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A02702	Hezekiahs recovery. Or, A sermon, shevving what use Hezekiah did, and all should make of their deliverance from sicknesse. First preached, and now published by Robert Harris, pastor of Hanwell	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1626 (1626)	STC 12836; ESTC S120679	31,744	59

with the taste of crosses that we can taste no mercies at least wee cannot taste the sweetnesse of the giver in the gift and thence it is that our affections lye dead within us whilst his mercies swarme about us Hee shewes his power in the greatnesse his wisedome in the seasonablenesse his truth in the constancie his grace in the freenesse the riches of his mercies in the fulnesse of his blessings but nor one nor other affect us Our hearts are so farre from Davids zeale hereupon as that like Nabals they are cyther as cold or heavie as a stone Miserable hearts and miserably dead when so manic warming and reviving comforts cannot raise them upwards but in the meane what hope of quicke actions when we labour with so dead affections ● For deeds true thankefulnesse improves the gift to the givers honour A friend gives me a Ring I le weare it for his sake a Booke I le use it for his sake a Iewell I le keepe it for his sake that is so as may best expresse my love and report his goodnesse Were wee truely thankefull to our God wee would use all his tokens for his sake cate our meate to him weare our clothes to him spend our strength for him live to him sleepe to him dye for him but out upon our unthankefulnesse we use his blessings as Ich● did Icherams messengers David Goliab's sword we turne them against their Master fight against heaven with that health wit wealth those friends meanes mercies that wee received thence If this be thankfulnes to be so much the more proude idle secure wanton scornefull impenitent by how much the more wee are enriched advanced and blessed I cannot tell who may be called unthankfull Brethren understand your selves there is not this day a Nation under heaven more bound to God than we be if now we shal wast that time in spying out flawes in the State and matter of complaint at home that should be taken up in recounting mercies t is just with God to lay us even with other distressed Churches and to make us know what we had by what we want If any place be yet left for admonition be wee all advised to call to minde with Pharaoh's Butler this day our fault even that fault which is our nationall sinne the sinne of unthankefulnesse and be it granted by you and me and by us all that never people have had more cause but taken lesse occasion of blessing God 2 And now to speake forward let us take forth Hezekiah's lesson after sighes le ts send forth songs as he did nay he in the midst of sorrowes can finde some matter of praise nay the Church when she only liv'd could yet say It is his mercy that we have so much If the best people can sing in troubles should not wee in peace If they can when distressed should not we when delivered If they bee so sensible of one blessing should not we of a hundred of a thousand It may be their undertakings in the day of affliction were more No in feares and sorrowes wee are as ready to vow and promise thankes as any and if to promise should we not to pay It may be our deserts are greater No nor wee nor they can challenge any thing but by ve●me of the promise and that was theirs as much as ours It may be their engagements were more than ours No whether we looke to the freenesse of the giver or greatnesse of the gifts we owe as much as who doth most For the first the Lord hath cast upon us blessings not only undeserved but undesired unexpected he hath beene better to us than his promise than our prayers than our hopes hee hath prevented us with some which wee never fore-thought yea done more for us than we are aware of and he hath given us others which wee never durst once hope for I thinke the man lives not that ever durst promise to himselfe so many daies of happinesse so long a peace so sudden cure of the land so flourishing a Church so happie a time as wee have enjoyed and what gifts more free than such as prevent all prayers exceed all hopes and are not only above but against all deserts For the second thing which greate us a kindnesse to wit greatnesse and multitude of kindnesses who is able to recount particulars shall I say nay the severall kindes of them First we have blessings privato as many as soule body house and field field and towne to wee and country can hold Secondly we have blessings publicke and nationall beyond number other nations bleed we sleepe other begge wee abound others starve we surfet others grope in the darke our Sunne still shines others are quite disjoyned and dismembred they are members without heads beads without bodies for lorne men without Law without Gospell without Churches or Teachers or Livings or Bookes or all wee have all Magistrates Ministers Lawes Trades Schooles Churches Townes all and all of the best of Kings the best of Courts the best of Law the best of Bookes the best of Sermons the best of ayre of fare of water of all the best and can we not yet see matter of thankfulnesse O but these be blessings sarre off they touch not thy particular No doe have wee not all our private interests in the publique weale But speake in good earnest hast thou no particular favours no blessings privative none positive for shame yeeld both Yea but where be they Nay where be they not thou hast eyes aske the blinde whether that be not a blessing thou hast cares aske the deafe whether that bee not a blessing thou hast a tongue what thanks the dumb of that thou hast hands feet wits limbs life bones sinewes reins mercies ●now betwixt head foot to sill a volume is all this nothing Nay tel me wch way canst thou look but thou sect mercies what canst thou touch but thou feelest mercies where canst thoutread but thou standest on mercies But of what art thou compounded of but of blessings every sense every joint everie splint everie naile a blessing nay what is thy house made of but blessings what is it filled with but blessings of blessings of the Barne blessings of the Field blessings of the Wombe all blessings nay what 's the World made of but blessings Heavens Starres Fire Ayre Water Earth with all in the one with all in the other blessings all things blessings all persons blessings all estates blessings all times blessings as S. Paul discourseth 1. Cor. 3. ult Now when the Lord doth so lade us with benefites and that daily shall not wee be thankefull Blesse saith our Saviour when you are cursed and shall wee not blesse being thus blessed All this while I speake nothing of spirituall blessings indeed no tongue can reach them we can close them all within one word one syllable God hath given us

it cannot be avoided but such sinne will be committed in thee if not by thee and these sinnes so farre as connivencie and basenesse makes thine will endanger thee When therefore thou hast surveyed thine own wayes cast into the account thine-other-mens-sinnes thine-other-land sinnes thy Dutch sinnes thy French sinnes thy Spanish sinnes thy Italian sinnes thine-owne-countrey-sinnes see whether there be not in thee those that eate upon the mountaines and those that for lucre sake both harbour and hide them Whether in thee there be not such as never yet saw Christs face or heard his voyce in the Assemblies whether in this wonderful light there be not in thee who know not whether Christ be a man or woman whether there be not in thee men who study new oathes and lyes as men doc new fashions whether in thee there be not who never see the Sabbath light but lye eyther buried in bed or drowned in drinke whether in thee children be not so wantonly bred that they sleight father and mother and to make short of a long bed-roll whether in thee there be not wretched men that set open their doores to all the bankrupts unthrifts gamesters robbers cheaters harlots that the countrey pursues whether in thee there be not some that set all to sale wife childe servant name conscience soule all And if upon search these or any of these shall bee found within thy walls or reach O glorisie God in his visitation and save thy selfe by disclayming these sinnes Thine they be not if thou where thou mayest dost reforme them and where thy power fayles dost bewaile them Howbeit this is not all as sinne must be seene so must it be left and therefore thou must proceed and say I le offend no more as a Christian I le reforme my selfe as a parent my children as a Master my family as a Magistrate my charge as a tradsman my courses And to the end thy reformation may be acceptable learne two things more of Elihu first be willing to see and know thy faults pray that GOD would adde to correction instruction that he will open thine heart to heare and some mouth to speake home to thy case thy soule and when light is commin winke not with thine eyes shut not the doore against it Secondly carrie ever about thee this resolution Let God teach I le learne speake I le heare convince me of a sinne I le leave it whatever becomes of me be it my living be it to me as my life if God will say it is a sinne I le leave it in the practise in the purpose in the allowance of it this murtherous sinne that hath slaine my childe my friend so manie of my neighbours nay my Saviour shall never have place againe in my heart or house And this is not onely the way to thankefulnesse but also a proofe and peece of it know that so many sinnes as the love of God constraines us to leave so manie songs are presented to God everie slaine lust is a gratulatorie sacrifice Secondly thou must proceed with Hezekiah and see from what to what God hath brought thee shall a Citie conceive and bring forth in a day it hath beene so with thee I may say of thy sorrowes what Iob speakes of his comforts they have beene swifter than a shuttle Didst thou or anie man living thinke that within one Summer thou shouldest burie so manie and so few weekely could it be imagined that when thy channels were discovered in so low an ebbe that thy banks should be so suddenly filled againe O London looke upon thy selfe and wonder at thy selfe invert now Ieremies lamentation and say How is the solitarie Citie become full how is shee that was barren made fruitfull Sit downe with Hezekiah and consider what thy bitternesse was when death walkt in the streets raged in the chambers when death was in the pot in the bedde in the dish in the hall in the parlour when the bells spake nothing but death the doores presented nothing but death and every man thou sawest thing thou touchedst place thou satest in threatned thee with death consider what thy cares fears griefs thoughts were then and now whilest thine eyes behold as it were a resurrection to life so that now life is in the streetes life in the house life in the Church trading building singing c. alive againe blesse thy GOD that hath wrought this change and get up with Hezekiah to the house of the Lord Strange it was that hee in so short a space should measure the whole distance betwixt death and life yesterday dead in nature as unlikely to live as the sunne to goe backward and to morrow so strong that he could shew himselfe in the Lords courts This is wonderfull and this made him wondrous thankfull And what I pray wants thy deliverance of this how much lesse wonderfull how fast did sicknesse come in how fast did it gallop out how fast did it rise from scores to thousands how fast did it fall againe from thousands to scores London lay these things together and forget not him who hath done so great things for thee In the third place Hezekiah loves not to dispatch all at one journey hee begins his song assoone as mought be but t is not ended yet he hath left a patterne for thee to work by Thinke it not sufficient to complement God with a few words and a short song for along deliverance write this mercy with a pen of Diamond in a book of Marble call upon all within thee as David did within him to speake of this deliverance to childrens children and doe something that may set men on singing 500. yeares hence Thou hast sonnes of all sorts some Enginers some Artists some Poets some of excellent invention some of great activity some very daring and undertaking some strong some wise some rich of all ranks some call upon them some to write some to build some to invent some to give that cirie country Church State sea and land may take occasion thence of blessing God whilst London or England stands Now happy Hezekiah and happy sicknesse of his that ended so well his afflictions sent him to God with prayers his recovery with praises nor God nor man lost by this bargaine God had more service Hezekiah more experience we gaine a good coppy and Hezekiah hath his lease renewed for fifteene yeares And thus afflictions conclude which begin with prayer and end in thankfulnesse London make thy selfe againer by thy losse joine praises to thy former prayers grow more wise holy humble temperate just mercifull fruitfull and thou art a winner thy gaines exceed thy losses present and for the future thou hast opened a faire prospect to a constant peace The best security from future miseries is to profit by former beleeve it thou canst not take a better medecine against the Plague than to profit by what is past Now the Lord hath promised to

if I will heale my selfe I am raking in a channell whilst I am contemplating Gods excellencies I am in a garden of spices pardon me if I preferre this to that and in case I forget my owne name to magnifie Gods and be content to receive a scar that many may escape a wound hold mee excused it suffices mee that wisedome is satisfied As for wilfulnesse which will not yeeld to truth because t is wedded to fancy and passion and ignorance which names vertues and vices from the event they are unsatisfiable Me thinks this conclusion should content modesty If at any time in any thing I have given offence I humbly crave a par●on where none is given none will bee taken by the charitable For the rest I say with that Angelicall man let them be honest it sufficeth though I bee as a reede 2. Cor. 1.17 as a Reprobate 2. Cor. 13.7 And now my worthy friends let mee proceede in my exhortation Should I not love you I were not a man for your love to mee hath exceeded all desert and expectation and all the while some by occasion of your call have gamed more by my poore labours than I can possibly loose I have no reason to repent me of this acquaint ance but more abundant cause of blessing God and loving you only whereas I could not here to fore in person correspond as was fit let me at least in writing make that expression of my love that I am able before I goe the way of all flesh Now what expressions can be expected from a Preacber but praiers praises exhortations c When you dyed I prayed for you as I could now you live I rejoice with you and call upon you to sing with me And whereas as t is well noted we usually are best when worst and live best when wee dye fastest I call upon you as upon my selfe to remember your selves and not only cast as the Heathen teaches how to hold your owne but rather to exceed I ever dealt freely with you let me not now alter Famce saith that London is as couetous as proud as wanton as secure as ever I cannot beleeve it it is almost impossible that so great a judgement so gracious a deliverance should so soone be buryed Alas London thou hast as yet scarce buryed thy dead the noise of bels the cry of parents the scrichings of thy widdowes are not yet out of thine cares the grim face of death stands yet in thy sight thy bloudy wounds are scarcely stanched as yet If thou couldst forget judgements thou canst not bee unsensible of Gods mercies and thy change If London should yet doe not you Beloved let others security bee your feare others impenitency your sorrow and the lesse others take to heart Gods great Gods remarkeable workes by so much the more doe you improve the same to all holy purposes More would I say to you but that I have prevented my selfe in my more publique exbortation both that and this more privately spoken out of my speciall relation and affection to you I now commend to your serious consideration and Gods blessing who alone can speake to the heart beseeching him who therefore threatens that hee may not smite to give us cies to see plagues afarre off and hearts to profit by lesse that we may not feele plagues yet seven times more yet seven times worse than all yet felt Lev. 26. Amen Hanwell March 20. Yours ever in the Lord ROB. HARRIS GEntle Reader I entreate thee correct these faults being the most materiall with thy pen. In the Epist pag. 1. l. 8. read our p. 4. l. 9. for here r. fure ib. in marg r. servi In the Serm. p. 16. l. 23. r. no more p. 22. marg r. Videatur p. 26 l. 11. r. Noble Hezekiah p. 29. marg l 8. to r. quod p. 33. l. 11. r. finnefull povertie p. 41. marg r. Tacuimus p. 42. marg for vol. r. Reg. p. 43. l. 29. r. much HEZEKIAH'S RECOVERY ESA. 38.9 The writing of Hezekiah King of Iudah when hee had beene sicke and was recovered of his sicknes LO heere a double condition and behaviour of King Hezekiah 1. he was ficke and then he prayed 2. he is recovered and now he gives thankes Our businesse lyes in this latet part which is made up of these two 1. an Inscription 2. a Description of the Song The Description presents unto us the parts of it 1. an aggravation of Hezekiah's former misery 2. an amplification of the present mercie The Inscription acquaints us 1. with the author of the Song King Hezekiah 2. with the nature of it a Poem written 3. with the argument of it a Song of thankesgiving for the removeall of sicknes restoring of health And first to the first the passage is cleer sick Hezekiah prayes c. Sicke Hezekiah prayes found Hezekiah sings as comfort succeeds his crosse so praises his prayers Hence this After prayers praises Prayers and prayses do not so enterfaire that they can never be separated neither is there anie necessitie of premising pertitions to each particular thanksgiving onely in a generalitie this is regular when we have removed afflictions by prayer we should welcome deliverances with songs So much was 1. established by Law Levit. 3. 7. after sacrifices of pacification followed sacrifices of payments and thanksgiving 2ly ratified in the Gospell It s a generall Canon Is any afflicted what if Let him pray Is any merry what then Let him sing T is not unlawfull to pray in mirth to sing in miserie ordinarily but t is simply necessarie in afflictions ro be prayerfull in the midst of mercies to bee thankefull and to entertaine severall conditions with different behaviours Hereof is it that the Apostle S. Paul doth so often linke prayers and thanksgivings together as who would say when the one is put over you must passe to the other So much 3ly upon particular occasions is 1. prescribed by God 2. practised by his Saints Particulars will not bee needefull to men who know the generall course of Scriptures So much 4ly S. Iohn foretels and in a sort undertakes for sucoceding ages in his Revelat. What singing there should be after persecutions by Heathenish Rome hee foretels in his fift chapt what there was Eusebius reports especially in his last booke Againe what songs should follow upon the Churches deliverance from Rome Christian or other whether seducers or persecutors S. Iohn fore-prophesies time partly hath alreadie and more fully will hereafter discover So much 5ly Education and Reason taught Heathens and must perswade us For first if wee looke to God he is as the Prophet saith worthy to bee praised 1. all excellencie is his therefore all honour saith reason in Philosophers 2. All Religion is due to him therefore all thankes which is a religious act for to the highest Maiestie is due the loweft subjection and that is Religion which subjects the soule