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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43318	A sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Wednesday, December 27, 1643 by Alexander Henderson ...	Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1439; ESTC R15067	23,280	40

it then before either now endeavour to carry it through to every point of known perfection doing whatsoever the God of heaven hath commanded or look for nothing but that Superstition and Idolatry and with it ruine and desolation shall come upon you as a flood And therefore which is the third go about the work after the manner here prescribed that is diligently which implyeth very much 1 Sincerely ayming at the right end without simulation This is to do the work of God for the honour of God and good of Religion And not for our glory or benefit or for civill ends were they never so publick And therefore it calleth not onely for publick but for pious Spirits Where this sinceritie is wanting there may be a businesse and counterfeiting of diligence but no true diligence or faithfulnesse 2 Zealously for true zeal is active like fire or like mettall in a horse or like winde to the sails of a ship it carrieth us on and maketh us diligent 3. Prudently Prudence considereth both the opportunities and impediments of working where Prudence is wanting there may be precipitation but no true diligence 4. Speedily without delay or procrastination A● vineger to the teeth and a smoke to the eyes so is the sluggard to them that send him * The slouthing and slipping of occasions bringeth despair of doing good in the end and then our own consciences chide and others to whom we should have done good do curse us Solomons house was not built in lesse then thirteen yeers but the Temple was built in seven yeers because beside the preparation of materials both the King and the people were more earnest about the one then the other There is no want of materials at this time onely speed is required and without speed no di●igence 5. Constantly that no calumny or contradiction no hope or fear no trouble or example of others prevail with you to leave your station or desert the work unto the which the Lord hath called you but that you resolve still to do and if the Lord will to die Let no man think by deserting the work and forsaking his station that the work shall cease and he shall prosper No thou shalt find thy soul filled with grief and vexation upon two contrary grounds One is Thou shalt with a grieved and envious heart behold with thy eyes the work to prosper and thou not honoured to have a hand in it The other is Thou thy self shall perish in the end For as a bird that wandreth from her nest so is a man that wandreth from his place Mark and consider what comfort they have found who have deserted this work of Reformation whether in the one Kingdom or in the other Thou thinkest that thou will not hazard thy self for the honour of God but God saith he will not honour thee to have heart or hand in his work and thou shall run a greater hazard There be two reasons secretly couched in the words to perswade and provoke unto this duty The one is from the knowledge of the greatnesse and majestie of God the other from the conscience of common equitie amongst men Concerning the first Artaxerxes was a great King for in the beginning of his letter he is honored with the title of King of Kings as having many mightie Princes under his power And in the end of the letter he hath power of confiscation of goods imprisonment banishment and death Yet he acknowledgeth one greater then the greatest whom he calleth the God of heaven thereby to expresse his greatnesse majestie and glory which made him to give forth this Decree and by which he would move all men to do diligently what he commandeth For the knowledge and apprehension of the greatnesse and Majestie of God especially compared with our basenesse is a powerfull mean to move us to obey his Commandments and to go diligently about the affairs of his House The Lord is great eminently and infinitely above the creature he is the originall of all created greatnesse and nothing can be conceived in him which may be the least diminution of his greatnesse and Majestie It is not so with men When he is to give his Law to his people he first manifesteth his greatnesse by his wonders in Aegypt by bringing them miraculously through the Red sea and by the Terrors of Mount Sinai and then he beginneth I am the Lord thy God that brought thee c. When he speaketh to his Prophets to make them diligent and faithfull he useth this Preface Thus saith the Lord When he sendeth Isaiah with his message he beginneth with a vision of his glory I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and his traine filled the Temple c. When he will have men to tremble at his word Thus saith the Lord the heavens is my Throne and the earth is my footstool When he revealed himself to John his servant he sheweth his greatnesse Revel. 4. and 7. If the greatest of the children of men did consider that he is higher then the highest Eccles. 5.8 that in his hand is there breath and all their wayes as Daniel telleth a great King that went before Artaxerxes Dan. 5.23 That in his fight when once he is angrie no creature can stand Psal. 76.7 They would not by any sin and least of all by dealing deceitfully in the matters of his House provoke him to anger Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker Let the potsheard strive with the potsheards of the earth Isa. 45.9 If either King or Parliament or Assembly could really in their hearts apprehend this uncreated and infinite greatnesse and could look upon God as he is described Dan. 7.9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the Antient of dayes did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head as pure wooll his Throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire A fiery streame issued and came forth from before him thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him They would choose rather to offend all the world then to offend him in the smallest matter of his House but the truth is we put the Lord farre from us and we see not him that is invisible Unlesse by the goodnesse of God a timeous and powerfull remedie be provided the multitude of Sects and Sectaries will become ere it be long the reproach of this Nation yet it fears me that Atheisme and Atheists be more common and abound more then any Sect or sort of Sectaries For did men know or beleeve that there is a God in heaven who is God of heaven and earth were it possible for them to live as they live and to do what they do Men become first Atheists in their life and conversation living as a worme in a mans bellie thinking no other wayes of man but as ordained to be a place for it to