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A34954	Judah's purging in the melting pot a sermon preached in the cathedral at Sarum before the Reverend Sir Robert Foster, and Sir Thomas Tirrell, Knights, judges for the western circuit, at the Wiltshire Assizes, Sept. 6, 1660 / by W. Creede ...	Creed, William, 1614 or 15-1663.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6873; ESTC R37688	31,329	49

JUDAH'S PURGING IN THE MELTING POT A SERMON Preached in the Cathedrall at SARVM before the Reverend Sir Robert Foster and Sir Thomas Tirrell Knights Judges for the Western Circuit at the Wiltshire Assizes Sept. 6. 1660. By W. CREEDE D. D. Archdeacon of Wilts and Canon Resident of Sarum Published at the speciall request of their Lordships and divers eminent Gentlemen Justices of the Peace and others LONDON Printed for R. Royston and are to be sold by John Courtney Bookseller in SARUM To the Reverend Sir ROBERT FOSTER AND Sir THOMAS TIRRELL Knights His MAjESTIES Justices of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster Judges for the Western Circuit AND To the Honourable and Right Worshipfull the Justices of the Peace for the County of WILTS My Lords and Gentlemen THat I presume to affix your Names to this Sermon is to let the World know that as by your Favour in not forsaking our Cathedrall I had the Opportunity to Preach it so by your desire and at the Instance of divers Honourable and Worshipfull Persons Justices of the Peace and others it was committed to the Press The truth is my Lords you and those worthy Gentlemen did more then desire it You assured me as a Motive for you to ask and me to grant that it would be very useful for the Publick And this had with me the Nature of a Command because I count it my duty as a Minister of Christ to promote by all lawfull wayes the true interest of Christianity exemplary Piety Repentance Purity and Peace And as these blessed Ends wherein the Happiness and Wellfare of a Church and Nation consist have been by Gods Grace though with much Frailty and Weakness the constant Objects of my Endeavours in the work of the Ministery so now more especially since God has been pleased so miraculously to be seen in our Deliverance and happy Restauration For though Gods Judgements allwayes signally call for Repentance yet me thinks his Mercies much more because he has promised that Christs People shall be willing in the day of his power Psalm 110. in the Beauty of holiness from the womb of the Morning when the lively fruitfull Dews of Grace fall that renew the face of the Earth and make it fresh and youthful And as these times are Times of Mercy so I thought that healing Discourses were the fittest But then that the Cure might be sound and reall not Palliative and false I thought it proper at this Season the Embleme of the great Assize to search the wound unto the bottome And therefore I made choice of a Scripture not so much to teach you your Duties which I had good Reason to hope you better understood than to need my Admonition as to make my Auditory sensible of those sins that had drawn down our heavy Judgements that so laying them to heart they might leave the Magistrate less work by a Cordial Repentance and more prise Gods Mercies so miraculously bestowed on us when we had least Reason to expect them because by his Corrections we had so little been prepared for them Yet because I saw God had drawn a wonderfull Veil of Mercy between our Sins and his Judgements and that the King and his great Council were so sollicitous and carefull in Preparing and Passing so unparallell'd an Act of Grace and perpetuall Oblivion I resolved not to meddle with any Persons or Parties concerned in that Act but with the crimes of the Text and the Vices of the Nation and stil to fix on such Motives as the Text naturally suggested to make us bury our Animosities and with all Humility to adore the Hand in the Clouds and not regard the rods and the Scourges wherewith we were beaten And where in the Application I was forced to speak of the sins that had made us like Jerusalem in the Punishment I industriously confined my self to those that had been in the Melting Pot. And I have reason to bless God that the great Sufferers and prime Objects of my Discourse were so sensible of my reproofs that they gave me hearty thanks As for the rest of the Audience they were so unconcerned in my Thoughts that I could not be so uncharitable to imagine they would so much own and countenance the sins of the Text as to conceive themselves aimed at in the Description of those sins And it must be their own unchristian Imprudence if by any sinister Construction they turned that into a Satyre which I delivered a Sermon And I wish them timely to consider whether such unjust Apprehensions may not deprive them of a right to our Mercies by entitling themselves as yet to those sins that have drawn down such Judgements Yet if any Sanballats and Tobiahs still maligning the happy restauration and Building our Jerusalem and Temple will think themselves concerned when the sins so sorely threatned and sharply punished in Gods People are but named and described this wil onely argue their guilt that still stares them in the Face and will not suffer them to forget what their Brethren have resolved to bury in perpetual oblivion and they are too much like the Roman Dame whose trembling at the noyse of the Lictors whip that was the Ensign of her Sisters Honour did palpably betray the meanness of her present condition But as I thought not of any such Self-libellers as these before the Sermon was Preached so I shall less think of them now when it comes from the Press I have better work at present to praise God for his Mercies in the removal of his judgements and humbly beseech him that by the power of his Grace he would put an end to our sins lest they make us unworthy of the continuance of his mercies And as he has restored us our Judges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning so he would make you my Lords and Gentlemen very eminent among those whom he has designed to dress and polish us by Justice and Judgement that so being now delivered from the hands of our enemies we may all serve God without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the dayes of our life and becom● a faithfull City a City of Righteousness And this shall be the Prayer of My Lords and Gentlemen Your most faithfull servant in Christ Jesus WILLIAM CREEDE JUDAH'S PURGING IN THE MELTING POT Isaiah I. vers 25 26. And I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy Tinne And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness the faithfull City The Context runs thus Vers 21. How is the faithfull City become an Harlot it was full of judgement righteousness lodged in it but now murderers 22. Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water 23. Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they judge not the