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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77434	Errours and induration, are the great sins and the great judgements of the time. Preached in a sermon before the Right Honourable House of Peers, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, July 30. 1645. the day of the monethly fast: / by Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1645 (1645)	Wing B459; Thomason E294_12; ESTC R200181	39,959	57

among them without all hazard of persecution Is this humour diminished to this day Or with a little change doth it not predomine yet in many We must still excell all other Churches in our Government In place of Episcopacie we will have a new Popularity Just the old Brownism of the rigid Separatists covered with the new name of Independency For after triall it will be found that this new and Middle way as it is called is really the extremity of the most rigid Separation That it is not a semi but a sesqui-Separation Independency is not a se●i but a sesqui-separation That for the smaller crotchets of the Brownists which they lay aside they adde more errors of a worse stamp which the old Separatists were wont much to detest But to swe●ten our new eminency above other Protestants it must be mixed with a Liberty of Conscience not that for which the King Court and Bishops were lately so much cryed out upon The toleration onely of Papists or any one false Religion but a full and Catholike Liberty for all imagiuable kindes of false Religion much more then to this day was ever required either in Amsterdam or Pall or Transilvania or any where else where the licentiousnesse of erring in the great wrath of God hath been permitted to dwell Upon these things the godly would look not as upon a subject of talking or an incentive of wrath and indignation against the persons of any but to be matter of heart-grief and mourning to the Lord in our secret places In the end of this Catalogue of publike sins thou wouldst have annexed a Register of thy personall provocations When thou hast brought the Candle of Gods Word and Spirit within thy own house and within the Cabinet of thy own brest doubtlesse thou wilt behold so many abominations both fleshly and spirituall that will be just cause of watering thy Couch with thy tears and pouring out thy heart before the face of the Lord if thou wer able in tears of blood A third help to softnesse of heart A third Cure of hardnesse is Motives to fear is Motives to fear for this hardnesse of heart proceedeth as from misbelief and impenitency so also from security wherefore in our Text it is opposite to fear Why hast thou hardned our hearts from thy fear And Josiah so soon as tendernesse of heart came upon him began to fear and tremble So Motives to fear are helps to softnesse and cures for hardnesse of heart Of these I point shortly but at three The Judgements of God on others His Mercies to us And if these affect not The Wrath yet to come on us For the first 1 Judgements on others we would oft remember the examples given us by God Who ever thou art thou hast thy patern from God Be thou a Church-man a Citizen a Knight an Earl a Duke a Prince how hath the Lord scourged divers of thy Coat lately before thy eyes wounded killed impoveriffied disgraced many and put others to stand this day on the brink of ruine and worldly misery Were they the greatest sinners on whom the Tower of Siloam fell Or they whose blood Pilate mingled with their Sacrifice The Lords remark on these Judgements was That except we repent we shall all likewise perish The late Judgements which God hath inflicted on many of thy quality are loud words to thee that thou mayest fear and tremble that thy heart may melt within thee for thy sins lest the Lord make thee a spectacle of Judgement to others who by the miseries of others wouldst not be taught to repent Again Remember the great mercies of the Lord 2 Mercies on us For there is mercy with God that he may be feared The speciall means whereby Nathan softned the heart of David after it had been long hardned in sin with Bathsheba was a Catalogue of Gods mercies towards him 2 Sam. 2. I d●livered thee out of the hand of Saul I made thee King over Israel I gave thee thy masters house and if that had been too little I would have given thee more Why hast thou despised my Commandment The ointment of mercy is most softning of it gracious heart when it groweth into hardnesse It s good to have a Register of Gods favours both to the publike and thy person Consider all that the Lord hath done lately for the Church and Kingdom If the Malignant party had prevailed as once they were too like to have done if their Tyranny in Church and State had been established by the overthrow of the gracious party in the whole Isle what wofull days should have come upon us and the posterity That the Lord hath heard our Prayers and from the heaven hath done so many and so great things for us That we are in so fair a way to have both Church and State setled according to Truth and Justice That for our persons we have been guided aright in the common Cause that when so many greater wiser better then we have been given over to the counsels of their own hearts to joyn with the enemy for their own disgrace and wrack That the Lord should have kept thy heart strait and hold ●● thee on thee side wherein was Justice Truth and the blessing of God That in that party the Lord hath taken any service at thy hand when many more able and as willing have been unserviceable That thy life thy limbs thy estate are preserved when this service hath cost many their life some their limbs some their estates These and the like favours would be remembred for the softning of our heart In the third place 3 Greater Judgements yet coming if neither Judgements on others nor mercies on thy self will move consider what remedilesse evils may shortly be the reward of so great a contempt When Nabals heart grew like a stone within him the hand of God did in a little time cut him off by death When neither Judgements nor mercies bring a heart to fear the Lord usually pours out the full Vials of his heaviest wrath It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hand of that consuming fire We would do well to be lifting up our eyes to that invisible Spirit whom the world cannot see To behold his hand guiding all the wheels of publike and private affairs Were our State much better setled then yet for a long time it can be if he be miskent he can cast down in a moment more then men can build in many yeers If he be not feared and sought to he will so crosse and confound the guides of Church and State that when they are at the end of the Wildernesse on the very borders of Canaan he can bring them back to toil in the Wildernesse till they die without so much as a sight of that Canaan though once they had come very neer unto it Albeit the publike did prosper yet the fearfull wrath of God for thy hardnesse of heart may light on thy