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A78515	A sermon preached at the publique fast the tenth day of May 1644. at St Maries Oxford, before the Members of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled. / By R. Chalfont B.D. and Fellow of Lincolne Coll. Printed by their order.	Chalfont, R. (Richard), 1607 or 8-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing C1793; Thomason E9_10; ESTC R15424	32,814	44

Tribe of Benjamin was cut off and destroyed that the other Tribes came to the House of God and abode there untill even before the Lord and lift up their voices and wept sore saying O Lord God of Israel why is this come to passe in Israel that there should be this day one Tribe lacking in Israel and the children of Israel saith the Text repented them for Benjamin their brother and said There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day We are met Beloved at this time in Gods house to humble ourselves and what cause of mourning have we for this Nation wherein I will not say one Tribe is cut off already but many of the heades and chosen men of every Tribe and the whole remnant of this once populous flourishing Kingdome is ready to be destroyed by the bloody sword of an intestine dissention 2 Ch●on 20.23 while we like those earth-borne Thebans or cursed Cananites help to kill and destroy each other When Ziglag was burnt with fire at the very sight of it David and his men wept so much that they could weepe no more 1 Sam. 30.3 what greater reason have we to weepe at the sight of the generall conflagration of our owne Country Were there nothing to be lamented by us in this day of our Fast but the publique miseries of this poore Kingdome with how loud and fearefull a cry doe they call every one of us to mourning Ye daughters of England weepe over me who cloathed you with scarlet 2 Sam. 1.24 and sed you with the flower of wheate How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the Battaile how are not only the weapons of warre but all the abundance and delightes and glory of your peace perished What cause have we I say not only with good Nehemiah to have our countenances sad Nehem. 1.4 and to sit downe and weepe and mourne and fast and pray before the God of heaven but to wish with Jeremie O that our heads were waters Jer. 9.4 and our eyes a fountaine of teares that we might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of our people A second cause we have to humble our selves at this time is the consideration of every one of our owne sinnes and the sinne of the Nation the guilt and provocation whereof have drawne downe upon our heads the great wrath and indignation of our God Teares were made only for sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. God saith Saint Chrysostome hath implanted in us the passion sorrow for no other thing in the world but sinne Hon. 7. ad pop Antiochenu●● in our Calamities we should looke with the eye of contrition more upon our sinnes then our sufferings and be more afflicted that we should deserve afflictions then that we should endure them A Pharaoh will cry out of the Plague and pray for the taking away of the death repenting Israel prayes for the removall of their sinne Take away all our iniquity Hos 14.2 and indeed all other Calamities to this are in the same Fathers words but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bare names of Calamity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. sin is only truly so Ibid. Whatsoever bitternesse is in any affliction is put into it by the malignity of sin and therefore the Godly who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men of teares in their weeping have alwayes most lamented their sinnes When Gods wrath was incensed against Israel to have destroyed them for the golden Calfe Oh saith Moses this people have sinned a great sinne and yet now if thou wilt forgive their sinne c. Exod 32 31. O my God saith Ezra in the great distresse of his people I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee O my God for our iniquities are increased over our heads and our trespasse is growne up unto the heavens Ezra 9.6 the same course is held by Nehemiah and Daniel in their supplication King David when the destroying Angel is sheathing his sword into Jerusalem cries out I have sinned and I have done wickedly 2 Sam. 24.17 Mine heart saith Ieremy within me is broken because of the Prophets my bones shake I am like a drunken man like a man whom wine hath overcome because of the Lord and because of the wordes of his holinesse for the Land is full of Adulterers for because of swearing the Land mournes the pleasant places of the wildernesse are dryed up and their course is evill and their force is not right Ier. 23.9.10 O for some Jeremies to lament this over againe for this nation Teares that are shed for sinne are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 commendable teares Orat. 21. as Nazianzen tearmes them The Philosopher tells us that the dew of heaven and the raine from above is farre more fertile then the waters from the fountaines and rivers below and so are those teares for sinne then those that are for affliction And if ever people had cause to be humbled to have their hearts broken and their eyes run downe with rivers of waters for their owne sinnes and the sinnes of their Nation then have we certainly this day That we should sin away our peace and those blessings which made us glorious in the sight of the Nations that we should sin our selves into all these miseries that are now upon us The greatnesse of our present distresse testifies to our faces the greatnesse of our sinnes God that never afflicts willingly Lam. 3.33 and when he doth punishes citra condignum lesse then the desert of our sinnes Job 11.6 hath declared unto us the enormity of our sinne by the extremity of our punishment Ierusalem hath greivously sinned Lam. 1.8 saith the Prophet And therefore is she removed We may say too this day England hath greivously sinned therefore is she greivously afflicted her glory is removed and departed from her But yet this is not all the sinnes whereby we first drew downe this great wrath upon our selves are not all the cause we have to be humbled at this time no there is something more for which were it but throughly resented all our hearts should melt all our bowells tremble and all our Livers be poured out on the earth like water before the Lord this day and that is that we still sinne under Judgements that we have not humbled our selves as yet under Gods mighty hand that we have contracted the guilt of many new greivous sinnes even since the time that Gods hand hath beene upon us in so terrible a Judgement Great cause hath every one of us to sit downe and take up a Lamentation over his owne hard heart Alas What stone is my heart made of The hardest marble will weepe when the heaven is blacke with tempests above though great clouds of Gods anger have hung a long time over our heads and many stormes of wrath fallen upon us yet my heart mournes not The Adamant that they say will onely expell vaine feares no