A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their public fast, Novemb.…A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb.…

First, here is consolation and encouragement unto all the¹ Saints and people of God. Wonder not that in a day of humiliation, I speak of consolation. Beloved, you are never² more fit to mourn for sin, then when you can rejoice in God. One grace makes way for another. It is the warm beams of Gods love and care must thaw our hearts. Two things that we are this day to do. To wrestle with God; To fight with our enemies. You cannot in your wrestling take better hold of God then by the skirt of a promise: you cannot fight better against your enemies then by faith. The Devil, with whom especially we fight in these wars, will not be killed with swords and knives; This is our victory whereby we overcome the world, even our faith. It is written in the life of Mr. Tyndale, that when he was in the Netherlands, there was a Conjurer that could command dishes of meat from several mens tables, so that he would invite his friend to a dish of meat from such or such a Princes table; divers going to see his exploit, Mr. Tyndale went with the ⟨p. 15⟩rest, if it might be, to hinder it; and when he came there, he set himself in a way of believing to hinder this Conjurers proceedings, which he did accordingly, for when that wretched man should have done his exploit, his hands were held by Mr. Tindall's faith, and he cried out and said, I cannot do it, there sits the man that hinders me, or to that purpose. What will not faith do, if good? What will it not hinder, if evil? I will not say that in these sad days of ours we have to deal with Conjurers, but surely with such persons as through their violence and thefts are able not only to command mens dishes off their tables, but all their goods out of their houses: Oh that we had but faith enough, we might³ soon believe them out of all their plundrings.

First, here is consolation and incouragement unto all the¹ Saints and people of God. Wonder not that in a day of humiliation, I speake of consolation. Beloved, you are never