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A32786	A sermon preached in Saint Pavles chvrch the tenth of October, 1641 by Mr. Thomas Chisheare ... ; vvherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these times.	Cheshire, Thomas, b. 1600 or 1601.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3780; ESTC R18461	9,416	17

Praise God as wee ought it must by fulfilling his word What is that instrument of ten strings which our Prophet speaketh of but the devout heart of a Christian tuned and rightly set to the ten commandements This Musick sounds sweetest in the eares of Heaven so saith Saint Augustine more at large in that excellent worke of his de decem chordis Good works should say to orall confession as Ruth did to Naomi And Ruth said intreat me not to leave thee or to returne from following after thee for whither thou goest I will goe c. And where a godly conversation doth not concomitate orall confession that praise sounds harsh in the eares of God Ergo as the Father saith Noli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We must have brace-lets as well as Earerings good deeds as well as courteous language or the ornament which our spirituall Isaack gives to his Rebechah and which he most esteemeth these are they which make him take pleasure in our beauty therefore let us take pleasure not onely to speake and heare but do the same for this is truely to praise the name of the Lord and as we must praise God in thought word and worke we must labour to keep an agreement between them all for if one onely string be out of tune although all the rest be rightly set yet this one will so jar that the lesson playd upon it to a skilfull eare will sound as bad as if all were out of tune If thou doest forsake drunkennesse Whoredome or such like and yet dost cleave to covetousnesse it comes all to on reckoning for he that offends in one point is guilty of all saith the Apostle looke therefore to thy bosome sin and never leave striving untill thou quite extirpate the same How many are there of us that will pray in necessity but will not praise in prosperity The husband-man so long as the corne is growing will hedge and fence the field with all care and dilligence but when it is reaped then he lets it lye open for Hogs and other Beasts to treade and trample in When we have what we looked for then welet the reine slip in a storme we would be glad to shelter our selves under the branches of that tree which afterward we are ready to cut downe and burne it After the same manner the ungratefull Athenians delt with Themistocles when there was any sedition or uproare in the City then who but Themistocles but when by his discreet wisedome and good Counsell all was quieted then who more vile who more contemptible then poore Themistocles I wish this might be applyed to too many of our times who are fitly compared to a Herd of Hoggs the keeper beates them downe acornes and they eate them up greedily but never look up to the tree onely when they find their store spent grunt a little for more like as when some wholesome potion is boyled in a brasse vessell yet the brasse gives it such a relish that it becomes good for nothing Prayers and praise in a good mans mouth is like sweet incense but in others it is like brasse and savours too strong of the Cask and therefore the wise man saith that praise is not seemly in the mouth of a Sinner The husband man when he is like to have a good harvest or the Merchant a good returne from Sea He will give praise to God but with such a relation to his gaine that a man may easily perceive it was not of free will neither indeed willingly did he give praise to Almighty God and indeed men doe behave themselves so as if they were bound no more to give God praise then he is to give them benefits The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away saith Iob blessed be the Name of the Lord Quando tibi benè est lauda misericordiam Dei quando male lauda iusticiam Dei And that lustily and with a good courage Our prophet David calling upon the creatures to praise the Lord he joyneth a reason For saith he Let them praise the Lord for he commanded and they were created But we have much more cause for besides we have the benefit common with them we have above all other creatures a great benefit of redemption by Iesus Christ in this God hath exalted men above Angels in giving unto them his onely begotten Sonne as his power was manifest in the creating of the world so the riches of his love was never so fully shewed as in sending his onely begotten Sonne to suffer for us I remember a story of one Saleucus who made a law that all adulterers should be punished with the losse of both their eyes on a time it came to passe his owne son was taken in the same fault his good old Father being perplexed much thereat at last resolved on this course that the executioner should pull out one of his owne eyes and another of his Sonnes that so both iustice might be satisfied and mercy shewed We likewise were in danger both of loosing this life and that which is to come as also of suffering a double Death temporall and eternall but God hath found out a meanes for our delivery Christ came in and suffered one Death himselfe to free us from the other Death Plato gave thankes unto the Gods First that he was a man and not a Beast Secondly that he was a Graetian and not a Barharian Thirdly that he was not one of the common rout but a Philosopher But besides we are men we are Christian men who live in peace and plenty with the free passage of the Gospell of Iesus Christ Therefore let us both Young Men and Maidens old Men and Babes praise the name of the Lord Gratiarum actio respicit gratiam dantis ubi igitur est gratia maior dantis ibi gratia maior accipientis Assure thy self of one thing as Saint Augustine hath Qui non vult laudare in hoc seculo obmutescet in futuro God at the last day will say to such an one as the King did to him that had not on the wedding garment I should be too tedious if I should stand to reckon up the manifold mercys that God hath be stowed on this our land beyond all the world besides our Peace and Plenty with the Gospell of Christ our many and great deliverances both from forreigne enemies and Domesticke Traytors so that we may rightly say Ignem aquam transivimus God hath delivered us from the Spanish invasion and the Gun-powder treason and hath placed us in a wealthy land Be ye therefore filled with the Spirit saith our Prophet David speaking to your selves in Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall songs and here I might speak of the godly care of our Church which hath ordeined singing of Psalmes both before and after Sermon and indeed are very fitting to be sung in order for the better stirring up of our affections And here I have a iust cause to taske them of

A SERMON PREACHED IN SAINT PAVLES CHVRCH THE tenth of October 1641. By Mr. Thomas Chisheare Master of Arts of Brasennose Colledge in Oxford VVherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these Times Printed at London in the yeare of our Lord 1641. A SERMON PREACHed at Saint Paules Church the tenth of October 1641. Vpon Psalme 148. ver. 12. and part of the 13. Young men and maidens old men and children let them Praise the name of the Lord MY whole alotted time would be to short to stand either to speak of the Pen-man heere the holy Prophet David or this his worke in generall or this his Psalme in particular For himselfe he was a man after Gods owne heart that is his greatest title and he went beyond all the Sonnes of Adam who was a King and a Prophet in all causes both Ecclesiasticall and pollitique in foure particulars never yet paralleld A Shepherd a Musition a Souldier and a Prophet For the first ye know what service he did he slew a Lion and a Beare an absolute tipe of Death and Hell to be overcome by this victorious Lion of the Tribe of Iudah For a Musitian he was the sweet singer of Israel yea he was able to charme the Devill himselfe and quit that evill Spirit which vexed Saul For a Souldier he was most famous witnesse that Battell wherein he slew Goliah and beheaded that great Champion of the Philistines with his owne sword For a Prophet none so fully and so clearly foretels the Person Incarnation Passion and resurrection of Christ foretold as David did he in his owne person did oftentimes intimate many other men so that his divine writings are the Compendium of all the sacred Scripture it seemes Christ himselfe set much by this booke for you may observe that he used the sayings of the Prophet David more then any other Prophet yea more then all the Prophets together Moreover when the Devill tempted Christ he arged a Text out of this Prophet as if the Devill had observed how greatly Davids sayings were respected Our Church considering the usefull excellency of this part of Scripture hath ordained a more frequent use then of any other part of Divine write But I must stay no longer in the commendation of this our Prophet or his booke of Psalmes he rather bids as practise what we finde written young Men and Maidens c. Which wordes are the Conclusion of a Psalme which we may not unfitly stile by the name of a Divine Masque where is scarce any Creature in the whole world but the Species are in this Psalme Here are Angels and all Hosts Sun and Moone and Starres of light The Heaven and Heavens and the waters that be above the Heavens The Earth the Dragons and all Depths Fire Hayle Snow and vapours and stormy winds Mountaines and all Hils Fruitfull trees and all Cedars Beasts and all cattell creeping things and flying Foules Kings of the earth and all People Princes and all Iudges of the earth And in the words of my text Both Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children let them praise the Name of the Lord You that desire strange and rare sights O come hither and view the whole troope of Gods creatures a Chorus that is led by Angells followed by men and directed by God himselfe and yet stay not too long in contemplating of them for thou they selfe also of what degree soever have a part to act as well as the rest Young Men and Maidens c. For my better proceeding herein I shall first observe the connection of these wordes with the precedent Secondly the duty that is commanded and that is praise to God And thirdly the Actors and those are Iuvenes virgines c. So that you see the Text like the Iron gate to Peter opens unto us of its owne accord and to looke for more abroad were like Esaw to hunt for Venison a farre off when like Iacob wee may have it neere our hand I will treat of this Text very plainely for Ita non debet loqui Theologus ut possit intelligi sed ut non possit non intelligi First that we may know that this Masque is worth our labour and not unbeseeming so glorious a creature as man is our Prophet shewes us that it befits the Angels in Heaven yea it is the height of their felicity to comfort themselves in Anthems of praise to Almighty God So saith Saint Luk. And suddenly there was with the Angels a multitude of the heavenly Hosts praising God The Angels leaped out of Heaven for ioy to congratulate mankinde with a morning Antheme of praise and thankes Thus you see the part we have of act is nothing derogatory unto our worth since the glorious Angels themselves are imployed in the same But to go on this our Prophet shews that the very Beasts and Trees and Foules can performe that which the Devill would perswade us is so difficult The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider So heere our Prophet would have us to take notice of Beasts and Foules of the aire nay the aire it selfe wind and stormes fulfilling his word Christ tels the Iewes that the Queen of the South should rise up in Iudgement against them at the last day and not onely the Queene of the South but the arie wind of the South shall as it were rise up in Iudgement against us at the last day because that also doth performe the will of God Which man will not doe Now I come to that which I chiefly 〈◊〉 at Young men and Maidens c. The Duty here inioyned is a duty of Praise but not so much 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 for then the Pharisee would have acted his part best our praise must be both Ore Opere Cora● Christ forbidding swearing in that Divine Sermon of his upon the mount shewes us a Method how to affirme or deny any thing Let your communication be yea yea nay 〈◊〉 for whatsoever is more then these commeth of evill On which place I remember one glosseth well Christ doth not intend saith he that we should pronounce yea twice or nay twice with our tongues but that the heart should first consent or refuse and then the tongue should follow either in yea or nay there should be an agreement betweene the tongue and the heart let your communication be yea yea nay nay so likewise in preaching the name of God it must be first performed by the heart and then ecchoed out by the tongue and afterward commented upon in all our actions as yea may see in this Psalme where the Prophet calling upon the creatures to praise God urgeth them thereunto with an argument taken from the wind and storme fulfilling his word So that it is not enough for the wind to whisle or the raine to rattle if we should