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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

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 M. A. For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch Mal. 4.1 Pax bello potior Enter'd according to ORDER LONDON Printed by D. Mallet for the Authour MDCLXXXV The Epistle DEDICATORY To the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Lrod Bishop of Lincoln My Lord I need not tell the World of your unwearied Diligence to find out a Blessed Name in the Book of Life that herald's your Praises above the Wings of Common Fame and sets you in a degree of Glory there neither need I trouble you with any other Apology for what I have done than even the for lorne Estate of our divided Isle the hideous Noise of a Rebellion blackens the Land with dread least Apostasie or the Invasion of a revived Julian should disturb the Peace of our Sion and though Ruin threaten my welfair in this distractted Age yet I declare I had rather follow Presbytery to the Gibbet than be a Mourner at the Funeral Solemnity of Episcopacie to the Grave I confess indeed my Oblation might have deserv'd better Entertainment if it had the management of a riper Wit But I 'll beg of all men to believe that my Genius feeds upon Pulse and Water though I fear they will allow me no more favour than usually men do to those whom the Press makes Common I 'll submit to Providence and your Lordship's Candor in the perusal of my little Book and if it should render you any Satisfaction next to God's Glory I have gain'd my only end that as the Almighty hath given an Ability to suchan examplary piece of Piety as you so that you may be a continual Succour to all the languishing Members of an Holy Jesus until the day shall come when sorrow shall be no more but Triumph and Bliss the Period of your Mortal Race is the Hearty Prayer of your Lordship's Most Faithful Servant and Obedient Son S. Willoughby A SCOURGE to the REBELLIOUS Or a SERMON Preached At the Parish Church of St. Antholin on the 28th of June 1685. Jonah 2.4 Yet Fourty Days and Ninevch shall be overthrown NOthing can favour a Christian in his journey to an immortal Canaan while he courts the false pleasures of a fading World the best whereof decay's in the bud and dy's when they begin to be The example is every Sinner but particularly the man in Paradise that was baited with an Apple and hooked in to a state of dying Hence the Apostle may seem to have alluded in his Epistle to the Romans what fruit had you in those things whereof you are now ashamed for the end of those things is Death Such were the Ninevites in my Text to whom a learned Orator Jonah the holy Prophet came pressing Repentance with the threats of Ruin Nineveh shall be overthrown * Jonah 3.5.7 so the people believed God and proclaimed an universal Fast The Marble Pallace and the Clay Cottage were hung in Sack-Cloath and sat in Ashes lest Nineveh should be overthrown In which Words observe 1. A Prediction with a Limitation Yet Fourty Days 2. A Denunciation of Desolation Nineveh shall be overthrown Whence these following Doctrines do arise 1. That Sin brings Judgment 2. That God usually warns all the Rebells of Heaven of their approaching danger as a method he takes to avert a final Destruction beyond the Grave 3ly That it is not the outward bravery of an Earthly Sphere not the Pomp and Pageantry of a sading World that can guard us if we sin from the frowns of Heaven or shield us from the Fatal Blow For Nineveh though outwardly adorn'd with galantry yet being inwardly blacken'd with deformity therefore exactis quadraginta diebus Nineveh delebitur Yet forty Days and Nineveh shall be overthrown 1st That Sin brings Judgment Sin and Sorrow Irreligion and the Scourge do meet in Families or Villages Towns or Provinces Cities or Common-Wealths When the first beats the Drum for Battle the last begins the March and leaves the sinner in a Field of Blood For as by one man Sin enter'd into the World and Death by Sin so Death pass'd upon all men * Rom. 5.4 for that all have sinned This is the Harbinger of Ruin and the Fore-runner of a dreadful Day when the unregenerate shall pass the Gates of Death and tremble at the Bar of Judgment when all the miscarriages that ever have been committed in the darkest Corners of the Land shall appear before God and Angels * Joel 3.16 Then the Lord shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem the Heavens and the Earth shall shake Sin is the Fountain Guilt and Punishment are the streams that 's the Cause this is the Effect Now all we that aim at the Haven of an Eternal Rest must pass by that Scylla and this Charybdis for says Solomon * Prv. 6.7 Can a man take Fire in his bosom and his Cloaths not be burn'd which implys that there is no sin without sorrow nay destruction certainly follows unless Heavens assisting Grace reform our Lives and conform our Obedience to all the Precepts of an holy Jesus But desolation follows Sin from the one part of the Earth unto the other it ransacks the corners and cranies of a sinful Land * Psal 107.34 The Almighty turneth Revers into a Wilderness and Water-spring into a dry Ground a fruitful Land into Barrennes for the wickedness of them that dwell therein * Josh 7.29 'T was Achan's sin that brought him under the burthen of a painful End God will pour out his Wrath upon the Families that call not upon his Name * Hos 9.11 This made Ephraim's Glory flee away from the Birth-Womb and Conception This made Sodom and Gomorah fewel for Divine Vengeance in a dreadful burning Here Sin enters the Gates and Ruin throws down the Bull-warks and Strong-holds demolishes the lofty Fabricks and makes the poor sinners Captives to the scorching Flames * Amos 1.2 This make the Habitation of the Shepherds mourn and the top of Carmel wither Hence it plainly appears that Sin brings Judgment but for the further Prosecution of my present undertaking let us consider 1st After what manner doth the Almighty afflict mankind for sin I Answer By how many methods we take to sin by so many ways God is able to send his Judgments sometimes by Water thus an universal Deluge once came upon an unrepenting World and brought perdition in a raging Wave Thus he overwhelmed Pharoah and all his Host in the Red Sea He hath Hail-stones to kill the Amorites and * 2 Kings 19. ver 35. Angels one of which will destroy in one