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A90701	Hierusalem bedewed with teares. A sermon preached at St. Mary Woolnoth London, upon the fast-day, Martii, 30. 1642. By John Pigott Curate of S. Sepulchers.	Pigot, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing P2221; Thomason E147_11; ESTC R1223	35,249	43

Mourners Si cognovisses if thou hadst known or ô si cognovisse would to God thou hadst knowen the things that belong to thy peace methinks I heare him lamenting over Hierusalem as David over his friend Jonathan 2 Sam. 1.26 I am distressed for thee my brother Ionathan very pleasant hast thou been unto me or as the same David lamented over Absalom oh Absolom my Son would God I had died for thee c. O Hierusalem Herusalem would God I had died for thee as afterwards you know he did dye for her and in her and by her when he came neare he beheld the City and wept over it saying c. Secondly we have here the malady or cause of Hierusalems death blindnes security If thou hadst knowen even thou in this thy day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the things that belong to thy peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but now they are did from thine Eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou knewest not the time of thy visitation Thirdly we have here the kind or manner of Death 't is a strong death a terrible death by the Sword which David so earnestly prayed against Let me fall into the hands of God for his mercies are great but let me not fall into the hands of men whose tender mercies are cruell For the dayes shall come wherein thine Enemies shall cast a trench about thee and lay thee even with the ground A love principium we are to begin with Christ the Mourner in my Text when he came neare he beheld the City 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he wept It was not without a cause that Christ was stiled by the Prophet Vir Dolorum Es 53.3 A man of sorrowes and acquainted with griefe survey his whole pilgrimage from the Cratch to the Crosse from the Womb to the Tombe and you shall find it like Ezechiels rowle written upon within and without lamentation and mourning and woe in the dayes of his flesh he offered up Prayers and Supplications with strong crying and Teares Heb. 5.7 At Lazarus his grave he groaned in the Spirit and wept Ioh. 11.35 Here when he came neare he beheld the City and wept All his joy was inward Luc. 10.21 At that time Iesus rejoyced in Spirit and said I thank thee Father Lord of Heaven and Earth c. Some inward joy he rejoyced in the spirit in the love and complacency of his Father I thank thee Father Lord of Heaven and Earth I am sure he had little matter of outward joy of re joycing in the world many times he complaines of the hatred of the world if the world hate you ye know it hated me before it hated you Ioh. 14.18 How did the unthankfull world slight and neglect him The Foxes have holes and the Fowles of the Ayre have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head how was he scorned and derided in the world Is not this the Carpenters son Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth few acknowledged him to be the Messias the Lord of glory the Prince of life the Saviour of the world the King of the Iewes the Son of God the brightnes of his Fathers glory the expresse image of his person as he was indeed how was he slandered and scandalized by his malignant adversaries none of them could convince him of the least sin yet they traduce him up and down as if he were as St. Paul sometimes confessed of himself Peccatorum maximus the chiefest of sinners a gluttonous person a Wine-hibber a friend a companion of Publicans and sinners a Sabbath-breaker a Blasphemer a deceiver of the people a conjurer casting out Devils through Belzebub a Traytor forbidding to pay tribute to Caesar and what not and surely had he not been more then a man such usage was able not only to set open the floudgates of his Eyes but even to break his heart woe is me my Mother saith the Prophet Jeremy that thou hast born me I have neither lent upon usury nor borrowed upon usury yet all the people curse me Jer. 15.10 They cannot justly tax me with any unjust action and yet are continually reviling me yet here is not all neither to the persecution of the Tongue they ad the persecution of the hand no sooner were tidings of his birth spread in Herods Court but presently he seeks to destroy him and with him a number of young innocents that knew not their right hand from their left there began the weeping Mat. 2.18 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by the Prophet Jeremy saving In Ramah was there a voyce heard Lamentation and weeping and great mourning Rachel weeping for her children because they were not as soon as he began to preach the Scribes and Pharises consult how they may destroy him one time they were going to throw him headlong from the top of a high hill Luke 4.29 As the Devill sometime would have had him throwen himselfe down rom the Pinacle of the Temple another time they had like to have stoned him Joh. 10.31 Many good works have I shewen you from my Father for which of these do ye stone me another time they sent their Disciples to intangle him in his Talk Mat. 22 ●6 Another time their Officers to apprehend him Joh. 7.32 And at last they find Iudas to betray him and sent a multitude with swords and slaves to take him as a Thiefe or a Malefactour who hurry him from the Garden to the high Priests Pallace from thence to Pilate from Pilat to Herod from Herod after a deale of scornfull usage back again to Pilat where they maliciously arraigne him falsely accuse him unjustly condemn him buffet him scourge him make long furrowes upon his back besmeare that face of which the Psalmist Thou art fayrer then the children of men with their filthy spittle environ his sacred Head with a Crown of Thornes lead him foorth to be crucified load him with his Crosse fasten him to the Crosse peirce his Hands and his Feet insult over him in his sufferings Fixuris clavorum addentes tela ●n●●●rum saith Leo to the piercing of the Nayles adding the rankling arrowes of their venemous tongues Ah thou that destroy'st the Temple and buildest it again in three dayes save thy selfe If he be the King of Israel let him come down from the Crosse c. Behold now see if ever sorrow were like unto this sorrow the women could not forbeare weeping who had only a compassionate fellow feeling of it I. u. 23 27. No marvaile if Christ himselfe wept that felt it Well if Christ be a Mourner then woe to them that are at ease in Sion that spend their days in mirth and rejoyce at the sound of the Organ and the Tabret and the Harp go not out of their Feasts Christ did not so Christians have no warrant to expect it the members must be in some measure conforma●le to their head Ioh. 16.20 Our blessed Saviour tels his Diciples you shall weep and

Prophets with the sword and I only am left and they seek my life to take it away I have been very jealous for the Lord of Hosts indeed we would count him an unnaturall Son that should stand by see and heare his Father abused and dishonoured and though he could not hinder it should not at least expresse himselfe to be grieved and troubled at it and surely we have just cause to suspect our selves to be bastards and not Sons if we can stand by when our Heavenly Father is dishonoured in word or deed and not so much as shed a teare for the same we are not of that Spirit that the Children of God were wont to be of Moses when he came down from the mount and saw the abomination of the Israelites that they had changed the glory of God into the similitude of a Calfe that cateth Hay he was so daunted at the sight that dismall sight that for the present he was like a man in an Ecstasy he forgot what he was doing he let the Tables that were written upon by the finger of God to fall out of his hands and be broken and so brake those Lawes in his zeale which the people had broken in rebellion Exod. 3● 19 Phinehas his zeale was so hot that he could not hold his hands but runs upon the offenders Zimri and Cozbi and runs them thorough with his savelin Num. 25.8 Hezechias rents his cloths heating the blasphemous words of Rabshakeh reviling the living God and David cries out my zeale hath even consumed me because mine Enemies have forgotten thy words and here the Son of David weeps for the sins of Hierusalem And no marvayle for it being the earnest desire of Gods children the constant aime of all their actions to doe all to the glory of God and to let theit light shine before men that others seeing their good works may glorify their Father which is in Heaven Let their light shine in like manner to the glory of God Let the people prayse thee O God let all the people prayse thee now to be crost in their earnest desire to see men in stead of doing all to the glory of God to do all to the dishonour of God to sell themselves to work wickednes in his sight must needs be a great heart-breaking or occasion of mourning Secondly we have cause to mourn for the abominations of Hierusalem the sins of other men in regard of themselves in compassion to their soules to see how desperatly they run themselves upon the Rock of Gods judgments how wilfully they embrace their own destruction how swinishly they wallow in the mire of sin how willing they are to be led by the Enemy of their salvation the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience making it their dayly trade their continuall exercise to adde sin unto sin and to heap up wrath against the day of wrath and Hirc illae lachrymae and who can behold all this with dry Eyes if we should see a man like Baals Pries●s cutting himselfe with lancers and knives till the bloud followed I suppose there is none of us but would be mooved with such a spectacle as this beloved this is the sinners case he dayly wounds and mangles himselfe with his sins every sin makes a deep gash in the soule spare then some of those Teares which thou usest to shed for the death of the body and shed them for the death of the soule for the sins of other men for these without repentance lead to everlasting death and destruction in that lake that burneth with fire and brimstone where the Worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched And thirdly we have cause to mourn for the abominations of Hierusalem the sins of other men in regard of our selves and those dangers which by other mens sins hang over our own heads Woe is me saith the Psalmist that I am constrayned to dwell with Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar Psal 120.4 There is a twofold woe hanges over the head of Gods children by reason of sinners that live among them a woe of infection and a woe of Malediction or a woe of punishment first I say a woe of infection Can a man touch pitch and not be defiled Can a man live among sinners like Ezechid in the midst of Scorpions and not be poysoned not be infected by them can Joseph live in Pharaohs Court and not learne to sweare by the life of Pharaoh it is a hard matter to live blamelesse and without rebuke and to shine as lights in the middest of a perverse and crooked generation though the Apostle require it Phil. 2.15 And therefore it is no small commendations that Christ gives the Bishop of Pergamos Rev. 2.13 That he held fast his name and did not deny his faith though he lived where the Synagogue of Satan was we are all of an apish nature apt to imitate the manners and conditions of those with whom we converse Like Labans sheep Ger. 30.39 Ready to bring forth white or spotted according to the patterns of innocency or corruption we see before our Eyes with the holy thou shalt be holy and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardnesse Psal 18.26 I have heard of those who knowing themselves to be certainly infected with the plague that they have gone out into the Streets and so not only poysoned the Ayre to the great danger of passers by but even breathed upon as many as they could come neare that so they might bee sure to infect them for certaine it is so with those that are infected with the plague of sin their bad example that is like the poysoning of the ayre very dangerous but their lewd entising counsell their insinuating temptations come let us lay waite for bloud wee shall fill our houses with spoile cast ●n thy Lot among us Pro. 1.11 that is like the breathing of an infected person upon another almost inevitable One woe is past a woe of infection there is a second woe hangs over the head of Gods children by reason of the wicked that live among them a woe of malediction or a woe of punishment and that twofold one for the wicked another from the wicked First there is a punishment hangs over them for the wicked fugiamus ne si balneum propter Cerinthum ruerit nos quoque damni simus participes said Saint Iohn the Evangelist let us make haste away least the Bath fall for Cerinthus sins and wee partake of Cerinthus punishment come out of her my people that ye bee not partakers of her sins that yee receive not of her plagues Rev. 18.4 all Israel smarts for Achans offence and many times a fruitfull land is made barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein Ps 107.34 T is true God sometimes spares the place for the tens sake unwilling to weed out the tares least he pluck up the wheat also and yet sometimes sin growes to such a ripenesse that it