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A36314 A sermon occasioned by the late earthquake which happen'd in London and other places on the eighth of September, 1692 / Preached to a congregation in Reading by Samuel Doolittle. Doolittle, Samuel. 1692 (1692) Wing D1880; ESTC R32821 22,758 36

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Heaven Air and Earth Lo This is he who shall visit Sometimes we read of man's visiting God Sometimes of one man's visiting another hers of God's visiting man 2. The visited Thou To whom is it the Lord of hosts makes this visit To Jerusalem v. 1. called Ariel the city where David dwelt Jerusalem though the place where the Temple stood and the Worship of God was performed Jerusalem the Metropolis the head City of the Jews must be visited Thou even thou O Jerusalem the City of David and the City of God too shalt be visited 3. The visitation it self with thunder and earthquake Sometimes God visits man in a way of Grace and Mercy when he comes to make a visit he bringeth many presents and love-tokens along with him And oh Blessed are they upon whom the great God bestoweth such visits as these Of such visits you read 1 Sam. 2. 21. Psalm 65. 9. and the greatest Mercy God ever vouchsafed to this wicked and apostate World of ours is called by this name Luke 1. 68. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people Sometimes the Scene is changed and God visits in a way of Judgment Not in Love but in Wrath not as a Friend but as an Enemy not as an Indulgent Father but as a Revenging Judge In these visits not Mercy but Justice is his attendant Psal 89. 32. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes Jer. 5. 9. Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Hos 9. 7. The days of visitation are come the days of recompence are come and Israel shall know it And in this manner must Jerusalem the holy and once beloved City be visited by the Lord of hosts God threatens them more generally v. 1 2. Wo to Ariel to Ariel the city where David dwelt Add ye year to year let them kill sacrifices Yet I will distress Ariel and there shall be heaviness and sorrow and it shall be to me as Ariel q. d. Notwithstanding your formal customary worship in which you confide so much both City and Temple shall be brought into great straits Both City and Temple shall be like the Altar filled with the Bodies of dead men instead of slain beasts sacrificed to my Justice and the threatned evil is more particularly exprest in the Text thunder and earthquake From the words these three Doctrines may be raised Doct. 1. Gods executing of Judgments on a sinful people is his visiting of them A day of calamity is a day of visitation Great Persons have their set times for visiting And so hath the great God Men have their time of sinning and the Lord of hosts will have his time of visiting Amos 3. 13 14. Hear ye and testifie in the house of Jacob saith the Lord God the God of hosts that in the day that I shall visit the transgression of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el the time of punishing Moab is called the year of visitation Men sin boldly and impudently affront the Majesty of Heaven and Earth They provoke him day after day year after year and God seems to take no notice Nay notwithstanding the frequent repetition of their crimes he gives them many blessings but a visiting time will come Therefore now go lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee Behold mine angel shall go before thee Nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them Poor Sinner thou goest on in thy Rebellions addest new sins to thy old ones and God defers his anger But I may say the day of the visitation com●th and when it cometh God will make thee such a visit as shall cause thy countenance to change thy spirit to sink thy courage to fail and thine heart to tremble It will be a troublesome and unwelcome visit indeed Let me ask thee the same question holy Job askt himself when he visiteth what shall I answer him What wilt thou answer When God shall visit thee for all thy oaths and curses for all thine intemperance and excess thine extravagant mirth and drunken-bouts for all thine omission of duties for all thy formality and hypocrisie in them for all thine injustice and oppression for all thy contempt of his goodness and abuse of his patience for all thy slightings of his Grace and trampling on the Blood and Bowels of his dear Son for all thy resisting grieving quenching and vexing of his Holy Spirit when God shall visit for these things What wilt What canst thou answer him Answer him Alas Like the man that came to the marriage feast without a wedding-garment thou wilt be speechless Gods angry visits bring guilty Creatures to a defenceless silence O Sinner when the living dreadful and eternal God shall dispute the matter with thee with frowns in his brow and a drawn Sword in his hand thou wilt be forct to lay thine hand upon thy mouth and thy mouth in the dust for thou wilt neither be able to resist nor answer him Doct. II. Even those places where the worship of God is fixt even those people who enjoy the greatest Church-Priviledges and abound in the external performance of holy duties may be visited of the Lord of hosts in a very dreadful and terrible manner Was Sodom and Gomorrah visited of God Ay so was Jerusalem too Church-Priviledges though of the highest kind a multitude of formal and liveless Prayers a thousand Sacrifices laid on the Altar if our lusts be not sacrificed too won't keep off the day of visitation Thou even thou O Jerusalem shalt be visited You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities London in respect of others may be called the Holy City the Religious City in it God hath much people in it there are many that fear and worship God in that City there is frequent praying and much hearing for Spiritual Priviledges and the Worship of God it is another Jerusalem And yet London oh how impartial is the Judge of the whole Earth hath had its years of visitation in the year 1665 God visited London with a devouring Plague insomuch that that year was called the Visitation and a dreadful year it was for God and Death visited both at once The next year 66 God visited London again and when God made this visit a fire went before him and a mighty flame followed after he went through the City in clouds of smoak A little more than a Week ago in the same Moneth of September God visited London a third time he walkt through the Streets of London and the earth shook and trembled under him And if two such Cities as Jerusalem and London have been thus visited by the Lord of hosts what number of Sinners can hope to escape In the