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A79477	Sions memento, and Gods alarum. In a sermon at VVestminster, before the Honorable House of Commons, on the 31. of May 1643. the solemne day of their monethly fast. By Francis Cheynell late Fellow of Merton College in Oxford. Printed and published by order of the House of Commons.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing C3816; Thomason E55_13; ESTC R16225	52,682	55

and weepe for the Parliament you know that all the Politicians in the Christian world are now beating their braines and studying how to seduce our beloved King his Throne is compassed about with snares and he is even wedded to a Temptation his very Counsellours are too many of them Seducers or flatterers like the house of Achzib a lie to the Kings of Israel therefore it is no marvaile if our King be misled O then let us weepe for our tempted King for our seduced King Be it knowne to all the world that we doe still Reverence both his person and Authority and are ready to obey any lawfull Commands which he shall send us in a Legall way Be it knowne to our enemies that we weepe for our King and pray for our King onely we dare not flatter him we dare not strengthen that party which doth seduce him because we doe truly love and honour him 5. Let us enter into a covenant of Reformation this was the stratagem of Sion when they came out of Babylon see whether their case be not ours you may read it Neh. 9. 36. and following verses For the Land which thou gavest our Fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof behold we are servants in it and it yeeldeth much encrease unto the Kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins also they have dominion over our bodies and over our Cattell at their pleasure and we are in great distresse And because of all this we make a Sure Covenant write it and our Princes Levites Priests seale unto it The people of this land have made a generall Covenant by taking the Protestation but we want such a distinct and speciall Covenant as this was you may reade the particular points of the Covenant Neh. 10. Oh that you would be pleased to make as distinct a Covenant as you have made a Confession Let us come to particulars in our Protestation there will be but little Reformation till this be done nay there can be no Safe Rationall Christian Pacification till this be done That you may be fully convinced of this truth be pleased to peruse a book of Christian Pacification and Reformation printed about 80 yeares since but lately published by judicious and learned Dr Rivet you shall finde it at the end of Dr Rivets Animadversions upon Grotius his Annotations on Cassander In that book you will finde what errours we must protest against and what points we must stand upon when we come to conclude a Pacification For saith that Reverend Author our enemies know that we shall never have peace if they can seduce us from the Authour of peace and if they can prevaile with us to let go one truth they will hope to prevaile with us in due time to let goe all For when men doe wilfully let fall any truth God doth usually give them up to beleeve lyes Thinke sadly of this businesse beleeve it no businesse is of higher concernment you had need have a Choice Committee of both Houses and an Assembly of learned pious and experienced Divines to consult about it till Articles of agreement are drawne up it is impossible we should ever agree and therefore there is no way like this to settle truth and peace at once and make them greet and kisse each other Be pleased to take some course that this Covenant may bee Nationall you know the godly part of a Nation are the Nationall Church You see a Reason why I do not medle with particulars that 's not the worke of one man onely let us be thus punctual for the present let us every one in our several places callings resolve to do all that lyes in our power to Reforme particular Congregations and our owne particular Persons First for particular Congregations you know the great grievance in every parish Sion dwells with Babylon with a prophane ignorant multitude who are all borne with a Pope in their belly and are not yet redeemed from that grosse superstition and vaine Conversation which they received by Tradition from their Fathers We have a little Temple and a great Court as it is Revel. 11. 12. Give me leave to speake unto you as Jotham spake to the men of Sechem Iud. 7. 9. Hearken unto me you Worthies of England that God may hearken unto you I beseech you by the tender mercies of God and the bowells of our Lord Iesus Christ that there may be some course taken to keep back Dogges from snatching away the childrens Bread my Soul melts within me when I consider that men that are scandalously ignorant prophane men that have not knowledge enough to discerne the Lords body or grace enough to Examine or prepare themselves are suffered to eat and drinke their own damnation Oh consider what it is for so many thousands in England to remaine guilty of the body and bloud of the Lord Iesus can a deluge of our bloud wash away a guilt of so deepe a dye You know our chiefest happinesse doth consist in communion with God in Christ and therefore wee should consider to whom we deliver the seales of this Communion Why should any that are not yet Saints be admitted to one of the highest priviledges of Saints Church communion in the highest The Sacrament of the Lords Supper is a distinguishing Ordinance and therefore it is not fit that men should come as promiscuously to the Sacrament as to an Ordinary The Canaanite of old was a thorne in the eyes and sides of Gods people but in the day of Reformation the Canaanite was to be turned out of the house of the Lord of hostes they are the last words of our Prophet Zachary They who have no union with Christ can have no Communion with him they who have not yet tasted of the speciall love of God the Father the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ or the communion of the holy Ghost can have no right to this communion this Sacrament for he can never eat the Body of Christ who hath not the Spirit of Christ because it is to be spiritually eaten There were of old * Communicatory letters sent from one Church Country to another and why might there not in perplexed Cases be some Communicatory letters sent from an Ecclesiasticall College to direct poor simple congregations and doubting Pastors who should be admitted and who rejected I cannot omit one Caution which is briefly this that no man must be excommunicated meerely because it doth not evidently appeare that he is regenerate because a man may be regenerate and yet not able to evidence his Regeneration to himself much lesse to others In some cases a regenerate man may be secluded for a while and one that is not known to be unregenerate may be admitted till his scandalous conversation doth set some black mark or brand upon him For some mens sins go before to judgement and others follow after glorious hypocrites and close Malignants cannot long be hid 1

see what reason we have to Protest against that Babylonian sacrifice in the Masse You have now received the knowledge of this truth and if you sinne wilfully after you have received the knowledge of the truth it is principally meant of this truth there remains no more sacrifice for sinne because ye have wilfully and maliciously rejected the Onely All-sufficient Sacrifice of Jesus Christ trusting upon some other Sacrifice that of the Masse or the like and done despite to the Spirit by a most malignant contempt of the witnesse of the Spirit What argument can be more prevailing to perswade us to hold fast the Profession of our Faith the Protestant Faith lest we fall from a coldnesse and neutrality in Religion into a desperate malignity and unpardonable Apostasie Away with Babylonish Gestures Names and Titles Rites and Ceremonies away with Babylonish Garments too our professed Babylonians begin now to air the mouldy Copes they wear the Babylonish Garment that they may have the wedge of gold and in their own phrase they dissemble under a Cope and are if you will beleeve them Protestants in their Hear●s Our Prophet Zechariah will informe you how to deal with these men Put them into an Ephah that they may be kept within compasse within their bounds by severe discipline and clap a talent of lead a weighty censure upon the mouth of the Ephah Zech. 5. 8. Let the Ephah be lifted up on high between heaven and earth verse 9. that is let the sentence be so Publike that all may take notice of it and then let the Ephah be carried away quite out of Sion and let an house be built for it in the land of Shinar that is Babylon ver. the 11th let their Habitation be there from whence they drew their Corruption for there they may settle upon their own Base their own Lees their own corrupt Principles If such as are Notorious and Incorrigible were Excommunicated by an Assembly of Divines and some Civill-punishment inflicted upon such as are within your reach by an Ordinance of Parliament the sinne would not be Nationall men would see and fear and do no more so wickedly in England For the sharpest punishments are inflicted onely {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by way of Prudence for terrour and reformation not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by way of retribution for no punishment inflicted by man can possibly countervail a sin against God 2. Make Gods Authority your Foundation build upon it it is an Impregnable Rock though the windes blow the rain beat the waves roar and dash themselves into Foame yet your House wil stand and your Orders can never be disanulled if built upon the Rock Make Gods word alone the Rule of Reformation and keep close to your Rule and then all your Orders will be acknowledged to be Responsa prudentum and such as deserve to be Rescripta Principum this is the way to make your Orders prevail not onely by your Authority but by their Own Authority 3. Pray for the Holy Spirit for the Spirit gives both Light and eyes You will meet with so many new sinnes new dangers new temptations new mercies new troubles that you had need beg hard for a spirit of Prayer that you may be able to make new Prayers every hour severall Prayers upon severall occasions Sion must prevail by Prayer Sion was the Mount of Prayer there was the house of Prayer this is as they use to call it in some Reformed-Churches a Prayer-day but every day must now be a day of prayer extraordinary prayer we must spend more time then ordinary in our private devotions Get ye up to Mount Olivet and there pray for Mount Sion joyn heads and purses and forces and prayers together Josuah's sword will not prevail without Moses his prayer Be of good comfort though your enemies can out-swear you yet they cannot out-pray you If they be a thousand thousand strong and march against you with all their might Call upon the Name of the Lord and rest upon your God Asa did so and by the prayer of faith prevailed against a thousand thousand Ethiopians and three hundred Chariots 2 Chron. 14. 9 to the 12th verse Oh send to France and Ireland and Germany for their experimentall Prayers 4. Humiliation is an excellent Preparative for Reformation and there is no duty more pertinent to the Text and proper not onely for this day but for these times In those dayes and in that time saith the Prophet Jeremy the 50. Chap. and the 4. verse what times what dayes why when the children of Israel shall come out of Babylon they and the children of Iudah together going and weeping they shall go and seek the Lord their God Honourable and Beloved let us this day seek our God with tears if ye would be Princes with God and have power with him as Prince Jacob had you must weep and make supplication in Bethel the house of God there God will be found and there here he hath spoke with you to day read the twelfth of Hoseah the third and fourth verses Blessed be our great God who did put it into your hearts to draw up a Catalogue of the sins of this Nation O that you would weep over every sin in that Catalogue before you sleep O let us read our sins in those miseries which are come upon us We have nourished Malignant lusts within us which rebell against the spirit and fight against the soul we have made sport past-time with those sins which shed the blood of the Lord Jesus O let those sins draw tears from us which drew blood from Christ We have grieved the holy Spirit and therefore well may the Spirit refuse to comfort us who haue grieved him Well may the God of heaven bathe his sword in our blood and make the land ●at with our carcasses for we have forfeited our very Estates and lives we do not deserve one bit of bread or drop of water justly may God feed us with the bread of sorrows and give us tears to drink We would not serve God with joyfulnesse for the abundance of all things and therefore well might God send us to serve our enemies in the want of all things Deut. 28. 47 48 Behold the heaven is as brasse and the earth as iron because we have had a brazen brow and there is an iron sinew in our necks we have gone on impudently and stubbornly in our sinnes Gods Doctrine hath dropped as the raine and distilled as the dew but not as the dew upon the tender herbe for our hearts have not been tender our lives have not been fruitfull well might our unfruitfulnesse be the cause of the lands barrennesse We have abused Gods blessings for the maintenance of our pride luxury wantonnesse we have sought against God with his owne blessings and therefore he hath good reason to disarme us Oh let us weepe for Ireland weepe for England weepe for the King