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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

Gods they had chosen and let them deliver them in the time of their trouble In this case what ground had faith upon which to stirre up importunity to aske or hope to expect salvation and deliverance when as God had flatly answered them that he would deliver the mno more Why yet this hope they have still The Lord is mercifull he hath beene intreated to forgive when he hath purposed to punish and to save when he had resolved to destroy It may be their sighes and teares and prayers may overcome Gods resolution and move him to deliver them though he hath said he will deliver them no more How e're they are resolved to throw themselves at his feete if they must die they 'le die there if he will not helpe them in their distresse they cannot finde any fault with him they have deserved no favour at his hands if he will see them destroyed he may but their hope is that notwithstanding they have been a disobedient people yet the Lord will looke upon them now as an humbled people and have compassion upon them And they said unto the Lord we have sinned doe thou unto us as seemeth good unto thee deliver us onely we pray thee this day And to their humiliation they adde reformation for it followes They put away their strange Gods from them and now marke the successe with God why his heart is as it were melted into pity towards them for saith the Text His soule was greived for the misery of Israel and against his former declaration crownes their submission with a glorious victory In the last place it will appeare evidently as a truth written by a beame of the sunne that there is great cause why a people when Gods hand is stretch't out in wrath against them should humble themselves if we doe but consider how glorious and dreadfull that God is whose hand is exalted in Judgment and how vile creatures we are and what a terrible thing his wrath is and how impotent we are to stand against it His Majesty is so excellent that the most glorious Seraphinis dare not behold it but thorow the vayle of their wings and then too dazelled with admiration cry Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts the whole earth is full of his glory Isa 6.3 Never yet had mortall man even the most innocent any glympse of that glory but did presently humble and abhorre himselfe Woe is me saith the Prophet Isaiah at the 5. vers of the Chap. for I am undone because I am a man of uncleane lipps and I dwell in the midst of a People of uncleane lipps for mine eyes have seene the King the Lord of Hosts Much more cause then have a sinfull people to be abased to be astonish't and to tremble to meet him in the way of his judgements the infinite depth of whose wrath no created understanding is able to fathom The wrath of a King saith Solomon is as the roareing of a Lion when the Lion roares who will not tremble Prov. 19.12 Yea but this is the wrath of a God this speakes an immensity an infinitenesse we cannot conceive Judg. 8.21 As the mans is so is his strength as God is so is his wrath it is a wrath that doth virtually and eminently containe all the terrors of the Creature We read of strange exquisite torments the Cruelty of Tyrants have invented these all are but shadowes to the effects of his wrath The scripture gives us some adumbrations of it by such resemblances as speake it to be a most terrible wrath It is compared to fire the most active and terrible creature the Philosopher tells us that nothing can live in that Element and our fire in respect of that is but like the fire that is painted upon the wall and yet the poore creature must live for ever in it God upholding it that it may feele the power of his wrath Isay 30.33 to a River of fire and brimstone that carries something more with it The deluge of water was very dreadfull it drowned a whole world but such a flood of fire and brimstone how horrible would that be and what are the proudest sinners to stand before it who are but as stubble why it carries away gates and walls and Castles and Kingdomes and Heaven and Earth and all with it The earth shooke and trembled the foundations of heaven moved because he was wroth 2 Sam. 22.8 and shall poore man that is crushed before the moth be able to oppose himselfe against it Can thine heart endure or thine hands he strong in the day that I shall deale with thee EZek. 22.14 Hast thou a hand to resist it or an heart to beare it one drop of that wrath falling upon them will turne the sunne into darkenesse and the moone into blood and make the starres drop downe from heaven one sparkle thereof shall set on fire the Heavens and the earth Matt. 24.29 the whole frame of nature and burne downe to the bottom of Hell Lord who knowes the power of thy wrath For according to thy feare Deut. 32 22. so is thy wrath saith Moses Psal 90.11 Melancholy apprehensions will fancy strange feares but imagination it selfe falls infinitely short of the power of Gods wrath shold God take and set a man upon hells brinke that he might se the torments and heare the cries of the damned there his understanding certainely would be much inlarged to conceive but yet never able to know what is the power of Gods wrath O consider this and tremble ye that do not onely sinne downe but pray downe this wrath upon your selves by those fearefull imprecations God damne me and The Divell take me Little do these poore soules thinke what it is to be damned Isay 33.14 Who can dwell with devoureing fire who can dwell with everlasting burnings And yet this they must upon whom God shewes forth the power of his wrath in their damnation What ever vaine people now conceite of it the time shall come when Kings and great men and rich men cheife Captaines and mighty men Rev. 6 1●.16 shall petition the mountaines and the rocks to hide them from this wrath Thou O Lord even thou art to be feared Psal 7● 7 and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry Now since Gods wrath is so terrible when it beginnes to grow hot against a people there is more then cause it 's high time for them to humble themselves I have done with the 2 first Queres I descend now to the last which brings the point nearer home to shew what cause we of this Kingdome and particularly wee of this place have to humble our selves I cannot point at all particulars I shall onely touch these three The first is the great distresse that is this day upon the whole kingdome this is a Lamentation and should be for a Lamentation we read in the 21. of Iudges that when by the sword of Civill warre the

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 ZEPH 37. I said surely thou wilt feare me thou wilt receive instruction so their dwellings should not be cut off howsoever I p●nished them but they rose early and corrupted all their doings OXFORD Printed by Henry Hall to 〈…〉 1644. Martis 21. Maii 1644. By the Committee of COMMONS resident during the Recesse ORdered that Mr Constantine give thanks to Mr Chalfont for his Sermon Preached at Saint Maries the last Fast and that he desire him to cause the same to be printed for the publique good Noah Bridges JER 44.10 They are not humbled even unto this day AT the very reading of these words the parallel is so obvious me thinks I heare many asking the question with a little change which the Eunuch once did of Philip Act. 8.34 Of whom speaketh the Prophet this of us or of some other People The truth is in the letter and historie it is spoken of the Jewes but so Symbolically of us of this nation that your owne thoughts would apply them should I hold my peace This whole Chapter may be intitled Novissima Jeremiae Jeremies farewell Sermon to the Jewes For if we marke the Propheticall story it is the last extant and if the conjecture of some be good his last too that for which well nigh after 45 yeares preaching amongst them he was stoned to death by the People In it we have just matter to raise both our attention wonder and that whether we respect the Prophet or the People indeed there is nothing of this Prophet but 't is wonderfull his Calling ordained to be a Prophet before he was borne his sufferings Jer. 1.5 he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Pelusiot calls him never man tooke more paines with deserved better of and was worse us'd by a people in this a lively type of him whose name was wonderfull Vir dolorum that suffered great contradiction at the hand of sinners but above all the invinciblenesse of his spirit his Heroick Zeale and constancie in the Cause of God and for the good of the People greater then to be discouraged by the opposition of men or the extremity of misery He had now surviv'd the Funeralls of the Temple of God and his owne Country and liv'd to make the sad Elegie upon the desolations of both and after all this was carried away by the violence of a Rebell multitude into a strange accursed land Calamities that might have allayed if not quite quencht the spirit of any but Ieremiah but such a spirit as his knows not to be discouraged an expresse character whereof he hath given us in this Chapter But yet the wonder is far greater if we looke upon the People whose eares if any thing might have opened to discipline as Elihu speakes Iob 36.10 and made them sensible of their sinnes they were written in letters of bloud they might have read them in the ruines of Ierusalem Here the Prophet having opened his Commission vers 2. takes his first rise Thus saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel Ye have seene all the evill that I have brought upon Ierusalem and upon all the Cities of Iudah and behold this day they are a desolation and no man dwelleth therein because of their wickednesse though I sent all my servants the Prophets riseing earely and sending them saying Oh do not this abhominable thing that I hate c. To sinne after so Solemne Interdiction and warning to the contrary by the concurrent voice of so many Ambassadors All the Prophets sent from God to that purpose and those dischargeing their duty with so much Zeale and sollicitude had left them without excuse To sinne after the example of so terrible a judgement as that upon Iudah the History whereof stands like the carkasses of Ships that have suffered wracke at Sea to forwarne all passengers of the danger of those Sands at which they were cast away or like that Inscription upon the Tombe of Senacherib slaine by his owne sonnes in the Temple of his God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh all ye that passe by looke upon me and be holy All ye that heare and read of my calamities be affraid tremble do no more presumptuously I say to sin after the warning of such an example addes a higher gradation to sinne There 's no man whose head is not of brasse and his heart of Adamant that can reade the Tragoedy of Ierusalem with drie eies Nazianzen tells us of himselfe Ora● 12. that he never tooke the booke of the Lamentations into his hand and yet this saith he I do often but his heart was even quite overcome with symphathy and his eyes with teares 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he againe lamented over the Lamentations of Ieremy But to persevere in the same sinnes after this Vidistis their owne sight and feeling of those wofull expressions of Gods wrath when the eye should have affected the heart and left the lasting impressions of feare upon the soule to commit the same abhominations still which had provoked divine vengeance to the utter destruction of their owne Country while themselves bare the visible Characters of Gods fury upon them this indeed sets their impiety their Rebellion in praecipiti upon the very Pinnacle and top of sinne Here the Prophet mounts his Battery if possibly he may make a breach upon their stony hearts and at last force them to repentance Therefore now saith the Lord the God of Hosts the God of Israel Vers 7. Wherefore commit you this great evill against your owne soules to cut off from you man and woman child and suckling out of Iudah to let none remaine In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the workes of your hands in the land of Egypt whither ye are gone downe to dwell that ye might cut your selves off and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the Nations of the earth Therefore Now saith the Lord c. Now after all the demonstrations of mine indignation against you in such Judgements as were never the like Wherefore commit You this great evill You that are the poore remnant of those so many thousands of of Iudah as it were a Firebrand snatcht out of the Funerall Pile of that once flourishing Country and reprived from the Ruines of your Nation whom I would have preserv'd for my names sake unwilling to extinguish and quite cancell the people and the name of Israel had you consulted your owne safetie under my protection Wherefore doe you by your obstinacy provoke my Justice to your owne destruction Why will you perish whom I would preserve Have you no remorse towards your owne soules are ye willing your soules should perish eternally Have you no pity upon your Wives or if