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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

the bargain thou even thou must so repent by making restitution of unjust acquisitions as may make thee capable of Gods pardon who will not be mocked by lame and crackt titles nor may be robbed without making the curse threatned to light on such injurious presumptuous sinners who neither fear God nor reverence man though great and rich and many though Courts and Councils and Armies and whole Nations conspire to do injustly yet will God be a swift witness against them and bring his Justice upon them 6. Of thee O godly gull and holy-cheat who pleadest an hypocritical nonplus and a state necessity of doing somthings both injust and cruel in order to do good to advance Justice to glorifie God to reform Church and State as if the reasons and interests of both Religion and Justice did sometimes want unjust proceedings as pills to keep them in health which Aristides pleaded by way of Irony to those who impatient of exact Justice forced him somtimes to deviate from it by their popular peevishness he told them he did it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in order to the publick good God will discover these impudent fallacies and so punish the presumption of doing evil that good may come thereby that all men shall shall hear and fear and confess there is a God that judgeth the earth when they shall see vengeance to overtake these men and the iniquity of their heels to compass them about Better to follow Gods counsel by doing Justice though we perish with Lazarus on a dung-hill and suffer the last strokes of humane Justice in this world than to fall under Gods eternal and inexerable Justice which will strip thee of all the goods thou gettest and bring upon thee infinitely more evil than that which by unjust and wicked means thou soughtest to escape there is no necessity scelera sceleribus tueri to make evil deeds good by doing worser it is the Devils hardning Maxim to damn souls by desperation as if a theif should plead it necessary to kill that man whom he hath robbed lest he be pursued and taken by him 7. Of thee O Minister of the Church and Pastor of souls God requires first to do justice to thy brother of the same tribe and calling by not intruding thy self into his work against right and reason and law that thou mayst have a plea or pretence to the profits of his living and so thou mayst feed thy self by feeding anothers flock against his will when Justice requires us not onely to eat our own bread but to do our own business and not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to Vsurp on anothers either emolument or employment which they are able and willing to performe Of thee O Church-man great small God requires this Justice to God to Christ to the Church to peoples souls to the holy word and worship of God to the truth of Doctrine to the solemnity of his service to the necessity of mens souls by feeding them with wholesome food by giving them their portion in due season by not denying the children their bread for fear of dogs eating it by administring the blessed Sacraments duly and reverently according as the Church in which thou servest hath appointed thee not setting up and urging thy own fancies and whimseys thy novel inventions and schismatical partialities thy humane traditions and unauthentick because uncatholick observations instead of Christs institutions not so shy and startling at the shadow of some decent and innocent rites or circumstances and ceremonies in religion as to fly from the unity order harmony and authority of the whole Church by a supercilious unjust and merciless severity which savors too much of pride and self conceit hereby shaking and overthrowing the faith of many poor souls who are ignorant weak and instable by the perturbatious thy pragmatique and popular activity gives them 8. Lastly of thee O whole Palestina O Church and State O my native County and Nation both in thy latitude and diffusion and in thy Parliamentary Epitome or representation of thee the Lord requires not only to do justice but to shew mercy there where is the cryingest injustice and cruelty in the world There is a voyce from abroad and at home which crys Oro miserere laborum Tantorum miserere animi non digna ferentis O do not approve confirm or adopt that pride injustice and cruelty of some sons of Belial who lifted up themselves above all that is called God all Laws of God and man all duty to their betters and Superiors If what hath been done in this sorely afflicted and abused nation with expence of so much blood and treasures with so much terror and extravagancy be well and worthily done it will be an act of your Justice to assert it and of your Mercy to absolve other of us poor scrupulous souls of those scruples of conscience which we have of those fears and jealousies lest the Nation lying under so great sins may be exposed to Gods sorest judgements even to an utter vastation But if it appear to your wisdom piety Justice and Mercy to have been a violent and unparalleld method of presumptuous wickedness of unjust cruelty and most cruel injustice in which was neither matter nor form essential of Justice under the formality of high justice if men have killed and cosened and taken possession even the spoil and price of blood I doubt not but you will so far remember Gods Demonstrations and demands as to do Justice to God to your Country to your Laws to your Superior to Soveraign power to the whole Nation and to all mankind as to testifie a just abhorrence and perfect detestation of those things to which as you would not have been Fathers so I believe you will not be Godfathers It is an usual saying among Statists to excuse their excentricities and deviations from the exact rules of justice Nullum magnum exemplum justitiae sive aliqua injustitia I am sure we have known magnum exemplum injustitiae sine aliqua justitia a transcendent injustice which had not any grains of justice in it in the vindication of which I do not so urge the rigor of justice as not to require also such temperament of mercy as may distinguish between the flower and the bran the vile and precious the pertinacious and penitent such as sinned with malitious wickedness with an high hand and those that were only carried down the rapid torrent and strong delusions of times There is yet one instance of doing justice and shewing Mercy to the whole Nation which I cannot but recommend to my Country and to you the Fathers of our families and heads of our Tribes which is in reference to the souls of many poor people that in a land of plenty they may not be famished for want of able and industrious Preachers which cannot be had or expected whatever verbal severities are pretended of Reformation of Religion and propagation

ΜΕΓΑΛΕΙΑ ΘΕΟΥ 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 GAVDEN D. D. Prov. 21.3 To do Justice and Judgement is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Clem. Alex. Apud nos quo religiosior quisque eo justior Minuts Fel. de Christ LONDON Printed by J. Best for Andrew Crook at the Green-Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. TO THE Honorable the Speaker and other Members of the House of COMMONS NO sooner had I done my duty to Gods commands and yours Honorable and worthy but blessed be God you presently applied to do your duty to God the King and your Country with such Justice Mercy and Humility that you have by an astonishing joy revived the sunk spirits of all just merciful and humble men in these three Kingdoms who had for many years been sorely depressed and almost despaired under the importune injuries of some insolent and proud Masters who with Cesar or Pompey were impatient of any superior or equal yea with Lucifer and Antichrist they exalted themselves above all that were called God in the British Honour and Authority advancing their unjust and merciless ambition so high that at last it fell not by force so much as its own weight and that just confusion which God brought upon those Babel-builders whose foolish building had indeed many pinacles of fanatick opinions and projects daily starting up yet but one great Tower or Mole whose moorish or sandy foundation was tumult and violence its line and measure fancy and providence its materials the lives and estates of its Countrymen its cement the blood both of Kings Priests and People The gracious and glorious God who alone doth wonders hath by the Justice Mercy and Humility of the two Houses of Parliament added to the most renowned Generals humble valour and loyal courage soon made Nehustan of those brazen Serpents and Idols which were made up of subtilty and hypocrisie violence and impudence 7. In a few days even before I could print what I had preached we have lived to see that holy Motto under the Kings Arms made good Exurgat Deus dissipentur inimici Let God arise and his enemies shall be scattered Psal. 68.1 The royal Dieu mon Droit God and my right hath like Moses his Serpent devoured the Serpents and rods of those Magicians who usurped all things yet nothing more falsly and unjustly than that Inscription Deus nobiscum God with us when indeed they had neither his Word nor the Laws of the land with them with the like vain and arrogant ostentation did Dionysius boast of the gods good will and approbation when after his sacrilegious pillaging one of their Temples he had a very fair gale of wind to carry him and his booty home by sea Certainly nothing is more remote from Gods gracious presence and the power of godliness than that brutal power and inordinate might which is carried on with penal prosperities and successes but without any right as to Law and Justice which are the only rules and boundaries of good conscience also the soul and life of all righteous Government void of which the other is but cadaverosa potentia a putid carkass of prevalent usurpation which stinks in the Nostrils of God and all good men But You even You are those True Worthies who by your just loyal and humble agnition of and submission to the Kings lawful Authority have made Mercy and truth meet together yea righteousness and peace kiss each other You have fulfilled in the affirmative that old and ambiguous verse which I remember to have heard many years before our sad troubles which ends with Nullus In which Negative the time-serving Astrologasters and others strongly fancied they found a fatal period of the British Monarchy at least of the Stuartian royal family O how must it make those Diviners mad to see what I long ago hoped would be the meaning of it that King who was made and esteemed as Nullus a persecuted expulsed and as much as lay in humane malice a nullified King to see him reign as surely and gloriously as any of those royal Predecessors did who under the emblems of other words made up that strange verse To which so benign an interpretation and event there wanted not some providential omens and signatures as first that star which appeared a little after noon on the day of the Kings birth of which there were many eye witnesses in London and Westminster Next were those meddals of silver which were then coyned with this Inscription Hactenus Anglorum nulli to denote that Prince to be the Nonsuch who alone had the glory to be born Heir apparent to these three British Kingdoms Nor was his signal preservation after Worster-fight a small pledge of Gods special protection whose usual methods are to build up to an unwonted height and conspicuity of glory there where he lays the deepest foundation of earthly affliction I confess I cannot sufficiently with you and all good men admire the wonderful revolutions and intricate ridles of Gods providence punishing us justly for our sins yet relieving us mercifully from our sufferings We are yet in extacies of joy and wonder as those that dream hardly believing the strange undeserved and unexpected dispensations of God toward us in which he hath made that precious stone which some builders refused to become the corner the capital and crown-stone of the building the only center and stability of that Arch in which the loyalty and love the joy and hopes of all good Subjects and true English-Protestants do meet and six May you go on prosperously and unanimously under the Banner of the most high God to compleat your religious loyal just and valiant Counsels not only to establish his Majesties Throne and our civil rights in Truth Mercy and Peace but also to cleanse and repair the Temple the Church and house of the living God whose miserable dilapidations and sordid ruines in doctrine devotion discipline order and government are such that you cannot but pity to see all things sacred covered with dust and the Ministery of the Church both Bishops and Presbyters almost buried with the rubbish of factions confusions dissentions and despiciencies I confess this Church-work ought as the Kingdom of God to be first in every good Christians intention as no doubt it was and is in yours But you are not to be blamed by any unseasonable severitie if as to point of execution you first applied your selves in the present distress of our times and affaires to settle and secure as to the main those things which belonged to your civil rights and National peace The exigents or extreamities of which not bearing any delayes do sufficiently justifie your indeavors to preserve the ship of the State in which the Church is imbarqued which