or children for the Kingdome of Gods sake who shall not receive manifold more in this present time and in the world to come life everlasting It s a thriving trade indeede thus to part with transitory things and gaine eternall to exchange drosse for gold peebles for pearles withering flowers for an inaccessible crown Who would not traffique in such a merchandize Anselme hath a saying That if a man could serve God with all fervency of zeale and devotion for a thousand yeeres yet all this were as nothing in comparison of the happinesse to be for one halfe of a day in heaven I will say yet more If a man could performe all the vertuous exploytes and suffer all the most exquisite tortures which all the Saints and Martyrs have suffered from the beginning of the world yet all this would not beare up the scales nor hold any proportion of weight so as in any sort to be judged worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed Rom. 8.18 We can never therefore be over violent for this prize 3. And as in respect of God and his Kingdom this is necessary so in respect of the enterprisers themselves who except they strain hard presse on with much violence might as well sit down and set their hearts at rest giving over the Kingdome of heaven and eternall Salvation as a lost prize cast your eyes about which way you will whether on God or your selves or the world enemies or friends nothing can set before us the least door of hope that ever we shall come to heaven Except we strive to enter in at the straight gate Mat. 7.13.1 Looke upon God and you shall finde that he hath fixed it as an irreversible order that such as strive for mastery shall not be crowned except they strive lawfully 2 Tim. 2 5. We must conquer before we triumph win the Garland before we weare it we are too well conceited of our selves and presume too much upon Gods love without any just ground if we expect that he should bring us by a nearer way and shorter cut unto eternall glory than he did his onely begotten son who came not easily by his crowne his conquest over death and hell and the spoyles taken from them were not Salmacida spolia sine sanguine sudore spoyles got without sweat or blood-shed for he did both sweat and bleed in his striving and strugling for them and I do not finde where entrance into heaven is proposed unto us but upon such like termes in quality I meane not in equality which is impossible Revel. 2.3 To him that overcommeth will I give to sit with me on my Throne even as I also overcame and am set downe with my Father in his Throne Loe here God hath held out his Kingdome as a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an honourable prize for brave spirits to contend and scuffle for this is the just price which he hath pitcht He that overcomes the Crown is his upon other termes it cannot be expected The old rule was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Gods sell all for sweate and it is indeed true that there is nothing of worth in all this world which can be got better cheap a Scholler cannot compasse any competency of skill in the Arts and Sciences without much study and travell Multa tulit fecitque puer sudavit alsit it will cost much sweat and much toyle to excell in learning A mechanicall artificer cannot thrive nor grow rich in his ordinary trade without more then ordinary diligence and shall we think the Kingdome of heaven will come dropping in our laps whilst we sit still and fold our hands and will do nothing or that which is to as little purpose as nothing for it I confesse that of Tertullian in proper speech is most true That nothing of or belonging unto God can be either bought or sold God is a most liberall Benefactor and gives us all things even his Kingdome too freely we have nothing that good is in relation to time or eternity but it comes in upon us as a gratuity and we for our parts {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} we have no price in our hands to give in exchange for such blessings especially the Kingdom of heaven which his more worth then all the world though turned into a Globe of gold or mountaine of Diamonds yet it is as true in another sence That all the blessings of God yea even the Kingdome of heaven too must be traded and trafficked for Salomon calls in customers to the shop of truth and he requires them to buy it and our Saviour commends this practise in two parables The one of a rich Treasure the other of a precious pearle Mat. 13.44 c. Many such like expressions we meete with every where in the Scripture all which import a kinde of trading and trafficking with God for the great things of his Kingdom which must be bought and purchased by laying out whatsoever we are or have for them When we offer him the flower of our desires the highest pitch of our affections and the marrow of our best endeavours this is pretium legitimum God will accept of it as of a just and currant price and if any bid short of it and will not be at such cost for heaven I can give him no other comfort but this He may go to hell if he please good cheap 2. Looke we
once and improving the miseries of the times by dilatory proceedings dead pay false musters betraying of advantages and letting opportunities of action slip with other stratagems and feates of pollicy very depths of Sathan profound as hell which I have not wit enough to reach If there be any such Judas's masked devills here let me informe them If their bosome intelligencer their Consciences I meane be asleepe perhaps it may arouse them a little that thunderbolt Esay 29.15 Wo unto them that dig deepe and seeke to hide their Counsell from the Lord and their workes are in the darke and they say who seeeth and who knoweth us and let them take that along with them too Esay 30.33 There is a Tophet prepared of old its deepe and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a streame of brimstone kindles it and let me tell them yet further If this fiery gulfe be not for such I do not know whether it can challenge any guests 5. There be others zealous in Religion but not enough they have like the Laodiccan Angell and Church some heate which makes them luke-warme but they are not violent their dram of zeale is tempered with so many ounces of discretion that the operation of it can scarce be discerned they are Orthodox in opinion not much exorbitant in conversation owne the great cause of the Kingdom set their faces towards heaven are not against Reformation but then they must not be over-driven you must not put them out of their owne pace they like not a Jehu's March It s good to be zealous but not too much say any what they will doe what they can their affected moderation will never suffer them to exceede the middle temper of that wise Statesman in Tiberius his Court who to be sure would not strike a stroke against the streame nor engage himselfe so far in any cause as might tend to his prejudice how-ever the world went he would be sure to save one Such is the polititian and wordly wise-man he will move no stone though never so needfull to be removed if he suspect that there lyes a Scorpion under it or if he apprehend the least feare that any part of the wall will fall upon himselfe well fare yet the Roman Consul that incomparable patriot who in his private and retired condition when he was removed from the Helme of the Common-wealth imployed all his force and strength to keep off those waves from the great vessell of the State which had well-nigh drowned the cock-boat of his owne private Fortunes 6. There be others zealous and violent for a while but they hold not out to the end The Philosopher sayes No violent thing lasts long It s true in Divinity as well as in Nature If the violent motion proceede from some externall artificiall cause and not from a rooted stirring principle within when that which is the cause is removed the motion arising from it ceaseth If our violent stirrings and heates of zeale be not from the right fountaine of heate the heart tract of time and other occurrances will be calm them by degrees and wear them out the stony ground set forward and put on with great animosity at the first but when difficulties and unlooked for dangers when a storme of persecution arose then they plucked in the tender horne their zeale cooled their courage abated their resolutions fell like leaves in Autumne In the beginning of this Parliament when the Lord tolled us on with fresh mercies and allured us into the wildernesse as the Prophet speakes that there he might give us the valley of Achor for a doore of hope when every day we were pasti miraculis as Cyprian speakes feasted with miracles in ordinary the Lord setting himselfe on purpose to ingage us firmely in his worke by divers rare and astonishing providences that all bridges might be cut off and that we might never thinke to retire backe againe At that time many that were not sound at the heart-roote joyned with us and who more resolute then they but when the wheele of Providence seemed to turne and many sad clouds began to gather and threaten a storme now they tacked about and set their sailes backe they were willing to follow us out of Egypt when they had seene the wonders and miracles of God at our departure thence but when they came into the wildernesse and met with Scorpions and fiery Serpents and great afflictions then their hearts fainted and they fell on murmuring as the unbeleeving Jewes and that mixed multitude did Numb. 11.4 A man might as well never own the cause of God as afterwards desert it whatsoever a man hath done and suffered for Religion and there be many that have done and suffered much It s al lost and forgotten when once he begins to looke backe Ezek. 18.24 Judas and Demas and Hymaeneus and Alexander the Copper-smith with other such flinchers what were they the better for all their hopefull beginnings when afterwards they declined their zeale-being all spent their violence tyred and all their alacrity lost It s not good beginnings but perseverance in Religion that takes this glorious prize and wins the garland Be faithfull unto the death and I will give thee a Crown of life Revel. 2.10 7. I may not passe over another sort without a gentle touch such I meane as are unfeinedly cordiall in the cause of God and zealous for it yet do not a little hurt to themselves and others and the Cause it selfe too through their indescreete and unwary managing of it they desire nothing more then this That Christ might raigne and weild the Scepter of his Kingdom according to his own hearts content in all the parts of the Land they are active in endeavours for Reformation and this deserves just praise but they step out of their bounds sometimes exceede the limits of their speciall calling in which the Will of God is they should containe themselves How happy were it for us if all would keepe within their proper spheare and wherein so ever they are called therein to abide with God 1 Cor. 7.24 But there be some that do {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} overstretch themselves beyond their line and Compasse 2 Cor. 10.14 They reach and straine after a perfect Reformation of the Church and that is well but they run before the Parliament and do anticipate the worke taking it out of those able and faithfull hands unto which God hath committed it and that deserves just censure That have a great zeale of God Oh that it were a little more according to knowledge We have all entred into the bonds of a Religious Conant with God in which among other things we have vowed our utmost endeavours to reforme Religion Worship Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches and withall to draw the Churches of God in the three Kingdomes to the nearest
like manner when men are so lazie and languishing so cold and slack in dealing for a Kingdome It s a shrew'd argument against them that sure they are not in earnest they do but play with Religion the precious treasures of heaven are set before them and they resent them not at all or but a very little make no great haste are not a whit sollicitous take no paines about the matter as if the things were of no great importance they are very moderate and delicate in making towards them neither that high hand that holds th for t h nor that blood that bought them nor that worth that is in them workes much but all is slighted God comes waiting upon them with calls and calls and with gracious offers and is not regarded hence no doubt is this black cloud risen which darkens the heavens over us The glory of God and the Salvation of our soules we do nothing many of us but jest and dally with them I have read of Anastatius the Emperor that he was by the hand of God shot to death with a hot thunder-bolt because he was luke-warme in the Catholique cause and not zealous against the Arrian faction 6. In other things where the least overture of gaine honour pleasure appeares how eager are we panting after the dust of the earth as the Prophet speakes and ready to run our selves out of breath for it if a rich purchase may be made a profitable bargaine driven an honourable and wealthy match gotten or any such other secular Commodity which we are affected with oh then we are all upon the spur upon the wing no haste no alacrity no labour or diligence is thought too much or but enough now there is violence upon violence all oares and sailes must now be plyed and shall we be thus earnest for frivolous unconcerning low things which we may have and be never the better want and be never the worse and yet carry our selves in matters of eternity as if we were all Stoicks and had no passions about us Ferventissimi in terrenis frigidissimi in caelestibus shall we be red hot as fire for earth and key cold as any Ice for heaven 7. If all this will not move looke upon wicked men how violent a bent have they to sinne Their hearts are fully set to doe mischiefe Eccles. 9.3 They inflame themselves with Idols Esay 57.5 They are as swift Dromedaries traversing their waies Jer. 2.23 Their whole force is evill and their course not right Jer. 23.10 How violent were the Israelites for their Idolatry when they offered their sonnes and daughters unto Devills Deut. 32.17 Had they so much devotion for Idols and have we so little for the true God what care did they not take what cost did they not cast away when they made haste as David hath it to poure out meate and drink offerings to another God Psal. 16.4 and shall we esteeme our true God and Religion at such a low under-hand rate as if gold and silver were too deare and precious then to be offered up upon the sacrifice and service of them as if hell and lyes were pearles never over-bought but truth and heaven meere trash and nothing worth since they would doe any thing for the one and we nothing for the other 8. Looke upon your enemies how more then Hyperbolically violent they are in carrying on their designe of Rome and Hell how furious is their march how resolute are their spirits how quick their endeavours how do they compasse sea and land to Spaine France Holland Denmarke whither do they not dispatch their Emissarie what vaste treasures do they not lay out what expence of blood do they stick at what stones do they not roll what conclusions do they not try what project have they not hammered what corner of the earth have they not searched even till hell from beneath was moved to meete them and all to drive their desperate and pernicious designe to cast downe if it were possible Jesus Christ out of his Throne and to set up Belzebub in his roome hedging fencing planting watering what could they have done more for that wilde vine that false Antichristian Religion and Church which is the vine of the earth and not of heaven it having no rooting growth nor blessing thence Rev. 14.11 If there be any to whom the Syrens voyce sounds sweete Heark what Father Campian professeth of himselfe and his fellow Jesuites Quamdiu vel vnus quispiam e nobis supererit qui Tiburno vestro fruatur fruatur that is his word whiles there was any of them left to enjoy a Tyburn tippet as old Bishop Latimer was wont to speak whiles any of them remained for the gallowes torment and imprisonment they vowed never to desist nor let fall their weather-beaten cause and what shall we be coole and moderate when they are so extreame violent Acrius illi ad perniciem quam nos ad salutem Shall they be more zealous to procure their owne and others destruction temporall and eternall then we for our owne and others Salvation 9 If we be resolute we shall prevaile and carry away the prize which we are contending for This should have been a doctrine entire of it felfe I onely touch it and but lightly too as a motive to quicken us up What will not men do upon uncertaine and often most unlikely hopes to advantage themselves but we have this hope as an Anchor sure and stedfast That if we be violent for it this Kingdome is ours none can hinder us of it such as sell all shall have the pearle Mat. 13.44 Those that shrinke not from Christ in his temptations for feare of the Crosse when he comes in his glory they shall sit upon thrones and raigne with him Luke 22.28 and for the publique cause now depending whiles we continue faithfull with and stout for God feare not the issue let the oppositions be what they will all those great Mountaines before Zerubbabel shall become a plaine Zach. 4.8 The Lord reignes though the earth be never so unquiet he will bring about his designe when men and devills have done their worst What though the pillars of the Land tremble and all the foundations of it shake as in an earth quake what though we be in danger whiles we are so violent for heaven to lose all we have on earth as the Orator sometimes told the Athenians yet we shall not have an haires harme If we serve our God with reverence and godly feare we shall receive a Kingdome that cannot be shaken Heb. 12.28 Unto the which God of his infinite mercy bring us through the Merits of Christ Jesus who hath purchased it for us To whom c. FINIS Die Mercurii 29. Maii. 1644. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament That Mr Harman do from this House give thankes unto Master Hall for the great paines he tooke in the Sermon he preached this day at the