Public affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in…Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in…

Use 1. Of admonition to people, to take heed of this sin of murmuring and discontent. 1 Cor. 10. Neither murmur ye (saith the Apostle) as some of them murmured. It is questioned, how this was applicable to the Corinthians; Why should they murmur? And it is answered thus; The Corinthians were guilty of many foul and disorderly courses: now the false Apostles let them alone; but Paul he was resolved to come with the rod of discipline among them (as he saith): hereupon the Corinthians muttered, their sore eyes could not endure the Sun shining: And this is still the cause of the vexations and disquietness of men, that they cannot submit to the holy rules and ways of Christ. This made some heretofore call the Geneva Discipline the Spanish Inquisition; and all because men love their lusts and their pleasures even to death. Grudge not therefore under the difficulty of a Reformation. Think not, that God will cast England into a dead sleep, as he did once Adam, and take out of her side a ⟨p. 22⟩glorious Church, and she never know of it, or feel any pain. Consider how much the Antichristian party ventureth for their Idols and corrupt worship; how they, through many tribulations, enter into the kingdom of hell, and the kingdom of darkness suffereth violence by them: they deny themselves, and take up the cross, and follow Satan. O that we were as wise, as cordial, had as public affections for the truths and government of Christ, as they for Satan. Shall men bring their ear-rings to make a golden calf; yea, offer their sons and daughters to Molech? And shall not we be ready to do and suffer in the way God calleth for?

Use 1. Of admonition to people, to take heed of this sin of murmuring and discontent. 1 Cor. 10. Neither murmure ye (saith the Apostle) as some of them murmured. It is questioned, how this was applicable to the Corinthians; Why should they murmure? And it is answered thus; The Corinthians were guilty of many foule and disorderly courses: now the false Apostles let them alone; but Paul he was resolved to come with the rod of discipline among them (as he saith): hereupon the Corinthians muttered, their sore eyes could not endure the Sun shining: And this is still the cause of the vexations and disquietnesse of men, that they cannot submit to the holy rules and wayes of Christ. This made some heretofore call the Geneva Discipline the Spanish Inquisition; and all because men love their lusts and their pleasures even to death. Grudge not therefore under the difficulty of a Reformation. Think not, that God will cast England into a dead sleep, as he did once Adam, and take out of her side a