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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91813	King Solomons directory: or, The reformed Catholicks rubricke: shewing a Christian how to demeane and behave himselfe both in prosperity and adversity: / as it was set forth in a sermon at St. Peters Pauls-wharfe, London, July the 8. 1649. By Fran: Riddington, a loyall subject, and long sufferer for fearing God, and honouring the King.	Riddington, Francis.	1649 (1649)	Wing R1438; Thomason E565_16; ESTC R206142	14,454	20

Heavinesse may indure for a night but Joy commeth in the Morning Psal 30.5 and a good Day may make amends for an ill night I may after an ill fit be the better for it Why then should I sit disconsolate under so short a vexation Nubecula est transibit It is but a little shower it will soone blow over though it wet me a little it cannot drowne me Many a faire afternoone followes a foule morning There is a certaine and continuall vicissitude and interchange of day and night of light and darknesse and shall I in adversity despaire of ever being happy It is good that a man should both hope and quietly waite for the Salvation of the Lord Lam. 3.26 and shall I choose the evill and refuse the good not hope not waite for the salvation of my God The same that brings down high looks will save the afflicted people Psal 18.27 O carry then the Lords leasure be strong and he shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord Psal 27 last Was I in the dust or which is worse on the Dunghill there was no reason I should count my selfe a cast-away some that have beene taken from thence have beene set among Princes and made to inherit the throne of glory 1 Sam. 2.8 and if it be not my fortune here it will be if it be not my fault hereafter For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 for which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporall but the things which are not seen are eternall Adversity is but for a day let this therefore comfort thee in the depth of misery These things premised we come now to handle the two maine things considerable in this day of adversity namely the cause and the cure of the great and many distempers that make us thus miserable as we are And as for the cause the efficient I have shewed you is God the materiall Sin the finall repentance as for the formall I told you we would wave it for the present The evills which we feele proceed from God procured by Sin and inflicted to the end we should repent and amend And so this consideration affords us this point of Instruction That Gods indignation moved against sinne calls for our Repentance In the second place the cure we have found upon enquiry to be Humiliation and Reformation Humiliation under the mighty hand of God Reformation of our evill lives and corrupt conversations And from hence ariseth this Observation That Humiliation and Reformation are the onely meanes to pacifie Gods indignation and to remove our afflictions And these are the things which we are chiefly in this day of adversity to consider Of which in their order as briefly and plainly as possibly may be and first of the first the cause of the evils under which we now suffer God Sin Repentance God the efficient sin the materiall repentance the finall they proceed from God procur'd by sin and inflicted to the end we should repent and amend Gods indignation moved against sinne calls for our Repentance Micah 6.9 The Lords voice cryeth unto the City and the man of wisdome shall see thy name Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it As our sins cry to God for Judgments so his Judgments cry to us for repentance Thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem Jer. 18.11 behold I frame evill against you and devise a device against you returne ye now every one frō his evill way and make your wayes and your doings good Repent and turne your selves from all your transgressions so Iniquity shall not be your ruine Ezek. 18.30 What ever evills we suffer under God is the author of them all Lam. 3.37 Who is he that saith and it commeth to passe when the Lord commandeth it not out of the mouth of the most high preproceedeth not evill and good yes doubtlesse evill as well as good proceeds from God But here we must distinguish of Malum poena and Malum culpae the former is from God and the latter from Man No evill of punishment but from him nor any but for the evill of Sin Sinne is the procurer of all our woe Woe woe unto us but why because we have finned Lam. 5.16 Woe unto us that we have sinned for this our heart is faint for these things our eyes are dim ver 17. All would be well without us were all well within us From whence come warres and fightings among you come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members Jam. 4.1 cast but these with Jonah over-board and the sea of our world which now worketh and is tempestuous will forth with cease her raging and be calme Sinne with Acha● is it that troubles all let us but take away this accursed thing from amongst us and God will turne from the feircenesse of his anger and returne in mercy to the many thousands of his people The REBELLIONS are strengthned against us yea triumph over us but how by our multiplyed rebellions against our God let us but make our peace with him and he will soone make them to be at peace with us When a mans wayes please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him Prov. 16.7 We have transgressed and we have rebelled and the Lord hath not pardoned but punished us with many and sore evils yet we must believe all for our good for our conversion not for our confusion for he hath no pleasure at all that the wicked should die but that he should returne from his wayes and live Ezek. 18.23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die saith the Lord God and not that he should returne from his wayes and live No the Lord our God desires rather our life and salvation then our death and damnation he hath no pleasure at all in this latter but delights much in the former yea there is joy amongst his Angels in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth Luke 15.10 Give me leave then I beseech you to apply this that I have spoken with the words of Tertullian in his tract of repentance Bonum est poenitere an non quid revolvis Deus precipit At enim ille non precipit tantum sed etiam hortatur Invitat praemio salutem jurans etiam vivo dicens cupit credi sibi Tell me is it good to repent or not what dost thou study of God commands thee so to doe nay more he doth not onely command but perswades and exhorts thee also he invites thee to Heaven with a promise of a reward swearing as he lives that he desires thy salvation and he would have thee to

beleeve him As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evill wayes for why will ye die O ye house of Israel Ezek. 33.11 O beatos nos quorum causa Deus jurat O miserrimos fi●nec juranti Domino credimus as the Father beforenamed hath it in the place before cited O happy and blessed are we for whose sake God swears O most miserable and wretched if we will not believe him swearing and if we doe believe him then let us repent our selves of our sinnes and returne unto him Every sinne is an errour Nonne errant omnes Prov. 14.22 Do they not erre that devise evill We fall and stray peceardo by sinning we must rise and return poenitend● by repenting It is not the falling but the not rising not our sinning but our not repenting that undoes us Perpetuity and impenitency in sinne makes sin out of measure sinful and renders the actors uncapable of a pardon As all Gods promises pass sub conditione obedientiae on condition of obedience so all his threatnings Sub condititione impenitentia under the condition of impenitency If a righteous man revolt he shall die for it notwithstanding all Gods promises and if a wicked man repent he shall live notwithstanding all Gods menaces You may see this clearly evidenced in that 33. Chapter of the Prophesie of Ezekiel at the 13. and following Verses When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live if be trust to his own righteousnesse and cōmit iniquity all his righteousnesse shall not be remembred but for his iniquity that he hath committed he shall die for it Againe when I say unto the wicked thou shalt surely die if he turne from his sinne and doe that which is lawfull and right be shall surely live he shall not die What can be said more fully more plainly or more punctually wherefore if we desire rather to live then to dye to prosper then to perish let us repent our selves of our iniquities and returne unto the Lord our God who is ready to receive and embrace us in the armes of his mercie Esa 55.7 Let the wicked c. Repentance is nothing else but redire ad principia to return to him whom we have left by sinne And the practice of this duty consisteth in these two things Humiliation and reformation humiliation under the mighty hand of God reformation of our evil lives and corrupt conversations which are the cure of the great and many distempers that make us thus miserable as we are Humiliation and reformation are the onely meanes to pacifie Gods indignation and to remove our afflictions and this is the thing which we are in this day of adversity to consider and my last observation which I shall dispatch in a word Humiliation and Reformation have for these eight yeares and upward beene the common talke of the times But what hath beene done in them why indeed si verbis audacia detur such things as never were done before That hath been done Quod nulla posteritas probet quod nulla taceat Which posterity can neither approve nor conceale no nor all Antiquity parallel I le give you cases as near as I can to ours we have had daies of Humiliation wherein many men have fasted but as we reade Isa 58.4 For strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse c. and humbled themselves but as it is Psal 10.10 That the poore might fall by their strong ones And such a Reformation we have as Nebuzaradan Captaine of the guard to Nebuchadnezer made at Jerusalem 2 Kings 25. When he threw downe the walls both of City and Temple and tooke away all the vessels of Gold and Silver c. And how should it be better when the Devill of Rebellion hath turned himselfe into this Angell of Reformation and the old Serpent held out new lights to lead his followers into outer Darknesse But to have done with these who have undone us All. The Humiliation which I am to speake to and of is a true selfe dejection joyned with the confession of sinne contrition for sinne and an earnest desire of pardon And as for Reformation it is a conversion from sinne a change of all bad actions into good The former duty is thus performed A man touched with the sense of his misery humbly casteth himselfe downe before the mercy seate of Gods offended Majesty confesseth from a sorrowfull heart his forepast sins condemneth himselfe for the same and earnestly entreateth pardon and forgivenesse of them at the hands of God for the merits of Christ The latter thus A man perceiving his errour and folly corrects and amends what ever is amisse in him sets himself in the right way and proceeds and goes on in all vertue of godlinesse of living And let every one of us but thus humble and thus reforme himselfe and surely then the controversie which God hath with us all is ended and a peace concluded for confirmation of which assertion the whole current of Scripture is so clear and the Character so obvious that he that runs may read I shall therefore quote but two to avoide prolixity and what need I more when In Scripturis non saepius dicta sed tantum dicta sufficiant Any one materiall Text will serve to prove any one tenet to them that believe the Scripture 1. Then for Humiliation take that of Saint James at his 4. Chapter and 10. Verse Humble your selves in the fight of the Lord and he shall life you up doe you but performe the duty of Humiliation and God will conferre upon you the dignity of exaltation And as for Reformation see thee 1. of Esay at the 16. Verse where we have this document no lesse consolatory then consonant Wash ye make ye clean put away the evill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evill learn to do well c. and then come and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the Land If ye will reforme your selves you shall be received to mercy no question to the contrary but if ye will not if ye refuse and rebell ye may read your destiny in the next Verse the 20. of that 1. of Esay ye shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it And if the mouth of the Lord hath said it the hand of the Lord wil do it For nec verbum ab intentione quia veritas nec factum à verbo quia virtus saith Saint Bernard With God neither doth his Word disagree c. Let then so many of us as believe in God as believe his Word obey him and doe as we are commanded Humble and Reforme our selves