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A21056 A sermon preached at the publicke fast To the Commons house of Parliament. April. 5th. 1628. By Ier. Dyke minister of Gods Word, at Epping in Essex. Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. 1628 (1628) STC 7424; ESTC S100103 32,686 66

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Luke 21. 11. Great earthquakes shal be in diuerse places and famines and pestilences and fearefull fights and great signes shall there bee from Heauen And so it came to passe before the destruction of Ierusalem by a prodigious comet and other fearefull sights God gaue them warning of their approaching ruine Wee shall seldome finde any calamitous time to haue befallen this kingdome which hath not had a fore-warning giuen of it by some prodigious things such as was the rayning of blood at Yorke sometime before the Danes entrance into the Land and others many of the like nature as they know well that are but any thing seene into our Chronicles And what inconuenience can it be to coniecture that God by that prodigious blazing Starre Anno 1618. gaue the churches warning of the heavie and lamentable times that haue since ensued yet happily are to ensue God had a strange worke and a strange act to doe and he gaue warning of it by as strange a blazing Starre as had bin seene in many ages God speakes by all such signes and therefore wee reade of the words of Gods signes and wonders Psal 105. 27. so the words are originally And so of the voyce of his signes Exod. 4. 8. If they will not hearken to the voyce of the first signe Therfore Gods signes haue wordes haue a voyce they speake not onely to our eyes but to our eares also They are not onely to be gazed upon but to bee hearkened to Psal 106. 7. Our fathers vnderstood not thy wonders in Egypt Gods wonders then haue a language and they are not onely to bee lookt vppon but their language must be vnderstood Now their words are Monitory words their language is a Monitory language and they giue vs warning that some great iudgements are at hand 3. God giues warning by the Ministery of the word Though Gods ministers haue not an Oraculous warning by Immediate Revelation yet they may see an evill in the causes as a storme in the black cloudes and by considering and comparing things present with things past and looking into Gods ancient wayes may see in the general that mischiefe is comming and so from God giue warning Elisha hath his sword as well as Iehu and Hazael 1. Reg. 19. 17. And when Elisha vnsheathes and brandishes his sword it is a faire warning that the sword of Iehu and Hazael are at hand God cuts downe by his Prophets and slayes by the wordes of his mouth Hose 6. 5. before hee bringes in enemyes to kill and slay and when his Ministers are killing and slaying it is a warning signe that enemyes shall come to doe the like So Ieremy rootes out pulles downe destroyes and throwes downe Kingdomes Ier. 1. 10. And when Ieremy begins to plucke vp destroy it is an ill signe that Babilonians and other nations are comming at hand to doe the same worke Whatsoeuer ye bind on earth shal be bound in heauen and so whatsoeuer yee roote out on earth shal be rooted out in heauen is not onely true of an extraordinary and propheticall Ministry but of the ordinary standing ministry of the Church when Ministers go to worke Claue non erante and follow the rules and grounds of the word The watchman giues warning Eze. 33. 3. but how if he blow the trumpet and giue warning When Gods watchmen blow the trumpet then God giues warning Specially then are the warnings of Gods Ministers to be taken as warnings from God when God shal stirre vp the harts of his seruants euery where in all parts places of a kingdome far distant and remote each from other to giue warning to a Kingdome That looke as it is an argument of the diuine authority of prophetical Scripture that the Prophets though they liued in diuerse places and ages of the world yet they so al agreed in one the same truth as if they had all spoken by one mouth Hence Luke 1. 70. As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets There were many Prophets yet but one mouth they all so agreed that though there were diverse persons yet but one mouth as hee spake by the mouth not the mouthes of his holy Prophets which haue beene since the world began So here when God doth stirre vp his seruants in all parts of a kingdome and sets them all on worke as with one mouth to giue warning of wrath it may be taken for no lesse then a diuine warning from God himselfe 4 God giues warning by his administration and dealing with other nations and Churches Gods rods are not only smarting rods to them vpon whom they are but they are monitory warning rods to those vpō whō as yet they are not Zep. 3. 6. 7. I haue cut off nations I haue made their streets wast c. what was one end God had in it To giue Ierusalem warning I said surely thou wilt feare me thou wilt receiue instruction so their dwellings should not be cut off Oportet abietem vlulare quia cecidit Cedrus ac alios vicinorum plaga erudiri atque per aliena mala rebus suis probe consulere Greg. Naz. God then aimed at this in his Iudgements vpon other nations that Ierusalem should take warning Then God giues warning whē he puts the sword into Cōmission It is warning when he whets his sword but much more when he giues the sword a Commission Ezekel 14. 17. If I say Sword goe through a land so that I cut off man and beast from it There is the sword put in Commission and being so put in Commission there is warning giuen of approaching calamitie We may know the sword to be in Commission as wee know the Iudges of Assize to bee When we see the Iudges ride circuite and goe from one shire towne to another and doe executions vppon malefactors then wee know they haue their Commissions Iudges may not ride circuit without their Commissions So when wee see the sword ride circuit and doe Executions euery where as it goes and cannot bee staide but it prospers and preuailes then without all question it is in Commission When it goes through Lands and Prouinces and Churches and cuts off man and beast then questionlesse God hath said Sword Go. See Ier. 47. 6 7. Oh thou sword of the Lord how long will it be ere thou bee quiet put vp thy selfe into thy scabberd rest and be still Like inough Ashkelon and the Philistins vsed all the policie and power they could but all their Combinations Confederacies Leagues Vnions could do no good For all these the sword was restlesse and prospered strangely and not by any weakenesse of theirs nor by any strength of the enemy the victory still lost so as a diuine hand of God was manifest therein What might the reason of all this be It had a charge How can it be quiet seeing the Lord hath giuen it a charge against Ashkelon When the sword hath a Commission it doth as Samuel did 1. Sam.
he threatens to reckon sharply with those whom hee betrusts with that office vers 8. God will require blood at such mens hands God doth not snatch vp the sword into his hand and presently cut men of but Psal 7. 12. First God whets his sword bends his bow makes it ready prepares the instruments of death And all this whetting time the time of making ready and preparing is a warning time God whets and makes ready in mens sight and in mens hearing that the very noyse of his whetting may giue them warning of his intentions And Deut. 32. 41 42. God first Whets his Sword before it devoures flesh and God first takes hold on iudgement before his judgements take hold on men God liu'd by his owne rule and by the same Law he gaue his people in their warres Deuter. 20. 10. 13. Hee would not haue them fall foule presently vppon their enemies but they must deale fairely with them And it was the benefit of this Law that the wise woman of Abel challenged at the hands of Ioab 2. Sam. 20. 18. and blames him that hee was come to swallow vp and neuer according to the ancient Law of Armes giues them any parley or warning of his purposes So fairely deales God in his infinite goodnesse with men before hee comes to swallow vp and to destroy hee first giues warning and offers fayre quarter Therefore Hos 5. 8. God blowes the Trumpet before he drawes the sword not a Trumpet for an Alarme and for the battle but a Trumpet to giue warning that a battle is like to come God hath his warning peeces and his murdering peeces God neuer dischargeth his murdering till hee haue discharged his Warning ones The King of Syria his plot and policy was suddenly and at unawares to surprise the King of Israel 2. King 6. 8. He would go covertly and closly to work least the King of Israel having intelligence of his designe he might thereby frustrate his action God goes not so covertly to worke but as one that would be willing to be kept off and put by he himselfe giues intelligence of his intentions hee doth afore-hand acquaint men with his projects Ier. 18. 11 Behold I frame evill against you and devise a device against you Thus God deales and giues warning 1. That if it be possible men might bee brought to 〈◊〉 Repentance as might prevent the threatned e●… Ier. 18. 11. 2. That he may provide for the good of his owne Sometimes God will deliver some of his people from 〈◊〉 calamity Sometimes he will haue some of them ●…dergo it In reference to both he giues warning 1. To such as shall be delivered in the day of wrath 〈◊〉 wrath should come without warning it might ●…de of Gods owne people from vnder couert and 〈◊〉 they might prooue a prey to the judgement Exod. ●… 18 19. God had a purpose that many of the Egyp●…s servants and Cattle should escape and not bee ●…ayne in that terrible storme of fire and hayle God ●…erefore giues warning of the storme that so they ●…ight be housed that should escape If they had had 〈◊〉 warning they had heene abroad in the fields and 〈◊〉 in the fields when the storme came they had pe●…ht inevitably God hath a purpose in a storme to 〈◊〉 some of his therefore hee giues them warning that they may get an house ouer their heads before the storme come What had Noah beene better then all the rest of the vngodly World if God had not giuen him warning God warned him that hee might be safe in the evill day When iudgements come and are walking abroad God would haue his people within doores in their Chambers their doores shut vpon them Is 26. 20 21. and therefore to this end giues them warning 2. In reference to such as shall vndergoe common calamity God giues them warning that they may lay in and lay vp that which may support and vphold them in the time of distresse God would haue the demeaner and behauiour of his people in the day of calamity be different from other mens He would haue them be of erected spirits free from those distressing perplexities that others shal be swallowed vp withall Therefore hee giues warning that so they may gather that which may strengthen them at such a time certainely if God should giue no warning there would bee little difference seene and discerned betweene the righteous and the wicked betweene him that serueth God and him that serues him not Mal. 3. 18. Little difference would bee seene in their carriages vnder the pressures of calamity You should see Euery man with his hands on his loynes as a Woman in trauaile and all faces turned into palenesse Ier. 30. 6. God would haue his people haue more blood in their faces then the common sort wil haue in such a time God would not haue Faith and Religion so pale faced and so white liuer'd as ciuility and morality will be at such a time Therefore God giues them warning that so their prouisions may be such agaynst the day of euill as that their carriages may be masculine beseeming God and Religion 3. That God may be iustified and cleare when he iudges Psal 51. 4. Talis non vis flagellari cum mundo aut flagellatus murmuras sub flagello Serue male fecisti quod Dominus iussit qui ne vapulares ista flagella ante tibi praedixit August de tem Barb. God doth it to gag and to muzzle the mouth of iniquity and to put to silence the cauelling ignorance of foolish men What can be pleaded agaynst the iustice of Gods proceedings when God may say to men as Reuben to his brethren Gen. 42. 22. Did not I warne you saying sin not Quest How doth God giue warning of wrath and iudgements comming Ans 1. God giues warning many wayes 1. By extraordinary and immediate Reuelation Thus was Noah heere warned of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The same word that is vsed of the warning giuen to the wisemen Math. 2. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 warned of God God in a dreame immediately warned them And thus were all the Prophets warned of God of the iudgements that were to come vpon the Iewes and other Nations And thus specially is that to be vnderstood Amos 3. 7. Surely the Lord God will doe nothing but he reueales his secrets vnto his seruants the Prophets God by the extraordinary reuelation of his spirit gaue them warning what hee meant to doe Thus God made knowne to Nebucadnezar what should come to passe afterwards Daniel 2. 29. 2. By prodigious signes and strange wonders both in Heauen and earth God calls his worke of iudgement a strange worke and a strange act Isa 28. 21. And when God doth these strange acts and workes of nationall iudgements hee giues warnings many times thereof by some strange precursory signes and prodigies Commonly some strange praemonitory signes fore runne strange executions of iustice We haue a text for it