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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96316	Israels tears for distressed Zion. Shown in a sermon before the Right Honourable House of Lords assembled in Parliament, at their late solemn fast, in the Abby-Church of Westminster, Sept. 24. 1645. / By John Whincop D.D. and pastor of the church of Clothall in Hertford-shire. Published by order of the House of Peers.	Whincop, John, d. 1647.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1664; Thomason E302_26; ESTC R200285	40,650	50

may continue so and who knows what shall bee afterwards So that what limits Chronologers use to make of States or Kingdomes proportioning the ordinary period to be five hundred yeares about which time say they they have the in period or suffer some great and visible alteration I dare not I cannot affirme alwayes to be true yet many times it falls out so as other uncertaine things may doe For instance from David the first King that sate on Judahs throne to Zedekiah the last were 470 yeares From Ceoro●s the first King of Athens to Codrus the last 490 yeares From Lycurgus the Law-giver of the I 〈◊〉 demonians to Alexander the great that subverted all 491 yeares Nay in our own Land from the time that Julius Gesar entred it to that time the Romans quite left it 500 yeares then after from the 〈◊〉 intrusion under their Heptarchy untill the united Monarchy by King Egbert were 460 years Indeed from the last great alteration by Duke William's Conquest to these times are a great deale more though some would have it to fall out in the beginning of King James his Reigne in whose Crowne both Yorke and Lancaster England and Scotland did so happily meet which was likewise from the Norman Conquest 536 years But these Niceties I desire not to insist in or put weight upon It s the generall onely is my ayme to shew how sading the beauty of this world is and how there 's nothing permanent here below * absirut in terra suavit●r ●ventium gaudiorum inveniatur Materia cum tantis alternationibus tota mundi facies immutetur ut elevans allidatur respires allisus c. Bern. in serm fest B. Ma. M. What present examples I might produce for this besides what hitherto hath been mentioned every one may conjecture that has but heard of the late desolations of fruitfull Germany the ruines of poore Ireland and the sad breaches and distractions made within these four years in this unhappy Kingdome of England each one being so many severall Monuments of the truth of this He insist no longer therefore upon it but draw up all into some usefull Applications to our selves Not to set our hearts too much upon any of these worldly things Vse 1 k Mundus transit concupiscentia ejus Quid vis utrum amare temporalia transire cum tempore an Christum amare in aeternum vivere Aug. in Joh. Habnere cuncta quo creabantur Every thing had its time of beginning and it is as true every thing shall have its time of ending and dissolution Suppose thou livest now in the height of all plenty and prosperity thou enjoyest thy health thy wealth thy friends thy Countrey and all thine heart can desire O blesse God for it and be not thereby high minded but rather feare ever remembring that of the Apostle Thou that now standest take heed least thou fall for what is it thine heart so much relies upon on (l) Ecce turbat Mundus amatur quid fi tranquillus esset formoso quomodo hares qui sic amplectars foedum flores ejus quomedo colligeres qui a sp●●is non revocas manum Aug. in Psal Hast thou a goodly Kingdom so had Israel yet now deprived of all Hast thou plenty of riches and all manner of store so had Job and yet within some few houres become a Proverb for his poverty while he fits in the dust tuning his fatall ditty Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither againe the Lord gives and the Lord takes● blessed be the name of the Lord. Are thy barnes full of Corne and thy garners of encrease wantest thou room with him in the Gospel to lay up thy Treasure in O remember withall what was said unto him Thou fool this night may thy soule bee taken away from thee and then whose are all those thou dost passesse We Israel here as rich as great as full as any yet now spoyled of all can onely sit downe in a strange land and weepe When wee remember Zion Therefore me thinkes it was excellent counsell that of an ancient Heathen alwayes to consider well before hand what it is thou settest thy bea rt upon and so provide before hand that if it should please God to take that thing away from thee thou mayest not bee quite swallowed up of grief sorrow (m) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Epicteu●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Consider saith he with thy selfe what kinde of thing it is thou so much affectest alwayes beginning from the least If thou takest delight in a fine pot or curious glasse consider it is but a glasse a brickle vessell that may be broken and therefore if it be be not troubled so if thou dotest upon a Child or thy Wife think with thy self they are but flesh and blood they may die therefore if they doe be not troubled or thou lovest a dainty Horse and prizest him high consider he may fall lame or get a surfet or be stollen therefore if he bee bee not troubled or thy heart is let upon thy brave Houses and stately Palaces remember that a spark of fire may consume them or enemies plunder or destroy them therefore if such a thing happen be not troubled A meditation of an Heathen I confesse befitting a Christian alwayes to stand upon ones guard and with anothers Heathen whose sobriety and vigilance herein I am afraid shames many a Christian When thou art going to bed thus to thinke (n) Dic mihi dormituro potes non expergisci dic experrecto potes non dormire dic exeanti potes non redire dic re deunti potes non exire c. Sen. perhaps I may never awake up in the morning perhaps I may never lie downe againe going abroad perhaps I may never returne againe being returned perhaps I may never goe abroad again seeing there is such changes in all these outward things striving to get an heart (o) In hoc mundo non timere non dolere non laborare non periclitar● impossibile sed plurimu●● 〈◊〉 rest qua expectatione quo animo quisque patiatur Aug. ad Di●●● fitted for that change that when it pleaseth God thy try all comes thou mayest bee able to stand in the day of thy visitation Secondly since all these worldly things are so mutable let it be thy wisdome to set thine heart upon those things which are immutable and cannot be taken away * Discite in hoc Mundo supra Mun●●m esse si corpus geritis volite● invobis ales interior Ambrosil de Virg. Pereant haec omnia dimi●●an●●s haec van● in●● a conferamus not ad solam inquisitition em cor●● quae 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 Aug. 〈◊〉 There is nothing here below but it 's continually subject to some losse or change onely here 's the comfort of a Christian some things there are peculiar unto him which he cannot be