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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09511	The poore mans appeale In a sermon preached at Leicester assises before the judges. By T.P.	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1620 (1620)	STC 19791; ESTC S100747	21,164	34

This is exemplarie in holy Dauid whose heart once touched with these diuine graces he lifts vp thē his eies and hands and heart and voyce O Lord whom haue I in heauen but thee or whom doe I desire in comparison of thee As the Hart after the riuers as the thirsty drye ground after shewres so longs pants gasps my soule after the liuing God So will the heart of euery man that is like him a man after Gods owne heart make him his chiefe trust and marke of highest regard for he that loues any thing better then mee is not worthy of mee sayes Christ hee is highest and will haue the highest place in our affection and hath therefore made it his first and great commandement Loue the Lord thy God with all thy minde and might and loue him aboue all things They were stonie hearted Iewes that cryed wee will not haue him rule ouer vs not rule then nothing if hee may not bee the head stone hee will not lye in any part of the building and if wee venture to build without him wo be to our foundation Let valabour then to lift vp our heart together with our hands vnto God in the heauens Let vs call daily for his grace and crye vnto him to draw vs after him and hee hath promised to heare from his holy place and send downe his hand from aboue to mount vs vpon those blessed stayres of iustification sanctification glorification and then wee are where wee would be with him that is higher then the highest The action heere referred to God is regarding 2. Part. an action sutable to the title High places and noble actions should goe together God is not then such a God as Eliah makes Baal perhaps hee sleepes no hee regards First generally all things For in him they liue moue are and as the eyes of all things look vp towards him so his downe on all in heauen earth vnder the earth His prouidence extending it selfe like that tree in Dan. 4. from one end of heauen to another whose branches reach out shade and sustenance to all those creatures reckoned vp in Ps 104. For as the soule minds all the bodies actions and the Sun penetrates all corners so this true soule of the world and this Sunne of righteousnesse but with a remarkable difference sayes Saint Iames he does it without varrying or shadow of turning vnmoued euer the same hee sits in midst of heauen and yet they bee the eyes of the Lord that runne too and fro through the whole earth Zach. 4.10 raigning aboue and yet containing all below compassing all about and yet piercing all within and what is yet more maruellous this generall regard and discerning of Gods to extend euen to all things al the stars al the sons of men all the Cattell on 10000. hills all those number les shoales of fishes in the seas all foules of the ayre euen to seueralls minuities the little sparrowes not one of them is forgotten all the miseries of all his seruants all their teares in his bottle in Man alone to regard all the members of his body gressus sayes Dauid the steps of his feete capillos sayes our Sauiour hayres on his head all the sinnes of his soule and all in order all our workes not a word in our tongue nay in our heart from whence imaginations rise as fast as sparks from a furnace not a thought but our heauenly father who sees in secret sees it though nere so secret nay long before either birth or conception and as hee calls so hee knowes too and regards the things that are not as if they were O Lord our gouernour how excellent is thy name for it is higher than the highest how excellent is thy knowledge in all the world for there is nothing was nor can nor shal be nothing but thou O Lord knowest it altogether 2. Now this generall runnes into two speciall respices or obseruats the one of mercy ouer the good and the other of iustice ouer the wicked His eyes behold Ps 11. and his eyelids trye the children of men but with a different regard hee watches ouer all but ouer some for preseruation ouer others for destruction Ier. 31 and in Ier. 44. hee calls it a watching for good and a watching for ill with the first hee daily watched ouer his owne Israel in a cloud and fiery pillar but through them both it is said hee looked on the hoast of Aegypt and troubled it Exod 14.24 T is true he delights most in the first of these watchings and then his highnesse i● best pleased when ioind with a mercifull regard when hee shewes vs the beauty of his holinesse causes the light of his countenance to arise But if our sinnes prouoke him to anger he will suffer his displeasure to arise and tho wee be his owne people tender as the apple of his eye and his chiefe treasure aboue all nations yet then as hee threatens Israell Leuit. 26 9. hee will set his face against vs then as Daniel hath it he will watch vpon the euill and bring it vpon vs. So that it is a true title Seneca giues him Deus bonorum malorumque obseruator custos Our good and our euill Hee that is higher then the highest regardeth 3. Lastly regards this particular sin Oppression the patient first in mercie and first of all as pauperem then most of all as pauperem pressum the poore oppressed God regards the Poore And the maiesty of the title prefixt makes this action glorious what hee whose excellence hath no stint vpward aboue the clouds starres heauens of heauens still higher then the highest to looke downe de super so low a solio ad solum from his throne of glory in excelsis to regard the cries of the poore de profundis yet so it is thou God seest mee sayes poore Agar Gen. 16. And the euer-blessed Virgin Thou hast regarded the low or poore estate of thy handmaid And this seemes a kinde of state in God and then his highnesse is in full Maiesty when hee shewes his powerfull regard ouer the meanest and the most despised on earth such as men sell for shooes and count not worth looking after yea God is expressed in Scripture as if hee laboured for the aduancement of the Poore and then most of all when they are most wretched so in Psalm 113. hee is said to lift at it to raise the poore euen out of dung to set him with Princes c. It is a great mercy to behold an hūble God who being highest yet bowes down himselfe to regard the poore but much more pauperem pressum the poore oppressed Pouerty is but a shallow plash of misery but Oppression breaking in raises it to a floud euen a red sea of bloudy cruelty deepe and deadly but then one deepe calls vpon another and it seemes not to be in the power of God to withhold his mercifull regard as we see by visiting his Israell in Aegypt

your reward in Heauen Earthly Monarches thinke they goe far when they speake like Herod euen to the halfe of my Kingdome And what a poore thing is that Not an inch in the mapp and in the forme of the Heauens nothing The goodly houses they bestow are but as Childrens Kings halls made of shells and dust and what pleasures the Courts of Princes can afford vs Heb. 13. let Moses refusall tell vs pleasures of sin common to vs with beasts and but for a season for a moment But whom God exalts and aduances hee rewardes with his owne kingdome a kingdome of glory his owne cittie a cittie of pure gold in that mansion to remaine with him at the same Table and yet higher to sit with him vpon the same throne Apoc. 3. This is more then euer was Omnis potestas impatiens consortis And Pharoah to Ioseph his prime fauorite Lucan onely in the throne I will be aboue thee What might be added of the high nature of those ioyes which the Angels enioying doe adore and of their eternitie At his right hand are pleasures for euermore To giue vs heauen if wee could doe his Law were Iustice high enough though but for one instant of time but when it is added For euermore it is Iustitia in excessu in excelso too T' is Iustice at the Highest And finally no lesse admirable is the Power of God which is so high in him sayes Beza it makes him euer Agent and neuer Patient and that can neuer cease being the same it is Bellarmine would proue the Popes supremacie by his twelue great names giuen him by his Parasites more easie were it from Scripture recounting the glorious names of God as also from his miracles to draw vp this Power to a supreame head But it is a beaten way and a subiect so full that who euer handles it cannot choose but handle it well I will onely instance in that height of Power which is exprest and prooued by place Power terrestriall is declared by ascending to thrones and if exaltation be measured so then the Lord alone as Esay sayes shall be exalted For hee dwells sayes Esdras aboue the Aire super altitudinem aëris 2. Es 6. Nay super altitudinem coelorum a second super aboue the height of the heauens 2. Es 4. That is a maine height For who can find out the height of Heauen sayes Syracides the pride of the height as hee termes it Ecclus 43. I but there is another super yet aboue the heauens and the heauens of heauens What aboue all I farre sayes the Apostle gone vp on high farre aboue all heauens Ephes 4.10 The Queene of Sheba viewing the high throne of Salomon of which the Text sayes There was none like it in any kingdome 1. Reg. 10.20 and obseruing all his royaltie Non habebat vltra spiritum shee was astonished But an higher than Salomon is here For Salomon in all his royaltie was not clothed like the Lillit of the field much lesse like the Lord of Heauen who dwells in light inaccessible and cloths himselfe with light as with a garment As Salomon had no such roabe so no throne like Gods For he prepares his throne in Heauen sayes the Psalme Solium excelsum a throne high and lift vp Esay 6. a glorious high throne sayes Ieremie 17.12 Before which throne all thrones are cast downe sayes Daniel for it is a fire flaming aloft and towring vp higher than the highest Now as the throne so is the Power of God that the embleme of this And therefore King Dauid will not repent his kneeling to God Psal 95. For as he adds the Lord is a great God and a great King aboue all Gods Nor will Salomon for all his owne highnesse rob God of his honour but stand to the title which he hath giuen him here It is no more than right He is a King euen Rex regum a king ouer all kings and higher than the highest Most high aboue all the earth and much exalted aboue all Gods Psal 97.9 But of what vse is this Title for vs Vses of manifold vse We may draw all to Timor Amor Feare and Loue. First Feare and that first in gesture when wee present our selues before him It is exacted by himselfe We may beleeue him when he sweares it I haue sworne by my selfe sayes the Lord that euery knee shall bow to me Repeated in Rom. 14.11 Esay 45.23 And hee giues vs such examples as we cannot refuse Christ Iesus himselfe who best knew this height the infinite distance betwixt the Creator and the creature as hee was most humbled in soule so he profest it in lifting vp his eyes to Heauen in prayer in kneeling falling on his face The glorious Angels adore with couering their faces and falling downe before him The Church begins her Lyturgie with that inuitement O come let vs worship and fall downe and kneele before the Lord And yet I know not how it comes to passe we seeme many of vs ashamed of doing this reuerence to God Hic homo erubescit timere Caesarem said Macaenas So rude is our behauiour and such a sacrifice of fooles we offer him as if we neither thought vpon our owne condition which is but dost and ashes with one blast disperst past gathering vp againe nor remembred him to be our God for then we would not stand like Elephants or stonie Pillars in his Temple but prostrate our selues and thinke no abasement too much not the lowest being done to him that is the Highest So in our tongues secondly forbearing that sawcinesse and familiaritie some vse in Prayer wherein as the heart must be Faith so the lungs would be Feare least it catch an heate So coole a forme is that of holy Church Graunt vs O Lord those things which for our vnworthinesse we dare not presume to aske Remember sayes Salomon God is in Heauen and thou on the earth Let thy words be warie and few The same feare should possesse vs when we speake of or sweare by his name not vainely falsely For holy and reuerend is his name 2. Vse Amor Loue And this is natiue and radicall in the very temper of oursoules and as a sparke would breake to flame but that the world and the Diuell choake and keepe it downe and this fraile corruptible masse weighs downe the immortall spirit for these two are contrary one to another The bodie of the earth carthie but the soule from heauen heauenly tho forced like the Sunbeames to conuerse with filth and dost yet haeret originisuae cleaues still in affection to God and hath restlesse motions of desire to returne to him that made it but clogd with sinne and feebled in all her powers shee must begge and wait now a superinduction of graces that so being stablished in faith and rooted in charitie and borne vp by the assistance of Gods spirit as by the wings of a Doue she may flye vnto her rest