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A66116 A sermon preach'd at the assizes held in Warwick, April the 1st. 1690 by John Willes ...; published at the request of the high sheriff and grand jury, for the county of Warwick. Willes, John, 1646 or 7-1700. 1690 (1690) Wing W2303; ESTC R38937 14,615 36

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which seem only casual and accidental are directed by God to other special Ends and Designs of his Providence and made the Executioners of his Wrath against Sinners I begin with the first of these viz. That when God made the World he so order'd the connection and dependance of Causes and Effects in the whole course of it as that very many sins naturally produce mischief and sorrow to the Authors of them And here I would not be understood of the secret Lashes of a wounded Conscience which usually pursue Sin at the Heels and where God by his Vicegerent in us becomes Witness Judge and Executioner for these things being transacted betwixt God and the Sinner are all in secret from the eye of the World and cannot be properly designed by the Prophet Amos in my Text but in open and visible Judgments this is true also Luxury and Drunkenness naturally tend to impair our Health and our Estates and either hurry us untimely to our Graves or else continue us here in Beggary and Want unpitied and unrelieved Sloath and idleness cloath a man with rags Prov. 23. 21. and if you see the Field of the sloathful behold it s grown over with thorns and nettles cover the face of it Prov. 24. 30 31. And all this tho' the usual consequence of the very order of Nature is properly ascribed to God the Author of it who as David observeth Psalm 107. 34. makes a fruitful Land barren for the wickedness for the idleness of them that dwell therein Of Lusts and Debaucheries St. Paul observed in his time that they were sins against the Body 1 Cor. 6. 18. I am sure they are much more so now and tho' never any Man hated his own Flesh yet too many in this Age so far poyson and destroy it till at last they become loathsom to themselves and all about them drop by peace-meals into their Graves and as far as possible become living Monuments and Examples that the Wages of Sin is Death A quarrelsom Temper is continually in Broils and Dangers and he that is cruel to others troubles his own flesh Prov. 11. 17. So that without a Prophetick Spirit from the natural course of things we may say with David Psalm 55. 23. A blood-thirsty man shall not live out half his days An old Lyar is sure to get this by it that no body will believe him and an old Knave this that no body will trust him He that soweth Discord among others must not expect to live at home in peace and the Slanderer usually gets himself a Blot Envy is the rottenness of the Bones Prov. 14. 30. And of these and many other Sins the Wise Man pronounceth that they who are guilty of them sin against their own Souls For in all these Cases the Punishment is the natural effect and consequence of the sin he sows iniquity and reaps vanity Prov. 22. 8. And what is more natural than for the Harvest to follow Seeding He conceives mischief and brings forth vanity saith Job 15. 35. and Sin when it s finished brings forth Death James 1. 15. And what is more natural than that the Birth should follow Conception Yea so close is the connection betwixt Sin and Punishment that in most Languages they have as in my Text some one common Name to signifie both of them and even those Names which signifie them distinctly are in * Zech. 14. 9. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Scripture observed to be very often put for one another And thus I have shewed how in many Cases God's Judgments are the natural consequence of sin how the very course of things makes the Sinner hated and despised as if God when he made the World had given Commission to all his Creatures in their proper Sphere and Order to be the Instruments of his Anger and the Executioners of his Wrath against Sinners II. When this doth not happen and sins are great and daring God sometimes breaks through all the course of Nature and disturbs the order of the World to make his Power and his Justice known to vindicate the Honour of his Providence and cast Vengeance upon the Sinner Not that God hath any delight to hurry the World into Confusion and destroy his own Creatures but when the Cry of our Sins like the Voice of Abel's Blood goeth up to Heaven and the Souls from under the Altar cry loud for Vengeance it 's necessary for God to make himself known by the Judgments that he executeth Psal 9. 16. and by the out-goings of his Power vindicate the Honour of his Justice It was this that moved God to open the Windows of Heaven and bring in a Flood upon the Ungodly It was this that moved the Lord to rain down Fire and Brimstone out of Heaven They were the sins of Corah Dathan and Abiram that provoked the Lord to make the Earth open her Mouth and swallow them quick into the Pit When the Assyrian Armies reproached the Power of the God of Israel God sent his Angel against them and in one Night destroyed one hundred eighty five thousand of them When Belshazzar drinking with his Princes his Wives and his Concubines in the Vessels of the Sanctuary which his Father carried from Jerusalem began to magnifie the Gods that himself worshiped and triumphed over the sacred Vessels of a conquered God God wrote his Doom upon the Wall struck that haughty Monarch with trembling and confusion and depriv'd him of his Throne and his Life too the very next Night And when the Worshipers of Bel at Babylon thought to get a Victory over the Almighty and had outlawed Daniel and his God then the Lord broke in with Vengeance upon them revers'd the Decree which according to the Laws of the Medes and Persians they thought unalterable and tore in pieces the Presidents and Princes with those very Lions they had prepared for Daniel Egypt for a long time lived securely and her Magicians flourished but when they began to vie Miracles with Moses and set themselves up against God then God arose in his Wrath and to throw contempt upon them made the Flies the Lice and meanest of his Creatures baffle all their Magick and Inchantments and forced them to confess before the Face of Pharaoh That it was the Finger of God Exod. 8. 19. And when they continued yet in their sins and still refused Obedience to that God whom just before they acknowledged God spake to the Sea and it obey'd him and overwhelmed them all with so great so signal so unexpected an overthrow that God seems to Triumph in their Destruction and as himself saith Got him honour over Pharaoh Exod. 14. 17 18. But because in these Proceedings the Almighty is forced to break through the Harmony and goodness which himself saw in his own Creation disturb the very course of Nature which was made good and very good he never makes use of them but upon great and pressing occasions when Sinners become daring and impudent dafy God and