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A34954	Judah's purging in the melting pot a sermon preached in the cathedral at Sarum before the Reverend Sir Robert Foster, and Sir Thomas Tirrell, Knights, judges for the western circuit, at the Wiltshire Assizes, Sept. 6, 1660 / by W. Creede ...	Creed, William, 1614 or 15-1663.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6873; ESTC R37688	31,329	49

23. Moses did when he resolves to destroy them We do not b Gen. 18. 32. find ten righteous persons in the foure Cities of the Plain though Lot and his Family dwelt in Sodom lest it might have been spared for tens sake And no injustice at all in this For as the best men have their sins and he that is least guilty in a Nation has some way or other helped to add to the publick Banck so the worst may through Gods mercy to them in Christ be reprieved in National Judgements to give them space to repent it was wicked Jezabels case Revel 2. 21. or he may reserve them for whips and scourges to punish an hypocriticall people as he saved the c 1 King 11. 26. 40. 2 Chron. 13. 6 Traytor Jeroboam from the sword of his Prince that so he might be the d 1 Kings 11. 31 32 33. compared with vers 9 10. 11. scourge to Rehoboam the son of a e 1 King 11. 1 2 c. to the 11. Quisquis ille Confessor est Salomone major aut melior aut charior non est qui tamen quamdiu in viis Domini ambulavit tamdiu gratiam quam de Domino fuerat consecutus obtinuit Postquam dereliquit Domini viam perdidit gratiam Domini Et ideo scriptum est Tene quod habes ne alius accipiat Coronam Cyprian de Eccles Unitate seu simplicitate Praelat p 171. edit Froben Basil But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my statutes and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely live he shall not dye Ezek. 18 21. And that Solomon repented of his evil wayes I have reason to imagine and that Ecclesiastes was the signal fruit of his Repentance wicked Father And if they make not good use of this Reprieve God has greater Judgements in store as he had for impenitent Jezabel Revel 2. 22 23. and when the discipline is ended then the Assyrian the f Esay 10. 5. 12. Rod of his Anger must be thrown into the fire and f Esay 10. 5. 12. another nation shall visit and ruine them for the evil of Gods People to which they were instrumentall Let not then the g Esay 10. 15. Axe boast it self against the wood that is hewed and say I am better then thou much less against him that heweth therewith nor let him that has escaped a common Calamity think it was for his own goodness that he fell not as other men Gods Judgements as we read in h Dan. 12. 4 9 Revel 6. 3. 10. 4. Isai 29. 11. Daniel and the Revelation are still sealed They are secret hidden things to us and we know not the Causes nor the Justice of them Nevertheless as the Apostle * 2 Tim. 2 19 2 Tim. 2. 19. the foundation of the Lord standeth sure having this seal the Lord knoweth them that are his And let every one that but nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity That is † Deut. 29. 29. our business at all times especially in publick Calamities † But secret things his winding intricate Paths of Providence and Judgement against an hypocriticall People belong unto the Lord. We may see indeed who suffers and what scourge falls upon him but then we know not the end or reason of the stroak It is not then for us to pry into Gods Counsels when he is at his work of Judgement When the Founder sits at the Melting pot none can know but himself why this piece of Metall first goes into the flame or why that other is reserved Gods Judgements sayes the * Psal 36. 9. Psalmist are a great deep not to be fathomed by us No rather let it humble us under his sin-avenging hand and make us tremble at the severity of his wrath and abhor our own vileness that makes him spare none Good bad all alike we see lye under a common Calamity and the best are either first taken away or are the most eminent in sufferings Let it teach us to adore his Justice in Wonder and Silence and make us lay our hands on our lips as † Psal 39. 9. David did and be dumb and open not our mouth because God did it Or rather let us lay our hands on our hearts and judge not others but our selves and say as Nathan did to David we we are the men 2 Sam. 12. 7. We have brought this destruction on our Princes and on our Brethren Let it make us lift up our Prayers for the remnant that is left As the Judgement Esay 37. 5. has been National and Publick so let all the Joel 2. 16. 17. Congregation the Elders the Sucklings the Bridegroom the Priests all cry out spare thy People O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach Let our Prayers and our Repentance be as large and publick as our Sins and Miseries have been Alas let us not consider who was struck or who spared or who threatned in the desolation but the hand that did strike us The Author of the Punishment the next thing considerable And that is one sufficient enough for such a work For he wants nor Power nor Skill nor Authority to effect it because he is the Lord the Lord of Hosts Esay 1. 24. the mighty one of Israel as he describes himself in the verse before the Text to shew his own strength and our weakness and affright the sinner to Repentance For his Power he is the Lord of hosts the mighty one Job 25. 3. and is there any number of his Armies as it is Job 25. 3. And certainly methinks this alone should humble us were we rationall Creatures For do we provoke the Lord the Lord of hosts to Jealousie Are we 1 Cor. 10 22. stronger then he that is the mighty one of Israel Are any of us able to dwell with his Everlasting burnings Esay 33. 14. Are we sufficient to meet him with our ten thousand Weaknesses that comes against us with his twenty thousand Judgements Me thinks when a Nationall Plague is broke in upon us it should humble and terribly amate us that it is the King of Kings and Lord of hosts one higher one stronger then all that smites us that can consume us with the very breath Psal 18. 8. Esay 5. 24. Esay 31. 3. of his nostrils us that are as stubble before the flames and chaff before the wind that like Aegypts horses are flesh and not Spirit Though in our Brave with † Esay 37. 24. 25. Sennacherib we talk high and threaten what we will do against the enemy at home or abroad yet * Vers 29. Leviathan has a hook in his Nostrils the war horse hath a bridle in his lipps he shall go but to the compass of his Line and whether † A notable example of Gods Providence in this kind we have Ezechiel 21 19 20 21 22 c.

fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them 24. Therefore thus saith the Lord the Lord of hosts the mighty one of Israel Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemies 25. And I will turn my hand upon thee c. 27. Zion shal be redeemed with judgement and her converts with righteousness THe words indeed are a Prophecy concerning Judah and Jerusalem a Esay 1. 1. ver 1. but fitted and calculated for every Meridian and Countrey where God has a Church b 1 Cor. 10. 11. These things saith the Apostle happened to them for ensamples and were c Rom. 15. 4. 1 Cor. 9. 9 10. 1 Cor. 10. 11. written for our instruction And though this be Gods constant Method yet no Nation under Heaven has had a more signall experiment of the Accomplishment of this Prophecy in the first and most eminent parts of it then our selves We have sensibly been ●aught by our late afflictions and miseries and the now happy Restauration of our former Judges and Counsellors that it belongs to us as well as to Judah and Jerusalem And God grant that as our late miseries and judgements have not been to devoure but onely to refine us so we may have a share in the Issue and Event of the Prophecy and that our Magistrates and Ministers that God has restored to us may have a powerfull influence on our true Reformation that our Zion may be redeemed with Judgement and her Converts with Righteousness Esay 1. 27. You see the Text exactly squares with the Times and this Occasion For here the Prophet represents to you Gods dealings in the Reformation of his people under the Metaphor of a Founder as it were melting and dressing them to be fit vessels of his Sanctuary And I will turn mine hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross c. Wherein observe a double Work or Operation of this All-wise Almighty Artist with the Issue and Event of it In the first work we have God like the Goldsmith laying his hand upon the Metall which he finds corrupted and embased beyond all possibility of scouring and then breaking it in pieces by his judgements and casting it into the Fornace of Affliction to purifie it from its dross and refine it from the Tin And I will turn mine hand upon thee c. In the second we have Gods dealing with the Metall now purified and melted He brings it to the Wheel and the Anvile the Hammer and the File the Putty and the Oile to shape and fashion dress and polish it for the great Masters use He restores unto them good Magistrates and good Ministers * Calvin Junius and others after them by Counsellors here also understood Civil Magistrates that were assistents to the Judges but Jerom Haymo Lyra Alapide Brentius the ordinary Gloss and others understand it of the Restauration of the Priests and the Prophets such as Ezra Josuah the son of Josedeck and the Apostles and Ministers of the Gospel But it seems to me at least to have been literally and primarily fulfilled under Hezekiah who restored the Priests and the Levites to the service of the Lord though secundatily and in type it referrs to all such future Restauration in the Church Compare 2 Chron. cap. 29. 30 31. and 2 Kings 18. and the stories of Vzziah Jotham Ahaz with the first Chap. of Isaiah men of lawfull Authority for Commission and of solid Integrity for Execution such Judges as they had at first and such Counsellors as at the beginning the one to shape and dress them by Judgement and Justice in punishing offenders and a Psal 101. 8. cutting off all evil doers from the city of the Lord the other to scoure and polish them by sound doctrine b 2 Tim. 3. 15 16 17. and seasonable reproof by wholesome correction and instruction in Righteousness And I will restore unto thee thy Judges c. And then the Issue and Event is which is the third Branch of the Text the vessels of Gold and Silver thus purified and fashioned become sanctified indeed and vessels unto honour Afterward thou shalt be called the Citie of Righteousness the faithfull Citie or according to the Hebrew Idiome thou shalt really be as thou art called or as Calvin thou shalt be so eminently a just and religious people that all Nations round about shall take notice and speak of it and call thee as thou art Of these in the Order proposed And first of the first Gods purifying of his People from their dross and their Tin by the fire of Affliction And I will turn my hand upon thee c. It beginns with a Copulative And this shews the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LXXII Connexion and dependence of this Act and Operation on the former at the same instant that God will avenge himself upon his Adversaries he will turn his hand on Zion Whence observe That when the sins of a Nation are at the height God brings a nationall Judgement He kindles a fire in Zion and it devours the very Lam. 4. 11. foundations thereof In common Calamities all suffer alike The Plague the Sword the Famine Gods National whips and scourges make no distinction The Good and Bad are equally exposed unto their fury The fire in the Fornace as well furiously scorches the precious metall as the Tin and dross The onely difference is in the issue of the work and the design of the Artificer and God with the self-same Judgements wherewith he eases himself of his Adversaries refines and melts his people that are in covenant with him Whence learn we not to pass censure on private persons in common Calamities Let us not think them worse on whom the Tower in Siloe fell then the Luke 13. 4. rest of Jerusalem that escaped or that those were Luke 13. 2 the very worst and most seditious of all the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices and so perished in their Rebellion But consider we what our Saviour has told us Luk. 13. 3. 5. against such Censurers I tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish He that sinks in a common Calamity may be better then any that are spared nay sometimes the best and chiefest in a Nation fall soonest under the Burden But then many times this happens not for their own but others sins even of those that are often spared in the Judgement When the People murmured Psal 106. 32 against God he was angry saies the Psalmist with Moses their Ruler for their sakes A pious K●ng may be destroyed by and for the sins of those that conspire his destruction Or secondly God sometimes takes away the Goodman from the evil yet to come when he has greater plagues in store Or thirdly that the wicked may have no Mediators no Intercessors left to bind his hands and wrestle with him in Prayer as a Exod. 32. 10 11. Psal 106.

Traitors heady high minded that though they know not how to rule yet less know how to obey c 2 Tim. 3. 6 7 8. 2 Pet. 2. 1 2 3 18 19. crumbling the Church and State into Schisms and Factions making the People hard-hearted and uncharitable and disobedient and stubborn Fifthly they that write of weights Stannum est metallorum omnium levissimum sicut aurum gravissimum ex experientiis Nic. Tartaleae in appendice ad lib Jordani de Ponderofitate Francisci Euxei Parisiensis Brerewood de ponder pret c. 23. Stannum est facillimae fusionis sub malleo facilis extensionis Copia humidi viscosi aeris aquae effi●i● effusionem facilem extensionem P. Jo. Fabr. Panchym Vol. 2. l. 4. sect 7. c. 27. vid. Mocenicum loc citat and measures tell us that Tin is the most light and fluid metal of all and S. Jude observes of the pretenders to Godliness that they are of an aerie flitting complexion waves of the sea foming out their own shame wandring Starrs Clouds without water carried about with every wind of Doctrine v. 19. ever learning as S. Paul speaks but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth 2 Tim. 3. 7. He can be Pharisee Saducee Gaulonite Herodian any thing The double minded man is unstable in all his wayes S. James 1. 8. it is no matter what the religion be if it will serve his advantage And if he can make a Trade of Godliness you shall be sure to have enough of the form though he denies the power of it For Sixthly it is observed that Tin has this property that it will cleave to any Metal * Vasa non solum ex re domestica in cisternas caldaria lebetes despumatoria sed etiam arma è re bellica ut manubria sive capulos gladiorum sicarum parmas thoraces sive ex ferro aut chalybe sive ex aere aut cupro conficta Stanno obducimus c. Angel Sal. Oper. Chymic in sept Planet Ter. Spagyr recens c. de stanno p. 119. Gold Silver Brass Iron Lead indeed it matters not what if you dress with Tallow or Rosin or any other fat or † unctious body and then it will be sure to cleave so fast there will be no ungluing it it again till you bring it to the ‖ Jungi inter se plumbum nigrum sine albo non potest nec hoc fine oleo Plin. Nat. hist l. 34. c. 16 ‖ Stannum est facillin●ae fusionis nam abundantia humidi efficit effusionem facilem cum autem crudum sit non perfecte coctum ideo non est fixum permanens in igue sed perenni igne ●orti evaporat in auras convertitur J. P. Fabr. Panchym loc citat vid. Mocenic loc citat fire such is the pretender of religion you shall be sure to have him of the thriving side still no getting him from thence without fire And if it once comes to that pass if he be but in any danger of that he melts and drops away from the Party whatsoever it be as soon from the gold or silver as the Brass or Iron or Lead the good as the bad cause And therefore sayes our a Mat. 18. 7. Saviour it is necessary that offences and persecutions should come and S. b 1 Cor. 11. 19 Paul that heresies and sects and divisions should come that they which are approved that are gold and silver indeed and can endure the Fire and the Touch may be made manifest among you The Hypocrite will be sure to be a weather-cock a turn-coat and you may know him by that and he will never be a Martyr for Tin and he cannot endure the Fire The least danger makes him wagg and therefore S. Peter 2 Pet. 2. 17. 2 Pet. 2. 17. compares him to clouds that are carryed with a Tempest and our Saviour to corn sown upon stony ground Mat. 13. 5 6 20 21. which though for a while it may in calm and thriving times sprout up and flourish yet no sooner does the scorching summers heat of persecution beat upon it but it instantly decayes and withers Again it is observed that Tin if it be mixed with Brass and Copper or Silver it makes Bell-metal that is excellent for sound and Noyse indeed onely usefull for that so if hypocrisie and pretence to religion meet with some subtill crafty dispositions and of fit and popular Tempers they are excellent for Pulpits and Declamations and with their noise will soon draw whole Maltitudes together Their fair speeches and language chain a Nation to their Tongues as it is storied of the Gallick Hercules and make them follow to what place they please And therefore sayes Saint Paul Now I beseech you brethren mark them which cause Rom. 16. v. 17 18. divisions and offences contrary to the Doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Lastly it is observed of Tin that it is of a * Si dubites an sit venenum in stanno quaere ab iis qui embryonem fundunt ac purgant aut abiis qui calcinant stannum magno cum suo malo dicent Frigidus O pueri fugite hinc latet anguis in herba Angel sal op Chym. loc citat very poysonous nature infecting the Brains and distorting the Limbs and Sinews of those that melt and work in it by a deadly fume that arises from it so it is also true of Hypocrisie nothing so fatall to the brain and understanding as that corrupting the spirit distorting the face with strange seemingly sanctified spasms and convulsions When ye fast sayes our Saviour be not like the Hypocrites 2 Tim. 3. 5. 6. Mat. 6. 16. of a sad and mortified countenance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for they rack and crucifie or vanish into a vizard or a Fucus they corrupt and disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to fast and be the onely religious when the heart is infected with divers lusts and abominable impieties which makes them resist the truth and become men of corrupt minds 2 Tim. 3. g. reprobate concerning the Faith But you shall know them by their faces for they look not as other men And therefore since this is the true Nature of Hypocrisie since the whited sepulchre hides nothing Mat. 23. 27. but rottenness and dead mens bones was it not a great blessing for Jerusalem that God now brought them to the Fining Pot For whatsoever the Fury and the sharpness of the Flame be yet since by these God purifies them from the dross and Tin and Nationall sinns be purged out by National Judgements there is mercy even in this Judgement And though whilest the rod is on our backs the Caustick to our wounds and the Metall in the