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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07544	Abrahams sute for Sodome a sermon preached at Pauls Cr[o]sse the 25 of August, 1611 / by Robert Milles, preacher of Gedny fenne, and Sutton St. Edmonds in Holland Lincolneshire.	Milles, Robert.	1612 (1612)	STC 17924.5; ESTC S4786	25,909	110

weepe with them that weepe And surely this affection and tender heart hath alwaies beene in Gods seruants as wee may obserue for Gods people their sinnes and punishment Thus zealous Moises when hee saw the people dauncing about the golden calfe brake forth for griefe in sorrow of his soule for their sinne Exod. 32.31 Either spare them O Lord or race mee out of the booke which thou hast written Thus Samuel mourned for Sauls reiection 1. Sam. 15 35. Thus the Prophet foreseeing in the spirit Gods iudgements hanging ouer the people for sinne Esay 24.16 cried out Razi li razi li O li bogedim bagedu vbeged bogedim bagedu that is My secret my secret woe is me The transgressours haue offended the transgressours haue grieuously offended Thus was Ieremie grieued in his spirit for Israel Iere. 8.21 I am sore vexed for the hurt of the daughter of my people And againe Iere. 9.1 O that mine head were full of waters and mine eies a fountaine of teares to weepe day and night for the slaine This compassion was in his brother Prophet Ezekiel 9.8 Ah Lord God wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in powring out thy wrath vpon Ierusalem And as pitifullie complaineth Daniel Dan. 9.16 O Lord according to all thy righteousnesse I beseech thee let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away Am. 7.2 Neither was the Thecoite Heards-man behind them in commiseration Spare I beseech thee for who shall raise vp Iacob for hee is small and so the Lord repented for this Ion. 4.5 Thus also Ionah solitarie in his cell and booth without the Citie-gate mourned for Niniuie Marke 3.5 Yea this liuely feeling of our brethrens infirmities was in Christ hiselfe who sorrowed for the hard heart of the Synagogue and prophecying the desolation of Ierusalem Luke 19.41 he wept ouer it And in his Maisters steps walked the Apostle Paul who wished himselfe to be seperated from Christ Rom. 9.3 for his brethren his kinsemen according to the flesh And lastly in this place righteous Lot 2. Pet. 2.8 who sate at the gate of Sodom was inwardly vexed for the Citizens sinnes and punishments menaced by God for the same Take this then blessed Brethren for a manifest signe of the childe of God and a true marke of a good man to be sory for his brethren and to grieue at their punishment for sinne But where shall wee single out amongst the sonnes of Adam a compassionate Abraham an humble suiter for Sodome or a man sorrowing for sinne in another Hagar indeed mourned for Ismael Iacob for Ioseph Ioseph for Beniamin the Israelitish virgins for Iephthaes daughter Marie for Lazarus and we for the deceasse and departure of our friends hinc illae lachrymae But if wee see our brother neighbour or familiar to be a vitious liuer wedded to wickednesse and sunke in sinne we salue it vp with Humanum est so that now adaies sinne in young men is nothing but a tricke of youth and in ould men an infirmitie of age and heere is all the reckoning wee make of sinne Cato the graue Senator of Rome was obserued neuer to laugh but once and that was when he espied out of his casement an Asse eating thistles that the sencelesse beast should take pleasure in pricks which should haue been spurres vnto him to take paines So we seeing our brethren eating vp sinne as bread and drinking iniquitie as water rather laugh with Democritus at their follies then with Heraclytus lament their faults Shall I speake plainely Those that make a Maygame of sinne in others laughing at a drunkard in the channell applauding a swaggerer in his blasphemies and as Dauid saith Psal 50.28 running with a theefe and taking part with the adulterer they are brethren to cursed Cham Gen. 9.22 who seeing his aged father in a drunken fitte blabbed it to his brethren in derision and contempt when rather he should haue concealed it and sorrowed for it The Elephant as naturall Historie testifieth if he meete a wounded person wandring in the wildernesse safely conducteth him therein and the like is fathered on the Dolphine who when Arion was cast into the Sea speedily conueyed him to the shore I could wish that after the president of our father Abraham in this place towards sinfull Sodome we were either Elephants or Dolphins in sparke of good nature one to another when rather wee seeme Lions and Dogs to pity one another to sorrow for anothers sinne and to pray one for another The neighbourly Samaritane Luke 10.34 to the poore passenger may teach vs this lesson his wounds resemble afflicted finners his descension from Ierusalem to Iericho his fallng from the Church of God his spoiling by theeues sinners ouerthrow by Sathan The Priest and Leuite which went aloofe Sunt mali Ecclesiae ministri saith Lyra Curantes tantum de leuatione pecuniae non sanatione culpae Like our Romish Priests which ease a man of his money but neuer heale his sin or helpe his soule Now the good straunger Infundens oleum misericordiae vinum iustitiae It is any good man mooued in pittie and piety at a sinners wretched estate who powreth in the oile of commiseration and wine of rightcousnes and vseth all meanes possible to reclaime him and cure his infirmities To this purpose tendeth the counsell of the Apostle Beare yea one anothers burden And as Christ stretched forth his hand Gal. 6.2 and caught fast hold on Peter when hee was ready through weaknes to sinkeon the sea So ought wee towards our sinfull brethren ouerwhelmed with the waues of wickednesse to haue compassion on them to lament their desperate condition and by our good aduise and counsell and comfort out of the word of God to saue their soules and this is to shew our selues with Abraham heere to be the children of Abraham Saint Augustine greatly approueth this worke and thus perswadeth vnto it Piaest illa tristitia alienis vitijs ingemiscere non adhaerere contristari non implicari dolore contrahi non attraht This is godly sorrow indeede to pittie mens sinnes not to be polluted by them to sorow for them not to sinke in them to be withdrawne in dolour not drawne vnto them by delight And when I consider how backward we are in this point of Christianitie to haue a patheticall feeling and liuely touch of a sinfull mans miserie and an inward griefe for iudgements due for their sinnes Then I remember Saint Bernard his complaint in his time for such defect of dnetie among men Cadit asinus est qui subleuet per it anima non est qui curet First the Asse falleth into the ditch and hee findeth a helper by and by but the sinfull soule perisheth and no man taketh care And herein we are like the base minded Gergesenes who had more care ouer their swine Matth. 8.25 then their soules O blessed brethren and Christian