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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04160	Iudah must into captivitie Six sermons on Ierem. 7.16. Lately preached in the Cathedrall Church of Christ in Canterburie, and elsevvhere, By Thomas Iackson Doctor in Divinitie, and one of the prebends of the said church.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1622 (1622)	STC 14301; ESTC S103336	71,773	128

and wonders in Israel Esay 8. 18. and generally wished they were taken out of the way as those that trouble the world and if it were not for them it would be well and we should have merry times Oh unthankfull world oh wretched and unthankfull world that wilt not acknowledge but hate and persecute such as stand in the breach and resist God! Well know if ever all the Noahs be is the Arke and all the Lots out of Sodome if all these swallowes have once taken their flight there will come the coldest and wofullest winter that ever the Church amongst us felt and endured But of this more anon Let us now proceed to the uses of this Doctrine whereof the first is Seeing Gods servants are powerfull with God to prevent judgements threatned to themselves and others and seeing Gods judgements are not only threatned to our selves and in fearefull measure executed specially on our brethren in other Countries let us practise this Doctrine stirre up our selves by most humble hearty and devout praiers to lay hold on God and as it were resist him in his course and not let him goe till his indignation be overpast Doe you professe your selves the servants of God and will you not doe this Doe you beleeve God will heare your praiers and yet will yee not pray Oh be not wanting to your selves and to the Church of God in this In some things Kings and Princes may doe the Church of God good wherein subjects cannot in other things Ministers may doe that good which common Christians cannot in other things rich men may doe that good that poore cannot in other things strong and able men may doe that good which weake and feeble and impotent cannot yea in many things men may doe that good which women cannot but in this all men and women may doe alike good by praier for the good of Gods Church What can we doe more easily or more fruitfully It may be we have not silver gold food raiment but none so poore of Gods Saints as have not praier If we were rich the poorer sort are only thereby releeved but by praier we doe good to all even the richest Againe whereas some other duties require the presence of friends and all of them season and opportunity it is never out of season to pray yea therewith even in the twinckling of an eie we may helpe such as are thousands of miles off Oh fie on our dulnesse then specially the members of Christ to whom we cannot otherwise doe good so greatly standing in need hereof that we should so seldome and coldly if at all helpe them with our praiers specially God so calling upon us for it and giving such comfortable assurance we shall be heard If an earthly Prince should make Proclamation to all his subjects that if they would come to the Court and make suit they should all of them have Lordships houses lands mannors offices imagine what riding and running there would be how would they thinke him most worthy to beg his bread yea to starve through want if he would not goe and aske But that the King of heaven hath commanded us to pray and promised whatsoever good thing we shall aske in his Sonnes name according to his will we shall have it for this life present or a better hereafter for our selves or others and we see how well others have sped yea our selves have had great experience of Gods goodnesse in this kinde and it may be God hath cut us and others short and threatned much evill and all because he would provoke us to pray as delighting to be importuned and wrestled with Yet all this will not serve to provoke us so to pray as we ought It may be sicknesse hunger thirst nakednesse temporall losses and crosses may make us sometimes cry unto God but who doth strive with God for the best things for themselves And to speake according to the nature of my Text How is Ierusalems good generally forgotten It may be we may beare her a good will and for fashion or custome as we walke and talke with others let good wishes fall rejoice when we heare good newes shake heads shucke the shoulders and sigh when we heare evill tidings and yet how few doe thus farre testifie their love but who even of her best friends frequently and fervently publikely and privately at least thrice a day with Daniel looketh toward Ierusalem and for Ierusalem whetting the edge of our zeale and devotion by premeditation of what an happinesse it were and how greatly to Gods honour and glory that Ierusalem should prosper and what a misery and dishonor to God that she should goe to wracke and ruine helping our weaknesse with abstinence and fasting as Nehemiah and Hesther and the Iewes did that so we may cry mightily unto God and resolved with the woman of Canaan to take no nay the Lord shall never be rid of us we will never cease knocking at heavens gate till he heare and helpe Oh where are these friends Why doth the Church of God suffer so much evill Why doth she lie open to the execution of such fearefull judgements Because Gods faithfull servants give way and doe not stand in the breach for her to resist God There was a curse yea a bitter curse laid upon the inhabitants of Meroz because they did not helpe the Lord against the mighty Iudg. 5. 23. And no lesse curse doth lie on the Inhabitants of any Place and Countrey when the Lord is in armes that doe not by their prayers helpe the poore weake Church against God that doe not lay hold on him and resist him but suffer him to crush and destroy The greatest victories and deliverances that ever we read of were obtained by fasting and prayer yea seldome if ever was the Church in any trouble and danger and delivered but it was procured by prayer and surely it is not without divine providence and grace that Gods Ministers doe so labour to stirre you up for even that sheweth God hath a great blessing in store for his Church if his servants would but aske it of him Wherefore I say againe Pray pray pray for the welfare of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love it Wherefore God hath sent me to you and to call on all that heare me this day Pray pray pray and to make you excuselesse if yee neglect it And that mine exhortation hereunto may bee the more waightie and powerfull I will deliver it in the words of the holy Prophet Zephanie our Prophets fellow-labourer who having in the first chapter threatned the heavie and severe iudgements of God against Iudah for her sinnes That the Lord would utterly consume all things from the land man and beast fowles and fishes and that the great day of the Lord is neere and hasteth greatly when the waightie man shall crie bitterly for it is a day of wrath a day of trouble and distresse a day of wastnesse and