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A90993 Mans delinquencie attended by divine justice intermixt with mercy. Display'd in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abby Church at Westminster, Novemb. 25. 1646. being the solemn day of their monethly fast. / By William Price, B.D. Pastor of Waltam-Abby; and one of the Assembly of Divines. Price, William, d. 1666. 1646 (1646) Wing P3401; Thomason E363_1; ESTC R201226 28,963 60

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Henry the 4. the Emperour who fought two and fifty pitcht battells was compelled by poverrie to Petition for a Prebends place at Spyre to maintain him in his old age And Comminez saith that he saw the Duke of Excester who married King Edward the fourths sister begging bare-foot in the Low-Countries But I forget my self and should crave pardon and Apologize for the length both of my Sermon and Dedication but that would but make me the longer May you live and die full of Honour May you be Instruments of Gods Glory here and Vessells of eternall glory hereafter is and shall be the Prayer of Your Lordships most humbly levoted servant in the Gospel of Jesus Christ WILLIAM PRICE A SERMON before the House of LORDS on the last Monethly Fast-day EZRA 9.6 7 8. VER 6. And I said O my God I am ashamed Diverse Translation and blush or I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face or my eyes unto thee my God for our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespasse is grown up unto the heavens V. 7. Since or from the dayes of our fathers have we been in a great trespasse even unto this day And for our iniquities have we our Kings and our Priests been delivered into the hands of the Kings of the lands to the sword to captivity and to the spotle and to confusion of face as it is or appeareth this day V. 8. And now for a little space or a moment grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God to leave us or in causing a remnant to escape and to give or in giving us a nail in his holy place that our God may lighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage or servitude THis is a gloomy day of publick humiliation Context and the argument of this Chapter on a branch whereof my lot is now fallen is drooping and heavines Ver. 5. The people indeed we find trembling in the next Chapter for the immoderate raine Chap. 10.9 for it seems the clouds then dispensed their treasures too fast as now they do But a dunghilly worldling can howl on his bed under a losse or crosse But our Ezra mourns more for the blacknesse then the burning of the coale of sin A formalist may sometime feel a legall fit a pang of sorrow for his owne sins but Ezra laments the mis-carriages of others the people of Israel the Priests the Levits the Princes and Rulers ●●er 1.2 who were all imbarqued in that delinquency that he deplores Ezra's humiliation began within but ended not there His sorrow-prest heart finds a vent in all the solemn dress equipage that grief uses to assume and put on laceration of garments ●er 3.4 5. plucking the hair from his head and beard pensively sitting down with silence stupefaction astonishment until the evening And lest his passion shold be interpreted an immasculating sullen stupidity amazed dulnesse rather then an active repentance which ought to be a fruit-bearing-tree not a dead log he raises and rowses himselfe and betakes himselfe to his knees and spreads out his hands heaven-ward the usuall visible demonstrations of the height of devotion and offers the fruit of his lips powring out his soul clothing his sad apprehensions withaery but solid and melting expressions breathing forth his complaints to him who onely could relieve him in a prayer that here is memorized and conveyd to posterity distilling from his own pen. It is recorded of him Chap. 7.6 that hee was a prompt Scribe His tongue was as the pen of a ready writer when he commenc'd and presented this suit at the throne of grace and his pen is as a tongue to report it to succeeding generations as an exemplary modell or platform to steer us in putting up our petitions on semblable emergent occasions And I said O my God c. And thus is the Text allied to the Context If you now please Right Honourable Text. and the rest beloved in our Saviour to see how the words that lie afore us shine with their own native without borrowed lustre Summe Epitomie They are considerable under the notion of a prayer an ordinance that if duly managed can open and shut heaven binde and loosen the hands of the Omnipotent blast designes countermine mines command countermand men tie up divels throw Rome into Tiber a duty that sanctifies fasting as fasting quickens and imps the wings of it In which prayer the Petitioner draws himself and his people with a black coale ver 6.7 Anatomis Parts but limns his God with orient colours ver 8. vilifying nullifying man or if any diminutive can be added below abasement it self but magnifying God 1. Hee decries himself and Israel discovering his sorrow by the impression of his shame and the expression of their Nationall misery 1. The impression of his shame ver 6. O my God I am confounded c. 2. The expression of his and Israels misery in a self-arraignment and a self-condemnation 1. His self-arraignment appears in drawing up a large indictment made up of an ingenuous confession and an heightning aggravation 1. A confession of their sin under the varied and reiterated language of iniquities and trespasses emphaticall and comprehensive titles 2. The aggravation of those transgressions By 1. The dimensions of them height and depth The continued quantity the magnitude great greatned The discrete quantity or multitude increast multiplied 2. The customary inveteratenesse From the daies of our fathers to this day 3. The Epidemicalnesse and spreading universality the guilt of Kings and Priests is mentioned here ver 7. And if we cast our eyes back to the first and second verses we shall find Levits People and Rulers all put into this bill of attainder Yet he contents not himself with this self-arraignment but erects a Tribunall within his own brest and thence he passes an impartial judgement on himself and the rest involved and engulft in this blame For our iniquities have wee been delivered up Delivered To whom To what 1. To whom Homo homini lupus To men and one man is naturally a wolfe to another and those men potent Kings and those many and they ethnicks heathenish the Kings of the nations 2. To what delivered To sword to captivity to spoil to confusion of face and that not imminent but incumbent not feared but felt all too apparent As it is or appears this day So different translations have it 2. Having thus deprest man Root he exalts God in his most magnetick attractive amiable attribute Grace amplified by the fruit growing on that root Fruit. rescue preservation causing a remnant to escape And settlement giving us a nail in his holy place And these favours receiving their grace and glosse from those comfortable ends that God level'd at End the lightning their eyes and reviving their hearts in their servitude This is the Anatomie these the lineaments of the Text.