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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73456	A sermon preached at Great Yarmouth, vpon VVednesday, the 12. of September. 1599. by W. Y. The argument whereof was chosen to minister instructions vnto the people, vpon occasion of those present troubles, which then were feared by the Spaniards.	Younger, William, b. 1572 or 3.	1600 (1600)	STC 26097; ESTC S125585	32,550	90

ioyne them in a league of friendship when we haue so done we lay iniquitie vpon sinne wickednes vpon iniquitie rebellion vpon wickednes and transgression vpon rebellion and nothing els but an heauing and heaping vp of confusion vpon confusion Gen. 11.2 as if Nimrod were amongst vs Babel againe to be built the towers wherof might reach vp vnto the starres Well beloued let vs lay the foundation of sinne as low as wee will and build as strongly thereupon as we can as if wee were assured that the hand of Gods iudgements should neuer rase it vp yet no doubt we shall find that it is nowe high time for vs to leaue our sinnes seeing wee see the Lord begins to leaue vs for our sinnes It is nowe high time for vs not to wash our hands with Pilate but our hearts with Ierusalem to chaunge our Morian skinnes to put off our stained and defiled garmentes to entertaine repentance into our soules seeing that euen nowe wee feare the rewarde of our impieties and the portion of iniquitie to bee shared out for vs. If euer before it was needfull surely nowe much more necessitie enforceth and time it is for Abigal if she respect her owne safetie to arise and meete Dauid with a present to appease his wrath 1. Sam. 25. for it seemes hee is now at hand with his sword girded vpon his thigh though not to lade our Asses as she did with two bottles of wine with frailes of raisins and a sheepe readie dressed or such like prouision but to lade our bodies and sinfull carkasses which wee haue vsed as Asses to beare the huge burthen of our sinnes with sackcloth and ashes Saceus ieiunium sunt arma poenitentiae with fasting mourning which are the armour of repentance to withstand his iudgemeÌ„ts Let our eyes be as 2. bottles of wine to cary with vs the teares wherof we may drinke to comfort vs in the assurance of Gods mercies our broken contrite harts as presents which the Lord wil haue respect vnto and receiue kindly at our hands Verse 35. lay his sword downe which he hath taken vp against vs. and bidde vs returne in peace vnto our houses Oh that I could possibly preuaile thus farre with you to possesse your soules with the consideration of this point Though this sodaine oportunitie of repentance were not offred vs yet let vs examine our estate and we shall finde that alas we are not sinners of yesterday we are not newly entred into Satans schole but we are of a great standing for in sinne our mothers conceyued vs in iniquitie they brought vs foorth and wee drewe corruption from their breasts all which as wee haue growne with them so they haue growne with vs. We haue long and ouerlong traced the footesteps of wickednesse and troden the paths of iniustice wee haue tyerd our selues and surfeted our selues with the workes of abomination we are not fallen of ignorance alas as our forefathers which knewe not the Gospell but willingly wilfully haue we brought our selues into the habite of sinne into the nature of sinne into the custome of sin and within the compasse of Gods most fearefull iudgements to seaze vpon soule and body vnto condemnation and not vpon our selues onely but such is the corruption thereof that it hath ouerspred the face of the heauens of the earth and ouerunne all the creatures that euen they for our sin must one day come to iudgement O then how needfull is it that with Ierusalem wee shoulde wash our wicked heartes from this corruption with the teares of repentance that shee might sit in thy heart and with her strong sighes and grones breake the heauens which are hardned against thee and draw downe the Lords louing fauour to thy soule If the infant in the cradle cries for milke if the Lion in the forrest cries for food because they want it how should it moue vs my brethreÌ„ to send vp our cries for the fauour of God because we haue it not The teares of our eyes being shed in true contrition for our sinnes will bee as little messengers to the great and angrie God of heauen and earth to entreate a truce betwixt him and vs his creatures and as gunshotte will batter downe the partition walles of our sinnes and cause his louing countenance to shine vpon our soules Let vs therefore in the feare of God make experience of this and though for the time it may seeme bitter as Aloes vnto the flesh yet is it wholesome and medicinable vnto the soule And looke as it was the manner of ancient times when trouble or heauines befell to any they presently called for women and others who were tender harted and skilful in mourning to cause them mourne the better so we which would faine learne to repent and lament for our sinnes and know not rightly how let vs haue recourse vnto the booke of God and there may we behold the teares standing in Ierusalems eyes and in the eyes of Marie Magdalene 1. Sam. 1 of Anna the wife of Elkanah that their weeping might procure our weeping their griefe prouoke our griefe their passions moue our affections with the like lamentation and sorrow for our sinnes So much for the thing required QuorsuÌ„ being the second point Wash thine heart from wickednes Now followes the third which is the End End That thou mayest besaued J Doubt not Vt salua sis Verses 5.6.7.8 but the trumpet blowne in the land and the crie which said vnto them of Iudah Assemble your selues together get you into stroÌ„g cities and the standard set vp in Sion and the plague threatened to be brought from the North Iuterfector Gentium and the Lion that should come from his den and the Drie wind in the high places of the wildernesse and that suddenly for it should be as a tempest and swift for his horses are lighter then Eagles might easily perswade them of imminent and present danger except they had the hearts of the Leuiathan as strong as stones or as hard as the nether milstone not to receiue any impression or their ioynts tough as Elephants that nothing could â—end them Therefore their danger thâ—eatning such extremitie it was more then time to take some course for their owne safetie The Poet notably describes the feare that Aeneas and they of Troy were in Aenci. 3 and the great speed they made to escape the danger of the Cyclops Praecipites metus acer agit quocunque rudentes Excutere ve t is intendere vela secuÌ„dis When they saw the companie of giants clustring vpon the shore Aetniâ—â— fratres resembling the strength and fortitude of mightie Okes or loftie Cypresse trees that their verie looks threatned destruction it was no time for them of stay but speedily to hoysse vp their sailes Parebiazâ—ntâ— nimbly to betake them to their oares rather then the giants should offer violence to

this case How often would I haue gathered you together euen as the hen gathereth her chickens vnder her wings but you would not Thus the Lord reasons with vs beloued Many fruits of his blessings haue you tasted of both by sea and by land from time to time hath hee sent home your shippes ballanced with the riches of the Ocean as if they came laden with treasures from Egypt for which the Lord encrease not only plenteousnes within your vessels but euen thankfulnesse within your bowels Many excellent and powerfull instructions haue beene deliuered vnto you by the mouths of his seruants the Prophets All this hath beene to this end to gather you together vnto the Lord his blessings temporall and his graces spirituall haue beene as two hands to draw you home vnto him but as yet for ought wee see you will not Therefore looke vnto it if the like should befall you as here to Ierusalem either in this place by Nabucadnezzar and the Caldeans or there by Titus Mat. 23.37 and Vespasian that your enemies should entrench your towne and enuiron you round about that hunger and famine should tirannize ouer your bodies whereas now plentie sits at your doores to welcome your friends that the sword of some forraine Nation should shorten your dayes whereas now the sword of good Magistrates is carried before you if your houses of pleasure should become your prisons if your louing wiues should be deflowred and your tender infants murdered in the streetes before your faces If this or a greater euill should befall which the Lord in his mercie turne away beloued is it not iust shall wee challenge God of his equitie or charge him of iniustice and say Lord why hast thou done this surely no many times sayth the Lord would I but you would not for I am a God mercifull gracious long-suffering and of great goodnesse but the more I was mercifull the more you were sinfull the more I was gracious the more you were gracelesse the longer I was in suffering the longer were you in sinning and the greater I was in goodnesse the greater were you in transgression therefore because I then would but you would not perhaps now you would but I will not Bethink your selues of your estate present bethinke your selues what may befall O Ierusalem c. Secondly Ierusalem the elect Citie of God most holy most glorious built vpon holie mountaines no Citie in the world comparable thereunto IerusaleÌ„ Metropolis Iudaeorum Nico. de Lyra gloss ordina Esay 2. Mich. 4. as well for the loftinesse of the seate for the temperature of the ayre for the moderation of the heauens and fruitfulnesse of the soyle and yet all this serues not so much for the credit of it as that The Scepter went forth from Sion the word of God from Ierusalem It was the onely place of Gods onely worship the Lord had a delight to haue his name there neither had any more priuiledges more teaching or preaching then they had yet for all this they wanted perseuerance they could not continue vnto the end yea these which should haue bin schoolemasters to al other Nations round about them for knowledge Yet see the testimonie that God giues of IerusaleÌ„ Ch. 5.1 Run to and fro in the streets of Ierusalem behold now enquire in the open places if ye can find a maÌ„ or if there be any that executeth iudgemeÌ„t seeks the truth I wil spare it saith the Lord. Loe my beloued not a righteous man not a faithfull soule it seemes found in IerusaleÌ„ either amoÌ„g their princes or among their people Whereby we learne Doctrine that howsoeuer wee haue the word of God preached and the heauenly oracles of his will reuealed vnto vs from the bosome of the almightie by the mouthes of his Prophets and other priuiledges and prerogatiues giuen vnto vs which God hath not vouchsafed to other Nations yet cannot wee challenge this priuiledge and prerogatiue of perseuerance So likewise the Churches of CoÌ„stantinople and of Ephesus excellent priuiledges they had and great prerogatiues they were graced with yet could they not perseuere vnto the end Well the vses in a word Vse 1 that wee are to make hereof are diuers first in that Ierusalem thus priuiledged and blessed could not perseuere it serues to teach vs that in any place which the Lord hath countenaÌ„ced with the preaching of his word if the hearts of the people bee not set to obey the Lord will giue no blessing vnto it If preaching practizing bee not ioyned together if the Gospel obedieÌ„ce walke not hand in hand if Gods word our workes if the light of his Gospel and the light of our godly conuersation be found asunder alas wee may with Esau deceiue our selues Gen. 26. and thinke to haue a blessing when wee shall hit vpon a curse Therefore let vs not content our selues with the outward sound of the word if the inward obedience of the heart bee absent though wee bring our Bibles to Church vnder our armes it is not that will make vs good Christians if our hearts be not set to obey but wee must ioyne the outward ministerie of the word and the inward obedience of the heart together no sooner must the Lord open his mouth but wee must open our eares drinke the sound of his word into the secrets of our harts which may become mightie and by the operation thereof make vs fruitfull vnto saluation Secondly Vse 2 in that Ierusalem could not continue perseuere it serues to teach vs that wee which haue had the excellent benefit of his word and by the beames of his glorious Gospel haue beene enlightned in the wayes of saluation Gal. 5.1 1. Pet. 2. wee must as Paul admonisheth vs standfast and not bee as variable cloudes in the ayre that are carried about with a tempest but stedfast constant and confident in the profession of the Gospel For if wee prooue either faint-hearted or faithlesse hearted Christians if it bee sayd of vs as Paul sayd of the Galathians Gal. 5.7 Apostatas Ye did runne well in the race of Christianitie but now yee slide backe our end shall be worse then our beginning for it had beene much better that wee had neuer learned the truth nor knowne the way of righteousnesse then after wee haue knowne and learned it to returne with the dog to his vomit and with the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire Vse 3 Thirdly 1. Cor. 10.12 Non locus persona dignitas priuilegia aut immunitates possuÌ„t nos ab ira Dei eximere in that Ierusalem could not perseuere it teacheth vs that of the Apostle Wee which thinke wee stand must take heede lest wee fall let vs not boast of those priuiledges and blessings that God hath enriched vs with for were they neuer so many or neuer so great Ierusalem had more and greater yet though shee was highly in credite with the

rather then a good conscience in matters of law Is there no swearing and forswearing no prophanation of the Sabboth amongst vs doe not Absaloms adulteries runne for meriments in our age and haue wee not those fitter for the companie of Sodomites then for the societie of Christians and behold yet and yet greater abominations then these Are these the fruits of the Gospel is this the issue and effect that Gods word hath wrought in vs these fortie yeeres haue we answered the Lords expectation in the smallest measure of obedience as hee hath answered our desires in the greatest measure of his mercies Surely no. Oh beloued what then remaines for such vnprofitable fig-trees Cut them downe cut them downe sayth the Lord burne them in the fire So much for the first poynt the person exhorted and the instruetions thereof Nowe followeth the second poynt namely the thing required Wash thine heart from wickednesse THe Prophet doth here touch Ierusalem to the quicke Quid lauandum Fons vita when hee comes to the heart which as Phisicions say is the fountaine of life it is the first thing that liueth and the last thing that dieth in a man The heart is like an Instrument if it bee in tune and well struug Dulce melos it makes a sweete melody but if it bee out of tune all the parts and powers of minde and body are out of course Or as the stone of Scyros Plin. lib. 36. Cap. 17. if it bee cast whole into the water floteth and swimmeth aloft but if it be parted and diuided it sinketh to the bottome so is it with the heart so long as it bee kept whole and vndistracted why it swims and all things runne currant with it but if broken or diuided it sinketh like lead It may bee compared to the apple of a mans eye which will be troubled with a little moate so is the heart tender of it selfe and will bee disquieted with a rebellious affection or looke euen as a steele-glasse is bright and pure yet the breath of ones mouth will dimme it so is the heart a thing in it selfe bright and pure yet are there many wicked and contagious vapours in the soule that dimme and obscure the integritie thereof When God looked downe from heauen Gen. 6.5 Hee saw the wickednesse of man was great on the earth and did God behold but the earth onely surely yes hee tooke a view of mans heart also and there hee found the heart and not the heart onely but the thoughts of the heart and the imaginations of the thoughts the mother her daughters and their children euill and not onely euill but onely euill and cuil continually Aboue all things sayth the Prophet man hath an vnfaythfull heart as deepe as the deepe sea nothing can sound it as wide as the wide world nothing can contain it as large spacious as hell it self who can find it out If a man possessed as much ground as euer the deuil shewed the son of God froÌ„ the high mountaine if hee had the whole world yet could mans heart containe another if he had two worlds in his possessio yet the heart of man would bee casting for a third therefore it is worth the noting that which Philip of MacedoÌ„ is reported to haue obserued in himselfe when by wrastling he had takeÌ„ a fal in the sand and seeing the impression of his body therin was thereby as it seemes by his words brought into consideratioÌ„ that a smal parcell of grouÌ„d in comparison but a spaÌ„ of earth coÌ„tained his body but the whole world were it much wider theÌ„ it is sufficed not his couetous heart Wel whatsoeuer the hart of maÌ„ is I leaue vnto God the searcher of all harts to examine whatsoeuer Philip of Macedons couetous heart was the harts of those which in the time of Noah were swept away with the waters of the floud yet here we find IerusaleÌ„ hath a wicked hart so wicked that vnlesse it bee purified purged and washed with the waters of repentance destructioÌ„ vpon destruction is proclaimed against it verse 20. Wash thine heart from wickednesse Where first of all wee note that our repentance must bee like the repentance of Niniueh it must begin with the King hee must first arise from his throne and throw away his costly robes and couer himselfe with sackcloth and ashes and then proclaime the like to his subiects and inferiors that is to say the heart which sits in the body as a king in his throne and hath all the inferior powers at commaund when Ionas shall denounce iudgemeÌ„ts and the Lords ministers proclaime repentance it must first rouze and raise vp it selfe and when that begins the inferiour parts are easily brought to order therefore sayth the Prophet Wash thine heart from wickednesse not thy face or thy hands or thy feete or thy vpper garments but thy heart O Ierusalem Simile Our hearts may bee compared to the rudder of a ship or the ballance of a clock the ship wee know is a great and an vntoward vessell and if it bee left to it selfe vpon the seas it runnes to a thousand dangers but let the rudder be well guided and the whole bodie thereof with all that belongs therto is directed without hazard so if the heart go aright it goeth not alone but all the parts and powers of the soule and body immediatly follow in the same safetie euen as a clock Simile if the ballance thereof stirre all the other instruments and weights follow in a good course but if that stand still euerie one of the rest goe out of order so let our hearts moue and step forward in the course of Christianitie all the instruments and members of the body will goe onward likewise but if the heart stayes the body stirres not but standing still is the apter to receiue any corruption Well First instruction the instructions that wee learne from hence are diuers first in that wee must beginne with the heart it teacheth vs that true repentance standeth not in outward behauiour in outward ceremonies or in a ciuill kind of life but it must arise from the heart Wee cannot chase wickednesse from our eyes from our hands from our tongues or from our feete if first it bee not chased from the heart for the eye may bee wicked the hand may bee wicked the tongue may bee wicked and the feete wicked but the heart is the seate of wickednesse it is a fountaine of iniquitie the streames wherof ouer-runne the whole body therefore to good purpose is that of Ioel Vena scin datur cordis Ioel 2.13 Rend your hearts and not your garments and turne to the Lord your God because it was the maner of the ancient times when any were possessed with griefe and discontent to rend their garments manifesting by their outward behauiour their inward sorrow as in the example of Dauid for Saul 2. Sam. 1.11 and for his sonne Absalom

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