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A78515	A sermon preached at the publique fast the tenth day of May 1644. at St Maries Oxford, before the Members of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled. / By R. Chalfont B.D. and Fellow of Lincolne Coll. Printed by their order.	Chalfont, R. (Richard), 1607 or 8-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing C1793; Thomason E9_10; ESTC R15424	32,814	44

to humble themselves is when the Decree is broken forth and the wrath of God is actually upon them when the smart of the rodd makes them sensible of their sinne as it is sayd of Israel Ps 78.34 When he slew them then they sought him and enquired earely after God This was Mannasseh his season as vile a wretch as ever breathed upon the earth a very prodigie of wickednesse yet when he was in affliction when his chaines were upon him then he sought the Lord and humbled himselfe greatly 2 Chro. 33.11 A prudent man foreseeth the evill and hideth himselfe Prov. 22.3 Sees the Calamity in it's commination and prevents it in the threatning sees it first and as it is sayd of the man and the Basiliske kils it by having the first sight of it while the cloud of wrath is but like that of Eliah a hands-breadth foresees a tempest and makes hast for shelter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a foole will be instructed while the rod is upon his backe children when they smart will cry and begge and promise never to do so againe The racke of a great Plague will extort a confession from obstinate Pharaoh I have sinned this time the Lord is Righteous and I and my people are wicked Exod. 9.27 When the judgement is not onely at the doore but entred into the house Quis rogo interfici alterum juxta se videt ipse non metuit c. Salv. and shall take away one here another there and all are in danger will not every one be affraid If the Lion roare will not the beast tremble much more when he shall come and seize upon his prey Is it not time for the whole Towne to come in when their houses are on fire with water to quench it It was high time for Aaron to stand in the gapp when the Plague had made a breach upon the People And Moses said unto Aaron Take a Censer and put fire therein from off the Altar and goe quickely unto the congregation and make an autonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the Lord the plague is begun Numb 16.46 Such cases as this admit no delayes as Messadamus was wont to say of himselfe Know no to morrow a little neglect here may undoe a Kingdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 serious things to morrow cost him deere that spake it both his life and Thebes In such times as these who knowes what a day some few houres may bring forth Sodom and those sister Cities had a faire morne the Sun rose gloriously but never had people in the world a more terrible day High time therefore it is when Gods hand is exalted in the way of his Judgements for a people a Nation to humble themselves The necessity thereof will evidently appeare from the consideration of these particulars 1. That the sound of this Trumpet is the last summons God gives a Rebellious people it is the last Flagg that he hangs out if they submit not and yeild then nothing to be expected at Gods hand but utter ruine It is storied of the victorious Tamerlaine that great scourge of the Ottoman Empire that when he advanc't against any Towne or City so soone as he was set downe before it the first day his Tents were all spread with white a colour of Clemency importing to them that if they would presently surrender they should be receiv'd into Mercy if notwithstanding this tender they should yet stand out against him the next day his Pavilion was cloth'd with red a colour of bloud to give them to understand his severity If neither of these two prevailed for a surrender the third day the same Tents were all hung with blacke to let them know that now all overtures of mercy were past and that now they must expect whatsoever calamity the fury of a conquering enemy could bring upon them Such a course it is that God holds with a sinfull people according to the rule he himselfe gave unto the Jewes in their warres Deut. 20.10 He first proclaimes peace holds out the white Flagg summons them to repentance by the tenders of mercy Go saith the Lord and proclaim these words towards the North and say Returne O backsliding Israel and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am mercifull saith the Lord and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you Ier. 3.12 If this gentler invitation prevaile not upon their love he next sends forth his Rod-Herald to make such a summons as may worke upon their feare Heare ye the Rod and who hath appointed it Micah 6.9 This is Gods Red Flagg and the last he holds out to sinners with conditions of peaces If the Rod cannot teach a People their duty nor the severity of Iudgements upon the Land instruct the Inhabitants in Righteousnesse if a Nation remaine deafe at the thunder of Gods loud voice this obstinacy obstructes all the doores of hope all the passages of mercy God hangs out against them the blacke Ensigne of desolation Secondly Obstinacy under Judgements raiseth a sin to the very height it fills up the bag compleats the measure of a peoples iniquity and leaves sin uncapable of greater aggravation In the fourth of Amos God sets forth the sinne of Israel arrived as it were at the non ultra of sinfullnesse further then which it could hardly goe that notwithstanding the variety and extremity of the greatest Iudgements upon them they relented not nor returned unto God it is the burden of every charge by a patheticall scheme which the Rhetoricians call Epistrophe or conversion there five times repeated Yet have they not returned unto me saith the Lord I have sent among you pestilence after the manner of Egypt your young men have I slaine with the sword and have taken away your horses and I have made the stinke of your Camps to come up into your nostrils yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord. I have overthrowne some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and ye were as a firebrand pluck't out out of the burning yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord. Oh this Yet hath an Emphasis an Accent upon it and makes sinne carry an infinite weight in the ballance of the Sanctuary They are not humbled even unto this day after all the experiences of divine Fury heightned the Iewes sinnes beyond an expression To relapse into the same offence after punishment doubles the malefactors guilt and deprives him of the Favour of the Iudge but to sinne upon the racke under the plague while Gods markes are upon them renders sinne almost incapable of forgivenesse O Lord are not thine eyes upon the truth thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder then a rocke they have refused to returne Jer. 5.3 It followeth at the seaventh verse How shall I pardon thee for this

Gods they had chosen and let them deliver them in the time of their trouble In this case what ground had faith upon which to stirre up importunity to aske or hope to expect salvation and deliverance when as God had flatly answered them that he would deliver the mno more Why yet this hope they have still The Lord is mercifull he hath beene intreated to forgive when he hath purposed to punish and to save when he had resolved to destroy It may be their sighes and teares and prayers may overcome Gods resolution and move him to deliver them though he hath said he will deliver them no more How e're they are resolved to throw themselves at his feete if they must die they 'le die there if he will not helpe them in their distresse they cannot finde any fault with him they have deserved no favour at his hands if he will see them destroyed he may but their hope is that notwithstanding they have been a disobedient people yet the Lord will looke upon them now as an humbled people and have compassion upon them And they said unto the Lord we have sinned doe thou unto us as seemeth good unto thee deliver us onely we pray thee this day And to their humiliation they adde reformation for it followes They put away their strange Gods from them and now marke the successe with God why his heart is as it were melted into pity towards them for saith the Text His soule was greived for the misery of Israel and against his former declaration crownes their submission with a glorious victory In the last place it will appeare evidently as a truth written by a beame of the sunne that there is great cause why a people when Gods hand is stretch't out in wrath against them should humble themselves if we doe but consider how glorious and dreadfull that God is whose hand is exalted in Judgment and how vile creatures we are and what a terrible thing his wrath is and how impotent we are to stand against it His Majesty is so excellent that the most glorious Seraphinis dare not behold it but thorow the vayle of their wings and then too dazelled with admiration cry Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts the whole earth is full of his glory Isa 6.3 Never yet had mortall man even the most innocent any glympse of that glory but did presently humble and abhorre himselfe Woe is me saith the Prophet Isaiah at the 5. vers of the Chap. for I am undone because I am a man of uncleane lipps and I dwell in the midst of a People of uncleane lipps for mine eyes have seene the King the Lord of Hosts Much more cause then have a sinfull people to be abased to be astonish't and to tremble to meet him in the way of his judgements the infinite depth of whose wrath no created understanding is able to fathom The wrath of a King saith Solomon is as the roareing of a Lion when the Lion roares who will not tremble Prov. 19.12 Yea but this is the wrath of a God this speakes an immensity an infinitenesse we cannot conceive Judg. 8.21 As the mans is so is his strength as God is so is his wrath it is a wrath that doth virtually and eminently containe all the terrors of the Creature We read of strange exquisite torments the Cruelty of Tyrants have invented these all are but shadowes to the effects of his wrath The scripture gives us some adumbrations of it by such resemblances as speake it to be a most terrible wrath It is compared to fire the most active and terrible creature the Philosopher tells us that nothing can live in that Element and our fire in respect of that is but like the fire that is painted upon the wall and yet the poore creature must live for ever in it God upholding it that it may feele the power of his wrath Isay 30.33 to a River of fire and brimstone that carries something more with it The deluge of water was very dreadfull it drowned a whole world but such a flood of fire and brimstone how horrible would that be and what are the proudest sinners to stand before it who are but as stubble why it carries away gates and walls and Castles and Kingdomes and Heaven and Earth and all with it The earth shooke and trembled the foundations of heaven moved because he was wroth 2 Sam. 22.8 and shall poore man that is crushed before the moth be able to oppose himselfe against it Can thine heart endure or thine hands he strong in the day that I shall deale with thee EZek. 22.14 Hast thou a hand to resist it or an heart to beare it one drop of that wrath falling upon them will turne the sunne into darkenesse and the moone into blood and make the starres drop downe from heaven one sparkle thereof shall set on fire the Heavens and the earth Matt. 24.29 the whole frame of nature and burne downe to the bottom of Hell Lord who knowes the power of thy wrath For according to thy feare Deut. 32 22. so is thy wrath saith Moses Psal 90.11 Melancholy apprehensions will fancy strange feares but imagination it selfe falls infinitely short of the power of Gods wrath shold God take and set a man upon hells brinke that he might se the torments and heare the cries of the damned there his understanding certainely would be much inlarged to conceive but yet never able to know what is the power of Gods wrath O consider this and tremble ye that do not onely sinne downe but pray downe this wrath upon your selves by those fearefull imprecations God damne me and The Divell take me Little do these poore soules thinke what it is to be damned Isay 33.14 Who can dwell with devoureing fire who can dwell with everlasting burnings And yet this they must upon whom God shewes forth the power of his wrath in their damnation What ever vaine people now conceite of it the time shall come when Kings and great men and rich men cheife Captaines and mighty men Rev. 6 1●.16 shall petition the mountaines and the rocks to hide them from this wrath Thou O Lord even thou art to be feared Psal 7● 7 and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry Now since Gods wrath is so terrible when it beginnes to grow hot against a people there is more then cause it 's high time for them to humble themselves I have done with the 2 first Queres I descend now to the last which brings the point nearer home to shew what cause we of this Kingdome and particularly wee of this place have to humble our selves I cannot point at all particulars I shall onely touch these three The first is the great distresse that is this day upon the whole kingdome this is a Lamentation and should be for a Lamentation we read in the 21. of Iudges that when by the sword of Civill warre the