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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88808	Three sermons viz. Davids tears for his rebellious son Absalom, Israels tears for Abners fall by bloudy Joab, infants tears for Athaliahs treason, / preached by S.L. a true lover of the church, his king, and country, in his country-cure.	S. L.; T. L.	1660 (1660)	Wing L66; Thomason E2129_2; ESTC R210253	75,004	185

among thorns and an apple-tree among the trees of the Forest Cant. 2. 2 3. yet being stricken upon the heart-vein he quarrels with every thing stood in his way and was in his eye he falls out with his mother that conceived him the midwife that helped to bring him into the world the night the light the day chap. 3. yea with God himself His distemper is so hot and virulent and violent upon him that no cords or banks or bounds can hold him David that did face a Lion killed a Bear conquer the huge Giant and overcame all his enemies was overcome and drunken with passion for the losse of his Absalom Vse Hence we learn what Babes and Weaklings and Striplings we are if we loose our hold from grace for as by faith so by grace we stand 2 Corinthians 1 24. 2ly That it is not mans merit but Gods free mercy saves him For what is man that he should be mindfull of him or the Son of man that he should regard him Psal 8. 4. there is nothing in him if well canvassed but repining and Rebellion against his Maker 3ly That if Jachin and Boaz the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel and the godly and faithful have such shrewd faults and foils and falls then how horribly and often do the wicked shoot their sharp arrows even bitter words Psal 64. 3. against God for their crosses 4ly In all our afflictions to follow God with our prayers to strengthen us with strength in our souls Psal 138. 3. that we may possesse our souls in patience Luke 21. 19. speaking with Job 12. 0. What shall we receive good from the hand of the Lord and not evil Blessed be the name of the Lord. Obs 3. From Davids wonderfull love to his son we gather that Gods love to his children is unmatchable As 't was said of Christ Acts 8. 33. Who can declare his generation so I may speak in this kind Who can declare his love to man Let us take a survey of it afar of as Moses did of Canaan and we shall but admire it and with John Rev. 17. 6. wonder with admiration 1. If we look into his first frame he was created after the image of God according to his likenesse Gen. 1. 27. and this was a most glorious condition like that which Saint Paul speaks of 1 Cor. 2. 9. which the tongue of man is not able to expresse nor the heart to conceive of 2ly He delivered into his hand the Soveraignty over all fish and beasts and all flying fowls and all things Gen. 1. 28. He was sole Monarch and commander in chief of the whole world there was none could hurt him till he hurt himself by sin so that like Israel Hos 13. 9. Perditio sua de se his destruction was from himself 3ly After his fall he raiseth him again with the promised Messiah Gen. 3. 15. which was a sure token of his love to send the son of his love to pay his debt for him by cancelling his Obligation Col. 2. 14. 4ly In Christ to bind up his soul in the bundle of life So that now thou mayest speak Why art thou so heavy O my soul why art thou disquieted within me Psal 42. 5. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world John 1 29. 5ly That he takes notice of his name as he did know Moses by his name and moreover write his name in the Book of Life Phil. 4. 3. 6ly If We look lower his love is manifested to mans body for it shall be clothed with glory For when Christ which is our life shall appear then shall we all appear with him in glory Col. ● 4. 7ly If we look yet lower his love is seen in the bones of man that he should keep them Psal 34. 20. 8ly If we look yet lower upon partes excrementitias his excrementitial parts his love to man is highly discovered as 1. In numbring of the hairs of his head Matth. 10. 30. 2ly In not suffering any of them toperish Luke 21. 18. 3ly In treasuring up our tears in a bottle Psal 56. 8. and in registring of them 4ly In wiping away all tears from all faces Isa 25. 8. 9ly In preserving him in his going out and coming in Psal 121. 8. and compassing all his paths and lying down Psal 139. 3. and directing his paths Proverbs 3. 6. 1. When man goeth out he may never come in more when he comes in he may never lie down or go to bed more when he goeth to bed he may never rise more as we have plentiful examples of each Now what a good God have we that undertaketh to be our Nurse and Keeper and preserver from all evil Psal 121. 7. 2. Paul may plant and Apollo water and man may eat the bread of carefulnesse rising early and going to bed late Psal 127. 2. but unless God directs him blesseth him he laboureth but in vain and spendeth his strength in vain like Isa 49. 4. and therefore let it be his wisdome when he goeth about any businesse or enterpriseth any thing to call upon God by Prayer to assist him direct him and prosper him as Abrahams servant did Gen. 24. 12. and then without all doubt he will make thee as successefull as him 10ly In giving entertainment to the sighs and sobs of a troubled spirit Israel could not grone but God heard it Exod. 2. 24. As the sin of the old world so the sighs of the afflicted ascend up to heaven and come before God and are so graciously accepted that he sets a mark on such as mourn for the abominations of the times Ezek. 19. 4. and their own miseries so that we may cry out with Paul Rom. 11. 33. oh the deepness of the riches of his goodnesse to man As for the Application I will refer it to the next point Obs 4. From the consideration of Davids love to his rebellious and wicked son Absalom I observe That much greater is Gods love to poor sinners Hear God himself pleading the case or cause between himself and Israel The people were bent to rebellion against him Hos 11. 7. that is set on mischief not caring what they did nor how they provoked him to anger Now God at last is awakened like a Giant out of wine with the crie of their sins and seems to deliberate the matter in these words vers 8. How shall I give thee up Ephraim How shall I deliver thee Israel How shall I make thee as Admah How shall I set thee as Zeboim mine heart is turned with in me my repentings are rouled together I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath I will not return to destroy Ephraim for I am God and not man and again Jer. 31. 20. Is Ephraim my dear son or pleasant childe yet since I spake unto him I still remembred him therefore my bowels are troubled for him If will surely have compassion on him If the words be well scanned what love of any