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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43623	The horrid sin of man-catching, explained in a sermon upon Jer. 5, 25, 26 preach'd at Colchester, July 10, 1681 / by Edmond Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1811; ESTC R32965	25,824	42

The Horrid Sin OF Man-Catching Explain'd In a SERMON upon JER 5.25 26. Preach'd at COLCHESTER July 10. 1681. By EDMOND HICKERINGILL Rector of the Rectory of All-Saints there Deliver me not over to the will of mine Enemies for False Witnesses are risen up against me and such as breath out Cruelty Psal 27.12 They laid to my Charge things that I knew not Psal 35.11 The Chief Priests and Scribes sought how they might kill him for they feared the People then entred Satan into Judas Luke 22.2 3. Now the Chief Priests and Elders and all the Counsel sought False Witness against Jesus to put him to Death but found none yea though many False Witnesses came yet found they none At the last came two False Witnesses Matth. 26.59 60. London Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1681. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER I Know very well that every Book-sellers Stall groans under the burthen of Sermons Sermons Sermons as common and as commonly cryed about the Streets as Ballads Sermons before his Majesty before the Judges before the Right Honourable the Right Worshipful c. In Court in City in the Vniversity in the Country c. Sermons of good use Sermons of little or no use Sermons of great use especially to those reading Don's of the Pulpit that transcribing other Men's Works make a shift to read them tho many times as much out of the Story as hard to get in again when they are out as having never been either in their Heads or Hearts Sermons of Learned Composure both for Matter and Style and Sermons given and Sermon 's sold over and over again and some Sermon 's perhaps published out of meer Vanity and Itch to be seen in print Which of these or whether any of these caused the Publication of this Country-Sermon neither contriv'd devis'd nor intended for the Press but preach'd in my ordinary Course in my own Parish I do not think my self concerned to give thee any account for they that like it not may let it alone yet the publishing thereof is chiefly intended for the use of them that have most need of it and who will therefore like it so much the worse Some Men are so crafty as in neglect of their Duty to God to their King the Kingdom and their own Souls they dare not preach against this Sin of Man-catching or Trepanning Men by Sham-Evidence False Witnesses Sham-Plots the Sin of the Text I had almost said of the Times in swearing and unswearing lying slandering and for swearing and so setting Snares to catch Men Body and Goods Life and Estate whilst the World is the worse but never the better for those Preachers those Chips in Broth whose God is their Bellies and are only swayed by that Kitchin-Maxime It is good sleeping in a whole Skin whilst I chuse to follow that Plain-Dealer and Martyr Bishop Latimer who presented the King for a New-Years Gift with a Bible with this Inscription in Letters of Gold on the outside thereof perhaps for fear the King should not much trouble himself with looking on the Inside Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all and the Bed undefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge I know not what thanks he got for his New-Years Gift but he prov'd a true Prophet in one of his Sermons where he says We Ministers cannot say Vae Vobis but presently we are called coram Nobis We cannot reprove Sin in the Pulpit but forthwith we may be reprov'd for it by the Bench. But Blessed be God we do not live as Latimer once did in Popish-Times nor in Times where Popery has the greatest Sway Or if we should It is the greatest Honour as well as greatest Piety to follow his Fate as well as his Honesty and Plain-dealing THE Horrid Sin of Man-Catching Explain'd in a SERMON Upon JER 5.25 26. Your Iniquities have turned away these things and your Sins have withholden good things from you For among my People are found wicked Men they lay wait as he that setteth Snares they set a Trap they catch Men. IN which Words I shall only take notice in General 1. Of God's heavy Judgment upon Israel ver 25. 2. Of the Cause of that heavy Judgment the crying Sin of Man-Catching ver 26. But First to keep to the Method in the Text Let us enquire 1. Of what Nature was this heavy Judgment In Answer whereunto we may consider God's heavy Judgments or heavy Hand 1. Positively 2. Privatively 1. By stretching forth his Hand of Wrath in striking a People with either 1. The Sword of the Lord for so is called the Plague of Pestilence Or 2dly with War Forreign or Civil War though managed with the Sword of Man yet God is said to unsheath it and call for it and therefore also Wars bloody Wars are God's heavy Judgment upon a People and therefore called also The Sword of the Lord. 2. God's heavy Hand or heavy Judgment upon a People may be considered Privatively by depriving them of Mercies Temporal Mercies called good things in the Text which God for their Sins had turned away and withholden from them What these good things were which were withholden may evidently be seen in the verse before the Text namely God's heavy Judgment in depriving them of the former and latter Rain in his season and depriving them of the appointed Weeks of the Harvest Jer. 5.24 This great Drought did fore-run and threaten a Famine the worst and heaviest of God's Judgments the Sword of the Lord and the Sword of Man both of them make quick dispatch but Famine is a lingring Death and worse than Death and the worst of Death's And it was sad News for the King when he heard that his Subjects were glad to preserve their Lives by killing one another nay the Mother killing and eating her own Child and yet calling in vain to the King for help that could not have an Asses Head for himself under fourscore pieces of Silver nor a little Pigeon's Dung for the Dessert or second Course under five pieces more 2 Kings 6.25 26 27 28 29 30. No wonder that the King rent his Cloaths and wore Sack-clot● upon his Flesh to mortify it A great Drought or God's withdrawing the Rain bespeaks a Dearth as well as the Wrath of God upon a Land when the Dust as God says to Job groweth into hardness and the Clods cleave fast together when the Clouds are stayed and the Bottles of Heaven as God there calls them are stopped and the People cannot get a Dram of these Bottles tho it were to save their Lives In the three and thirtieth year of that wanton King Hen. 8th there was so great a Drought that small Rivers were clean dryed up and much Cattel died for want of Water and Food and afterwards In the five and thirtieth year of Queen Eliz. was so great a Drought that not only the Fields