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A sermon preached before the Commissioners of both kingdomes, the same day they delivered the propositions to the Kings Maiesty, for a safe and well-grounded peace. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.
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Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.
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CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. A SERMON Preached before the COMMISSIONERS of both KINGDOMES The same day they delivered THE PROPOSITIONS TO The Kings Maiesty FOR A Safe and well-grounded PEACE By SAMUEL KEM Batchelour in Divinity Esther 1.9 And he sent the Letters unto all the Jewes to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdome of Ahasuerus with the words of PEACE and TRUTH 2 Chron. 29.15 And they gathered their BRETHREN and sanctified themselves and came according to the Commandement of the KING 2 Sam. 19.14 All the men of Judah even as the heart of one man sent this word unto the KING Returne 1 Sam. 20 21. Then come thou for there is PEACE to thee and no hurt as the Lord liveth LONDON Printed for R. Austin 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The Commissioners of the Lords and Commons of the Parliament of England assembled at Westminster AND The Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland sent with the Propositions to His Majestie Right honourable Lords and Gentlemen I Speake my experience that if a Souldier succeed well upon his first Charge he is not to be withheld from a second Adventure You favoured this Sermon so much when Preached that I am confident you will not reject it Printed nor this my Dedicatory although I begin not after the common stamp of Dedication with some hoary or gray-headed Apophthegme or some strained sentence out of Tully I professe my selfe a Souldier during this Cause as well as a Schollar and therefore must crave leave to speake in such language as affectionate duty can best expresse it self by the tongue I confesse when I meditate the height of your noble Spirits and withall the flatnesse of my poore abilities as I present this in love so with much fear lest my endeavours convert into a vapour ere they can reach the height of your merit stoop but so low as to cherish them and it shall ever add to your Honour The ancient and moderne custome of Dedication of Bookes to the hands of Eminency was and is either to have them powerfully protected or in affection as devoted or to appeare gratefull for benefits received all these moved me to hover under your wings being confident that you that under God protected me out of the jawes of the Lyons and Beares will also protect me from the greatest Philistims And therefore have I presumed to prefix your names it being none of the smallest hazards I have run to oppose this Sermon to the worlds view whereby I expect to be charged againe and againe and it would conclude me guilty of Poultranisme to feare the Sciopii and Pacientii here when not the Zolimi at Oxford I well know carping curiosity will have its lash to me too Aelian reports when Diogenes saw certaine Rod an Gallants gorgeously attyred he laughed saying Hic nihil est praeter Fastum And after seeing certaine Laconians in sordid apparell Et hic alius Fastus est said he These poore-clad lines I feare will not passe without envy and without the censure of pride and ambition how ever whilst you keep the Front I fear no charge neither Oxfords sword nor any other two-edged sword of the tongue and the lesse because I perceive opinions and censures are as various as the Arguments on which they discourse Calumny and squint-ey'd detraction violently charging against Christian charity and judgement in these times And to save them a labour â—eare not to let them know although that many a storm and tempest hath beat against me yet God hath not suffered me to be cast down and whatever they shall say with Apollonius I resolve they may trouble themselves but I will not be troubled at whatsoever the one shall say or the other do I have long before this time Dedicated my life in this Cause to God in the Parliaments Service any thing lesse then the losse of it I can easily endure It must be a long feast to find a dish for every appetite and many in these times will find faults that will not mend one I never indeed intended the publishing this Sermon before the preaching of it nor could ever gain time to refine it since only importunity of some friends and the mis-report that I heard it had to his Majesty made me presume with your Favour to show the world the Truth and implore your Honours to be Judges of it My first thoughts when I meditated this subject were onely to breath into your unfurled sayles such a blast as might give you the advantage to make a saving voyage to your selves if not a more prosperous voyage for the whole Church of God importunate prayer being the fairest wind can blow in the heavens to carry the Church of God to her safe Pâ—rt And as David rescuing his wives and recovering his goods from the Enemy was never a whit the lesse honour to him because a young man made way for the discovery so it being your happinesse to be imploy'd in this service so becoming nobility or any of the sonnes of men to seek peace for the Church of God in which Gods blessing Mat. 5. attends you is it any diminution to your honour that I the meanest of my brethren pointed you the way to prosper It being the constant prayer of my soule daily that you may reape the fruits of those so brave and gallantly mannaged labours yea I hourely expect and look out for a return of those adventures from heaven even when God shall speake by His Majesty to his three Kingdomes Peace which is the hearty prayer as also for all your honours that you may still do worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlehem of him who is Yours devoted even by word and deed to the losse of his utmost drop of blood To serve you for JESUS CHRIST Samuel Kem. A SERMON PREACHED before the Commissioners of both Kingdomes at the Delivery of the PROPOSITIONS to the KING UPON ESTHER Chap. 4. Vers 16. Go gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan and fast ye for me and neither eat nor drink three dayes night or day I also and my maidens will fast likewise and so I will go in unto the King which it not according to the Law and if I perish I perish OUr new Practises against the Church proceed from old Principles and what an Ocean of Saints blood hath streamed out from the fountain of Cains malice as it there were a 〈◊〉 project to deluge that with blood which God preserved from water his righteous family the Scriptures plentifully demonstrate but with this observable hint of refreshing That the Red Sea hath in the end ever devoured the devourers and although by division shrunck up it self into straits to spare a passage to the Church of God for its deliverance So that the Church of God is not now to learn to be content to be let blood it may in probability