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A94303	Moderation iustified, and the Lords being at hand emproved, in a sermon at VVestminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: preached at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Thomas Thorowgood B. of D. Rector of Grimston in the county of Norfolke: one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order from that House.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1069; Thomason E23_6	31,603	39

by you that in his due season every mountaine of opposition may be a plaine Zach. 4. 7. and these troublous times may determine in the readvancement Dan. 9. 25. and firme establishing of Righteousnesse and Peace through your hands which is and shall be in the dayly devotion of Your constant Oratour at the Throne of Grace THOMAS THOROVVGOOD A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of COMMONS at the Monethly Fast December 25. 1644. Phil. 4. vers 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand IT is Gods word that I have read let no mans zeale be hot against it or me and how meet it is for this time this very time judge not till you have heard my thoughts were not fastened here without some difficultie I considered again and again and as often prayed that I might speake a word in season it must be affirmed there is all the reason in the world you be even now also incited to zeale wisdome magnanimitie and present resolution but inclusivè there is no Christian grace I know Eph. 4. 15. but you would be acquainted with it 2 Thess 2. ●7 and grow up into Christ in all things and be established in every good word and worke But that I may in time take off all prejudice I shall not speake of Moderation in the sense of Politians and the world but as it is a Christian grace and not inconsistent with holy zeal they were both in our Master Christ 2 Cor. 10. 1. we read it Joh. 2. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gentlenesse of Christ and my Philippians had to doe with dogs evill workers dangerous men of the concision Chap. 3. vers 2. yea vers 18 19. With wicked walkers of whom he could not speake without weeping enemies of the crosse of Christ belly gods muck-wormes minding earthly things lively characters of a great part of your opposites and if Saint Paul then surely I may say now Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand If yet to any apprehension the first clause seeme a cooler the second will shew it seemes so onely and my Moderation doth not make a medley of Religion nor complyes with any transgression but it is a blessed and a watchfull vertue living alwayes in Gods sight and in expectation of judgement to come it quencheth no mans zeale onely it makes it burne faire and shine more cleare it is enjoyned in the first clause of the Text and the reason thereof is in the latter the Lord is at hand In the former we have these foure things 1. The grace required Moderation 2. The seat or subject of it your of you 3. It s declaration and discovery let it be known 4. The ampliation and extent to all men The second clause shall be touched upon as a reason but my purpose is God willing to handle both in that method which our dayes have found so happy by Doctrine and Vse yet in the explication and application I shall passe thorough each particular Let this then be the first Doctrine Doctrin 1. Moderation is a catholique grace of universall practise by all men to all men and the Application will fall into five particulars words of Complaint Limitation Consutation Instruction and Exhortation The second Doctrine of the Lords being at hand 2. will from the Scriptures hold forth unto us these seven seasonable considerations fitted for our present practise 1. Speedy Repentance from dead works 2. Wise weaning our selves from the world 3. Constant perseverance in true Religion 4. Zealous endeavour after holinesse 5. Christian patience in tribulation 6. Holy faith in the Lord Iesus Christ 7. Sober watchfulnesse unto prayer Moderation is a catholique grace of universall practise by all men to all men Doctrin 1. In the Originall it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adjectively which is sometimes emphaticall in the proprietie of the language but that criticisme and curiositie shall be omitted yet it is fit to mention the different interpretation First Theophylact. Haimo Lyra c. Modesty so it is read by some which is a vertue keeping such mediocritie in externall things that no mans eye or conscience is offended it moderates the outward converse in speech Aquin. 22. 120. 2 3. apparell and life in their sense who referre it to the words immediately foregoing Vers 4. Rejoyce c. So Bernard We reioyce in that we hope because the Lord is at hand T. 1. p. 178. we reioyce in that we suffer that our Modesty might be known to all men this modesty is not the maidens blush onely but a colour well becoming men women all that be Christians nature puts a modest aspect upon those that shame to doe evill the blood making hast as it were to cover even the suspition of guilt Offic. l. 1. c. 18. Ambrose extends it to gestures gate and bodily motion telling his own experiment this way how he refused to admit one into Orders meerely for his immodest gesture he suffered not another Clergy-man to walke before him his going was so offensive and uncomely and I was deceived saith he in neither the one ran out of his function the other out of his Religion and turned Arrian so discernable is the inward man sometimes by the motion of the outward no marvell therefore if lightnesse of gesture be immodesty and a prohibited evill Prov. 6. 13. Esa 3. 16. Some better Expositers read it Secondly Genoven Fulk c. Patient minde and so our own Translators elsewhere English the word 1 Tim. 3. 3. and thus it is a dutie very seasonable for these suffering times when men can be as the Turtle Pier. Hierogl though in severall conditions have but one note keep the same tune when they be quiet in tribulation and murmure not when affliction comes but the last clause of the Text will invite us to patience by and by Thirdly I shall insist therefore upon our own reading Moderation which is allowed by all Reformed Divines that I have seene Clvin Beza Zanch. c. Illyr Clav. Scr. Modestia one onely excepted who in some other things also is himselfe excepted against And Moderation is a word of such latitude that it reacheth to publique employments in civill matters Zanch. c. in the judgement of those that well understood the force of it thence they call Moderation the Assessor of Iustice mollifying the rigour and severity of the law for Legistators intend strictnesse of rule but their providence not being infinite nor able to foresee all occurrences leave a necessitie for Moderation Aquin. 22. 120. 10. and Writers of both Religions doe thus instance Antonin S. 4. 5. 19. it is just depositum reddere Zanch. in Phil. It is honesty and faithfulnesse to restore the pledge or that we are trusted with yet sometimes say they it is not iniquitie but Moderation to doe otherwise for example

Apostle layes the force and so would I in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so much the more provoke one another to good works because ye see the day approaching Fifthly Patience Christian Patience in tribulation is the next thing to be learned from this doctrine of the Lords being at hand an hard lesson I confesse and they are out of the Forme and Schoole of nature that have learned it for it is an herbe of Grace and grows not in mans garden we are all by nature children of wrath Eph. 2. 3. not onely passively subject to suffer the wrath of God because of our sinnes but actively also we are hot fiery and impatient and upon every occasion doe discover our distemper Luther spake observably because his own heart God hath given us saith he many blessings health quietnesse wife children and which is above all the word of his Patience and yet one fit of the Stone beats out the memory of all these benefits 3. 59. 5. 81. Vno malo plus movemur quam mille bonis Though we have had twentie yeers of felicitie if one day of sorrow come all the former calmnesse is forgotten clouds of indignation gather and breake out into streames of impatience nay if one tooth doe but ake that Center or point of paine darkens all the Sphere and circumference of Gods mercies It were easie to abound in complaining but farre more comfortable to fasten upon a remedy and that is not farre of because the Lord is at hand and what sense soever is put upon the words they breath upon us abundant matter of patience First The Lord is so nigh that no suffering can befall us without his appointment and if we remember it is his hand we will not utter so much as one word of impatience as David professed He was dumbe and opened not his mouth because the Lord did it Psal 39. 9. Secondly The Lords example is neere should alwayes be at hand for our animation and encouragement It is enough for the disciple to be as his Master and the servant as his Lord Matth. 10. 25. an expression that may make us not onely patient but joyfull yea triumphant in misery Christians to be as their Master Christ it is enough and they that consider it well need no other consolation Thirdly The Scriptures of Christ are written for our comfort Rom. 15. 4. and in them the Lord is at hand For the word is neere thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart Rom. 10. 8. and for this in this thou mayest be patient I will reioyce in him because of his word in the Lord I will reioyce because of his word Psal 56. 10. Fourthly Yea the Lord is at hand to put a period to all our pressures Looke up and lift up your heads for the day of your redemption draweth nigh Luk. 21. 28. so Iam. 5. 7 8. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord Behold the Husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it till he receive the early and latter raine be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh It is no great matter that the husbandman expects fruit of the earth yet he hath great patience we have much more in hope heavenly and eternall things and therefore we should be much more in patience and we may note also the reason of the Text begins and ends compasseth about this lesson of patience initio 7. vers fine 8. Yea in this and for this heare the Iudge himself who is at hand Luk. 21. 19. By your patience possesse your soules a direction for times like ours suffering times ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake Vers 17. and if they say Master in that deplorable condition where no man will appeare for us what shall we do Non villas vestras non laudes non luxurias August Faith his answer is be not solicitous for your houses or lands or reputation or body but for your soules possesse them by patience Sixthly Faith in the Lord Iesus Christ is also commended to us from this Doctrin of the Lords being at hand for when the Apostle had said Heb. 10. 37. Yet a very little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry every one that heares this and believes it would presently make enquiry Is the Iudge coming so certainly so speedily so suddenly and is he indeed so nigh at hand Alas what shall we then doe what course shall we take where or how shall we appeare The answer is ready most excellent and comfortable in the very next words Vers 38. Now the iust shall live by faith Now at that very time in the instant of Christs judging the world faith shall support and uphold all that depend upon God A man indebted that hath not where with to satisfie his Creditor dares not looke him in the face but if his Suretie take out the Bond all is well and he is safe We are all runne into deep arreares with and against God by our sinnes and cannot answer him one thing of a thousand Iob 9. 3. not the least part of one of many thousands what shall we then doe Live by faith and our interest in the price of Christs blood pay all the debt of our ungodlinesse that great and superabundant expiation is made over to us by holy beleeving for he was not onely our Suretie Heb. 7. 22. but he hath blotted out the hand-writing that was against us and taken it out of the way c. Col. 2. 14. It is written of Pilate M. West ad A. 38. that being call'd to Rome before the Emperour to give account of some Mal-administration and misgovernment he put on the seamlesse Coat of Christ and all the time he ware that garment Caesars fury was abated to his own and others admiration That may be a Fable but sure I am if we have the Robes of Christs Righteousnesse upon us by a lively faith we shall then have no cause of feare in that we have not onely an Advocate with the Father 1 Ioh. 7. 2. but Christ the Iudge for our defence and deliverance It is a terrible question that of Iob but very profitable and oh my soule sleep not this night nor any other till thou hast put it home to thy selfe For the Lord is at hand the question is What shall I doe when God riseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him Iob 31. 14. To which no other answer no better answer can be given then that of Saint Paul Rom 13. 14. Put on the Lord Iesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof Seventhly Prayer The last Practicall consideration held sorth from this Doctrine of the Lords being nigh at hand is sober watchfulnesse unto prayer and this is the very Vse in termes Saint Peter wils us to make thereof who having

said The end of all things is at hand addeth this immediate inference Be you therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Yea our Lord himselfe who is a● hand speaks to each of these First Concerning Sobrietie Take heed lest at any time your hearts be overcome with surfetting and drunkennesse and that day come on you unaw●res Luk. 21. 34. Secondly The Evangelists generally for the same reason exhort to watching Matth. 24. 42. Mark 13. 33. and they doe not meane so much abstinence from sleep but from sinne and watching not for worldlinesse but for prayer Thirdly So Luke 21. 36. Watch ye therefore and pray alwayes and in the next words he gives a Directory of Prayer two heads of petitions one That ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe the other that ye may stand before the Sonne of man and if you aske when and how often this must be remembred he tels us that also pray alwayes a dutie needfull ever but most of all now in respect of our own particulars and the Churches of Iesus Christ And for our selves let us pray for pardon of sin strength against lusts standing in judgement and as the Martyrs in prison and at the stake said to themselves and others Pray pray pray so remember the Lord is at hand therefore forget not to pray yea Watch and pray Matth. 26. 41. that ye enter not into tentations into the devouring part thereof Ne intremus in ventr●m tentationis quasi bestiae cujusdam Theophylact as the belly of a beast we know not what calamitous times may be reserved for us but whatsoever they are or may be we cannot be armed against them but by prayer so we must be prepared and this we see by our Apostle who to the Text The Lord is at hand instantly subjoynes Be carefull for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanks giving let your request be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. Pray for me saith Father Latimer to Bishop Ridley again and again pray for me p. 14. for I am sometimes so fearefull that I could creepe into a Mousehole It is his own expression but God doth visit me again with his consolation and then the other answers him unlesse the Lord assists me with his gracious ayde in the time of his service I know I shall play but the part of a white-liver'd Knight p. 15. and yet what Champions what victorious Champions were they both and that by prayer For in the same little Treatise of their comfortable conference during the time of their imprisonment Ridley calles on Latimer as upon an Old beaten Souldier for instruction p. 16. and help to buckle on his harnesse as he phraseth it and Latimer tels him you shall prevaile more with praying then studying p. 36. though mixture be best but forget not to pray Let every one for our selves remember the Lord is at hand Besides the houses we dwell in are made of clay and the calamities of these times are daily battering these Tabernacles of dust that may very soone and suddenly fall about our eares therefore let every one of us alwayes be sober and watchfull unto prayer and pray earnestly to God that he will give us Repentance from dead works that he will weane us from these things below and teach us to persevere in all Divine truth and make us abound in every good word and worke that he will enable us to be patient in tribulation and fill us with the most holy faith in the Lord Iesus Christ And for the Churches of Christ Jer. 30. 7. remember it is their Day the very day of Jacobs trouble all the Israel of our God is in perplexitie pray for them all at home and abroad pray for the overthrow of Antichrist the fall of Babylon pray for the Peace of Hierusalem and the wellfare of Sion yea pray earnestly holily constantly Gen. 32. 26. and as Iacob wrastle with God and doe not let him goe till he give you a blessing And you that make mention of the Lord hold not your peace Esa 62. 6 7. day nor night keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish and till he make Hierusalem the Churches abroad and in these Kingdomes a praise in the earth And let us of this Nation pray pray that God would returne the Head to the Body the King to the Parliament that he will heale our breaches compose our differences and hasten the restauration of a safe and well grounded Peace that yet sticks in the Birth pray that he would lift up the light of his countenance upon England Scotland and Ireland Lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon them and they shall be safe And let all them that love God that love their Religion that love their Countrey that love their Souls say Amen Yea say thou Amen to these things Thou that Art the Amen the faithfull and true Witnesse Revel 3. 14. the beginning of the Creation of God Amen Amen FINIS