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Londons returne, after the decrease of the sicknes in a sermon (appointed for the Crosse) but preached in St. Pauls Church. Ianuary 8. 1637. By O.W. p.
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Whitbie, Oliver.
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1637
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STC 25371; ESTC S119857
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LONDONS Returne After the decrease of the SICKNES In a Sermon appointed for the Crosse but preached in St. PAULS CHVRCH January 8. 1637. By O.W. P. And when he was come neere he beheld the city and wept over it saying c. Luk. 19.41 LONDON Printed by N. and I. Okes and are to bee sold by Richard Whitaker at the signe of the Kings Armes in Saint Pauls Church-yard 1637. To the truly noble and my much honoured friend John Puliney Esquire Sir I Have read of gratitude in Birds and Beasts of a Lions thankefulnesse to a Romane Captive of a Storke which cast a precious Stone into the bosome of a Maide which had healed her of a wound Which deeds of Nature doe speake to me that Gospel Luk. 10.37 Vade tu fac similiter Goe thou and doe likewise Now if Solomon thought to shame the Sluggard into pains by sending him to the busie Ant I le thinke it no disparagement to learne in Natures Schoole gratitude of a Bird. Those many favours of Love which your noble spirit hath heaped upon me laid such a strickt siege to my thoughts that I knew not how to rescue my selfe but by this publike declaration wherein whil'st I shew my duty I proclaime my weaknesse and deserve this censure from the world to bee a man guilty of gratitude yet no matter 't is a lesse crime to commit an errour then to forget a friend and if Naaman did not remember his maide which told him of the Prophet I dare say his ingratitude was a fouler disease then his leprosie The last Summer when Divine Justice had scattered us over all the Land your house was my noble Sanctuary where I saw as much Religion practised as an Hypocrite can talke of and such reverent conformity in your private Chappell that obedience might there safely stand for a Lecture and bending the knee to the Jesus of men would not loose a voyce but get a blessing And now sir for my royall entertainement I present you with a paper paiment this poore Sermon which wear's no costly dresse preach'd in a time of sadnes when sorrow is the best eloquence To your hands I tender it and your religious Lady who to the glory of her Sex sees her selfe oftner in a Booke then in a Glasse and is so enamour'd with saving knowledg that she resembles the Bee which lives in honey or the Birds of the fortunate Ilands which are nourished with perfumes Now the good will of him that dwelt in the Bush preserve you both and your virgin sister second to none in Vertue who now increaseth the poore with Almes Mrs. Mary Puliney as she will hereafter Heaven with a Saint and the God of Jacob give you the blessing of Joseph the precious things of Heaven and the precious things of the Earth grant that what you sowe beneath you may reape above God Almighty lead you by the hands from Grace to Glory 't is the prayer of him who is and ever will bee Your vertues bumble and devoted servant O. WHITBIE Londons Returne Text Hosea 6. vers 1. Come and let us returne to the Lord for he hath torne and he will heale us he hath broken and he will bind us up Text Hosea 6. vers 2. After two dayes he will revive us the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight HEere are a sort of good people met in my text and I hope within mine eye too and though we are not all of one blood yet we are all of one businesse they and wee are now met about a returne to the Lord. And the time fitly conspires with our purpose for the yeere is now returned the Sun begins to returne and lengthens the day after him the Spring and Fowles will follow and most of you here are returned from your last yeeres exile to your owne houses O stay not behind in the best and chiefe of all returnes your returne to the Lord. Here is none in this needes feare Solomons Va soli woe to him that is alone for if you will returne you shall have a whole Nation to be are you company the twelve Tribes are now ready to set forth their way is our way their case our case even smiting and tearing and their Physitian our Physitian oh then let their voyce be ours and every one of us say to our neighbour as they here did Venite revertamur ad Dominum c. The words are a story of the egresse and regresse of prodigal children a cleare christall glasse wherein may bee seene the face and perfect proportion of penitent mens conversion Now as Travellers in a morning will not stay at every man they meete to enquire the way but having tooke good direction in their Inne passe on with speede No more will I now stand to dispute with all expositors of these many wayes which is the best but leade you on like Ahimaaz by the way of the plaine neither marching too furiously like some Iehu's of Rome who thinke to winne Heaven by their spurs nor yet creeping a snailes pace with our lasie Solifidians who would get to heaven too when they dye and yet live with their armes a crosse but leade you fairely on as Iacob did his wives children and in your way desire you to take notice of these observations First Israels proposition Secondly their reasons The Proposition is revertamur ad Dominum let us returne to the Lord. In few words they have spoke much Their reasons 1. Drawne from Gods Justice Hee hath torne and he hath smitten us ideo revertamur therefore let us returne 2. Drawne from Gods mercy and the profit which shall redound to us Hee will heale hee will binde us up He is a Chyrurgion that can heale all sores a Physitian that can cure all diseases ideo revertamur therefore let us returne 3. Is drawne from Gods power and goodnesse he can revive and raise us up though we are now dead in misery yet he can revive us though buryed in the graves of Assyrian bondage he can raise us up and this with as much speed as power after two dayes he will doe it and if not upon the second yet hee will bee sure to doe it upon the third ideo revertamur come therefore and let us returne Last of all here 's the happy estate we shall enjoy after our returne We shall live in his sight now wee suffer a living death in the Assyrian land where they that hate us are Lords over us but when once wee returne to the Lord we shall live in his sight In the proposition wee have the Persons Israel and Iudah their Act a returne their Object to the Lord Wherein they make 1. An ingenuous confession of their faults they acknowledge that they had gone astray because they desire to returne 2. Here 's their faith in that they durst returne had they not beleeved in Gods mercy they would not have come backe to him