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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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