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A88808	Three sermons viz. Davids tears for his rebellious son Absalom, Israels tears for Abners fall by bloudy Joab, infants tears for Athaliahs treason, / preached by S.L. a true lover of the church, his king, and country, in his country-cure.	S. L.; T. L.	1660 (1660)	Wing L66; Thomason E2129_2; ESTC R210253	75,004	185

over his Chamber door now after a little time some discontented people hired a rude lewd fellow to stab the King and going about his work with a heart full of mischief and reading this superscription his countenance changed and falls trembling and shaking as if he had an ague fit the which being perceived and he examined confessed the whole matter and what diverted him from it Even so if men would but seriously consider that with what measure they mete shall be measured to them again or that nothing surer than their sins would find them out or that the end of sin and wages of sin is death Rom 6. 23. How would this Meditation stop the current of their vile affections and divert them from sinning It was an excellent Speech of one Cave quid agis te videt Deus Beware what thou doest for God seeth thee and all things are naked and open to his eyes with whom thou hast to do saith Paul Heb. 4. 13. and Homer speaking of a Frog and a Mouse who having a sharp contestation and bitter Skirmish the party grieved tells the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God had a revenging eye to right him even so if men would but remember whatsoever they are about or doing God looked upon them and had a revenging eye to requite it in the same measure and nature it would stifle all treason against heaven and earth Vse 3. This may teach us that seeing with what measure we mete shall be measured to us again to walk circumspectly and warily not as fools but as wise Eph. 5. 115. the Law of God and nature should be our rule to square our lives and all our actions by and that is Quod tibi non vis alteri non feceris to do as we would be done unto Matth. 7. 12. and saith Paul Gal. 6. 16. To as many as walk according to this rule peace shall be upon them and mercy as upon the true Israel of God Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap Gal. 6. 7. He that soweth righteousness shall receive a good and sure reward Prov. 11. 18. But he that soweth iniquiry shall reap affliction and the rod of his anger shall fail chap. 22. 8. God hath a twofold measure 1. Either a measure of glory and that is for those that abound in the works of the Lord 1 Cor. 15. 58. 2ly A measure of wrath and sorrow and that is for those that plough iniquity and sow wickedness Job 4. 8. and with this measure did God mete Athaliah Doct. 3. Is Qualis vita finis ita As we live so commonly we die as we speak in another kind Mali principii malns exitus an ill beginning hath an ill end even so an ungodly life is accompanied usually with a sad death Look upon Haman behold Judas cast an eye upon Julian the grand Apostate who died cursing and banning crying out in defiance of Christ Vicisti Galilaeo O thou Galilean thou hast conquered and overcome me Turn over the Chronicle of Athaliah and thou shalt find that as she s●ank living in the nostrils of the people for her idolatry pride usurping of anothers Crown blood-thirstinesse so in her death she was abhorred by all and had not power to cry out with Peter Lord save me or with the Publican God be mercifull to me a sinner The Husbandman can tell us that which way the tree leaneth that way it will fall if it be not prevented by art and I have often observed in visiting the sick that as the Proverb is quod in corde sobrii id in lingua ebrii what lies close hid in the heart of a sober man is revealed by his tongue when he is drunk even so as men lean and are affected living so their hearts and tongues run of it dying and what hopes can there be that they who had not God in all their thoughts Psal 10. 4. when they were in health should go to God when they are dead Vse As the tree standeth so it falleth and saith Solomon Eccl. 11. 3. As the tree doth fall so in the place that the tree falleth there it shall lie So that this doth much concern us to denie ungodlinesse and worldly lust and to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and appearing of that glory of that mighty God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ Tit. 2. 12 13. labouring to fall to the South of his mercy and not to the North of his Justice Death is not so fearfull and terrible in it self as is the sting of it which is sin 1 Cor. 15. 56. And therefore let it be our care to be every day weakning and puling out this serpents sting that we may with old Simeon depart in peace Luke 2. 29. And blessed shall be the dead that die in the Lord for their works follow them Rev. 14. 13. Thus ye have heard 1. what Athaliab was 2ly What her Treason and 3ly what her end was She rent her clothes and cryed Treason Treason and was slain by the way which the horses go to the Kings house FINIS A Prayer for the Morning O Thou mighty Almighty Creator and Preserver of men We thy poor Creatures protected this night from Fire Sword Sicknesse Death and those manifold evils that might have befallen us and overtaken us by reason of the multitude of our sins for man suffers for his sins cannot but ascribe all praise with the Samaritan Leper due unto thy holy name for this unspeakable mercy of thine towards us miserable sinners unworthy to tast of the least drop much lesse that Ocean of thy love daily streaming and flowing home to our doors to the great comfort of our souls For what is man that thou art mindfull of him or the Son of man that thou shouldest regard him there is nothing in man but deserves open shame and confusision of face continually Wherefore we deny our selves and all our own unrighteousness as filthy clouts and menstruous rags and flee unto thee in thy Christ that in him by him and through him both now and ever we may be acceptable in thy sight O Lord our strength and our Redeemer And as thy mercies have been great towards us this night past so we beseech thee to continue the same mercy unto us this day and so to the end of our dayes Defend us from our Ghostly and bodily enemies Shield us with thy grace that we fall not this day into any manner of evil of sin that we may never grieve thy good Spirit any more by sin and so prevent another day the evil of punishment for sin Direct us in thy mercie in our going out and coming in that whatsoever we shall take in hand it may prosper like Joseph O prosper thou our handie work upon us Instruct us in the heavenly wisdome that above all things we may be wise unto the salvation of our poor souls And teach us with the night past to cast away

If thou have received it why rejoycest thou as if thou hadst not received it These are like Theudas Acts 5. 36. boasters of themselves to be some body when they are as empty Casks full of nothing but air 4ly Despis●rs of others like the Pharisee of the Publican Luke 18. 1. and of all or most of these Paul prophesied 2 Tim. 3. 1 2. In the last dayes shall come perillous times for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud high minded c. and a haughty eye and heart is one of the six things the Lords soul abhorreth Satan is a cunning Fisher-man and hath of all sorts of nets to catch the sons of men If he cannot catch one man with pleasure he will catch him with covetousnes If he cannot catch another with covetousnesse he will catch him with wine and strong drink If he cannot catch another with wine and strong drink he wil catch him w th carnal pride If he cannot catch him with carnal pride he will catch him with spiritual pride and then he is ready for a fall and a dangerous fall For God resists the proud Iam. 4. 6. and proud in heart are an abomination to the Lord and shall not be unpunished Prov. 16. 5. Vse 1. Here is matter of humiliation for what is there in man that he should be proud of 1. If we consider him in his first Principles then as the Prophet David said he was framed in imis terrae partibus in the obscure closet of nature and the Centre of the earth Psal 139. 15. 2ly For his Conception the Anatomist tells us he is conceived in the foul Chanel of nature 3ly For his Pedegree and goodly Parentage which our Gallants so much brag and boast of Iob tells us chap. 17. 14. Corruption is our father and the worm our mother and sister 4ly If we consider the feature of his body Calvin tells us he is sex pedum vermiculus a very vermine a Sink of unclean●sse 5ly For his fair face a painted wall which every storm of sickness defaceth and deformeth and in this sense saith Solomon Prov. 31. 30. Favour is deceitful and beauty is vanity 6ly For his dainty diet the Psalmist tels us 102. 9. That ashes be as his bread and tears his drink 7ly For his costly lodging and that is said to be in myerie clay and in an earthly house 2 Cor. 5. 1. 8ly For his reputation the Apostle tells us that he is the scum and off-scouring of all things 1 Cor. 4. 13. 9ly For his desert and merit Daniel tells us chap. 9. 7. it is but shame and confusion of face 10ly For his substance it is but dust and grass 1 Pet. 1. 24. 11ly For his glory Isay tells us ch 46. 6. It is but as the flower of the field Now lay all these together Et quid superbis terra et cinis poor creature what matter canst thou pick or cull or glean for thy pride or may not these several confiderations afford thee store of matter to humble thee and to teach thee to walk humbly before thy God and man and this is that the Lord requireth of us all as the Prophet tells us Micah 6. 8. 2ly Here is matter of Humiliation for us in respect of spiritual gifts for God alloweth no kinde of pride in man If God hath been more prodigal and liberal to thee than others this ought not to be a means to exalt thee above them or to despise them but to binde thee to the more obedience and thankfullness unto him for saith Christ Luk. 12. 48. where much is given much shall be required as the good man looked for more encrease and better improvement from him that had five Talents than from him that had but two Mat. 25. 15 3ly Here is matter of humiliation for a proud man in respect of his end As the poor man and the rich came the same way into the world so both go the same way out and then after a while turn over their ashes and the wisest of men cannot distinguish them what are the bones of the greatest Potentates better then than the meanest beggers lying in the grave Vse 2. Is for information that pride was mans undoing sin It was the first sin that ever was in the world and it will be the last that shall be destroyed in us And when from such a bitter root shall branch all kindes of wickedness we may conceive it to be a deadly sin 2ly When other sins begin to die then secret pride gets strength in us Ex remediis generat morbos even vertue is the matter of this vice in such sort that a man will be proud that he is not proud and therefore it concerns us to be very watchfull over our own hearts that it get no footing in us or if it hath broke in at our doors like a thief not to rest till we have purged our hearts of this uncleanesse and enemy 3ly That howsoever all sin may be said to be in the Devil secundum reatum yet only pride and envy is in him secundum affectum he is guilty of all sin as tempting men to every sin but pride is his own proper fault his darling his Rimmon and as Bernard speaks his character so that necessarily must it follow that proud men bear his stamp his image and do patrizare resemble their father the Devil Vse 3. Is for reproof It was the Speech of one I never saw a wise man proud nor a proud man wise and Verus est hic sermo It is a true saying for 1. A true wise man is an humble minded man and he walks safely in the vallies when he that climbs up to the tops of the mountains is subject to falling 2ly A proud man cannot be wise because he hath not learned to know God nor himself which is the beginning and middle and end of wisdome He knows not God that can abase him and he knows not himself how soon he may be humbled and of what brittle metal he is made of nor sordid so well ●s the meanest Obj. 2. Harm watch harm catch with what measure m●n ●ete shall be measured to them again ●●i●h Ch●ist Matth. 7. 2. Lex Talionis is Gods Law Exod. 21. 24 25. Eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand wound forwound and this is made good in Athaliah her measure was blood and she is repaid in blood that she might speak with Adonibezek Judg 17. As I have done the Lord hath rewarded me As without mercy I spared not innocents so was I not spared by my people although I entreated them as Job speaks of his wife chap. 19. 17. Babylen was merciless and cruell and therefore a proportionable punishment is proclaimed against her Rev. 18. 6. Reward her as she hath rewarded thine and saith Paul 2 Cor. 5. 10. Every man shall receive according to his works not only ad aequalitatem sed ●u●litatem for equality but quality And thus it

great Leviathan Our friends to help us are like Jobs miserable comforters our footing on this sea of glasse very slipperie but when all our other trust is but as a spiders web this is our comfort in our afflictions that although our father and mother and all the world forsake us yet the Lord will then gather us up and will not leave us comfortless Wherefore in all humble acknowledgement of all thankfulness due unto thee vve offer up unto thee our selves our souls and bodies a quick and living sacrifice that the God in whom we live move have our being may be glorified in and by our being This is our day therfore it is our duty whilst it is called to day to seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him whilst he is near This is our day wherein we are to work and so let it be our sole wisdome to work out our salvation lest the night come and overtake us when no man can work This is our day and how ill doth it become us to trewant and loiter it away like those that stood idle in the market place or to riot it and revelling it eating and drinking and cursing Abimelech lest we be in hell to morrow yelling and howling and roring with Dives Devils and damned ones Let the Sun which cometh as a Bridegroom out of his chamber and rejoiceth to run his race Ever teach us to be active in spiritual duties and heavenlie exercises Let the Sun which encreaseth from glorie to glorie teach us to encrease in vertue goodnesse and godlinesse adding to vertue knowledge to knowledge temperance to temperance patience to patience brotherlie kindnesse and so one grace to another that we may be complete Christians like unto our head and Lord and Master Let the morning instruct us to remember our Creator in the daies of our youth Let the Noon tutour us to be strong in the faith Let the Evening admonish us to think of the end of our life and shutting in of our daies Let all teach us so to number our daies that we may applie our hearts unto wisdome Let a waterie daie ever mind us of the sorrows afflictions and troubles attend us in this life Let a pleasant day mind us of the pleasures to come when these are faded and forgotten Let a short daie mind us of the shortnesse of this life which is but as a span long and swifter than a Weavers Shuttle Let a long daie mind us of Eternitie of life either in blisse or bane and so read us a continual Lecture to labour for that meat which endures unto everlasting life and not after that bread which perisheth with us the which that we may do the Lord grant unto us for the Lord Jesus Christs sake our blessed Saviour and redeemer Amen A Prayer for the Evening I Will lay me down and also sleep in peace for thou Lord makest me dwell in safety saith David Now good God grant that as we lie down in thy love so we may rise by thy power and glorifie thee for thy mercy O most gracious God and in thy son Jesus Christ our loving Father we miserable sinners dust and ashes worms and not men do prostrate our selves before the footstool of thy Throne of grace beseeching thee that seeing thou hast made the night for man to rest so well as the day for him to labour so that thou wouldest be pleased to blesse us this night and keep us from fire sword sicknesse death and those manifold evils may befall us and overtake us by reason of our manifold sins and wickednesses Thou art about their beds and givest thy Angels charge over them that seek unto thee for succour thou knowest their down-lying and uprising and art near unto those that call upon thee in truth and syncerity of heart wherefore graciously good God spread thou the wings of thy loving kendnesse and favour over us this night and let not this house be as a tomb and Sepulchre erected over our heads let not our beds be as our graves our blankets as the mold of the earth and our sheefs as our winding-sheets but let them all serve to minister comfort and refreshment to our wearied bodies and senses that the day following we may be the better enabled to set forth thy praise and thy glorie Let not our sleep be insatiable according to the desires of the flesh but onely so as that it may revive our dull and heavy drooping spirits and make them active in thy service and in the works of our calling Teach us by our unclothing and uncovering of our selves and casting away our garments from us continually to think of casting away every weight and casting off that old man which is corrupt through his deceivable works Teach us by our nakednesse when our garments are from us continually to think of harmlesnesse and innocency of life endevouring our selves daily to live void of offence towards God and towards man Teach us by going out of our warm clothes into our cold beds continually to think on a change of life how that we shall one day leave this sinfull world and passe into another there to receive according to our several works Teach us by our sleep continuallie to think on death and by our waking from sleep again continually to think of resurrection of life how that we shall one day wake and rise out of the dust of the earth and behold our God not with other but with these same eyes O let everie thing be our instruction to shew us the right way to heaven and everlasting blisse Father blesse us bodily yea and blesse us spiritually give unto our bodies a happie rest in Christ Jesus whensoever as we know not how soon thou maiest call them out of this sinful world and say unto our souls that he was the redemption thereof and paid the ransom of them with his dearest blood that under the shadow of his wings we may flie to thy heavenly Sanctuary Father bless us inwardlie and blesse us outwardly blesse us inwardly with all these graces which are fit and needfull for our several places conditions and callings and blesse us outwardlie with all those things we want and stand in need of as health strength ease wealth blesse us likewise in everie thing belongs unto us that they yielding forth their strength and encrease unto us we may yield forth unto thee our God the strength of our obedience praise and thanksgiving O father thou art great and therefore to be feared thou art good and therefore to be praised according therefore to thy greatnesse and according to thy goodnesse be thy praise and we entreat thee to continue this thy loving kindnesse to us unto our lives end and to life eternal And that we may obtain this mercy we beseech thee to give us grace to walk worthie of thy mercies that we may find and feel the fruits of thy favour budding in our souls O give us grace that