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A29931	The wicked mans plot defeated, or, The wicked man laughed out of countenance as it was represented in a sermon preached in St. Mary Wool-Church, London, May 11, 1656, by Thomas Baker.	Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More.; Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More. Gods provenance asserted in another sermon preached at St. Buttolphs, Aldergate, London.; Baker, Thomas, Rector of St. Mary the More. Christs comming to judgement deciphered in a third sermon.	1656 (1656)	Wing B524; ESTC R28339	42,799	212

Ship at Sea from Below beating upon him and threatning his immediate swallowing up And then no marvel if such a confused Noise as this from Deeps both Above and Below call up another Deep even the Deep of Gods Mercy as the Disciples sometimes their Master in the Tempest Matth. 8. for the quieting and becalming of all these whatever Boisterous stormes of Tribulation and Persecution Be ye Followers of God as Dear children you know is the Apostles precept Eph. 5. 1. If the waters of Distressed Suppliants tears wherewith you may every where see their Furrowed cheeks upon the tender sense of this their Distress Blubbered shall no more soften your Hearts then the Mountains of Gilboa 2 Sam. 1. 21. leaving them as they found them Dry and Barren so that the sight of their calamitous condition shall not in some measure stir up in you tender Bowels of compassion how dwelleth the love of God nay what the least Resemblance of him appeareth there yet in you But let the cries of tears wrung from them by their Distresse enter into your ears and enlarge your hearts and hands in a Magnificent Distribution to their Necessities And then when the great Judge of Heaven and Earth you shall at the last Day hear publikely acknowledging himself for your Almes-man in as much you have done any Act of Mercy unto the least of these my Breth●en you have done it unto mee you shall hear him withall joyfully welcomming you to the Fruition of his heavenly Kingdom Come ye Blessed Children of my Father receive the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world Grant this we beseech thee O Merciful Father through Jesus Christ our Mediatour and Redeemer to whom with thee O Father and the Blessed Spirit be all Honour Glory Praise Power Might Majesty and Dominion now and for evermore Amen FINIS CHRISTS Comming to JUDGEMENT Deciphered In a Third SERMON Preached at Lincolnes-Inn by the same Authour 1 IHES 4. 17. Then we which are Alive shall be caught up together in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Ayr and so shall we ever bee with the Lord. AMBROS Nonne tibi videntur Aquilae circa Corpus quardo veniet in illa Die cum Intelligibilibus Nu bibus Filius Hominis Prin●ed for the Author 1656. Matth. 24. 28. Wheresoever the Carkas is there will the Eagles bee gathered together THat in the Latter Dayes whereof I shall not need to minde you Deterior Posterior that the latter the worse still false Prophets shall Arise that in their Desert and Chamber Conventicles shall be Actours of such Mountebank Miracles as thereby if it were possible to deceive the very Elect as we have our Saviour himself expresly averring V. 24. of this Chap. So have we him withal Verse 26. sagely cautioning not to give over hasty credit unto them If they shall say unto you saith he He is in the Desert go not forth if in the Chambers beleeve them not Simon Magus it seemeth was the Captain General of this Accursed Militia the Ring-leader of this Ranting Crew Who making himself some Great one as it is Act. 8. 9. even so Great that will we hear St. Augustine hee gave out that it was he that in the Person of the Father gave the Law to the Israelites upon Mount Sinai he that in the Reign of Tib●rius Caesar suffered in the Person of the Son he that at the Feast of Pentecost in the person of the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles in the shape of Fiery cloven Tongues Whereby he had so bewitched Nero himself the people of Rome that they erected a Statue in H●nour of him Who yet at last by a Fal whilst he attempteth a flight hath his Credit with his Leg cracked And so as Maximus Qui Pennas Assumpsit Plantus Amittit whilest hee will needs be taking unto him the advantage of Artificial Wings hee loseth the use of his Natural Feet Our Saviour for the invalidating of the Authority and Energy any such Impostours may have upon the Faith of any of his which may otherwise expect the solemnity of Signes to usher in his comming to judgment telleth them as in the verse before the Text that his comming shall be as Lightning Sicut Fulgur non eget Praecone aut Nuntio sed statim omnibus apparet saith St. Chrysostome for that as Lightning needeth no Harbinger or Messenger but breaketh out in no less glorious then sudden Appearance unto every Eye so shall he at his comming irradiate every Eye with the Sudden and Glorious Appearance of his Divine yea and Humane Presence too so in the words now read that it shall appear most eminently conspicuous by the thronged confluence of all the Saints unto him as of Eagles to a Carkas For wheresoever the carkas is there will the Eagles bee gathered together The Text then you cannot but see what just reason I might have to say that it is a Summary Description of the Magnetical Vertue shall appear in our Saviours Person at his comming to judgement wherein I might commend unto your considerations these two Principal observables The Efficacy of the Loadstone Compliancy of the Iron But for that as the Preacher Eccles. 10. 19. a Feast is made for Laughter and that in the Day of Christs comming to judgement Gods servants as on a Feast-day shall laugh for joy of Heart as it is Isa. 65. 14. We shall not do amiss to take a distinct view of The Table Guests The Table furnished with nothing but a Carkas The Guests Eagles which we shall do well to contemplate First in their general Notion of Eagles Secondly in a more special consideration of their sweet inclination to Agreement They are gathered together These the Parts of these plainly briefly and orderly And of the Substratum the Table first are we to take a view which we see yet is set out with nothing but a Carkas Where the Carkas is We usually proportion the Entertainment of our Tables to the Quality of the Guests we are to entertain And then can it not but seem extremel● incongruous to entertain the palates of Nobles yea Princes whereof these Eagles here as hereafter will more at large appear may well bee looked upon as proper Emblems with no better Fare then a Carkas Some Interpreters I meet with that for the Declination of this seeming Gross Soloecism rea●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Body Where the Body is there will the Eagles bee gathered together But be it read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as here a Dissolution of the Primitive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Latins render Ca●aver and our Translation a Carkas of Cado to Fall yet as I have often seen excellent Venison cased up in cours Paste saepe sub sordido Pallio and a great D●pth of Wisdom under a Russet Cloak this Carkas yet affordeth such chois● Viands as the choisest palates shall have no reason to disdain as having no worse food in it then Christ himself

of violence to draw near and as it is in the verse immediately following the Text We draw out our Swords and bend our Bows to slay such as are of an upright Cōversa●ion Yea we scoff at the tidings of any other days approach as those in the Apostle 2 Pe● 3 4. at the News of the comming of the Day of Judgment where is the Promise or rather Menace of its coming Or if much ado we will be drawn to heare of any such thing we yet say as those in the Prophet Esay 56. 12. To morrow shall be as this Day and much more abundant Cras Cras procrastinat And still every Day that shineth out upon us shall in our presumptions still be sped of a New and Fresh Morrow to attend it The Spirit of God in the mean time whose peculiar office it is to bring all things to the Remembrahce of these he inspireth Joh. 14. 26. becommeth every where throughout the Sacred Volu●es an uncessant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of another Day the wicked Man is to expect Those that come after him saith Holy Iob of him shall be astonished at the comming of his Day as they that went before him were affrighted Job 18. 20. Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the Day of Hierusalem you know is our Prophets Address unto him in her behalf Psal. 137. 7. how they cried Down with it Down with it even to the Ground I saw is the Lords own word wherin he no less justly then sharply taxeth his people of Israel that in the Day wherein strangers carried away the Forces of your Brother Jacob and Forreigners entred into the Gates and cast Lots upon Hierusalem that you Rejoyced ●ver the childred of Judah in the Day of their Destruction and spake proudly in the Day of their Distress Obad. 11. 12. And it is that other Prophets just Exe●cration upon the Wicked after that hee hath capitulated with the Almighty about their prosperity Prepare them O Lord for their Day even the Day of slaughter Jer. 12. 3. Yea this Day of the wickeds prosperity it pleaseth the same Lord oftentimes to contract and so to speed their Day or rather Nights of Vengeance that their Sun goeth down at Noon and the Earth is Darkened with them in the clear Day as it is Amos 8. 9 Yea when God distributeth sorrowes unto them in his Anger and the Night of their Destruction commeth upon them their Candle that they might now at last hope should afford them some poore weake Light of Comfort is not seldome put out as it is Iob 21. 17. And so as it is 5. 14. of the same Book they meete with Darknesse in the Day-time And then strange may it not seeme to hear that the Knees of this Profligate wretch as Baltasars shall appeare to tremble when he shall now finde this Day or rather this Day made Night as it is Amos 5. 8. unawares to overtake him which he had put farre away from him Especially when hee shall heare the Almighty vying an high Roare of Laughter with his loud-yelling Accent of Anguish of Spirit upon his clear Fore-sight of this Days neare Approach Which is the more Principal cause of the Defeasance of th● the wicked Mans Plot and in the next Place calleth for your consideration The Lord shall laugh him to scorn for he hath seene that his Day is comming The word Is comming you see is of an Indefinite Expression and so far from pointing out the present Minute of this Days Appearance At which whilest debauched Miscreants and to every good worke Reprobate will not unlikely be ready to catch Advantage and shall therefore with the five Foolish Virgins Mat. 25. betake them to slumbrings and sleepings and with that Evil servant in the 24 of the same Gospel to Eating and Drinking and smiting his Fellow servants whom therefore his Master comming in a Day that he looketh not for him and in an Houre that hee is not aware of shall cut in sunder and appoint him his Portion with Hypocrites He that shall but duely poize things in the Ballance of the Sanctuary ●n the Scales of a Religious consideration whose Feare is as his Faith the Evidence of things not seen will look upon this Day of whose Indefinite and Indeterminate Advent hee is here thus cautioned as if he saw and felt it already come At least as Damocles did upon the Pendant Sword which may every Minute drop downe about his Eares and make an immediate Dispatch of him And therefore it is well worthy our best observation that when the Prophet Ezekiel 7th of his Prophesie giveth the Inhabitants of Hierusalem a shrill Allarum of their inevitable Destruction at Hand the Future and Present Tenses he so intortleth and interweaveth as that he seemeth to make both of equal certainty I will shortly pour out my Fury and accomplish mine Anger upon thee vers 8. That you see for the Future And yet vers 6. we hear of nothing else but the found of Present Destruction An End is come the End is come it watcheth for thee Beho●a it is come Nay the Final Desolation of this very Hierusalem though it be not Actually Accomplished until Two 〈◊〉 Forty years after our Saviours 〈◊〉 Yet are the People of that Present Generation Forewarned thereof by him as if it were already put in Execution Behold your Howse is left unto you dese●le Mat. 23. 38. So that then see I Uncleanness Excess Sacriledge Barbarisme Cruelty Blasphemy Hypocrisie all manner of Iniquity to abound in an Age and yet not to scape with Impunity onely but to be sped of all manner of successfull Prosperity shall I now conclude that they shall finally escape for this their wickedness as it is Psal. 56. 7. No I look upon their Destruction as undoubtedly to come upon them as if I saw it Actually overtaking them Nay Ye say It will be Fowle weather to Day you know is our Saviours words to the Pharisees for the Skie is Red and Lowring Mat. 17. 3. See I Men to look with Red and Lowring Countenances portending nothing but Bloudy and Destructive Practices I justly conclude that there is a present Storme of Fowle weather that boadeth not others onely from them but even themselves Nay as the Floud commeth upon the old world and sweepeth them all away whilest they are Ea●ing and Drinking Building and Planting Marrying and giving in Marriage Matth. 24. 38. See 1 Men securely promising themselves an happy continuance and prosperous successe in their never-so Irregular Courses upon this Security of theirs I look as upon an undoubted Harbinger of the Day of their Destruction hard at the Doores But be it that it shall please the Lord for a time to suspend the Execution of his Vengeance upon these High-grain'd and Deep dy'd Sinners So that the Day thereof he yet seeth every Day nearer Aproaching may for some short space be forborne the Observation may in no wise escape us that the Hebrew word

and Persecution if neither the enchanting sounds of whatever Musical instruments nor the Dreadful Apprehension of the Torments of the Ho●●est ●iery Furnace shall bee able so farre to work upon us as to make us to fall down before any Golden Image any Tyrannicall Nebuchadnezzar shall set up if nothing shall be able to separate us from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus whether it be the heigth of hoped for Preferment or the depth of Dreaded Distress as it is Rom. 8. 39. but that wee steadily resolve to continue Faithful unto Death then may wee undoubtedly assure our selves that we are our Heavenly Fathers Legitimate Sonnes and so Heyres yea Co heyres with our Elder Brother Christ of the Crown of Glory And so having done with the General Notion of these Guests as Eagles we are now to take a short Glimpse of them in the more special consideration of their sweet inclination to Accord and Agreement at this their Table They keep not a Centaures Feast washing the Tables and Cates and Cups before them in bloud but celebrate rather a Love at least a Peace Feast Agreeing without any the least jar or discord during the whole time of their sitting They are gathered together Wheresoever the Carkass is there the Eagles will be gathered together We all know the old word Saevis inter se convenit Vrsis Bears though of most savage Natures can quietly Accord and Agree Yea no less then seven Devils can Peaceably cohabite in one Mary Magdalen Luk. 8. 2. Yea the Evangelical Prophets Prediction of the time of Christs comming Isa. 11. 6. you may see to bee that the Wolf shall Dwell with the Lamb the Leopard with the Kid the Lion and the Calf shall lie down together And then strange may it not seem to hear that the little Flock of Christs Lambs the small Multitude of Beleevers in the Apostles Divine Actuary Act. 4. 32. should be of one Heart and one Minde Wee in this Frantick Age of ours delivered every day of such Monsters as Africa never bred as if that curse from the God of Iacob were signally faln upon us that fell from Iacob sometimes upon his two bloudy Sons Gen. 49. 7. I will Divide them in Iacob and Scatter them in Israel and as if we saw that staffe of the Bonds of Brotherhood between Iudah and Israel Zach. 11. 7. by God for our sins too justly and conspicuously Broken nay as if that cursed Harvest of the Cadmus Teeth so long since ●own were now in a lothsome Plenty come up amongst us Domus catulos non alit uno du●s like Dogs we snap and sna●l one at another striving which shall first seize upon the Bones of our Brothers Estate nay as the Spaniard 〈…〉 on the Indians we try co 〈…〉 ions which of us shall leave an impression of the Deepest scarre upon those poor Innocents we have enslaved Nay we whet our Tongues our Pens our Swords with as sharp an edg as Malice can set upon them one against another being not onely so far divided in opinion for point of Government that one crieth up Monarchy another Aristocracy a third Democracy but for Religion too a Religando saith the the Etymologist which should tye us not all jointly to God onely but every one severally to another and so binde up all our Spoiles universally in the Bundle of Life as the Corinthians of old professed of themselves that they were one of Paul another of Cephus every one of us like the sticks of a broken Fagot seemeth singula●ly and pertinaciously to stand up in the Defence of his own Fancied Religion one a Socinian another an Anabaprist another an Antinomian another an Arrian one a Separatist another an Anti-Scripturist one a Ranter another a Quaker another a Seeker yea indeed all upon the matter to seek for such a pure Religion as hath in it any the least power of Godliness Nay as the Antique French or rather as our selves their Apes so prone are wee every day to change the Habit of our whatever pretended Religion as that every Day we appear in a New Mode and Fashion And so what Tacitus sometimes of the Romans ubi Solitudinem faciunt Pacem appellant whil'st wee seem to interpret a mere Desolation and Annihilation of Religion for a Peaceable and Pure Settlement and Reformation thereof whilest thus I say wee assume unto our selves an un-commissioned and unbounded Liberty Nunc Leo nunc Vulpes of appearing every Day in a New Trim and Dress of Religion Nusquam qui ubique we have scarce any thing indeed of true Religion left amongst us Nay unto that sharpness of contention as Paul and Barnabas Act. 15. 39. are we grown in these cases that what Tacitus sometimes of Segestes and Ariminius the one the Father the other the Son in Law Quae apud concordos vincula charit●tis Incitamenta Irarum apud infensos sunt those Bonds of Christian Affinity which whilest wee accorded were a sweet meanes to tye us close together now wee Ravel and Flitter thus we finde to bee sad incentives and provocations to keep us at the greater Distance and Variance I would gladly season perhaps some of you that are here Present with better Principles then hitherto possibly may have been distilled into you You know the Rise of that old word Divide Impera Divide Affections once and you shall suddenly come to divide the spoil And therfore wo●ld I have you to follow Love and Peace with all Men that call upon the Name of the Lord 2 Tim. 2. 22. but so as to follow this Love and Peace in Truth Ephes. 4. 15. lest otherwise like that House in the Gospel founded upon the sand what ever superstruction you may Rear thereon come speedily to Ruine and Confusion Singularity and Humour and Turbulency of spirit whether in Opinion or Affection where-ever they are are far from being symboles of a Christian Temper Nay as they say of Bees that whensoever there ariseth stir and strife amongst them it is an infallible signe that their King is about to remove and to leave his H●ve however our Spiritual Can●ers may vant themselves as they please as they if had engrossed the great God of heaven for their own peculiar and as is that just Sarcasme upon the Fathers of the Trent Councel that they had the Holy Ghost every week sent them in a Cloak-bag had conjured and circumscribed him within the circle of their owne Tribe as long as by Schism by Faction by Division they break the Unity of the Spirit which should tye all ●he Members of Christs Body together in the Bond of Peace it is not onely a clear presage that the King of Heaven is upon the point of Leaving but too pregnant an evidence that hee hath actually left such unquiet and turbulent Conclaues and Conventicles The first visible shape that the Holy Ghost ever descended in was the shape of a Dove And hee that came in a Dove wil not come but upon a Dove Not such as through a singulat conceit of their Simulata sanctitas double-refined H●liness separate themselves from their despised brethren nor such as make a great stir and Noise in the world with the Lightning of Pride the Thunder of Blasphemy the Windes of Malediction and Depravation the Storms of Oppression and Sword of Persecution but such as are like himself D●ves Men of a Milde a Meek and Peaceable Temper and Disposition Nay Elect saith St. Peter to his scattered strangers according to the Fore knowledg of the Father through the sanctification of the Spirit and the sprinkling of the Bloud of Christ ● Pet. 2. 2. Where there is no appearance of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon a Man though not in the visible shape of a Dove yet as upon a Dove a Creature Gentle and Peaceable little Ground of Assurance shall any such have reason to take up that 〈◊〉 is predestinated Abraham in tha● his sacrifice to the Lo●● Gen. 15. divideth the Heifer the Shee-Goat and the Ram but the Turtle Dove and the Pigeon hee divideth not Carnal Men how spiritual soever our Novel selfe-justiciaries or rather New-modelled Pharisees may cry themselvs up for as are prone to be divided by Discords and Separations and Dissentions and so have no semblance of the Holy Ghost upon them have no Interest as not in the Predestination of the Father so neither in the Sons Redemption But the Birds the Pigeon and the Turtle Dove Creatures that have no Gall in them Spiritual Men such as are proper Rec●pracles of the Grace of the Holy Ghost of the Fathers Love in Electing and the Sonnes Wisdome in Redeeming them have no shadow or semblance of the least Inclination to Division in them The Kingdome of Heaven whereby in the stile of Scripture the Holy Ghost is intended and wherein that ever-blessed 〈◊〉 but an uni-Triumvirate an undivided Trinity in an unity of Divine Essence as a Glorious Monarch Reigneth the Apostle fitly mindeth us that it is first Righteousness and then Peace Rom. 14. 17. And then just reason may the same Apostle seem to have for the apposing of his Corinthians with this Poinant quaere As long as there are st●ifes and Divisions amongst you are you not Carnal 1 Cor. 3. 4. As long as we practice nothing but the Defrauding the Depraving the Spoiling the Murthering one another can wee ever hope to finde in our selves any pledg● 〈…〉 of the Holy Ghosts descent upon us Or of the Fathers Predestination or the Sons Redemption of us I shall take leave of you with the same leave that the same Apostle taketh of the same Corinthians of his 2 Cor. 13. 11. My Brethren bee of one Minde live in Peace and the God of Love and Peace shall bee with you Approve we our selvs ●n the presence of God and Man to bee peaceable spirits and then shall we sensibly find that those three that bear record in Heaven 1 Ioh. 5. 7. and sweetly accord in an unity of of Divine Essence shall jointly seal up unto us an Assurance of an Inheritance of 〈…〉 in Light that after the Earthly houses of our Tabernacle's dissolved wee shall have a Building of God an House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens Which O Lord we beseech thee in thy good time grant every one of us and to this purpurpose grant that 〈◊〉 word which this Day we● have heard with our outward Eares may c. FINIS