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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40725	Concio ad magistratum a nations honour, and a nations dishonour, or, A kingdoms prospective-glass : discovering who are the most faithful friends, and who the most dangerous enemies to the peace and prosperity of a kingdom / written by P. Fullwood.	Fullwood, P. (Peter)	1673 (1673)	Wing F2522; ESTC R7022	26,022	48

Parrellell how transient is all that is in the World the lust of the flesh the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life it is a peculiar priviledge of the Saints the fountain of whose happiness is sealed up and locked in the cabinet of Gods favour to be out of the reach of worldly power or policy the gates of Hell shall never prevail against them Righteousness likewise exalteth us from being an astonishment and a proverb and an hissing to all the Nations round about us to become a praise and a renown and a glory of all Lands God hath reserved the blood of the grape the choicest mercies for the Righteous Majora erunt S. Chrys praemia quam desideria Sanctorum the Society of the Saints shall be more than their Hunger their happiness Deut. 28. v. 1. shall outreach their desires If thou shalt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God to observe and do all his commandements which I command thee this day that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all Nations of the Earth So then we may see wherein the glory of a Kingdome consists not in outward Pomp and Ostentation but in the Establishment of Righteousness not with Dives to be arrayed in purple and fine Linnen of the Saints that is Righteousness this the Apostle accounted the chiefest 1 Pet. 3. v. 3. ornament whose adorning let it not be outward adorning or wearing of gold or putting on apparel but shew out of a good conversation our works with meekness of wisdome when the Mountain of the Lords house is exalted above the rest of the Hills when his Sabbaths are duly observed his faithful Ministers highly esteemed the preaching of the word and other sacred institutions of the Church duly observed then the glory of a Kingdome springeth forth So I come to the last step of this first general a Nation Righteousness exalteth a Nation Consider what beames of favour shine upon an House or Nation for the righteous sake was not Lebanus house blessed for Jacobs sake Aegypt fared the better for Josephs goodness no sooner Noah entred into the Ark but God opened the Flood-gates of Heaven and drowned the World no sooner Lot was taken out of Sodome but the Lord rained fire and brimstone upon them and burnt the City what lamentation when good Josiah the blessing of the Country was taken from them methinks I see our Kingdome weeping Raehel like for her children that have been lost some by forraign invasions some by domestick differences others by the plague and pestilence and were it not for those Righteous Persons amongst us whose entire devotions have out cryed the screeching of our sins we might justly fear the ruine of our Kingdome approacheth I shall wind up all with an exhortation to such as are in authority over others that they not only be Patterns but Patrons of Religions Rulers are a looking-glass according to which most men dress themselves Zenophon would have his Cyrus to go before others in industry and wisdome the common people are like a flock of Cranes as the first flies all the rest follow after then authority is truly arrayed when the superiority of the civil Power is for the good of inferiours and therefore you must countenance Religion as well as practice it It is not enough to pull down Dagon unless you secure the Ark. The main of your Authority is to make Religion to flourish keep as the Apple of thine eye and under the shadow of your wings against all those malignant spirits that wish all to our Sion so the Lord shall be your reward and crown your endeavours herein with the crown of righteousness in his Heavenly Kingdome Thus having set you upon Mount Pisgah to shew you the glory of the Land that is righteousness I come now to set you upon Mount Ebal to shew you the sinfulness of sin or the curses against it which leads me to the second general Sin is a reproach or a shame to any People 1. Here 's the Indictment and that 's against sin 2. The Sentence Sin is a reproach or a shame 3. The extent to any People Sin is a shame to any People of these in their order and first of the first Sin If any shall start the Question that started touching S. John baptism is it of heaven or of men touching sin is it from heaven by Gods creation or of men by mans defection The wise Eccles 7. v. 24. man determines the Question God made man upright but they have sought out many inventions Man by creation was of a Royal and Princely extract chara Dei soboles the off-spring of the Highest beautifyed with choicest ornaments of wisdome righteousnes and holyness but those conditions which God made him being not observed and his title forfeited to Justice by disobedience God re-enters Gen. 3. 34. and makes seizure of his Charter of happiness until the debt of Adam and those weighty arrears of disobedience were discharged So that by one man Sin entred into the Rom 5. 12. World and Death by Sin and so death passed by all men for that all men have sinned we all who have our descent from unclean seed are from our birth infected with the spreading Leprosy of sin who can bring a clean thing Job 14. v. 4. out of an unclean not one but besides that Primitive sin of Adams disobedience there are other derivations daily brought forth by actual transgression which seem so infinite as could we cast up the stars of the firmament or the sands of the Ocean we might pose all the numbers of Arithmetick yet we should come far short of an exact survey of our daily impieties and so is this guilt of this spreading evil as may make us lyable to the greatest mults and punishments for let guilt go before punishment will follow it at the heels which leads me to the second step of this second general sin is a reproach or shame reproach and contempt make such a deep wound in all those who have not whored their fore-heads as makes them cry out with Cain my punishment is greater then I can bear for a wounded spirit who can bear how many to avoid this have chose the worst of evils nay death rather than life It is better to dye honourably than to live ingloriously now this is the fruit that this tree bears what fruit had you of those things whereof ye are now ashamed Such are Subjects in Sin must be Objects Rom. 6. 21. of reproach and shame It it not the gibbet the gallows or the worst of deaths that can ecclipse the memory of an innocent life nor the vizard of outward profession can take away the obloquies of a sinful life it was a brand upon Jeroboam which neither age nor time can take away that he made Israel to sin the memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot and stink in the nostrils of

God and all good men then if any shall revive that old complaint what is the cause that the former times were better than these the Text gives Resolution it is sin sin is the snuff that dimmes all our light the leaven that defiles our passeover and renders us a Proverb and an hissing and astonishment to all our Neighbours Nations round about which to prevent currat paenitentia ne praecurrat sententia let us hasten our repentance that judgement do not overtake us before we be aware sin is of a shameful birth It is of the spurious race of Sathan the Father is an Amorite the Mother an Hitite ye are of your Father the Devil and his lusts will ye do he was a murderer from John 8. 44. the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the Father of it Selivius the great Turk upon revenge of his loss received of the Battel of Lepanto was resolved to put to death all the Christians within his Dominions and such is the Devils malice against all mankind for the loss of the favour of God and eternal happiness he seeks the ruine and destruction of them all your Adversary the Devil as a roaring 1 Pet. 5. 8. Lion walks about seeking whom he may devour An Athenian Curtizan boasted she could get all Socrates Schollers from him and he could never recover one of them again such as are the Schollars of Christ School had need take heed they be not drawn from God to sin for it is as hard to get out of his claws as for the Israelites to get out of Aegypts Bondage Again sin is a shame to our Profession Religion never suffered greater ecclipse then by the interposition of the enormities of Christians examples are the greatest load-stones to draw our Souls and of all none more prevalent that those that are evil This was the aggravation of Davids sin urged by the Prophet Nathan by this deed thou hast given great occasion 2 Sam. 12. v. 14. to the Enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the enormities of Christians was a main ●ause of the Mahometan Religion if the light be darkness how great is that darkness if the Salt have lost his savour that there is little hope that the unsavoury lives of Heathens Pagans or Infidels should ever be reformed Hell is not more contrary to Heaven than such prodigious impieties as swarm amongst Christians are to the inlargement of the Kingdome of Christ to purge out these evil humours which endanger the mystical body of Christ let us take out the Apostles direction let your conversation be such as becometh Phil. 1. 27. the gospel of Christ Sin likewise brings men to shameful ends what became of Pharaoh the tyrannical Achittophel the crafty Ahab the covetous Nebuchanezzar the ambitious Judas the treacherous their end was bitter as Wormwood and sharp as a two edged sword sutable to that of the Prophet thou dost set them in slippery Psal 73. v. 18 19 20. places thou castest them down into destruction how are they bronght into desolation as in a moment as a dream when one awaketh Which made the Apostle break through the cloud of his sinnes into this Emphatical exclamation O wretched man that I am who sholl deliver me from Rom. 7. 24. the body of this death O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to the impenitent when this Serjeant arrests them all the flowers of their Paradise fade away they that go out of this World without Christs pass-port shall go into another World without his wellcome shall be delivered up into the hands of that fearful sentence Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting flames prepared for the Devil and his Angles Consider with what shame and confusion of face impenitent sinners shall then appear before Christs Tribunal The Kings of the Earth and the rich men and the Revel 6. 15 16. chief Captains and the mighty men and every bond man and every free-man hid themselves in the Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and said to the Rocks and Mountains fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of the Lord is come and who may abide it Sin is like an old Bond that hath long lyen uncancelled when it comes to be called for the full will be exacted and use upon use therefore very seasonable was that advice of our Saviour agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou art in the way with him least Mat. 5. 25. the adversary deliver thee to the Judge and the Judge to the Officer and thou be cast into Prison thou shalt not come out till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing Then let us be as fearfull of the commission of sin as of the shame and punishment of it and take heed of the love of sin as well as the commission of it Take away the cause the effect will fall of it self this was the Antidote werewith holy Joseph expelled the poyson Gen. 39. v. 9. of his wanton Mistress temptation how can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Sustinere as well as abstinere was a resolution becoming a Christian if the fear of sin be once laid aside we shall not want allurements to invite us to it Eve shall have an Apple Esau a mess of pottage Achan a golden wedg Jonah a ship Judas thirty pieces of silver but let us say to such as Luther did to the Pope when he sent Cardinals to tempt with promises of promotion valde protestatus sum me molle sic satiari I said flatly I would not be satisfied with such things So I come to the third and last step of this second General viz. The extent to any People sin is a shame to any People No Person of what quality or degree soever hath any toleration for sin nor exemption from the shame or punishment of it the revolting Jews Jer. 1. v. 9 10 11 12 13. having tasted a full draught of Gods tender love fall into the praemnuire of his sharpest censure I will plead with you saith the Lord and with your Childrens Children will I plead pass over the Isles of Chittim and see and send unto Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing Hath a Nation changed her Gods for them that are no Gods but my People hath changed her glory for that which doth not profit be astonished O yee Heathens at this and be horribly afraid be very desolate saith the Lord my People have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters and chosen to them selves broken Cisterns that will hold no water Mans falling into sin is like the Children of Israels going into Aegypt they had all the favour that Pharaoh could extend to them all the