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A10216	Ieremiahs teares, or A sermon preached in York-minster vpon Trinity Sunday, in the yeare of our Lord, 1604 when the sicknes was begunne in the cittie. By Thomas Pullein vicar of Pontefract, sometime chaplaine of New Colledge in Oxford.; Jeremiahs teares.	Pullein, Thomas.	1608 (1608)	STC 20493; ESTC S106092	19,134	44

Whereof it is easie to gather howe much a do the prophet had with the way-ward people hauing no common rule to direct them either for the worship of God or for the leading of their liues but euery man liuing as himselfe liked best both corrupting the seruice of God with their Idolatrous inuentions and defiling their conuersations with horrible sinnes And after that when the Booke of the Lawe was found and publickly authorized by godly King Iosiah the people for all that became not much more tractable though for his time reduced to some better order yet afterwardes like false-hearted Apostataes they vtterly reuolted to their olde superstitions and loosenes of life And straunge it is to consider what contradiction the holy prophet founde among that stif-necked people who neither regarded the Lorde that sent him nor the Ambassage hee deliuered nor the iminent calamities which were ready to fal vpon their heads None of all these thinges could make their stonie harts to repent but on the contrary they raysed vp troubles and persecutions against the prophet shutting him sundry times in prison sundry times seeking his life they remoued him from one dungeon to another where his feet stucke fast in the myre in so much that he could not bee gotten out till hee was drawne vp with ropes as we see in the 37. 38. chapters And yet notwithstanding he was not dismayd but patiently endured al these afflictions and hauing constantly continued in the faithfull discharge of his propheticall function for the space of more then 40. yeares together at length as it is recorded of him he was stoned to death in Egypt by those Iewes that wer fled thither for feare of the Chaldaeans But now to approch nearer vnto our text When Isaiah that excellent prophet of the Lorde who had bin vehement in rebuking the sinnes of the people had laboured most earnestly to bring them to repentance could not preuaile with all his Trauayle but lost his labour and spent his strength in vain hauing continued prophesying about the space of threescore yeares what hope could our prophet Ieremiah conceiue who succeeded him to preuaile more with that obstinate people then his predecessor had done being both seruants of the same Lord both employed in the same affayres and both ayming at one marke which was the repentance of the people and theyr preseruation from destruction depending vpon their repentance Our prophet therefore as hee was later in time and the destruction of the Iewes nearer at hand so his care was the greater to frame and compose himselfe in speaking to the Iewes after such a sort as his speech might most deepely pierce the very sinnewes of their harts and transfuse it selfe into the marrow of their soules not that he hoped to atchiue any greater maters with them then Isay Ioel his predecessors had done but to make them inexcusable before God and that themselues might acknoledge the Lord to deale most iustly with them when they should feele the rigor of his iudgements hauing bin thereof so often fore-warned This therefore is the cheefest point in Ieremiah his doctrine to be obserued that nowe no hope of pardon was left vnto the Iewes they had so long despised mercy that now vengeance was come and therefore they were to looke for nothing but to feele the waight of Gods heauy indignation And for this they were to thanke themselues for thogh God be ful of patience long suffering and is loth to punish sinners when they do offend yet hee will not alwaies suffer himselfe to be mocked his iustice wil not alwaies be sleeping but at length wil rowze vp it selfe like a ramping Lyon and who is able to indure the fiercenes thereof Though he giue his people a long time to repent sende his seruants to call them to inuite them to intreat them to wo them as a man doth wo a Virgin whom he would make his wife promising that hee wil be merciful to their sins and not remember their iniquities that he wil deal with them in the greatnes of his loue not in the rigour of his iudgement that he will receiue and embrace them as his deare children bestow al good things vpon them both in this life in the life to come if they will amend their liues turn vnto him yet when they wil not be reformed when they remaine impenitent incorrigible and do harden their harts against al these louing gracious admonitions how can the lord do lesse then make them know and feele that as he hath aboundance of sweet mercies laid vp in store for them that feare him so his treasure is not without sharpe arrows swords and al kind of weapons to gore the harts of al his enemies Seeing then the Iewes were such how could the prophet Ieremiah do lesse then sounde out the trumpet of Gods wrath thunder out the threatnings of Gods indignation against them But what did not Isay before him denounce the iudgementes of God against the Iewes Yes verily but with this difference that Isaiah as he was vehement so with his threatnings he alwaies mingled words of comfort and gaue hope of pardon vpon amendment but Ieremiah whē neither Isaiahs preaching would moue them nor the example of their bretheren whom the Assyrians had caried away captiues hauing vtterly destroied their kingdom could work any remorse in their harts Ieremiah after al this seeing the Iewes obstinatly giuen ouer to hardnes of hart he tels them plainly that he must not now dissemble with them but as they were obdurate in their malice without hope to bee reclaimed so they must nowe prepare themselues euer to beare the burthen of Gods wrath without hope to be released And we may further say that God by the prophet Isay did expostulate with the Iewes hee pleaded hys cause against them and brought them to their tryall but by Ieremiah he conuinceth them he findes them guilty and giues sentence against them that sentence was performed euen in Ieremiahs time who saw with his owne eyes the execution thereof Seeing then that the decree was passed theyr destruction determined and the sentence irreuocable Admonitions were vnprofitable exhortations were vnfruitfull to pray for them was forbidden Thou shalt not pray for this people neyther lift vppe cry or prayer for them neither entreat me for I will not heare thee sayth the Lord. Ier. 7 16. This was the cause that our prophet heere frames himselfe to mourne lament and bewayle the misery destruction and calamity of the Iewish Nation Oh that my head were ful of water c. And because this Citty and this land hath bin as much blessed of God as euer Iudah Ierusalem was and the Lordes Gracious care to call you to repentance that ye might not perrish in your sinnes hath beene as great ouer you as euer it was ouer them that so many excellent Preachers indued with such variety of gifts haue been sent vnto you

Ieremiahs Teares OR A Sermon Preached in York-minster vpon Trinity Sunday in the yeare of our Lord 1604. when the sicknes was begunne in the Cittie BY Thomas Pullein Vicar of Pontefract sometime Chaplaine of New Colledge in Oxford Oh that they were wise then they would vnderstand this they would consider their latter end Deut. 32. 29. LONDON Printed by William Iaggard for Clement Knight 1608. To the Honourable Robert Askwith Lord Mayor of the Citty of Yorke and the Right Worshipfull his Graue Associates and Brethren the Aldermen all spirituall Graces with wordly Prosperity in this life and eternal happines in the life to come HAuing of long time conceiued a purpose my good Lord to giue some publicke Testimony of my Loue to your Honourable Citty the place of my byrth J began now in the latter end of your Lordships yeare to consider that J could neuer haue a fitter opportunity for the accomplishment of my desire Whereupon beeing loath to vse any further delay in letting passe so good an occasion neere lost already I was forced in hast the time so requiring to looke vp my old Papers to see if I could finde any thing worthy to present vnto your Lordship And while I was thus occupied I bethought my selfe of that Sermon which heeretofore I made in the City when it was newly visited with the late contagious sicknes being drawn thither at the earnest request of a Worshipful friend And this J thought the fittest to publish at this time for sundry causes First to put vs in mind of the manifolde Gracious and Fatherly benefites wherewith God hath blessed vs aboue al the Nations of the Earth and how we haue abused the same Secondly to set before vs the horrible sins wee haue committed with our monstrous vnthankfulnesse against his Maiesty Thirdly to renew a fresh the remembrāce of his seuere Chastisements lately but most iustly inflicted vpon vs which we seeme to haue vtterly forgotten And lastly to admonish vs that if neither his blessings nor punishments wil moue vs to repent amend our liues hee hath yet more fearefull iudgements to astonish our rebellious harts vtterly to make an end of vs which though we haue escaped the plague do still threaten our ruine and destruction All which points I had rather should be obserued out of the sermon it selfe then trouble this place with the repetition therof The reason why I haue deferred this vnto the end of your yere was because I had partly heard by generall report partly seene with mine owne eyes how honorably you haue performed your Office and passed your yeare with as much credit applause as any of your Predecessors I coulde not but reioyce in your Lordships behalfe for a Testimony of my Gratulation bringe with me this pore present to the shutting vp of your yeare not doubting but your Lordship will take the same in good part And thus honorable and right Worshipfull commending this small exercise to your diligent reading carefull practise with my harty Praiers to the Lorde for the continuance of his blessings vpon your Citty that it will please him to replenish the people vnder your Gouernment with the knowledge of his heauenly truth and feruent loue of his holy Gospel framing their harts in obedience thereunto to their eternal Saluation I humbly take my leaue Pontefract this first of Ianuary 1607. Your Lordships and Worships to command in the Lord Thomas Pullein Ornatissimis viris omni doctrinarum genere imprimis conspicuis D. Custodi Socijs caeterisque Alumnis Collegij Noui apud Oxonienses debita vnicuique obseruantia DVodecim plus minus elapsum est annorum interualum doctissimi viri et fratres plurimum obseruandi ex quo insignis vestrae domus Capellanus eforo Collegij vestri in vineam Dominime contulerim Quales exinde labores susceperim non dignos seuseo de quibus dicam Hoc qualecunque opusculum si quid inde sit emersurum boni Ciuitas illa in qua natus fuerim et educatus cui labor etiam iste d●stinatus iampridem fuerat optimo iure sibi vendicat vt vbi lucem ipse primum conspexerim quod a me primo profectum est primum etiam in lucem prodeat Si quid tandem vos interpellem rogetis dicam verbo Nihil mihi visum est indignius quam vobis vel inconsultis velsaltem neglectis quicquam moum in publicum prodire Quicquid enim mibi est vobis acccptum fero vobisque animi qua maxime possum gratitudine refero Nullius autum rei magis sum cupidus quam vt vos labores meos siue hos siue alios in posterum fortassis edendos in vestram tutelam suscipere quod recte dictum fuerit aequi consulere si quid proficiendi studio deliquerim indulgenter condonare velitis Deus in studia vestra incumbat Spiritus sui gratia multosque e vestra societate dignos operarios in messem suam emittere dignetur Valete viri praestuntissimi meque alumnum Collegij vestri vestrum in sinum a linguis mordacibus confugientem suscipite fouete tueamini Pontefracti Calendis Ianuarij 1607 Vestra societati addictissimus Thomas Pulleinus Ieremiah 9. 1. Oh that mine head were full of Water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people AS God hauing tyed Abrahams faith and by tryall found it sincere in walking obediently vnto his will did plant his Church in Abrahams posterity being holie branches of a holy tree so this Church God woulde not leaue destitute of his further grace but as in mercy hee had freely chosen the same from among the rest so in his goodnes he blessed it aboue the rest He sent his Prophets from time to time as dilligent husband-men to employ theyr Prayers both earely and late for the dressing of hys Vineyard and to do all things which might serue to make it fruitfull that as hee had planted the same by himselfe so he might water it by his seruants giue the increase by his spirit Amongst these seruants of God whom the Lord had indued with the spirite of Prophesie some were employed specially among the Iewes consisting of the Tribes of Iudah and Beniamin some were sent to the ten Tribes of Israell which being reuolted from the house of Dauid were now become a seueral kingdome of themselues some exercised a more ioynt function concerning both the kingdome of Iudah Israell and some Prophecied more specially concerning forraigne Nations Of those Prophets whose commission was to preach vnto the Iewes our prophet Ieremiah was neyther the last nor the least who being indued with rare and excellent gifts of God as namely with feruent zeale inuincible courage and vnchaungeable constancy beganne for to prophecie in a most corrupt and daungerous time when the Booke of the Lawe was lost and neuer a coppie thereof extant for the instruction of the people