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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

point is a Use of Exhortation to every one of us Above all things let each of us say let me looke that I be in Christ Unum necessarium Luke 10.42 Matth. 6.33 1 Kings 8.38 Ezek. 36.31 Psal 38 4. Isa 44.3 Matth. 11.28 Isa 50.10 Psal 27. ult Psal 126.5 6. this is the one thing that is needfull Seeke first the Kingdom of God and his righteousnesse that is the righteousnesse of Christ Desire the Lord to shew thee the plague of mine own heart and to make sin a loathsome burthensome thing to thy soule and to give thee a heart to mourn and thirst after Jesus Christ and then in his due time he will give thee eases onely be content to wait patiently on the Lord and trust in him for God hath said Those that sow in teares shall reap in joy He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtlesse come again with rejoycing bringing his sheaves with him David had good experience of this truth Psal 40.1 2 3. Waiting I waited for Jehovah and he enclined unto me and heard my cry He brought me up also out of an horrible pit out of the myrie clay and set my feet upon a Rock and established my goings And he hath put a new song into my mouth even praise unto our God A Caveat Psal 73.25 But be sure then that nothing in the world content thee and satisfie thee but Christ himselfe Many would have benefits by Christ but seeke thou Christ himselfe let neither ease of minde meanes of grace esteeme of Christi●ns nor gifts and parts though good things content thee Job 27.8 no not yet shews of grace for hopes built on these things are but sparks of mens own kindling Isa 50.11 Job 18.14 If thou hast no better hopes when thou comest to dye thou shalt lie down in sorrow meeting with the King of terrours Endeavour thou to walke in the wayes of God having a rule of his word both for the action it selfe the manner and end of performance of it be obedient in all things to the revealed will of God For a good man is too often out of his way 1 Kings 19.13 What doest thou here Elijah And the Devill will do all he can to beguile us and apply a promise of Scripture too though abused and wrested as he deale with our Saviour to perswade him to cast himselfe down from the pinacle of the Temple he told him it is written He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee Matth. 4.5 6. and in their hands they shall beare thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone but he left out these words in the promise in all thy wayes for so the words run in the Prophet Psal 91.11 For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keepe thee in all thy wayes c. And very sad have been the miscarryages of some of Gods own people while they have gone out of their way and yet God in his time hath brought them into their way again even by weeping crosse and hell gates as it was with Jonah who being hidden to goe to Nineveh Jonah 1.1 2 3 2.2 7. will needs saile to Tarshish Lam. 3.39 40. Matth. 6.12 2 Cor. 7.11 Look over thy wayes and beg pardon of thy sinfull failings with godly sorrow and humble confession of them if they be secret sins confesse them to the Lord onely if comfort may be so obtained but thy known sins confesse thou to the Lord before his people and give glory to God 1 John 1.8 9. Psal 32.5 James 5.16 Joshua 7.19 Heb. 12.14 Verse 4. 2 Cor. 7.1 And withall Follow peace and holinesse without which holinesse no man shall see the Lord strive against sin according to that exhortation Having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the feare of God Be sure to relye only on the bloud of Jesus Christ to wash thee from all thy sins 1 John 1.7 Dan. 9 17 18 19. look only to the free mercie of God in Christ put nothing of thy own works to it in point of justification and it will doe well Rom. 3.28 Philip. 3.9 10. Psal 31.3 Psal 139.24 Isa 48.17 Psal 1.4 Psal 7.3.18 19. Prov. 1.27 Matth. 3.12 yet as heartily desiring to feele experimentally the power of Christ working grace in thee as to enjoy the benefit of his merits and therefore beseech him to lead thee in the way thou shouldst goe and to teach thee to profit more and more Use 4 The next Use is a word of Terrour to both the open wicked and hypocrites they shall be found as light as chaff suddenly blown away to utter destruction by the whirlwind of Gods just wrath for Christ will thoroughly purge his floor and burn up the chaffe with unquenchable fire Use 5 The last Use is a word of sweet and strong consolation to every soule that depends truly on Christ Go on and prosper good soule in so doing Isa 26.4 Trust thou in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength Happy art thou ô true Israelite who is like unto thee Deut. 32.29 ô soul saved by the Lord the shield of thy help Luke 12.32 and who is the sword of thy excellencie Fear not little flock for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom Rom. 8.32 For if God did not spare his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Object O but sayth the poore soule I dare not say Christ is mine oh that I had good grounds so to say Answ But doest thou indeed desire Christ alone above all things doest thou long for him and thirst after him and will nothing else satisfie thee Then I say certainly he will satisfie thee with himselfe in his due time for his promise is to poure waters upon the thirsty and stoude upon the dry ground Isa 44.3 Also love to eue is as well if not better perceived in the soule in which love dwels by its sad longing after one in his absence as by its joyous embracing the same party being present both which being in truth are sure evidences of true love Cant. 1.7 Then if we have such longings for Christ we love Christ And if we love Christ it must needs spring from his love to us first 1 John 4.19 We love him sayth the Apostle because he loved us first for flesh and bloud never taught any soul to love Christ truly Rom. 5.5 But the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts and that makes us in some measure of truth to love him John 13.1 Jer. 31.3 and those that Christ loves he loves to the end even with an everlasting love Psal 94.19 Therefore oh poore soule in the multitude of thy

premises Well then the soule being thus built upon Christ cannot be removed Matth. 16.18 for the Text saith The gates of hell shall not prevail against it The gates of Cities in those dayes were both places of Fortification Godwin Antiq. as also of their great Consultations so that it shews that neither Hells power nor policy shall prevail against the soule that doth close kindly with Christ The just not onely doth Hab. 2.4 but shall live by his own faith And what is the life of faith but Christ living in the soule Gal. 2.20 For the Apostle Paul makes these Phrases equivalent and convertible saying I am crucified with Christ Neverthelesse I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himselfe for me Now the soule being by God the Father given to Christ John 6.39 John 10.28 Rom. 8.35.37 none can pluck it out of his hand It may therefore triumph in the words of the same Apostle who shall separate are us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword Nay in all these things we are more then conquerours thorugh him that hath loved us Therefore I beseech you Psal 4.4 let every one of us Commune with his own heart upon his bed in his most secret thoughts and most retired from the world Examine we our own hearts how it is with our poore soules If you desire so to do then try your selves by these two rules following and be well assured All those persons are too too light that are not bottomed upon Christ the rock of our salvation Psal 89.26 Luke 13.3 Luke 18.11 12 Matth. 5.20 Except they repent they shall all perish It is not a refraining from many sinnes and performing many duties as did the Pharisees that will carry one to heaven alas here was their overthrow Rom. 10.3 Col. 2.7 Revel 3.18 1 Cor. 1.30 they had no root in Christ as every true Christian hath And therefore Christ Counselleth all to come to him for all spirituall riches For he is made of God to us wisdome because we are ignorant and foolish Righteousnesse because we are sinfull Sanctification because we have the remnants of Corruption still hanging about us and Redemption to recover us out of the snares of sin and Satan So Paul did earnestly desire to be found in Christ his righteousnesse Philip. 3.8 9 10. therein to be accepted before God which is Justification And also the power of his resurrection which is Sanctification 2 Cor. 5.17 to be made conformable unto Christ for He that is in Christ is a new creature All those persons are too light who are caried away with every wind of Doctrine every fond conceit and erroneous opinion Quot homines tot opiniones of which the world I think is now fuller then ever it was for now adayes how many men so many mindes For the godly Psal 44.13 14 15 16. Psal 44.17 they stick unto Christ in persecution even in reproach and derision and when confusion was before them then they say All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsly in thy Covenant And when the Church found him whom her soule loved she held him and would not let him go Solomons Song 3.4 Now there is a threefold levitie in men To be carried away from the Doctrine of wholsome truth even as children tossed to and fro Ephes 4.14 and carried about with every winde of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lye in wait to deceive saith the Apostle Paul Therefore the Apostle Peter gives to all Christians this Caveat 2 Pet. 3.17 Beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastnesse To be carried away from the practise of the wayes of God in our generall or particular callings as in forsaking the assembling of our selves together Heb. 10.25 as the manner of some is Whereas we should exhort one another and so much the more as we see the day approaching 2 Tim. 3.1 5 6 7 For these are the last days perillous times Men having a forme of godlinesse and denying the power of it Of this sort saith the holy Apostle are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with diverse lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Titus 1.11 Whose mouthes must be stopped who subvers whole houses Then such houses or housholds who are led by them are subverted For the sacred Scripture calleth the attending upon Gods holy ordinances an approaching to God Isa 58.2 Psal 73.27 Heb. 10.39 And therefore the withdrawing from them is drawing back from God and tendeth to perdition of the soule And those that are carried away into sinfull wayes as into fornication 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. idolatry adultery theft covetousnesse drunkennesse reviling or extortion shall not inherit the Kingdom of God except they be washed by the blood of Christ and sanctified by his Spirit For the gracious soule that hath had good assurance of Gods love in Christ upon good grounds to be carryed away from the sweet comforts that are of God in Christ Psal 42 5. and for the soule to be cast down and disquieted upon every trouble it meets withall is also an infirmity Job 15.11 Psal 73.2 7 8 9 10 11 12 Are the consolations of God small with thee or in thy estimation Indeed a gracious soul may somtimes refuse to be comforted but it is through his own infirmity Psal 34.8 The experience of T.H. and forgetfulnesse of the most sweet taste of the Lords infinite goodnesse to his soule in his calamity and his adequate fulnesse to supply his soules necessities for he hath somtime found by good experience that it is better trusting in God naked then in any creature how richly soever clothed And therefore the Apostle sayth Phil. 4.4 Rejoyce in the Lord alwayes and again I say Rejoyce Most true it is that the truly godly may be carryed away in any of these three Deviations in some measure for a time but the Lord will certainly bring them and any other that belong unto salvation back again unto himselfe Matth 26.70 72 74 75 by true humiliation for their wanderings from him and his wayes for the Apostle Paul sayth 2 Cor. 7.11 Phil 3.15 Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you let us walke by the same rule and he means the rule of Gods Word out of which the fore-going directions are taken Use 3 The third Use of this

thoughts thy desirings and longings after Christ alone let these consolations of God delight thy soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is plain he there means the consolations of God for the gracious soule is there speaking unto God and saith thy consolations as the Hebrew word coming of the Radix Nacham signifieth Rad. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consolatus est Give me leave Beloved to speake onely a few words of the last Doctrine Doct. 3 That when prophane men are most sinfully secure then is dreadfull judgement most neere As King Belshazzar now in his drunkennesse and rude prophanesse was strucken with feare and trembling Mr. Dering on Psal 78.70 and that night he was slain too And as a late worthy labourer in Gods harvest whom we mentioned before Luke 16.1 well observed the unjust Steward never lived more riotously then when his Lord was even at hand to call him to his accounts The foolish Virgins are never faster asleep Matth. 25.6 then when the Bridegroome is ready to enter into his wedding chamber The children of this world are never more busily occupied then the night before their souls shall be taken from them The son of perdition shall never be more loftie then in these latter dayes 2 Thess 2.4 when he shall be revealed let me adde and very shortly be destroyed A little before the victory at Nas●by June 14 1645. So have we known it in this our native countrey the enemies of God were never so proud and insulting as they were a little before their un-expected downfall according to the saying of Solomon Before destruction the heart of man is haughty and before honour is humility Prov. 18.12 Jam. 4.6 For God resisteth the proud they are aspiring and think to climbe up to honour but God mightily resists them and throws them down to shame and destruction Prov. 3.35 Dan. 12.2 For shame is all the promotion that such fooles shall have at the last The Reason why dreadfull judgement is most neere when wicked men are most sinfully secure is Reason Gen. 15.16 because their sinnes are now grown to such an height that God in his justice must needs cut them down Even as when God did suffer Haman to contrive his plot Hest 5.9 5.14 7.9 1 Cor. 10.5 to 12. Use and bring it neer to the execution then he hanged him up as an ensample to all such wicked ones from that time to the end of the world All the Use that I shall make at this time of this point is a word of dreadfull terrour and amazment to all such as rush on desperatly and carelesly in their sinfull courses as the horse rusheth into the Battell Jer. 8.6 and put far from them the thoughts of the evill day But what will ye doe in the day of visitation Amos 6.3 Isa 10.3 and in the desolation which shall come from far To whom will ye flee for help And where will ye leave your glory For the same Prophets words shall be verified in due time The sinners in Zion are affraid Isa 33.14 fearfulnesse hath surprised the hypocrites who amongst us shall dwell with the devouring fire Who amongst us shall dwell with the everlasting burnings Object Look you to your selfe will some say we care not we look to do as well as you we feare nothing Answ That 's too true it may be indeed 1 Thes 5.3 Deut. 29.19 20. For when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them and they shall not escape And he that heareth the words of this curse and blesseth himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the imagination of mine heart to adde drunkennesse to thirst The Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoake against that man and all the curses that are written in Gods book shall lie upon him c. And I my selfe Jer. 21.5 saith Jehovah will fight against you with an out-stretched hand and with a strong arm even in anger and in fury and in great wrath Numb 14.23 Psal 2.10 11 12. And as he said Who shall live when God doth this Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the earth Serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce with trembling Kisse the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little Blessed are all they that put their trust in him Now consider this Psal 50.22 ye that forget God lest I tear you in pieces saith God and there be none to deliver Oh that they were wise Deut. 32.29 that they understood this that they would consider their latter end Jer. 13.17 Heb. 6.9 But if ye will not hear it my soule shall weep in secret places for your pride c. But beloved I am perswaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation though out of the sincere love I beare to your souls good I thus speake Heb. 12.9 The Father of spirits give us hearts to make such use of these things as we may never come into that wofull place of everlasting burnings and devouring flames where the worme shall not die Isa 66.24 neither shall the fire be quenched But the Reprobates shall be tormented Mat. 13.49 50. continually without any intermission and there shall be yelling weeping and gnashing of teeth to all eternity 2 Tim. 2.7 Consider what hath been spoken and the Lord give you understanding in all things FINIS I will here annex these things to be seriously considered of by us The Reformers in the beginning of this Century In the Book of Common Prayer In the preface before the Commination did publish their acknowledgement that they attained not to that primitive Discipline which they desired Saying There was a godly Discipline in the primitive Church which is much to be washed that it might be restored again Some have acknowledged Gods expectation A Song of thanksgiving for Gods wonderfull works never to be forgotten 1588. Printed 1625. and our neglect of proceeding in Reformation saying God waited long for our return Unto a purer strain But we cast off his Word with spurn And horrible disdain Some also in this Century An Exhortation to the Bishops Printed 1620. have foretold the fall of the proud Prelates saying Come down ye Bishops feare a fall Your Kingdom 'gins to shake The hand is writing on the wall Which makes your knees to quake Your building like a tottering wall Your ground-work laid in sand Come down it will take Babels fall Sure long it cannot stand It is not Jeroboams calves Can save you I am sure Nor yet your cruell Canon Laws Can make your Kingdom dure Also Mr. Brightman on Rev. 3. Acts Mon. Vol 3. p. 877 878. Anno Christi 1558. The fulfilling of the Prophesies of Gods servants even of those that lived in this Age. as The Prophesie of Roger Holland Martyr fulfilled in ceasing the Papisticall bloudy persecution The Propheticall Excommunication pronounced by John Corneford Martyr against persecuting Papists Vol. 3. p. 89 ● Anno Christi 1558. An Christ 1641 fulfilled in their losse of that power within six dayes after The fulfilling of the abovesaid Predictions in the fall of the proud Prelates in England