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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42490	Megaleia theou, Gods great demonstrations and demands of iustice, mercy, and humility set forth in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemn fast, before their first sitting, April 30, 1660 / by John Gauden ...	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G364; ESTC R16267	41,750	78

no man can as to these be at any time unable if he be not unwilling here impotency is impiety God strictly observes all wilfull and presumptuous transgressions and will be the avenger of them not is he to be deceived or satisfied with any formal excuses and pretentions used by wily hypocrites who offer chaff instead of good weat no more than he can be escaped or reresisted by any tyrannique power and insolencies when he maketh inquisition for these notorious omissions of Iustice Mercy and Humility which are the summaries of all good Laws and the seminaries of all piety grace and vertue nor shall these words of God which drop like the rain and gentle dew from heaven return in vain but will be swift witnesses against any soul whose barrenness presages it is nigh to our sing and burning for these laws and lessons as from Mount Sinai are with thunder and lightning Gods demonstrations are not only true but terrible armed with omnipotency never to be bafled pregnantly shewed by their own perspicuity and powerfully exacted by the divine severity who will carry himself frowardly or contrarily and as I may say with an uncondescending height and divine stiffness against those that are not humble in his sight resisting the proud and withdrawing mercy from the merciless yea requiring the justice of punishment on us because the justice of obedience is not done by us Ideo enim patimur justitiam quia non agimus as St. Bernard speaks for this is by the eternal vengeance still inculcated in hell as Virgil expresseth Discite justitiam moniti ne temnite divos while the Furies with their flaming iron whips flagellis ferreis flagrantibus do compel wicked and unjust men to suffer that justice which they refused to do to God to Man to themselves and others But I have done with the first general in which I observed the occasion and authority of this Demonstration Secondly I now come to the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} thing demonstrated the grand lesson which God teacheth so clearly and constantly to all men at all times these are denoted under these three grand heads Iustice Mercy and Humility These are considerable 1. Conjunctim joyntly 2. Divisim severally in their united and distinct aspects 1. Consider them together and they afford us six things considerable First The paucity of these magna mandata or summè requisita grand demands The Lord lays but a few things upon us Tria sunt omnia a sacred Trinity of Precepts from the sacred Trinity of Iustice Mercy and Humility from the divine Wisdom Power and Majesty These make up that monile sacrum holy pendent or jewel which is the greatest ornament of humane nature and blessing of all Societies consisting but of three gems but they are paragons of great price for what is brighter than the invincible Diamond of Justice which is scintilla Dei a spark of God as pearls are drops and Diamonds sparks of the Sun what more beautiful than the gentle Saphire of Mercy what more amiable than the modest Emrald of Humility The paternal indulgence of God is pleased to give us in his teaching us short lessons compendious Counsels and holy Epitomes of his will and our duty At first he propounded but decem verba ten commands in the Decalogue which is a summary of all Theological and Moral Institutions After he reduceth these to a narrower compass of loving the Lord thy God and thy neighbor as thy self So Solomon To fear God and keep his Commandments Christ makes up all in one grand sentence of doing as we would be done unto whence the Emperor Severus took his famous Motto the Apostle St. Paul brings all points and lines of the Laws and Gospels circumference to this one center Love as the fulfilling of all in one word Nor doth he permit Timothy to vary from that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} wholesome form of words the faith once delivered to the Saints which he had taught him as a short creed or summary no doubt of Christian doctrine which otherwhere is expressed in beleiving with the heart and confessing the Lord Iesus with the mouth so in the end of the commandment which is Charity out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfained So inexcusable are they who refuse to learn of God whose commandments are neither grievous nor numerous but condescending to the weakest capacities and frailest memories to which what ever is necessary in religion is easie to be learned and retained For secondly as the particular heads are few in number so very short in the discourse some points may by long Orations be like gold malleated and extended to such great latitudes of diffused expressions as make them very combersom as the volumes of our times both in Dogmatick Polemick and Practick Divinity do witness while the superfluity of mans wit and eloquence glories to find out many inventions definitions and distinctions even in plain things wire-drawing religion into fine threads and driving the solid mass of Divinity as to Faith and Repentance love of God and our neighbours to leaf gold chopping and hewing and paring the pillars of wisdom into small chips and thin shavings Doubtless as Erasmus writes to Archep Warrham the Church of Christ was never in a more happy estate than when it was uno brevissimo symbolo contenta both contented with and kept in the compass of that one short Creed which we call the Apostles and which was yet once shorter than now it is Thirdly But commonly brevity is attended with obscurity Brevis esse laboro obscurus fio short and concise expressions many times wrap things up as it were in clouds whereas Laws ought to be meridiana lumina tanquam solis radiis scriptae so clear as none need complain so legible that he that runs may read them and so indeed are these divine demonstrations in the Text where the wisdom of God reconcileth brevity and perspicuity together as Pliny speaks of Trajans uniting Soveraignty and Liberty by an happy temper of Government or Empire which neither diminished his own just Prerogative as a Prince nor oppressed the peoples legal immunities as his Subjects so the Lord designing these Laws for all sorts of people fits them for all capacities in such a way that the very babes and simple ones may learn and understand and do them {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Laws saith Plato ought to be as common and catholick in their expressions as they are in their injunction or obligation that none may plead ignorance either by the prolixity or obscurity by the ennormious number or by the tedious length of them Fourthly We may observe the order and situation of the particulars First Justice Secondly Mercy Thirdly Humility there is as Calvin and others observe an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} inverting of the Primacy and