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A15086 Londons vvarning, by Ierusalem A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Mid-Lent Sunday last. By Francis White, Mr. of Arts, and sometime of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford. White, Francis, b. 1588 or 9. 1619 (1619) STC 25386; ESTC S119902 38,729 102

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hast a visible word which though it preach not to thine eares yet doth it preach vnto thine eyes and makes thy two eyes the two witnesses of Gods glory and mercy towards thee For the Sunne which giues thee light the ayre thou breathest in the earth thou feedest on these be dumbe Preachers Rom. 1.19 and preach Gods mercy to thine eyes and no Nation is there in the world but it hath this kinde of preaching in it Psal 19.3 For there is no speech nor language saith the Prophet where the voice of these Preachers is not heard And therefore this is enough to euince the worlds vnthankefulnes vnto God for the riches of his mercies to leaue the world as the Apostle witnesseth without excuse Rom. 1.20 But yet God he farther takes excuse from man so loth hee is man should cast away his soule with excuses and he writes the Notions of his Law euen in the heart of euery man Rom. 2.14 15. making euery mans conscience to be his Accuser or excuser before God Nay more then this yet farther to take excuse from Man God hee not onely giues a visible word to preach vnto our eyes nor onely the Notions of his Law written in our hearts but he sends an audible Word amongst vs his Voices to cry and proclaime his Law in our eares and to reuiue it in our hearts so that wee can plead no excuse at all for our selues Our eyes are our witnesses which dayly behold Gods mercies our hearts are our witnesses Rom. 2.15 which shew the effect of the Law written in the heart and our eares are our witnesses which dayly heare Gods crying Voices and they cannot chuse but heare them because they be crying Voices still crying vnto vs This is the way walke in it O let not vs then sith God is so carefull to take excuse from vs make excuses to our selues to destroy our soules Let vs not shut our eyes from beholding Gods mercie let vs not shut our eares from listning to his iudgements and let vs not harden our hearts against his feare to disobey his Law and dishonour his Name but sith hee is so carefull to preach his Name to our eyes to our hearts and to our eares let vs obey these diuers cals of mercy that we may be saued otherwise if we doe no excuse you see will serue but we must vtterly perish Now if any Nation in the world be left inexcusable in these respects this little Goshen of ours this little Iland of ours is most without excuse which as speakes the Prophet Isaiah in his 11. Chapter is ful of the Knowledge of the Lord Verse 9 euen as the waters couer the Sea So that England is not so much enuironed with the waters of the Sea as it is full of the Knowledge of the Lord and of his Word euery nooke and angle of our Land hauing a plentifull increase of the Lords Voices in it to cry proclaime the Lords message in our eares This famous Citie more especially it is so full of the Lords crying Voices that some sticke not to complaine They haue too much knowledge now adayes but take they heed how they complaine they haue too much lest God for our vnthankefulnes punish vs as he doth many other Nations with little enough And let vs know thus much to make vs carefull to make good vse of our knowledge the more knowledge we haue the lesse excuse wee haue for our sinne And the more the Lords Voices cry amongst vs the more shall be our punishments if wee obey them not Luke 12. ●7 For the Seruant that knowes his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes And therefore as you desire to secure the Citie from the Lords Rodde and your owne soules from his consuming wrath Sith God to leaue you without excuse sends crying Voices vnto you in mercy to forewarne you lend your eares and hearts to heare and obey that which the Lords Voice cryeth to your Citie For the Lords Voice cryeth to the Citie It is a great and publique taske for the Lords Voices to Cry vnto a Citie And therefore Ionah beeing sent to Nineueh that great Citie faine would he flie from the presence of the Lord fearing to be the Lords Cryer in so great a Citie till the Word of the Lord comes vnto him the second time Ion. 3.1 2. commanding him Arise and goe to Niniueh that great Citie and preach vnto it the preaching that I bid thee Now as it fared with Ionah so it fares with most of the Lords Voices but that the Lord is with them and they preach the preaching which hee commands them they would draw back as fearing to cry vnto a Citie And therefore when the Lords Voices out of this and such like publike places cry vnto your Citie blame not the Voices for the Voices they of themselues are slow enough to Cry vnto a Citie but that the Lord in mercy to a Citie compels them as hee did Ionah to arise and goe vnto the Citie and preach the preaching hee commands them which ye are the more willingly to heare because they preach no other but the preaching which God bids them preach And therefore blame me not though who am I the meanest of Gods Voices if I shew vnto you how the Lords quarrell with this Citie in my Text agrees in some sort to this famous Citie For let vs but paralell Gods benefits bestowed on both these Cities and then see whether both Cities haue beene so thankefull vnto God for these his benefits as they ought to be First for Ierusalem this Citie in my Text saith God to her in the fourth and fift verse of this present Chapter Remember my louing kindnesses of old how I brought thee out of the Land of Egypt and deliuered thee out of the house of Seruants nor onely so but gaue thee Moses Aaron and Miriam for thy guides And hath not God done this and much more for our Citie Let vs remember his louing kindnesses of old how God he hath deliuered vs from Egypt Romes tyrannie which in the 11. of the Reuelation is stiled to vs by the name of Egypt Verse 8 and hath freed vs from the house of Seruants from the slauish and Egyptian bondage of an vsurning Pharaoh the Pope who would still haue made both Prince and People Seruants and Vassals to his painted holinesse and who in one thing was more then a Pharaoh in that he sought to destroy by cruell death not onely all the Males but Females too of the Stock of Sem who profest themselues members of the true Church nor onely this hath God done for vs but hee hath also giuen vs a Moses a most gracious King As he also gaue vs a Miriam Queene Elzabeth a gracious Queene of happy memory deare Sister to our gracious Moses both a nursing Father and Mother to our Church and an Aaron a holy and a learned
tongue it was Hierusalems sinne and so common amongst them that as the Prophet Ieremy speakes Ierem. 9.4 Euery one was to take heed of his neighbour and not to put trust in any brother for euery brother vsed deceit and euery friend dealt deceitfully And what is our Hierusalem free from this Plaine-dealing men who haue to deale with nimble trades-men will tell you no for alas how many trades-mens tongues with vs now-a-daies are deceitfull in their mouth who are as skilfull in the trade of lying as of selling hauing words at will to bring a poore simplician to their price And as they thus can teach their tongues to speake a lye racking both credit and their honesty for the aduantage of their wares vsing fawning termes which sound like musick in the buyers eares and like a Syrens song deceiue the simpler sort so doe they also teach their nimble hands to dance the measures encroching on aduantage in their measure to the defrauding of the buyers purse if his eye be not still their ouerseer so that now if euer the aduice holds good Caueat emptor let the buyer be wary and take heed for the world is full of nothing but deceit and to say truth most mens tongues are now-a-daies deceitfull in their mouth for it is a nimble and a complementing world and the world like Naphthali Gen. 49.21 giues goodly words but it is not like Dorcas full of good works Acts 9.36 for to speake in the Prophet Dauids phrase you shall haue words as soft as butter Psal 55.21 but this butter will not sticke vpon your bread for you shall haue words but no deeds So that we may cry to God with the Prophet Dauid in his 12. Psalm for want of faithful dealing men the Lord helpe vs for they speak euery one deceitfully with his neighbor flattering with their lips and speake with a double heart All this being so the rebellions of our Hierusalem being so nye of kinne to Hierusalems sinne may not God as iustly complaine of vs as of Hierusalem heere he doth and may not he truely say to vs as to Hierusalem What for all my mercies in that I deliuered you from Egypt from Romes tyranny and from the house of seruants the slauery bondage of an vsurping Pharaoh the Pope What for all this that I haue giuen you a Moses and a Miriam Kings and Queenes to be your nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers holy Aarons for your Pastors what for al this that I deliuerd you frō the euill in 88. was consulted against you when I turned Pope Balaams curse into a blessing vnto you what for al this that I daily send vnto you Voyces vpon Voyces to cry and proclaime vnto your City what is the Lords will and which is the way that ye should walke in it for all these mercies of mine for all this crying and preaching of my Voyces adhucan sunt What is it possible Are there yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked Are there yet scant measures false balances and a bagge of deceitfull weights in the shoppe of the wicked Is there yet Violence and Oppression in the heart of the wicked And is there yet a deceitfull tongue in the mouth of the wicked If thus it bee and you will not bee wonne by my mercies if thus it bee and you will not bee cured by my menaces thou City of God as to Hierusalem so must I say to thee though my beloued City Yet thou shalt be punished and I will make thee as Hierusalem sicke in smiting thee because of thy sinnes c. And therefore thou beloued Citie of God sith God hath so blessed thee with his mercies proue not thus vnkinde vnto thy God do not so requite thy God for his mercies as Hierusalem did but remoue with speedy hand these thy sinnes wherewith thou art charged from the Lord and repent thee of the euill of thy sinne that God may repent him of the euill of punishment intended against thee for thy sinne Did not thy God loue thee hee would not send thee Voyces vpon Voyces as he doth to cry this in thine eares that thou mayest preuent thy punishment by thy penitence and therefore if thou be wise bee thou warned by Hierusalem and auert Gods iudgements from thee by thy conuersion to thy God And in thy conuersiō as thou art to shake off Hierusalems sinne and manifest rebellions so haue not to doe with her saultring and secret hypocrisie in thy conuerérsion for Hierusalem as she had her open rebellions so had she also her lurking hypocrisie for doe but behold her and see her hypocrisie in the sixt verse of this chapter wheras if now she meant to make a mends for all her rebellions shee breakes forth in a straine pleasing enough in the eare of man but God who sees the heart knew it to be but glozing and hypocrisie Oh saith she in quo occurram wherewith shall I come before the Lord I will bring with mee my thousands of Rammes my tenne thousand riuers of oyle I will spare no cost to appease my God nay more then this I will giue the fruit of my body for the sinne of my soule And what not all this yet as much as God requires No O man God he requires not so much of thee for in the eight verse this onely is the thing the Lord requires but to doe iustly and to loue mercy and to walke humbly with thy God And therfore thou City of God be thou farther instructed by Hierusalem and as thou art to leaue Hierusalems sinne that thou mayst escape Hierusalems punishment So in thy conuersion to thy God play thou not the Hypocrite as Hierusalem did Bring we not then our thousand Rams for an offering vnto God but offer wee vp our selues soule and body a liuing sacrifice vnto God Rom. 12.1 Bring we not our ten thousand riuers of oyle but bring we with vs penitent hearts and eyes like holy Dauids to gush out riuers of teares because we none of vs keepe Gods Law Bring we not the fruit of our body for the sinne of our soule but good workes the fruit of our faith for the sinne of our soule the fruit of infidelity and so doe wee that which God requires of vs to doe iustly to loue mercy and to walke humbly with our God for this is it which the Lords Voyce cryeth vnto the City and let vs now seeke a man a fit man a man of wisedome to heare what the Voyce cryeth For the man of wisedome shall see thy name It is easie to finde men but it is hard to finde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a man wee may goe vp and downe the City with Diogenes finde thousands of men but not a man among a thousand It is easie to find Adam a man of earth it is easie to finde Enosh a man of infirmity but to finde Ish a man of wisedome and courage this man is hard to