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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

Lessons But secondly if you doe aske us why we lost our Countrey with reference unto you of these parts then I must further adde somthing negatively 2. Negatively somthing affirmatively to stop censures and to give you instruction Negatively thus Think not yee that our dwellings have therfore cast us out because wee were greater sinners then you But as Christ said to those Inquisitous persons in the Gospel I tell you nay Luke 13.12 3 5. Verse 6. but except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish And you know what immediately followeth in the same chapter It is the Parable of the Fig-tree that had bin long time suffered in the vineyard c. So negatively But next I apply Affirmatively Affirmatively Perhaps we are driven hither from our Native Country for your sakes that we might give an Alarum to some Thomases in these parts which would not beleeve untill they could thrust their hands into the sides and their fingers into the hands and feet of their wounded brethren Perhaps we are driven hither that the Lord might give you a princely correction upon our skin and might make us Ministers and people as it were your Ionases that is men women and children sent as out of the belly of hell where the waters of ungodlines and affliction compassed us about even to the soul Ionah 1.5 the depth closed us round about the weeds were wrapped about our heads and all this that we might still Jonah-like arise and goe to this great City and preach unto it Ionah 3.2 the preaching that be shall bidus if so then our Text shall be that of St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans with an easie mutation well because of our sins we were broken off and thou London standest by mercy Rom 12.20 Be not high minded but feare And let our short application of it be this to the severall sorts of people amongst you First ôh yee blinded Malignants beleeve in time that the adverse party called Cavaliers are Advice to Malignants beyond all that you have heard blasphemous trecherous and cruell against God and man enemies and friends promiscuously and do not refuse that instruction which hath been dearly purchased for you by the blood and estates of others Next ôh yee Neuters and carnall-compounders beleeve in time that God and men both good and evill men Neuters yea very Satan himselfe doth abhorre a Neuter and that this kind of sinne if it be found in a place that place may expect the reward of Succoth and Penuel Judges 8.6 7 8 9 16 17. even to be demolished torne in pieces and taught with briars and thornes If in a person that person may looke for the wages of Balaam which had no recompence from Balak and was slame by the sword of Israel Finally ôh yee secure and wanton Professors Professors which doe despise your old mannah as light bread and are growne dizzy by extraordinary light rowl your selves in ashes cry mightily because of your new vanities and reforme without delay or else be yee assured by your neighbours experience that God can bring upon you such a spirituall famine as shall cause you to leape for a crust for a bit of your old bread and yet goe without it Brethren all at once All. Luke 16 30. be ye not more deafe or stubborne then the brethren of that rich man in the Gospel for whom hee did undertake that if one went unto them from the dead they would repent Behold we Westerne exiles are as so many Monitors broken-loose from the grave Let therefore our temporall losses and undoings be your spirituall gaine and commodities So much to the friends of the West to all Iobs-like friends 3. Forgetfull children Such are Thirdly the reproofe of unmercifulnesse must be directed to the Children of the West even to such as were hewen out of the Westerne hills and rockes and were digged out of those pits and vallies Some of you I know have been long since transplanted into this City and other soyles and thereby perhaps have lost somewhat of your Westerne sap and nature others were more larely plucked up violently by the roots and are at present but covered with earth enough to keep life in them untill their replantation I shall speak freely to both together but especially to the latter sort the exiled scattered sons and daughters of the West How many are there amongst us Amos 6.1 which doe justly fall under the reproofe and woe threatned by Amos Woe to them that are at ease or secure in Zion c. He goeth on through diverse verses describing the unseasonable sins of that people but the burthen and sting of all to them and us lieth in the latter end but they are not grieved for the affliction Vers 6. or breach of Ioseph That expression the breach of Ioseph may have a double reference First it may referre to the Patriarke Ioseph who being in Aegypt imprisoned by Potiphar did engage Pharaohs butler Gen. 41.14 15 1● his fellow prisoner by a courtesie but was soon after forgotten of him for when the man was set at libertie and readvanced he remembred not the kindnesse and durance of Ioseph so I feare lest too many of our late Westerne sufferers upon new preferment may forget the old kindnesses of some that are now perhaps imprisoned Next Amos his expression the affliction of Ioseph may referre to the tribes of Ioseph which were Ephraim and Manasses these were miserably broken by the enemie about the time of this prophecie but were little pitied by the rest of the tribes their brethren The application of that text is easie our Country and Countrie-men have lately been broken with a sore breach yea they are continually broken with breach upon breach One mans back is broken with taxes anothers heart is broken with taunts and a third sort have their necks broken by the Gibbet at the pleasure of the enemie and yet how unapt are wee to grieve constantly for all these breaches of Ioseph But these forgetfull ones are of diverse sorts As 1. Delicate Exiles in generall both sexes First all your delicate exiles a strange contradiction to a serious and sober eare but such there are and such there have been as in the time of Amos 6.1 Amos fore-mentioned Let us look back upon that place once againe Their generall charge was Securitie they were secure or at ease and did trust in the Mountain of Samaria that is themselves were in a strong hold in a fortified City and therefore thought all well enough hereupon the Lord sendeth them to other strong holds that were already demolished Verse 2. Passe yee unto Calnch and see and from thence goe yee to Hemath the great then goe down to Gath of the Philistins That is remember York that was lost in the North though it be since re-taken consider Bristell and Exon yea all Ireland in the West So in generall