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A94303	Moderation iustified, and the Lords being at hand emproved, in a sermon at VVestminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: preached at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the county of Norfolke: one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order from that House.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1069; Thomason E23_6	31,603	39

said The end of all things is at hand addeth this immediate inference Be you therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Yea our Lord himselfe who is a● hand speaks to each of these First Concerning Sobrietie Take heed lest at any time your hearts be overcome with surfetting and drunkennesse and that day come on you unaw●res Luk. 21. 34. Secondly The Evangelists generally for the same reason exhort to watching Matth. 24. 42. Mark 13. 33. and they doe not meane so much abstinence from sleep but from sinne and watching not for worldlinesse but for prayer Thirdly So Luke 21. 36. Watch ye therefore and pray alwayes and in the next words he gives a Directory of Prayer two heads of petitions one That ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe the other that ye may stand before the Sonne of man and if you aske when and how often this must be remembred he tels us that also pray alwayes a dutie needfull ever but most of all now in respect of our own particulars and the Churches of Iesus Christ And for our selves let us pray for pardon of sin strength against lusts standing in judgement and as the Martyrs in prison and at the stake said to themselves and others Pray pray pray so remember the Lord is at hand therefore forget not to pray yea Watch and pray Matth. 26. 41. that ye enter not into tentations into the devouring part thereof Ne intremus in ventr●m tentationis quasi bestiae cujusdam Theophylact as the belly of a beast we know not what calamitous times may be reserved for us but whatsoever they are or may be we cannot be armed against them but by prayer so we must be prepared and this we see by our Apostle who to the Text The Lord is at hand instantly subjoynes Be carefull for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanks giving let your request be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. Pray for me saith Father Latimer to Bishop Ridley again and again pray for me p. 14. for I am sometimes so fearefull that I could creepe into a Mousehole It is his own expression but God doth visit me again with his consolation and then the other answers him unlesse the Lord assists me with his gracious ayde in the time of his service I know I shall play but the part of a white-liver'd Knight p. 15. and yet what Champions what victorious Champions were they both and that by prayer For in the same little Treatise of their comfortable conference during the time of their imprisonment Ridley calles on Latimer as upon an Old beaten Souldier for instruction p. 16. and help to buckle on his harnesse as he phraseth it and Latimer tels him you shall prevaile more with praying then studying p. 36. though mixture be best but forget not to pray Let every one for our selves remember the Lord is at hand Besides the houses we dwell in are made of clay and the calamities of these times are daily battering these Tabernacles of dust that may very soone and suddenly fall about our eares therefore let every one of us alwayes be sober and watchfull unto prayer and pray earnestly to God that he will give us Repentance from dead works that he will weane us from these things below and teach us to persevere in all Divine truth and make us abound in every good word and worke that he will enable us to be patient in tribulation and fill us with the most holy faith in the Lord Iesus Christ And for the Churches of Christ Jer. 30. 7. remember it is their Day the very day of Jacobs trouble all the Israel of our God is in perplexitie pray for them all at home and abroad pray for the overthrow of Antichrist the fall of Babylon pray for the Peace of Hierusalem and the wellfare of Sion yea pray earnestly holily constantly Gen. 32. 26. and as Iacob wrastle with God and doe not let him goe till he give you a blessing And you that make mention of the Lord hold not your peace Esa 62. 6 7. day nor night keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish and till he make Hierusalem the Churches abroad and in these Kingdomes a praise in the earth And let us of this Nation pray pray that God would returne the Head to the Body the King to the Parliament that he will heale our breaches compose our differences and hasten the restauration of a safe and well grounded Peace that yet sticks in the Birth pray that he would lift up the light of his countenance upon England Scotland and Ireland Lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon them and they shall be safe And let all them that love God that love their Religion that love their Countrey that love their Souls say Amen Yea say thou Amen to these things Thou that Art the Amen the faithfull and true Witnesse Revel 3. 14. the beginning of the Creation of God Amen Amen FINIS

Truths Men should not bring their mixtures hither Offer this now to thy governour and will he be pleased with thee Mal. 1. 8. We will not have drosse with our silver nor mingle vinegar with wine we must say here as Iehu to Iehonadab Come see my zeale 2 King 10. 16. And you must be most earnest against those errors that be likeliest to encroach and even Christian Moderation will grow warme against the streame of common corruption Our Master Christ forbad expressely to sweare by heaven or by earth or by Ierusalem c. Matth. 5. 34 c. For it seemes by Philo the Iew m. p. 490. that was the customary sinne of those times and so Gal. 1. 4. Christ hath delivered us from the present evill world There is an Emphasis in that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the present evill world we must be most watchfull against those corruptions in faith and manners that are growing upon us what ever they be and not to speake of others now for my part use what Moderation you please to the persons and estates of the Papists but let us avoid I beseech you whatsoever in truth or true appearance is doctrinally so the Iudaicall Rites had another kind of claime yet the first Christians declined them with great and universall vehemency Say the world what it will I freely pronounce August T. 2. ep p. 346. saith Hierome that the Ceremonies of the Iewes are pernicious and deadly to Christians and whosoever observes them whether he be Iew or Gentile is sunke downe into hell and yet Gods direction to his first people concernes all his Israel now Levit. 18. 3. After the doings of the Land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt shall ye not doe and after the doings of the Land of Canaan whither I bring you shall ye not doe c. And in both respects we should abandon the waies of Popery for we came halting from them and they yet dwell among us we have found by too long and wofull and wounding experience all our complying with them could not winne the least upon them In our first Reformation Archbishop Cranmer enjoyned that no Minister should order matters so Injunct 3. that the unlearned people thinke the old Popish Masse continues still but the piety of our times as it was called wanted nothing but a command to trimme the Sacraments of Christ after the plaine Popish dresse of Antichrist In our second Reformation a Bishop printed it Bp. of Dur. Anno 1561. in the beginning of the Queenes reigne we are but too much like the Papists that is our fault generally that we differ not more from them but the good worke in hand of late accounted it th●ir great honour and glory to come nigh unto them To conclude and I know you observe it well danger from Rome was foresene in the first and second Reformation I say no more but Beware the third time The third Vse of Confutation Vse 3. it is of the Remonstrants Arminians and Socinians who endevour from my Text to get countenance for the Babylonish Errour the allowance of all Opinions as if because the Apostle saith Let your moderation be knowne unto all men Remonstranst sect ult Censur Remonst Praef. Harm Remonst Socin p. 231. therefore all mens conceits must be borne with in Religion and every one suffered in what he supposeth to be truth it is a cunning and cousening devise that strikes in with corrupt nature but because it offers violence to my Text I cannot be true to it or you if somewhat be not added by way of vindication and it will be in these sixe particulars First Is it probable that our Apostle who elsewhere almost every where is so zealous for unitie against Schismes should in any sort tolerate them and so voluntarily open a wide door● for division in this very Epistle he writes for peace even passionately but with mightie power Phil 2. 1 2. If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfill ye my ioy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord and of one mind And in the next Chap. 3. 16. Let us walke by the same rule let us mind the same thing expressions different from all licentious tolerations the same Apostle abounds in serious dehortations from schismes and dissentions Rom 13. 12. 16. 17. and as carnall 1 Cor 3. 3. and in other places And he doth very often exhort with earnest words and arguments not onely that we be like-minded Rom. 15. 6. Phil. 2. 2. and of one mind 2 Cor. 13. 11. but of the same mind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 10. 10. ioyned yea ioynted together in the same mind and in the same iudgement And is here the least approbation of that multiplying Doctrine neither will that excuse so long as they all breath Christ tend to the advancement of Christ it matters not but let Saint Paul answer this Objection also Is Christ divided 1 Cor. 1. 13. Consider it well and season your consideration with that of our Master Christ himselfe Mar. 9. 50. Have salt in your selves and have peace one with another If we were preserved by humilitie from the corruptions of selfe-opinion it would be no hard matter to embrace unitie Secondly Such allowance would prove destructive to holinesse both personall and domesticall Omnis religio nulla religio would soone be the same Suppose the husband of one opinion the wife of another the children it may be of one or two other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the servants of as many more what shall the Master of the house doe here how performe the family duties diversitie of opinions like so many hatchets interrupting their prayers 1 Pet. 3. 7. chopping all devotion and piety in pieces as the Duke of Wittenberge was wont to say New garments introduce new manners new manners bring in new men and new men thrust out the old so new opinions suffered will devoure the old and the toleration of every Religion will destroy all Religion and in conclusion leave no Religion at all Thirdly this libertie is inconsistent with civill tranquillitie the bleeding condition of our owne Nation at present is a living almost a dying witnesse of this and if that one Religion of Popery so tolerated as it was hath brought in upon us so many destructions what will that multiplication doe but hasten desolation without recovery for every party would endevour to support it selfe to the prejudice of the rest dum de religione certatum est regio dum de caelo terra amissa as it was said long since Fourthly the late Bishops of Ireland may put this libertie to to silence and shame for when not long since a toleration of Popery in that Kingdome was proposed they said To give the Papists a toleration is a grievous sinne and will make us accessary to all their