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A14642	Ionahs sermon, and Ninivehs repentance A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse Jun. 20. 1602. and now thought fit to be published for our meditations in these times. By Ro. Wakeman Master of Arts and fellow of Balioll Colledge in Oxford.; Jonahs sermon, and Ninivehs repentance.	Wakeman, Robert, 1575 or 6-1629.	1606 (1606)	STC 24948; ESTC S104651	37,818	114

Niniveh shall be destroied 2. The Ninivites repentāce in the next wordes So the people of Niniveh beleeued God and proclaimed a fast c. The 1. setteth downe a message from the Lord to a great Citie The 2. declareth the conversion of a great city vnto the Lord. In the 1. mercy iudgment are preached by one and that is Ionas Jn the 2. faith good works are practised by many they are Ninivites Behold in the one the duty of all true Prophets to declare vvith boldnesse the Lordes wil vnto his people Behold in the other the duty of al faithful people to obey with alacritie the voice of the Lordes Prophets The 1. general part containeth in it these 2. particular braunches 1. The parience and long suffering of the Lord in that hee did not presently destioy these Ninivites The subdivision of the 1. into 2. mebers but gaue thē a good space to repent Yet 40. daies 2. The iudgement and iustice of the Lord denoūcing destruction against thē if in the time allotted they would not amēdt And Niniveh shall be destroied So that I may wel compare this sermon of Ionahs to Davids song Psal 101.1 My song saith David shall bee of mercy and iudgement For lo while he sayeth Yet 40. daies there is a song of mercie And Niniueh shal be destroted there is a song of iudgement Or to that f Himera river in Sicily that parteth it selfe into two channels the one yeelding fresh vvater the other salt for behold while he saith Yet 40. daies there is a streame of sweet water issuing frō the fountaine of Gods exceeding favour And Niniveh shall be destroyed there is an Ocean of bitter water running from the spring of Gods heauie displeasure The 1. is a word of comfort to al dispaiting soules Yet 40. daies The 2. is a rod of correction to al presuming sinners and Niniveh shall be destroyed The one declareth vnto vs that God is a God of compassion if wee wil repent Yet 40. daies The other that he is a God of iustice and severitie if we stil provoke him and Niniveh shall bee destroied Yet 40. daies Niniveh shal be destroied The 2. general part declareth the effecte The subdivisiō of the 2. into 4. circūstances vvhich this Sermon wrought in the Ninivits or their repētance which is described by 4. circumstances by 4. circumstāces 1. By their faith which was not fruitlesse So the people of Niniveh beleeved God 2. By their fasting vvhich was not private and proclaimed a fast 3. By their attire which was not costlie and put on sackcloath 4. By their number which were not few from the greatest vnto the least 1. They beleeved God There is faith the true cause of good works described 2. They proclamed a fast There is a good worke the effecte of a liuelie faith deciphered 3. They put on sackcloath There is the garment of humility expressed 4. From the greatest to the least There is a mutual cōversion of al declared 1. They beleeved God Behold their heathenish infidelity is turned into religious pietie 2. They proclaimed a fast Behold their luxurious feasting is changed into moderate fasting 3. They put on sackcloath Behold their royal robes are cast avvay for simple rags 4. From the greatest of them vnto the least Behold the consideration of the sinnes of all hath wrought repentance in all So the people of Niniveh beleeved God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them to the least of them Thus you see most deare Christiā brethren the summe substance of that wherof at this time by the assistāce of the Almighty and your accustomed patience I purpose to intreate evē the tenour of Ionas sermō to the Ninivits and of the Ninivites repentance at Ionas sermon God grant J may speake of thē with the same spirit as Ionas did that all this great Honorable assēblie may heare and receiue them with the like fruite as did these Ninivits And so J come to the particular handling of the words themselves Yet 40. daies Partis 1 As Noahs doue came from the waters of the floud with an oliue braunch in her mouth Gen. 8.11 Obser 1 Even so this he avenly doue for so the name of Ionah in the Hebrew importeth St. Ierome on the 1 of this prophecy else-where so interpreteth it cōmeth vnto these Ninivets from the waters of the sea wherin a little before hee had beene almost drowned with an oliue braunch in his mouth preaching mercy and peace vnto them if they would repent and turne from their wicked wayes A singular argument of Gods exceeding loue favour vnto this city Niniveh For hee might presently haue sent his Angel frō heaven to haue destroyed it as hee did the host of Senacharib 2. Reg. 19.35 He might haue consumed it with fire and brimstone as he did Sodome and Gomer Gen. 19.24 He might haue spoiled it with the edge of the sword as he did Iericho Ios 6.21 Hee might haue laid it in the dust in the twinkling of an eie as he hath done many and as he is able to doe al the cities in the world But behold the Lord is a pittifull God Psal 86.15 He taketh a milder course with Niniveh He sendeth his Prophet to her and giueth her a day and a day yea even forty daies togither before he will powre downe the violl of his wrath before he will execute his iudgments on her And as a noble and worthy Emperour laying his sieg and levying his army against some famous renowned city beholding in it the goodly buildings the statly walls the high ascending towers the multitude of people the numberlesse nūber of babes and sucklings of infants innocent persons from a noble and heroïcal dispositiō is moved with the bowels of compassion towards it therfore in regard hereof doth not presently batter it downe overthrow it but first sends his herauld at armes to proclame a parly for certaine daies and to offer peace vnto the same right so doth the Lord of heavē earth deale with Niniveh that famous and renowned citty He saw the statelines of her buildings her thousand fiue hundred towers Munster Cosmograph l. 5. cap. 61. Ion. 4. vers vlt. her high spatious walls her multitude of citizens her sixscore thousand infants and innocent persons her head of cattell almost innumerable all which did make the bowels of compassion to yerne within him before he would overthrow it to send his Prophet as an herauld at armes to proclame a parly of forty daies and to offer her peace if shee would receiue it Famous is that of Scipio Africanus that al things in warres ought to be assayed before the sword be drawen And as famous that of the good Emperour Theodosius who vntil tenne daies were past after he had besieged any citty never offered violence to the inhabitants saying and proclaiming every day that

from being to forward in reproving of sinne that they dare not take in their mouths but that cold rehrehension of olde Ely vnto his sonns Do so no more my sons do no more so 1. Sam. 2.24 But as deceiptfull Embassadours either for feare of punishmēt or for hope of gaine they forbeare to deliver the Lords Embassage vnto his people Soothing them in their sins and flattering them in their sollies and furthering thē in their iniquities Those are our temporizing preachers our time seruing Prophets our trēcher Chaplaines who either to satisfy the lust of their humorous Lord or to delight the itching eares of their vaine auditors speake nothing but placētia court phrases sweet and pleasing words that sow pillowes vnder mens elbowes and build vp their sinnes as a wall and daub vp their filthy corruptions with the vntempered morter of palpable adulatiō Whom I may iustly brand with the same name as Crates the Thebane did those parasites of his time whō hee called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because sitting at great mēs tables they were ready with that cunning dissēbler in the comody to say Ais aio negas nego Whatsoever they affirmed they would affirme the same and whatsoever they denyed they would bee as ready to deny though never so vntruly right so beloved I am afraid our church hath to many such fawning and flattering Ministers who sitting at noble mēs tables if happely they be thervnto admitted for feare of displeasing will say as they say although their owne conscience I doubt not many times tels them they haue said amisse Speaking good of evill and evil of good putting darkenesse for light and light for darkenesse bitter for sweet and sweet for sower to vse the words of the Prophet Esa 5.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Making marchandise of the vvord of God as the Apostle speaketh 2. Cor. 2. vlt. and selling the cause of the Lord for a meales meat or as the Prophet tels vs for handfulls of barly and peeces of bread Ezech. 13.19 J cānot more fitly resemble such false Prophets to any then to that flattering and dissembling Priest of Iuppiter who whē Alexander the great as Plutarch in his life testifieth came to the oracle saluted him by the name of Iuppiters sonne all to get some great present large-reward frō him so they to procure the sooner vnto themselues some promotion Ecclesiastical wil make the Alexanders of the world beleeue that they are Demy Gods or at the lestwise a degree aboue the natural conditiō of the sonnes of men They are fit chaplaines for such radies as the mother of Cyrus was who as Plutarch reporteth cōmanded that whosoever spake to the king he should vse soft silken words for surely in their preaching and reaching before such great ons of the world they vse noe other but such soft phrases silken speeches as shal befit their humours And as the natural bistorian in his 2. lib. 41. ca. of his history reporteth of the hearb called Heliotropium that it regardeth looketh towards the sunne ever as hee goeth turning with him at all howers yea even also when he is shadowed vnder a cloude so doe they in the whole course of their ministery regard consider their Lords and Ladies humours and thervnto do they apply themselves at all times yea evē then also whē they are covered with the cloudes of many grosse and crying sinnes So that I may truly say of such as the Philosopher did of the like who as Nicephorus reporteth in the 10. lib. 42. cap. of his Ecclesiastical historie comming into an Emperours court there seeing many sooth vp great men in their sins said of them purpurā ipsos magis quam Deum colere that they did more reverence purple robes then God himselfe and J am perswaded beloved in Christ Jesus that they who thus sooth vp the mighty potentants of the world in their transgressions quod purpuram ipsimagis quam deum colant that they more respecte the coūtenance of man then the favour of the everliving God For otherwise they would never as many times they doe conceale the councel wil of God to gaine a little commodity preferment at the hands of a mortal man And if it happen beloued that these men come abroad at any time to preach amonge the vulgar sorte in meaner places they haue so vsed themselves to a smooth pleasing vaine that even then J may say of them as Diogenes the Cynicke said of orators as it is in the 9. lib. and 19. cap. Elian. de varia histor that they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the very slaues vassals of the common people For to win their least favours they wil be favourable to their greatest sins And as Pliny in his 5. lib. 15. chap. saith that the river Iordan is a pleasant river winding turning in out seeking as it were for loue favour and applying it selfe to please the neighbour coūtries So do these time-serving preachers turne winde themselves in their sermons to the multitude seeking rather to win their favours by flatering them in their sinnes then to discharge their owne duties to God by revealing his wil vnto thē But let these men consider howe much the Lorde is offended with such deceitful hādling of his word Let them cōsider the grievous cōplaint of the Lord against such false Prophets who healed the hurt of the daughter of his people with sweete wordes saying peace where there was no peace Jer. 6.13 Let them cōsider how much he was moued with them that taught vanities spake the vision of their owne hearts not out of the mouth of the Lord. Saying to every one that vvalked after the stubbornes of his owne hart no evil shal come vpon you prophecying false dreames causing the people of the Lord to erre by their lies and by their flatteries Ier. 23. Finally let thē cōsider the severe iudgmēt of the Lord pronoūced against such faithlesse messēgers in the same Prophet Behold they that flatter the people in their sinnes sar that the sword famine shal not bee in the land by sword famine shal these Prophets be consumed Jer. 14.15 Wherfore to conclude this point let vs beloved I speake this to al my brethren and fellow-labourers in this holie busines let vs I say as trustie Embasadours boldly deliuer our Lordes Embassage not fearing him that can kill the body only but him that can cast both body and soule into hell fire Matt. 10.28 And yet let vs not seeke to gal greeue the woūded conscience of our weake auditors by to rash indiscreete doubling redoubling woes vpon them alvvaies killing thē vvith the killing letter of the law Let vs take heede least if we thus alwaies preach to others iudgmēt without mercy wee our selues bee iudged of the Lord without mercy Let vs rather by our Prophets example keeping the golden meane temper them both togither Let vs