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A43844	Two sermons preached before the judges of assize 1. At Reading, on Cant: 7.4, 2. At Abingdon, on Ps. 82.1 : with two other sermons preached at St. Maries on Oxford, 1. On I Cor. 15.10, 2. On Psalm 58.11 / by John Hinckley ...	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2049; ESTC R37864	133,129	357

will not serve their turne when the Lord will not answer them neither by dreames nor Vrim nor by prophets 1 Sam. 28.6 Then they will go to a Flecterè si nequeo superos Atheronta movebo Endor to some wizard or sorcerer to try how propitious the devill will be unto them Now this is an high Affont to Heaven A dethroning of the Almighty and a setting up of Lucifer in his roome and therefore I may well call it Atheisme When 〈◊〉 Ahaziah sent to Baal-zebub to know whether he should recover of his disease the Angell of the Lord sent Elijah with this message Is it not because there is not a God in Israel that ye go to enquire of Baalizebub the god of Ekron 2 King 1.2 3. 3. There are swarmes of practicall Atheists who in words professe there is a God but in works deny him God is not in all their thoughts Ps 10.4 without God in the world they set not the holinesse nor glory nor power of God before their eyes to restraine them from sin as if God had eyes and saw not nay in the Act of sinning they either beleive there is no God or n Quod metuunt periisse expetunt wish there were none Now crosse to these It is the first Article of my faith that there is a Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth that there is a God and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him Heb. 11.6 And this I shall make appeare even from nature and reason which are only classical and Canonical to Atheistical wretches 1. From the natural notion and Idea of a God which resides in the minde of a man so long as it is not crazed God has set his stampe upon us in an indelible character whereby we cannot but own him and pay the tribute of homage to his awful Majesty and that especially when he frownes and inflicts upon us some memento's of his o Hi sūt quque trepidant ad omnia fulgura pallent Cum tonat exanimes primo queque murmure Coel 1. Juve Sat. 13. Per hoc tēpus sc sub imperio Constantii sava continua terra concusiones quasi quadam prodigia coelestem iram ost entantia religionem aliquam humanis pectoribus incusserunt Sigonius l. 5. p. 110. Afflictio dat intellectum power then the profantst varlet will cry out O God! O Lord who in time of prosperity did hang out his flagge of defiance against God and against Heaven The pround daring Emperour could hide himselfe at a clap of thunper and the Babyllonish Monarch who did affront the Almighty by drinking wine in sacrilegious boles was struck with a trembling palsie at the apparition of an hand writing on the wall Those Heathenish Marriners that were wasting Jonah unto Tarshish when they were tossed with a Euroclydon a violent and tempestious winde so that they were all in danger of drowning they found everry one a God to pray unto Jonah 1.5 when he sl W them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after God and they remembred that God was their rocke and the high God their Redeemer Ps 78 34 35. So it was with the Israelites themselves who in time of liberty plenty and health had a tang of Atheisme So it was with David who said in his prosperity that he should never be moved When Manasses made groves caused the children to pass through the fire in the valley of Hinnom and used witchcrafts and inchantments did he ever thinke upon a God at least on the true God But when the King of Assyria bound him with fetters and carried him to Babylon then p Moses invenit Deum in rube inter spinas quem pro tempore amifit Solomon in thalamo inter rosas Maria retinet Christum in Aegyp to quem amisit in festo D. Prid. 2. Conc. Manasses knew that God was the Lord 2 Chr. 33.12 13. There was the sparkle of the knowledge of God in him before but so rak't under the ashes of dissolute thoughts and practises that it could scarce be discerned yet not quite exstinguish'● and smother'd Now affliction did so fanne and winnow away those ashes that the notion of God implanted in his brest did shine forth in its genuine and primogenial lustre Thus Nebuchadnezzar q Dan. 4.32.33 34. knew that the most high ruleth in the Kingdome of men after he had gone to schoole for some months to the beasts of the feild It is reported of a famous Carver who making a curious image of Minerva did secretly ingrave his owne upon it so the Lord of Heaven if it be lawful to make such a comparison hath interwowen his owne image in us which remaines as a marke whereby we may be known to be his Workmanship his people and sheep of his pasture And although the glorious lineamens of his draught are much defac't yet there are such reliques and remainders left behind that as in an old sullied globe or map we may guesse at the former lines so there is so much of Gods image left in us which will serve to spell or find out a God What is Conscience but a divine facultie in the soule which is the Lords spy or Lieutenant in us and over us why doth it smile upon us after we have done well though the world foame and rage why doth it fly in r Cui frigida mens est criminibus tacitâ sudant praecordia culpâ Juve Sat. 1. Scclus aliquis tutum nemo Sccurum tulit Sen. Hyppo our faces and pull us by the throat when we doe amisse though no eye behold us nor any law can punish us our own thoughts either accusing or excusing us Rom. 2.15 And so man keeps a compleat Court of Assize within his own breast and passes sentence upon himselfe This is the Booke which shall be opened at the day of judgment This is the candle of the Lord which searches the inward parts of the belly Prov. 20.27 Why could neither Cain nor Heman nor Spira appease the fury of their own Spirits What does this argue but a superintendent principle to whom we are all subordinate before whose tribunal we are to appeare another day and are as it were summond and bound over to answer for all misdemeanours by the verdict of our own Consciences here Moreover that there is such an impression of a God naturally appeares from the Devills themseves who believe and tremble and from the most s 1 King 17.30 31. paganish and most barbarous people and nations who have acknowledged some god or other and worshipt him accordingly As the Sun the Moone the starres some Freind or Benefactour some beast or other that has been profitable to them Nascuntur in bortis numina or else their very leekes and onions or if they knew not what God to worship in particular rather then they would owne no God at All they Inscribed their Altars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

accused that he was not of the Emperours religion he answered Hoc non vult Imperator meus My Emperour Nazianzen Orat. 3. meaning God will not allow that so should you say when any crave pardon for iniquity Our superiour will not like that Our superiours upon earth I hope you may truly say soe but I am sure your superiour in heaven will not take it well at your hands As love towards God should make you zelous for the Lord of Hosts soe love to your country to others your selves should put flaming swords into your hands to guard the second table in maintaining a due reverence to superiours in drowning the voyce of blood that 's a loud crying sinne with blood that our land may not be defiled that the innocents under the Altar may not cry against us Rev. 6.10 16 6. Vide D. Beard p. 200. as some have tenderly feared that the blood shed in Queen Maries dayes is not yet silent but does still call for the judgments of God against our nation as Eclipses and fiery Comets shew their dismall effects in after times but I may save this labour our Rulers have even bound their owne hands from this cruell mercy and date say to the greatest offendour in this kind as that Queene said to Cyrus when she cut off his head and threw it into a whole Cauldron of blood Satia te sanguine Cyre now Cyrus take thy fill of blood But should I go on thus to lay before you what lyes under your censure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Rhet. Judex instar medici qui primo adhibet alimenmenta medicamenta dulcia syrupos si morbus invalescat amara ut aloem Maimonides transla p. 63. I should wrong your judgment as much as I have wearyed your patience Give me leave only to beseech you that the manner of your judging may be like Davids song Psalm 101.1 I will sing of mercy and judgment Where offenders melt with contrition and are capable of mercy here strike softly here have Ladies hands but where they are stubborne refractory and dangerous here you must have Cour de lion the heart and courage of a lyon In a word take Solomons counsell strive to understand the feare of the Lord and to find the knowledge of God then shall you understand righteousnesse judgment and equity yea every good path then shall righteousnesse dwell in our Nation Prov. 2.5 9. and salvation shall be our Walls and bull-warkes I need not study for particular cautions sutable for every state and order of men To pleaders Jurours Witnesses attending upon either Court there is one in the Text which like the Cherubims turnes every way Gen. 3.24 and eyes like some well form'd picture every soul here viz God standing and judging among the gods this is a seasonable Antidote against all exorbitances in Pleaders Jurours Witnesses Will any commit murther before the Judge of life and death and will any adulterate their consciences sweare falsly or do any thing that is corrupt before the Almighty God of truth that is Jehovah●iireh and sees every turneing and winding of the soule who can forbeare to lament the too usuall custome of false and rash swearing in witnesses when for this very sinne the land mournes An oath should be the end of all strife and t is too often the cause of endlesse strife and remedilesse undoing to many families for as another mans life is at his mercy that cares not for his owne so he that mindes not the pretious life of his owne soule may easily master nay ruine the estates and lives of others O consider consider therefore that God stands in the congregation of the mighty t is a short sentence but like those upon the doores of the Oracle full of matter I can give you no better advice then what Seneca gave Lucilius when thou goest about any weighty enterprice Suppose some grave Senatour as Cato or Lelius stood by thee tanquam illo vidente omnia facere so do thou that pleadest that servest thy country that bearest witnesse remember that God standes and looks upon thee Quid pro dest non habere consciam habeati conscientiam Lactantius What though no man can find out thy naughtinesse seeing thou hast a conscience within thee which is Gods Notary his Amannensis or Register and God himselfe selfe standing round thee Say not with that Atheist tush God does not see for if thou art not as blind as blind Balaam thou maist see him in every corner of the court for God standes in the Congregation of the mighty He judges among the gods Two SERMONS preached at St. Maries in Oxford by JOHN HINCKLEY M. A. Minister of the Gospel at Colleshill Berks. OXFORD Printed by HEN HALL for RIC DAVIS 1657. To the Right Worshipfull Doctor RICHARD ZOUCH Professour of the Civill Law and Principall of Alban Hall in OXFORD Worthy SIR YOU may justly wonder to see any thing come from mee habited in this dresse and wearing these colours methinks I read your thoughts Hac sunt vestimenta are these the garments of my late Schollar what do's such a stripling mean to creep abroad into the Camp How dare any but Eagles now venture into the light and fly abroad in the open Sun-shine Is not a Cell safest in a criticall age and will not prudent men keep silence in that time A● 5.13 It 's not enough for the bells of Aaron to sound within the wals of the Temple Are not Sermons likely to do most effectuall execution upon the soules of men when they have the advantage of a (b) (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Rhet. l. 3. c. 7. Auditores accipie●t affectum queuscunque orator induerit Tacit de Or. warming vigrous elocution and are conveied to the heart thorow a silver Trumpet or upon the wings of a powerfull utterance Are not the same Sermons in a book as bels without clappers as fishes on dry land very carkasses sine succo sanguine without life or heat Is it not as easie to draw forth an Eccho to the life as to print a Sermon in it's full grace and lustre nay has not this bin the means to make more preachers than Schollars picdsque docuit verba nostra conari Sir I cannot deny but many of these Notions have bin mine heretofore and if yours now I will not enter the lists of dispute with you who are such a Master of that Art Besides there is so much awe upon my spirit since I was among the Children of the Prophets under the excellent discipline of your Government that me-thinks I dare no more reply upon you than the Schollers upon Pythagoras as if you spake nothing but principles or were the highest Court in the Common-wealth of learning from whence there lyes no appeale But since I have considered your excellencie in severall sciences especially in that which you professe my thoughts are sadded with melancholy that our