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A86310	Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing H1748; Thomason E338_11; ESTC R200845	22,360	35

without skin without flesh without life the Church of God as Isaac bound hand and foot the knife at the throat the fire burning as Jonah in the belly of the Whale in hell as Christ in the Grave How desperate was the condition of the Jewish Estate in the Reign of King Ahaz they were so low that they knew not by what possibly they could rise again God said to him Aske a sign of the Lord thy God aske it either in the depth or in the height above But Ahaz said I will not aske and why would not he He thought nothing in heaven nor in earth could do him good Israel was in Egypt as a burning Lamp in a smoaking furnace as Abraham in a deep sleep full of horror and of great darknesse in Babylon as a Lyon dead in Rome as men kild whose bodies lie unburied the Church sometimes passeth through the waters through the Rivers through the fire through the flame Christ the head of the Church therefore much more the Church was as a Plant or Root in a dry ground without forme without comelinesse without beauty despised rejected of men a man of sorrows one acquainted with griefes Yea the Heroes the worthies they of the first Three they are sometimes necessitated to passe through the Pikes to break through an Host an Army to gain a little water You your selves the Worthies of the Kingdome have you not severall times received the sentence of death within your selves have you not been at your stands at your losse God will raise up Mountains of opposition that you may be nothing in your selves that you may be all in him Let them perish that bring the people of God into the hazard of perishing Haman the common enemy that plotted and contrived the utter ruin of the people of God was himself hanged upon the same gallows that he prepared for Mordecai nec lex est justior Nor did Haman dye alone as the head of the Malignant partee but Hamans ten sons drank of the same cup yea they that would have acted in so hellish a design the Jews put to the sword 76000 men it is worthy of your observation the Jews that stood up for their Liberties for their Religion yet the Text twice expresly Records That they layd not their hands on the Prey See what the Gibeonites asked of David 2 Sam. 21.3 4 5 6. What shall I do for you and wherewith shall I make the Atonement that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord And the Gibeonites said unto him We will have no silver nor gold of Saul nor of his house neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel And he said What ye shall say that will I do for you And they answered the King The man that consumed us and that devised against us that we should be destroyed for remaining in any of the coasts of Israel Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul whom the Lord did chuse And the King said I will give them I do not deny but the Law of God doth it self allow composition for mens lives men may in some cases redeem their lives with their Estates Ismael did not slay them that said They had treasure in the field But if there be any whom God hath marked out for destruction they that give their lives to them their lives may go for their lives Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently All are not involved in the same guilt that are in the same Action 200 joyned themselves to Absolon in his treasonable practise yet they went in the simplicity of their hearts Yet there are a partee that are leaders to the blind that Justice may not shut her eye against them in Babylon there are some that have not the mark of the Beast upon them they are to be invited to be called out to be received in but they that have the name the number the marke of the beast they must dye without mercy and like milstones be thrown into the midst of the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone the commands of God are not onely peremptory Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup that she hath filled fill to her double but a blessednesse is promised to them that execute this command O daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones peruse that of the Lamentations and you shall see who they are that are to be destroyed and how to be destroyed Render unto them a recompence O Lord according unto the work of their hands give them sorrow of heart thy curse unto them persecute and destroy them in anger from under the Heavens of the Lord Give them sorrow of heart there is their character there is their marke by which they are set out for destruction there is that black beane that fatall robe which designs them for death the margent of your Bible reads it give them obstinacy of heart an hard heart is a great evill but an heart hardned an obstinate heart obstinacy of heart such a heart that will not that cannot be softned one reads it give them a veil upon their heart they upon whose heart there is a vail that when Gods hand is lifted up they will not see give them a shield upon their heart a shield not to defend them from the fiery darts of Sathan but as the Interlineary glosse reads it ne penetrentur jaculo praedicationis The sin against the holy Ghost is unpardonable and could we distinctly know that sin men should not pardon it more then God blasphemy was to be punished by death this sin the highest blasphemy I beleeve there are many at this day that are guilty of this sin to sin against mighty convincement so Christ argueth against the Pharisees is to sin this sin they that fight against God as the Jews did that opposed Stephen who were not able to resist the spirit by which he spake yet they were cut to their heart they gnashed on him with their teeth they stopped their eares they stoned him to death if some are not guilty of this sin against the holy Ghost yet there are many that are guilty of that sin which is unto death of that sin which leads unto death which shall never return again that have stood out against the Word of God the Providences of God the mercies of God that have grieved the Holy Spirit resisted the Holy Ghost quenched the Spirit and done despight unto the Spirit of grace Christ would not spare the figtree above three years they that stand out this year after the master of the Vineyard hath been at so great cost and hath taken so great

as her predecessor Vasthi how easie had it been for her to have over-looked the calamity of her people she that before neglected her Husband her Soveraign how would she have here under-valued her servants her subjects her wise Ladies would have perswaded her yea she would have said her self it had been an unnecessary anxiety to have interrupted her mirth with the thought of their misery a businesse beneath the State of a Queen to undertake the rescue of a few despised Country-men especially with the hazzard of the forfeiture of her honour the high displeasure of the King the danger of the Law the hazzard of her life the small hope of successe This certainly would have been her voyce if they perish they perish but Religious Esther she more esteemeth of her peoples safety then her own her life is bound up in theirs if they perish she could not live she would have been more miserable had she surviv'd their Misery who could desire to live when the Country is dead all owe more to their Country then to themselves this Esther knew which thus strengthned her resolution together with the preservation of her Religion a second consideration 2. Religion is the very Nerves and sinews of the Common-wealth the very heart and prime fountain of life and livelihood the Crown the glory of a Nation the beauty the strength the perfection the Spirit the soul of a Kingdome In Religion is Embarqued the publike safety when that is aimed at the danger is dreadfull the losse beyond recovery Eli's heart trembled whilst the Arke was in the field in doubtfull disputation but when he heard the Arke was taken he fell from his seat whose heart was sooner broken then his neck yet with that he dyed Happy death that made him not out-live the losse of the Arke none but Atheists that know no life but the present but they make Religion the first thing The Heathen is recorded to all ages for the laying aside his Father Wife and Children and taking the care of his Country gods few make Religion their businesse especially they that sit at the top of the wheel cloath'd in soft rayment dandled on the knee and lul'd in the bosome of soveraignty there are that will sell Paradise for Paris and will launce no farther forth then they may return safe again but Esther is of a more divine temper she stands up for the defence of her Religion In her Religion she saw the glory of God had founded it and it could not be ruin'd without a manifest hurt to the glory of that God which was dearer to her then her own life the third and last encouragement Nothing is more dear yea so dear to a Religious soul as the glory of God the glory of its own soul is valued at a cheap rate in respect of this Gods glory is the supream the highest glory the sun of glory if that be darkned though all the stars shine it is still night whereas if that shines in its glory though no stars shine yet it is day Chrysostome professed he loved nor honoured Rome so much for her Antiquity her multitude of inhabitants her sumptuous fair buildings the great priviledges and immunities of the Citizens the beauty and glory of the City as for that the Lord of Glory was held forth there in the preaching of Peter and Paul Heaven it self is not so glorious as a poor Country Village where the King of glory is preached Queen Esther rather then the glory of God should be obscured by a black cloud of his servants blood rather then the miscarriage and downfall of Religion should open the mouth of blasphemy to spit reproach in the face of Gods people she will stake her owne soul lay her life at pawn to redeem the glory of God from such an injury Finis dat amabilitatem the end beautifies the enterprize if any end can adde glory to any surely this doth multiply on the head of Ester she is resolved actum est it is done already in her unbended resolution she cloaths her self with Virtue and puts on courage with her Jewels Thus accompanied with Divine beauty and heavenly Valour she sets forward to her already bleeding Nation her Weapons are faith and prayer her Armour courage and resolution her Attendants beauty and virtue her word Si pereo pereo nor can danger difficulty or impossibility Haman Death nor Devill turn her back again Go I will Thus you have heard with what cautions with what courage and wisdome Queen Esther and by her Example every good Christian ought to enter into a Resolution here was an absolute integrity of all concurrencies which made this resolution good acceptable to God comfortable to her self profitable to her people The person that made it fitly qualified the end moving sufficiently warrantable the circumstances honest and seasonable the means direct and lawfull Here was no defect iniquity and exorbitancy of any particular but a generall combination of all requisites The Resolution was necessary and religious which will the better appear if we compare what Queen Esther did in Persia with what the Scriptures testifie the Saints and servants of God have done at other times and ought to do at all times which is my second thing the Doctrine and the confirmation of it In the Cause of God Religion and our Countries we are not to passe for perishing Gratious and Religious spirits neither are nor ought to be out-dared in the cause of God Religion and their Countries safety by the fear and danger of perishing They that are on Gods side as Moses proclaimed in the gate they are to know neither father nor mother but every one to stay his brother companion and neighbour Christ teacheth us to hate father and mother and wife and children and Brethren and Sisters yea and our own lives also when they stand in competition with God Saint Paul saith 1 Cor. 16.22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha he speaks not of the Jews and Heathens but of Christians the Apostle blesseth those and prayes for them that love Jesus Christ in sincerity Ephes 6.24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity as the blessing is so is the curse Anathema Maranatha to them that love not the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity None can love Jesus Christ in sincerity that love their lives before and above Christ Saint Jerome protested he would trample upon Father and Mother if they hindred his way to Christ Cursed be he said that noble Marquesse that counts the whole world to one houres enjoyment of Jesus Christ Saint Paul could not by the prayers and teares of his friends be kept back from going to Hierusalem though the Spirit witnessed Bonds and afflictions did attend him there why do ye break my heart for I am ready not to be bound onely but also to dye at Hierusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus