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A77856	The first sermon, preached to the Honourable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament at their publique fast. Novemb. 17. 1640. / By Cornelius Burges Doctor of Divinitie. Published by order of that House.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5671; Thomason E204_8; ESTC R19018	57,778	90

gives any deliverance from thence there is more than ordinary cause to close with the Lord in a more solemne and extraordinary manner giving him the praise and glory of so great a mercy But then more especially when God works out the full deliverance of his Church by the totall and finall ruine of Babylon Oh then then is the time when all the people in heaven must sing Hallelujah ascribing salvation and honour and power unto the Lord our God Revel. 19. 1. And againe Hallelujah vers. 3. as if they could never sufficiently expresse themselves to God for such a deliverance such a mercy such a vengeance 2. Againe When God delivereth from Babylon there is more than ordinary cause of entring into solemne Covenant with him because the very subjecting of the Godly under that iron yoke argues more than ordinary breach of Covenant with the Lord in time past which stirred him up to deale so sharply with them as to put them under the power of Babylon The Provocation was exceeding great too much to be endured even by infinite Patience it selfe else the People of God had never been cast into such a furnace It was for such a fault as dissolved the very marriage knot between God and his people it was for going a whoring from him For this it was that God first put away Israel giving her a Bill of divorce Ier. 3. 8. And for this it was that he afterwards cast Iudah also out of his sight 2 King 17. 19 20. And as it was in former times so in later Ages of the world What was the reason that so many millions of soules have been exposed to the butchery of Antichrist in Mysticall Babylon and to be so hood-winckt and blinded by strong delusions as to beleeve nothing but lyes even that Great Great soul-killing Lye that they might be damned Saint Paul tells us it was this They received not the love of the trueth that they might be saved but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thess. 2. What unrighteousnesse Is it meant of every unrighteousnesse that is in the nature of it damnable which is to be found in the world Surely no but signanter of that unrighteousnesse whereby men turned the truth of God into a lye Rom. 1. that is by corrupting the true worship of the true God and afterwards falling off to down-right Idolatry even within the pales of the Church it self Most of you are well seene in the History of the Church and can soone point with your finger to the times wherein Babylon began to besiege Hierusalem and Antichrist began to pull of his vizzard in the Churches of Christ even then when Pictures and Images began first to be set up in Churches for remembrance then for ornament then for instruction too and at last for adoration and worship Then God suffered her to be over-run and over-spred by Babylon as by an hideous opacum or thick darknesse and to be exposed and prostituted to all manner of whoredomes and filthinesse so as the slavery of the Jewish Church in old Babylon was scarce a flea-biting in comparison of the miseries of the Church Christian under the New which makes havock and merchandise not of the bodies only but even of the soules of men Revel. 18. 13. Now then when God pleaseth to deliver a people from such bondage and to awaken them effectually to look up and to reflect even with astomishment upon those great and gastly sins of theirs which had cut asunder the cords of the Covenant between God and their Soules and provoked God to subject them to so much bondage and that they must either renew Covenant or be obnoxious to more wrath and be laid open to more and greater temptations and sins this cannot but exceedingly work upon their souls causing their hearts to melt and their very bowels to yearne after the Lord to enter into a new an everlasting Covenant that shall never be forgotten This is that which God by his servant Ezekiel spake touching the deportment of the remnant of Israel which should escape the sword among the nations and countries whither they had been carryed captives Ezek. 6. 9. They should upon such a deliverance remember God not only with griefe but resolution also to joyne themselves to him more firmely in a perpetuall Covenant For of them he saith there they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations because I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idols and they shall loth themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations And of the same people he saith afterwards * that upon their returne home They shall take away all the detestable things and all the abominations thereof from thence And I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh and give them an heart of flesh that they they may walke in my Statutes and keep mine ordinances and doe them and they shall be my people and I will be their God So that here is a full Covenant striken and that upon this ground viz. the Consideration of those great sinnes they formerly committed whereby they had broken their first Covenant and departed from their God So farre the Reasons and Grounds of the point I shall now as breifly as I can endeavour to bring home and set on all by some Application which I shall reduce to 3. heads namely to matter of Reproofe Information and Exhortation For if When God vouchsafeth any deliverance to his people especially from Babylon it be most seasonable and necessary to close with him by a more solemne firme and inviolable Covenant to be onely his forever Then 1. How may this reprove and condemne of great ingratitude and folly many sorts of men among us that are farre from making any such use of the deliverances which God hath wrought for them O beloved Should I but give yóu a Catalogue of the many great stupendious and even miraculous deliverances which God hath given us the personall deliverances he hath often given to each of us apart the publique eminent glorious deliverances he hath given to us together with the whole State that in 88. and that of 1605. I meane from the horrid hellish Gun-powder-Treason but especially and above all the rest our happy deliverance out of Babylon by the blessed Reformation of Religion begun amongst us some good number of yeeres by past the time would faile me But alas What use have we made of them Hath this use ever been so much as thought of by us Nay verily For 1. Some thinke it bootlesse thus to close in with God after an evill is over When Gods hand is heavy upon them sense of smart compels them to thinke it then a fit season to do somewhat to confesse their sins to humble themselves and

he hath upon for the accomplishment of it that was the resolution care of these people must be ours this is to aske the way to Zion with our faces thitherward And without this no entring into Covenant with God This is for substance no other though otherwise expressed than that of the people in Asa his time when they sware the Covenant before mentioned 2 Chron. 15. where it is said they did it with all their heart and with all their soule and exprest it by the loudnesse of their voyces and with shoutings c rejoycing at the Oath because they had sworne with all their hearts and sought him with their whole desire vers. 15. Men that will stand disputing consulting with flesh and bloud and casting about how the entring into such a Covenant may consist with their profits honours lusts designes relations c. are no fit Covenanters for God His people shall be willing Psal. 110. 3. their heart minde spirit body countenance all shall professe and proclaime this to the whole world that they are for God for a Covenant for putting themselves into the strongest bonds that can possibly be thought on to bind them hand and foot soule and body to the Lord for ever 2. Nor is this all For the men in my Text content not themselves to be thus earnestly addicted to the worke in their own particulars but as one stick kindles another they desire to kindle the same flame of affection in others also and mutually to blow up the coales in one another saying Come This notes the fervency of their Charitie towards others also For 't is not here brought in as a formalitie or complement but as the evidence of a strong desire to draw as many others as they can to the same journey and if it be possible to keep the same pace with them as being most unwilling to leave any behind them This indeed is true Love unfained Charitie to draw all we can along with us unto God True Converts when once they returne themselves they cause others t●●eturns also And this was often prophecyed as a thing which should certainly be Witnesse all those places in Isay 2. Mic. 4. and Zach. 8. before quoted So then all these things are requisite and previous to the Act of Covenanting with God There must be a seeking to God with true humiliation a seeking of him with all intention of spirit and with all manifestations of a resolution not to be terrified from daunted at or ashamed of the worke yea with fervent Charitie to draw others into the same Covenant also Thus much for the disposition previous to the Covenant 2. The next thing considerable in the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is the Substance of the Covenant it self Let us joyne our selves to the Lord in a Covenant Two things here must be opened the matter and the forme of this solemne action 1. The matter of this Act is set forth under this expression Let us joyne our selves to the Lord The original word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is very emphatical so as that word being explained will sufficiently set out before you the nature of the Covenant here intended Some Translators render it Let us glue our selves unto the Lord which imports a conjunction so neere as nothing can come between and so firme as nothing can dissolve But more particularly the verb here used is in Scripture applyed to a double sense or to denote two things both of which being set together will fully discover what it is to be joyned to the Lord in Covenant First it signifyeth the binding of a mans self to the Usurer of whom he hath borrowed money to pay backe both principall and interest So it is used in Nehem. 5. 4. where the people complaine We have borrowed money for the Kings tribute and that upon our Lands and Vineyards That is they had engaged both Lands and Vineyards for securitie of the money borrowed that the Usurer should enter upon all in case they failed of payment at the day So that as men to make sure will have a Statute Staple or recognisance in the nature of a Statute Staple acknowledged whereby a mans person goods lands and all are bound for the securitie of the Creditor that he shall have both principall and interest at the day agreed upon and here that of Solomon proves too true The borrower is servant to the lender for he hath nothing left to his own dispose if he would sell any Land settle any joyncture there is a Statute upon it he can dispose of nothing till that be taken off so it is in the case of any man joyning himself to the Lord by Covenant he must even bind himself to God as firmely as fully as the poore borrower who for his necessitie takes up money binds himself to the Usurer If Godlend him any mercy any blessing he binds himself to restore not only the principall the blessing it self when God shall call for it but even the interest too I meane all possible homage service and honour which becomes those who have received so great a benefit This is more than implyed in that parable of our Saviour touching the talents dispensed Matth. 25. 27. for even to him who had received but one talent was it said Thou oughtest to have put my money to the Exchangers that at my coming I might have received mine own with usury God will have his returne some interest for every mercy and expects a Statute Staple that is a Covenant for his better securitie God will have him bound soul body estate life and all so as all he is and hath shall be forfeited if he do not keep touch and make payment according to agreement and Covenant made between them This is the first use of the word nilvn Secondly there is yet more in it For though it be true that the obligation of a borrower to the usurer be as strong as bonds and Statutes can make it yet there is not such an entire neere firme and lasting tye of the borrower to the Lender nor such a thorough interest in the whole estate of the Usurer as there is of him that is in Covenant with God The Usurer though he bind the poor borrower fast to him yet he keeps him at distance not giving him interest in or use of any other part of his estate but only of the summe borrowed But now this joyning of our selves to the Lord is such as is made by marriage and gives interest in all that the Lord is and hath and admits us to the participation of all the most intimate neerest choysest expressions of the deerest Love of God which is or can be found between the husband and the wife who are joyned together by the bond of marriage and made one flesh So the word is used Gen. 29. 34 where Leah being