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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21056	A sermon preached at the publicke fast To the Commons house of Parliament. April. 5th. 1628. By Ier. Dyke minister of Gods Word, at Epping in Essex.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1628 (1628)	STC 7424; ESTC S100103	32,686	66

hee will be gone rather then brooke such neighbourhood Nay it is a signe that God is already in some measure gone for had he held his owne station and possession how could they haue entred Such a step presages great calamitie 2 When the ministerie of a Church beginnes to grow corrupt and vnfounde in doctrine and manners when Trueth and Holinesse departs God departs Hereupon a corrupt ministrie made a presage of calamitie Hos 9. 7. The dayes of visitation are come the dayes of recompence are come Israel shall know it Nay Israel may know it before they come But how The Prophet is a foole the spirituall man is mad When Prophets and spirituall men once beginne to bee fooles and to bee mad to bee out of their spirituall wits and out of the way of truth then looke for the dayes of visitation because when trueth goes God goes and when he goes no good can come 3 It is a manifest step of Gods departure when it is with a Nation as it was with Sampson Iudg. 16. 20. He wist not that the Lord was departed from him But God was departed from him and how appeared it v. 19. She began to afflict him his strength went from him he thought he would do as at other times but could not At other times he brake the greene withes at other times hee brake new roapes at other times hee went away with the pin of the beame at other times hee was still too good for the Philistins but now hee could not doe as at other times God was departed from him and therevpon followed that misery v. 21. They put out his eyes they put him in fetters of brasse c. Gods departure gaue warning of all this sorrow and in that his strength went from him that he could not doe as at other times this was the impression of Gods departing foote Thus is it with a State and Nation If God depart from them he thereby giues them warning to looke for Philistins fetters of brasse and the prison house And then may a Nation know that God is departing if not departed when their strength is departed from them and they cannot doe as they haue done at other times That same is an euident step of Gods departure Ps 60. 10. Wilt not thou O God which hadst cast vs off and thou O God which didst not go out with our armies When God thē goes not forth with a peoples armies he casts them off hee departs from them And thus God departed from Egypt and gaue them by this step of his departure warning of their destruction Ier. 46. 14. 19. Standfast prepare thee for the sword shall deuoure round about thee furnish thy selfe to goe into captiuitie But what signe or likelihood of Captiuitie See v. 15. 16. Why are thy valiant men swept away they stoode not because the Lord did driue them he made many to fal yea one fell vpon another they said Arise let vs goe againe to our owne people to the land of our natiuity from the oppressing sword God was departed from them their enemies beate them great reason hath Egypt to take warning of sword and Captiuitie comming vpon her when a Nations shield is gone what can they looke for but to bee bread for their enemies And thus doth God giue warning in these particulars Vse 1. Take wee heere notice of Gods gratious dealing with this sinfull English nation Our sinnes are such that God might haue done with vs as with Sodome Lam. 4. 6. That was ouerthrown as in a moment God might suddenly haue surprized vs haue let in the flood of his wrath to haue swallowed vs vp in a moment But heere may I say as Paul Rom. 11. 22. Behold the goodnesse and the seueritie of God The Seuerity of God in his purposes of wrath against vs The Goodnesse of God in his gratious warnings wherin he giues vs intelligence of his Intentions This day is this trueth fulfilled in our eyes Wee see it true for our parts that God giues faire warnings before Iudgement ceaze vpon a people God neuer gaue any fairer warning then he hath giuen vs we haue had warnings in all these kindes For 1. What if I should say that God giues vs warning by Oracle Seemes he not to doe it Apoc. 3. 10. Speakes he not of an houre of temptation which shall come vpon all the world Seemes not that houre to be already begunne Surely if that Scripture looke so farre towards the ends of the world and if meant of an houre of temptation to come in this last houre of the world then may we say of this as our Sauiour Christ of that This is the houre and the power of darkenesse The present troubles of the Church may seeme to be the beginning of that houre But to let this passe if God warne not vs thus yet want we no warnings 2. If prodigious signes and wonders bee warnings then judge if God haue not warned vs. Besides that common warning which God gaue vs with the rest of his Churches in that prodigious Comet wee haue had peculiar warnings in this kinde God gaue vs warning in that wonder of the doubled tydes in the riuer of Thames God gaue vs warning in that Earth-quake March 27. 1626. God gaue vs faire warning in that prodigious storme in the Citie that fetcht the dead bodies out of their graues together with that stupendious sight vppon the water And amongst diuers others I dare not slight that hand of God in sending Iohn Friths preparation to the Crosse in the fish bellie to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge a little before the Commencement That such a booke should in such a manner and to such a place and at such a time be sent when by reason of peoples confluence out of all parts notice might be giuen to all places of the land in my apprehension it can bee construed for no lesse then a diuine warning and to haue this voyce with it England prepare for the Crosse Of which ●hing I may ●…y with a litle ●hange as Aug. speakes ●f a prodigi●us warning God gaue the ●omanes Quod quanti ●ali signum ●…it Quod si ●oc signum ●…ntum ma●um ●…it quantum ●…alum erit il●…d cuius hoc ●…gnum fuit Aug. de ciuit ●…i lib. 3. c. 23. 3. And how long and how loude hath the Ministeriall Trumpet sounded in our eares Hath it not sounded like the Trumpet in Mount Sinai Exod. 19. 13. 16. Haue wee not heard it very long and exceeding loude Haue not Gods watchmen from their watch-Towers a long while cryed as Esay 21. 8. A Lyon A Lyon Haue we not in this kinde beene warned vnto wearysomnesse 4. But what warnings hath God giuen vs in the calamities and miseries of our neighbour and sister Churches Nec illos naturale robur corporum facit viuere nec nos naturae infirmitus vinci Nemo sibi aliud persuadeat Nemo aliud arbitretur sola nos