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mercy_n	anger_n	lord_n	slow_a	2,036	5	9.7827	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17338	A sermon preached at Pauls crosse on Trinity sunday, 1571. By E.B.	Bush, Edward.; Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.	1576 (1576)	STC 4183; ESTC S107148	27,884	68

iudg ●niustly Iustice must haue but and eye ●nd not twoo not to looke on the cause ●ith the one and on the purse with the o●●er not on the matter with the one and ●pon the partie with the other No Iustice ●ust haue but one eye which directly must ●poke vpon the cause Iudge therefore ●stly for as you iudge so shall you be ●udged and with what measure you meate ●o other with the same shall it be measured ●o you againe This can the poet Phocilli●es whom I had like to haue called a pro●hane Poet but in deede hee was a deuine Poet teache vs in these verses reiect not ●he poore iudge no man vniustly for if thou ●udge wrongfullye God shall afterwarde ●udge thee And thus much by the way touching the iudgement of man Now to come againe to my text when I take a conueniēt tyme saith God I will iudge iustly Thys iust iudgement of God I haue before touched consisteth in these two things in sauing and deliuering his people and plaging hys enemies And when is it a conuenient time for God to iudge thée iustly Surely it is a conuenient time for God to iudge iustly in punishing of the wicked when their synnes are growen to a ripenes and fulnes when no admonition will amend them when no correction will reclayme them then I say it is a conuenient tyme for God to poure downe his heauy iudgements vpon them When the wickednes of man was waxen great vpon the earth and all flesh had defiled their wayes and God had appointed thē a space office score yeares to repent in and called them by the mouth of Noah to repentance had caused the Arke to be made in signe of their destruction when nothing I say could amend them but they neglected gods calling dispise● his preacher and continewed in their wickednes then was it a conuenient tyme for god to execute hys iust ●●ogementes against them So lykewise when the crye of the synnes of Sodom had ascended vp vnto heauen and they would not be warned by righteous Lot bu● rather vexed him with their vncleane conversation then was it a conuenient tyme for ●od terrybly to destroy them with fyre and ●rimstone from heauen So likewise the Iewes when God of his great mercy had ●ysen vp early as the scripture tearmeth it ●nd had sent al his seruaunts the prophets ●nto them had cryed vnto them but they would not heare him had called vnto them but they would not answer him but walked ●n the stubbernnes of their own hearts and mocked Gods messengers misused his prophets and dispised his wordes Then when there was no remedy it was a conuenient tyme for the wrath of the Lord to arise against them who brought the Caldeans vpon them by whom their cuntrey was spoiled their Cities subuerted their temple wherein they so glorified was raised their people destroyed and the rest caryed into miserable captiuity The like may be sayd of the Iewes afterward for when neither the diuine doctrine which our Sauiour Christ taught nor the wonderfull workes which he had wrought among them could moue thē to acknowledge and embrace him for their only Messias Sauiour but they would crucify the Lord of glory persecute his Apostols thē was it a conuenient tyme for God to bring the Romanes vpon thē by whom they were miserably and terribly destroyed Let vs dearely beloued be admonished by these examples to take heede that we walke not in the like stubbernnes and commit not the like wickednes as they did for surely if we do we shall drink of the same cup as they did But when I consider our great vnthankfulnes towardes God our great wickednes against God our backslyding and backstarting from god I stand in horror and terror of these heauy iudgemēts which I feare me hang ouer vs God for his mercy turne them away from vs and the onely way for vs to auoid them is to turne by true vnfeyned repentance to the Lord our God who is gracious mercifull slow to anger and of great goodnes Thus you haue heard when it is a conuenient tyme for God to plauge his enemies Now let vs consider when it is a conuenient tyme for God to iudge iustly in sauing and deliuering his people When god hath sufficiently corrected his people for their synnes hath tried their fayth and proued their pacience and when al power of man and all help of fleshe and bloud faileth then is it a conuenient tyme for almighty god to put to his hand and to deliuer them from their miseries When God had punished the Is●alites in Egipt where they were greuous●y oppressed and there was no meanes for man to deliuer them then God hearde their ●rye considered their sorrowes and sent Moses vnto them and deliuered them with 〈◊〉 mighty hand and an outstretched arme And after that they were come out of Egipt and the Egiptians did pursue thē the red sea being before them and the Egiptians ●ehind them and no way in mans iudgement to escape then was it a conuenient tyme for God to stretth foorth his mighty hand and to make a passage for his people ●hrough the red sea 〈◊〉 to ouer whelme his enemies in the same So likewise when god had plaged the Iewes as ● haue before touched with the captiuity of ●abylon at the last when the .70 yeares were e●pired and no hope of deliuerance in the sight of man then God remembring his promise which he had sworne vnto Abrahā●n● hys word which he had reueled vnto ●●ere● r●moued the hart of king Ci●●s to send home his people to repaire the●● City and to build hys temple So to applye this doctrine vnto our selues when Go● for our iniquities had of late b●ought vs into the captiuity of Egipt and babilon and the wild bore of Rome had rooted vp the Lordes vyneard when for the light of the Gospel we had the light of candels for the holy bible bables and banners for Gods word mans triffling traditions for preaching massing and for our free iustification by the mere mercie and grace of God in Christ Iesus through faith mans merites and righteousnes established Yea when not only a forrein prince and proud people were brought in vnto whom wee were like to haue bene made thral and thu● when there was no expectation of any deliuerance from these great miseries then was it a conuenient tyme for God séeing the oppression of the ●●dy and hearing the sighes of the poor● to aryse and set them at liberty whom the wicked had thralled Then God did 〈◊〉 vs from aboue and did send vs a gracious prince flesh of our flesh bone of our bones by whom he hath restored vnto vs the comfort of his worde destu●●ed vs from this foreyne oppresion slauery translated vs out of darknes into hys maruelous ●ight I wold to God that we would continually remember these great mercies which God hath stewed vs herein O that we