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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67020	A call to humiliation for the grievous sin of persecution in two sermons, preached at the publick fasts in Lemster, in the county of Hereford, Wednesday May 21 and June 18, 1690 / by William Woodward ...	Woodward, William, Minister of the Gospel.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3522; ESTC R23484	25,666	38

A Call to Humiliation For the Grievous SIN OF Persecution In Two Sermons Preached at the Publick Fasts in Lemster in the County of Hereford Wednesday May 21. and June 18. 1690. By William Woodward Minister of the Gospel Gal. 4. 16. Am I therefore become your Enemy because I tell you the Truth LONDON Printed by T. S. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1690. TO Edward Littleton Esq SIR WHEN we were called upon by Authority to National Fasting and Humiliation I thought it my Duty to look into the Prayers of the Church expecting to find a Full and Humble Confession of all the Piacula and Great Provocations of the Land and in that Black Catalogue the Grievous Sin of Persecution the rather because one of our Prelates who is thought to have Assisted in Composing those Forms had told us in a Preface Published some years since That it may be reasonably apprehended that it may have contributed not a little to fill up the Measures of the Sins of a Church and to bring down severe strokes again they who had let themselves loose to all the Rages of a Mad Prosecution of some Poor Vndiscreet and Deluded People ought seriously to Profess their Repentance of this Fury in Instances that may be as Visible and Edifying as their Rage has been Publick and Destructive But that Bloody Sin I perceived upon search had escaped the Notice of our Ecclesiastical Guides so that all our Fines Flights Imprisonments and Cruel Vsage from our Fathers and Brethren for almost Thirty Years was to go for nothing whereupon I Resolved to call over some of our Laws which had been Drawn up against the Nonconformists and Protestant Dissenters that I might be able to give better satisfaction to my self and to those also that sit under my Ministry that though the Lord be Just and Righteous in all the sorrow we have known yet Man was not so whilst we were Scourged with Scorpions That some who it may be are still too much in Love with Persecution have been Offended with what I have done and misrepresented it makes this publication the more Necessary for if we are called to Mourn for National Sins 't is fit we should know them that we may with all possible Fervor entreat the Lord of his Rich Grace and Mercy to Deliver us from those Judgments which are wont to pursue these Guilts SIR We have known days of great Tribulation upon the Account of Religion in the Heat of them the Moor the Place which your Lady Mother Adorns as well as Inhabits was Patmos to me there the Saints Assembled there we saw the Primitive Times there we had our Antelucanos Coventus the Doors being shut for fear of the Jews there we remembred our Friend in the Indies and in your Return we have seen the Return of our Prayers It calls for Songs and Davids Harp to see you come home Crown'd with that which is infinitely better than the Treasure of the East though with that too when many others in exchange of Religion left behind bring thence nothing but Apes and Peacocks Now the Lord who can do good against evil hath brought back our Captivity and enlarged the Curtains of his Tabernacle among us we can meet at Ornan's House and sit with safety as well as delight under the shadow of the Tree of Life you have not been afraid nor ashamed to appear in the place of our Solemnities and a grateful remembrance we retain of your endeared kindness At your feet Sir I set down these Papers which if they be agreeable as I think they are I am sure you have both Integrity and Courage to own them I know you to be one of those that wish for the Godly Discipline of the Primitive Church and would have it restored that the Lord Jesus may reign with more glory among us to whose Grace both you and all yours are recommended by June 26th 1690. SIR Your Humble Servant William Woodward Luke 23. ver 28. But Jesus turning unto them said Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your Children AFter Pontius Pilate had pronounced Sentence of Death against our Lord he was led forth to Mount Calvary the place of his Crucifixion 't is said v. 27. there followed him a great company of people and of women which also bewailed and lamented him Our Saviour Jesus Christ as the Great High-Priest was now about to offer up upon the Cross that Great Sacrifice which was to take away the sin of the World and it was meet to be performed in the presence of all the people This was Dies Cippurim the great Day of Expiation and Atonement in which our Jubile began A great multitude of people followed him In which there might be some prefiguration too that notwithstanding all the malice and opposition of the World the Amazing Love of Christ in dying for sinners would in all Ages draw multitudes after him When I am lifted up from the Earth saith our Lord I will draw all men unto me signifying by what death he should die John 12. 32 33. and Chap. 3. 14. As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness even so must the Son of Man be lifted up The Brazen Serpent was his Type which healed all bitten of Serpents that looked up unto it The means was not likely but weak and despicable for what could a Serpent of Brass do Why not rather a Serpent of Gold The Serpent of Brass was Gods Ordinance and by his Blessing healed whiles the Golden Calves of Mans Invention bring both a snare and a curse There were also sundry Women which bewailed and lamented him either as an innocent excellent person unjustly condemned to die or else from a Principle of Divine Faith and Love knowing that their sins made his Cross heavy for their sakes he was numbred with Transgressors and was now going to lay down his Life upon the Mountain of Myrrh and Hill of Frankincense Our Lord it seems heard the voice of their weeping O let him hear the voice of England's weeping this day and turning to them said Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your Children 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which notes bitter weeping with all the outward Expressions of inward trouble of Heart Weep not for me O ye Daughters of Jerusalem who am now going to triumph upon the Cross as well as to die but weep for your selves and for your Children because of the infinite miseries which will suddenly break in both upon Jerusalem and the Land of Judea Those sore Judgments of Sword and Famine are coming to you upon the Wings of the Wind this Generation shall not pass away e're Jerusalem which was once the City of God the Excellency of Beauty the Crowned City and Joy of the whole Earth shall be made a hissing and an abomination to all the Countreys round about