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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45536	Prossō kai opissō a sermon eqvally pointing forvvard & backward, as it was deliver'd in the Vniversity Church of Saint Maries in Cambridge / by P.H., B. of Divinity, and sometime fellow of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge, in his forenoone course before that universitie, upon the 22 day of November, in the yeare 1640, being the beginning of this present parliament.	P. H.; Hardres, Peter.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1647 (1647)	Wing H702; ESTC R38787	23,179	42

ΠΡΟΣΣΩ ΚΑΙ ΟΠΙΣΣΩ A SERMON EQVALLY POINTING FORVVARD BACKWARD AS IT WAS DEliver'd in the Vniversity-Church of Saint Maries in CAMBRIDGE By P. H. B. of Divinity and sometime Fellow of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge In his Forenoone Course before that Universitie upon the 22. day of November in the yeare 1640 being the third Sunday after the beginning of this present PARLIAMENT Eccles. 1. v. 9 10. The thing that hath been is that which shall be that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the Sun Is there any thing whereof it may be said see this is new It hath been already of old time which was before us Virg. Sic illi oculos sic ora ferebant Printed in the Yeare 1647. To the READER REader whosoever thou art that dost scruple or make any doubt of the truth of the thing done in such manner time and place as the Title Page doth Preface Know that this Sermon verbatim being preach'd in the very beginning of this Parliament ●efore the whole Universitie and a good part of the Towne of Cambridge there are many Hundreds of People that can attest and justifie every tittle in the Title Page yet living every where howsoever distress'd or wheresoever dispers'd throughout this Spacious Kingdome The Author is a Priest and graduated in Divinitie in the time of Ignorance and Popery before the Gospell here in England otherwise he is a Gentleman of a very good and ancient House and Extraction A Gentleman and a Schollar note that for Blood and Learning Generositie and Breeding they are the two intire constitutive Principles of a Malignant as compleat as Matter and Forme of a Naturall Body Out upon them both for wheresoever they meet in one there needs no further Proofe you may certainly and infallibly conclude such a Person an enemy to this our State Reprobate and altogether untractable to this Blessed Reformation The Publishing of this Sermon I assure thee not upon the Publique Faith but in the word of an honest man is not with the Author's Notice much lesse his Consent which indeed was never a●●●d wee supposing it to be with him as it is generally with all other Malignants who though they be no whit asham'd yet are very much afraid of their Malignancy It remaines then onely that thou beest rightly inform'd why this Sermon being Preach'd so long agoe came not to publique view long before or why it is just now held forth Not Before because the publishing of it before might justly have beene interpreted very prejudiciall to the wisedome of the Managers of this Holy Warre as if they had not had sufficient Abilities of understanding and judgement to carry on this Holy Cause and businesse of their Holy Covenant unlesse they had had this Patterne or some such Copy set before their eyes whereby to direct their whole Counsells and Actions But now that the Worke is so done as the most envious Malignant cannot say that ever any of their Predecessours in any Age have gone beyond them It is very seasonable yea requisite and necessary indeed to present to all the world this following Discourse and that for this re●son which if you marke it will plainly inferre the necessity For seeing that all the Orthodox painfull and Godly ministers put into the severall Benefices of this Kingdome by this Blessed Parliament both in their single exercises upon their Cures and when they have exercised some 4 or 5 one over anothers head upon solemne humiliation dayes have wrought powerfully upon the dullest capacities both of City and Country and contributed much yea very much by their labour in the Cause and mannagement of this holy Warre but more especially seeing that the Reverend Assembly of Divines did not only pray preach exhort and counsell to this effect but also did worke wonders dispense with Oathes as much as ever the Papists can boast their Pope to have done and make the very Scriptures themselves especially in the English Welsh and Scotch Languages conformable and subordinate to this holy Warre and holy Covenant as much as to their owne Presbytery and beautifull Discipline It is then most expedient and necessary that this Sermon be now printed for the justification and vindication both of the one and of the other from the slander and obloquie of the Reprobate Wicked Cavalier-Prelatists and of the Separatists and Independents that all the world may see understand attest and give judgement that neither the Parliaments Orthodox Ministers have taught incited or stirr'd up the people to any thing nor the Reverend Assembly of Divines have directed or counsel'd any thing in this holy Warre and this holy Covenant for which the word doth not both hint and hold forth a most cleer Text and warrant as you shall find it written NUMB. 16.3 And they gather'd themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them Ye take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation are holy every one of them and the Lord is among them wherefore then lift you up youselves above the Congregation of the Lord MY Text presents unto you a famous Rebellion in the Iewish state which shewes the Antiquitie of this sinne although perhaps not that height of wicked Policy so fully reach't and accomplish't by the villainous cunning inventions of after-ages for Nihil inventum perfectum eodem tempore never was any thing so exactly at first excogitated invented or found out as nothing could be added by succeeding ages to compleat and perfect it Yet the sinne of Rebellion although perhaps not now first devis'd yet sure but in its Cradle and infancy especially as it hath reference relation to this state of the Iewes by computation of time in all probabilitie not two yeares old since their freedome from the AEgyptian bondage wanted so little already of its full perfection that here in this frame you may behold the compleat forme and figure of it with all parts and Lineaments fully integrated Nay and many accidentall perfections though not all which were added to every part as it grew from strength to strength till it came to its just Bulk and Stature As in the body of an infant you may find every part of a man as Front and Eye Hand Leg although not the severall graces and comelinesse of every of these parts as the majestick rise of the Fore-head and vigorous quicknesse of the Eye the pure whitenesse of the Hand and the decent proportion of the Leg untill this infant be growne to some consistent measure both of height and bignesse So I say here in this rebellious act is represented every part and limbe of Rebellion and after-ages have but added a cleanly contrivance and carriage to some of these parts that rebelling may appeare more gracefull and comely to the eye of the world as by the viewing of the severall particulars in my Text will more plainly appeare Where you have Rebelles The Rebels

and had made their partie strong and good then and not till then they come forth with their saying Et dixerunt eis c. 2. Et dixerunt eis The voice of Rebellion is not usually so soft and gentle in such unlawfull assemblies you shall commonly heare of an Exclamarunt a loud clamor or a vociferarunt a gaping outcry such as was heard at Ephesus for the space of two houres when the people cried out Great is Diana of the Ephesians and indeed when the heart hath once transgrest the bounds of loyalty and obedience and the hand unsheath'd a sword against the Lords Anointed 't is hard for such a slippery member as the tongue to keep it selfe within the bounds of modestie and due respect Yet such Rebels as these that rely not so much upon their owne power as the peoples favour must make use of such cunning arts and devises as are likely to gaine their good opinions and therefore at first they keep downe the swelling pride of their hearts from breaking out in the uncivil language of the tongue that although they be not innocent yet by the sequels of innocency faire speeches and submissive remonstrations they may with more facility instill the venome of their rebellion into the hearts of the Congregation but Naturam expellas furcâ licet usque recurrer a flame pent in and refrain'd will at last burst out though they begin here with a Civill dixerunt they fall presently to an uncivill exclamation Nimium arrogatis and an immodest expostulation Quare elevamini c. Gravaminum remonstratio A Remonstrance or Declaration of their grievances c. Nimium arrogatis quare elevaminis Wherefore doe yee lift up your selves It seemes they accuse them of Intrusion and usurpation that they had taken upon them more then they could answer by lifting themselves up and intruding into the chaire of State and See of Ecclesiasticall government without any order or Institution from Almighty God and if this be their grievance they complaine of they themselves must needs know 't was an impudent Lye for 't was not long before and they could not but heare of it how God had much ado to impose this office of governmēt upon Moses who sought to divert God from his intention purpose by many excusive arguments as you may read Exo. 3 4. The first argument is drawne à conditione personae from the meanes of his Person Who am I that I should goe unto Pharaoh and that I should bring the children out of AEgypt The second is drawne à Populi incredulitate They will not believe me nor hearken to me for they will say The Lord hath not appeared unto thee The third is drawne à naturali impedimento Alas Lord non sum facundus For I am a man of a slow speech and a slow tongue Well when God had answered all these arguments Moses to shew his aversenesse from any such aspiring desire breaks out too uncivilly in the fourth place with a mitte Domine quem missurus es Send Lord I beseech thy Messias and Saviour of the world whom thou intend'st to send insomuch that God in plaine termes fell out with him And the anger of the Lord was kindled against him So that you see Moses was much importuned by God himselfe to take this office upon him and after he had entred upon it the crossenesse and frowardnesse of the Congregation quickly made him weary of it which made him complain to God I am not able to beare all this people alone for 't is too heavy for me Insomuch that God was faine to joyne 70 of the Elders of Israel to beare the burthen of the people with him It seemes Moses was of that Princes mind who feelingly said That if a man did but know the care sollicitude and trouble of Government Coronan jacentem non tolleret He would not take up a Crowne no not so much as from the ground to weare it And as for Aaron he was called to the Priestly Function and eminency in the Church by Almightie God himselfe and consecrated by Moses at God's appointment to that office in the face of the Congregation so that he was lifted up too by Divine Institution and therefore these Rebells must needs know that 't was a manifest untruth and an impudent Lye to say that they usurp't this Power and Authorite or lifted themselves up above the Congregation And here you may observe the base nature and corrupt disposition of Rebellion breaking out for the most part in ulcerous calumnies and putrified accusations for Rebells especially such as these who ambitiously aime at Supremacy cannot with any probabilitie or likelyhood hope to attaine their ends unlesse they can bespatter their Moses with some foule aspersions either with defects in his Person as Illegitimation Usurpation or Vitiousnesse in manners as Injustice inconstancy in Religion or Disabilities for Government as Sloth Negligence and the like And when they can find no just cause for these odious imputations then they seeke by Infamous Libells and false rumours and base reports and black-mouth'd calumny to sully his white and pure name as these Rebells here most maliciously charg'd Moses and Aaron with usurpation Nimum arrogatis quare elevamini 2. Super Congregationem above the Congregation Although these great men here had raysed this Rebellion for their own private ends to satisfie their Pride and ambition yet in the expression of their Grievances they seeme to aime at the Peoples good and pretend nothing more then the redressement of their opposed injuries as though their Priviledges and Libertie were extorted and wrested from them by this exaltation of Moses and Aaron above the Congregation And indeed this is a cunning policy of these Rebells for knowing their owne weaknes and inability to over-top their Soveraign without the Peoples help and aide 't is requisite that upon all occasions they should both ingratiate themselves with them and also palliate and keepe close their ambitious designes from their intelligence And therefore in their publique Declarations and Remonstrances Populum crepant they insist much upon the pretended Wrongs and Grievances of the Congregation as if they had undertooke this quarrell onely for their benefit and therefore they charge Moses and Aaron in the behalfe of the Congregation and in the next place they insert a universall Signe in the favour of the people Since all the Congregation c. 3. Super Congregationem Domini above the Congregation of the Lord Here they begin their Religious Plots and Sanctified Policies they thinke themselves safe and secure from all stormes and winds if they can but shrowd themselves sub Nomine Domini under the Name of the Lord Those in the seventh of Ierem. that stole and murder'd and committed Adultery and swore falsely thought themselves free from all Thunder-claps so they did but cry Templum Domini templum and the Devill 's instruments in a●te-rages made such