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A15086	Londons vvarning, by Ierusalem A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Mid-Lent Sunday last. By Francis White, Mr. of Arts, and sometime of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford.	White, Francis, b. 1588 or 9.	1619 (1619)	STC 25386; ESTC S119902	38,729	102

speake for mercy vnto God for man for in the second of Ioel the Priests these crying Voyces of the Lord Verse 17 they weepe betweene the porch and the Altar and cry to God Spare thy people O Lord and giue not thine heritage ouer to reproch and God in the 18. and 19. verses to shew how much hee accepts the cry of his Voyces the cryes and prayers of his Ministers which they powre before him for his people himselfe vouchsafes a gracious reply and makes the answer how that at the cry of his Ministers he cannot but be iealous ouer his Land and spare his people and giue them their hearts desire corne wine and oyle and freedome from their enemies such is the force of prayer for the people in the Lords Ministers mouth if it be feruent from the heart Now then ye people of the Lord if ye haue any care or regard at all of your soules learne to distinguish betweene the cry of voyces that knowing which cry against your soules good and which cry for the good of your soules you may be able to discerne which you are to heare and obey which to shut your eares against and to auoyd You see heere there bee three crying voyces abroad in the world The first is the crying nay the roaring voyce of the Deuill and this voyce cries vnto you to breathe defiance against Heauen and to write your names in the earth with the red inke of bloud or the blacke inke of hellish villany This voyce cries vnto you with wicked Kain to murther a righteous Abel it cries vnto you to play the traitor with Iudas it cries vnto you to take away another mans possession with Ahab it cries vnto you to steale a wedge of gold with Achan it cries vnto you to play the drunken Sot with Nabal it cries vnto you to play the vncharitable Miser with Diues it cries vnto you to dye your soules of the Deuils hue in the blacke deeds of darknesse and of wickednesse Now the second crying voyce which is abroad in the world is the crying voyce of sinne and this cries to heauen for a punishment for sinners it cries vnto the clowds to deny the sinner raine it cries vnto the sunne to deny the sinner light it cries vnto the earth to deny the sinner food it cries to Mercy not to regard the sinner it cries to Iustice to renounce the sinner it cries to hell to receiue the sinner and it cries for tortures to torment the sinner this is the crying voyce of sinne which is neuer with vs but is still against vs. Now the third and last crying voyce which is Gods crying Voyce of Mercy this cries vnto you not to play Kains part and to kill but to loue thy brother as thy selfe not to play Iudas part and betray but to obey from the heart those which are set ouer you not to play Ahabs part and oppresse but to giue to euery man his owne not to play Achans part and to steale but to worke euery man with his own hands to eat his bread in the sweat of his browes not to play Nabals part and be drunke but to be sober to watch and to play not to play Diues part and to be miserable but to doe good to distribute to bee to all men charitable and then againe it cries vnto you as you would haue the clowds drop raine so let your eyes drop teares for your sinnes as you would haue the earth be fruitful so to be fruitfull in good works as you would haue the sunne giue light so to walke as children of light as you would haue heauen escape hell so to haue your conuersation in heauen while ye liue on earth This is the Voyce of mercy which is euer with vs and neuer is against vs. Now chuse you which of these three voyces will you heare the Deuils voyce you see how it comes vnto you with a word cloathed with death and playes the Orator for hell to gaine right to your soule through vnrighteous practices and will you heare this voyce to obey and follow it Why follow it you may but know where it leades it leads to the paths of death high-way to damnation The crying voyce of sinne this you heare how it cries to heauen against you and still in the end proues a backward friend to those her vassals who obey sinne in the lust thereof though at first the better to serue her turn she fawne vpon them and will you now bee wonne by the entising voyce of sinne to follow and obey it in the lust thereof why follow it you may but it threatens your destructiō for sinne will one day pay her seruants their wages home and will requite their euill life which was spent in her seruice with euerlasting death which is their wages for their seruice Rom. 6. for the wages of sinne is death and therefore as you tender your soules redeemed by Christs precious bloud from the power of sinne and Satan captiuate not your soules againe by listning to the entisements of sin and prouocations of the Deuill but lend your eares onely to the Lords crying Voyce of mercy attend only this blessed Voyce which cryes abroad in the world to bring sinners home againe to God by repentance and if you shut your eares the dores of your soule against all other entising voyces of sinne and Satan and open them onely to the Lords crying Voyce to prepare a way for the King of glory to enter in assure your selues such shall be the peace and ioy of your soules that you shall haue heauen in your soules in this life and your soules shall haue heauen in another life And so much for the first reason why the Voyce it is a crying Voyce Now secondly the Voyce it is a crying Voyce to rouze and awake the dead secure City dead asleepe in sin which no voyce but a crying Voyce could rouze and this collection fitly arises from some variety of interpretation of the word in the Originall which is here rendred a City for as Cal uin hath obserued it some read it Vox Iebouae ad ciuit atem some againe Ad exper gefaciendum clamat Some read it The Voyce of the Lord crieth to the City Some againe read it The Voyce of the Lord crieth to rouze to awake which implies the great deadness security of the Citie which could not be awaked without a crying Voyce for as our blessed Sauior being to raise dead Lazarus from death to life is said to cry with a loud voyce Clamauit voce magna saith the text he cryed with a loud voyce Iohn 11. Lazarus come forth so our blessed Sauior being to raise the dead sinner dead in sins trespasses as it is Ephes 2. he makes his Voyces crying Voyces vers 1 to cry vnto the sinner to come forth of the graue of sin Surge qui dormis Awake thou that sleepest Ephes 5.14 and stand vp

hast a visible word which though it preach not to thine eares yet doth it preach vnto thine eyes and makes thy two eyes the two witnesses of Gods glory and mercy towards thee For the Sunne which giues thee light the ayre thou breathest in the earth thou feedest on these be dumbe Preachers Rom. 1.19 and preach Gods mercy to thine eyes and no Nation is there in the world but it hath this kinde of preaching in it Psal 19.3 For there is no speech nor language saith the Prophet where the voice of these Preachers is not heard And therefore this is enough to euince the worlds vnthankefulnes vnto God for the riches of his mercies to leaue the world as the Apostle witnesseth without excuse Rom. 1.20 But yet God he farther takes excuse from man so loth hee is man should cast away his soule with excuses and he writes the Notions of his Law euen in the heart of euery man Rom. 2.14 15. making euery mans conscience to be his Accuser or excuser before God Nay more then this yet farther to take excuse from Man God hee not onely giues a visible word to preach vnto our eyes nor onely the Notions of his Law written in our hearts but he sends an audible Word amongst vs his Voices to cry and proclaime his Law in our eares and to reuiue it in our hearts so that wee can plead no excuse at all for our selues Our eyes are our witnesses which dayly behold Gods mercies our hearts are our witnesses Rom. 2.15 which shew the effect of the Law written in the heart and our eares are our witnesses which dayly heare Gods crying Voices and they cannot chuse but heare them because they be crying Voices still crying vnto vs This is the way walke in it O let not vs then sith God is so carefull to take excuse from vs make excuses to our selues to destroy our soules Let vs not shut our eyes from beholding Gods mercie let vs not shut our eares from listning to his iudgements and let vs not harden our hearts against his feare to disobey his Law and dishonour his Name but sith hee is so carefull to preach his Name to our eyes to our hearts and to our eares let vs obey these diuers cals of mercy that we may be saued otherwise if we doe no excuse you see will serue but we must vtterly perish Now if any Nation in the world be left inexcusable in these respects this little Goshen of ours this little Iland of ours is most without excuse which as speakes the Prophet Isaiah in his 11. Chapter is ful of the Knowledge of the Lord Verse 9 euen as the waters couer the Sea So that England is not so much enuironed with the waters of the Sea as it is full of the Knowledge of the Lord and of his Word euery nooke and angle of our Land hauing a plentifull increase of the Lords Voices in it to cry proclaime the Lords message in our eares This famous Citie more especially it is so full of the Lords crying Voices that some sticke not to complaine They haue too much knowledge now adayes but take they heed how they complaine they haue too much lest God for our vnthankefulnes punish vs as he doth many other Nations with little enough And let vs know thus much to make vs carefull to make good vse of our knowledge the more knowledge we haue the lesse excuse wee haue for our sinne And the more the Lords Voices cry amongst vs the more shall be our punishments if wee obey them not Luke 12. ●7 For the Seruant that knowes his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes And therefore as you desire to secure the Citie from the Lords Rodde and your owne soules from his consuming wrath Sith God to leaue you without excuse sends crying Voices vnto you in mercy to forewarne you lend your eares and hearts to heare and obey that which the Lords Voice cryeth to your Citie For the Lords Voice cryeth to the Citie It is a great and publique taske for the Lords Voices to Cry vnto a Citie And therefore Ionah beeing sent to Nineueh that great Citie faine would he flie from the presence of the Lord fearing to be the Lords Cryer in so great a Citie till the Word of the Lord comes vnto him the second time Ion. 3.1 2. commanding him Arise and goe to Niniueh that great Citie and preach vnto it the preaching that I bid thee Now as it fared with Ionah so it fares with most of the Lords Voices but that the Lord is with them and they preach the preaching which hee commands them they would draw back as fearing to cry vnto a Citie And therefore when the Lords Voices out of this and such like publike places cry vnto your Citie blame not the Voices for the Voices they of themselues are slow enough to Cry vnto a Citie but that the Lord in mercy to a Citie compels them as hee did Ionah to arise and goe vnto the Citie and preach the preaching hee commands them which ye are the more willingly to heare because they preach no other but the preaching which God bids them preach And therefore blame me not though who am I the meanest of Gods Voices if I shew vnto you how the Lords quarrell with this Citie in my Text agrees in some sort to this famous Citie For let vs but paralell Gods benefits bestowed on both these Cities and then see whether both Cities haue beene so thankefull vnto God for these his benefits as they ought to be First for Ierusalem this Citie in my Text saith God to her in the fourth and fift verse of this present Chapter Remember my louing kindnesses of old how I brought thee out of the Land of Egypt and deliuered thee out of the house of Seruants nor onely so but gaue thee Moses Aaron and Miriam for thy guides And hath not God done this and much more for our Citie Let vs remember his louing kindnesses of old how God he hath deliuered vs from Egypt Romes tyrannie which in the 11. of the Reuelation is stiled to vs by the name of Egypt Verse 8 and hath freed vs from the house of Seruants from the slauish and Egyptian bondage of an vsurning Pharaoh the Pope who would still haue made both Prince and People Seruants and Vassals to his painted holinesse and who in one thing was more then a Pharaoh in that he sought to destroy by cruell death not onely all the Males but Females too of the Stock of Sem who profest themselues members of the true Church nor onely this hath God done for vs but hee hath also giuen vs a Moses a most gracious King As he also gaue vs a Miriam Queene Elzabeth a gracious Queene of happy memory deare Sister to our gracious Moses both a nursing Father and Mother to our Church and an Aaron a holy and a learned