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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

yet could not their sorrow be exhausted unlesse sinne did cease witnesse the man after Gods owne heart mine eyes gush out with rivers of water because men keepe not thy law Psal 119 136. This was it that caused Saint Paul Psal 119. 136. with sorrow and teares to paint out the false Apostles in their colours Phil 3. 18. For many walke saith he of whom I Phil. 3. 18. have told you often why then may some man say do you tell us any more Yes and now I tell you weeping that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ Yea Christ himselfe wept thus for Jerusalem Luke 19. 41 42. And when he was come Luke 19. 41 42 neare he beheld the City and wept for it saying O if thou hadst even knowne at the least in this thy day those things which belong unto thy peace but now are they hid frrom thine eyes This this beloved is a sure signe of a good Nathaniell and an infallible token of a true Israelite viz to weepe in secret for the sinnes of others yea and cry out against the wickednesse committed against God in the land And the Lord said unto him viz. the Angell goe through the midst of the City even through the midst of Jerusalem and set a marke upon the foreheads of them that mourne and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof so ye may find it Ezekiel 9. 4. Ezek. 9. 4. Thirdly ye shall lament or mourne for the Judgements of 3. Cause of weeping Open and generall Judgement God on the land take the Prophet Jeremy for a patterne who in this case thus cryes out Jer. 4. 19. My belly my belly I am pained even at the very heart mine heart is troubled within mee I cannot be still for my soule hath heard the sound of the trumpet Jer. 4. 19. and the alarme of the battaile destruction upon destruction c. and againe Chap. 8. 21. I am sore vexed for the hurt of Jer 8. 21 the daughter of my people I am heavy and astonishment hath taken mee Nay yet more pathetically doth this Prophet declare his compassionate greife for this people and therefore as one that could never sufficiently lament their destruction he cryes out Oh that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people Oh that I had in the wildernesse a cottage of way-faring men c. as Jer. 9. 1 2. Jer 9. 1 2. Fourthly ye shall mourne for the afflictions of poor Ioseph 4 Cause of weeping private and particular Afflictions and as feeling members one of anothers misery ye shall lament for those that are tost from post to pillar that are driven from house and home in a word that are for Christs sake brought to great extremity They drinke wine in bowles saith the Prophet Amos and anoint themselves with the cheif ointments but no man is sorry for the afflictions of Ioseph Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive c. Amos 6. 6. 7. Amos 6. 6 7. mine eye casteth out rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people yea mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not Lam 3. 48 49. Lam. 3. 48. 49. Fifthly ye shall sorrow for the losse of deare freinds thus 5 Cause of weeping losse of freinds 2. Sam. 1. 26. 2 Sam. 18. 33. Jo. 11. 35. 6 cause of weeping our pilgrimage here David sorrowes for the losse of deare Ionathan woe is mee for thee my brother Ionathan 2 Sam. 1. 26. and he is likewise greatly perplexed with the untimely death of his sonne Absalom 2 Sam 18. 33. thus Mary yea and Christ himselfe doe weepe for Lazarus Io 11. 35. Sixthly and lastly ye shall sigh and sorrow to because you are but as Pilgrims here sitting by the rivers of Babel the world according to Saint Chrysostomes glosse opprest with various calamities weeping at the remembrance of your spirituall Sion For therefore we sigh earnestly desireing to be clothed with our house which is from heaven so Saint Paul 2 Cor 5. 2. verily verily I say unto you that ye shall weepe lament 2 Cor. 5. 2. and sorrow Ye shall weepe for your owne sinnes and 2 for the sinnes of others Ye shall lament 3 for the Judgements of God on the land and 4 for the afflictions of poore Joseph Ye shall sorrow 5 for the losse of deere freinds and 6 for your owne bitter peregrination here in this world Pilgrimage you know is alwaies perillous Gods children then who are but pilgrimes here must not expect an immunity Observat 1 from the crosse nor must the righteous think to be free from afflictions no we must through many afflictions enter into the Kingdome of God as Acts 14. 22. yea and all that will live godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution as 2 Tim 3. 12. Acts 14. 22. Dearly beloved thinke it not strange concerning the fiery triall 2 Tim. 3. 12. which is among you as though some strange thing were come unto you as 1 Pet. 4. 12. In the world ye shall have affliction for the servant is not better then his Lord nor the disciple above his 2 Pet. 4 12 Master as Math. 10. 24. If therefore they have done these things to the greene tree what shall become of the dry verily verily Mat 10. 24. I say unto you that ye shall weepe lament and sorrow Luke 23. 31. The reason is evident for ye are not of the world saith our Saviour Io. 15. 19 in the world therefore ye shall have affliction Reason 1 There is no concord 'twixt Christ and Belial nor is there Jo. 15. 19. 2 Cor 6. 14. 15 any agreement 'twixt light and darknesse R. 2 Secondly ye shall weepe lament and sorrow because ye are by Christ the adopted children of God it is meet therefore that ye become like unto him in affliction who hath already trode this path of tribulation R. 3 Thirdly and lastly ye shall weepe lament and sorrow because troubles are the surest tutors of goodnesse before I was afflicted saith David I went astray but now I keepe thy word Psal 119. 67. How many would have died ill if they had lived Psal 119. 67. merrily without affliction God hath severall waies to reduce his little flocke from the stragling by pathes of destruction yet I am perswaded none none I say more powerfull then affliction which sends the soule to meditation whereby she sees the worlds follies in such true colours of vanity that no sound discretion can think them worth the doting on Ideo enim Deus foelicitatibus terrenis amaritudines misoet ut illa quaeratur foelicitas cujus dulcedo non est fallax Aug. super Mat. Serm. 29. For therefore doth God intermingle bitter in gredients with his best terrestriall