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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86974	A sermon preach't to his Maiesty, at the court of White-hall. Aug.8. / By Jos. B. of Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1641 (1641)	Wing H414; Thomason E1100_2; ESTC R208332	12,915	54

ye not smile at the child which when he hath raised a large bubble out of his wallnut-shell joyes in that aery globe and wonders at the goodly colours he sees in it which whiles he is showing his owne face and his play-fellowes in that sleight reflection vanishes away leaves nothing but a little froathy spittle behind it so ridiculous are wee whiles we dote upon these fugitive contentments The captive Prince in the story noted well when he lookt back upon the charet of his proud victor that still one spoake of the wheele went downe as another rose Think of the world as it is O yee great ones it turnes round and so doe all things in it Great Saladine caused it to be proclaimed that he had nothing left him but his winding-sheet The famous Generall that thrise rescued Rome came to Date obolū Belisario one single half-penny to Bellisarius Take your turnes then for these earthly preeminences but look at them still as perishing and if you ayme at rest looke for it above all these whirling orbes of the visible heavens say of that Empyreall heaven as God said of the holy of holies which was the figure of it Hic requies mea in aeternum Here shall be my rest for ever there as Bernard well is the true day that never sets yea there is the perpetuall high-noone of that day which admits no shadow Oh then over-look all these sublunary vanities set your affections on things above not on things on the earth seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God There only shall you find true rest and constant glory This for the act of the turning the termes or subjest of it followes A fruitfull land into barrennesse Philosophy hath wont to teach us that every change is to the contrary here it is so plainly Fruitfull into barren yea into the abstract Barrennesse it selfe Small alterations are not noted the growing of the grasse the daily declining into age though not without a kind of change are insensible but for Aarons dry rod to be budded blossomed almoned in a night for the vigorous and curled prisoner to become gray headed by morning for the flourishing Pentapolis to be turned suddainly into sulphurous heapes and salt-pits these things fill the eye not without an astonishment of the heart The best beauty decaies by leasure but for a fleshy Idoll at the Court to become suddainly a leprous Miriam is a plain judgement Thus when the faire face of the earth shall be turned from a youthly and flourishing greennesse into a parched and withered deformity the leaves which are the hayres fall off and give way to a loathsome baldnesse the towred Cities which are the chaplets and dresses of that head are torne downe and turned to rubbish the fountaines and rivers which are the crystalline humours of those eyes are dryed up the surface which is the skin of that great body is chopped and chinked with drought and burnt up with heat those sweet waters of heaven and those balmy drops of fatnesse wherewith it was wont to be besprinkled are restrained and have given place to unwholsome serenenesse and killing vapors shortly that pampered plenty wherewith it was glutted is turned into a pinching want this change is not more sensible then wofull It is a great judgement this of barrennesse the curse of the disappointing fig-tree was but this Never fruit grow more on thee as contrarily the creature was blessed in no other tearmes then Crescite multiplicamini Increase and multiply A barren womb was Michols plague for her scoffing at devotion It was held by Abimelec no small judgement that God inflicted on him in closing up all the wombs of the house of Abimelec Gen. 20.18 and therefore it is said Abraham prayed v. 17. and God healed Abimelec and his wife and his maid-servants And surely as the Iewes held this the reproch among women though ours have not the same opinion nor the same reason Luc. 1.25 in so much as Canta sterilis had been a strange word Ep. 54.1 were it not for that which followeth The desolate shall have more children then the married So this is opprobrium terrae the reproch of our common mother an unbearing womb and dry brests Ose 9.14 What followes hence but miserable famine leannesse of body languishing of strength hollownesse of eyes drinesse of bones blacknes of skin wringing of mawes gnawing and clinging of guts and in the end the pale horse of death followes the black horse of famine Revel 6.8 And Those that are slaine by the sword are better then they that are slaine with hunger Lament 4.9 Yet let me tell you by the way the earthly and externall barrennesse is nothing to the inward and spirituall where the heart is barren of grace where the life is barren of good works the man is not neare to cursing but is under it Ye know who said Give me children or else I dye Gen. 30.1 It was an over passionate word of a good woman many a one lives and that with lesse griefe and care and more ease without them she might have lived happy though unfruitfull but surely a barren soule is both miserable and deadly God sayes of it as the Lord of the soyle said of the fruitlesse fig-tree Exscindatur Cut it up why keepeth it the ground barren If then wee find our selves in this condition let us doe as Solomon sayes the fashion is of the barren womb cry Give Give and never leave importunate craving till we finde the twins of grace striving in the womb of our soules But yet if a dry Arabian desert yeeld not a spire of grasse or the whitish sands of Egypt where Nile toucheth not yeeld nothing but their Suhit and Gazul fit for the furnace not the mouth or if some ill-natur'd wast yeeld nothing but heath and furres we never wonder at it these doe but their kinde But for a fruitfull land to be turned to barrennesse is an uncouth thing the very excellency of it aggravates the shame And surely God would not doe it if it were not wondrous he fetches light not out of glimmering but out of darknesse he fetches not indifferent but good out of evill Wee weak agents such all naturall and other voluntary are descend by degrees from an extreme by the staires of a meane and that oft-times sensible mutation God who is most free and infinite is not tyed to our termes he can in an instant turne faire into foule fruitfull into barren light into darknesse something yea all things into nothing Present fruitfulnesse therefore is no security against future barrennesse It is the folly of nature to think it selfe upon too sleight grounds sure of what it hath Non movebor David confesses was his note once but he soone changed it and so shall wee Thou art rich in good works as that churle was in provision and saist Soule take thy ease let thy hand be out of ure

a little through a lazy security thou hast forfeited all by disuse and maist expect to heare Stulte hac nocte Thou art rich in profession of Grace Was any man more officious then Demas yet he soon fell to imbrace the present world with a neglect of the future Think not now that I am falling in with our late Excutifidians to teach that a true solid radicated saving faith may be totally finally lost no I hate the motion it is presumption that I taxe not well grounded assurance presumption of outward profession and priviledges not assurance of the inward truth of grace Presume not o vaine man of what thou wert or what thou hast Devills were Angells Hierusalem was the holy Citty Rome was for her faith famous through all the world Rom. 1.8 Woe to Ariel to Ariel the City where David dwelt Es 29.1 Our owne once good estate may aggravate our misery can never secure our happinesse Son of man what shall become of the vine of all plants saith the Prophet The more noble it is the worse it speeds if fruitlesse Oh let us not be high-minded but feare England was once yea lately was perhaps is still the most flourishing Church under heaven that I may take up the Prophets words Es 13.19 the glory of Churches the beauty of excellency what it may be what it will be if we fall still into distractions and various Sects God knowes and it is not hard for men to fore-see Surely if we grow into that Anarchicall fashion of Independent congregations which I see and lament to see affected by too many not without wofull successe we are gone we are lost in a most miserable confusion we shall be as when God overthrew Sodome and Gomorrah Es 13.20.21 and it shall be with us as the Prophet speakes of proud and glorious Babylon The shepheards shall not make their fold here wild beasts of the desert shall lye bere and our houses shall be full of dolefull creatures and owles shall dwell and satyres shall dance there and the wild beasts of the Islands shall cry in our desolate palaces I take no pleasure God knowes to ominate ill to my deare nation and dearer mother the Church of England for whose welfare and happinesse I could contemne my owne life but I speake it in a true sorrow of heart to perceive our danger and in a zealous precaution to prevent it Oh God in whose hands the hearts of Princes and all the sons of men are to turne them as the rivers of waters put it into the heart of our King and Parliament to take speedy order for the suppression of this wild variety of Sects and lawlesse independencies ere it be too late Thus much for the subject and termes of this change The agent followes He turneth Never was there any sterility whereof there may not be a cause given Either the season is unkindly parching with drought or drenching with wet or nipping with frost or blasting with pernicious aires or rotting with mildewes or some mis-accident of the place inundations of waters incursions and spoyle of enemies suddaine mortalities of the inhabitants or some naturall fault in the soyle or misdemeanure of the owners idlenesse ill-husbandry in mis-timing neglect of meet helps unculture ill choyce of seed but what ever be the second cause we are sure who is the first Hee turneth Is there any evill in the City and he hath not done it Alas what are all secondary causes but as so many livelesse puppets there is a divine hand unseene that stirres the wires and puts upon them all their motion so as our Saviour said of Pilate we may say of all the activest instruments both of earth and hell Thou couldest have no power over mee unlesse it were given thee from above Is Ioseph sold to the Merchants by the villany of his envious brethren The Lord sent me before you Gen. 51. Doe the Chaldeans and Sabeans feloniously drive away the heards of Iob doth the Devill by a tempestuous gust bluster downe the house and rob him of his children The Lord hath taken Iob. 1. Is a man slaine by chance-medly the axe-head slipping from the helve Dominus tradidit So whether they be acts of nature of will of casualty whether done by naturall agents by voluntary by casuall by supernaturall Digitus Dei est hic He turneth What can all other causes either doe or be without him who is the originall of all entity and causality There is much wisdome and justice in distinguishing causes giving each their owne whereof whiles some have failed they have run into injurious and frantick extrems Whiles on the one side wild and ignorant hereticks have ascribed all to Gods agency without acknowledging secondary causes on the other Atheous fooles ascribe all to the second and immediate causes not looking up to the hand of an over-ruling and all-contriving providence We must walk warily betwixt both yeelding the necessary operatiō of subordinate means imployed by the divine wisdome and adoring that infinite wisdome and power which both produces and imployes those subordinate means to his own holy purposes Tell mee then art thou crossed in thy designes and expectation Blame not distempers of times disappointment of undertakings intervention of crosse-accidents this is as some shifting Alchymist that casts all the fault of his mis-successe upon his glasse or his furnace but kisse that invisible hand of power which disposeth of all these sublunary events if against thy will yet according to his owne Even nature it selfe will teach us to reduce all second causes to the first Behold saith the Lord I will heare the heavens they shall heare the earth the earth shall heare the corne wine oyle and they shall heare Israel Lo here is a necessary scale whereof no staffe can be missing How should Israel live without corne wine oyle how should the corne wine oyle be had without the yeeldance of the earth how should the earth yeeld these without the influence of heaven how can heaven yeeld these influences without the command of the maker Ose 2.21 When I meet therefore with a querulous husbandman he tels mee of a churlish soyle of a wet seed-time of a greene winter of an unkindly spring of a luke-warme summer of a blustring autumne but I tell him of a displeased God who will be sure to contrive and fetch about all seasons and elements to his own most wise drifts and purposes Thou art a Merchant what tellest thou mee of crosse winds of Michael-mas flawes of ill weathers of the wafting of the Archangels wings when thou passest by the Grecian promontory of tedious becalmings of pyraticall hazards of falshood in trades breaking of customers craft and undermining of interlopers all these are set on by heaven to impoverish thee Thou art a Courtier and hast laid a plot to rise if obsequious servility to the great if those gifts in the bosome which our blunt Ancestors would have termed Bribes if plausible