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A46650 A sermon preached on the day of the publick fast, April the 11th, 1679, at St. Margarets Westminster before the Honourable House of Commons / by William Jane ... Jane, William, 1645-1707. 1679 (1679) Wing J456; ESTC R13564 23,060 50

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manner worn out with old Age ready to give up the Ghost and to pine away in their Calamities there appeared upon them the constant forerunners and manifest presages of ruin and desolation And whenever God decrees the final consumption of a people they may foresee it themselves without the prediction of a Prophet A general dissoluteness of manners an impudent boldness in the practice of iniquity a neglect and contempt of all the duties of Religion the loosing the joints of Government by Treasons and Conspiracies divided interests and Dissensions among the people Confusions and Divisions in the Church are as infallible symptoms of a dying State of the dissolution of a Common-wealth and the funeral of a Kingdom as if a flaming Sword had hung over it or a voice from Heaven had revealed its doom These are the gray hairs of the people in the Text. And how near we our selves resemble them I leave you to judg by comparing our condition at present with that of the Ten Tribes before their carrying into Captivity But III. Which is the worst symptom of all here is described the general senselesness of that people notwithstanding all the judgments of God either past or present a deep sleep that had seized them like Jonah in the Tempest none awakening himself to cry unto God or to pour out his supplications at the Throne of Grace This is his condition yet he knoweth it not that is he does not consider the greatness of his danger or he does not discover himself to be seriously affected with the sense of Gods judgments so as to lament and bewail and to tremble at them he does not resolve them into their proper principles nor acknowledg the Author of them which was the hand of God nor the Impulsive cause which was his own iniquity or lastly he knoweth it not that is he does not comply with the end and design of it Afflictions have not that errand upon him for which they were sent but he so behaves himself under them as if he had been wholly ignorant what had been done unto him From the words thus explained I shall consider I. The end and design of Gods judgments upon a Nation which is that they may know and consider that they may be brought to a sense of their sins to true Repentance and amendment of their lives II. The contrary effects which they often have upon a secure and a sinful people which is to make them the more incorrigible and obstinate in their sins Gods judgments are upon him yet he knoweth it not III. I shall discover some Causes of it IV. The greatness of the provocation Yet he knoweth it not This Yet hath an Emphasis an accent upon it and denotes sins under judgments to be exceeding sinful V. And lastly I shall conclude with some brief Application to our selves I begin with the first of these which is the end and design of Gods judgments upon a Nation which is that they may know c. And this will appear 1. From the intention of God in the threatning and inflicting of his judgments 2. From the natural tendency of the judgments themselves God not only threatens but sends his judgments upon a people on the same errand as the Antient Romans did their Heralds before they actually entered upon a war not peremptorily to declare our doom but to warn us to prevent it by coming in and submitting to terms of Peace and Reconcilement At what instant Jer. xviii 7 3. says God by the Prophet Jeremy I shall speak concerning a Nation and concerning a Kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it if that Nation against whom I have pronounced turn from the evil I will repent of the evil which I thought to do unto them In the xxvi of Leviticus God in a Prophetical Scheme represents the sorest judgments which were to fall upon his people in succeeding Generations he lays before their eyes the Sword Pestilence and Famine expulsion from the Lords Land into a Land of Enemies and Idols the ceasing of the Sacrifices and the solemn Festivals and even all the utmost miseries of Captivity and Desolation and yet in the conclusion of that black Catalogue which seems rather an inventory of what evils the hand of God was able to inflict than what a people should suffer we have room for Repentance and a reserve of mercy Verse 41. If then their Uncircumcised hearts be humbled and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity then will I remember my Covenant with Jacob and also my Covenant with Isaac and also my Covenant with Abraham will I remember and I will remember the Land We read in Joel ii of a day of darkness and gloominess such as had never been the like before Joel ii 2.10 wither should there be any after it such Armies and terrors as should make the earth quake the Heavens tremble the Sun and Moon to grow dark and the Stars to withdraw their shining And yet amidst all this distress and perplexity the Lord calls upon his people to return unto him with an intimation likewise given that he will return and repent and leave a b●essing behind him Gods wrath was never so fiercely kindled against a person or a people but if true Repentance intervened it has removed his hand or at least abated the fierceness of the blow Nay the outward and formal humiliation of an Ahab has procured a reprieve 1 Kings xxi 29. and suspended the execution It cannot be denyed but that God sometimes punishes a people in vengeance without any mixture or allay of mercy when he makes a full end of them and the consumption overflows in judgment as in the Case of the Ten Tribes under Salmanasser of the Jewish Church at the destruction of Jerusalem when the Kingdom of God was taken from them 2 Thes ii 16. and wrath came upon them to the uttermost of the seven Churches of Asia who have had their Candlestick removed and been swallowed up by the Inundation of Mahumetanism of the famous Churches of Africa which once gave light to the whole Christian world now overspred with ignorance and Barbarism with a thick darkness that may be felt But in all these Cases God never proceeds to excision and casting off till all his other corrections have proved useless and ineffectual till their iniquities are full till they are ripe for vengeance till they have neglected all the seasons of Grace and out-sinned the day of their visitation Then indeed God grows weary of repenting being prest with sin as a Cart full of sheaves This is the account which the Scripture gives us of the people of Judah when they were carried into Captivity 2 Chron. xxxvi 16 17. they mocked the messengers of God despised his word and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldces c. 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