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A61731 A sermon preached at the assizes held at Dorchestor in the county of Dorset, upon the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord 1669 by John Straight ... Straight, John, 1605?-1680. 1670 (1670) Wing S5808A; ESTC R9809 21,640 33

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Flood of sorrow and Thirdly A Flood of godly anger First A Flood of sin I know my iniquities saith David and my sin is ever before me And O wretched man that I am saith Saint Paul who shall deliver me from this Psal 51. 3. Rom. 7. 24. body of death There is a Flood of sin Secondly A Flood of sorrow I say the truth in Christ I lye not my Conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in Rom. 9. 1. my heart So the same Apostle These two like Hypocrates twins go alwayes hand in hand there was never sin without sorrow nor ever sorrow without sin All dishonest actions are but earnests laid down for succeeding sorrows Thirdly the third kinde of flood that beateth on Gods childrens houses is the flood of Gods anger And of this the Prophet David complaineth thus Thine indignation Psal 88. 6. lyeth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms This flood of Gods fury hath much beaten upon us and that for many yeares together You cannot forget that fearful flood of civil war and intestine dissentions Jer. 48. 12. 2 Sam. 21. 17. amongst us When God sent unto us as he did unto Moab such as emptyed our vessels and brake our bottles and quenched for a time the light of our Israel You must needs remember the next flood of forraine War at Sea that beat so sorely against our buildings You cannot forget the next flood of Plague and Pestilence that swept away so many thousands And to name no more at present you must needs remember that fiery flood of Gods fury Fluvius Dan. 7. 9. 10. igneus rapidusque as the Prophet Daniel expresseth and renders it shewing the inevitable and consuming force of Gods Judgments You cannot I say forget that fiery flood that but lately beat down so many stately buildings in the Metropolitan City of this Kingdome Well what good effect have all these floods produced in us all this while What amendment is there in the rich What reformation is there in the poor Alass alass but small I fear For who doth not see what a deluge of prophaness and impiety doth yet overflow the Land Are not Gods good creatures too too much still abused in surfeiting and drunkenness in rioting and wantonness in strife and envying Are not people still as prophane still as irriligious still as ungodly still as sinful as ever Lay it to heart beloved and know that the Lord hath more floods to power forth upon us if these prevail not to reform us Applic. to the Judg. Give me leave now my Lord first to address my self to your Lordship for the begging of your assistance to prevent the future floods of Gods anger from falling on us and that by your impartial distribution of Justice you are set in Gods place you are to walk in Gods path and to be a follower of him who is no prosopoleptick with whom there is no respect of persons Let me I beseech you move you to that which you both know and I Rom. 2. 11. presume are ready to put in practise also you know the saying of the Poet. Qui rogat ut facias quod jam facis ipse ●ogando Laudat hortatu comprobat acta ●uo I shall only add good Jehosaphats caveat to the Judges Chr. 19 6. in his time which is this Take heed what ye do for ye execute not the Judgment of man but of the Lord and he will be with you in the cause and Judgment that is he will be with you to preserve you if you do justly or else he will be with you to punish you if you do the contrary To the Sheriff Next a word to you Mr. Sheriff for your assistance also to prevent the future floods of Gods anger from falling on us Ezek. 17. 18 19. and Mat. 5. 33. and to this end let me request you Sir to know your place and to consider your oath look to your under officers that they abuse not poor men with exactions nor the Country with exorbitancies To the Iustices Next I turn to you much honoured Justices and Gentlemen let me I beseech you crave your assistances also herein which that you may the better afford I pray be pleased to call to mind your several oathes remember to what you are sworn and be not remiss nor negligent in the performance of them You have good Law and Authority to punish swearing whoring drunkenness prophanation of the Lords day and other enormities Oh have a zeal for the due execution of such good Laws When any come to you for justice against such offences put them not off with Gallio that deputy of Achaia who would be judge of no such matters Gentlemen you are called Sheilds Ps 47 9. The Sheilds of the earth belong unto God ●aith the Psalmist Your place is to stand between Acts 18. 15. God and the people and by your timely censuring and punishing of known sins to prevent the floods of publick plagues from flowing in upon the Land wherein ye live You are termed also Healers Would God you would go to the quick and heal our breaches in the causes thereof Town and Country are sick of separation and swarm with scismaticks that in things but ceremonial peevishly spurn at the grave authority of the Church and out of a needless nicety are theives to themselves of those benefits which God hath allowed them Good Laws there are to reclaim them to suppress their Conventicles to restrain their seditious spirits but there is but little or no execution of them Gallio careth not for these things Gentlemen it is not material how good a mans will be if the executors who are put in trust do not perform it The Laws I may call Gods will and the will of his vicegerent the King it is no matter how good they be if those who appointed executors neglect to put them in execution In this case they are no better then scare-crows which being set up in the fields by Husbandmen to keep away birds at the first view are somewhat terrible to the fowles but after a while seeing them still in the same place and doing nothing they make bold with them and sit on their heads yea and worse then that too So beloved the Laws though never so dreadful at first if they be not duely executed by them that are in place to do it they grow in contempt and give occasion to refractory spirits to go on with boldness in their perverse and wilful wayes You may take this from Solomon who well observed it and tells you That where sentence is not executed speedily against an evil work the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil Where Justice is delayed there sin reigneth And will not this bring a flood upon us think you in the end if not timely prevented Liberty hath