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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64688	Vox hibernæ, or, Rather the voyce of the Lord from Ireland a sermon preached in Saint Peters Church at Westminster before divers of the right honourable the lords of the upper House in the high court of Parliament : on the last publike fast day, being Wednesday the 22th of December 1641 : wherein the miserable estate of the kingdome of Ireland at this present is laid open and the people and kingdome of England earnestlie exhorted to turne to Almight God by true repentance least the same iudgements or worse fall upon us / by the laborious and reverend Doctor Iames Vsher ...	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1642 (1642)	Wing U228; ESTC R233006	11,072	17

will repent of the iudgement against us but if we repent not there is no hope to escape either in this world or in the world to come But I come to the duty of the day For the worke of this day fasting is nothing but the outward way yet it is the onely way to repentance do not thinke that you come to heare an ordinary Sermon God expects it at thy hands that thou shouldst examine what thou hast heard whatsoever thou hast heard this day out of this place of thy duty the Lord lookes thou shouldest do it speedily Now is the Axe laid to the root of the tree and therefore every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewen downe and cast into the fire Now why not before now that is now the preaching of the Gospell comes to you now the Lord exhorts you by the danger now he shewes you the way how to repent and to escape the wrath that is to come Now if you doe not repent Gods sword is drawn the Axe is laid to the root of the tree and God wil cut you down Now the Lord he threatneth you these thinges only that you might repent Therefore as God saith in Hosea I will do thus How I will do to you as I have done to them in Ireland I will do to you as I have done to Sodom and Gomorrah And because I will doe thus unto thee prepare to meete thy God oh Israell I am ready to strike and that I may not strike thee Prepare to meete thy God Those men that are our enemies they strike before they give us warning but saith God therefore I will doe thus unto thee and because I will do thus do thou meete me with repentance Psal. 103. ver. 12. Except you returne the Lord is preparing of his arrowes Psal. 103. ver. 12. Why doth he not shoot presently he must bend his bow and draw out his arrowes and tell you of it that you may remember Remember this now now that God cals you all to repentance now if you neglect the practise of it the Axe is laid to the root of the tree But now to come to the point of the act of repentance I will not stand much to shew you what repentance is but to shew you what you are to do As you must not come before the Lord and say Lord we repent us of our sins and mocke God never intending it never doe it upon the perill of his indignation of his wrath that shall burne against you in the world to come Know that these are not vaine words for Repentance there are two parts of it and the Lord doth expect that both should bee performed by us Wee read in the Scripture of repentance for sinne and we read of repentance from sinne So the Apostle to the Corinthians saith thus least my God should humble me before you for there are many that repent not of their abhomination and Acts. 8. 22. Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse Repentance hath two lookes like Ianus with two faces it lookes backward and it lookes forward when it lookes backwards it lookes upon the thing that is done and because that is done cannot be undone therefore it weeps and wailes and greives that thing is done to Gods dishonour which cannot be undone that is repentance when a man looks upon sin rending himselfe and is sorrowfull for what is past that 's but the first part of repentance The second is that that lookes upon sinne with distast it is abhominable unto him It is not hereafter I will not sweare I will not be light wanton I will not be evill but there must be an hatred of all sinne you that love the Lord hate evill there must not be onely a ceasing from the Act of sinne but there must be a reformation of the will and of the heart to the utter obhorring to the utter hating of sinne Concerning the former of these Repentance when it looks upon sinne that is past the sinnes that I have committed that many have not regarded for the fornications that you have committed you must understand that here the worke of Repenting is humiliation But marke it not an humiliation wherein a man is meere passive or is humbled by some great affliction that is fallen upon him The judgement of God may come to a man the stoutest man and humble him but that is not an humiliation of Repentance The humiliation which Repentance brings it is an ●ctive passion the stoutest man that is when Gods hand that hath touched him he will cry and groane and lament and yet he is no penitent for all this but repentance it is an Act I doe my selfe I Act it my self Rend your hearts and not your garments they did rend them with their owne hands so to have a rent heart it must be an Act of my selfe upon my selfe I will not stay till Gods crosse fall upon me crush me but I will labour to take up the Crosse I will doe it by God grace also for as you heard well in the morning nothing but the Holy Ghost can worke this in your hearts yet God doth not worke with us as we doe with a spade The Spirit of God maketh use of nature not as Agent but as a sujbect wherein grace is and if there were not this the spirit could worke without it It is said of our Saviour Christ in the case of Lazarus when he groaned he was troubled if you doe observe the reading in the Margent it is And Iesus troubled himselfe Luke 15. And so in in his other sufferings Phil. 3. 20. He offered himselfe so that this humiliation must bee in obedience Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God and he will raise you up so that the Humilitation it must bee a voluntary worke having its originall from Gods spirit That seing there is no other remedy in the world to shew thy hating of it thou wilt take an holy revenge thou wilt breake that stony heart of thine and thou wilt not suffer it to be obdurate against the Lord but howsoever God never doth this against a mans will Heeris the point the humilitation which the sinner hath it is an act of his will Hee doth not onely suffer as those that are strucke by the hand of God so Iudas might have repented but that comes out of a kind heart to Almighty God that it breaks the heart But beloved e●e I goe further we will examine wherein this humilitation doth stand Humilitation stands in a generall processe which we make against our selves If we will judge our selves we shall not be judged by him so that this Humiliation is a Iudiciall processe against our selves wee will make our hearts throb wee will make our eyes flow forth into teares when Wee looke backe upon our sinnes committed This is the Humilitation of a penitent sinner so in this case a man comes to summe up all the powers and faculties