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A15524	Christs farevvell to Jerusalem, and last prophesie A sermon preached in the quier of the cathedrall church of Canterburie, at the funerall of that reuerend and worthy man, Mr. Doctor Colfe, Vice-Deane of the said church. Octob. 12. 1613. By Thomas Wilson, minister of Gods word.	Wilson, Thomas, 1563-1622.	1614 (1614)	STC 25790; ESTC S101806	26,045	78

as for their Children vvhose harmes vse to moue the bowels of tender mothers very greatly no compassions to the compassions of a mother toward her distressed babes 1 Kings 3. 26. Partly for that a thing horible to thinke of more direfull to act it many mothers through rage of hunger occasioned by famine in time of the Seige should be forced to broyle and eate their owne children for food to saue their liues with the death of their sweet infants as it hapned by Iosephus report Lastly Children would be a great hinderance and clogge as it vvere at the heeles of their Parents to stay their flight by which they otherwise might haue preserued themselues as some did Wherevpon our Sauiour vttereth Mat. 24. a vvoe to such women as should be with childe or giue sucke in those dayes The cause of all these terrible Iudgements were amongst other sinnes of the Iewes as their infidelitie hypocrisie contempt of the word hardnesse of heart yet especially the extreame sauage vnthankefulnesse and barbarous crueltie in putting causlesse to a shamefull death the innocent man Iesus hauing had Prophets and iust men sent vnto them some they reuiled others they beat and ill entreated God at last sending his owne and onely Sonne him they cast out of the Vineyard and slew therefore the Lord of the Vineyard waxed hot vvith indignation and vvhetting his sword came against those Husband-men in his fierce vvrath and destroyed them with a vvoderfull destruction some fortie yeeres after the Passion of our Lord for the vvhich Christ admonisheth these people that bewayled him telling them they had greater reason to lament their owne heauie case and the affliction of their Children then to vveepe for his cause From hence wee haue sundry things for our instruction and admonition First of all we may hereby discouer the errour of such men as though there vvere two Gods one of the olde Testament and another of the new and that the God of the new Testament of the twaine vvas the milder whereas there is but one onely God and the same alwayes like to himselfe God is euer but one both for nature and for will as extreamely hating and punishing sin now vnder the Gospell as he vvas vvont to doe vnder the Law nay more extreamly because now hee hath afforded greater grace and afforded more meanes against sinne All the olde Testament cannot yeeld an example of such seueritie in punishing sinne as here is threatned touching the destruction of Ierusalem and downe-fall of the Iewes No sorrow vvas like their sorrow nor no plague vvas like vnto their plague Therefore let all men greatly feare the diuine Iustice and he vvarned to take heed how they offend and prouoke it Secondly vvee may obserue the force and poyson of sinne when it is continued in impenitently it is able to turne the nature of things to change blessings into cursings and comforts into plagues and confusions What greater earthly blessings then the fruit of the wombe Children are called a treasure giuen from God Gold and Siluer cannot purchase it Kings and Princes haue desired to haue them and could not yet through sinne these impenitent Iewes were brought to this passe through their vvickednesse I say as that they accounted their Children accurst and their greatest miserie the fruit of their vvombe Wonder not at this for seeing obstinacy in sinne can make God of a Father to be a Iudge Christ of a Sauiour and corner-stone to support to be a stone of offence to stumble at the Gospell of the sauour of life to be a sauour of death the Sacraments to be a Iudgement and not a nourishment if in spirituall things Sinne haue this power to alter their propertie what maruell though in worldly things it can preuaile so farre as to cause that to be occasion of euill which was ordayned for our good and welfare as our Table to be our snare our riches to become thornes to choake our Children to be our vnhappinesse and woe Let all obstinate sinners which liue in the seruice of sinne and notwithstanding all admonitions from Gods Word Works and Spirit and from their owne conscience also yet hate to be reformed let such take knowledge of this doctrine and lay it to heart and hasten to be reclaimed else let them feare least an houre come when those things which are now a delight to them as their wiues children siluer gold houses lands meat drinke yea the very creatures of God which be so comfortable as Sunne Moone Starres doe through their stubbornesse in sinne proue bitternesse to them euen as bitter as gall and wormewood so as it be grieuous vnto them to looke vpon these good things and to thinke that euer they enjoyed them be as heauy to them as death This God can bring to passe that men shall curse their parents their birth-day their benefits themselues and all For if God did such strange things vnto the Iewes his chosen and peculiar people his treasure whom hee tooke out of all nations to be his owne to whom he made such great promises and gaue so many and notable priuiledges the Law the Couenant the seruice of God the Adoption the Arke of the testimonie visible token of his presence If Ierusalem the Citie of the great King where was the Temple the Altar the Sacrifices the Priest-hood and where God sayd he would for euer rest and dwell yet for impenitency in their sinne were made desolate and not onely depriued of Gods protection but contrary to the order set in nature had all their blessings accursed then wee the Inhabitants in England howsoeuer wee be blessed with many prerogatiues fauours the word of God the Ministery the Sacraments good Lawes and Maiestrates long and great Peace and Plenty yet if wee will not turne from our pride couetousnes ambition vncleannesse and other sins which are too ripe and rife amongst vs wee may looke when God should bring the like confusion among vs and make vs to be a prouerbe a reproach and pointing of the finger vnto al our neighbour nations as he did the Israelites before vs. Are we better then they should God change the course of his Iustice for our sakes Furthermore if the iust God haue such sharpe and terrible vengeance to powre out against vnrepentant sinners in this world where there is a time of patience and mercy Oh how horrible and intollerable torments may the wicked which goe on in their iniquities expect to suffer in the world to come when iudgement shal be executed without mercy and where the fury of Gods wrath like a consuming fire shall breake forth in all extremity for the full and perfect punishment of sinners vvho shall be bitten and vexed with the euer-gnawing worme of a guiltie conscience and burned in a fire of hot indignation that neuer shall go out All good things being taken away nothing but euill shall be present let this be as an Iron rod to driue

lesse spare the wicked From this consideration of the will of God and the ends of counsell in smiting the godly here more grieously sometime then he doth his enimies we haue certaine duties to be learned and practised The first is not to promise to our selues a constant ease and quietnesse in this world as if we could liue here alwayes in pleasures and prosperity Whereas beside that which is written experience telleth vs all things earthly to be mutable and nothing so subiect to change as men and their affaires for as soule weather and storme followeth a calme and faire seasons and night day and Winter Summer so sicknesse succeeds health pouerty riches aduersity prosperity sorrow ioy therefore as Mariners in a calme prouide against a storme and prouident men in plenty looke out lay vp for the dayes of famine as Ioseph did so Gods children are bound in prosperity to prepare for aduersity for these take turnes and nothing else is seene vnder the Sunne Sathan and the wicked will not suffer the godly to lacke trouble and affliction Crosse is a necessary and perpetuall companion of the Gospell Wherefore as a man that meanes to build will first cast and consider whether hee haue meanes sufficient and as a Captaine will waigh his forces ere he goe to warre so good Christians must arme themselues and get a resolution with strength and power from heauen to goe thorow stitch with their profession for he is not worthy to be Christs Disciple that hath not this setled affection to forsake all for his Sauiours sake and for his Gospell What Paul said of himselfe euery one in some measure must be ready to doe not onely to be bound but to dye for the Lord Iesus A second vse of the former doctrine is to admonish the Children of God to be patient and well-contented with afflictions when they shall happen howsoeuer long and sharp they proue seeing it is the pleasure of their Father and the portion of all their brethren those afflictions which they suffer being accomplished in the rest of the Saints which be or haue beene or shall be in the world 1 Pet. 5. for all that will liue godly must a necessitie in it not expediency alone suffer persecution 2 Tim. 1. and that they haue Christ their guide and Captaine vvho hath led them the way and doth both minister strength enough to beare and abide the crosse and hath promised the victory Rom. 16.20 Yea and turneth the crosses of his people to such and so manifold commodities The meditation of these things must preuaile to stay them from grutching or fainting and keepe them in their vprightnesse constancy without being vveary in their minde or weary of wel-doing Finally this rebukes the prophane persons two wayes both because they rashly iudge of the righteous when they be vnder the scourge censuring them for hypocrites and men hated and cast out of GOD forlorne and desperate as Elihu and the other did of Iob and the Courtiers of Saul of Dauid and the Iewes of CHRIST Whom they thought to be quite forsaken because they saw him sore plagued and not deliuered and also for that they falsly sooth and flatter themselues in their sinnes as if they vvere deere to God and beloued of him because of his indulgence and lenity toward them presuming of God that he will not destroy them but with blessings and kindnesses still fill and follow them boasting as if they were at a couenant with hell and death that no euill shall come neere them that they shall sit and raigne as Queenes and feele no misery nor euer be remoued wherein they are deceiued for if these things be done to the greene tree what will be done to the dry That wee may now draw to an end as out of the former part of this verse we haue seene the condition of the godly both for their doing and suffering their holinesse and affliction so let vs in few words obserue the estate of the wicked impenitent sinners what they are to God or in his sight and what God will doe to them Howeuer vngodly sinners and close hypocrites may be had in admiration of others and for their outward riches and greatnes in the world or some internall gifts of the minde as Learning Wisedome Eloquence knowledge of Arts and Tongues may be accounted highly of as if they were some great personages and be something in their owne eyes men of worth and renowne such as all ought to reuerence yet in the iudgement of GOD whose iudgement is according to truth for hee iudgeth not after appearance but seeth what is in their hearts they are most vile and base being in very deede voide of goodnesse and good for nothing There is no more sauing and true grace in them then there is sappe or iuyce in a rotten log no more fruit comes from them then from dry wood Euen the Scribes Pharisies the Priests and Elders of the Iewes which would be saluted Rabby that is Maister a name of reuerence giuen to such as excelled many and esteemed themselues the guides and lights of the blinde and ignorant the builders of the Church rare for holinesse as well as learning yet Christ who knew them perfectly and much better then they knew themselues pronounceeth of them here to be no better then dry trees barraine and rotten worthy to be burned What is more contemptible or vnprofitable then stubble chaffe which men neglect and tread vnder foot or cast out of dores yet by Esay 5.4 also by Mal. 4.1.2 the wicked are compared vnto such things as are of none or little vse and moment In the first Psalme as the wicked be described what they are for qualitie such as doe not meditate in the law doctrine of the word to know belieue it and doe thereafter so in the same place for their vilenesse and vnfruitfulnesse they are likened vnto the dust which lyeth in the street and is trod vpon by all men cleane contrary to the tree planted by the riuer being full of the moisture of Iustification and of the fruits of sanctification Our Sauiour vniuersally affirmeth of all which are not his members Iohn 15.6 that they are without fruit like the withered branches of a vine which men gather and cast into the fire But Inde vers 12. doth yet further nullifie and vilefie such vnrighteous persons calling them cloudes vvithout water carried about vvith the winde corrupt trees without fruit twice dead pluckt vp by the rootes at a word that which the vvorld iudgeth in their malicious corrupt opinion the true seruants and Saints of God to be 2. Cor. 4. the same vnregenerate and vnrepentant sinners be indeed euen the filth and garbage which is throwne out of the citie vpon the common dunghil Did Hypocrites which take the law of God in their mouth and yet hate to be reformed casting the word behind them and