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A15524	Christs farevvell to Jerusalem, and last prophesie A sermon preached in the quier of the cathedrall church of Canterburie, at the funerall of that reuerend and worthy man, Mr. Doctor Colfe, Vice-Deane of the said church. Octob. 12. 1613. By Thomas Wilson, minister of Gods word.	Wilson, Thomas, 1563-1622.	1614 (1614)	STC 25790; ESTC S101806	26,045	78

sinners vnto speedy and serious repentance and amendement of life Moreouer of all other sinnes which wee ought to repent of namely and especially of crueltie and of crueltie against the Lord Iesus This was the crime among many others which principally prouoked God against his owne people and Citie euen for that they crucified the Lord of glory and put to death that iust One after they had rayled and spitted on him and beaten and shamefully entreated him howbeit this sinne of crueltie against Iesus I doubt it is little thought on or mistrusted to be amongst vs because Iesus is long since gone from vs whereas there be sundry wayes how men may now doe often fall into it For euen they which let slip out of minde the bloodshed of Iesus and forgetting they were once purged by it from their old sinnes doe liue securely and presumptuously in a sinnefull course being worldly and prophane what else doe they but what lyeth in them cause Iesus to bleed afresh and againe crucifie him making voyd the force and fruit of his passion to themselues Secondly all distrustfull persons which haue wauering mindes and doubt through vnbeliefe and though Christ haue suffered for sinne and be risen and gone vp into Heauen yet still doe aske how they shall escape death and bee saued what else is this but to call Iesus backe againe vnto the Crosse to bring Christ downe from above Rom. 10.6 Moreouer they which doe in cruell manner oppresse Christians spoyling them wrongfully in goods libertie or life is not this to persecute Christ in his members As it is written Saul Saul why persecutest thou mee Act. 9.4 And what other thing doe they then but kill Christ through vnmercifulnes which doe not feed him when hee is an hungred doe not harbour him when he is harbourlesse and doe not cloath him when he is naked We know that they which doe not these things to the least of Christs they doe it not to himselfe Matth. 25. It is truely sayd of an auncient writer Si non pauisti occidists for the Apostle Iames writeth Chap. 5. of the couetous rich men that they doe kill the iust by vvithdrawing their wages from them vvhereupon they should liue also we perceiue by the vvords of Christ in the Gospell that not to saue life when we may is to destroy and to take away life and the truth is it is a like cruel vtterly to quench ones life by violence or by hardnesse of heart to keepe away that from him whereby hee should preserue life But I vvill shew you a greater cruelty then all this committed against Christ in his members by false prophets by negligent teachers and blinde guides vvhich put the precious soules of Christians in danger to perish euerlastingly eyther by teaching corrupt doctrine or no doctrine eyther by sowing heresies or not by sowing the seed of the word as an vnfaithfull steward doth starue the family by not giuing euery one their portion of meat so are they soule murderers which deny vnto Gods people their appointed food of the word Ezekiel Chap. 13. ver 18. sayth of false prophets that they doe hunt the soules of the people as a wilde beast doth hunt the poore Lambe to kill him It is the sentence of our Sauiour CHRIST Iohn 10. that hirelings doe loue the fleece and lucre better then the soules of the flocke doe come to kill and to destroy Finally it is expresly written in the Prouerbs that there the people doe perish where vision or preaching faileth There is no crueltie to the soule-crueltie which first or last wil call down for wrath vpon the heads of those which are guilty of it If Abels bloud cryed to God for vengeance how much more will the bloud of soules doe it In the first of Daniel when Daniel and the other children of the Iewes desired to be fed vvith pulse and not with meate which came from the Kings table the Eunuch which kept them answered that he durst not For saith he if your faces be not well liked when the King shall looke vpon you he will take away my head from me I doe not say vnto Idoll-Shepheards and dumbe dogges through whose negligence or ignorance the soules of the people haue leanenesse entred into their soules and looke vvith euill fauoured countenances that God will strike their heads from their shoulders but this I dare say auouch that without true repentance he will cast both their boydes and soules into hel and with the euill steward in the Gospell who said in his heart my Master will deferre his comming and so fall to beating his fellow-seruants they shall be cut in pieces and their portion shall be giuen them with Hipocrits and at the last they shall be burned with fire and brimstone O therefore that euill and sloathfull Ministers would consider this in time and lay it neere vnto their heart and repent of their cruelty past and hence forth carrie more mercifull hearts towards the inheritance of Christ yeerning and pittying the spirituall necessities of Christ his sheepe after his owne example Matthew 9. 36. Lastly it is greatly to be wished that all vniust and Sacriligious persons and Patrons who are the direct and effectuall occasions of plunging many soules into endlesse perditions by wrongfully detaining the hyers of Gods labourers by which meanes the Church of Christ is pestered with foolish Ministers and blinde Shepherds that God I say would giue them better mindes and change their bloudy hearts into pittifull hearts to take compassion on their brethren which doe by heapes runne vnto destruction For Christ Iesus will not for euer put it vp to be so cruelly dealt with in his people which be deere and precious to him as the apple of his eye Verse 30. Then shall they begin to say vnto the Mountaines fall on vs c. THese wordes are borrowed out of the Prophet Hosea Chap. 10. ve 8. Where God threatneth vnto sinnefull Idolatrous Samaria such extreme iudgments as they should rather chuse to suffer any violence then to liue and languish in their miseries Here Christ foretelleth the Iewes that this shall be iust their case euen such a miserable condition they should be in as they should seeke death and it should flye from them desire to be crushed by the waight of hils and mountaines rather then to enioy life with such anxitie and vnhappinesse How this was fulfilled is reported by Iosephus a Iew himselfe an eye and eare witnes of all that horrible calamitie that came vpon Ierusalem according to this prediction of Christ. Hardly without abundance of teares can one read the most bitter euils and perplexed afflictions and shifts which partly by famine partly by sword partly by flight running into Caues and Mountaines to hide themselues they were plunged into such an heape of most comfortlesse miseries as the very Romaines their enemies pittied and grieued to looke vpon their desolations Where obserue