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A96443	A sermon, preached at Kingston upon Hull: upon the day of thankes-giving after the battell, and that marvailous victory at Hessam-Moore, neare Yorke. / By J.W. B.D.	J. W. (Joshua Whitton)	1644 (1644)	Wing W2049; Thomason E10_34; ESTC R979	27,341	40

that reward which the faithfull sheep of Christ who heare his voyce shall attaine unto Thus much for that poynt The Expostulation followes Wouldst thou not bee angry with us This Expostulation implyes a strong affirmation as not onely here but in many other places of sacred Writ as if he should have sayd doubtlesse thou wouldest be angry with us Now God is not subject to any passion or perturbation of minde as men are And therefore this and many such like speeches are spoken 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 humanitus after the meanner of men God is not angry affective but effective not by any turbulent passion as the creature is God is not angry affective but effective not by any turbulancy of internall or subjective passion but is so said to be in regard of the effects as when God doth to men as one man in his anger doth to another then God is said to be angry as to frowne upon him to chide him to dis-affect him to strike him punish him kill him or the like and hen God doth the like then he is said to be angry for these and the like are the signes of his anger Wouldst not thou be angry with us Angry with us for what the fore-going words import For joyning in affinity with the people that live in Idolatry and uncleannesse whence note that it is the peoples impiety that provokes God to bee angry Deut. 32.21 These provoked me to anger with their vanities And Deut. 31.16.17 God having foretold how the people should goe a whoring after other gods in a strange land and that they would forsake him and break the Covenant which he had made with them then hee tells them that for this his wrath would waxe hot against them and then see the fearefull effects of it in that place To the like purpose read the seventh Chapter of Jeremiah the 18 19 and 20. Verses And Psal 78. from 30. to 34. where the many benefits are Catalogued which God did for Israel yet they were not estranged from their lust but whilst the meat was in their mouthes the heavy wrath of God came upon them slew the fattest of them and smote downe the chosen men that were in Israel for all this they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous workes therefore their dayes did he consume in vanity and their yeares in trouble And Verse 58. they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousie with their graven Images And Numbers 25.3 when the Israelites had committed whoredome with the daughter of Moah It is there said That the anger of the Lord was kindled against them Thus we perceive the Doctrine plaine and the Scriptures are every where copious of it The reasons why a peoples impiety provokes God to bee angry are many I will onely content my selfe with these three The first may bee drawne from the purity of Gods nature to which nothing is more opposite than the ugly impurity of sin Hab. 1.13 Thou hast purer eyes than to behold evill and thou canst not look on iniquity That is thou canst not looke on it viâ approbationis or delectationis sed viâ indignationis thou canst not looke upon it by way of approbation or delectation but by way of indignation The second may be drawne from the holinesse and equity of the Law of God which is transgressed and so God made angry by a peoples sinne when they preferre their owne lust before the observance of such a Law Deut. 4.8 What Nations is there that hath statutes and judgements so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day And shall hee not be angry then at the breach of such a Law The third and last may be drawne from man himselfe God is angry to see man worke his owne ruine that the sweet poyson of sinne should bewitch him to destroy himselfe When God had forewarned Israel of sinne and yet saw him sinne against what he had fore-warned him of See how mournfully he expostulates with them Why will yee dye O yee house of Israel And Hos the sixth Chapter from the fourth to the eighth Verse Oh Ephraim what shall I doe unto thee Oh Judah what shall I doe unto thee for your goodnesse is as the morning cloud and as the earely dew is goes away therefore have I shewed them by the Prophets I have slaine them by the words of my mouth and they judgements are as the light that goeth forth c. But they like men have transgressed the Covenant there have they dealt treacherously against me Thus God is angry to see his owne Image defaced and that men should walke in darknesse rather than light when he had so cleerly made the way of salvation known unto them Well is this so that a peoples impiety provokes God to be angry this then plainly lets us see what it is that hath so much provoked Gods wrath and anger against this land and nation Oh it is sinne First it is great and grievous sinnes Secondly such sinnes unpunished Thirdly and lastly such sinnes also unrepented of in private For the first What sinne is it that England hath not beene guilty of what sinne was in Israel that hath not beene in England I will runne but through some capitall ones by way of parallel and ex pede Herculem c. was it shedding the bloud of the Prophets Luke 13.34 what havock was made of such as could be catched in the Marian dayes and how much more should be spilled now if the bloudy and cruell Romanists and such like could but attaine their ends but their curbe is that they have so many of their Priests in prison already that they dare not beginne to give way to their fury to the full for feare that these Pot-mongers yet holy Catholikes doe too speedily answer it and bee helped towards their purgatory in an hempen string Yet so many as God suffers to fall into their hands they doe use most basely doggedly and unworthily and irreverendly testifying by their facts what they wish in such cases and these times can tell what inhumanity and cruelty have beene used to some of them even to the very death Secondly was it pollution or prophaning of the Sabbath Ezekiel 20.13 Wee have prophaned our Christian rest or Sabboth if a man may so call it and no be accounted a Sabbatarian because the word is Hebrew I know no reason else the world knowes we meane no Jewish Sabboth but be it the Lords day equivolently wee meane the same no thankes to some that we have a day to humble our selves in before God and acknowledge our sinnes and confesse our faith and learne his will called by either name We have prophaned this by a Law and have set men at liberty to sinne so that God might have the name of it and mans lusts and the devils most of the practice Before wee restrayned the preaching of the Word and so quarrelled with the Prophets that wee made

designe so desperate as some of them will not attempt though usually they be Bulletted and fired out of this life for it and are sent to meet with such matches as will keep fire for ever They will vow curse swear and for fear that God should forge to punish their sin they desire him to damne them and divers of them have dyed with God damne-me in their mouthes and in their vowes would say that this or that they would doe this or that Towne they would have by such and such a time never taking God within the lists of their resolves as if they would either have it without him or else never These are rebellious against god in their hearts and disobedient in their lives and these their resolutions God often infatuates and frustrates that all the world may see their blinde and desperate folly Gods foyling of so many of these men of these desparate resolves who in their approaches still march up furiously like Jehu and looke as if they were Lords before blowes who having perceived the siege raysed before Yorke blessed themselves in the height of their terrour and felt their courage rise together with the siege flattering themselves with an undoubted hope of a most glorious victory Thus farre God suffered the waves of their pride to grow higher and higher but let not him that putteth on his Armour boast himselfe like him that puts it off Hessam-Moore proved not a Stopford a Liverpoole or a Bolton which two latter though for a long time bravely defended yet alas at length so great a multitude over-powred their strength famous little Bolton who had twice before quelled the pride of a daring enemy and repulsed him with shame who can think of thee without sorrow that at the third onset GOD should let thee suffer wherein one example of cruelty is to be rigistred to all posterity that when the Towne was taker and much savage dealing exercised upon the poore and so well disposed inhabitants one amongst the rest they pistolled and running behinde a Table they cut his throat and ●●tched his Bible upon which they iss●ed out his bloud in abundance Vsque quo Domine usque quo This doubtlesse was for the love they bore to the Protestant Religion videat Deus judecet Yet the proud waves of their wicked designe stay not here but as bearing downe all before them they coast it to another Country till they come to their fatall foyle where God seemed to have said to them as to the waves of the Sea Job 38.11 Hitherto shall thy proud waves come but no further here shall you bee stayed They found Hessam and harder Countrey there was more Iron and Steele wayted for them there more Iron and Smoak to welcome them than another place They never dreamed of making such haste home when they came on as afterwards they made use of Let Israel know and thankefully acknowledge that this hath GOD done Sixthly and lastly of so many wording men let us but take notice of the paucity of swording men it is well knowne that we had no small body at the first onset but too many of the common souldiers did too soone face about Let them thank me for the terme but they know my meaning oh where was the remembrance of their vow of their Covenant of that Cause which concernes many millions of men women and children yet thus they backed those noble valiant resolute and hardy spirits when they should have elbowed them in the field to whom next under God thousand thousands owe deserved honour God hath gone before us in it therefore we may safely follow He was pleased to give them the honour of the day who is the giver of victories in battells Cast all these together consider them well remember all their Circumstances and then doe but tell me f this delivery merited not an emphaticall expression too with such a deliverance as this And hath given us such a deliverance as this Such a deliverance by which our Consciences are kept from thraldome our lives from the mercilesse cruelty of the enemy our Townes from their robbery our Religion dearer than our lives from their slavery our Countrey from their insolency our wives and children from their tyranny Such and no lesse was our deliverance than this And hath given us such deliverance as this So much for that poynt I come now to the second the pious interrogation should wee againe break by Commandements As if hee had sayd we did thus before the Captivity and thou didst punish us and having had such miserable experience of the fruit of our wayes let us not againe breake thy Commandements Should we againe breake thy Commandements 2. Againe That is though we have beene in Captivity and served seventy yeares under the lofty Lords of Babylon yet God having delivered us from it in great mercy should we requite him by our impiety by breaking his Commandements And should we againe break thy Commandements What Commandements surely in a large sence all the Commandements the whole Law but more especially those against Idolatrie and matching with strangers or the daughters of Idolaters being of a false and strange Religion Deus 7.8 Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his sonne nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy sonne for feare of turning him from the religion of the true God But alas this they had done they had matched with Idolaters which was one of the greatest sinnes that Ezra bewayles Ezra 9.2 The people tooke of their daughters for themselves and their sonnes so that the holy Jeed had mingled themselves with the people of those lands Yea the hand of the Princes and ●ulters had been chiefe in this trespasse Yea I doe easily believe that great men are apt to lead the rest wrong and to trespasse against God first and the deeplyest and verse 7. he confesseth his owne sinnes and the sinnes of his people and of their fathers Since the dayes of our fathers have wee beene in great trespasse untill this day and the next words following in the Text Should We againe joyne in affinity with the people of these a●hominations And see what good Nehemiah saith to this poynt Neh. last 27. Shall we hearken unto you to doe all this great evill to trespasse against our God in marrying strange wives especially considering what a deliverance we have had Whence we may note that Gods deliverance of us out of former misery should be a motive to us to make us beware of after impiety having delivered us shall we again sinne John 5.24 When our Saviour had cured Bethesdaes Cripple he instructs him how to make use of this benefit and how to behave himselfe for after tim●s Behold thou art made wh●le sinne no more lest a worse thing come unto thee Rather learne to serve God the better considering what hee hath done for thee Psalme 50.15 Call upon me in the time of trouble and I well deliver thee and then what followes thou