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A02674	The destruction of Sodome a sermon preached at a publicke fast, before the honourable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament, at St. Margarets Church in Westminster. By Iohn Harris, preacher there. Feb. 18. 1628.	Harris, John, preacher at St. Margarets Church in Westminster.	1629 (1629)	STC 12806; ESTC S103787	29,731	56

sins than we We must giue way to the thoughts of our hearts to reflect vpon the distressed condition of the Church of Christ abroad and note how that the bed doth not priuiledge the sick man nor the cradle the suckling babe nor the great belly the woman nor the altar the Priest nor the seate of iustice the Magistrate from the fury of the mercilesse souldier They fight and are kil'd they yeeld and are murthered they flye and are pursued they remaine and are beleaguered they hide themselues and are hunger-starued their corne fields are deuoured by troupes of horses their streams of water are coloured red with the bloud of men and beasts and in some places their earth is voide as if it were returning into the Chaos againe as t is Zech. 8. 10. there is no hyre for man nor beast neither is there any peace to him that goeth out nor to him that commeth in because of affliction for all men are set euery man against his neighbour And yet wee a sinfull Nation a people laden with as much iniquity as any Nation in the Christian world are at rest no trumpet is heard in our streetes no solitude ante ostia no desolation is before our gates our plow-shares are not beaten into swords nor our mattockes into speares the seate of iustice is not interrupted the Word of God hath a free passage we lay vs down to sleep and take our rest God making vs to dwell in safety and vpon the comparison of these things wee must bethinke our selues what vngratefull wretches we haue bin to dishonour our God with our sinnes that hath and doth follow vs with so much louing kindnesse aboue other people that are more righteous than we we must earnestly repent and be heartily sorry for our misdoings past and we must sweare vnto the Lord and vow a vow vnto the Almighty God of Iacob to renounce our euill waies and to serue him in spirit and truth in sincerity and with good conscience in the time to come and then our God will not forsake vs nor giue vs vp for a reproach that strangers should rule ouer vs but blesse vs all our lines long in bodies and soules and entaile the blessings more firmly than by any law you can deuise to descend vpon our posterity successiuely so long as the Sunne and Moone shall endure And to that purpose let vs pray vnto him and say O most gracious God let not our manifold sins make a separation betwixt thee and vs let them not prouoke thee to remoue thy spirituall and corporall blessings from vs Giue vs O Lord giue vs broken hearts contrite spirits and bleeding soules to offer vp in sacrifice vnto thee that thou mayest be reconciled and at an attonement with vs Our sins are great Lord we confesse it but thy mercy is greater Lord we beleeue it mercy therefore deare Father haue mercy vpon our King vpon our Queene vpon our Nobility vpon our Clergie vpon our Magistracy vpon our Commonaltie vpon our whole Land for thy Sions sake for thy Gospels sake for thy beloued sonne Iesus Christs sake Giue O Lord giue thy Angels charge ouer vs let them pitch their tents about vs that no pestilence come among vs to deuoure vs no famine befall vs to starue vs no sword of an enemy inuade vs to destroy vs and then O Lord our God if thou wilt giue vs grace we will blesse thee we will praise thee we will magnifie thee wee will sing songs of thanksgiuing vnto thee wee will ascribe all honour and glory vnto thee and to thy Sonne our blessed Sauiour and Mediatour Iesus Christ and to thy holy Spirit to which blessed and glorious Trinity of persons and but one God bee giuen all might maiesty dominion and praise now and euer Amen FINIS a Basil. ep 63. Niceph. lib. 14. cap. 3. Iob 19. 12. Ionah 3. 8. Ier. 36. 1 2 3. Six Sen. lib. 2. Bibl. Carranz sum Concil Saluian lib. 1. degub Dei Hosea 11. 9. Rom. 2. 8 9. Aquin. p. 1. q. 21 3. 0. Gen. 14. 15 16. Gen. 18. 21. Gen. 18. 32. Micah 2. 2. Bertij tab Geogra Gen. 13. 13. Prosp. lib. 3 de vit cont cap. 3. Deut. 32. 15. Ecclus. 33. 27. Aug. Luke 16. Aug. lib. 16. c. 30. de ciuit Dei Caluin Gen. 19. 7. Gen. 19. 9. Herodot Fulgent ep 6. ad Theod. Sen. Ecclus. 10. 2. Ier. 51. 57. Aug. de ciuit Dei lib. 4. cap Sueton. vita Iul. Caes. Ionah 4. 1. Munit. a Psal. 21 3● b Lam. 3. 23. Psal. 94. 3 4. c Iudg 10. 16. d Ierem. 31. 20 Exod. 25. 21. e Ambr. Epist. lib. 1. ep 3. f Aug. lib. 13. cap. 7. de ciuit Dei Exod. 34. 6. Iob 22. 2. 3. Aug. lib. 10. cap. 5. de ciuit Dei Gen. 7. 4. Saluian Gen. 19. 22. Iohn 1. 1. Aug. lib. 10. 〈◊〉 ciuit Dei c. Ambr. de fide cont Arrian Psal. 35. 27. Varro Psal. 106. 23. Hieron Ierem. 5. 1. 2. Reg. 2. 12 Exod. 32. 10. Exod. 32. 10. Exod. 32. 2. Reg. 8. 19. Acts 27. Verse 24. Hest. 3. 8. Gen. 30. 27. Psal. 12. 1. Esay 1. 9. Apoc. 12. 17 Tert. Apol. Aug. de ciuit Dei lib. 2. cap. 3. Strabo Geog. lib. 16. a Tert. de Pallio b Vid. Plin. lib. 2. cap. 52. Basil. Menol. Bedae Exod. 9. 24. Arist. lib. 4. de coel c. 5. Iob 1. 16. 2. Reg. 1. Iohn 2. Iob 37. 6. Tert. Sodom● Aug. lib. 1. de mirab Script Wisd. 19. 20. Iudges 15. Esay 5. 25. Matth. 21. 19. Psal. 106. 11. Amb. lib. 2 de vocat gen● c. 4. Ier. 50. 39. 40. Gen. 13. 10. Gen. 3. 18. Zeph. 2 9. Ier. 26. 18. Ouid. epist. Tert. Sodoma Esay 30. 33. Matth. 25. 41. Psal. 126. 5. Psal. 32. 10. Wisd. 17. 21. Nahum 1. 9. Rom. 1. 28. Epist. Iud. ver 7 Psal. 103. 9. Aug. lib. 21. c. 11 de ciuit Dei 2. Pet. 2. 6. Iob 31. 9. Iudg 5. 28. 2. Thes. 3. 11. Luke 17. 28. Luke 17. 28. Prosp. lib. 1. c. 21 de vita con 2. Tim. 2. 4. Aug. de ciu Dei lib. 3. cap. 1. Prou. 11. 4. Rom. 13. 8. Bern. lib. 1. de consid Matth. 5. 40. Luke 3. 13. Luke 17. 28. Gen. 10. 10. 2. Sam. 18. 18. Esay 59. 3. 2. Pet. 3. 13. 1. Iohn 5. 19. Ambr. de Abra. patr cap. 6. Gen. 19. ● Acts 18. 10. Hollinsh Chro. a Psal. 122. 7. b Iob 29. 6. c Psal. 126. 2. d Psal. 132. 15. e Psal. 144. 12 13 14. g Reg. 4. 25. h Psal. 132. 17 18. Luke 24. 11. Gen. 19. 14. Ier. 13. 23. Ecclus. 33. 18. a Ier 46. 18. b Iob 31. 40. c Psal. 107. 34. 2. Sam. 24. 15. Iob 39. 23. Habac. 1. 6. 2. Esdr. 15. 2● 30. Ezech. 21. 27. Euseb. Eccl. hist. lib. 4. cap. 6. Psal. 92. 6. 2. Reg. 7. 2. Lament 4. 2. Micah 3. 12. Nahum 3. 8 9 10. Ier. 50. 14 15. Liuius Ier. 51. 31. Esay 58. 5. August Amb. lib. 1. de poenit 1. Sam. 17. 37. Dan. 9. 19. Psal. 55. 17. Zech. 8. 10.

shall ballance many a thousands wickednesse Good men are sanguis mundi the bloud of the world when they dye a man may feare the very world lyeth adying When Eliah the Prophet was taken from the head of his seruant Elisha and carried vp into Heauen Elisha cryed out My father my father the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof As if he should haue said Eliah that good man that was the onely chariot and horsemen to defend Israel he had such power with God because of his holy life to hinder him from plaguing of it is taken from it If God goe out against a place to ouerthrow it one iust man is a better fort to defend it than a rocke of marble or a rampier of flint A good man hath a great deale of interest in God God will come to a parley with him and yeeld to him in any tolerable request that speech which God vsed to Moses on the Mount is proofe sufficient to informe wicked men how gracious a good man is with the great God Israel had trespassed greatly turned the glory of the inuisible God into the similitude of an Oxe that eateth grasse and by that Idolatry angred Iehouah so farre that hee hath a thought to confound them and yet before hee will proceed to execution knowing Moses loue to them was such he would be making intercession and knowing his owne nature to bee such that if Moses mediated hee could not choose but remit the omnipotent God doth petition fraile man not to interpose Now therefore let mee alone that my wrath may waxe hote against them and that I may consume them And when Moses would not bee perswaded from making supplication but fals vpon God for Abrahams sake to take compassion God offereth Moses composition to let him alone Let mee alone that my wrath may waxe hote against them and that I may consume them and I will make of thee a great people When nothing would beat Moses off from being instant and earnest with God for their pardon the Text saith The Lord repented of the euill which he thought to do vnto the people An example that may moue a heart composed of hatred against Gods chosen and turne it into loue Nay an after generation fareth the better oftentimes for a good man of a former generation it was aboue too yeares by computation betwixt the reigne of King Dauid and King Ioram and yet though the impieties of Ioram deserued to haue his Kingdome rent away from him The Lord would not destroy Iudah for Dauid his seruants sake Two hundred seuenty and sixe men had their liues saued for St. Pauls sake from shipwracke God gaue him all that sailed with him as the Angell said Small reason therefore haue dissolute wretches to contemne good people if they consider it It was a base vnworthy speech of Haman when hee told King Ahashuerosh It was not for his profit to suffer the Iewes Himselfe and his kingdome fared the better for such inhabitants Make much of honest men my Beloued make much of honest men they are medulla mundi to the world as marrow is to the bones the strength and stay of it Thetares would quickly be weeded vp were it not for plucking vp the good corne also So long as there are good men possibly the world may endure when once there is a generall dearth of good men adue this present world for euermore No maruaile Laban was so loath to part with Iacob and would come to a new composition with him rather than he should quit his seruice he had learnt by experience that the Lord had blessed him for Iacobs sake Dauid cries out in the 12. Psalme Helpe Lord And why what is the matter with Dauid O the godly man ceaseth the faithfull faile from among the children of men And is that such a matter to bee transported at Yes it is a fatall signe when there is a decrease of good men Except the Lord of Hosts had left vnto vs a seed wee should haue been as Sodome and we should haue been like vnto Gomorrah The Dragon that is wroth with the woman maketh warre with the remnant of her seed that is the Diuell who is wroth with the Church in all ages hath plotted the ruines of those which keepe the commandements of God and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ and infused a strong conceit in the hearts of all his subiects that they were the causes of all calamities If Tiber ouerflowed her bankes if Nilus did not water the fields if the heauens were brasse or the earth quaked if there were a plague or famine in the Common-wealth of Rome the people cried To the Lyon with a Christian as if their being had beene the cause of all miseries St. Augustine saith it grew to a Prouerbe in Rome Pluuia defecit Christiani nominis gratiâ Raine hath failed because the name Christian is tolerated Alas blinde Heathen were it not for Christianity there would soone bee an end of Infidelity God blesseth the Egyptians house for Iosephs sake not Ioseph for the Egyptians sake God blest Sodome for Lots sake not Lot for Sodomes sake t is euident here in this Text for while Lot remained within her wals it went well with her when Lot was gone out of her Then the Lord rained vpon Sodome and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heauen The same day that Lot went out of Sodome it rained fire and brimstone from Heauen and destroyed them all he that rained it beares record of it Luke 17. 29. And we know that his record is true Secondly of Gods fury and of Sodome and Gomorrahs misery God is no way so long suffering in bearing that he is not as iust in punishing If a man will not turne he will whet his sword God spun out the thread of his loue to an immeasurable length to try whether the men of Sodome would lay hold of it hee did angle for them sate in heauen let downe the line of his loue and baited it with his mercy to proue whether the men of Sodome would swallow it that hee might catch their soules T was long before he was prouoked he did smother indignation many yeares before it kindled and came to bee deuouring flame and when all would not preuaile Then the Lord rained vpon Sodome and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heauen Here my Beloued I will giue you another obseruation As God is infinite in suffering vrged thoroughly vrged before he will breake out into fury so hee is violent and fierce in the execution of his iudgement when hee is resolued vpon it The longer the archer drawes before hee looses the sorer shot hee maketh the longer God is before he poureth forth his vengeance the more t will scorch I need not search other Chronicles for examples to verifie this collection Sodome and Gomorrah ratifie the truth of it Strabo saith nature