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A85121	A plain-dealing, and plain-meaning sermon, preach't in the parish church of St. Nicholas, Bristol, April. 6. 1660. Being the day appointed by the Parliament for publique fasting and humiliation for the sins of the nation, &c. Together with a prefatory epistle, and subsequent vindication both of the sermon, and author. Wherein (besides an apology for home and plain-preaching) you have something offered to allay the heat of thier stomacks, and to temper the tongues of those, who (being ignorant in scripture) reproach and revile Presbytery and Presbyters. With some hints at Satans subtlety, and the mischief of those people, who brand zeal for God and truth (in free, home, and faithfull preaching) with the reproachful names of anger, passion, and railing.	Farmer, Ralph.	1660 (1660)	Wing F443; Thomason E1025_5; ESTC R208684	39,155	50

Isa 21.11,12 Watchman what of the night He answered the morning cometh and also the night if ye will enquire enquire Return Come Sirs there is a night and a morning this I see If you put this Querie to me Watchman what seest thou I say the morning cometh and also the night We have a night and a morning in our Text and so also in our Nation if we neglect it not We have had by Gods chastising hand upon us and oh that it may be a reforming hand nights of tearing and smiting the Lord hath torne us and he hath smitten us The hand of God upon us hath been a darke night of terrours and sorrows Dark and black dispensations hath the Lord exercised us with He hath smitten us he hath broken us these are our nights The morning now we hope also cometh He will heale us he will binde us up that 's the morning And oh Let that happy morning of Englands joy and deliverance make hast and not tarry It may be beloved as we have been under the curse and judgement formerly mentioned Isa 3. So we may also see that happy morning of joy and reviving that is promised by the same Prophet Isay 1.25,26 I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy drosse and take away all thy tinne Do you expect a settlement Truly then your sins must be purged away and then I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning Afterwards thou shalt be called a City of righteousnesse the faithfull City Sion shall be redeemed with judgement and her converts with righteousnesse Oh beloved for such a happy day when God the Lord shall delight in us and in mercy shall bestow upon us that blessing here promised of a righteous just and lawfull Government And though God should not do it in such a way as we expect yet he will do it in such a way as is best for us if we please him which let us leave to him and our Superiours Let us then return unto the Lord and leave it to him for our establishment and settlement Let us I say turn unto the Lord. Truly sirs will you give me leave to open my heart unto you my heart trembles to think of some mens turnings and of some turnings which some men look for not a turning to God but a turning further from God Many people expect a change not that they might change their lives or manners No beloved they would have a turning not to God but to the Devill Oh! how would some men turn to the Devil of drunkenness how would some men turn to the Devil of swearing to the Devil of Sabboth-breaking and all manner of prophanesse That they might live and sin without controul Friends is this the turning that God looks for Surely sirs these people if they might have their wills would bring in a night a sad and darke night in stead of a light and gladsome morning a sadder night then ever yet England saw For if the Lord should establish us and we make use of that establishment to establish our selves in sin and so provoke the Lord to go further from us and leave us we have just grounds to fear that the Lord would then never come again amongst us Do these men turn unto the Lord how many of them probably are in the Tavern at this time how many in the Alehouse at this very time At this time I say wherein as one would expect we should all as one man joyn together in our earnest prayers to implore a blessing from heaven upon the Counsel of the Parliament shortly to be assembled that the Lord would make them instruments for our settlement and establishment now after all our breakings and shakings But where are they Do these men walk in Gods wayes Do these men look for a change that may be for the better Do these men look for establishment and that the Nation should be setled upon their desires and upon their endeavours There is a place that I hope in all things doth not run parallel but in this is to our purpose It is in 1 Sam. 12.19 All the people said unto Samuel pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we die not for we have added unto all our sins this evill to aske us a King Now I say I do not conceive that the Text runs parallel with our case in this particular therefore mistake me not But now marke Samuel said unto the people feare not ye have done all this wickednesse yet turn not aside from following the Lord but serve the Lord with all your hearts and turn not aside for then should you go after vaine things that cannot profit nor deliver for they are vain It was not so great a sinne in them but that desiring and having a King was consistent with serving the Lord Nor had they thereby so sin'd as to forsake God Turn not aside sayes he from following the Lord but serve the Lord c. But then go on to the two last verses Onely feare the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you But if you still do wickedly you shall be consumed both you and your King People think Oh I if they had a King all shall be well their state and condition shall then be prosperous and they shall be all safe But beloved If men go after vaine things if they do wickedly it cannot be a King that can help them The people of Israel they had a King according to their desires But what was that enough to secure them Surely if the Lord forsake them it could not be their King that could help them and therefore saith the Prophet vers 22. The Lord will not forsake his people for his great names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people If the Lord hath once assumed a people to be his he will do much for them and beare long with them ere he will forsake them And therefore as the Prophet there vers 29. would pray for them so also would he teach them the good and right way Fear the Lord saith he and serve him in truth with all your hearts for consider how great things he hath done for you vers 24. And beloved hath not God done great things for us What great hopes hath he given us of a settlement after all our feares and confusions And we expect a King But if ye still do wickedly ye shall be destroyed both you and your King Mark That which the hearts of the people were set upon was a King nothing would please them but a King yea you shall have a King But yet do not go away from God and follow after vain things for if you do you shall be consumed and destroyed both you and your King together Beloved there 's nothing that so surely brings ruine and destruction upon a King and Kingdome

a blessed and good King He shall be a shelter a covering he shall be all in all to a distressed people Jer. 23.5 there it is said Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous branch and a King shal reign and prosper and shall execute judgement and justicein the earth in those days Judah shall be safe and Israel shall dwell safely and this is the name whereby he shall be called The Lord our righteousness This is spoken of the Lord Jesus Christ he that is the King of Kings he shall rule in Righteousness And he or they that Rule under him must rule in Righteousnesse Let us not then look so much as most do after wordly peace and freedome and temporal deliverance from present burdens as after spiritual peace and freedome from everlasting torments not so much to enjoy perishing comforts as to have the comforts of everlasting enjoyments And then may we expect the performance of what is promised in the close of our Text. After two dayes will he revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight We shall live not onely temporally comfortably and happy but a life heavenly and everlasting we shall be happy to all eternity Then as it follows shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord more of Gods minde and of his mercies and he shall come unto us as the raine as the early and latter rain upon the earth which being parched with drought receiveth it in readily fructifieth and bringeth forth abundantly Come then let us all return unto the Lord for as he hath torne so will he heale and as he hath smitten so will he bind us up FINIS HEre 's my Sermon now where 's my sin What 's my Charge with which I have been so I cannot say whether more ignorantly or maliciously traduced why its three-fold I have preacht against the King and the coming in of the King So some My whole Sermon drives at this The coming in of the King would bring in prophanenesse so others A third sort say I am angry Now to answer to these distinctly And first I have preacht against the King and his coming in I ask wherein how doth that appear I will come as close and as speedily as I can to my Charge I mean to that part of my Sermon from whence they might suppose me criminous I shall therefore passe over almost one halfe of it for that was but by way of Explication And it concern'd others Israel That troubles not no preaching at a distance and speaking of other mens faults and reproving them that bites not as much as you will of that But this home-preaching and treading too close upon our heels This gauls this vexes this troubles us Why what 's the matter what 's the matter Did not you say That because by our sins we had left God therefore God had left us And did you not say That our Kings and our Princes heretofore and our Princely Priests and Bishops had been as snares upon Mizpah and as nots upon Tabor their high places and great offices And how have they not rag'd and tyranniz'd c. And did you not beseech us that we should not let the apprehensions of our present greater sufferings cause us altogether to forget our former iniquities And did you not advise us that upon that day of our solemn Humiliation wherein we sought to God for settlement that we should not forget the cause and ground of our unsettlement Here 's enough to answer at once and together and I think this is my greatest charge And now what of all this Let me ask you by your cavilling against this Don't you discover your ignorance Is it not plain you are not acquainted with the Scripture Or that you take no notice or understand not what you read or hear That you are meer strangers to the nature and manner of a true Fast Is not a fasting day especially publique generall and such solemn Fast dayes a day wherein to humble our soules before the Lord by a hearty sincere and impartiall confession and acknowledgement of all our sinnes And being a generall day of Humiliation through the whole Land to confesse and be humbled for the sins of the whole Land in general And in such a day are not the sins both of Princes and People both past and present to be remembred and acknowledged And that not onely in generall termes which is mostly slight and overly but punctually and particularly of those sins they were guilty of and lay under This is if you know not as it seems you do not for your better information and as I desire Reformation Do but read the instances of the Solemn Fasts recorded in Scripture and you will be wiser hereafter I reser you for this more particularly to those three most Solemn Fasts which are there recorded Ezra 9. Nehem. 9. and Dan. 9. And see and observe the manner of the celebration and whether their particular sins were not enumerated confessed and bewailed And had we of this Land and Nation no sins to be remembred to be confessed Are you so forgetfull or were you ignorant of them Are we not unsetled Are not our foundations of government overturned Do not the pillars of the Nation tremble Is it not a Judgement Do I not say so much And what were there no sins that are the causes of it Do such great and heavy and generall judgements befall a Nation both King Princes Priests and People without sin procuring them you dare not say so And were there no sins in England but the sins of the people What was the Popish Match and the building of Houses and Chappels thereupon for Idolatrous and superstitious worship What was the countenancing and exercise of that false worship even in the Kings own dwelling And were not our Communion Tables turn'd into Altars with superstitious cringings and bowings towards them and in some places wax Tapers set upon those Altars and second Service which the people could not 〈◊〉 there performed How was the zealous profession of Religion under the nickname of Puritanisme discountenanced and disgraced How did the Court-Bishops especially the Bishop of Canterbury Dr. Laud vex perplex and ruine men in their High Commission Court and Star-Chamber How would drunken and prophane Ministers if but zealous for Ceremonies give the checke to and upon the least occasion trouble and sue the best Knights and Gentlemen in the Country even for trifles and be therein upheld and countenanced by those Court-Bishops Insomuch that when the Knights and Gentlemen were assembled in Parliament and had opportunity to be revenged upon them they ding'd them quite down without mercy or consideration I need not tell you what courses were taken that the King might be maintained without Parliaments and so with out the love of his Subjects and rednesse of their grievances I could name much more you that liv'd in those

discourses printed as I have some cause to hope some did when it was preached To which end I commend thee and it unto God beseeching him to bestow upon thee and me the spirit of power of love and of a sound minde 2 Tim. 1.7 For which thy prayers are desired at the Throne of Grace if thou hast any interest there by him who is Thy faithful friend and wel-wisher RA FARMER POSTSCRIPT Reader IF thou be one of the simple ones let me advise thee Shoot not thy bolt too suddenly but receive information from those who are wiser If thou be a person of judgement and discretion make use of it and do not read by snatches and then censure but read all And where thou possibly mayst stumble or doubt having read the former Epistle favour me so far as to read also my Vindication after And I suppose we shall part friends notwithstanding all evill surmisings Farewel HOSEA 6.1 Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will binde us up WEe have here a repenting people and they the people of Israel Gods people Now repenting supposes sinning for repentance is not but for sin If there were no sinning there were no need of repenting Now All sin for there is no man living that sinneth not as 1 Kings 8.46 Particular persons sin and people and Nations in general sin All sin even Gods people his peculiar people sin And if his people sinne as well as others they shall suffer as well as others Nay Because they are his people therefore if they sin they above all others shall suffer Thus the Lord by the Prophet Amos Chap. 3. vers 2. You onely have I known of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities Well Gods people sin and Gods people suffer for their sin so these here We may read of their sin both before and after the Text. In the Chapter before the Text there you may read of multiplyed complicated sins impudently wilfully committed Both Princes the house of the King and Priests and all the people they had been nets and snares to betray one another into sinne Vers 1. of the foregoing Chapter And in the 2d Vers Those revolters were profound to make slaughter slaughter of men and slaughter of sacrifices They would kill and commit murder and yet pretend unto Religion And in this they were profound notable hypocrites deep dissemblers For though they won't frame their courses to Gods minde vers 4. Yet they will go with their herds and their flocks to seeke the Lord vers 6. Oh! they 'l be hugely religious they 'l not spare for cost they brought their herds and their flocks to make sacrifices But yet for all that they shall not finde the Lord ver 6. God won't accept of such impostors such pretenders he hath withdrawn himself from them He will not countenance protect or secure them in the same verse Nay if they go on in their sin and go further from God God will go yet farther from them I will go and return to my place ver the last God will not appear amongst them as he was wont by his wonted mercies and gracious providences Let the Assyrian and King Jareb help them if they can Those Physicians of no value to whom they fled for refuge and for healing when they were smitten and wounded If they serve false gods let them when they have need go to them whom they have served This was the state and condition of the Princes of Israel at that time But how was it with Ephraim how was it with the people for so doth Ephraim sometimes signifie Why like Princes like people Being broken in judgement a sottish base cowardly company they willingly walked after the Commandement An Idolatrons command went forth from cursed Jeroboam And the people being oppressed and over-born by power they willingly walked after the commandement vers 11. Oppression makes men base and cowardly and like Issachars Asse to couch and lie down under every burthen And thus by their joynt and generall sinning they draw down a generall judgement And that is verified Delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi And now God being gone all their shifting cannot help them In vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains Jer. 3.23 Great men men in high places men in authority that are as mountains and hills these cannot save Truly in the Lord God onely is the salvation of Israel In the same vers True Salvation is in the Lord but he is with-drawn and gone he is returned to his place and hides himselfe he will not save we cannot finde him Oh! foolish people and unwife thus to forsake God and to cause him to forsake you and to leave you naked to your oppressors when there is none to helpe none to deliver But is he clean gone will the Lord cast off for ever will he be favourable no more hath God forgotten to be gracious hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies Psal 77.7 No though Gods people forget him yet he will not forget them Isa 49.15 But if he will not forget them why doth he with-draw why doth he hide himselfe why doth he not come in for his peoples rescue their aid their help and succour And how long will he hide himselfe in this our affliction distresse and misery Why he is with-drawn and returned to his place he hides himselfe as it were in heaven till we acknowledge our offences and by true repentance and unfained faith seek his face and favour God doth with-draw to this purpose that by his with-drawing he might draw us after him He hides himselfe till we acknowledge our offences and by a lively act of faith fervently seek his face For surely saith the Lord if they be not altogether senceless in their affliction they will seeke me early diligently seriously Chap. last vers last Come therefore and let us return unto the Lord c. Come let us Vs that are here this day Come let Vs And oh that all the Nation might hear this Call and answer it Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torne and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will binde us up After two dayes he will revive us In the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight We have in the words First an invitation to repentance Secondly an incouragement thereunto The invitation Come let us return unto the Lord. The incouragement He hath torn and he will heale us he hath smitten and he will binde us up The Text may be taken as the Word of God by the Prophet put into the peoples mouths Or as a direction and prescription from God to his people shewing them what to do in a sad afflicted state and condition And beloved this is no strange notion And it is a comforting and encouraging consideration God

as wilfull and reiterated sins and wickednesses If you still do wickedly you shall be destroyed both you and your King You did wickedly before and what became of your King was it your wickednesse or his Many of you will not say it was his And if you still do wickedly the next King for ought I know may fare as he did therefore take heed of sin Beloved I propose this one thing to you it was either the sin of the King the Father that brought the evill upon him or the sin of the People or both together If his own sinne then the judgement was just upon him as to God though not in them who did it But if it was the sin of the people let me ask you will not that which ruin'd the Father ruine the Son If you still do wickedly you shall be destroyed both you and your King Surely Kings Princes and chief Magistrates are least beholding to drunkards to murderers to prophane persons to unclean lascivious persons to those that wallow in the stinking puddle and nasty dunghill of sin Kings and Princes are least of all beholding unto them for they draw down judgement upon the whole Nation These persons though they look for a morning of joy and gladness upon the Nation yet will surely bring a dismal night of sorrow notwithstanding their expectations And therefore Come let us return unto the Lord that as he hath torn us for our sins so he may binde us up and as he hath broken us for our transgressions so he may heale us upon our returning Here 's incouragement which is the second part of the Text. Of which a little Friends none but he that smites us can beale us none but he that tear's can binde us up All other Physitians all other Chyrurgions they are but meer Quacks and Empericks We may say of them as Job of his friends Job 13.4 Ye are forgers of lies ye are physitians of no value And beloved have we not found it so in our State Mountebancks who have set up their Stages that they might pick our Pockets and made us bow down that they might ride over us Have we not found that of David verified Men of high degree are a lie and men of low degree are altogether vanity Are they to be trusted in Is there any more weight in them then in the dust of the ballance O let us return therefore unto the Lord for he hath broken us and he will heale us he hath smitten us and he onely can binde us up He hath here promised it if we return as before unto him And beloved consider this as God wounds and smites by his instruments so he also heals and binds up by instruments The enemies of Gods people God makes use of as the rod in his hand to chastise and correct his Children for their sins and he also raises up instruments to deliver them from their sufferings In Esay 58. there you have a promise made that the just and righteous shall build the old waste places shall raise up the foundations of many generations and shall be called the repairer of the breach the restorer of the paths to dwell in Do you look for happy dayes in England Would you have the Old waste places built and the breaches repaired Why then see what the Lord requires of you Read that place fore-quoted Isa 58.6 Is not this the Fast that I have chosen c. This is a day wherein you fast and humble your selves to seek establishment Well will you see what Fast the Lord requires Loose the bands of wickednesse undo every heavy burthen let the oppressed go free and that ye break every heavy yoke It is to deale thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house When thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine owne flesh Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thine health shall spring forth speedily c. And vers 12. They that be of thee shall build the old waste places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations c. Though our government hath layn in the dust these many yeares and though we have had a dark and black night upon us yet God can cause our light to break forth as the morning he can raise us up some to build our waste places to be repairers of our breaches and restorers of paths to dwell in But I say the promise is to good and righteous men These are the men if any that must lay the foundations not prophane loose wretches enemies to all righteousnesse the Lord in mercy keep such out of that great Assembly of Parliament And if any get in the Lord in his wisdome find out a way to cast them out again Beloved nothing but justice and truth and righteousnesse and mercy can heale a broken Nation let us then this day and every day else beg of God that he would graciously be pleased to be present with and to sit President in and over that great Councel of the Land that they may break off every yoke and take off every heavy burthen and keep off all unjust yokes and heavy burthens that any whatsoever would impose upon us That so that great Assembly may be a repairer of our breaches and a restorer of our paths to dwell in Let us pray that both they and all we may be more carefull to bring King Jesus into our hearts then K. Charles into his Throne Not as if I looked on these two as contradictory opposite or destructive the one unto the other But thus I tell you King Jesus is to be preferred before any mortall creature whatsoever And if he that shall rule be carefull to rule according to Truth and under King Jesus If God and the great Council of the Nation shall think fit Let him come and welcom But sirs let me tell you King Charles cannot save your soules but if King Jesus rule in your hearts he can and will save you What would it advantage you if all of you had your hearts desire here If things go even as you would wish and yet when Death comes you should be drag'd to Hell to endlesse torments what would it advantage you Be not then so mad as to pursue worldly concernments or worldly comforts with such eagernesse But above all seek and pursue after things of everlasting concernment And I tell you no mortall King can save your souls and therefore let us most look that King Jesus his reign and government may be established over us See his sweet and gracious government Isa 32. begin Behold a King shall reign in righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in judgement and a man shall be as a hiding place from the winds and a covert from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry land as the shadow of a great rocke in a weary land c. 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he is so willing of his peoples returnings that they might enjoy his favourable countenance as that even when his afflicting hand is upon them he not onely nvites them to it but he even teaches them what to say and in what words to address themselves unto him that they might prevail with him so gracious and tender a Father is he This you have most sweetly and fully in this very Prophet Hosea 14.1 O Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou hast faln by thine iniquity take with you words what are they why those that follow say unto him Take away our iniquities and receive us graciously and so will we render the calves of our lips And then it follows Ashur shall not save us c. And when his people take this advice and returne unto the Lord then will the Lord heale their back-sliding and love them freely then will his anger be turned away from them c. Oh beloved what precious mercies and unexpressible kindnesses doth God offer to a repenting a returning people So tender a Father is he that he doth not only invite to repent but teaches them how to demean themselves and puts words into their mouths to come unto him withal As a tender Mother that desires to have her Child to go stretches forth her hand to it bids it come gives words of encouragement to it that so it may come Even so God the Lord calls invites incourages his people to come unto him by unfeined repentance Nay not only so but as I said he teaches them with what words to come unto him So here Come let us return unto the Lord c. Beloved it is a great incouragement to poor distressed afflicted souls that the Lord is so desirous of our repentance as that he not onely invites us to repent but also teaches us how to repent and return to him Come therefore let us return unto the Lord. Vs of this Land and Nation Vs of the three Nations Vs of this City Vs of this Congregation Let us return unto the Lord. Return unto the Lord Why have we departed from him or can we depart from him how can we depart from him Is not God present every where Pray sirs read what David tells you in Ps 139.7 Whither shall I goe from thy spirit or whither shall I flye from thy presence If I ascend up into heaven thou art there If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utmost parts of the sea even there shall thine hand lead me and thy right hand sustain me How then can we go from God and consequently return to him To this I answer It is one thing to depart from and consequently to return to Gods essentiall and all-powerful presence And it is another thing to depart from and return to his gracious and most merciful presence There is an essential presence a presence of Gods power might And there is a gracious presence a presence of his mercy and protection Now Gods essential presence is never with-drawn from his Creatures For in him they live and move and have their being But then all who partake of his powerful presence do not partake of his gracious presence God is said to be near or far off a people and they are said to be near or far from God as they are in his grace and favour When in mercy he extends his grace and favour to a people then is he said to be neare unto them Now beloved There is one thing makes a distance and separation between God and a soule or between God and a people and that is sin Isa 59.1 Behold the Lords hand is not shortned that he cannot save neither his eare heavy that he cannot hear but your iniquities have separated between you and your God Your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear By sin we go away from God and then God goes away from us not by his power that he cannot do for he is present so every where But he goes away in with-drawing his grace his love and favour his most mercifull providences protections and speciall preservations from a people That 's Gods going away And we by further sin go away further from God and make the distance greater And as by sin we go away so by repentance we return again to God and so God returns again to us and receives us into grace and favour And now sirs Let me aske you Have we not sinned and gone away from God Do not our iniquities testifie against us plainly to our faces And hath not God departed from us and left us to run unto the Assyrian and King Jareb Interpreters do give various Interpretations of that word what is meant by King Jareb but yet all agree in this that it signifies vaine helps Friends all helps and refuges are vaine when God forsakes a people And by the vanity and insufficiency of all our helps and helpers that have all failed us is it not very manifest that God hath hitherto left us And why is it but because by sin we have left him and departed from him Will you give me leave to be plain and why should not I at such a time as this is Have not our Kings and Princes heretofore and our princely Priests and Bishops been as snares upon Mizpah and nets upon Tabor their high places and great offices have they not tyrannized too much Have they not revolted and been profound to make slaughter notwithstanding they have been reproved and admonished I beseech you sirs let not the apprehension of our present greater sufferings cause us altogether to forget our former iniquities People are apt generally to complain of the present burthen and murmur and forget what is past And indeed the greatnesse of our burthens may make us willing to be rid of them But yet let us not be such sottish asses as not to remember our former gal'd backs In this day of our Humiliation when we are seeking for establishment let us not forget the cause and ground of our unsettlement It was a sore Judgement that we were removed from our old foundations but we must remember who it was that removed us Friends let us consider who it was that broke us was it not the Lord Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath smitten us c. Whatsoever be the hand that gives the stroke or whosoever be the instruments yet it is God that guides it Amos 3.6 Shall there be evill in the City and the Lord hath not done it Shall there be evill in a City in a Nation in the three Nations and the Lord hath not done it By evil I understand the evil of punishment Now I say is the evill of punishment in the Nation in the three Nations or upon any particular person without the evill of sin will you say that the righteous Judge of heaven and earth hath not done right When he hath brought the evill of punishment