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A87874	A sermon preached at the publique fast the ninth of Feb. in St Maries Oxford, before the great assembly of the members of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled: and published by their speciall command.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1167; Thomason E36_4; ESTC R12873	25,682	45

this time It is a sword like that which is described Ezek. 21. A sword a sword sharpned and also fou●bished ver 9. It is the sword of the great men that were slain entring into the privy Chambers ver 14. It contemneth the rod of my sonne ver 10 that is it regardeth not the Kings Scepter where even the Geneva note in the Margine tells us that the King is called the Sonne of God because that all men should reverence Him as being in Gods place But this is a desperate sword as is expressed verse 13. And what shall this be if the sword contemne even the rod Such is the sword which God hath sent against our Land It contemneth the rod despiseth the Scepter spareth not the person of the King himselfe so that the breath of our nostrills the anoynted of the Lord was almost taken in their pits Lam. 4.20 This sword is so desperate that it devoureth without respect of sex age or conditions of men and there is no end of destroying We may now with sad hearts and wet eyes behold the whole Kingdome like a sorrowfull Widow not onely as Rebecca pained with the strugling of her children in her wombe but as Rachel weeping for her children who will not be comforted because they are not It is repotted of Judas Macchabaeus 2. Mac. 12. that after a shaughter of the People he caused to offer up Sacrifice for the dead Now howsoever that author hath related this story yet I cannot believe that Judas offered any Sacrifice for the benefit of the dead for certainly that error is not so ancient but it may wel be that he caused to offer up Sacrifice because of the dead that is to say by the slaughter of those men that fell he perceived that Gods wrath was kindled against all the People and so he offered Sacrifice to make an atonement for themselves So we shall doe well now to offer up sacrifice because of the Slain to turn away Gods wrath from us lest we all likewise perish I know there is a sacrifice intended but it is such as will make no atonement Many divelish polititians would now make a sacrifice of the Church they call it a Reformation of Religion but it would prove the destruction of it This hath bin often attempted before and it was observed by M. Cartwright the author of the Ecclesiasticall discipline that it was covetousnesses which set on worktheir Lay-followers to bring in their discipline Whilest they heare us speake against Bishops and Cathedrall Churches saith the author of the Ecclesiasticall discipline it tickleth their eares looking for the like prey they had before of Monasteries Yea they have in their hearts devoured already the Churches inheritance They care not for Religion so they may get the spoyle They could be content to crucifie Christ so they might have his garments Our age is full of spoyling souldiers and of wicked Dionysians who will robbe Christ of his golden Coate as neither fit for him in Winter nor in Summer And saith M. Cartwright They are Cormorants and seeke to fil the bottomlesse sacks of their greedy appetites They doe yawne after a prey and would thereby to their perpetuall shame purchase to themselves a field of blood So that even in the judgement of these men who were the founders of this Rebellious Sect it is no acceptablesacrifice to God for men to appropriate to themselves the maintenance of the Church and such things as have been dedicated to Gods service This is not to offer up a Sacrifice to God but to sacrifice the things that are Gods unto wicked and Sacrilegious men Such a Sacrifice will be so farre from pacifying Gods wrath that it will incense it the more against us and against the whole Land such a Sacrifice will be as abominable unto God as was under the Law the cutting off a Dogs neck and the offering of Swines blood Isa 68.3 It is another Sacrifice wherewith we must make an atonement even that Sacrifice which David repenting of his sin vowed unto God Ps 51.17 The sacrifice of a broken and contrite heart which God will not despise Wee must humble our selves in the sense of our sins and cry mightily unto God that the fiercenesse of his wrath may be turned away By this humiliation Gods wrath hath beene often pacifyed Ahab by an outward humiliation procured the adjourning of a temporall judgement So did the Ninevites when their destruction was within fortie dayes they humbled themselves and fasted whereupon the Lord repealed his sentence and they were not destroyed In the second of Ioel I find that even when the day of the Lord was nigh at hand ver 1. that is destruction readie to fall upon them presently yet God was willing to stay his hand and that his people should make his threatnings voyd for in the 12. verse he exhorts them unto repentance saying Therefore also now saith the Lord turne you unto me also now that is even now when the sentence is gone forth when the judgement is at hand now when I have whet my Sword bent my Bow and prepared the instruments of death yet Turne ye unto me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning rent your hearts and turne unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and mercifull who knoweth if he will returne and repent and leave a blessing behind him Therefore blow the Trumpet in Sion sanctifie a Fast c●ll a solemne Assembly Let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weepe betweene the Porch and the Altar and say Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach When Shishak King of Egypt came up against Ierusalem in the dayes of Rehoboam and tooke in the fenced Cities of Iudah the Princes of Israel and the King humbled themselves And when the Lord saw they humbled themselves the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah saying They have humbled themselves therefore I will not destroy them but I will grant them some deliverance and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Ierusalem by the hand of Sh●shak 2 Chron. 12.7 So powerfull is true humiliation to asswage the flames of Gods wrath But for want of this humiliation many times Gods people maintaining a good Cause by lawfull authoritie yet are foyled as were the Israelites before Ai who could not prevaile untill such time as Ioshua fell on his face and mourned and cried unto the Lord. Jos 7.6 The Israelites going against the Tribe of Benjamin were Gods people they had a good Cause and a speciall Commission from God yet were they twice foyled because they did neglect to seek God by repentance and humiliation as doth appeare by the event for being beaten unto it they went up to the Lord and wept and fasted and offered burnt offerings and Peace-offerings before the Lord. Iudg. 20.26 Whereupon they overcame the Benjamites In the first of Sam. 7.6 it is said that the people drew water and powred it

of God in which they trusted could not free them from vengeance as the Lord himselfe forewarned them in the seventh chap. of this Prophecie Behold yee trust in lying words which cannot profit saying the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord will yee steale murther commit adultery sweare falsely burne incense unto Baal and walke after other Gods whom yee know not and come and stand before me in my house which is called by my name and say we are delivered to doe all these abominations Is this house which is called by my ●ame become a den of robbers Therefore will I doe unto this house which is called by my name and wherein yee trust as I have done to to Shiloh and I will cast you out of my sight as I cast out all your brethren even the whole s●ed of Ephraim Yea those prerogatives and benefits which they had received were so farre from saving them in the day of vengeance that they did aggravate their guiltinesse and double their condemnation as is expressed Amos 3.2 you onely have I knowne of all the families of the Earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities as if he should say because I blessed you more then others seeing now that you prove unthankfull I will punish you more then others God useth his former benefits as arguments to prove that judgements were due unto them for these three follow of course Ingentia beneficia ingentia peccata ingentes poenae where God vouchsafeth to conferre great benefits upon a Nation and they answer him with great sins certaine it is that great judgements will en●ue How doth our Saviour take on against these Cities where he had preached and wrought many miracles and they were not converted Woe be to thee Corazin Woe be to thee Bethsaida woe be to thee Capernaum for if that the great workes that have beene do●e in thee had been done in Tyrus and Sydon in Sedome and Gomorrah they would have repented but it shall be easier for them of Tyrus for them of Sodome at the day of judgement then it shall be for you Matth. 11.20 c. So may I say unto many who now injoy the meanes of Salvation and have drunk deepe of the cup of Gods blessings and yet continue in their sins the time shall come when they shall cry out oh that I were of Sodome oh that I were of Gomorrah oh that I had beene borne a Turke a Pagan and never knowne the good Word of God rather then having knowne it to have turned away from the holy Commandement Let us not therefore flatter our selves in respect of an outward profession of the true Religion and because of the manifold blessings wherewith Almighty God hath blessed our Nations for when God once commeth out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquities then the plea of Templum Domini will not serve the turne if reformation of the heart and life be wanting The Jewes because they had Abraham to their Father thought themselves free and could not endure to heare of bondange and indeed they were the seed of Iacob the only visible Church that God had yet when the faithfull City became an Harlot God gave her a bill of divorce his soule was avenged upon that Nation Good God if thy justice spared not Ierusalem what Nation can looke to escape The Apostle directs us what use we should make of all the punishments of the Iewes 1. Corin. 10.6 c. Now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evill things as they also lusted And that Scripture brings me to my generall application You have heard Gods threatning against his people in handling whereof I have proved that great sins procure not onely a visitation but a vengeance yea a speedy vengeance not only upon particular persons but even upon the whole Nation yea upon any Nation though never so neare and deare unto God as upon the Nation of the Iewes Now if we will reflect upon our selves we wil find that we may vie blessings with the Iewes blessings spirituall and blessings temporall the blessing of Peace the blessing of plenty the blessing of many great and extraordinary deliverances from out enemies and above all the inestimable blessing of the word of God And it fears me that we shall find we may tell sins with them also and overmatcht them by farte I pray you what were the sins for which God was pleased to execute vengeance upon his owne people Was it Epicurisme and fleshly lusts for these stand●ne ●rest to the threatning in my Text when I had fed them to the full they then committed adultery they assembled themselves by troopes in the harlots houses they were as fed Horses in the morning every one neighed after his Neighbours wife Whereupon followeth this threatning shall I not visit for these things Or was their sinne Blood and Oppression Bribery and Injustice Fraud and Deceipt Robbery and Extortion Lying Avarice and Ambition Pride and Prodigality Oathes and Blasphemy Or was their sinne Ingratitude and Hypocrisie neglect of Gods word disobedience to his call abuse of his servants and prophanation of his Sabboths carnall security hardnesse of heart and contempt of Gods judgements Or was it corruption in worship and grosse idolatry Of all these crimes they stand indicted by the Prophets and in all these we have gone beyond them as Jerusalem justified Samaria so have we more then justified Jerusalem in all her abominations I will instance only in one or two Our Prophet saith Chap. 23.10 Because of swearing the Land mourneth And yet the least child in our streets could teach them all to sweare that sin could not be so very common amongst them for they had a custome to teare their clothes when they heard one to blaspheme if we should doe so in this age I am sure we should not leave a ragge upon our backs As we goe beyond them in swearing so also in lying never was there any Iow nor Frier either that had a face so impudent to devise such lies as now are published allowed rewarded as being the best meanes they have to advance their holy Cause Besides there are many sins common amongst us which were either rare or altogether unknowne unto the Iewes as Usury which was not practised by them except in their dealing with strangers neither doe we read of their Sacriledge till after their returne from the captivity Here if time would permit me to speake of your gaming dicing of your Masques and Stage-playes c. I could make it appeare that there are many great sinnes allowed amongst us which were not knowne vnto the Iewes not so much as heard of in Sodome or Gomorrah We haue new devices to cozen with new inventions to pamper our bodies and sacrifice to our panch new fashions to be proud with new oathes to blaspheme with new dressings and tires of women to provoke lust we have a