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land_n	find_v	good_a	time_n	1,357	5	3.1148	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00888	The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2. The second seruice, 3. The breaking vp of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Phisicke from heauen / published by Thomas Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1614 (1614)	STC 110.5; ESTC S1413	211,558	358

and not pitie it is impossible for any but a Faulx but a Deuill 1. To make some further vse hereof to our selues Let vs auoyd sinne as much as we may And though we cannot stay our selues from going in let vs stay our selues from going on least our God complaine against vs. If we make him sorrowfull for a time hee can make vs sorrowfull for euer If wee anger him hee can anger all the veines of our hearts If in stead of seruing GOD by our obedience wee make him serue with our sinnes hee will make vs serue with his plagues If we driue God to call a Conuocation of heauen and earth Heare oh heauen harken oh earth I haue nourished children and they haue rebelled against me If he call on the mountaines to heare his controuersie he will make vs call on the mountaines to helpe and hide our miserie And they said to the mountaines and rockes Fall on vs c. If we put God to his querelam controuersie and make him a Plaintife to enter his sute against vs he will put vs to a complaint indeede Therefore shall the land mourne and euery one that dwelleth therein shall languish He will force vs to repent the time and deeds that euer made him to repent that hee made vs. Hee will strike vs with such a blow that there needeth no doubling of it He will make an vtter end destruction shall not rise vp the second time As Abishai would haue stricken Saul at once and I will not smite him the second time We cannot so wrong God that hee is depriued of power to right himselfe His first complaint is as I may say in teares his second in blood I haue read of Tamberlaine that the first day of his siege was honoured with his white Colours the second with fatall red but the third with finall blacke God is not so quicke speedy in punishment nor come his iudgements with such precipitation Niniueh after so manie forties of yeeres shall haue yet forty dayes Hee that at last came with his Fanne in his hand and fanned but eight graines of good corne out of a whole Barne-full of Chaffe a whole world of people gaue them the space of one hundred and twentie yeeres repentance If Ierusalem will not heare Christs words they shall feele his wounds They that are deafe to his voyce shall not be insensible to his hands He that may not be heard will be felt 2. If God complaines against sinne let vs not make our selues merry with it The madde humours idle speeches outragious oathes of drunken Athiests are but ill mirth for a Christian spirit Wickednesse in others abroad should not be our Tabret to play vpon at home It is a wretched thing to laugh at that which feasts Satan with mirth laughing both at our sinnes and at vs for our sinnes Rather lament Make little weeping for the dead for he is at rest but the life of the foole is worse then death Weepe for that When Israell now in Moses absence had turned beast and Calued an Idolatrous Image Moses did not dance after their Pipe and laugh at their superstitious merriment with Tabrets and Harpes but mourned to the Lord for them and pleaded as hard for their sparing as hee would haue done for himselfe nay more Spare thy owne people though thou race my name out of the Booke of Life They are onely marked for Gods with his owne priuy Seale that mourned for the abominations of Israell and their mournings were earnest as the waylings of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo Where are you ye Sonnes of the Highest ye Magistrates put in power not onely to lament our sinnes but to take away the cause of our lamenting cease to beake your selues like Iehoiakim before the fire of ease and rest rend your cloathes with Iosiah and wrap your selues in sackcloath like Niniueh's King as a corps laid out for buriall Doe not Foelix-like grope for a bribe at criminall offences sell not your conniuence and withall your conscience where you should giue your punishment Let not gold weigh heauier then Naboths wrongs in the scoles of Iustice. Weepe ye Ministers betweene the Porch and the Altar Lament your owne sinnes ye Inhabitants of the world England be not behinde other Nations in mourning that art not short of them in offending Religion is made but Pollicies stirrop to get vp and ride on the backe of pleasure Nimrod and Achitophell lay their heads and hands together and whiles the one forrageth the Parke of the Church the other pleads it from his Booke with a Statutum est The Gibeonites are suffred in our Campe though we neuer clap'd them the hand of couenant and are not set to draw water and choppe wood doe vs any seruice except to cut our throates The Receate I ●ad almost said the Deceate of Custome s●ands open making the Lawes tolleration a warrant that many now sell their Lands and liue on the vse of their Monyes which none would doe if Vsurie was not an easier securer and more gainefull Trade How should this make vs mourne like Doues and groane like Turtles The wilde Swallowes our vnbridled Youngsters sing in the warme Chimneyes the lustfull Sparrowes noctiuagant Adulterers sit ch●rping about our houses the filching Iayes secret theeues rob our Orchards the Kite and the Cormorant deuoure and hoord our fruits and shall not among all these the voyce of the Turtle be heard in our Land mourning for these sinfull rapines Haue whoredome and wine so taken away our hearts and hidden them in a maze of vanities that repentance cannot finde them out Can these enormities passe without our teares Good men haue not spent all their time at home in mourning for their owne sinnes sometimes they haue iudged it their worke to lament what was others worke to doe That Kingly Prophet that wept so plentifully for his owne offences had yet floods of teares left to bewaile his peoples Ieremy did not onely weepe in secret for Israels pride but wrote a whole Booke of Lamentations and was not lesse exact in his methode of mourning then others haue beene in their Songs of ioy It was Gods behest to Ezekiell Sigh thou Sonne of man with the breaking of thy loynes and with bitternesse sigh before their eyes Hee mourned not alone at Israels w●e She had a solemne Funerall and euery Prophet sighed for her Looke away from me saith Esay I will weepe bitterly labour not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people I am payned at my very heart saith Ieremie because thou hast heard oh my soule the sound of the Trumpet the Alarme of warre Our sinnes are more why should our sorrowes be lesse Who sees not and sayes not that the dayes are euill There is one laying secret Mynes to blow vp another that himselfe may succeede there is another buying vncertaine