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A53745 Englands warning by late frowning providences, especially the immediate hand of God upon the straits-fleet improved in a sermon preacht April 1st, 1694 ... : from Ezekiel V, viii ... / by Jonathan Owen ... Owen, Jonathan. 1694 (1694) Wing O826; ESTC R17899 21,718 36

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the Gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath-day Then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof and it shall devour the Palaces of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched Hear O England if you will not hallow my Sabbaths saith the Lord then I even I am against thee and will execute Judgments in the midst of thee as I have done upon my own Day by Fire and Water to shew my Controversie with you is very great and I am against you 5. Another Sin which sets God against a People or a Nation is Stupidity and incorrigibleness under present Mercies and Judgments Beloved what Nation under the Copes of Heaven have enjoyed greater Mercies than we have formerly and of late by a merciful Deliverance from Tyranny and Popery it was but the other day when we were laying our Hands upon our Loins and our Faces gather'd paleness and we perceiv'd all that is valueable to us upon the Block and the hands lifted up to give the fatal blow to all and yet then did their bloody Inventions meet with a happy Prevention through Gods raising up for us a Deliverer but ah how have we forget our Vows and the generality live as tho' they were deliver'd to commit greater Abominations than before And because Mercies have not melted us to Repentance therefore Judgments follow one upon the Neck of another and Gods immediate hand is obviously stretched out against us Consider what God said of old to Israel and is it not his Voice to us now Ezekiel 20. 7 8. Then said I unto them Cast ye away every man the Abominations of his Eyes and defile not your selves with the Idols of Egypt I am the Lord your God But they rebelled against me and would not hearken unto me they did not every Man cast away the Abominations of their Eyes neither did they forsake the Idols of Egypt then I said I will pour out my fury upon them to accomplish mine anger against them in the midst of the Land of Egypt I think that 's applicable to us also Jer. 2.30 In vain have I smitten your Children they will receive no Correction 6. The manifest grieving of Gods Holy Spirit is another great Abomination which provokes God to declare I even I am against thee The Holy Spirit of God is griev'd many ways when the loud Voice of Providences are not regarded when Ministers that speak to you with Bowels in his Name are sleighted and their Message not received when the Spirit comes with Light and you shut your Eyes and will not see when he comes with powerful Convictions and you stifle them when you are call'd to believe and repent without delay you will rather hearken to the Devils Verb mane delay than Gods Adverb mane early or comply with speed when Gods Comminations on the one hand and his woes on the other as by the Prophet have not their due effect upon us Jer. 13. last Woe unto thee O Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be or after when yet as tho God had said I have staid long and sent time after time waiting and wooing I am now as it Were tired out if you will comply well if not I must tho with reluctancy fall on but O When once shall it be But as it was with them so is it not with us now Isa 63.9 10. In all their Affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old But they rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them Beloved if we in this Nation go on thus to rebell against Gods Holy Spirit if we fight against him and he against us it 's no hard matter to tell who will have the worst for if he fights we must needs fall Who hath harden'd himself against him and prosper'd Job 9.4 Thus Beloved I have shewn what are some of those crying Sins that provoke God against a People or a Nation I might add many more as Lying Swearing Drunkenness Oppression Violence Ingratitude for National Mercies non-improvement of signal Deliverances from Tyranny and Popery to a thorough Reformation which God expected as we in Adversity promis'd the Lord these and the like Abominations have stirr'd up his Wrath against us who saith as in Hosea 5.15 I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my Face in their Affliction they will seek me early But I shall not enlarge 3. General What are the black Tokens and evident Signs of Gods being against a People or a Nation I even I am against thee and will execute Judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the Nations 1. When Men of Piety Prudence and Conduct are dispirited in the midst of us and have not that regular zeal for God Godliness and the Publick Interest as formerly it was a sad Omen to the Egyptians of what God was about to do with them when he took off their Chariot-Wheels that they drave them heavily Exod. 14.24 25. Men of Piety Prudence and Conduct are as the Chariot-Wheels of the Nation and if these abate their Spirit and Zeal for Godliness and the Publick good our Wheels are off and we are like to be over-flowed with destructive Judgments I remember what God complains of Ephraim Hosea 7.11 That he was as a silly Dove without a Heart and is it not applicable to us What is become of our late Zeal for Godliness amongst Men of Piety Prudence and Conduct when Popery was coming in by Policy and Power some had a Heart to venture for the publick good in the Face of threatning Dangers but now when God threatens for want of Reformation we are sitting still and grudge at the necessary Charges of defensive War and are ready to impute our present Misery to our invaluable Mercy and suffer our cruel Vipers unnaturally to eat out our own Bowels before our Faces well it s an Argument of Gods being against a People when such Men have lost their Heart Spirit and Zeal for Religion the Publick Good and Safety This speaks to us I even I am against you c. 2. Another Sign of Gods being against a People or a Nation is his permitting Men to be exalted to places of Dignity and Trust who are not rightly principl'd for Gods Glory and the publick's Interest Beloved I bless God day and night heartily for the signal favour shew'd to these Kingdoms in the happy Accession of the present King and Queen to the Throne what two Protestants at once such a Mercy as hath not been granted to England for many Years past and not only so but I bless God Publickly and Privately that by their Royal Proclamations they have signified their Pleasure to have Prophaneness and Debauchery discouraged and trampled under foot but yet where the governing Wheels move