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A18600	Votiuæ Lachrymæ. A vovv of teares, for the losse of Prince Henry In a sermon preached in the citie of Bristol December 7. 1612. being the day of his funerall. By E.C. Batchelar in Diuinitie, and publike preacher to that citie.	Chetwynd, Edward, 1577-1639.	1612 (1612)	STC 5128; ESTC S116821	22,091	65

from sinne we stay his hand wee haue cause to feare But surely by this already done the Lord God hath more then manifested that his are vpon vs as of old he threatned Israel as vpon a sinful kingdome with whom he hath already entred action as meaning to auenge the quarel of his couenant and to maintain his controuersie against vs the same verily and none other which in Hosea he prosessed to haue with the inhabitants of the Land of Israel viz. for the crying sinnes of our Land prouoking the eies of his glory For howsoeuer by the mercy of God we haue wherewith to stop the mouth of the blasphemous Aduersary both in regard of our profession after the way which they cal Heresie worshipping the God of our Fathers beleeuing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets and in regard of practise not being destitute of those who from the heart haue obeyed vnto the forme of Doctrine whereunto they haue beene deliuered yet so few in comparison are they that ioine these two together or willingly brooke the Narrow way to life as hath beene shewed in the treatise formerly written touching that Argument that vpon the body of our professors may iustly light that exprobration of the Propher Ieremy viz that they doe but trust in lying words when they cry so loud The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord c. For alas show can it secure or profit vs before the Lord that we haue the vndoubted marks of a true visible church in soundnesse of Doctrine and forme of worship whiles the matter of cortroucrsie betweene God and vs remaineth no truth nor mercy nor found knowledge of God in the lands No but insteed there of for all the Lords care of his Vinoyard our paineful preaching and what then thinke you would be if the Lord should let fall his care if there were no preaching no planting of the best plants no plucking vp of the euill weedes A plentifull Vintage of those wilde and sowre grapes of impiety and vnmercifulnesse wherwith in Esaies time his teeth were set on edge and which by his Prophet Hosea hee casteth in the teeth of the wicked Israelites who by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring are said to breake out and bloud to touch bloud And therefore no maruel if the land mourneth c. And yet behold we are by the same Prophet immediatly after directed to take knowledge of a sinne of lowder cry in the Lords eares then any of the forementioned where hee saith yet let none rebuke nor reprooue another as if he should say it is but lost labour for thy people are as those that rebuke the Preist An euill time indeed when the prudent shall bee aduised to keepe silence because as Ahab could not away with Micaiah so men hate him that rebuketh in the gate and abhorre him that speaketh vprightly So euill a time that where this sinne preuaileth it may bee feared the time of vengeance is not farre of as the Lord himselfe sheweth iustifying his seuere proceeding against his people in the captiuity of Babylon because they mocked his messengers despised his words misused his Prophets vntill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people and till there was no remedy or as the word imports no farther healing What shal I seeke for more particulars for those crying sinnes that pulled fire from heauen vpon Sodome euen those foure Cardinall crimes which the Prophet Ezekiel Ezek. 16. 49. expresly mentioneth viz. Pride Fulnesse of bread Abundance of idlenesse Cruelty in not strengthening the hand of the poore and needy Oh! that we could say our land were free from them But alas we cannot For first who seeth not that Pride that setteth it selfe out to euery eic in their outward habit proportionable neither to the body that weares it nor to the estate that should maintaine it nor to the sober liking of those that should approue it in al which regards it falleth vnder the same condemnation with the strange and disguised attire by the old Prophets so long agoe seuerely censured But there is yet another Pride that keepeth it selfe more out of view surking secretly in the heart yet not so secretly but either by the trial of the countenance and gesture or by words especially when there is occasion of boasting and contention or by port and affecting of high place or lastly by intruding into Gods office rashly passing censure vpon anothers seruants it doth more or lesse discouer it selfe to be that Pride of heart that God abhorreth Secondly for fulnes of bread comprehending not onely gluttonous eating but also that fowler abuse now a daies and more vniuersall deluge of excessiue drinking are not these the times which our Sauiour said should paralel the daies of Noah and we of this nation the persons of whom nothing is to be storied but that we are found as it were at racke and manger eating and drinking as if wee had no other care but to nourish our hearts as in a day of slanghter and God grant it bee not against the day of our owne slaughter So fearefully are wee ouerslowne with the inundation especially of the sinne of drunkennes that it is hardly beleeued that excesse in drinking and quassing is a sinne in such as can beare it away or stand vpright with it although the Prophet Esay hath left a special woe against them that are mighty to drinke wine and strong to poure in strong drinke And Th' appostle Peter among the lusts of the gentiles of all that truly professe Christ to bee abandoned reckoneth euen those drinkings and carrowsings the shamefull sinne of our nation Oh! if some part of those huge healths that haue beene heaued vp as a supposed honour to our late renowned Prince had beene conuerted into humble and feruent praiers to God for his preseruation we might possibly haue had him now liuing amongst vs and God surely lesse offended at vs. Thirdly that there is no want among vs of Aboundant idlenes witnes the very liues that all men looke vpon of base vagarants who like those afflicted and assamished wretches spoken of by the Prophet are suffered too much euery where not for want of good lawes but of due execution to goe to and fro the countrie wandring about in swarmes to doe mischiefe and ready when they be hungry to freat themselues and curese both their King and God whiles they wilfully remaine in want because their hands refuse to worke hauing nothing but what they get by spoile or beggery from others to the shame of our christian common wealth and contrary to the prouision made by that old statute law in Moses That there should bee no begger in Isruel renewed and confirmed by Saint Paul as by a latter act of Parliament vnder the Gospell where he telleth the Thessalonians