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A47013	Maran atha: or Dominus veniet Commentaries upon the articles of the Creed never heretofore printed. Viz. Of Christs session at the right hand of God and exaltation thereby. His being made Lord and Christ: of his coming to judge the quick and the dead. The resurredction of the body; and Life everlasting both in joy and torments. With divers sermons proper attendants upon the precedent tracts, and befitting these present times. By that holy man and profound divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D. President of Corpus Christi Coll. in Oxford.	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1657 (1657)	Wing J92; ESTC R216044	660,378	504

shall live Hence it is that this people of God in their distress make The Confession of their fore-fathers sins as Essential an Ingredient or Condition of their prayers as the confession of their own Dan. 9. Ezra 9. Nehem. 9. Psal 106 6 7. For this the Lord himself had expresly taught them Levit. 26. For your transgressions the Land of your enemies shall eat you up And they that are left of you shall pine away for their iniquitie and for the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them also Then they shall confess their iniquity and the wickedness of their fathers Ver. 38. Thus doing I will remember saith the Lord my Covenant with Jacoo and my Covenant also with Isaac and also my Covenant with Abraham will I remember and will remember the Land You see then it is evident that as Adam's-sin remaines in his Posterity until it be taken away in Christ so doth Gods wrath abide upon a Land for the former Inhabitants sins and passeth from the Dead unto the Living unless the Attonement be made by the sweet incense of prayer and fervencie of spirit which is to be in every Christian and spiritual Priests heart as ready upon this occasion as fire from the Altar was in Aarons hand when he stayed the Plague by standing betwixt the dead and them that were alive Numb 16. 46. It is not the sacrifice though of the calves of mens lips without an humbled and contrite spirit and fervent zeal of blessing Gods Name by Contrary good deeds that can stay the plague and divert the wrath gone out from God against a Land for her former Inhabitants their Predecessors sins 3. From these Principles we may easily gather How Gods Mercies may be abridged towards a Land or People less sinful perhaps then others formerly have been for actual transgressions if we consider the sins only of the present time From the same Principles we may likewise clearly discern how the full measure of any Lands or Peoples iniquity may be accomplished then when to mens seeming their out-rages be nothing so greivous as others before them have been or when their Princes or Rulers are more then ordinarily religious First Where the transgressions of Predecessors have been many and greivous and the Reformation of their Successors but slight or imperfect the wrath of God procured by the former may remain still and light heaviest upon the Third Generation following who shall procure it further if they follow their Grandsires sins notwithstanding their immediate Parents or Predecessors did in part repent or in some sort renounce their Fathers wayes For the fruits of such repentance seeing it is not Total and proceeds not from a perfect and unfeigned heart do but as it were for a time put off the Fit or Extremity of Gods wrath they take not away the disease it self which therefore returns to its course again As the Psalmist excellently describes the effects of such repentance When he stew them they sought him and they returned and sought God early And they remembred that God was their strength and the most high God their Redeemer but their heart was not upright with him Neither were they faithful in his Covenant The fruit of this was that oft-times he called back his anger and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise This stayed the Course or Motion of his wrath It did not minish the Inclination or Propension of the same But when the former sins burst out again either in them or their posterity His judgments drew nearer unto them then before and his vengeance was more fierce and sudden Secondly Where the Reformation of Religion and turning unto the Lord is on the Princes parts perfect and compleat yet the people do not inwardly repent and with a perfect heart abjure their fore-fathers wayes the wrath of God due unto their fathers sins comes upon them and is executed by taking away their good and giving them Princes alike minded to themselves And so by little and little they fulfil the iniquity of their fore-fathers 4. To give you a view of these General undoubted Truths in the succession of this Kingdom Righteous David had left Gods Mercie towards this Land and People so farre over-ballancing his Justice that all the Idolatry which Solomon his son had set up albeit idolatry be a most greivous sin did not any more then bring his Mercie to an Equipoize with it again But Rehoboam following his Fathers footsteps in evil not his religious Grandfathers paths in good puls down Gods judgments upon his head and first bears the rod of his transgression having more then one half of his Kingdom rent from him by his servant Jeroboam and afterwards both he and Judah which had remained with him bear the strokes of their iniquity by the hand of Shishak King of Egypt who forraged the Land and took away the treasures of the Temple of the Lord. But in this God did but shake his sword over their heads These beginnings of plagues and judgments are but the Motions of His wrath which abides not for his Mercie presently retired unto the same Point where it stood at Jeroboams revolt Of an unwise father there sprung up immediately an unrighteous son Abijam who though he had sometimes good success against his enemies yet as the sequel of this Story intimates 1 King 15. 3. he had almost brought Gods fierce wrath upon the Land by following his fathers footsteps but that the Lord as yet drew back his punishing hand for Righteous David his great Grand-fathers sake For David 's sake did the Lord his God give him a light in Jerusalem and set up his son after him and established Jerusalem ver 4. This was Asa in whose dayes the Land had peace for he followed the footsteps of his Father David yet was there no perfect Reformation wrought in his raign for the High places were not taken away And he himself after good success in victory was infected with the Fatal disease of Kings and Princes To begin to trust too much to secular Policie and grew impatient of the Lords Prophets reproof But by his carriage and good example such as it is and the righteous reign of his son Jehosaphat is the Current of the Lords former wrath stopped yet so as it is ready to overflow the Land with greater violence in the next succession wherein the like iniquity as had reigned in former times should burst out afresh again Although Jehoshaphat's heart was upright yet did he work no perfect Reformation For the high places were not taken away And as it is 2 Chron. 20. 23. The people had not yet prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers Neither so penitent as that they could recal Gods wrath or bring his mercie back again unto its former stay Nor yet so extream bad and forward in sin as that the Lord would not spare the Land and be merciful to