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A87151	A sermon preached to the honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, at a publike fast, May, 25. 1642. By Robert Harris, Batchelor of Divinity and Pastor of Hanwell. Oxon. Published by order of that House.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing H875; Thomason E150_21; ESTC R4871	30,553	56

patient must not the Saint If Sodom If Babel If India must acknowledge his Long-suffering must not England must not This must not every Towne and Citie O survey your lives compare Gods patience with your frowardnesse Gods forbearance with your stubbornnesse Call to mind your follies passions infirmities presumptions What answers you have returned upon reproofe how many cals you have slighted how many meanes you have scorned In few how many how great how lasting your provocations have beene And If Cain and Iudas must yeeld God patient Doe you say Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his beritage He retaineth not his anger for ever because hee delighteth in mercy Mica 7.18 And if the devils themselves thinke it worthy a suit that their torment may bee deferred must not we think it thankworthy that we are thus long forborne O let every Towne yee looke upon every Church yee come into every field you walk in every Creature you see living draw from you thanks Let the house of Aaron say His mercy endureth for ever Else had wee no Church Let the house of Israel say His mercy endureth for ever Else had we no State let every man breathing say His mercy endureth for ever Else our Atheismes Oaths Curses Idols Murders Whoredomes and other Abominations had long since sunk us and swallowed us up But what are Words if but Words Let the Meditation of this point be improved unto Humiliation Repentance Consolation 1. For the first Is God so forbearant 1. What are we that we should be so hasty What Is he wounded in his Name in his Law and in his Sons And must not we be touched in our Dogge Who are we that we cannot beare As God shall I say nay With God himselfe Hee must smite when we would have him else wee question sometimes his Truth most times his Care Nay farther Is God so forbearant What have we done Or what did wee meane to provoke so Patient a Father How great is the provocation of his sons and daughters It is not It is not beleeve it a Small thing that will Anger this Father It is not a little Cloud that will hide this Sun In his anger therefore reade our sins and in his expressions his wrath His Face his Words his Actions speak him angry And Patience will not bee angry for Trifles What David hide himselfe from his Absolom doth not so great a wrath argue greatest provocation And is not Our Father think you Angrie when he sends a Spirit of division amongst us when he Dashes Child against Child make a Rod of a Sword drawes Blood and bathes his Sword therein Turnes his Children a begging and outs them of all Is not here wrath And is it not time now Num. 12. to fall before him with Miriam whilest he thus spits in our face Num. 16.46 To Run with Aaron when the fire is begun 1 Chron. 21. To cry with David when the Sword is drawne O Lord spare Ierusalem spare our Cities our People And to lament after our Father as the Child doth after his lost Mother My Father my Father is lost What shall I doe 2. In the next place Let this quicken our repentance Kindnesse will melt a Saul Should it not a Son The proper issue of patience and kindnesse should be repentance of long patience speedy repentance You are Noble I report my selfe to your Iudgements What think you Are not a thousand of Oathes and millions of Lies to omit other provocations enow Is not 40. yeares provocation nay 60 nay 80. sufficient Hath not God waited long and long enough Is it fit think you to make him wait longer Is there any hope that ought else will work if Patience work not Or is there any thing left after Patience abused Will not Nineveh rise up in Iudgement against us and say We had but 40. dayes patience afforded us And shall these abuse Twice 40. yeares Will not the damned in hell arise and say We were born withall some but 30. some but 20. yeares and these have abused a far longer patience Nay will not the Devils themselves come in and say We had not the patience of one houre afforded us and shall these Ever bee spared I beseech you by All the mercies of God by An age of Patience by A world of blessings by that your Candor and Ingenuitie and by all the Endearements that ever past betwixt Christ and your soules pitie your selves pitie your Countrey pitie your posterity and bee content to bee happy Fall downe in private before the Lord and say O Lord I am ashamed of my Vnmannerlinesse Thou hast long knocked and I have made thee stand out of doores I can stand out no longer It is infinit patience if as yet I may live O Turne mee and I will now turne I Come I Come with all the strength I have O draw mee Melt mee receive mee 3. Lastly Let this give us an hopefull expectation of further grace True it is Our sinnes are hideous God was never more put to it by a Nation Notwithstanding could wee put our selves into a Posture for mercy There were yet hope in Israel For I demand Is God patient toward Enemies toward Rebels when there 's no fasting no praying no reforming thought upon And will hee Not meet us in the way of his judgements Vid. Mic. 6.3 What Hos 6.14 11.8 is hee so long-suffering toward sinfull Ephraim so loath to thinke of a divorce How shall I give thee up Ephraim How shall I entreat thee And so ready to receive Ephraim upon submission Is Ephraim my deare sonne c. Ier. 31.20 And will hee not bee gracious to this Our Ephraim in case wee come in What! will hee plead for Israel for Nineveh against his Prophets and of a Iudge become an Advocate As wee see in the case of Elijah and Ionah Why Elijath saith hee Thou art not alone There bee Thousands with thee and for mee Why Ionah dost thou well to be so hasty would'st thou have mee slay the Child upon the Mother so young so many Will God I say thus plead for a people when his Prophets cry against them And will hee not bee intreated for us when of all Ranks some and the Prophets chiefly importune him Beare up Brethren and know with whom yee have to doe You deale with a Father The Father and The God of Patience 'T is true Esa 54.7 Hee can bee angry That 's his Iustice That 's his Goodnesse to you But hee cannot bee long angry with his owne 'T is but for a Moment It redounds not to the Person 'T is not Penall but Medicinall Sinke not under it Onely prize patience and abuse it not Hold this Patient God amongst you as Moses did Chaine him up with your prayers and teares Ex. 33.16 34.9 and say If wee have found grace in thy sight Goe not from