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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43849	England's prospective-glasse a sermon at a metropolitical visitation held at the cathedral church of Christ in Canterbury on the 29th of April, 1663 : preacht before the right reverend father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of Chichester ... representative of the most reverend father in God, William ... Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... / by Sam. Hinde, one of His Majesties chaplains, and present incumbent of St. Mary's Church in Dover ...	Hinde, Samuel.	1663 (1663)	Wing H2056; ESTC R43251	19,582	33

the Statutes and the Hests of Heaven And Jeroboam the Son of Nebat that made Israel to sinne and set up his Calves in Dan and Bethel before Rehoboam their native King and Sovereign Thus they multiplyed their Transgressions at Gilgal and their Altars as the Furrows of the Field Profunde peccaverunt sient in diebus Gibeah They have deeply sinn'd as in the dayes of Gibeah Why what dayes were those Answ Those very dayes when there was no King in Israel when Fecit quisque Iudges 17.6 when every Man did what seemed good in his own eyes and when every thing that was Bad seemed Good whole Floods of Disorder and Seas of Confusion in Church and State had now delug'd all the Territories of Israel The Idolatries of Micah Bishop An. the Burglaries and Robberies of Dan the Adulteries and Murthers of Gibeah Micah a private Man Iudg. 17.1 Ephraim a publick Court Gibeah a thronged City Iudg. 20.4 and Dan a glorious Tribe Micah at Mount Ephraim at the middle of the Land Gibeah at one end and Dan at the other all wrapt up in the same disorder and confusion 2 Sam. 20.1 And who were the Sheba's that blew these Trumpets of Rebellion Gen. 38.29 who the Pharez that made such wide and rude Breaches in the Churches sides But the great pretender to Prophecy the onely Spirit-Mongers Text. Hos 13.16 Haba 1.11 the Spiritual Men of time such as endeavoured to bring even God himself into their Conspiracies It was those dayes of Confusion that brought in these dayes of Visitation It was those Men of whom my Text declares The Prophet is a Fool the Spiritual Man is mad Jer. 5.9 And now shall not God visit for these things shall not his soul be avenged on such a Nation as this yea he takes the Rod in his Hand Psal 89.32 Isa 28.18 Isa 28.14 and Catechises them What did your Prophets covenant with Death and Hell did they make a scorn of my Judgments and bear you in hand that the dayes of Visitation should never come that Prophet is a Fool. Jer. 5.12 13. Did your Spiritual Men tell you the dayes of recompence would not come nigh in your dayes and time I tell you Ezek. 13.10 your Spiritual Men are mad For both Deus Dies visitationis the God of vengeance for which you never cared and the Day of vengeance which you never feared are come upon you as a Thief in the night 1 Thes 5.2 Luke 4.21 Text. and this day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears The dayes of visitation are come the dayes of recompence are come and Israel shall know it both by their own and Prophets ruine Vers 1.2 3 4 6 7 c. What it is to change Joy into Mourning Abundance into Scarcity Cleaness to Filthiness Religion to Idolatry numerous Armies into a Kibroth-hattaavah Graves of Lust dayes of Triumph to dayes of Vengeance dayes of Sinning to dayes of Recompence of Knowledge to Ignorance Wise Men to Fools sober Men to mad Men and Purity and Goodness to Iniquity and Hatred For this ten fold prevarication they stand indicted in this Chapter and Text sins which I do but touch I cannot stand to handle And so from the sins committed by them I come to the judgements inflicted on them from the Retrospect to the Prospect 2. Part. The dayes of visitation are come c. The visitations of Heaven are multifarious and our God sometimes visits in Person Hab. 3.3 Mat. 25.36 sometimes by Proxie In Heaven he overlooks the Royal Orders and Armies of those Lights and Lamps of Glory in their great and numberless variety Psal 65 9. In Earth he visits several Persons Parishes Provinces Kingdomes Nations He visits the Sons of Men Psal 106.4 sometime in mercy to deliver them from their Vassalage and Slavery from their Bondage and Captivity So he visited Israel Visitans Visitars when he delivered them from the Amonite ●o●d 3.16 c. whose height was as the height of Cedars Amos 2.9 and the strength as the strength of Oakes He visits the souls of Men by his Spirit conveying through the Conduits of his mercy a thousand sweet influences of Gace and Piety Acts 15.14 of Peace and Pardon in Christ Jesus Oriens ex alto Zach. 3.8 Luke 1.78 ib. ver 68. By his word the day-spring from on high visits us and gives a rice to that gratulatory Song of Zachary Blessed be the Lord of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people 1 Cor. 11.24 Luke 22.19 1 Sam. 9.9 2. By his Word and Sacraments in the Persons of those he calls Seers in the old Testament and Overseers in the New To these he gives a Faculty to cure the Blinde those that are born and bred in Blindness Ignorance and Superstition and to open their Eyes with their Spiritual Eye-Salve Acts 20.28 Luke 14.13 Rev. 3.18 Acts 3.21 22. 1 King 18.21 By his Sacraments D.D. Mat. 28.19.24 Psal 80.14 1 Cor. 11. to make the Deaf to hear by thundering out the terrours of his Law and the Dumb to speak and speak loud and plain of the Gracious Promises of his Gospel the Lame to walk those that halt between two Opinions are set right and straight by application of this Balm he visits the hereditary Leper by our ministration in Baptisme the customary Leper in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper washing us from Original and cleansing us from our actual transgression And all these are merciful and gracious visitations But if these will not prevail he knowes how to shift Scenes to turn over another Leaf and to visit us after another manner First our sins in Anger and call us to account for all our licentious back-slidings as holy Job speaks Job 35.15 Secondly Job 35.15 our selves in Thunder as the Prophet Isaiah sayes Isa 29.6 Thou shalt be visited of the Lord with thunder and shaking and a great noise a whirlwind and a tempest and a devouring fire But alas we are never able to stand out such a terrible visitation as this is For as the same Prophet Isa 33.14 Who can stand before the devouring fire and dwell before everlasting burning Thirdly Our posterity in punishment Exod. 20.5 Now every punishment is a visitation and the grievousness of a punishment is measured out by the greatness and extent of it as here where God visits the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children to the third and fourth Generation c. But this is still with temporal punishments OBS. For as no Child can be saved by his Fathers goodness so shall never any be damned for his Fathers wickedness And now I see not why the Prophet might not take in all these three visitations those of mercy being neglected and by conference of Scripture with Scripture of Prophet with Prophet It is very clear that God visits their sins in Anger for they provoked