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day_n	fair_a	weather_n	wether_n	4,375	5	14.2257	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17328	The rowsing of the sluggard, in 7. sermons Published at the request of diuers godlie and well affected. By W.B. Minister of the word of God at Reading in Barkeshire.; Rowsing of the sluggard, in 7. sermons	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1595 (1595)	STC 4176; ESTC S118396	79,897	163

now a breaking downe of the wall a plucking vp of the hedge and a laying waste of the vine in England to be thought vpon O sluggard if not to be looked for Hath not the Lord tolde vs of his purpose and determination herein againe and againe And are we not rather worse then better for all that Now if these things come to passe wee our selues shall bee iudges whether the Lord hath done vs any wrong or no. Now consider further with thy selfe O sluggard what priueledge hath England more then Israel had How much is the Lord beholding to vs more then to them surely neither to them nor to vs nor to any was euer the Lord beholding for if a man be righteous he is righteous for himself saith Iob. But what promise or warrant haue wee more then they had or any Church from the beginning of the world Hath there not been in nature a continuall intercourse and change of winter and sommer of night and of daye of fayre weather and of ●owle wether of colde and of heate of the spring and the fall And hast thou not obserued the like in the state of grace Surely if thou haddest not closed vp thy eyes of purpose O thou sluggard thou couldest not ch●se but see the Lordes worke therein Well yet thou canst not denye but that there haue beene many alterations and sundry changes in the worlde and thy selfe sometime betweene waking and sleeping but without any feeling wilt sitte and tell of them and what thou hast seene in thy time which shall bee sufficient to condemne thee for it is more then a dreame that thou speakest of But if thou wilt now besides thy owne drousie experience a little listen vnto the word of God and praye vnto God that hee may open thy eyes thou shalt see that which yet thou diddest neuer so much as dreame of like the seruant of Elisha which sawe 〈◊〉 mountaines couered with heauenly souldiers when the Lord opened his eyes which before hee sawe not Marke it well I saye and thou shalt see both how often the Lorde hath turned and as it were wheeled about his Church and the cause thereof to be still the Churches iniquitie And thou shalt see if not confesse that the continuall starting of men from GOD hath broken the course of his grace which otherwise had been continual●● The truth whereof may appeare almost from the beginning of the world For first when the true worship of God was in the cursed of spring of Caine almost vtterly decayed 〈◊〉 Lord restored it againe in the dayes of Seth and his sonne Enos that it might thriue and florish in the world Now it was summer time with them but how long did it last Surely not long for scarce eight generations were passed when all the posteritie of them whom God had separated for his owne children did mingle themselues with the sonnes and daughters of men at their pleasure without the feare of GOD throwing themselues in such wise into all manner of wickednes that hauing defiled themselues and the whole world with their abhominations the Lorde brought a floud vppon them to destroye them all that they which had drowned themselues in sinne might bee also drowned in water and so they were twise drowned and now was winter come When the Church was brought to eyght persons it seemed then so purged that the little seede which remained should of it selfe bring forth nothing but pure holines and yet anon after it diminished almost by the fourth parte Afterwarde the Lorde renewed his couenant with Abraham and his seede for whome hee wrought many wonderfull thinges for first with a mightie hand and stretched out arme hee brought them out of Aegypt then hee led them through the red sea then hee fed them with breade from heauen then hee destroyed many Kinges for their sakes and made their very name famous and fear●full full whatsoeuer it came and thus they we●● going towards the land of promise now 〈◊〉 would not of such happie beginnings 〈◊〉 iudged that there should haue ensued a co●●● nuance of a happie state Notwithstanding the very same people in whose deliueranc● the Lord had shewed so manifest a proofe 〈◊〉 his power and mercie did not cease contin●ally to prouoke the Lord with their impati●●● murmurings and vnkinde rebellions vntill by fearefull and horrible iudgements they were all destroyed in the wildernes At length the children of them tooke possession of the said● land but yet such a possession as well neere in 600. yeares after had no stabilitie because they themselues through their owne falsenes and inconstancie did continually trouble it and still by shaking off the yoke of God they procured new mischiefes to thēselues Moses had tolde them before how it would come to passe that when they were fatte and full they would lift vp the heele and forget the Lord And what dooth the storie of the Iudges rehearse but continuall backslidings When 〈◊〉 kingdome of Dauid was erected there seemed a more certaine and grounded state of a church to haue bin established for a long continuance But that lamentable slaughter of the pestilēce which for three daies space raged most mo●sterously in the worlde did greatly abate 〈◊〉 felicitie When Salomon came to the Crowne summer came againe to the Church for God gaue him great peace on euery side and in his rest he builded the Temple of the Lord in Ierusalem But by and by after the death of Salomon the bodie of the realme was diuided and the torne members ceased not afterward to bite one another And both the kingdomes I meane of Israel and Iudah were miserably turmoyled by forraine warres Shall wee say that this came vnto them by fortune and chaunce Nay rather they themselues through their sins enforced hastened the vengeance of God for euen when they seemed most innocent namely while Dauid goeth through with nūbring of them because it was the peculiar fault of one man yet the holie storie sayth plainlie that God was wroth with them all At length followed that great euersion little differing from vtter destruction when al the whole nation was led captiue to Babilon but after 70. yeres they were restored home againe which ioyfull returne was vnto them another birth Notwithstanding so soone as they were returned home straight waies forgetting so great a benefite they degenerated againe into sundrie kinds of naughtines Some defiled themselues with heathen mariages some defrauded the Lord of his tenths and first fruites othersome neglecting the building of the Temple were whollie occupied in making of braue houses and bestowed excessiue cost thereon whi●●●oule vnthankfulnes of theirs was such as euerie man must confesse the Sluggard and all that it ought not to escape vnpunished Neither did it escape for after that the Lorde brought them in subiection to the Romanes who burned their Temple and made hauock● of all When Christ the Prince of