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land_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	2,303	5	9.6400	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97125	God iudging among the gods. Opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, upon the solemn day of monethly fast, March 26. 1645. / By Iohn Ward, minister of the gospel in Ipswich, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Ward, John, d. 1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing W773; Thomason E279_5; ESTC R200028	47,681	68

generall visitation of a Nation is the punishment of their sinne Now if we were to make a discovery by Lots wherein and whose the sinne hath been and all the chiefe of the Kingdom were to stand on the one side and the body of the people on the other side as when the triall was made between Saul and Jonathan and all Israel who should be taken may we think and which of them should escape or if we might enquire of the Lord as David did when there was three yeers famine in the Land might we not finde the answer in the words of their report to Ezra Ez 9. 2. The hands of the Princes and Rulers hath beene chiefe in the trespasse Now what is to be done in this case the story that follows will tell us even by the light of the next verse we may read that the hand of the Princes and the Rulers though they had no hand in the trespasse must be chiefe in the repentance in the humiliation confession deprecation in the making of the atonement and the reformation And because others will not ye must and the fewer come in to the Worke the more it lieth upon your hands I beseech you therefore Honourable and beloved Hear yee give ear and be not proud but humble your selves sit down astonted and mourn because of the transgression search out the sinnes of the State of our Princes and Nobles and Judges of our Parliaments former and later and weigh out if possible the trespasse with the aggravations ye have begun well blessed be God who put it into your hearts ye have taken speciall notice of many nationall sinnes and commanded publike acknowledgement and deepe humiliation for them Follow on I beseech you to seek the Lord and turne unto him make yet a further and more diligent enquierie into the sinnes of the State of our Kings our Princes our Parliaments as of the Kingdome and see if the great men have knowne the way of the Lord and the iudgements of their God if rather they have not altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds Some sinnes and some mens sinnes are open going before to judgement They declared them as Sodome they hid them not others though done in the darke and there was digging deep to hide them yet have of late by the wonderfull providence of God beene brought to light and proclaimed upon the house tops it is like ye may have seene more then we that stand at further distance and if we might have the Prophets priviledge might we not discover greater abominations then have as yet been revealed Give me leave to offer some few Interrogatories upon which ye may examin May not God possibly be now visiting the iniquity of our fathers upon us may not we be the children within those generations who are threatned in that Law Hath there at any time by Law and practise been such a departure and separation from Rome as may undoubtedly declare a due dissent from detestation of and humiliation for the idolatry of our Ancestors may not the constant connivence at Papists the common compliancie with their superstition in matters of ceremonies and the formalities of publike worship the late toleration of Popery the generall revolting and back-sliding thitherward by erecting of altars and other innovations and joyning in affinitie with the people of those abominations revive the memorie of our fathers sinnes and wrap us up together in the crime and with good justice make us receive double from the hand of the Lord while both their sinnes and ours meet together in one condemnation The Lord our God is a jealous God and we are not an holy people Did wee ever yet requite the Lord for the riches of his grace and wonders of his providence in choosing us to be a people to himself in the day when he lifted up his hand to our fathers and brought them out of the rage and flames of persecution and made himselfe known to them remember the kindnesse of the youth of this Church and the love of its espousalls did the priests say Where is the Lord and they that handle the Law did they know him did or Prince or people seek the Lord with all their hearts as in the dayes of Asa or as Josiah and Hezekiah did for their owne parts was the Reformation carried on to the height and purity which it might and ought to have reached unto considering the opportunity and advantages of that season May not God take up a controversie against the Parliaments of this Kingdome for the lack of knowledge that is in the Land what provisions have been made for the establishing of a preaching ministery in every Parish in the Iland what countenance and incouragement to the painfull labourer in the Harvest what laws have been made for the preaching of the Word every Lords day put the case there were never a Sermon in any Church on a Sabbath day in all the Kingdome what Statute were broken Consider I pray you if the Land be yet purged of the blood of the Martyrs in times of persecution of the blood of War shed in peace by Duels and more treachereus wayes There was a time when many great men fell almost together and it was feared that blood touched blood ye can remember the murmures and whisperings then were and what artifices to prevent the judgement why may not the land be made to mourn for these things now can this Kingdome wash its hands of the blood of Germanie Rochel Ireland blood is a crying sinne who knowes but that the Lord to whom vengeance belongeth remembreth now and maketh inquisition for blood Hath there been a like zeal for the matters of God who iudgeth among you in all the course of the government of this Kingdom the long time of peace we had as for the matters of the King for the Church and gospel of Christ as for the safety of the Common-weal We remember how carefully prerogative was maintained and the puntillo's of mans honour stood upon yet the same time the power of God and Christ usurped upon the morality of his Law disproved and decried and his Sabbaths even prostituted to profanation and in a sort commanded to be violated Iudge ye your own selves whether the Magistrate hath for his part kept both or either of the Tables been for the praise of those who have done well and for the terror of evil-doers and how far partaker with the sins of the whole Land Come we to the present time since this great distemper and division It may be your thoughts are at Oxford and the Court and those armies And I confesse if the division were to be made as 1 Sam. 14. it were not hard to guesse where the lot would fall but if as Iosh. 7. 14. who might not fear Goe yee neerer home consider your selves the Assembly of the Mightie generally as a body particularly every man in his