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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10216	Ieremiahs teares, or A sermon preached in York-minster vpon Trinity Sunday, in the yeare of our Lord, 1604 when the sicknes was begunne in the cittie. By Thomas Pullein vicar of Pontefract, sometime chaplaine of New Colledge in Oxford.; Jeremiahs teares.	Pullein, Thomas.	1608 (1608)	STC 20493; ESTC S106092	19,134	44

Whereof it is easie to gather howe much a do the prophet had with the way-ward people hauing no common rule to direct them either for the worship of God or for the leading of their liues but euery man liuing as himselfe liked best both corrupting the seruice of God with their Idolatrous inuentions and defiling their conuersations with horrible sinnes And after that when the Booke of the Lawe was found and publickly authorized by godly King Iosiah the people for all that became not much more tractable though for his time reduced to some better order yet afterwardes like false-hearted Apostataes they vtterly reuolted to their olde superstitions and loosenes of life And straunge it is to consider what contradiction the holy prophet founde among that stif-necked people who neither regarded the Lorde that sent him nor the Ambassage hee deliuered nor the iminent calamities which were ready to fal vpon their heads None of all these thinges could make their stonie harts to repent but on the contrary they raysed vp troubles and persecutions against the prophet shutting him sundry times in prison sundry times seeking his life they remoued him from one dungeon to another where his feet stucke fast in the myre in so much that he could not bee gotten out till hee was drawne vp with ropes as we see in the 37. 38. chapters And yet notwithstanding he was not dismayd but patiently endured al these afflictions and hauing constantly continued in the faithfull discharge of his propheticall function for the space of more then 40. yeares together at length as it is recorded of him he was stoned to death in Egypt by those Iewes that wer fled thither for feare of the Chaldaeans But now to approch nearer vnto our text When Isaiah that excellent prophet of the Lorde who had bin vehement in rebuking the sinnes of the people had laboured most earnestly to bring them to repentance could not preuaile with all his Trauayle but lost his labour and spent his strength in vain hauing continued prophesying about the space of threescore yeares what hope could our prophet Ieremiah conceiue who succeeded him to preuaile more with that obstinate people then his predecessor had done being both seruants of the same Lord both employed in the same affayres and both ayming at one marke which was the repentance of the people and theyr preseruation from destruction depending vpon their repentance Our prophet therefore as hee was later in time and the destruction of the Iewes nearer at hand so his care was the greater to frame and compose himselfe in speaking to the Iewes after such a sort as his speech might most deepely pierce the very sinnewes of their harts and transfuse it selfe into the marrow of their soules not that he hoped to atchiue any greater maters with them then Isay Ioel his predecessors had done but to make them inexcusable before God and that themselues might acknoledge the Lord to deale most iustly with them when they should feele the rigor of his iudgements hauing bin thereof so often fore-warned This therefore is the cheefest point in Ieremiah his doctrine to be obserued that nowe no hope of pardon was left vnto the Iewes they had so long despised mercy that now vengeance was come and therefore they were to looke for nothing but to feele the waight of Gods heauy indignation And for this they were to thanke themselues for thogh God be ful of patience long suffering and is loth to punish sinners when they do offend yet hee will not alwaies suffer himselfe to be mocked his iustice wil not alwaies be sleeping but at length wil rowze vp it selfe like a ramping Lyon and who is able to indure the fiercenes thereof Though he giue his people a long time to repent sende his seruants to call them to inuite them to intreat them to wo them as a man doth wo a Virgin whom he would make his wife promising that hee wil be merciful to their sins and not remember their iniquities that he wil deal with them in the greatnes of his loue not in the rigour of his iudgement that he will receiue and embrace them as his deare children bestow al good things vpon them both in this life in the life to come if they will amend their liues turn vnto him yet when they wil not be reformed when they remaine impenitent incorrigible and do harden their harts against al these louing gracious admonitions how can the lord do lesse then make them know and feele that as he hath aboundance of sweet mercies laid vp in store for them that feare him so his treasure is not without sharpe arrows swords and al kind of weapons to gore the harts of al his enemies Seeing then the Iewes were such how could the prophet Ieremiah do lesse then sounde out the trumpet of Gods wrath thunder out the threatnings of Gods indignation against them But what did not Isay before him denounce the iudgementes of God against the Iewes Yes verily but with this difference that Isaiah as he was vehement so with his threatnings he alwaies mingled words of comfort and gaue hope of pardon vpon amendment but Ieremiah whē neither Isaiahs preaching would moue them nor the example of their bretheren whom the Assyrians had caried away captiues hauing vtterly destroied their kingdom could work any remorse in their harts Ieremiah after al this seeing the Iewes obstinatly giuen ouer to hardnes of hart he tels them plainly that he must not now dissemble with them but as they were obdurate in their malice without hope to bee reclaimed so they must nowe prepare themselues euer to beare the burthen of Gods wrath without hope to be released And we may further say that God by the prophet Isay did expostulate with the Iewes hee pleaded hys cause against them and brought them to their tryall but by Ieremiah he conuinceth them he findes them guilty and giues sentence against them that sentence was performed euen in Ieremiahs time who saw with his owne eyes the execution thereof Seeing then that the decree was passed theyr destruction determined and the sentence irreuocable Admonitions were vnprofitable exhortations were vnfruitfull to pray for them was forbidden Thou shalt not pray for this people neyther lift vppe cry or prayer for them neither entreat me for I will not heare thee sayth the Lord. Ier. 7 16. This was the cause that our prophet heere frames himselfe to mourne lament and bewayle the misery destruction and calamity of the Iewish Nation Oh that my head were ful of water c. And because this Citty and this land hath bin as much blessed of God as euer Iudah Ierusalem was and the Lordes Gracious care to call you to repentance that ye might not perrish in your sinnes hath beene as great ouer you as euer it was ouer them that so many excellent Preachers indued with such variety of gifts haue been sent vnto you