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A10216 Ieremiahs teares, or A sermon preached in York-minster vpon Trinity Sunday, in the yeare of our Lord, 1604 when the sicknes was begunne in the cittie. By Thomas Pullein vicar of Pontefract, sometime chaplaine of New Colledge in Oxford.; Jeremiahs teares. Pullein, Thomas. 1608 (1608) STC 20493; ESTC S106092 19,134 44

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Ieremiahs Teares OR A Sermon Preached in York-minster vpon Trinity Sunday in the yeare of our Lord 1604. when the sicknes was begunne in the Cittie BY Thomas Pullein Vicar of Pontefract sometime Chaplaine of New Colledge in Oxford Oh that they were wise then they would vnderstand this they would consider their latter end Deut. 32. 29. LONDON Printed by William Iaggard for Clement Knight 1608. To the Honourable Robert Askwith Lord Mayor of the Citty of Yorke and the Right Worshipfull his Graue Associates and Brethren the Aldermen all spirituall Graces with wordly Prosperity in this life and eternal happines in the life to come HAuing of long time conceiued a purpose my good Lord to giue some publicke Testimony of my Loue to your Honourable Citty the place of my byrth J began now in the latter end of your Lordships yeare to consider that J could neuer haue a fitter opportunity for the accomplishment of my desire Whereupon beeing loath to vse any further delay in letting passe so good an occasion neere lost already I was forced in hast the time so requiring to looke vp my old Papers to see if I could finde any thing worthy to present vnto your Lordship And while I was thus occupied I bethought my selfe of that Sermon which heeretofore I made in the City when it was newly visited with the late contagious sicknes being drawn thither at the earnest request of a Worshipful friend And this J thought the fittest to publish at this time for sundry causes First to put vs in mind of the manifolde Gracious and Fatherly benefites wherewith God hath blessed vs aboue al the Nations of the Earth and how we haue abused the same Secondly to set before vs the horrible sins wee haue committed with our monstrous vnthankfulnesse against his Maiesty Thirdly to renew a fresh the remembrāce of his seuere Chastisements lately but most iustly inflicted vpon vs which we seeme to haue vtterly forgotten And lastly to admonish vs that if neither his blessings nor punishments wil moue vs to repent amend our liues hee hath yet more fearefull iudgements to astonish our rebellious harts vtterly to make an end of vs which though we haue escaped the plague do still threaten our ruine and destruction All which points I had rather should be obserued out of the sermon it selfe then trouble this place with the repetition therof The reason why I haue deferred this vnto the end of your yere was because I had partly heard by generall report partly seene with mine owne eyes how honorably you haue performed your Office and passed your yeare with as much credit applause as any of your Predecessors I coulde not but reioyce in your Lordships behalfe for a Testimony of my Gratulation bringe with me this pore present to the shutting vp of your yeare not doubting but your Lordship will take the same in good part And thus honorable and right Worshipfull commending this small exercise to your diligent reading carefull practise with my harty Praiers to the Lorde for the continuance of his blessings vpon your Citty that it will please him to replenish the people vnder your Gouernment with the knowledge of his heauenly truth and feruent loue of his holy Gospel framing their harts in obedience thereunto to their eternal Saluation I humbly take my leaue Pontefract this first of Ianuary 1607. Your Lordships and Worships to command in the Lord Thomas Pullein Ornatissimis viris omni doctrinarum genere imprimis conspicuis D. Custodi Socijs caeterisque Alumnis Collegij Noui apud Oxonienses debita vnicuique obseruantia DVodecim plus minus elapsum est annorum interualum doctissimi viri et fratres plurimum obseruandi ex quo insignis vestrae domus Capellanus eforo Collegij vestri in vineam Dominime contulerim Quales exinde labores susceperim non dignos seuseo de quibus dicam Hoc qualecunque opusculum si quid inde sit emersurum boni Ciuitas illa in qua natus fuerim et educatus cui labor etiam iste d●stinatus iampridem fuerat optimo iure sibi vendicat vt vbi lucem ipse primum conspexerim quod a me primo profectum est primum etiam in lucem prodeat Si quid tandem vos interpellem rogetis dicam verbo Nihil mihi visum est indignius quam vobis vel inconsultis velsaltem neglectis quicquam moum in publicum prodire Quicquid enim mibi est vobis acccptum fero vobisque animi qua maxime possum gratitudine refero Nullius autum rei magis sum cupidus quam vt vos labores meos siue hos siue alios in posterum fortassis edendos in vestram tutelam suscipere quod recte dictum fuerit aequi consulere si quid proficiendi studio deliquerim indulgenter condonare velitis Deus in studia vestra incumbat Spiritus sui gratia multosque e vestra societate dignos operarios in messem suam emittere dignetur Valete viri praestuntissimi meque alumnum Collegij vestri vestrum in sinum a linguis mordacibus confugientem suscipite fouete tueamini Pontefracti Calendis Ianuarij 1607 Vestra societati addictissimus Thomas Pulleinus Ieremiah 9. 1. Oh that mine head were full of Water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people AS God hauing tyed Abrahams faith and by tryall found it sincere in walking obediently vnto his will did plant his Church in Abrahams posterity being holie branches of a holy tree so this Church God woulde not leaue destitute of his further grace but as in mercy hee had freely chosen the same from among the rest so in his goodnes he blessed it aboue the rest He sent his Prophets from time to time as dilligent husband-men to employ theyr Prayers both earely and late for the dressing of hys Vineyard and to do all things which might serue to make it fruitfull that as hee had planted the same by himselfe so he might water it by his seruants giue the increase by his spirit Amongst these seruants of God whom the Lord had indued with the spirite of Prophesie some were employed specially among the Iewes consisting of the Tribes of Iudah and Beniamin some were sent to the ten Tribes of Israell which being reuolted from the house of Dauid were now become a seueral kingdome of themselues some exercised a more ioynt function concerning both the kingdome of Iudah Israell and some Prophecied more specially concerning forraigne Nations Of those Prophets whose commission was to preach vnto the Iewes our prophet Ieremiah was neyther the last nor the least who being indued with rare and excellent gifts of God as namely with feruent zeale inuincible courage and vnchaungeable constancy beganne for to prophecie in a most corrupt and daungerous time when the Booke of the Lawe was lost and neuer a coppie thereof extant for the instruction of the people