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A71286	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing W364; ESTC R6426	39,735	52

we have had in soothing Prelates and promoting their pride the more zealous let us be in trampling their pride under foot and in abhorring all appearance of it and in shewing open detestation of all their Iniquity Superstiton and Idolatry David was a man after Gods heart and when through fleshly frailty he had fallen into great and scandalous sinnes adding to his adultery murther though upon his confession of his sin the Lord forgave the iniquity of it and the Prophet told him that the Lord had taken away his sin he should not dye nor undergoe any destroying punishment of wrath and vengeance yet he rested not in confessing fasting mourning and praying for a day but out of loathing and abhorring his sinfull corruption he afflicted his soule seven dayes lying upon the ground fasting weeping and making supplication with strong cries and saying Have mercy upon me ô God according to thy loving kindnes according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out all my transgressions wash me throughly from my wickednesse deliver me from bloud-guiltinesse create in mee a cleane heart restore to me the joy of thy salvation Psal. 51 And againe O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath I am troubled I am bowed greatly I goe mourning all the day long As wee may more at large see in his penitential Psalmes in which his sorrowes are ingraven and recorded to all posterities And all this repentance proceeded not from horrour of conscience or feare of death and hell as that of Ahab and Iudas did but out of true remorse and godly sorrow for that he had sinned against a God so gracious and full of tender compassion His owne words shew the true ground of his griefe where he saith Against thee thee only have I sinned It was his love of God and sense of Gods love and mercy to him which made him so hate his sinnes and loath himselfe And indeed this is true Evangelicall repentance which works effectually to the mortifying of the old man killing the body of death and subduing the rebellious lusts of the flesh this makes our former sins hatefull and grievous to us and terrifies us from falling in to the like againe O how happy should we be if we could thus repent if we could thus humble our soules in these our Fasts Gods bowels of compassion would yearn towards us as the bowels of tender parents doe over a deare child when they see him grieving at the heart and mourning for his offence of them and disobedience to them When the Lord our God sees us thus penitent he will answer us graciously meet us and embrace us with love make us behold his face with joy in the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ accept his ransome for us and will say to your soules I am your salvation His scourging rod the cursed Bramble with all the Thornes and Pricks thereof all the bands of the wicked which trouble us shall be thrown away into the fire burnt and consumed I proceed to the second poynt which is the resemblance of the severall sorts of ungodly malicious and ill-affected persons banded together to consult devise and practise evil against the Church of Christ to oppresse persecute and doe mischiefe to Gods people unto the severall sorts of pricks on the great Bramble of which some are green and more tender others dryed and hardned but all sharp pricking and hurtfull and are all to be taken away as with a whirle-wind This ministers to us the second Doctrine That all persons combined in any Band or faction consulting and working together against Gods Church and people whether they bee doctrine 2 more or lesse pernicious and able to do mischiefe whether Hypocrites working under hand or open profest persecutors they are all sharers in the same wickednesse and being all of the same cursed Band and crew they shall perish in the same destruction This is further confirmed by Gods own words Psal. 50.16 c. But unto the wicked said God what hast thou to doe to declare my Statutes and to take my Covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my word behinde thee when thou sawest a Thiefe thou consentedst to him and hast beene pertaker with the adulterers thou givest thy mouth to evill and thy tongue frameth deceit thou sittest and speakest against thy brother and slanderest thine owne mothers son In which words I observe that some wicked men make a profession of Religion declare Gods Statutes and take his Covenant in their mouth Secondly that they hate instruction oppose Reformation and break their Covenant with God Thirdly that by sitting in Counsell with persecutors speaking evill with their mouthes and framing deceit with their tongues and consenting to the deeds of evill-doers they are pertakers of their sinnes Fourthly that Gods wrath is kindled against them and if they doe not repent he will teare them in pieces and none shall deliver them And Psalme 26.4.5 The holy Psalmist pleading immunity from sliding and that God will not take him away nor gather his soule with sinners nor his life with men of bloud in whose hand is mischief because he hath not sate with vaine persons nor gone in with dissemblers but hath hated the Congregation of evill doers and will not sit in Counsell with the wicked doth necessarily intimate that all they who do joyn in counsel with the wicked help forward their designes are pertakers of their sinnes and shall perish with them And to the same purpose the Prophet Ieremy speaks saying I sate not in the assembly of the mockers nor rejoyced why is my paine perpetuall and my wound incurable which refuseth to be healed which words import that they who are of the Band of Scorners and rejoyce in their evill doings are pertakers of their wickednesse and their wages shall be perpetuall paine and wounds incurable All in Corah's conspiracy even women and children were found guilty before God of that rebellion and perished in it And in a City falling away to Idolatry all in it yong old are guilty and to be cut off And indeed there is good Reason grounded on the word of reason 1 God to prove this For if childred are punished for the sins of their fathers unto the third and fourth Generation because so long they may by sight or hearing know them and see the prints and monuments of their fraud violence oppression pride and the like and wittingly hold and possesse their ill-gotten goods of which they having knowledge become pertakers of their sinnes and make themselves guilty by approving or imitating them or neglecting to grieve and mourn for them and to make restitution and not removing their cursed things out of their families Then much more they who are Counsellors abettors actors and promoters of ungodly actions and have an hand in the doing of them are pertakers and guilty of them as being their owne sins for which they are justly punished Now the first is manifest

cast out from their Communion as unclean Dogs all reformed Churches will fight for any Reformation which comes neare to them though it be never so well warranted and held forth in the Word of God We read of Manasseh the King of Iudah that when the Captains of the host of the King of Assyria came against him they took him in the thorns bound him in chaines and carryed him to Babylon where he was in great affliction 2 Chron. 33.11 When the City could not defend him he fled for shelter into the Briar bushes and there he was caught and held fast by the hooked pricks for the enemies to take him and even so it will be with us if wee trust in these pricking thornes and betake our selves to them for helpe they will betray us into the enemies hands Wherefore let us set our hearts to rest wholly on our God and to seek to him with fasting prayer and humiliation for deliverance from these Bryars and Thornes and from their hooks and snares And because while we regard iniquity in our hearts the Lord will not heare us let us confesse our sins with mournful hearts and forsake them and the Lord will forgive the iniquity of them and will be our refuge and strength and a present helpe in all our troubles For if we could but prepare our hearts and fit our selves for deliverance by obtaining mercy to have our sinnes and transgressions blotted out and could wash our hearts from wickednesse and put away by repentance our sinnes which doe strengthen the hands of our enimies against us God would quickly scatter all them that rise up to vex us and not spare nor indure them for one moment they are all even the best of them the hatefull pricks of the cursed briar fully ripe for destruction Sin is that which brought them for a curse upon the ground and repentance and putting away of our sins is the onely way to rid the land of them the Lord is ready and waiteth for our amendment that instantly and without delay he may scatter them as with a whirlewinde both the green and the dry The third point in my Text is That God will not suffer the righteous to feel the evill and mischiefe intended and plotted against them by the bands of their enemies and persecutors but will most timely and seasonably take away and destroy all and every prick of that cursed bramble and spare none neither greene nor dry There are two kinds of feeling one is by outward and bodily sense of things which touch us and we touch and handle them this is expressed in the Originall Scriptures by an Hebrew word which implies bodily touching The other is the inward sense of feeling by knowledg and understanding This feeling reacheth beyond bodily sense of the flesh even to the soule and spirit and it is expressed in the Originall by the hebrew words Iadagh and Iabin which signifie to know and understand the thing bodily felt Of this feeling we read Prov. 23.35 where it is said of a drunken man That he is stricken and yet is not sick of his blow he is beaten but he feels it not It is certaine his flesh feeles it and the stripes leave a print behind but he hath not for the present the use of his reason to know and understand because his spirits are drowned in drink and oppressed with moist vapours Also Eccles. 8.5 it is said that he that keepeth the Commandement shall not feele evill that is not evill as a plague or curse reaching to the soule nor as an evill of wrath and revenge for so the righteous doe not feele any evill though they feele in the flesh many afflictions of tryall and chastisement which are not evill but good to them Wee read that Isaac did bodily feele Iacob by touching his hands and neck but he did not know nor understand that it was Iacob whom he felt and so he had a feeling of him in part only by bodily sense but not a full and perfect feeling of him in soule and spirit by knowledg and understanding Here my Text speakes of a full sense and feeling aswell inwardly in soule and spirit as outwardly in the flesh For the word Jabi●u which signifies such a feeling is here used the words thus opened minister the third Doctrine viz. That God out of his tender love and watchfull providence over his Church and people doth frustrate the wicked counsels and purposes doctrine 3 of their Enemies and scatters their persecutors before they proceed and prevaile so far as to make them feel the evill and mischiefe which they are sharply set and cruelly bent to inflict and bring upon them The full Scope and intent of this Doctrine is to shew and to hold out unto us these 3 things First that God is ready to prevent the evills intended against his Church and People by their enemies and delivers them from them oftentimes before they have any sence or feeling of them at all Secondly that though the Lord suffers the wicked to afflict his Church and to be his rod to scourge his People either for their sins by way of sharp correction or for tryall of their faith and patience yet he never leaves them in their hand to feel their worst nor gives them to their lust rage and fury to be devoured and swallowed up of them or to bee put to sense and feeling of paine intollerable Thirdly though the cruell enemies of Gods Church and persecutors of his people may proceed so far as to kill their bodies with sense of outward torment and violence done to the flesh yet they shall never reach to their soules and spirits nor prevaile so farre as to make them feele the evill and mischiefe intended against their inward man the soule and spirit For the confirming of this Doctrine in all these particulars we have cleare testimonies and pregnant examples in the sacred Scriptures First that God prevents the evil intended by the enemies against his people so that they doe not feele it neither doth it touch them at all it is plainly affirmed Psalme 91.2 3. where it is said of them that trust in the Lord and make him their refuge that he will deliver them from the snare of the Fowler and from all other evills which are most terrible so that no evill shall befall them nor plague come neare their dwelling onely with their eyes shall they behold and see the reward of the wicked their enemies Also Psalme 27.2 When the wicked even mine enemies saith David came against me to eate up my flesh they stumbled and fell And Psalme 37. The wicked plotteth against the righteous and gnasheth upon him with his teeth he hath drawne out his sword and bent his Bow to cast downe and to slay such as be upright but the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is comming His sword shall enter into his owne heart and his Bow