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cause_n	body_n	death_n	soul_n	4,489	5	5.6023	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90701	Hierusalem bedewed with teares. A sermon preached at St. Mary Woolnoth London, upon the fast-day, Martii, 30. 1642. By John Pigott Curate of S. Sepulchers.	Pigot, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing P2221; Thomason E147_11; ESTC R1223	35,249	43

Prophets with the sword and I only am left and they seek my life to take it away I have been very jealous for the Lord of Hosts indeed we would count him an unnaturall Son that should stand by see and heare his Father abused and dishonoured and though he could not hinder it should not at least expresse himselfe to be grieved and troubled at it and surely we have just cause to suspect our selves to be bastards and not Sons if we can stand by when our Heavenly Father is dishonoured in word or deed and not so much as shed a teare for the same we are not of that Spirit that the Children of God were wont to be of Moses when he came down from the mount and saw the abomination of the Israelites that they had changed the glory of God into the similitude of a Calfe that cateth Hay he was so daunted at the sight that dismall sight that for the present he was like a man in an Ecstasy he forgot what he was doing he let the Tables that were written upon by the finger of God to fall out of his hands and be broken and so brake those Lawes in his zeale which the people had broken in rebellion Exod. 3● 19 Phinehas his zeale was so hot that he could not hold his hands but runs upon the offenders Zimri and Cozbi and runs them thorough with his savelin Num. 25.8 Hezechias rents his cloths heating the blasphemous words of Rabshakeh reviling the living God and David cries out my zeale hath even consumed me because mine Enemies have forgotten thy words and here the Son of David weeps for the sins of Hierusalem And no marvayle for it being the earnest desire of Gods children the constant aime of all their actions to doe all to the glory of God and to let theit light shine before men that others seeing their good works may glorify their Father which is in Heaven Let their light shine in like manner to the glory of God Let the people prayse thee O God let all the people prayse thee now to be crost in their earnest desire to see men in stead of doing all to the glory of God to do all to the dishonour of God to sell themselves to work wickednes in his sight must needs be a great heart-breaking or occasion of mourning Secondly we have cause to mourn for the abominations of Hierusalem the sins of other men in regard of themselves in compassion to their soules to see how desperatly they run themselves upon the Rock of Gods judgments how wilfully they embrace their own destruction how swinishly they wallow in the mire of sin how willing they are to be led by the Enemy of their salvation the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience making it their dayly trade their continuall exercise to adde sin unto sin and to heap up wrath against the day of wrath and Hirc illae lachrymae and who can behold all this with dry Eyes if we should see a man like Baals Pries●s cutting himselfe with lancers and knives till the bloud followed I suppose there is none of us but would be mooved with such a spectacle as this beloved this is the sinners case he dayly wounds and mangles himselfe with his sins every sin makes a deep gash in the soule spare then some of those Teares which thou usest to shed for the death of the body and shed them for the death of the soule for the sins of other men for these without repentance lead to everlasting death and destruction in that lake that burneth with fire and brimstone where the Worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched And thirdly we have cause to mourn for the abominations of Hierusalem the sins of other men in regard of our selves and those dangers which by other mens sins hang over our own heads Woe is me saith the Psalmist that I am constrayned to dwell with Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar Psal 120.4 There is a twofold woe hanges over the head of Gods children by reason of sinners that live among them a woe of infection and a woe of Malediction or a woe of punishment first I say a woe of infection Can a man touch pitch and not be defiled Can a man live among sinners like Ezechid in the midst of Scorpions and not be poysoned not be infected by them can Joseph live in Pharaohs Court and not learne to sweare by the life of Pharaoh it is a hard matter to live blamelesse and without rebuke and to shine as lights in the middest of a perverse and crooked generation though the Apostle require it Phil. 2.15 And therefore it is no small commendations that Christ gives the Bishop of Pergamos Rev. 2.13 That he held fast his name and did not deny his faith though he lived where the Synagogue of Satan was we are all of an apish nature apt to imitate the manners and conditions of those with whom we converse Like Labans sheep Ger. 30.39 Ready to bring forth white or spotted according to the patterns of innocency or corruption we see before our Eyes with the holy thou shalt be holy and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardnesse Psal 18.26 I have heard of those who knowing themselves to be certainly infected with the plague that they have gone out into the Streets and so not only poysoned the Ayre to the great danger of passers by but even breathed upon as many as they could come neare that so they might bee sure to infect them for certaine it is so with those that are infected with the plague of sin their bad example that is like the poysoning of the ayre very dangerous but their lewd entising counsell their insinuating temptations come let us lay waite for bloud wee shall fill our houses with spoile cast ●n thy Lot among us Pro. 1.11 that is like the breathing of an infected person upon another almost inevitable One woe is past a woe of infection there is a second woe hangs over the head of Gods children by reason of the wicked that live among them a woe of malediction or a woe of punishment and that twofold one for the wicked another from the wicked First there is a punishment hangs over them for the wicked fugiamus ne si balneum propter Cerinthum ruerit nos quoque damni simus participes said Saint Iohn the Evangelist let us make haste away least the Bath fall for Cerinthus sins and wee partake of Cerinthus punishment come out of her my people that ye bee not partakers of her sins that yee receive not of her plagues Rev. 18.4 all Israel smarts for Achans offence and many times a fruitfull land is made barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein Ps 107.34 T is true God sometimes spares the place for the tens sake unwilling to weed out the tares least he pluck up the wheat also and yet sometimes sin growes to such a ripenesse that it