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A53755	New England freemen warned and warmed to be free indeed, having an eye to God in their elections in a sermon preached before the Court of Election at Boston on the last day of May, 1671 [by] J.O., pastour of the first church in Boston.	Oxenbridge, John, 1609-1674.	1673 (1673)	Wing O837; ESTC R28765	22,868	54

Priests and Prelates I cannot think the Lord will ever endure it as Ezek. 20.32 That which cometh into your minde shall not be at all that ye say we will be as the Families of the Countries The Lord that hath so marvelously separated and distinguished this people for himself will not so lose his propriety here and know ye that your backsliding will not only be vanity but vexation also for this ye will lose the good ye have had Hos 4.7 As they were increased so they sinned against me therefore will I change their glory into shame If ye grow more provoking as more populous that which hath been the glory of N. E. Magistracy and Ministry will be its shame If ye rebel and vex his holy Spirit acting in them that anointing will be gone Isai 63.10 11. Where is he that brought them up out of the Sea with the shepherd of his flock where is he that put his holy spirit within them Ye will have Magistrates and Ministers of a meaner alloy yea happily for your Hypocrisie and Apostacy being false to Christ as was Iudas you will have that plague Psal 109.6 A wicked man set over you and an adversary shall stand at your right hand Evil will certainly befal you as Iosh 6.26 Ioshua laid the builders of accursed destroyed Iericho under a curse so will our Jesus bring a Curse upon those that shall go about to build Iericho the City of the Moon so it signifies the Kingdome of the Beast which being an earthly worldly Religion Lunenburge is reckoned by the Moon Rev. 11. But blessed are they that resist and crush the least beginnings and breed of Babylon be they will-worship persecution or confusion Blessed I say are those that will dash their brats against the Rock even Christ the sure and tried Stone Yea in case ye backslide from the God of your Fathers ye will be as it were out-lawed and expo ed as a free spoil to every enemy Ier. 50.7 All that found them have devoured them and their adversaries said we offend not because they have sinned against the Lord the habitation of justice even the Lord the hope of their Fathers and from such will ye be most likely to have your scourge from whom you have your apostacy as Israel returning to the Idols of Mesopotamia from whence their Ancestors Abraham and Jacob had separated were first put into the hand of the King of Mesopotamia Iudg. 3.8 and think not what I say is impertinent to the Doctrine or the day for in the civil Government The first worthy Planters they professed to erect and administer according to God and if you that succeed will do according to your lust it will go ill with you the gallant Gideon saith Iud. 8.20 I will not rule over you neither shall my Son rule over you but the Lord shall rule over you this did that worthy Father promise but the Bastard Son will needs break to the ruine of himself and his partakers If a degenerate and spurious Generation will not stand by the intendments and engagements of their faithful Ancestors but in their giving and exercising rule neglect the Lord he will ruine them and their helpers Means 2. Minde faith fully and diligently your liberties that ye may be free to act for and according to God in the constitution and manage of your Magistracy quit once your liberties and ye mu t have such a Magistracy manage of it as will please not God nor your selves but other men will be your masters for servants yea slaves must you be to some body when ye have let go your liberties now to fix you in maintaining your liberties I crave liberty to propound some Motives Motive 1. It is a trust and favour of God that ye have such liberties Psa 118.14 This is the day that the Lord hath made or exalted This your day of free Election is preforable before all your own dayes if we marre it not for ought we know there is no such day in other Colonies abroad and we may say as follows we will rejoyce and be glad in it the more we are engaged for such a day because we have not deserved it but as Saul after his wickedness to David and Davids kindness to him in spring him when he had advantage 1 San. 24.19 This day thou hast made me as the Hebrew saith your liberty then being the gift of such a band even of the Lord let no hand be against it but let every hand hold it Gal. 5.1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage The Lord Jesus hath given you such a standing keep your standing whosoever shall push at you let none doubt that ever shall push at you let none doubt that even our outward liberties in spirituals and temporals are from our Redeemer precious Cotton so All Church priviledges and Common-wealth priviledges hath the Lord purchased by his blood So a faithful Brother among us on such a day as this our liberties and priviledges are ransomed mercies Mr. St. Christ hath given a price and by his power and by his spirit acting in the prayers and pains of his Servants hath gotten and kept them This liberty of chusing their own Magistrates the Lord gave to his own people Deut. 1.13.15 Give ye so the Hebrew and our Margent wise men and understanding known among your Tribes and I will make them Rulers over you and such as ye people gave Moses took yea this people of Israel were still free to chuse when scarce any were free to be chosen Isai 3.6 A man shall take hold of his Brother and of the house of his Father saying thou hast clothing be thou a ruler And all faithful ones are with Abraham the proper heirs of the World Rom. 4 13. and that without wrong to just propriety and it seems all shall as we have the yoke broken because of the anointing Isai 10.27 Now shall not we hold the Lands and Liberties which our God hath given us as Iudg. 11.24 that valliant Iephthe told the Arronite and indeed for your just bounds it will be great weakness to shorten them for a near Enemy is the worst as Sparta found by the Athe●ians seizing on Pysus a near and rejected Island Motive 2. Your trust by and for men bespeaks your care and vigilance about your Liberties This Honourable Assembly consists of the Trustees of all the Freemen of the ●●…nd If Freemen indeed they chuse that they may so continue we should have cause to complain of any that is chosen if he should use this trust our Liberties as the Eagle in the Greek Epigram lamented that it was slain with an Arrow winged with its own Feathers Ye are also trusted for men for many all Inhabitants have their Liberties Women Children Servants yea and Strangers too let me beseech this Honourable Assembly in the name of all the Freemen

Application Let the Authority of this Doctrine fall and fix upon your hearts this day remembring Psal 81.2 that God standeth which is a posture of greater attention and he attends in order to his judging of you therefore have your eye upon God as his is upon you Be in the fear of the Lord all this day Prov. 23.17 So acknowledge God in giving and taking Magistracy that he may approve your proceeding and let every heart lift up a cry to the Lord almost in Moses words Numb 27.16 Let the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man and men over the Congregation which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them and which may bring them in that the Congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no Shepherd Motive 1. It concerns as to be owned in the proceedings of this day else the business of the day will not be for our safety Ier. 5.10 Go ye up upon her Walls and destroy and take away her battlements for they are not the Lords If our Magistrates set up for our Protection be not owned by the Lord they will not be any protection any enemy heathen or called christian hath a dormant Commission to come upon you and destroy you though not with utter destruction Motive 2. Magistraticall Power is of great weight and worth especially among Gods people therefore with great consideration to be made over and managed by them that have it Psal 113.8 That he may set him with Princes even with the Princes of his people This very much heightens their honour and so God tells David 2 Sam. 7.8 I took thee from the sheep coate to be Ruler over my people over Israel Pericles being often chosen Pretor of Athens every year when he put on his Robe would bespeak himself remember thou rulest over Freemen thou rulest over Athenians yet Christ bespeaks you that rule here have a care what you do for ye rule over my Children Ioh. 19 8. When Pilate heard that saying viz. that Christ was the Son of God he was the more afraid he was the more awed and they that are in Authority here had as much need as any where to hearken to that Psal 2.10 Serve the Lord with fear rejoyce with trembling It is spoken to Magistrates ye may willingly and chearfully serve the Lord i● that capacity of doing good to his people but tremble lest ye miscarry if ye do them any wrong ye are sure to hear of it Psal 105.14 15. He ●uffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved Kings for their sake saying touch not mine anointed and do my Prophets no harm If you touch his people harmfully or put power into the hands of such as will so touch them you touch the apple of Gods eye Z●ch 2. he will not bear that wrong to them that he will upon another people no not although it be sl●ly and by way of fraud and not by way of open violence for that was the cause of Midian against whom the Lord gives that charge Numb 31.3 Let them go against the Midianites and avenge the Lord of Midian Motive 3. All your Administrations must come ere long under judgement ye that are Freemen must shortly be free among the dead and that then your work and secret d●sign whether good or bad must come to judgement Eccl. 12. ult and ye that shall be chosen Psal 82.6.7 Though you be all of you Children of the m●st ●●●h or Angels as Chalde renders it yet ye must dye like Adam Socrates writes to Dyonisius thou art yet clothed with a mortal skin and if ye dye then follows the Judgement act ye therefore so this day as ye may answer it boldly in that It was the honour of Marcellus that he went from the Tribunal to the Bar and it is the Law of necessity upon you all if not here yet else where to give an account of your Administration now if any of you upon these Motives are willing in your giving or taking Magistratical power to do it according to Gods will offer you some means so to do Means 1. Minde the reallizing of your-profession of God and take heed of Apostacy in the two verses before the Text we have Israels boasting and breaking of their Covenant with God Israel shall cry unto me my God we know thee but this is no better then to compass God with lyes Hos 11. ult For Israel hath cast off the thing that is good the Enemy shall pursue him If we do thus lye to God in N. E. we go against the interest of N. E. as hath been faithfully declaredon such a day as this Mr. Stoughton If you cast off good you cannot so cast off evil evil will follow you if you follow not that which is good when your Religion is but a pretence a lye it will never last a lye is never long-lived howsoever you sawn upon God or his people ye can never really love either by outward fleshly circumcision alone when ye are only as the same Messenger said custome born Deut. 30.6 there 's need of the Lords own circumcizing your hearts and the hearts of your seed as he is really your God in Covenant that you may love him and his interest with all your heart If ye have this heart circumcision heart-baptisme then you will cleave to him and his people whether ye be chusing or chosen into power otherwise not Prov. 24. ult the upright is an abomination unto the wicked His natural Fore skin the enmity of his carnal minde will upon any ripening temptation break out he that hath but the form not the power of godliness will not like to have godliness in power they that are not indeed Freemen though so called are servants 2 Pet. 2.19 to corruption and must serve such purposes which was owned by some Philosophers Cic. 5. Paradox who laid down this Paradox so that many would think it all wise men are Freemen and all fools are Servants such then having a liberty to chuse will in the use of it serve corrupt men and not the holy God neither will unsound Professors serve the Lord in the manner of that Authority they get and therefore Job 17.8 The innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite and God intending mercy to a people will help such opposition Iob 34.30 That the Hypocrite reign not lest the people be ensnared such will lay secret and subtile snares for the people whom God in pitty will deliver therefrom As for you in N. E. to backslide and to fashion your selves to the flaunting mode of England in worship or walking you undertake a vain thing for you can but limp after them and you will forget as was told you the last year by that Reverend Elder your errand of Planting this Wilderness Mr Danforth and if you have a minde to turn your Churches into Parishes and your Ministers into