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A30259	A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at their pvbliqve fast, Novem. 17, 1640 by Cornelius Burges.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5683; ESTC R19994	56,507	64

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 carried captives Ezek. 6.9 They should upon such a deliverance remember God not onely 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 mee 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 hee saith afterwards * Cap. 11.18 19 20. 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 may walke in my statutes and keepe mine ordinances and doe them and they shall bee my people and I will bee their God So that here is a full Covenant striken and that upon this ground viz. the Consideration of those great sins 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 briefly as I can endeavour to bring home and set on all by some Application Application Threefold 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 bee most seasonable and necessary to close with him by a more solemne firme and inviolable Covenant to be onely his for ever Then 1. How may this reprove 1. Vse of Reproofe 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 you a Catalogue of the many great stupendious and even miraculous deliverances which God hath given us the personall deliverances hee hath often given to each of us apart the publique eminent glorious deliverances hee 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 yeares by past the time would faile me But alas Of foure sorts of men viz. 1. Of such as think a Covenant needfull in trouble but not after deliverance Hosea 5.15 What use have we made of them Hath this use ever been so much as thought of by us Nay verily For 1. Some think 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 think it then a fit season to doe somewhat to confesse their sins to humble themselves and to seek God In their asfliction they will seeke me early saith the Lord. But so soone as hee takes his hand off from them they cast all care away as if now according to that homely proverb the devill were dead and no further use of any feare or diligence were to be once thought upon till with Pharaoh they come under a worse plague than before and as if God had delivered them to no other end but to live as they list to cast more dung into his face and to dishonour and provoke him yet more than ever before I appeale to the consciences of many who heare mee this day and I require them from the Lord to witnesse truly whether it bee not even thus with them 1. Vse Reproofe If the plague knock at their doore if death get in at the window and begin to shake them by the hand there is then some apprehension of wrath and judgement some humbling some hankering after Cod. Then Oh what would not these men do what would they not promise on condition to bee delivered from their present anguish and feares But once deliver them and God shall heare no more of them till they bee in the same or worse case again They turne Covenanters Nay leave that to the Puritans For their parts they think more of a Covenant with death and hell for God is not in all their thoughts Had there been upon the discovery of the Powder-Treason which this Honourable Assembly hath cause above all others to preserve eternally in fresh remembrance and to think more seriously what God looks for at all your hands upon such a deliverance had there been I say no possibility of escaping that Blow what would not men have then done Oh what prayers what fasting what humiliation should we have seene But when the snare was once broken what followed A Covenant with God Nothing lesse for so soon as ever the danger the feare the amazement at such an hellish project and the neere approach to the execution of it was a little over the Traitors themselves fell not deeper into the pit of destruction which themselves had digged than generally all sorts of men did into the gulfe of their old sinnes as if they owed more to Hell than to Heaven for so great a deliverance And is it better now Where is the Covenant such a Covenant with God that so wonderfull a deliverance deserveth and requireth These men may please themselves and feed sweetly upon a vaine dreame that there is no harme in all this but the Apostle brings them in a sad reckoning after a sharp chiding for it Rom. 2.4 5 What saith he Despisest thou the riches of his goodnesse and forbearance and long suffering not knowing that the goodnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance The end of all Gods goodnesse in forbearing advancing and giving thee prosperity and of his long suffering in sparing thee when thou hast abused prosperity and of all his mercy in delivering thee out of adversity is to lead thee to repentance to draw thee neerer to Himselfe even in an everlasting Covenant And if it have not this effect on thee the Apostle hath said it and the God of Heaven will make it good that thou despisest the riches of his goodnesse c. Thou tramplest all mercies under thine impure feet when they doe not raise and scrue thee up so neere to thy God as to enter a solemne Covenant with them And what then Thou wilt not stay there but fall into more sinne and under greater judgement and after thy hardnesse and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thy selfe wrath that is more and more wrath against

yeeres determined when the Empire was first over-runne and subdued by Cyrus the Persian For he made Proclamation of libertie to returne 2 Chr. 36.22 in the first yeere of his Raigne And when they returned this was their deportment they went weeping and to seeke the Lord their God They goe not so much to repossesse their ancient patrimony and inheritance and to grow rich in the world as to seeke and finde the Lord their God and that with a resolution to enter into Covenant with Him and such a Covenant as should never bee forgotten but daily remembred and carefully performed You now see the Context Should I now divide the Text Actus I might shew you here First an Act expressed by their industry in setting upon a long and tedious journey to Zion They shall aske the way to Zion Secondly the manner how they manage this journey Modus it is 1. With all intention of spirit they aske the way to Zion with their faces thitherward 2. With fervent charity towards and mutuall zeale for each other to quicken and inflame one another to the same work saying Come Thirdly the end of their journey which with so much intention of spirit and inflamed charity calling and crying to one another in such a manner FINIS they set upon all was for this Let us joyne our selves to the Lord in an everlasting Covenant that shal not be forgotten I might easily also cast out these generals of the Text into many lesser branches but it is not now a time to trifle or to play with a Text. Yea I shall not distinctly prosecute all the parts already laid out but as the duty of this day requireth insist rather upon that which is the maine and bring in the other as subordinate thereunto by occasion afterwards in explication of the principall point For we see troopes in the Text bound for Zion and so hasty thitherward that they salute not any man by the way nor so much as looke aside any way they goe with their faces thitherward all the stay they make is but to call others along with them and amongst these us saying Come And what is the businesse the end of all this hast Nothing but this Let us joyne our selves unto the Lord in an everlasting Covenant c. This how ever it were last in execution yet was it first in their intention in the undertaking of this journey and therefore now must be principally insisted upon You see here a people loosed from the Babylonish captivitie and returning to Zion and in their returne to have this in their hearts in their mouthes and in their endeavours namely upon the receipt of this mercy to make speed to their God to enter into a new Contract and solemne Covenant with him So that now the chiefe and only point of instruction which I shall recommend to and presse upon you and mine owne heart with you is plainly this that The maine Observation or Doctrine When God vouchsafes any deliverance to his Church especially from Babylon then is it most seasonable and most necessary to close with God by a more solemne strict and inviolable Covenant to bee his and only his for ever In prosecuting this point wherein I resolve to be plaine and in earnest I shall first shew you the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it that it is so Next the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if you will how and in what manner this must be done Thirdly the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the grounds and reasons of it and so proceed to the Application i. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod sit That it is so For the first the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it is so this will appeare 1. More generally upon receipt of any deliverance 2. More specially upon an deliverance from Babylon above all other 1. In generall 1. That it is so in the generall Proved 1. More generally that this use must be made of any deliverance appeares both by precept and example in holy Scripture We shall carry them along together In Deut. 29. you shall finde Moses requiring the people to enter into a speciall Covenant with God beside the solemne Covenant which he made with them and they with him in Horeb. Exod. 19.5 c. To induce them thereunto Moses refresheth their memory with the repetition or representation of the many deliverances God had given unto them out of Egypt The first solemne Covenant which they passed into was after their deliverance out of Egypt Vers 1. and in the wildernesse by the space of fortie yeeres together with the wonders and miracles which he daily wrought for them And in the seventh ver he tels them that when ye came into this place that is into the Land of Moab Sihon the King of Heshbon Og the King of Bashan came cut against us unto battell c. What then Here is deliverance upon deliverance and the inference is Keep therefore the words of this Covenant and do them verse 9. But that is the Covenant on Gods part you will say True A second Covenant about fortie yeeres after the first when they came neere to Canaan and shortly after were to enter into it but that is not all He therefore presseth them to an actuall personall Covenant on their parts and that upon consideration of so many deliverances This was his maine businesse with them at the Lords own command Therefore in vers 10. he thus bespeaks them Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God your Captaines of your tribes your Elders and your Officers with all the men of Israel your little ones your wives and thy stranger that is in thy Campe from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of thy water that thou shouldst enter into Covenant with the Lord thy God and into his Oath which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day And in vers 14. he addeth Neither with you onely do I make this Covenant and this oath but with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God and also with him that is not here with us this day Thus you see a Covenant required stricken and ratified by solemne Oath of God and his people mutually to one another they binde themselves by solemne Oath to him as he by oath had bound himself to them Thus then it was in the time of Moses No eminent deliverance went before but a solemne Covenant followed after * As Moses drew the people into a Covenant before their entrance into Canaan so did Ioshua also after they were possessed of it Iosh 24.25.26 So did Iehoiada upon the deliverance of Iudah from the tyranny of that bloudy monster Athaliah 2 King 11.17 And To sweare a Covenant is no new device no humane invention nor arbitrary Action I will give you but one instance more among many of this kinde and it is that of Asa that good and religious