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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64990	God's terrible voice in the city by T.V.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.	1667 (1667)	Wing V440; ESTC R24578	131,670	248

go on still to profane his Name Do you not fear future Judgements will not the Name of God be displayed more dreadfully before you when he opens the Treasures of his wrath and sends his Son in flaming Fire to take vengeance upon sinners and yet will not you fear this Name of God Swearers with what confidence can you pray to God what hopes can you have when you use Gods Name in Prayer that you shall have the least audience or acceptance when you abuse his Name so much and cast such dishonour upon it by your Oaths If you do not pray now as Swearers seldom do will you never be driven to your knees will you never be brought to such extremities that no creature shall be able to give you any relief and with what face can you then look up to God will not your callings upon the Name of God be in vain as you have taken his Name in vain will not God laugh at your Calamity and though you cry and shout will not he shut out your Prayer and barr the door of Mercy upon you for ever Swearers turn from your sin make a Covenant with your mouth set a Watch before the dore of your lips use Gods Name in Prayer and reverently in discourse do not swear by it or take it in vain any more get an awe of this Name upon your hearts which will be an excellent means to keep you from this sin 4. Lyars turn from your evil wayes We read Acts 5. at the beginning of Annanias and Sapphira who were smitten with sudden Death for the sin of Lying it is said they fell down at the Apostles feet and gave up the ghost And hath not the sin of Lying been one ingredient in the meritorious Cause of the fall of so many persons and houses by the Plague and Fire in the City of London This sin of Lying the Apostle doth in especial caution the Colossians and Ephesians against after the wonderfull grace of God in the renovation of them according to his Image Col. 3. 9. Lye not one to another seeing ye have put off the Old man with his deeds And have put on the New man c. Eph. 4. 24 25. Having put on the New man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Put away lying and speak every man truth to his Neighbour And this sin I may caution Londoners against after the dreadful anger of God expressed in the Desolations which he hath made amongst them by his late Judgements Lye not one to another any more but speak every one Truth to his Neighbour The Lord is a God of truth and he cannot lye do you labour to be men of truth such as will not lye The Devil is the Father of Lyes and Lyars Ioh. 8. 44. and which is most eligible to be Children of God or Children of the Devil A lying tongue is one of the seven Abominatitions which the Lord hateth Prov. 6. 16 17. And is there any good you can get by your lying comparable to the evil of rendring your selves hatefull and abominable in the sight of God Is it needfull for you sometimes to speak lyes Is it not a thousand fold more needfull for you alwayes to speak truth are you likely to gain so much by the former as by the later what is a little outward Emolument in comparison with inward Peace are you likely to lose so much by the later as by the former what is the loss of external temporal things in comparison with the loss of your Souls and Happiness for ever Is it needfull to lye that you may excuse your faults this makes them double Herbert Nothing can need a lye A fault which needs it most grows two thereby Parents warn your Children against this sin of Lying do not spare the Rod of Correction where you finde them guilty pass by twenty other faults rather than this Lying is the first link in the Chain of a thousand gross sins rap off their fingers from the first link least the Chain after grow too strong for you to break Masters indulge not your Servants in this sin the resolution of David was Psal. 101. 7. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight Especially take heed of leading Servants to this sin by your Example above all of putting them upon this sin by your perswasions or commands for besides the guilt of their sin which hereby you incurr your dammage is like to be more than your advantage by their lyes If you put them upon lying for you they will put themselves upon lying to you and if you deceive others in some things by the former they are likely to deceive you deservedly in greater things by the latter Young ones take heed of Lyes do nothing as may need the cloak and excuse of a lye and if you be overtaken with a fault never deny it when examined but with sorrow acknowledge it as you would gain favour with God and man Take heed of this sin betimes lay aside lying before it grows into a Custom which will be hard to leave Old ones break off this sin before you be dragg'd by the chain of this sin into the Fire of Hell which is the threatned punishment thereof Rev. 21. 8. Be not too hasty in speech least this sin issue forth at the door of your lips before you are aware speak always as in the hearing of God who knows whether your words and heart do agree and who will one day call you to an account for this sin and except you repent punish you for it severely in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone 5. Slanderers turn from your evil wayes The sin of slandering is one of the worst sorts of Lying and the teeth of slanderers are compared to spears and arrows and their tongue to a sharp sword Psal. 57. 4. and when they utter their slanders they bend their bowe and shoot their arrows they whet their sword and wound therewith the reputation of others which they are bound to be as carefull of as their own Psal. 64. 34. Slanderers are false-witnesses who lay to the charge of others such things as they know not Psal. 35. 11. they are Lyons who tear in pieces the good Name of others they are Serpents whose words are stings and full of deadly poyson they are compared to mauls and swords and sharp arrows Prov. 25. 18. yea they are like mad men who cast about fire-brands and arrows and death Prov. 26. 18. By this sin you wound others and are guilty of tongue-murder but you wound your selves more I mean your Consciences and are guilty of self-murder of soul-murder and the poyson of such speeches is not so venemous and deadly in regard of your Neighbours good name as it is in regard of your own spirits which are invenom'd and will be destroyed hereby without the application of the blood of Christ for pardon and healing

heart this sin of Covetousness 18. The Eighteenth sin of London is Extortion thus Covetousness hath expressed it self more grosly in some I shall not here discourse concerning Usury but the extorting Use which some have taken of those who have been in want the taking Use upon Use and grinding the faces of the Poor in their distress no doubt is a great sin and very offensive to God How many Extortioners have there been in London who have enriched themselves by impoverishing of others who panting after the dust of the Earth on the head of the Poor have lent Money to them not for their help but to catch them at an advantage that so without mercy they might catch away all that they had not leaving them so much as a Bed to ly on Thus some have been like Lyons for Cruelty and like Evening Wolves unt the poor tearing their flesh from their bones and reserving their very bones to gnaw in the morning as the Prophet speaks Zeph. 3. 3. This sin of Extortion was one of the abominations reckoned up by the Prophet Ezekiel for which God was so highly offended with Ierusalem chap. 22. 12. Thou hast taken Vsury and increase and hast greedily gained of thy Neighbour by Extortion and hast forgotten me for this and other sins there mentioned it is said v. 3. Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them I have consumed them with the fire of my Wrath. Unto this sin of Extortion I may add severall other wayes that many in the City have had of getting Estates which some may dispute for the lawfulness of and because so common and gainfull the sin is little heeded but when the Lord hath been contending with the whole City and hath inflicted a generall stroke upon Tradesmen yea one stroke upon another and hath trodden their Trade under his feet as seeming to be offended with something therein methinks they should be awakened and open their eyes and impartially search and labour to finde out whatever it is that doth offend him whatever seeming disadvantage may come to them thereby And if they will not hearken God can take away the remainder as he hath done a great part and so force them to a sense of their sin One sinfull way of getting Estates and I am perswaded displeasing to God is engrossing and monopolizing of Commodities which many in London have done that having all the Commodities of that kinde in their hands they might make their own Market and set their own price upon them which if they sold as cheap as otherwise they would do or as others do when they are shared into many hands as possibly some may I could not condemn the thing But when by getting the whole into their hands they hoist and raise the Price far beyond the just Value which they necessitate people to give and that only that they might enrich themselves this I dare confidently affirm to be unlawfull and my reason is because hereby they prefer a lesser good before a greater namely the enriching of themselves and their Families before the more publick good of making the Commodity more cheap to the Commonwealth If they say the injury which they who buy of it will sustain they being so many will be very small and inconsiderable but the good they shall get hereby will be great and they may be in a better capacity of doing good I answer that none ought to do the least injury for the reaping of the greatest advantage It being absolutely unlawfull to do evil that good may come thereby and the damnation of such will be just Rom. 3. 8. and consequently a greater injury will come to themselves than to those whom they injure yea the Injury will be greater than the Good which they obtain And as for their being in a capacity of doing more good I believe that such persons if they do spend such gains are more forward to spend them on their lusts than to lay them out in Charitable uses I have not heard that the greatest Monopolizers in London have been the most charitable persons If I were more acquainted with the mysteries of Trades in the City I fear I might finde out more than one Mystery of Iniquity among them If the Lord would put into the hearts of Magistrates and Citizens to look into Trades and to consider the equity that they bear and take some course for rectifying abuses in them it might be one way to obtain a more favourable aspect from Heaven and the Lord might revive again the Trade of London which now is dying and sinking to the ground 19. A Nineteenth sin of London is Lying It is said of Nineveh Nah. 3. 1. that it was a City full of lies O the Lies that have been in London who can reckon them Lies in the streets loud lies which have been cryed false News which we daily hear Lies in the Chambers secret lies privy false tales which are whispered in the ears Lies in the Shop trading lies lies told in buying and selling Officious lies which some tell to do their friends a kindness Mischievous lies which some tell to do another an injury We read of some that bend their tongue like their bow for lies that will not speak the truth but teach their tongue to speak lies Jer 9. 3 5. How many Liars have there been in London What age is free from this sin The Children have learned to lie as soon as they have learned to speak What house hath been free How have Tradesmen been guilty of lying which some account a necessary adjunct to their Trade without which they could not live How many Servants have excused one another and themselves when they have committed faults with their lies But of all lies mischievous lies have been the worst which some have invented to do an injury to their neighbour such lies are more immediately begotten by the Devil the Father of lies and such liars are his most genuine Off-spring But all lies in a sense are mischievous lies they are mischievous to the party that tells them even the Officious liar cannot do so much kindness to his Friend by his lye as he doth injury to himself What! will a man stab himself to do his Friend a courtesie he that wounds his Conscience doth worse he that gains in his Trade by his lye loseth more than he gains A bag of Gold is not to be compared with inward peace and the favour of God better than life which by this sin is lost Surely the Lord being a God of Truth is much offended with this sin of lying God delights saith Solomon in them that deal truly but lying lips are an abomination to him Prov. 12. 22. Lying was one sin of Israel for which their land did mourn Hos. 14. 2 3. And God threatneth to give all liars their part in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Rev. 21. 8. Methinks that one place should make all liars to tremble And is not