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A86325	The glory and beauty of Gods portion: set forth in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at the publique fast, Iune 26. 1644. / By Gaspar Hickes, Pastour of Lanracke in Cornwall, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Hickes, Gaspar, 1605-1677.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1838; Thomason E2_10; ESTC R2493	29,927	47

stand acquitted before the supreme Tribunall Upon whomsoever the spirit of judgement which is the Spirit of the Lord hath fallen let them goe in this their might let them put forth their strength and exercise their facultie the Lord cals and sends them and will do great things by them 4. The spirit of judgement is impartiall As the soule in the body it diffuses it self in a just proportion thorough the whole into each part according to its severall need and capability Who so small or inconsiderable who so high or uncontroleable as to be without it influence or reach by it rulers must governe by it the governed must be ruled The Lord gives a charge and prescribes a method to the executioners of his justice Ezek. 9.5 6. he commands them to strike home and to spare none that bore not his owne caracter or marke and to begin at his Sanctuary at the ancient men before the house T was the Popes old trick to exempt his Clergy from the Civill which detractingly he cals the Secular power but the Popes patronage now I hope will nothing help our bad Ministers Oh that they might feele the most speedy and heavy hand of justice as they have had the deepest hand in occasioning our decay and misery Charles the fifth was wont to say wittily If the shavelings had been good Si Sacrificuli frugi essent non indige●ent Luthere there had been no need of Luther Let the guilty hang the head they that are faithfull and conscionable need not feare nor decline the decisions of a Parliament the censures of righteous Magistrates If any say that I seek the ruine and publish the shame of men of mine own calling I answer no they are the proud the persecuting the prophane the popish the temporizing the insufficient the lazy the drunken the scandalous Prelates and Ministers that disgrace the holy function and make us asham'd of them as Gentlemen are of their beggarly kinred or rather as an honest man is to see his brother goe to the gallowes And as they have troubled our Israel so let the Lord trouble them Let their owne dung be spread upon their own faces but let Gods Sanctuary be purged of them Moreover why should the spirit of judgement shrinke or be abashed at the stout looks of any overgrowne great one Criminosior cu●pa est ubi honestior status Salvian li. q. de Guber Dei any blustring Belialist let such feele the force the omnipotency of justice 'T is a true saying The higher the condition of the sinner the baser alwayes is the sin What! will men steale murther oppresse commit adultery sweare falsely or blasphemously drinke drunke live dissolutely and debauchedly and thinke they are delivered to doe these abominations Jer. 7.9 10. because they are great in the world Methinks noble spirits should hold it more base to deserve then to suffer sharpe and shamefull penalties of just lawes which they breake If you improve your greatnesse to quit your selves from them your priviledge is no other then theirs who run mad unchained and post to perdition without controll 5. The spirit of judgement is uniforme It casts mens minds and aimes and actions into one mould or fashion Jam. 4.5 The spirit that is in the world lusteth to envie a distorting distracting evil Corrupt men differ as much in minds as faces or if they accord they meet only in evill Great spirits are lyable to great impulsions violent concussions when they are whirled by excentrique passions or wheeled by byassed and selfe respects their motions must needs be disordered and turbulent But when this blessed principle in my text is the Primum mobile the first mover then all the spheares whether superior or inferior in place swifter or slower in motion hold on their owne course evenly and constantly and accord with others in an exact correspondence and the harmony is really by farre more sweet then the imaginary musique of the heavens was fained to be There are diversities of gifts 1 Cor. 12.4 5 7. and differences of administrations but one and the same spirit and the manifestation of that spirit is given to every man to profit withall all tends to mutuall helpfulnesse to the common good of all and every one that partake of that Spirit hence all gifts become serviceable and contributary each to other and 't is a most blessed and beneficiall intercourse or trade that passes betweene sanctified abilities It hath ever been a rich blessing to good Magistrates to be instructed and abetted in their most glorious acts by faithfull Ministers David had his Seers so had Salomon Asa his Azariah 2 Chr● 15.1 19.2 2 Ki. 19.2 ●2 14 Iehoshaphat his Iehu besides a number of teaching Priests and Levites whose Catalogue we find registred 2 Chron. 17.7 8. Hezekiah had his Isaiah Iosiah his Huldah Zorobabel his Ioshua the Elders of the Jewes brought out of captivitie to reedifie the City and Temple built and prospered thorough the prophecying of Haggai and Zachariah the sonne of Iddo Temple-work Church-work never goes up without such hands I should be sorry that any here present should judge the Prophets uselesse or burdensome or intermedling without their verge in weighty holy affaires A Reformation pretended without the Councell and Consociation of men of God would be like Adonijahs feast 1 King 1. ● ● 9 10. to which Abiathar the temporizing Priest and bloudy Ioab and other such like were called Courtiers perhaps and Souldiers and Politicians enough but faithfull Zadok and Nathan the Prophet and Salomon the Kings son and true-hearted Benaiah being left out the meeting proved both sinfull and sad it began in conspiracie and ended-in confusion But oh happy meetings-where all sorts of gifts are met together and joyntly improved to mutuall and publique good 'T is the good Spirit of God that joynes and keeps men unanimous in and for that with good and whatsoever tends to the setting of good men or good gifts at oddes though it be never so covertly or speciously carried suspect it as proceeding from the envious one the evill spirit of confusion I need not adde any thing for application of this point 'T is the spirit of judgement which hath been described that fits every man for the weighty affaires of Civill Administration that is intrusted and imployed in the same You see hence Noble Patriots what it is that you should mainly strive for and cherish in your selves and we find what we should most importunately beg for you of Heaven The work before you is glorious the power in your hands ordinate the way of dispensing it the best in the world most sutable to equity and to our spirits wherein as just Soveraignty is not bounded unworthily so community hath some stroke according to its ranke in matters of highest publique concernment Oh then let this spirit of judgement animate and sway all your consultations and proceedings let it season them with sanctitie

unctiores and provide for their owne panch Questionlesse such a worship as breakes no bones extracts no sweat from the people that costs little paines and brings in much profit and secular advancement to the chiefe actours and upholders of it shall have stiffe fautours and abettours every where But heare what the Lord saith of such mixtures to the Prophet Ezek. 43.7 8 9. Son of man the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the midst of my people shall not be defiled by their whoredomes and their carcasses in their setting their threshold by my threshold and their posts by my posts and the wall between me and them 'T is as the filthinesse of whoredome as the stink of a carcasse to the Lord to have humane inventions erected or interposed as parts or props of his worship Pompey once in an audacious humour would would needs enter into the most holy place and seeing nothing but a cloud there in derision he termed the Jewes Nubicolas cloud-worshippers before the Romans thought that Apis or Iupiter Hamon or some such soule idoll had been inclosed there how doe men seek after and rest upon the garnished outside the specious paint of worship without which they contemne its spirituall simplicitie as a vaporous or crude conceit whereas the excellencie the vigour the soule of it lies in its internall truth its primitive and native purity 3. The Lord puts glory and beauty upon a people by setting up godlinesse and godly men amongst them by increasing the number inlarging the graces advancing the persons of his Saints and Servants When the vilest men are exalted the wicked ruffle and riot at pleasure all things are tumultuous and squalid Psal 12.8 but when the righteous are up there 's change of cheere things are in a joyous and faire state Prov. 29.2 Godly men are the choisest things upon earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clē Alex. the honour the beauty the blessing of the places that hold them such ornaments yea and more glorious are they to the earth then the Luminaries are to the Heavens and when they are fitly placed in the Horoscope of a Church or State in Houses of Dominion oh what an happy aspect what a flourishing influence doe they afford Why then should men of parts and place perhaps well affected to the publike good stand aloofe from Religion for feare of contracting disgrace from it Euseb Eccles Hist li. 6. c. 18. Perhaps the devill tels them as Perph●cy did Origen that it will turne their learning into barbarisme their acutenesse into sottishnesse that it will spoile all their gifts and sufficiencies Or else he frights them as Cajetan did the Electour of Saxony wishing him to beware that he did not blemish his noble house by giving credit and countenance to Luther Caveret nemaculam illus●●is 〈…〉 aspergat M●len Adam in vitâ Luther Profectò inde●●ta venit praepropere af●ectatur periculosè captatur B●za 2 Chro. 9.21 Satan buzzes it into their eares that if they favour those frantique fellowes adhere to those strict truths and wayes they will staine their bloud emasculate their spirits and lose the garbe and repute of gallants But harken rather to the Counsels of God to the Words of truth and sobernesse To you great ones I speake Think sadly how poore vain false the glory is that is without God and godlinesse truly if you have it t is more then is doe to you you seek it sinfully and buy it dearely Summe up all your sumptuous store your birth breeding bravery possessions titles and best t is but like Salomons freight gold and silver and Ivory and apes and peacocks strong mixtures of pride and vanity enough to poyson your excellencies to sinke your ship to damne your souls Whereas if you sincerely affect and honour Religion it will honour you yea it will make you the glory of your God the dignity and beauty of your country otherwise the greater you are the more unworthy burdens and blemishes you prove to the earth that bears you To bring that which hath been said home to our selves Vse I will lay before you only two things by way of information 1. The necessitie 2. The blessing of a present Reformation The necessitie grounded on the dishonourable and odious degenerations whereinto we were fallen the blessing commended and amplified from the glorious and beautifull excellencies to which it would advance us 1. The former the foulnesse of our decayes and distempers I have already touched and so generall they were that they might take up an age of complaining yea and so apparant that you that have your senses about you cannot but see and feele them though I should say nothing of them Methinks we were even come to that passe wherein the ten Tribes lay after their defection For a long season they were without the true God without teaching Priests and without Law 2 Chro. 15.3 Popery atheisme prophanenesse were shouldering out our God our faithfull teachers were crushed silenced or discouraged and Idoll sheepheards promoted that starved soules or edified them to damnation the justice and power of our Lawes nullified force and will carrying all before them We may gather what should generally have been done by considering what is done where the mischiefe prevailes Many dark places of the Land are still the habitations of such cruelties I speake it in the griefe of my soule the parts to which I stand most neerely related are overwhelmed with all the branches and extremities of the misery and I mention it not to informe you of what you know not but now in the day of your humiliation seeing the Lord hath made me your remembrancer to inkindle pitty in you and move you to speedy and thorough helpefullnesse to them If any misinformed or partiall or angry fellowes aske us what ailes us when we lift up our eyes and put forth our endeavours for remedy Let 's answer them thus they would take away our God and what have we more they would bereave us of our teaching Ministers and it would be worse to want them then to feede upon the bread of adversitie and the water of affliction Isa 30.20 they would spoile us of our Lawes divine and civill and t were better the Sun should droppe out of Heaven Act. 11.28 that our hearts should be torne out of our bodies then we loose them Honourable and beloved The Iewes when they conceived their Law and place and Temple indangered by Pauls preaching with a joynt and vehement vociferation they cryed out Men of Israel helpe Let me with a better spirit and upon better grounds bespeake you in the name of the Lord Men of Israel ye that are Israel Israelites indeed helpe helpe every one of you you by your advise and authority you that can doe nothing else by your supplications humiliations reformations we by our instructions intercessions actions passions others by their estates and lives every one

free and eternall purpose Mal. 3.17 makes up for his jewels by actuall and effectuall calling hypocrites and formalists may partake of generall and externall priviledges the men of the world have large shares of common mercies Psa 17.14 even their bellies full of Gods hid treasures but all saving favours yea all favours in a saving manner are conferred only on the remnant A man may be hospitable and beneficent to his eighbours gentle to his servants mercifull to his enemies but his affection and usage of another straine which he beares and expresses to his towardly children his faithfull spouse 't is not for a stranger to intermeddle here Let gracelesse men prattle of I know not what figment of universall grace let the bond-slaves of Satan pride themselves in the imaginary faculty of their free-will Our God is infinitely bountifull but not so lavish as some would make him to cast away his high honours his deare delights promiscuously these are the propriety of the elect the portion of sons and daughters these are peculiarized to Gods residue Quest. But who are this residue Resp I cannot stay upon a discovery of them Briefly take notice of them thus 1. Negative by their distinction They are not men of the multitude nor of the world nor of the times they dare not sinne of the fashion not goe to hell for company their care is to be at a reall and wide difference from all ungodly and unsound ones to be saved from the untoward generation Act. 2. ●0 2. Positive by their qualification Jer. 2.3 They are holinesse to the Lord the first fruits of his increase prime parcels intirely dedicated and vowed to his service consecrated vessels of the best mettall and making new framed by Gods blessed workmanship in the most delicate artifice of grace Eph. 2.10 created in Christ Iosus cast into his mould and so prepared for honourable designes 2 Tim. 2. ●1 made meet for the masters use Their holinesse is hearty their maine drift the honour and service of their God 3. Collectivè by their consociation They all live by the same Spirit walk by the same rule mind the same Heaven and therefore they are of one heart and of one soule Act. 4.32 Pearles are accounted more pretious and fitter for ornament when they are of equall bignesse or sorted into Vnions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato Gold and Diamonds said the Naturalist are nothing in price or luster to the consent of good minds And although there may be some petty difference between them in judgement some small and temporary distance or interruption in affection yet they accord in the maine they are shaken together in times of triall and separation and as Christs cause and their owne greatest good requires they strengthen their union by all warrantable and worthy wayes of mutuall ingagement and helpfulnesse Vse 1. This may shew us then that when the Lord doth great works and conferreth great blessings he distinguisheth and selecteth both instruments and objects Times of the Churches exaltation are times of widest and most thorough distinction Multitudes would presse in for a share of her priviledges when she is rising that must be shaken off as burdens and blemishes before she can recover her honour When favourable edicts were published for the Jewes their adversaries claime acquaintance with them and offer them assistance they would needs have a finger in the temple-work but their help is refused and their officiousnesse suspected as more dangerous then their professed opposition Ezra 4.1 2 3. If there be a Iudas among the twelve he must be uncased before Christ have finished his work and what have devils to doe to fit in the assembly of the Gods devils in treachery in malice in impuritie The mixed multitude the mungrell crew that came up with the Israelites out of Egypt were touched with a stupid admiration of the wonders which God wrought for his people and promised themselves much happinesse in their company but when they met with streights and wants and found not things answerable to their sensuall humour then they fell a murmuring and a lusting and the Lord swept them away in his displeasure so that none of them reached Canaan Numb 11.4 One great cause of the streights and miseries that have befallen us in our passage from Egypt to Canaan hath been the discovery and distinction of those loose rotten adherents to Gods cause and people And oh that they were all shaken off while they are unsound at heart we may take more comfort in their falling away then in their accesse If yet a sword pierce deeper into Christs soule if heavier things befall his members it is that the thoughts of many more hearts may be revealed Luk. 2.35 that a clearer and more thorough difference may be put betweene the pretious and the vile 2. Hath the Lord a speciall pretious portion such as we have heard decyphered upon which he heapes such honour fastens such favour impresses such beauty Fearfull it is then that it should be the butt of mens opposition Act. 28.22 the sect-every where spoken against in common account the vile refuse rather then the glorious residue Histor of France The Marshall Biron of France was a man impudently and insatiably ambitious yet above all his titles of honour he affected to be stiled the scourge of the Huguenots And how have men of power and policy thought no foundation sure enough for their security their glory their contentment but that which is laid on the ruines of the estates or consciences of Gods pretious ones Oh the deepe and cursed machinations or contrivances that have been plotted and urged to cast them downe from their excellency Psal 62.4 to root them out from having a name under Heaven to embitter their beings to them to make them crouch under unreasonable and impious burdens When the Arrian Bishops swayed in the Church under Valens an Emperour of their heresie Liberty was given to Iewes heathens hereticall Christians of all sorts to exercise their Idolatry false worship mad festivals what not only the Orthodox were expelled their Churches and in one place being assembled for holy performances at the foot of a mountaine under the injury of all weathers they were thence driven by force of souldiers Theod. lib. 4. ca. 24. Is it not lamentable that in the repute of many amongst us Papists Atheists Monopolists sensualists drunkards any the basest society or sort of men should be held more tolerable then the holy brotherhood the members of Christ the Saints of the most High who alone are deare to God and linked together in the only gracious and blessed Communion How many for conscience and quietnesse sake in the raigne of our Prelates did leave their deare countrey their rightfull possessions yet there are not wanting some that maligne a wildernesse to them 'T is a common wish Oh that we were ridde of them all and why are you greedy of