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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61730	A sermon preached at Abington in the county of Berks. Febr. 19, 1642 by Iohn Straight ...	Straight, John, 1605?-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing S5807; ESTC R32679	16,616	26

be changed altered nor revoked it being so decreed by God and therefore of necessity must really come to passe doe not therefore thinke that I speake this to you rashly or slenderly onely by the way but know that I am in good earnest and avouch it constantly and that with a double asseveration verily verily I say unto you But why did our blessed Saviour thus geminate his asseveration what would not his single affirmation have beene a sufficient warrant for any to rely on who was truth it selfe Or might not his bare word have deservedly obtained credit who could not lye For Heaven and Earth shall passe away but not one jot or tittle of his word shall perish or fall to the ground Surely beloved this emphaticall iteration of our Saviours verily here was to extirpate that secure carelesnesse which he saw lurking in his owne Disciples he knew full well the parasiticall disposition of mans depraved nature to be such that if it but a while enjoyed peace and prosperity as altogether forgetfull of its owne miserable condition and never thinking of much lesse expecting the billowes of iminent and approaching adversity 't would be ready to sooth up it selfe with a vaine conceit of continued content even of enjoying perpetuall peace And therefore that the suddaine seizure of sad discontents and fearefull frownings of inexpected oppositions might not over whelme them our Saviour Christ rouzes them up here with a most patheticall praediction of their future calamities verily verily I say unto you Diseases once discovered are accounted as halfe cured and miseries foretold as halfe prevented premonitio est premunitio forewarning is thus a fore-arming Afflictions greatest augmenter is inexpectation when thwarting crosses come suddainely and unlooked for they distract the mind and drive the faculties from their due consultation of remedy Thus the suddaine falling of a house is more perillous then the rising of a flood for while of the former the hurt is unavoydable by reason both of the violence and precipitation the latter through the warning and appearance of it's coming is lesse dangerous lesse prejudiciall Tela previsa minus feriunt quam repentina Christ therefore that neither the suddaine aspect of distastfull afflictions might distract his chosen nor yet the unlooked for accesse of cruell calamities might offend his children he forewarnes them Jo 16. 2. here of them They shall excommunicate you yea the time shal come that whosoever kills you will thinke that he doth God service Jo 16. 4. But these things have I told you that ye should not be offended and these things have I said unto you that when the houre shall come ye might remember that I told you them For Verily verily I say unto you that ye shall weepe lament and sorrow O then put we not far off the evill day but rather provide we for perillous times for much more hard is the winter to the grassehopper then the pismire who before having stored 1 Thess 5. verses 6 8. her garner is now able to withstand a famine Let us not therefore sleepe as doe others but let us watch and be sober let us which are of the day put on the breast plate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for an helmet for verily verily I say unto you that ye shall weepe lament and sorrow And this be breifly spoken of my first particular the serious protestation verily verily I say unto you The second followes which is the sad Lamentation exprest in these words ye shall weepe lament and sorrow Ye shall weep lament and sorrow These three words they have their severall significations For first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ye shall weepe imports a clamourous kind of howling as Mat. 2 18. Math. 2. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Rama was a voice heard mourning and weeping and great howling Rachel weeping for her children c. Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ye shall lament or mourne denotes a continued course of sorrow and implies an habituall kinde of heavinesse Thirdly and lastly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ye shall sorrow or greive signifies a dumpish sadnesse or contristation of the spirits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ne contristate and greive not the spirit of God Eph. 4. 30. Citius Eph 4. 30. desint lacrymae quàm causa lacrymandi so sometime Seneca far sooner shall watery teares be wanting then cause of Seneca weeping shall cease For indeed infinite are the causes that force the faithfull to weepe and lament from birth to buriall yea and of exceeding efficacy are the motives that make the righteous thus to sorrow even from Cradle to Coffin which as for brevity so likewise for perspicuities sake I shall endeavour to reduce to these six subsequent heads First therefore every true child of God shall and must 1 cause of weeping our owne sinnes weepe both for the Remnants of sin remaining in him as also for his owne actuall sinnes daily committed against God For this cause Saint Paul wearied with miserable and continuall conflicts and as yet in part subject to sin cryes out O wretched man that I am who shall deliver mee from this body of death Rom 7. 24. And as originall sin wrested this heavy Rom. 7. 24. exclamation from this holy Apostle so likewise did actuall sinnes wring from that sinfull woman for so she is stiled Luke 7. 37. abundance of teares they turned her lascivious Luk 7. 37. lookes to lamenting and her wanton eyes to weeping Yea and this was the cause that made Saint Peter goe out and weepe bitterly Math. 26. 75. Flevit amarè ut lachrymae lavarent Math 26. 75. Ambr. delictum tu similiter lachrymis dilue culpam So Saint Ambrose he wept bitterly that teares might cleanse or wash away Ambr his offence doe thou in like manner purge and put away thy fault with teares shed thou teares for thy intemperance for thy impatience for thy anger for thy malice c. Secondly ye shall weepe for the sinnes of others too and 2 cause of weeping others sin though it be true that the best of Gods children cannot weep too much or rather indeed enough for their owne sinnes yet must they weepe for the sinnes of others also like the widow of Zarephta who though she had not meale in her ferkin nor oyle in her cruse for the susteining of her selfe and her child yet spared some for the Prophet Elijah And thus did 1 Kings 17. just Lot weep for the sinfull conversation of the wicked Sodomites for he being righteous dwelling among them in seing and hearing vexed his righteous soule from day to day with their unlawfull deeds as 2. Pet 2. 8. For so great is the holy Indignation 2 Pet. 2. 8. that Gods children beare against sinne and such deepe impression of greife doth the perpetration thereof strike in the righteous that if it were possible for them to weepe even rivers of teares