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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58345	God's plea for Nineveh, or, London's precedent for mercy delivered in certain sermons within the city of London / by Thomas Reeve ...	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing R690; ESTC R14279	394,720	366

GOD'S PLEA FOR NINEVEH OR London's Precedent for Mercy Delivered in certain SERMONS within the City of LONDON By Thomas Reeve B. in Divinity JER 13.27 Wo unto thee oh Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be CANT 6.13 Return return oh Shulamite Return return that we may look upon thee LUK. 13.7 8 9. Then said he to the dresser of the Vineyard Behold these three years I come seeking for fruit on this figtree and find none cut it down why cumbreth it the ground And he answering said unto him Lord let it alone this year also till I shall dig about it and dung it And if it bear fruit well and if not then thou shalt after that cut it down LAMENT 3.40.41 Let us search and try our wayes and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens Noli negligere quòd vos priùs Dominus peccantes sustinet quia quantò diutius exspectat ut emenderis tantò graviùs judicabit si neglexeris Aug. de util Paen. ag Quot habuit in se oblectamenta tot habuit holocausta convertit in numerum virtutum numerum criminum Jeron hom 33. in Evang. LONDON Printed by William Wilson for Thomas Reeve living at the Bunch of Grapes in Chancery-lane near Lincolns-Inne 1657. To his Honoured Friend a very eminent Citisen of LONDON THOMAS RICH Esq Honoured Sir I Have ventured upon a great work I do need a Patron I beseech you be you mine and the Citie 's The Subject I know cannot displease you it is about a penitent City and Gods pleading for it to have it spared Would it not be your comfort to see your City thus qualified Would it not be your joy to behold it thus secured Yes your vertue I know doth desire the repentance of it and your zeal the safety of it Who knowes but the motion may take place God of Stones can raise up Children to Abraham the Womb of the Barren may be fruitfull This City which hath learned little by Pulpits may learn much by a Pattern I have prepared the Piece and altered and amplified it much since the first drawing or preaching of it that I might make it as exact as mine Art would attain to I desire to present it by your fair and spotlesse hand to your City The innocency and piety of such a tried Citizen may do much to promove my intention and to sanctifie the Work Blesse but my endeavours with your Name and the successe shall be left to God Almighty Sir I know you therefore I am sparing in my exhortation I seek about for others of your fellow-Citisens to them I shall enlarge my advice Gods blessing light upon your Person this Drift and the City that it may have Niniveh's graces and Niniveh's felicity Thus leaving my request to your charitable construction and my suit at the Throne of God with my humble service presented to You submissively I take leave and rest SIR Your very faithfull Servant and the Cities fervent Sollicitour THO. REEVE To the rest of the Religious Citizens of London which are sensible of the Sins and do supplicate for the safety of their City Honoured Sirs and Citizens of a famous City c. I Do call you out to a new Merchandize Many of you have been negotiating in most of the known Cities of the world but did ever any of you yet trade at Nineveh This is that which I desire may be your Empory that ye would buy up h r commodities and set up an Exchange of her Wares let others call upon you to mind your Traffique elswhere I direct you to this City Some of Nineveh's ashes sackcloth beasts in new skins men with new lips feet and hands would be more useful to you than all the precious Rarities which the richest Marts upon earth can afford you Nineveh is the place the way is beaten out for you I have chosen you out a good Leader a Gentleman of intemerate fame and unblemished reputation be not unwilling nor ashamed to follow him My intimacy hath been most with him and I have been very privy to his worth therefore let it be no mans displeasure or regret that I according to my acquaintance and affection do single out him to stand in the front of this new Company to be erected Though I love and honour him yet I have an high opinion of many of you therefore I have made bold to summon forth Him and You to try if ye can by your joint inquiry find out the place and strike up a bargain for that memorable merchandize be not offended to go together like Pilgrims ye shall never repent you of the journey for ye go to visit a renowned place in whose ruines ye may find treasure enough to redeem you out of present hazards and to prevent future miseries Indeed I lay your Sandals before you yet be not discouraged ye shall go but like Merchant-Adventurers and if ye be industrious and employ your time well ye may drive a very advantageable trade if ye can but find out the place and come home laden with the riches of the same your City was never so happy as ye shall make it linger not in the journey but set forth speedily and make a quick return and millions shall blesse you Onely do not quarrell as ye go along fall not out by the way who shall go first or who shall come after but walk on peaceably and God Almighty prosper you Abraham when he went up to Moriah to sacrifice he left the beasts at the bottom of the Mountain so do ye all envy and emulation when ye are going upon this noble design Ye have more to think on than the frivolous and superfluous cavils of nature Apply your selves to the right work and fall to right-down Christianity Let him be the best man which can be most vertuous and zealous in this religious service It is an hard thing to build an City and it will be as hard a thing to preserve it When a City is grown crazy with sins they must be Master-workmen which can repair the decayes of it or keep it from a downfall if ye be never so well prepared yet ye have a task which doth require almost an Angelicall purity and perfection to discharge it Eye your duty and look upon nothing else and see what a great measure of remorse and reformation is expedient to keep a tottering City from an imminent casualty Oh go not to Nineveh onely to look upon the City for then this motion will take no impression upon you and ye will never take off the charge of my impression but these Books must go seek for entertainment in the Country which will neither be for your honour nor for my advantage but come ye home full fraught with Ninevehs qualifications and I shall be happy and ye blessed Consider what ye are to do to wring a speare out of the hand of the Almighty