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A30793	XIII sermons most of them preached before His Majesty, King Charles the II in his exile / by the late Reverend Henry Byam ... ; together with the testimony given of him at his funeral, by Hamnet Ward ...	Byam, Henry, 1580-1669.; Ward, Hamnet.	1675 (1675)	Wing B6375; ESTC R3916	157,315	338

Kings to their Dignities but still they pared away somewhat of their Kingdoms Modicis Regni terminis Vterentur or if they honoured them to be their Socii that sweet word enslaved them to assist in all offensive and defensive Wars Lodowick's Force lost his own Dukedom by calling in the French into Italy Quae Regio in Terris Where 's that Country that cannot afford us Examples in this kind I shall add but one and that of no great Antiquity An. Dom. 1534. Two Brothers contended for the Kingdom of Algiers One of them craves Aid of one Horuc at that time a famous Pirate on the Seas Horuc comes accordingly with two thousand Men. They joyn Battle The Enemy Competitor was slain Then falls Horuc upon the other Brother which called him in and having likewise cut him off and the Country being quite wearied and spent with their Intestine Wars He and his Brother after him invade enjoy that Kingdom So dangerous is it to call in those Forraign Succours which men cannot Master and drive out again And therefore 't is a good Prayer Let Judahs own hands be sufficient for him But may we not lawfully crave Forraign Aid in such tempestuous times Sure Yes 'T is sometimes necessary commendable and successful too What were to be wished and What is to be done are two things Here that saying Father'd upon Luther is true Vxor si nolit Veniat Ancilla And the King is the Common-wealths Husband If your hands will not cannot Veniant Conductitiae We must drive the Nail where 't will go The Bulgarians restore Justinian Our Black-Prince another in Spain The Assyrian as he was Virga Furoris the Rod of Gods Anger and carryed his People into Captivity Isai 10. So was Cyrus Christus Domini who restored them to their homes again Isai 45. And sure ours is Communis omnium Regum Causa as Darius said of his own All Kings are nearly Interessed in this Business The striking off of the Head of One hath wounded All. And therefore while they do revenge the wrong done us they do in that secure their own Estate and punishing Rebellion abroad they do suppress the growth of that Evil weed at home O! but where are our Hands and Hearts the while Our Hands have been Tenaces rapaces languidae remissae Manus Our Hands have been Tenaces Miserable Wretches We lost All while we were loath to part with Any We who cryed We were All for the King were loath to part with a small part for the Kings Service And how many have paid thousands for their Compositions who would not lend some Hundreds to advance the Common and that Rigbteous Cause Our Hands have been Rapaces too Though it be true in those days what Elisha said of his This is no time to take Bribes Yet our Hands were full of Bribes selling Offices Towns Castles Every thing Captain-Collectors and Plunderers were the bravest Fellows Last of all Our Hands have been Languidae remissae Manus we have shewed our selves Cowardly and faint-hearted Creatures No strength no Courage but oft-times stricken with a Panick-fear We were afraid where no fear was as the Psalmist said In pedibus spes non in lacertis fuit Our feet oft-times served us better than our hands We have forgotten our selves our Gracious God our Injured Soveraign the Goodness of the Cause All is forgotten We do despair and despair binds Gods hands We do forget how many Victories have been atchieved beyond hope and belief Even Restauration hath sometime made way where it could find none We have forgotten That with GOD 't is all one to save with Many or Few And that of the Apostle 1 Cor. 1. God hath chosen the weak things in the world to confound the mighty I pass by Vasques Numes and Hernando Cortes The Venetians will tell you of one Marke a Shooe-maker the Preserver of their State The Romans cry up their Coeles that kept a Bridge against Porsenna and his whole Army One Man one day one hour hath made incredible Alterations Our Times will tell of all Portugal lost in one Month and regained in less Lodowick's Force lost his Cities Castles Country in eight Days One Night put an end to the Danish slavery in our Land The Bruit of Henry the Eighth his coming into Lincoln-shire drave twenty Thousand Rebels out of the Field A Word mistaken hath rent the Victory out of the Conquerours hands You know what was said of Sisera Judges 5. The Stars fought against Sisera And King Philip said as much of his Armado in 88. But Seven years before that an Army of Mice destroyed a whole Country Mice were too hard for the Philistins Lice for the Aegyptians And Frogs forced the Abderites a People of Thrace to leave their Country In a word No Creature but if God say the word will plead our Cause and fight our Quarrel against the Mighty And therefore the Fourth part makes all Cock-sure And be thou his help against his Enemy Mark Our Hands and then Gods help Not Lord help and no more That 's a good word but it must not be misplaced First Do we our parts and then Succurre Domine Thus David undertakes the Quarrel against Goliah Armatus non tam ferro quam fide as St. Augustine said Takes his Sling but trusts in God Qui confidit in Homine Confidit in Vmbra transeunte saith the same Father That Rule is General Without me ye can do nothing Our Saviours words John 18. Except the Lord keep the City Psal 127. Except the Lord go out with our Armies Psal 60. which if He do how easily shall Gideon prevail against the Midianites and with an handful of Men overcome a numerous Army He breaks the Counsel of Achitophel He frees Samaria from the Syrians He makes Senacheribs huge Army an heap of Corpses And that knew well the first King of the Tribe of Judah Psal 44.6 In nomine tuo conculcabimus Not my Bow not my Sword But in thy Name shall we tread down those that rise up against us 'T was the saying of a Mad-man in Sophocles Aiax Let Cowards cry to the Heavens for help we could overcome without a Deity And you have read of Timotheus that noble Athenian Captain who in all his Enterprizes did still return Conquerour till puffed up with many Victories he looked on himself as more than a Man and cried out Hoc ego feci non fortuna but he never won Battle afterwards God will no longer help than he is magnified for his help And therefore God be Judahs help against his Enemies Nor is this the least of Gods Titles to be an Helper An helper in Need. An helper in Adversity An helper of the Poor and Fatherless Adjutor meus faith the King of Judah of the God of Judah When formidable Monsters sought after his soul The Lord is my Helper GOD worketh all in all and yet is God said to be our Helper only That we should as I said

of the Rulers or the Pharisees believe on him The Papists Argument Universality The Westminster Argument the major part is ours I the more the pity All Forts Castles Ships all ours I know what Masters they serve the while He that cryed 'T was all his and he could give it to whom he would Again as the Church hath been from time to time pusillus Grex harmless ●nd armless too yet must it not be dismayed Fear not thou worm Jacob Isai 41.14 A worm which every one is ready to insult over and tread upon yet fear not I will help thee Be they Pilgrims be they few yet suffered he no man to do them wrong 3. The third thing is their Poverty Strangers few and poor too Much misery sharp arrows and coals of Juniper Psal 120. But methinks I hear some men say He cannot find Poverty in the Text and I know not how to keep it out Or if I find it not there I am sure we find it here in these times Times which will set Porphyry to School again and tell him Poverty is Accidens inseperabile I am sure if the Text could shift it off there 's many a poor Exile cannot But let me see While they were yet but a few and these they were such as could say with Bias Omnia mea mecum porto and he that would not be enriched by a King of Sodom afterwards was glad to receive gifts of the King of Egypt and so did Isaac of the King of Gerar. And Jacob could say With my staff came I over this Jordan and did serve for wages So that hitherto you have them poor few and poor Take one more and you have all the Company except Servants and that 's Lot He and his Daughters dwell in a Cave Gen. 19. no House nor Home but a Cave to dwell in And there the story leaves them and so must I and return to the rest of this sm●ll Company this poor Company for such you see them and therefore the more unfit for travel Strangers at the best find poor Entertainment but such poor Pilgrims where shall you find an Eye to pity them Money is one of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Principle in the trade of Travelling to be supposed and not disputed 't is that holds soul and body together as he said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Money must be had Oportet habere as old Ennius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Our best Friends look a squint on Poverty What then can be expected at the hands of Strangers I remember a story of one Cosmus Bishop of Constantinople who when he saw the Church and Common-wealth torn all in pieces all Discipline in the one and Government in the other brought to confusion and as he thought quite past recovery he relinquisht his Bishoprick and bidding adieu to that Royal City he took along with him only one Servant whom he commanded to carry with him of all his Wealth nothing but the Psalms of David If he took no better Viaticam with him in these dayes he might quickly dye unburied unlamented St. Austin was much of this mans mind and he tells us Paupertas foelix est si laeta est But by his leave 't is not so toothsome 't is but a Pill at best And I cannot but remember the counsel St. Paul gives Servants If thou be a servant take it patiently but if thou canst be free utere potius 1 Cor. 7. So of Wealth if it cannot be had take it patiently but if thou canst honestly compass it utere potius Sure begging is the worst of Trades Et non levi mercede emitur quod rogatur 4. But all men are not of one mind and some Countries are more charitably affected then others are See we then in the next place The Country whither they were forced to fly for succour and relief 'T is said from one Nation to another from one Kingdom to another People Gen. 12.20 26. ch design the places from Caldee to Canaan from Canaan to Egypt and Palestine I know Arguments taken from names are not demonstrative yet some would hence conclude their Cruelty Mitsraim signifying Streights or Tribulations Whereupon is that I conceive of Isidore Egyptii hoc est affligentes St. Bernard that it signifies Tenebrosum And after him Scaliger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idem est quod niger Hic niger est hunc tu Romane Caveto Others fetch it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Vulture a Bird of prey all comes to this Egypt was a fierce afflicting cruel Nation And so for Palestine it signifies they tell us a bruising hammering and braying as in a Mortar to shew us 't was a hard-hearted and malicious cursed people But let their Names say what they will I am sure their Actions cry louder They speak them the greatest Enemies the Church of God had and for their Religion Idolaters The Egyptians I dare say of all the World the greatest Quae non Aegyptus Portenta colit And for the Philistims Abraham tells Abimelech to his face he did believe the fear of God was not in that place Gen. 20.11 What brought this handful of Believers thither then What make the Sons of God amongst the Miscreants Sure matter of pity rather then wonder That which hath made in our times Children eat their Mothers Mothers eat their own Children Men to drink their own blood A man a moneyed man to hang his wife and two daughters and last of all himself to compleat the Tragedy The Famine was grievous in the Land they dwelt in and necessitas cogit ad turpia ad tristia And therefore abroad they must or starve at home Abraham and Jacob got them into Egypt for succour and Isaac into Palestine to King Abimelech Here was bona terra though mala gens For Egypt Moses describing the fruitfulness of Sodom and Gomorrah before the stood of Fire fell down from Heaven tells us 't was like the Garden of the Lord like the Land of Egypt Gen. 13 10. And for Palestine Isaac sowed in that land and received the same year an hundred fold Gen. 26.12 But as 't was said of Sodom the men were exceeding sinners against the Lord. So that the worst people have often-times the best Land the richest Country Full fed and wicked go much together The belly and some other thing near Neighbours St. Hieroms observation These poor Pilgrims had much ado to keep their heads from Horns in both places But God suffered no man to do them wrong The second Part 2. Eliphaz chargeth Job wrongfully as that he should think how God sitting super cardines Coeli could not through the thick Clouds see what was done upon the Earth Job 22.14 Yes yes he seeth ordereth disposeth and delivereth as it seems him best Here 's a sealed Protection He suffered no man Pharaoh and his House are plagued with great Plagues Abimelech's Court is strangely punished The King is told he is a dead man if he restore not the