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A77846	Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgesse, pastour of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5653; Thomason E325_5; ESTC R200622	19,054	30

are our accounts Sicut crescunt dona sic crescunt rationes donorum Where God giveth more there he requireth more O let every one then that is called to steare the ship especially in these tempests and storms imitate Solomon praying unto God for wisdome to administer that office and this was so acceptable to God that hee gave him all other abundance Take heed lest the Divell set thee not up upon the pinnacle of the Temple hoping to throw thee down headlong You are at the day of judgement not onely to give an account for your personall sins but Common-wealth sins O tremble in the thoughts of such an account Bernard said well Descendamus in infernum viventes nè descendamus morientes Let us goe into hell while we are alive by meditation and consideration lest we go into it while we are dead How necessary is it that you whose labour and praise it is to set the Church and State at liberty should have your own hearts also at liberty from all corrupt aimes and respects Be not offended at these things Genus quoddam martyri● est non ignobile reprehendentes aequanimiter ferre It is a noble kind of martyrdome to bear reproofs patiently 6. Their Titles and Names are for this duty Hence they are called gods and fathers their government is said to be feeding yea the King of Tyre is called Cherub either ironically or because he thought so Ezek. 28.14 for as God doth give sometimes the names from earthly powers to Angels as when they are called thrones and dominions Col. 1.16 so he doth take the names of those heavenly spirits and adorneth Governours in the earth with them Now they are spirits of service to others that as the Sun hath its name from a word that signifieth to administer and to be serviceable because the light is not for it selfe but others so likewise all the power and honour that God giveth men is for the publick and not for themselves Let therefore new titles and places raise up the heart to sutable operations and upon miscarriages let us reflect and say How ill doth this action and title agree together 7. Acts of unrighteousnesse have a great guilt for they are not onely against a spirituall conscience but a naturall and when that is awakened what adoe is there to have it graciously appeased When Paul preached of justice and temperance sinnes which a naturall conscience doth condemne he made Felix to tremble Though you have a priviledge Honourable and Worthy that no man can arrest or implead you yet you know full well that there is no priviledge from the arrests of conscience and the impleading of Gods word It is necessary to consider we have to doe with God and not man and if Socrates though an Heathen could rise up to that resolution I will obey God rather then men the very same words which the Apostle used how much rather ought Christians 8. The people doe expect this from them even as they doe that the Sun should shine and the clouds rain For this they give themselves and their families to be plundred and undone that piety and righteousnesse may be established When they come up hither out of the Countrey they think they are come to the gates of the kingdome of heaven where righteousnesse shall presently enter they forget all the pangs and troubles their soules have travelled in because of the hopes of that man-childe of Reformation which shall be brought forth They think when they have been stung by any serpents full of poison and venome it is but their looking upon you and they should be healed presently Solomons administration is excellently described Psal 72.6 Hee shall come down like rain upon the mowen grasse The Originall word signifieth also a shorn fleece of wooll and some make it an allusion to Gideons fleece that had dew fell on it but it may well be retained as in our Translation for the grasse mowen craveth rain as the people did righteousnesse and the Psalmist doth again expresse this righteousnesse by showres The word is used only in this place and hath its signification of dispersing hereby representing the scattering of justice abroad as the drops of raine are to make fertill the ground Use Suffer worthy Patriots a word of exhortation from what hath been said Certainly if ever here are occasions and objects of all the graces requisite in such offices So walk and doe that the Common-wealth may look upon you as their Josephs their Mosesses their Mordecaies Humble your selves this day before God for any neglect or omission What hath been done with publick affections and unbyassed respects to God and his cause will be incredible joy and gladnesse to you afterwards Observe how much Nehemiah refreshed himselfe with this Neh. 5.19 Think upon mee my God for good according to all that I have done for this people So Chap. 13.14 Remember mee O my God and wipe not out the good deeds that I have done for the house of my God So ver 22. Remember me according to this and spare me according to the greatnesse of thy mercy and ver 31. Remember mee O my God for good See here what comfortable incouragements he hath Is not this more then if the King had given him many Provinces and Kingdomes to rule over Thus Hezekiah 2 King 20.3 when he heard the sentence of death passed upon him what supported him but an upright heart in that Reformation he had begun I know the heart set upon great things in the world is apt to contemn these truths of God as too pusillanimous and emasculating their courage But as Dionysius if I mistake him not who being a Stoick wrote a book that pain was nothing it was but an imagination yet when he fell sick of the Stone and felt the torture of it he cryed out All that he had written was false as he now felt by experience So men who in their life times have greedily pursued the great and glorious things of this world when dying when appearing before God will cry out They were but all dreams and imaginations And this destroyeth men that they take these things as the words of meer men and beleeve them not as the undeniable truths of God even as young Samuel thought the voice he heard to be the voice of Eli of a man and no more therefore goeth to sleep again till he understood it to be the voice of God Consider likewise the honour that God puts upon you when he makes you instruments to relieve the oppressed Church and State If a drop of cold water shall not go without a reward how acceptable then will it be when men have been ready to give many drops of their warm bloud God when he made heaven and earth took no instruments no not Angels themselves in that work of Creation but when he makes new heavens and new earth as the Scripture phrase is about the Reformation and good change of a Kingdome he putteth much

Die Mercurii Febr. 25. 1645. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that S. Robert Harlow and Col. Purfrey do give thanks to M. Burgesse and M. Goodwin for the great pains they took in the Sermons they preached this day at the intreaty of the House of Commons at S. Margarets Westminster it being the day of publick Humiliation and to desire them to print their Sermons It is also ordered That none shall presume to print their Sermons without licence under their hand-writing Hen. Els Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Thomas Underhill to print my Sermon and no man else ANTHONY BURGESSE Publick Affections PRESSED IN A SERMON Before the Honourable House of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Upon the Solemn day of Humiliation Febr. 25. 1645. By ANTHONY BURGESSE Pastour of Sutton-Cold-field Now Minister at Laurence Jewry London and a Member of the Assembly of DIVINES Published by Order of that House LONDON Printed by J. Y. for Thomas Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet M.DC.XLVI TO The Honourable House OF COMMONS Assembled in Parliament at WESTMINSTER Worthy SENATORS THE Vicissitude of Gods Providence to men in great place somtimes pulling down those who are lifted up on high and again raising up those who were laid prostrate may justly provoke all Magistrates to walk with fear and trembling knowing there is a greater then they are All earthly Potentates and Principalities are before God but as so much pin-dust which when hee breatheth on is soon scattered away Hence Psalm 2. the great Ones of the earth are exhorted to kisse the Sonne lest hee be angry and a little of his anger is too heavie for the shoulders of any mortall men Be affected therefore with your own nothingnesse comparatively to Gods greatnesse and advance his Truth Worship and Government Many States have stumbled upon Christ as a Stone of offence and hee again hath fallen upon them grinding them to powder The Lord make you so blessed that you may not be offended at any thing which is Christs and fill you so with faith that you may be fully perswaded in your hearts that the surest posture of defence for the Kingdome is when it is put into a submission unto the Scepter of Christ Jesus Although God hath done much for you yet great is the need you still have of his Goodnesse Wisdome and power to you The shippe coming into the harbour may miscarry as well as that in the wide Ocean And certainly the businesses of your Warre and Peace of the Church and State of Divisions and Reconciliations are of so great concernment that hee seeth nothing at all who doth not judge you in as great a necessity of Gods good Providence as at the very first Therefore after all the great successe which God hath vouchsafed unto you be not high-minded but fear keep a sure interest in God and provoke him not by any sinnes but so manage all things belonging to God and men with piety and justice that God from heaven may prosper you and men on earth praise you Your humble servant in CHRIST ANTHONY BURGESSE A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House OF COMMONS At the publick Fast Febr. 25. 1645. NUMB. 11.12 Have I conceived all this people Have I begotten them that thou shouldest say unto mee Carry them in thy bosome as a nursing father beareth the sucking-childe unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers THe Deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt that iron furnace and the conducting of them through the wildernesse unto the land of Canaan is so famous and remarkable an history that many after-deliverances given unto the Church of God are described allusively to this Thus the bringing out of Babylon temporall The rescuing of the Church out of Babylon spirituall is set down with words relating to this grand mercy yea it is made typicall of that great redemption purchased by Christs bloud For this is a peculiar thing to Gods word that not onely words but things themselves do signifie onely we must not make a type or allegory but where the holy Ghost giveth ground lest wee should have tot sacramenta quot ingenii acumina as was said of Origen as many mysterious notions as men have fancies This History therefore will serve for our Meridian and there is scarce any Kingdome or Church but they have had their Egypts their Pharaoh's their bricks to make and God in great mercy doth sometimes raise up some Moses's and Aarons for them providing a land of Canaan as the comfortable issue of their former labours The slavish and miserable condition of the Israelites is related Exod. 2. as also Gods pitie to them in most emphaticall words ver 24 25. hee heard their groaning remembred his covenant looked upon them and had respect unto their cause This heap of words doth expresse after the manner of men the great affection and bowels of God to help though this was delayed to very extremity according to that known saying Quando duplicantur lateres venit Moses Now after the people of Israel had been freed from this bondage instructed in the will of God covenanted obedience with him seen his wonderfull power injoyed his mighty presence so that they could not be more safe then they were under his protection not more free then they were under his lawes not more rich then they were under his provision yet in this Chapter begins a narration of their manifold mutinies against God and their faithfull governours so true is that Subditis semper gravis est praesens status and Vulgus est semper querulum not knowing how to bear either their miseries or their remedies The first mutiny seemeth to be for their long march ver 1. whereupon a fire from the Lord consumed them It is to be observed that in all their former rebellions before the Law was given except that of the Calfe God never punished them but since the Law given hee punished them severely This was say some to shew the nature of the Law that it worketh wrath or because their sins committed after the Law given were against greater knowledge and ingagement The second mutiny begins ver 4. for I cannot be of their minde that make the former and this all one and this was occasioned first by the mixed multitude that was with them viz. the Egyptians and other nations and the plague upon them did quickly infect the Israelites They murmure because they have nothing but Manna and because this was a sacrament and a type of Christ and his graces their sin was spirituall as well as corporall whereupon Moses to shew their ingratitude taketh occasion to describe this Manna what it was The peoples rage and ingratitude putteth Moses into a sinfull passionate distemper though there was also good zeal in it The popish Interpreters make this zeal of Moses pure fire but that cannot be and instruunt Patriarchae etiam errantes the errours of the godly may teach as well as their piety That Moses his