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A call and patern for true and speedy repentance being an abridgment of those many severe sermons by Thomas Reeve ... intituled God's plea for Nineveh.
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Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.
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Wing R692; ESTC R33984
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they are not VValls but Laws that keep Cities 4. Cities are places of Arts and Sciences In the Country are Herdsmen but in the City is the cunning Artificer 5. Citys are Conspicuous a City set upon a Hill cannot be hid God doth land his Judgments upon the Shore-side and doth make them take a long March through the Country before they do pitch down their Tents dig Trenches lay streight Sieges and set up scaling Ladders against the City Indeed if a City doth live out of Fear live in pleasure dwell carelesly if the Harp Viol Tabret Pipe and the VVine be in their Feasts if they deride and defy Judgments then God may fray the City in the midst of her Jollity Case up her Musical Instruments bring in the Voyder to her sumptuous Banquets turn this Dancing City into a sorrowful Lady yea make this Melodious City a Ramah wherein there shall be nothing but Mourning and VVeeeping and great Lamentation instead of the Mirth of the City and its Jollity the cry of City shall go up to Heaven 1 Sam. 5.12 If a City wax proud insolent and daring it shall know neither Gates Bars VValls Towers impregnable Castles or Millions of Armed Men can or shall secure her Gods confounding Judgment shall pull down the most potent and haughty City A City of perversness shall be a City of Perplexity Ezek. 9.9 Then the City shall be smitten Ezek. 33.24 Laid desolate Esa 27.10 Made a Den of Dragons Jer. 10.22 A defenced City shall be made an heap Isaiah 25.2 Yea God will set his Face against the City for Evil and not for Good Jer 21.10 Application 161 This shews that God is the Citys Friend yea the City hath not such a Patron as this Preserver of Men. Except the Lord doth keep the City the Watch-man waketh hut in Vain Psal 127.1 1. Trust not in your Marshals or Magistrates these are but your Dij Medioxumi middle Gods ye have the Lord God Almighty to rely upon what need the City fear any thing if God be their Friend tho' Friendship somtimes is dangerous Men care not how they sell their Friends like Commodities they have no use of or make spoils of them as spend-thrifts do of Estates the perfidiousness of Friends is such that it is a snare to be familiar But God will give his own Weapons to the City to fight with as Hercules gave his Bow and Arrows to Philoctetes his dear Friend God will go through all extremitys with his City 't is no easy matter to perswade a City out of Gods Favour he will rather shew her the Accusations brought against her to testify the Confidence of his Love then make her away upon Suggestions and Informations It must be a high thing that can dis-unite God and his City God will search strictly before he will separate He doth so love a City that he would not ruin Sodom before he had examined it ten Righteous might have at last preserved it it was burnt to Cinders for want of Saints and not for want of a Compassionate God God so loves a City that he gives Laws for its safety Deut. 20.10 When thou comest nigh to a City to fight against it then proclaim Peace unto it Wo be to him that doth make a breach or shake a Stone in the VValls or shed a drop of Blood or rifle an innocent Trades-man till Conditions of Peace be offered So that if God be your Friend and restless grievances han't provoked him to be your Adversary you may Trade freely rest quietly fear no molestation neither at the Custom-House or Council Chamber Zac. 8.4.5 There shall be old Men and old Women in the Streets and every man walk with his staff in his hand for very Age the streets of the City shall be full of Boys and Girls playing in it God will lead them out of Doors in the day-time and put them to bed at night keep the Keys of the City and set Guards over them serve God and he will not only give you a Charter but be the City Standard-bearer and Champion Whosoever will not spare HE will spare because it is a City should I not spare Nineveh a City 2. This shews that a City in it self is a place of Honor do men cast contempt on that which God himself doth magnify will God spare Nineveh because a City and shall not a City be thought worthy of an excellency else we correct Gods Heraldry and strive who shall be the best Judges about Titles of Honour let none deprive the City of its Cap of Maintenance or abuse the Furr'd Gown for a City is the most principal thing of all things which can be constituted by Mans Reason saith Aquinas 't is an ignoble spirit to vilify that which God and Nature has dignify'd If a Man would commend a place 't is enough to say 'T is a City Kindness may be in the Hind but the Breath of a Citizens Lips is Courtesy c. II. A City is a place of Honor because Men there get Estates in a more noble way than other Men as in Merchandising Diodorus says several Kings have been Merchants and Merchants must be supposed to get their Means in a splendid way for Princes would never spot their Courts and soil their Robes in medling with sordid Callings III. A City is a place of Honour because there is a dayly Mart where by Exportation and Importation it doth supply other Countreys and store it self with all manner of Necessaries 4. A City is a place of Honour because multitudes live there with a unanimous Expression yea many hundred Thousands linked like persons of one Tabernacle many a Family not so combined as a City therefore called a Society or Corporation 5. A City is a place of Honour because of Buildings Houses and Riches are given of the Lord. Art can present the Eye with no more pleasing object than the sight of a City Princes thought they could never set out their Royalty better than in building Cities as Asher in building this Nineveh Gen. 10.11 and Nebuchadnezzar Babylon 6. A City is a place of Honour because there are Liberties the Apostle says ye are Citizens with the Saints Eph. 2.19 by that he would intimate that Citizens had great Immunities 7. Because there are degrees of Honour The Livery the Benchers the Gold Chains St. Paul says He was a Citizen of no mean City Acts 21.29 It means it had no mean Government and Jurisdiction to belong to it 8. A City is a place of Honour in respect of large Payments now in defraying Tributes and Customs who exceeds the Citizens III. This shews That as a City is chief so it should be chief in commendable Demeanour A City should be a place of Example the great Idea from which all round about should be effigiated the Prototype by which all adjacent places should be stamped Doth not a Citys Virtues diffuse vertue when it was asked why Peloponesus was so good It was presently