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A87554	An exposition of the Epistle of Jude, together with many large and useful deductions. Lately delivered in XL lectures in Christ-Church London, by William Jenkyn, Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The first part.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1652 (1652)	Wing J639; Thomason E695_1; ESTC R37933	518,527	654

out judgements What is the greatnesse of Sodom though the mother city compared with the greatnesse of the Lord of Hosts The lands of Alcibiades in the Map of the whole world could not be espied The Nations are as the drop of a bucket as the small dust of the balance Isai 40.15 He taketh up the Isles as a very little thing An nations before him are as nothing and lesse then nothing and vanity Jerusalem was the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth yet how were her gates sunk into the ground Lam. 2.15 her bars broken Sion was so desolate that the Foxes ran upon it Her strength was such before Lam. 5.18 that the inhabitants of the world would never have beleeved that the enemy would have entred Jerusalem Lam. 4.12 Greatnesse of sin will shake the foundations of the greatest Cities upon earth If their heads stood among the stars iniquity will bring them down into the dust Even of Babylon the great that Spirituall Sodome shall it be said Rev. 18.2 It is fallen Vrbs aeterna Ammianus Marcellinus call'd Rome the everlasting City but even she shall see the day when the eternity of her name and the immortality of her soul wherewith she is quickned which saith a Learned man is the supremacy of her Prelates above Emperours and Princes shall be taken from her and as Babylon hath left her the inheritance of her name so shall it leave her the inheritance of her destruction In vaine do we build unlesse the Lord lay the first stone or plant unlesse he say Let it grow Blessed is the City whose gates God barreth up with his power and openeth with his mercy Otherwise Sodoms plenty and power cannot secure it's inhabitants It 's said of Tyrus that Her Merchants were Princes and her Traffickers the Honourable men of the earth yet how doth God deride her greatnesse at the time of her overthrow Is this that glorious City Isai 23.7 her own feet shall carry her far off to sojourne The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it to stain the pride of all glory and to bring to contempt all the honourable of the earth Sodome Babylon Jerusalem Constantinople c. have felt the weight of Gods power and their own impieties God once ask'd Nah. 3.10 Niniveh whether she was greater then No Let me ask London whether she be greater then those cities which for sin God hath made small yea brought to nothing He who in former great plagues hath made grasse to grow in the streets of London for want of passengers is able again to stretch out upon it the line of consusion the stones of emptinesse Isai 34.11 and to turn the glory of our dwellings into plowed fields The fear of God is the strongest refuge and righteousness a stronger bulwark then walls of brasse Prov. 10.25 How great is the folly of the greatest City to be at the same time sinfull and secure There 's no fortification against no evasion from the Lord. There 's no way to fly from him but by flying to him by making him in Christ our friend by becoming enemies to sin and by reforming 6. Observ 6. Gen. 19.35 Sin brings a curse upon every thing that belongs to man The sin of Sodomites overthrew them their houses their cities their children yea their plaine and all that grew upon the earth The curse of Thorns and Bryers grew out of the soyle of sin The punishment of Amalek reached even the Infant and Suckling yea the Ox and Sheep the Camel and Asse 1 Sam. 15.3 That which was made and bestowed for mans comfort may justly be destroyed for mans wickednesse Who wonders to see the children the followers the palaces and gardens of a Traytor to droop and decay and the armes of his house and the Badge of his Nobility to be defac'd and revers'd That which is abused by man to the dish●or of God may justly be destroyed by God to the detriment of man How deservedly may God demolish and dismantle those fortifications and break in pieces those engines in and by which rebellious man fights against his Supreme Lord and Soveraign How profitably may we improve all the miseries which we behold disperst upon the whole creation How fruitfull a Meditation may we raise from the barrennesse of the earth Psal 107.34 A fruitfull land turneth he into barrennesse for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein All the Monnuments of ruine the demolish'd Monasteries and overthrown Abbies and subverted Cels of Sodomiticall and lazy Fryers full fed and unclean inhabitants are but the scratches that sin hath made upon the fair faces of Nations Oh that England would look with Scripture spectacles upon all its fired Towns and razed mansions and say and beleeve If sin had not been these had not lien here Vestigia peccati and that these demolitions are but the foot-prints of sin that so having found out sin we may voice it and deal with it as the Philistins did with Samson Judg. 16.24 Who said they was the destroyer of their country Certainly that which wants reason is by God ruin'd that we who have reason may thereby be reformed We should say in the destruction of the creatures as David in the death of his subjects I and my Fathers house have sinned These sheep what have they done and we should look upon Gods taking away of abused comforts as stoppages in our way of sin and the withdrawings of the fuel of lust God as it were firing our ships and breaking down our bridges lest by these we should depart from him 7. Observ 7. Great is the difference between Gods chastising of his people and his punishing of Sodomites The universality of Sodoms ruine followed the community of its sin The Church of God is never destroyed utterly but in it he alwayes leaves a number Except the Lord had left us a seed saith Paul we should have been as Sodom Rom. 9.29 and like unto Gomorrha Though an housholder spend and sel the greatest part of the corn of the Harvest Crop yet he will be sure to reserve a little seed corn to sow his ground for a new corp Though Sodom be utterly consumed by fire yet Jerusalem is as a brand pluck'd out of the fire God makes a light account of whole cities full of sinners Psal 119.119 he takes away the ungodly of the earth like drosse which is put into the fire to be consum'd his own people being like gold only put in to be purged A man when his house is on fire more regards a small box full of Jewels then a great room full of ordinary Lumber God having intimated to his people Hos 11.6 that they deserved to be made as Admah and Zeboim the two Cities that were destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrha he subjoyns ver 9. I will not returne to destroy Ephraim Vid. Rivetum in loc by not returning to destroy