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A43844	Two sermons preached before the judges of assize 1. At Reading, on Cant: 7.4, 2. At Abingdon, on Ps. 82.1 : with two other sermons preached at St. Maries on Oxford, 1. On I Cor. 15.10, 2. On Psalm 58.11 / by John Hinckley ...	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2049; ESTC R37864	133,129	357

did he see his own adultery punished in the Incest of his owne Daughter His Son defiles his i 2 Sam. 16.22 Annotat. Concubines in the sight of all Isral upon the top of the house and t is thought with good reason in that very place where David first let fly his lustfull darts towards Bathsheba when from the top of his house he spyed her washing herselfe His murder was punished by entailing the sword upon his house and his confidence in the arme of flesh shewed in the numbering of the people was infeebled by a great plague and overthrowne by the arrow that flyes at noon-day Thus men fall k Ps 7.15 16. into the ditches which they make for others their mischeife returnes upon their own heads and their violent dealings come downe upon their own pates Had I time this might further be made good by those famous examples of l 2 Chron. 21. V. 4. and 17. Joram and m Jer. 22. cum 26. Jehojakim the one slew his Fathers Sonnes and his owne were shine by the Aramites the other denyed decent buriall to Vriah the Prophet and he himselfe had the buriall of an Asse The new Testament is not barren of examples to illustrate this truth The rich n Luk. 16.24 Gum in tormentis crucialundus flammae cremantis ardoribus aduratur inter omnes cortoris partes magis or ejus lingua poenas dant quia plus s●i licet linguâ sua orc peccaverat Cyprian Epist 55. man being tormented in flames cryes to Abraham to have mercy on him and to send Lazarus that he might dip the tip of his finger in water and coole his tongue His tongue no doubt had been most faulty in blaspheming God reproaching the poore it had been set on fire of Hell and hell-fire did most torment that member The Whore of Babylon did even reele and stagger being drunke with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus with Cyrus she had her fill of blood and hereupon an Augel inlarges this observation whereof I have been treating Thou o Rev. 16.6 17.6 compared art righteous O Lord because thou hast judged thus for they have shed the blood of Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink doubtlesse there is a God that judgeth in the earth 2. Had you the patience a litle to leave the Paradise of Scripture and to walke a turne or two in the groves and spatious fields of other stories we might see the evidence of this truth sparkling in our faces from a voluminous Induction of several examples in several ages and places Not to speake of Arius Cyricius Otho Byshop of Mentz and many others le ts begin with that notorious Apostate Julian He had belch't forth blasphemies against God out of his mouth and that wicked mouth of his became the passage of his owne q Theodori tus lib. 4. cap. 13. excrements his wife in the meane time calling upon him to learne against whom he had fought by the punishment which was inflicted upon him Valerian shewed an exquisite cruelty against the Servants of the living God and Sapores King of Persia took him captive and commanded his skinne to be pulled over his eares and his raw flesh to be seasoned with salt r Eusebius in Constantini orat c. 24.25 Diocletian was furious in his thundring persecutions against the Church of God but he escaped not unpunisht for he and his house were both destroyed by thunder and lightning sent from heaven Decins and Aurelian are also sad monuments of the judgments of God but I hast to that monster Maxia minus He made a law that the Christians eyes should be pulled forth and his own eyes started out of his head He abused his body to the satisfaction of his lust and that s Euschius l. 9. c. 17. de vita Constantini l. 2. c. 52. part which he most abused became the subject of such a stinking imposthume that the Physitians chose rather to be put to death by him then to approach neare him t Josephus l. 13. c. 19. Aristobulus killed his Brother Antigonus and after he fell a vomiting of blood and t is observed by the Historian that his own blood was shed in the very same place where he had shed his Brothers before Charles the ninth also King of France committed Horrible but cheries in his raigne and at last his own u French History p. 764. blood gusht out at all the Conduits of his body It were easy to enumerate many other Kings of x See the preface to Sr. Walter Rrawleighs History France together with severall Kinges of Spaine and of this nation also who after their tyrannical raignes had experience of the same measure of cruelty which they meted to others Our own stories may furnish us with instances of swearers whose tongues have swollen so big in their mouthes that they have not been able to speak and of y D. Beard of Gods Judgments drunkards who have been inflamed with that drinke which they have intemperatly swallowed downe so that it could finde no passage out of their bodies O● what exemplary judgments hath the Lord manifested against sabbath-breakers what Christ said to the Jewes Luk. 17.32 Gen. 19.26 Remember Lots Wife who for her disobedience was turned into a pillar of salt So say I to such as profane the Lords day either by sports or unlawfull labour Remember such as have frequented playes and beare-baitings on that day and in the midst of their Theaters have come tumbling downe overwhelming and killing one another the very scaffold wheron they stood breaking in peices as it were out of indignation disdaine to support such profane wretches Remember that Nobleman who Hunted so long on the Sabboth day untill his owne Wife conceived and brought forth a child with a head like a dog Remember that Coveteous Woman who spent her time on that day in dressing Flaxe till at length the flax took fire and burnt her Remember and againe I say Remember the severall judgments of God For what the Apostle sayes concerning the overthrow of the ingratefull children of Israel in the wildernesse the same say I of the judgments of God upon others These things are our examples to the intent we should not lust after evill things as they also lusted 1 Cor. 10.5 6. And were I worthy to interpose my advice concerning the no lesse profitable then pleasant study of Histories I could wish we did not only aime to furnish our selves with matter of discourse out of them or to look backe into the Callender of former times with an eye of speculation only or at least to satisfie our Curiosity but withall that we would narrowly observe in all transactions the footsteps of divine providence in the just dispensations of his judgments how all along in all ages He hath been a God judging in the earth but had we noe benefit of

would come in the morning therefore they did not regard their lives nor their b Gen. 45.20 stuffe for with an eye of faith they saw the good of all the land of Canaan before them There is no Enterprise but the Consideration of the reward puts life into it The schollar studies the Physician rides early and late the souldier fights the husbandman digges and delves in the bowells of the earth mercator ad Judos the Merchant passes many stormes and tempests in dangerous seas which they would not do preamia si tollas ●f there were no preferment no honour no riches and advantage to be got thereby But now what a shame is it that all these should be animated to their indefatigable paines and great hazards by such poore and inconsiderable rewards and yet we sit still and neglect the work of righteousnesse and holinesse as if the face of God were not worth beholding the crowne of life worth fighting for nor the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the price of our high calling in Jesus Christ did deserve our diligent and constant running in the race of Christianity they do it to obtaine a corruptible crowne but we an incorruptible 1 Cor. 9.25 It is said of a Gen. 29.20 Jacob that he served seven yeares for Rachel and they seemed but a few daies for the love he had to her she was so amiable And the Trojans could say It b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Il. 3. was no wonder that there was a ten yeares warre for Helena seeing she was a woman so beautifull Much lesse should we be discouraged by any hard-ships from the duties and practise of Religion seeing the reward there of is so great and the joyes of heaven so joyous our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a more exceeding and eternall weight of Glory 2 Cor. 4.18 If this reward do not move us and prevaile with us to live righteously to walk upright and religiously there is 1. Either infidelity at the bottome of our hearts we can beleive men if they be not notoriously naught in their asseverations and promises we are apt to beleive Satans allurements and to take him at his word when he saith all these things will I give thee though he be a lyer from the beginning and insteed of a fish give a Blanditur ut fallat arridet ut nocear illicit ut occidat Cypri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 us a scorpion there is a reward indeed due unto sin but it is an unwelcome one The wages of sinne is death yet though we are credulous to men and devills yet we will not b Homini ab homine creditur sed non creditur Deo Salvi beleive the promises of God though he say verily there is a reward for the righteous yet our sleighting the pathes of righteousnesse shew we contradict the veracity of God his verily is not authentick 2. Or else we have hard thoughts of God and his service like him in the Gospell we are ready to say c Mat. 25.24 Master we know that thou art an hard man or with them Mal. 3.14 T is in vaine to serve the Lord and what profit is there that we have walk't mournfully before the Lord of Hostes All is lost time which is spent in this worship when will the new moone be gon that we may sell corne Amos. 8.5 they are carnall and so neither see nor value any reward but what is present and visible 3. Or lastly they are downe right Atheists and so deny both the gift and the Honour as if there is no God in heaven to give gifts and rewards unto men unto whom I oppose the next assertory part of my text Doubtlesse there is a God Which is a compleate doctrine in it selfe and without any variation of termes shall be my next observation Obs Doubtlesse there is a God And did ever any call this into a doubt Is not this one of those principles which in Logick we call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is taken for granted and by reason of that evidence and light which it carryes along with it needs no demonstration As snow is acknowledged white without any dispure T is true quid sit deus what God is in his essence is above the reach of men and angells As the peace of God passes our understanding so the God of peace much more Canst thou by searching find out God canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection Job 11.7 Famous is that story of him a De naturâ deorum in Tullie who being ask't what God was desir'd time to bring in his answer and when that time was expir'd he desir'd a double proportion of time and at last was faine to returne with non est comprehendus He is not to be fathomed with the short and finite line of our understandings to see God as he is must remaine untill we see him face to face Here we know him only in a negative sense that is we know what he is nor not what he is It is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil p. 127. as easy to empty the vast ocean with a nut-shell or the palme of ones hand as perfectly to know this absolute and eternall being which we call God yet as we must not deny the being of the b Senti animam quae ut sentias efficit Tertul. p. 89. soule because we cannot fee it so non est c Fulgentius p. 40. ignorabilis deus we are not to be ignorant of God cum sit inenarrabilis although his nature and generation none can declare If we cannot see his face and live yet we may look after his backeparts we may safely without peeping beyond the vaile or prying into the unsearchable secrets of God shew quòd sit deus That there is a God and that is my task Doubtlesse there is a God Although it hath bin disputed whether ever there hath bin any speculative Atheist any who hath bin fully convinc'd in his judgment that there is no God at all and some have affirm'd it that no such person hath ever bin found yet we shall find other Atheists more then enough too too rise in our daies which was in a manner forseene by a holy M. Greenham and grave man in his generation who frequently said That Atheisme was more to be fear'd in England then Popery 1. There are Socinian Atheists who deny with open face the Godhead of Christ and of the Holy-ghost as if Christ were a constituted god and not of the same substance with the Father from all eternity not a God by nature but by donation in time As there are many of this rank so God hath raised up champions in his Israel to disarme them of all their subtilties and to heat them out of all their trenches though they were dug as low as Hell 2. There are witch-hunting Atheists such as after losses in times of extremity when lawfull meanes