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A52050	The right vnderstanding of the times opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, December 30, 1646, at Margaret Westminster, being the day of their solemne monethly fast / by Stephen Marshall ...	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1647 (1647)	Wing M771; ESTC R6357	33,802	51

when his thoughts troubled him in the night that hee might know what should come to passe afterwards yet our Lord hath told us That it is not for us thus to know the times and seasons which the Father hath kept in his owne hand there is fourthly Another knowledge of the Times and study of it which is an Historicall knowledge of the times or an Astronomicall knowledge of the times a knowledge which is extremely and deservedly cried up by learned men a knowledge wherein many men of choycest wits both among Heathens and Christians have tooke very great paines wherein they have much advanced wisedome and learning especially in our latter age Many rare men of choycest abilities have set downe in a continued Series a Chronologie of all the yeers that have been since the Creation and of the most memorable things and persons that have fallen out or lived in the severall ages and yeeres and this they have done to their owne everlasting honour rectifying the accompt of time and extremely advantaged even the studie of the Scriptures now this knowledge though it bee excellent yet my Text hath nothing to doe with it and truly though it bee an excellent thing men may have it and yet die fooles and be miserable for want of that knowledge which I am this day to speake of The Nation of the Jewes were admirable in that kind of accompt of times Scaliger saith of them they were exact even to admiration and Sethus Calvisius one of the most learned writers of that kind though hee goe another way to worke yet confesses that in the Jewes accompt they did not lose above the accompt of one houre in the space of 1500. yeers yet because they had no better knowledge of the times then that the Lord in the eighth of Jeremiah saith they were fooles and had not so much wisedome as the Crane and the Storke and the Swallow those irrationall Animals who had so much sagacitie as to know the times of their comming into a Countrey and leaving a Countrey but this people knew nothing of the times in reference to Gods judgements and their owne duties the Lord counted them fooles for all their other learning And therefore there is fiftly Another knowledge of the times which I may call a Theologicall knowledge or rather a gratious and a practicall knowledge of the times which is so to know the times as to understand the moment and exigence of all affaires which fall within the times in reference to their owne dutie that they may improve all occurrences which fall out to the right end This is the knowledge that I am to speake of and this knowledge infinitely goes beyond that other I confesse I finde a great many learned Volumes writ for the helpe of the other to further the Chronologicall or Historicall wisedome of the times abundance of Astronomicall Tables have been compiled and other helpes set forth but for this latter I hardly know one little Pamphlet extant about it and yet this infinitely goes beyond the other for though a man should die ignorant of the other and never know the Julian Account or wherein the new old stile differ one from another if hee have but learned to number his dayes so as to apply his heart to wisedome hee will honour God here and bee happy for ever but without this what learning soever hee had in the other his life will be wicked and in the end hee will die a foole And this was the knowledge of this Tribe this Practicall knowledge so that when the other Tribes some of them stood for the house of Saul to continue the government there others of them inclined to David to make him King and others probably were unsatisfied in their thoughts concerning either of them possibly thinking it would bee best to continue their old Aristocraticall government in their severall Tribes and to waite that God should raise them up extraordinary Judges in difficult times and so they stood in a kind of indifferency and neutralitie these men of Issachar especially their Leaders had so studied the times that they did not onely know what was lawfull and expedient in this huge turne of theirs in this great businesse that was before them but they knew what was their dutie yea what all the kingdome all the Common-wealth ought to doe with them they knew the times and what Israel had to doe Now this knowledge that I have brought you to is not a mentall or speculative understanding of humane affaires or things belonging either to Church or Common-wealth but it is a Practicall knowledge which is a wise abilitie to manage all the understanding that they have in reference to their dutie in one word it is to observe all Gods administrations wherewith the present time is filled his providences his mercies his judgements his words his workes to observe them I say so as thereby to bee inabled seasonably and timely to performe their owne duties and to regulate their conversations according to the exigence and juncture of times for the glory of God the good of their brethren and the salvation of their owne soules and this is the Theame wherein I now proceed To give you some evidence out of the Scripture to make it apparent to you that it is the highest commendations that can bee given of any people to have this understanding of the times in reference to their dutie and for the proofe of it I shall indeavour these two things First To shew it you plainely out of the Scriptures that it is a marvailous high commendation and a deserved one And secondly I shall indeavour to make a further illustration of this Doctrine of knowing the times out of Gods Word To prove that it is such a high and deserved commendations take but these three proofes First every where in the Scripture this is counted true wisedome and in the accompt of God they goe for wise men who understand the times in reference to their duties looke first into the fift of the Ephesians at the eight verse and so forward the Apostle layes downe this great Doctrine That now God had sent the light of the Gospell amongst them they must not for time to come walke as other Gentiles did walke in the vanitie of their minds but they must leade a life worthy of the Gospell and this hee proves by many Arguments which when hee hath proved then in the 15. and 16. verses hee sets downe what this life is see then that you walke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} exactly not as Fooles but as Wise men wherein lies that redeeming the time because the dayes are evill there is all required there is the manifestation and demonstration that you do not walke like Fooles but as Wise men if you have but once learned to redeeme the time in these evill dayes the dayes are naught the times are evill full of snares to be avoyded many