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A77004	Occasus occidentalis: or, Job in the VVest. As it was laid forth in two severall sermons, at two publike fasts, for the five associated westerne counties. By Iohn Bond B.L. late lecturer in the City of Exon, now minister at the Savoy, London. A member of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572; Thomason E25_22; ESTC R4274	79,184	92

So much concerning reproofe Vse 2 In the second place this Doctrine of pitie will afford us a patheticall exhortation Exhortation to pity the West In the beginning whereof I must tell you though the Text and historie are altogether Easterne yet this branch of application must be wholly Westerne and therefore I would have you now to take the words as the common cry of all the distressed Counties Cities Market-towns Parishes houses and persons of the Iob-like West this day Suppose brethren that you heard all the well-affected of those Counties and such I dare generally to call them still on the one part roaring to his Majestie as sometimes that mother did cry to the King of Israel when shee had eaten her son for hunger Help my Lord O King 2 Kings 6.26 And then imagine his Majestie answering them in the words of David upon another occasion I am this day weake 2 Sam 3.39 though anointed King and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me they were his sisters two sons Ioab and Abishai Make that supposition upon the one side But then suppose them on the other part crying and yelling to us and to all their scattered brethren in the words of the Text with addition Oh yee Protestant Christian English hearts Men brethren and friends Have pitie upon us have pitie upon us for the hand of God hath touched us But I suppose you are ready to meet this exhortation with an objection Object Why wee are all come together for this very end to pity the West it is the great desire of our bowels and the onely businesse of this day to pity them But tell us now how can we how may we doe this worke effectually and to purpose Answ Brethren it was my chiefe intention Helps to this dutie which are in appearing this day in this place and hath been my principall endeavour in my preparations such as they are to help you in this great duty at present I shall therefore desire your serious and affectionate attention My method in the whole work shall consist of two generall branches I shall endeavour to spread before you First 1. the causes for which we ought really to pitie the West and this Generall will afford us some excitations and incentives to the duty 2. Secondly the meanes by which wee may pitie them indeed and this generall shall yeeld us some instructions and directions for that friendly service First First excitations to quicken us to consider Viz. for our excitation and quickning wee must consider what are the evils of those parts because the object of pity is Malum Evill Now their evils and indeed all evils are of two sorts 1. Culpall evils or the evils of sin these are both the first and worst of all evils and therefore are in the first and chiefe place to be lamented Ier. 2.19 as saith Ieremiah who was a man well skilled in lamentations Know therefore and see that it is an evill thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God 2. Penal evils or the evils of suffering these are the fruits and effects of the former 1 Cor. 15.56 as St. Paul saith the sting of death is sin that is miserie without sin may buzze hisse and scratch a little like a Hornet or Adder that hath lost his sting but it cannot pierce and poyson as wee see in every meer affliction of the Saints Sin alone putteth the venom the deadlinesse into death it selfe 1. First then let us weep and lament over the Countries of our nativitie Westerne sins search for these because of their sins and ours in them Let us bewaile principally the greatest provocations that are and nave been commited in those parts When Iobs three friends are said to come every one from his owne place for to mourne with him and to comfort him Iob 2.11 there is a word used for to comfort which signifieth likewise to mourne with the mournings of repentance to shew that if wee would pitie and comfort our Countries and our selves to purpose this is the right end to begin at namely in the first place to bewaile both their sins and our own Lam. 3.39 Man suffereth for his sin And 't is that alone which putteth all the mortall bitternesse into our cup of trembling So Ieremiah once againe Ier. 4.18 This is thy wickednesse because it is bitter because it reacheth unto thine heart Or thus this is from thy wickednesse that he meaning the enemie the Chaldean is bitter that he reacheth unto thine heart And immediatly there followeth an alarme because of warres my bowels my bowels because thou hast heard Verse 19. O my Soule the sound of the trumpet the alarme of warre Whence wee learne by the Lords methode in punishing what must be our order in lamenting First the sins then the sorrows of a Countrie are to be mourned over The want of this due order is charged against the false Prophets of Iudah as one cause I conceive of her ruine Thy Prophets have seen vaine and foolish things for thee Why Lam. 1.14 they have not discovered thine iniquitie Why What good could that discoverie doe her To turne away thy captivitie Labour wee therefore to turne away the Westerne Captivitie by discovering and bewailing our Westerne iniquities Object But how may this be done in a due measure so as to avoid both the impietie of Cham who discovered his fathers nakednesse and the Partialitie of Ely who was too indulgent to his owne familie Answ I shall endeavour equally to decline both of these extreames and yet to give you some speciall matter of humiliation and to that end take these two hints helps or directories for our more effectuall inquiry after the sins of our Country 1. Search after them by their effects and 2. By their proportions 1. By their Effects which are Banishing sins First you may be guided to find them out by their effects Doe but aske the word of God What provocations especially have an ejecting exiling banishing effect that is doe cause mens houses and Countries to cast them out For I find that there is such a speciall sort of sins in Scripture Jerem. 9.19 Because we have forsaken the land because our dwellings have cast us out Yea I find in the word that divers sorts of sins have this effect Let us put two or three Quaeres to the children of the West concerning these every one shall be taken out of the word of God I will onely put the questions leaving to your selves the pressing of them upon your selves 1. Quaere luke warmnesse both Revel 3.15.6 Brightman First Quaere concerning Luke-warmenesse I find that sin notoriously branded as an Ejector as an Exiler not only of Persons but of whole Churches at once I know thy works saith God to Laodicea and England is by Expositors compared to that Church that thou art neither cold nor

scituate in a barren desolate moore or wildernesse the place is as farre from all fertilitie as commerce no harvest no trading are there to be found but the prison it selfe seemes to be banished and imprisoned In short the whole soyle of that moor is like the banished * stoicks Corsica yeelding nor bread nor water no nor fire enough saith he for a funerall In this prison diverse debtors ●●ve been starved and some were said to eate their owne flesh even in those times of peace and plenty Guesse yee then what cries and yells for bread and water there are now to be heard amongst the many scores which at present are shut up in that straight prison Yea the passengers doe heare the cries ere they see the prison For a close to this point of Imprisonments take but this one word It is a like difficult thing to find amongst our enemies in the West a wicked man in their prisons or a godly man out of them 3. Deaths Lastly if we look to varieties of Deaths and Banishments there is stabbing shooting hanging both by order and at pleasure besides other multitudes of Saints doe die daily by wandring up and downe in dons and caves and holes of the earth yea some with their families have inhabited the woods and clefts of the rocks nay the tops of the ragged rocks Sometimes leading their hungry little ones in their hands and anon carrying them along in their armes to goe and make their bed in the dust and to seek their bread out of desolate places Math. 2.18 all destitute afflicted tormented There you might see in the streets a Rachel a mother weeping for her slaine children Gen. 21.15 16. and will not be comforted because they are not Here in a wood sits another Hagar-like with a dry bottle and a fainting sonne and she lifts up her voice and weeps Not farre off in an house you may discover a third like her of Zarephath ● Kin. 17.12 dressing and baking up the last meale of the Barrell with the utmost oyle of the Cruse that she and her family may eate it and die Yea it hath beene a lot which Ladies of honourable Families have not escaped viz. after they have bin deprived of their houses by fire of their goods by plundring of their lands by Sequestration of their Sons under yeares by imprisonment at last to escape to the next Garrison on foot almost bare-footed in borrowed shooes leaving their wearing Garments in the hands of the Enemy But what doe I multiply instances seeing the bare History of Westerne sufferings of this kind would seeme but meere Poetry to the multitude 3. The Afflicting of Job in his Soule The third and highest degree or common place of the enemies cruelty upon Job was afflicting of him in his soule with spirituall scourges and scorpions by temptations false accusations and desertions This was indeed like the breaking of the bones and chopping of them in pieces as for the pot and as flesh within the Cauldron Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life so said Satan when he compared Jobs goods with his body but Christianity will tell us life for life and all that a man is will he give for his soule And againe Prov 18.14 the spirit of man will support his infirmities but a wounded spirit who can beare In the last place therefore the enemy doth set upon his soule by a strong temptation from the wife of his bosom Then said his wife unto him Iob 2.9 Wilt thou still retaine thine integrity Curse God and die In which words there is a scornefull exprobration and a wicked direction the exprobration in these words Dost thou still retaine thine integrity As if shee had said what art thou so senselesse so sottish as still to goe on in this course What have all thy prayers fastings and sacrifices profited thee Where are the ●arnings what is the advantage of thine holinesse and singularity And yet dost thou still retaine thine integrity Away with these emptie shewes and fruitless devotions delude thy selfe no longer with dreaming of help and happinesse from thy Jehovah but seeing there is no hope of thy deliverance by his blessing dispatch thy selfe with a curse Curse God and die These bolts came from his wife next what sharpe and keen charges doth he receive from his mistaking friends Who by their false accusations and conclusions against him did endeavour to dispute him out of his innocency Thus Eliphaz begins to charge him Remember I pray thee who ever perished Iob 4.7 being innocent or where were the righteous cut off Then Bildad doth second him Doth God pervert judgement Iob 8.3 or doth the Almighty pervert justice And lastly Iob 11.2 3. Zophar the Naamathite is in the same straine Should a man full of talke be justified should thy lips make men hold their peace These are the darts of his friends But finally the Lord himselfe doth strike him thorow with spirituall agonies and desertions of which he complaineth in these words The arrowes of the Almighty are within me Iob 6.4 the poyson whereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God doe set themselves in array against me The Caldeans and Sabeans the losses of his goods and children together with the ulcers of his body the cruell mistakes of his friends and the malignancy of his wife were all as nothing to this spirituall battell-array Parallels In my Westerne parallel to this affliction I must double my Lamentations Alas alas poore native Country This last degree of Jobs misery is the highest and heaviest of all so is it that wherein thou canst most aptly and fully compare with this thy pattern For Did Satan turne the mouth of Jobs owne Ordnance upon himselfe 1. Friends and kinsfolks treacherous Gen 10.25 making his friends to become miserable comforters Did also the wife of his bosome turne Malignant Surely these our dayes are as the dayes of Peleg in whose time the earth was divided they are the very times of division which were fore-told by our Saviour when he sayes There shall be five in one house divided three against two Luke 12.51 52.53 compared with Matth. 10.34 35 36. and two against three it is like that the three were Malignants the father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother the mother in law against her daughter in law and the daughter in law against her mother in law Loe there are the five Stella ad loc if you take the same woman to be both the mother to her son and the mother in law to his wife But though a shower of stormy divisions hath over-spread the whole Land in generall Luke 12.54 yet you see this cloud arising especially in the West there is the father divided against the son that is many an old wicked