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A96494 A sermon preached upon Sunday the third of March in St Maries Oxford before the great assembly of the Members, of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled. Wilde, George, 1610-1665. 1644 (1644) Wing W2160; ESTC R203284 20,300 34

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A SERMON PREACHED UPON SUNDAY THE THIRD OF MARCH In St Maries OXFORD BEFORE The Great Assembly of the Members OF THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS There Assembled OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1643. contribute such as I have Qui non potest Agnum Columbam ferat Offering up a Stone how Rough and vnpollish'd soever to the Building of this Temple Which Stone if any man shall goe about to asperse with his untemper'd Morter not suffering it to be laid as the stones in Solomon's Temple were without Noyse Let him know that He who has already sacrificed his whole Fortunes such as they were and is ready with all Cheerfulnesse to lay down his Life will not be unwilling to Expose his Name if hereby he may be made able in the least measure to promote the Glory of his God and the Wellfare of his Brethren Sir This is That which I plead for in the Pulpit though I confesse with more Zeale then Learning and this is That which you Fight for in the Field with no lesse Courage then Loyalty I have the honour and happinesse to be a witnesse of your Compassion towards your Brethren and of your Zeale towards God And therefore while I see You beare in one hand a Sword sharpned in Israel not among the Philistims against the Rebellious Sheba and in t'other a Stone hewen out of the Spirituall Rock for Sacrilegious Achan I hope this Your known detestation of Rebellion and Sacriledge Your cleare and unbiac'd pursuit of Religion and Liberty will encourage that in Another which You Practice Your selfe The confidence whereof invites Me to begge Your Protection to this Sermon and the Author of it SIR Your most observant at Your Command GEORGE WILDE PSALM 122. Vers 8 9. For my Brethren and Companions sake I will now say Peace be within thee Yea Because of the House of the Lord our God I will seek thy Good THat there may be an Vnjust Peace and that there may be a Iust Warre is so cleere and evident a Truth that in most ages of the World we shall find it written with the poynt of a sword in Characters of Blood And as cleare it is that we are bound to Pray against them both Against such a Peace as only skinnes the sore but repairs not the body a Peace that promises a subtle superficiall Quiet in the Fathers dayes but threatens the Sonnes with an intestine and more lasting Warre And against all Warre if not for the many sinnes which List themselves even with the justest Cause yet at leastwise for the Temptations sake which in the holiest Warre too often assault the bravest Champions And we are bound to pray against all Temptations in what kind soever I am not dare not be of his Religion who said that Gunpowder in the Field gave as sweet a Perfume as Incense at the Altar And yet such may be the case and such now it is that the Incense at the Altar burnes the sweeter for the Gunpowder in the Field The smoak of the Canon is good or bad as the cause is so and that which proves a stench an odious stench in the nostrills of the Almighty when it is fired to blow up a State when it is fairly exercised to defend Religion then it smells like the precious Oyntment upon Aarons Head I presume the Socinian is not here who subscribes to the unlawfulnesse of all warre so subtlely taught the Anabaptist once till he had compassed a mighty strength and a Power of resistance He taught so till he made Germany reele with his thundering Legions borrowing that very argument to beat down the sword of Warre which the Iewes at this day make use of to cry down the Saviour of the World and the Prince of Peace as not yet come viz. That in the time of the Gospell all Nations are required to beat their Swords into Plow shares and their Speares into Pruining hookes Whereas indeed the Prophets doe hereby commend unto us not the Practice of Christians but the Doctrine of Christ If we would put on the Lord Iesus that same love and meeknesse which we ought to do and become such men as Christ in his Gospell chargeth us to be there would be no need of the Sword then we should be greater strangers then to the lowd reports of Warre then we are now to the sweet sounds of Peace But now the Almighty who is himselfe the Lord of Hosts as well as the God of Peace hath put a Sword into the hand of the supream Magistrate a sharpe edged Sword not a painted Dagger and Warres well grounded are nought else saith my Author but sutes of Appeale to the great Consistory of Heaven However it will appeare that Israel found not so much comfort in Davids victorious Lawrell as under Solomons ever peacefull Vine There may dwell more of Honour in a scarrified face but in a smooth skinne there shines more of Beauty this a work of Creation and that of chance We must still preferre the Olive to the Ivie David one of the three Worthies of Israel did so Whose sword though it were drunke with the blood of Gods enimies yet you shall never find him to beginne the Quarrell with them he was forced in a manner to Fight for the Peace of Ierusalem and to shew how great an Enemy he was to Warre which most commonly has been an Enemy to Religion and Liberty he not only called upon his Brethren to Pray for that Peace but for their sakes is resolved to lead them the way For my Brethren and Companions sake I will now say Peace be within thee Because of the House of the Lord our God I will seek thy good Religion and Liberty those two Atlantes the Pillars upon which Ierusalem stands and which are now so much pretended by our Enemies so much sought after by us are the two motives in my Text which here first set a good King upon his knees to pray for the Peace of Ierusalem and then set him upon his legges agen if need be to fight for that Peace For my Brethren and Companions sake there 's his Charity or you may call it in a larger sence the Liberty of the Subject For which we have the Royall word of a King I will now say saith he Peace be within thee or I will wish thee Prosperity as some read it Now Peace without Liberty Prosperity and Bondage are they not inconsistent But secondly Because of the house of the Lord our God Behold here his Piety behold here the Religion of our David and for which O Ierusalem he will more then Wish he will endeavour thy good So that if either his Heart or his Braine if either his Pen or his Sword can purchase the Peace and Prosperity of his Brethren together with the pure worship of his God we have his full and Princely Resolution I will say and I will seek The words then in briefe containe in them a