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A02674	The destruction of Sodome a sermon preached at a publicke fast, before the honourable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament, at St. Margarets Church in Westminster. By Iohn Harris, preacher there. Feb. 18. 1628.	Harris, John, preacher at St. Margarets Church in Westminster.	1629 (1629)	STC 12806; ESTC S103787	29,731	56

sins than we We must giue way to the thoughts of our hearts to reflect vpon the distressed condition of the Church of Christ abroad and note how that the bed doth not priuiledge the sick man nor the cradle the suckling babe nor the great belly the woman nor the altar the Priest nor the seate of iustice the Magistrate from the fury of the mercilesse souldier They fight and are kil'd they yeeld and are murthered they flye and are pursued they remaine and are beleaguered they hide themselues and are hunger-starued their corne fields are deuoured by troupes of horses their streams of water are coloured red with the bloud of men and beasts and in some places their earth is voide as if it were returning into the Chaos againe as t is Zech. 8. 10. there is no hyre for man nor beast neither is there any peace to him that goeth out nor to him that commeth in because of affliction for all men are set euery man against his neighbour And yet wee a sinfull Nation a people laden with as much iniquity as any Nation in the Christian world are at rest no trumpet is heard in our streetes no solitude ante ostia no desolation is before our gates our plow-shares are not beaten into swords nor our mattockes into speares the seate of iustice is not interrupted the Word of God hath a free passage we lay vs down to sleep and take our rest God making vs to dwell in safety and vpon the comparison of these things wee must bethinke our selues what vngratefull wretches we haue bin to dishonour our God with our sinnes that hath and doth follow vs with so much louing kindnesse aboue other people that are more righteous than we we must earnestly repent and be heartily sorry for our misdoings past and we must sweare vnto the Lord and vow a vow vnto the Almighty God of Iacob to renounce our euill waies and to serue him in spirit and truth in sincerity and with good conscience in the time to come and then our God will not forsake vs nor giue vs vp for a reproach that strangers should rule ouer vs but blesse vs all our lines long in bodies and soules and entaile the blessings more firmly than by any law you can deuise to descend vpon our posterity successiuely so long as the Sunne and Moone shall endure And to that purpose let vs pray vnto him and say O most gracious God let not our manifold sins make a separation betwixt thee and vs let them not prouoke thee to remoue thy spirituall and corporall blessings from vs Giue vs O Lord giue vs broken hearts contrite spirits and bleeding soules to offer vp in sacrifice vnto thee that thou mayest be reconciled and at an attonement with vs Our sins are great Lord we confesse it but thy mercy is greater Lord we beleeue it mercy therefore deare Father haue mercy vpon our King vpon our Queene vpon our Nobility vpon our Clergie vpon our Magistracy vpon our Commonaltie vpon our whole Land for thy Sions sake for thy Gospels sake for thy beloued sonne Iesus Christs sake Giue O Lord giue thy Angels charge ouer vs let them pitch their tents about vs that no pestilence come among vs to deuoure vs no famine befall vs to starue vs no sword of an enemy inuade vs to destroy vs and then O Lord our God if thou wilt giue vs grace we will blesse thee we will praise thee we will magnifie thee wee will sing songs of thanksgiuing vnto thee wee will ascribe all honour and glory vnto thee and to thy Sonne our blessed Sauiour and Mediatour Iesus Christ and to thy holy Spirit to which blessed and glorious Trinity of persons and but one God bee giuen all might maiesty dominion and praise now and euer Amen FINIS a Basil. ep 63. 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liues Decet Sacerdotes cum templis int●rire It is meet the Priests perish together with the Temples that shall driue you of the Laity in whole droues away captiue forbidding you vpon paine of death to looke backe vpon the places where you dwelt as the Romanes forbade the conquered Iewes to looke backe vpon Ierusalem and if they spare any at home make them to pay an annuall tribute for their heads as the Italians doe the Iewes at this day and imploy their children to murther them that begat them and to the rooting out of that faith wherein they were borne and baptized as the Turke doth his Ianizaries the children of the Grecians An vnrighteous man will not consider this neyther will a foole vnderstand it like as the Lord vpon whose hand the King of Israel leaned answered the man of God when he fore-told him of plenty Behold if the Lord would make windowes in heauen might this thing be so some one incredulous spirit or other may obiect If the Lord should cast vs altogether out of his protection might this thing be Are we not walled about with seas Haue we not ammunition and weapons of warre Haue wee not men of magnanimous resolutions and may wee feare forreine inuasion My beloued the Kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not haue beleeued that the aduersary and the enemy should haue entred into the gates of Ierusalem and yet Ierusalem is a heap of stones Let mee say vnto thee O thou Merchant City that art a mart for Nations as the voice did to Phocas the Emperour Though thou build the wals of thy palaces as high as heauen yet if sin dwell in them they may easily be entered by an enemy And giue me leaue to say vnto thee O thou carelesse Nation as Nahum the Prophet doth to Niniueh to that great City Niniueh Art thou better than populous No that was situate among the riuers that had the waters round about it whose rampart was the sea and her wals were from the sea Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength and it was infinite Put and Lubin were her helpers yet was shee carried away shee went into captiuity her young children also were dash'd in pieces at the top of all the streets and they cast lots for their honourable men and all her great men were bound in chaines Tremble therefore thou secure Nation and amend thy manners lest God to raze thee and to lay thine honour in the dust doe call for Lucifer the sonne of the morning doe hisse for the Bee of Ashur do call for a rauenous bird out of the East doe plant the Syrians before and the Philistins behinde giue them that charge hee gaue those whom hee pressed to destroy Babylon Put your selues in array against Britany round about all yee that bend the bow shoote at her spare no arrowes for shee hath sinned against the Lord Take vengeance vpon her as she hath done doe vnto her And vpon that set all your inhabitants in such a hurry and an vp-roare as the Citizens of Rome were in when Martius Coriolanus approached neare it with an Army make the murmuring multitude to flocke about the streets and you that are Magistrates to be at your wits end to send post after post and messenger after messenger to shew the King that his country is taken at one end as the Babylonians did to their King when the King of the Medes had entered the City and when men shall say O thou sword of the Lord how long will it be ere thou be quiet put vp thy selfe into thy scabberd rest and be still as t is Ier. 47. 9. when the Priests the Ministers of the Lord shall weep betweene the porch and the altar and say Spare thy people O Lord and giue not thy heritage to reproach that strangers should rule ouer them as t is Ioel 2 1 7. he sit in heauen laugh Priest and People all to scorn couer himselfe with a cloud that our prayer should not passe thorough as t is Lament 3. 44. To conclude all the way to keep vs from these fearfull punishments are fasting prayer godly sorrow for sins past and the amendment of our sinfull liues in the time to come Not a day for a man to afflict his soule to bow downe his head as a bulrush to spread sackcloth and ashes vnder him it is not such a fast that the Lord hath chosen Opus est perpetuâ poenitentiâ quia perpetuò peccamus We sin perpetually wherefore we had need to repent perpetually though wee doe draine our hearts dry of water to day wee shall haue need againe to morrow to water our couches with our teares Our griefe for our sins must be equiualent it must hold proportion with the delight we haue taken in our sins our sins haue been wonderous great and our mourning must be maruellous deep we haue bin out of measure sinfull and we must be out of measure sorrowfull we haue sinned with greedinesse and we must repent with bitternesse we haue bin transported with delight in the commission of our sins and wee must be swallowed vp with heauinesse in our submission for our sins Qui culpam exaggerauit exaggeret etiam poenitentiam maiora enim crimina maioribus abluuntur fletibm He that hath augmented his sin must augment his repentance greater crimes are to be washt away with greater lamentations Some run abominable races act such iniquities the Angels of God wonder at and when they haue done will say each man for his owne particular Miserere mei Deus Lord haue mercy on mee and that too ex more magis quàm ex animo rather out of custome than heartily as Saul said to Dauid when hee was going to combate with Goliah Goe and the Lord bee with thee and thinke then they haue repented compleatly O Lord God that a man should dare to sinne so damnably and dreame to quit himselfe of the guilt of it so eastly t is not bare Lord haue mercy vpon vs will doe it there belongs more to repentance than so the faculties of our soules must bee griped with griefe and wearied with groaning and tired with supplications we must double our words as Daniel doth and say O Lord heare O Lord forgiue O Lord hearken and deferre not for thine owne sake O our God We must renue our complaints with Dauid euening and morning and at noone day we must pray and make a noise and God will hear our voice We must weep and wipe our eyes and weep againe and wipe our eyes againe if we haue loued many sinnes before many sins can be forgiuen vs. We must draw a conclusion in our owne bosomes that no Nation hath bin more bound to God than we no Nation hath sinned against God with a higher hand than wee and therfore no Nation hath greater cause to fast and weepe mourne and lament for their