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A12983	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the second of Nouember. 1606. By Richard Stocke, preacher of Al-hallowes, Bread-streete, London	Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626.	1609 (1609)	STC 23276; ESTC S117808	42,660	92

this glorious and fearefull name the Lord thy God then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderfull and the plagues of thy seede euen great plagues and of long continuance moreouer he will bring vpon thee all the diseas●s of Egypt whereof thou wast afraid and euery sickenesse and euery plague that is written in this booke of this 〈◊〉 wil the Lord heape vpon thee till thou bee destroyed Levit. 26.21.22 23 24. Like to this is that in Leuiticus 26. where the Lord saith If you walke stubbornly against me and will not obey me I will then bring seau●n times more plagues vpon you according to your sinnes I will send wild beasts vpon you which shall spoyle you and destroy your carttell and make you f●we in number yet if by these you will not bee reformed by me but walke stubbornely against me then will I also walke stubbornelie against you and I will smite you yet seauen times more for your sinnes This also made the Prophet Esay in this chapter to repeate three times these words For all this the wrath of the Lord is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still as in the 12.17 and 21. verses And in the Gospel our Sauiour Christ said to the man that had beene sicke 38. 〈◊〉 5.14 yeares Goe thy way sinne no more least a worse thing happen vnto thee Out of which places it is apparant that the Lord brings heauier greater plagues vpon men Reason 1 when they profit not by lesser The reason of this is because there is neither equitie nor right in it that the Lord should go away as ouercome with the stubbornnesse and obstinacie of the people That were as if a Prince hauing a rebell standing out against him and beeing norable with a fewe to subdue him should giue ouer gather no more forces against him which to him were too much indignitie and dishonor So no reason the Lord giue ouer his armes til his rebells are brought in 2. Sam. 20.22 As Ioah would not giue ouer his siege against Abell till hee had the head of Sheba throwne ouer the wall So the Lord will not giue ouer his siedge against men till hee haue the heads of their sinnes cut off and cast away The second reason is that as it is a dishonour to God Reason 2 so it would be daungerous to men whom he should spare because if that be true in Ecclesiastes 8.11 Because sentence is deferred and not executed speedily therefore the harts of the children of men are fully set to doe euill Eel 8.11 If deferring of a sentence doe harden men in their sins then much more if God should remooue his iudgements and not renew them againe therefore lest he should harden them he will vndoubtedly renew them that he may reclaime them Thirdly the Lord must doe it Reason 3 whether he deale with his owne or with those that are none of his with his owne to cure them or the other to destroy them for so is the practise of Physitians and Chirurgians if they meere with a body harde to worke vpon and a setled disease they double the doses of their medicines and vse more violent meanes So the Lord will deale with his owne when he sindes them obstinate but if they be not his owne then must he doe it that he may shew his power that hee is able to abate and destroy whosoeuer stands out against him for these reasos or the like it is that the Lord whē he deales with obstinate men if lesse afflictions doe them no good he will bring greater and heauier plagues vpon them now hence doe arise many seuerall godly considerations and vses First Vse 1 this may make vs to feare nay bee assured of it that though God hath for the most part freed the land from this deuouring plagues Euen from the pestilence that walketh in the darknesse and the plagues that destroyeth at noone day Psal 91.6 saue that he hath a little returned to this Citie where he begunne yet are there more heauie and fearefull plagues and iudgements at our dores readie to breake in vpon vs for this that is here said is true and as it were spoken to vs by Esay For this is yet the state of the Citie refractary and obstinate as if they had conspired against God that doe what hee will they will still bee alwayes the same wicked as they have beene I speake generally for I doubt not but some fewe haue well profited by it Hosea 4.1 The Lord hath had a controuersie with the inhabitants of this Citie and he hath followed it hard almost for the space of these foure yeres But why did he thus trouble vs complained he without cause No assuredly For will a Lyon roare in the forrest when he hath no prey Amos. 3.4 For those sinnes which made him contende with Israel haue beene the cause of his controuersie with vs Cap. 41. Hosea saith the Lord had a controuersie with the inhabitants of the Land because there was no truth nor merey nor knowledge of God in the land by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring they breake forth and blood toucheth bloud There is no man who dare deny these least he reprooue the Lord for contēding causeleslie but some will say indeede these sinnes were amongst vs but since so many of vs fell the last plague we are fallen from them I would to God it were so then might we well hope the controuersie would end and that God would remooue his plagues from vs and renew them no more but alas who seeth not the contrary when that in Ieremie may well be verified of vs that the bellowes are burnt Ier. 6.2.29 the lead is consumed and the founder hath melted in vaine for the wicked are not taken away How should we then not feare greater iudgements But to goe a little further there are foure sinnes which brought the iudgements of God vpon Sodome first and after vpon Israel and made the Lord take away that people at his pleasure and sweepe them away as the dust of the earth and they were Pride Idlenesse f●lues of bread and contempt of the poore which sinnes in this land and in this Citre haue 〈◊〉 the cause why God hath swept away so many thousands of vs. And if these sinnes be still in the land and not remooued what hope is there but that there are more fearefull plagues hanging ouer our heads These soure sinnes are the begetters one of another Pride commonly begetts idlenes Pride and Idlenes hegette Fullnesse of bread for that is one part of Pride to haue a table richly deckt and furnished and whereas labour would bee satisfied with a little yet idlenesse is a deuourer now pride idlenesse and fullnesse of bread breede Contempt of the poore for where these are there can be little reliefe for them For if the rich man fare deliciously euery day and goe in purple and fine linnen there

limmit of the time vvill not suffer me to run through all The dependaunce of these vvords vpon the former is thus Coherence In this chapter are contained tvvo things First comfort and consolation to the godly from the first verse to the eighteenth Secondly iudgement and threatnings menaced against the vvicked and obstinate from the eight verse to the end but so as before he threatens the rod he tells them in the eight verse that he had sent his word vnto Iacob and it had lighted vpon Israel and hauing called them by his vvord and they vvould not be gathered and hauing indeuoured to bring them in order and they vvould not be reformed then according to that in the prophet Heare the rod and who hath appointed it Mich. 6 9. In the eleuenth and tvvelue verses of this chapter the Prophet threatens a heauie and grieuous iudgement that God should bring vpon them an enemie that should deuoure them vvith open mouth and because they profitted not by that iudgement he saith in the tvvelue verse The wrath of the Lord is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still the reason of it is giuen in the 13. verse and iusinuated in the 14. verse because the people haue not returned to the Lord that sinit them neither doe they seeke the Lord of hastes therefore he will cut off head and taile branch and rush c. Herein vve may obserue 2. things 1. the denouncing a Iudgement 2. the causes vvhy the Lord vvould bring it vpon them In the iudgement are 2. things to be considered 1. the generalitie of it 2. the impartialitie of it The generalitie because the Lord vvil cut off head and taile The impartialitie is double 1. because he vvill as vvell smite the head as the taile the braunche as the rush the great as the small 2. because hee vvill principallie smite the heads as those that vvere the cause of all the corruptions that vvere in the body The 2. is the causes and they are 2. First is general because the people had not profited by former iudgements and lesse afflictions therefore they should haue a 2. and 3. vvoe in the first vvord Therefore The 2. is a particular cause in the 16. verse because the leaders of the people caused them to c●re and the people vvere content to bee misled by them therefore shall they bee deuoured all together So much for the coherence and diuision of the vvords And novv for the meaning of the vvords Therefore the Lord will cut off c. That is because the people haue not benefited by the former iudgements and afflictions to turne to God by repentance many of them onely seeking the Lord by mourning and fasting and sackcloth in outward show which is but as much as hipocrites may doe but fewe or none of them were sound to forsake their sinnes and turne to God by true repentance therfore saith the Lord I wil cut off head and taile c. The iudgement is God will cut off and destroy with a generall iudgement and consusion the whole state and the whole land for this sinne For to imagine as some do that the magistrate is called here the head because the head is the seate of sense and beginning of motion I take it it is besides the intent of the Prophet in this place and that he meerely intendes to note a generall consasion and plague that should spread ouer the whole body from the toppe of the head to the sole of the foote and 〈◊〉 one should be spared And not onely so but as it is saul that his iudgements are generall so they should be without partialitie God would out off as well the head as the taile the weake and feeble rush that hangs downe the head the stronge braunche that is high and mightie and therefore in the 15. verse hee tells vs whom hee meanes by head and whom by taile The head is the auncient and honourable and the taile is the Prophet that teacheth lyes Here is another part of Gods impartialitie obserued whereas the magistrate and the minister were the cause of the corruptions and cuill manners of the people therefore the Lord will smite them both and because these too conspired together the magistrate deceiued by the false Prophets slattering and fauning vpon him telling him of his insinite maiestie his absolute greatnesse and power to doe what hee list where he list and punish whom he list and being so perswaded by him because of his power he thinkes any thing is lawfull for him to doe and on the other side the lying Prophet because he had gotten fauour and countenance with the magistrate he thought that he should settle his neast so sure that he should haue no hurt whatsoeuer came thus saith the Lord because they haue agreed together the one to deceiue and the other to be deceiued herefore they shal be destroyed both together The leaders of my people cause them to erre c. Here is the particular reason why God would destroy them because there was deceiuers amongst them and they were willing to be deceiued as if he should say I set ministers ouer my people that they should lead them and teach them in the right way that they should learne knowledge out of the word and then teach it to others and teach them what they ought to doe and reprooue them when they doe that which is not fit and which they ought not to doe but on the other side they haue set their faces to get the applause and liking of the people preach onely pleasing and foothing things to please the care onely to get fauour and a name they therefore haue caused the people to erre and they that were lead by them are willing to be seduced therefore they shall bee deuoured together so much for the meaning of the words Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel c. The first thing is the generall cause of the iudgement that should come vpon this people which was because they had not sought the Lord nor turned to him nor profited by their former afflictions There the Lord would cut them off Doct. 1 The first thing that wee learne in these words is that this is the dealing of God with an obstinate and gaine-saying people when they doe not benefite by former and lesse iudgements that he layes vpon them to bring heauier and more fearefull plagues vpon them this is manifest euery-where in the word of God as Deut. 28. Deut. 28.45 Chapter and in verse 45. after the Lord had threatened a great many plagues against his people hee saith further that if this should doe them no good then All these curses shall come vpon thee and ouertake thee to destroy thee because thou obeyest not the voyce of the Lord thy God And in verse 58. c. The Lord saith If thou wilt not obey and doe al the words of this law that are written in this booke and feare