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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77004	Occasus occidentalis: or, Job in the VVest. As it was laid forth in two severall sermons, at two publike fasts, for the five associated westerne counties. By Iohn Bond B.L. late lecturer in the City of Exon, now minister at the Savoy, London. A member of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572; Thomason E25_22; ESTC R4274	79,184	92

James 2.15 16. notwithstanding yee give them not those things that are needfull to the body what doth it profit Surely nothing at all either to the meere verball giver or to the seeming receiver Let us therefore shew our pity by our workes that is let us cast in if necessary occasions doe require even a part of the remaining dusts and drops of our meale in the Barrell and of our oyle in the Cruse 1 King 17.13 14 15 16. and doubt wee not but the Lord will take care so to blesse the remainder that there shall be a sufficiency for us and our family yea let us cast in the two last mites even all that wee have into that publike treasury if need requires it and so engage the Lord to maintaine us There is to this purpose a famous Example of the Carthaginians recorded in History which hath come often into my mind and it is this Flor. lib. 2 c. 15. de Bel. Punic tert Spe pa●is injecta traditam ● volentibus classem c. When that people had sustained their first and second warre with the Romans with honour and some good successe at last the third and fatall warre begins in which when the Romans pretending articles of peace had treated away the Carthaginian Navie which they speedily fired in the very face of the City then offering them this onely condition Th at they must all depart their owne Country leaving it and their estates wholly to the Enemies 'T is said that this proffer for the horridnesse of it so enraged them that they would rather choose to adventure upon the utmost of extremities Hereupon all the City doe generally call to Armes not so much out of hope to defend themselves as because they had rather that their Country should be destroyed by the hands of the Enemy than by their owne And now the great worke to be done by them is to build a new Navie For the making whereof for want of timber they doe pull down their owne houses for want of iron to make bolts and nayles they doe work up their gold and silver and for want of cordage the Matrons doe cut off their haire to make ropes and cables Ah poore soules yet gallant spirits that could so freely cast in their last all to the honourable funerals of their deceased Country Brethren this is the third and I hope the last and best conflict of the English yea British Protestants with the Antichristian Romans First they did attempt against us by force in 88. Next by fraud in their Gun-powder Treason But behold now and let us beware the third in this last attempt force and fraud are knit together their Armies in stead of their Armado are combined with their second Gun-powder Treason to blow up this Parliament I say with their second Gun-powder Treason which for impudence cruelty and universality doth exceed the first Nay and to carry-on the application of my Punick Story they have already treated-away some of our most considerable pieces as Ireland and the West of England Let us now play the Carthaginians in hope and to purpose Let us not spare the reliques of our estates treasures persons our houses gold and silver haire heads and all to redeeme all our temporall naturall spirituall goods againe As for the issues let them be wholly left to the good pleasure of our God perchance it may please him to make good unto us Western Exiles that promise by Zephaniah namely Zeph. 3.12 To leave in the midst of the West an afflicted and poore people and they shall trust in the Name of the Lord. Surely such a mercy as this would be great and precious to broken hearts Or perhaps which seemeth sharper hee hath in his secret purpose justly decreed that unworthy wee of this present generation shall not returne to conquer or see againe our native Country though perchance our children after us may obtaine that favour But though it be thus yet let us labour to conquer our selves and our own inordinate desires 't is as great a mercy to want drought as to have drinke let us prepare to see the pleased face of Christ at last And for present strive we to attain to hearts like that of David who when hee was flying from his Jerusalem from his Kingdome yea from Ordinances and all yet could say unto Zadok ● Sam. 15.25 26. Carry back the Arke of God into the City if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord hee will bring mee againe and shew me both it and his habitation But if hee say thus I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him doe to mee as it seemeth good unto him Such a depth of selfe-submission as this is the highest step of selfe-advancement However so long as our remaining inch of Candle shall be burning whatsoever place may be our Candlestick let us mightily uncessantly especially pray study act FOR THE WEST FOR THE WEST FOR THE WEST FINIS