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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57148	The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Councel, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1268; ESTC R15341	21,144	52

Ludibrium to the birds that are round about them Jer. 12. 7 9. 5. A judiciary Tradition or leaving men to the vanity of their own mindes and the lusts of their own hearts to a giddinesse of spirit and delusion of judgement A sad step this of divine desertion when men are given up to walk in their owne counsels Psal. 81. 12. and are captivated to strong delusions to believe lies 2 Thes. 2. 11. we have seen what this judgement is for God to depart from a people It is the unchurching of them sending them back into Egypt again as our Prophet here expresseth it v. 3. 6. Let us now consider what a fearful Woe this is for God thus to leave a people it is of all other the most comprehensive Eminently containing in it all other woes as Gods presence doth all other comforts This the most comprehensive Promise in the Covenant of grace I will be their God And this the most comprehensive threatning I will depart I will lo●e them no more The Apostle calls it wrath to the uttermost 1 Thes. 2. 16. The Prophet wants words to expresse it and veiles it over with this black and dismal intimation Thus will I do unto thee Amos 4. 12. when they scornfully ask'd the Prophets what burden they had from the Lord to deliver unto them the Lord gives them this as a Burden of burdens a Curse of curses I will forsake you saith the Lord Jerem. 23. 33. 1. It cuts off our relation unto God ye are not my people I will not be your God Hos. 1. 9. It is the unfranchizing of a Church Cancelling their Charter Reversing and extinguishing all their priviledges making them very Gentiles A people without God or Covenant 2. It consequently cuts off our Communion with God He delights not in us nor we in him for though this be the greatest judgement in the world yet there is this further misery in it That wicked men choose it and are well pleased to be without God They say unto God depart from us Job 21. 14. They are contented that the holy one of Israel should cease from before them Isa. 30. 11. 3. It cuts off the Glory and Renowne of a People which stands not in their Seas and Rivers in their Wealth or Power or Plenty or Trade or other outw●rd Accomplishments but in having God nigh them Deut. 4. 6. Christ is the Riches of the world Rom. 11. 12. Gods favour the honour of a people Isa. 43. 4. when he forsakes them their Glory is gone 4. It cuts off the comfort of all our enjoyments the pure use whereof we have from the favour of God alone bringeth thornes and briars in our palaces maketh our Table a snare our Riches the fuel of our lusts our Quailes the harbingers of our curses our plenty nothing but the matter of our pride and our perdition Wicked men eat their meat as swine do mingled with mire and uncleannesse they eat in darknesse and sorrow their riches are their hurt Eccles. 5. 13 17. Vanity and vexation emptinesse and affliction are the total summe of all their worldly abundance of all the sparks which they have kindled after which they shall lie downe in sorrowe Isaiah 50. 11. 5. It Seales us up under wrath and Judgement is the Talent of leade which is cast on the Mouth of the Ephah Zach. 5. 8. It is the last Judgement before the last of all the very outward Court or portall of Hell For when the presence and ordinances of God are gone men are in a Remedilesse Condition Sick to death without either physick or Physitian O saith Saul I am sore distressed the Philistims warre and God is departed 1 Sam. 28. 15. Sin woundeth Satan accuseth Law curseth Death pursueth Conscience roareth Hell flameth and God is departed 6. It shuts out our praye●● when Gods back is turned and his presc●●ce removed then his Eare is stopped when he shutts us out he shutts out our prayer likewise They who are Lo-Ammi are Certainly Lo-Ruchamah If no people no Mercy There will be a time when the worst of men who now despise it will cry aloud for mercy but all in vaine God will not hear them because they refused to hear him Prov. 1. 28. Jer. 11. 14. Ezek. 8. 18. 7. It shuts out the prayers of Holy men for us when God casts a people out of his sight he will not here a Prophet for them Jer. 7. 16. nay not an Assembly of Prophets such as were mighty in prayers as Moses and Samuel Jer. 15. 1. such as have had experience of most glorious deliverances as Noah Daniel and Job Ezekiel 14. 14. 8. It opens an Inlet for all other Miseries and troubles le ts loose the sluces and as in Noahs flood breaks up the fountains of the great deep Many evils and troubles shall befall them saith the Lord and they shall say are not these evils come upon us because God is not amongst us Deut. 31. 17. When God is with a people none can be against th●● to hurt them He sweetens all the●● Sorrowes makes their very Enemyes at p●●●e but when the Glory and the wall ●●●●re is departed there is a free approach for all Calamities a people are then ripe for destruction Now to clear both the Justice and Goodness of God in this fore Judgment we are to understand 1. That the Lord doth not in this manner forsake a Nation or Church untill 1 They forsake him our mercies are from God our Miseries from our selves Hos. 13. 9. 2 Chron. 15. 2. 2. Not untill all Remedies have been by them rejected and he wearied with Repenting so that he can no longer beare being pressed as a cart full of sheaves 2 Chron. 36. 16. Jer. 15. 6. Jer. 44. 22. Isa. 43. 24. Amos 2. 13. 3. Nor without first giveing solemne warnings both by his Messengers and by his more moderate chastisements as we finde Amos 3. 7. 4. 7 12. Amos 7. 1 7. 2. That when he doth forsake a people He doth it 1. Unwillingly It is his strange work he can scarce bring his minde to resolve upon it How shall I give thee up Ephraim How shall I deliver thee Israel c. Hos. 11. 8. He speaks against them and then remembers them againe Jerem. 31. 18. 2. Lingringly and gradually and as it were cum animo revertendi If his people would hold fast and not let him go so he did in the deportation of the ten Tribes first in the dayes of Pekah he carried the Land of Napthali away into Assyria 2 Reg. 15. 29. And after in the dayes of Hosea upon violation of the conditions of service and tribute to the Assyrians he carried the rest away and removed them out of his sight 2 Reg. 17. 6 18. 3. Not till he have marked his own select people in the forehead and have provided a Zoar a Pella some hiding place and chambers of refuge for them Ezek. 9. 4. Isa. 26. 20. 2 Chron.