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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87669	The messengers preparation for an addresse to the King for a well-grounded peace. As it was delivered in a sermon, at Oxford, on Sunday, Novemb. 24. 1644. Before the commissioners of both kingdomes, the morning before their presenting the propositions to His Majestie. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing K252; Thomason E21_20; ESTC R14495	21,882	36

Land rest is to tender and make such Propositions to God as may get sin out of the heart and pardoned and God reconciled To conclude this Reason I may truely say we trouble our selves and bid much but this one thing is necessary 3. Argument Because the Lord takes no notice of easie performances or lazie prayers He expects if the Church be in necessity and we sensible of it that we should use importunity It becoms His Majesty to be so sought unto for such like mercies 36 Ezek. Vers 37. I will yet for this be inquired after saith the Lord c. A man that will have his Vineard to thrive and be fruitfull must labour and worke in it and a man that will have his prayer thrive must labour in prayer it must be his daily Trade 2 Cor. 1.11 You also ldbouring for us in prayers God will never answer a lazie begging Christian we must not be reporters of the Churches necessities but petitioners Yea petitioners with a kind of holy impudency not to be put off with privitive silence or positive deniall Nay although God seeme to affront us for the present yet must we give God no rest no not hold our peace untill he make his Church the praise of the whole carth Our labouring in prayers will soonest bring the Church to rest from calamities You never found any rich mercy obtained by lazie dutie easie seldom performances produce slow remedies a straitned Church cals for an active and inlarged heart And mark it ever when the Church prayes with most ease it reapes the least profit or comfort when prayer is a pennance or irksome exercise to us as in 1. Mulachy many say what a wearinesse it is and snuffe at it it is never an acceptable service for us But he that is laborious and active in duty cannot long be passive under misery labouring in prayer is that which puts God upon expedition he cannot long delay us or deny us if we industriously ply the work of Prayer And as a remedie to cure this malady in prayer by the way take this Recipe wouldst thou amend thy easie praying repent of thy active sinning You shall never shew me a man that is active and laborious in sinning but I will show you the man that is and must of necessity be easie and lazie-hearted in praying 4. Argument Because proportionable duty hath Gods promise intailed upon it sames 5.16 The prayer of the righteous availeth much if it be servent ever marke this the more servency the more prevalency David in Psal 14.1 desireth that his praier may come up before the Lord as incense and you know incense never went up without fire Prayers of words are to our and the Churches necessities and against our Enemy as Powder without Ball which may make a great noyse and terrifie for a time but hurts them not nor helpes us Of all the Elements the Naturallists observe fire gets neerest to heaven and of all meanes a zealous fervent praier gets neerest to the God of heaven Our earthie cold-hearted prayers are like a Bell which whilst it lyeth on the ground can make no musick but when steepled then it sounds loud cold or luke-warme water can never fetch out the blood or rawnesse of slesh it must have fire put to it to make it fit for nourishment cold prayers can never fetch out the corruption and scum of our filthy hearts no a heavenly fire must prepare our prayers for Gods digestion 5. Argument In regard of the Churches mercies and deliverances that we stand in need of mercy appeareth best when by a proportionable duty we blazon out our miserie it is a disparagement to Nationall mercy to come at the summons of halfe-dutie or dutie performed by halves raggs and torne pieces of duty are unbecoming mercy descending from majesty Every good and perfect gift saith S. Iames comes from the Father of lights and if upon easie requests we would soone slight them if we could get mercy easily we would forget it as easily who prodigall away their estates sooner then they that never sweat to gaine a penny of it that penny that is got with most labour and trudging for is not so usually rioted away in excesse but hoarded up That Samuel that Hanna can with difficulty wrastle out of Gods hand shall be dedicated to his service all the daies of his life the things that cost us deare we ever prize most those Colours we take with hazard of life are charily laid up as Trophies of honour truly it much advanceth friendship when it appeares in necessity and it doeth as much heighten mercie when we gaine it in our faintings for it when in the Mount God is seen he can rarely be forgot 6. Argument Because the heart of the King is in the Lords hand and he is able to turne it which way soever pleaseth him every way of a man is right in his own eyes but the Lord ordereth the heart Prov. 21.1.2 yea more for your incouragement to performe exactly Proportionable duty the answer of the tongue is from the Lord Prov. 16.19.21 There are many devices in mans heart neverthelesse the counsell of the Lord that shall stand Job 33.12 God is greater then man and ordereth him at pleasure Psal 33.10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of Princes to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect Isaiah 46.11 My counsell shall stand and I will performe all my pleasure c. Vers 12. Hearken unto me you stout-hearted that are far from righteousnesse I hold out all these Scriptures to you as lights to show you where the Kings heart is and who hath the ordering of it it is out of his owne hands a decree sealed by the King is nothing to oblige Ahashuerosh if God wil have it reversed concerning his people Nay although it appeare so it is not in Hamans hand to dispose on nay with comfort I dare speake it the Kings heart is not in Digbys or Hydes or any other such Haman-like hands in the world no it is in the Lords hands God altered the heart of Abimilech Gen. 20. Laban thought his heart to be in his owne hand to act against acob he pursued after him seven dayes Gen. 31.23 but read the 24 Vers God commands him to speake to lacob nothing but good and to enter into Covenant and to blesse them Balak thought it in the power of his heart to curse the people Numb 22. ult sends to Balaam a Sorcerer to this purpose Balaams heart is not in his owne power In the 8. Vers Lodge heere and I will bring you word againe as the LORD shall speake unto me Read what followes Vers 12. and Vers 24. Numb 13. There is no sorcery against acob See 8. Esay 9.10.11 It is not to be held by counsells Saul had spent much time in the pursuit of David and his heart was set for evill against him and yet God upon their meeting disposeth of his heart and

tongue to blesse him read 1 Sam. 26.25 Princes hearts have been nay they still are there you see it is but improving of proportionable Nationall and Personall interests and strength with our God in duty and without all question we may gaine this eminent mercy and have his heart with us before his person who thinks on or grudgeth his hazardous voyage to the Indies when he considereth a probability of getting gold pearles and diamonds we never think of the hardships of warfare and the difficulty of duties when we are bent upon honour and were we resolved for Nationall mercy and such a blessing as the Kings heart to subscribe to the just desires of all his Kingdomes we should not stick at any duty if we were but a little love-sick of mercy it would break a little more out of our lips And thus having given you reasons for this truth I shall supplicate you for a little patience whilest I apply it Vse 1. for information of us how much they are to blame that do not at this day supply the lamentable imploring necessities of the Church of God in both Kingdomes But are extreame short in dutie if they consider the length heighth depth and bredth of their misery little water will not quench or decrease a great fire no rather increase the flame the taking away a little blood will not cure a calenture the body must in such a case be brought low the leaving of a few grosse sins not cure the Churches evill nor the simple performance of monethly duties no the Church of God is brought low but our hearts are not brought low no they must if we will ever do good on it be brought much lower yet 2 Such as consider not at all or take no notice or looke a squint on the Churches misery Amos 6.1 Woe to those that are at ease in Zion and trust in the mountaines of Samaria that put farre from them the evill of the Nation and lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves on couches and cat the lambs out of the flock and calves out of the shall and so Vers 3.6 That chaunt to the sound of the viole and invent to themselves instruments of musiick That drink wine-in bowles and annoint themselves with the chiefe oyntments but they are not grieved for the affliction of Ioseph How many in the Kingdome keeping the Churches fasting dayes as feasting dases instead of neither eating nor drinking day nor night drinke if not cat day and night 3 Such as delay the answering the Churclies necessity in misery by performance of proportionable dutie like Salemons sluggard A little more sleep a little more slumber and a little more folding of the hands and so misery cats in like a gangrene it is an old saying Quod cito fit bis fit An opportune remedy is a double curtesie he that helps at a pinch helpes to purpose he that cryeth spare the child when the stripes are given gives little ease gets little thanks O that we would know what belongs to the Churches peace Luk. 19.41 in this our day before these recovering mercies are hid from our eyes he speaks too late to the Judge for a reprieve when the ladder is turned It may be God will now heare and grant to morrow he will not In Cant. 2. the Church that drowsily neglected her safety after in the third Chapter seeks it night and day but found it not It 's good stepping into the poole upon the motion of the waters if you misse your wind you may lose your voyage the season hath pantings and swounding fits already take heed it go not away in one of these fits Fourthly they also are much to blame who proportion their duties to the measure of their own pressing necessities and so are injurious to the cause of the Church of God Jeremy was not hurt for the hurt of himself but the daughter of his people Many are praying and fasting for their owne interests no Esther thinks not of her self but her people so it must not be thy life or my life or thine or my goods estate children c. or thy personall suffering that must affect thee and afflict thee but the sufferings of all the members of Jesus Christ In all their afflictions thou must be afflicted and for them all thou hast must be hazarded And now Right Honourable and wel-beloved suffer me to come to you in a word of Exhortation with some few Motives and I shall conclude all with supplications for God to guide your hearts to such personall preparations that you may this day find favour in the sight of God and the King and return at least with hopes of Peace or some small branch to show the waters are abated and that God in due time will cause the Arke which is the Church of God to rest safe upon the mountaines of hope 2. Use of Exhortation That by way of preparation for your addresse to His Majesty for the Churches preservation you and the Church of God would learne and practice that lesson that you may be praisefull and powerfull You see Esthers practice for her distressed people Nay you see the three Kingdomes like that man that fell among theeves wounded and bleeding to death Oh be not like the hard-hearted Priests and Levites that minded more the market then their neigbours misery But put on the good Samaritans compassion and goe and doe likewise let your bowels yerne towards the poore wounded Lazerated halfe dead kingdomes looke out for oyle betimes to poure into the deepe wounds of it O apply such playsters as may eate out the putrifying cores and if yet you cannot heale yet keepe open and sweet the wounds of the Church of God I know you are men of skill and know how to doe it you indeed with those Honourable Houses that sent you under God are the Physitians must doe it It is you that must heale up the wounds make up the breaches that must bring backe God to his people and fetch the Kings heart to his God and your selves and his People And I heartily pray there may be found no Mountebanks amongst you who are more affected with the goods of the Nation then the good of the Nation such who mount the Stage to vent old drugs by faire bumbasted expressions for wholesome and new Physick The Lord give you skill also to discover all such if any before they too much retard the Churches cure The Lord make you all men of affections and bowels to lay to heart and pitty the Kingdomes wounds Nay thirdly men of diligence neglecting no opportunity the losse of time may be the losse of life Now if ever pray for good successe Indeed the condition of the three Kingdomes doth not onely require it but the distressed of the Land expect that you croud thorough all difficulties and carnall reasonings and by any meanes represent their condition to the Lord in the way of extraordinary duty I could wish we would at