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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02565	One of the sermons preacht at Westminster, on the day of the publike fast (April 5. 1628) to the Lords of the High Court of Parliament and by their appointment published. By the B. of Exceter.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1628 (1628)	STC 12692; ESTC S103757	26,047	120

oblations O God thou desirest not The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Yet it is as true that it is more easie to counterfeit mortification of spirit then humiliation of body there is paine in the one none in the other He that cares not therfore to pull downe his body wil much lesse care to humble his soule and hee that spares not to act meet and due penalties vpon the flesh giues more colour of the soules humiliation Deare Christians it is not for vs to stand vpon niggardly termes with our Maker he will haue both He that made both will haue vs crucifyed in both The old man doth not lie in a limme or facultie but is diffused through the whole extent of body and soule and must bee crucified in all that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the chosen vessell I beat downe my body my body as well as my spirit Giue me leaue yee Courtiers and Citizens Lent is wont to be a penitentiall Time If ye haue soundly and effectually shriuen your selues to your God let mee enioyne you an wholsome and sauing penance for the whole yeare for your whole life Yee must curbe your appetites yee must fast yee must stint your selues to your painful deuotions ye must giue peremptorie denyalls to your owne wills ye must put your knife to your throat in Salomons sense Thinke not that ye can climbe vp to heauen with full panches reaking euer of Indian smoake and the surfets of your gluttonous crammings and quaffings Oh easie and pleasant way to glory From our bed to our glasse from our glasse to our boord from our dinner to our pipe from our pipe to a visit frō a visit to a supper from a supper to a play from a play to a banquer from a banquet to our bed Oh remeber the quarrell against damned Diues hee fared sumptuously euery day hee made neither Lents nor Embers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he said euery day was gaudie and festiuall in rich sutes in daintie morsels and full draughts Intus mulso foris oleo as he said now all the world for a drop and it is too little Vae saturis woe to the full saith our Sauiour but euen nature it selfe could abhominate bis de die saturum One that is full twise a day One of the sinnes of our Sodom is fulnesse of bread What is the remedy It is an old word that hunger cures the diseases of gluttony Oh that my words could preuaile so farre with you Honourable and beloued Christians as to bring austere abstinence and sober moderation into fashion The Court and Citie haue led the way to excesse your example shall prescribe yea administer the remedie The heathen man could say hee is not worthy of the name of a man that would bee a whole day in pleasure what and we alwaies In fasting often saith St. Paul what and wee neuer I fast twise a weeke saith the Pharisee and wee Christians when I speake not of Popish mock-fasts in change not in forbearance in change of courser cates of the land for curious dainties of the water of the flesh of beasts for the flesh of fish of vntoothsome morsells for soruitiunculae delicatae as Hierome cals them Let me neuer feast if this bee fasting I speake of a true and serious maceration of our bodies by an absolute and totall refraining from sustenance which howsoeuer in it selfe it bee not an act pleasing vnto God for well may I inuert St. Paul neither if we eat not are we the better neither if we eate are we the worse 1 Cor. 8. 8. yet in the effect it is singulare sanctitatis aratrum as that Father termes it The plow beares no Corne but it makes way for it it opens the soile it teares vp the briers and turnes vp the furrowes Thus doth holy abstinence it chastises the flesh it lightens the spirit it disheartens our vicious dispositions it quickens our deuotion Away with all factious combinations Euerie man is master of his owne maw Fast at home and spare not leaue publike exercises of this kinde to the command of Soueraigne powers Blow the trumphet in Zion sanctifie a fast saith Ioel 2. 15. Surely this Trumpet is for none but Royall breath And now that what I meant for a suit may be turned to a iust gratulation how doe wee blesse the God of heauen that hath put it into the heart of his Anointed to set this sacred trumpet to his lips Neuer was it neuer can it bee more seasonable then now Now that wee are falne into a warre of religion Now that our friends and Allies grone either vnder mis-cariage or danger Now that our distressed neighbours implore our help in teares and bood Now that our God hath humbled vs with manifold losses Now that we are threatned with so potent enemies Now that all Christendome is embroyled with so miserable and perillous distempers Oh now it hath seasonably pleased your Majestie to blow the Trumpet in Zion to sanctifie a fast to call a solemne Assembly The miraculous successe that God gaue to your Maiestie and your Kingdome in this holy exercise may well incourage an happy iteration How did the publike breath of our fasting prayers cleanse the aire before them How did that noysome pestilence vanish suddenly away as that which could not stand before our powerfull humiliations If we bee not strained in our owne bowels the hand of our God is not shortned O Daughter of Zion gird thee with sackcloth and wallow thy selfe in ashes make thee mourning and most bitter lamentation Fast and pray and prosper And in the meane time for vs let vs not thinke it enough to forbeare a meale or to hang downe our heads like a bulrush for a day but let vs breake the bands of wickedness and in a true contrition of soule vow performe better obedience Oh then as wee care to auert the heauie iudgements of God from our selues and our land as we desire to traduce the Gospell with peace to our posteritie Let each man humble one Let each man rend his heart with sorrow for his owne sins and the sinnes of his people Shortly let euery man ●ansacke his owne soule and life and offer and holy violence to all those sinfull corruptions which haue stirred vp the God of heauen against vs and neuer leaue til in truth of heart he can say with our blessed Apostle I am crucified Ye haue seene Christ crucified St. Paul crucified see now both crucified together I am crucified with Christ It is but a cold word this I am crucified it is the company that quickens it He that is the life giues it life and makes both the word and act glorious I am crucified with Christ Alas there is many a one crucified but not with Christ The couetous the ambitious man is selfe-crucified hee plots a crowne of thorny cares for his owne head

disgrace I am crucified St. Paul speaks not this singularly of himselfe but in the person of the renued sinne doth not cannot liue a vitall and vigorous life in the regenerate Wherefore then say you was the Apostles complaint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death Marke I beseech you it was the body of sin not the life of sinne a body of death not the life of that body Or if this body had yet some life it was such a life as is left in the limmes when the head is struck off some dying quiuerings rather as the remainders of a life that was then any act of a life that is Or if a further life such a one as in swounds and fits of epilepsie which yeelds breath but not sense or if some kind of sense yet no motion or if it haue some kinde of motion in vs yet no manner of dominion ouer vs. What power motion sense reliques of life are in a fully crucifyed man such a one may waft vp and downe with the winde but cannot mooue out of any internall principle Sinne and grace cannot more stand together in their strength then life and death In remisse degrees all contraries may bee lodged together vnder one roofe Saint Paul sweares that he dies daily yet he liues so the best man sinnes hourely euen whiles hee obeyes but the powerfull and ouer-ruling sway of sinne is incompatible with the truth of regeneration Euery Esau would be carying away a blessing No man is willing to sit out Ye shall haue strong drinkers as Esay calls them Esay 5. 22. Neighing stallions of lust as Ieremy calls them Ier. 5. 8. Mighty hunters in oppression as Nimrod Gen. 10. 9. rotten talkers Ephesians 4. 9. which yet will be challenging as deepe a share in grace as the conscionablest Alas how many millions doe miserably delude themselues with a meere pretēce of Christianity aliter vivunt aliter loquuntur as he said of the Philosophers Vaine hypocrites they must know that euery Christian is a crucified man How are they dead to their sinnes that walke in their sins how are their sinnes dead in them in whom they stir raigne flourish Who doth not smile to heare of a dead man that walkes Who derides not the solecisme of that Actor which exprest himselfe fully dead by saying so What a mockery is this eyes full of lust itching eares scurrilous tongues bloody hands hearts full of wickednesse and yet dead Deceiue not your solues deare Christians if ye loue them This false death is the way to the true eternall incomprehensibly-wofull death of body and soule If yee will needs doe so walke on ye falsly dead in the wayes of your old sinnes be sure these pathes shall lead you downe to the chambers of euerlasting death if this be the hanging vp of your corruptions feare to hang in hell Away with this hatefull simulation God is not mocked Yee must either kill or dye Kill your sinnes or else they will bee sure to kill your soules apprehend arraigne condemne them fasten them to the tree of shame and if they be not dead already breake their legs armes disable them to all offensiue actions as was done to the theeues in the Gospell so shal you say w th our blessed Apostle I am crucified Neither is it thus onely in matter of notorious crime and grosse wickednesse but thus it must be in the vniuersall cariage of our liues and the whole habituall frame of our dispositions In both these we are we must bee crucified Bee not deceiued my brethren it is a sad and austere thing to bee a Christian This worke is not frolicke iouiall plausible there is a certaine thing call'd true mortification required to this businesse and who euer heard but there was paine in death but among all deaths in crucifying what a torture must there needs be in this act of violence what a distention of the body whose weight is racke enough to it selfe what strayning of the ioynts what nayling of hands and feet Neuer make account to bee Christians without the hard taskes of penitence It will cost you teares sighes watchings selfe-restraints selfe-struglings selfe-denyalls This word is not more harsh then true Yee delicate hypocrites what doe yee talke of Christian profession when ye will not abate a dish from your belly nor spare an houres sleepe from your eyes nor cast off an offensiue rag from your backes for your God In vaine shall the vassals of appetite challenge to be the seruants of God Were it that the Kingdome of God did consist in eating and drinking in pampering and surfets in chambering and wantonnesse in prancking and vanity in talke and ostentation Oh God how rich shouldest thou bee of subiects of Saints But if it require abstinence humiliation contrition of heart subiugation of our flesh renunciation of our wills serious impositions of laborsome deuotions O Lord what is becomne of true Christianity where shall we seeke for a crucified man Looke to our Tables there yee shall finde excesse and riot Looke to our backs there yee shall finde proud disguises looke to our conuersation there ye shall finde scurrile and obscene iollity This liberty yea this licentiousness is that which opens the mouthes of our aduersaries to the censure of our real impiety That slander which Iulian could cast vpon Constantine that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 led him to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 delicacie to intemperance the very same doe they cast vpon vs they tell vs of their strict Lents frequent fastings Canonicall houres sharpe penances their bashfull shrifts their painefull scourgings their solitatie Cells their woolward and barefoot walkes their hard and tedious pilgrimages whiles wee they say deny nothing to backe or belly fare full lie soft sit warme and make a wantō of the flesh whiles we professe to tend the spirit Brethren heare a little the words of exhortation The bragges of their penall will-worship shall no whit moue vs All this is blowne away with a Quis requisiuit Baals Priests did more then they yet were neuer the holyer But for our selues in the feare of God see that we do not iustifie their crimination whiles they are in one extreame placing all Religion in the outside In touch not taste not handle not let not vs be in the other not regarding the externall acts of due humiliation It is true that it is more easie to afflict the body then to humble the soule A dramme of remorse is more then an ounce of paine O God if whippings and haire-clothes and watchings would satisfie thy displeasure who would not sacrifice the blood of this vassall his body to expiate the sinne of his soule who would not scrub his skin to ease his conscience who would not freeze vpon an hardle that hee might not fry in hell who would not hold his eies open to auoid an eternall vnrest and torment But such sacrifices and