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nature_n	law_n	sin_n	sin_v	3,553	5	9.3146	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02058	An alarum to England sounding the most fearefull and terrible example of Gods vengeance, that euer was inflicted in this world vpon mankind for sinne: seruing generally as a warning for all people to eschew sinne, lest they partake of the like vengeance. By Robert Gray, preacher of the Word of God.	Gray, Robert, 16th/17th cent.	1609 (1609)	STC 12203; ESTC S120400	50,215	146

sinne of the parents spiritually and eternally if it walke in good wayes and betake it selfe to holy and vertuous courses but if the childe of vngodly parents liue neuer so carefully and conscionably according to Gods will yet the Lord will visit the sinnes of the parents vpon it corporally temporally and if it walke in the wayes of the parents it shall beare the sinnes of the parents eternally also But admit that a childe of vngodly parents neuer come to commit sinne actually the Lord in his iustice may visit the sinnes of the parents vpon that childe both temporally and eternally because it is of the same nature that the parēts are euen as the Hunts-man finding a litter of some noysome obnoxious beastes killes them though they neuer did harme because their nature is to doe harme if they liue euen so God in his iustice may destroy the very infants and sucking babes both temporally and eternally though they neuer committed sinne actually because their nature is corrupt and tainted by propagation from their parents But you will say vnto mée The like may bée sayd of the children of godly parents No For the godly haue a promise that God will not onely bée their GOD but the GOD of their séede also so that if the children of the godly dye while they hang vpon the brest or in the wombe yet there is hope of mercy by reason of the promise but if the children of the wicked dye before they be of power to commit sinne actually there is no hope of mercy but a fearful expectatiō of iustice because there is no promise of mercy belōging vnto them You sée then the reason why God destroied those infants sucking babes of Sodom with this temporall iudgement of fire brimstone euen because they were children of vngodly parēts And if he hath destroyed them eternally he hath done no more then in his iustice he might because he neuer made promise of mercy vnto them The second reason why God destroyed these children was to increase the griefe and sorrow of their parents for commonly the miseries of our children are more grieuous vnto vs then our owne miseries Dauid tooke the death of his sonne Absalō so heauily that hée wisht hée had dyed for him And out of question when this people saw their children lie sprawling in the fire scorcht and burnt with the heate thereof when they heard them scréeke and cry and could not helpe them it was as grieuous vnto them as their owne miserie and therefore the Lord did it euen to increase and inlarge their sorrow The third reason why the Lord destroyed these children was because they should not walke in the wicked abominable waies of their parents for if they had liued the nature which they drew from their parents would haue drawne them to the sinnes of their parents lest therefore these children should haue traced the sinfull steps of their parents the Lord takes them away in the same destruction with their parents The last reason why these children were destroyed was because GOD would leaue none of that wicked brood to remaine vpon the earth there were ouer-many of that ranke already and therefore the Lord to the end he might roote out the memorie of this people he destroyed children and all Whereby man is taught to liue holily iustly and soberly in this world forasmuch as a man is not wicked onely to himselfe but to his posteritie also The wickednesse of the parents lyes heauily vpon the children and therefore if thou hast no regard of thine owne soule yet haue a respect of thy children and for their sakes cease to doe euill The Prophet Esay summons the children of Witches the séed of the adulterer and of the whore and the children of the rebellious hée summons them all before God and he layes this heauie iudgement vpon them There is no peace to the wicked saith my God It is a fearefull thing to be the child of an Usurer of an Adulterer or Whore of a Drunkard of a murtherer of a blasphemer or of any other notorious wicked person whatsoeuer for surely God will visit the sinnes of the parents vpon the children as he hath threatned in the commandement temporally liue the children neuer so well but temporally and spiritually both if the children doe walke in the wayes of their parents Last of all concerning the generalitie of that destruction which the LORD brought vpon this Countrey and people it is said that Hee destroyed all that grew vpon the earth or as Tremelius hath learnedly translated the same wordes thus All that the earth brought forth and nourished all cattell and beasts of the field all creeping things and whatsoeuer was vpon the face of the earth was destroyed in this ouerthrow And here we may iustly wonder at the iudgements of God which he extendeth not only vnto man which hath iudgements will nor vnto babes and sucklings which are tainted with corruption by the propagation of nature from their parents but also to vnreasonable creatures which neuer sinned but are subiect to vanitie against their willes which doe not offend their Creator but follow the law of their creation and shall neuer come into iudgement yet these creatures as void of sinne as of reason are oftentimes plagued and destroyed for the sinne of man Thus was the earth cursed for the sinne of Adam Thus were al these creatures destroyed with the floud for the sinne of that age and yet we may say of them as Pithagoras sometimes said Quid meruistis oues placidum pecus Quid meruere boues animal sine fraude What haue these poore sillie creatures deserued that they should bée punished nay destroyed hauing neuer offended Wée are the sinfull wretches of the world workers of all iniquitie deseruing not to be scourged with rods but with Scorpions We I say being onely nocent cause innocencie it selfe to be punished for our transgressions Behold then O sinfull man thine owne vngraciousnesse thou doest not only procure vengeance to thy selfe by thy sinne but to euery thing else that doth serue thy sinfull vse Man by his creation is a Lord and a high commander vpon the earth for as it is in the Psalme he hath dominion ouer all the workes of God all things are put in subiection vnder his feet all sheepe and oxen yea and the beastes of the field the birdes of the ayre the fishes of the sea and whatsoeuer walketh thorow the pathes of the seas So that man in reason should content himselfe with this dominion and Lordship which he hath ouer the creatures and not séeke and procure the destruction of them Man should satisfie himselfe with the vse and commoditie of these creatures and not seeke the ruine and wracke of these poore bond-seruants both by ill intreating them himselfe and by prouoking God with his sinne to plague punish and destroy them And surely but that the prouidence of God doth restraine