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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34747	The nail & the wheel the nail fastned by a hand from heaven, the wheel turned by a voyce from the throne of glory / both described in two severall sermons in the Green-yard at Norwich by John Carter, pastor of Great St. Peters.	Carter, John, d. 1655.	1647 (1647)	Wing C654A; ESTC R34786	76,219	107

what hath made England so rich What but this The Lord hath given England rest and the inhabitants have been as fixed nayls in a sure place To apply this shortly Is a fixed and setled condition such a sweet blessing And is it so grievous to be driven from our habitations Then Let us sympathize with our brethren the poor servants of God that in Germany Ireland and in the North and West of England are plucked out of their pleasant places and now are tossed as a ball from place to place and with Noahs Dove cannot find rest for the sole of their foot Alas Alas for our poore brethren the deare servants of God! What miseries do they endure They wander up and down in the desert out of the way and they find no dwelling place hungry and thirsty and their soul faints within them Or as Job They flee into the wildernesse desolate and waste they cut up mallows by the bushes and juniper roots for their meat the springs and fountains if at least they can meet with any are to quench their thirst Oh let our bowels be troubled for them Let 's relieve them to our power and let us pray for them earnestly and incessantly that the Lord would bring home his banished again and restore them to their country and to their habitation and settle them as a naile in a sure place And for our selves learn we to esteem and prize our own happinesse in these associated Counties We sit every man under his Vine and under his Fig-tree and none makes us afraid We enjoy peace and plentie and libertie and proprietie and friends and all in our own Land where we were born And above all we have the adoption and the glory and the Covenants and the Gospell and the Service of God and the promises and the Communion of the faithfull Oh let us praise the Lord for his goodnesse Let us walk answerable to so great mercies let us make use of our standing and improve all our advantages to the glory of our bountifull God and let us pray unto the Lord incessantly to fasten us still as a nayl in a sure place The fourth and last particular now presents it self to your view viz. The end and use of this nayl Erit in solium gloriae He shal be for a glorious throne to his Fathers house And concerning this many things might be spoken but because I have held you too long already I shall only commend unto you in a word this Observation To what end we are fastened in our places Let Magistrates Ministers and every one here present duly consider wherefore they serve namely to bear burdens for the honour of God and for the glory of their Countrie and Citie and fathers house Joseph made his fathers house glorious he enriched it with the wealth with the treasures of Aegypt and made it famous and renowned through all the world as it is to this day Our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ who is the Nayl spoken of Zach. 10. 4. He is the glory of his fathers house even of the people Israel I speak first to the chief Magistrate and then to every one in his place Know that you ought not to be for your base private ends for your own honour and wealth but you must be men of publique spirits you must be for the good and for the glory of your Citie and your Countrie of the Church and Common-wealth You must endevour the publique good before your own You must be content to bear any load of pains or charge to procure the wealth and prosperity of the Kingdom that the reformation may be perfected true Religion established Popery superstition and the proud tyrannicall Hierarchy may be utterly extirpated the rights and priviledges of Parliement and the liberties of the Kingdom preserved That the Kings person and authority in the preservation of true Religion may be defended that the peace of the Kingdoms may be continued that delinquents may be brought to condigne punishment that England may be made a sure place a happie Nation a famous Kingdom Know that you are set for a throne of glory Be all of you for the honour of your Citie for the glory of Norwich Make it famous and happie this year Mind not your own things but the publique benefit The devise of Alphonsus King of Arragon was this A Pellican pecking her brest and drawing out blood wherewith to feed her young the word Pro lege pro grege So should every good Magistrate not count his blood dear for the welfare of the people The Motto of Aelius Adrianus the Emperour was Non mihi sed populo A man set in authority should not be for himself for his own profit or ease but all for advancing the common good Abate of your excesse make lesse and fewer feasts and do more good for the publique Lay lesse upon your backs and do more for the publique I know what people are ready to say for themselves That if Mayors and Sheriffes shall not make as great feasts at Sessions and other times as others before them they should be disgraceed and talked on all the Town over they should be counted covetous and miserable and people would say they knew not what doth belong to their office and it would be a dishonour to the Citie Alas alas my beloved Is it for the honour of your Citie to have Sodoms Character That pride fulnesse of bread and abundance of idlenesse is in her Gentlemen if any shall jeer you for not feasting as your predecessours as if you knew not what belongs to your places Answer them as once Themistocles did who being at a sumptuons feast and not singing with the rest of the jovial company and meeting with some checks for his silence he said unto them I confess I have not learned to sing to the pipe at feasts but I have learned rempublicam ex parva magnam facere to raise a Common-wealth from a poor estate to a flourishing condition So do you answer all the world You have not learned to squander away vast sums of money in rich clothing sumptuous and excessive feasts but you have learned to lay out your money better and to part with your estate freely even to the utmost farthing for the publick safety and good I beseech you be for a throne of glory be all for the honor of your City and Country Usually you shal hear men boast much of their Country City Progenitors and they brag that they were born in such a famous place or that they are descended of such illustrious ancestors as if that were such egregious and singular nobility which consists in the vertues and noble acts of their forefathers Such cracks as these the Poet rightly reprehendeth and jerks Stemmata quid faciunt c. What is it to thee if thy progenitors were Noble Heroicall Vertuous If thou in the mean time be un-deserving unworthy and base Let me therefore tel you

not one stone left upon another There 's one dayes difference saith Sencca upon occasion of the burning of a stately City betwixt the greatest City and none What should I speak of Families A few descents makes them ancient and a century or two of years wears them quite out they are like Jona's Gourd flourish for an evening and in the morning smitten withered forgotten their names and stems worn out One generation passeth another cometh none stayeth Upon this Theater of the earth how doth man act his part how neer is his exit to his entrance Man that is born of a woman is of few dayes and full of trouble He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he ●leeth also as a shaddow and never continueth in one stay now he is rich presently poore now in health presently sick now he is alive and in a moment he is gone down to the grave This mutability of all Mundane things the ancient Heathens were sensible of and did signifie by the name and posture of their Goddesse Fortune She was called Vortuna à Vorto from turning and she was pictured sitting upon a wheel to shew what her chief work was viz. Ima summis summa imis commiscere to bring in vicissitudes of all things to raise a man to the top of honour riches happinesse and then to turn him down again to the bottom of infamy poverty misery The whole world what is it but a Sphere It consists ex stante moto centro scilicet circumferentia of fixed and moved viz. of center and circumference The earth is fixed and standeth fast and all other things move and turn round about it as a circle or the ring of a wheel which whirles about continually that which is first is last and that which is last is first and nothing abides at a stay all things are unstable and voluble To make some application of this to our selves And first Are all things in the world but as so many wheeles so many rolling things Let the consideration of this serve to take down the pride of the great men of the world Let not the rich man glory in his riches nor the mighty man in his strength nor the honourable man in his dignity and preferment Why because of the instability of all things Rota erigendo cadit The wheel whilest it lifts up it self it falls And he that 's highest of all now may in a little space be low euough Proud Nebuchadnezzar walks upon the battlements of the stately Palace of his Kingdom and said Is not this great Babel that I have built for the honour of my Majesty But while the word was in the Kings mouth there fell a voice from heaven which cryed O Wheel Oh King Nebuchadnezzar to thee it is spoken Thy Kingdom is departed from thee And he was presently brought low enough to dwell with the beasts of the field to eat grasse with the oxen and to be wet with the dew of heaven Fortunate Belisarius the great Lord Generall under Justinian He was honored and feared of all nations Victorious in all his expeditions such a favorite of the Emperor that in his Coin was stamped on the one side Justinian on the other side Belisarius and over Belisarius the Emperor put this inscriptione Romanorum decus The Romans glory So great a man so triumphing upon the top of the wheel through envy which ever follows vertue and eminency was quickly brought to the lowest his eys put out and he compelled to beg his bread in the temple of Sophia day by day and this was his form of prayer Panem Belisario date quem virtus extulit in vidia oppressit Give a piece of bread to Belisarius whom vertue advanced envy oppressed Thou therefore that with Capernaum art even lift up to heaven be not insolent thou knowest not how soon thou mayst be brought down to hel Exalt not thy self over proudly above thy brethren I meet with an ancient story it commonly goeth along with Ezekiels wheels I wil give it you shortly and leave it to your selves to apply Sesostris King of Aegypt a potent and victorious Prince when he rid in triumph he compelled four conquered Kings to draw his golden Chariot which they did patiently because they could not avoid it One of the four kings that drew cast his eye continually upon the Chariot wheel and being demanded the reason by Sesostris he made answer I see in this wheel the mutability of all worldly things That part of the wheel which is neerest heaven is presently upon the earth This made such an impression in Sesostris that he would never afterwards suffer his Chariot to be drawn by Kings nor yet by men but carryed himself more humbly and gently The application is easy as I said at first and therefore I leave it to you I think within these few years we have seen amazing changes in the Crown in the Mitre in the Army in the Church in the State and in the City Let me speak on a little further and make a second Use Are all things in this world but turning wheels Instable and rouling Then set not your heart on any thing here below This I say brethren It remaineth that they that have wives be as though they had none and they that weep as though they wept not and they that rejoyce as though they rejoyced not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that use this world as not abusing it because the fashion of this world passeth away Where the world is compared to a ghost or apparation that appears and soon vanisheth or to a shew upon a stage there 's a great pomp every one acts their part and on the suddain the play is done ther 's and end of all Set not your heart on that which is transitory not on the turning wheel but upon him that moves the wheel namely upon God God made all things changeable saith Augustine that we might rest on him only and in him who is unchangeable immutable He is the father of lights with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning Therefore is it rightly said that God is mans proper place wherein he ought to rest as in his center and end All things which are made have their certain place and term God created the heaven and filled it with Angels he created the earth and filled it with beasts and plants and creeping things he created the sea and filled it with fishes he created the aire and filled it with flying fouls What proper place is now left for man Or what wil God now give unto man wherein he may rest All other places are taken up and ful already Therefore when there was nothing else left to give to man God gave himself to man God himself would be mans inheritance and resting place All other places are restless and ful of change only God is immutable and changeth not I said says