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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

this City are trampled upon with durty feet vilified pointed at loaden with infamous nick-names as Baals Priests Popi●h teachers Limbes of Antichrist wofull to relate and I wonder how any man that beare● but the name of a Ch istian dares vent such unsavoury invective speeches against their Teachers and that it may be for dissenting from them only in the use of a harmelesse significant Ceremony You know what happened to ●eroboam for stretching out his hand against the Prophet though he were a King 1. Reg. 13.4 And you remember the severity of Gods Anger against the young children for mocking the Prophet Elishah goe up thou bald head goe up thou bald-head 't is recorded that 42 of them were presently torn in●●●ic●s 2. Reg. 2.24 Doth God punish foolish wanton children for such a fault think not that those of riper yeares shall escape this was the Bane of Hierusale● once before 2 Chron. 36.16 They mocked the Messengers of the Lord and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord ar● se against his people till there was no remedy ther fore he brought upon them the King of the C●●dees who slew their young men with the Sword here 't was their bane again 't was one of those sins that armed the Romans against them and I pray God it doe not help to bane this City Lord lay not this sin to our charge Another of Hierusalems latter sins was their irreverent prophanations of Gods Temple they put no difference between that s●cred place set apart for the worship and service of God My House shall be called the House of Prayer and other ordinary places they carried burdens therough it they bought and sold in the outward Court of it till Christ forbad them Take these things hence 〈◊〉 make not my Fathers House a House of merchandize Beloved I must be plain with you we are too much guilty of this sin also there is a vile irreverent esteem of Gods House in the hearts of too many amongst us and out of the aboundance of the heart the mouth speaketh words which I am almost ashamed and afrayed to repeate that the Church is no better then an Ale-House or a Tavern nay then a Bawdyhouse I heard it spoken prophane wretches the Iewes came not nea●e these and yet Christ switched them out with a whip of small cords Huic aliud mercedi● erit I feare these will be beaten with many stripes heavy strokes there is a golden meane if we could light on it between idolizing of a Temple and vilifying of it between doing reverence to it and irreverent prophaning of it We have warnings enow to look to our feet when we come to the House of the Lord you know what a breach was made upon Vzzah for a small miscarriage as is may be conceived about the Arke and how many thousands of the Bethshemites were cut off for prying irreverently into the Arke I am sure Christ never exprest more anger then in that passage about his Fathers House and I doe believe 't was one of the sins that brought this judgment upon Hierusalem for you shall read in the verse after m● Text. Ver. 45. That as soon as he had uttered this complaint If thou hadst I known even thou in this thy day c. He presently went into the Temple and cast out them that sold therein and them that bought saying it is written my House shall be called the house of Prayer but ye have made it a den of thieves and Lord lay not this sin to our charge A third sin of Hierusalem in her declining are was the Sects and divisions that were among them we read of Pharisees and Sadduces and some other Sects that they were rent and divided into what a tumult and an outcry there was between the Pharises and the Sadduces Acts 23. The Captaine was affraid least Paul should have been ●orne 2. peices by them they were so violent And beloved are not we conscious to our selves of this sin also fractions and divisions it is a question not easily answered whether there be more Sects or wards in London and what tumults have been occasioned by these Sects and sidings not only in the s●●ee●s but even in the House of God what shoutings and clamours to the dishonour of God and the disturbance of the Congregation Lord lay not this sin to our charge Oh that we would take out that golden Lesson of the Apostle To keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace that we would give credit to that undeniable sailing of our Savious A Kingdom or a City or a House divided against it selfe cannot stand there was a time when Hierusalem was at unity within it selfe Psal 122.9 And then she was not ashamed to speak with her Enemies in the gate but now being at cry●●l jarres and dissensions among themselves they become a prey to the Romans neither could their private differences be composed till the Enemy took away both their lives and their livings and made Hierusalem ●●celdana● a field of blood Enquo disco●dia cives p●rduxit ●nis●●os And God grant this sin of Hierusalem doe not bring Hierusalems punishment upon us that our private dissensions doe not incourage and give opportunity to the common Enemy to cast a trench about us you see Hierusalems sins are come over into England and therefore it 's too too probable that her punishment may follow For the dayes shall come that thy Enemies shall cast a trench about thee and lay thee even with the ground c. But that my Sun may not sit in a cloud I shall ad one word more that though it be possible nay though it be probable the premisses considered that the Sword may come yet it is not necessary there is mercy with the Lord that he may be feared No●●●●e am●●v●●● sed ●●iteatiam God is infinitely more delighted in the conversion then in the confusion of a sinner why will ye dye O house off Israel turn ye turne ye from your evill way break off your sins by repentance and live he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy Proverbs 28.13 Confession and conversion or humiliation seconded with reformation hath sometimes reversed the sentence that hath gone out against a Nation as in the case of Niniveh yet forty dayes and Niniveh shall be destroyed Niniveh in the meane time repents of the evill she hath committed and God repents also of the evill he hath intended had Hierusalem done so too had Hierusalem known the things that belonged to her peace Ilia nunc staront Priamique urbs alta man●ret for ought we know it might have stood until this day Niniveh had but forty dayes Hierusalem had forty yeares respit to repent in and to make her peace So I say now if we shall even we in this our day labour to make our peace and attonement with God whom we have offended by discerning and lamenting all our former transgressions by resolving and indeavouring to walke

such things as these people may not imitate Matth. 23.3 to build with one hand and pull downe with the other to lead by his good doctrine and mislead by his wicked conversation to have Christ in his mouth and Satan in his heart this is likewise a sad mournefull spectacle Lastly those that are eminent though not in place yet in the esteeme and opinion of the Church I meane professors of religion their sins are more scandalous and therefore more to be lamented then the sins of other men if David a pillar of the Church step awry the enemies of the Lord will soone have their mouths open to blaspheme upon that advantage 2. Sam. 12.14 To see therefore a professour not to live according to his profession not to walke worthy of that new name that Christ hath given him not to walke as becometh the Gospell to over-reach or circumvent his neighbour in bargaining or selling or to undermine his brothers good reputat●on by becomming the devills agent to scatter false and slanderous reports or to live in malice or adultery or to hugge any other delightfull darling lust in his bosome this is also a sad mournefull spectacle Well if Christ have taught us to mourne for the back-slidings of Hierusalem what shall we say to that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that rejoycing in evill which is in the world what shall we thinke of those active instruments of Satan that take such paines to propagate sin in others those inticers Pro. 1.11 Come let us lay waite for bloud cast in thy lot amongst us let us all have one purse wee shall fill our houses with spoyle and enrich our selves with precious substance c. thus the Prophet brings in a crew of Idolaters animating and incouraging one another in their designes Esay 41.6 They helped every one his neighbour and said one to another be of good courage so the Carpenter incouraged the Goldsmith he that smootheth with the Hammer him that smote the Anvile saying it is ready for the sodering and so Es 56 12. hee brings in a company of drunkards daring one another to sit close at it come say they I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drinke and to morrow shall be as to day and much more aboundant and what shall we thinke of Solomons fooles that make a sport of sinne never more merry then when they heare of the disorderly carriages the drunkennesse the swearing the wantonnesse of their brethren sure as the Apostle speakes Eph. 4.20 non sic didicistis Christum you have not so learned Christ he mournes for Hierusalem hee beheld the Citty and wept over it saying If thou c. And beleeve it there was never more cause of mourning in this kind then in our dayes a fountaine of teares would not suffice to bewaile all the abominations that are committed in the midst of our Hierusalem if our Lord and Saviour were now upon earth he would never goe with dry eyes for beside that Luke-warmnesse that is amongst us that a great many are neither hot nor cold what sinne was ever committed by any that is not committed by many in this land and in this City how hath pride jetted in one street drunkennesse reeled in another street oppression marched like Iehu in another street adultery with all her wanton positures minced in another street wee have justified Sodome in all her abominations Sodom which along while agoe was turned into ashes and made an ensample to all that should afterwards live ungodly hath not done as wee have done we have exceeded Sodom if not in the commission of greater sins yet in committing the same sins with greater impudency and greater obstinacy in regard of that glorious light which shines amongst us and did not shine among them and yet which is the misery there is scarce a Lot to be found whose righteous soule is greived for all these abominations though only such mourners bee marked in the forehead to be preserved in the destruction of Hierusalem Ezech. 9. though only such mourners be the followers and Disciples of Christ for hee beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst knowne even thou in this thy day c. And so I come to the other cause of Christ his mourning Jerusalems misery for the dayes shall come that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and keepe thee in on every side and lay thee even with the ground 't was likely we should heare of a storme Hierusalem was so secure so opprest with the spirit of drowsinesse she did not know the things that belonged to her peace they were hid from her eyes when men shall cry peace and safety then sudden destruction shall come upon them as travell upon a woman that is with childe 1. Thess 5.3 the men before the deluge were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage when the floud came and swept them all away the men of Laish were extreame carelesse and secure when the Danites came upon them and slew them with the edge of the Sword Elies Sons set their Fathers counsell at nought they would not see the vilenesse and danger of their sins when the Lord had a purpose to slay them and Lots admonitions sounded as idle tales in the eares of his Sons in Law when the next morning Sodom and Gomorrha were destroyed with fire and brimstone from heaven when the Prophets who are called Seers and watchmen shall discerne a cloud a tempest arising and shall according to their duty give the people warning to fly from the wrath to come to prevent and divert it by repentance and reformation if the people now shall slight the Prophets words as idle tales say with Saint Peters mockers Vbi promissio adventus where is the promise of his comming or with those Deut. 29.19 we shall have peace though we adde drunkennesse to thirst though we goe on in our sensuall courses though wee seek it yet againe as t is Pro. 23.35 surely that people must needs bee in as bad case as the ground that Saint Paul speakes of Heb. 6.8 that drinketh in the raine and bringeth forth nothing but briars and thornes nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned and this was Hierusalems case here Hierusalem had many warnings both from the Prophets and from the Lord of the Prophets many gracious tenders of mercy were made to her many severe threatnings were discharged against her woe unto thee O Hierusalem wilt thou not bee made cleane when will it once be Ierem. 13.27 but she is either so blind or so obstinate or both that she doth not or will not know the things that belong to her peace here in my Text Christ himselfe woos her if thou hadst knowne even thou in this thy day c. and that with teares in his eyes he beheld the City and wept over it but all in vaine Christ did but cast an eye back upon Peter and that recalled him Luc. 22.61 the Lord turned