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A29531	Tears for Jerusalem, or, The compassionate lamentation of a tender hearted saviour over a rebellious and obdurate people a subject entered upon on the late day of solemn humiliation, December 6, 1655, afterwards prosecuted, and now published as useful at all times, but very seasonable for the present / by John Brinsley.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing B4731A; ESTC R210555	79,536	150

it such persons as were disposed to receive and imbrace the Doctrine of Peace the Doctrine of the Gospel where they met with such persons there their Peace should rest all the happinesse which they had wished to them should come upon them Now would we in like manner that that peace which is to be wished unto this Nation might thus rest upon it be we in this sense 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sons of Peace readily imbracing this Doctrine of peace the Gospel This it was as I have shewen you which above all other things belonged to Jerusalems peace her receiving of Christ and his Gospel Had she but done this happie had she been That England may be so have we a regard unto this In this our day make much of God's Religion make much of the Gospel which as yet through the goodnesse of God is continued unto us Let that at the length find such entertainment amongst us as it deserveth Let the Messengers thereof be received Let their feet be accounted as they are said to be Isa 52.7 Beautiful which bring good tidings which publish peace This do the Ministers of Jesus Christ who are Messengers of peace bringing those glad tidings of peace and reconciliation with God through Christ publishing salvation O! let their feet be beautiful Let their persons be welcom much more their message While you receive them into your houses receive that into your hearts shewing forth the power of it in your lives and conversations by so walking as becometh the Gospel In this way seek we the External peace welfare and happinesse of this Nation However in this our day Use 3. Spiritual and Eternal Peace to bee sought above all and that whilest the Day of Grace lasteth seeke wee our owne peace Eternall peace being all of us wise for our selves so wise as in this our day to know what belongeth to our peace the peace and happiness of our own soules our eternall salvation As yet through the mercie and goodnesse of God our day is continued to us The day of our lives Whereas the Sun is set upon many others before our eyes every day it goeth down upon some or other of our brethren our Relation our friends our associates and Companions It is night with them It is yet day with us And as the day of our lives so the day of grace and salvation is yet continued to us Yet doth the Sun of righteousnesse stand over our heads yet doth the light of the Gospel shine forth unto us yet is the Golden scepter of grace and salvation held forth unto us our day is yet continued Oh that in this our day whil'st the meanes of grace are continued unto us and we to the meanes we might all of us see and know the things which belong unto our peace Which word of Exhortation I desire it may come home to everie soule that heareth it It may bee and I feare it is so some and many of us have a long time shut our eyes against the light we have not seen we do not to this day see these things which do so n●arly concern us How many offers of grace and mercie have we sleighted and rejected God hath offered conditions of peace to us intreating beseeching us by his Ministers to be reconciled unto him striving with us by mercies by chastisements by word by the secret motions of his own Spirit And yet for all this we still stand out against him harden our hearts against him so as we wil not receive Jesus Christ upon Gospel tearms as our Saviour and Lord. Now unto all such be it spoken in the language of the text Oh that you even you at least in this your day did but know the things which belong unto your peace How ever you have most rebelliously and ingratefully withstood many off●rs of grace yet that now at the length whil'st this day of grace last's before the Sun set upon you and your eyes be closed up with everlasting darkness you would come in accept of these offers of grace not standing out any longer To that end consider first Motives that the time of your life and of Gods grace is but a day 1. The time of mans life and Ggds grace but a day This your day A day is of no long continuance specially a winters day A few houres the Sun is above the Horizon but then it setteth and leaveth a sable darknesse upon the face of the earth Such is the life of man a day and that to make the best of it a winters day stormy and short Brethren the time is short saith the Apostle speaking of the time of mans life upon earth 1 Cor 7.29 How short who knoweth oftimes doth the Sunn go down upon man before it be well up Oh therefore now up and be doing The day is a time for Action the night for rest Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour untill the evening Psal 104 23. And so is the day of this life This is the time for the working out of our salvation And therefore now set upon this work I must work the works of him that sent me whil'st it is day saith our Saviour in that John 9.4 the night cometh when no man can work The night of death There is no worke nor device nor knowledge nor wisedome in the grave whither thou goest saith the Preacher Eccles 9.10 And therefore as he there maketh the use of it whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might Thus do we the work of the particular calling much more of the generall the working out of our salvation the making of our Calling and Election sure This do we and that in this our day To day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts whil'st the day of life and the day of grace lasteth Behold now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation saith the Apostle to his Corinthians 2 Cor. 6.2 And therefore as he there presseth it upon them ver 1. Let not us receive the grace of God in vain This do they who injoy the outward meanes of salvation but are not bettered by them like the earth which receiveth the seed which is cast into it by the hand of the Husbandman and drinketh in the former and latter rain and yet remains barren Let not us so receive the grace of God tendred and held forth unto us in the preaching of the Gospel But let it into our hearts that taking root there it may bring forth Gospel-fruits in our lives And this do we now Now whil'st it is called to day Remembering that the time of grace and of our life is but a day 2. Our Day 2. And secondly remember that this is our day In this thy day This was Jerusalems day the Jews day wherein grace and mercie was offered unto them The next was the Gentiles day or the next was Gods day wherein he would visit them after another

it had been otherwise with them So far is he then from taking pleasure in the death and destruction of poor sinners God not taking pleasure in the death of sinners This do tyrants sometimes they take pleasure in their bloody executions feeding their eyes therewith as with pleasing spectacles But so doth not our God in the destruction of his creatures To this purpose that of the Prophet Ezekiel speaketh fully Ezek. 18.31 32. Where the Lord bewayling the perversnesse of the people of the Jews in running on headlong to their own destruction he expostulateth the matter with them vers 31. Why will ye die O ye house of Israel then he professeth that he was not delighted in their destruction or the destruction of any other vers 32. I have no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth No though wicked persons and so most worthy to die yet God taketh no pleasure in their death So he elsewhere explains it Ezek. 33.11 As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked Object Why but doth not God will the death of the wicked How God willeth the death of the wicked Answ True he willeth it but he taketh no pleasure in it He willeth it as an act of Justice ordaining them to just condemnation for sin But he is not delighted in their destruction their misery Even as a just but merciful Judge he pronounceth the sentence of death upon a guiltie malefactor but it is with tears in his eyes God is delighted in mercy mercy pleaseth him as the Prophet hath it Micah 7.18 but so doth not the misery of his creature Appli Let it be taken notice of by every of us Not to the end that we should abuse this mercy Gods grace not to be turned into wantonnesse turn this grace into wantonnesse as Saint Jude saith of some in his time did Jude 4. taking occasion thereby to go on and continue in sin What shall we say then Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound God forbid saith the Apostle Rom. 6.1 Shall we therefore go on to provoke this God because he is so compassionate towards us so loath that we should perish what were this but to abuse this his lenitie and goodnesse to our own just condemnation But on the other hand let this goodnesse of God lead us unto repentance Gods goodnesse leading to repentance This is the right use of it as we may learn from the same Apostle Rom. 2.4 Be we hereby provoked to break off the course of our waies provoking sins and to come in unto this God by serious and unfeigned repentance This use will an ingennous child make of the indulgent affection of a tender hearted parent When he seeth the bowels of his father or mother yearning towards him bewailing his destructive courses if there be any spark of ingenuity left this cannot but work upon his heart and make him think of betaking himself to a new course which may be pleasing and contentful to so affectionate a parent Behold thus is our heavenly Father and thus is our blessed Saviour affected towards poor sinners And therefore let it have the like work upon every of us to provoke us to break off those sinfull wayes and courses which are so offensive to those pure eyes and come in unto our God by serious and unfeigned Repentance Christ still retaining the same affection towards poor sinners So doing now doubt not but we shall have comfortable experience of his grace and mercy What was the Lord Jesus so affected towards a stubborn and rebellious people that he so earnestly wisheth their good and so passionately bewaileth their calamity and will he not shew the like affection to poor penitent sinners such as by coming unto him seek for mercy from him Surely the Lord Jesus hath carried his bowels to heaven with him still retaining the same affection tovvards poor sinners that here he had upon earth Hovv ever he be not capable of expressing it in the like vvay He can hence forth weep no more All tears being wiped from his eyes as they shall be from the eyes of all his Saints vvhen they shall be translated to that blessed and glorious condition Yet still he retaineth the same affection towards poor sinners He that wept over Jerusalem here wishing that it had been othervvise vvith them then it vvas and vvas like to be he doth earnestly desire that those tears and that blood vvhich he here shed in the dayes of his flesh may be made effectual for the vvashing avvay the sins of poor sinners Which also they shall be to all those who turning away from them come unto him receiving him as their Saviour and Lord. But I shall not any longer dwell upon this which I take up from the general consideration of the words or from the manner of speaking Come we now to the matter taking a nearer and more particular veivve of this Lamentation The matter of this lamentation where the evil lamented Aggravations of it Wherein we shall take notice of two things the Evil of sin it self which our Saviour here bewaileth and secondly the Aggravations of that evil The evil bewailed is their stupidity their not knowing of what belonged to their peace The aggravations of that evil are two the one taken from the persons the other from the time The persons who were thus stupid Jerusalem If thou even thou The time the day of their visitation At least in this thy day These are the severals we have now to deal with Begin with the first The evil lamented The evil lamented their not knowing the things which belonged to their peace Here by way of explication three things Expli Three things are to be unfolded 1. What is here ment by peace 2. What were those things which belonged to Jerusalems peace 3. How it is said that they did not know those things Q. For the first What here meant by peace viz. All kind of happinesse by Peace here understand we prosperity felicity So the word was familiarly used among the Hebrews In as much as Peace is a comprehensive blessing they set forth all blessings under this Thus in their ordinary salutations they were wont to wish Peace Peace be unto thee and peace be unto thy house and peace be unto all that thou hast It is the salutation which David sends to Nabal 1 Sam. 25.6 And thus our Saviour sending forth his Apostles he puts this word into their mouthes directing them to salute the families where they came after that manner with an apprecation of peace Into whatsoever house ye enter ye shall first say Peace be to this hous Luk. 10.5 i. e. all kind of happinesse And so look we upon the word here in the text By peace understanding here all kind of felicitie Omnes foelicitatis partes as Calvin hath it all the parts and kinds of happinesse Happinesse both present and future