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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

with none that persist to be prophane impure Though God will heal the bleeding wounds of a contrite disobedience yet he will not cure the fester'd ulcer of an obdurate heart an unrelenting spirit That I may not close my Sermon with my Text in perdition in perishing lest I seem to depart hence not with the benign influence of a Star but with the malignity of a Comet I shall in the last place invert the Scene God would not threaten to doom to destroy the impenitent unless he would remit and save the penitent Gods mercies are intermingled with the severities of his menaces like the Sun-beams in showers of rain He denounces his judgments that he may not inflict them He shews his Ax before he wields it 't is like that carried before the Roman Consuls wrapt up for an abatement of severity When he lays it to the root of the tree he expects we should prevent the fatal stroke It is the Prophets insinuating address his cajoling eloquence Wash ye make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil Learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widow Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow though they be red as crimson they shall be as wool O that this rational overture might not onely convince but convert the pretended Oracles of Reason the modern Gnosticks who outvigh the Antient for intellectuals and impurities for wits and vices An unhappy faculty to be ingeniously ungracious acutely prophane and miserable To stagger such Sophistry of Miscreants the Prophet Amos sets out Gods fierce displeasure as the Painter did Agamemnon's deep sorrow for Iphigenia covered with a vail having impeach'd their impenitence more obdurate than Marble not to distil a tear in a reiterated storm not to relent in varieties of distresses it being the sharp accent of every judgment the tragical aggravation of each affliction five times recorded in one Chapter Yet have ye not returned to me saith the Lord. God at length pronounces a Maze a Riddle of a doom to perplex and scare untractable offendors Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel It is a clap of thunder without a flash of lightning a Relative without an Antecedent a lock'd Cabinet without a Key No judgments express'd that all may be expected all to be dreaded that none may be sustained It is the Prophets practical inference in the same verse Prepare to meet thy God O Israel This is the best refuge as in National so in Personal anxieties distresses Let us meet the Lord of Hosts in his fiercest marches in the approaches of his judgments that either with Ahigal's prostrate submission we may prevent or with Hezekiah's devout humiliation we may reprieve or at least with Elias entire resignation of himself his Family his Posterity to the Divine Pleasure It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good we may if not unsting yet unvenom the sharpest tribulation we may render this Viper a Restorative I shall conclude with the borrow'd Rhetorick the Sacred Charm of a former Age o'ercast with clouds the wombs of tempests Spare your Sovereign A vitious person is no less an enemy to his Prince than a Rebel against God A Religious Joseph did support the dignity of Pharaoh's Throne did preserve secure the prosperity of his Dominion for his time Spare the people A wicked man is a pest to the generation wherein he lives his private mischief like Achans may produce a publick calamity Elisha accounted Elijah the Chariot and the Horsemen of Israel St. James the Just was called Oblias as being the Fence the Bulwark of the City of Jerusalem of the Region of Palestine The justice the zeal of Phineas did restrain the contagion of a spreading pernicious Pestilence Let our devout repentance stand in the gap to divert a destroying Angel Lastly Spare your own Souls since they are ransomed by no corruptible treasure let not them again be captivated by any vile secular interest nor yet by a more vile impure sensual delight since they are the purchase of Christs precious Blood let them not become the prize of his and our malicious Enemy Let us shun his baits his snares here that we may eschew his fetters hereafter From which God of his infinite mercy preserve us for the Merits of his blessed Son by the Graces of his holy Spirit To which Sacred Trinity be ascribed Glory and Honour Might Majesty and Dominion this day and for evermore AMEN FINIS Nil miserius misero non miserante seipsum Aug. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 13. 4. Nec Nigriani nec Cassi ani Tertul. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 6. 35. Dantur bonis ne putentur summa mala dantur malis ne putentur summa bona August 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 6. 6. Nimis delicatulus silvis gaudere cum seculo regnare cum Christo. Hier. Ne contristaretur delitian Hieron Gen. 3. 17. Targ. Hierosol S. Matth. 6. 10. S. Luke 16. 23. * Augustinus Totius hominis debilitas oculos perdidisse Quintil * Scholast Hist. Optimum contemplativae activae vitae exemplar Bern. Exod. 7. 1. Deut. 34. 6. Euseb. Hist. Eccles. l. 2. c. 7. Dan. 4. 33. Gehenna è coelo descendit Salv. Levit. 26. 21 24. Prov. 1. 26. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodoret S. Luke 16. 24. S. Optatus testifies it Dan. 4. 3. Dan. 4. 31. Statim punitur à Deo Hier. in Dan. Dan. 5. 5. Acts 12. 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 10. 11. Exod. 9. 27. Heb. 12. 17. Da gratiam I●chrymarum Aug. Deus non infundit oleum misericordiae nisi in vas contritum Be●n Psal. 51. 17. 〈…〉 Judas deflevit crimen non correxit Ambr. Dole de praterito peccato cave de futuro Aug. Qui promisit poenitenti veniam non prom-sit peccanti poenitentiam Aug. S. Matth. 3. 7. 8. Perierunt antequam perierunt Salv. Joseph lib. 6. c. 11. de Bello Judaico Joseph l. 7. de Bello Jud. cap. 8. Aegesip de Exc. Hieros Humiliati non humiles Bern. Si stultum quaeram meipsum reperio Sen. S. Mark 14. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plures perierunt poenitentia quam peccato Aug. Non mutat voluntatem sed vult mutationem Vna cademque dies vidit civitatem magnam nullam Sen. Evagr. l. 4. c. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Matth. 24. 38 39. Plut. in vita Pyrrhi Strabo Geog. l. 8. Non comminaretur non poenitenti nisi ignosceret poenitenti Tertul de poen c. 8. Isa. 1. 16 17 18. Amos 4. 6 8 9 10 11. ver 12. 1 Sam. 25. 35. Isa. 38. 5. 1 Sam. 3. 18. Parcite regi parcite populo pascite animabus vestris Kings 2. 12. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. ● 24. ●umb 25. 8.

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