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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30287	Seasonable words for English Protestants a sermon from Jer. 51, 5, setting forth, 1. When a land is filled with sin? 2. What evidences we have that England is not forsaken yet by God? and, 3. What is required of us, that we may not be given up to destruction.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5717; ESTC R3911	15,773	37

I shall speak only those that are compliant with the common Reason and Understanding of all sober Persons There are three ways whereby a Land may be said to be filled with sin 1. When the sins of a Land or Nation are come to the full to the utmost measure that God hath allotted to them in his Patience There is such an allotment of Patience to every Nation under Heaven and when it comes to its appointed Issue no means under Heaven can defer or delay their Destruction one day Thus saith God before the Floud The Land is filled with sin the whole Earth with violence a Floud shall take them away The Cry of Sodom and Gomorrah came up to God they had filled up their measure God sent Fire and Brimstone to destroy them You shall not yet go into Canaan Why The Iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full There is a time appointed wherein the Iniquity of the Amorites shall come up to its full measure beyond which their Destruction shall not be delayed This was not now the case of Israel and Judah It proved afterward to be their case as the Apostle describes it 1 Thes 2.15 16. Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary unto all men Forbidding us to preach to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway For the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost How come They have filled their measure reacht to their bounds Wrath is come upon them to the uttermost I hope I pray that this is not that this may not be the State of England that our Land is not so filled with sin as that God's Decree of Absolute and Universal Desolation should be gone forth against us 2. A Land may be said to be filled with sin when it is come to that degree and measure as that God will not pass it by without some severe desolating Judgment He will not utterly forsake it he will not utterly destroy it but let all mankind do what they will he will not pass it by without some severe desolating Judgment Such was their case even at this time You may see in 2 Chron. 36.16 But they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against his People till there was no Remedy It was impossible that the Judgment of God should be turned away from them In this State God saith Pray not for this people my heart shall not be towards them until he had brought his Judgment upon them Though Moses and Samuel stood before me I will not hear them Ay but what if Reformation come in Nay nay saith he It is determined against them Reformation shall not save them See 2 Kings c. 23 v. 25 26. where there is an account given of the greatest Reformation that ever was wrought in Judah by Josiah So it is said Like unto him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him having Reformed the whole Nation Then sure all will be well See the next words Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah and the Lord said I will remove Judah also out of my sight There is a time and season when God although he will not utterly destroy and forsake a Nation for ever yet he will not pass them by let who will intercede he will not pass them by until he hath brought a severe destructive scourge upon them Whether this be the State of England at this day or no God only knows and of Mankind not one Whether we are come to that State wherein there is no Remedy wherein nothing we do shall prevent desolating Judgments I say God only knows and of men not one 3. A Land is filled with sin when it is come to such a degree and measure as that there is no Rule of the Word nor any Prognostick from Providence nor any Conjecture from the state of things that can give any determination what will be the Issue Judgment is deserved and there is nothing remains but to look upon the Ballance as it is held in the hand of Soveraignty which way it will turn God only knows The Decree is not yet gone forth In this your State God doth not say Pray not for this People God doth not say Though you reform I will not turn from the fierceness of my wrath But God saith Who knows if God will return and leave a Blessing Who knows if God will be entreated and have mercy He leaves it upon the absolute pleasure of Soveraignty to give us encouragement to wait upon him Because I take this yea and I take it in the best of my hopes to be that wherein we are concerned pray take these two things along with you before I go to shew it in particular The first is That in this State if God gives time and space there is encouragement enough left to make our Applications to him for the Removal of Impending Judgments Methinks sometimes I see by Faith the Lord high lift up upon his Throne and his Train filling the Temple with his Glory and holding the Ballance of this Nation in his hand and can turn it to Mercy or Judgment as seems good unto him While it is so while though the Woman be put into the Epha yet the Talent of Lead is not laid upon her there is time for Intercession yet time for the interposition of God And secondly I say and do you take it as you see good but I will tell you my perswasion that if there be not a compliance with the Calls of God unto this Nation upon this Suspension and Arrest of Judgment that we are under we shall as certainly perish as if we were in either of the two former conditions If the Chaldeans were all wounded men if there was no Hope no Strength no Relief in the Papal Cause they shall rise up and smite as in the day wherein Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel and the Mother was dashed in pieces upon her Children Hos 10.14 unless there be a compliance with the Calls of God in the days wherein we live Let us then a little as God will give strength enquire when a Nation is so filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel as certainly to put the Ballance into the hands of Soveraignty and to take off all Rules and Prognosticks which with great grief I have heard sometimes insisted upon and reduce us meerly to the hand of Soveraignty When is it that a Land is so filled with sin 1. A Land is so filled with sin when all sorts of provoking sins do abound in it when there is no Exception to be put in