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A87669	The messengers preparation for an addresse to the King for a well-grounded peace. As it was delivered in a sermon, at Oxford, on Sunday, Novemb. 24. 1644. Before the commissioners of both kingdomes, the morning before their presenting the propositions to His Majestie. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1644 (1644)	Wing K252; Thomason E21_20; ESTC R14495	21,882	36

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BASILL Earl of DENBIGH VVILLIAM Lord MAYNARD THOMAS Lord Viscount WENMAN William Pierpoint Denzill Hollis and Bulstrode Whitlock Esquires Commissioners of the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of ENGLAND Assembled at Westminster AND JOHN Lord MAITLAND Sir Charles Erskyne and M. Robert Barcklay Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland Sent with the Propositions to His MAJESTY at Oxford Right Honourable Lords and Gentlemen I Speake my experience that if a Souldier succeed well upon his first Charge he is not to be withheld from a second Adventure You favoured this Sermon so much when Preached that I am confident you will not reject it Printed nor this my Dedicatory although I begin not after the common stamp of Dedication with some hoary or gray-headed Apophthegme or some strained sentence out of Tully I professe my selfe a Souldier during this Cause as well as a Schollar and therefore must crave leave to speake in such language as affectionate duty can best expresse it self by the tongue I confesse when I meditate the height of your noble Spirits and withall the flatnesse of my poore abilities as I present this in love so with much feare lest my endeavours convert into a vapour ere they can reach the height of your merit sloope but so low as to cherish them and it shall ever adde to your Honour The antient and moderne custome of Dedication of Bookes to the hands of Emminency was and is either to have them powerfully protected or in affection as devoted or to appeare gratefull for benefits received all these moved me to hover under your wings being confident that you that under God protected me out of the jawes of the Lyons and Beares will also protect me from the greatest Philistims And therefore have I presumed to prefix your names it being none of the smallest hazards I have run to oppose this Sermon to the worlds view whereby I expect to be charged againe and againe and it would conclude me guilty of Poultranisme to feare the Sciopii and Pacientii heere when not the Zosimi at Oxford I well know carping curiosity will have its lash at me too Aelian reports when Diogenes saw certaine Rodian Gallants gorgeously attyred he laughed saying Hic nihil est praeter Fastum And after seeing certaine Laconians in sordid apparell Et hic alius Fastus est said he These poore-clad lines I feare will not passe without envy and without the censure of pride and ambition how ever whilst you keep the Front I fear no charge neither Oxfords sword nor any other two-edged sword of the tongue and the lesse because I perceive opinions and censures are as various as the Arguments on which they discourse Calumny and squint-ey'd detraction violently charging against Christian charity and judgment in these times And to save them a labour I care not to let them know although that many a storm and tempest hath beat against me yet God hath not suffered me to be cast down And whatever they shall say with Apollonius I resolve they may trouble themselves but I will not be troubled at whatsoever the one shall say or the other do I have long before this time Dedicated my life in this Cause to God in the Parliaments Service any thing lesse then the losse of it I can easily endure It must be a long feast to find a dish for every appetite and many in these times will find faults that will not mend one I never indeed intended the publishing this Sermon before the preaching of it nor could ever gain time to refine it since only importunity of some friends and the mis-report that I heard it had to his Majesty made me presume with your Favour to show the world the Truth and implore your Honours to be Judges of it My first thoughts when I meditated this subject were onely to breath into your unfurled sayles such a blast as might give you the advantage to make a saving voyage to your selves if not a more prosperous voyage for the whole Church of God importunate prayer being the fairest wind can blow in the heavens to carry the Church of God to her safe Port. And as David rescuing his wives and recovering his goods from the Enemy was never a whit the lesse honour to him because a young man made way for the discovery so it being your happinesse to be imploy'd in this service so becoming nobility or any of the sonnes of men to seeke peace for the Church of God in which Gods blessing Mat. 5. attends you is it any diminution to your honour that I the meanest of my brethren pointed you the way to prosper It being the constant prayer of my soule daily that you may reape the fruits of those so brave and gallantly mannaged labours yea I hourely expect and look out for a return of those adventures from heaven even when God shall speake by His Majesty to his three Kingdomes Peace which is the hearty prayer as also for all your honours that you may still do worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlehem of him who is Yours devoted even by word and deed to the losse of his utmost drop of bloud To serve you for JESUS CHRIST Samuel Kem. The MESSENGERS Preparation For an Addresse to THE KING For a Well-grounded PEACE Delivered in a SERMON at Oxford UPON ESTHER Chap. 4. Vers 16. Goe gather together all the Jewes that are present in Shushan and fast ye for me and neither eat nor drink three dayes night or day I also and my maydens will fast likewise and so I will go in unto the King which is not according to the Law and if I perish I perish OUr new practices against the Church proceed from old Principles and what an Ocean of Saints bloud hath streamed out from the fountaine of Cains malice as if there were a new project to deluge that with bloud which GOD preserved from water his righteous family the Scriptures plentifully demonstrate but with this observable hint of refreshing that this Red Sea hath in the end ever devoured the devourers and although by division shrunk up it selfe into straits to spare a passage to the Church of God for it's deliverance So that the Church of God is not now to learne to be content to be let blood it may in probability prove good for it to be so afflicted this is not the first plot intended against it for utter extirpation nor you the first messengers called forth by Providence to speake unto Majesty for it's preservation cherish then and augment that courage that I seeme to see seated in your aspects most noble Patriots although invisoned with Enemies invellopt with difficulties to sense no probability to escape revilings nor possibility to return prevailing You have a sufficient call you have a good and all-sufficient God a just Cause unjust Enemies many potent prayers all impotent curses a promise of a blessing a President of good suceesse in this Booke Put on

Land rest is to tender and make such Propositions to God as may get sin out of the heart and pardoned and God reconciled To conclude this Reason I may truely say we trouble our selves and bid much but this one thing is necessary 3. Argument Because the Lord takes no notice of easie performances or lazie prayers He expects if the Church be in necessity and we sensible of it that we should use importunity It becoms His Majesty to be so sought unto for such like mercies 36 Ezek. Vers 37. I will yet for this be inquired after saith the Lord c. A man that will have his Vineard to thrive and be fruitfull must labour and worke in it and a man that will have his prayer thrive must labour in prayer it must be his daily Trade 2 Cor. 1.11 You also ldbouring for us in prayers God will never answer a lazie begging Christian we must not be reporters of the Churches necessities but petitioners Yea petitioners with a kind of holy impudency not to be put off with privitive silence or positive deniall Nay although God seeme to affront us for the present yet must we give God no rest no not hold our peace untill he make his Church the praise of the whole carth Our labouring in prayers will soonest bring the Church to rest from calamities You never found any rich mercy obtained by lazie dutie easie seldom performances produce slow remedies a straitned Church cals for an active and inlarged heart And mark it ever when the Church prayes with most ease it reapes the least profit or comfort when prayer is a pennance or irksome exercise to us as in 1. Mulachy many say what a wearinesse it is and snuffe at it it is never an acceptable service for us But he that is laborious and active in duty cannot long be passive under misery labouring in prayer is that which puts God upon expedition he cannot long delay us or deny us if we industriously ply the work of Prayer And as a remedie to cure this malady in prayer by the way take this Recipe wouldst thou amend thy easie praying repent of thy active sinning You shall never shew me a man that is active and laborious in sinning but I will show you the man that is and must of necessity be easie and lazie-hearted in praying 4. Argument Because proportionable duty hath Gods promise intailed upon it sames 5.16 The prayer of the righteous availeth much if it be servent ever marke this the more servency the more prevalency David in Psal 14.1 desireth that his praier may come up before the Lord as incense and you know incense never went up without fire Prayers of words are to our and the Churches necessities and against our Enemy as Powder without Ball which may make a great noyse and terrifie for a time but hurts them not nor helpes us Of all the Elements the Naturallists observe fire gets neerest to heaven and of all meanes a zealous fervent praier gets neerest to the God of heaven Our earthie cold-hearted prayers are like a Bell which whilst it lyeth on the ground can make no musick but when steepled then it sounds loud cold or luke-warme water can never fetch out the blood or rawnesse of slesh it must have fire put to it to make it fit for nourishment cold prayers can never fetch out the corruption and scum of our filthy hearts no a heavenly fire must prepare our prayers for Gods digestion 5. Argument In regard of the Churches mercies and deliverances that we stand in need of mercy appeareth best when by a proportionable duty we blazon out our miserie it is a disparagement to Nationall mercy to come at the summons of halfe-dutie or dutie performed by halves raggs and torne pieces of duty are unbecoming mercy descending from majesty Every good and perfect gift saith S. Iames comes from the Father of lights and if upon easie requests we would soone slight them if we could get mercy easily we would forget it as easily who prodigall away their estates sooner then they that never sweat to gaine a penny of it that penny that is got with most labour and trudging for is not so usually rioted away in excesse but hoarded up That Samuel that Hanna can with difficulty wrastle out of Gods hand shall be dedicated to his service all the daies of his life the things that cost us deare we ever prize most those Colours we take with hazard of life are charily laid up as Trophies of honour truly it much advanceth friendship when it appeares in necessity and it doeth as much heighten mercie when we gaine it in our faintings for it when in the Mount God is seen he can rarely be forgot 6. Argument Because the heart of the King is in the Lords hand and he is able to turne it which way soever pleaseth him every way of a man is right in his own eyes but the Lord ordereth the heart Prov. 21.1.2 yea more for your incouragement to performe exactly Proportionable duty the answer of the tongue is from the Lord Prov. 16.19.21 There are many devices in mans heart neverthelesse the counsell of the Lord that shall stand Job 33.12 God is greater then man and ordereth him at pleasure Psal 33.10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of Princes to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect Isaiah 46.11 My counsell shall stand and I will performe all my pleasure c. Vers 12. Hearken unto me you stout-hearted that are far from righteousnesse I hold out all these Scriptures to you as lights to show you where the Kings heart is and who hath the ordering of it it is out of his owne hands a decree sealed by the King is nothing to oblige Ahashuerosh if God wil have it reversed concerning his people Nay although it appeare so it is not in Hamans hand to dispose on nay with comfort I dare speake it the Kings heart is not in Digbys or Hydes or any other such Haman-like hands in the world no it is in the Lords hands God altered the heart of Abimilech Gen. 20. Laban thought his heart to be in his owne hand to act against acob he pursued after him seven dayes Gen. 31.23 but read the 24 Vers God commands him to speake to lacob nothing but good and to enter into Covenant and to blesse them Balak thought it in the power of his heart to curse the people Numb 22. ult sends to Balaam a Sorcerer to this purpose Balaams heart is not in his owne power In the 8. Vers Lodge heere and I will bring you word againe as the LORD shall speake unto me Read what followes Vers 12. and Vers 24. Numb 13. There is no sorcery against acob See 8. Esay 9.10.11 It is not to be held by counsells Saul had spent much time in the pursuit of David and his heart was set for evill against him and yet God upon their meeting disposeth of his heart and