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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50772	The robbing and spoiling of Jacob and Israel considered and bewailed, in a sermon preached at Westminster before the Honourable House of Commons, at the late solemn fast, Nov. 29, 1643 / by William Mevve ...	Mewe, William, ca. 1603-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing M1950; ESTC R16684	38,436	56

many able heads to whom they are now entrusted But when they are brought from the heads to the hearts of our State then God hath his end and if his ends and ours meet we shall be happy for all this though this be the day of Iacobs troubles yet the hope of Israel and Saviour thereof in the time of trouble will remember Iacob and all his troubles To this purpose I am to bespeak you all Honourable and beloved according to the severall rankes and files wherein you stand to expresse and improve some acts of this duty required that the Lord may see and say there is many an hearty and affectionate soul amongst us willing to give him a meeting as Iacob did and not let him goe without a blessing to this purpose let me but briefly name some few advertisements that may satisfie you 1 when it is done 2. how it may be done 3. what if it be not 4. what if it be and I shall have done for my part and pray that the Lord would doe his and yours for you and so conclude Know that God takes these things as laid ●o heart when they work in us these two properties viz. 1. a sympathy that we can hear of these afflictions of Ioseph as if they were our own though for the present most of us are under safe roofs many of us under our own and as yet enjoy as much of our former satisfactions in wives and children Families and goods c. as the course of these times can lawfully afford if we can bring our selves to look upon these as if not considerable as Phinehas wife upon her Ichabod and set our selves as neer as may be in the case of the distressed families in our Kingdome that are fain to fast upon other terms then we doe because the robbers and spoilers have taken away their childrens bread if we now feeling a little hunger could be more pincht with the thought of theirs or beholding the sad countenances of each other could bewail the rufull sight of theirs sitting in sad or forlorn postures either in their own houses or which comes all to one under the dark roof of hungry and dismall prisons O it were a brave spirit indeed that could in this case un-Lord or un-Knight himselfe in his heart for a while as good Nehemiah did who had wine and oyl enough to make a glad heart smooth countenauce yea and that which is more then the best He amongst us can boast of for the present he had the Kings favour to maintain and increase this yet as if all this were nothing all was black and dark with him whilest the sepulchers of his fathers lay wast surely it would become us well to look upon our land as a Golgotha rather then Bethel of sepulchers rather then houses a place that may be called after the na●ue of Isaacs wels Esek and Sitnah strife and hatred where there hath been great pains taken to dig and keep open the fountain of Justice and as much strife and hatred exprest to trouble the waters if there were no more but this it might make our hearts bleed and symp●thize with our State This were enough to see this representative body of our State the glory of our Nation to be accompted as a Traytour with the head upon the block and the hand of many a bloody executioner lifted up to part the head from the body What living member can chuse but sympathize in this case and by fear and trembling shew he laies it to heart When we can sentence our selves to have as deep a share in the sin as in the punishment when we can lay our hands on our hearts and smite upon the thigh and say It is I Lord I know none in some sense a greater delinquent then my selfe if others have been Traitours to our Soveraigne I have been so to his Soveraigne Lord of lords and King of Kings one that hath made me not his creature onely but his favourite doubled many a blessing upon me belonging both to life and godlinesse and so much mercy streaming from the fountain of grace might break my heart if it were not Adamant They that can say and do this feelingly and faithfully may be said to lay this to heart But how may this be done Briefly thus by putting forth and stirring up some acts of naturall affection which the Lord commands and commends in his own and charges the contrary as an heathenish vice Could we to this purpose consider but these two things viz. 1. How miserable our friends have been made and 2. that our false and uneven reckonings with our God have made them so When we hear of such a County or Town once the pleasing seat of our habitation now made a Stage of watres or cage of unclean birds where the Ziim Iim and wilde Satyrs play When some of us may say There have I left my flock whereof I was once a Minister or my family whereof I was once a Master not as the Estridge doth her eggs in the sand but as the mourning Turtle scar'd from her nest and mate sits groaning at a distance to see or hear some bird or beast of prey to seise upon the nest and young and spoil all If this be not the ●ad case of some of us it is doubtlesse of many in our Kingdom and of some very near in relation to us and if we could but think what prayers and tears they have and do put up for us and others as yet in safety that we may be kept from their condition our hearts would melt into tears to do as much for them And this is a means to set this passion a work 2. What our sins have contributed to their sufferings who can choose but tremble to see his fellow bleed under correction for the same fault wherein he knows himself to be not an accessary onely but a principall agent Doubtlesse there are none of those wasting sins formerly mentioned whereof this Congregation can freely wash their hands and shall the Lord be visiting our sins upon our countrey and kindred fire our Nation round about and we not lay it to heart Cursed be that opinion of the Antinomists whoever either maintains it in his thoughts or takes occasion to start it in so unseasonable a time is doubtlesse a great factour for hell and puts poyson into our wounds that they may not heal Are they greater or better then our father Iacob It is recorded of him that he wept and made supplication doubtlesse then his own and others sins were laid to heart Hos. 12. And if they think God sees not any iniquity in his own for which he is angry with them they may do well to read over this Text once more and I should think that if there were not one more besides this in the Scriptures this alone were enough to let them