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A03582	A sermon preached in Paules Church in London and published for the instruction and consolation of all that are heauie harted, for the wofull time of God his generall visitation, both in the citie and in the countrie: and fit for the comfort of Gods children at all times.	Hooke, Christopher.	1603 (1603)	STC 13703; ESTC S116953	25,361	70

bloud in the middest of the stréets torne with their Wyer whips dis-membred with their long Kniues thrust thorow with their sharpe swords and no man to haue buried them Malecontents among our selues as Papists and Athests had hoped to haue got this rod into their handes and as by often Treasons against our late blessed Soueraigne so by stronge conspiracies against our now most gracious and vndoubted King whom God for euer kepe from out of their handes they haue attempted it A day of horrour and confusion a blacke and dismall day beloued would that haue bene for then whereas now you kéepe your seates of honour and for euer may you kéepe them and euerie man possesseth his house and home in peace and each neighbour ready to comfort his neighbour and all may come with safetie to this place and to other places of Gods worship to make their supplications before him then I saye ye should haue séene that verefied which is in the Prophecie of Esay Esay 3.5 Nothing but oppression and violence Children presuming against the ancient and the vile against the honorable Ephraim against Manasses and Manasses against Ephraim Esay 9.21 and both against Iudah The Papist against the Athest the Athest against the Papist both against the true Professour You should haue séene then your houses ransacked your wiues and your daughters dishonoured your swéete children and babes horriblie murthered and euery mans sworde imbrued in the bloud of his neighbour Blesse we therefore God and for euer blesse wee him who hath not giuen vs as a praye vnto our enemies handes but brought vpon their owne pates the destruction mischiefe they deuised for others Himselfe reseruing the rod of our correction into his owne hand And besides which also magnifyeth his loue excéedingly taking the rod to beate vs with which is a more gentle and fauorable rod 2. Sa 24 14 than the rest as appeareth by the choice of King Dauid who chose rather to fall into the hands of God then of man who chose rather the Pestilence then hunger What wofull miserie the sworde of the enemie would haue brought you haue heard And I pray God by experience we may neuer know What calamitie famine and hunger causeth you may easely consider when as it forceth to sustaine nature by vnnaturall foode and the mother to féede vpon her yong babe 1. King 6.25 Examples there are in this behalfe most lamentable which I omit In this disease wherewith the Lorde hath visited vs there is either a spéedie death and dissolution or a spéedie recouerie for the most part without languishing in long torment and paine and much comforte séene in the quiet and milde yéelding vp of their spirits to God whom hee marketh and taketh to himselfe Againe the Lord like a pittifull Father for how shall I make an ende to speake of his mercie that is endlesse vppon the onely promise of amendment haue slacked his hand Exod 34 6 7 to shewe and to manifest vnto vs that he is full of mercie and aboundant in compassion and that if we will truly humble our selues he hath done and his wrath is past As therefore yee haue begone so continue your holie exercises of Preaching of Prayer of Fasting that it may not be formall only and hypocritical which the Lorde reprooueth so much in the Iewes Is this the fast that I haue chosen Esa 58.5 6 7 that a man afflict his soule for a day and hang downe his head like a Bull-rush Remēber that the substance of true fasting is to loose the bands of wickednesse to let the oppressed goe free to take off the heauie burthen and to breake euery yoke To deale the bread to the hungrie to bring the poore that wandreth into thy house to couer the naked and to doe such other workes of mercie And that which shall best please the Lord right honorable is if by the sworde of your authoritie yee shall represse the insolencie of them who not regarding the heauie hand of God continue in their blasphemie in the profanation of the Sabaoth in their drunkennes and in such other detestable sinnes who say with the Epicure Let vs eate let vs drink for to morrow we shal die who make a pray a spoyle to thēselues in this heauy time of sicknes by imbeazeling of the goods of thē that be diseased deceased by defrauding of the widow by defeating of the Orphanes by robbing of the naturall kindred of their right If such complaints come before you right Honorable as I feare mee many will deferre not to do iustice for if you do the Lord will sée it and reuenge it but if yee execute the iudgement of the Widow and of the fatherlesse If you defende him that is oppressed from the hande of him that oppresseth him If you maintaine the right and punish the wrong Then you shall sée that God who hath thus gratiously begunne will euery day more and more slacke his hand vntill he hath remooued this euill disease from you then you shall sée that hee who hath wounded you will heale you then you shall sée that he who hath in his anger for a moment visited you will in euerlasting compassion embrace you that you may sée this your Citie againe peopled by the ioyfull returne of your fellow citizens that are here and there dispersed that you may sée those seats which are by you emptie with the Honorable graue Iudges of the Lande with your worshipfull brethren replenished that you may sée your trades and traffiquing which is now dead to be renewed that you may sée your Tearmes and Sessions of Lawe no more omitted that to conclude you may sée health and prosperitie againe within your walles that you may heare the voice of the bridegrome and of the bride and the noyse of mirth and reioysing more than in the daies of good Quéene Elizabeth Now it remaineth that hauing thus farre forth discoursed of that high dignitie and preferment whereunto we are aduanced in being made the Sonnes of God and heires of God ioynt-heires with Iesus Christ the onely begotten and naturall Sonne of the Father of such a celestiall and glorious kingdome and hauing considered the original from whence so great mercy floweth vnto vs which our Apostle sheweth to bee the méere loue of God which loue appeareth to be loue out of measure Because hee hath bestowed it vpon vs that were his enemies Because he hath gratis and fréely without our desert giuen it vnto vs Because he hath giuen his only Sonne to death to answere his iustice for vs Because he vouchsafeth to be called our Father and more then our Father pittieth vs Correcting vs with his more gentle and not with his sharpest rod repenting of the punishment before we repent vs of our sinnes It remaineth I say that wee procéede to the answere of the first obiection which here ensueth For this cause the worlde knoweth you not because it knoweth not him But for that the time is spent I must leaue the consideration thereof vnto your godly priuate Meditations which I may the more safelie doe hauing in such sort conformed this holie and comfortable doctrine vnto you as that all the obiections of man or Deuill shall neuer be able to preuaile against it And now thou O Lord our God which hast in this wise so excéedingly magnified thy mercies vnto vs in calling vs to be thy children and hast not for al our rebellions against thée cast vs off and vtterlie reiected vs but chastized vs in great mercie for our sinnes and corrected vs for our transgressions we beséech thée to sanctifie this thy fatherly punishing hande vnto vs that wee may make right vse thereof in louing thée for thy mercie and fearing thée for thy iustice That for the time of our life that remayneth we may more religiously and more holily walke before thee in all godlinesse of life and conuersation And to this end we praye thee to giue a blessing to the ministerie and Preaching of thy holy worde at this time that gratiously pardoning passing by whatsoeuer weaknesse and infirmities haue bene committed in the speaking hearing hereof thou wouldest please to make it effectuall vnto vs for the glorifying of thy name for the edifying of our selues in faith for the humbling of our soules by repentāce for the reforming of our liues from all vngodlinesse and so finally for the turning away of this thy feareful Plague and punishment and for the purchasing of thy wonted fauours and blessings onto vs and that for Iesus Christes sake our onely mediator and aduocate To whome with thee and the holy Ghost three Persons one true euerliuing and euerlasting God be rendred all praise power Dominion and thanksgiuing both now and for euer Amen

man plough vp his fallow ground sowe no more among thornes Ierem. 4 4. Let euery man cast away the abhominations of his eies and of his heart yea Eze 20.7 let vs all turne to the Lorde with fasting wéeping and mourning Ioel. 2.13 renting our harts and not our garments Oh let it be far from vs that this complaint that the Prophet Ieremie taketh vp against Ierusalem should be taken vp against vs. O Lord thou hast stricken them but they haue not sorrowed thou hast consumed them but they haue refused correction they haue made their faces harder then a stone and haue refused to returne For if notwithstanding these iudgements of God we continue still in those sins which haue thus sore kindled his wrath if in this day of our visitatiō wherein the Lorde calleth to wéeping mourning to sackcloth ashes we fal to eating drinking that is to our wonted gluttonie drunkennes other abhominations Let vs assure our selues that the wrath of God will still burne and his arme be stretched out still vntil hee hath laide our land waste and this Citie without an inhabitant As therefore it standeth euery man vpon to mend one so to you right honorable and your worshipful assistants it belongeth to reforme them that will not reforme themselues and betimes to cut off all the workers of iniquitie from the Citie of the Lord. And for a more generall redresse of all abuses and corruptions both in our Church and common weale we ought earnestly and continually to pray vnto almightie God to put into the heart of our most Noble and blessed Soueraigne the kings Maiestie both constantly to withstand all oppositions of men of corrupt mindes and to hasten as he hath most zealouslie begun the full amendment of whatsoeuer is amisse euen to the making of a couenant betwixt God and his people that they shall séeke the Lorde and that whosoeuer will not séeke the Lord God of Israell that he be slaine whether hee bee great or small man or woman as did Asa King of Iudah For God will not be reconciled vnto vs 2. Cro. 15.12 vntill we yéelde vnto him For hee is our Father and wée are his Children for our sinnes therefore doeth he thus smite vs And as the Father ceaseth not his punishing hand so long as his Sonne continueth obstinate No more now he hath begun wil hee giue ouer vntill wee humble our selues vnfaynedly before him For since our sinnes haue in this sort incensed his wrath as we must néeds confes though his mercie vnto vs that are his children appeareth herein that the finall end of this visitation tendeth to the perfecting thorow his mercie which triumpheth ouer his iustice of our eternall saluation Iam. 2 yet his angrie countenance sheweth it selfe no lesse vnto vs in the manner thereof then the anger of a displeased Father appeareth in his face when hee chastizeth his disobedient childe whom he loueth for his good And thus haue I shewed vnto you right Honorable and beloued how in this visitation wee may receiue both singular comfort ouer them that are departed and for our selues who yet remaine to be disposed of by his good will and pleasure and also perceiue God his iust displeasure and anger against vs for our sinnes It remaineth that we procéede in the pursuit of God his mercie to vs which we haue shewed to haue bene excéeding great in making vs to be his Sonnes and shal now shew to be excéeding greater in considering of the originall and fountaine from whence this so vnspeakable a mercie floweth vnto vs. For the verie original spring is the loue of God for so our Apostle affirmeth Behold what loue the Father hath giuē vnto vs Which also our Sauiour Christ confirmeth saying So God loued the Worlde Iohn 3.16 that hee gaue his onely begotten Sonne c. and that not an ordinarie but an extraordinarie loue for so the wordes importeth and which the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which our Apostle here vseth also signifyeth For this word signifyeth what maner with an admiration so that the text is to be read thus behold what maner of loue the Father hath giuen vs For so is this word also vsed Mar. 13.1 What maner of stones and what maner of building as if they should say not ordinarie but extraordinarie stones not ordinarie but extraordinarie buildings are here So in the 8. of Matt. 27. after our Sauiour had stilled the raging of the Sea the men marueiled saying What maner of man is this as if they should say what rare and singular man Such a loue then is the loue of God whereby hee hath chosen vs to be his children as is past vnderstanding as is extraordinarie as is a wonder of wonders therefore here set forth by two words of wonderment Beholde what maner And beloued you shall the better beholde and consider how admirable and wonderful a loue it is wherewith God hath loued vs If ye obserue first on whom he hath-bestowed it Secondly in what sort hee hath bestowed it And thirdly by what persō he hath effected it He hath bestowed it vpon vs and hee hath bestowed it gratis in maner of a gift and he hath effected it by his owne onely Sonne our blessed Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ whom he gaue vnto death for vs. For the first it is said that he gath giuen his loue to vs For our selues if wee had bene the friendes of God or had in any wise deserued any small matter at his hand the loue had not bene so great as louing vs that had loued him according to that our Sauiour saith of our maner of loue one towards another If yee loue them that loue you Math. 5.46 what rewarde shall ye haue doe not also the verie Publicanes and most notorious sinners thus The Iewes tolde our Sauiour that the Centurion was worthie for his deserts towarde their Nation that hee should heale his seruant which had it ben true the benefite bestowed vpon him Luk. 7.4 had not bene so great But the Centurion acknowledgeth himselfe vnworthie not pleading any desert for there is no such matter indéede of desert on our part to God-warde for we were the vtter enemies of God and this enmitie was wrought betwixt God and vs by reason of our sins For as God by reason of our sin was at enmity with vs Ephe 2.3 in which respect we are called the childrē of Gods wrath so we were at vtter variance or defyance with him Iob. 2 9. cursing him to the face as Iob his wife did councell him which also the Apostle Rom. 8.7 testifyeth when as he sayeth The wisdome of the flesh is an vtter enemie to God for it is not a subiect therefore a rebell to the Law of God neither otherwise can be In that therefore God through Iesus Christ yéelded on his part to loue vs we continuing our disobedience and hatred towards him how great must