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A95662	Hiervsalem: or A vision of peace. In a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the honourable House of Commons at their monethly fast, Aug. 28. 1644. By Christopher Tesdale, Pastor at Husborn Tarrant, in the county of Southampton, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Tesdale, Christopher, b. 1591 or 2.	1644 (1644)	Wing T792; Thomason E7_19; ESTC R2601	22,081	35

Secondly for an use of exhortation the duty that I presse is no lip labour there is more in it then aske and have pray and speed the Kingdome of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force wee must even besiege Heaven with our united forces and raise such batteries against Gods gates that we may breake open those everlasting doores and plunder all his treasures of eternity and now mee thinkes that wee feele it comming wee should set all our shoulders to the work and as the Apostle bids 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strive together as fellow souldiers with a full concurrence of all our might we must even compasse Babylon as the Israelites did Jericho yet seven times more in one day and shout against it with a great shout before the walls will come downe and the Angell cry Babylon is fallen is fallen My last adresse shall be to you worthy Fathers of your Countrey and all that looke for redemption in Israel in a word of Consolation The most looke upon the armies of troubles that are mustered up against this poore Church and State as Elisha's Servant upon the great Host of the Assyrians about Dothan and cry out as he Alasse Master how shall we doe but it may be answered with the Prophet there Feare not for they that bee with us are more then they that be with them and would the Lord but open our eyes we might behold the mountain filed with horses of fire Charets of fire round about us when at Christs word we have walked oft upon the proud waves of a roring sea seene their rage and tumult broken into foame and ebbing into emptinesse yet when a stronger gust then ordinary blows upon us we are ready to cry out with Peter in his feare Lord save us we perish and we well deserve to be chid for it why are yee fearfull O yee of little faith Every cockboat can saile in a river every Scule can live in a calme God hath embarqued you VVorthy Pilots in the good Ship called the Victory this is the victory that overcommeth even your faith and you have by you the Anchor of hope the Sheat-Anchor that will hold when all other tackling failes and therefore though the blackest tempest riseth one deep calleth c. you may ride on though the great billows rowles towards you even in the deep waterfloods your spirits need not faint nor your heart faile but you may lift up the crest and bear up your heads and be of good cheare You carry not Caesar but Christ Nay as in the old Embleme of Saint Christopher you beare not Christ but Christ beares you They can never sink that have the Word for their Compasse and Christ for the Helme 'T was the pious presumption of holy Ambrose wherewith hee comforted Monica Austins Mother then a Manichee whom she had daily with much importunity recommended to the Throne of Grace Impossibile est ut filius istarum lachrymarum pereat It is impossible that a Sonne of so many prayers and teares should die an hereticke And may wee not much more with an humble confidtnce build upon the mercy of God for the preservation and deliverance of this poor afflicted Church and State which have been the subjects of so much godly sorrow in so many dayes of publike and private humiliation It is beyond all beliefe that a Mother Church a Mother State of so many prayers and teares should ever sit as a widow mourning like Rachel that such a Bochim a place of weepers should be turn'd into Aceldama a field of blood Right Honourable and ever Honoured Patiots God will give you beauty for ashes the garments of joy for the spirit of heavinesse and as you have beene Ben-onies the Sons of our sorrow so God will make you his Benjamins the Sonnes of his right hand and the Kingdomes joy That man sure is in a good way of thriving that hath a stock going in every part of the Kingdome at once So our Parliament our Armies our Navy when they have a stock of Prayers going for them in every part of the Protestant World when they have so many able Factors and Agents negotiating for them at the throne of grace one Paul saved the lives of all in the Ship One innocent delivers the Island And shall not many Pauls and many innocents much more doe it now One Eliah and one Elisha were the Charets of Israel and the horsemen thereof and shall not many such bee Armies Royall and Navies Royall now If one righteous man were found in Hierusalem the Lord would pardon it Jer. 5. If ten righteous had been found in Sodome it selfe God would not destroy it for tens sake Hath God forgotten to be gracious wil he shut up his loving kindnes in displeasure when so many righteous are in this Kingdom in this City wil he make it like Sodome and make it like Gomorrah I will not execute the fiercenesse of my anger I will not returne to destroy Ephraim For I am God and not Man the holy One in the midst of thee and I will not enter into the City FINIS Errata Page 4 l. 27. r. as the maine p 5. l. 1. r. motion p 7. l. 21. for infested ri infested p. 15. l. 31. for future r. secure p 26. l. 12. for be r. lic A Catalogue of the names of those Divines who have Preached before the Parliament beginning Jan. 18. to September 25. 1644. At a Thanksgiving before the Parliament and City of London Jan. 18. Mr. Marshall 1 Chron. 12. 38 39 40. Jan. 31. Mr. Cawdrey Prov. 29. 8. Mr. Rutherford Dan. 6. 26. Febr. 28. Mr. Baylie Zach. 3. 1 2. Mr. Young Psal 31. 24. Mar. 27. Mr. Gillespie Ezek. 43. 11. Mr. Bond Isa 45. 15. A Thanksgiving for the Victory over Sir R. Hoptons Army Apr. 9. Mr. Ob. Sedgwicke Psal 3. 8. Mr. Case Dan. 11. 32. At the Thanksgiving for the Victory at Selby in Yorkshire Apr. 23. Mr. Perne Exod. 34. 6. Mr. Carryl Rev. 11. 16 17. Apr. 24. Dr. Staunton Deut. 32. 31. Mr. Green Neh. 1. 3 4. May 29. Dr. Smith Psal 107. 6. Mr. Henry Hall Mat. 11. 12. June 26. Mr. Hardwicke Psal 126. 5 6. Mr. Hickes Isa 28. 5 6. At the Thanksgiving for the Victory over Prince Rupert and the surrender of Yorke July 18. Mr. Vines Isa 63. 8. Mr. Henderson Mat. 14. 21. July 31. Mr. Rathband not Printed Mr. Stanley Gower Dan. 12. 10. Aug. 13. Mr. Hill At a fast extraordinary Mr. Palmer At a fast extraordinary Aug. 28. Mr. Rayner Hag. 2. 6 7. Mr. Tesdale Psal 122. 6. Sep. 12. Mr. Newcomen Joh. 7. 10. At a East extraordinary Mr. Coleman Psal 66. 3. At a East extraordinary Sept. 25. Mr. Prophet Isa 9. 14. Mr. Seaman 1 King 39.

names to rot or else remaine as Pilates in the Creed a curse to all posterity And indeed this if ever any is the holy warre the Lord himself seems to have set up his Standard and sounded an Alarm from heaven Who is on my side who and wee all owe this fealtie to our great Landlord Possessor c. wee hold of him in Capite in Chieftage and so should perform our homage in Knight-service and follow the Lamb in all his warres and we hold of him in Soccage too and so must doe him plow-service break up our fallow ground and sow in righteousnesse And oh that the Lord would raise the sunke hearts of our Brittish Yeomanry renowned heretofore for their brave courage and high atchievements that he would not suffer a freeborn lion-like people to degenerate into a Kingdome of Asses that he would once take off the base cowardize from their low Spirits and seeing hee hath given them wisdom to get riches he would give them courage also to defend it Goe to the Ant thou sluggard and consider her wayes and see they have taken forth the lesson of her providence in gathering wealth they should goe now to the Bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so it follows in the Septuagint a stout creature to defend her own Illis ira modum supra est laesaeque venenum Mor●ibus inspirant animamque in vulnere ponunt Seeing plundering Drones are every where breaking into their Freeholds if they will needs have their honey they should make them tast their sting too and seeing as Solon told Croesus the hardest iron is like to carry all the Gold they should remember their Swords in times of Peace were beaten into Plowshares and now resolve their plowshares into their old principles and turn them into Swords againe and I hope they will be so wise as make them win it before they weare it But now our armes cannot move without their nerves money is the sinew of warre there must be not onely praying and fighting but paying too and here my heart is toward the free-hearted and open handed Araunahs who have given like Kings not onely of their superfluities but even with the widow in the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their whole living yet I hope not so exhausted but that they will find more yet to support a poore Church and State at a dead lift and the Lord increase their store and mult●ply even by a miracle that little meale in the barrell and oile in the cruse till hee send raine upon the Earth and I would have it remembred that the Turks in sacking Constantinople the Imperiall City of the East quickly possess 't themselves of vast treasures of gold and silver when to the eternall dis-honour of the Christian world money enough could not be raised for Garrison souldiers to defend it They shall have for their security not onely the Publick faith of both the Kingdomes but of the faithfull witnesse in Heaven too And lock whatsoever they lay out it shall bee paid them againe infinitely beyond the proportion of any usury an hundred fold in this life and Crowns and Kingdoms in the world to come But the burden lies upon some few the more is God pleased to honour them hee will not begge it seemes at every mans doore their money may perish with them yet if their bags come not in as Voluntiers they should bee prest to it their gold perhaps will prove more cordiall then themselves and there is all the reason in the world the buckets of those boutifues should walk most to quench the fire themselves have kindled When Christ wanted a royall Steed for his triumphant progresse to Hierusalem hee sent his Disciples to the next Village with this Commission You shall finde an Asse tyed loose him and bring him unto mee and if any man question you for it say The Lord hath need of him and hee will let him goe Honourable Patriots Christ is now gone forth with his Triumphant Army conquering and to conquer and if you want Armes or Money or Horse for their accommodation all the beasts of the field though they bee not ferae naturae yet are ferae Dei even the Cattle upon a thousand hills Hee is Lord Paramount the great Possessor of heaven and earth as Abraham stiled him Art thou then Gods Tenant dost thou owe him Knight-service and Plow-service and doth hee want thy Horse and shall hee not have it Zacheus doth Christ want thy house or thy dinner and shall hee not have it Mary doth Christ want thy teares or thy haires and shall hee not have them Joseph doth Christ want thy Tomb and shall hee not have it The Owners I hope will not try Titles with God but remember themselves to be Stewards and not Proprietaries and let them go and if not take them though your warrant is good The Lord hath need of them And mee thinks men should bee willing to part with any thing for a quiet life Dulce nomen pacis And if the very name bee sweet and amiable how much more the thing it selfe Peace sure is a most desirable blessing if these Cities and the neighbour Counties which yet injoy it in part know it not ask Germany ask Ireland or nearer home ask the poore plundered Countries that want it Nulla salus bello Pacem te poscimus omnes If wee bee put to pay for peace as wee are bid to pray for Peace and so have it wee have it so at an easie rate if wee should buy it over and over wee should not over-buy in if some blood bee spent for it pity indeed there should be any yet wee shall bee gainers by it when they that shed it die Martyrs and it shall bee too the seed of a glorious Church So then it must bee Manus ad clavum oculus ad Calum the hand to the Helme and the eye to Heaven there must bee an head to counsell a heart to pray a hand to fight and a purse to pay wee must pray and use the means use the means and pray O pray But who now shall goe up for us who bee they that must pray Indeed it were but reason that they whose sinnes are gone up to Heaven should send after them their prayers and teares and try whether they bee able to drown the clamour of their sinnes by the louder cry of their prayers but the misery is they that cry most in their sinnes are least able to speak in Prayers they are loud vowels or consonants one way but still and dumb mutes the other they whose hands have been most busie to set the Kingdom on fire are not able to afford one drop of water from their hard and stony hearts to quench it As Joshua said yee cannot serve the Lord so all cannot pray Every one is not a fit Ambassador to the King of Heaven The blinde man saw something that said God heareth not sinners to the wicked God saith What hast thou to doe to