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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44688	The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls a treatise on Luke XIX, 41, 42 : with an appendix wherein somewhat is occasionally discoursed concerning the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and how God is said to will the salvation of them that perish / by J.H.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1684 (1684)	Wing H3037; ESTC R27434	75,821	201

to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World SO looking for the blessed hope And that Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify us to himself a peculiar people zealous of good Works How many again are Christians they know not why upon the same terms that others are Mahometans because it is the Religion of their Countrey by fate or by accident not by their own choice and judgment the same inconsideration makes them be Christians that makes others be none And now shall our Redeemer be left to weep alone over these perishing souls have we no tears to spend upon this doleful subject Oh that our heads were waters and our eyes fountains Is it nothing to us that multitudes are sinking going down into Perdition under the name of Christian under the seal of Baptism from under the means of life and salvation perishing and we can do nothing to prevent it We know they must perish that do not repent and turn to God and love him above all even with all their hearts and souls and mind and might that do not believe in his Son and pay him homage as their rightful Lord sincerely subjecting themselves to his laws and government But this they will not understand or not consider Our endeavours to bring them to it are ineffectual 't is but faint breath we utter Our Words drop and dye between us and them We speak to them in the name of the eternal God that made them of the great Jesus who bought them with his blood and they regard it not The Spirit of the Lord is in a great degree departed from among us and we take it not to heart We are sensible of lesser grievances are grieved that men will not be more entirely proselyted to our several parties and perswasions rather than that they are so disenclin'd to become proselytes to real CHRISTIANITY and seem more deeply concerned to have Christian Religion so or so modify'd than whether there shall be any such thing or whether men be saved by it or lost This sad case that so many were likely to be lost under the first sound of the Gospel and the most exemplary temper of our blessed Lord in reference to it are represented in the following Treatise with design to excite their care for their own souls who need to be warned and the compassions of others for them who are so little apt to take warning The good Lord grant it may be some way or other useful for good John Howe THE REDEEMERS TEARS Wept over LOST SOULS LUKE XIX 41 42. And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy Peace but now they are hid from thine eyes WE have here a compassionate Lamentation in the midst of a solemn Triumph Our Lords approach unto Jerusalem at this time and his entrance into it as the foregoing History shewes carried with them some face of regal and triumphal pomp but with such allayes as discovered a mind most remote from Ostentation and led by Judgment not Vain-glory to transmit thorough a dark umbrage some glimmerings only of that excellent Majesty which both his Sonship and his Mediatorship entitled him unto A very modest and mean specimen of his true indubious Royalty and Kingly-state Such as might rather intimate than plainly declare it and rather afford an after Instruction to teachable minds than beget a present Conviction and dread in the stupidly obstinate and unteachable And this effect we find it had as is observ'd by another Evangelical Historian who relating the same matter how in his passage to Jerusalem the People met him with Branches of Palm-trees and joyful Hosanna's he riding upon an Asses Colt as Princes or Judges to signifie Meekness as much as State were wont to do Judg. 5.10 tells us These things his Disciples understood not at the first but when Jesus was glorified then remembred they that these things were written of him and that they had done these things unto him Joh. 12.16 For great regard was had in this as in all the other acts of his Life and Ministry to that last and conclusive part his dying a sacrifice upon the Cross for the sins of men to observe all along that Mediocrity and steer that middle course between obscur●ty and a terrifying overpow'ring glory that this solemn oblation of himself might neither be prevented nor be disregarded Agreeably to this design and the rest of his Course he doth in this solemnity rather discover his Royal state and dignity by a dark Emblem than by an express representation and shews in it more of Meekness and Humility than of awful Majesty and Magnificence as was formerly predicted Zechar. 9.9 Rejoyce greatly O Daughter of Zion Shout O Daughter of Jerusalem Behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just and having Salvation lowly and riding upon an Ass and upon a Colt the foal of an Ass. And how little he was taken with this piece of state is sufficiently to be seen in this Paragraph of the Chapter His mind is much more taken up in the foresight of Jerusalem's sad case and therefore being come within view of it which he might very commodiously have in the descent of the higher opposite Hill Mount Olivet he beheld the City 't is said and wept over it Two things concur to make up the cause of this sorrow 1. The greatness of the Calamity Jerusalem once so dear to God was to suffer not a Skar but a Ruine The dayes shall come upon thee that thine Enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side and shall lay thee even with the ground and thy Children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another 2. The lost opportunity of preventing it If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy Peace but now they are hid from thine eyes vers 42. And again Thou knewest not the time of thy visitation First The Calamity was greater in his eyes than if can be in ours His large and comprehensive mind could take the compass of this sad case Our thoughts cannot reach far yet we can apprehend what may make this case very deplorable we can consider Jerusalem as the City of the great King where was the Palace and Throne of the Majesty of Heaven vouchsafing to dwell with men on Earth Here the divine Light and Glory had long shone Here was the the sacred Shechinah the dwelling place of the most High the Symbols of his presence the Seat of Worship the Mercy Seat the place of receiving Addresses and of dispensing favours The House of Prayer for all Nations To his own People this was the City of their Solemnities Whither the Tribes were wont to go up the