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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77004	Occasus occidentalis: or, Job in the VVest. As it was laid forth in two severall sermons, at two publike fasts, for the five associated westerne counties. By Iohn Bond B.L. late lecturer in the City of Exon, now minister at the Savoy, London. A member of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572; Thomason E25_22; ESTC R4274	79,184	92

he hath given you which is greater the opportunity or occasion of laying out your abilities A good commodity and a good penny-worth are as great a benefit as a good purse Lastly he hath given you which is greatest of all an heart to give g 1 Chron. 29.12 13 14 15 16. David praiseth him for all these three for riches to build for an house to be built for God and for an heart to lay out those meanes in that worke all these three for one yee have freely received Math 10.8 and therefore freely give I shall adde but a word more 't is to mind you that the exiled Saints which sojourne amongst you are the chiefe auxiliaries of this City Flying Lot did preserve that City which preserved him and was a Zoar unto his owne Zoar so these men doe line your workes and double the files of all your Regiments and that partly by their presence but chiefly by their prayers for the continuall safety honour and happines of this great City which hath been the fountaine of Liberality and the Atlas of Parliaments and in this prayer he heartily joyneth who doth subscribe himselfe Your Servant in the Lord Iesus Jo. Bond. Savoy Ian. 20. 1644. Occasus Occidentalis OR JOB IN THE WEST JOB 19.21 Have pity upon me have pity upon me O yee my friends for the hand of God hath touched me WEE are met together this day Introduction from the to weepe over the bleeding country of our nativity and in our weeping are forced to imitate banished Hagar in the holy History Let us looke a little upon her example Gen. 21.15 16. and borrow thence a bucket or two to set our pumpes a going It is said of her And the water was spent in the bottle and shee cast the Child under one of the shrubs and she went and sate her downe over against him a good way off as it were a bow-shoot for shee said Let me not see the death of the Child and shee sate over against him and wept Loe there a tender mother weeping over her gasping child here forlorne Children inforced to mourne over the dying mother the bottle of all our helpes and hopes being quite exhausted There Hagar had the sad priviledge to be neere her departing Ishmael if shee pleased and shee went and sate her down over against him But wretched we are driven off at the distance of some scores of miles beyond the sight and cries of our dearest brethren However let us not suffer our selves to be deprived of that last priviledge namely to lift up our voices and weepe To helpe us in this seasonable and necessary dutie I confesse it cost me some time and labour to find out a sufficient Text for I thought with my selfe that a single verse nay some one particular Chapter of lamentation would bee too narrow a field and circuit for a full discourse of our ample miseries but it must needs bee a whole volume some booke of sorrow to make up a Text broad enough to take in all our notes and so at last the choice was easie namely either out of the Lamentations of Jeremy or out of this booke of Job This latter I have chosen the rather because it doth not onely hold forth the sore but also the salve it shewes us both the miserie of Job and the issues thereof How aptly this Easterne historie doth parallel our Westerne subject will easily appeare if we consider either the Occasion or Division of this Booke First ●ccasion and as for the occasion some doe conceive that it was written by Moses while he led the people of Israel in the wildernes to teach them selfe-submission and holy contentation by setting before them the patience of Job and the end of the Lord. And so St. ●●m 5.11 James doth apply this patterne Behold we account them happy which endure You have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitifull and of tender mercie Thus Iobs patience may be our patterne and that end of the Lord our incouragement Others are of opinion that Moses did pen this holy poem for such it is generally in Midian to cheer up his country-men the Israelites under the yoke of their Egyptian bondage And thus also the whole book is a proper lesson for our selves and Counties Or Parts of this Booke viz. if you consider the parts of this volume its fitnesse for our use will yet more evidently appeare in that the whole book doth hold forth unto us the threefold condition of Iob which is parallel to the three spirituall estates of every saint First here is Jobs status constitutus or institutus if I may so call it his primitive condition and that is very holy very happy It is expressed in the first five verses of the first Chapter This is Jobs full-sea and it may be compared to mankinds state of innocencie in paradise which was in perfect holinesse and perfect happinesse The Second is his status destitutus his declining middle estate of calamity This is set forth from the fifth verse of the first Chapter to the last Chapter Now was his ebbing-water and it may be compared to the lapsed or fallen condition of man in Adam The Third is his status restitutus his condition of reparation more prosperous and happy then his beginning throughout Chap. the last Now it was spring-tyde or the highest-water with him And this is like to the sanctified and glorified estate of the Saints in heaven Our native West hath long injoyed the first of these and is now suffering the second why may it not like Iob arrive in the conclusion to the last and best of all O let us cry mightily for that Third condition this day The lot of my Text and of our Countrie at present are fallen a like upon the second and saddest of those Three generalls Coherence even upon Iobs destitute afflicted tormented estate which is set downe very pathetically in this whole Chapter from the beginning to my text In the Chapter immediatly foregoing Bildad the Shuite and his fellow physicians doe draw a false conclusion against Iob from true premisses for according to the common Logick of the vulgar they doe therefore conclude him wicked because he was wretched In this Chapter the holy man doth labour to confute their inference Analysis of the Chapter as also to move his friends to a more charitable construction and a more serious consideration of his extream suffering and to that end he doth spread before them in this Chapter an exact map of his present miseries and afflictions As ship-wrackt men of old were wont to describe the whole figure of their wrack in a painted table which they dayly shewed up and downe to move compassion in the beholders In this table of Iobs sufferings First he complaines that he is destitute of succours 1. Complaint and comforts from God above