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A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

number the same too And the numbring of Gods dealing out mercies and judgements is of two speciall uses to the poore soule To stir up humilitie by considering Gods mercies and our own unworthinesse of them as Jacob said Minor sum Gen. 32.10 nullus sum I am lesse then all thy favours To stir up thankfulnesse for the same as David when he stirs up his soule effectually to thankfulnesse he saith My soule praise the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy Name My soule praise the Lord and forget not all his benefits As if he should say although thou forgettest many of them yet be sure not to forget all of them And then he reckons up diverse of Gods mercies to himself to his people generally and to all the world universally for as a late worthie Divine well observed M. Sam. Ward A foole cannot a proud man will not be thankfull For the one cannot reckon up Gods dealings with him and the other will not acknowledge them from the truth of his heart to be free favours Therefore let us I beseech you beloved look back a little while upon the Nationall favours judgements and warnings of this Kingdome onely and that in this last Centurie of yeares for as they say Seculum Speculum an Age is a looking-glasse wherein we may see Gods mercies our own ingratitude his Chastisements our incorrigiblenesse and by his grace we may be made more humble more thankfull and obedient to God I cannot largely repeat things neither will the time give way thereunto as Moses did in 4 Chapters together Deut. 1.2 3 4. Chapters I shall onely point at some things briefly I pray be larger in your Meditation and application of them to your own soules Gen. 18.17 18 19. Psal 78.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. to your Children and servants as it is the dutie of every godly parent by vertue of a Statute Law in Israel ordained by Jehovah himselfe and obeyed by all his people And the rather shall I make bold at this time it being the hundreth yeare of Englands Reformation and coming out of Popish captivitie and idolatry An. Christi 1547 KIng EDWARD the Sixth the religious Josiah of England began to reigne M. Fox Acts. Mon. Vol. 2. 651. 652. K. Edward the VI. his Injunctions printed July 1547. Vol. 2. p 654. M. Hooper Vol. 3. p. ●45 Iohn Alasco Vol. 3. p. 40. being but nine years of age and yet a gracious Governour And it is this moneth just a hundred yeares since he began Reformation and to put down Idolatry which did not a little cheare and revive the hearts of the godly in England and many other came over to enjoy the liberty with them of which some were our own country-men before that time fled from persecutors there and some were godly people of other Nations An. Christi 1548 The same day and houre when the Images were burned openly in London Vol. 2. p. 669. the English Protestants put the Scottish Papists with their Idol gods altars and popish trinkets to the worse in Musoleborough field where though the number of the Scots far exceeded ours yet in that field were slain of them between 13 and 14 thousand and not above a hundred English men An. Christi 1549 The Rebels in Davonshire Vol. 2. p. 666 667 668 669. requiring popery againe to be established were first by the King most lovingly and wisely answered and after with their consecrated god in whom they trusted the Pax under his canopie riding in a cart which they brought into the battell with masses crosses banners candlesticks holy bread and holy water plentie were they vanquished many being slaine their chieftains and two priests taken with their Idoll god and his trumpery about him An. Christi 1550 Reverend Mr. Hooper opposed certaine ceremonies Acts Mon. Vol 3 p. 145 146 147. but was over-powred by the Arch Bishop of Canterbury although K. Edward the Duke of Sommerset with others and also the Earle of Warwick wrote to the Arch-Bishop desiring he might be borne withall An. Christi 1552 The gracious and truly Noble Duke of Sommerset Acts Mon. Vol. 2. p. 754. the Kings Uncle and Protector of his person was executed An. Christi 1553 Calvisius That famous King lento veneno departed out of this life having reigned prosperously 6 yeares and 8 moneths Acts Mon. Vol. 3. p. 13. Lady Jane the Duke of Suffolke his daughter was by the Kings Testament and consent of the Nobles proclaimed Queen An. Christi 1553 Acts. Mon. Vol. 3. p. 15. QUeen Mary by the help of the Suffolk Gospellers got the Crown promising them not to alter the Religion then established Yet shee hasted to restore both Popery and the Popes power in England P. 16. And then were the Saints of God persecuted Vol. 3. who as they had taught the Gospel sincerely so did they hold it forth most clearely in the bright flames of fire Many hundreds of Gods precious servants suffered death in her few and evill dayes An. Christi 1554 The estate both of the Church and Common-wealth An. Christi 1554 was further endangered by the marryage first concluded and after effected between Philip Prince of Spaine Acts Mon. Vol 3. p. 31. and Mary Queen of England which occasioned Wyats conspiracie for which he was executed P. 114 115. Much talke was there the same yeare that Queen Mary had conceived and was quick with childe but it proved rather a conceit then a conception for shee and they also were deceived P. 953. although they were very confident thereof P. 114 115 116. as by an Act of Parliament their Prayers and provisions for it did appeare An. Christi 1556 P. 953. A great dearth was in England so that many poore people were fain to feed of acornes for want of corn An. Christi 1558 P. 669. P. 953. P. 952. P 954. Queen Mary lost Calice and being left desolate by K. Philip her husband in great griefe she dyed having reigned marvellous unprosperously five yeares and five moneths P. 943. to P. 952. P. 704. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In which Maryan times though many hundreds suffered for the Truth yet diverse God mercifully preserved as the Lady Elizabeth though in prison some were hidden in their own houses Martyres or Witnesses Acts 1.8 Thom. Hubbard was my grandfather Vol. 3. p. 1020. P. 920. Vol. 3. p 976. P. 979. Vol. 3 p. 954. to 963. D. Rainolds in Psal 8.47 c. as the Mendlesham Martyrs who oft-times openly professed the truth and some even miraculously were delivered from the fury of their persecutors as Laremouth Crosmons wife and many others An. Christi 1558 QUeen Elizabeth of famous memory in the beginning of her reigne restored the Reformation begun in King Edwards time to the great joy of the godly and Gods just judgements fell upon many malicious persecutors An.

Psal 107.1 2. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for ever Let the redeemed of the Lord say so for of all men in the world they have most cause to know and acknowledge the same Use 2 The next Use is a Use of Exhortatiō to us all Col. 1.10 11. to walk worthy of these mercies liberties opportunities that we enjoy and to be fruitfull in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulnesse walk humbly with thy God do justly Micah 6.8 love mercie walk before the Lord in the land of the living Now especially having such an opportunitie Ezek. 18.34 while God calls for Reformation Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit Or beg earnestly of God Psal 51.10 Luke 11.13 to create in you a cleane heart and to give you his holy Spirit Why will ye dy O house of Israel Now now I say while those in authority do also call for Reformation Prov. 17.16 why should we be so foolish not to lay hold of a price thus put into our hands The Apostle sayth Gal. 6.10 as wee have therefore Opportunity or a season for so the same word is translated in the verse going before it let us doe good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 6.9 redeeme we therefore the opportunity or season 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 5.15 16 by double diligence walking circumspectly not as fooles but as wise Let me stir up My selfe and You hereunto with these three Motives 1 Motive Acts Mon. Vol. 3. p. 168. John 8.56 Acts Mon. Vol. ● p. 367. Acts Mon. Vol. 3. p. 877. 878. Our godly parents by faith foresaw and longed for these times and rejoyced that we their posterity should enjoy them As Christ told the Jews Your Father Abraham saw my day and rejoyced did they pray for this opportunity as for a great mercie and did they rejoyce in the expectation of it and are we entered into the possession of the fruits of their prayers and of the harvest of their endeavours and doe not we make use of this season nor rejoyce in it How shall we answer God or our Parents at the day of judgement Will not they then be ashamed of such Children as we 2 Pet. 3.11 do but thinke what manner of persons they expect we should be 2 Motive Covenant Another Motive may be drawn from the Covenant we have lifted up our hands to the most high God and engaged our selves to goe each before others in a reall Reformation Beware that be not verified of us which was said of Israel They have spoken words swearing falsely in making a Covenant Hosea 10.4 John 5.45 Mal. 3.5 M. Tho. Case in his Epistle before Quar. Covenant Levit. 26.25 for then Christ in whom we say we believe he I say himselfe will be a swift witnesse against the false swearers And as a worthy Labourer in the Lords harvest lately wrote If God be dallyed withall in this Covenant I tremble to thinke what will become of us It is the strongest Physick that ever the Kingdom tooke and I am almost confident saith he That as in the publike State it wil either put a period to our distempers or to our being so in thy personall condition it will either blast thy lusts or stay thy soule My reason is because God is engaged If we be found conscientious of this Covenant he is engaged to us against our enemies without and our lusts within and they shall not be able to stand upon us If after so solemne an Obligation we shall be found to mock God we have engaged him against us and adde the Almighty to the number of our enemies a swift and a powerfull witnesse and avenger of our perfidiousnesse Nor will refusall of this Covenant help us when God shall come to interpret It will be found Job 22.17 I feare sayth he in most but a depart from us And when God shall answer the daring sinner in his own language Psal 78.9 10 36 37. Levit. 26.25 Deut. 29.24 25 3 Motive woe to the poore wretch that ever he was borne Be not therefore like the children of Ephraim for he will avenge the quarrell of the Covenant Again the more Exhortations Excitations and Opportunities we have to put us upon this duty if we neglect it the greater will our condemnation be We having exhortations from Magistrates and Ministers what shall we say for our selves how shall we excuse our neglect Our Fathers would run hazards to heare the word of God and humbled themselves before God in private when they could not be suffered in publike so to doe and we their children by nature not by grace refuse the same in publike though we be not onely encouraged but also required and commanded to performe these duties both by our present most gracious Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty The religious observation of the monethly Fast and his high and Honourable Parliament How can this neglect and contempt both of the Laws of God and of the land be answered And so in regard of the plenty of the means of grace which we enjoy Matth. 11.21 22.23 it shall be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment then for such as have had abundance of means and not made good use thereof the higher they be lifted up the lower they shall be thrown down Heb. 2.1.2 3. Therefore we I may well say ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest as any time we should let them slip For if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him Our own consciences shall first accuse secondly beare witnesse against thirdly judge and condemne lastly execute and torment our own selves O wicked wretch that I was I had so many such opportunities as few had the like and yet I like a fool trifled and wasted away such pretious times and seasons 1 John 3.20 And if our consciences shall conditione us God will much more condemne us because God is infinitely great Every one of us in this condition without repentance shall mourn at the last Prov. 5.11 12 15 14. and say How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproofe and I have not obeyed the voyce of my teachers c. Use 3 This Doctrine also affords sweet consolation to the godly soul for all the power of earthly Kingdoms their Latitude and Longitude their breadth and length their extent their continuance and duration are