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Englands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho: Adams.
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Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.
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1615
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STC 114; ESTC S100411
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To The Right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Cleypoole Knight sauing health WOrthy Sir I haue ventrously traffiqued with my poore talent in publike whiles I behold richer graces buried in silence iudging it better to husband a little to the common good then to hurd much wealth in a sullen niggardize I censure none if al were Writers who should be Readers if none idle Pamphlets would present themselues to the generall eye and bee entertained for defect of more sober matter If the graine bee good it doth better in the market then in the garner All I can say for my selfe is I desire to 〈…〉 whereof if I faile yet my endeou◠〈…〉 not my conscience without some ioifull content To your Patronage this flies to whom the Author is greatlie bounden and shall yet bee indebted further for your acceptance Your loue to generall learning singular encouragement to Students opposed to the common dishartnings which pouerty contempt ignorance assaults vs with your actual beneficence to many especially to Katherine Hall in Cambridge worthie of death-lesse memorie lastlie your reall kindnesse to my selfe haue prompted mee to seale this Booke with the signet of your name and send it to the world Which in humble submission I commend to your kind acceptation and your selfe with it to the blessing of our gracious God Your Worships in all duty deuoted Tho. Adams ENGLANDES SICKENES THE First Lecture Ierem. Chap. 8. Ver. 22. Is there no balme at Gilead is there no Physitian there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered SIcke is the daughter of Sion and the complexion of England giues her not to be sound If shee feele her own pulse and examin the Symptomes of her ilnes her works of disobedience shee must confesse that her health is empaired or if shee feele it not shee is obstupeâ—ied The Coast I am bound for is Israel but like faithfull Merchants if I can traffique or transport thence any good commodity into our own country I will venter the welcom of it Israel England though they lie in a diuers climat may be said right Paralels not so vnfit in Cosmographicall as fit in Theologicall comparison And sauing Israels Apostacie and punishment for it wee neede not thinke it harsh to be sampled They could plead much of Gods mercy if wee can speake of more let vs thankefully embrace our transcendent happinesse Two maine passages are directed my discourse to saile through which shall limit my speech and your attentions for this time 1. The Patient 2. The Passion The Sicke and the disease The Person labouring of griefe is the daughter of Israel her Passion or griefe is sicknes Why is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered These two coastes will affoorde vs many subordinate obseruations worthy both our trauels The Patient whom we must visite is described 1. Quâ— sit 2. Cuiui sit God speaketh of her 1. Positiuely 2. Possessiuely Positiuely what shee is of her selfe The daughter of the people Possessiuely what shee is by relation in regard of her owner populi mei Gods people Daughter This title is vsuall according to Hebraisme Daughter of Israel for Israel Daughter of Sion for Slon Say yee to the daughter of Sion Behold thy saluation commeth c. Daughter of Iudah for Iudah The Lord hath troden the daughter of Iudah as a Wine-presse Daughter of Ierusalem for Ierusalem Lament 2. Of Babilon for Babylon Oh daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed c. So Christ cals himselfe the Sonne of man because he tooke on him mans nature Esay 2 1. Oh my threshing and the sonne of my floore for the floore it selfe or the corne of it And Augustine obserues on the 72. Psalme that by the children of the poore is meant the poore themselues This is an abstractiue Phrase and vox indulgentis implying propense fauour in the speaker and tendernes in the person spoken of filia populi It is a word of relation simply taken for daughter depends on the respect of Parent Here it is Phrasicall and therefore not to be forced Yet because cunctae apices euery letter and accent in holy West is diuinely significant let vs not neglectfully passe it ouer without some vsefull obseruation There is somewhat in it that Filia non Filius dicitur the name of Daughter not of Sonne is here giuen to Israel Iaraels offspring must be a Daughter that she may be married to the God of Israels Sonne Christ is the beloued the Church is his Spouse My beloued is mine and I am his hee feedeth among the Lillies Betroathed to him in this life I will betroth thee vnto me for euer yea I will betroth thee vnto me in righteousnesse c. Solemnly maried in the next at what time the Saints shall sing Let vs be glad and reioyce and giue honour to him for the marriage of the Lambe is come and his wife hath made her selfe ready and verse 9. Blessed are they that are called to the marriage Supper of the Lambe Thus God the Father that had a Sonne by eternall generation hath now a Daughter also by adoption Hence the Church is called the Kings daughter Ps. 45. The kings daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought gold â— because shee is wedded to the Kings sonne God is a Father in many respects 1 In Creation Deut. 32. Is not he thy father that hath bought thee Hath hee not made thee and established thee Hee gaue vs all essentiam formam subsistence and forme 2 In Education Esa 1. I haue nourished and brought vp children and they haue rebelled against me We are brought vp in this House of this world and fed from the table of his blessings 3 In compassion Psal. 103 Like as a Father pittieth his children so the Lord pittieth them that feare him Yeeld that a mother which is rare and vnnaturall can forget the Sonne of her wombe yet God cannot forget the children of his Election 3 In Correction Heb. 12 Whom the Lord loueth hee chasteneth and scourgeth euery sonne whom he receiueth Qui excipitur à numero flagellatorum excipitur à numero siliorum He that scapes affliction may suspect his adoption Wee are not exempted from misery that wee may not be excepted from mercy The rod walkes ouer vs left wee should grow wanton with his blessings 5 In Adoption and that most principally Rom. 8. Wee haue receiued the spirite of Adoption whereby wee cry Abba Father God sent his sonne made of a woman that wee redeemed by him might receiue the adoption of sonnes All these may be reduced to three God is a Father singularly generally specially 1. singularly the Father of Christ by nature 2 generally the Father of all men and al things by creation 3. specially the Father of the Elect by adoption The first priuiledge belongs onely to Christ. The second to many who haue