which deserveth both sighes and tears So much that Instrument which hath this day called us together hath proclaimed to the world And surely so we shall find it if we seriously consider the state of things both abroad and at home Look a broad we may see or hear of that which deserveth to be laid to heart The sad state of our poor persecuted brethren in Piemont whose condition not long since hath been recommended to the needfull charity of this Nation As also that hand of God which hath lyen so heavy upon our neighbours on the other side where the destroying Aâ—gel hath been and yet is at work doing sad executions To which I might add the present state of our brethren in Scotland But we shall not need to go abroad It was that which our Saviour said to the woman of Ierusalem whom he saw out of a feminine temper and some of them happily out of affection unto himself lamenting him going to his Passion Daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and your children Luk. 23. 28. And truly the like may be said unto us at this day weep not so much for others as for your selves Such is the state of this nation that if rightly considered it may be conceived to deserve a weeping over which that you may be brought to do let me desire you to approach and take a veivv of it This it was that drew tears from your Saviours eyes viz. his approaching and beholding of Ierusalem When he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it That you may be like affected towards this your native countrey let me give you a sight of it Which I shall do in a three fold prospect desiring you to look upon it these three wayes considering what it was what it is and what unlesse God be pleased graciously to step in by a timous prevention it it is like to be First What it was how happie under that long continued peace which for so many years together it enjoyed to the admiration if not envy of other Nations But again how unhappy under the late Civill Commotions which like a fire breaking forth in our own bowels what sad devastations did it make to the effusion of much precious bloud which is yet so fresh as that the memory of it cannot but deeply affect the hearts of all those who bear any true love to the land of their Nativity Such it hath been Secondly But what is it Here I shall not go upon any private account whether my own or yours which if I should I might draw up a large Catalogue of sins and judgements under which at the present this nation lyes and groans deserving to bewept over But I have a publick one put into my hand That Declaration which hath occasioned this our meeting I find it taking notice of three or four particulars Besides the late Rebukes those I suppose received on the other side of the world where not a little English blood was shed to the no small dishonour of the Nation which hath not been acquainted with such repulses The tares of Division Abominable blasphemies Dreadful appostacies with the Impediments of Settlement and Reformation These are held forth as the just occasions and grounds of this dayes Humiliation And truly if rightly looked upon as we see a reality in every of them so we shall find that there is never a one of them but giveth the people of God to do over this Nation what their blessed Saviour here did over Ierusalem to weep over it First The tares of Division which vvhilest the Husbandmen slept the envious man hath sowen and that so thick as the whole field is over run with them insomuch that they threaten to eat out the heart both of Church and State Divisions of all sorts Divisions both of Heads and Hearts in jugdement and affection in Church and State So as it may novv be said of the people of England as once it vvas of Israel Hosea â— 2. I Their he arts is divided God haing taken away his spirit of unitie and concord from them he hath given them over to Seditions Factions Sects Schismes And is not this a just cause of mourning Such are divisions in the State In or for The divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart Judg. 5. 15. Much more in the Church O what means that noise of Axes and Hammers in the Temple In the building of it there were none of these heard 1 King 6. 7. Surely this is for the breaking down of the carved work thereof at once Psal. 74. 6. Secondly Abominable blasphemies And those not onely the suddain eruptions of prophane and impious tongs by cursing and swearing for which the Prophet saith the land of Israel mourned Jer. 23. 10. But deliberate blasphemies studied and resolved blasphemies Blasphemies against Iesus Christ and against his holy Spirit divesting both of their Divinity denying the satisfaction of Christ blasphemies against Scriptures Ordinances Ministery even spitting in the face all religion And is not this a just ground of mourning The Iews of old never heard a blaspemous word but their manner was to rend their garments 2 King 18. 37. 19. 1. Matth. 26. 65. Act. 14. 14. O what cause have Christians then to rend their hearts at the hearing and seeing of such blaspemies as daily fly abroad among us The like whereunto are not to be found in Rome it self though she be the mother of abominations Revel 17. 5. And hath the name of blasphemy written upon her forehead Rev. 13. 1. 17. 3. Thirdly Dreà dful apostacy and backsliding among many who being like stars fallen from heaven fallen from their Principles into dangerous destructive desperate damnable errours and heresies have not onely forsaken but also persecute that truth and that way which themselves before made profession of and walked in Fourthly And in the last place The hindrances of settlement and reformation in the Church This the people of God in this Nation have desired looked longed for earnestly wrestling with God and man for the obtaining of it And they conceived to have had some return of their prayers in a hopeful beginning of it But now how are all those hopes dashed Reformation being turned to Deformation the wals of Ierusalem being broken down and no Nehemiah as yet undertaking the rebuilding of them And are not these just grounds of mourning A sufficient cause why they who wish well to Ierusalem to the Church of God in this Nation should with their Saviour here weep over it Such is the present state thereof Thirdly Beyond which if it be lawful for us to look what can we see or expect unlesse God in mercy step into us by vvay of a gracious prevention but even Jerusalems fate utter ruine and destruction were there no other but the first of these those many and sad Divisions which are on
He will fight against them with the sword of his mouth executing upon them those judgements which he hath threatned in his word Temporal or Eternal It may be temporal Thus is he said to slay the Isralites with the words of his mouth in that place forecited Hos. 6. 5. And thus shall he go forth against Antichrist and his party as you have it set forth Revel 19. 15. Out of his mouth goeth a sharpe sword that with it he should smite the Nations Thus shall the Lord Jesus execute upon that grand enemy of his that man of sin and his adherents the judgements denounced and threatned in his Word And thus let all obstinate and rebellious sinners fear lest Jesus Christ whose Word they now contemn should thus come forth against them here thus fighting against them with the sword of his mouth executing upon them Temporal judgements But if not so yet let them know there is a judgement to come which they shall not escape even that last and Eternal judgement And then shall they both see and feel this sword coming out of the mouth of Iesus Christ when they shall hear that terrible sentence put out of his mouth As for those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me as you have it Luk. 19. 27. O how will this sword then pierce through their soul Now thus knowing the terrour of the Lord as the Apostle speaketh 2 Cor. 5. 11. taking notice of this sharpe two edged sword going out of the mouth of Jesus Christ the refore we perswade men and that it might take place with all you that hear it that they would stand in awe fearing before him Fourthly And thus standing in awe of his Person now hear and receive his word Receiving it from the mouth of his Ministers The Priests lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the Law at his mouth saith the Prophet Malachy Mal. 2. 7. And this let the people do seek the Law of Christ at the mouth of his Ministers Receiving it as his word Though spoken by man yet so have and receive it as coming from the mouth of Iesus Christ. So did those believing Thessalonians receive the word which came from Pauls mouth as he giveth testimony of them 1 Thes. 2. 13. When ye received the Word of God which ye heard of us ye received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the Word of God And thus let the word which is spoken to you by the Ministers of Christ in his Name be heard and received not as their word but as his word as coming out of his mouth Fifthly And being so looked upon let it be heard and received with holy fear and trembling To this man will I look saith the Lord even to him that trembleth at my Word Isai. 66. 2. letting it into the heart labouring to find and feel effectual working of it upon your souls to find it there as it is here represented and set forth as a sharpe two edged sword First Pricking your hearts with Godly communication and contrition for sin Which who so have not in measure felt they may conclude they have not yet heard Iesus Christ speaking to them His word is a sword Secondly And thus pricking suffer it to pierce further even to the dividing a sunder of the soul and spirit and of the joynts and morrow making a full and thorow discovety of the frame and temper of your hearts and souls so as the secrets of your hearts may thereby be made manifest to your selves that you may be thorowly convinced of the corruption of your natures the lusts of your hearts and errour of your lives Thirdly Thus piercing labour also to find and feel the killing and mortifying property of it as in making you to see your selves dead men by reason of sin so in killing the body of sin mortifying all sinful and inordinate lusts in your souls Fourthly And thus feeling the killing labour also to find the quickning power of it This is the two fold operation of this two edged sword as I told you it both killeth and maketh alive Labour to feel this efficacy of it that whilest you are dead unto sin you may be alive unto God through Iesus Christ. Thus feeling the power of this sword of Jesus Christ the sword of his Word here yea shall then feel of that other sword of his the sword of judgement and vengeance which he is said to whet against all obstinate sinners Psal. 7. 12. and wherewith he will wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of every such a one as goeth on in his trespasses Psal. 68. 21. FINIS THE Mystical Sun In the Face of JESUS CHRIST And his Countenance was as the Sun shineth in his strength HEre have we the last branch of this Description which our Evangelist and Apostle giveth of this Sun of Man which appeared unto him in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks Iesus Christ in the midst of the Churches Wherein he giveth us an account of the most noble and principal part of his Body his Face his Countenance That ordinarily sheweth what the the man is And so it here did what this Son of man was No ordinarie person but one far surpassing all other of the Sons of men His face had a radiant Majestie in it such as never was seene in the Face of any mere man It was as the Sun as the Sun shining as the Sun shining in his strength Quest. And what was hereby represented and signified Ans. Here againe I finde different apprehensions among expositors 1. Some looking upon this as a representation of the glorie of the mysticall body of Iesus Christ his Church which is and shall bee Glorious here Thence are called the Glorie Isai. 4. 5. upon all the Glorie shall be a defence saith the Prophet speaking of Gods protection and his Church under the Gospell which is called the Glorie in as much as it is the habitation of the God of glorie as the Arke upon the same account also was called The glorie is departed 1 Sam. 4. 22. where he manifesteth his presence in the midest of his ordinances The Church glorious here much more hereafter As glorious in the Kingdome of grace so much more in the Kingdome of glorie where all the members of the misticall Bodie shall be made conformable to their glorious head when Christ who is our life shall appeare then shall ye also appeare with him in glorie Col. 3. 4. And this glorious condition of theirs some looke upon as represented here by this glory in the face of Iesus Christ. 2. One and but one I meete with who in this glass fancies a representation of the splendor and glorie of the Roman Church which in regard of externall pomp and state must be acknowledged to be paramount for
that unclean spirit to our Saviour Mark 1. 24. But to know them affectionately with a knowledge of approbation So the word knowing in Scripture is frequently used In this sense Saint Paul saith of himself Rom. 7. 15. that the things which he did he knew not So the Original hath it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I know not meaning as our Translation giveth the sense of it that he did not allow or approve of them In this sense God is said to know or not to knovv men If any man love God the same is known of him 1 Cor. 8. 3. that is approved of him Verily I say unto you◠I know yon not saith the Bridgroome to the foolish virgins refusing to own them Mat. 25. 12. And in this sense man is said to know God and Jesus Christ. This is life eternal to know thee the onely true God and him whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ Joh. 17. 3. O righteous Father the world hath not known thee vers 25. Novv in this sense the inhabitants of Jerusalem did not know Jesus Christ. A general knowledge they had concerning the Messia that he should come And many of them might know Jesus but they did not know him to be the Messia they did not acknowledge him to be the Christ. Q. No it may be said did not they acknowledge him What meant then that Acclamation of the people who at this time brought him into Jerusalem in triumph as Saint Matthew more fully reports the story Mat. 21. 8. where he tels us how a very great multitude spread their garments in the way c. And they cryed Saying Hosanna to the Son of David Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest Now did not they own and acknowledge him How is it then that he here exprobrates them with their disowning sleighting of him A. To this it is answered True Christ was thus acknowledged by some and many at this time But by whom was it Probably by some of the neighbouring villages not by the inhabitants of Jerusalem So much seems to be intimated in the tenth verse where it is said when he came into Jerusalem all the City was moved saying who is this To whom the multitude which came along with him return answer This is Jesus the Prophet c. But again However some there were in Jerusalem that did so acknowledge him so did the Children in the Temple which sung the same song Hosanna to the Son of David vers 15. yet who or what were they No considerable party whether for quality or number For quality they were such as were of no account being of the vulgar and meaner sort Not any of eminent place whether in Church or State that appeared any more for him Have any of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him say the chief Priests to their Officers Joh. 7. 48. At that time when those Queristers sung that Antheme in the Temple it is said that the chief Priests and Scribes were sore displeased Matth. 21. 15. And it was no otherwise with the body of the people who were generally led as for the most part they are by the example of their Rulers They did not receive him and his Doctrine And this it is which here he so passionately bewailes in them that they had not done it and so affectionately wisheth that they had done it O if thou c. Lo then How deplorable a thing it is for a people not to receive Christ and his Gospel being offered and tendered unto them This is the observation I am now to prosecute For a people not to receive Christ and his Gospel not to give entertainment to the messengers of peace not to imbrace the offers of grace and mercy being held forth unto them in the preaching of the Gospel this is a most sad and deplorable thing This is the thing which our Saviour here so passionately laments and bewails And the same we find him doing again elsewhere Mat. 23. 37. where he breaketh forth into the like pathetical exclamation O Jerusalem Jerusalem how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not O Jerusalem Jerusalem the word is doubled to intimate the strong affection of the speaker How often would I have gathered thy children meaning the people of the Jews whose mother City was Jerusalem This he had attempted by sending his messengers his servants unto them then coming himself to admonish them warn them exhort them so striving to bring them to faith and repentance that so they might have been sheltred from the wrath of God and secured from those imminent evils which hang over their heads But they would not They rejected the offers of grace made unto them And this is the matter of our Saviours lamentation the thing which drew these tears from his eyes And indeed there is nothing more to be lamented then this And will you have the Reason of it take it from the Text. This is the thing which belongeth unto their peace Upon this it is that the woe or welfare the felicity or misery of a people doth depend This is their making or marring the receiving or rejecting the Gospel of peace This being entertained brings peace along with it It was the commission and direction which our Saviour gave to his Apostles when he sent them forth Matth. 10. 12 13. When ye enter into a house salute it and if the house be worthy that is such persons as are willing and ready to entertain you and your message now let your peace come upon it Now preach the Gospel of peace to them and therewith wish all good and happinesse unto them which also accordingly shall come and rest upon them So Saint Luke expresseth it Luk. 10. 6. If the sonne of peace be there meaning such persons as were readily disposed to receive the doctrine of peace the Gospel your peace shall rest upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God will bring upon that family all the good that you wish unto it your apprecation of peace shall be as effectual as your preaching of it Thus is it with a family And thus is it with a City and thus is it with a Nation The receiving of the Gospel is the happinesse of it On the other hand the rejecting of the Gospel is the undoing of a people So it there followeth Matth. 10. 14. Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when ye depart out of that house or City shake of the dust of your feet This were the Apostles to do as a token of Gods shaking them off Even as we read of Nehemiah shaking his lap Nehem. 5. 13. Also I shook my lap and said So God shake out every man from his house from his labour that performeth not this promise even thus be he shaken out and emptied Thus were the Apostles to shake off the
dust of their feet against those that rejected them Or to shake their garments at them So did Paul against the Jews Act. 18. 5 6. He preaching Christ unto them when they opposed themselves and blasphemed he shook his raiment c. Thereby intimating not onely his deserting but Gods rejecting of them Of such sad consequence is it for a people not to give entertainment to the Gospel and the messengers thereof This layeth them under a curse rendring them justly obnoxious to the vengeance of God I shall not dwell any longer upon Confirmation or Illustration Bring we it home to our selves by way of Application Where in the first place see vve vvhat cause vve have to mourn and vveep over this Nation vvherein vve live vvherein Christ and his Gospel have found such sleight and slender entertainment as generally they have done and yet do A long time it is that the Gospel hath been held forth among us Christ hath sent unto us his messengers the Ministers of reconciliation offering peace unto us upon Gospel tearms upon our receiving him as our Saviour and Lord. But vvhat is the reception vvhat is the entertainment that for the most part he hath met with Is it any more then a formal reception a formal profession of his name This indeed hath generally obtained The name of Christ is called upon us But is not this all What is there more to be found among the greatest part but a naked profession without any power How few are there that have received Christ into their hearts Truth is our acknowledgment of Christ hath been and is generally more in Ceremony then in reality Not unlike that of the Iews many of which at his entrance here in to Ierusalem were full of Ceremony and outward expressions They spread their garments in the way as a Carpet for him to ride upon They cut down branches of trees and strowed the way with them as tokens of festivity and solemnity And they cry Hosanna saluting him by the name of a Saviour But yet they were far from taking him to be their King No when he was propounded to them under that notion as he was by Pilate John 19. 14. the chief Priests make answer for the rest we have no King but Caesar vers 15. And they who had even now cried out Hosanna now change their note crying out as loud Crucifige Away with him away with him Crucifie him And is it not so with the greatest part of this Nation In a formal way they have acknowledged Christ for a Saviour complementing him with some Ceremonial observances such and no better have been the services which they have performed unto him meer shadows without any substance but as for taking him to be their King how are the greatest part resolved with those Citizens in the Parable Luke 19. 14. Nolumus regnare we will not have this man to reign over us And O what a sad and deplorable thing is this what cause have we to sit down and weep over England upon this account This was the thing which belonged to our peace Had we thus received Christ and his Gospel had we yielded up our selvs to be governed and regulated by his Laws how happy a people might we then have been Then might we have hoped that God would have subdued our enemies and turned his hand against our adversaries Then had our race been as a river and our righteousness as the waves of the Sea as the divine Psalmist and Prophet have it in the places forecited Psal. 81. 13. Isaiah 48. 18. Then had there been peace within our wals and prosperity within our Palaces But sleighting and rejecting him not submitting to his Government not to his outward Government which the greatest part stand out against having cast off those golden reines they will not now endure any Government in the Church much less to his inward Government to rule in their hearts what evil have we cause to fear Nay what may we not fear In the fear of God let this be seriously laid to heart by every of us this day We see how our blessed Saviour laid to heart this wretchlesness in Ierusalem How he lamenteth over it for it O if thou hadst known the things which belong unto thy peace And have not we just cause to take up the like Lamentation over this Nation O England if thou hadst known in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace O how happy how blessed hadst thou been But now what God intends towards thee who knoweth Should he remove thy Candlestick take away the Gospel from thee which is cause enough to fear should he bring the like evils upon thee as our blessed Saviour here threatens against Ierusalem should he make our Houses Cities Temples desolate should he bring utter desolation both upon Church and State should he give a near and larger Commission to the Sword to eat fiesh and drink bloud seconding it with those ordinary attendants which through a wonderful providence we have hitherto been freed from Famine and Pestilence so sweeping us as dung off from the face of the earth yet must we acknowledg the Lord to be just and righteous In the humble acknowledgment whereof let all of us seriously set our selves for the diverting and preventing of these Judgments To which end be we admonished and exhorted yet to hearken to this wish in the Text. So some here look upon the words in the Text reading them Optatively utinam nosses O that or would to God that thou hadst known And O that England would yet hearken to this wish so as to comply with it Then which what can be more desirable for it What those things are you have heard viz. to receive Christ and his Gospel to give such entertainment to him and it as he requireth Now let all of us as we wish well to our own souls in particular and to this Nation in general seriously apply our selves hereunto As yet through riches of grace the Gospel of peace is held forth unto us As yet we enjoy the Ordinances of Christ Word and Sacraments with liberty and purity O let us now make much of them and make use of them with holy care and conscience waiting and attending upon them thereby making it manifest what esteem we have of them Specially indeavouring to profit by them to finde the power and life of them inwardly in our hearts in the changing and transforming them and to express that power in the course of our lives and conversations by so walking as becometh the Gospel So doing now may we yet comfortably hope that he who doth here so compassionately mourn over a rebellious people rejecting him and his Gospel will much more pitty spare a repenting people that is willing to hearken to his voice So pitty us as to turn away those threatned evils continuing the Gospel of peace with the peace of the Gospel to us and our posterities after us
presence with his Church Christ performeth the like offices to his Church that the Sun doth to the earth Inlightning it All light coming from Jesus Christ. Natural light of reason Reason Supernatural light of Grace Of Glory Inlivening Comforting Making fruitful Purifying Christ as the Sun to his Enemies how Branch 2. The face of Christ as the Sun shining Christ upon earth like the Sun under a cloud In his death Eclipsed In his Resurrection breaking forth Herein the members conformable to their head Partaking of the same glory for kind though not degree Branch 3. The face of Christ as the Sun shining in his strength The glory of Christ transcendent Etiam justi fulgebunt sicut sol in regno patris Christi verò corpus fulget ut Sol in vigore suo quo excellentia capitis prae membris significatur Pareus ad Text. His efficacious operations Dissipating and dispelling fogs and mists of Heresies and Errors Melting frozen and congealed hearts Warning and heating them with joy love zeal Drying up sinful corruption Applic. Seek we the face of Jesus Christ. Quest. How seek it Answ. That we may see it The Beatifical vision upon earth Quest. How Christ is to be seen upon earth Answ. 1. Neg. Not by way of vision Answ. 2. Affirm In the Glass of the Gospel In his Ordinances Answ. 2. Seek the face of Christ that we may feel it The operations of Christ to be felt in the soul. Illumination Light received is to be reflected how Vivification No life from Christ without union with him Spiritual life as begun so maintained and increased by Jesus Christ. Consolation True comfort not to be found in the creatures Nor in a mans self All true comfort to be sought from Christ Fructification Purification Christ to be felt as the Sun in his strength Dispelling mists of ignorance infidelity Thawing and melting of the heart Warming and heating it The appearing of Christ not to be feared by those who have felt these his powerful operations Which to others will be terrible Christs second coming to believers a joyful day Errata to the three Sacred Emblems The text upon what occasion takâ— up Declaration Novem. 21. 1655. Division Parts three Part 1. The occasion of this lamentation The eye lets in affection to the heart What Christ looked upon in Jerusalem that so affected him The City it seâ—f magnificent for structure The number of people devoted to destruction Magis tamen subversionem planxit animarum quam ruinas parietum Carthus â—d lot The qualitie of the people Gods people Qâ—um populum qui in spem vita aeâ—ernae adâ—pius 〈◊〉 suae ingratiâ—udine maâ—iâ—ia misere perire videret nihil mirum si lachrymâ—s non tenuit Cal. â—d loc Ierusalem the 〈◊〉 the head city upon which the whole Nation had a dependance Ierusalem the City of the great King the city of God Quum expenderet illam divinitus electam esse sacram sedem in quae resideret salutis aeternae foedus Sanctuarium unde prodiret salus salas toti mundo fieri non potuit quam ejus interitum graviter doleret Cal. ad loc Part 2. The expression of Christs compassion by weeping Lachrymae sunt legati doloris Cyprianus lib. Ep. 7. Weeping a passion not unsutable to Christ. Mutarunt homines temerarii delicati quibus flere Christo indignis videbatur Grotius at Text. Gorranus ad Text. alli Alii septies Chriâ—â—um flevisse aâ—â—erunt Gerhard Harm ad loc Why Christ lamenteth what he could have remedied To shew the truth of his humanity Carne humanacircundatus vere humanos induit affectus Cal. ad loc To testifie his affection to the Iews Hoc fletu testatus est fraterne se diligere eos in quorum gratiam fuerat homo factus Calvin ad Text. Viscera misericordiae suae per fletum osstendit Theophil ad loc Why did he not then help and save them Christ here in acteth as man Obs. Christians to be tenderly affected towards the Churches of God The Churches misery to be mourned over Christians to mourn for those who do not mourn for themselves Reas. Christians members of the same body Appli The present times to be mourned over In regard of the state of the Church abroad The presen state of England a matter of just lamentation Englands condition looked upon three waies What it hath been What it is Set forth in the late Declaration Iamaika Four particulars justly to be mourned over Tares of division Abominable blasphemies Dreadful apostacy The hindrance of settlement and reformation What like to be Part 3. The cause of Christs weeping Pathetica est ratio ideoque abrupta Calvin ad loc Passionate expressions often abrupt The defect here how supplied Obser. Christs affection to an unworthy people the Iews God not taking pleasure in the death of sinners How God willeth the death of the wicked Appli Gods grace not to be turned into wantonnesse Gods goodnesse leading to repentance Christ still retaining the same affection towards poor sinners The matter of this lamentation where the evil lamented Aggravations of it The evil lamented Expli Three things What here meant by peace viz. All kind of happinesse What were the things which belonged to their peace viz. Christ and his Gospel How they are said not to know these things viz. in not owning of Christ. To know God and Christ what Christ acknowledged by a small party By whom it was A party inconsiderable both for quality and number Obser. Not to receive Christ and his Gospel a most deplorable thing This is that which belongeth unto the peace of a people The rejecting of the Gospel the undoing of a people Applic. A just cause of mourning over this nation the sleight entertainment given to the Gospel Calling for deep lamentation Vse 2. What to be done for the preventing of judgment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hic est utinam Grotius ad loc The Aggravations of this complaint Aggravation 1. The Persons Thou as well as others Diodate Annot ad loc Thou rather then others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vel tu urbs illa suprâ— omnes terrae urbes Dco dilecta urbs David urbs Regia urbs sacris dicata Grotius ad loc Ierusalem a Non-such in respect of spiritual priviledges An Aggravation Of Christs sorrows Of her sin Obser. Means and mercies not answered great aggravations of sin and judgment Ad astra tolli Sublimi feriens sydera vertice The more light the greater sin R. Grace abused a high contempt Applic. Vse 1. Application to the nation in generall Jerusalem and England pararelled In respect of spirituall priviledges Temporall favours Unanswerable returnes A great Aggravation of Englands sin Threatning a proportionable judgment Application to the Town of Yarmouth in special Vse 2. Exhortation To indeavour an answerable return to mercies A sad thing for God to upbraid a people with his favours A thing which he is not ready to do Yet being provoked by ingratitude he will do