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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30417	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, at Bow-Church, September 2, 1680 being the anniversary fast for the burning of London / by Gilbert Burnet.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing B5872; ESTC R21523	22,080	40

them only a whiles respite His Son Pekahiah being a wicked Prince Pekah conspired against him and killed him in the second Year of his Reign Then Tiglath-Pileser another Assyrian King came and perhaps pretended to revenge the Death of Menahem their Allie's Son and carried away most of the Land of Galilee into Captivity And the total Captivity of these Tribes followed under their next King So that from the Days of this Prophecy what by the Revolutions of Government at home what by the Impressions the proud Assyrians made on them they had a Succession of grievous Calamities which ended in the total Subversion of that State And they were so dispersed in their Captivity that except some Straglers that might have returned with Zorobbabel they were never again gathered together so that it is now only matter of conjecture what is become of them Amos was one of the last Messengers that was sent to invite them to Repentance God had before spoken to them in the dismal Language of his Judgments by Famine by the blasting of their Harvest and binding up the Clouds that it did not rain by such Mildew and Vermine as had consumed all their Fruits their Vines Olives and Figs by War and the Plague to such a degree that their Dead were not buried but lay in the Fields to infect the Air and to offend the Living The Stink of your Camps came into your Nostrils Which are all mentioned in the Verses before my Text. And finally that some of their Cities had been burnt down by the Hand of Heaven Two years after this another Calamity came on them from such an Earthquake mentioned by Zechariah that the People terrified with it thought of flying out of the Land for this Time being contemporary to that of Vzziah the Earthquake there mentioned which became a Proverb seems to be the same spoken of in the first Verse of this Prophecy So that this honest Shepherd was called from his Flocks to see if the Simplicity and Plainness of the Man and of his Stile which is the lowest of any of all the Prophets could be a Mean to awaken them out out of their Impieties The Sins he accuses them most for were their Irreligion desiring to stop the Mouths of the Prophets saying Prophesy not And tho they observed the Returns of their Festivities their New-Moons and Sabbath-Days yet they were weary of them observing them only for Forms sake and longed to have them over He also charges them for their Luxury They had rebuilt their burnt and wasted Cities with hewen Stone and had planted pleasant Vineyards and Olive-yards they drank Wine in Bowls something like Healths now a-days they anointed themselves with rich Ointment had their Beds of Ivory and rich Couches about their Tables feasted high and had excellent Musick at their Entertainments were guilty of great Iniquity and Oppression so that there was no Truth nor Justice among them And they were become so bare-faced and impudent in their Vices that good and prudent Men thought fit to keep silence in that Time because it was an evil Time For all these Reasons the Prophets threaten with them a Captivity and other severe Judgments and that because God had known them only of all the Families of the Earth therefore he would punish them for their Iniquities In the Words I have read he says I have overthrown you some is not in the Hebrew as God did Sodom and Gomorrah As does not import in the Scripture-Phrase an exact resemblance but only some Similitude in general So that it does not necessarily import that Fire came down from Heaven on them but that they were overthrown totally perhaps by Fire Thundring or Lightning The Chaldee Paraphrast understood it more generally and rendred it thus The Word of the Lord abhorred them as he did Sodom and Gomorrah You were as a Firebrand pluck'd out of the Burning A proverbial Form of Speech either expressing the great Danger they had run with the extraordinary Deliverance they had met with God rescuing them on a sudden as also the despicableness of their present Condition since nothing looks worse than a Firebrand snatch'd out of the Fire Yet have you not returned unto me saith the Lord. They continued in their Impieties and irreligious Worship in their Separation from their right way of worshipping God at Ierusalem in their Luxury Sensuality and Injustice and all the Judgments they had felt which perhaps might have a little awakened them when they lay under them had not any such effect as to turn their Hearts or to change the Course of their Lives Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel and because I will do thus unto thee Thus may either relate to the former Judgments as if they were to be repeated upon them or to what follows of the Captivity threatned in the beginning of the next Chapter The Virgin of Israel being fallen and not able to rise Ten being left of an Hundred and a Hundred of a Thousand Prepare thee to meet thy God O Israel This is either an Ironical Alarm to them to see what they could do to resist that God the God of Hosts that formed the Mountains created the Wind knew the Secret of Mens Hearts could bring Darkness on the Earth in a bright Sun-shine and tread upon the high Places of the Earth the great Powers and mighty Empires at his Pleasure they were to try how they were able to resist his Thunders to bind up the Clouds or the Winds of Heaven or to disperse those Armies that he was to send against them whom he would inspire with great Courage when they should be struck with pannick Fear and such Sorrow and dejection of Mind that all their Songs should be turned to Lamentations Or this Prepare thee to meet thy God is an Invitation to Repentance as that which could only avert those Judgments that were ready to break forth on them and dissipate the Clouds so that instead of the Storms they had reason to look for they might be bless'd with a serene Calm and entire Peace upon their returning to God Having thus opened the Scope and Intention of the Prophet in the Text I shall now speak to these four Particulars I. When we have met with Judgments signal both in their kind and in the deliverance out of them we ought to remember God's hand in them and to consider for what ends he both laid them on and took them off II. We ought to consider what effect these have had on us Whether they have made us turn to God or not III. We are to consider how much severer Judgments we may reasonably look for if those that have already come upon us have not prevailed to make us return to God IV. Upon all this we ought to look unto God and to endeavour to prevent that which we cannot otherwise avoid or resist by an unfeigned Repentance For the First of