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A93242	Judgement and mercy: or, The plague of frogges [brace] inflicted, removed. Delivered in nine sermons, by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Iosias Shute, Arch-deacon of Colchester, and preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth, in London: with his usuall prayers before and after sermon. Whereunto is added a sermon preached at his funerall, by Mr. Ephraim Vdall. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Octob. 29. 1644.	Shute, Josias, 1588-1643.; Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647. Sermon preached at the funerall of Mr. Shute.	1645 (1645)	Wing S3715; Thomason E299_1; Thomason E299_2; ESTC R200245	134,491	230

behold this blessed light that shines to us much more unworthy to enjoy these conveniences and opportunities of meeting in thy house to know the way and means to a better life But most worthy of all thy plagues to be powred down upon us both in this life and that which is to come For besides that originall corruption wherein wee were borne and conceived and which like a leprosie hath over spread all the powers faculties both of soul and body we have heaped up a numberles number of actuall transgressions There is not any of thy holy Commandements but in thought word and deed most grievously and frequently we have violated And which advanceth our iniquity and heightens our rebellion these evills have not only escaped us in the times of ignorance but even since it hath pleased thee to inlighten us with the knowledge of thy truth so that notwithstanding thy mercies thy judgements the motions of thy good Spirit the blessed light of thy Gospell afforded to us we have continued the course of our rebellion against thee yea that we may be yet more vile in thy presence even at this time when we come before thee we are clogged with so many imperfections that if thou shouldest be extreame to marke what is done amisse how mightest thou plague us in our bodies in our goods in our good names how mightest thou fill us with the fury of an unpacified conscience and write bitter things against us and a wounded spirit who can beare How mightest thou give us up to a reprobate sence to commit sinne with greedinesse and punish one evill with another and after all this cast us into that place of torment to sucke out the dregs of thy vialls O God in all this thou shouldest be justified and clear when thou are judged and we deservedly punished Our sinnes our sinnes O Lord call to heaven for vengeance the pit is ready to shut her mouth upon us if thou wert not the Lord of mercies But thou hast opened a way for poore distressed sinners to come to thee through thy Son We flye to the horns of the Altar and intreat thee for Jesus Christ sake to be mercifull to us And thou sweet Saviour of the world whose name imports mercy and whose worke brought salvation for the sons of men thou knowest that we are but flesh and remembrest that we are but dust Thou that art a High Priest touched with our infirmities that knowest the power strength of old Adam how it leads us captive to sin and wickednes stand between us the wrath of thy offended Father mediate our cause with thy Father that all our iniquities may be done away by thy sufferings that we may ever finde to our comfort that though we have done ill we have an advocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous And doe thou dear Father every day more and more assure and perswade our souls that thou art reconciled to us in thy Son by sending his Spirit into our hearts to renue us to that glorious Image of thine from whence wee are fallen and which may enable us to performe every good duty that as heretofore we have given our bodies and soules to be weapons of unrighteousnesse so in every part and power of them we may glorifie thee our God and Saviour and as much time as remains in the flesh worke out our salvation with feare and trembling And be cause thou of thine infinite wisdome hast set apart the Ministery of thy Word for this purpose good Lord blesse it to us at all times and at this time Enable me that am to speake the most unworthy of all the sons of Levi Lord cover all my sins and manifold imperfections in that mercy of thine that hath no measure and be pleased so to assist me by thy more particular helpe that I may deliver thy word boldly truly feelingly and sincerely Circumcise the hearts and eares of this thy people that they may heare attentively treasure it up in their hearts carefully and bring it forth in their lives and conversations conscionably to thy glory and assurance of their owne salvation in the day of Jesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and thy blessed Spirit be ascribed as is most due all honour and glory both now and for evermore Prayer after Sermon VVEE returne unto thy Majesty O Lord our God most humble and hearty thankes for all thy mercies most plentifully bestowed upon us as election creation redemption preservation vocation for the time and means thou hast given us of repentance whereas thou mightest have took us away in the middest of our sins O God what are we or what is our fathers house that thou shouldest bee thus mercifull to us to prevent and to follow us with thy kindnesse we are lesse then the least of thy mercies yet suffer us to take the cup of salvation and to praise thy Name accept of our poor acknowledgement adde one mercy more deare God to the common heap grant that we may expresse our thankfulnesse in a godly care of all holy obedience Blesse that part of thy word that we have heard delivered at this time Good Lord make it effectuall to our souls to salvation grant that it may bring forth fruit in some twenty in some thirty in some sixty in some a hundred fold though in some more and in some lesse yet in all some to the henour of thy Name Blesse with us thy whole Church wheresoever dispersed or howsoever distressed on the face of the earth and prosper O God the cause of the same where ever it is maintained in all the world as may be for the confounding of the Kingdom of Sin and antichrist and for the encouragement of all such as professe thy Gospel in sincerity Blesse us in these Kingdomes continue to us our liberty forgive our crying sinnes turne away thy judgements open our eyes at last to see the day of our visitation Blesse thy servant our Sovereigne Charles by thy Grace King of England Scotland France and Ireland in all causes and over all persons as well Ecclesiasticall as Civill next and immediately under thy Son supreme governour Blesse the Queens most excellent Majesty Prince Charles the Princesse Palatine and her issue The Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councell The whole Nobility Blesse thine owne inheritance the Tribe of Levi by what names or titles soever they be called And for a supply of Davids Towers with Worthies blesse all Schooles of Learning the two Vniversities of this Land Cambridge and Oxford Blesse all Congregations this committed to my charge Remember all that are in affliction in mercy whether outwardly in body or inwardly in minde or for the testimony of a good conscience Lord draw neare to every of them according to their desires Receive us Deare God and all ours and all thine into thy love and favour and protection therest of this day and for ever Let thy holy hand protect us let thy blessed

Judgement and Mercy OR The Plague of Frogges inflicted removed Delivered in Nine SERMONS By that late Reverend and Learned Divine Mr. IOSIAS SHUTE Arch-deacon of Colchester and Preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth in London With his usuall Prayers before and after Sermon Whereunto is added A Sermon Preached at his Funerall By Mr. EPHRAIM VDALL Eccles 12. 10. The Preacher sought to finde out acceptable words and that which was written was upright even words of truth Imprimatur Ja. Cranford Octob. 29. 1644. London Printed for Charles Greene and are to be sold at his Shop in Ivie Lane at the signe of the Gun 1645. To the Christian Reader TO commend persons or things of worth in a perfunctory slight manner is little better then to dispraise them therefore I shall forbeare Encomiums of this worthy Author or his Labours lest I run that hazard Let his own Workes praise him in the gates Prov. 31.31 only lengthen thy patience to the thorow perusall of these ensuing Sermons and thou shalt finde that that may heighten thy esteeme both of him and them I am confident that those who were his usuall Auditors will herein finde his owne vestigia both for matter and phrase And my hope is that by the blessing of God many honest hearts may reape benefit by these his Labours Heb. 11.4 whereby he being dead yet speaketh that had not opportunity in his life time to partake of his indefatigable Ministery As for others as this worthy man once said of the chiefe in Magistracy upon occasion of the death of King Iames that when the body turnes traytor it is just with God to behead it so may I say for the Ministery when God in Mercy shall set up such burning and shining lights and men in stead of walking by them spit at them God is justly provoked to extinguish those lights Jer. 13.6 and leave men to stumble upon the darke mountaines But I shall no longer detaine thee from the worke it selfe but commit it and thee to the blessing of God H. W. Morning Prayer before the SERMON MOst glorious Lord God and mercifull Father in Jesus Christ we poore wretched and miserable sinners doe here prostrate our selves before thee humbly acknowledging that to thee belongs all honour and glory whose pure eyes can behold no iniquity and to us nothing but shame and confusion of face for our manifold transgressions committted against thee If we looke upon our selves as we lye in the loynes of our first parents we are a part of that tainted seed that might justly inherit thy wrath our understandings are darkened and our wills instead of conformity to thine are growne rebellious in as much as that by nature there is not one good thought in us but a pronenesse to all evill whatsoever And if we consider our selves in our actuall transgressions by our sinnes of ignorance our sinnes of infirmity and of doubting our sinnes against our owne knowledge and against our vowes and purposes and promises of better obedience Wee have greatly dishonoured thy glorious name and grieved thy good Spirit and weakened thy graces more and more within us and have justly exposed our selves to thy eternall curse Even at this time Holy Father in the middest of thy Temple we come before thee clogged with so many imperfections that if thou shouldest be extreame to marke what is done amisse the best of us were never able to abide it It is thine infinite mercie that we are not consumed and therefore doe we live to put up this poore imperfect prayer to thee because thy compassions fail not But O God though in our selves we be miserable and weak and forlorne suffer us to cast up our eyes to the hills from whence commeth our helpe to importune thee by the Gracious Name of Father and to intreat thee for the merits of the Sonne of thy love to be mercifull to us Remember thine owne promise that if we confesse our sinnes and leave them and come to thee in the Sonne of thy love we shall finde mercy Lord we renounce our former sinnes it grieves us that we can be no more sorry for the same By the blessed assistance of thy holy Spirit we intend to live more conscionably for the time to come And we come to thee for Christs sake desiring thee to speake peace to our soules through his bloud bury all our sinnes in his grave that they may never rise up in this world to shame us and to be a reproach unto us to terrifie our consciences to desperation to intercept thy blessings or our prayers or in the world to come everlastingly to condemne us And because the foundation of all our comfort stands in the assurance of this Lord multiply to every one of our soules the blessed evidences of this thy reconciliation Send the holy Spirit of thy Son into every of our hearts to renue us to that glorious Image of thine from whence we are fallen and that may worke every saving grace in us True faith in thy promises that though thou kill us we may trust in thee resolution in all good causes feare and reverence of thy glorious Majesty a groaning and daily mourning under our owne imperfections that ever we offended so good a God and so gracious a Father a good use making of all the afflictions and chastisements upon others And teach every one of us upon whom these dayes of our peace and prosperity and health are renewed who know not how soone we may be drawn to a reckoning to prepare our selves that whensoever thou shalt come neare us either by that generall or more particular judgements wee may be able to stand in the day of our visitation And because thou of thine infinite wisdome hast set apart the Ministery of thy Word to fit us for that time Lord blesse it at all times and at this time enable me that am to speake it the most unworthy of all the sonnes of Levi Lord cover all my sinnes and manifold imperfections in that mercy of thine that hath no measure and be pleased so to assist me by thy more particular helpe that I may deliver thy word boldly truly feelingly and sincerely Circumcise the hearts and eares of this people that they may heare attentively treasure it up in their hearts carefully and bring forth the fruit in their lives and conversations conscionably to thy glory and the assurance of their owne salvation in the day of Jesus Christ To whom with thee O Father and thy Blessed Spirit be ascribed as due is all honour and glory both now and for evermore Amen Evening Prayer before the Sermon O Lord our God great in Majesty and infinite in Power and in Jesus Christ our most mercifull and loving Father we poore and wretched sinners are here again by thy providence assembled in thy Sanctuary to be made partakers of the good of thy house But Lord what are we that we should tender any petition to thee unworthy we are to

was annoyed by them in bed and board And as I told you the last day the waters turned into bloud annoyed but some senses as the taste and the sight but these annoyed all They were ugly to the eye by their deformity to the eare by their croaking sound and to the smell they could not endure them They spoyled their taste they came among their victualls and for their feeling as I told you both Tostatus and others say they were such frogs as were poysonfull and would doe mischiefe such as our toads that we are afraid of From all this this being a greater judgement then the former observe this that Where God seeth not amendment he will make the second judgement greater then the former God doth not so punish but he can punish a man more Levit. 26.18 saith God I will yet punish you seven times more Vesichius upon the place saith It signifies that God would magnifie his power in laying the judgement more upon them In Psal 78.38 the people of God it is said angred him but he suffered not his whole displeasure to arise Psal 2. If his wrath be kindled but a little blessed are they that trust in him But if his whole displeasure arise and breake downe in wrath who shall stand Rev. 6. He can make his jealousie smoke and breake out in a flame and burne to the bottome of hell There are degrees of Gods wrath so in Psal 9.12 David prayes against the enemies of the Church that God would punish them seven fold more to lay more upon them There were a great many judgements upon Iob first he heard of his goods taken and then of his servants and then of his children all oppressed by the ruine of a house And was it not so with Elie how did the stood rise on him to a great height First he heares of the discomsiture of Gods people and then of the death of his children and then of the taking of the Arke which I know not whether it brake his heart or his necke soonest Can Nebuchadnezzar heat his oven seven times hotter then before and Rehoboam make his little finger heavier then his fathers loynes Shall those Lions that were so restrained be the more furious And cannot God greaten his plagues and inhance his judgements to the full he can adde still It is said by the Schooles of the damned in hell nothing can be added in the extention of time but for intention God could adde more but that all his wayes are in mercie Therefore if we be afflicted say not that it is too much that God hath laid upon us but wonder that it is no more Doe not say with Rebecha Why am I thus as if God had dealt unjustly Iob he in a passion said O that my griefe were weighed but in coole bloud he laid his hand upon his mouth He knew that God was just and true in all his wayes and holy in all his workes Doth thy head ake God could make thy heart ake Hast thou the tooth ake God could have afflicted thee with the strangurie or with a violent burning feaver that should have put thee to nothing but frenzie and madnesse This God could doe nay it is Gods mercy that we are not consumed therefore doe not wonder why it is so much Secondly ever beware of continuance in sinne One judgement had passed Pharaoh and now another is on him So all wicked sinners if they stand out and oppose God and will not bow God will increase their judgements more and more There are a great number in the world that thinke if they have escaped the stocks once and have got free from some disease they have a Supersedeas for a long time It is a vaine perswasion God deales gently he first gives a jerke or two the next time twice as many and if that will not doe the third time he sets it on to purpose God gives a sippe of the cup if that will not weane us from sinfull pleasures then God gives us a great draught and if that will not doe we shall sucke out the dregs Thou canst not conquer him hee will bow thee or breake thee Thinkest thou that because thou hast escaped one judgement God cannot bring another Oh what treasures of wrath hath God! Suppose now thou art freed from a disease and dost not make good use of that God can give thee up to spirituall mischiefe to adde one sinne to another Thou wouldest not thinke this a judgement it may be but it is the worst of all for when God gives up a man to run further into sin it is a pit that they fall in that hate God God is angry with such people out of all question And David had better have had the sword in his family then to have been given up from the committing of one sinne to another And the sin that the Israelites run into it was worse then the sword of Balaak You see in Rom. 1. when God would punish the heathen to the full He gave them up to their owne hearts lusts Againe if God give thee not up to this cannot God smite thee with horrour of soule with terrour of conscience those tempests of minde as Ierome calls them As one calls Christs sufferings those unknowne sufferings that none is able to relate but he that knew them O if God leave thee to dismayed thoughts and terrours and hellish cogitations that sometimes the soule hath what will become of thee But suppose God quit thee of this that thou come not into these brakes when thou offendest if thou come to eternall torment and God is able to doe that all the afflictions of this life are nothing in comparison of that they are shadowes that is the substance of all for extention of time The afflictions of this world are but things that passe too and againe and if it bee foule now and then it may be cleare againe but that judgement is a standing poole and a lake that continues firme and shall for ever when time shall be no more Therefore now judge whether it be good to fall into the hands of the living God He can smite thee with new plagues and diseases with new torments or else he can give thee up to a reprobate sense or else he can visit thee with horrour of conscience And if thou escape all these he can let thee go on in thy way till thou come to the place of torment when thou shalt curse the time that ever thou neglectedst the day of thy visitation Therefore now let me be Peters Cock to crow that if thou have forgotten thy salvation and thy God hitherto Now forsake thine iniquities and thy evill wayes or else looke for the improvement of judgements upon thee and the plagues that come after shall be greater then those that went before And no wonder if God heighten his plagues when men advance in their sins THE SIXTH SERMON Vpon EXOD. CHAP. 8. VERS 7.8 And the Magicians did so