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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66524	A scourge to the rebellious, or, A sermon preached at the parish Church of St. Antholin, in the city of London, June the 28th, 1685 by Steph. Willoughby ...	Willoughby, Stephen, b. 1657 or 8.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2862B; ESTC R38661	12,830	32

there is first a Prediction Yet Forty Days 2ly A Desolation Nineveh shall be overthrown Such is God's Patience to frail Mortality * Pet. 3.20 that he spar'd the Old World with long-suffering in the Days of Noah * Ps 95.10 and provoking Israel Forty Years Forty Years long was I grieved with this Generation and Rebellious Nineveh Forty Days But if the hearts of men be so obdurate that they will not turn before a Tamen or a remarkable Warning come then God will whet his Sword he hath bent his Bow prepared his Arrows Instruments of Death against his Persecutors Now the Almighty is said to warn all the Rebells of Heaven c. 1st By his Ministers such was Jonah to Nineveh and Noah to the Old World He gave them Commission to cry aloud and spare not to lift up their Voice like a Trumpet to tell the People their Sins * Ezek. 3.18 19 20 21. Son of man saith the Lord I have made thee a Watchman unto the House of Israel therefore hear the Word at my mouth and give them warning from me when I say to the Wicked thou shalt surely Dye and thou givest him not warning to save his life the same wicked man shall dye in his Iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand And if the obstinacy of sinners be such that they bring not forth Fruit meet for Repentance Then let the Ministers of God denounce Judgment * Hos 6.7 and Isa 3.11 For I have hewn them saith the Lord by the Prophets I have slain them by the words of my mouth VVoe unto the wicked it shall be ill with him for thereward of his hands shall be given him But 2ly The Almighty warns a People by calling the Faithful to their long home At their departure 't is time that a whole Land should mourn for a dismal desolation is at hand They being the Props and Pillars Horse-men and the Chariots of Israel Walls and Bull-warks both of Church and State To stand as Moses in the Gap to turn away God's wrathful Indignation Such is the prevailing Efficacy that attends the Ministry that Eliphaz the Temanite said of Job * Joh. 4.4 Thy words have upholden him that is falling and thou hast strengthened the feeble Knees The wicked are spared from destruction because of the intercession of these holy ones I deny not but these may be taken away in a common Calamity But had there been Fifty Righteous in Sodom nay if there had lacked Five of the Number if there had been but Forty Five take Five from that if there had been but Forty there nay twice Ten more if there had been but Twenty there yet Ten more if there had been but Ten there Sodom would not have been laid waste in Ashes * Gen. 18.32 For says God I will not destroy it for Tens sake So tenderly affected is the Lord with good men that he will hear their Prayers for the Wicked * Numb 25. For thus saith the Lord Phinehas the Son of Eleazer the Son of Aaron the Priest hath turned my wrath away from the Children of Israel While he was zealous for my sake among them that I consumed not the Children of Israel in my jealousie Hence it appears that the dissolution of good men is a prelude to our dissolation and a timely warning to all unrepenting Sinners 3ly God usually warns a People by some remarkable Judgment visiting our Offences with a Rod and our sins with Scourges speaking unto us in this Language that we may speedily return from our wickedness lest a worse Judgment fall upon us for our Saviour saith * Luk. 13.5 Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish The Almighty warns us Reas 1 1. That all mankind may discern that neither Joy nor Misery hath any dependance on either Chance or Fortune but all things both in Heaven and Earth are guided by an over-ruling hand I form the Light says God and create Darkness Isa 4 5.7 I make Peace and create Evil I the Lord do all these things Reas 2 2ly He warns a People with threats of Death that we by a newness of Life might live to dye and dye to live for ever and herein is the manifestation of his Patience and long-sufferings to the Sons of men As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the Death of the wicked but that they turn from their Evil ways and live and he graciously indents with his departing people Turn ye turn ye from your Evil ways for why will ye dye O House of Israel Again * Ezek. 33.11 My people says God are bent to Backsliding from me but how shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I deliver thee Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim my heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together I should now insist upon the third Reason which is Reas 3 3ly t That man may have nothing to say in his own defence when Judgment is pronounced against him but Righteous art thou O Lord and true are thy Judgments Doct. 3 But I shall proceed to speak briefly of the third Proposition viz. * That it is not the outward bravery of an Earthly Sphere not the Pomp and Pageantry of a fading world that can guard us if we sin from the Frowns of Heaven or shield us from the Fatal Blow What if Nineveh had the best Situation for the Salubrity of Air and Fertility of Ground yet had sin remained Forty Days longer and even Nineveh had been destroyed her stately Structures could not priviledge her from Ruin nor her strongest holds from Destruction nor could all her Embellish'd Arts tempt or allure the angry Angel to withdraw his resolute Arme. Suppose this to have been the Worlds Wonder or the Princes amongst all Nations under Heaven Yet Forty Days and sin would have levelled her with the Dust and laid all her Pomp and Glory in the Grave Suppose this City had been surrounded with the Walls of Brass and circled round with Trenches whose Bottoms were lower than three times the Alpes are high yet even they could not beat back the Heavens revenging blow and the Reason may be given Reas 1 1. To manifest to the World that God is no respecter of Persons but that Judgment * Job 34.9 is as equal at the Pallace Gates of Princes as at the Cottage Doors of the meanest Peasants the lofty Pine and the tall Cedar the Bramble and the Shrub are all one But in every Nation Act. 10.34.35 Colos 3.25 2 Cron. 19.7 he that feareth him and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him and he that doth wrong shall receive for the wrong that he hath done and there is no respect of Persons Reas 2 2ly That Gods Wisdom Power Justice and an Odium against sin may the more appear this made the Ninevites discern their approaching Ruin Then they cryed mightily unto God yea