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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55939	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen at Guild-Hall-Chappel, July the 23th, 1682 by Thomas Pargiter ...	Pargiter, Thomas, 1642 or 3-1705.	1682 (1682)	Wing P356; ESTC R604	14,925	40

Ahab and Jezebel that wretched Pair of Wrong-doers think themselves when they had over-reached Naboth and defrauded him of his Vineyard in a Court of Judicature and under a Form of Justice and with a shew of a Legal Proceeding against him Having this way gotten from him the Ancient Inheritance of his Father they thought themselves safe enough in the possession of it and free from any Harm that might follow But a time of Recompence and the Day of the Lord's Vengeance came upon them at last and that with a Witness too in a very Remarkable Way and Manner for as the Prophet Elijah had foretold in the place where the Dogs licked the Blood of Naboth there they also licked the Blood of Ahab and there they not onely licked the Blood of Jezebel but there they eat her up too and left nothing of her Carcase remaining but her Skull and her Feet and the Palms of her Hands And it is farther observable that the evil which befell their Son King Joram did over-take and seize upon him in the Portion of Naboth the Jezreelite for there Jehu met him in his furious march against him and there he smote him thorow the Heart with an Arrow and killed him and there he commanded his Body to be pulled down out of the Chariot and cast upon the open ground so that he lay weltring in his own blood in that very plat of ground which his Parents had defrauded Naboth of and got unjustly from him And indeed it is usual with God as the Histories of all Ages will inform us to punish those that wrong others even in this World either in their own persons or in their Posterity or in both and that in some strange and fearfull manner too Nay so strangely is God provoled to Anger by this Sin of Wronging Others and so severe is he against it that he many times plagues a Community and punishes a whole Land and Nation for it for we cannot read the Prophets with any heed and observation at all but we must needs take notice that this is frequently mentioned by most of them as one of the main Sins and great Abominations for which God delivered up the Jews into their Enemies hands The Jews as we find up and down in the Prophets were strangely bent upon Violence and Wrong their Houses were full of deceit and they were continually setting Traps and laying Snares for their Brethren and devising how they might over-reach and defraud one another and for these sins especially it was that the Wrath and Vengeance of God fell so heavy upon them For it is very observable that no sins are so much insisted upon by the Prophets as these to be the Cause of their Desolation and of those great and terrible Judgments that came upon them Nay it is yet farther observable that in the Seventh Chapter of Zachariah Injustice and Oppression and Wrong-dealing are the onely sins that are mentioned for which God sent them away into Captivity and laid their Land desolate and waste for the Prophet there tells them that because they refused to execute true Judgment and would not shew Mercy and Compassion to their Brethren but went on still to oppress the Widow and the Fatherless and the Stranger and the Poor and to imagine evil in their Hearts against their Brethren therefore there came a great Wrath from the Lord of Hosts For these sins such a storm of his Anger fell upon them as scattered them with a Whirl-wind among all the Nations whom they knew not But if those that wrong others and deal injuriously with them should escape the Vengeance of God in this World and go down into their Graves without having any remarkable Punishment inflicted upon them here yet shall they not for all this always go unpunished for the Wrath and Vengeance of God will pursue them into the other World and there finally overtake them and come upon them to the uttermost and their latter end will be that they shall perish for ever Tho these men may here by their wit or their Wealth by thir power or their Friends or by any other means escape the Judgment of Man yet shall they not hereafter by all the Arts that they can use escape the righteous Judgment of God for God hath appointed a Day wherein he will judge the World in Righteousness and when that Day of recompences is come he will then render to every man according to his Deeds to those that have done justly and have been righteous in all their waies and upright in all their Dealings he will render Glory and Honor and Peace and Immortality and eternal Life But to those that have done wrong and been unjust to Oppressors and Deceivers to the men that have been Injurious to their Brethren and Inventers and Practisers of evil things against them He will render Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of them They that have done Wrong howsoever they may escape here shall then receive in full measure for the wrong which they have done their violent Dealing shall then fall down upon their own Heads in Eternal Showers of Vengeance and God will for ever pay them home for all their Villanies and Mischiefs which they have been guilty of He will then make his whole Displeasure to arise against them and will cast the fury of his wrath upon them and punish them with everlasting death and destruction from His Presence and be alwaies terrible in his doings towards them He will then turn them into Hell that frightful place of torments where they must alwaies have their Habitation amongst Devils and damned Spirits and dwell with devouring Flames and suffer the Vengeance of Eternal Fire and for ever endure the heaviest Plagues and punishments that the vindicative Justice of an angry and incensed God can heap upon them And so I have done with the First thing and I think have sufficiently proved it to you by the Apostles and by some other Arguments that we must not do any manner of wrong to others nor in any matter whatsoever deal injuriously with them And now 2. I shall bring this Duty yet farther home to you by some close words of Application And that this may be the better done 1. Let us suffer a few words of Rebuke and be perswaded to hear a little how very careless and negligent most of us are in the performance of this Duty And then 2. Let us also suffer some words of Exhortation and be perswaded for the time to come to be more strict and careful in the Performance of this Duty than hitherto we have been 1. Let us suffer a few words of Rebuke and be perswaded to hear a little how extreamly careless and negligent most of us are in the Performance of this Duty Though this Doctrine of not wronging others is very clear and evident both from Reason and Scripture and a Doctrine that cannot be gainsaid yet it is not received and entertained