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A41881 Great Britain's warning-piece: or, Christ's tears over Jerusalem 1689 (1689) Wing G1670A; ESTC R215550 6,901 24

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Great BRITAIN's Warning-piece OR Christ's TEARS over JERUSALEM Licensed according to Order Printed for W. Thackery at the Angel in Duck lane Great BRITAIN's Warning-piece OR Christ's Tears over JERUSALEM Being a serious Exhortation to a timely Repentance thereby to avoid the Judgments that hang over our Heads VVith powerfull Motives to forsake our Sins and turn unto the Lord whilst it is to day and not put off our Repentance from time to time With serious Considerations and Reflections upon those that have neglected the Opportunity put into their hands and the miseries that have befallen Nations and People c. With cordial Consolations for the penitent Sinner and a Prayer sutable to the occasion worthy the perusal of all those that are desirous to be instructed in the ways of Truth Licensed according to Order Printed for W. Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-lane near West-smithfield Great BRITAIN's WARNING-PIECE OR Christ's Tears over Jerusalem Luke 19.42 And Jesus wept over Jerusalem saying O Jerusalem Jerusalem hadst thou known but in this thy day the things that belonged unto thy peace but now they are hidden from thy eyes c. BY this Text we may plainly see tho' Sin is abhorred in the Sight of God how loath he is to destroy those that Sin against him but rather spares them in Mercy that they may recover their blindness and see the Error of their way before it be too late that so he may be justified in his doings and that man may have no excuse he was not timely warned to flee from the wrath to come he even in the former Ages of the World left himself not without a Witness but all along by holy Men inspired Let sinfull Israel know from time to time that he alone was their Strength and the Rock of their Salvation promising to protect and deliver them from all their Enemies if they would wholly cast themselves and rely upon him yet alass we see how often notwithstanding the many benefits that they had received not only in being delivered from Egyptian Bondage and preserved so many years in a barren Wilderness fed by the hand of Heaven and there being Eye and Ear-witness of such Wonders as in the very Relation amaze Mankind but brought into a Land that flowed with Milk and Honey an earthly Paradise abounding with all things necessary for the use and benefit of the Sons of Men. They forsook the Fountain of living Water and hewed out to themselves Cisterns that would hold no water even forsaking that God who alone was their Rock and their Strength to follow the vain Imaginations of their own Hearts till by often provoking him to anger they tired his patience and long suffering till they in a manner constrained him to let loose his fury against them to give the mercyless Enemy advantage over them and the Spoiler a Power to spoil and oppress them to make them wander in strange Lands under severe Captivities whilst others possest the Fruits of their Labour yet when they humbled themselves and cryed to him he heard them and became their Deliverer by such unexpected and miraculous means that even themselves stood amazed at them When again like Jessurun they no sooner wax'd fat but they forgot their Deliverer and kicked against their Maker and by hardning their Hearts in Sin became not only so rash and unadvised to kill the Servants sent to them by the Lord of the Vineyard but in the end proceeded to kill the Heir even the Lord of Life thinking themselves then secure but alass mistaken and wretched Men they mainly failed in their expectation as in the 11th of Mark and the 1. you may find it viz. What shall therefore the Lord of the Vineyard do he will come and destroy the Husband-men and will give the Vineyard unto others These Considerations made our Blessed Saviour weep and mourn over Jerusalem declaring his often willingness to have gathered them together but they would not meaning by the City the People that were its Inhabitants grieved that those upon whom the Light of his Countenance had so often shined should fall away or obstinately refuse to hear his voice or Reverence him the Son of their Lord and undoubted Heir of the Vineyard and sure it must be no small grief that cou'd draw tears from the Son of God whose Eyes were dry under an Agony whose pain was even beyond the expression of Angels and when the rich Redeeming Blood flowed from his precious Wounds not all the mocks and scorns the scourging and the thorny Crown which made as many Wounds as it had sharpness cou'd do what the Sins of ingratefull Man did And ah how many Christians or such as profess themselves to be so are there that exceed the stony-hearted Jews who by their Sins crucifie the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame refusing in this their day when the Light of the Gospel shines amongst them bright as the morning Star to lay hold of the acceptable time of returning to do their first Works though they know the dreadfull threatning that ends it if they refuse viz. Remember from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or else I will come unto you quickly and remove thy Candlestick out of its place Rev. 2.5 Where alass are now the seven once flourishing Churches of Asia planted by the very Apostles themselves under the immediate Revelation of the Divine Spirit Alass their Beauty is faded like the Grass that withers before a scorching Sun and now for Beauty they have ashes and what but lukewarmness and neglect of holy Duties Animosities and Contentions brought them thus low and shrouded their lustre with a Mantle of Darkness O consider this all you that would be accounted wise and lay it to heart whilst it is yet to day and think with your selves though God's Patience and Long-suffering forbear to strike the Blow yet without Repentance we cannot expect for ever to escape the effects of his Anger which the longer delayed the heavier it falls in the end We see that when the cry of Sodom's Sins had reacht up to Heaven yet God delay'd his Vengeance and kept back the flaming Cattaracts of Heaven till he came down to see whether it was altogether so or not as you may find it in Gen. 19. yet this delay turned not away his Anger for ever dread Event though his mercy extended to an infinite degree to the saving of those wicked Nations for the sake of ten Righteous but when they were not to be found nor any sign of Repentance or Remorse appeared the floud gates of Fire were set open till they were consumed with streams of burning Sulphure Nor is there any thing can disarm his Vengeance but a hearty and unfeigned sorrow for Sin a serious Repentance and a turning away from our Iniquities even in this the day that he hath given us to make our peace and reconciliation with him O then let us not put off our