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A97297	Hopes incovragement pointed at in a sermon, preached in St. Margarets Westminster, before the honorable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament: at the last solemn fast, February 28. 1643. by Tho. Young. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Young, Thomas, 1587-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing Y92; Thomason E35_18; ESTC R4946	32,973	44

men to approach to that holy Table even inspite of any conscientious minister of the Gospel which gave occasion to many to keep off from approaching to it whilst they saw such to be admitted to the participation of it and this these courts durst doe notwithstanding the former Law though it was otherwise provided of old when by the discipline of the Church In ecclesia solent a Sacramentis altaris visibilibus homine● distiplina ecclesiastica removeri such were denied the participatiō of that holy Sacrament and not admitted to it The other evill declared by Law to be forbidden is the prophanation of the Lords day against which the prophanenesse of our age may justly challenge at your hands a quickening of these Lawes to suppresse that crying sinne I have observed from the systeme of your Lawes that in former ages some things have beene enacted in this State against that evill also for by publick authority Fairs have beene put off from that day no Court to be kept on it Taylors and Shoomakers have beene forbidden to carry home their ware to their customers on that day some sports likewise have beene forbidden on it c. here were good beginnings of a Reformation which should be improved to the better solemnising of that day O but if you Honoured Senators would be pleased to these restraints to adde more whereby such in whom conscience of their duty is lesse powerfull might be kept off from prophaning of that time which should be consecrattd as a delight and holy unto the Lord how should you endeare your selves unto the Lord and be honoured with renowne in his Church and I beseech you doth not our present condition require this at your hands When Guntberamnus perceived the glory of his Kingdome to be abated and the unhappy successe of his warres with the Gothes whilest he enquired after the causes hereof and sought for a remedy amongst other things hee reproves the prophanenesse of his Clergie and their carelesnesse in not feeding the people committed to their charge then he layes this as a foundation for the remedying of those evils Diem Dominicum religiose cust odiendum esse appointing that the Lords day should be religiously kept So doe you and we may be assured with more confidence that God will hasten the closure of our unnaturall warres Let it not be judged boldnesse in mee to remember you hereof Was it not once appointed Vt humiliter a sacerdotibus Christianorum exeellentia flagitetur ut ob honorem et reverentiam tanti diei cunct is metum injiciant ne in tam sancto die mercatus placita et opera sua homines facere praesumant that Christian Magistrates should be humbly sued unto by the Ministers that for the honour and reverence of so great a day Magistrates should make all afraid that they presume not to follow their Merchandise pleasures or other workes on that holy day speaking of the Lords day These are the two evils the remedy whereof Law hath begun O that God would stirre up your hearts to improve both So should the Lord delight in us honour you and hasten the desired end to our heavy and wasting troubles Know then in a word all you whom God hath ranked in that honourable station to give lawes unto others it is your part to see that nothing be enacted against God to repeal whatsoever of that kinde the ignorance of former times hath agreed unto to maintaine what hath beene worthily concluded before your times and to improve that which they happily begunne but by the iniquity of the times could not perfect this is the duty which God requires of you and thus walking and waiting on God be strong and the Lord will strengthen your hearts Now a few words more to you men fathers and brethren who likewise appeare before the Lord this day to heare what he will speak unto you from his word you have neede also to be encouraged in your places to waite upon the Lord that he may strengthen your hearts in defence of his cause Deborah her heart was not onely upon the heads and governours of Israel Judg. 5. but also on all among the people who went forth with cheerefulnesse against the common enemy of their Religion and Peace Would you be encouraged by God then make knowne your courage in comming forth to appeare for your Honourable heads and governours who stand for God his truth and your liberties Shall the upholding of Religion to you and your posterity be dearer to our ever-honoured Worthies then their owne lives and estates and will not you shew courage in cleaving to them in your just defence shall the rulers with Joab arme themselves with brave resolutions to be valiant for God for their people and the Cities of their God 2 Sam. 10.12 and shall the men of the City not be valorous for their City and themselves God forbid And I beseech you discover your holy valour first in wrestling with the Lord by fervent prayer on their behalfe that they may carry on the worke of Reformation now in hand should not your spirits be roused up to follow God with the sweete incense of your continuall requells to God for his blessing upon this work what though it be derided by the jibing Ishmaelites and withstood by the Gyant-like Anakims of our age yet faithfull prayer that can open the windowes of heaven and draw downe raine from thence can remove these mountaines and levell the way before them to advance the worke holy Ezra was ashamed to solicite an Army of the King to guard him and such as returned with him but resolves to commit all to God Ezra ● 21.2● therefore he did as we doe this day sought God by prayer attended with fasting and happy was the issue Earnestly prayer is knowne to have done that which strength and policy could not doe When that unworthy heretick Arius was incensed against Alexander because he would not receive him into communion with him Eusebius the upholder of Arius threatned Aelxander that by such a day be should be cast from his place banished and his successor would admit Arius into Church-fellowship with him the day before that should fall out holy Alexander goes into the Church falls downe upon the ground and continued with all ardency of affection powring forth his earnest prayer to the Lord to frustrate the attempts of his enemies and would you know what was the fruit of his powerfull prayer in the evening of that day Arius was taken away by an execrable judgement in his sudden death prayer faithfully performed is never without effect it is of a prevailing power with God be perswaded therefore to follow God with prayer for his blessing upon the publick work now in hand ever knowing that the more you are taken up with effectuall prayer the more courage will the Lord infuse into your hearts a praying heart will be bold as a Lyon Secondly let your courage for the Lord appeare in furthering his work with that estate with which the Lord hath blessed you assuredly for my part I must say of many of you and of your forwardnesse herein as the Apostle once spake of the Macedonians 2 Cor. 8.3 11. who were willing to their power to further Gods cause in the reliefe of his members I may say further with him 2 Cor. 9. that your zeale hath provoked many so many have had their hearts enflamed to further Gods work by your readinesse to support the same all that I say herein is onely this consider that the worke is great and many withdraw their helpe yet goe you on with cheerefulnesse though the charge be great it will quit all the cost when God shall give you or yours to see Zion raised up in beauty Thirdly if God call any of you to be an instrument in your places to further the work let your hearts be filled with courage and your hands active with all faithfulnesse to fulfill what in required of you in your Sphere many other things I might adde as ingredients into this cordiall for raising up your hearts with courage to waite upon the Lord but I shall conclude all as I begun Be of good courage the Lord shall strengthen your hearts all you that waite upon the Lord. 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HOPES INCOVRAGEMENT pointed at IN A SERMON PREACHED In St. Margarets Westminster before the Honorable House of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT At the Last Solemn Fast February 28. 1643. BY THO. YOUNG Hebr. 6.19 Which Hope wee have as an anker of the Soule both sure and stedfast and it entreth into that which is within the vaile Published by Order of the House of Commons Printed at London for Ralph Smith at the signe of the Bible in Cornhill neere the Royall Exchange 1644. Die Mercurii 28. Febr. 1643. IT is this day ordered by the Commons House of Parliament That Sr. John Trever M. Rous do from this House give thankes unto Mr. Young for the great paines hee tooke in the Sermon hee preached this day at the intreaty of the said Commons at St. Margarets Westminster it being the day of publike Humiliation and to desire him to print his Sermon And he is to have the like priviledge in Printing of his Sermon as others in the like kinde usually have had H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Ralph Smith to print my Sermon Tho. Young NOBILISSIMIS EQVITIBVS AVRATIS aliisque Viris prudentissimis EX Singulis totius REGNI Comitatibus selectis PARL DOM. COM. Senatoribus honorandis IN Quorum Solenni conventu inelaborata haec Concio in divae Margaretae Templo apud WESTMONASTERIUM Solenni jejuniorū die Februarii penultimo fuit habita eam in Perpetuum demissae observantiae testimonium L. M. D. D. D. Tho. Young S. Evangelii in Comitatu Suffolciensi Minister HOPES-ENCOVRAGEMENT pointed at IN A SERMON PREACHED before the Honorable House of COMMONS GOD having given to his afflicted Church in this distracted Nation so long cause of sad mourning and heavy lamentation in which according to the warrant of the word and laudable custome of the Church in all ages he hath beene sought unto by prayer and fasting Deum quasi manu facta pre●anonibus ambiamus orantes Tert. with which the Church hath ever plyed the Lord in the day of their distresse as it were beleaguering heaven with the Army of their prayers This course having beene so long by authority continued in this place I conceive it is too late for me after the revolution of so many solemne fasts now to goe about to open to you what is required of Gods People in the day of their solemne humiliation and fasting I am confident that you who have spent so many dayes in that Christian duty have been fully instructed therein from sundry learned discourses heretofore presented to you Neither will I stand to pleade before you for the necessary conjunction of prayer to your fasting trusting you have not so learned Christ as to divide the duties which he in his word hath coupled together That which remaines for me the meanest of Gods Labourers to aime at for the present I take to be this that whereas you have fasted and prayed and in both continued so long to endeavour now to raise up your hearts and quicken your spirits in the continuance of this duty of seeking God by earnest prayer and the rather because assuredly the Lord on whom we waite in these holy duties in the end will be exalted that be may have compassion on them that patiently waite and pray for his mercy would you be assured of it take his word that if you waite and be strong in your dependance upon our God be will at length arise for your comfort So much desire I to cleare unto you this day and for that cause I humbly pray you with all reverence to hearken to what you shall finde written for that purpose PSAL. 31.24 Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all ye that hope in the LORD THE man whom God in this life hath singled out by faith to depend upon him is sure to meet with troubles of all sorts and in all places which will not faile to attend upon that dependance Yet hee whose heart is ingaged in all these stormes to cleave unto the Lord must still sue to him for deliverance which having once obtained hee must then with all thankfulnesse acknowledge it For a gratefull acknowledgement of received favours is the great tribute due to the Lord for all the favours which hee bestows upon his people Yea certainely hee who is blessed with the favour of deliverance and truely or throughly affected with the free mercy therein will not onely himselfe bee thankfull but study to draw on others to praise the Lord in way of thankfulnesse for the favours whereof hee tastes See all this in this Psalme David dangerously pursued by his enemies sues to God for deliverance his Petition together with the severall arguments wherewith hee backes it are set down from the beginning of the Psalme to the 20. ver from whence to ver 24. hee thankfully acknowledges the received mercy vouchsafed to him and all such as trust in God which favour hee amplifies sundry wayes Then hee desires all Gods people to love the Lord. Lastly upon all these severall branches hee infers what is the duty of Gods people in all their troubles even this to encourage themselves in strengthning their hearts and waiting upon the Lord this hee layes down in the words of my Text which may bee termed a comfortable direction to strengthen the beleeving soule against all heart-breaking or soule-rending feares or distractions whatsoever In which words our Prophet prescribes the best and most soveraign cordiall that can bee given in such a condition when Gods people are overwhelmed with feares and I beseech you when can it bee judged more seasonable to bee discoursed of then in these dayes wherein for no short space of time though now and then of late God hath come unto us with sweet refreshing beames of mercy it hath falne out with most men as of old with Ahaz and his people Esa 7.2 Whose hearts were moved with feare as the trees of the Forest are moved with the wind and hath not this been generally our condition a long time in which whose heart is not ready to bee surprized with feares unlesse it bee some sonne of Belial who being besotted with his lusts passeth his time without feare of God or his judgements But to you to whom the day seemeth gloomy and the light of your comfort hath been long eclipsed 1 King 18 44. to whom trouble hath risen up as the cloud did to Elijah his servant which though at the first it was but little like a mans hand yet speedily caused it the face of heaven to looke blacke so hath the cloudy storm of our unnaturall troubles spred it self to the darkning of all our comforts Now to such as notwithstanding all this yet wait for comfort from the Lord my Text is a sure guide to lead them unto comfort hearken therfore to what the Lord speaks in the same that you may not bee to seek for comfort when heavy storms of troubles shall swallow up others that