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Israels tears for distressed Zion. Shown in a sermon before the Right Honourable House of Lords assembled in Parliament, at their late solemn fast, in the Abby-Church of Westminster, Sept. 24. 1645. / By John Whincop D.D. and pastor of the church of Clothall in Hertford-shire. Published by order of the House of Peers.
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Whincop, John, d. 1647.
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no they are but Gods Instruments the rod of his wrath in the hand of the Lord and when the Father has done correcting his childe he can soone take the Rod and cast it into the fire Not our ill luck or fortune no wee had a faire time before and would take no warning at all But Sin it is our sins and rebellions against the Lord our God has brought all this upon us * Malorum omnium nostrorum Causa est peccatum c. Ang. And therefore in consideration of this our hard condition which our selves have brought our selves into wee can doe nothing now but weepe Speaeke we cannot our hearts are too full of griefe and sorrow to utter our minds and pray wee dare not because thou Lord art angry with us or if wee would whither shall wee direct our prayers to thine Angels whom thou hast sent formerly to deliver us they neither dare nor can help us without commission from thee To the Patriarchs and saints of old for whose sake thou hast done great things for us yea Esa 63.16 but Abraham is ignorant of us and Isaac knows us not there is little help to bee look'd for from them Then to Balaim or Ashteroth to Chemosh or Milcom or some of the Gods of the Heathens No alasse we have gone too long a whoring after them and that has brought us to all this VVhat then to thee O thou preserver of men But thee it is whom we have offended and hast cast us off and art displeased with us O which way shall we turn us To what distractions Sin drives a man to at last VVee know not what to doe but onely sit downe and weep So that since our tongues and mouths cannot Lord our eyes onely now cry aloud for mercy to thee See see the unhappy fruit of all lewd and sinfull courses Quantillae voluptatis causa as that Emperour said Plutarchus de Lysimache when he had sold his Army and Kingdome for a cup of cold water being athirst for how short how small a pleasure what an Army what an Empire have I lost So may every foolish Sinner say For how few houres of fading pleasures here do we purchase to our selves days and moneths and years nay whole Myriads of grief and paine hereafter Noeet empta dolore voluptas it is but an ill Feast that has so sawcy a reckoning for an Ounce of joy to have a Pound of sorrow for my sinfull and momentany delights * Illad solum est Lucrum ubi fructus pâ—rpâ—tuus ubi merces aterna Amb. op 44. here with unhappy Israel now to have the displeasure of God the frownes of my Saviour banishment from my Country losse of all and for my reward sit down and weep Vse O thinke upon this all you who forget God remember that after summer then comes harvest after sowing follows reaping and what a man sowes that shall hee also reap Gal 6.7 He that sows unto the flesh shall of the flesh reape corruption and be that sows unto the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting Hee that sows unto sin shall reape the reward of sin and that is death to iniquity the fruit of iniquity and that is shame and bitternesse in the latter end VVhen the day-worke once is done then comes the wages and a wise Labourer will count before-hand what he shall have for all his paines what it is he works for that so he may not lose his labour afterwards A wise Chapman will consider the price of his Commodity before he carry it home A Porter will not carry a burden before he have lifted it and considered the weight of it that he may know whether he be able to carry it or no. O that the sons of men were so wise in their generations as these are Did they but seriously consider with themselves what it is they labour in the wayes of sin all their time for and what their wages shall be another day Did they but cast up the price of this deare Commodity of sinne what it comes to or poise weigh beforehand what the burden will bee of so many thousand Oaths of so many lustfull thoughts of so many uncleane actions of so many desperate wilfull habituate sins against God and his truth and Gospell and all did they I say but seriously consider and thus cast up their accounts before-hand I beleeve wisdome would teach them not hastily to venture upon so ill a bargaine Pope Leo the tenth was much mistaken as Popes may be for all their infallibility who as they say was the first inventer of that Taxa Camarae Apostolicae a Rate-book to be seen this day in the Vatican at Rome containing the prices of all sins so much for a murther so much for an Incest so many Dollars for a Rape so many Crowns for a Treason such a sum for a Blasphemy c. enough to invite any man to sin when he knowes the price before-hand and how reasonable a rate he may have it at I say he was much mistaken in these prices of sin for it cost farre more to redeeme a soule These poore Israelites can tell you a great deale better and out of experience too what it cost them namely the losse of Gods favour the forfeiture of his protection banishment out of their Countrey purchase of confusion and after all fitting downe and weeping thus deare it cost them what ever others think And did but our lustfull Gallant as hee passes by the corner of the street in the twilight in the evening Prov. 7.9 in the darke and blacke night with the price of Iniquity in his hand consider as he goes along the price he must pay to God too for such a sin how many repentant teares hee must with poore Israel here weep before ever hee can come to wash off the spots and guilt of such a sin of his soul again Or would but our drunken Nabals as they count their healths score up likewise the number of those sighs and groanes this mirth must cost them before ever they can come into Gods favour againe Or our deceiptfull Ballancers as they put the false weight into one scale put the true into the other the true weight of so many checks of Conscience so many horrours of soule so many gripes and pangs of repentant sorrow it will cost them afterward and then observing well which scale weighs heaviest let them say with Demosthenes whether they will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 buy repentance at so deare a rate It was a wilde Meditation of one but proved well in the conclusion suppose said he I should thus say with my selfe I le drinke and I le sweare and I le whore and I le cheat and I le doe what I list And what then I le quarrell and I le kill and I le care for no man And what then Ah could I say I le goe to Heaven too I le be saved I le have blisse