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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86270	Repentance and conversion, the fabrick of salvation: or The saints joy in heaven, for the sinners sorrow upon Earth. Being the last sermons preached by that reverend and learned John Hewyt, D.D. Late minister of St. Gregories by St. Pauls. With other of his sermons preached there. Dedicated to all his pious auditors, especially those of the said parish. Also an advertisement concerning some sermons lately printed, and presented to be the doctors, but are disavowed by Geo. Wild. Jo. Barwick.	Hewit, John, 1614-1658.; Wilde, George, 1610-1665.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1637; Thomason E1776_1; ESTC R209722	86,537	249

the waters of faithfulness to carry them they sit by the rivers side and weep that their floating tears might at last greet their Country from her weeping worshippers whilest they mean while weep again in remembrance of thee O Zion Etiam atque etiam flevimus say Junius and Tremellius they wept and they wept again 1. As Patientes Sufferers they wept for themselves and for their children Weep not for me O ye daughters of Jerusalem but weep for your selves and for your children for your houses shall be left unto you desolate Luk. 23.28 No affliction is joyous but grievous The presence of dolorous and dreadful objects even in minds most perfect may as clouds overcast all sensible joy and dissolve into showres of tears 2. As Compatientes fellow-feeling members of others miseries we wept again for thee O Zion Mine eye runneth with rivers of waters for the destruction of the daughter of my people mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not without intermission Lam. 3.48 When Christ wept for Lazarus behold how he loved him said the Jews these were teares as of love of her good so of compassion of her misery How shall that heart refrain from tears with whom love within and misery without shall plead for pity no expression so emphatical as that of weeping Tears speak that grief which no tongue is able to expresse no language so sincere as this nor yet so passionate Alas my brother was the Elegy of that lying Prophet his words might bely his dissembled mourning but tears are the Rhetorick of grief that speak the affections of a true hyperbole And let who will divide passions from the soul let who will say fear becomes not a stout heart it is a senceless heart that is not affected and a stony heart that doth not weep Nor is it any shame to confess that grief we cannot conceal Shall the hunted stagge pay a Funeral-Obsequie to his own fleeting life which now sits upon his utmost lips with a frequent distilling tear And shall not we who are pursued with such a pack of evils weep for this That he that is the soul of our soul the breath of our nostrils the life of our Zion the glory of our God is at a distance from us The Heavens weep dew at the going down of the Sun our Sun I am afraid is a setting at noon-day our glory is departing and shall not we weep David the father could weep like a child at the loss of a child O Absalom Absalom my son Absalom would God I had died for thee O Absalom my son my son And shall not thy children O Zion weep for the destruction of thee their mother the Church O daughter of Jerusalem what shall I liken unto thee O Virgin Zion wherewith shall I compare thee our eye our eye runneth down with tears we can as well dye for thee as in this deny thee By the waters of Babylon we sate down and wept when we remembred thee O Zion And so I have done with the fourth thing their affection in that posture We sate down and wept and proceed to The last thing the motive of that their affection when we remembred thee O Zion Dura satis miseris memoratio prisca bonorum the memory of a lost felicity makes misery it self more miserable There is more ease in sense of torment then in losse of happiness To be in any captivity is a calamity but to be captive to the tyranny of an uncircumcised people whose sportive pastime was in their gauling taunts of the afflicted must needs heighten the affliction Davids sufferings made him complain but the bitter reproaches he had from his foes opened a spring of grief in him which fed his tears day and night yet the remembrance of his former now lost happiness in communion with God in his house made yet deeper impressions in his soul Psalm 42.4 former favours and happiness make the soul more sensible of all impressions to the contrary we wept when we remembred thee O Zion But what was Zion that whilest they remembered it they could not forget to weep Take it barely for their native countrey for so the word means in the latitude and even so Patriae fumus igne alieno luculentior there is more pleasant warmth in the smoak of our own then in the fire of a strange country and then their loss of happiness and accesse of misery must needs bee the more great the one being a land of promise the other of captivity the one an effect of Gods favour the other of his vengeance But this is not all the hill of Zion is a fair place and the joy of the whole earth Psal 48.2 Strictly taken it was a fort in Jerusalem on the top whereof was a Tower called the City of David and so by a Synechdoche Zion is put for the Kingdom of Judea Let us then remember what it was in its glory and consider what it is in its captivity and refrain from weeping if we can First Very excellent things are spoken of thee O thou City of God The Kings of the earth marvelled to see such things shall we as David bids go round about Zion and tell the Towers thereof and mark well her Bulwarks First There is the Throne of David but woe unto us that we have sinned the Casket is without its Jewel David is not there on his Throne Secondly Tell the Towers thereof The Towers were those many Princely and Noble Families and the lesser Pinacles the Heroick Gentry who as they added a glory and ornament so they were the strength and defence of the King and his Throne But all these Towers are either levelled with the dust or led into captivity or have by an unworthy compliance basely prostituted themselves to the power of the Conquerour Thirdly Mark well her Bulwarks The Bulwarks were the numerous commonalty whose affections and loyal obedience were such strong fortifications to the Throne of Majesty as the Kings of the earth have been afraid to assault them But now all these strong holds are broken down the right hand of the enemy is set up and all the adversaries rejoyce Zions Crown is cast down to the ground and her honour laid in the dust so as she is become a scorn to her enemies and they that hate her shake their heads against her Fourthly Thither the tribes go up but now they are taken captive Fifthly There is the seat of judgment but now the chair of tyranny and oppression But secondly Zion was called the Mount of the Lord and the Holy Mount and so it includes in it the Temple the Church too and of this God himself did say This is my rest for ever here will I dwell yet O God the Heathen are come into thine inheritance thy Holy Temple have they defiled that beauty of holiness is ravish'd with Babylonish fire That excellent work at whose rearing no noise of iron was heard is broken down with axes and hammers that Heavenly Order

and to destroy them all without compassion thirsting after the dissolution of this body and reigning with God and the blessed Hierarchy of Angels world without end He must be willing to exhaust and pour out every drop of blood that flows in the purple chanels of his body for the glory of God Being wearied out with this fleshly tabernacle as in a rouling prison or an ambulatory sepulchre just like a captive cloystered up in a loathsome prison that peeps at the grates aspiring after liberty you must not expect to have egress or depart by the door but by the ruine of the prison i. e. the dissolution and destruction of the body He that hath commenced war and stood in defiance to his lusts with most vigour and constancy shall have the greatest share of peace with God He that hath accused himself shall be excused he that hath despised and made little or no estimation of this life shall be saved Luke 9. and the 24. saith the blessed Evangelist there For whosoever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever will lose his life for my sake the same shall save it This is the fourth degree of Love and the cream and top of Love whilest we are on this side Heaven 'T was this degree of Love that forc'd the holy Apostle to so pious and querulous an exclamation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death 'T is this degree of Love that forced that sweet Harper King David though his temples at that time were adorned with a Crown and his hands with a Scepter the vanquisher of his enemies whose name was as famous as his possessions were vast confess and acknowledg himself a stranger and a sojourner upon the earth Psalm 39.12 119.19 'T is this degree of love that hath furnished holy Martyrs with resolution and courage accompanied with a zeal that was hotter then the fire it self to pass through all torments and smile at the fagot and sword they fear not the threats of the brow-bearing Judge if furnished with this degree of love they are armed with the murus aheneus of Horace for a guiltless conscience with the shield of his own innocency beats off all opposition and resistance No man can be such an Ignaro as to imagine his sinews to be made of wyre or his bodie to be immured with brass nor no one can be so whimsical as to think them to have the Stoicks a pathy no no but as the violent heat of a fever doth exsiccate the exterior wounds or ulcers and so that the less heat is obedient to the greater so the internal ardor of the Love of God did predominate over the heat of the flames and had more power to sustain the pain then the grief had strength to destroy them The vertues of the Martyrs do check our vices their pious embers do reinfuse heat into our cold walking clay Whose blood for as one of the Fathers saith Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae the bloody time of the Saints is the Seed-time of the Church their blood I say exclaims against our slackness who of late like a spurious issue have degenerated from their constancy And be sure if we imitate them not and follow their example they will be a reproach and condemnation unto us Their red evening was precursor to a most glorious day and their bloody trial proved a deliverance at last from the worlds rage and fury Now to arrive to this degree requires a long and stout combat for our flesh is mutinous and refractory and concupiscence is so fast rooted in us that even Deo judice it is resembled and assimilated to the cutting off of a hand Matth. 5. and pulling out of an eye And the Apostle of the Gentiles terms our lusts our members 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coloss 3. Yet God himself tells us that the perfection of his work is manifested in our infirmity He makes us Conquerours 2 Cor. 12. Gal. 5. after many defeats and failings Men oftentimes are as in a crooked way between the flesh and the spirit between mundane and divine Love the Love of God and the Love of the World and then they meet with several wicked and abominable suggestions and a terrible counterscustle between them and their lusts How often and frequently doth it evene that after the Love of God hath gained the dominion and upper-hand in the soul of man and that he is resolved to live well and religiously in a small time after do his lusts and evil concupiscence rally up themselves and make a fresh assault more violent than the former But the faithful man when assaulted with a desire of revenge rapine or adultery will perceive and hear by the ears of faith the Love of God whispering these following interrogations and catechising him thus Miserable wretch that thou art whither dost thou wander Doth not God view thee dost thou despise his menaces dost thou reject his promises dost thou forget thy vocation Why should you grieve the Spirit of God Why should you bespatter his Church with infamy and calumny Where are the promises you made to God Where is the grateful remembrance of his benefits Is this the way to the Kingdom of Heaven Are you certain of arising when you fall What will you disturb your peace of conscience for such bitter-sweet pleasures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the most guilded pill of pleasure hath is allow'd ingredients What will you hazard your primogeniture for a mess of lentile-potage At these spiritual suggestions the faithful man makes a stand sighs and groans before God and like Sampson is resolved to break in sunder the bands of his concupiscence But all is not yet ended the rebellious and contumacious surrenders not her self up yet for oftentimes after holy resolutions at certain intervals or spaces of time there will arrive some cooling kind of temper that may induce and perswade carnal reason to a postarize and especially in these rebellious times where a man may find more matter for to compose a book of Apostates rather than Martyrs Now Satan who is a spirit but A-bad-one as 't is in the Revelation watcheth for an opportunity to find us conversant with debauched company and voyd of employment and to catch us discontinuing or ceasing from our pious ejaculations to Heaven which with a fervent and zealous brevity are thrown up to the Throne of Grace and God showres down his blessings upon them according to their request and suitable to their present necessities and indigencies if they be faithful Satan I say raiseth an Anarchy in the soul of man and fosters nothing but a Chaos of confusion then are the concupiscence and lusts of the flesh up in arms against the desires and motions of the spirit and close and strangle one another which oftentimes renders the life of a Christian so bitter and uncomfortable that he is often desiring an end of this