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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65225	The repairer of the breach a sermon preached at the cathedral church of Glocester, May 29, 1660, being the anniversary of His Maiesty's birth-day, and happy entrance into his emperial city of London / by Thomas Washbourn.	Washbourne, Thomas, 1606-1687.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1026; ESTC R38494	23,222	34

Many houses shall be desolate even great and fair without inhabitant This this was the cause that the Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts that is the house of Israel and the men of Juda his pleasant plant was so eaten up so troden down vers. 5. This was the cause the Christian Church went to wrack by persecution under Heathen Emperors Almighty God making them his Rod to scourge his backsliding people into repentance and better obedience for we are not unlike a childs Top that never goes upright without whipping So St. Cyprian speaking of the times of Decius Quia traditam nobis divinitus disciplinam pax longa corruperat jacentem fidem pene dixerim dormientem censura coelestis erexit Because long peace had corrupted the good order and discipline of the Church delivered to us by divine Authority the wisdom of God thought fit by the hand of his justice to awake the dull and drousie and almost dead faith of Christians And from the same cause Eusebius derives the Original of Dioclesians persecution in whose words as in a glasse we may see the face of our own times with all its deformities take the Latine for want of the Greek Postquam vero res nostrae per nimiam libertatem ad mollitiem ac segnitiem degenerarunt alii alios sunt odio contumeliis prosecuti c. After that our affairs through too great a liberty degenerated into sloth and delicacy and that one began to prosecute another with hate and contumely and when we our selves onely opposed our selves with words of strife and contention when dissimulation and hypocrisie was grown to the heighth of malice Et qui pastcros nostri videbantur repulsa pietatis norma matuis inter se contentionibus fuerunt inflammati c. And they that were or pretended to be our Pastors and Ministers casting off the rule of piety blew the coals of discord among themselves till it grew to a flame and every one made his own ambition play the Tyrant as he listed when such was the hardnesse of our hearts that we were not touched with any sense or feeling thereof nor endeavoured to appease Gods wrath but as if we thought God did not regard and would not punish our sins but were such an one as the Heathen phansied him Nec ben pro meritis capitur nec tangitur ira We ceased not to add sin unto sin and then behold the divine judgment after its usual manner began to visit us by degrees Ita ut persecutio à fratribus qui in militia erant exordia sumeret So that our persecution took its rise and beginning from our brethren that were in the militia then then I say according to that of the Prophet Lam. 2. The Lord covered the daughter of Sion with a clowd in his anger and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel and remembred not his foot-stool in the day of his anger The Lord swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob and hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Juda he hath brought them down to the ground he hath polluted the Kingdom and the Princes thereof he hath encreased in the daughter of Juda mourning and lamentation and he hath violently taken away his tabernacle he hath destroyed the places of the assembly The Lord hath caused the solemn feasts to be forgotten in Sion and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the King and the Priest By this we have discovered what is meant by the old waste places the ruined foundations the breach or breaches that were made in the Israel of God with the reason thereof which hath opened my passage to my second Query By whom the waste places should be built the ruined foundations raised the breaches repaired the paths restored Ex te erunt And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places c. In the seventh chapter of Nehemia there is a long catalogue of the people the Priests and the Levites that had leave from the King of Babylon to go up to Jerusalem and build the waste places especially the Temple their whole number is computed to be forty two thousand three hundred and threescore vers. 66. among whom the grandees or chief are expressed by name vers. 7. and of those I find most honorable mention of two above all the rest as upon whose shoulders rested the main of the work Nehemia and Zerubbabel and therefore we shall insist somewhat upon both as we meet with them recorded in sacred story And first of Nehemias He was cup-bearer to King Artaxerxes as he himself tells us chap. 1. 11. and a great favourite he was as appears chap. 2. for when he commiserating the miserable estate of his native country presented a cup of wine to the King with a heavy heart which discovered it self in a sad face the King said unto him Why is thy countenance sad seeing thou art not sick this is nothing else but sorrow of heart vers. 2. To which Nehemia replied vers. 3. first praying for the King though a heathen as his duty was then telling him the cause of his sadnesse Let the King live for ever Why should not my countenance be sad when the City the place of my fathers sepulcher lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire Then the King said unto me For what d dost thou make request vers. 4. It seems the King was willing to grant him whatsoever he should ask in reason Observe the piety of the man before he petitions the King he makes supplication to the King of heaven and that was the sure way to speed for the hearts of Kings are in the hand of God So I prayed saith he to the God of heaven and I said unto the King if it please the King and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight that thou wouldst send me unto Juda unto the City of my fathers sepulchers that I may build it Whereupon the King dispatcheth him with a Commission and credential Letters to the Governours beyond the River that they might convey him over to Juda and with a Letter to Asaph the keeper of the Kings Forrest that he might give him timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house and for the wall of the City and for the house of God vers. 8. and to secure him by the way for they that enterprise good and great designes as this was are like to meet with strong opposition the King sent Captains of the Army and Horsemen with him vers. 9. Notwithstanding he like a prudent man resolves to carry on the businesse more by policy than power He comes to Jerusalem the Metropolis or head City of Judea and was there some time before he told any man what God h●d put in his heart to do at Jerusalem vers. 12. Then he takes a private survey of the ruined walls