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evil_n	darkness_n	good_a	sweet_a	3,257	5	8.2420	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87806	Five seasonable sermons. As they were preached before eminent auditories, upon several arguments. / By Paul Knell Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometimes chaplain to a regiment of curiasiers in His late Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.; Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664. Israel and England paralelled.; Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664. Looking-glasse for Levellers.	1660 (1660)	Wing K678; Thomason E1766_2; ESTC R209658	76,872	199

seed that is in Christ who was the Israelites own Countryman which is their last Prerogative recorded by the Apostle Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came Thus ye have seen how God loaded the Israelites with blessings with Privative and Positive with Temporall and Spirituall you only have I known of all the families of the earth And now Israel as Moses once said Deut. 10.12 What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his wayes and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul But alas the God of Israel is here forced to complain that notwithstanding all the cost he had bestowed upon his vineyard when he expected grapes from it it brought forth wild grapes notwithstanding those many benefits he had bestowed upon his people they continually rewarded him evill for good they thought not of his hand nor of the day when he had delivered them from the hand of the enemy how he wrought his miracles in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan neither destroyed they the heathen but learned their works for they shed innocent blood even the blood of their sons and of their daughters whom they offered unto the Idols of Canaan and the land was defiled with blood In generall termes their sins are set down Deut. 9.7 But they are more particularly described in the third and fist chaptel of Isaiah In the third chapter ye may see their womens sins the Prophet bringeth you as it were into the Exchange he sheweth you the pride and vanity of their womens dressings he giveth you such an inventory of their toyes as is able to make a very Cato change his countenance In the fist chapter the Prophet sheweth you their Mens sins after the catalogue of Gods benefits he giveth you another catalogue of their sins At the seventh verse he sheweth you their oppression and injustice I looked for judgement but behold oppression for righteousnesse but behold a cry At the eight verse their encroaching coverousnesse in joyning house to house and field to field until there was no place that they might be placed alone in the midst of the earth At the eleventh and twelft verses their drunkenness and riot in rising up early to follow strong drink and continuing untill night till Wine enflame them having the harp and the viol the tabret and pipe and wine in their feasts At the eighteenth and nineteeth verses their contempt and slighting of Gods word in defiance of this drawing iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with a cart-rope as who should say let him do his worst let him make speed and hasten his work that we may see it and let the counsel of the holy one of Israel draw nigh and come that we may know it ver 20. Their hypocrisy in calling evil good and good evil in patting darkness for light and light for darkness in putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter Ver. 21. Their self-conceit Being wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight verse 22. Their Porvalour in that they were mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink nverse 23. Their bribery and corruptio in justifying the wicked for reward and in taking away the righteousness of the righteous from him And shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this yes the wrath of God was kindr'd against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance for three transgressions of Judah for four he resolveth that he will not turn away the punishment thereof And so I am fallen upon the second part of the Text which is Comminatio supplicii the threatning of a future punishment therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities You only c. Ye have heard that God bestowed upon Israel two sorts of blessings both which he threatneth to withdraw for their unthankfulness First his Privative blessings they must expect no more deliverances from him He brought them forth out of the iron-furnace even out of Egypt but they had so provoked him that he threatneth to bind them Apprentices there the second time Apprentices nay worse he threatneth to make slaves of them so we read Deut. 28. ult The Lord saith Moses shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships by the way whereof I spake unto thee thou shalt see it no more again and there ye shall ye besold offer your selves at least unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen and no man shall buy you God threatneth to sell his people for nought and to take no money for them And whereas the Israelites were wont to have the better of their enemies they had so angred the Lord of hosts that he threatned to give their enemies the victory so we read Deut. 28.25 The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies thou shalt go out one way against them and shalt flee seven wayes before them and shalt be removed into all the Kingdomes of the earth And I am sure they have been thus dispersed for many hundred years they are strangers in all Countries they have lost both their place and Nation Secondly God threatneth to withdraw his positive blessings from them We have a plain Text for this Isa 5.5 6. I will tell you saith God What I will do to my vineyard I will take away the hedge thereof and it shall be eaten up and I will break down the wall thereof and it shall be troden down and I will lay it waste it shall not be pruned nor digged but there shall come up briars and thorns I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it So true is that of the Psalmist Psalm 107.34 A fruitfull land maketh he barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein For though the Land of Canaan were as the garden of Eden yet for the iniquity of the Inhabitants it shall be turned into a wilderness and though the Israelites had the blessings of the right hand and of the left yet for their ingratitude and disobedience God threatneth to withdraw both You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities Therefore I will punish you You that were my darlings mine own peculiar people you that were as dear to me as the apple of mine eye because ye have broken my Commandments and been unmindfull of my loving kindness therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities And the observation from hence for our instruction is most obvious Gods hatred against sin is such that he will not let it go unpunished in his dearest Children Adam was the Master-piece of all Gods workmanship and highly in favour with him at the first and yet as soon as ever he had tasted of the forbidden tree God banished this very