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B12526	A preparation vnto fasting and repentance. By Peter Moulin, and translated by I.B.; Preparation à jeune et repentance. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669.	1620 (1620)	STC 7336.5; ESTC S113623	21,955	107

not destroy it but I found none therefore haue I powred out mine indignation vpon them I haue consumed them with the fire of my wrath their owne way haue I recompensed vpon their heads saith the Lord God This selfe same enormitie and hainousnesse of sinne is here represented by the word aggrauate or made heauy and weighing down where God saith that the sinne of Sodome is very grieuous speaking of sinnes as of burthens which ouerwhelme our soules and doe hinder them to lift vp themselues to God and doe cast them downe headlong into the depth of perdition Or else he speakes of sinnes as of weights put in a ballance that carry them against the patience of God and doe make his will to hang towards the side of the punishment therefore the Prophet Zacharie in his fift Chapter compares sin to a lumpe of lead and the Prophet Dauid Psa 38. saith his iniquities are gone ouer his head as an heauy burthen they are too heauy for him and the Prophet Isaiah speaking of our sinnes as of heauy burthens wherewith Iesus Christ hath charged himselfe to discharge vs He hath borne our griefes and carried our sorrowes the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of vs all and S. Peter 1 Pet 2. He hath borne our sinnes in his owne body on the tree by whose stripes we are healed O how heauy was that burthen seeing that the least peece of our sinnes which euery one of vs doe commit is a sufficient weight to cast vs down headlong and plunge vs to the bottome of the bottomlesse pit Now Iesus Christ hath borne the sinnes of all men on his Crosse It was the most principall burthen and charge of Ionas shippe the Marriners laboured with strength of armes to vnload the ship to saue their liues did cast their wares into the sea but the heauiest burthen remained in the ship namely Ionas sinne neither was there any way to saue themselues but by casting him into the sea True it is that as Leapers doe not feele nor smell their owne infection nor they that haue an obstructed and corrupt nose doe not smell the scent of their breath and the swine wallowing in the mire doe finde that odour sweet so men plunged and steeped in sinne feele not the weight of their sinnes because they are as it were borne and bred with them and that this naturall euill groweth and increaseth more and more by custome which is the reason which the Philosophers doe render why those that swimme betweene two waters feele not the weight of the water which is ouer their heads because say they that an element is not heauy in his naturall place Euen so sinne doth not oppresse nor ouercharge the consciences of prophane men and they feele not their consciences burthened because sin is there in them as in his own naturall place but if God withdraweth a man out from this bottome and depth and maketh him once to breath the aire of his grace then the very reliques of sin that are in him weighes him much downe and wearies him much When therefore the sinne of the wicked is come to his full and last measure then God who by his patience hath inuited sinners to repentance who hath vncouered dunged and pruned this barren figge-tree three yeares long finally seeing that it bringeth forth no fruit and that the sinner mocks at his long patience commands that the are be laid vnto the roote of this cursed tree and rewardeth his long expectation with the greatnesse of his punishment Euen as when a woman condemned to death by law being found with childe her execution is deferred till she be deliuered of of her childe so although God hath already determined in his councell to punish some wicked men notwithstanding he stayes till the sin which they haue conceiued in their hearts be brought to ripenesse during which time the sinner often makes merry as malefactors doe who to driue themselues from their dumpes play in prison at cards and dice but before God the day and houre of their execution is decreed Notwithstanding before he comes to that point hee speakes as if he doubted of the truth and prepares himselfe to make a kinde of information and enquest I wil goe downe and see now saith he whether they haue done altogether according to the cry of it which is come vnto me And so in the confusion of languages God descends to see what the children of men builded and to haue knowledge thereof These things are said after the fashion of men for God descends not seeing he is euery where and hath no need to enquire seeing hee knoweth all things but the holy Ghost stuttereth with vs as with children in humane words of Diuine things God comes downe to vs when he makes himselfe to be felt of vs he stretcheth his arme when he displayes his strength hee moues himselfe when hee will mooue vs he wakens when he makes it knowne that he hath not slept hee enquires of the sinnes of men when he will conuict and conuince them hee speakes as doubting when he will put vs out of doubt of the certainty and full knowledge of our actions Notwithstanding God giueth by this practise a rule vnto Magistrates not to iudge till after a carefull enquiry and after a ripe consideration and to vndergoe that Law which God hath imposed vnto himselfe saying I will goe now downe and see if it be thus and thus Which is also a warning to all particular men that they be not vniustly prone to beleeue calumnies nor rashly vniust to condemne others without being well informed of the truth but expecting the iudgement of GOD that will make all things manifest let vs beware that wee giue not rashly our iudgement III. How gentle and milde God is towards them that feare him and the care hee hath of his children THe third point is the manner how God behaues himselfe towards those that feare him This point requires a more carefull and serious consideration because it toucheth vs more particularly Of these three men setting themselues forwards towards Sodome two of them goe on their way but the third who is called the Lord stayes with Abraham who being in thought for his nephew Lot fearing least he should be intrapped and inwrapped in the ruine and destruction of Sodome makes intercession for the men thereof Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked shall not the iudge of all the earth doe right Hee could not better ground his supplication then on Gods Iustice as Saint Paul saith Rom. 3. What shall we say is God vnrighteous who taketh vengeance God forbid for then how shall God iudge the world God being by nature righteousnesse it selfe can no more do iniustice then white can black or the flame can freez To say that God is vnrighteous is to say hee is God and is not God for to be and to be righteous are one thing with God not as with men or Angels who are

those fiue righteous Whither it was because Abraham did iudge in himselfe that hee ought to subscribe to the decree and sentence of the iustice of God and acknowledged that it was a iust thing that a great Citie in the which ten righteous men were not to be found should be destroyed and that hee ought not to make intercession for it Or whither it was because God hindered him to proceede on in his demands least hee should aske things contrary to Gods decree and ordinance and that thereupon God should haue been faine to haue refused him and reiect his prayer for often in the Scripture God forbids his seruants to make intercession for such and such when hee is resolued not to pardon them he forbids Samuel to pray for Saul and Ieremie to make intercession for the Iewes because God holdes it not conuenient to his goodnesse to permit his children to pray vnprofitably and without reaping some fruit Obserue also that in this conference of God with Abraham and often elsewhere the faithfull are called righteous not that they are without sinne but in comparison of the wicked and because God wipeth out their sinnes by his mercy for his Sonnes sake whom Ieremie calleth the Lord our righteousnesse Ieremie 23. Sometimes also because of the righteousnesse of the cause which they maintaine and for the which cause they are persecuted So Noah Lot Iob Daniel and Zacharie are called righteous though Noab fell into drunkennesse Lot committed incest Dauid adultery and murther Iob cursed the day of his birth Zachrie doubted of Gods promises which faults are as warts in a faire face which seeme as an exposition of this word Righteous That we may know that when Christ Iesus saith that hee is not come for the righteous but to call sinners to repentance these sinners are righteous in some sort and that Iesus Christ by the righteous vnderstands those that thinke they are without sin Our righteousnesse consists in acknowledging our vnrighteousnesse and in cloathing our selues with the righteousnes of Iesus Christ who hath beene made sinne for vs that wee might be made the righteousnesse of God in him 2 Cor. 5. By his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many Isa 53. Who of God is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnesse and sanctification redemption 1 Cor. 1. This is the sence and meaning of this history and the exposition of the three points which wee haue propounded vnto you whence springeth diuers doctrines that serue to comfort instruct and to humble vs. The Application FIrst in the manner wherin God proceeds against Sodome you haue an example and patterne of Gods patience soliciting sinners to repentance he sends Lot to those of Sodome who was among them an Herald and Preacher of righteousnesse who dwelling among them vexed his righteous soule from day to day with their vnlawfull deeds as S. Peter saith 2 Pet. 2. But they beleeued him not Gen 19.9 This one fellow came in to soiourne and so will needes be a Iudge After Lots comming God sends them wars that spoiles their Countrey and leads them into captiuity whence being deliuered by Abrahams helpe they amend not At the last God being prouoked sends fire from heauen which consumes them whereunto serued the nature of the soile for the countrey was full of slime pits which serued as matter vnto it and brought a sudden inflaming Three things are happened vnto them for examples and are written for our admonition vpon whom the ends of the world are come least we should abuse Gods patience who hath so long time supported vs solicites calls vs to repentance for what hath not God done to binde vs to his loue and feare He hath sent vs his seruants and set his word before our eyes he hath chastised vs often and hath set vs on foote againe by his helpe he hath scattered vs in strange countreys and then re-assembled vs together againe by his mercy He makes vs to subsist now as the remainder of the massacre as some plankes saued from shipwracke or like a brand reserued from the fire and doe as yet subsist as a miracle to strangers and a rare example of his prouidence for in the troubles of a State it happeneth ordinarily as with catarres and defluctions which alwayes fall vpon the weakest part Now the weakest part in the body of this kingdome is the Church of God notwithstanding in these last stirres which haue troubled this estate God hath secured and saued harmeles his Church and restrained the peoples will though on our side we haue enough contributed to our owne ruine and yet God euen this day giueth vs this grace that we are here assembled in peace to lift vp together our hands and hearts before his presence He may then say that which he saith Isai 5. What could haue beene done more to the vineyard that I haue not done in it Wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes it brought forth wilde grapes For that we doe not bring forth fruit worthy of repentance is it because we haue not beene chastised but wee newly come forth out of persecution Or is it because he hath not threatned vs but yet euen now we were at deaths dore and as it were on the point of our steepe downe-fall Or is it because he hath imparted vnto vs his gifts and graces so sparingly but who can comprehend his goodnesse towards vs his liberalitie and his patience Or is it because you haue not beene sufficiently and carefully informed but surely we haue not spared our selues in this point yea our liberty and freedome of reprehending seemes intollerable vnto many After a continuall labour we receiue instead of recompence calumnies which tend to make our Ministery vnfruitfull and to take away the efficacy from our preaching The time will come ●f GOD hath not pitty on vs wherin ye shall haue teachers according to your desire or else shall haue leasure to fast after the Word of God But if we speake in our exhortations against the abuses of Popery ye heare that with great attention but yee will not enter into disputation with your own vices as being at agreement with the diuell on that side You condemne the Church of Rome in that she forbids the people the reading of the holy Scripture but are we for all that the carefuller to reade it they are hindred to reade it by scruple but you by contempt and negligence Ye blame those that pray not vnderstanding what they say but are ye more excusable to pray without thinking what yee say You reprehend them for superstitious signes and gesture that they haue in the Church but you in auoiding superstition fall into irreuerence one keeping on his Hat in Prayer time another makes difficulty to kneele to shew vnto our aduersaries that wee neede not suffer so much for religion seeing we haue it in so litle esteeme You condemne the idolatry of the Church of Rome and notwithstanding you idolatrize and as