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Englands faithful physician, or, Precious soul-saving and soul-searching remedies through grace faithfully applyed for the healing and preserving this sinful, sick nation from ruine and destruction whereby this heavy judgment of God in visiting us with the plague and pestilence which we have lain under may upon our hearty and unfeigned repentance, may be prevented for the future among us : together with a speedy way to grace and salvation through together with a speedy way to grace and salvation through Jesus Christ.
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Hart, John, D.D.
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shall as briefly as I can proceed to Application 1 Jerusalem ye know was called the holy City of God and unto the people of Israel above all other Nations in the world did God manifest his love and I pray you what nation or people is there at this day to whom God hath so manifestly appeared â—s unto us May not the people of England as well as of Judah be called the people of God the joy of the whole earth What Nation or people is there at this day in the world that hath statutes and judgements like unto us is their any nation under the sun that hath such plenty of the means of grace as we have Have we not line upon line precept upon precept Sermon upon Sermon Mercy upon Mercy one mercy upon the neck of another mercy for our bodies peace and plenty in abundance mercy for our souls the glorious light and liberty of the Gospel and yet notwithstanding we remain as sinfull as ever Are not we with Capernaum lifted up to heaven in Gospel mercies I pray God we be not for our unbelief and unfaithfulness under all the means of grace thrown down ere long to hell in Gospel vengeance Did the Lord by fire from heaven utterly destroy Sodom and Gomorrah with the Cities about them for their sins who never had the Gospel preacht amongst them assuredly then if we who have the Gospel so abundantly repent not we also shall likewise perish For let me tell you in the words of the Apostle Heb. 10.26 If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation For as Jude saith Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly O sinners consider I beseech you 't is time to look about you O consider what will everlastingly become of thy precious and immortal Soul is life and Salvation worth nothing Christ offers life and salvation to every one of you and will not ye come to him that ye may have life life everlasting O for the Lords sake sinners do not delay the time any longer now is the day of salvation get life and salvation when it may be had do not leave the undone which will be the utter undoing of thy own soul if the work of grace and turning to God be repentance be left undone thy soul will be undone had you rather lose your souls then leave your sins O what fools and madmen are ye sinners to neglect an inheritance with the Saints in light an everlasting kingdom and Crown of Glory for a few base sinful pleasures whose latter end will be bitterness O sinners I beseech you for the Lords sake I beseech you let the time past of your lives suffice you to have lived in sin and now even now while it is called to day that ye would consider the things which concern your everlasting peace You do not know whether ever ye shall have another call or no this may be for ought you know the last hour of the day to you death is at hand the bell must toll thy soul and body must part and if it part in sin it shall meet again in sorrow Is there any thing of greater concernment to you then the salvation of your souls I am sure there is not The redemption of the soul is precious nothing but the bloud of Christ is able to save a soul and will ye despise and trample upon that bloud by which you may be saved Consider that of our Saviour What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul Ten thousand worlds will never be able to countervaiâ— the loss of one soul I beseech you then in the words of the Prophet Wash you make you clean the bloud of Christ is as a fountain opened for you to wash you from your sins put a way then the evil of your doings cease to do eâ—â—ll learn to do well and then who knows whether the Lord will turn and have mercy upon us See what the Lord saith Jer. 16 17. Amend your ways and your doings end obey the voice of the Lord your God and the Lord will repent him of the evil he hath pronounced against you If you will unfeiâ—â—dly repent you of your sins God will certainly repent him of his punishments as he did unto the Ninevites Yet forty days saith the Lord and Nineve shall be destroyed and yet you see upon their speedy and unfeined repentance the Lord was appeased Now surely Englands sins cry a loud in the ears of God for judgments upon us may not God say unto us as the Prophet Isaiah saith Isa 5. O England what could I have done more then I have done unto thee How hath the Lord as it were digged about us with a wall of defence in preserving us from those judgements which other nations have so severely tasted of how hath God kept us from the hands of bloudy persecutors how hath the Lord appeared to us in preserving us from the devouring sword that we have not as other Nations been swept away in a moment by the raging of cruel enemies What heavenly and blessed influences of the Gospel we have long enjoyed Ah but how little fruit have we brought forth We have not lived Gospel lives neither have our conversations been suitable to it Instead of grapes we have brought forth wild grapes this many years hath God waited upon us expecting fruits of repentance and emendment of life and may we not fear if we do not suddenly repent us that God may as he said of that fruitless fig tree cut us down and destroy us for hitherto we have brought forth nothing but leaves the leaves of profession we have protest much of the knowledge of God but how little of the power and practice of Religion and Holiness hath appeared in our lives and conversations Doth not envy and wrath and malice and all manner of wickedness and cruelties abound at this day Hath God given us our lives for a prey and shall we thus wickedly require the Lord Ah sinful Nation and unthankful people laden with iniquity shall the mercy of God in sparing us thus long and giving us so long a time of repentance incourage and imbolden us in our sins God forbid The grace of God saith the Apostle T it 2. that brings salvation teaches us that denying ungodlyness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world There is no getting to heaven in the broad way of sin for broad is the way saith our Saviour that leadeth unto death heaven would no more become an impenitent wicked sinner then the most lovely and costly Palace of the greatest Emperor would become a swine that has been wolowing in the mire Heaven is a City of happiness everlasting happiness and there is no
coming thither but through the gates of holiness without holiness no man shall see God Heb. 22 14 The good Lord awaken every sinful soul out of their security that so the judgements we now feel in this our visitation may be removed and the judgements of God we fear may by our true and timely repentance be prevented for it is greatly to be feared that the Lord hath a controversie even a very great controversie with this sinful Land and Nation How justly might ruine and destruction come upon us by the sword or by the Plague and that lately swept away may thousands of our neighbours round about us or by famine or by some other extraordinary judgement or by all these together because we have been so unholy and so unthankful for our Peace and so forgetful of God in preserving of us â—â—us long from those sore and heavy judgements that now are justly false upon us See 〈◊〉 sad Scripture for this in Hos 4.1.2 3. Hear the word of the Lord ye children of Israel for the Lord hath a controversie with the inhabitants of the Land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the Land by swearing and killing and stealing and comitting Adultery they break out and bloud â—outcheth bloud therefore shall the Land mourn and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven yea the fishes of the Sea also shall be taken away If men will not mourn for their sins God will make them yea the very land and all that is therein mourns for your sins if the mercy of God cannot work a godly sorrow for your sins if mercy cannot melt your hearts by repentance God hath judgements to lay upon you if he cannot by intreaties perswade sinners to forsake their sins he will by compulsion and that irresistably cast sinners even into Hell fire for their sins The wicked saith the Psalmist shall be turned into Hell O consider this ye that forget God least he tear you in pieces How fully doth the Prophet here picture out Englands sins was there ever less mercy and truth amongst us then is at this day and though knowledge seems to abound yet how little is there of the true knowledge of Jesus Christ we do all profess to know God with our mouths ah but how greatly do we deny him in our lives never was there more swearing and lying and profanness and stealing and all manner of wickness then is now amongst us How doth our Land even begin to mourn for our abominations how sadly is the Lord departed from us of late because we by our iniquity have departed from him Is not the Lords hand now stretched out against us in all parts and places of this Nation how sorely is both the City and Countrey assisted by infectious diseases How many thousands are there suddenly swept away from us by this heavy judgement of God the noisome Plague and Pestilence And unless we that are lest do speedily repent us of our manifold sins and wickednesses we may justly fear to be taken our of the land of the living for our blessed Saviour saith Luke 13.3 Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Consider how death hath ridden a horse-back for some years by past whereby the dumb creatures have smarted for our sins and shall not we mourn for these things shall the beasts of the Land mourn and shall not we mourn for our sins which have caused these Judgements Shall the judgements of God be abroad in our Land and shall not we the inhabitants thereof learn righteousness God smites us now as it were with small rods but surely if we repent not he will certainly scourge us even with Scorpions for if that smaller judgements will not affrighten us from our evill ways God hath greater judgements then all these yet to bring upon us God doth yet but let us see the rod of his anger but if we repent not we shall surely feel the weight of his sore displeasure ere long poured down upon us The good Lord awaken us unto repentance that we may all of us from the highest to the lowest turn from our evil ways that so the anger of the Lord may be turned away from us that so our sins may be blotted out of his remembrance and the Lords hand now stretched out against us in wrath may be turned to us again in love Then shall the Lord greatly delight in us and cause us to dwell in our land but if we will refuse and rebel we shall certainly be destroyed for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it And because the Lord hath now given a commission to his destroying Angel to cut us off by a sudden stroak and that the King of Terrours as holy Job calls Death is reigning in all our streets taking away whole families in a small space of time and that many of our neighbours and loving friends and familiar acquaintance are shut up and imprisoned in their own houses by reason of this sad judgement that is now amongst us and that they may justly call upon us and say unto us as the inhabitants of Jerusalâ—m did in another case as you may read Lament 1.12 Is it nothing to you all ye that pas's by behold and see if there is â—ay sorrow like unto our sorrow which is done unto us wherewith the Lord hath afflicted us in the day of his fierce anger This should cause every one of us even now in this our day seriously to consider and to lay it to our hearts and to pray unto God day and night that he would remove this heavy judgement from us for the Lord hath promised Ezek 18.27 When the wicked turn away from their wickedness that they have committed and doth that which is lawful and right they shall save their souls alive And likewise the Lord hath shewed us in 2 Chron. 7 13 14. How we may remove his judgements from us at the 13. ver he says If I shâ—t up heaven that there be no rain or if I command the locusts to devour the land or if I send the Pestilence among my people as we of the City of London any many other places of this kingdom do now sadly feel If my people which are called by my nature shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven and will for give them their sin and will heal their Land And if the Lord be our Physician we shall not need to fear any relapse Now the Lord help every one of us seriously to consider of these things O that every one of us would turn from all our evil ways and seek unto the Lord by prayer and fasting For who knoweth whether God will turn and repâ—nt and turn away his fierce anger that we perish not I shall conclude with the words of the the Prophet Joel Chap. 2 12 13.14 Therefore also now saith the Lord Turn ye even to me with all your hearts and with fasting and with Weeping and vvith mourning and rent your hearts and not your garments and turn to the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slovv to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evill vvho knovveth if the vvith return and repent and leave a blessing behind him For the Lord our God is gracious and mercifull and desires not the death of a sinner but that he would turn from his evil way and live which that we may all do that so we may be all for ever happy The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the comfortable felliwship of God the holy Spirit be with us and dwel in all our hearts and consciences from this time forth and for evermore Amen FINIS Books Printed for William Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-lane THe School of Grace or a Book of good Nature Christs first Sermon Christs last Sermon Christians best Garment Christians blessed choice Heavens glory and Hells horror A warning piece to the sloathful Idle and careles drunken and secure ones of these times Mr. Fenners Sermons of Repentance A Sermon on Dives and Lazarus The Christians comfort These are all very good Books and are but three pence a peice The plain mans path way to Heaven The sin of pride arrained and condemned The black Book of Conscience The dreadful character of a drunkard The Fathers last blesâ—ing to his Children Read them over carefully and practice them constantly and rest assuredly thou wilt find much comfort in them to thy own Soul And are but two pence a peice FINIS