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A90902	Nevves for nevvters: or, The check cause cure of halting. With 31 doores of hope for the good successe of the publick cause of the kingdome. / Delivered in a sermon, November 27. 1644: in the Colledge of Glocester, before that valiant and vigilant governour Colonell Massy, being the day of publick humiliation. By Walter Powell, M.A. vicar of Standish. See the contents after the epistle.	Powell, Walter, b. 1590 or 91.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3097; Thomason E474_8; ESTC R204200	56,910	62

us from our own houses Wee cared not for the worth of peace God now shewes the worth by the want of it the price of many things are learn't carendo magis quàm fruendo Wee walked contrary unto him he now walkes contrary unto us Wee brake forth by lying stealing whoring one bloudy sinne touched another and now God hath had a long Controversie against all the Inhabitants of the Land and one bloudy punishment toucheth another Men by their Hell-hastening iniquities warred brake forth against the Lord and now God by Heaven-darting Judgements warreth against and breaketh in upon men Yea this heighteneth mens sinnes that they warre against the Lord yea friends against friends whiles God and man continue their warre against them both God in Justice men in hatred t is good as from God evill as from men I have spoken so much in this point it being a maine cause of halting in the people while they apprehend so much flattery in and contention among Ministers Let all Eliah's labour to preserve people from halting by occasion thereof Let them study to keepe the unity of the Spirit in the Bond of peace if there be any vertue any praise any profit in love in peace Elijah you see was bold and it mightily prevailed Can Ministers write after any fairer Copie can they walke after any more un-erring Rule Be strong and of a good courage was Gods Counsell to Josuah Iosh 1.6 and addes in the next verse onely be strong and the people close up their Counsell with the same Caution to him in the last words of the same Chapter because things last of all spoken Vers 18. commonly are best of all remembred onely be strong and of a good courage vers 18. As if courage boldnesse were the All in All required in the Leaders the Shepheards of Gods flocke as if it were the Quintessence that is most to be seene in the essence of all their ingagements and discharge of duties required by God and Man may they not by this their courage as Hannibal by sire over the Alpes make way over the mountaines of all obstructions all oppositions whatsoever Look what powder is to bullets a clapper to the Bell fire to the wood wings to a Bird sayles to a Ship winde to sayles wine to the spirits an edge to a Razor mettall to a horse the soule to the body vivacitie to any creature the same is Courage to any Christian much more to a Minister for his affection motion action Twelfth and last cause I mention of the Peoples halting 12. Cause between the two maine opinions in these times is The doubt of the successe of the Cause in Question which followes in the last not least place to be answered viz. these Doores of Hope ❧ DOORES OF HOPE WHat ever the issue and successe of these warres be yet Gods people should be of Joabs resolution 2 Sam. 10.12 Let us be valiant for our people and for the Cities of our God and let the Lord do as seemeth him good I am no Prophet nor the son of a Prophet ungainsayably to prognosticate the event his face hath never yet been seene nor tongue heard in a Pulpit that can thus Divine Therefore I will not professe so much ignorance or arrogance peremptorily to avouch These present warres suddenly shall end or that the Parliament side without any possible contradiction shall prevaile But this I affirme that there may be alledged many Arguments of probabilitie that God will shortly deliver this Land from Popery and slavery for the present and future time These Arguments I call Doores of Hope Of which Doores I shall but draw the Latches and set them a little ashoare and give you leave at your more leisure to goe into the severall roomes in your private meditations and view the materialls therein contained The first Doore 1. I bring you to is the Promise of God made to comfort his people 2 Pet. 1.4 Esa 25.8 These promises are said to be Gods gifts many great exceeding precious The Lord will wipe away teares from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth Rev. 14.8 for the Lord hath spoken it Babylon is fallen Esa 55.10 is fallen Doubled as Phar dreame for the certainty of the thing Shall the Lord promise and shall he not performe Surely as the raine cometh downe and watereth the earth and makes it bring forth and bud that it may give seede to the sower and bread to him that eateth So shall my word be that goeth out of my mouth it shall not returne unto mee voyde but it shall accomplish that which I will and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it It s added in the next verse Vers 11. Ios 21.43 Therefore shall yee goe out with joy and be led forth with peace This Argument couragious Josuah proposed a little before his death to continue the people in constancy The Lord gave Israel all the land which he had sworne to give to their Fathers and they possessed it and dwelt therein Vers 44. Also the Lord gave them rest round about aocording to all that he had sworne unto their Fathers and there stood not a man of all their Enemies before them for the Lord delivered all their Enemies into their hand Vers 45. There failed nothing of all the good things which the Lord had said unto the house of Israel Vers 45. Ch. 23.14 but all came to passe And in the next Chap. 14. verse to the people You know in all your hearts as certainly as if things were in your bosome that nothing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God promised you but all are come to passe unto you nothing hath failed thereof The Lord commands his Prophets Esa 40.1 2 Comfort yee comfort yee my people speake comfortably unto Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished Where you see is a Charge and Commission given not onely by bare affirmation or command to Ministers but by Ingemination Comfort yee comfort yee yea by Triplication speake yee comfortably unto Jerusalem by Quadruplication and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished is i. it shall as certainly be accomplished as if it were already effected These comfortable promises Calvin on Esay must not be whispered softly in their eares saith Calvin but cryed out aloud that they may sinke into their hearts Let us make use of these promises in our prayers Psal 119.49 50. saying with David Remember thy promise made to thy servant wherein thou hast caused mee to trust It is my comfort in my trouble for thy promise hath quickned mee Gods Providence and Power in the Lands preservation Doore 2. What are the Mightie against the Almightie The Nations of the Earth are as a drop hanging on the Bucket of water What is a drop to the Bucket What the Bucket to all

feare have been most unhelpfull and deceitfull to their Countrey have felt the hand of their conceited friends as heavy upon them as upon their neighbours estate and their hypocrisie could not be a sufficient protection to them But why shouldest thou feare Plundering and so make the feare more than the hurt They who have been Plundered their feare is already past and thou makest thy selfe by thy tormenting feare all thy life long subject to this fiend as if death were approached the King of feare Doest thou not know that either thou must be plundered from the world or the world from thee Art thou now being deprived of estate friends libertie in any other estate than thou wast in when thou camest into the world or shalt be when thou goest out of the world If thou couldest but plunder thy selfe in thy contemplation before others doe in action it would not be so grievous unto thee As Anaxagoras being told of the death of his Sonne I am not much troubled therewith said he because I long confidered before Mat. 6. that he was but mortall Did not our Saviour foretell that heere thieves should breake through and steale and cautioned us thereby to lay up Treasure there where thieves could not breake through and steale Vilescunt temporaria dum recordantur aeterna The losse of under-Moone contents Creature-Comforts cannot disturbe when the presence of spirituall mercies doe affect us Had not many been miserable for ever if they had not been miserable once Their present belly-blessings had prevented the comfort of their insuing eternall Glory The Arch Plunderer the Devill under whom others are but instruments might have snatched away their soules at their deaths and where had they then been O foole this night will they fetch away thy soule and where then shall these things be Thy Executors then had not been more nimble to have carried thy body to the grave than this unsatiable Plunderer would have been like a nimble under-Sheriffe quickly ready to take all into execution and carry thy soule into Hell Feare not therefore though they have or can hurt the body and can doe no more Mat. 10. intimating that they would hurt the soule also if they could It is true the outward condition of plundered persons deprived of some libertie wealth wife children comforts hath had a sad aspect to looke upon by the eye of reason But consider deare Christians are you driven from the Creature to the Creator what if forced from the lower yet hasted to the upper springs from the streame to the fountaine from worldly to heavenly Enjoyments Whether the losse in the one be greater than the gaine in the other Before these troubles you had Ordinances common with other beleevers but now your daily food is choicest morsells waters of life superlative refections Benjamins Messe the love of God the power of Christ the Spirit of Glory the care of Angels the prayers of Saints are all upon the wing for your present welfare your Earth is dissolved before your body your Heaven prevents you before your time your joyes are immediate you reape without sowing you feed on the kernell and breake not the shell you rest from your labours in this life the bloud of Christ the vision of God the joy of the Spirit the food of Angels 2 Pet. 1.4 the many great exceeding precious promises whereby you are made partakers of the divine nature are not these the daily repasts of your soules Such honour have all Gods Saints they have Heaven whilst they are here on Earth and can they then be in a miserable distressed condition Such are to be looked upon I doe not know whether with more compassion or holy emulation to whom it is given not only to beleeve but to suffer for the sake of Christ Philip. 1.29 Whether the depth of misery or the weight of Glory by greater in these is hard to distinguish halt not therefore at this stone Selfe-seeking Gau. 7. with the neglect of the Publique makes men goe in a lazie or limping pace when men so looke to things at home for their own private ends as that they neglect the Publique If mens eyes be seriously fixed on their own pleasure or profit their hearts cannot be guided by a right rule When our Saviour propounded the Parable of the husbandmen unto the Scribes and Pharisees saying What shall be done to these husbandmen The Jewes answered Mat. 21.41 Luk. 20.16 He shall miserably destroy these husbandmen Yet in another Gospel where our Saviour said He should miserably destroy them the Jewes answered God forbid In one Gospel their answer is related to be He shall miserably destroy them in the other Gospel the Answer is related to be on the contrary God forbid How can these agree Yes saith Chrysostome for first they say He will miserably destroy these but handmen But when they perceived Christ aymed at them then they said God forbid so helpfull to halting for owne ends and selfe-indangering-respects Many seerned forward for the Parliament at the beginning before the wars were raited but when they saw the King oppose the Parliament then they fall off likewise like Beasts that cropt the Thees that gave them shelten being resolved to account Kings to be Gods that they themselves may be accounted Kings But truth standeth in the open field knowes neither father nor mother house nor home Land nor Lordship all goe down to Church and Common-wealth may stand Christ and his Gospel may be set up But is it not reason every man should looke to himselfe I answer Object Sol. 1. is it not greater reason every man should looke to the Publique wherein every good mans private doth consist Pray for the Peace of the Citie Ier. 29.7 said the Prophet to the captived oner Knowest thou not that in the Peace thereof thou shalt have Peace What place should be left for reasoning about reason when faith should have the predominance Sol. 2. Da mihi baptizatam rationem Mortified reason saith one this is your victory that overcometh the world and all worldly reasoning even your faith 1 Ioh. 5.4 Naturall reason may be a drawer of water for the Officers use but it must not have office of Command in Gods Church and Common-wealths businesse every man knoweth that the Saints in Heaven are the least propriaries to their own will Christ himselfe said I am not come to doe mine own will but the will of him that sent mee which were it but remembred it would be a meanes that many from halting might be preserved In good works doing men must not ayme at themselves much lesse in evill actions attempt to seeke their own rising by others ruine When the whole State staggers and the Realme reelds must they continue in a lazie lame halting estate and posture with their hands in their pockets moneys in their Coffers and tongues in their mouthes without bringing them forth for the preservation of the Publique

God and know how and when Vers 10. to crosse and cu●● the cruelty of the enemies of my people I am the Lord of Hosts Out of the deep places have I called unto thee O Lord. Psal 130. Psal 140.12 Psa 146.7 Mans greatest hum●liation is a signe of Gods present salvation I know that the Lord will avenge the afflicted and help the poore the Lord looseth the prisoners he executeth justice for the appressed Though he try their patience a while yet will not faile of his promise made to his people and of his justice toward his enemies Consider his authority his fidelity mentioned in the former verse Vers 6. He made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which keepeth his fidelity for ever If God from time to time hath relieved the oppressed he will doe so still But he hath done so Ergo. Therefore Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help Vers ● whose hope is in the Lord his God The Aihenians in their greatest dangers by sea cast forth sacram Anchoram the sacred Anchor of hope in hope of help from some supream power when all other hopes falled them Look unto me yee prisoners of Hope The Rubbish of Popery and Humane Traditions Doore 17. begun already to be cast forth that place may be made for Gods building Shall I bring to the Birth ●sa 66.9 ●●ch 4.7 and not cause to bring forth saith the Lord Shall I cause to bring forth and shut the womb Who art thou great Mountain before Zerubbabel Thou shalt be a plain and be shall bring forth the head stone thereof with shouting crying Grace Grace unto it Zerubbabel represented Christ and the Jewes were thought as nothing in comparison of their adversaries which were as a great Mountain yet the faith of the godly shall be able to remove this mountain and cast it into the Sea ●erse 9. The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this House his hands also shall finish it the hand of the Lord of Hosts shall protect him in it ●erse 10. They are checked in the next verse that despise the day of small things Antichrist hath been put from his out works in Scotland already and shall he not be frighted from his in works in England too Doctrine and Discipline have been long desired that there should be a reformation of them in the Land and why may not this be the time for it Enemies have pretended a desire of reformation as I have shewed before in the preface in the Liturgie for Ashwednesday Service and shall not friends to their uttermost power endeavour it And will not God blesse hath he not already much blessed to a successfull growth their endeavours herein Should such a thing as godly Discipline be almost an hundred yeares agoe desired and never all that time endeavoured Shall it now be prosecuted and shall it not be brought to be perfection Men pray for it Ministers preach for it the Parliament pleads for it Souldiers fight for it and all good men as on this day fast for it May not this devill by fasting and prayer be cast forth Shew me any place in the whole Bible where any people in the act of humiliation ●er 7.3 〈◊〉 8.18 were given up to be destroyed Many places manifest that for their humiliation they shall escape judgements Ahab the Ninevites the Jewes were preserved The Unity and Fervency of so many of Gods faithfull Ministers Doore 18 praying and preaching with unanimous consent in affection notwithstanding some differences in opinions in matter of Discipline for the peace of Jerusalem We read of Prolomeus Philodelphus King of Egypt that he caused the seventy Bible to be interpreted by sevnty Interpreters which 70. were severally disposed of in 70 severall Cells unknown to each other and yet they did so well agree in their severall Translations that there was no considerable difference between them in rendring of the Text. An argument they were acted with one and the same Spirit May we not be comforted when we call to mind that seventy nay seventie times seventy yea seventy hundred yea seventy thousand which bow not the knees to Baal but on the bended knees of soule doe importune the God of peace for peace that doe lift up their voyces like Trumpets even now whiles Trumpets lift up their voyces like Preachers to call upon the people for pacifying Gods wrath and to powre forth their prayers and teares to God with constancy to preserve the Gospell of Christ Lawes of the Kingdome and Liberties of the Subject yea though they knew not the faces no not the names one of another nay have never seen nor shall see one another till they meet together in Heaven yet doe they agree and center together in what they pray for while they are on earth saying to God Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Sion Psa 102.13 for the time to favour her yea the set time is come for thy servants take pleasure in the stones thereof and favour the dust of the same the more Gods Church is in misery the more will the faithfull shew their love and labour for her deliverance Thou shalt weep no more Esa 30.19 God will be very gracious unto thee at the voyce of thy cry when he shall heare it he will answer thee And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet shall not thy Teachers be removed into a corner any more But thine eyes shall see thy Teachers and shalt heare a word behind thee c. Teachers have been turned into corners if they return home it argues their abode with more constancy you have the word of the King of heaven for it and shall he promise and not performe The persevering waiting condition of the servants of the Lord Doore 19. in all holy and heavenly duties seale to their soules the infallibility of Gods pretious promises to be accomplished From the beginning of the world men have not heard Esa 64.4 nor understood with the eare that any God hath done so as our God hath done to him that waiteth for him What will he then doe to a Family a Parish a County a Kingdome that for many yeares have waited for him What hath he done for such a waiter The next words wil declare Verse 5. Thou didst meet him that rejoyced in thee remembred thee in thy wayes that relyed on thy word looked for thy help I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me Psal 40.1 and heard my cry He brought me also out of the horrible pit out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a Rocke and ordered my goings and he hath put in my mouth a new song of praise to our God Many shall see it and feare and shall trust in the Lord. See the many blessings attended on his waiting The Lord in heaven descended on earth

Michael and his Angels Christ hath overcome the World Doore 23 Death Devill and shall these overcome him again Iohn 16.33 Col. 2.15 Rev. 17.14 It 's incredible impossible Be ye of good comfort in me ye shall have peace I have over come the world He hath openly triumphed over them on his Crosse This Lamb hath overcome all Lions Can Satan be stronger than God The efficacie of Christ his prayer Doore 24 He was heard on earth and shall he not be heard in heaven Rom. 8.33 1 Pet. 3.14 making intercession for his people Who is he that will harm you if ye follow that which is good Who harme us wicked ones will Yet blessed are you if ye suffer for righteousnesse sake Feare not their feare nor be ye troubled The conviction and conversion of Adversaries Doore 25 God enlightning them to see what they did not see before It is beyond the thoughts and expectation of man thae the Lord Inchequin seduced by the Jesuitical faction should be changed from a destroyer to Champion for God and a preserver of his cause The many cries Doore 26 prayers teares of Fathers Children Widowes for vengeance Doth not the Lord heare their cries and know their sorrowes The Lord heard the voyce of the Lad Ishmael Exod. 3.7 Gen. 21.17 Psa 146.9 weeping before him and will he not heare the voyce of thousands of Children for their parents and parents for their children wives for their husbands and friends for friends He relieveth the Fatherlesse and Widowes In whom can the Fatherlesse finde mercy but in him Hos 14.3 Luke 18.7 If an unrighteous Judge did the importune Widow justice against her adversary shall not God avenge his elect that cry day and night unto him The cry of the multiplicity of the blood that hath been shed Doore 27. Shall not the blood of so many Saints call for vengeance Gen. 4.10 Rev. 6.10 when the blood of one Abel cryed unto the Lord and he heard it The soules of the Saints slaine cry Dost thou not avenge our blood● Groans are registred teares botled and shall not blood be booked Did God enquire for one Abel will he not for thousands The Relation of God towards his Church Doore 28. God sayth he is worse than an Infidell that provides not for his family 1 Tim. 5.8 Is not he a Father And will a Father give stones to children that ask bread He is to his Church a Husband a Master a Captain a King Sheepheard Creator Redeemer wise Builder He is a Sun and a Shield hath his Rod and his Staffe both for direction and preservation The great rage of Satan sheweth that his time is but short Doore 29. When the Devil was to be cast forth out of the dumb Rev. 12.12 Mat. 9.22.26 he casts him into the fire and into the water and rent him soare cryed and then came out of him Violent things continue not long in extremity especially such showers of blood The many differences between forraigne nations Doore 30. who would have joyned hand in hand against the Kingdome had they not been set together by the eares in their own lands This is none of the least of Gods mercies to our nation at this time they having enough to doe at home have the lesse leasure to be imployed as the Devils and Popes Armour-bearers abroad The prevention of many inconveniences which might ensue Doore 31. 1. Some godly ones might put forth their hands to wickednesse Psa 125.3 if the rod of the wicked should long lye on the lot of the righteous 2. That the wicked might not deny Gods power providence justice which they see executed here on earth 3. Truth of the Scriptures may not bee questioned Tribulation bringeth forth patience patience experience experience hope Rom. 5.4 Now lay all these considerations together that have been mentioned before and I beleeve they will administer joy in the times of sorrow and keep up mens hearts lesse to doubt the successe of the common cause 1. Considering God is a God of power able to finish what he hath begun 2. It stands with his wisdome the foundation laid to perfect his building 3. God is the God of order what confusion else would be 4. Kindnesse had been unkindnesse Better to have had no cluster of grapes than not to be brought into Canaan 5. Weak ones would suspect God used some stratagem to draw men out as the men of Ai to destroy them or as to gather Bees and to burn them 6. They would doubt God would not doe as much for his people now as he hath done heretofore Our Fathers trusted in him and were delivered but we have trusted in him and are not delivered 7. Gods friends would put forth their hands to wickednesse 8. His enemies blasphemies boastings cruelties would be the greater They would endeavour to build Babels to scale if possible the very walts of heaven 9. God spared the kingdome for a long season when sin was committed and with greedinesse acted Ezek. 22.30 and will he not spare it now when sinne is confessed lamented and many stand up in the gap to turn away his wrath and reform impieties according to his desire and promise 10. The courage of the Parliament Commanders Captaines Souldiers beyond ordinary expectation naturall Relations carrying Gods Ark towards Bethshemesh their wives children houses lands goods liberties lives being not deere unto them doe all confirme our hearts in the promises of the Lord that his help is at hand to deliver the Nation from slavery and Popery I beseech you by the many mercies of God that have been daily manifested and infallibly expected to lay out your selves to give up your bodies spirits estates your All for your selves posterity Cities and people of God It was dying Joshuahs argument to the Israelites to move them to a constant obedience to Gods commandements that they had experimentall knowledge in their hearts that nothing failed of all the good things that the Lord had promised to them all came to passe And have wee not as great a portion participation in Gods promises and performances as the Israelites had We may say of Gods mercies to Israel and England as one spake of Demosthenes and Tully Cicero effecit ne Demosthenes esses solus Orator Demosthenes ne Cicero primus foret The Israelites were the cause we could not be the first people whome God did so extraordinarily blesse and favour But we are the cause that they could not boast themselves to be the only people in Gods love And if Gods mercies in any age for height length depth breadth might be boasted of rejoyced in then in our dayes in this Parliament in these warres where good is fetcht out of evill light out of darknesse And if these things will be marvellous in the eares of all posterity shall they not in our hearts before whose eyes the same have been accomplished Wherefore I conclude as I began being high time to take my worke off the Loome Why halt ye so long between two opinions If Baal be God then follow him so shall you fall from sin the Suburbs into Hell it selfe the place portion expectation of all cursed neutralizing Balaaks for whom are reserved torments which are endlesse easelesse and remedilesse If the Lord be God then follow him so shall you come to see him that is invisible and shall change the society of men for Angels Earth for Heaven and the company of Lions for fellowship with the Lamb for ever Where shall be all light without any darknesse truth without error joy without sorrow health without sicknesse liberty without restraint peace without perturbation eternity without end where the Quire of Angels shall be musick to our eares where the fight of God shall be the object to our eyes where the joyes of heaven shall be the possession of our soules Unto the hearing of which Angellicall musick unto the beholding of which beatificall vision unto the possession of which celestiall joyes the Lord that is Author of all vouchsafe to bring us all let all Gods people say Amen And let the Lord Jesus Christ whose words are Yea and Amen put to his hand and seale and say Amen Amen I have now done for speaking you have now done for hearing his Chaire and Pulpit is in heaven that must perswade you to put in practice those things which I have delivered in precept which that he may doe unto him let us pray Soli Deo laus FINIS