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A19953	Gods mercies and Ierusalems miseries A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Iune. 1609. By Lancelot Dawes, Master of Arts and fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford.	Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.	1609 (1609)	STC 6388; ESTC S109409	43,755	146

will walke in his paths I thinke I cannot truely say with Hosea that the Lord hath a cōtrouersie with the inhabitants of this land because there is no knowledge of God in the land For our heads are not so sicke as our hearts are heauie Isa 1.5 I meane our heads are not so void of knowledge as our hearts are of obedience but I dare boldly say that which followeth By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring Hos 4.2 they breake forth and blood toucheth blood Wil you heare the iudgements annexed in the subsequent words Therefore shall the land mourne and euery one that dwelleth therein shall be cut off This is a terrible curse he that dwelleth in heauen still auert it from vs but yet it is a conclusion which the Lord vseth to inferre vpon such premises Giue me leaue ro repeat a parable vnto you Isa 5.1.2.3 c. My beloued had a vineyard in a very fruitfull hill and he hedged it and gathered the stones out of it and hee planted it with the best plants and hee built a Tower in the midst and made a winepresse therein The Prophet in that place applieth it to the land of Iudah Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the land of Israel and the men of Iudah are his pleasant plants me thinkes I may not vnfitly apply it vnto this Island Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the land of Britaine and the men of this land are his pleasant plants Now therefore O ye inhabitants of this and iudge I pray you betweene him and his vineyard what could he haue done vnto it that hee hath not done Hee hath planted it with his own right hand hee hath so hedged it about with his heauenly prouidence that the wild boare out of the woods cannot roote it vp nor they that goe by pull off his grapes Hee hath watered it most abundantly with the dew of heauen he hath gathered the stones of Popery and superstition out of it he hath set the winepresse of his word therein he hath giuen it a Tower euen a king as a strong tower against his enemies whose raigne the Lord continue ouer vs if it bee his pleasure as long as the moone knoweth her course the sun his going down and let all that loue the peace of Britaine say Amen Now hee hath long expected that it shuld bring forth grapes but behold it bringeth foorth wild grapes He looked for iudgement but behold oppression for righteousnesse but loe a crying These were the sinnes of Ierusalem and you know her iudgments he that was Ierusalems God is Britaines God too and therfore if shee paralell Ierusalem in her iniquities let her take heed she tast not of her plagues God though he hath not yet begun to punish her in his fury yet hath he sundry times shaked his rod of correction ouer her if this will not worke amendment her iudgement must be the greater Fearefull was the case of Samaria whō Gods punishments could not moue to repentance I haue giuen you cleannesse of teeth in al your Cities Amos. 4. and scarcenesse of Bread in all your places yet haue yee not returned vnto me saith the Lord God I haue with holden the raine from you when there was yet three moneths to the haruest and I caused it to ruine vpon one Citie and brought a drought vpon another yet haue yee not returned vnto me saith the Lord. Pestilence haue I sent amongst you after the manner of Egipt and yet ye haue not returned vnto me saith the Lord. I haue smitten you with blasting and mildew c. yet ye haue not returned vnto me saith the Lord God The Lord hath not hitherto dealt with vs after our sinnes nor plagued vs according to the multitude of our iniquities yet he hath made it manifest that he is displeased with vs His mercy hath pulled backe his hand from drawing his sword of vengeance against vs yet hee hath left vs sundry tokens that hee is angred with our sinnes It is not long since that the heauens were made as brasse Deut. 28.23 and the Earth as yron nay the very waters became as yron or as brasse so that neither the heauens from aboue nor the earth or water from below did aford comforts for the seruice of man This extraordinary cold distēperature of the ayre might by an Antiperistasis haue kindled some heate of zeale deuotion in our brests when it had not the expected effect Psal 105.16 then he Called for a dearth vpon the land and destroied our prouision of bread euen such a famine that if we were not releeued from forraine countries Ten women might bake their bread in one Ouen as the Lord speaketh Leuit. 26.26 But all this hath not brought vs vpon our knees nor humbled our soules before our God therefore once againe he hath put life in his messenger of death and set him on foote which heretofore of late yeres hath raged in this city like a man of warre and like a gyant refreshed with wine and bestirred himselfe though not with the like violence almost in euery part of this kingdome Psal 91.6 I meane the pestilence that walketh in the darkenesse and the sicknesse that hath killed many thousands at noone day all these are infallible tokens that he is offended with our sinnes Howbeit he is so mercifull that he will not suffer his whole displeasure as yet to arise Horum si singula duras Flectere non possunt poterint tamē omnia mentes If each of these by themselues cannot preuaile with vs yet if they be all put together they may serue as a threefold cord to draw vs vnto repentance If these be not of force but still wee continue to blow vp the coales of his anger then let vs know for a certainty that they are the forewarners of a greater euill as the cracking of the house is a forewarning of his fall these bee but the flashing lightnings the thunderbolt will come after The cloud that is long in gathering will make the greater storme he is all this while in fetting his stroke that hee may giue the sorer blow Eurum ad se Zephirumque vocat hee is in bringing the windes out of his treasures that he may rain vpon our heads a showre of vengeance which shall bee the portion of al the vngodly to drink I beganne like a Barrabas I will not end like Boanarges my song had an Exordium of mercy I am loath to bring for an Epilogue a thunderclap of iudgment Wherefore my beloued Brethren now that you see the true causes of the ruines of euery common-wealth and the iudgement that hangeth ouer your heads like Damocles his sword for our iniquities flatter your selues no longer in your own sinnes but turne vnto him by speedy and vnfained repentance that hee may repent him of the euill turne away his plagues from you let the wanton leaue his dallying and the drunkard his carrowsing and the Vsurer his biting and the swearer his blaspheming and the oppressor his grinding and euery one amend one in time before the Lords wrath bee further kindled then will the Lord bee mercifull vnto this land hee will quicklie turne the sowre lookes of an angry and sinne reuenging Iudge into the smiling countenance of a mild and gentle Father Hee will take the rodde which he hath prepared for you and burne it in the fire These plagues which doe hang ouer you for your iniquities he will blow away with the breath of his nostrils as hee did the Egyptian Grashoppers into the red sea he will command his destroying Angell to put vp his sword into the sheath he will open the windowes of heauen and power downe a blessing vpon you without measure Then shall you be blessed in the Citie and blessed in the field blessed at your going out and blessed at your comming in and whatsoeuer you put your hands vnto shall be blessed your sonnes shall a Psa 129.4 grow vp as Oliue branches and your daughters shall be as the b Psal 144. polished corners of the Temple Your grounds shall so abound with grane that the tillers shall laugh and sing your garners shall be full and plenteous with all manner of store c Ioel. 2.24 your presses shall abound with Oyle and wine your sheepe shall bring forth thousands and tenne thousands in your fields Euery thing shall prosper nothing shall stoppe the current of Gods blessings there shall be no decay nor leading into captiuity and no complayning in your streetes and which is better then all ●hese hee will giue you faithfull painefull Pastors to feede you his spirite to comfort you his word to instruct you his wisedome to direct you his Angels to watch ouer you his grace to assist you and in a word He will be your God and you shall be his people Esther 6.9 thus shall it be done vnto all those whome the King of heauen shall honour so that all the world shal wonder at your felicity say Blessed be the Lord which taketh pleasure in the prosperity of his seruants happy are the people that bee in such a case yea blessed are al they which haue the Lord for their God thus wil he be with you and direct you in the desert of this world till he bring you into a faire and Goodly place the promised land a land that floweth with better things then aboūdance of Milke and Honey the celestiall Paradise the heauenly Canaan the kingdome of glory prepared for you from the beginning of the world euen that kingdome where the King is verity the Lawes charity the Angels your company the Peace felicitie the life eternity To this kingdom the God of al mercy bring vs for his sake that bought vs with his owne blood to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit three persons in trinitie and one God in vnitie be ascribed all honor glory power and Maiestie both now and for euermore Amen FINIS