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A77859	The necessity of agreement with God: opened in a sermon preached to the Right Honourable the noble House of Peers assembled in Parliament, upon the 29th of October, 1645. being the monethly fast. / By C. Burges, D.D. preacher of the Word to the city of London. Published in obedience to an order of their Lordships.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5673; Thomason E307_19; ESTC R200347	36,324	55

THE NECESSITY OF Agreement with GOD OPENED IN A SERMON Preached to the Right Honourable the Noble House of PEERS assembled in PARLIAMENT Vpon the 29th of October 1645. being the Monethly Fast By C. BURGES D. D. Preacher of the Word to the City of London Published in Obedience to an Order of their Lordships LONDON Printed by G. Miller for Philemon Stephens at the Signe of the golden-Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1645. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE HOVSE OF PEERS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Most Noble LORDS THE main designe of this plain Sermon is to awaken men not yet agreed with GOD out of their golden dreams of nothing but Halcyon dayes and mountains of perpetuall prosperity which the almost innumerable glorious Victories heaped on your Armies seem to promise To effect this I have endeavoured to put all upon the Triall of their Agreement with GOD which being the soul of my Text ought to be the chief subject of my Discourse I have therein insisted most upon the examining our performance of the Nationall Covenant which notwithstanding your pious command to whet the people upon it every Fast day is so much neglected yea despised that he is by some ranged among the dissolute that now will take it and it is made one character of the godly party which they who say stand apart appropriate to refuse it Uniformity which we have Covenanted to promote is become a scorne And they who being sensible of the mischiefs of no Government in the Church presse the setling of a Discipline according to our Covenant do every where hear Rigid Presbyterians Persecutours worse than Bishops and what not but what they are None know now how to Time things but they who while out the times to prevent the setling of any thing at all My Lords it is our happinesse and your honour that you have continued with Christ in his temptations and remained faithfull in the midst of a perfidious generation when the enemy had his hour For what Tiberius once spake to Nero and Drusus in the Senate Tacit. Annal. lib. 4. Ita nati estis ut bona maláque vestra ad Rempublicam pertineant may be much more said of you who are so borne for the Publike that you are engaged in honour to promote that what ever become of your selves There is no Publike act of yours if good but the whole Kingdom fares the better for it no evil that you commit but all the Nation suffers by it Be faithfull unto Christ who had never more need of your Zeal and let him alone with your safety and honour untill he give you a crown of life It is not enough that you act when acted unles you also quicken others to more expedition in that great busines of the Government of the Church It is not sufficient that your selves come up to an Agreement with God unlesse as Josiah you do your utmost with all vigour to draw others into the same also Nor will it suffice that you do good your selves if you wittingly suffer others to do evil against God and Christ without exercising that authority which God hath put into your hands against them You remember Galba who though innocent of much harm which passed under his name yet because he permitted them to commit it whom he ought to have bridled or was ignorant of that which he ought to have known lost reputation and opened a way to his own destruction The Lord of Lords guide quicken and prosper you in all the great affairs which are under your hands make you more and more zealous for Jesus Christ that he may yet further honour you above all your Noble Progenitours and give you hearts so to improve this homely piece that it may further your Account and not rise up in judgement against you in the great day of the Lord Jesus in whom I am and ever shall be Your Lordships most humble servant C. BURGES THE NECESSITY OF Agreement with GOD. AMOS 3.3 Can two walke together except they be agreed I May begin my Sermon with the words of Cyril a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyr. Alex in loc This is a deep Riddle and a darke speech For better unfolding of it be pleased to cast your eyes on the first verse of this Book which will afford some light to these words and to the whole Prophecie There you shall first meet a poor Herdsman of Tekoah a City of Judah six miles south from Jerusalem to wit our Prophet a man bred up among Cattle and a gatherer of sycomore-trees b Amos 7.14 15. suddenly * Amos ruborum mora distringens repentè Propheta effectus est Hieron ad Heliodor called of God as he followed the flock and sent unto Israel yea to prophesie even at Bethel the Kings Chappel and Court and there to denounce destruction to the King and Kingdome by the Assyrian as he after c Amos 7.9 10 11. did There also shall ye discover the People to and against whom he prophesied namely Israel not the whole progeny of Jacob but only the ten Tribes revolted from Rehoboam These being the major part of Israel carried with them that Name Sometimes they are called Ephraim from Jeroboam their first King who was of that Tribe as that party which adhered to the House of David was named Judah because that was the Family from whence sprang their Kings That these Prophecies were directed to these ten Tribes is further manifest by that of Amaziah the Chief Priest of Bethel Chap. 7.12 13. O thou Seer flee thee away into the Land of Judah and there eat bread and prophesie there but prophesie not again any more at Bethel c. which shews plainly that he prophesied only to Israel in that place where Jeroboam the first had erected one of his Calves There Amos for his boldnesse against the Calves received many affronts from Amaziah the Priest and at length a mortall blow with a Club on his head by Amaziahs sonne after which he was carried home to Tekoah where he soon died of that wound as we have it from Epiphanius d In vit Prophet and sundry others e Hieron Doroth. Isidor alijque In that first verse thirdly may you perceive the time when he prophesied It was in the dayes of Vzziah King of Judah and in the dayes of Jeroboam the sonne of Joash King of Israel two years before the earthquake a most remarkable circumstance The mention of those two Kings discovers Amos to have been contemporaneous with Hosea and Joel yea with Isaiah too whose Father he was not although some have so conjectured albeit he began somewhat after them and finished his course many years before them by means of that untimely death but now expressed These Kings reigned long Jeroboam 41 years Vzziah 56 years computing from the 16th year of his age only To the end therefore it might be more exactly known about what time of their severall reignes Amos prophesied it is said two

threatning greater desolation then the sword of the enemy or any other judgement that is upon us You see what a long roll what a black catalogue may be brought in against us how many sins we have to spread before the Lord this day what great what scarlet sins we are guilty of who yet are apt to put farre away the evil day to grow confident that our danger is over that we shall never see that adversity which have come upon others in the Kingdome and that God is now so fast tied to us as never to depart from us nor to give over walking with us in all wayes of mercy and grace This day is set apart for solemne serious publike humiliation and Sermons upon this day are or should be so managed as to helpe us in this duty to set our sins before us with their severall aggravations that we might draw the more water of godly sorrow out of our rocky hearts and pour it out before the Lord as Israel at Mizpeh a 1 Sam. 7.6 O therefore be afflicted and mourn and weep rend your hearts put your mouths in the dust through shame and confusion of face and out of desire to be humbled to the utmost before the decree of Englands ruins bring forth desolation before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you before the day of the Lords anger come upon you b Zeph. 2.2 as the Prophet speaketh Take heed of turning these monethly humiliations into formalities lest we provoke God more by our hypocriticall mock-fasts then by any other our sins for which we pretend to be humbled on such daies as these Beware of that bull-rush humiliation which the Lord complains of Isa 58.8 Who derides not that ridiculous folly of Lewes the 11th who wore a Crucifix in his hat in testimony of great devotion and so often as he had sworn an Oath or committed other grosse offence he would take off his hat and kisse his crucifix thinking that a sufficient satisfaction for his fault and then go sin again as much as before But there is somewhat more to be done by those that would indeed make their peace and agreement with God Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have borne chastisement I will not offend any more That which I see not teach thou me if I have done iniquity I will do no more Job 34.31 32. 2. This leads me to the second branch of the Exhortation and which is the other main part of this dayes duty namely to labour before we depart this place to bring our hearts to come up to a full and perfect agreement with God This is one of the great errands of all the Ambassadours of Christ namely to pray all to whom they come in Christs stead as though God did beseech you by them to be reconciled unto God 2 Cor. 5.20 Let the power of the death of Christ be applyed by faith to eat out and kill that naturall malice and enmity that naturally rageth in every one of our bosomes against God Mortifie therefore your members which are upon the earth fornication uncleannesse inordinate affection evil concupiscence and covetousnesse which is Idolatry for which things sake the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience Col. 3.5 6. Bring your hearts to a perfect compliance with God in affections resolutions and in all your actions away with all self-love and self-ends Men of private designes will betray the Kingdome Religion and all the world if it were in their power if temptations and opportunities be offered rather then be frustrate of their own ends what ever shew of zeal for Christ and the Publike they pretend unto in the carrying on of the Publike Cause It was Calebs comfort happinesse and honour that in managing the publike service of Israel committed to him by Moses he followed God fully Numb 14.24 An excellent paterne for you that are the heads and guides of our Tribes who are now leading this poor sinfull Nation thorow a sharpe and tedious wildernesse where we are to march thorow rivers of blood towards a firme and well grounded Peace and perfect Reformation If any of you have private ends in this publike worke which God forbid we shall be bought and sold as sometimes Esther and her people were not only for bond-men and bond-women Esth 7.4 but to be destroyed to be slain and to perish Be sure of this nothing but a firme agreement with God and the power of godlinesse can keep any of you all firme and constant to the Cause of God and his people Achitophel was a man of as deep wisedome and as great a pretender to the interests and service of David and the Kingdom as is possible for any mortall to be towards any King or Kingdome in the world Yet when Absolom by wiles and promises of greater place and preferment set upon him he could not stand before such temptations Only an Hushai a faithfull plain publike-spirited man held it out and at length had the happinesse to overthrow the counsels of a farre deeper and subtle Counsellour then himselfe and thereby saved both a King and Kingdome It is the honest plain downright-hearted Counsellour that scornes all private ends out of supernaturall principles that shall carry it at the long runne and live to see all the Achitophels of the time sent to hell in a string or in some other dresse Renue Covenant with God this day and do it heartily it is a chief worke of the day If David and Jonathan thought it necessary to enter into Covenant a second time 1 Sam. 20.16 who had never violated their first agreement thinke it not superfluous but a matter of necessity to renue that Covenant which we have every day broken and that with a very high hand by walking contrary unto him for which he hath brought the sword upon us to avenge the quarrell of his Covenant d Lev. 26.24 25. But do it in sincerity for all haltings in a Covenant are the greatest provocations that men obnoxious to wrath can possibly commit that great sinne against the Holy Ghost only excepted Rest not here thinke it not enough to renue Covenant but minde it and keep it When thou vowest a vow unto God deferre not to pay it for he hath no pleasure in fooles Eccles 5.4 Therefore God made a Law to binde men to performance even of voluntary vows to which they were no way tyed but by their own voluntary choice Deut. 23.21 22. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be sinne unto thee I beseech you therefore to consider all that you have Covenanted but especially in matters of Religion and Reformation And herein let your selves be first firme and unmoveable in such Truths as all the people of God have unanimously imbraced as being undoubtedly founded on the word of God Shift