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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04986	Ten sermons upon several occasions, preached at Saint Pauls Crosse, and elsewhere. By the Right Reverend Father in God Arthur Lake late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells	Lake, Arthur, 1569-1626.	1640 (1640)	STC 15135; ESTC S108204	119,344	184

compassion chargeth them both with sinne and senselesnesse O Jerusalem Ierusalem that killest the Prophets a●● stonest them that were sent unto thee that is their sinne how often would I have gathered thy Children together as the henne doth her chickens but thou would'st not That was the senselesnesse But what was the issue even a sudde● destruction from God that upon her might come all the righteous bloud that was spilt from the bloud of Abe● unto the bloud of Zacharias So likewise in the Nineteenth of Luke When he beheld the City hee wept and gives the reason in his prayer O that thou hadst knowne in this thy day those things that belong unto thy peace That is their sinne but now are they hid from thine eyes that is their senselesnesse Hee addes the issue Therefore shall thine enemies cast a banke about thee c. But doth God enter into judgement onely with the Iew and are these onely the defects of the Iewes No The parable made in this Chapter sheweth that it reacheth unto the Gentiles also For when the Sonne of man commeth hee shall scarce find faith in the earth And because iniquity shall abound charitie shall wax cold Sinne shall be ripe even unto harvest before Christ send the Angels his reapers to cut downe this field of the world The world shall bee sinfull and as the Apostle speaketh The last dayes shall be perillous times men shall be lovers of themselves more then lovers of God Hee goeth on particularizing their sinnes against the first Table against the second shewing that the fleshly tables of their hearts shall scarce retayne any print of the hand writing of the spirit of God the world doth not grow more old in regard of naturall strength then men grow old in goodnesse and vertue or rather sin growes unto his highest floud when nature growes unto her lowest ebbe and as men are more sinfull so are they more and more senselesse resisting the Holy Ghost with uncircumcised eares and heartes the first world strove against the Spirit of God and no marvell for the prophesie of Isaiah in his eighth Chapter which is reported by Christ and the Apostles doth containe an inseparable propertie from sinne which is to make us winke with our eyes and stoppe our eares and obdurate our heartes that in seeing wee may see and not perceave and in hearing wee may heare and not understand and so the Devill doth hood-winke us and stupifie us least wee should be converted and so saved Saint Paul notes it in the third Chapter of the first Epistle to the Thessaloni●ns Men shall c●y Peace peace when sudden desolation shall be at hand Or as Iob speakes spend their dayes in pleasure and in a moment goe downe quickly to hell so that King Davids compassionate admiration will prove true who having described in Psal 73. the jollity of the wicked who in the height of their prosperity do open their mouth against heaven sheweth that they are sencelesse of their slippery standing and wondring at their fault crying out Now doe they perish suddenly fearefully finally And indeed this world must answer that other world it must needs be that they which will not neither be reclaimed nor forewarned must be surprized Our Saviour Christ expresseth it in three fine similies The first is of the travell of a woman so shall the judgement day come Every wicked man hath a double travell Saint James teacheth it in his first chapter Lust conceives and bringeth forth sinne that is a pleasant travell But this wombe resteth not here for sinne will not leave till it have brought forth death that is a painfull travell but an unexpected childe when a man is not delivered of that which he conceived his issue is death when he at least expected a contented life But so doth God overtake a sinner even as Iob also resembling sinne to sweet meat in the mouth shewes that it proves the gall of Aspes in the stomacke The second simile is of a Theefe whereunto Christ resembleth the judgement day not only to expresse his unexpected coming but the event of his judgement which will rob us of all that wherein we set our wicked hearts delight you read it in the parable of the man whose ground bearing plenty he was to inlarge his barnes but he addes his wicked affection groveling upon earthly things when he encourageth his soule to eat and drinke because it had provision for many yeeres but the Oracle checkes him Thou foole this night shall they take thy soule from thee then whose shall all these things be Dives for all his soft raiment and delicate fare had nothing left him when he was summoned by death to shroud him from or refresh him in the flames of hell The third simile is of the snare of a Fowler or a Hunter which taketh the beast or the bird who catching after the pray is caught by the engine and Saint Paul tels us that in committing sinne we doe receive the sting of death The condition of Adams sinne attends the sinne of every sonne of Adam whiles eating the forbidden fruit he looked to have eyes open that he might behold himselfe as a God he found indeed how he was circumvented by the equivocation of the phrase that to be a god knowing good and evill is but a periphrasis of the devill and indeed he became unexpectedly but justly a god like unto him and so shall all his sonnes that impiously transgresse Gods lawes heare that dreadfull voyce Goe ye cursed into everlasting fire provided for the Divell and his angels You have heard the proportion of correspondency so farre as it concernes the bad now must you heare it so farre as it concernes the good for though the world were so sinfull and so sencelesse yet was there a Noah left and his family but one Noah and one family There was a Noah that found favour with God and was righ●eous in the sight of God God never shewes onely justice but ever mingles it with some mercy Though all should justly perish yet some shall be mercifully saved ●n a whole wicked world God will have some Noah ●nd that he may fit him he will give his holy Spirit un●o him Noah had found no grace with God had he not ●eceived the grace of righteousnesse from God But Saint Paul expresseth in the eleventh of the Hebrewes the two ●arts of Noahs pietie which was reverence and con●●dence reverence in making the Arke confidence in ●sing the Arke not onely obeying Gods word in pro●iding the meanes to save himselfe but also using it when ●●e time came notwithstanding others so many others ●id despise it Whereupon followed two effects that he ●as not surprised by the flood and as the Apostle saith he condemned the world You have heard that there was a Noah but marke that there was but one Noah and his family a small number to a whole world but such is the excesse of the wicked above the good so many