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A44826	The benefit of a well-ordered conversation as it was delivered in a sermon preached June 24th. 1682. On a day of publick humiliation. As also a funeral discourse upon the three first verses of the third chapter of Isaiah; occasioned by the death of the worshipful Major General Denison; who deceased at Ipswich, Sept. 20. 1682. By Mr. William Hubbard. To which is annexed an Irenicon or a salve for New-England's sore: penned by the said major general; and left behind him as his farewell and last advice to his friends of the Massachusets.	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.; Denison, Daniel, 1613-1682. Irenicon.	1684 (1684)	Wing H3208; ESTC W9576	81,919	262

present Generation of New-England upon the enquiry if they be such as order their way aright It is now a day of rebuke a time of Jacobs troubles he is brought very low by whom shall he arise It is Gods Salvation alone that we must expect and who are they that shall be assured to see that They are only such as order their Conversation aright Our fore-Fathers did approve themselves as such and accordingly they were made to see Gods Salvation they had as many Enemies met with as many dangers encountred with as many difficulties yet God delivered saved them out of all Do we that are yet surviving and coming on so order our way that we may say or hope we shall be made to see the salvation of God We were at the first planted a righteous Generation and noble Vine do we so continue Of all the Reformations that ever yet began in the World there have been but a very few observed to continue above an hundred years in that splendor and brightness with which they were at the first set forward Take for instance those of antient time before or since the Gospel began That of David and Solomon Asa and Jehosaphat Hezekiah and Josiah lasted but their time That of the Maccabees did not out-live their time at least in the beauty of it That of the Primitive Church was not so much a reforming as a new planting of the Church in Gospel Order when the night of Heathenish darkness and Jewish Ceremonies was quite spent and the day of the Gospel was at hand But the Reformation of Constantines time scarce continued in its primitive lustre and glory a full hundred years before a great degree of Apostasie appeared for t is said The Woman fled into the Wilderness after the birth of her Man-child that was to rule the Nations with a rod of Iron She hasted into the Wilderness where she was to continue 1260 dayes prophetical dayes which are so many Julian Political years It is to be supposed that the Church was some considerable time going before she was quite gone into the Wilderness The day of this last Reformation began first to break out in the time of Wickcliffe but it was not perfect day till Luther's time from whose dayes to the present time who ever takes a view may easily determine whether in the Nations that first embraced the Protestant Religion there be the same measure of Piety Zeal Holiness as was at the first In what integrity Geneva hath stood since Calvin's time is not unknown to many of them who are carrying on the Work of the present Generation As for our selves here in New-England we were or might have been set in the right way having no prejudicate Opinion or practice to forestal our Judgments but had the help of all the former ages and other Nations as well as our own Godly and Learned Divines in them to take pattern and example from in the laying our first Foundation both of Religion and Righteousness Doctrine and Discipline Church and Common-wealth Our first Rulers and Leaders in both were careful to order all things according to the pattern in that Mount Children that would not lye so God became their Saviour saving them from forreign and intestine Foes If we that are their posterity be found Children that will lie deny our first principles either in Faith or manners how can we expect that God should be our Saviour Now compare things 1. In the first place They sought first the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof and waited upon God for addition of such other things as he judged necessary They came not hither for the World or for Land or Traffick but for Religion and for liberty of Conscience in the Worship of God which was their only design and accordingly God blessed them and gave them the desire of their hearts they had the priviledges of God's Kingdom to their great content and satisfaction he added outward things above what was or could be expected in a Wilderness and when the first way of supply began to be stopped up God in his merciful providence opened another by turning us into a way of Trade and Commerce to further our more comfortable subsistence So God was pleased to bless our Issachar in his Tents and our Zebulun in their goings out who still called the People to the mountain and offered Sacrifices of Righteousness while they did thus like Solomon that sent his Ships to Ophir which brought in that which was of necessary and of substantial use God blessed them and made them see his salvation but when men could not content themselves in such a way of dealing but Traded only for Apes and Peacocks as was said by Mr. C. that is brought in nothing but Sack and Sugar Commodities to make fuel for Lust and called young people not to the mountain of the Lords house but to our own private recesses to offer Sacrifice to Bacchus and Venus and burns Incense to the evil Fiend hath not God broken our Ships at Ezion Geber and is he not now laying the Axe to the root of our Religion as well as Civil Rights and Liberties and begins to cut us short every way Hath not God called to contend by Fire and by Water by Famine and by Blasting Mildew Sword and Pestilence and is not his hand stretched out still Our Estates and Persons are spoiled by Murderers and barbarous Mahometans and it is to be feared the Lords controversie is not yet ended The Daughters of our Sion walks with stretched out necks c. And may we not find an Inventory of our Virgins Wardrobes in the third Chapter of Isaiah The Ensignes of Pride are exalted in our high places and all the produce in a manner of the whole Countrey is converted to maintain a commerce of superfluous vanities God threatens not to save but severely punish the Minister and Schollar the Mistriss and her Hand-maid for such thing as these yea to cut off the Tabernacles Jacob for such things as these 2. That Generation were zealous for the Worship of God they would by no means admit of any mixture of humane Inventions with divine Institutions in the matter of Gods Worship When they came over hither they were as Rasa Tabula fit to receive any Impression from the spirit of truth either as to Doctrine or Worship It might have been said of them in way of commendation that they could not bear them which were evil and seducers from the way of truth and that they tried them which said they were Apostles and were not and did find them Liars They also hated the deeds of the Nicholaitans which were also hateful to the spirit of the Lord Jesus They kept the word of Christs patience they were also kept from the hour of Temptation None were suffered among them to wear a rough Garment to deceive but they were ready to shew the wounds which they received in the house of their Friends none were

whose Faith and charity would have been a Soveraign Alexipharmacon in our contagious distempers Our Divisions in these matters verifie the predictions of the Bishops and Presbyterians that we would not agree must moulder away not having or not acknowledging any way to determine our differences will justifie them in their steadiness to their way of order though with some defects in it because no other can be agreed on all this to the scandal of our Profession and the dishonour of God Lastly As for the present it renders the place undesirable to any godly heart so it exposes us to the utmost hazard of the loss of what we desire to enjoy many expecting but a breach wherein they might with more facility enter upon us and then Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine habetur Such Congregational men and such Presbyterians will be esteemed alike I conclude with the indubitable Testimony of the truth it self A Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand En quo discordia cives perduxit miseros 4. The Causes 4. Omitting the just and righteous hand of God who for the punishment of our wantonness and abuse of Liberties and other Evils hath sent a fire from Abimelech to devour the men of Shechem and a fire from the house of Shechem to devour Abimelech I shall mention two blameable efficient causes of our Malady the one without us the other within us 1. We need not make search for a Jesuite the Authors and Fomenters of Discord in the Christian World their Father and Master the arch Enemy of Christ and his Church needs no such subordinate Instruments to work his own ends in our ruine being warned we should not be ignorant of his devices what the red Dragon cannot effect by force and violence the subtile Serpent will attempt by deceit Woful experience convinces us what he effected by the one upon our first Parents and what he attempted most impudently upon the Son of God our blessed Saviour both wayes by Herod and immediately by himself is well known with the same rage and malice hath he in all Ages prosecuted the members as he did the head he goes up and down seeking whom he may devour the Scripture saith it and experience of all ages do witness the Man Child was no sooner born but the red Dragon stood ready to devour but failing in that attempt and finding the blood of the Saints was the Seed of the Church he soon betakes him to other Weapons by sowing Errors Heresies Divisions and Discord by which means driving the Woman into the Wilderness he became Dominus fac totum and who is like to the Beast and all the World wandred after him since the Reformation what Coesar could not effect by force viz. divide the Protestants he wrought by his cunning under the Names of Lutherans and Calvinists the latter how he hath subdivided animus meminisse horret is too well known that one of these parties should again multiply the division cannot be sufficiently bewailed nor effected in New-England after so much experience the persons now litigating have had of the piety and faith of each other the Cananite and Perezite being in the Land without the impulse of Satan who having had his Throne here for many ages past will not easily be dispossessed but will vent the utmost of his rage policie and devices to recover his hold and avenge himself of those that go about to disturb him and erect a Kingdome opposite to his It cannot be forgotten how subtilly and forcibly he assaulted us by the Antinomians commonly called New-Opinions and that when we were in our full strength and vigor how hardly we made good our ground though led on by skilful and learned Leaders yet could not come off without loss the Trophies of which victory he hath erected within our view which yet remain Proh Dolor to the shame and scandal of our Profession after that he hath most incessantly alarmd us of the first by the Gortonians Muggletonians and other Elves and Hobgoblins but since more slily by the Anabaptists and more violently by the Quakers and lastly but not less dangerously because within our very Bowels by our dear Friends Brother sharpening his Sword bitter words against Brother now Presbyterians Semi-Presbyterians Apostates on the one side Independents Seperatists Morellians Semi-nab Aaptists and less offensively Anastates on the other side brave sport for Satan whose design is to ruin us thereby who loves to warm himself by the sparks of our fire as one saith shall we conspire with Hell and be Legionaries to the Prince of Darkness Be not ignorant of his Devices 2. The Cause within us is in general our corrupt natures we must acknowledge our Father was an Amorite and our Mother an Hittite and we are renewed but in part the remainder of the old Man unmortified will manifest it self but the next and proper immediate Causes of our Distempers are 1. Pride and Self-conceitedness they are rarely separated every proud man thinks well of himself and commonly better than he deserves every wise man hath a modest Opinion of his own worth yea can prefer another before himself by Pride comes contention and an exalted Opinion of a mans own excellencies will make him violent and injurious to any that do oppose him and cannot subscribe his Dictates or admire his worth Pride like Scum will float uppermost must have the Wall or justle for it the Moralists allow some grains of it to greater parts and acquirements at least as tolerable but in meaner abilities decry it as loathsome and grievous such as wanting the principles of Knowledg and being led by Appetite and Interest which quenches those tender sparks of reason Adam hath left them are like to be very bad discerners of truth but are easily deluded into mistakes They will be ignorant in nothing omne scibile is scarce an adequate object of their knowledge and in all questions and causes Ecclesiastical and Civil can as confidently and magisterially deliver their determinations as if they professed the chair The modest Dr. Sibs speaketh of such in these words When blindness and boldness ignorance and arrogance weakness and wilfulness meet together in one it renders men odious to God it maketh them burdensome in society dangerous in their counsels troublers of better designs untractable and uncapable of better direction miserable in the issue and therefore adviseth them to know their parts and place and not to enterprize any thing above their measure which makes both their persons and their case obnoxious to scorn But are these qualities to be found among us No where men discovered according to the varieties of tempers and humors considering our feeble temptations and high professions omitting those lesser yet idle vanities glistering in the outward garb of many where have you a people less regardant of the judgment determinations of their Leaders in Church and except it be in some Paroxism where do men of worth weigh so little but because we