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A85664	Axinē pros tēn rhizan. = The axe at the root, a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publike fast, April 26. 1643. By William Greenhill.	Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1643 (1643)	Wing G1848; Thomason E103_2; ESTC R17567	41,085	62

is the choice love of God the precious bloud of the Sonne of God in it is the Spirit of grace and glory the exceeding great and precious promises all spirituall excellencies and eternall life if you refuse these you provoke God to lay the axe unto the root of the tree you provoke Christ to say Bring him and them hither and slay them before me that would not have me to reigne over them The Gadarenes preferred their Swine the Capernaites their Loaves the Jewes Barabbas before Christ but it cost them all deare when the axe came Let not a Gadarenish a Capernaiticall a Jewish spirit be found amongst us let us say Pereant porci pereant panes pereat Barabbas regnet Christus let all goe so Christ may reigne The Jewes stucke so to Moses and Mosaicall things so to the Temple and the Rites of it so to superstitions and the traditions of their Fathers that they would not receive Christ and the truths of the time present and therefore God dealt so severely with them as to cut them downe by the Romish axe There be truths of Christ reserved for some times and when those truths are discovered wee should examine them and labour to bee established in present truths 2 Pet. 1. 12. as the Apostle speakes Are there not truths now on foot concerning Christs Kingly Office and his government in the Church hath hee not powred out his Spirit upon men eminently and brought light out of darknesse Shall wee reject truth and light it 's feared we stick too much to Mosaicalls Prelaticalls and Trditionalls Let us prove all things and hold fast that is good let us receive the truth with the love of it lest we be given up to strong delusions 2 Thes. 2 10. 11. and strange judgements Acts 2. 13. 17. 28. when the Spirit was given choice truths presented and they not received there is mention of turning the Sunne into darknesse and the Moone into bloud which notes some dreadfull judgements that should darken and imbitter their best comforts The like may we feare if we refuse any truths of Christ Thirdly observe that God doth premonish before he doth punish Now the Axe is laid to the root of the Tree Iohn tells them there was an Axe laid the newes of the Axes comming was heard before the noise of its cutting The Lord tells Delinquents before he strikes them Yet forty dayes and Nineveh shall be destroyed Men are close their designes are underneath they oft storme surprize and plunder Towns without giving the least notice but when God intends judgements he sends his Heralds to warne Kingdomes and Nations Hath not God given warning to all Nations hath he not within these hundred yeares given us 100. warnings have not the Heavens seemed on fire have not there bin foure or five blazing Stars Herlicius Stargardensis held that the influence of the Comet 1618. upon the christian world would last to between 20 30 yeares which is already verified at last is blaz'd over England and expired intimating that England should take warning by it Besides these have we not had Earth-quakes great frosts deep snowes unseasonable weather and is it not fresh in your memorie how God had a quarel with your Steeples and Churches for the corruptions and Innovations in them when divers of the● were smitten broken and burnt by thunder and lightning not onely by prodigies hath God warned us but by his Prophets also Ezek. 33. 3. they have bin telling you of a stroak that would come Elishahs sword hath bin drawne and brandished before us and because we would not take warning by that Iehnes and Hazaels swords are in the midst of us It s undeniable the cocks have crowed and told us of this storme of bloud above this thirty yeares all exceptions are taken away none can quarrell with God he hath warned us he is just and will overcome in Judgement he hewed Ierusalem by his Prophets before he cut it downe by his Axes Ier. 1. 10 The Prophet did root up by his Prophecy after that Nebuchad cuts down by the sword Further God hath warned us by his judgements on others Germany these 20. years hath bin a Beacon to us Scotland was lately a Land of darkenesse and Ireland is still a Land of wrath and must England be secure Awake awake O England there be Armies within thy bowells Parliament Citie Kingdome are all in danger God hath long threatned and is now upon execution Use of the point Amos 4. 12. Thus will I doe unto thee and because I will doe this prepare to meet thy God It s dreadfull to heare God is in a way of Judgement especially when we are not in a way of repentance If I whet my glittering Sword and my hand takes hold of Iudgment I will render vengeance to mine enemies and will make mine Arrowes drunke with bloud and my Sword shall devoure flesh c. Deut. 32. 41 42. When God whets his Sword and shoots his arrowes he will make them eate flesh and drinke blood yea be fild with blood and grow fat with fatnes Esa. 34. 6. Now God hath given a Commission to the Sword to eate English flesh and drinke English blood and I feare the Sword having bin starved a long time will now eate to purpose it comes hungry and is like to eate much flesh it comes dry and is like to drinke much blood before it be put up again Let us therefore meet God in this way with sighs and teares let us take warning in time praemoniti pr●muni●i men that are forewarned should be fore-armed In these times men are arm'd to goe to battle with men but are you arm'd to meet God have you on the girdle of veritie the Breastplate of righteousnesse are you shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace is the helmet of salvation on your heads is the shield of Faith on your hearts and the sword of the spirit in your mouthes If you be thus arm'd you may meet God marching in flames of fire and that without prejudice The Lord of Hosts is come if we bee not prepared wee cannot stand in the evill day read Ezek. 22. 14 but the soul that takes warning shall deliver it selfe Ezek. 33. 5. Let us all then lay it to heart that the sword is drawn hath dranke the blood of our friends and may drinke ours The Axe is laid to the root of the tree and threatens the downfall of Church and State if we do take warning and meet God the right way we may deliver our owne souls the souls of those that belong unto us and probably the whole Land Fourthly God begins with lesser judgements and afterward with greater Now the Axe is laid to the root of the Tree First there was Culter pota●orius the pruning hooke and when that would do no good then comes the Axe Gods Judgements are graduall not superlative at the first upon Kingdomes and families Sodom was first plundered by

sinner Esa. 65. 20. an hundred and twenty yeares with the old world Gen. 6. 3. and after Noah was shut into the Arke God bare seven dayes to see if they would repent and turne as some collect from Gen. 7. 4. God goes further then this he bare three hundred and ninety years with the idolatrous passages of Israel Ezek. 4. 5. three hundred and ninety dayes taken for yeares that God had borne with them Foure hundred yeares did God beare with the Amorites Gen. 15 16. God hath borne with Antichrist above this 1200. yeares God bare with the Gentiles before Christ came more then 2000. yeares Acts 17 30. God is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a God of patience Rom. 15. 5. long-suffering Exod. 34. 6. he doth beare and forbeare with sinners and Kingdomes and a world full of wickednesse and vanity Esa. 42. 14. saith God there I held my peace yea I held my peace a long time and was silent and refrained God held his peace said nothing to Kingdomes nothing to Families nothing to particular persons he held his hand also did not strike a long time God is patient and with-holds so long as patientia Dei turbat pios the Saints are troubled at Gods patience it makes them to cry How long how long how long shall the wicked triumph utter and speak hard things it 's thrice repeated Psal. 94. 3. 4. the Saints are troubled that God doth not come and destroy the wicked and not onely the Saints on earth but the Saints in heaven Rev. 6. 10. they cry How long how long wilt not thou avenge our bloud We have been slaine by Cains by Pharaohs by Nimrods by Herod How long how long Lord wilt thou not avenge our bloud Not onely the Saints but the sinnes of wicked men they cry for vengeance the sinnes of Sodom cryed for vengeance against Sodom Not onely sin but the whole Creation heaven and earth groanes Rom. 8. The Land mournes for oaths and other iniquities Jer. 23. 10. Satan the accuser of the brethren cryes Gods Justice cryes all his Attributes cry to destroy sinners to destroy the whole world yet God seemes deafe and will not heare yet he is patient and holds his hands What should the patience of God produce The Apostle tells us Rom. 2 4. Knowest thou not that the long-suffering and goodnesse of God should lead the word is drive thee to repentance the patience of God should constraine us to repentance What shall God hold the Candle of our lives in his hand and we sin against him there is much in Gods patience to constraine us to repent its patience beares with all our sinnes if Gods patience were at an end sin would be heavie it's patience that lengthens out our lives Lam. 3. 22. it 's divine patience that keepes us out of hell it 's that keepes open the doore of common and choice mercies the doore of grace and salvation had been shut long since if Gods patience had ceased 2 Pet. 3. 9 15. God is willing we should all come to repentance let us reach to it this day and make his long-suffering salvation to us Oft we have grieved his Spirit by sinning and abuse of his patience once let us rejoice it by repentance the improvement of patience Againe observe that great severity goes along with the greatest mercy The Gospel is the greatest mercy that ever came into the world and there is the greatest severity with the Gospel that ever came with any mercy into the world now is the axe laid when the Gospel is comming Func●ius observes that John began his Ministery in the fifteenth yeare of Tiberius Augustus died the twentieth of August Tiberius succeeded him whose reigne is reckoned from that of August and not from January on the first of September which was the feast of Trumpets and on which day was the promulgation of the yeare of Jubile then was the voice of the Cryer first heard At this time which was very festivall Iohn preach'd and said Now the axe is laid to the root of the tree at the yeare of Jubile and comming of the Gospel it 's done Here was the acceptable yeare and the day of vengeance together the acceptable yeare of Christs comming and the day of vengeance the axe is layd to the root of the tree To give more light and strength to this point be pleased to take into your thoughts these passages in the Gospel Mark 16. 16. Goe saith Christ preach the Gospel he that beleeves shall be saved he that beleeves not shall be damned upon non-believing presently is damnation entailed Iohn 3. 18. he that beleeveth not is condemned already Matth. 10. 14. Shake off the dust of your feet against that City and Towne that doth not receive you Shake off the dust of your feet against them that shall bee a testimony against them It shall be more easie for Sodom and Gomorrah in that day then for that Town that City that People that Christian that refuseth the meanes of grace and the Gospel of Christ Is not here the greatest severity with the greatest mercy in the world And the reason is because the Gospel is the heigth of Gods mercy the Angels they had simplicem misericordiam bare and naked mercy but men have divitias miserioordiae the riches of mercy in the Gospel as there is plenitudo gratiae so plenitudo irae plenty of mercy and plenty of wrath too If there were a sword on Moses thigh there is an axe in Christs hand if there be fire in the Law there is fire and brimstone in the Gospel In the Law God kept Assizes once a yeare in the Gospel he keeps Sessions every moneth If he died without mercy that despised Moses Law he must die with all severity that despises Christ Luk. 19. 27. Bring those mine enemies that will not that I should reigne over them and stay them before me Rev. 8. 13. dreadfuller woes are pronounced under the Gospel then under the Law Woe Woe Woe to the inhabitants of the earth so Mat. 18. 7. Woe to the world there was never a generall Woe pronounced upon the world before this time but now Woe unto the world and the plagues since the comming of Christ have been greater upon the world then before as the Trumpets and Vials in the Revelation do manifest Till Christ was come and the blessings of the Gospel were tendred to the Jewes they never had a perfect bill but after hee was come and the grace of the Gospel refused then the bill of Divorce was perfected ●Thes 2. 16. they cast out of Gods family and his wrath came upon them to the utmost {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to the utmost even to perfection God would beare no more but cut them off presently and with as much severity as ever we read of any We should learne hence to take heed how we slight and refuse the Gospel of Christ in it there