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woman_n	child_n	mother_n	womb_n	3,217	5	9.6644	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87566	A sleeping sicknes the distemper of the times: as it was discovered in its curse and cure. In a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres in the Abby-Church at Westminster upon the 27th of January, the day appointed for their solemne and publicke humiliation. / By William Jenkyn Minister of Gods Word at Christ-Church London.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1647 (1647)	Wing J654; Thomason E372_10; ESTC R201315	25,581	45

avenge himselfe upon or reconcile himselfe unto the instrument who indeed was used by the hand of providence to do what was done against him his endeavours in this respect beginning at the wrong end for God hath a negative voyce to all overtures of peace and friend-ship between man and man the hand that cuts can onely cure the God that wounds can only heale any structure of amity betweene man and man will soone fall that is not set upon the foundation of a peace with God 2. Hee is insensible why he is wounded of the deserving cause sinne as he lookes not upward so neither lookes he inward he is not driven by what he feels to observe what he doth no man saith what have I done he searcheth not his heart to finde out the Jonah when the storm is risen about him He traceth not the sin the beast by the vestigium the print of punishment that it hath left upon him nor laboureth by the streame to goe to the head from whence it issueth Every thing shall be blamed sooner then sin his carelesse servants his disobedient childe his cheating Chapman his treacherous Commander but here is not a word of sinne all this while Nay rather then that shall be blamed the fault shall be laid upon those that are his greatest friends and haply most of all desire his good As ' its evident in the dismall example of Saul who in all his affrightments flew upon innocent David and never lookt into himselfe Nay rather then sinne shall bee blam'd cryes out upon that which is not as his hard hap his fortune c. 3. Hee is insensible of the way to cure his wounds and the true way of winding himselfe out of his miseries The people Hos 7.10 Hos 7.10 In the time of their calamitie and declining and when their gray haires were here and there upon them returne not to the Lord their God nor seeke him for all this and v. the 13. woe unto them for they have fled from me they flye to Egypt and Assyria but they fly from God who only can help v. 16. They return but not to the most High they are like a deceitfull Bow and the like complaint is that of Isay Is 51.20 that the people are like a wild Bull in a nett that can hamper and entangle it selfe more and more but takes no course to winde it selfe out very elegant also is that comparison of Hosea chap. 13.13 where 't is said that Ephraim is an unwise Son Hos 13.13 for hee should not stay long in the place of breaking forth of Children the scope is this The Prophet compares the kingdome of Israell to a woman in travaile in regard of ' its paines and distresses and the inhabitants to the child in the womb of the Mother and to such a foolish Child which though the Mother bee in never such torture by reason of ' its continuance in the womb yet the child takes no care to get forth but remaines there still though to the killing of Mother and it selfe both so the Israelites had rather stifle themselves in the womb of sinne and punishment undoe the state then leave their sin save themselves and the Kingdom their Mother In the 5. ch v. the 13. he compares them to a sick wounded person that goeth to a wrong medicine for healing where he saith that when Judah saw his sicknesse Hos 5.13 and Ephraim his wound they went to the Assyrian and sent to Jareb yet could he not cure them so to a silly dove without heart Hos 7.12 that flyeth to Egypt and Assyria for help And yet ver 13. They flye from God Though indeed there be no way to flye from God but by flying to him they sent to Jareb but not to God they open their mouths to be fill'd with the winde but stop them when God offereth that which will satisfy them A spirituall sleeper useth every way but the right If there bee a wrong hee will bee sure to take it hee is sooner ready to destroy himselfe then his sin and more enclin'd with an obstinate heart to goe on to ruin then by reviewing the greatness of his provocations and the goodnesse of him that is provoked to melt into teares to aske pardon to loath himselfe and his lusts and to turne heartily to the most high This is the complaint of Isaiah that the people returne not to him that smites them dismall is that denuntiation of God ●evk 27.39 that after all their Famine and Warrs and losses and Captivities they should not withstanding all these wounds they that are left pine away in their iniquity Notwithstanding the deaths of thousands before their eyes their abode in their Enemies land the visiblest tokens of the displeasure of an angry God yet to pine away and swelter in sin as if nothing could awake them how dreadfull is it Ther 's the first thing in the Text wherein a spirituall deep sleep appears to be so dreadfull a judgement in respect of the nature and kinde of it opened in five particulars The second particular in the Text whereby the greatnesse of this judgement is set forth is the measure of it held out in a double expression 1. Of the powring out of it 2. Of the powring the Spirit of it 1. Of powring it and this notes that when this deep sleep seizeth upon people as it did upon these in the Text that it overwhelms them it runs all over them it is such a dead palsey as stupifieth the whole body that leaves no part free like a City that is so begirt with an Enemy and about which there is so strait a seige that there is no going either in or out So here the Ministers of the Gospell know not where to set upon or how to endeavour entrance into these spiritually sleeping sinners how difficult a thing is it to cure that patient who in every part of his body ovtward and inward is distempered when the whole body is totum pro vulnere All over one wound and malady as it were 2. The second expression that sets out the measure of this deep sleep is the spirit of it A word that properly notes the power and the vehemency of this distemper As the spirit of a thing is the force and vigor and strength of it so here is denoted the efficacie and powerfullnesse of this deep sleep in these people and over them now what a judgement is it for a man to bee under the power of sinne to bee in arctâ custodiâ close prisoner to the soules greatest enemy to bee in the bond of iniquitie to bee held in the Cords of his sinne to have the soule garrison'd with thousands of such strong men armed as the weakest of them is stronger then an armie of men surely to bee under the power of the greatest Tyrants breathing is not a punishment comparable to this 't is a power that none in the