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A54483	Sermons and devotions old and new revived and publisht as an oblation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministred to the weak condition of the author, now aged 73 : the sermons at Court were before the war brake forth betwixt King and Parliament : also a discourse of duels, being a collection and translation of other mens opinions, with some addition of his own : and this in special dedicated for their use ... / by Thomas Pestel ...	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1659 (1659)	Wing P1675; ESTC R39086	197,074	355

From motions regular about his Poles Shall even deadly sins in disaray Keep off our minds from his Diurnal sway Under the Law made he his resting place And chose the cutse to leave us under Grace But still to morals tied our hearts and hands Scorn not his easie yoak nor break his bands Without those Grates all fire of vertue cools None lawless thus but Devils Popes and Fools An Hymn on Trinity Sunday 1625. Tuned according to S. Bernards Cur mundus militat c. SIDesideria cordium satias Aeternas volumus agere gratias O pater Luminum pater illius Qui pater noster est tibi filius Per quem Coelestia singula feceris Quicum fundamina terrae conjeceris Quorum mens agitat molem mirabilis Atque operarius est ineffabilis OTRINE rejici quanquam sim meritus Me tamen refici dignare spiritus Re visas obsecro sol semper oriens In Lutum recidens Cor meum moriens Vt quae refulserit exinde Puritas Sit illi salus sancta securitas Heu sines animam hac in putredine Mundani pulveris omni dulcedine Supernae Gratiae privatam degere Quam nutu facili possis protegere Si Desideria cordium satias Aeternas volumus reddere gratias Ad Iesum Redemptorem Tu qui Serpentis caput contuderis Qui Preces Lachrymas sanguinem fuderis Orcum post tumulum qui penetraveris Et mortis Dominum morte prostraveris Et super nubium tractus ascenderis Ac modis milites mille defenderis Labimur labimur Heu dicto citiùs Jesu suavissime ni sis propitius Menteis irradians faveris lumine Ac labes diluens cruoris flumine Et sancti spiritus accendens flamine Nos incredibili leves solamine Si Desideria cordium satias Aeternas volumus habere gratias On the Holy SACRAMENT LOrd to thy flesh and blood when I repair Where dreadfull joyes and pleasing tremblings are Then most I relish most it doth me good When my soul faints and pines and dies for food Did my sins murder thee To make that plain Thy pierc'd-dead-living body bleeds again Flow sad sweet drops what diffring things you do Reveal my sins and seal my pardon too A Psalm for Christmass day morning 1 FAirest of morning Lights appear Thou blest and gaudy day On whom was born our Saviour dear Make haste and csme away 2 See See our pensive breasts do pant Like gasping Land we lie Thy holy Dews our souls do want We faint we pine we die 3 Let from the skies a joyfull Rain Like Mel or Manna fall Whose searching drops our sins may drain And quench our sorrows all 4 This day prevents his day of Doom His mercy now is nigh The mighty God of love is come The day-spring from on high 5. Behold the great Creator makes Himself an house of clay A Robe of Virgin flesh he takes Which he will wear for ay 6 Heark heark the wise Eternal Word Like a weak Infant cries In form of servant is the Lord And God in Cradle lies 7 This wonder struck the world amaz'd It shook the stary frame Squadrons of spirits stood and gaz'd Then down in Troops they came 8 Glad Shepherds ran to view this sight A quire of Angels sings And Eastern Sages with delight Adore this King of Kings 9 Bis. Joyn then all hearts that are not stone And all our voices prove To celebrate this holy One The God of Peace and Love PRAYER and PRAISE TO work strong lines and wreath a Crown of Baies For Jesus Brows Take servent Prayer and Praise 1. That runs and flows and bears a deeper sense Then winding Verse or ratling Eloquence It rises first and breaks through hearts of stone But not till Aarons rod be struck thereon Cleft with Remorse then climbs through weeping eyes With silver feet transcending far the skies To wash his feet whose purple drops divine Will turn this water into Angels wine 2. This made of words which are but vapor pent In forge of flesh by panting bellows sent To mix with mother Air yet this to me Shall both a blessing and an honor be Saith God who cals those things as if they were Which are not so or do not so appear To us And look how sweet it strikes the sense When vernal winds inspire their Influence On flowery Meads so thanks like Incense rise And Heavan takes praise as perfum'd sacrifice A Psalm for Sunday Nights 1 COme Ravisht souls with high Delight In sweet immortal Verse To crown the day and welcome night Jehovahs praise Reherse 2 O sing the Glories of our Lord His Grace and Truth resound And his stupendious acts Record Whose mercies have no bound 3 He made the All informing Light And hosts of Angles fair 'T is he with shadows cloaths the night He clouds or clears the Air. 4 Those restless skies with stars enchaste He on firm hindges set The wave embraced earth he plac'd His hanging Cabinet 5 Wherein for us all things comply Which he hath so decreed That each in order faithfully Shall evermore proceed 6 We in his Sommer sun-shine stand And by his favour grow We gather what his bounteous hand Is pleased to bestow 7 When he contracts his brow we mourn And all our strength is vain To former dust in death we turn Till he inspire again 8. Then to this mighty Lord give praise And all our voices prove The Glory of his name to raise The God of Peace and Love The Christians Reply to Christs Venite POssum good Lord by thee inclinal Volo sometimes with ease I find Nolo yet runs so in mind Male still makes me lag behind PRIDE will fall but Grace to the Humble 1. THis fall Fell Lucifer first tries Who endlong fell never to rise Woman the next then man and all Proud flesh from them have caught the fall 2. From this foul falling sickness shall The fall of one recover all Mankind that medcin'd by his Spirit His best of Graces shall inherit Whereby he still in it doth fall Upon his humble servants all His conjugal Prayer Domestick GOD infinitely Great and Good Purge all our sins by Jesus blood From serpentine three deadly foes The Gardens of our souls enclose That Spirit which Grace and Truth affords Rule all our actions thoughts and words Our hearts into his Temples raise Our tongues loud Organs of his praise Lord make our selves and Race throughout Pure humble sober chast devout Loyal and gratefull wise and just On thee and industrie to trust Blest with a low but glad estate In food and Rayment moderate Nor rich of poor to be en ied Nor poor to be by rich supplied Give freedom Order Health and Peace Then in thy favour to decease When Nature here by Grace prepar'd May look for Glory afterward Vpon a Bible presented to a young Lady the Lady Kath. C. 1624. THE world is Gods large Book wherein we learn Him in his glass of wonders to discern But

and he had good store shall slacken my hold upon this Rock shall severe me from that love of God which is in Christ Jesus my Lord. Other Properties they ascribe to precious stones and some such as are marvailous The Jasper sayes Pliny was wont to be worn in all the Oriental Regions as an Amulet against poyson and is of vertue to expel noysome dreams and Visions to clear the eyes and assists against all adversity So the Saphir in a Ring or Amulet contributes toward all prosperity encreases Devotion and helps against Ire Envy Sadness The Sardonix against Pride The Chrysolite against pusillanimity all melancholy fears and follies The Turkese they say deliver from imminent dangers and discovers them when they are near The Topaze from phrensie and sudden death The Chrysoprase availes against covetousness as the Beril is a hater of idleness Finally for I may not reckon all the Diamond for frienship stil'd therefore the stone of Reconciliation The Hyacinth is powerful to procure chearfulness and to preserve from thunder and lightning and all diseases The Amethist good against surfets and drunkenness and advances men to the favour of Kings Others are reported vertuous and those I am use you could wish me to help a man to eloquence and to make him quick of dispatch But now I confess I allow not this for a point of Divinity nor put it to you as a piece of good History for in the stories and traditions of these things I doubt not but there is a mass and mixture of praestigious vanity and untruth yet am not I of their mind utterly that think all Jewels v●id of all efficacy for doubtless as we believe the influences of stars and vertues of medicinal herbs and Roots so t is not disagreeable to Reason that in these glorious creatures the Creatour may have imprest beside their lustre some other secret testimonies of his excellent power which not only for that God vouchsafes here by them to describe the excellency of his Saints and calls his own blessed and beloved son by that Name of a precions stone but also I am the apter to believe by reason of those two places of Scripture which I named before The 28 of Exodus the 21 of the Revelation to which again I reser your reconsiderations Allowing then a possibility for many of these Properties in precious stones we may reduce all to two Specialties 1. They do encourage to good 2. And preservefrom evil both of sin and punishment and herein however qualified in themselves they may surely be of good use for us to make an apt resemblance and to express the condition of righteous souls such servants of God as fear him and think upon his name These are Jewels to the world in example stirring and provoking others to emulation shining in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation And these are they that like Lot in Sodom restrain the vengeance and overwhelming storms of fire from Heaven upon a world of ungodly wretches These are those blameless souls who when Achitophel and Haman are hanged up with all their rotten pollicies and ragioni d●●stato shall shine and whose light God will make to break out as the morning and to rise in obscurity and their darkness to be as the noon day and then they shall be call'd according to their qualities the Repairers of the breach and Restorers of the paths to dwell in Isay 58.12 But the cunning Statesman laughs at this and shakes his head to think that honesty or Religion should prescribe to such Grandees and Superintendents of fine but unrighteous Policy That the Bible or the Rules or the grace indeed deriv'd from thence should afford a way of enabling men in discharge of that Duty which is seen in Governments Lucian he likes but Machiavel admires those are his Scriptures Yet let such a man take the experimental proof of this from secular story Seneca the Jewel of Neroes youth and a braver Defence and Ornament then that so famous Jasper of his wherein he was pourtrai'd arm'd compleatly but his Armour of proof was Seneca preserving him five whole years in a form of Regiment equal to the best of his Predecessors But his Jewel once thrown away he fell to all excess of wickedness Or if a Scripture-story may pass let him look on that 2 Chron. 24. it may serve abundantly for all Examples Joas a yong King yet does right in the sight of the Lord so long as his Jewel lived the Text is plain all the dayes of Jehojada the Priest ver 2. Collections for repair of Gods House Oblations and Sacrifices renewed But when this Jewel was call'd for back to Heaven to be treasur'd there at ver 17. come the Princes of Judah no worse and they crouch make obeysance to the King for what for a change of Religion and how succeeds it as they could wish For the King hearkened to them and so they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers and served groves and Idols And as in States and Common-wealths so in Cities and Towns and private Families Gods servants in the due preservation and practice of Piety and Goodness are as means of encouragement to others so causes also of Restraint from evil of sin many sins of swearing whoring drunkenness and consequently preventers of Gods judgements for such sins As Moses interpos'd himself as a precious Jewel of excellent vertue in his prayer and Aaron with his fire betwixt the living and the dead and caused the Destruction to stop there So no question while just men live the whole Countrey Town Family is the better blest and when they dye God takes them away from the evil to come So far the bodily part of the Sermon in the explication of this second priviledge of Gods servants They are his Jewels Now to infuse a soul by breaking this speculation into practice into such uses as I account the very life of preaching For our first useful extraction then is to teach us wherein consists true Honour Joy Nobility Blessedness 'T is not in the endowments of Nature not in thy large capacity or faithful memory swift apprehension thy penetration of judgement or facility of Elocution not in thy height or depth of learning no nor in the exercise of moral vertue thy valour or thy bounty though these are Ornaments I wish on all my friends much less is it in thy purse or clothes or titles Not though thou wert a Joseph or a Mordecay to feed in Gold be drest in Purple sit next the King and be call'd his cousin which are reckoned in Esdras for the prime favours of an earthly Monarch for alas all these things mayst thou have and yet be but a meer worldling and after devolve to a worse master Kings may give their favourites and Popes bequeath their darlings and their Nephues earth and ayr Title Territory and make them Lords of so many Parks Mannors Honours Towns Counties Yet if but one

the Sun in his strength so when his time was fully come the day that this Jewel must be made up First his Body is glorified on earth and then assum'd into Heaven and a place for this precious Gem at his own right Hand above Principalities and Powers and a Name given him above all names And now that blessed Face wherein the Jews saw no beauty yet was fairer then the sons of men which they defiled and spit upon is ador'd by Seraphims and both Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of his Glory Now God observes the self-same method in all the rest finds them out among the refuse of the world amongst flocks and herds of Nations from the first rude quarrie of the Chaos from utter vacuity and nothing assembles their attoms and smallest dust breaths in a lively spirit exalts purifies it grafts on it Knowledge Faith Love Holiness and having begun a good work of Grace never leaves it till he bring it to perfection filing away their dross and grinding out their grains and Ices and clouds of corruption till he hath refin'd them to a brightness as in St. Paul a rough stony-hearted persecutor wrought by certain scales and barks pull'd away to become a chosen vessel to bear his name among the Gentiles Act 9. A bright star on earth and now a glorious Saint in Heaven 3. Jewels then thirdly they are for that care and love which God affords them men prize their Jewels Reserve them curiously take a glory and perplacency in possessing and wearing them So God having bought them at a price inestimable purchased not with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the blood of Jesus Christ as of a Lamb undefiled and without spot then he sets his heart upon them all his delight is in the Saints that excel Those he tenders as the Apple of his eye sets them as Josiah for a seal and a Signet on his right hand hides them under the shadow of his wings and so also God glories in them and holds them out to the amazement and confusion of the world of gross and earthly souls which are as foils to their perfections and commands them to do him grace and to be an Ornament to him Let your light shine c. Again The Comparison would hold for the task is easie to pursue an Allegory for Rarity Rari quippe boni apparent rari in gurgite Vasto in a sea of froth and foam and for the place and manner of breeding and growth But I forsake the rest and chuse to insist only on Properties respecting which Righteous men are justly term'd Jewels and chiefly two of clearness and lustre first and then of firmness and solidity which are the Vrim and Thummim of a Christian 1. In the first precious stones excel being compact of the finest Atoms and this holds well for as while we admire the pure Orient Pearls the radiant and sparkling Carbuncle the serene bright Saphir the green Emerald and the like we may raise our contemplation to the beauty and clearness of the stars and Sun and so ascend to him that struck light out of darkness at the first that dwels in perfect Beauty and in light inaccessible and covers himself with Light as with a garment so in a spiritual manner that Light of Grace in his servants attracts others also to behold in them Him who is Pater Luminum the Father of all Illuminations and so that fair and pure soul which gives Light in the darkness of the Body and night of Ignorance returns with advantage to him that gave it with the gain of other souls wonne by beholding their chast and illustrious conversation They tell of Diamonds belonging to some of the house of Luxembourge and Theophrastus has it of other stones propagating their Species by turning first the circumstant ayr into water and then contracting that water into a more earthy substance like themselves But it is true of these precious and living stones who born of Gods immortal seed by a new Light shot from Heaven do likewise in Reflection and by aggregation assimilation and an ardent sympathetical combination and communion work others to the same conformity of the godly Nature inspire illumine and propagate others with a kind of Divine Generation And as that Godlike creature the child of Heaven and Gods first born Light when delivered from the womb and jaws of Darkness is able to deliver over it self without ceasing without Annibilation Fraction o● Diminution and as Love in moral minds and true Charity in Coelestial souls not leaving its own habitation will walk the round to those spirits which are capable of its Society And as God the Son is of the Father God of God and Light of Light and Love of Love For God is Love as he is Light so are his Regenerate and Adopted children also all from him and one enlightened from another Secondly Solidity firmness constancy the Christians is a standing Credo it was wont to be so Lord I believe without distrust whether my understanding comprehend it or no without curiosity to be further confirm'd by Miracles Lastly Credo Audacter without dissembling or fear to acknowledge it This is stere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Col. 2.2 that firm and full assurance of Faith I mean in Resolution not to alter or shrink as was in couragious Joshuah I will serve the Lord and hearty David that endured much and long yet he recedes not from his Vow no I have sworn and am stedfastly purposed And Job though he dyed for 't yet it should prove no this way dissolution And for this cause God allows the Name calls it the most precious faith of his Elect and chides those Recreants that Recoil so easily O ye of little faith Those are no right Jewels of his they are but Glow-worms and Hypocrites or as glass and Sophisticate shels and vitious stones which have an inconstant and languishing shine or whose splendor is only in a morning or under a clear sky and lasts not in gusts and storms of persecution or which in age decrease in Grace and Vertues and come to lose their abilities No t is said of Gods Palms and Cedars that they flourish on and bring forth more fruit in their age And for this firmness even moral men have made strange approaches and profest the conquest of it resolv'd to retain their vertue and honour untainted maugre all the rage of bloody tyrants and either allurements or encombrances of a base and vitious world How much more Christians to endure the torture the Rack the fire that which is the Crasis of all these The Inquisition to despise that tryal of cruel mockings and resist even to blood and ready to lay down our lives rather then betray or prevaricate and shuffle in the cause and quarrel of Christ Jesus and his holy Church As no sin shall tear me from that Root of Gods Love so I am perswaded sayes the Apostle no affliction Rom. 8.