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A18025	Chorazin and Bethsaida's vvoe, or warning peece A judicious and learned sermon on Math. II. vers. 21. Preached at St. Maries in Oxford, by tha[t] renowned and famous divine, Mr. Nathanael Carpenter, Batchellor in Divinity, sometime Fellow of Exceter Colledge; late chaplaine to my Lords Grace of Armah in Ireland.	Carpenter, Nathanael, 1589-1628?; N. H., fl. 1633.	1633 (1633)	STC 4673; ESTC S107660	26,403	96

CHORAZIN AND BETHSAIDA'S Woe or warning Peece A judicious and learned Sermon ON MATH 11. vers 21. Preached at St. Maries in Oxford by the renowned and famous Divine Mr. Nathanael Carpenter Batchellor in Divinity sometime Fellow of Exceter Colledge late Chaplaine to my Lords Grace of Armah in Ireland Printed at London by T. Cotes for Michael Sparke dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene-Arbor 1633. To the worshipfull Thomas Winneffe Dr. of Divinity and Deane of St. Pauls in London The blessings of this life and that which is to come c. THere is nothing in this Continent or within the Content of the vast world that hath not in it some quality which may benefit other creatures The ayre yeelds fowles the water fish the earth fruits Much more may it bee verified of persons than of things of creatures intelligible than of insensible of learned men more than ignorant who may edifie aud profit many by their owne knowledge The Author hereof was unto me both a Tutor and a neere affine somewhat therefore may much ought not without entrenching on the bounds of modesty be said of him Hee was a Microcosme a little world within the Hemisphere of this greater that seemed for his naturall endowments of knowledge reason judgement wisedome and all supernaturall gifts to outstrip many of his equall-contemporaries and superiors both in age and place He it was whom Oxford so much admired for industry ingenuity rationability and judicious solidity in things pertaining to the liberall sciences And the Church at this day in Achitophel the wicked Polititian composed by this Author stands stupified and amazed wondring at the subtility and pollicy humane together with the knowledge and speculations divine which the God of Heaven exhibited unto him in such an exuberant and aboundant measure Disastrous occurrents attempted often the stifeling hereof before the birth for had not a kinsemans Io. Ca. friendly hand given it safe conduct over the Surges of the Ocean in all likelyhood it had perished on the Netherland shores as his indefatigable labours witnessed by his industrious vigilancy in the Opticks made shipwrack in the Irish Sea the irrecuperable losse whereof is much to be deplored Well I 'le welcome this the more objected to my view peruse Now having read it perceiving by the stile thereof as also by the testimony and certaine approbation of that famous and learned Divine Mr. Matthias Stile the Authors most indeared and intimate friend that this is not any adulterate and illegitimate but genuine and naturall brood his off-spring to speake in the Poets Apostles phrase I thought my selfe by a blessed enjoyment of tuition and instruction from him not more by gifts enabled than in duty and conscience obliged to endeavour to illustrate the good parts of him whose fame maugre malignity will with great designements contend for perpetuity This Sermon or rather two dayes worke preached before the learned Vniversity at St. Maries in Oxford being afterwards reviewed and contracted was intended as may be supposed by the passages therein for a Pauls-Crosse Sermon And had not deaths properation and dismall approach in a strange land prevented the Authors preparation and anticipated a seasonable opportunity it would not at this time have stood in neede of a Schollers friends or kinsemans helpe and assistance eyther to have fitted or furthered it for the Presse Now although the vast vniverse might present unto my considerate choise many renowned worthy Patrons that would receive this Orphane to house and give it habitation countenance and protection yet after consultation and some deliberation I humbly dedicate these Excogitations and divine oratories of my kinseman and Allie the Author unto your learned selfe which I should not to confesse ingenuously have done had not your Schollership soundnesse sincerity and integrity bin more eminent than your Deanry or dignity That I have prefixed your name was it because sometimes your Worship was of the same Colledge with the Author and contemporary with him and consequently might be thought an approoved instrument if not to propagate yet preserve this off-spring Or was it a fond supposall of adding ought to your not more desired than deserved exaltation Nothing lesse but of gaining somewhat from your selfe unto the worke that being so inscribed it might carry with it some shew of innate worth which shines so apparently from the splendor of your learned bosome Let the eminency of your place and person give it lustre reputation and authority so shall not after-ages finde a grave to bury it in the darkenesse of oblivion Anspiciously regarding it be you a patron and guard unto it imitating the goodnesse of the all-sufficient-and-efficient-blessing and preserving essence who unto his beloved ones though not meriting favorites is a Sunne and a Shield a Sunne to comfort and a Shield to protect So I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance amongst all them that are sanctified The God of heaven perpetuate not onely your present exaltation but improve it to your further advancement here The Lord guide you by his Counsaile and after that receive you to glory Your Worships in his sincerest affections and utmost endeavours to command N. H. MATTH 11. 21. Woe unto thee Corazin woe unto thee Bethsaida for if the mighty workes which were done in you had beene done in Tyre and Sydon they had repented long agoe sitting in sackecloth and ashes SHame albeit the daughter of sinne becomes sometimes the mother of conversion Those whom neither afriends advice can rectifie nor a Magistrats sword correct onely shame makes sencible of transgression and where all good motions else seeme meere strangers this one is admitted as a profitable though unwelcome guest This disposition perhaps found our Saviour in the stubborne and stiff-necked Iewes whose frozen heart-strings when neither gentle admonition could thaw nor prodigious miracles worke to a conversion shame and reproach step in as ready to undertake a reformation Hee whose omnipotence could out of these stones have raised up children unto Abraham and at the first touch of his gracious influence have kindled the sparkels of contrition seemes in this place rather to expect than to prevent their inclination to make them sensible of sinne ere they obtained mercy Wherefore deriving his reproofe from a gentle expostulation some 4. verses before my Text he proceeds to taxe in them two capitall and haynous enormities the one of Infidelity the other of Ingratitude Whereof the one descovers it selfe in their neglect of those sacred Prophets which from Moses to Iohn have traced the line of our Messiah for all the Prophets quoth our Saviour and the Law prophesied untill Iohn and if yee will receive it this is Elias which was for to come The other in their contempt in shutting their eyes against the sunshine of the glorious Gospel to which he alludes in the 16. v. the comparison of little children sitting in

obligation The cleare Sunshine of the Gospel confined for a time to their hemyspheare hath enlarged his influence from East to West and the sound of Gods word the partition wall broken downe is found to have dispersed it selfe to all Nations Whence we have seene them disinherited by their owne wilfull disobedience and can we repose a greater affiance in Gods favours than our owne penitent inclination dares to justifie Thinke you those on whom the Tower of Siloe fell are greater sinners than all the rest I tell you nay but unlesse yee repent you shall all likewise perish This may teach every true Christian not to stand upon termes of capitulation with Gods justice neither to foreslow the time or slacke our duty but by a seasonable repentance to prevent our punishment and by our prostrate humility abate the edge of Gods indignation Which calls to minde two other circumstances left as yet to our examination in the Tyrians and Sydonians penitency 1. The time that they would have repented long agoe 2. The manner to wit in sackcloth and ashes of which a few words as time shall give permission 16. The conveniency of time and decency of manner are the cheefest circumstances to season an approved action For Piety the Mother of good workes no longer seemes her selfe than when shee goes hand in hand with Discretion by whom shee is still directed as well how as wherein to dispose and improve her industry to the best approbation If all civill actions else seeme to challenge interest in this grace of Times opportunacy and decent manner of presenting the object to acceptance how much more stands the duty of repentance engaged to such circumstances wherein Misery as ashamed of her selfe is enforced to addresse it selfe to Gods mercy and guilty sinnes stand to be arraigned before Gods high Majesty If Chorazin and Bethsaida in the first infancy of Christianity had beene found so faire outshined by Tyre and Sydon had Christs works beene there shewen to their acceptance how farre shall these Tyrians and Sydonians set in the scale with us out waigh our endeavour and overpoyze our husbandry They had repented long agoe and prevented Gods heavy judgement with a seasonable and sweet conversion Long have the armes of his mercy beene open to embrace the first motions of our untoward inclination Long since have the knowledge of our Saviours miracles and Sermons the daily Ministery of his Preachers given sufficient evidence of his extraordinary love and abused patience Long since have his corrections and punishments as the messengers of his wrathfull displeasure summoned our slacknesse to his Court of Iustice famine and pestilence have long since scaled your Citty walls death and desolation have rid in tryumph in your streets the hideous cry of the fatherlesse children and childlesse fathers have peirced deepe into your eares The rumour of warre and feare of invasion awak't your sleepy security and armd'd you to prevention And is this beloved a time to procrastinate our repentance and trespasse further on his patience Stand wee not already beloved at the barre of his justice expecting every houre the giving up of the verdict and the fatall sentence of Condemnation And can wee be so sencelesse to play with death and stake Heaven against Hell buy a minutes space of pleasure with a perpetuall and datelesse durance of damnation The least mites of our sinnes summoned up together will swell into an infinite and more than the highest folly would it seeme in us to run further on this score when enough is cast up already to condemne us No minute of our lives but addes some scruple to the waight of our transgressions and what puffe of breath passeth from our mouthes which steales not away some touch of our integritie what can to morrow promise more than the present houre or wherein findes Religion lesse improvement than in fruitlesse procrastination Some boysterous hand of violent disaster may cracke or turne our houreglasse ere the sands are halfe spent or the time of our Pilgrimage slip away ere wee begin to calculate the motion Sera est in fundo par simonia Hee that too soone beginns to spend shall too late be taught to spare And hee that sets his Salvation on one and the last cast is sure to hazardall but uncertaine to win any To day if you will heare the Lords voyce harden not your hearts but bring forth fruit worthy Repentance Herein the inclination of the Tyrians and Sydonians foreseene of our Saviour might trace you out the way or with their supposed industry upbraided to Bethsaida and Chorazin shame your contempt or correct your negligence They had repented long agoe Neither was it altogether so notable in the Tyrians and Sydonians that they should with a ready hand catch at opportunity and at first call of Gods Grace and Spirit awake contrition had they not seconded and seasoned their contrite soules groaning under the heavy weight of sinne with devout humility and that not onely conceaved in the inward minde but expressed in the outward signes and emblems of Sackcloth and Ashes 17. Humility is the first stone in the groundworke of Gods Temple the first step by which wee ascend the throane of his sacred mercy the first round of Iacobs ladder by which like Angels our soules climbe up to God in Heaven and his holy Spirit descends to us on earth The soyle wherein this hearbe of grace rootes it selfe is the heart of a true Christian whence it derives spreads his branches outwardly in our exteriour actions and behaviour and expresses it selfe in such formes and weedes as are consonant to Gods prescript and the sincerity of our affection This inward sorrow outward humiliation have the ancient Fathers and Patriarkes expressed in Sackcloth and Ashes as Emblemes of contrition so pleasing unto God that in Reprobates themselves though not effectuall to Salvation it hath beene found sometimes so farre accepted as in it selfe it was sincere As wee reade of Achab that God spared him for his humiliation In his Repentance he shewed not himselfe an Hypocrite though hee came not home to the Marke He was true and sincere though not perfect and constant and therefore lost he not his reward though hee obtained not his end The like may we reade of Nineveh whose contrition without doubt totall and perfect in a few yet unfaigned as it seemes in all having passed some steppes of humiliation though not ascended the highest pitch of true Repentance wrought notwithstanding so much good in Gods favour 〈◊〉 the suspension of punishment and their Citties preservation Hence may every good Christian inforce his conscience with what good advice our Church hath ordeyned the use of kneeling fasting and outward pennance for sinne as that which in some measure hath alwaies beene found acceptable in Gods sight as the complement of our devotion and the most decent formality in our practise of piety The body can be no more wanting to the soule than the handmaid to her mistresse in accomplishment of this holy service Wherein howsoever eyther party with all his faculties have designed and limited out their severall and distinct offices yet as so many lines directed to one Center they ought all to meete in the happie period of Gods gracious favour the onely cause and groundworke of our salvation To which unspeakable blisse and Glory prepared for the Elect in Christ the Lord for his mercy direct our devotion for the merits of his deere Sonne to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed all honour glory might and majesty now and for ever Amen FINIS