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A34954	Judah's purging in the melting pot a sermon preached in the cathedral at Sarum before the Reverend Sir Robert Foster, and Sir Thomas Tirrell, Knights, judges for the western circuit, at the Wiltshire Assizes, Sept. 6, 1660 / by W. Creede ...	Creed, William, 1614 or 15-1663.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6873; ESTC R37688	31,329	49

Flame the Chastising is not joyous but Heb. 12. 11. grievous Nevertheless afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby and now being made free from sinne and become servants to God we have our fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life Rom. 6. 22. But especially since God turns his hand upon a Nation and melts them by Judgements to purge out the dross and take away the Tin we should do well to consider whether we have answered Gods Artifice and Labour upon us how we are bettered by our Judgements least if we prove Reprobate silver he casts us out of his favour and reserve us for desolation For let us not flatter our selves beloved God hath lately turned his hand upon us and he never brings Nationall Judgements on a Land but for National sinns We have had a long time much dross and Tin in all our holy things That you may not think me a Satyrist behold God loudly proclaims your sin in your Punishment Does not Blasting and Meldews in our fields shew us that God is angry with the Ryot of our Tables Does not he by our late Malignant Feavers in all places shew us that we are truly Ecclesia Malignantium all every where malignant And does he not send unknown diseases to punish unknown sins What dismal noysome pestilences did God not long since send among us to sweep away a Multitude of noysome gross impieties They provoked Psal 106. 25. him to anger with their Inventions sayes David and so the Plague brake in upon them And what a multitude of new Inventions had we in Apparel in dyet in building alas this was nothing in our shops in our Trades in our Cities in our Towns in our Schools in our Courts in our Pulpits and Churches nay in our Parlors and Conventicles too and all for our Pride and our covetousness and lust And this made way for the Bloody Horse Warr. Revel 6. 4. They chose new Gods then was warr in the Gates Judges 5. vers 7. And this was just our case Much longing and stirre about new Religions and Ceremonies and then the Warr brake in upon us And now when destruction overtook us like an armed man our sinnes and debaucheries did multiply with our miseries execrable and cursed Oaths outroaring the mouth of the Cannon Souldiers pouring out their blood and their wine at the same wound Oppression rapine Murder Calumny Perjury of all sorts but above all the most damnable Hypocrisie and Lying in the world And now triumphantly marches in the Pale Rev. 6. 8. Horse Famine We lusted for Warr and we had all the Plagues and Miseries of Want and Devastation that attend it When Israel would not be contented with Manna but they must have blood and flesh too then sayes David he gave them their desire but he sent leanness into their souls Psal 106. 16. And what a Famine of all things instantly came upon us Unusual blights on our Corn and then the poor wanted work as well as bread decay of Trade in our Shops and of Merchants on the Exchange of our Ships on our Seas and our strengths by Land Our Gentry wasted our Nobility degraded our Universities ruined our Clergy vilified and silenced our Laws and Law-givers and Parliaments trampled on and our Kings dethroned and a new Turkish Grand-Signoirship built and cemented with their blood So that now the whole nation with the Prophet began to cry out My Leanness my Leanness Wo un●o Esay 24. 26. me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously yea the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously And now we were in the Melting Pot indeed The fire fell upon all the dross and Tin as well as the Gold and Silver But all this while we were the worse for the Founders Art Our sinnes increased and so did Gods Judgements A great deal of Zeal in the Pretext but in the Issue sacriledge Blood-shed Devouring Widdows Houses while for a pretence we made long Prayers Much adoe about Gifts and setting Christ upon his Throne but that we might be his Deputi●s and take the houses of God in possession And then what was the Issue we that were not content with a Religion the purest and best established in the Christian world had instantly a thousand severall Sects let in upon us Our Tin had made our Silver so brittle that the more it was beaten the more it cracked and flawed and no sooner was one Faction grown into Power and began to set up for it self but instantly another like a Mushrom in a night sprung up and pretended greater Purity and as they had damned their Predecessors of Antichristianisme and Popery so did these by the same Arts ruine those that had ruined others Religions every day multiplyed as the Factions did till at last we had so many that many doubted we had none at all And as it was with our Religion so it was with our Government God suffered our best of Princes to be taken from us for our sinnes and because we surfeited with that Plenty and Peace that his own and Ancestors wisdome under God had poured upon us but we scorned his gracious easie reyne that he had laid upon our Necks and like wild resty horses that have got the Bitt into their mouthes kicked to throw off the rider God then suffered us to be exercised and ridden by all sorts of Masters Aristocracy Democracy Oligarchy Anarchy Oplarc●● Tyranny though masked under the gracious name of a Protectorship the most absolute of any By this God exercised and melted us so long till he made us sensible of our own Follies and we had nothing left to pray for or hope or endeavour but onely to recall that blessing we had so unworthily squandred away And now to prove whether we were purified indeed God poured us out of the Melting Pot Jer. 3. 7 14. c. 31 18 19. and to see whether we truly turned to him and not to our selves by a Miracle without our own Counsell or Conduct or Valour or Forces nay without a Blow struck or almost so much as a word spoken he restored to us our old Religion and Laws and Church-discipline and State-government our Judges as at the first and our Counsellours as at the beginning our Magistrates and Ministers and Bishops and Nobles and Princes but above all our good King whom we prayed for we longed for as the onely healer of our Breaches And what does he now expect but that we thankfully embrace his Mercies and truly value those blessings That this Grace of his which has brought this Salvation may teach us that denying Tit. 2. 11. 12. ungodliness and worldly lusts we live godly and righteously and soberly in this present world that so we may be called by all Nations round about us a Nation of Righteousness a faithfull Nation And I humbly beseech God that it may prove so in the issue But I fear me that