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A35693 Berwicks beauty, or, A church erecting there Denton, Robert, 17th cent. 1650 (1650) Wing D1063; ESTC R20404 4,858 16

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BERWICKS BEAUTY OR A CHURCH Erecting there Haggai 1. 7 8. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts consider your own ways in your hearts Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build this house and I will be favorable in it and I will be glorified saith the Lord LONDON Printed in the Year 1650. To the Honorable Colonel George Fenwick Governor of the Town of Berwick upon Tweed And to the Right Worshipful Thomas Watson Esquire Major of the same Gentlemen THat zeal to the building the Lords House which discovers it self in your care and charge in beginning and diligent progress in expediting the same is the ground of this presumption and encourages me to this boldnes Though with the VVidow it be but a mite yet I shall with her heart also cast it into your Treasury hoping it may further the work and confident it will be accepted by you both as a good intention though no large portion from Your faithful and devoted Servant Robert Denton A MITE Cast into the TREASURY THe glory of God ought to be the first and chiefest end of every intention and action His glory is not more illustrated in any thing than in erecting Churches or places or what you please to term them for his publique worship and service if therein we pray unto and praise his great and glorious Name for My h●use shall be called the house of Prayer to all Nations saith God by the mouth of the Prophet Isa. 56. 7. and He that there offereth praise shall glorifie me saith the Lord by the prophetick King Psal. 50. 23. This Church I presume is begun to be erected with the same intentions nor want I a firm foundation for that presumption Therefore I also being born in and sworn to that Corporation to act all things that may conduce to its good conclude my self engaged in conscience to my power to assist in so religious and pious an action The way by which I conceive I may best discharge this engagement is First by humbly representing such encouragements as may confirm those noble Resolutions which so piously have begun chearfully to proceed in so religious a work Secondly by discovering such things as known may further and advance it And lastly by humbly requesting a lawful favor of the Major Bayliffs and Burgesses of that Corporation that thereby I may be enabled to be a contributor also thereunto I shal not need to insist much upon encouragement of those whose zeal to perfect the work declares them such as willingly offered themselves Judges 5. 2. yet I am confident this motive may fan up that zeal to a brighter flame if they will be pleased to eye the good fruit which this work will produce and the reward they shall gain thereby Our Savior was much moved and as a prevalent Motive also it was urged by the Elders of the Jews to perswade and induce Christ to grant the Centurions Petition and to prevail with him to heal his Servant because he loveth said they our Nation and hath built us a Synagogue Luke 7. 5. The building an House for the assemblies of the Servants of God is an undenyable Testimony of a mans zeal towards the true worship and service of God and when the piety of Superiors shall discover it self by attempting and furthering the erecting Houses for the exercise of the publique Worship of God weak and simple people are invited by their example to respect Religion and reverence the service of God yea Godless Barbarity is converted to Christian Civility and Heathenish Liberty to comely Policy and the present age shall be encouraged by their example to go and do likewise Luke 10. 37. at least seeing This their good work may glorifie their Father which is in heaven Matth. 5. 16. And as for their reward both the present and future ages shall speak their praise and bless God for this good Monument of their religious Intentions when children shall be instructed by their godly Parents to say This House of God was begun furthered and finished in the time by the care and diligence and in part at the cost of Colonel Ge●rge Fenwick Governor and Thomas Watson Esq Major of the Town of Berwick upon Tweed Neither doth this their zeal want encouragement from the blessed Spirit of God it self for they have for their president the examples of the best men in Gods holy Word recorded as powerful Motives to perswade them to an unwearied prosecution of such pious Resolutions David in his greatness did advise to build Gods House 2 Sam. 7. 2. the result whereof was that holy and heavenly ejaculation The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up Psal. 69. 9. I will not say that the expression is now inverted and the zeal of some hath eaten up Gods House Solomon thought it the chiefest part of his Royalty to act what his Father projected 1 Kings 5. 5. Cyrus an Heathen proclaims it as his charge from the God of Heaven to build the House of the Lord for his Worship and Service Ezra 1. 2. and both Ezra and Nehemiah made it their principal work to put in execution that religious Proclamation Ezra 8. and Nehem. 4. These examples I hope are not needlesly inserted for their encouragement I come now to my promised discovery King Joash minding to renew the house of the Lord gathered together the Priests and the Levites and said unto them Go out unto the cities of Judah and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of God from year to year or for a year and see that you haste the matter 2 Chron. 24. 5. Jehoiada the Priest took a chest and slit an hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord and the Priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord 2 Kings 12. 9. This money when much or a sum was taken out and delivered to the overseers of the work to be laid out to the workmen but were not called to an accompt for THEY dealt faithfully 2 Kings 12. 15. Faithful dealing in matters belonging to the publique good procures a quietus est at an easie rate whereas those who waste their Masters goods ought at a dear rate to receive that summons Give an accompt of thy stewardship for thou mayest be no longer steward Luke 16. 2. Would not those men deserve a sharp check whose private avarice should swallow up a Kings publique bounty and Policy divert that to their own ends which a Princes Piety granted and designed for a common good They then who should make use of that for the repairing of their own which such a King intended for the restoring the house of God must justly merit Haggaie's reprehension Is it time for your selves to dwell in sieled houses and this house lie waste Haggai 1. 4. For be the pretence what it will yet the abuse of such sums as are