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A53951	David and the Amalekite upon the death of Saul a sermon preached on Jan. 30, 1682, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I of blessed memory / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1077; ESTC R683	18,608	35

require that Sacred Bloud of us so as to make us smoak under that Wrath which is the vengeance of another life Vs especially who cannot Read nor so much as Think of that Dismal Tragedy without the deepest Sorrow Hatred and Abomination yet we have too great Reason to suspect that the Sin is not Forgotten in Heaven that there is no such Act of Oblivion There but that as we have Smarted for that Sin already so we may Smart still under those Plagues and Judgments which are the Discipline of this life We are to distinguish between a Sin and its Punishment The Sin may be forgiven and upon true Repentance is certainly forgiven so that it shall not Rise up in Judgment against the Sinner at the last day But seldom does the Cry of a Vocal Sin cease before God letteth loose some Temporal Judgments upon it either for the warning and Admonition of other Men or for the Correction and Reformation of the Sinners themselves or for the exercising of their Patience or for the like Holy and Gracious purposes The thing is clear from that Instance concerning David whom God visited with the Death of his Child and with other Sharp and Poynant Evils for the Wickedness acted upon Bathsheba and her Husband though the Sin it self was forgiven him The Lord hath put away thy Sin thou shalt not die said Nathan Howbeit because by this deed thou hast given great Occasion to the Enemies of the Lord to Blaspheme the Child that is born unto thee shall surely die 2 Sam. 12. Nor is it a just Ground for our Confidence and Security to consider that the Sin of this day was acted by a Few in comparison and that several years agoe too For the Sin of One Man and much rather of an Army may be so Odious and Abominable in Gods Account that by Occasion thereof he may visit the Iniquities of a whole Nation Let us go to Achan for an Instance Upon the Destruction of Jericho Achan found a Babylonish Garment a wedge of Gold and two hundred Sheckles of Silver and because He took of the Accursed thing the Anger of the Lord was kindled against the whole Body of the Children of Israel so that at the very next Battel they were all Routed by their Enemies Josh 7. 2. Again God is not wont to punish a Nation to the Full assoon as the Sin is committed but usually leaves a great part of the Burden many Talents of Judgment to fall down in after-times to put Men still in mind of that Guilt which otherwise they would bury in perpetual Oblivion Let us go for an Instance hereof to the Jews in the days of Moses At Shittim they joyn themselves to Baal-Peor and a Plague ensueth thereupon But though for Phinehas his Zeal the Plague was soon stayed and the Wrath of God was turned away from Israel for that time yet afterwards in the days of Joshua when the Israelites had been Possessed of the Holy Land Phinehas himself Remembred the Iniquity of Peor and told the People that they were not cleansed from that Iniquity unto that day Josh 22. 17. Now to draw down this Consideration to our selves if God be wont by way of Discipline to chastize Evil Men as a Governour even after he has taken away the Guilt of their Wickedness as a Judg if by Occasion of One crying Sin committed by a Few or perhaps by One only he doth sometimes bring Calamities upon a whole Nation and if this be often done some Considerable time some years after the Sin was acted Then truly we of all People living have most Reason to call to mind the Calamities we have groaned under and to Interpret Providence the Right way and not only to mistrust that God hath visited us hitherto but moreover to Fear that he will visit us still especially if we Repent not from the bottom of our Hearts for that Loud and Clamorous Sin of this day the Destruction of the Lords Anointed and a Man according to Gods own Heart too though he was Destroyed and Murder'd not by our own Hands but by the Hands of a Few Amalekites and that above Thirty years ago To come a little closer yet Of all the People of this Land You of this City are very deeply concern'd to lay your Hands upon your Breasts and your Mouths in the Dust and the Sin of this day to every one of your Hearts For though God be blessed we can truly say and Boast That this City nay this Kingdom was never more Happy than it is this day for that great Number we have here of Brave Heroick and Right Loyal Spirits witness their Generous and Successful when they were thought Desperate Adventures of Late to stop that Torrent of Wickedness which was coming in afresh upon us and God alone Knows how far it would have gone and how many it would have swept away had it not been stopt Yet all this notwithstanding it is necessary for you to Remember the days of old and the years that are past and not suffer the Horrid Sin of this day or the Judgments which God hath executed upon this City to slip out of your minds or to be past over lightly without a due Sense and Application thereof Now what if we should conceive that when this City was turned into a Flaming pile the righteous God came to purge it from the Bloud of his Anointed When the Jews of old were in any sharp afflictions the business of the Golden Calf usually came fresh into their Minds and on every turn they mistrusted that God afflicted them for the iniquity of their Fathers in making a Golden Calf The story of it you have at large in Exod. 32. the People would have some Representation to go before them instead of Moses their proper Captain and Leader they prevailed with Aaron to consent and concurr with them and they contributed their Riches their Gold and their Ear-rings to carry on the Work of the day and at last out came a Calf a little Similitude of the Great Idol which was Worshipped in the House of Bondage whence they had now been delivered so that though they had escaped out of Egypt yet they espoused the Egyptian Religion To Accomodate this story a little We must acknowledg that God had marvellously delivered us too out of Our House of Bondage changing only the names Rome for Egypt we had a Moses too set over us Meek and Good and one that was Learned in all the Wisdom of the Egyptians But the People were Sick to have an Idol of their own makeing in the room of their Moses and some that waited at the Altar had a Stomach that way too and the Zealots of this City would not fail of their utmost help but brought their Riches into Guild-Hall their Money Plate and Rings and even their Thimbles and Bodkins and what came of this at last Why truly out came a Calf a Golden Calf a Dainty thing that had cost great Sums but yielded no Milk a Religion like that Idol which we had been Delivered from full of Superstition and Jesuitism in the belly of it and differing no more from Popery than a Calf differeth from an Ox. And why should we not think now that when God visited us with his Judgments he did not remember Peoples Ingratitude to him and his Anointed Or why should we not Fear that he will remember us again and that with more Sore and more Dreadful Judgments if People persist in their Ingratitude still For this is a Sin of no ordinary rate but one of the First Magnitude the Kings Authority being a Donative of Heaven and a Ray of Gods Majesty and his Power to Govern and Punish being given by Gods own Warranty the Sin of Rebellion must necessarily be of a Da●●●●g Nature and of a Clamorous Tongue however forme whose Consciences are Armour-proof against all Arguments from Scripture and Antiquity have begun again to speak of the Lawfulness of Resistance as if their hands were already laid upon the Hilts of their Swords Take heed therefore you especially of this Great City that ye join not in the Confederacies of Korah lest ye utterly Perish in his gainsaying Is the Iniquity of Peor and the Sin of the Golden Calf too little for us Are not the Judgments which we have groaned under heavy enough yet but do we sollicite God to add more Talents to the weight still Assure your selves that if People Repeat their Sins God will not fail to Repeat and Double his Blows and he hath more Judgments in Treasure besides the Plague and the Fire and the Posterity that cometh after us will as we our selves have done see the Follies and smart greatly for the Impieties of their Fathers for as Ezra said upon the Return out of Captivity After all that is come upon us for our Evil deeds and for our Great trespass seeing that God hath punished us less than our iniquities deserve and hath given us a Deliverance a miraculous deliverance out of our Thraldom should we again break his Commandments and join with the People of these abominations would not God be Angry with us till he had Consumed us so that there should be no Remnant nor Escaping For the preventing of the worst of Evils it is our great Concernment and ought to be our great Care and 't will be found to be our best Interest when all is done to lay aside all Unnatural Animosities and Heart-burnings which Evil Men make use of to Distract this Kingdom and to tear all our Establishments in Church and State into pieces and to be filled with the True and Primitive Spirit of Christianity to be Meek and Gentle and of Humble Minds to Act according to that Wisdom which is Pure and Peaceable to Study to be Quiet to endeavour by all possible means to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace to be Tractable and Honest in Heart to be subject to the Higher Powers and that not for fear of the Laws only but readily and ingenuously and for Conscience-sake to Fear God to Honour the King and to Love the Brother-hood to be in perfect Charity and Vnity among our selves as becometh Brethren and so in all manner of well-doing to commit our selves to God to whom be Glory Dominion and Praise Amen FINIS