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A61730 A sermon preached at Abington in the county of Berks. Febr. 19, 1642 by Iohn Straight ... Straight, John, 1605?-1680. 1643 (1643) Wing S5807; ESTC R32679 16,616 26

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yet could not their sorrow be exhausted unlesse sinne did cease witnesse the man after Gods owne heart mine eyes gush out with rivers of water because men keepe not thy law Psal 119 136. This was it that caused Saint Paul Psal 119. 136. with sorrow and teares to paint out the false Apostles in their colours Phil 3. 18. For many walke saith he of whom I Phil. 3. 18. have told you often why then may some man say do you tell us any more Yes and now I tell you weeping that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ Yea Christ himselfe wept thus for Jerusalem Luke 19. 41 42. And when he was come Luke 19. 41 42 neare he beheld the City and wept for it saying O if thou hadst even knowne at the least in this thy day those things which belong unto thy peace but now are they hid frrom thine eyes This this beloved is a sure signe of a good Nathaniell and an infallible token of a true Israelite viz to weepe in secret for the sinnes of others yea and cry out against the wickednesse committed against God in the land And the Lord said unto him viz. the Angell goe through the midst of the City even through the midst of Jerusalem and set a marke upon the foreheads of them that mourne and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof so ye may find it Ezekiel 9. 4. Ezek. 9. 4. Thirdly ye shall lament or mourne for the Judgements of 3. Cause of weeping Open and generall Judgement God on the land take the Prophet Jeremy for a patterne who in this case thus cryes out Jer. 4. 19. My belly my belly I am pained even at the very heart mine heart is troubled within mee I cannot be still for my soule hath heard the sound of the trumpet Jer. 4. 19. and the alarme of the battaile destruction upon destruction c. and againe Chap. 8. 21. I am sore vexed for the hurt of Jer 8. 21 the daughter of my people I am heavy and astonishment hath taken mee Nay yet more pathetically doth this Prophet declare his compassionate greife for this people and therefore as one that could never sufficiently lament their destruction he cryes out Oh that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people Oh that I had in the wildernesse a cottage of way-faring men c. as Jer. 9. 1 2. Jer 9. 1 2. Fourthly ye shall mourne for the afflictions of poor Ioseph 4 Cause of weeping private and particular Afflictions and as feeling members one of anothers misery ye shall lament for those that are tost from post to pillar that are driven from house and home in a word that are for Christs sake brought to great extremity They drinke wine in bowles saith the Prophet Amos and anoint themselves with the cheif ointments but no man is sorry for the afflictions of Ioseph Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive c. Amos 6. 6. 7. Amos 6. 6 7. mine eye casteth out rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people yea mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not Lam 3. 48 49. Lam. 3. 48. 49. Fifthly ye shall sorrow for the losse of deare freinds thus 5 Cause of weeping losse of freinds 2. Sam. 1. 26. 2 Sam. 18. 33. Jo. 11. 35. 6 cause of weeping our pilgrimage here David sorrowes for the losse of deare Ionathan woe is mee for thee my brother Ionathan 2 Sam. 1. 26. and he is likewise greatly perplexed with the untimely death of his sonne Absalom 2 Sam 18. 33. thus Mary yea and Christ himselfe doe weepe for Lazarus Io 11. 35. Sixthly and lastly ye shall sigh and sorrow to because you are but as Pilgrims here sitting by the rivers of Babel the world according to Saint Chrysostomes glosse opprest with various calamities weeping at the remembrance of your spirituall Sion For therefore we sigh earnestly desireing to be clothed with our house which is from heaven so Saint Paul 2 Cor 5. 2. verily verily I say unto you that ye shall weepe lament 2 Cor. 5. 2. and sorrow Ye shall weepe for your owne sinnes and 2 for the sinnes of others Ye shall lament 3 for the Judgements of God on the land and 4 for the afflictions of poore Joseph Ye shall sorrow 5 for the losse of deere freinds and 6 for your owne bitter peregrination here in this world Pilgrimage you know is alwaies perillous Gods children then who are but pilgrimes here must not expect an immunity Observat 1 from the crosse nor must the righteous think to be free from afflictions no we must through many afflictions enter into the Kingdome of God as Acts 14. 22. yea and all that will live godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution as 2 Tim 3. 12. Acts 14. 22. Dearly beloved thinke it not strange concerning the fiery triall 2 Tim. 3. 12. which is among you as though some strange thing were come unto you as 1 Pet. 4. 12. In the world ye shall have affliction for the servant is not better then his Lord nor the disciple above his 2 Pet. 4 12 Master as Math. 10. 24. If therefore they have done these things to the greene tree what shall become of the dry verily verily Mat 10. 24. I say unto you that ye shall weepe lament and sorrow Luke 23. 31. The reason is evident for ye are not of the world saith our Saviour Io. 15. 19 in the world therefore ye shall have affliction Reason 1 There is no concord 'twixt Christ and Belial nor is there Jo. 15. 19. 2 Cor 6. 14. 15 any agreement 'twixt light and darknesse R. 2 Secondly ye shall weepe lament and sorrow because ye are by Christ the adopted children of God it is meet therefore that ye become like unto him in affliction who hath already trode this path of tribulation R. 3 Thirdly and lastly ye shall weepe lament and sorrow because troubles are the surest tutors of goodnesse before I was afflicted saith David I went astray but now I keepe thy word Psal 119. 67. How many would have died ill if they had lived Psal 119. 67. merrily without affliction God hath severall waies to reduce his little flocke from the stragling by pathes of destruction yet I am perswaded none none I say more powerfull then affliction which sends the soule to meditation whereby she sees the worlds follies in such true colours of vanity that no sound discretion can think them worth the doting on Ideo enim Deus foelicitatibus terrenis amaritudines misoet ut illa quaeratur foelicitas cujus dulcedo non est fallax Aug. super Mat. Serm. 29. For therefore doth God intermingle bitter in gredients with his best terrestriall