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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52087	A sermon preached at St. Margaretts in VVestminster on Sunday the sixt of February last, before many of the worthy members of the Honorable House of Commons in this present Parliament / by John Marston...	Marston, John, Master of Arts.	1642 (1642)	Wing M817; ESTC R15682	29,903	48

A SERMON PREACHED AT St. MARGARETTS in VVestminster On Sunday the sixt of February last before many of the worthy members of the Honorable House of Commons in this present PARLIAMENT By Iohn Marston Master of Arts and Rector of the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen in Canterbury Printed upon the importunity of many Auditors LONDON Printed by F. L. for Io. Burroughes and Io. Franke and are to bee sold at the signe of the Golden Drag●n neere the Inner Temple Gate in Fleetstreet 1642. To the Reader READER IF thou bee'st Courteous thou hast heere a fit obiect of ●hy mercy If Criticall heer 's worke enough to make thee thine owne plague as well as mine you must adventure to your owne perrill if you denie me pittie Accept then a leane discourse shuffled over hastily into the pulpit and thence spurr'd on in a full speede unto the presse The importunity of no meane hearers hath extorted this and they can testifie I was almost a Rebell to perswasion But conquered at last with the kindnesse not the Cause I now stand upon the stall to haile the passengers And if thou beest ihtrap't to a small expence thinke not that deere which will invite thee to repent I hope of all thy sinnes at least of this that thou layd'st out this money no better 'T is a scribling age and the unhappie comfort is imperfections could never flye abroad with lesse inconvenience to their authour Vse me Charitably and I am Thy Servant Iohn Marston A SERMON PREACHED at St. Margrets in Westminster on Sunday the Sixt of February 1642. IOELL 2. 12. and part of the 13. VERSE Therefore also now saith the Lord Turne unto me with all your heart with fasting and with weeping and with mourning And rent your harts and not your garments and turne to the Lord your God THE Gospells glad tydings are not now in season Something to make us sad suits these times best I finde a woe pronounc't against those that laugh Now then hang we up our Harpes and sit wee downe by the waters of Babylon where we shall not choose but weepe if we but remember this our Syon And to compleate our woe let 's measure greifes lay our calamities of England against those calamities which God heere threatens against I●dea Calamities able to fright the reader and make him considering them forget his owne Such Calamities as must live when they for whom they were provided are dead for the old men must leave the storie of them as a sad legacie to their children so we reade chap. 1. ver. 2. But the newes of this Iudgement must come first which invades them with such horror as makes the judgments come before they come in the apprehension of them And so the newes was to them like the presence of our Saviour to the Devills to torment them before the time For God under an Alegorie of the Locust and Canker worme threatens a future destruction by the Invasion of the Caldeans A lyon like Nation shall destroy their vines and the drunkards must weepe for the losse of them ver. 5. So that now their cupps must be empty or they must fill them with their teares The trees must bee undrest and stand naked without their barke that so they may wither and dye and for their death the whole land mourn'd at the 10. verse Nay such scarcity did succeed that the meate and drinke offerings were cut off from the house of the Lord and therefore do the Priests mourne and lye all night in sackcloth ver. 13. And now in the second chapter all their Iudgements are proclaimed by the sound of a Trumpet nay the day is so neere at hand that the very allarum sounds and the dism●ll day may beseene at the Second verse though it be onely seene in this that it cannot bee seene for a day of darkenesse shall it be and gloominesse saith the Prophet And just it is that they in their distresse should want the light who in their prosperity whilst they had the light were the children of dark n●sse Now horror invades the people who through feare and affrightment are so transformed that their faces gather blacknesse the blacknesse of a Po●s-out-side for so the Hebrew word the●e signifies and so were mask● in the livery of their owne terror and distructions all things as blacke as their owne thoughts ●reade of one who 〈…〉 at onceboth with enemies and darknesse d●sired God onely so much light as might serve to see himselfe dye valiantly He loved light well that was so loath to dye without it But heere Sion hath it not Heaven winkes at their ealamitie and drawes a curtaine of darkenesse before all her eyes the Sunne and Moone shall be darke and the Starres shall withdraw their shinning ver. 10. Nay the Lord himselfe shall bee Generall of the forces that come against them and shall vtter his voyce before his armie to encourage it the day of his ven●ance is terrible and who can abide it And in this horror and distresse whether shall they got whether shall they ●●ye their darknesse cannot cover them for the darknesse is no darkenesse with him all their power summon'd together cannot withstand his wrath for who can stand wh●n he is angry There is no way to turne from these dismall and approching evills but by turning unto him that brings them and that by repentance But Quid ad nos what 's all this to us would God it were not doe not dangers threaten us also and such dangers that if we paralell them with these we shall soone see they doe exceed God threatned to destroy them by their enemies but we have beene in danger to be destroyed by our friends for what could it be lesse then the judgement of God upon us that thus one Nation should rise against another both professing the same true religion both the dutifull Subjects of the same King both having the same ground of quarrell to maintaine Religion will not this make riddals in the Chronicles And truly was not the day of the Lord the day of 〈◊〉 judgement neere at hand when these loving enemies were ready to send the messages of death to one another in the dreadfull language of the Cannon and their distresse picture out the horror of the last day in blood and Fire and vapour of smoke And what a day of black confusion had followed had the warre proceeded when two valiant Nations united hitherto both in love and religion should have beene united onely in the mixture of their blood but in this respect I confesse the hand of the Lord is not still stretched out for he hath removed far from us the Notherne armie and our friendship I hope like a fracture of a bone in our bodies is the stronger knit for being broken But though that danger 's vanisht a worse now succeeds it and under the feare of that we groane more then did Iudea heere for feare of the Chaldeans if a forraigne foe did