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A33474	Vox corvi, or, The voice of a raven that thrice spoke these words distinctly, Look into Colossians the 3d and 15th : the text it self look'd into and opened in a sermon preached at Wigmore in the county of Hereford : to which is added serious addresses to the people of this kingdome, shewing the use we ought to make of this voice from heaven / by Alex. Clogie.	Clogie, Alexander, 1614-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing C4724; ESTC R26607	70,214	178

upon their Consciences by Jotham to the mutual destruction of them and Abimelech whom they had advanced over them upon th● ruins of the 70 Sons of Jerubb●al For saith Jotham My Father fought for you and adventured his Life for you and delivered you out of the hand of Midian and ye are risen up against my Father's House this day and have slain his Sons threescore and ten persons upon one Stone and have made Abimelech the Son of his Maid-Servant King over the Men of Sechem because he is your brother c. Judg. 9. 17. Then God sent an evil Spirit between the men of Sechem and Abimelech to punish their cruel ingratitude v. 23. Which is the Substance of that whole Chapter of Judges 9. And after they had destroyed one another that sad History as any in the Book of God is concluded thus Thus God rendred the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his Father in staying his seventy brethren and all the evil of the men of Sechem did God render upon their heads and upon them came the curse of Jotham the Son of Jerubbaal v. 56 57. So that now you see this horrible sin of Ingratitude that is punished by God in so high a degree must needs be an accursed and destructive thing Another said instance of the like sin and punishment we have recorded concerning Joash King of Judah who was marvelously preserved in the Massacre of the Royal Family from Athaliah's bloody Fingers by Jehoiada the High Priest and his Wife Jehoshabea and kept safe in the House of the Lord six Years under the tyrannous Usurpation of that wicked Idolatress 2 Chron. 22. 10 11 12. Jehoiada set the Crown on his head put down the Usurper restored the Kingdom to their former freedom and raised the Royal Family to their former Splendor and Dignity and left it flourishing in Peace and Plenty But after the death of his 〈◊〉 Tutor Governour Gua 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Protector 't is recorded Th●● this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God and turned 〈◊〉 and Murderer two i●separable Companions and commanded Zachariah the Priest the Son of Jeho●a●a to be stoned even in the Court of the House of the Lord for reproving his Idolatry and saying Because ye have forsaken the Lord He also hath forsaken you Thus Joash the King remembred not the kindness which Jehoiada his Father had done unto him but flew his Son and when he died he said The Lord look upon it and require it Which Prayer of this dying Martyr the Lord heard and recompensed this cruel ingratitude of Joash towards God and Man speedily upon his own head to the ruine of himself and of all his Princes that seduced him and of all his Armies in which he trusted by an inconsiderable party For the Army of the Syrians came with a small company of Men and the Lord delivered a very great Host into their hand because they had forsaken the Lord God of their Fathers so they executed Judgment against Joash And besides all this The Lord smote him with grievous torments in his body by incurable diseases as in the case of Jehoram that murdered his Brothers 2 Chron. 21. 18. And at last to put an end to the miserable life of this godless Wretch his own Servants conspired against him for the Blood of the Sons of Jehoiada the Priest and flew him on his Bed and he died But they buried him not in the Sepulchres of the Kings 2 Chron. 24. 18 20 21 22. an honour that was bestowed upon Jehoiada the High Priest his Preserver and Restorer v. 16. though out of indignation denied him as to Jehoram before him that lived undesired and died unlamented 2 Chron. 21. 20. Thus did God plentifully reward this proud Doer as the Psalmist speaks Measuring to him again with the same measure that he had meted withal a just measure of Wrath pressed down and shaken together and running over into his Bosome as our Lord speaks Luke 6. v. 38. Obj. Some will say My Will is good but I want means and abilitiy to requite any henefit received hy me Answ 1. Profess and acknowledge always the good Turn it is a part of an ingenuous Disposition to profess who hath done thee any pleasure yea half a requital Eph. 5. 20. Secondly Use Prayer to God for their good Estate if thou be poor he is rich to requite and doubtless as the cry of the poor can awake His Justice as Himself speaks For the oppression of the poor for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him Psal 12. 5. So can the joyful Thanksgiving by the mouth of them that are partakers of the benefit and withal their Prayers for the means of it awake His Liberality as Paul undertakes My God shall supply all your necessities according to his Riches in glory by Christ Jesus Phil. 4. 19. Here I cannot but put the Poor in mind of their duty which receiving good at the hands of them that relieve them are very unjust if they give not again this Duty back to them to Pray for them So Ministers which in that very Name as one part of their Ministerial Duty for the whole is the Word and Prayer as the Apostles speak But we will give our selves continually to Prayer and to the Ministry of the Word Acts 6. 4. receive temporal things Lastly Before I close up this place of Thankfulness to Men we must not pass by our Thankfulness to God For if to Men we must be Thankful How much more to GOD And the ground of Unthankfulness to Men is from their Unthankfulness to GOD. There is not any other fault more generally blamed even by those that have but the Light of Nature than ingratitude as I have largely shewed nor any Ingratitude greater than towards God because of none we receive more or greater Benefits than from him to say nothing that it being impossible that we should attain to that degree of Thankfulness which should be in requiting the Benefits we daily and hourly receive of him he is contented to take the Acknowledgement of them for Payment so as it must be the effect of a most Villa●nous Injustice to deny him that For which cause in the Scriptures we have the Invitations of Holy Men to Thankfulness the praise of this Duty and the Precedents of good Men performing it In special the Book of the Psalms hath his name in the Hebrew Tongue as ye would say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Book of Praises not as if the whole Book had nothing else but because it is the chief part and most principally intended And for this cause doth the Church use in the beginning of her solemn Service the 95 Psalm as a means to invite us to that Duty so good and come●● yea so just and necessary as the Psalm for the Sabbath Day begins 'T is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises to thy

and embrace this present Popish World 2 Tim. 4. 10. and a great many in Church and State ready to swim with the overflowing Tide of Anti-christ the Apostle tells Timothy That he knew that all they that are in Asia had turned away from him 2 Tim. 1. 15. and speaking of the Apostacy of the latter days he saith They shall turn away their Ears from the Truth and shall be turned unto Popish Fables 2 Tim. 4. 4. God be merciful unto us I dare not trust my own Heart when I think of Peter but I hope there would be found even among us that enviously are styled Conformists tho' our Works are not found perfect before God Apoc. 3. 2. as many and more that would have laid down their Lives for the Word of God and Testimony of Jesus as laid down their Livings to avoid Men's Traditions and Commandments that they might not mingle with the Fountain of Israel to defile the Waters of the Sanctuary Such Imputations as these must needs cause the Ambassador of Peace to weep bitterly as the Prophet speaks Isa 33. 7. But we expect better things of them and accompanying Salvation that thus censures us though they differ from us in the outward mode of Religion which is various in all Countries and speak ill of us our Mothers Children being angry with us Cant. 1. 6. They sit and talk against their Brethren and slander their own Mothers Sons Psal 50. 20. we know that we are passed from Death to Life because we love the Brethren saith St. John 1 Joh. 3. 14. and with Christ's Brethren we hope to go to their Father and our Father to their God and our God Joh. 20. 17. with as sincere Affection and Brotherly Love Gen. 33. 16. as Joseph shewed that was separated from his Brethren for a while that he might enjoy them for ever Philem. 15. But besides all this they have somewhat else against many of us that if throughly weighed and laid in the ballance of the Sanctuary would be heavier than the Sand of the Sea as Job's Pathetick Phrase is Job 6. 2 3. That we leave our Flocks and starve them being called by God and Man to the Ministry of the Gospel to no other end and purpose but to feed them to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own Blood saith the Apostle Act. 20. 28. to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus in his last Visitation at Miletus And whereas it appears by the first verse of the second Chapter of this Epistle that the Apostle had never been among these of Colossae that they had not seen his Face in the Flesh Col. 2. 1. It is to be marked how careful Paul was that being now in Prison at Rome under the Bloody Tyrant Nero when he might well have been excused from writing to other Churches which himself had planted yet takes no liberty to himself of ease but writes even to these that he had never seen and had not seen his Face in the Flesh that if he could not by reason of his Endurance speak to them yet his Letter might instruct them and confirm them in them in the truth of God and what punishment shall they be worhty of who being tied to special Charges have no regard to any thing saving to the receiving of their Profits As for the instruction of their Flocks they think it enough to allow one Ten Pounds a Year the Tenth part perhaps of the whole Living to read them Prayers and if they once or twice in a year shall come to them and give them a Sermon they think they have discharged their full Duty with advantage I wonder how such should not blush to hear of the Apostle's diligence who is thus careful even in his Prison-house and so far off for those he never saw When they are thus careless for those whom by all Laws of God and Men if not for Conscience yet for their Friends sake they ought to regard and not task them out to Journey-men and Hirelings but the Unjust knoweth no shame saith the Prophet Zephaniah Zeph. 3 5. and their own Shepherds pity them not saith the Prophet Zephaniah Zach. 11. 5. And to use the Phrase of St. James in another Case My Brethren these things ought not so to be Jam. 3. 10. and that of Job also in another Case This is an heincus crime yea it is an Iniquity to be punished by the Judges Job 31. 11. and therefore it cries aloud to King and Parliament for Reformation as much if not more than any common Nusance whatsoever yea to God also that sees not as Man sees for Wrath and Indignation that by a just resentment of this common Error practiced continually by a high Hand His wrath may turn away from us 2. Chron. 29. 10. as King Hezekiah speaks to his Ministers My Sons be not negligent be not now deceived for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him to serve him and that you should minister unto him and offer burnt Incense and Sacrifice That of Ezekiel is very terrible ye eat the Fat and cloath you with the Wool ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the Flock Ezek. 34. 3. The Prophet goes on to the 11th verse with severe Comminations that concern the Shepherds under the Gospel that are such as well as under the Law for their Unfaithfulness to so great a trust being the greatest under Heaven even no less than the Souls of Men redeemed with the precious Blood of Christ as St. Peter speaks 1 Pet. 1. 19. My Ground of this Application is a Rule and Maxim of Philosophy and right Reason Agente eodem modo existente eadem materiâ idem effectum God changeth not Mal. 3. Now as God is the same and Sin the same so we must expect the like effects from the like causes the Principals of Sciences are external and the Rules of guiding Souls to Blessedness most immutable of all the rest As God dealt with Israel his peculiar People so will he deal with us if we be like them in their Sins we must thank his Goodness for this much we are too impudent if we desire or pretend more therefore as he punished them for all their Iniquities Am. 3. 2. from the Land of Egypt to this day so hath he just cause to visit us for our Iniquities that are swoln to as great a bulk as they were before the last War Give me leave to use here the words of Elihu to Job At this my Heart trembleth and is removed out of his place Job 36. 1. Let us not flatter our selves upon the gracious Assistance we have hitherto found in our miraculous Restauration An. 1660. which we could not have lookt for no not in a Dream to be after so many signal Defeats on a sudden made more than Conquerors with all the faults that followed us even forgetting that we had twenty Years time for repentance allowed us to wash us from our