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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10216	Ieremiahs teares, or A sermon preached in York-minster vpon Trinity Sunday, in the yeare of our Lord, 1604 when the sicknes was begunne in the cittie. By Thomas Pullein vicar of Pontefract, sometime chaplaine of New Colledge in Oxford.; Jeremiahs teares.	Pullein, Thomas.	1608 (1608)	STC 20493; ESTC S106092	19,134	44

the head hath better means to expresse the grief and sorrow of the heart both by mourning with the voyce and by weeping with the eyes And thus I am come to the second point of the gradation which is the second thing that the prophet desireth for the better expressing of his great sorrow He doth not onely wish that his head were full of water but he declares the cause thereof which was not to keepe it still enclosed in his head but that from thence it might bee deriued and resolued into brinish teares as faithfull witnesses of his inward griefe And to this end hee wisheth that his eyes might bee as a Fountaine or as it is in the Haebrewe Originall a vaine of teares which might be alwayes open neuer stopped alwaies running and neuer dry When a man would seeke a well first he digges to get water and when he hath found Water his next care is to draw it out for such needfull vses as occasion requireth Euen so our Prophets desire is first that hee might haue in his body a springing wel that his head might be the conduit and for the better drawing of this water out he wisheth in the next place that his eyes might be as spouts or as conduit pipes to powre forth this water And it could not be but so many as had not harts of flint must needs bee moued with astonishment to see and behold this great lamentation And yet our prophet is not content with this but he addeth as the third step of the gradation that I might weepe day and night It cannot content him to haue his heade full of Water it cannot content him that his eyes shedde teares but as though this were no weeping to expresse further that all thys comes from the inward sence sorrow of his hart he wisheth that hee might weepe and not simplie weepe but weepe so that his eies might neuer linne weeping and his eye-lids might neuer close themselues to take any rest but be alwaies open to weepe day and night Great was that mourning of the women of Bethelem when their children were slaine by the cruelty of Herod whereof our prophet Ieremiah prophecieth Chap 31. 15. which Testimonies is alledged by rhe Euangelyst S. Mathew in the second Chapter and the 8. verse where hee applyeth the same to that slaughter of Herod who seeing himself deluded by the wise men caused al the male children of Bethlehem to be slaine from two yeares olde and vnder with intent to murther Christ among the rest In Ramah was a voyce herd mourning and weeping great lamencation Rachael weeping for her children would not be comforted hecause they were not But that lamentation although it was bitter yet was it not to be cōpared with this of our prophet because that was only for the losse of some of their children but here the prophet bewayleth that miserable and fearefull destruction which shoulde generally come vpon all Iudah and Ierusalem as well young as olde wherein there should scarse be any that should scape not perish either by famine sworde or by pestilence or at least be carried into captiuity It is much that Dauid sayth of himselfe Enery night wash I my head and water my couch with my teares psal 6 6. Oh worthy practise for a penitent soule to imitate touching euery sinner that groneth vnder the burden of his sins to spend the nightes not in sleeping but in weeping not in slumbring drowsynes but in crying and calling to God for mercy shedding the tears of true repentance Worthy also is that to bee remembred which is recorded of the sinfull woman in the gospell Luke 7. who wept so aboundantly that she washed the feete of Christ with the teares that trickled down from her eies But this mourning of our prophet exceeds thē both if not in greatnes yet in continuance whose teares distilling without intermissiō as from the conduit of a springing wel would be sufficient not only to water his couch or to wash the feet of those that came nere him but euen in time to send forth riuers of waters like those wherof Ezechiel speaketh chap 47. which comming forth of the temple were at the first measuring vp to the anckles at the second measuring vp to the loins but at the third measuring the waters were become as a riuer that could not be passed But why doth our prophet weep so immoderatly That by his sheding of many teares some might drop out of theyr eies For the prophet weeps not here for himself but for the great misety that should come vpon the people And though he was likely to sustaine some part of their affliction because he dwelt among them yet himselfe was but one not one of the greatest the state of the Monarchy rested in them that is in the king in the Nobles and the rest of the people And therefore it was the publicke state that he bewayled whereupon euerie priuate mans condition depended as for himself he made no reckoning and besides he knew that God who had employed him in that Message and had preserued him hitherto from the bloudy hands of the Iewes who had slayne many of the Lordes Prophets was also able to preserue him from the hands of the Chaldaeans or to giue him fauour in their eyes that they might do hym no harme as it came to passe afterwards when the City was taken Ier 39 11 12. Seeing then the Prophet doth weepe for the people standes it not with good reason that they should weepe for themselues when our Sauiour was led to be Crucified many Women of Ierusalem followed him weeping But Iesus turned backe and saide vnto them Daughters of Ierusalem Weepe not for me but weepe for your selues and for your Children Luke 23. 28. He blames not their affection but he speakes by way of comparison He tels them that if they knewe all they had more cause to weepe for themselues then for him They wept for him because they loued him but he went to die for them because he loued them Iudge which of these had the greater loue Notwithstanding such was the ingratitude of the Iewish Nation such was their impiety against God their cruelty against his Prophetes and their impenitency in their sinnes that the Lord was determined vtterly to roote them out from being a Nation and for euer to cut them off from being a people And this he performed about forty yeares after by Titus the sonne of Vespasian the Romaine Emperor who brought a final destruction vpon the Iewes And this was the cause that when our Sauior was come nere to Ierusalem and beheld the City he wept for it Luke 19. 41 And in another place he said O Ierusalem Ierusalem which killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent vnto thee how often would I haue gathered thy children together as the Henne gathereth her Chickens vnder her wings and ye would not Behold your habitation shall bee left vnto you desolate