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A42490	Megaleia theou, Gods great demonstrations and demands of iustice, mercy, and humility set forth in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemn fast, before their first sitting, April 30, 1660 / by John Gauden ...	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G364; ESTC R16267	41,750	78

mercy and his blessing upon one great heroick and steady soul got the wind of the Jesuitick Anabaptistick and fanatick designs who have abused us with their long wiles O lose not the advantages which God hath given you to bring your Church and Country into a fair and happy haven after so many tempests and agitations of infinite loss and hazzard There are many holy Duties and Christian Rites which call for your Justice and Mercy the two blessed Sacraments which have a long time been either wholly despised or prophanely abused or very partially used The Lords Prayer also the Ten Commandments and the Creed all sacred and wholesom forms of excellent use to the people of Christs flock but despised and neglected by some of their supercilious Pastors to the great detriment of true Religion and abatement of piety these expect your exemplary Justice to restore them to their primitive and Catholick honor which will be a mercy to the whole Nation which by extemporary novelties and crude varieties in Religion hath been wholly deprived of all those pristine forms of liturgical devotions by which the generality of Christians were best informed and most affected as to the grand fundamentals of Religion Sure it is but the effect of crafty or crazy brains to deny us all use of Our Father in English because we gave over the Pater nosters the Ave Maries and other prayers which were in Latin and so of little use to the vulgar It was once thought a blessing to have prayers and holy duties in a language which people understood Now t is a seraphick stratagem of Satan to make people forget those things which they could easiest remember and best understand Lastly There are many prevalent and epidemical sins of Sacriledge Prophaness irreverence Perjury rash swearing Duelling Vncleanness and all manner of licentious discoveries of Atheism and irreligion which call for your Justice to suppress them for they are the cruellest enemies of Church and State If you will indeed do Justice love Mercy and walk humbly with your God if you will shew loving kindness and sense of honor to your Country resolve upon all those dispensations restitutions and exercitations of Justice and Mercy which are before you Which you will best do if you 1. Be pleased so to fix our Laws yea our legislative and Soveraign authority so that we may be no more tossed too and fro with every wind of mens ambitious fancies qui malunt leges quam mores mutare who had rather change our good laws than mend their own ill manners 2. To remove all obstructions which are inward in your own souls and outward in other mens passions or actions by which either Justice or Mercy are most hindred of their free course 3. If you listen not to that wicked maxim of the Devils politicks Fieri non debuit factum valet as if evil actions did call for perseverance not repentance Nullum tempus occurit Justitiae no time or fact must prescribe against justice truth God and the Church 4. When you have undone by justice what hath been done by injustice to the undoing of Church and State Prince and People Then will mercy be seasonable by acts of such amnesty pardon and oblivion as may rather compose than irritate the spirits of men praestat motos componere fluctus 5. If you needed which I hope you do not any motives to these great indeavours and discoveries of justice and mercy it is no small one which the Platonists observe as to the difference between just and unjust the good and evil men which is as great as between light and darkness order and confusion men and beasts good and bad Angels as between a King and a Tyrant God and the Devil God is the first fountain and grand example of justice and mercy as the Devil is of injuriousness and cruelty 6. If you inquire Cui bono what their reward shall be First the conscience of well doing and this to your Country and in its greatest distresses Next you shall have that reward of lasting honour and renown by which your names as repairers of our breaches shall be embalmed in the love of their Country and transmitted with a sweet resentment to all posterity where as the names of proud and cruel oppressors shall rot and perish like their own dung the blood thirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their dayes not only as to those dies naturales but as to those dies civiles which preserve the living fame of worthy men to many generations as blessed he is but short-lived whose infamy only survives as the damned in hell are counted dead because they only live to shame and torment As for your direction what and how to do excellent things you need not search Achitophels braines or rake the skull of Matchiavel you need not call up the Ghost of Richelieu or conjure up those subtil spirits of Government which may tell you the Adyta imperii arcana principum the depths mysteries intrigoes and riddles of States you need not listen any longer to those Seraphick Syrens and Phanatick Counsellors who under the title of Gods cause and the Saints interest which I know not what blessed projects or gainful godliness had made a shift to undo all but themselves yea and themselves too as to all sence of justice or mercy or honor or conscience of modesty or humility You need not advise with flesh and blood with humane passions and lusts facilis parata est ad virtutem via the counsel of God is at hand {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} you cannot easily miscarry by following his wisdome in justice mercy and humility however you had better perish in Gods way as to temporal effects then prosper for a season in the Devils which must end in endlesse infelicities There can no better course be followed in civil justice than that which was given by the Oracle to the Sicilian Pyrates when afflicted by the plague after they had gotten much booty they enquired What they should do to be releived Answer was given in these letters R. A. S. P. P. which some cunning man interpreted to import by the Acrostick letters thus much Reddite Aliena S'ultis Possidere Propria Restore to others what is theirs if you hope to preserve to your selves your own else your common weal will be but a common wo There is neither darkness in your way of justice and mercy nor will there be much difficulty God hath and will remove mountains of malice hypocrisie and injustice before you yea he hath prepared the vvay for you by levelling the levelers and confounding the confounders of all things civil and sacred His vvord and the lavvs of the Land vvill tell you vvhat is to be done State super vias autiquas bonas stand and enquire for the good old ways and walk therein that you and we may find that rest vvhich hath been a long time and ever vvill be denyed us in any of those fantastick and novel models vvhich make religion a nurse of rebellion pretend that the Kingdome of Jesus Christ vvill indure no temporal Christian Kingdome except such as they may rule and raign in But you have not so learned Christ neither his law nor his Gospel suggest any such unjust and cruel counsels nor do they favour any violent and rebellious designes Do as I believe you will what becomes your duty to God and man your love to your Country your respect to true Religion and your care of your posterity and no doubt God will be with you both to strengthen your hands and to make your faces to shine with that glory in this life which is the first but least recompense of just and honorable actions and also with that eternal glory which is the purchase of Christs blood and the honorary recompense of God to all that in the way of well doing seek for honor and immortality to which the Lord bring you and all his Church for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be all glory and honour now and ever Amen FINIS May 20. Anno 630. Preface The great and publique importance of this Parliament Prov. 23. ● 2 Chron. 15.2 The way of our happiness Iudg. 9.7 Prov. 28.9 2 Kings 7.8 Ier. 5.25 Partition Matth. 5.7 Psal. 13. Phil. 2.8 The demonstrator 1 The occasion 1 Sam. 15.13 Isa. 58.3 Ezek. 18 15. 〈◊〉 7.4 Ioh. 1● 1● Psal. 50.8 ●sa ●6 3 Psal. 51.17 1 Sam. 1● 22 Hos. 6.6 2 The credit and authority of the Demonstrator Psal. 94.10 Iob 28. 2 Gen. the thing demonstrated Matth. 22.40 Ie● 7.9 1 Ioh. 4.20 Luk. 10.25 Tit. 2.11 1 I●stice Io●. 18.38 Quest Ans. What Iustice i● Iustice in the fountain Rom. 2. Iustice in the c●stern Iustice in the conduits Iustice to God Mal. 5.6 Selves Others Gen. 4● ●1 3 Demand Mercy Exod. 34. ● Psal. 103.8 Psal. 1 6 Mercy in God In Man Prov. 20. ●8 Lam. 3.22 Matth. 18.27 ● Sam. 15.11 Mat●h 9.36 and 14.14 Deut. 29.11 13 Psal. 130.3 Iames 2.13 3. Humility Luke 17.10 1 Cor. 4.7 1 Per. 1.4 These three considered in their practicks The acts or exercises of three Vertues 1. To do Iustice Rom. 13.4 Luk. 12.14 Deut. 1.17 Exod. 11.25 and 23.3 Psal. 106. Hosea● 11.8 To love Mercy Isa. 28.21 Mercy must be loved Col. 11. 2 Kings 20.31 3. To walk humbly with thy God Psal. 19.4 5. and 61.9 2 Cor. 11.12 Lev 16.41 so whom this Demonstration and demand is made Of Kings and S●●●●aign Magistrates Ier. 22.15 16. Of Counsellors c. Of Magistrates Of Soldiers and men of might Luk. 3 14. Of the most prosperous O Ministersf of the Church Of the glosing Hypocrites Of the whole Nation 4. The manner of Gods Demonstrating Application or Vses Iosh. 7.13 Conclusion

to our excellent laws and constitutions in Church and State it was confiscation plunder sequestration destruction if we still advanced in the perplexed ways of some mens new inventions and endless novelties it was not only sinful confusion but sore oppression and continual exhausting of our estates and honors beside our peace and liberty together with the baffling of the very orderly profession no less than the power of Religion Indeed we could neither have leave to live freely as honest men nor as good Christians all our sacred and civil our temporal and eternal interests were and still are at stake Terrent etiam nunc nubila mentem our bodies and souls our persons and posterities are still engaged yea and the Ark of God too our Religion as reformed and Christian In all these respects our eyes and hearts are next God passionately toward you we have many years been solicitous with that Catholick Question Who will shew us any good we have long looked for the promised good things of a glorious Church of a flourishing and settled State but our iniquities have withheld them from us Here the Lord hath shewed you in a few words what is good Bonum Ecclesiae patriae conscientiae animae good for souls and bodies for Church and State for Soveraign and Subjects for rich and poor for great and small for their selves and their posterity for civil and religious interests for temporal and eternal concernments namely To do justice to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God All our evils arise from either our want of justice or mercy or humility from our injuriousness uncharitableness and arrogancy which knows not how to be either thankful and content before God or merciful and just toward men The Text as a full and liberal fountain hath many emanations like the Rivers that watered the garden of God 1. We have the main head or source the Lord 2. The great cistern or receptacle Thee O man 3. The tria fluenta three grand Derivations or streams First Of doing Justice Secondly Of loving Mercy Thirdly Of walking humbly with God All are clear copious and comprehensive subjects of our meditation discourse and practice For 1. In una justitia omnes virtutes 2. In una misericordia omnes beatitudines 3. In una humilitate omnes gratiae all graces are in humility all blessednesses in shewing Mercy and all moral vertues in Justice for every vice and sin is an injury to God our selves or others Nor have we God herein our Instructer only but also our {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} great example for we Christians serve not only justum Dominum benignum Patrem sed humilem Deum a just Lord and a merciful Father but even an humble God He abaseth himself saith the Psalmist to behold the things done upon earth to dwell with the Sons of men especially with the humble and contrite spirit yea the Lord of glory in order to save us from the sad effects of our pride hath humbled himself even to the death of the cross and is it time for us sinful worms to be proud unjust and unmerciful There are four parts to be set forth 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Demonstrator or Shewer The Lord 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or things Demonstrated Justice Mercy and Humility indeed the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} whole duty of man 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} To whom this Demonstration is made Thee O man 4. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The manner of demonstration how God sheweth to and requireth of man these things It is not my design to handle each of them after that ampleness which these subjects may bear or deserve nor will the time and after duties permit but only to make such short remarques and touches of them as may not so much teach you who are knowing in all the will of God as to Justice and Mercy Law and Gospel but only stir up your pure and holy minds to be not knowers or hearers only but doers also of the will of God that you may be blessed of God and man and Saviours indeed not Deceivers and Destroyers of your selves and your Country I begin with the first The Demonstrator who The Lord Here two things are to be considered First {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the rise or occasion of this demonstration 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the credit and authority of the Demonstrator First The Occasion putting the Lord upon this way of remonstrating to inculcate these requisita dictata old lessons this you will see in the foregoing words vers. 6 7. where we may observe the vaunting questions and presumptuous postulations of a company of formal Hypocrites who demand in Dei dedecus legis contumeliam to the reproach of God and his Laws what he would have to please him Burnt offerings or Rivers of oyl or if need be their very first-born they will be at any cost to appease him part with any thing spare nothing but their sins Thus they quarrel with God and justifie themselves with Saul that they had fulfilled the Law of God as those devout Bulrushes in Isaiah who are not ashamed to ask Why have we fasted and afflicted our souls when they had not parted with any sin nor loosed any bands of oppression We may observe as in Scripture so in all our late experiences that no men are more supercilious self-justifiers and imperious retorters upon God and man than those who are most defective in their duties to both they are angry that God is angry and unsatisfied that he is not satisfied with their Hypocritical chaff and formality they plead ignorance when wilfully blind and ask for light when they shut their eyes they would know what to do when they do not what they know Such proud and insolent vaporers like Jehu and the Pharisee are audacious and frontless Hypocrites as if their ways were equal and Gods unequal as if God were blameable and themselves blameless O what cost and pains will they be at to reform Religion Laws Liberties Church and State when they aim to be the most irreligious Depravers and licentious oppressors of all O the Temple the Temple of the Lord O his service worship and Ministers when they rob God destroy his Church and debace his Ministers these do not so much err as lye and dissemble in their hearts They brag of precious liberties when they bring in both slavery and licentiousness They boast of great Reformations when they are most deformed Reformers they finde fault with God and all men but themselves all their aberrations are gracious and their very sins must be glorious essays or successes while they follow Providences they flye from plain Scriptures and known Laws these