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A43321	A sermon preached before the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament at Margarets Church in Westminster, upon Thursday the 18 day of Iuly, 1644 : it being the day of public thanksgiving for the great mercie of God in the happie successe of the forces of both kingdomes neer York, against the enemies of King and Parliament / by Alexander Henderson ...	Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1441; ESTC R3818	28,273	37

weaknesse both at this time and afterward that he doubted and was afraid which made him begin to sinke and there can be no full and through Obedience without faith and confidence Two things are necessary for this 1. Self-deniall and renouncing all confidence in your selves or your owne wisdome courage strength or multitudes all which are but the arme of flesh Psalm 44. 3 4 5 9 7 8. Wisdome will have us to use all good means but faith will not have us to trust in them 2. A firm perswasion and full relying upon Christ holding the eye of our soul upon him continually Iohn the Baptist Iohn 3. 33. useth two words to expresse the nature of faith and confidence One is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Syr. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Cabala the word of receiving which in the Syriack is not every receiving but a receiving of a Doctrine sent from God as Divine and sent from him The other word is more {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Syr. Obsignavit conclusit hath set to his Seal when the word is used of God toward us wee know the meaning but when it is ascribed unto us in relation to God and his truth it expresseth the testing of our conscience on the truth of God that as the Lord sealeth his testimony unto us by the Sacraments and by his owne Spirit so upon our part our faith and affiance sealeth the truth of God that we acquiesce in it and close with God and the matter is concluded betwixt the Lord and our souls The writing thus sealed cannot be reversed for while the seal is at it it abides firm and the seal is keeped by the Lords faithfulnesse for our benefit This confidence will make us submit to the will of God and to say I will beare the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him untill he plead my cause and execute judgement for me Hee will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousnesse Then she that is mine enemie shall see it and shame shall cover her which said unto me Where is the Lord thy God Mic. 7. 9 10. Woe is me for my hurt my wound is grievous but I said Truly this is a grief and I must beare it Iere. 10. 19. This will carry us through all discouragements because it maketh us to see greater things then the World It opposeth the wrath of God against the terrors of the world and the love of God against the love of the world This assureth us of the presence of Christ in all our troubles It is I be not afraid The most terrible word to the enemy and the most comfortable to the godly It perswadeth us that God cannot denie himself nor forsake his own cause and for our selves that although this life and all things in it should fail us yet our happinesse waits for us Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope Psal. 16. 9 Much might be spoken here and to good purpose of the notes whereby to try our faith and confidence whether it be weak or strong and of the means to encrease it that it may come to a full assurance but I have troubled you too much already and therefore I shall only desire that the recent proof of the mercy of God in our deliverance may be added to your Calendar of former deliverances to make your experience the stronger that your hope and confidence may be the stronger for all time to come FINIS An Excellent Allegory taken forth of this History by Augustine In his 14. Sermon Upon the Words of our LORD AS Christ going to the Mountain to pray gave commandement to his Apostles to get into a ship and to goe to the other side so after his ascending into heaven at his commandement the Gospel was to be carried through the Sea of this world As the Ship wherein the Apostles of Christ were Passengers meeteth with a great tempest so the Church of Christ sustaineth waves of persecution and is opposed by the various blasts of haereticall winds As the Disciples doe not straightway forsake the Ship but did toyle in rowing so the confession of our faith is not to be forsaken but the teachers of the Church both by word and writing in the midst of the contrary windes of the world and of the blasts of tumultuous Haereticks are to discharge their office faithfully Let the crosse yard be set up and Christ crucified be looked upon and let us not make defection from him but follow his steps let us through suffering and death it self presse toward eternall glory Let also white sailes that is a pure and honest conversation be laid hold of Moreover although the sea do rage the wind withstand strongly and the surges rise and make a noise so that the ship be sore tossed and covered with the waves yet is shee not drowned but runneth to the Haven so may indeed the Church be pressed but can never be oppressed for Christ is praying on high and beholdeth his own mightily wrestling with the contrary winds He therefore intercedeth for them that their faith fail not but that they may carry unto the Nations these Noble but to humane reason forein wares of remission of sinnes and the Kingdome of heaven through faith in Christ freely offered to all that earnestly repent and amend their lives Furthermore this small Ship shal be tossed and float on the water till the Lord come who alone is able to make a weighty body to walk upon the face of the liquid element which shall come to passe about the fourth watch of the night that is in the end of time when the night of this world is almost spent In the meane while although the roaring Sea doe murmur and repine under the feet of the Lord yet nilling willing it is constrained to beare him so although the swelling pride and powers of the world arise together never so high yet our Head shall trample on their head But when Christ cometh neer unto the ship before he be clearely seene and known of his owne he striketh their hearts with a new terrour that they seeme to themselves to see a Ghost for in the darknes of this night wee are not able rightly to understand the worke of the Lord But when the darknes is scattered and all the storme calmed we shall know him aright and shall worship him as the true Son of God our Redeemer and Saviour It is our part who do live about the fourth watch upon whom the ends of the world are come 1. Cor. 10. 11. to provide lest that by the sudden and unlooked for coming of the Lord we be surprised and confounded for as Christ in one moment and with one thrust brought the ship into the harbour so before we can look about us or turne our selves Eternitie shall come upon us for the Elects sake these dayes shall be shortned Matth. 24. 22. FINIS a Ephes. 3. 14 15 16. b Thes. 3. 9. 10. c Psal. 126. 6. d 1. Thes. 3. 8. e Eccles. 7. 10. f Rom. 11. 22 g Rom. 11. 33 34. h Ier. 10. 23. i Pro. 19. 21. k Iohn 21. 18. l Iob 29. 18. m Mat. 26. 39. Ier. 20. 3. n Micah 4. 5. o Ephes. 4. 14. p Psal. 44. 17 18 19. q Deu●. 29. 20. r 2. Tim. ● 5. s 1. Tim. 3. ● t 1. Tim. 1. 19. u ● Thes. 2. 10 11 12. a Numb. 28. 29. b John 6. VVhy this Text chosen c The admonition of Iohn Knox to the professors of the truth in England Paraphrased Divided Doct. 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Reason Similes The greatness of Peters deliverance The seasonablenesse thereof The sensibleness of the hand of Christ in it The Relation it had to the prayer of Peter It was from free goodnes a Quid aliud ●●t Christum sequi in atrium pontisicis quam super eisdem fluctibus ambulare cum Christo et quid aliud erat tentatio Ancillae quam ventus adversarius et quid aliud tentatio ex timore quam hic submertio ex timore Musculus in Matth. 14. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Etym. The five circumstances of Peters deliverance applyed to ours The use of this worke of Diuine Providence Use 1. Thankfulnesse in Adoration and Confession c Quid ergo est qd Iudaei dicu ●t cum virum quidem Dei Prophetam fuisse filium vero Dei non fuisse Si filius Dei non fuit certe neque vir Dei neque Propheta fuit cum non fit viri Dei ad exhibitum honorem divinitatis conticescere Qui● dicat cum Caesarianum esse pr●bum ac ge●ui●um Caesari fidelem qui honorem Casari ●o●● comp●●entem ob a●um non repudi●ver●t sed ag●ovoris Muscul. in Matth. 14. Take heed to Emulation and beware of envie Difference betwixt Emulation and Envy d Plut. in Apo. e Ambae {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sorores a●rae noctis siliae Hesiod Illa amulatio est laudabilis quae non est rivalitui similis Cic. f Caesar●e priorem Pompeiusve p●r●m The Adoration of Christ The Confessing of Christ Charitum num●r●s signific●t ●r●● actus distinctos in beneficiis dare aeccipere referee carum nomen affectus quibus in benefice a●● c. Heming de lege na● Use 2. Obedience to the voice of Christ Own ratione in sanite Use 3. Confidence in Christ

beginning of our Supplications he hath given grace to continue in humiliation and Prayer he hath many times returned our prayer into our bosome he hath made his grace sufficient for us to uphold us and hath given such victories as have been large matter of thanksgiving But in this he hath answered us above our expectation particular desires at this time For we would have been satisfied for the time with the rendring of that beleagred City but the Lord hath done much yea very much more 5. And we may justly adde the last That the deliverance was of free goodnesse For our faith was not perfit Were not many of us full of doubting and feares yea full of unbeliefe that it might have been said of some of us Why have ye not beleeved O yee of no Faith And of the best of us O yee of little faith why did you doubt Our hearts have been wavering and moving up and down like a Ballance sometimes presuming sometimes distrusting as wanting that subsistence of faith which fixeth the heart and maketh a stablenesse and staiednesse of the soule It remaines that we make the right use of this notable worke of Divine Providence To this purpose from the text and from that which followeth after and goeth before about the same subject I shall propose three very necessary duties and what may serve either for reproof or comfort shall be intermixed and for brevity be taken in with the duties The first we may learne from that which followeth verse 33. Then they which were in the Ship came and worshipped him saying Of a truth thou art the Sonne of God They neither envie Peter nor conceive any indignation against him for his prerogative in walking upon the Water which was not granted unto them nor doe they adore or admire him knowing that without Christ he could not have been able to save himself For they had seen him beginning to sinke and had heard him cry out Lord save me only they fell downe before Christ adoring him and give him this great testimony Of a truth thou art the Sonne of God They who before through the hardnesse of their hearts had not considered the Miracle of the Loaves Marke 6. 52 did by this miraculous worke know him and knowing him they worshiped him Nor did Christ reject their testimony but by his silence consented unto and sealed the truth of it c The same duty is required of us all No man is to envie those Worthies whom the Lord hath honoured to be instrumentall in this great worke The Lord doth what and by whom he will and whom the Lord honoureth it becometh us to honour which if we grudge to doe the Lord will honour them the more Againe no man ought to offer the fat of the Sacrifice or the principall praise of the day unto the instruments Did not many of them at first begin to sink and as many times before so all of them at that time were constrained to cry out Lord save us but we must all and they also with us fall downe before Christ our Saviour and great Deliverer and with one heart and voice say and sing Of a truth thou art the Son of God which he will admit as a praise due unto his Name and acceptable unto him that hee may have a Name above every Name The humility of Gideon in answering the pride of Ephraim was no lesse commendable then his courage against Midian when hee said unto them What have I done now in comparison of you is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better then the vintage of Abiezer It was the wisedome of Scipio the Roman Generall when two of his Souldiers contended about the Crowne due to him who first scal'd the walles so hotly that the whole Army was in danger to be devided so to detirmine the question that the Crowne was given to them both both having as he affirmed climed the wall together It is observed by the learned for a rule that in a contest for priority and praise when each party from self-love taketh the first place unto himself or from partiality giveth it to him whom he affecteth that he who unanimously hath the second voice is to be preferred before all Upon this ground the sect of the Academiques amongst the Philosophers hath beene esteemed the best because both the Stoicks and Epicureans doe give their voice to the Academiques next unto themselves If a Generall of an Army should examine his chief Commanders who next themselves did best in battell it were like that he who had the second voice were of the greatest merit and yet they observe a fallacy and reprehension heere for men cunningly doe incline to give testimony next themselves unto those that are not like to come in their way or to stand in their light There needeth no such contest amongst us Let all men falling downe give the praise unto God and be content that the work is done and they have been faithfull in their performances What hast thou which thou hast not received What hast thou received which might not have been given to another and which may not for thy pride and emulation yet be taken from thee and given to another I know the distinction and difference which Moralists make betwixt emulation and envy that emulation hath place in the greatest and most magnanimous spirits that hee maketh them to covet and seek after the best gifts that it affecteth the minde with griefe not because another is unworthy of that which he hath for that is indignation nor because another hath that which himself wanteth for that is envie but because thou wantest that which another hath which beseemeth thee to have no lesse then him and which by thy industry and the blessing of God thou mightest have attained or may yet attaine unto As when a Godly man is grieved that with other Martyrs of Christ for whose constancy in the Truth he rejoyceth he hath not also been partaker of the glory of Martyrdome Or when a Souldier is grieved that with his fellow-souldiers whose courage and successe he congratulates he had not a hand in the glorious victory against the enemy I denie not but such a pure emulation may be found in regenerate hearts and that there may be somewhat like unto it in a Themistocles that could not sleep when he began to think of the Trophees of Miltiades d Yet would I have it acknowledged that as emulation and envy are often expressed by one word in both the Originalls so doth it come to passe that emulation such is the base corruption of our nature doth often degenerate into envy and seldome is it seen that he who is much emulous is not somewhat envious e Some kinds of sinnes doe reign and rage most in the time of Peace and Prosperity another sort in time of Warre and Trouble but envy findeth matter to work upon at all times It is a Monster of many