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spirit_n	body_n	fire_n	soul_n	6,029	5	5.5197	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64567	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Lords assembled in Parliament, in the abbey church of St. Peters, Westminster upon the fast-day appointed April 10, 1678 by William, Lord Bishop of St. Davids.	Thomas, William, 1613-1689.	1678 (1678)	Wing T982; ESTC R10527	17,218	50

no defailance but his own He who with a contrite severity will put his hand into his bosome will like Moses take it out white as snow not for innocency but leprosie I have observed two evident symptoms of the Divine destructive displeasure when the sin and the doom are like parallel lines and when the latter is the close train of the former I have in the second Proposition recommended the Duty to be discharged Repentance to bewail that guilt we have committed not to commit that guilt we have bewailed not to be scanty dilatory in the exercise of it but expeditely vigorously to rectifie our judgments to refine our affections to reform our lives to crucifie those lusts that have crucified our Redeemer that these Scorpions may afford medicines for their own stings To abstain from our Viands and not iniquities is the Fast not of sacred Converts but of damned Fiends It is a disconsolate severe determination of St. Augustine which I can never recollect without anguish of spirit More have perish'd by repentance than by sin This Restorative hath degenerated to a Bane this Balsam of Life misapprehended misappli'd hath wounded multitudes to death To promote an accurate unblemish'd repentance I have set out the penalty to be incurred upon the neglect of it A Sentence like Elijah's little Cloud scarce discernible at first aspect but being dilated blackens the Heavens teems with showers of perils disasters I have pointed out the extremity of the Judgment not a decay but a period You shall perish the Universality All the Similitude Likewise enwrapt in the same dismal fate It was an interval of forty years before this doom was fulfilled Christ thus long protracted the Execution after he pronounced the Sentence Nebuchadnezzar had a years respite after Judgment was past for transforming him from a humane to a brutish shape The Ninivites were reprieved forty days and they repented in sackcloth and ashes God then reverst his Judgment without any stain of instability inconstancy not by changing his will his purpose in himself but willing purposing a change in the effect as the School-men state it whose decision not apprehended by Jonah excited his peevish regret He preferred the imaginary reputation of a Prophet before the real preservation of a populous Kingdom being discomposed that God was more merciful than himself Let not these Ninivites rise up in judgment against us If we do not seasonably dread the menace arrest the judgment we shall irrecoverably sink under the pressure the horrour of it We have of late years enjoy'd tranquillity plenty the delicious fruits of peace whilst other Countreys have been Aceld●ma's fields of blood exposed to the rapines the outrages of War Cities besieg'd batter'd storm'd defac'd rifl'd Proprietaries Masters treated as Aliens not only as strangers but prisoners vassals in their own houses the Edict of insulting Soldiers being no less unmerciful unreasonable than Egyptian Task-masters whilst populous Territories furnished with the choicest accommodations have been depopulated wasted even reduced to Desarts They have been subjects of intelligence of discourse no motive of commiseration towards others of reflection upon our selves Who less afflicted have been more depraved I wish from my Soul it were a scandal to assert it Our ingratitude clogg'd with our impenitence may reserve for us the dregs of the Vi●l of Gods indignation Our safety may be least when our security is greatest One and the same day was the computation of a great City and of none at all as of Antioch part buried in an Earthquake and the rest made its own Funeral Pile burnt to ashes That day that produced fire and brimstone to Sodom and Gomorrah might shine with as clear as bright a morning-dawn as any other The intemperance of the inhabitants of the Old World did serve to introduce to usher in the Deluge They were eating the Original imports rioting with brutish appetites and drinking their sensualities indulged pursued till the Flood overwhelmed them When enormities of vices prodigies of crimes pass for garbs for ornaments when it is generous to be intemperate courteous to be debauched modish to be unchast fashionable reputable to be prophane gallantry of humour elegancy of style to blaspheme a Master piece of wit to carp at to deride the wisdom of God when Theatres are more resorted to more regarded than Temples when mortification of body is ascribed to distraction of mind when Prayers and Fasts become incitements of Drolleries of Scurrilities when there is not so much piety as hypocrisie not so much beauty of holiness as the paint the varnish of it even to out-strip the spirit of darkness not to regard to appear Angels of Light We may then imagine God pathetically expostulating the case Shall not my Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this When the indignation of that God is inflamed who is a consuming fire when all the expedients the methods of the Discipline of Heaven prove ineffectual for reclaiming a People then a day an hour a moment may suffice to blast the most flourishing Dominions of the World to deprive the greatest Peers and Potentates of lustre and of life When Phoc●s raised Walls and Bulwarks to out-brave Heaven he was advertised There is wickedness within which being inclosed immured will demolish the firmest Structure uncement every stone lay Turrets flat and level with the ground The Fabricks the Houses the Palaces of impenitent sinners can fall no lower themselves may The Poets solace is a fallacy in Divinity Qui cadit in terram non habe●● unde cadat There is a lower descent than the grave than being inmates with wretched Worms in being consorts with the damned Spirits lower than the putrefaction of the earth the damnation of hell But I forbear I must start back from this dreadful dungeon lest I be taxed as Oecolompadius was that I am Commission'd to Evangelize to preach the glad tidings of the Gospel not the terrors the thunder-bolts of the Law That I am sent not to be a Herald to denounce fire and sword but to be a Legate for reconciliation to be a Factor to negotiate the best Merchandise Peace to promote the best Peace not with Earth but Heaven The Romans would not treat with Pyrrhus unless he would first depart out of Italy There is an Italy of Transgression as well as Climate There can be no League no Correspondence betwixt a carnal polluted Italy below and a spiritual refined Jerusalem above When a grave Athenian Ambassador repaired to Corinth to agitate a Confederacy observing a greater Traffick there of Vices than of Commodities their arrogance plumed with their wealth a riot a debosh being their civility their lasciviousness being their pietie above a thousand beautiful Damosels being Votaries of Venus not consecrated but prostituted in the Temple he resolved to desist from his Embassie apprehending so vitious a place not worthy of the close amity of Athens The holy One of Israel will unite confederate