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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66524	A scourge to the rebellious, or, A sermon preached at the parish Church of St. Antholin, in the city of London, June the 28th, 1685 by Steph. Willoughby ...	Willoughby, Stephen, b. 1657 or 8.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2862B; ESTC R38661	12,830	32

they turned every one from his evil way who can tell say they but that God may turn from his Anger Jonah 3.9 10. and we not perish And 't is said that God saw their works and repented of the evil that be had said he would do unto them and did it not But to conclude by way of Vse and Application Vse 1 1st Doth Sin bring Judgment Then this may serve to justisie God in all his Proceedings against this Nation As Jacob said of his Son Josephs Coat an evil beast hath devoured him So may we say of our Sins for they are the Grand Devourers both of Church and State we had been at peace with one another had not our sins the troublers of our Israel challenged the Almighty into Martial Armes for impietas ad arma vocat and the dread we have of a final Ruin openly proclaims hic fuit iniquitas hic hostilitas that here hath been some reigning and damning Sins for here hath liv'd the Atheist and the debauch'd good Fellow the sensual and the secure Man the Oppressor and the Godly Hypocrite the Unjust and Violent the Prophane and Ignorant a Plundering Achan and an Oppressing Ahab a Covetous Nabal and a Fratricidious Cain a Backbiting Ziba and a Cursing Shimei a Scoffing Cham and a Prophane Esau Thus we have drank Iniquity like water and declin'd Sin throughout all the Cases In the Nominative by Prophaneness In the Genitive by Pride In the Dative by a Carnal Security In the Accusative by Hypocrisie In the Vocative by an Insurrection In the Ablative by a Damnable Rebellion I should have left a Case for Destruction too but that comes in the Plural Number First To all ye wretchedly Prophane * Ezek 5.4 Ezek. 28.16 and therefore says God I will bring up a Company upon them and will give them to be removed and spoiled Heb. 12.19 Ezek. 23.42.47 and the Company shall stone them with Stones and dispatch them with their Swords and they shall slay their Sons and their Daughters and burn up their Houses with Fire 2ly To all ye that are proud God will deck himself with Majesty and array himself with glory he will cast abroad the Rage of his Wrath and behold every one that is proud and abase him 3ly To all ye that are carnally secure Thus the secure People of * Laish were awakened Jud. 18 27 28. when the Edge of the Danites Sword came upon them and when they burnt the City with Fire 4ly To all ye Hypocrites * Your hopes shall perish Job 8.13 and ye shall not come into the presence of the Lord. * Woe unto you Hypocrites Mat. 23.14 for ye devour Widdows Houses and for a pretence make long Prayers therefore ye shall receive the greater Damnation 5ly To all ye that make Insurrection Thus Judgment fell upon the fair Metropolis of the Dissenting Jews Jerusalem hath been a City hurtful unto Kings and because they have moved Sedition within the same therefore was this City destroyed hide me from the gathering together of the froward and from the Insurrection of the Wicked Doers 6ly and lastly to all ye Rebells There is a near affinity between an Insurrection and a Rebellion the first being the seed the last the harvest for grant Schism to be sown in a Conventicle and you may presently reap a Rebellion in a Common Wealth Isa 30.1 But woe to the Rebellious Children who take Council but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit that they may add sin to sin Such are the fearful aggravations of England's miscarriages that we have sinn'd against mercys and many great deliverances against Truth and all Goodnss these shaddow our Gospel-land with Clouds and thick darkness and obscure the path that leadeth unto Life that few there be who find it Hence it was that Brittain like the Land of Aegypt even as the Garden of the Lord became once a second Rama where in many Rachaels wept for their slain Infants and woud not be comforted because they were not and it is even now just with the Almighty that Rebells be made Instruments of our Ruin and Voyals of Vengeance to our mourning Isle Changing our Cornets of Peace and Joy into Trumpets of Warr and Sorrow our Pens into Pikes and our Maces into Swords They like Sampson value not their own Destruction therefore are come to Engrave the History of a Rebellion with the Sword and with such Ink as Draco's Laws were wrote in Blood Vse 2 2ly Is this the top of our Terrene perfection to have our Coat of Or Conversation Sable to be grac'd with the name of Piety and yet disgrac'd with Infirmities charg'd with a load of Guilt where is our Repentance When we lye under the burthen of a Griping Conscience or the heavy pressure of Gods displeasure when we are under any temptation or in danger of falling into any sin In a word when any Judgment whether Spiritual or Temporal threatens our ruin 't is then time that the Guilty should cry aloud with a hearty sorrow for sin Save Lord or we perish and why should we distrust but that the same God that hath given us a Being and protected us from our Births to this Moment will also give us a sincere Repentance beat back our Enemies and guide our Feet into the way of Peace for we know he hath a return for the wandering Shulamite and a Kiss for the home-come Prodigal The Psalmist once lay under the frowns of heaven and was shrouded with a cloudy Day when from Adultery he fell into Blood and Wounds he kill'd Vriah the Hittite with the Sword of the Children of Ammon tho Nathan said thou art the Man and shalt surely dye yet such is the Lord's Mercy that after Repentance comes Pardon Says David I have sinned against the Lord then says the holy Prophet the Lord hath put away thy sin thou shalt not dye Joy then to the repenting sinner to him that has clip'd the Wings of Faith and dash'd in pieces the Comforts of his saving hopes and turn'd Gods Glory to Dishonour for says the Apostle * such were some of you meaning the Corinthians But ye are wash'd but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God To this End the Blessed Blood of the Paschal Lamb was once spill'd that our Scarlet Sins might change their deepest Dye and be made as white as Snow even such as brought him from his Throne and nail'd him to the cursed Tree by his blood he hath cancell'd all obligations and made us heirs of an eternal inheritance This is the fountain of Mercy that flows continually to refresh the drooping Spirits of afflicted Souls * Where the Spirit and the Bride says come and he that is a thirst come * and let whosoever will come and take of the Water of Life freely From this Fountain the Redeemed of the Lord return and come with singing unto Sion But 3ly and lastly Let us herein admire God's Love that he warns us before he smites us Yet Forty Days c. his Love insnatching our Brittain from the Jaws of Death and staving off Destruction from our Habitations here When Sodom burn'd Lot took Sanctuary in a little Village and when Jerusalem was lay'd waste some few Inhabitants had a Pella too Sing O Heavens and rejoyce O Earth that our Zoar is yet the house of God and the Gate of Heaven thither thither will we flee and be at rest For God is in the mid'st of her therefore shall she not be removed God shall help her that right early O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our Salvation that our Land is not yet soak'd with Blood nor our dust with the Fatness of the slain that Monarchy triumphs yet above Anarchy and Shields the Throne from Cruelty and Usurpation and our Sion from Destruction that Episcopacie is yet the Cherub that guards the Paradise of God from all Invaders landed on our Christian Shore but least an over indulging Care of securing our outward Peace should seem to lesten our Christian Charity and tempt us to a loss of that within let us send as we are taught humble beseeches unto God that in his own good time he would bind up the breaches delineate the blemishes and raise up the lapsed Reputation of his divided Spouse and all for the honour as well as merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour To whom with the Father c. Amen FINIS