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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90701	Hierusalem bedewed with teares. A sermon preached at St. Mary Woolnoth London, upon the fast-day, Martii, 30. 1642. By John Pigott Curate of S. Sepulchers.	Pigot, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing P2221; Thomason E147_11; ESTC R1223	35,249	43

HIERUSALEM BEDEWED WITH TEARES A Sermon preached at St. MARY WOOLNOTH London upon the Fast-day Martii 30. 1642. By John PIGOTT Curate of S. Sepulchers Vae mihi si non Evangelizavero 1 COR. 9.16 Rejoyce not over mee O mine enemy when I fall I shall rise when I sit in darkenesse the Lord shall be a light unto me Micah 7.8 LONDON Printed by E. Griffin and are to be sold by Iohn Wright in the old Bailey 1642. To my beloved Friends and Neighbours the Parishioners of S. Sepulchers London DEarely beloved and longed for Phil. 4. 1. Rom. 9.1 my joy and crown of rejoycing I speake the truth in Christ and lye not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my conscience also bearing me witnesse that my hearty desire for you all is that you may be saved Ch. 10. 1. Acts 20.20 and that to this end I have both publikely and from house to house testified both to small and great to all sorts of people repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Iesus Christ How weighty a burden hath layen upon my Shoulders and how long and with what cheerefulnesse I have borne it is not unknown to you neither doe I yet shrinke from it or sinke under it I have often said with S. Paul you are in my heart to live and to dye with you 2 Cor. 7.3 Though as the same Apostle in the same Epistle complaineth 2 Cor. 12.15 The more aboundantly I love you the lesse I be loved of some among you but I intend not to accuse my owne Nation neither is it equall that J should charge the petulant miscarriages of a few prejudicate Spirits upon a whole parish wherein I have found so much true hearted affection so many reall and royall expressions of love and wherein there are many J speake it with comfort and thankefulnesse that if it were possible would even pluck out their owne eyes to doe me good as S. Paul magnifieth the love of his Galatians 4.15 And now to testify unto the world that I am not insensible of so great love I have adventured to publish to dedicate unto you these indigested meditations provided for you but elsewhere delivered which though rude and unpolished I desire you to accept as a pledge of my thankfulnesse and an earnest of farther indevours if I may be permitted I weigh not any mans censure but rest satisfied in the sincerity of my own intentions it is not applause that I aime at I am no selfe-flatterer no man can have a meaner esteem of me or of my labours then I my selfe have Apostolorum minimus as S. Paul said I am the least of the Apostles nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lesse then the least Eph. 3.8 Yet am I not hereby discouraged from attempting to doe what good I can in that place and station which the great Shepheard and Bishop of our souls hath allotted to me and who knowes whether this Sermon read of many may not through the blessing of God rouze up some hard hearted sinner out of the sleepe of security cause him to bring a bucket of teares toward the quenching of Gods wrath and fiery indignation that is kindled against our Hierusalem this is my desire my hope wherein if I shal faile of my expectation I shall sit down and weep with my Saviour that after so much planting and so much watering with the dew of Gods heavenly word there followes so little watering with the teares of true repentance But I hope better things of you dearely beloved and things that accompany salvation the Lord in mercy open all our eyes that we may at length discern the miseries that hang over our heads by reason of our sins that we may weepe night and day for the manifold provocations wherewith we have provoked him to anger so prayeth Your faithfull servant in Christ zealous of your spirituall welfare JOHN PIGOTT LVC. 19.41 42 43 44. And when he was come neare he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst knowne even thou in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes For the dayes shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and comp sse thee round and keepe thee in on every side And shall lay thee even with the ground and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation BEfore I come to the particular handling of these words I shall crave leave briefly to premise something by way of introduction of the many engagements of this people unto God for mercies received and something also of their great unthankfulnesse to him for the same There was never any Nation upon Earth more blessed with the influences of Heaven then this nation of the Jewes you onely have I knowne of all the families of the Earth Am. 3 2. What Nation is there that hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is nigh unto us in all that we call upon him for Deut. 4.7 Did ever people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live or hath God ever assad to take unto him a Nation out of the midst of another Nation by wonders and signes by a mighty hand and stretched out arme as he did for you in Egypt Deut. 4 33.34 God did as it were single out this people from all the Families of the Earth all the Nations under Heaven that he might make them the ob ects of his love that he might shew kindnesse to them as David dealt by Mephibosheth Thou Israel art my servant Iacob whom I have chosen Es 41.8 A chosen generation a peculiar people Et quid ampl us potuit and what could God doe more for his Vineyard that he did not doe wherein could he have made a fuller expression of his love then he did how did he bemoane them in their misery I have seen I have seen the affliction of my people and I have heard their groanings How did he wrastle with a stubburn hard hearted Tyrant for their enlargement one that slighted his messages contemned his judgements would not let his people goe till at length by maine ●trength he wrested them out of his hands when he overthrew both the Horse and his Rider in the midst of the Sea how did he provide a table for them in the Wildernesse and feast them with delicious fare Angels food Manna from Heaven how did he dampe the hearts and strike through the loynes of all their enemies how did he drive out and dispossesse seven great and mighty-mighty-Nations gave their land a land flowing with milke and hony to be an heritage to Israel his people goodly Cities that they builded not and Vineyards that they planted not and Houses full of all good things which they filled not Deut. 6.11 Will you see some more priviledges and favours

vouchsafed to this Nation you may finde them recorded by S Paul Rom 3.1 What advantage then hath the Jew or what profit is there of Circumcision Much every way cheifely because to them were committed the Oracles of God and more fully Rom. 9.4 wh●re speaking of the Israelites his brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh he describeth their priviledges in these words To whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the service of God and the promises whose are the Fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever singular prerogatives First the adoption was theirs other Nations were strangers and forreiners they were as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the household of God others were counted dogs they only the children as appeares by our Saviours answer to the Syr●phenic●an woman It is not meete to take the childrens bread and cast it to Dogs Secondly the Covenants were theirs other Nations were without God in the world they were a people in covenant with God Gen. 17 7. God tels Abraham I will esta●lish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after the Ier 31.33 This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lord I will write my Law in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people Thirdly the Law was theirs other Nations had nothing but the blind g●id of nature to direct them they had the Law written in Tables of stone he hath given his word unto Iacob his statutes and ordinances unto Israel he hath not dealt so with any Nation neither have the heathen knowledge of his Lawes Psal 147.19 4. To them pertained the service of God other nations wāting the direction of Gods holy word became vaine in their imaginations and worshipped the creature more then the Creatour prostrated themselves to feined Deities as we read of Dagon the God of the Philistims and Milcom the abomination of the Amorites and Chemosh the abomination of Moab and Molech the abomination of the Amorites and Ashtoreth the goddesse of the Sidonians and Diana the great goddesse of the Ephesians indeed how could they call upon him of whom they had not heard who was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an unknown God to them but in Jury was God known his name was great in Israel at Salem was his tabernacle and his dwelling in Sion the Jewes were taught to direct their worship and service to the true God as Christ told the woman of Samaria Jo. 4.22 you worship ye know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jewes T is true they were ever now and then starting aside like a broken bow they grieved him with their hill Altars and provoked him to displeasure with their images they had their golden Calves at Dan and at Bethel and the names of Baalim were too frequent in their mouthes They tooke unto them the Tabernacle of Molech and the Star of their god Remphan figures which they made to worship them yet in the most deploreable times God had his 7000 in ●srael that did not bow the knee to Baal he had his Church among them a remnant that did worship the true God after a true manner they had his word and they had his Sacraments and they had his prophets and they had his house Templum Domini the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord was their great confidence which other Nations could not boast of Fifthly the Fathers were theirs Abraham is our Father art thou greater then our Father Jacob who gave us the well c. Sixthly the promises made to the Fathers concerning the Messias were theirs they were interested in them though not solely yet principally let the children first be served saith Christ the● were the naturall branches and therefore the fatnesse of the Olive tree was first tendered to them you may remember how the Disciples commission ran Mat. 10.5 Go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any City of the Samaritans enter you not but g●e you rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel le● the children first be served nay the Messias himselfe was theirs of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came the word was made flesh and dwelt among them he spent his whole pilgrimage among them they heard his Sermons they saw his miracles S. Matthew reports of him Mat. 9 35. that he went about all their Cities and Villages teach ng in their Synagogues and preaching the Gospell of the Kingdom and healing every sicknes and every disease among the people Ob fortunatos nim●●●t hona si s●a wri●t Oh happy people had they be●n sensible of their happinesse as Christ told the Samaritan woman Jo. 4.10 Haddest thou but known who it is that saith to thee give me to drinke thou mightest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water so had they but known what a rich treasure they had among them they would not have desired him to depart out of their coasts as the Ge●go ens did they would not have set at nought this corner-stone like foolish builders rather with the wise Merchant they would have parted with all for his sake they would have been ambitious to get a sight of him with Zacheus to touch the hem of his garment with the diseased woman to kisse his feet with Mary Magdalen they would have entertained him triumphantly with j yfull acclamations as they did in the verses before my Text Hosannah to the son of David blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord Hosannah in the highest Happy were the eyes that saw the things which they saw though most of them were so blinded that they saw not their happinesse it was part of S. Augustins ambitious wish he desired to have seen three things Rome in her beauty Paul in the pulpit Christ in the flesh as Abraham and divers other Prophets and righteous men desired to have seen this day of Christ Ioh. 8.56 And happy were the eares that heard the things which they heard the mysteries of saving knowledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those secrets and mysteries which were hidden from former ages and that immediatly from Christ himselfe Dulcius ex ipso f●nte what a blessed prerogative was it to heare the wisdome of the father so comfortably discoursing of the great work of our redemption methinkes they should have cried out in admiration with that Disciple Ioh. 14.22 how is it that thou wilt manifest thy selfe to us and not unto the world but my Text tels you they did not know the things that belonged to their peace they were not sensible of the free grace the rich mercy that was tendered to them nay doe but consider their