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A81152	Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : shewed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their publike thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great successe of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing C752; ESTC R43612	28,502	54

He was ready to die with joy to hear that his son was not only not dead but alive in such an estate of honour This day is witnesse This solemn meeting is a proof That the Kingdom the Parliament of England the City of London do not only live but prosper Ye are not escaped only as Job speaks Chap. 19. 20. with the skin of your teeth but with your Ornaments and Honours with your riches and priviledges Ye have not only breath and a being but strength and a wel-being ye are encompassed with blessings and the Candle of God shines upon your heads Though as the Psalmist speaks Psal 66. 12. Ye have gone thorow much fire and water yet God hath brought you to a wealthy place Ye are not enjoying a life only a life within one step or degree of death but ye live your lives ye have a life that hath abundance of life in it such livelines such vigour your affairs have not had since these troubles began What the Oratour spake with indignation of Catiline a conspiratour against the peace of his countrey Vivit etiam in Senatum venit the man hath honour whose life is more then his due The same may I say with much gratulation of you Noble Patriots Vivitis etiam in Senatum venitis Ye live and ye live still like Senatours Your Honour is great in the salvation which God hath wrought Your Sunne rises in the West Your victories abroad are stupendious Your union which this daies apparance is a great demonstration of I say your union at home is pleasant and harmonious the Two Houses with each other both with the City concentring in this solemn duty I would say this from the sense of this great mercy Right Honourable seeing the Lord hath given you your lives for a prey and added prosperity to your lives let the cause of God not only live but prosper in the land Improve your utmost that Jesus Christ may have not only a being or a breathing in the land and in your lives but that he may raign live gloriously both in the Land and in your lives The Apostle Iohn in his 3d Ep. to Gaius wishes that his body might prosper even as his soul prospered My wish is that all your souls and all the affairs of souls may live and prosper as God hath caused your bodies and outward estates to live and prosper My wish is that all the Churches of Christ may live and prosper even as the Common-wealth prospers The Church of Christ is the soul of that Common-wealth where it is Many Common-wealths have prospered where Christ hath had no Church at all but I think there was never any Common-wealth that prospered where Christ had a Church if that Church did not live up in the same degree of prosperity that the Common-wealth did I mean if the Church had not a flourishing life in it's capacity according to the flourishing of the State wherein it lived I speak not of the Church under the old notion of the Church-men but I speak of the Church as comprehending all the Saints and servants of Jesus Christ all the faithfull in the Land let them all have not only a life but a comfortable life This will answer the mercy of God in giving the State not only a being but such a comfortable being as it hath at this day I know Right Honourable it was farre from your thoughts ever to have spoken like that Roman Tyrant If I must die let fire and earth mingle let all go to confusion if I must die let all the world die too I doubt not but you would have rejoyced though your own lives had been the price to have known that England should live it would have been your comfort that the foundations of mercy to a future generation had been surely laid though in your own ruines Though as Iudah pleads with Ioseph for the return of Benjamin Gen. 44. 30. I verily believe that the life of the Kingdom of England is bound up in the Parliament of England and when this dies that must in the notion here intended But I am sure ye are further off from the speech of that other Roman Tyrant who said Let fire and earth mingle so I may live and prosper so I may have what pleaseth me no matter what becomes of the rest of the world I know ye abhorre to think much more to resolve Now we live and prosper let fire and earth mingle let justice and oppression mingle let Christ and Belial mingle let truth and errour mingle let light and darknesse mingle let good and evil mingle let confusion and disorder appear in the face and live in the body of the whole Nation if they will Therefore as the Lord hath given us in this mercy that you are not dead but alive so let it be I humbly beseech you your care in answer thereunto that the work of God that all who fear God that the cause and people of God that the flook of Jesus Christ may not only not die but live prosperously with and under your Government I now come to the second reading our reading of the Text I shall not die but live So it is a voice of holy confidence and it yeelds this plain Observation That The experience of former mercies and successes is a ground of hope for future and continued mercies and successes Faith turneth this experience I am not dead but alive into this confidence I shall not die but live Hope is the first-born of experience Rom. 5. 4. The Apostle argues so 2 Cor. 1. 10. He hath delivered us from so great a death A great death all death in it self is of one size but the waies of death and the dangers of death are of different sizes and dimensions He hath delivered us from so great a death deadly dangers and he doth deliver us what of that And we trust that he will also deliver us What God hath done and doth is easily believed he will doe The people of Israel being got thorow the red Sea kept a day of Thanksgiving and we finde that they grew confident of getting into Canaan presently Exod. 15. 13 14. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation the people shall hear and be afraid sorrow shall take hold of the inhabitants of Palestina the Dukes of Edom shall be amazed c. Israel had set but a foot as it were beyond the red Sea and yet now they tryumph as if they had a footing in Canaan Was not Moses too forward in this and were not the people over confident No they had a just ground of hope that God would carry them thorow that Wildernesse because he had brought them thorow that red Sea David saw Goliah vanquished in the victory he obtained over a Lion and a Bear this uncircumcised Philistime shall be as one of them I beseech you let your faith

ENGLANDS Plus ultra BOTH Of Hoped Mercies and of Required Duties SHEWED IN A SERMON PREACHED to the Honourable Houses of PARLIAMENT the Lord Major Court of Aldermen and Common-councell of London together with the Assembly of Divines at Christ-Church April 2. 1646. Being the day of their publike Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great successe of the Parliaments Army in the West especially in Cornwall under the Conduct of his Excellency Sr THOMAS FAIRFAX By JOSEPH CARYL Minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer the Bridge London and a Member of the Assembly of DIVINES LONDON Printed by G. M. for John Rothwell at the sign of the Sun and fountain in Pauls Church-yard and Giles Calvert at the sign of the black-spread-Eagle at the west end of Pauls 1646. Die Veneris April 3. 1646. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Thanks be given to M. Caryl and M. Peters for the great pains they took in the Sermons they preached yesterday before the Lords and Commons and City of London at Christ-Church in London at the entreaty of both Houses being a day set apart for a publike Thanksgiving to God for the great successes it pleased him to give the Army under the Command of Sr Thomas Fairfax Knight Generall and that they be desired to print their Sermons And it is ordered that none shall presume to print their Sermons without license under their hands writing And that Sr Arthur Hesilrig and M. Prideaux do give them thanks and desire them to print their Sermons accordingly H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Appoint John Rothwel and Giles Calvert to print my Sermon Joseph Caryl TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT WHen that holy Prophet fore-told the sorrows and ill usage which the Sonne of God should finde among sinfull men in the days of his flesh he cries out Who shall declare his Generation Isa 53. 8. which many understand of his eternal some of his Generation in the fulnes of time the mystery whereof was beyond words Others of his holy seed his crosse being fruitfull and his death giving life to an innumerable Generation But besides all these we may with good probability interpret the word Generation * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Est generatio seculum tempus vitae humanae per Synecdochen homines una aetate generatione viventes Buxt for the time or age in which Christ was born lived and died And then the meaning is whose tongue shall be able to speak or pen to write the History of His Age Where shall Rhetorique enough be found to draw out or delineate with lively colours the malice and enmity the plots and conspiracies the villanies and cruelties contrived and acted against that innocent Lamb Jesus Christ Together with his most glorious victories and triumphs over them all Who shall declare his Generation I believe there hath scarce been a Generation since that of Christs so journing upon the Earth more hard to declare then this We may well cry out Who shall declare this Generation What Age hath brought forth such monstrous births of man or such marvellous births of God When did man or God shew more of Himself Did men ever assay to destroy a Nation by pollicies and by power by threatning and by flattering by confederacies abroad and combinations at home as some have assaied to destroy this Nation Or hath God assaied to deliver a Nation by temptations by signs and by wonders and by warre and by a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm and by great terrours according to all that the Lord our God hath done before our eyes Some have said of Zenophons Cyrus that surely it was written Non ad historiae fidem sed ad Principis effigiem not to shew what Cyrus personally was but what a Prince in exactest compleature may be fancied to be Such censures I am perswaded after Ages will give of the true Stories I hope some pens will write the truth of these times that surely they are poeticall raptures or feigned Romances to shew the height of imagination not the realitie of action For whether we consider the strange beginnings the difficult proceedings the variety of judgements the contrarietie of opinions the stands and motions the effects or issue of these warres and troubles together with the faithfulnesse or falsenesse of men the power and goodnesse of God discovered in them it will be found the most improbable relation that ever was put to paper The providence of God which acts in all Nations hath as it were striven to represent such scenes of action in England as are hardly parallel'd by any that are past His works among us have not only justice but beauty and wonder not only mercie but skill and art in them Though to do them be his propertie not his studie his nature not his labour Man cannot so much as be suspected to have done these things God hath done like God The Lord needs not subscribe his name to his work for that his Name is neer his wonderous works declare It must be said by way of assertion This God hath wrought as well as by way of admiration What hath God wrought God hath done so much for us that the most which remains for us to do is to Admire and be Thankfull If these Talents of mercy have not fair improvements we shall be cast for the most unprofitable servants and idle Stewards that were ever trusted by the great Master of heaven and earth Sad will their reckoning be who sleight these mercies but theirs saddest of all who put forth a hand to corrupt and spoil them The reason given by the holy Ghost why his blood must he shed who sheddeth mans blood is this because in the Image of God made he man God hath made our victories and deliverances in his own image There 's not one of them but looks like God What their doom shall be who by envie or self-ends who by sowing divisions or making sides who by somenting jealousies or nourishing discontents go about to murther them the perpetuall equity of that first statute-law puts into the mouth of every ludge Right honourable that these works of God may be aeclared by all manner of declarations perfected into all manner of perfections and that God who hath wrought them may be honoured with all manner of honours should now be Your special care and study the care also and study of all who tast the comforts and share in the blessings of them of which number I thankfully subscribe my self and Your Honours humbly devoted in the service of the Gospel Ioseph Caryl A THANKSGIVING SERMON Preached to the Honourable Houses of PARLIAMENT c. April 2. 1646. PSAL. 118. 17. I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. THis is a Psalm of mercies and of praises A Psalm composed of victories and of thanksgivings The holy Pen-man at the first verse makes a generall invitation to the

of great danger to escape death or to come off with our lives It is a mercy not to live in times when God visits a people only to punish their sinne and therefore some of the good Kings of Judah were promised that they should die before such troubles were borne even Balaam Numb 24. 23. prophecying of the sore calamities of divers Nations breaths out in compassion Alas who shall live when God doth this Who would desire to live in such a time The righteous is taken away from the evil to come Isa 57. 1. But to live in times when God visits a people for the purging of their sins this is a great mercy To live in such times and to get thorow them though but with an escape is a mercy But to get thorow those times with a conquest is a great mercy It is an honour to live in troubles which overcome us while we are contending for truth and righteousnesse But to live in troubles where contending for truth and righteousnesse we overcome is our happinesse To be in deaths often is an honourable life but often to conquer deaths is an Heroicall life Right Honourable and Beloved this is Englands mercy Life is the richest commodity of this life Life among Naturals is next in value to the soul and it is in value above all Civils Satans estimate may be taken in this point Job 2. Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life Life is sweet life is a treasure And there hath been much digging for this treasure We have gone thorow fire and water variety of dangers we have walked for four or five years not only in a valley of tears but of bloud in the very valley of the shadow of death and yet we are not dead but alive What though it hath cost much to preserve these lives who would die to save charges what though estates be shortned yet life is lengthned what though some of the lading hath been cast over-board in this storm yet the vessell is safe We are not dead but alive We if ever any may say it with a mixture of wonder and thankfulnesse England is not dead but alive There were many who looked upon her as dying and gasping out her last breath Many hoped and many feared England would have been in her winding-sheet before this time How often have we like Israel at the red sea been talking of our graves How often have we waxed strong in unbelief and concluded as David once did we shall one day perish yet we may say England is not dead but alive And what a mercy is it that we can read this text to the Parliament of England Ye are not dead but alive The Parliament hath had death standing at their doors death looking thorow the key-hole scarce suffering the door to shut lest if called it should not come in fast enough and yet we may say The Parliament of England is not dead but alive And which is most considerable as in it's greatest swounings and convulsions it alwaies retained life in it self and lived in the hearts and prayers of the faithfull in the land so it now liveth in the tongues and pens I know not in what state it is in the hearts of those with whom it was reckon'd among the dead The Parliament of England hath been praied to death cursed to death drunk to death devoted to death and voted to death I am sure a civil death in deepest consultations and yet it is alive and lives in the mouths of many whose throats were once an open sepulchre to swallow it up and bury it forever Let this mercy be remembred as that which is the mother-mercy or the instrument the parent of all our Nationall mercies The Parliament of England is not dead but alive For the City of London this great and renowned City what a mercy is it that we can say London is not dead but alive Death hath been hovering about your wals death waited when it should be admitted to look in at your windows Yea the death of this City hath been breeding in it's own bowels Some members have been contriving the death of the whole body and have themselves justly died for it And that which the Prophet speaks Lam. 4. 12. concerning Jerusalem The Kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entred into the gates of Jerusalem may be inverted concerning London The Kings and Nations about us would not believe but that the enemy would have entred in at the gates of London before this time yet notwithstanding secret underminings and open threatnings This great City which holds much of the life of the whole Nation is not dead but alive This City hath not had so much as a mount cast up nor an arrow shot against it Lastly How many are there in this Honourable Audience who have gone forth with their lives in their hand who have as it were conversed with death Some I believe are here who have led Armies in the field who have been in the head of them in times of greatest danger and hottest assaults who have seen pale death on every side who have heard the groans and beheld the wounds of the dying let them all blesse God that they and we can say They are not dead but alive A great King 1 King 20. 32. made it his request and would have been glad of the grant I pray thee let me live Esther makes the same suit to Ahashuerus Chap. 7. 3. Let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request And all that God himself promised some very good men in a time of common calamity was That they should have their lives for a prey as for great things they were not to be look'd for Jer. 39. 18. 45. 5. That we can say thus much we are alive is a mercy if we could say no more But if we can say more if we can say we are not only alive that is numbred among livers but we are alive that is numbred among rejoycers this would rise to a high prized mercy That 's a second Note which I shall briefly touch For a people after they have runne thorow great dangers to live enjoying great comforts and successes is an amazing mercy Not to be dead but alive is mercy but to be alive and prosperous what a mercy is that This calleth as much for admiration as thankfulnesse It was much that the Bush burned and was not consumed Exod. 3. 2. but that a Bush should burn and at that time blossom and bear fruit how admirable were that When Josephs brethren Gen. 45. returned and told their father Ioseph is yet alive had the report ended there Iacobs heart had been exceedingly revived but when they tell him Ioseph is yet alive and he is Governour over all the land of Aegypt how did this amaze the spirit of old Iacob

grow thus vigorous and turn experiences into confidences Because ye are not dead but alive believe that ye shall not die but live I would not invite you to build Castles in the air nor would I nurse up presumptuous thoughts in any I know that Babylon shall be as confident as confidence it self immediately before her destruction Revel 18. 7. I sit a Queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow and yet all her sorrows shall then come upon her I know the people of God may over-act their faith and be confident without cause as the Prophet speaks Jer. 2. 37. The Lord hath rejected thy confidences and thou shalt not prosper in them But though I would not yea I dare not be over-bold or presuming yet I would not have any distrustfull or unbelieving God is a Rock and his work is perfect We are sure he hath begun a work why should we not believe he will bring it unto perfection It may be some abroad will object as Rabshakeh once did against Hezekiah and the Jews 2 King 18. 19. Thus saith the great King the King of Assyria What confidence is this wherein thou trustest Thou presumest thou shalt be deliver'd from the invasion of Senacherib What is this confidence saith Rabshakeh tell me thy strength Possibly thou wilt say but they are but vain words I have counsell and strength for the warre Or if thou hast not strength of thy own yet thou hast friends and confederates to assist thee I wonder where Tell me Now on whom dost thou trust that thou rebellest against me If thou wilt not discover the lock wherein thy strength lies then I will doe it for thee Now behold thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed even upon Egypt on which if a man lean it will go into a mans hand and pierce it So is Pharaoh King of Egypt unto all that trust on him Thus he sleights his confidences in men And because he knew Hezekiah and the Jews had a reserve when the arm of flesh was broken therefore hetakes them off from that too vers 22. But if ye say unto me We trust in the Lord our God Is not that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem ye shall worship before this Altar in Jerusalem As if he had said Doe ye build your confidence in God when ye have done God such a disservice as this the defacing and demolishing of his Altars Are ye so audacious as to believe that God will help you when you have thus dishonoured him Can you expect his aid should be the reward of your sacriledge Be ashamed of these hopes make not your God a protectour of your impieties Some I say from abroad may thinke to cut the sinews of our confidence by such an argument What is your confidence to prevail or that the Parliament should prosper Are not they the men who have pull'd down Altars and abolish'd Prelacy Have not they turned out the old Liturgy and dash'd the Ceremonies Have not they done these things by their authority and shall they live To such Objecters I say our confidence gathers life from this Objection These Right Honourable are splendida peccata shining sins indeed and holy impieties If these be your faults they are glorious ones and we may fatten our faith by such doubts cast in from these without We may rather build upon it that you shall prosper because God hath enobled your spirits to doe such things as these even as Hezekiah prospered in those works which yet the railing Rabshakeh supposed his certain ruine There are other Objections against this confidence which are more weighty and sad I will name but three First What so confident that we shall live and yet the Kingdome so abound with sinne When there is so much life in sinne shall such a people live Live and prosper I acknowledge that when we consider the sins and profanenesses the wickednesses and blasphemies which are in the Nation we have just cause in reference to them not only to rejoyce with trembling but to tremble without rejoycing These may give us cause to fear that all the troubles we have hitherto had are but the beginning of our sorrows And that the Lord in stead of turning back our captivity should turn us back into captivity We may have cause to fear that even the great and solemn meeting of this day upon as I may so call it this mountain of our present felicity should be but like Moses his going up to Mount Nebo or the top of Pisgah in the later end of the book of Deuteronomy from thence to view the Land of Canaan which himself should never enter into The Lord may make this happy spectacle but as a short view a transient glimpse of those glories and comforts of those blessings and mercies which peace and union in a setled estate bring forth to a Nation and the word might go out against us all even against Moses and Aaron Magistrates and Ministers even against those who have been most faithfull in the carrying on of this great service and most industrious even against those who have shed most tears and have laid up most prayers even against those who have sweat most or bled most Ye shall all die on this side Jordan Your sins shall consume your carcases in this wildernesse this is acknowledged and what ever the issue be let God be glorified But the Lord doth not account as man accounteth neither are his thoughts as mans thoughts Take but two instances The one Psal 106. 6 7. where the unbelief and provocations of the people of Israel are reported We have sinned with our fathers we have committed iniquity we have done wickedly Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies but provoked him at the Sea even at the red Sea Yet he comes in with a non obstante at the 8. verse Neverthelesse he saved them for his Names sake that he might make his mighty power to be known If God will save for his names sake what people is there whom he may not save The other Scripture is Isa 57. 17. For the iniquity of his covetousnesse was I wroth and smote him I hid me and was wroth What did this smiting effect It follows He went on frowardly in the way of his heart he went on sinning while God was smiting what could any one expect now but that the Lord who smote him before should at the next blow destroy him Yet hear O miracle of mercy I have seen his waies vers 18. What waies repenting waies reforming waies holy waies No his waies the waies of his own froward heart And what will God doe Doth he say I will strike him down in his waies I will kill him in his waies No I have seen his waies and will heal him I will heal the former wounds instead of making new wounds There is more mercy

of those Heroes whom God hath used as their Saviours and Protectours Let them all receive and enjoy rewards both of honour and of bounty And let those by whom God is now acting and vvhose most memorable successes in action give the occasion of this dayes joy and solemnity be acknowledged and acknowledged thank't and thank't I am perswaded t' is both honour and reward enough to many of them that they do God and their countrey service but God requires that they vvho serve us should have reward and honour Let not England discourage valour faithfulnes and unwearied industry in Any or in These vvho have given not promises only but proofs of these Three martiall accomplishments To despise the instruments of our civill as well as of our spirituall salvation is to despise the God of our salvation And to all the Members of the Honourable Houses of Parliament who have faithfully staid by tended and watcht with this troubled sick and languishing Nation these five or six years past the whole Kingdome of England is obliged to speak their thanks and to say concerning them as Christ Luk. 22. 28. once did to his Disciples Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptation As a reward of which pains and patience Christ in the next words tell them And I appoint unto you a Kingdom Though we have not a Kingdome to appoint you yet we ought to wish you the best and fairest portions in the Kingdome A Jacobs blessing even the Dew of Heaven and the fatnesse of the earth and plenty of corn and wine all as the gift of God And that the people of the Land in the capacity ye are now in may serve you and the Nation bow down to you Thus it becomes us to blesse our Helpers and to blesse God for our Helpers lest our unthankfulnesse and murmurings cause the Lord as he threatned Israel Isa 3. To take away from England the stay and the staffe not only the stay and the staffe of our Naturall lives Bread and water vers 1. but the stay and the staffe of our Civil and Spirituall lives verse 2 3. The mighty man and the man of warre the Judge and the Prophet and the prudent and the An●ient The Captain of fifty and the honourable man And give children froward men to be our Princes and babes weak and impotent ones to rule over us And now let the Preservers joyne with the preserved They who have laboured with Those who eat the fruit of their labours in blessing and praising the Name of God by whom it is That we are not dead but alive by vvhom it is that vve and our friends are not only alive but as David once complain'd about his enemies Psal 38. 19. lively and strong or as another translation hath it live and are mighty Let us all joyne in praising God vvho hath given us hopes for the future That we shall not die but live and hath given us this present opportunity To declare the works which he hath done These wonderfull works in keeping us alive and lively in filling us with good hope that we shall live to declare more and greater of his works then these That as at this time it is so likewise it shall yet be said in our English Israel WHAT GOD HATH WROVGHT FINIS Die Jovis 26. February 1645. IT is this day Ordered by the Lords in Parliament that this House give thanks to Mr IENKYN for his great pains taken in the Sermon he Preached yesterday in the Abbey Church Westminster before the Lords of Parliament it being the day of the publike Fast And he is hereby desired to Print and publish the same which is not to be Printed by any but by authority under his own hand J. Brown Cler. Parl. I Appoint Christopher Meredith to Print my Sermon William Jenkyn