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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58345	God's plea for Nineveh, or, London's precedent for mercy delivered in certain sermons within the city of London / by Thomas Reeve ...	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing R690; ESTC R14279	394,720	366

the offspring of her bowells like the gravell numbers of people like the Stars of Heaven or Grashoppers for multitude Who can count the dust of Jacob or the fourth part of Israel Num. 23.16 Yea a Land of Souldiers the sighting Country as if it had been like that in the Poet sown with the teeth of Serpents or Titan had peopled this Island with his race and progeny What a Cluster of Chieftains what millions of Heroes are there here this whole Land seemeth to be no other then an Artillery-Garden a Trayning-Field the feeble as David the strongest as Adino the Eznite who lift up his spear against 800 men at once as Eleazar the Son of Dodo the Abohite who smote the Philistims till his hand was weary and clave to his sword and as Shammah the Son of Agee the Hararite who stood in a field of lentiles against an Host of Enemies Now are we not without suspition of danger under such a Banner Yes the poyson of all our Enemies cannot envenome us through the vertue of this military Antidote We fear No let the earth fear Destruction to us No destruction to all round about us destruction to them that attempt our downfall destruction to you that preach it This is the considence and self hardinesse of the age though the scourge passe through and flow over yet it shall not come at us Es 28.15 though the clouds gather yet we think of no storm though the leaks break in Multo minus praesentes quam absentes hostes timendi sunt Marineus lib. 12. reg Hispan Eustath in H●ad 8. Procella ingenti rerum suarum semper se vino ingurgitavit Victor lib. 8. Var. Lect c 4. Aelian lib. 12. Var. Hist yet we dream of no shipwrack we fear neither approaching nor apparent dangers as John of Aragon feared neither absent nor present enemies We rush into those courses that we know judgement do attend upon them as Protesilaus leaped out of the Ship though he knew that the Oracle had pronounced that whosoever came first on shore should be slain Zenotymus in the greatest tempest of misfortune was drunk so we are intoxicated against all dangers Yea as the antient Celtae though they were in an house that was all on a flaming fire yet they never stirred foot thinking they should never be crushed nor burnt So we stand in aw of no perils though smoak and fire predict otherwise We sleep quietly expell all dread our hill is so strong that we shall never be removed the munition of Rocks is our defence none shall pluck us out our ditch is the Sea none can swim over to us all our Ports are locked none can force an entrance This day is pleasant not the face of an Enemy is to be seen and to morow shall be as this day and much better These same dangers are but the melancholick apprehensions of Malecontents or the dreams of lunatick Teachers we lay our hands upon our Swords and contemn all these as panick fears So that we have not such soft hearts and tender ears as Nineveh had no our Messengers denounce and wee give no credit to them whereas Jonah doth but threaten and the men of Nineveh believed God 5. Nineveh doth not delay repentance For Nineveh was a City of three daies journey and Jonah doth but enter the City or but get up to Court and his cries are heard and the City conve●ted But alas how do we weary God with expectation the eye of Heaven aketh to see this Nation humbled Success rem se relicturum ●ur non bis de erdem re deliber●●et Plu●a ch in Ap●●h Augustus Caesar told the people of Rome that he would leave them a Successour that should not twice deliberate of the same thing but we are a very deliberating people too much hastinesse may spoil good intentions but too much protraction attaineth to nothing Simulavit se cras obtemperaturum Quin ad Deum preces faciamus Sozomen l. 8. c. 19. Theophilus Patriark of Alexandria would have had Nilammon accept of the Ministery and he feigned that the next morrow he would when the morrow was come he deferred him with this pretence that it was fit first that he should make his prayers to God and he had so many subterfuges that he gave up the Ghost without satisfying the request so when we are invited to repentance we make Nilammons haste we are full of our evasions and die in our procrastination Artaxerxes intending a War against Nectanebis King of Egypt he appointed Pharnabasus to advance the design which he promised to do with speed but spending many years in preparing Mirari se quod tam celer in sermone sit in actione tam tardus Diod. l. 15. Timeham ne me cito exaudires sanares à morbo concupiscentiae quam maleb im expleri quàm extingui Aug. l. 8. confes c. 7. and bringing forth nothing to issue Iphicrates the Commander of the Mercenaries told him that he wondred he should be so quick in speech and so slow in action so we have nimble tongues but torpulent endeavours We may affect repentance and begge it of God but yet as St Augustine saith against himselfe we are afraid that God should answer us we had rather have our Concupiscence fulfilled then extinguished Forty years long was I grieved with this generation but hath not our grievance exceeded that of the Jewes not onely in heinousnesse but in tediousnesse How many plaisters have there been laid upon our sores and yet the ulcers are as bad as ever How often hath this Morian been washed and yet he is never the whiter If all the Amphyctions were gathered together in counsail Amphyctionum consessus Adag they could not devise a way for us to embrace their resolves at present How many Ministers heart-strings have we broken sending them into their Graves with our impenitency to afflict their dying spirits we repent at leisure whereas Nineveh repented instantly 6. Nineveh had stirring motions for Jonah doth deliver his message and there is honour done to it reverence expressed to it the King of Nineveh is not the same man for as mighty as he was he seemeth now to have his Lord in chief a Commander greater then himselfe call upon him and therefore he doth witness to him submissive offi●iousnesse observance and veneration he doth not sit like a King but like a Minor one under authority or an head-servant at best amongst the rest of the Attendants he doth bow before his Master and forgetting all dignity and Grandeur he doth rise up The King of Nineveh rose up But Gods messages to us are not thus extimulatory instigatory and impulsory we change neither posture nor gesture carriage nor countenance we hold up our domination and keep our seats The great God cannot make us abate of the Clarissimo we will lose nothing of the Prince to shew our selves penitent we hear much but are moved with nothing let God declare what