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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86974	A sermon preach't to his Maiesty, at the court of White-hall. Aug.8. / By Jos. B. of Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1641 (1641)	Wing H414; Thomason E1100_2; ESTC R208332	12,915	54

a little through a lazy security thou hast forfeited all by disuse and maist expect to heare Stulte hac nocte Thou art rich in profession of Grace Was any man more officious then Demas yet he soon fell to imbrace the present world with a neglect of the future Think not now that I am falling in with our late Excutifidians to teach that a true solid radicated saving faith may be totally finally lost no I hate the motion it is presumption that I taxe not well grounded assurance presumption of outward profession and priviledges not assurance of the inward truth of grace Presume not o vaine man of what thou wert or what thou hast Devills were Angells Hierusalem was the holy Citty Rome was for her faith famous through all the world Rom. 1.8 Woe to Ariel to Ariel the City where David dwelt Es 29.1 Our owne once good estate may aggravate our misery can never secure our happinesse Son of man what shall become of the vine of all plants saith the Prophet The more noble it is the worse it speeds if fruitlesse Oh let us not be high-minded but feare England was once yea lately was perhaps is still the most flourishing Church under heaven that I may take up the Prophets words Es 13.19 the glory of Churches the beauty of excellency what it may be what it will be if we fall still into distractions and various Sects God knowes and it is not hard for men to fore-see Surely if we grow into that Anarchicall fashion of Independent congregations which I see and lament to see affected by too many not without wofull successe we are gone we are lost in a most miserable confusion we shall be as when God overthrew Sodome and Gomorrah Es 13.20.21 and it shall be with us as the Prophet speakes of proud and glorious Babylon The shepheards shall not make their fold here wild beasts of the desert shall lye bere and our houses shall be full of dolefull creatures and owles shall dwell and satyres shall dance there and the wild beasts of the Islands shall cry in our desolate palaces I take no pleasure God knowes to ominate ill to my deare nation and dearer mother the Church of England for whose welfare and happinesse I could contemne my owne life but I speake it in a true sorrow of heart to perceive our danger and in a zealous precaution to prevent it Oh God in whose hands the hearts of Princes and all the sons of men are to turne them as the rivers of waters put it into the heart of our King and Parliament to take speedy order for the suppression of this wild variety of Sects and lawlesse independencies ere it be too late Thus much for the subject and termes of this change The agent followes He turneth Never was there any sterility whereof there may not be a cause given Either the season is unkindly parching with drought or drenching with wet or nipping with frost or blasting with pernicious aires or rotting with mildewes or some mis-accident of the place inundations of waters incursions and spoyle of enemies suddaine mortalities of the inhabitants or some naturall fault in the soyle or misdemeanure of the owners idlenesse ill-husbandry in mis-timing neglect of meet helps unculture ill choyce of seed but what ever be the second cause we are sure who is the first Hee turneth Is there any evill in the City and he hath not done it Alas what are all secondary causes but as so many livelesse puppets there is a divine hand unseene that stirres the wires and puts upon them all their motion so as our Saviour said of Pilate we may say of all the activest instruments both of earth and hell Thou couldest have no power over mee unlesse it were given thee from above Is Ioseph sold to the Merchants by the villany of his envious brethren The Lord sent me before you Gen. 51. Doe the Chaldeans and Sabeans feloniously drive away the heards of Iob doth the Devill by a tempestuous gust bluster downe the house and rob him of his children The Lord hath taken Iob. 1. Is a man slaine by chance-medly the axe-head slipping from the helve Dominus tradidit So whether they be acts of nature of will of casualty whether done by naturall agents by voluntary by casuall by supernaturall Digitus Dei est hic He turneth What can all other causes either doe or be without him who is the originall of all entity and causality There is much wisdome and justice in distinguishing causes giving each their owne whereof whiles some have failed they have run into injurious and frantick extrems Whiles on the one side wild and ignorant hereticks have ascribed all to Gods agency without acknowledging secondary causes on the other Atheous fooles ascribe all to the second and immediate causes not looking up to the hand of an over-ruling and all-contriving providence We must walk warily betwixt both yeelding the necessary operatiō of subordinate means imployed by the divine wisdome and adoring that infinite wisdome and power which both produces and imployes those subordinate means to his own holy purposes Tell mee then art thou crossed in thy designes and expectation Blame not distempers of times disappointment of undertakings intervention of crosse-accidents this is as some shifting Alchymist that casts all the fault of his mis-successe upon his glasse or his furnace but kisse that invisible hand of power which disposeth of all these sublunary events if against thy will yet according to his owne Even nature it selfe will teach us to reduce all second causes to the first Behold saith the Lord I will heare the heavens they shall heare the earth the earth shall heare the corne wine oyle and they shall heare Israel Lo here is a necessary scale whereof no staffe can be missing How should Israel live without corne wine oyle how should the corne wine oyle be had without the yeeldance of the earth how should the earth yeeld these without the influence of heaven how can heaven yeeld these influences without the command of the maker Ose 2.21 When I meet therefore with a querulous husbandman he tels mee of a churlish soyle of a wet seed-time of a greene winter of an unkindly spring of a luke-warme summer of a blustring autumne but I tell him of a displeased God who will be sure to contrive and fetch about all seasons and elements to his own most wise drifts and purposes Thou art a Merchant what tellest thou mee of crosse winds of Michael-mas flawes of ill weathers of the wafting of the Archangels wings when thou passest by the Grecian promontory of tedious becalmings of pyraticall hazards of falshood in trades breaking of customers craft and undermining of interlopers all these are set on by heaven to impoverish thee Thou art a Courtier and hast laid a plot to rise if obsequious servility to the great if those gifts in the bosome which our blunt Ancestors would have termed Bribes if plausible