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A78515	A sermon preached at the publique fast the tenth day of May 1644. at St Maries Oxford, before the Members of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled. / By R. Chalfont B.D. and Fellow of Lincolne Coll. Printed by their order.	Chalfont, R. (Richard), 1607 or 8-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing C1793; Thomason E9_10; ESTC R15424	32,814	44

stormes of bloud would blow over and the sunne of Gods favour which is now hidden shine forth that we which the Lord in mercy grant and this whole Nation might see the salvation of our God I come now to the point When Gods wrath is revealed from heaven against a Nation in the way of his judgements then 't is high time for them to be humbled For the carrying on of which point I shall propound and endeavour to resolve these 3 Questions 1. What it is to be humbled and consequently what the sin is of which the Jewes stand charged in the Text they are not humbled 2ly Why 't is said that when Gods Judgements are upon a people then 't is high time for them to be humbled These 2 in Thesi And 3ly In Hypothesi to put our owne Case what cause we of this Nation have to be humbled at this day Having dispatcht these I shall then by Gods grace close up all with a seasonable application For the first what it is to be humbled I answere that it is not to be understood passively in this sense never Nation more humbled then they in the Text they were humiliati à Deo a people formerly exalted in Gods favour above all other in the world indeed they were his only by way of eminency and distinction His people but now not only degraded from that dignity but expos'd as the greatest object of contempt and wonder How hath the Lord covered the Daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast downe from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel and remembred not his footstoole in the day of his anger Lam. 2.1 All the Chronicles in the world cannot match the sad downefall of this People Peceatum humiliaverat sinne had taken off their Crowne from their heades and deprived them of their exellency they were humiliati but not humiles ipsi se non humiliaverunt they did not humble themselves 't is an active humiliation the neglect whereof is upbraided here unto them and of which God and the Prophet complaine They are not humbled even unto this day This active humiliation or selfe humbling implies 3 things 1. A sense both of sinne and the punishment a tendernesse of heart oppos'd to that the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Tertullians language Duricordia the hardnesse and unmalleablenesse of heart uncapable of any horror of sinne or impressions of wrath that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or indolentia stupidity and desperate senselessenesse of our hand against God and his against us when though the fierce wrath of God lies upon us yet we feele it not Heb. 12. ● a despising of Chastisement a not laying to heart of our owne wayes and of Gods our sinnes and his judgements a stupidity frequently charg'd against this people one place only I shall mention it comes home to our present case Esa 42.24 25. Who gave Iacob to the spoile and Israel to the Robbers did not the Lord he against whom we have sinned for they would not walke in his wayes neither were they obedient unto his Law Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger and the strength of battell and he hath set him on fire round about yet he knew not and it burned him yet he laid it not to heart Here is a perfect and full Character of an unhumbled people to lye under the guilt of the greatest sins and the pressure of the sorest Judgments and yet to remaine insensible of either not to lay them to heart 2ly Contrition Tremelius and some others render it nondum attriti and upon our owne Margent according to the Originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à radice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 contrivit comminu●● we have contrite for humbled in the Text They are not contrite even unto this day The heart is then humbled when it is broken in peices hence those two phrases are joined together in Scripture Psal 51.17 The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a contrite and broken heart cor contritum humiliatum O Lord thou wilt not despise It is called an abhorring of our selves in dust and ashes in Iob's phrase a rending of the heart in Ioeumll's a being in bitternesse in Zecharie's Afflicting of the soule in Moses Confusion of face in Daniel's a laying of the mouth in the dust in Ieremie's it is called Compunction or the pricking of the heart when sinne becomes as a thorne in the spirit and as a dagger at the heart it is said of Saint Peters hearers Act. 2.37 That they were pricked at the heart when the heart is smitten within the thigh without Ephraim's posture whom we find Jer. 31.19 thus bemoaning himselfe under his chastisement Surely saith he after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did beare the reproach of my youth When the inward greife of the heart doth expresse it selfe outwardly in sighes and teares the affliction of the soule in that of the body by those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Is Pelusiot termes them Fasting and Sackcloth I clothed me with sackcloth and humbled my soule with fasting Psal 35.13 When the soule and the body which like Simeon and Levi were confederates in sinne shall sympathize in their sufferings and exercise a mutuall revenge upon themselves for the offences they have done when with David we shall wash that bed with our teares which we have defiled with our sinnes when those eies which before darted out rayes and sparkles of Lust shall streame forth waters to wash and those haires curl'd and frizl'd up to provoke dalliance shall hang downe to wipe our Saviours feet as Mary Magdalens In breife when the soule comes to be surprized with the horror of it's owne guilt and the feare of Gods Judgments and is more afflicted with bitternesse at the review of the dearest and most adored sinne then ever it was affected with delight in the commission of it The 3d thing implied in this active humiliation is a taking of shame to our selves and giving God the glory of his Iudgments according to the Counsell of Ioshuah to Achan My sonne give God the glory Jo● 7 19. This is called the confession of our sinne and acceptance of our punishment as in that signall place Lev. 26.41 a place very worthy our notice as in which we may read both our duty and hopes in this our present distresse The Lord having there mustered before the Children of Israel a whole Army of plagues which he threatens to let in upon them in case of disobedience and from time to time to recruit against them with the vast accession of new and seven times greater calamities in case of Rebellion opens a doore of hope unto them even in the very worst condition If they shall confesse their iniquity and the iniquity of their Fathers and their trespasses which they have trespassed against

Gods they had chosen and let them deliver them in the time of their trouble In this case what ground had faith upon which to stirre up importunity to aske or hope to expect salvation and deliverance when as God had flatly answered them that he would deliver the mno more Why yet this hope they have still The Lord is mercifull he hath beene intreated to forgive when he hath purposed to punish and to save when he had resolved to destroy It may be their sighes and teares and prayers may overcome Gods resolution and move him to deliver them though he hath said he will deliver them no more How e're they are resolved to throw themselves at his feete if they must die they 'le die there if he will not helpe them in their distresse they cannot finde any fault with him they have deserved no favour at his hands if he will see them destroyed he may but their hope is that notwithstanding they have been a disobedient people yet the Lord will looke upon them now as an humbled people and have compassion upon them And they said unto the Lord we have sinned doe thou unto us as seemeth good unto thee deliver us onely we pray thee this day And to their humiliation they adde reformation for it followes They put away their strange Gods from them and now marke the successe with God why his heart is as it were melted into pity towards them for saith the Text His soule was greived for the misery of Israel and against his former declaration crownes their submission with a glorious victory In the last place it will appeare evidently as a truth written by a beame of the sunne that there is great cause why a people when Gods hand is stretch't out in wrath against them should humble themselves if we doe but consider how glorious and dreadfull that God is whose hand is exalted in Judgment and how vile creatures we are and what a terrible thing his wrath is and how impotent we are to stand against it His Majesty is so excellent that the most glorious Seraphinis dare not behold it but thorow the vayle of their wings and then too dazelled with admiration cry Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts the whole earth is full of his glory Isa 6.3 Never yet had mortall man even the most innocent any glympse of that glory but did presently humble and abhorre himselfe Woe is me saith the Prophet Isaiah at the 5. vers of the Chap. for I am undone because I am a man of uncleane lipps and I dwell in the midst of a People of uncleane lipps for mine eyes have seene the King the Lord of Hosts Much more cause then have a sinfull people to be abased to be astonish't and to tremble to meet him in the way of his judgements the infinite depth of whose wrath no created understanding is able to fathom The wrath of a King saith Solomon is as the roareing of a Lion when the Lion roares who will not tremble Prov. 19.12 Yea but this is the wrath of a God this speakes an immensity an infinitenesse we cannot conceive Judg. 8.21 As the mans is so is his strength as God is so is his wrath it is a wrath that doth virtually and eminently containe all the terrors of the Creature We read of strange exquisite torments the Cruelty of Tyrants have invented these all are but shadowes to the effects of his wrath The scripture gives us some adumbrations of it by such resemblances as speake it to be a most terrible wrath It is compared to fire the most active and terrible creature the Philosopher tells us that nothing can live in that Element and our fire in respect of that is but like the fire that is painted upon the wall and yet the poore creature must live for ever in it God upholding it that it may feele the power of his wrath Isay 30.33 to a River of fire and brimstone that carries something more with it The deluge of water was very dreadfull it drowned a whole world but such a flood of fire and brimstone how horrible would that be and what are the proudest sinners to stand before it who are but as stubble why it carries away gates and walls and Castles and Kingdomes and Heaven and Earth and all with it The earth shooke and trembled the foundations of heaven moved because he was wroth 2 Sam. 22.8 and shall poore man that is crushed before the moth be able to oppose himselfe against it Can thine heart endure or thine hands he strong in the day that I shall deale with thee EZek. 22.14 Hast thou a hand to resist it or an heart to beare it one drop of that wrath falling upon them will turne the sunne into darkenesse and the moone into blood and make the starres drop downe from heaven one sparkle thereof shall set on fire the Heavens and the earth Matt. 24.29 the whole frame of nature and burne downe to the bottom of Hell Lord who knowes the power of thy wrath For according to thy feare Deut. 32 22. so is thy wrath saith Moses Psal 90.11 Melancholy apprehensions will fancy strange feares but imagination it selfe falls infinitely short of the power of Gods wrath shold God take and set a man upon hells brinke that he might se the torments and heare the cries of the damned there his understanding certainely would be much inlarged to conceive but yet never able to know what is the power of Gods wrath O consider this and tremble ye that do not onely sinne downe but pray downe this wrath upon your selves by those fearefull imprecations God damne me and The Divell take me Little do these poore soules thinke what it is to be damned Isay 33.14 Who can dwell with devoureing fire who can dwell with everlasting burnings And yet this they must upon whom God shewes forth the power of his wrath in their damnation What ever vaine people now conceite of it the time shall come when Kings and great men and rich men cheife Captaines and mighty men Rev. 6 1●.16 shall petition the mountaines and the rocks to hide them from this wrath Thou O Lord even thou art to be feared Psal 7● 7 and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry Now since Gods wrath is so terrible when it beginnes to grow hot against a people there is more then cause it 's high time for them to humble themselves I have done with the 2 first Queres I descend now to the last which brings the point nearer home to shew what cause we of this Kingdome and particularly wee of this place have to humble our selves I cannot point at all particulars I shall onely touch these three The first is the great distresse that is this day upon the whole kingdome this is a Lamentation and should be for a Lamentation we read in the 21. of Iudges that when by the sword of Civill warre the