nor to make him ashamed that he had parted so suddenly from him without his Knowledge and Consent Therefore they entred into Covenant together of perpetual amity and parted in Peace and Love and were never injurious to one another no more than Esau was to Jacob that fled from him for fear of his Life yet was at meeting embraced by him with high Expressions of Love and they buried their aged Father Isaac in Peace Gen. 35. 29. Set your Hearts saith Moses unto all the words which I testifie among you this day and he gives this reason for it in the words following For it is not a vain thing for you because it is your Life and through this thing ye shall prolong your days Deut. 32. 46 47. O that thou hadst hearkned to my Commandments saith the Lord by the Prophet Isaiah then had thy Peace been as a River and thy Righteousness as the Waves of the Sea thy Seed also had been as the Sand and the ofspring of thy Boweâ— like the Gravel thereof his Name shoulâ— not have been cut off nor destroyed from â—â—fore me Isa 48. 18 19. But if we 〈◊〉 go on to make the Precepts of God of none effect by their unlucky Neighbourhood with the Precepts of Men The Book of God will be unawares snatch'd out of your Hands as the Ark of God was from the Shoulders of Hophni and Phinehas by the Philistines 1 Sam. 4. 11. and a black Book put into our Hands written within and without Lamentation and Mourning and Woe Ezek. 2. 10. For thus saith the Lord enter not into the House of Mourning neither go to lament nor bemoan them for I have taken away my Peace from this People saith the Lord even loving kindness and Mercies Jer. 16. 5. from which Judgment the Lord deliver us that we may enter iuto Peace and rest in our Beds every one walking in his Uprightness Isa 57. 2. Now for a particular Application of his Doctrin to all Relations and Orders of Men High and Low Rich and Poor c. 1. To Magistrates and Subjects IF the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of Rulers then they will seek the Glory of God and the Peace and Good of their Subjects above all Earthly things to the fulfilling of that Evangelical Promise of Isaiah And Kings shall be thy Nursing Fathers and their Queens thy Nursing Mothers Isa 49. 23. The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to me He that ruleth over Men must be just ruling in the fear of God is the Instruction that the Man after God's own Heart received immediately from God touching his Ruling and Governing the People of God And an excellent President we have from Theodosius Junior the Emperor recorded by Socrates l. 7. 22 who tells us that when in a severe Winter that did threaten and portend a great scarcity of Victual the Year ensuing it being not very plentiful at that time he gave way to the Peoples desire of the usual Games and Shews that were acted in the Circe which when it was full of People and Spectators there fell suddenly a most vehement Tempest upon them Then the Emperor plainly declared I set it down as Socrates relates it how he was affected towards God his People for by his Heralds he made Proclamation among the People saying Is it not much better for us to leave these vain Shews and Sports and with one Mouth all of us to pray to God to preserve us safe from this horrible Storm that is falling upon us Scarely were these words uttered when all the People with unanimous Consent and Alacrity began to pray to God then the whole City saith he in that respect was turned into a Temple the Emperor himself walking as a private Person began the Psalms of Praise neither indeed did his Hope fail him saith Socrates for immediately there was a great Calm and Screnity and by the Bountifulness of God there was great Plenty of all Provision the next year At another time also as he sate beholding the Shews he received a Message that one John that tyrannously had Invaded the Western Empire was miraculously overthrown and slain by his Forces As soon as he had read the Letter he said go too if ye please let us leave these Toys and go to Church and offer Prayers and Thanks to God who hath slain the Tyrant as it were with his own Hand he and all the People went immediately thro' the middle of the Hippodrome to the Temple of God and spent the whole day in Psalms and Praises to God Socrat. l. 7. 25. Sozomen tells us that the Subjects looking upon the good Examples that Arcadius and Honorius the Emperors and Sons of Theodosius set before them the Pagans were the more easily Converted to Christianity and the Hercticks joyned to the Catholick Church Soz. l. 8. 1. When such Kings come to be sick and dye they may say with Hezekiah Remember Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in Truth and with a perfect Heart and have done that which was good in thy sight Isa 38. 3. and they shall hear Euge. 2. If the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of the Subjects they will not curse the ruler of God's people Exod. 22. 28 they will not curse the King no not in their Thoughts for a Bird of the Air will carry the Voice and that which hath Wings shall utter the Matter saith King Solomon Eccles 10. 20. They will esteem their good King worth Ten Thousand of themselves as the Israelites told David their King when they would not suffer his Royal Person to be hazarded amongst them in the Battle against Absalom 2 Sam. 18. 3. They will esteem it the highest Wickedness to stretch out their Hand against the Lord 's Anointed 1 Sam. 26. 9. as David speaks when he had Saul his greatest Enemy at his Mercy they will account him The Breath of our Nostrils Lam. 4. 20. love honour and obey him in all things just and honest as the Roman Legions said to Jovinian that chose him to succeed Julian the Apostate in the Empire who said unto the Electors I will not rule over you for I am a Christian and you are Pagans and Idolaters the Apostate had corrupted them Do thou rule over us said they and we will be all Christians Regis ad exemplum is an old and true saying There is therefore great necessity to pray for such as be Rulers that they may be Subordinate to God and have Grace to their Power Pity to others that God may cloath their Enemies with shame but on himself shall his Crown flourish as God promised to David Psal 132. 18. that they may give God a fair Account of their Stewardship at the great Day in observing and practising what he hath commanded 2. To Ministers and People IF the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of the Ministers of the Gospel of Peace unless the things that belong to their Peace
or Christ many of them yet what should that do here in the midst of other Duties pertaining to Man Christ being not named Therefore I will speak of it in that sense which in my Conscience I take it was ment m. Be ye thankful Be not unkind and ungrateful to those that have deserved well at your hands Q. What is the thankfulness that is here required R. It may be described a willing acknowledging and readiness to requite Benefits and good Turns received I did not say a Requital for many times there is no Power or Means so to do but at least there is Readiness to do it and Mind of the good Turn if either of these fail there is a Defect in Thankfulness The occasion of Thankfulness is a Benefit received the greater Benefit calls more Thanks which hath diversity from the Person 1. Sometimes we are wholly prevented in receiving before we have shewed any occasion 2. Sometimes again we are first in some Office but are exceeded in the answering the same 3. Sometimes the Persons are Superiors or Equals of such quality I mean as there is no great odds between the Donor and Receiver To the First and Second of each Thankfulness is the more to be shewed I mean we are more beholding inasmuch as there is less desert on our part and in the one nothing at all I would speak plainly 1. To our Parents Ministers and Masters in Learning there is no Office we could shew to deserve Kindness therefore to them we must be more bound to be thankful So to a Stranger that shall first upon some acquaintance no expectation of Requital bestow only upon us in the same measure of Beneficence our Debt is more than to one that we have or may be helpful or shew duty to again 2. To our Superiour being kind we owe more gratitude than to our Equal as Ishbosheth David 2 Sam. 19. 30. 28. 3. Even the Value of the Benefit adds some degree unto our Debt of Thankfulness most our selves as Paul writes to Philemon v. 19. Albeit I do not say unto thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides 4. And the Speediness sometimes adds to our Debt especially if it be at the first knowledge of our Want or Desire and perhaps expects not our moving the Matter or if at our Suit be given undelaiedly Beneficium qui cito dat bis dat He gives twice that gives speedily 5. But most of our debt of Thankfulness comes from the Mind of the Donor as proceeding from greater Love though there be by reason of want of power less worth in the good Turn We are then to be taught here Doctr. That to all those that have been Instruments of God's Providence to procure good unto us we are to owe Thankfulness they are so many Blessings of God to us That which the Queen of Sheba once affirmed before Solomon is very true The Instruments of God's Blessings are the Arguments of his Love to us Because the Lord loved Israel for War therefore made he the King to do Judgment and Justice 1 Kings 10. 9. 1. The first duty of Thankfulness that under God we owe is to our Parents which is so necessary that the Apostle would not have the Widows to be chosen to the service of the Church that had Children to maintain them and perform duty to them Let them saith he recompence their Ancestors So the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies For that is good and acceptable before God 1 Tim. 5. 4. The Greek Elegantly expresseth this by a Metaphor taken from the Stock 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ‑ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which feedeth her aged Parents and carries them upon her shoulders and in that regard in the Hebrew Tongue is called Chasida that is pious and merciful Let all Children hear this and as they will have the blessing of their Parents and of God that is tender of their honour learn it and fail not to praise it as Joseph did Gen. 45. 10. There will I nourish thee when he sent for his aged Father from the famished Land of Canaan to come into Goshen the most fertile Soil in all the Land of Egypt 2. So we are to be thankful to the Ministers of the Gospel to whom God hath committed the word of reconciliation that break the bread of life unto us that have the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven committed to their trust that administer unto us the Seals of the Covenant of Grace according to Christ's Institution that watch over our Souls as they that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief as the Apostle speaks Heb. 13. 17. 3. To our Teachers and Masters as Philemon owned himself to Paul v. 19. To our Benefactors to our Friends to all that are loving and kind to us David sent a Present of Thankfulness of the Spoyl of the Enemies of the Lord to all those places where David himself and his men were wont to lament in his Exile 1 Sam 30. 26. 3. He makes diligent inquiry Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul that I may shew him kindness for Jonathon's sake whose love to him was wonderful passing the love of women to their Husbands or Children 2 Sam. 9. 1. His thankfulness to the Living for the Dead's sake to the Child for his Fathers sake is again recorded Then said David I will shew kindness to Hanun the son of Nachash as his father shewed kindness unto me and David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father 2 Sam. 10. 2. What this kindness was the Scripture mentions not nor when it was shewed for David in his flight from Saul fled first to Achish King of Gath then to the King of Moab And he said unto the King of Moab Let my father and mother I pray thee come forth and be with you till I know what God will do for me and he brought them before the King of Moab and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold He durst not trust them to Saul's mercy in Bethlehem that had exercised such barbarous cruelty upon the Priests of the Lord and to the City of No◠without any just cause 1 Sam. 22. 17. 20. Possibly the King of Moab might shew some such kindness to David out of his hatred of Saul that had given him a great Overthrow 1 Sam. 11. 11. But whatsoever the matter was that had obliged David he was not unmindful of it but studied to requite it to his Son Hanun though ill entertained and misinterpreted to his destruction and his Countries The first Ambassadors that David sent after the Solemnity of his Coronation was over is thus recorded And David sent Messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead and said unto them Blessed be ye of the Lord that you have shewed the kindness to your Lord even unto Saul and have buried him and now the Lord shew
the soul Now most noble Lords and Commons Since God hath endued many of you with excellent parts of learning of all sorts and Wisdom both Theorical and Practical above all the Sanedrims Synods and Anti Synods since that of Nice in which a plain Country-man in demonstration of the Spirit and Power convinced the Heathenish Phylosophers more than all the three Hundred and Eighteen Fathers that were there I hope you will in the fear of God assert the everlasting Gospel in the purity and simplicity of it and all the approved Teachers of it in allowing them a just Maintainance for their Supportation that they may be encouraged in the Law of the Lord 2 Chr. 31. 4. as Hezekiah is recorded to have done in his Reign according to that of the Apostle Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things which I take to be the Patent of the Ministers of the Gospel The gleanings of your Grapes are better than the Vintage of some Countrys where there is a competent Provision for their Ministers many able Men of yours have small allowance even for the meanest Imployments all Tyth being lock'd up in the Hands of Impropriators in many places and nothing left of the spoil but the old allowance The Nethimims that were of two sorts the Gibeonites and the Levites that were imployed to be Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water for the Alter of God t had a far more plentiful provision for themselves and their Families than many of your most painful Ministers have at this day that labour in the Word and Doctrine as the Apostle speaks 1 Tim. 5. 17. Prove me now herewith saich the Lord of hosts if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it Mal. 3. 10. That he may cause the blessing to rest in thine House saith the Prophet Ezekiel ch 44. v. 30. More over most noble Patriots that are called to sit on Thrones of Judgment for such a time as this where many of your Pregenitors Parents Kinsmen dear Friends fellow-Subjects and Country-men did sit above Fifty years ago that were able Men fearing God and honouring the King that were zealous for God and valiant for his truth as ye are all this day Act. 22. 3. that resisted all inevitations on Church and State even unto Blood Heb 12. 4. in themselves and others to prevent the setting up the image of Jealousie that provokes to Jealousie Ezek. 8. 3. which was like to bring the calamities of Esau upon them Jer. 49. 8. and their posterity after them that they might not be called the border of iniquity the people against whom the Lord hath Indignation for ever as the Prophet speaks Let not all the trouble seem little to you that hath come upon us our Kings on our Princes on our Priests and on our Fathers and on all the people Neh. 9. 32. since the time of King Charles the I. whose shield in that combustion was vilely cast away 2 Sam. 1. 21 as if he had not been anointed with Oyl as David laments the violent Death of Saul lest these things should be revived and advanced with a high Land that caused such alienation of affection and bitter destruction of many Persons and Families in these three Kingdoms You have like the Nobles of Israel given their evidence to the contrary Thas when Popery was issuing upon us like a mighty Stream Root and Branch in all the parts and Pendicts of it Then they had swallowed us up quâ—ck when their wrath was kindled against us Then the waters of Mara of bitterness had overwhelmed us the stream of Idolatry and Superstition had gone over our Soul Psal 124. 3 4. Then like so many Moses's you stood in the breach to resist Satan and all Iniquity and to turn away God's wrath from his People occasioned by the golden Calf or as so many resolute and self-denying Leviâ—es of whom it is written That he said to his Father and to his Mother I have not seen them neither did he acknowledge his Brethren nor knew his own Children when a Proclamation was made by Moses through all the Camp of Israel Who is on the Lords side let him come unto me Exod. 32. 26. In all these things you have approved your selves the faithful and true Servants of God Be it spoken to the glory of God and recorded among your Archives for your honour and of your posterity for ever that you did really thus with all your high and low Court-Relations Ye have seen also that Prophecy of Isaiah actually fulfilled in the Royal Person of our King when the enemy shall come in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him Isa 59. 19. put him to flight by whom But by our King William whom God hath made to be his Standard-bearer against the Man of Sin and Son of Perdition in Honour and Obedience to him that is styled The standard-bearer among ten thousand Cant. 5. v. 10. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel that hath in love to us all set his own King over us to assist you in all things that may do most good In whatsoever things are true in whatsoever things are honest in whatsoever things are lovely in whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise that ye may think on these things with him as the Apostle exhorts Phil. 4. v. 8. What God said to David Psal 2. This is my King generally he saith it of all that be like to David for he is the same The King whose Heart is upright with God as was David's the temper whereof you may see Psal 101. and Psal 131. as touching the Administration of the Common-wealth and his own Person and Family but more excellently as in his duty to God in the whole 119th Psalm Such a King is God's King himself such may assure themselves of safety and protection from the treachery and power of their Advesaries as Psalm 144. 10. It is he that giveth salvation unto such Kings that delivered David his servant from the hurtful hurt of Saul and all his enemies as the title of the 18th Psalm bears And without flattery be it spoken if God have any such King in the World it is our King as he hath well declared even by that very Argument of Protection from such villainous Practices as were contrived against him and such eminent dangers that he exposed himself unto both by Sea and Land to them that can or will mark no other reason Certainly if Sion if Jerusalem if Israel were beholding to the Lord for giving them the honour above all other Nations to be ruled by this King we are in the same debt to whom the best King in this World hath been given by him and then given when we feared the worst of all extremities that we could imagine
the Founders and Conservers of Cities Countreys and Kingdoms to the end and purpose of defending and preserving them from Evils in a cordial and blessed Submission to the ever-ruling and over-ruling Peace of God If the Peace of God did bear rule in the Hearts of all Christians which our Apostle requires in these of Colosiae all the World would become Christians A digression as if it had been in the presence of his Majesty for exercise sake And here let me with all Humility use the Psalmst David's Expression I will speak of thy Testimonies also before Kings and will not be ashamed Psal 119. 46. and therefore in the first place methinks this Scripture gives me just occasion to speak to Their Majesties in a word or two that which I am sure their noble minds will take more pleasure to hear than to be profuse in their praise which no Man can lightly pass over if the Peace of God rule in your Hearts whom the supream Ruler of the World hath chosen and sent to rule over us his People O happy shall ye be and it shall be well with you and happy shall all your Subjects in these three Kingdoms be that by you are redeemed from thraâ—dom and brought again from the Depths of the Sea of misery Psal 68. 22. that were sold for nought to the Man of sin to be destroyed to be slain and to perish as Queâ—â— Esther speaks to King Ahasuerus in a like case concerning Hamnus's Plot Esth 7. 4. Sir You were called many years ago by God himself into one Body conjugal with your Royal Consort that is all glorious within and without and now by the same God to the ornamical and Political to lead these three Nations as also to lead the Military Body of the Confederates of many Nations as Captain general of the Lords Hosts like another Moses that led the Children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt out of the House of Bondage or another Cyras that enlarged God's People out of the Babilonish Captiviry as it is no small Honour to be God's King upon so high and honourable Account as none of your Royal Predecessors were ever called unto so it asks no small Duty Reverence and Thankfulness at your hands to himwards Sir Thus it is you Princes as well as other Folks be accomptable to God as arise your Receipts to a higher proportion so must your Allowances and Payments be greater or less You will find in a greater Arrearage when it comes to a reckoning where much is bestowed much is called for again Consider if your self advance any Man above others upon equal and perhaps less desert if you do not think you ought more to repose in the Faithfulness and Loyalty of such a one be ye well sure God looks for the like at your Hand It behoves you therefore to be mindful of his Honour which I dare be bold is the greatest that you have that you are God's King as eminently as he of whom the Lord said yet have I set my King or as it is in the Hebr. anoynted my King upon Sion the hill of my holiness Psal 2. 6. that so in the Regiment of his People your Subjects and of your self you may demean your self as God's King There is no need that I descend to particulars in general I say that God's King may not behave himself as the remnant of Kings do that are either Paganish or Popish that rule only for their own Pleasures and Appetites without regard of Justice Peace or Honesty that presume to make Religions of their own to appoint a God or any thing as a service of God which he hath not commanded which is to tye God to their baubles as Jeroboam to the Golden Calves at Dan and Bethel 1 Kin. 12. and Nebuchadnezzar to the Golden Image in the Plain of Dura Dan. 3. to appoint a service in the Latin whom the People understand not contrary to the rule of Edification set down 1 Cor. 14. 26. When Men presume to bind Consciences to their Knees under pain of sin and forbid to reason of their biddings under severe Penalties this is a tyranny against God True it is that Penal Laws may be made to bind in many respects But let Men beware lest they exact with greater severity obedience to their own Precepts than God's there is but one Law-giver that can save and destroy saith James 4. 12. when they forbid what God commands and commands what God forbids its Tyranny as did Antiochus and other Heathen Emperors forbid to Circumcise to read the Law and commanded to offer to Idols and to eat Swines Flesh and all under pain of present Death 2 Macc. 7. Rulers must know their places have moderate and just and Godly Government not usurp on God's Right on their Subjects Conscience and tho' Faith be the Gift of God and cannot be taught nor forced nor Conscience be compelled to assent yet Men may be obliged to the outward hearing of Gods Word and Factious Fire-brands repressed and quenched Sozomen tells us That Athanasius the Patriarch of Alexandria was upon a time walking in the Streets in that City and that a Raven did flee towards him croaking which the Heathen that stood near observing began to deride him and reproach him as if he had been a Praestigiator or Conjurer and so making towards him asked in derision what the Raven said to him He modestly smiling answered in Latin Eras for he dictates unto you That to morrow will be a most bitter day for to morrow you shall receive the Emperor's Edict that you shall celebrate no more your Heathenish Solemnities And acaccordingly it came to pass for the next day the Magistrates received orders from the Roman Emperor that their Heathen Gods should be no more worshipped but destroyed utterly with all their Idolatry and Superstition in which they were bred Which being abdicated they immediately embraced the Gospel Blessed is the people that know this joyful sound Psal 89. 15. And thanks be to Jesus Christ in many things already you have shewed your self God's King in coming out to help the Lord against the mighty Jer. 9. 3. in being valient for his truth at home and abroad in scattering the Proud in the Imagination of their Hearts and bring the Wheel upon them in taking down 〈◊〉 Partition Wall of Separation that your Subjects might not destroy one another for fashions sake you have put your Life into your Land to fight the Lords Battles that teacheth your hands to war and your fingers to fight Psal 144. 1. and have wrought with God this great Salvation in our Israel as all Israel said of Jonathan that overthrew the vastest Army that ever the Philistines had consisting of thirty thousand Chariots six thousand Horses and people like the sand which is on the Sea shoar for Multitude 1 Sam. 13. 5. In his name that giveth Salvation unto Kings and that hath delivered your Royal Person from the Sword like another David
or Jehoshaphet you marcht out against the Enemies of God and Man or else he hath none in this World and he in whom ye trusted hath made you more than Conqueror in pacifying Scotland subduing Ireland and preserving the Peace and safety of England and in checking the Pride and Insolency of your sworn Enemies beyond Sea and setting a bound to it that it cannot pass and though the Waves thereof toss themselves yet they cannot prevail tho' they roar yet can they not pass over it Jer. 5. 22. as the Prophet speaks of God's bounding the Sea when he said Hitherto shalt thou come and no further and here shall thy proud waves stay themselves Job 38. 11. Your Majesties Soul is bound up in the bundle of Life with the Lord your God in all your hazardous high and honourable undertakings and the souls of your Enemies them shall he fling out as out of the middle of a sling as vertuous Abigail speaks to King David 1 Sam. 25. 29. For as an Angel of God so is my Lord the King to discern good and bad therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee saith the wiâ—e Woman of Tekoah to the King 2 Sam. 14. 17. Therefore saith he to the God of this Life Draw me not away with the wicked and with the workers of Iniquity which speak peace to their Neighbours but mischief is in their hearts For they speak not peace but devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the Land Psal 28 3. and 35. 20. If the Peace of God rule in your Royal Heart because he hath set his love upon me therefore will I deliver him I will set him on high because he hath known my name saith God to David He shall call upon me and I will answer him I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honour him with long life will I satisfie him and shew my salvation Psal 91. 14 15 16. no richer Promises in all the Book of God than those that are made to God's King and again I will make thy officers peace and thine exactors righteousness violence shall be no more heard in thy Land wasting nor destruction within thy borders Thy people shall be all righteous saith the Prophet Isa 60. 17 18 21. And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever and my people shall dwell in peaceable habitations and in sure dwellings and in quiet resting places Isa 32. 17 18. Again Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Isa 26. 4. For the King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of God he shall not be moved saith King David Psal 21. 7. and therefore he protests thus For my brethren and companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee Psal 122. 8 But who were these Men whom the King honoured thus to account his Royal Brethren and worthy Companions Not such as the sons of Zeruiah that were his Cousins and were too hard for him 2 Sam. 3. 39. that were bloody Men and Murdererers of Princes nor such as Haman the Agagite Companion to King Ahasuerus that plotted and contrived the murder of all Gods people in one day Esth 3. 8 9. nor such as Doeg the Edomite that at Saul's Command butchered the Priests of the Lord even four score and five persons that did wear a Linnen Ephod 1 Sam. 22. 18. in his eyes all such vile persons were contemned Psal 15. 4. as David professeth he would know no such wicked personss they should not tarry in his sight Psal 101. 4. 7. But he tells us I am companion to all them that fear thee to them that keep thy precepts Psal 119. 63 65. to the Saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight Psal 16. 3. why so Because the Law of God is in his Heart what Law The Law of Peace Great peace have they that love thy Law and nothing shall offend them Psal 119. 165. Then there shall be no breaking in by foreign Invasion nor going out by domestick Insurrection no complaining in our Streets Happy is that people that is in such a case the Psalmist corrects himself yea happy is that people whose God is the Lord Psal 144. 15. whose peace rules in their hearts My second Address shall be in all due Reverence and Humility to the Right Honourable the High Court of Parliament consisting of Lords and Commons I will with Jeremiah the Prophet get me unto the great Men and speak unto them I hope with better acceptance and Success than he did for they have known the way of the Lord and the judgment of their God Jer. 5. 5. are better acquainted with it having had better breeding and means of instruction than others of meaner Estate Let the Peace of God rule in your Hearts unto which ye are all called in one Body politick That ye all speak the same thing that there be no divisions among you but that you be perfectly joyned together in the same â—â—ind and in the same judgment as the Apostle charges the Corinthians by the name of Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 1. 10. That there be in none of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God Or amongst you a profane person as Esau to sell his bitth right for a Mess of Popery as he did for a mess of Pottage as the Apostle speaks Heb. 3. 12. and ch 12. 16. You are the most solemn Representative of our Church and State our Law-makers and living Laws are the most honourable Assembly of Christians under Heaven at this day an Assembly of Philosophers and Divines yea of Kings and Priests unto God the Father and his Christ Rev. 1. 6. You are our first born that have a double portion of Honour put upon you above your Brethren to be our Rulers and Law-givers to use the Apostle's words You are a chosen Generation a royal priest-hood a holy nation a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praises of him that hath called you out of darkness unto his marvellous light 1 Pet. 2. 9. As those that sate there before you above an Hundred and Twenty Years ago were like so many Zorobabels that led the people of God from Caldean to Babylon that laid the foundation of our Reformation upon Christ anotheâ— foundation no man câ—n lay 1 Cor. 3. 11. saith the Apostle and his truth and sounded by the Trumpet of the Gospel a fair retreat from Romish Popish Babylon the mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth Rev. 17. 5. the mistress of Witchcrafts that selleth nations through her whoredoms and families through her witchcrafts Nah. 3. 4. as the Prophet speaks so God hath called you together that your Hands may finish it that ye may bring forth the head-stone thereof with shouting crying Grace grace unto it as the Angel speaks Zach. 4. 7. That