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A84939	The gale of opportunity. Or, A sermon preached (at Lidbury-North) at the funerall of the worshipfull Humphrey Walcot, of Walcot, Esq. June 8, 1650 and now published, by Thomas Froysell, Minister of the Gospell at Clunne in Shropshire.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing F2249A; ESTC R177209	46,742	52

maximā ignis iste Babilonicus obtineret vis ills fuit divinitū impedita ne se exereret ut quidem statim post exeruit absumens eos qui in fornacem eandem inijciebantur Kecker ibid. property of burning was not taken from the fire for then it had been no miracle what miracle is it for that thing not to burne which cannot burne The miracle therefore did not consist in taking away the naturall power of burning from the fire but in this that when the fire had the gratest heat and power of burning yet it could not burne them The fire had its full power and property to burne but could not exercise it what an honour was it to walke safe in the midst of the fire How did God magnify them that they should be in the fire and yet be safe from the fire the fire doth not kill them but kisse them the fire doth not consume them but court them and denies it self to give them courteous entertainment they walke in the fire as in a pleasant aire what honours are these put upon poor creatures they were bound hand and foot when they were cast into the fire and yet Nebuchadnezzar sees them walk the fire had heat to burne their bonds but not power to touch their bodies Had they mist this opportunity of suffering they had missed of this honour 3 Their suffering was the Churches honour and advantage it won great respect and honour to the Jewish Church and Religion Neluchadnezzar makes a Decree that no people shall speake any thing amisse of the God of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego Now their God comes into request with the King himselfe and their deliverance flying abroad upon the wing of fame makes their God famous and their Religion famous and their people the Jews famous How many taunts and derisions cast daily at the Jewes for their worship were suppressed by the severity of this Law Without doubt this D●cree was of speciall use for the comfort of the Jewes they had a sweet calme and Halcion time of peace and serenity upon it Ah! What honour and advantage brought they to the Church by taking this opportunity of suffering 4 And did not their suffering and their deliverance think yee strengthen the weak faith of their distressed brethren the poor Jews Did it not inspire them with corage root them deeper in the love of their Religion How many Heathens and Chaldeans might this great miracle of deliverance worke home to the true God Surely Nebuchadnezzars Decree made the learning of God famous among the Gentiles a speciall helpe to conversion as we may see in the three Magi or wise Matth. 2. men Ah my beloved your sufferings may be the conversion of others How willing would we be to preach a Sermon if we knew it would be the conversion of some Soul Let me tel you that thy suffering for Christ may be the best Sermon that ever thou preachest all thy life long and win more upon souls then all the Sermons thou didst preach in all thy life as we say that to live well is the best preaching I say also to suffer well is the best preaching To suffer for godlinesse is the most powerfull preaching of godlinesse He that can suffer best for Jesus Christ is the best preacher of Jesus Christ the best sufferer is the best Preacher Ah you Saints this way you may all be Preachers let your lives preach and let your sufferings preach Jesus Christ loose not your opportunities of suffering 5 I am sure also they will increase your future glory 2 Cor. 4. 17. every suffering will be a graine put into the scale of your heavenly glory to make it more weighty For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Oh! be for ever contented to have fellowship with Jesus Christ in all his sufferings It is said that the Saints have grace for grace with Jesus Christ be content also to have suffering for suffering with Jesus Christ you shall also have glory for glory with him if you have suffering for suffering you shall also have glory for glory with him Ah then Loose not your opportunities of suffering for Jesus Christ if you loose your opportunity of suffering you loose a part a beame of your glory your glory in heaven will be so much the darker 9 You that are young men that are the twigs and branches of youth you have blossomes of opportunities growing on you which if you neglect you shall never have the like againe There are opportunities that are married to youth which if you sever can never be united againe you have strength to serve Christ which old age hath not you have yet no cares of the world in your heads to keep out heavenly contemplations you are yet scarce in the world and therfore have not much of the world in you Oh drinke in heaven before you drinke in the cares of the world into your thoughts Fill your thoughts first with God before you fill them with the world fill your Sayles with the gales of Christ before they are filled with the aery vanities of the creature you have a great deale of your time before you when old men have their time behind them gone and past and but a little of it left before them 10 So there is an opportunity sometimes to save a whole Church which if we neglect we may never have the like again Such an opportunity came before Hester which if she had not look't it in the face and embraced it all the Jewes had been cut off at one blow by Hamans policy He had got the Kings Decree that the thing should be done If it please the King let it be written that they may be destroyed and the King tooke his Ring Hester 3. 9 10 11. from off his hand and gave it unto Haman and said unto Haman the silver is given unto thee the people also to doe with them as it seemeth good to thee The signet-Ring did represent the Kings authority and name and therefore when one gave his Ring to another he gave his power over to him to doe what he would in his name as Pharaoh took his Ring off from his hand and put it upon Josephs hand that Joseph might in the Kings name signe Decrees as Viceroy of Egypt and Alexander the Great when he was sick and lay speechlesse and saw no hopes of life took his Ring from his finger and gave it to Perdiccas to signifie as is thought that 't was his mind that Perdiccas should succeed him So Haman had got the Kings Ring to signe the fatall Decree And letters were sent by post into all the Kings Verse 13. Provinces to destroy to kill and to cause to perish all Jewes both young and old little children and women in one day Here the poor Church was at a dead lift Hamans teeming hopes were at the birth nay as

it were betwixt the wombe and the world and now here 's an opportunity now or never to step in and save the Church Save Lord now or never Hester takes the opportunity Who knows saith Mordecay to her whether thou art Hester 4. 14. come to the Kingdome for such a time as this Such a time which carries nothing but death in the wombe of it Such a time wherein the Jews as if all their necks had stood upon one shoulder were destined to the blow at this time Hester strangled the designe and saved the Church by taking the opportunity which had she neglected a thousand to one she her selfe had never escaped to have had the like againe 11 Sometimes there 's an opportunity given to reforme and purge a Land which if we neglect may never be given againe in our dayes as you may see in Judges the first and second Chapter in the first Chapter there you shall finde that Judg. 1. 21. 27. 29. 30. the Children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem but the Jebusiies did dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her townes and neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer and neither did Zebulun drive out the Inhabitants of Kitron nor the Inhabitants of Nahalol but the Canaanites dwelt among them and became Tributaries and what then see Judges 2. 1 2 3. An Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgall to Bochim and said I made you to goe up out of Egypt and have brought you into the Land which I sware unto your Fathers and I said I will never breake my Covenant with you and you shall make no league with the Inhabitants of this Land you shall throw downe their Alters but you have not obeyed my voice you have not apprehended the season and opportunity what then t is lost in your dayes and in your sons dayes for many generations For now I will not drive them out from before you I have said it it is now past cure but they shall be as thornes in your sides and their gods shall be a snare unto you And when the Angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel the people lift up their voice and wept they called the name of that place Bochin that is Weepers they wept so much because they had let slip their opportunity but all their floods of teares could not bring back the opportunity again nor turne the tide I pray God this be not Englands case time was when we had the opportunity to destroy the Canaanites Heresie Error Prophanenesse out of land but now the bird of opportunity is fled out of our hand She hath taken wing is fled away and gone and I feare me we shall not see her againe in our days the Scepter of Jesus Christ is the primum mobile of all good government set him up and his government right and he will set Stat●s right till this great wheel be set right all the lesser are like enough to goe wrong Ah England I am afraid of Ezek. 24. 13. that Text concerning thee Because I would have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shall not be purged from thy filthinesse any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee Let us now make application And first then Vse 1 Neglect not your opportunities of heaven make the best of your souls opportunities loose not opportunity for a world you have a world of opportunities loose not one opportunity for a world O you that have souls to save save your opportunities oh your soules oh your souls I am afraid of your souls 1 you loose your souls wee Ministers loose all our labour and Christ looseth all his blood that he hath shed for your soules and what account can you give to God for so much cost Most of you doe not value your souls worth the saving Many a man doth prize his Oxe or his Asse more then some men prize their soules 2 The Devils have lost their opportunities will you not take warning by the Devils if you will not take your opportunities you will shortly be as irrecoverable as the Devils 3 Opportunities iost cannot be bought againe for gold As Ahab could not buy Naboths Vineyard of him Naboth would take no money for it so opportunities lost cannot be bought back againe for money if thou wouldst bid never so high for them thou canst not have them upon any price thou canst not pray thine opportunities back againe thou canst not weep thine opportunities back againe as you may see by Esau he lost his opportunity and When afterwards he would have inherited Heb. 12. 17. the blessing he could finde no place of repentance though he sought it with tears Jacob was no sooner gone away with the blessing but Esau comes in with hope of the blessing the blessing was gone but one minute and yet cannot be recovered 4 Every opportunity thou loosest thou growest worse and worse thou art bad to day if thou loosest this opportunity Gen. 4. 6 7. thou shalt be worse to morrow as Cain God conversed with him as it were to day Why art thou wroth why is thy countenance fallen if thou doe well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou doest not well sin lyeth at the door but he was not bettered by this opportunity and presently he grew worse upon it Verse 8. for the next thing he did was he talked with his brother Abel and slew him 5 Salvation which these opportunities carry in their wombe is a transcendent birth a blessing of the first magnitude who would not be saved all things else are but shadows and trifles to this reality called Salvation Those are the sons of wisedome that contend for substance for God for heaven God is not a thing indifferent and Jesus Christ is no circumstance Honors ease worldly profits Istae divitiae nec verae sunt nec vestrae and pleasures all these these I say are in their nature things indifferent and being compared and put in the scale with Christ are lesse then things indifferent even toyes dreames losse dung meer nothings at best but fading things that passe away as a picture drawn upon the Ice which soon vanisheth They are meer accidents nay separable accidents that may be taken from the subject without its hurt a man may spare them and yet be happy but God is the Essence of the Soul the eternall Entity of our happinesse This is life eternall to know thee Ioh. 17. 3. the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent 6 It may be O Sinner that art now in thy sins it may be this very day even this particular Sermon may be thy day that if thou repent not at this very Sermon thou loosest eternall life for ever Thus Jesus Christ ended the day of grace on the Scribes and Pharisees