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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57148	The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Councel, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1268; ESTC R15341	21,144	52

THE MISERY OF A DESERTED PEOPLE Opened in a Sermon Preached at Pauls before the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councel Decemb. 2. 1659. Being a day of solemn Humiliation by them appointed By EDWARD REYNOLDS D. D. LONDON Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason at the Signe of the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard 1659. To the Right Honourable Thomas Aleyn Lord Major of the City of London the Court of Aldermen and Common-Counsel Right Honourable WHen I was by you called to bear a part in that seasonable and necessary service of your late solemn Humilition I considered the sad condition whereunto these Nations were reduced the many and great provocations which we have been guilty of the miserable commotions and earthquakes which have not onely shaken but even dissolved our foundations and made them all out of course I seriously looked back on the dark and gloomy providences of God amongst us the untimely death of Princes the dimidiating and dissolving of Parliaments the frequent expirations and vicissitudes of Governments the horrid Apostasie Atheisme Scepticisme Indifferency Prodigies of phrenetick and pernicious Opinions whereby multitudes have played the wantons with as glorious a light of Orthodox Religion as any Nation under heaven enjoyed the defaming of Ministry decrying of Ordinances incroaching of many Romish doctrines under a disguize and other like distempers whereby we are become an hissing and astonishment to the Nations round about us In a word It seemed unto me That the Scene of the ten Tribes was translated into these Nations and that we were making hast to be a Jezreel a Lo-Ruhamah and a Lo-Ammi as they once did And therefore though my habitual disposition usually lead me to Arguments which have more of mildnesse and gentlenesse in them as remembring the counsel of the Apostle to instruct in meeknesse those that oppose themselves yet I thought it a duty little lesse then absolutely necessary in such a day of trouble and rebuke to set the Trumpet unto my mouth and to represent unto you the doleful condition of a Deserted people and withall the sad misgiving feares whereunto the Symptomes of these sick and sinfull Nations did lead me least the Lord were now departing from such a People who after an hundred years possession of the Gospel did still so wantonly abuse it and walk so unworthy of it Yet if any man shall say unto me that it shall not be so that the Lord will still own us and continue his presence with us I shall answer as once the Prophet Jeremy did Amen The Lord do so the Lord forbid that I should desire the wofull Day or with Jonah be displeased with the patience and goodness of God Farre may this Sermon be from a Prophecy or prediction let it be onely an Instruction and a warning unto us But certainly the maturity of our sinnes and the face of our distempers do so farre threaten us as that we ought thereby to be awakened to cry mightily unto God and to hold him fast least he be weary of repenting and after so many despised mercies take at last the plumb line into his hand and refuse againe to pass by us any more If hereunto this weak service of mine may be any way useful either to City or Countrey to Magistrates Ministers or people I shall have abundant cause to blesse the Lord to whose gracious presence and protection in these dangerous times I desire in my daily prayers to commend these three Nations and this great City and so to be Your most humble and faithful servant in the work of the Lord EDW. REYNOLDS From my Study Decemb. 10. 1659. Hos. 9. 12. Yea woe also to them when I depart from them WE finde in the Law of Moses that in several cases the Priests of the Lord were to sound the Trumpets unto the people to summon and awaken them unto the special duties which God called for Numb. 10. 1 10. And in like manner the Lord commandeth his Prophets to lift up their voice like a Trumpet and to set the Trumpet unto their mouth Isa. 58. 1. Hos. 8. 1. One end of blowing the Trumpet was to give warning to the people of any approaching danger that they might timely prevent and escape it Joel 2. 1. Blow ye the Trumpet in Zion and sound an alarme in mine holy mountaine let all the Inhabitants of the Land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh for it is nigh at hand This is one special duty of the spiritual Watchmen Jerem. 6. 17. I set Watchmen over you saying hearken to the sound of the Trumpet Sonne of man saith the Lord to the Prophet I have set thee a Watchman to the House of Israel therefore thou shalt heare the word at my mouth and warn them from me See Ezek. 33. 2 9. as Elisha gave the King of Israel warning of the King of Syriahs counsels against him 2 Reg. 6. 9. This charge Jehoshaphat gave unto the Priests and Levites that they should warne the people not to transgresse least wrath come upon them and their brethren 2 Chron. 19. 10. When ruine was hanging over Nineveh Jonah is commanded to cry against it Jonah 1. 2. Crying sinnes call for crying preachers and when He slept in that terrible tempest which was upon the ship the Master of the ship awakened him What ailest thou O sleeper arise and call upon thy God Jon. 1. 6. We have had amongst us the confused noise of the battel of the Warrier and garments rolled in blood the noise of the ratling of the wheeles and of the prancing of the horses and of the jumping of the Chariots of the bright sword and the glittering Speare And this should have awakened us to returne and to seek the Lord For certainly it is through the Lords wrath that the people of a Land are as the fuel of fire no man sparing his brother But his anger is not turned away his hand is stretched out still And if our eares were well awakened I feare we should heare a more dreadful noise then that of the Warriar the noise of the wings of the living Creatures Ezek. 1. 24. the glory of the Lord in his Church threatning to depart from us as he did from his people Judah Ezek. 9. 3. 10. 18 19. 11. 22 23. I have therefore made choise of these words of this Trumpetsounding Prophet Hosea that we may be awakened to cry mightily unto God and to hold him fast and not let him go to repent and do our first works least he come quickly and remove our Candlestick out of his place as he threatned to do unto the Church of Ephesus Rev. 2. 4 5. In this Chapter we have an enumeration of several sins of that people and several judgements denounced against the same The sinnes are 1. Idolatry going from God ascribing their plenty to their superstition ver. 1. 10 15. 2. Emertaining and believing false prophets ver. 7 8. 3. Profundity of desperate wickedness as