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The trumpet in Sion, sounding a general alarm in the nation. By J.G.G.
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Gailhard, J. (Jean).
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from him that sitteth upon the Throne to the Beggar upon the Dunghill must we all be since the Man according to God's own Heart so heavily complained (b) Psal 38.4 Mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me And elsewhere (c) Psal 40.12 Innumerable evils have compassed me about mine iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look up they are more than the hairs of mine head therefore mine heart faileth me O that we could every one of us speak of our Sins so feelingly and penitently as He did of His and that God would appoint over us Refiners and Purifiers some Hezekiah and Josiah who also as they begun to Reign shewed their zeal for God and against Sin I hitherto have spoken of our Sins I must now say something of the punishment With Paul I say to my self and to all Sinners (a) Gal. 6.7 8. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a Man soweth that shall he also reap For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption But he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap everlasting life Here is Good and Evil a Gracious Reward and a just punishment offered let us chuse well 'T is of God's Truth and Justice that Punishment should follow Sin he rewardeth both Good and Evil we are told how (b) 1 Cor. 3.8 every man shall receive his own reward and ever it was so (c) Heb. 2.2 for every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward There is a Reward for the Righteous so saith our Saviour (d) Matth. 5.12 Great is your reward in heaven Long before he had by David said that the Obedience to God's Laws was the way to 't (e) Psal 19.11 In the keeping of them there is a great reward and as there is a recompense for the good so there is for the wicked (f) Psal 91.8 With thine eyes shalt thou see and behold the reward of the wicked We for our Sins have felt and still feel Judgments of several sorts for I must come home First the Honour of the Nation is low in the world which doth hit in a sensible part Foreign Countries at this time want the Value and Esteem which once they had for England Time was and 't is not long since when our Neighbours were in fear of and had us in Reverence but now 't is otherwise the reason is plain (g) 1 Sam. 2.30 Them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed that is shall be honoured by Men as they are of God as we have it in the examples of David at the latter end of his Life of (h) 2 Chro 17.10 Jehoshaphat Hezekiah (a) Chap. 32 23 27. and their People under them but now God hath smitten us in that very tender part (b) Prov. 14.34 Righteousness exalteth a Nation but sin is a reproach to any people Also (c) Rom. 2.9 Tribulation and anguish upon every Soul of Man that doth evil The strength of the Nation is much weakened now it cannot do what formerly it could and what remaineth of it is through certain ways and means made useless The Comliness is gone (d) Psal 39.11 For when thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth For God is a consuming fire and we are as stubble before him There is now a concurrence of Sins committed of Judgments inflicted and of others threatned so that not only we feel but also have cause to fear for God's Mercies we by our sins have made our selves unworthy of and deserved his most severe Judgments We seem in our carriage ashamed to Confess and Repent of our Sins thô not to commit them so that 't is a wonder that having so often sinned against Grace and the Gospel we have not quite sinned it away it threateneth to to leave us to go to others who will value it more than now many do among us Also the Riches are lessen'd Poverty is come on apace upon many I know those who formerly Fared plentifully now to want the Conveniencies even the Necessaries for Life Trade once Flourishing is now much decay'd the Mastery of the Sea question'd and a Blast laid almost upon every thing we undertake We have felt the great Scourges Plague Fire War Unseasonable weather one after another and Dearth yet are not returned to God we are troubled with Partialities Factions Hatred and Animosities The Nation is Divided Subdivided Undersubdivided yet we will not return to God but walk contrary to him so no wonder if he walks contrary to us and I am afraid it may at last be in fury For as we have been unthankful under Mercies so we are become uncorrigible under Judgments besides we have God's word for it to be seriously read in the Texts (a) Lev. 26. Deut. 28. Joel 1. and 2. Amos 4 2 Chron. 7.19 20 21 22. quoted in the Margin which contain terrible Judgments but the worst are the Blindness of Mind and hardness of Heart which many are punish'd with who mind not and care not for the Dispensations of God's Providence and are (b) Rom. 1.26 27 28 29 30 31. Given up to vile Affections and to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient being filled with all unrighteousness Fornication Wickedness Covetousness Maliciousness full of Envy Murther Debate Deceit Malignity Whisperers Backbiters Haters of God Despiteful Proud Boasters Inventers of Evil things Disobedient to Parents without Vnderstanding Covenant-breakers without natural Affection Implacable Vnmerciful This is all now written for us as once it was for the Romans for those Sins are among us as they were among them and I look upon them not only as Sins but also as Punishment for Sins For when God leaves Men to themselves from one Sin they by his just Judgment fall into another for these Spiritual and Temporal Punishments are only Warning pieces What then will the Murthering ones be Do we wait and stay till some destroying Angel come upon us Well may we cry out with the Prophet (c) Lam. 3.22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not We read how once upon an unseasonable weather of Rain and Thunder in Wheat-Harvest time (d) 1 Sam. 12.18 the people greatly feared and cry'd out they had sinned And in another place 't is said that (a) Ezra 10.9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin trembled because of their sin and for the great rain which they look'd upon as a Punishment for it So should we who of late almost every Summer about Harvest time have had such Rains as prejudiced the Corn and other Fruits of the Earth upon the like case as now ours is (b) Micah 6.9 The Lord's voice crieth unto the City