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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

Division and Confusion These are the winds Euroclydon and Boreas and his brethren that lift up the waves of popular Tumults and none but Jehovah can still this Tempest 14. Especially if Maximi mingle in the mass of Populorum and run with them to the same excess of riot in Opprobrium which God forbid True Nobles and great ones worthy the name of the Worthies of Israel will consider the base alloy to be ingloriously harded with vulgar spirits and wise men will not easily be blown up or hurried away with every wind of Doctrine but be and do like those nobler Bereans that is search if those things men preach be so or no. They will read and believe the Scripture which tels them that the Lords anointed who raised them to be Majores Maximi made them suscipere magìs maximè The fountain of all honour is ordained of God to be Caput Head over all the Tribes in the Old and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 supream in the new Testament ●ud so set on the Throne and in the place of God that the Kings enemie is Gods enemie Every Opprobrium cast at him reviles Jehovah here ren●ers the Rebuker of David a Blasphemer of the Lord. And therefore for the Lords sake since ●o parting him and Caesar every Maximus will ●arn what every Minimus every Christian that hath a soul as Saint Paul saith most learn that 〈◊〉 to be as Jehovah made them subject and that or conscience sake to God conscience of sinning against God blaspheming God and the King go together and the sin is done against Heaven and that Father there which is committed against Pa●●rem patriae here To cut a lap from the Kings to be made honest Davids heart smite him and those hearts are but dull and heavy stuff that can endure Detraction to disrobe or expose to disgrace the spiritual Fathers of the Church and especially that Father whom in Oaths and Prayers we stile next and immediately under God over all persons 15. Thus are we something onward to a remedy if either Populus would be reclaimed or Maximi disclaim their associaton but if neither our next Remedy is here explicite Gest are in sinu that is Patience Gods own remedy he is patient and he is provoked every day and Christus Domini bids us Learn of him and Christus Domini David did so in the case of Shimei Let him alone it may be the Lord will look on my affliction and that the Lord will requite good for his cursing this day and so servi Domini enform us St Paul and St. James You have need of Patience and let patience have her perfect work Take the Prophets for examples of suffering affliction and of Patience so this Medicine is Catholicon and hath Gods Probatum affixt The patient abiding of the week shall not perish for ever 16. The last Remedy is in Recordare benedictum which make a whole prayer and first 1. Prayer in general it is the invention of Gods people from the beginning Tents and Iron-works from Cain and His but Invocation from Enos and his royal Progeny and God would have it so Ever since he kept house on earth it must be called an House of Prayer for all Nations all that would be of the houshold of faith and fellowship of the Saints If that honour then this work which pleases God above incense and doth him more honour then all burnt Sacrifice But what good to his servants all the good our hearts can desire for would we do Wonders drie up Seas cleave Rocks stop the Sun or the Lions rage quench the violence of fire subdue Armies Kingdoms or over-power created and increated Nature bind down the hands of God himself Prayer hath done this and more with that Prayer of Bow the heavens and come down the Church of God brought down that Jesus at whose name we bow who bows the Spirit of God to us into us and fills us full of Grace and Truth of Faith and Hope and Love and Joy and all those Graces which serve to bring us in Grace and to reconcile us though sinners and enemies to the Father through the Son as he proclaims the Peace himself In quo acquiesco 2. Secondly Here is Christus Domini at prayer Iexhort that first of all Prayers and Supplications be made for Kings that 's well but I shew you amore excellent way Kings to make Prayers Supplications for themselves an appeal lies to and here from for Caesar too at this Throne of Grace before this Mercy seat of God who is the only Ruler of Princes And in this Davids zeal exemplary I was glad saith he when they said unto me Let us go up to the house of God Our feet shall stand in thy Gates O Jerusalem And in trouble and trouble of enemies let others seek what remedy take what course they please but I take my self nay I give my self unto Prayer 3. Thirdly Prayer in distress the proper Remedy because God erected the Court of Requests in Heaven for the grievances of his Houshold This the pool with several Porches and Parishes where if we wait in right season we may be cured be the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 never so noisom what disease soever it be Should the enemies of Christus Domini conspire and continue to drie up that oyl of heavenly Power which pours it self from the head for the preservation of the members or the state it self grow sick of a Tympany or false conception or shake and totter with the palsie or we have just cause to complain in the Church and pray God to deliver u from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is I think such as regard no Topicks fetch their Arguments from no common place of old Reason or Religion evil and absurd men 2 Thess 3.2 O yet here 's our refuge The weapons of our Militia are our our Prayers to him that cals upon us to call upon him in time of trouble and he will deliver us 4. Fourthly Speciaily Prayer is prevalent in this particular textual disease and malady of Opprobrium Our Litany with Libora nos Domine is the best Ditany to throw off this arrow to return and repay and requite it into their bosom that annoy us is but Lutum luto purgare No though it be a case which nearly concerns us and an offence of an high nature yet our best way is to remove it to the highest court of audience in Heaven before the Judge of all the world where we have advocatum Regium and the darling and favorite of that court to plead our cause which is his own and who took this course himself reviled not again but commited it to him that judges righteously The Apostle indeed Eph. 6. arms and prepares the Souldier of Christ with an Helmet and a shield a sword too of the Spirit and fits him with an whole Armoury beaten our in Heaven for him But how concludes he praying always with all

out of dust and bals of living fire fi●xt in our eye-brow what work makes this heavenly Potter even with that clay in white red blew after all his polishing forced to take it down and like China earth hiding some for many 1000 years will shew his Power in their raising far fairer then before and yet able to dispatch the same effect on others in a moment in the twinckling of an eye changed and not die by a suddain dissolution and a suddain re-union But far rarer Workmanship is the Recreation of our souls washt brighter in his blood and heightned by his Spirit We need but two things for our souls Grace Truth and both came by Jesus Christ from his fulness we receive both by whose service and Ministry we are made New Creatures invested in a Robe and admitted to an Order past the Fleece and Garter the Right Order of the holy Ghost Brag not vain man O run not up into some beastly figure if guilding like a snail or tracing the way of thy preferment by thy blood or match thou be mounted to a local state of Wealth and Honor for these can add no new substantial forms But this access of Spirit from this Lord is right enobling and superinduces a new soul which like fire devours and takes up all within thee and winding in one Coelestial flame and embracing Understanding Will Affections wings and lifts up all to Heaven 12. Lastly In this very house where we assemble for the Worship and Service of the Lord it is the Lord himself that does the Service to the whole Assembly So that a non nobis Domine is fixable upon the porch of this and every house of God For first he invites us hither Come I Call upon me Seek you my face The skie of Scripture hung round with provocations calling us to service and being entered who executes the parts of our Divine Service in this house of Prayer And is it not he that prays for us in us with us before us and teaches us to pray and say after him Our Father and as once by himself in Prayers and strong cries so here assists our dulness and deadness of Spirit by his own quickning Spirit inditing our Prayers and raising our Devotion with sighs and groans that cannot be exprest It is secondly a house of preaching and we indeed preach Jesus and our selves your servants for Jesus sake nay him a Servant for your sakes But if we speak him right it is he that speaks the word of the Lord heavenly Treasure from our earthen vessels that the excellency might be of God and not of us 'T is he that first did write the word which is his Power and Wisdom to our salvation and 't is he that spels the Gospel and reads and speaks to us in his Word and he that laies out and distributes sentences to several bosoms as every man hath need and he alone that follows the Sermon home and saies it all over again to our hearts Finally his House is a House of Communion for the Saints and Churches of God for the due receiving of his holy Sacraments And as in the Baptistery it is he that receives the Infants in his arms and washes their Souls in his blood and makes the water there a Laver of Regeneration So in the Supper of the Lord it is the same Lord who first shed those primordial purple drops at his Circumcision the first fruits of his all powerfull blood to begin the work of our Salvation and ever since at every holy Communion gives both body and blood the food of faithfull and repentant Spirits and makes those sad sweet drops fall again to the anguish first and then the healing of our souls For such a different office hath this blessed Sacrament that it serves both to discover our sins and to seal our Pardons Wherein while faithfully we receive him he really receives us into him and we him into us So all of us become one body and one Spirit and all by the service of one and the same for ever Jesus Christ to whom c. S. D. G. A SERMON Preached at YORK 1640. AT The Council of King and Lords EPHE 5.8 For you were once darkness but are now Light in the Lord. Walk as Children of Light IN the Skie of Scripture shines the Sun of Divinity And all Divinity all that Sun is shed in these thee Radii The Lapse the Restoring the Duty These are a perfect Catechism And a sum of these is the Epistle to the Romans injust Methode and this Text a methodical Br●●iat of that Epistle indeed an Epitome of all the Book of God for here we have the Creation the World struck out of Chaos or what is more mysterious It could not chuse but please the Angels then to see the LIGHT rise out of darkness by a powerfull FIAT and the earth anon to emulate heaven by vertue of a Producat But this This Rare Work the Angels desire to prie into 1 Pet. 1.12 And if we pace along we shall find here Enoch walking with God Abraham called out of VR to another VR a purer Light The deliverance from Egypt the Red Sea the Rock the Mannae the Ark the Mercy-seat And here are all the Sacrifices the Life and Substance of them all with the Fulness and Light of all the Promises and Prophesies and here is the new Testament The Star appears Behold we bring you glad tidings Run Shepherds and see the great Shepherd of all our Souls whiles yet an Infant Loe He is wrapt here in the Swadling bands of this Text. He is the Word and this his Comment his Paraphrase and Explication You were once c. These words are a Tree laden with fruit most precious the very shell the rind is precious But if we open this Onyx this Pearl Cabinet it contains rare Food and Medicine and Wine and Balsam a Quintessence an Extraction beyond the Spirits of Oyl and Wine and Spices For what Chymist can draw Light Is not that that thing my sterious in Job 38. which way saith he is the Light parted yet here is more the Sun the Spring of Light here is that Sun of Righteousness and the Father of Light and the Spirit of Illuminations All All the holy blessed and glorious TRINITY unfolded here we may with Moses in a pious sense see him that is invisible Behold that rare workman tasking himself in his main project busie in dispatch of all his Miracles at once The Leper is cleansed the Lame walk the Blind receive their sight the dead are raised Nay Majus opus moveo The earth raised up to Heaven Flesh wrought up to Spirit Nature changed to Grace and dust advanced to he Partaker of Divine Nature For you were once Darkness c. A Comprehensive Text it is will take in all persons Speak I to a King or Lords Will they not all be glad at heart to be enlightned by this Dominus in the

prayer and supplication 5. Lastly This particular Prayer of David Recordare Domine a word including all Law of God all Duty of man all Sermons and all Prayers For as the Decalogue hath a tree of Life in the midst a branching RECORDARE stretching over both Tables So both again comprised in two Memento's of Vivere Mori and both these contracted to bene vivere two Memoraries The one for Praeterita the Pit whence hewen the Mass wherein corrupt that for Erubescere and then Novissims least the infernal Pit shut her mouthes upon us and this for Contremiscere and so the Spirit and Quintessence of all Sermons is here For we are but Gods Remembrancers so is the Holy Ghost too in preaching and in Prayer Though you know these things saith Saint Peter yet my Duty is to put you in mind in Remembrance If any man be fallen remember and do thy first works if gone back Remember Lots wife To a single person Recordare tui to an Husband to a Father to a Ruler Tui Tuorum Tu●rum then such have need of firm and large Memories And preaching to a King of a King from the Book wherein this holy King and sweet Singer of Israel lies embalmed and being dead yet speaks and stricking still his Harp a strain of Davids Recordare will not be disdained Recordare me Domine saith he to God and I to his anointed Remember David and all his troubles And how they stand here yet fresh and fair to be read to his renown in GODS Chronologie However State or Church Monuments may fail a gracious Soveraign but envies self cannot do so Post Fata quieseit and Querimur then turns to Quaerimus Davidi yet God preserves him ever in his book of Remembrance mentioned in Mal. 3. Are not these things noted in thy Book by that heavenly Recorder The righteous shall be had in everlasting Remembrance 16. And so the Sermon might go round to all the Subjects a whithering poor Minister to a dilatory Prelate or forgetfull Patron Recordare Domine and a good Patron to an idle Pastor pointing to the Pulpit Recordare Domine too To the Voluptuary at his fourth health least he hear it too late in hell when he cannot get a drop Fili recordare Finally it will fit us for Imprere a Motto to all our Coats or Coat-armours our Courts or Coaches over all our Houses upon all our Pictures and for Posies to all our Rings to the Bridegroom Domine to the Bride left she forget the Covenant of her God Recordare Domina Thus is it if we speak ●o men all Sermons so is it if to God all Prayers A form of Prayer for David and all Gods servants in all Cases but one Remember not Lord our sins and our offences and yet even therein Lord remember us in Mercy Remember thy old loving kindness and forget not thou to be gracious But in all our troubles if Kings oppress their people Clamabunt ad Dominum is allowed for the lawfull Remedy 1 Sam. 8.18 That is but right and as good reason then for David when from his soul he breaths that vote of God Deut. 32.29 O that this people were wise That they understood That they would consider And yet finds them to mistake and cannot undeceive them but still they beat him with Rebukes in his Bosom and slanders in all his paths then to return and appeal to his God with Recordare Domine Lord clear up the Mist and cause a Right Understanding and a fair Proceeding that I by just Rule and they by due obedience may glorifie thee our only Lord and Saviour Even so rejoycing in the Testimony of a good Conscience and the discharge of his Duty Nehemiah is bold with this form Remember me O my God and wipe not out my Kindnesses c. And to name no more It was the last prayer that took with the Lord of life before his death Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom And yet even after death it may serve us for Epitaph to call upon God for the Consummation Nay after still in that Consummation it will be of use to mingle with Te Deum Magnificat in the quire of Saints and Angels No Independency even in that Church Triumphant but Recordare Domine as from the Lord our Beginning so on thee for ever depends the Perpetuity and perpetuating of our Endless Felicity 17. Blessed be the Lord We are come to our An●heme After Prayers and Sermon to a Benedictus A close refused by some Interpreters as unsutable to the Context But Calvin saith not so Why not as well in the end as in the Beginning of this Psalm My Song ever shall be of the loving Kindness of the Lord that is his Prologue and doubtless to ease his grifes and raise his hopes He purposely makes choice of this Epilogue Vlysses way to pass the waves of this troublesome world and all Encounters was Resolution and Patience But Orpheus and David singing the Praises of the immortal God shall scape not only Syrens but Scilla too with all her dogs and all the Blasphemies and slander in the gulf of Opprobrium here Therefore the King shall rejoyce in thee O Lord Thy praise shall be ever in his mouth So may thy blessings ever be upon him and his seed after him and let all the people that fear God and honour the King say Amen and seal it again with Amen And so the Priest shall do his Duty even bless all Gods people in his name and to his name ascribe as is most due a Benedictus in Aeternum Blessing and Honour and Glory and Praise be unto our God Now Henceforth and for Evermore Amen Amen A SERMON CALLED THE Zodiack at Court 1 CHRON. 23. ver ult And that they should keep the charge of the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the charge of the holy Place and the charge of the Sons of Aaron their brethren in the service of the house of the Lord. IN the service of the house of the Lord The first Text that I find mentioning the service of the Lord in his house and serves as a Glass wherein we see first Domus abstracted then Domus Domini in conjunction Thirdly Cultus Worship or Service due to Dominus in this Domus and reasonable service 1. Quâ Dominus as he is our Lord and then quâ servus too as he vouchsafes to do us service in many other of his houses and all the service in this house For Domus single In a word It is a main blessing if God afford man an house else worse then Birds or Foxes and therefore as Cains curse unhoused a Vagabond and Abrahams tryal Get thee from thy Fathers house so enrowled among Gods works of Power and Mercy mingled he makes men dwell together in an house and makes them housholds like a flock of sheep An house and a meinie and him many houses Multiply the blessing and encrease the Joy The Summer house