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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21056	A sermon preached at the publicke fast To the Commons house of Parliament. April. 5th. 1628. By Ier. Dyke minister of Gods Word, at Epping in Essex.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1628 (1628)	STC 7424; ESTC S100103	32,686	66

taking of warning was the sauing of his house Hee that takes warning shall deliuer his soule Ezek. 33. 5. The King of Syria find many dangerous proiects against the King of Israel Elisha still giues the King of Israel warning of the danger 2. King 6. 10. The King of Israel took his warning and what was the issue Hee sent to the place which the man of God had told him and warned him of and he saued himselfe there not once nor twice The way to saue our selues from the dangers wee are warned of is to take Gods warnings Looke vpon all the warnings God hath giuen vs and consider if it may not be sayd of vs as of Moab Ier. 48. 16. The calamity of Moab is neere to come and his affliction hasteth fast Yea consider if we haue not the buds of the figtree telling vs that summer is nigh and that iudgement is neere euen at the doores And hastens our affliction and sit we still As wee desire to preuent the fatall ruine of this renowmed Church and Kingdome so in the feare of God be wee perswaded to take warning But how is that to be done wherein stands this taking of warning That is now the second thing in the Text. Noahs wisedome in taking warning God giues and he takes warning and that 1. in beleeuing it 2. in fearing it 3. in making vse of it for safety 1. In beleeuing it By faith Noah c. That should indeed be mens wisedomes to take Gods warnings by beleeuing God is to bee beleeued in his threatnings aswell as in his promises And this was the Niniuites wisedome Ion. 3. 5. So the people of Niniueh beleeued God And this is the first ground of safety If Noah had not beleeued he had not feared if he had not feared he had not prepared an Arke if an Arke had not beene prepared he had perished But now his Arke saues him out of fayth and feare hee builds his Arke And this is it God lookes for at our hands that after so many warnings we should beleeue him Noah did so and though hee were warned by immediate Reuelation and in that regard had more reason to beleeue then wee haue yet againe in some respects wee hau● more reason to beleeue then he had For 1. He was warned onely once and that an hundre● and twenty yeeres before the flood came we reade o● no more warnings that hee had In an hundred an● twenty yeeres he might haue an hundred and twent● doubts and questions in his heart whether it shoul● be so or no. But we haue had warning vpon warning seuerall kinds of warnings and euery of these iterate So that as God speakes to Moses in that case Exod. 4 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. so it may bee sayd of vs. So that i● regard of the variety and frequency of our warnings we haue more reason to beleeue then Noah had 2. He was warned as the text saith of things as yet not ene and yet he beleeues there was nothing in naturall course that presaged the flouds He sees nothing till the floud begins and yet he beleeued Now in this regard wee haue more reason to beleeue than hee He was warned of things not seene but we are warned of things seene we cannot say in this case as the Church complaines in another Psal 74. 9. We see not our signes we see our signes euen all signes of a flood that may be Except ye see signes and wonders saith our Sauiour in another case ye will not beleeue Ioh. 4. 48. it was somewhat yet that they would beleeue then we see signes and wonders and yet wee beleeue not Except I may see and feele saith Thomas I will not beleeue Ioh. 20. 25. but when he did see and feele he beleeued We if we haue not lost our sight and senses both see and feele and yet will not beleeue The people of Nineveh beleeued God when Ionas warned them yet forty dayes c. The men of Nineveh will rise vp in iudgement against vs of this Nation they had farre lesse reason to beleeue than wee haue and yet they beleeued we haue farre more reason to beleeue and yet we beleeue not 1. They had but one witnesse we are compassed about with a cloude of witnesses 2. They were warned but once we haue beene warned vnto wearinesse 3. They could see no likelihood of any such suddaine danger they knew of no preparations abroad they see no enemies begirting their City with a siege they were a strong and a well prouided City we heare and know of enemies of potent and provoked enemies and of their great preparations 4. They were Heathens and Idolaters that professed not the name of God we glory in our Christian title and profession in our beleeuing in God 5. They were warned onely by a stranger one of a nation held in suspition and ielousie If some Spaniard should now come into England and threaten it with desolation within forty dayes what little regard would we giue vnto it But we are warned and threatned by those of our owne nation of whose loue loyalty and fidelity wee can make no doubt by those that pray for the welfare of the Nation and wrestle mightily with God for the peace of it Here is a great deale of oddes betweene Englands and Ninevehs warnings and yet Nineueh beleeued God and wee beleeued him not We haue more warnings they more fayth The men of Nineueh will iudge this nation for their vnbeleefe How long and how often hath God warned vs by his Ministers and yet may they say as Is 53. 1. Lord who hath beleeued our report How truely agrees that to vs. Hab. 1. 5. Behold and regard and wonder maruellously for I will worke a worke in your dayes which ye will not beleeue though it be told you It is iust our case though wee heare that which may make both our eares tingle yet we will not beleeue it It is iust with vs as it was in that case Act. 27. 10. Paul there giues them fayre warning Sirs I perceiue that this voyage will be with hurt and much dammage not onely of the lading and the ship but also of our liues And so it prooued in the sequel But v. 11. The Centurion beleeued the master and the owner of the ship more then those things which were spoken by Paul We are warned of a storme and that no small tempest is like to lie vpon vs and that all hope that wee shall be saued is like to be taken away and yet for all this we are readier to beleeue any that will comfort vs with some poore shadowes of hope then to beleeue Gods Pauls Nay wee are worse then the Centurion for he yet beleeued the Master and the owner of the ship and if hee had told him of danger hee would not haue loosed from Crete Why now the Master and Owner of the ship he and not Paul alone tells vs of the danger Our souereigne Lord