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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87806	Five seasonable sermons. As they were preached before eminent auditories, upon several arguments. / By Paul Knell Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometimes chaplain to a regiment of curiasiers in His late Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.; Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664. Israel and England paralelled.; Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664. Looking-glasse for Levellers.	1660 (1660)	Wing K678; Thomason E1766_2; ESTC R209658	76,872	199

grievous famine there was in Germany of late years where men like so many Nebuchadnezzars were fain to eat grass like oxen yea like so many Cannibals were ready to cat up one another We have heard also what grievous Wars have been there and in other Countries and because we were not bettered by their sufferings God hath put England into the Swords commission saying Sword go thorow this land we know that it hath seized on us as well as upon our sister Countries But O thou Sword of the Lord how long will it be ere thou be quiet Put up thy self into thy scabbard rest and be still And that the sword may rest and be still while it is called to day let us desire conditions of peace and the only condition that I know is contrition godly sorrow for our sins For how can we hope for peace with men so long as we are at defiance with Almighty God Can we possibly imagine or can we say we shall have peace so long as we follow the vain imaginations of our hearts No let us not deceive our selves What peace said Jehu to Joram so long as the Whoredomes of thy mother Jezebel and her Witchcrafts are so many So what peace may I say can we hope for so long as our abominations and impieties are so many No there is no peace to the wicked We may flatter our selves and say we shall never be removed the Lord of his goodness hath made our hill so strong But if we turn not from our sins God will turn us up-side down he will drive us out of our land as he drove out the Amorites and he will give it to some Neighbour of ours that is better than we he will take away the Kingdnme of God that is the Gospel of the Kingdome from us and he will give it to a Nation that shall bring forth the fruits thereof For we have heard what he hath done to other Nations by destroying them utterly Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit and shall we be so besotted as still to think we shall escape No If we husband not well this Adhue we must expect a Subvertetur if we despise or abuse Gods goodness and mercy there is nothing to be looked for but judgement severity that which is threatned against the Ninevites shall certainly be executed upon us though not within fourty dayes yet within a short time we shall be overthrown For what if the voice of joy and health be within many of our dwellings yet if we repent not with these Ninevites God will send his pale horse among us pining sickness pestilence and death What if our Garners be full and plenteous with all manner of store what if our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets yet if we repent not with these Ninevites God will send his black horse among us famine and cleanness of teeth in all our coasts our fruitful land God will make barren for the wickedness and unworthiness of us that dwell therein What if our eyes swell with fatness yet if we do but what we list we shall find that God hath but fatted us up against the day of slaughter As for Gods red war-horse we more than hear him dash I am sure we find by sad experience that of Solomon most true that there is a time of War as well as a time of peace Again what if the Sun-shine of the Gospel light our feet now into the way of peace What if the Lord give us the word and great be the company of the orthodox Preachers yet if we repent not with these Ninevites our Candlestick shall be removed there shall be a Famine not of bread only but also of hearing the word of God the time will come when we shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Son of man and shall not see it we shall wander from sea to sea and from the North even unto the East we shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it as the Israelites are threatned Amos. 8.11 12. In a word what if our land for the present were as the garden of Eden yet if we repent not with these Ninevites it shall be turned into a wilderness it shall be an habitation for Ziim and for Jim the Cormorant and the Bittern shall possess it Owls shall dwell in it Satyres shall daunce in it God shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness as the Prophet speaketh he that hath exalted the Kingdome of England up to heaven as he threatned Capernaum will bring her down to hell she that sitteth as Queen of the Nations and Princess among the Provinces that liveth in pleasure and saith she shall see no mourning if she humble not her self in the ashes of humiliation she shall be humbled by some other into the ashes of destruction she shall sadly sit down in the dust and shall no more be called tender and delicate She that hath the noise of harpers heard in her and that in some places yet rejoyceth at the sound of the Organ she that hath in her the voice of the Bridegroom and of the Bride she that is so thronged and crowded with multitudes of people that they go in and out at her gates by hundreds and by thousands as the Prophet speaketh yet if she repent not like these Ninevites she shall utterly be overthrown the dayes shall come upon her when no more pleasant voice shall be for ever heard in her but Lacrymae shall be all her lesson Wo and Alas shall be her note and every head in her instead of perfume shall be covered with ashes every limb instead of silk shall be girded with sackcloth every hand instead of clapping shall be wrung every cheek instead of painting shall be furrowed with tears nay her very gates shall mourn for want of passengers her houses shall drop down for want of Inhabitants and her Temples shall be ruinated for want of Worshippers But why speak I all this while in the future tense for hath not Almighty God begun with us already Yes he hath I am sure the wrath of God hath been long revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men for he hath moved the land and divided it so that out enemies are those of our own house and for these divisions that are among us there are great thoughts of heart many mens hearts fail for fear and for looking after those things that are coming on us Yet as dangerous as our condition is let us not despair of Gods goodness toward us As I would not seem to bring you in fear where no fear is so neither would I have your fear swallow up your hope for if we do but repent of the evil of our sins God will likwise repent of the evil of his judgements We have a most pregnant Text for this with which I conclude Jer. 18.7 8. At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation and concerning a Kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it if that Nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them To wind up all therefore in one word of exhortation let us repent and be converted that our sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Let Gods warning-peece reclaim us and then his murdering-peece shall never go off let us repent while there are Adhuc quadraginta dies yet fourty dayes so shall we escape the fatal Subvertetur the overthrow here threatned And let us make no long tarrying to turn unto the Lord let us not put off our repentance from day to day but let this very day present be the birth-day of our new birth I and ye and all that hear me this day let us now turn every one of us from our evil wayes and from the wickedness that is in our hands Which if we do God himself will likewise turn and repent he will turn our calamity and our captivity as the rivers in the south he will turn from his fierce anger that yet we perish not Which we humbly beg of him not for any of our own merits we utterly renounce them all but for the merits of his eternal Son our blessed Saviour FINIS