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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97136	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late monethly fast, being on Wednesday, June 30. 1647. / By Nathaniel Ward Minister of Gods Word.	Ward, Nathaniel, 1578-1652.	1647 (1647)	Wing W784; Thomason E394_20; ESTC R201633	18,356	34

degenerated those were very sinfull times Judg. 7. There was no King nor Government in Israell every man did what was right in his owne eyes They took what Gods what Priests what Concubines what Heritages and undertook what warre they pleased When the Ordinances and everlasting Covenant was broken then was the Earth defiled and the Lawes transgressed Justice When Authority failes Justice failes When the foundations are out of course Psal 82. then Governours will not know the mind of God nor understand how people should be Governed then will they Judge unjustly accept the persons of the wicked and not defend the Cause of the Fatherlesse Widdow poore and afflicted Amos 6.12 Then Judgement is turned into Gall and Righteousnesse into He mlock Then every man Hunt his Brother with a Net they do evill with both their hands earnestly Princes aske Judges aske great men aske Mic. 7.3 the best are as Bryers and the most upright as Thornes When the mighty men the Judges and Ancients faile and Children are Princes Rulers Babes then the People shall be oppressed every one by another Isa 3.2 and every one by his Neighbour the Child shall behave himselfe proudly against the ancient and the base against the Honourable When Politicall rule failes then the strength of a State failes When a Kingdome of Gold degenerates to Silver Strength Silver to Brasse Brasse to Iron and Clay a stone cut out without hands breaketh all in peeces It was said of the Assyrian State Dan. 2.34 the strongest State of those times that their tackling being so loose that their Maine-mast could not stand strong nor their Sayle be well spred that the lame might take the prey and divide the spoyle this Prophet saith of these times that upon the approaches of Warres all hands shall be feeble Isa 7.2 all hearts shall meditate Terror The hearts of people in such times are moved as Trees are moved by the Wind such States are like bodyes out of joynt full of divisions discontent and Rulers have little or no power to rule them whom they have misruled When Dominion failes the wealth of a State failes Wealth Taxations and oppressions are usually great Rehoboams little singer was heavier then Solomons Loynes 2 R. 23.35 Isa 42.24 Isa 24. Jehoiachim exacted the Silver and the Gold of the People In such times God gives Jacob for a spoyle and Israel to the Robbers He makes the Earth empty and wast States are spoyled they faile and mourne and languish away No man hath any mind to trade or Husbandry they know not what 's their owne nor how long they shall keepe it some Canker or Palmer-worme the Caterpiller or one East-wind or another devoureth all When the Greeke Empire was broken one compared it to a great Chest of Gold and Silver whose sides falling out the Purpurati and all that could fell scrambling to the prey with all their might When good Government failes Honour then the beauty and honour of a state failes Jerusalem the City of God was beautifull Psa 48.2 the joy of the whole earth but in these times all her beauty departed the Lord covered Sion with a cloude and cast downe from heaven to earth all her beauty all that honored her despised her all that passed by clapt their hands hissed and wagged their heads at her said is this the City that men call the perfection of beauty the joy of the whole earth that flourishing State became a song A State is happy when it is undique happy Domi foris as this was in Solomons time Lamen 2. A man may doe as much by his name as by the goodnesse of his talent or gifts so may a state to themselves and others When Government failes Peace 2 Chro. 15.5 6. then peace failes which is the soile of all felicity In Abijahs and Asa's reign Israel was without the true God teaching Priests without the law and Government in those dayes there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the Countrys Province was destroyed of Province City of City for God did vex them withall adversity thus it hath beene with the State of Florence Syracuse and many others and thus it is now with Germany and little better with ours I take these seven things may well be accounted the seven Pillers whereon wisdome bulldeth her house Prove 9.1 if these faile the house however wisely built at the first must needs fall with a sorrow And that which boyleth up the misery to the full height is this that in such times States are of themselves irreparable now is Ephraim like a silly Dove without heart now is the State of Egypt intoxicated the wise-men and greatest Counsellors infatuated the Lord mingles a perverse spirit amongst them there is nothing but contradiction and prevarication Isa 19.11.16 objections interjections puzlings and counterpuzlings pluranimities and pluranimosities amongst them nor shall there be any work which the head or taile branch or rush may doe In that day they shall be like unto women which doe nothing but talke Jer. 8.22 brabble and squabble their councel and States in peeces in such times there is no Balme nor Physitian by whom the health of a people can be recovered in such times the Starres of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light the Sun shall be darkned in his going forth Isa 13.10 and the Moone shall not cause her light to shine in these times the Lord will cover the heaven and make the Starres thereof darke obscure the Sunne with a cloud and extinguish the light of the Moone and darken all the bright Starres of heaven that he may set darkenesse upon a land Ezek. 32.7 8. all which may be safely understood politically In such dayes or rather nights wise-men are ashamed they are dismayed and taken When the Macedonian State was broken a wise-man said it was like a blind Cyclops that reacheth forth his armes and hands to find somewhat to stay upon but cannot Justus Maenius writing of the troubles of Germany just a hundred years since this present yeare saith it had beene better for a man to have dyed by the first stroke then to bee saved through so many distresses These are the dayes wherein God will not bee inquired of Cap. 20.3 nor intreated to give any counsel these are the dayes of perplexity and giddinesse wherein the best counsell a man can give or take is that of the Prophet Micah to looke unto the Lord to waite for the God of his salvation to bear the indignation of the Lord because he hath sinned against him untill he pleads his cause and bring him forth to the light and to perswade himselfe that at length he shall behold his righteousnesse Application TO this passe was this state now brought Wee come now to the