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A84751	Foure speeches delivered in Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October, 1643. At a common-hall, vpon occasion of desiring the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this warre. / Viz. the [brace] 1. by Mr. Solicitor. 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy. 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes. 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick. Published according to order.	Gardiner, Thomas, Sir, 1591-1652.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing F1671; Thomason E338_1; ESTC R200837	38,460	48

meane beginnings hee hath raised to as great a height as ever low beginnings in any Countrey were How hath God dissipated and biasted the Counsells of their adversaries how hath he discovered all their Treacheries although they be in themselves comparatively at least a poor people and of little strength as the Church of Philadelphia was yet they have kept the word of Gods patience and God hath kept them in the houre of temptation God therefore is with them How happy should we bee if we may have them in a neare union with us And a people that have carryed themselves with as great honour and faithfulnesse with as great wisdome and order in the most difficult worke that ever a people did undertake in those by and intricate paths that were before uncrodden Certainly that they undertooke at the beginning of their wor●e but a few years since it could not but be looked upon with the eye of reason as the most unlikely worke ever to have proceeded as any work● hath ever done and yet how hath the Lord been with them and with what wisdome and graciousnesse have they carryed it Was there ever such an example since the world began of a people comming out of a poorer Countrey into a fat and richer Countrey and having those opportunities that they had to enrich themselves to goe away so as they did their greatest enemies they now admire at them A people they are that began to rise for their Liberties when the generality of this people here were ready basely to bow down their backs and put their necks under the yoke and had it not been that they had been willing to have endured the brunt we had all been slaves it is like at this day A people that are exceeding sensible of our condition witnesse that when our Letters from the Reverend Assembly came unto them they received them with teares and much meltings of spirit in their Generall Kirke Assembly witnesse their readinesse and willingnesse to come now though in winter season in times that wee dare not venture our selves abroad witnesse the temptations that they have had unto the contrary and yet carryed through all They now desire 100000 l. what is this to 300000 l. in pay what is this to five Counties what is this to the plunder of a whole City what reasonable termes doe they proffer to come among you doe but give them 100000 l. advance and they engage themselves for three moneths and ten dayes and in the winter time to be in the Kingdome not to have a foot of Land granted unto them or assured them but willing to depart againe without any more when they have done their worke this certainly cannot but satisfie any spirit that is never so malignant at least it may stop his mouth A Nation it is that wee are engaged unto likewise that that now is desired of you is no more indeed then is their due it is due already to them but they desire it not in that way Wherefore shall such an opportunity as this is be lost for want of Money God forbid shall a people to whom God hath given such testimony of his acceptance be rejected by us when they would come in and help us Their Liberties are setled why they though on the other side of Jordan they are not therein satisfied to sit still but are willing to come themselves and come into the brunt and hazard themselves for the setling of their brethren in the inheritance of the Lord likewise And it is not only the number of those that shal come in ●1000 that is our advantage but the great busines is the ingagement of a kingdom the incouragement of such a Kingdom that God hath given such testimony to that that Kingdom shall be by this everlastingly engaged in what is deare unto us in our peace and our security that is the advantage of all And as the Lord hath a delight in this place in this Nation he hath no lesse surely in this renowned City this City whom indeed our adversaries have found out nick-names for and call it the rebellious City as formerly Rehum the Chancelor and Shimsbai the Scribe Ezra 4. called the City of Jerusalem but God hath other names for you it is the City of the Lord of Hosts it is the faithfull City and God hath much mercy certainly for this place There is no City in the world that hath such a cloud of incense of prayers goe daily up to heaven I verily believe as doth from this City Yea put all the Cities of the earth together I scarce thinke that God is so much honoured in family duties in them all together as he is in this place A City that hath had the powerfull preaching of the Gospel beyond all Cities upon the face of the earth and the Ministers of it receiving more encouragement here then they have done in any other parts of the world A City that hath more of the power and life of godlinesse then any place yet upon the face of the earth surely God intendeth good to this City and doth likewise delight in it and he hath great things for this City to do and great mercy to bestow upon them You have been the bulwark of that honourable Assembly in both Houses of Parliament you have been their safety you have been their assistance their lives have been preserved by you and God will remember it another day and hee hath mercy in store for that labour of your love and that hazard that you endured in that thing You have been the refuge of the banished Ministers and Saints of God in most parts of this Kingdome and in Ireland and the blessing of those that are ready to perish it is much upon this City night day Never did the Lord stir up so many young ones as he hath done in this city at this time that promises great mercy that speaks aloud to us that God intendeth to do great things by them Never was there so many godly ones or more to speak with modesty together in place of power in this City then there is at this day You have the blessing of all the prayers of all the servants of God throughout this Kingdome Parents shall teach their children to blesse God for London as long as they live yea for many generations when they have any fruit by the Gospel they shall teach their children to acknowledge it to the glory of God children thanke God for London thanke God that ever you heard of Christ had it not been for the forwardnesse the zeale the activenesse of the Spirits of those in London you had never come to enjoy these Liberties of the Gospel as now you doe And now shall this City withdraw themselves from such a noble and great work of God as they are called unto at this time and let it fall because of them for it is in your power either to raise it or to let it fall that is the English

before hath done If you say why doe wee doe all What if God will give the City the speciall honour yet the Countrey will bee required for a great part besides but the Lords work now to bee done it must bee done especially by his servants and wee know in Ezra when as the adversaries of Judah would have come and helped in the work they would not suffer them to come and help in the work I say not wee should doe so but onely to satisfie ●s in this that wee should not think it much that God should especially honour us in such a work as this is But yet besides know that your interest in this businesse it is more than the interest of other men for other men care not what becomes of Religion what care they for Reformation they are willing to bee slaves to some that they might have others slaves under them But you desire Reformation you therefore shall have the greatest share in the blessing of the issue of this work and therefore if others doe not so much yet you should bee willing to bee forward in the work you are now called to and if you bee willing it is like in a little while you may get such power that you may bring others to doe whatsoever may appear to bee just If it shall bee said I but a great deal is done but to little purpose all this while O my brethren say not so it is an unthankfull voyce this for much hath been done there hath been a check given to the adversary the stream of tyranny and slavery it hath been stopped your lives have all this while been preserved by what hath been done If you think but it is too late and all will bee lost that wee doe Say not so neither this is below a Roman spirit the Romans when Hannibal was at their gates yet would sell their fields at as great a rate and as great a consideration as at any other time Even the field where the Enemy was found buyers when it was put to sale there were enow to buy that field Your spirits would scarce rise so high to give a valuable consideration for the field of your Enemy to bee Fee simple to your selves hee not discouraged you have not only the Faith of both Kingdomes that hath been offered but wee as Divines may offer you this day the Faith of Heaven the Faith of the promises of Heaven they are offered to you and there is nothing will blast that work more than a discouraged heart You know that the very thing that caused God to deprive the children of Israel of Canaan when they were at the borders it was because they were discouraged and said There are children of Anak here and let us not go The Lord is bringing of us to a blessed 〈◊〉 it is true wee are in a wildernesse but wee know God hath brought us into the wildernesse and hee will speak comfortably to us in it and let us not bee afraid of difficulties lest wee bee deprived of that good Land that God is bringing us into and little cause have wee to bee discouraged for those wee have to deal with their spirits are base and vile why should wee fear those uncircumcised Philistines And wee see God hath been with us in every thing that wee have undertaken Wee have never shown our selves like men but God hath shown himself to be like a God for us If you say Well but were it not better wee bent all our forces to some Accommodation To that wee answer you thus You have to deal not only with his Majesty but with a Popish party that are about him and what security you can ever have of your peace as was worthily said before except the Scottish Nation comes in for to fasten it it is easie for any one to judge I will tell you but one story about that and because it is suitable unto you I will therefore relate it here It is a Story that I finde in the Chronicles that in the dayes of King Edward the fixt King Edward sends to this City for assistance against the Lords and the Lords send to the City for their assistance likewise against the Protectour the Earl of Somerset and the Common Councell was called I suppose in this place and there stands up as the story saith a wise discreet Citizen in the Common Councell and makes this speech unto them First hee acknowledges that the cause was right for the Lords for the Kingdom though it were against the will of the King because the King would not then put in execution those Laws that should bee but hindered them but yet saith hee let mee reminde you of that that I have read in Fabians Chronicle it was one George Stadley that stood up let mee reminde you of that when there was a fight between the Lords and the King the Lords send for assistance to the City the City granted their assistance the Lords prevailed the King was taken and his Son a Prisoner afterwards they were both released upon Composition and amongst other things this was one that howsoever the City should bee preserved that the City should suffer nothing for what they had done and this Composition was confirmed by Act of Parliament but saith this Citizen what came of it did the King forgive No nor forget for afterwards all our Liberties were taken away strangers were set over us for our Heads and Governours the bodies and the estates of the Citizens were given away and one misery followed after another and so wee were most miserably persecuted and here was their Accommodation Wherefore then to close all you have heard before that wee come not onely to perswade you but to ingage our selves as well as to perswade you and to doe that that wee would have you doe For our parts as wee have in some proportionable manner done it already so wee are ready to doe it further and it beseemes us well to doe it Wee read in the 3 of Nebemiah that the first that did help to repair the City it was the Priests of the City and about the middle of the City the Priests of the Plain I suppose it is meant the City Ministers and the Countrey Ministers and you shall finde in that Chapter severall sorts of people were there there were the Rulers these specially mentioned I suppose their chief Rulers as their Aldermen c. they were very forward in that work of the Lord Yea there were the Tradesmen there you read much of the Goldsmiths two severall times in that Chapter you read of the Goldsmiths more then others and you read of the Apothecaries that they were ready in their work yea and you read of the Daughters of men how they forwarded their Parents I would I had to speak to many young ones this day I hope I should prevail much with them to bee great forwarders of you that are more ancient that you may doe this freely which you are

one of the best Fathers true Religion is What you lay out to preserve it that one day will returne to preserve you I have ever thought our Religion to be our shield and as he said of his shield so Religion will say to you Defend me and I will defend you It is our shield why preserve your shield you preserve your selfe O that this large Auditory would but remember two or three things that I will speake unto you It is better Friends to keep your Religion with the expence of all you have then to keep all you have with the losse of one dram of Religion and if you should quit the preservation of Religion you shall lose in the event both Religion and your selves too There will be a double losse you may perhaps for the present be at a double cost to keep up Religion but you shall be at a treble losse if you lose Religion you shall lose your lives you shall lose the estates that you keep and you shall lose your soules too and if any thing keeps you it is Religion For if any thing keeps God that keeps all it is the keeping of Religion Now Sirs a● this argument besides al that 〈…〉 for in truth they have left me almost naked that I have nothing to say as this argument may revive those affections that have been stirred up already so methinkes if you looke but upon the very condition of the Church this day I professe unto you it will break your hearts and therefore may certainly open your purses this day Why friends if I am able I may not deny no not one day nor the second day nor the third day nor any time I must not deny to help a poor Lazarus I must not see Lazarus to starve and die at my doores if that I am able to helpe a poore Christian Why if my bowells must extend themselves i● 〈◊〉 helpe must extend it selfe to one Christian how shall I how can I see the Churches of Jesus Christ for to gaspe and give up the Ghost at the feet of bloud There are two sorts of bloud which will lye heavie upon my soule if that I should suffer the guilt of them to be upon my soul there is the bloud of Christ and the bloud of the Churches of Christ If Abel● bloud the bloud of a single person was so heavie upon ●ain what will the bloud of 〈◊〉 Church of all the Churches of Christ let downe upon our fonts if we should now falle to help the Churches of Christ But if there were no other 〈…〉 with you but onely something that might concerns your selves I professe as I am satisfied in my owns Spirit so I am p●rswaded it were enough to perswade you Why Friends you have done already I speak not to flatter you you 〈…〉 already more then all the land hath done even to the preservation of all the Land nay more then all the Christian world hath done to preserve the Cause of Christ And let me tell you that God hath not been behinde hand with you God hath looked upon you as much I meane this City God hath looked upon this City 〈…〉 if not more then upon all the land besides And ●ruly if you will cast east up all accounts betwixt God and your selves though you have done very much yet you are in arre●s ages still unto God God is still before-hand with mercies though in mercy he hath stirred up your hearts to doe thus These are three things methinks wherein the Lord hath shewed himselfe to you that may for ever engage your hearts with all alacrity to spend and to be spent for his cause Why the one is he never would to this day suffer the destroyer notwithstanding all their intentions he would never suffer the destroyer to enter into this City he hath still diverted them as you have observed by some admirable acts of providence when their resolutions have been to come to this place the Lord knowes in what condition you had been by this day if providence had not at one time especially diverted them from it but notwithstanding all this God hath not suffered them to this day to shoot one arrow into your City But then there is another thing as the Lord hath not to this day suffered them to come in a publike hostile way so he hath from time to time discovered all the Treacheries Plots and designes against you When the enemy could not destroy you above board but thought to undermine your Lives and States and all I need not say much to revive your memories of late dayes did God unknowne to you deliver you from destruction and should you now be backward to doe for this God that hath preserved all that you have and all that you are Nay consider one thing more he hath in all the publike services wherein indeed if any people in the Land deserve our acknowledgements and honour this City hath got it from the whole Land But this is that I was saying God hath in all the publike Services and Battails which have of late been fought in the land God hath hanged the shield of salvation upon your shoulders he hath been pleased to cast all the glory not onely of preservation but of the great successe and honour and victory God hath cast it upon the people of London And will you that God hath defended all this while will you that God hath preserved from secret treachery will you that God hath given hearts all this while to stand for God above all the people of the earth will you that God hath done so much for in the times of battaile more then for all the rest wil you fail now to do for God God forbid I beseech you rather that your hearts may be doubled and trebled for that God that is so good to you And not to trouble you long because the truth is I am confident there needs no more to be said you long rather who should most shew his affection at this time to preserve all Why there is one thing more that might bee spoken too that is touching our brethren of Scotland Why so many things have been said already that I can say nothing Our condition worthy Sirs our condition of England mee thinks it is so like the condition of that poore man that went between Jericho and Jerusalem there the Priest hee passes by on the one side never so much as lookes upon him Our Priests and Popish party and another sordid party that cleaves to them they doe not so much as consider the lamentable losse of this poore Kingdom of England the Levite he came and looked on indeed but hee passes by I pray God it ●ee not laid to the charge of some Churches abroad to whom wee have been helpfull that they can have eares to heare of our distresses and wounds but have not hands at all to help us whether they have tongues to pity us wee know not Onely there is the Samaritan Sirs the Samaritan that saw this wounded man and that had compassion and that went to him and that bound up his wounds and that powred in Oyle and Wine Truly Sirs the Samaritans that wee finde on earth for our great Physitian in Heaven wee blesse him still for looking upon us but the Samaritans the onely Samaritans that wee have on earth they are our brethren in Scotland O the tears that they have shed for poore England O the Prayers that they have in solemn manner from time to time sent up to Heaven for poor England O the Petitions that they unknown for a long time to us did direct unto his Majesty if it had been possible to take up all differences and now yet again as if their inward compassions as if their prayings to Heaven as if their petitionings to man were nothing so sensible so affectionate are they to live with us to dye with us that they are ready to come in to adventure their dearest lives to save our lives Why Friends why what will move your hearts if this doth not move your hearts I doe professe it is the greatest equity under heaven to lend our estates some of our moneys to them that are not unwilling to venture their lives for us I know many Objections might bee made You have done much already and the summe is great I say no more There is nothing great to a minde that is great and the Cause is great and though the summe of money bee great yet their love is greater then all you can lay out to answer their love And say not grumbling wee have done often and often I say to you as Christ said to him that asked him How often must I forgive my brother Why 70 times 7 times So will I say for this publique Cause you must doe and you must doe and yet you must doe and yet you must doe as long as there is a penny in thy purse as long as there is strength in thy hand as long as there is breath in thy body you must bee all Servants to Christ and Servants to the Churches of Jesus Christ And so I beseech the God of Heaven that what hath been delivered unto you this day and much hath been spoken I think as much as possibly can unto men that it may bee effectuall to move your hearts that what is done may bee speedily done and fully done lest wee bee for ever undone Nay that wee may bee preserved and not only wee but all the Churches of God preserved And the Lord of Heaven make impression upon your hearts FINIS

peace that may bring a massacre with it a French peace if you would have such a peace it may be had easily but if you would have a peace that may continue the Gospel among you and may bring in a Reformation such as all the godly in the Kingdome doe desire I am concluded under this and am confident that such a peace cannot bee had without contribution towards the bringing in of the Scots and that is the reason for the promoting of this peace this blessed peace that we have appeared here this day and me thinks Gentlemen the very sight of these worthy Divines me thinkes so many Divines so many Orators so many silent Orators to plead with you to bee willing to engage your selves to the utmost to help forward the Nation of Scotland to come to our help And likewise I would put you in mind of the 10 of Numbers there you shal read that there were two silver Trumpets and as there were Priests appointed for the convocation of their Assemblies so there were Priests to sound the silver Trumpets to proclaime the Warre And likewise in the 20. of Deuteronomy you shall finde there that when the children of Israel would goe out to Warre the sonnes of Levi one of the Priests was to make a speech to encourage them And certainly if this were the way of God in the Old Testament certainly much more in such a Cause as this in which Cause Religion is so intwin'd and indeed so interlac'd that Religion and this Cause they are like Hippocrates his twins they must live and die together And Gentlemen if Religion were not concerned in this Cause and mightily concerned and if Religion did not live and die with it we had not appeared this day And I hope this will be a sufficient answer unto this Objection But there is another Objection which I will answer and then briefly give leave to my other Reverend Brethren that likewise are prepared to speake here The great Objection of all is this that the City is already exhausted and so much Money hath been lent already that there is no hope of lending any more this is the grand Objection But truly Gentlemen for my part this is one of the chiefe Arguments I have to perswade you to lend a little more because you have lent so much give me leave to put you in minde of that Story in the 2 Kings 13. the Story of King Joash that came to visit the Prophet Elisha when he was ready to breath out his last the Prophet Elisha gives him a bow and arrows and bids him shoot hee shootes and bids him smite hee smites the ground thrice and then he ceased the Prophet was exceeding angry with him and tells him you should have smote the ground 5 or 6 times and then you should have utterly consumed the Assyrians whereas now you shall smite them but three times Give me leave to apply this Gentlemen you have smote the ground thrice you have lent once twice and thrice indeed you have been the fame of England and the Repairers of England and the Ornaments of England you have lent much but let mee tell you you must smite the ground 5 or 6 times if ever you look to consume the Assyrians if ever you look to bring this Warre to a happy Peace that your posterities may rejoyce in this Peace you must shoot one arrow more and then through Gods blessing you may utterly consume these Enemies that you and your posterity may rejoyce in a happy peace It is a famous story of Johannes Eleemozinarius that when hee had given even almost all hee had to the poore his friends were exceeding angry with him and told him hee had undone himself what was his answer O saith hee I have not yet shed my blood for Jesus Christ Jesus Christ hee emptied himself of his Divinity to make us rich hee became poore and shed his blood for you You have not yet made your selves so poore as Jesus Christ was that had no house to lodge in and he did all this for your sakes You have not yet shed your blood for the Cause of Christ Wee read that Moses was willing to bee blotted out of the book of life for the Cause of God and wee read of Paul that hee was willing to bee accursed for the people of Israels sake And will you not bee willing to venture your earthly provisions for so good a Cause as this is which I say England was never engaged in the like Religion hath produced all the wealth you have all your wealth is but the childe of Religion wee have a saying Religio peperit divitias divitiae devoravunt matrem Religion hath begot wealth and the Daughter hath devoured the Mother ●●lia devoravit matrem but give mee leave and I hope through Gods blessing you will invert this saying Religion hath got you all the wealth you have you Gentlemen and I hope the Daughter now will preserve the Mother I hope Riches will preserve Religion and not destroy Religion A famous example of Polan●● Noli●●● that when hee had given all that hee had away and being asked why hee would give so much to the poor hee gave this answer V● levi●● ascenderem s●alam Ja●c●i that I might the easier get up Jacobs ladder And let mee assure you in the word of a Minister the contributing to this Cause for Gods sake and for the glory of God and for the peace of the Gospel I say will bee a means to make you the sooner ascend up Jacobs Ladder not for the giving of the money but for the evidence of your Faith through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ by your giving of the money And certainly that man will never get up Jacobs Ladder that hath the ●ust of his money to ●●ar witnesse against him at the day of Judgement especially at such a time as this Give mee leave to put you in minde of one other story and that is of one Bernardinu● 〈◊〉 that was so liberall to the poore that every penny that hee gave to the poore hee would call it a holy penny and a happy penny and hee would blesse God that hee had that penny to 〈◊〉 indeed hee was a Papist and his ordinary speech was O happy penny that hath purchased immortality to mee indeed this speech was not good for it is not our money that doth purchase heaven that is an evidence of the truth of our Faith that layes hold upon Christ for salvation But let mee tell you if ever Gentlemen you might use this speech O happy penny you may use it now Happy money that will purchase my Gospel happy money that will purchase Religion and purchase a Reformation to my posterity O happy money and blessed bee God that I have it to lend And I count it the greatest opportunity that ever God did offer to the godly of this Kingdom to give them some money to lend to this Cause And I

fr●ite of my comming to this City if after five yeers unprofitablenesse I might speak somewhat this afternoon that might enlarge your hearts to a greater measure of liberality All I will say is this Wee Divines say that Perseverance is the only grace that Crowns a Christian Methushelah lived 999 yeers if hee had fallen away from Grace at the 999 yeers end all the good that hee had done before had been quite forgotten I know that God will so uphold his children that they shall never fall away but I bring it as a supposition that suppose that Methushelah had forsaken his righteousnesse all hee had done before had been quite forgotten but God hath made a promise never to forsake his Children and that grace hee hath begun in them hee will finish and I doubt not but that God that hath put it into your hearts to be● so liberall already and to doe so much in this Cause and to bee so cordiall and so reall and to exceed all other parts of the Kingdom I hope that same God now will finish that good work hee hath begun and will crown all his graces in you with the Grace of Perseverance and that God that hath been the Author of all the good you have done I doubt not but that God will bee the Finisher And I beseech God to give a blessing to that hath been spoken Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. Gentlemen PRovidence hath cast this Assembly met for such a weighty occasion as indeed it is the weightiest that hath concerned England in our age to bee late and so perhaps wearisome to many of you but you may well bee content to stay a while although you should bee deprived of a great part of your sleep this night if this Evenings businesse may have the hoped successe of it it may make you sleep quietly and securely many nights after Things of present and absolute necessity call for action not deliberation this work that you have been called unto is such as you must leave objecting against it and rather fall a blessing God that you may bee used in it In the 1 of Chronicles 22. 14. When David and the people had come and offered of their estates freely and bountifully David hee humbles himself then Who am I and who are wee It were happy if you come all with such an humble frame of spirit to admire that God preserves your lives and calls you at this time to such a work so concerning his glory and the good of three Kingdoms yea of the Christian world If ever you that have estates had cause to rejoyce in them then now when God presents such a large opportunity for his service as hee loth and wherein consills mans happinesse but in being serviceable in his generation In these dayes to bee acted by that poore ●ow principle Qui bene lotuit bene vixit that is let us keep our selves safe and quiet keep our estates take heed of appearing too farre wee know not which side may prevaile this is an argument of a vile and a sordid spirit let such a mans name bee writen in the earth Unworthy is such a man to live in such a Generation as this in which God is doing such great things as might enliven the deadest heart quicken the dullest spirit raise the heaviest and inlarge the straitest spirit living upon the earth In former times indeed there was lesse charge called for there was lesse trouble but there was lesse service too and what doe you think to bee the measure of a mans happinesse either little trouble or much service A gratious heart thinks it as great a mercy to lay out for God as to receive from God God in these our dayes is risen on high in his administrations and our hearts should rise together with him Psalm 105. 4 5. Thy mercy O Lord is above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds what followes bee thou then exalted O Lord above the Heavens and let thy glory bee above all the earth This day Gods name Gods great works they are above the heavens they are very high wee behold them let our hearts rise in a suitable way as God rises in his workings and all say and doe as wee say that God may bee exalted now above the heavens indeed God can doe his work without you and doe it certainly hee will howsoever but seeing hee is now laying a foundation of the most glorious building that it is like ever hath been in this world if hee shall bee pleased to call you to bee helpfull in it it will bee Gods mercy and your glory Were it that this one principle were raised in the hearts of people that to doe publique service it is not onely a duty but a dignity how ready how abundant then would men bee in the Work of the Lord There hath lately been the most blessed union of two Nations as ever was in the world lifting up their hands to the high God swearing that they will amend their wayes and seek to reform themselves according unto the Word let us now reach forth our hands and hearts unto our brethren in Scotland let us come up fully unto this our engagement and rejoyce in it for certainly that Nation is a Nation that God doth love a Nation that God doth honour and by those many expressions of his love shewed that hee doth intend to make them speciall instruments of the great things he hath to doe in this latter age of the world It is a Nation that is united the most firmely of any people under heaven Wee may truly call it a Philadelphia and Brightman that famous light in former times 30 or 40 yeers since did parallell the Church of Philadelphia with the Church of Scotland Philadelphia signifies brotherly love When was there ever a Nation such a Church that joyned together in such firm Covenants as they have done had wee had the like union amongst us O what great things had wee done long before this time A Nation it is that hath engaged it self to God in a higher way in a more extraordinary way than any Nation this day upon the face of the earth hath done in the most solemn way Covenanting with the eternall God powring forth their prayers and their tears for joy together with their Covenanting A Nation that hath reformed their lives for so small a time more than ever any people that wee know of in the world have done and a people that have risen up against Antichrist more in another way than ever people have done and that is the great Work of God in these times and therefore God certainly hath a love unto them because they breake the ice and begin the work and arise in such a way as they doe for the pulling down of that man of sin A Nation that God hath honoured by giving as glorious successe unto as ever he did unto any whose low and

of it it is in your power now either to save us or to undoe us and shall this be let fall now out of love of Mony shall I say Let the Mony of those men perish with them No I came not hither to threaten but to perswade consider that the mercies that you have from Christ cost Christ more then money they cost Christ his deare heart bloud Who is it that raised your estates more then others have not many of you come hither low as Jacob with your staffe to this City and now behold these bands this estate who knows but that you are raised for such a time as this Have not you engaged your selves many times in prayer to God when first you entred into Covenant to God did not you give up all your estate then to God to bee employed in his Service God cals for his due at this time from you Oftentimes upon your sick beds and death beds in your apprehension of death that they would have been death beds you have then given up all again to God and vowed that if God did raise you up you would live to his service you would employ your strength in his Service God calls for all those vows you have now an opportunity to fulfill all those vowes And seeing providence hath cast it so that a Reverend Assembly of Divines hath appointed us to speake thus unto you give us leave to speak in the name of God unto you and to call upon you in the name of God for the fulfilling of all the vows that you have made upon your sick beds to give up your selves and your estates for the service of the Lord And know that if you shall keep your estates otherwise then God would have you it will be to you as the Manna was to the Israelites they kept it longer than they should and there was wormes in it 〈◊〉 that was preserved no longer than Gods time was sweet but that that was kept afterwards it had wormes breeding in it Your estates you have now you must not think will alwayes bee so sweet as they have been unto you if you preserve them longer than God would have you there will wormes breed in them yea the curse of God will bee in them Have not you s●nt up many prayers to God for this great Cause that God would blesse it I appeal to you then you have engaged your selves to Heaven by all your prayers therfore I beseech and intreat you now by all the prayers you have made as before by your vowes by all the prayers you have made upon your Fasting dayes that God would preserve his Cause that you would now doe as much as in you lies to maintain his Cause otherwise how doe you trifle with the great God and mock him in your prayers that you seek to him to maintain it and when there is an opportunity in your hands you will not doe wh●t lies in you It may bee you will say w●e have done much already Wee acknowledge it and blessed bee God for it but know the Cause is a great Cause and it is a great God that you doe for Philo Judaeus tells us it was enough among some heathenish people but to say to them Libertas agitur the businesse is your Liberty that is afoot enough to venture their estates and lives It is not Liberty alone but Religion as you have heard But because some may perhaps cast such a scruple into your mindes a● we have heard of it That what warrant have wee to take up Armes to maintain Religion that is not at present to bee discussed but only this to satisfie and stop all their mouths with one word Thus farre none can deny it but it is lawfull to take up armes to maintain that civill right wee have to our Religion and this wee doe For wee have not onely a right to our Religion by the Law of God but wee have a Civill right to this our Religion that other Christians have not had and therefore there can bee no scruple in this to retard you in such a work as this you have done much but a gratious heart will ever think what hee hath done for God it is but poore and low That example is famous of David that had done so much for preparing the Temple of God in the 1 of Chronicles 22. 14. It was 1000000 talents of silver and 1000 talents of gold which some compute a matter of 33 Cart loads of silver allowing 20000 livre. to every Cart load and 70 millions of French Crowns of gold this David had done preparing but for the house of the Lord and yet hee saith that out of his poverty hee had done all this all this was but a poor and low thing for him to doe in comparison of the great God why have you done more then this therefore seeing it is for the high God you have done it look upon what you have done but as low and still goe on in the work of the Lord You have done much and so have the adversaries too Wee would have you to weigh this that the adversary hath been at as much charge as you have been as bountifull and free as you have been in the 46 of Isaiah 6. Wee read that the Idolaters did lavish out their gold upon their Idols yea they lavished their gold out of their bagges Certainly our adversary hath felt the burthen of this and hath been at the charge of it as much as you You have done much but yet you have not gone in a good work so farre as a Herod hath done Josephus in his 15 Book of Antiquities and about the 12 Chapter tells us of Herod the King that in the time of scarcity hee sold away all his moveables all the plate that was served to his table and fetched corn from Aegypt and bought it for the poor and cloathed them yea and gave seed corn to the Assyrians his neighbours Why now in this our Kingdom wee may see much Plate still at many Noble mens tables yea at many Gentlemens tables a great deal of Plate reserved they have not sold all their moveables and Plate to give away it is but a proportion of their estates and but to lend upon so good security And take this one consideration further your having done much is a mighty preparation to make your doing now to bee formidable to your adversaries for what is the hope of your adversary but that you are drawn dry They triumph in this and they tell the world that there must bee such petty wayes to seek to the City to get petty summes of money and all is even gone and therefore wee shall have them to bee a prey ere long but when they shall see that after so much hath been expended here that you have such free spirits and to come out still abundantly with further treasure this will more daunt their hearts this 100000 livre. will daunt their hearts more than 2000000 li.