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A94051	Mercy rejoycing against judgement: or, God waiting to be gracious to a sinfull nation. A sermon preached before the honorable House of Commons in Margarets Westminster, upon the solemne day of their publique humiliation and monethly fast, Octob. 29. 1645. / By John Strickland, B.D. pastor of the church at Edmonds in the citie of New Sarum, now preacher at Peters Poor, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Strickland, John, 1600 or 1601-1670.	1645 (1645)	Wing S5973; Thomason E307_21; ESTC R200349	19,186	32

exalted that he may have mercy upon you for the Lord is a God of Judgement Blessed are all they that waite for him IN this Chapter Isaiah prophesieth against the sinnes of Judah which they committed in the time of the Babylonish captivity after the death of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam whom Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel had made Governour over them in Iudae For when as the Lord had promised them deliveranceat length from the Chaldeans if in the meane time they would have sit stil in their own land under the said Governour and would have provided well for their security and subsistence during their captivity Jer. 42.10.11 Jer. 42.10.11 If ye will still abide in this Land then will I build you and not pull you down and I will plant you and not pluck you up Be not afraid of the King of Babylon of whom you are afraid be not afraid of him saith the Lord for I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand Yet they transported with fear lest the Babylonians should revenge upon them the bloud of Gedaliah whom they had treacherously slain distrust Gods promise and will needs go down into Egypt to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh verse 2. and to trust in the shadow of Egypt ver 2. which their sin the Prophet amplifies with a double aggravation First That they did carry it cunningly propriis consilijs addicti and in their carnall policie would have covered it pretending to aske counsell of the Lord to colour their design when they were altogether resolved upon their sinfull course Ier. 42.20 So the Prophet tels them Jer. 42.20 Ye dissembled in your hearts when you sent me to the Lord. and so the Prophet v. 1. They take Counsel but not of mee they cover with a covering but not of my Spirit Secondly they did it rebelliously For the Lord had cried concerning this ver 7. Your strength is to sit still ver 7. Yet when the prophet Jeremiah effectually laid the Law to them in this point and admonished them to take notice thereof saying The Lord hath said O ye remnant of Judah go ye not into Egypt know certainly that I have admonished you this day Ier 42.19 Ier. 42.19 Notwithstanding they would not heare the Law of the Lord but rather opposed it saying to the Seers see not and to the Prophets Prophecy not unto us right things ver 9.10.11 ver 9.10.11 So they said and worse unto the Prophet Ier 2.23 Ier. 43.2.3 Thou speakest falsly the Lord our God hath not sent thee to say Go not down into Egypt to sojourne there But Baruch the sonne of Neriah setteth thee on against us for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans that they might put us to death and carry us away Captives into Babylon Against this their sinne thus aggravated the Prophet sets himself to Denounce Gods Judgement wherin he declareth both what the Judgement shall be and how it shall be inflicted the matter of the Judgement is that God will make the broken reed of Egypt wheron they leaned to go into their hands and pierce them as of Egypt it is said in another Storie Isa 36.6 The strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame Isa 36.6 and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion ver 3. And for the manner ver 3. the Judgment shall befall them unexpectedly and on a sudden as a breach in a high wall at an instant against which there can be made neither resistance nor defence ver 13. And it shall fall upon them heavily in Egypt ver 13. so that they shall be broken all to pieces like the bursting of a Potters vessell that affords not a sheard to take fire from the hearth or water out of the pit ver 14. And it shall fall up-upon them in a way of Retaliation wherin God will make the severall parts of their sin to recoile upon them as severall parts of their Judgement they make Egypt their hope God will make Egypt their shame they would flee from their enemies in carnall Policie against Gods command they shall flee before their enemies for their own necessity they would be swift to escape their enemies God will make their enemies swift to overtake them they were afraid of the Babylonians without cause when God would have had them to be fearlesse but now they shall have cause to fear and flee from their enemies that shall pursue them till they be left as a Beacon on the top of a Mountain Even as one tree left for a Sea-mark in the cuting down of a Forrest and as an Ensigne on a hill or a forsaken Standard when all the men that fought under it are cut off ver 16.17 ver 16.17 But while the Lord was going on so fiercely to Judgement against them he stayes his hand and forbears these rebellious Jewes neare about 150 years as Hierom computes between the denouncing of this Judgement in Isaiahs and in the execution of it in Jeremiahs time If any wonder why our Prophet gives you an accompt that God doth it not to countenance or wink at their wickednesse Alvarez in Isaian sed minatur cupidus non exequendi minas saith Alvarez he threatnes that he might but threaten and thereby bring them into a capacity of mercy that for the present were fit only for wrath and Judgement And therefore will the Lord waite that he may be gracious c. My text is a Sermon wherein the Prophet gives the Jewes an account why God did not forthwith destroy thē though they were even ripe for Judgement Division In this Sermon we have set before us the just lineaments properties of a Sermon viz. 1. A Doctrin The Lord waites to be gracious 2. Reasons of it 2. viz. because 1. He will be exalted in his mercy 2. He is a God of Judgement 3. An application or use of the Doctrin Blessed are all they that waite for him Here you see my Sermon cut out both in parts and method The words opened Ere we come to handle the Doctrin which is the first branch the words thereof are to be explai ned among them particula 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non est omittenda saith Forerius Therfore the first word therefore is to be well observed This Relative and Illative paritcle bids us look for premisses whereon to inferr the text but the difficulty of finding any hath troubled expositors Some do make the inference from the sin of the people in refusing to waite upon the Lord when he called upon them saying ver 15.16 v. 15.16 In returning rest shall ye be saved in quietnes confidence shal be your strength and ye would not but said no as if the Prophet should have said there must of necessity be a waiting the vision is for an appointed time and seeing you will not waite upon and be obedient to

To the honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament Honorable and worthy Gentlemen WHEN you were solemnly met before God to mourn over your sins it was my duty to further what I could the melting of your hearts that you might powre them out before the Lord. I knew not a better argument for such a purpose then to set before you God melting over sinners his repentings kindled together and his bowels turned within him fer them it cannot but prevaile upon an ingenuous spirit and make it mourn after the Lord. Qui nolit impendere amorem Aug. saltem rependat saith a father And the voyce of Mercy after the windes and earthquakes and fires of judgement that have gone before and have shaken the mountaines and broken the rocks in pieces be but a still small voyce yet it may prevail more then those if God be in it and I hope he is For if I mistake not Mercy is the present receipt which the great Physitian hath prescribed to make up the cure of sick England a Cordiall after blood-letting and many bitter pills that have pul'd her down God is now powring out one mercy after another upon us and as I may say rubbing and working in the oyle of Mercy to take away the stiffnes of our hearts and to make them pliable Now that the language of providence herein might be both more articulate and impressive I have brought the Word to set home upon the heart Gods own dispensations God makes the doctrine in preaching Mercy and that in most reall demonstrations I have endeavoured to make the application of Mercy unto our hearts that by may of use it might bring us to repentance and teach us to feare the Lord and his goodnesse It seems to be a lesson God would fain have us to learn at this time I have therefore willingly delivered it unto you from the pulpit where you heard it with patience And likewise at your appointment I now deliver it unto you and the world from the Press with prayer that by both or either hearing or reading the Spirit of God may bring it in with a blessing to reach the heart And whereas when you had sent up the cry of your souls unto God upon the fasting day I presented unto your eares the cry of many thousand souls out of the North where they cry for food but there is none to break unto them the bread of life and you willingly hearkened give me leave to renew my motion as Nehemiah to Artaxerxes for the place of my fathers Sepulchers which lieth waste It is a work of so high importance and difficulty that none are worthy to take it hand but a Parliament none can bring reliefe under God but you who are the repairers of our breaches and the restorers of paths to dwell in The noble and worthy Gentlemen of your honorable Committee for sending Ministers into the Northern Counties know that they have long been in darknesse even when the light of the Gospel brake forth gloriously over all other parts of the Kingdome in former times of reformation and yet though that honorable Committee have been zealous and piously diligent in the trust you have committed to them whereby they have procured and sent some labourers into the Vineyards of York and Duresme and Northumberland as a happy fruit of reformation by this Parliament some a Westmorland Cumberland of those desolate Counties have not so much as tasted of your charity in this kind to reap the fruit of your religious Ordinance wherein you have worthily provided for the maintenance of some godly Ministers there The scarcenesse of Ministers the remotenesse of those parts the smalnesse of Church-livings there and the generall backwardnesse in Ministers to goe into those cold Countries are some of the chiefe obstructions For the first I doubt not but your wisdoms will find out a better Antidote against the scarcity of Ministers then liberty of prophesying which some plead for upon this ground if the Ark be shaken Uzzah may not under that pretence put forth his hand to hold it Rather your Parliamentary care to reduce and reform our Universities to view all publick Schools whereby children of pregnant capacities may bee brought up in a way of learning to incourage the study of divinity in Colleges to see that Scholars dwel not too long in Fellowships when they are fitted for the service of the Church according to the provisoes that are made already in the statutes of some Colleges in Oxford your wise cosideration I say of these and like things will beget great hopes of a plentifull harvest even of labourers in the next generation And in the mean time as to the want of Ministers in the North a few bright-shining lights well disposed of in those dark places set up I mean in the most eminent towns of Westmorland and Cumberland by preaching there and travelling about would give great light every one of them severally a great way in the circumjacent Countrey For the second and third impediments I need not tell you that their maintenance had need to be such as may encourage Ministers against remotenesse and coldnesse of the countrey which may be sufficiently provided for if it may please this honorable House that the Impropriations which are sequestred and the small Church-livings in those Counties be collected and treasured up in faithfull hands as one publick stock for the maintenance of such as faithfully labour in the harvest there Touching the backwardnesse of Ministers to goe into those Countries since it is God that inclines the hearts of men it hath been and is my prayer that God would stir up the hearts of his servants to undertake so glorious a work as the planting of the Gospel in those barren parts wherein some faithfull Ministers have in former and later times laboured with abundance of blessed successe In the first reformation of Scotland when godly Ministers were so few that many places of the Kingdome were like to be unsuppli d the Ministers advised the great Councell of that Kingdom to use their authority with consent of the Church for the sending of Ministers of ability to bestow their gifts where was most need I presume not hereby to president your godly wisdomes but in all that I have said my desire is to provoke your zealous and mature consultations to find out some effectuall way for the setting up of a godly Ministery in the North wherein as also in all other your weighty undertakings for the Church or Common-wealth that the blessing of heaven may crowne your unwearied labours with success hath been is and shall be the prayer of From my study in Broadstreet Nov. 29. 1645. The meanest of them that serve you in the Work of the Gospel John Strickland MERCY REJOYCING AGAINST JUDGEMENT OR God waiting to be gracious to a sinfull Nation ISAIAH 30.18 And therfore will the Lord waite that he may be gracious and therefore will the Lord be