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A78515	A sermon preached at the publique fast the tenth day of May 1644. at St Maries Oxford, before the Members of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled. / By R. Chalfont B.D. and Fellow of Lincolne Coll. Printed by their order.	Chalfont, R. (Richard), 1607 or 8-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing C1793; Thomason E9_10; ESTC R15424	32,814	44

the pot thus empty upon it that the brasse might be hot and burne that the filthinesse might be molten in it and the scumme consumed now because after all this her filthinesse remained and her great scumme went not out of her The Lord concludes her as an incurable City under that dismall sentence at the 13 vers In thy filthinesse is lewdnesse because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthinesse any more untill I have caused my fury to rest upon thee The Prophet Jeremy yet further illustrates the desperate estate of that people whom the extremity of distresse cannot reclaime from their wickednesse by a most apposite similitude taken from the Refiners who by melting their mettall in the fire make a seperation of the good mettall from the drosse Jer. 9.7 I will melt them and try them for what shall I doe for the daughter of my people as if he had said If there be any thing sound or of worth in a drossie cankred people it cannot be preserved but onely by melting them in the furnace this currupted Nation cannot otherwise be saved but onely by the fire Now with how great labour and exactnesse God performes this triall the Prophet expresseth Jer. 6.28 29. where he brings in God complaining against Iudah They are greivous revolters walking with slanders they are brasse and Iron they are all corrupters the bellowes are burnt the lead is consumed of the fire the founder melteth in vaine for the wicked are not plucked away Malitiae corum non sunt consumptae their wickednessees are not consumed and purged by the refining fire of Gods Judgments Their iniquity is so incorporated that though the bellowes be burnt i.e. the voyce of the rod as well as the Prophet made hoarse and quite spent with crying unto them to humble themselves the lead used for the separation of the drosse from the better mettall was all wasted in the fire yet they were not purified their drosse did still cleave unto them no extremity of calamity could part them and their sinnes and therefore it followes at the next verse Reprobate silver shall men call them because the Lord hath rejected them Fourthly God doth especially observe the severall deportments of the inhabitants of a land when his judgments are upon them his pure eye runns to and fro to see how men stand affected and to take notice what men do and say in the times of distresse It was a fearefull visitation which God threatens Iudah with Ier. 8.3 where the prophet tells them that so great should their calamity be that Death should be chosen rather then life at the 6 verse he represents God as it were going frō City to City from house to house and from company to company and there listening to heare what the people would doe and say in the day of their feares I hearkened and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of the evell saying what have I done They spake happily much as God helpe us too many now but they spake not as they should they spake not aright for they repented not of their wickednesse no man sayd what have I done What a paucity is there in the world who in times of distresse speake that which God expects and desires to heare amongst all the talke of the times how rare is that of repentance the erre of teares and the voyce of weeping those sighes and groanes which the penitent soule sends up to heaven as Ambassadours to the throne of grace for mercy How few such speakers as the Prophet Malachi mentions Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a booke of Remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name Mal. 3.16 Where shall God find a selfe-humbling selfe-condemning sinner who sensible of his owne guilt saith What have I done Beloved that great God before whom all things are naked that knowes the secrets of all hearts is present amongst us at this time in the midst of the Temple and sees with what devotion or with what want of it we stand in his Courts he takes notice how the pulse of every one of our hearts beats there 's never a thought which he marks not never a sigh fetcht in private but he sets down in his book never a tear shed in our Closets that he saves not in his bottle he observes too who stands off and comes not in this day to afflict his soule as if he had no sinnes to procure the Judgements that are now upon us or no sence to feele them There 's never a person carowsing at the Taverne nor swearing in the streets no Zimri and Cosby acting their Lusts none idle or happly worse imployed in the house when the Assemblies are mourning at the Church that he observes not Never a sinne this day committed but he seales up in his bagge the sinnes that at other times might be mitigated by an excuse committed on this day grow into a presumption beyond an Apology God writes them in Capitall Letters with a pen of a Diamond he doth at all times abhorre a proud and unhumbled soule such a one this day is an abomination the soule that is not afflicted at such times as this shall be cut off from the people a contrite and broken heart is the onely sacrifice that can propitiate him in this day of attonement If we consult the sacred Records we shall not find a more perfect Register of any thing then of such both persons and People as humbled themselves under Gods mighty hand stretcht our in Judgement against them and of such as at these times remained obstinate and impenitent those he remembers to their advantage and mentions with praise these he records with indignation and sets a stigma a brand of infamy upon them for their lasting reproach so long as those sacred monuments shall remain in the world I can but point at one or two instances of many In 2 Chron. 32.25 we read of Hezekiah whom God had miraculously recovered from a dangerous sicknesse and granted 15 yeares more to his life when his terme was expired that he rendred not againe according to the benefit done unto him for his heart was lifted up therefore there was wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himselfe for the pride of his heart both he and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the dayes of Hezekiah In the next Chapter we have the story of the unparallel'd wickednesse of Manasseh his Son and how vanquish't by the King of Assyria he was carryed away captive in fetters to Babylon and there when he was in affliction how he besought the Lord his God and humbled himselfe greatly On the other side it stands as a perpetuall blot upon the name of Amon the sonne of Manasseh