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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12360	Ionah the messenger of Ninevehs repentance Set forth in his calling, rebellion, and punishment. By H.S.; Sixe sermons. Selections	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1637 (1637)	STC 22677.5; ESTC S112129	35,429	236

would cry but what God had commanded But what did God command him to cry even this Yet forty daies and Nineveh shall bee destroyed yea ancient Nineveh faire Nineveh proud Nineveh must bee destroyed No man sits so high but destruction sits above him Iustice would have come without crying but the mercifull God cryes to them that they hearing his cry might cry themselves and God hearing their cry againe tooke pitty on them Isaiah was commanded to cry Isa 40. 6 7. And Iohn was commanded in the spirit of Eliah to cry and Ionah was commanded to cry and he cryed And all Preachers are commanded to cry aloud and not to spare and to be faithfull in their message 1 Cor. 4. 4. and woe to them that love the pleasures of sinne more then the glory of God For their wickednesse is come up Wee have heard the charge given heavie newes Now the cause is Nineveh hath followed her lusts satisfied her desires forgotten Gods lawes let her therefore prepare for destruction When God sends cryes unto a people it is a manifest signe their wickednesse is come up before him And then if they will not repent while God continues crying amongst them the Lord of Hosts will rise up in armes against them Nineveh was as full of sinne as people prosperity and security kissed each other Nah. 2. 8. Is come up Sinne mounts up on high and carries us up as the Tempter did Christ to the top of a pinacle to behold all the pleasures of the world at once but a grievous thing it is to consider what a man is doing while hee sinnes and what sinne is doing at the barre of Gods just judgement for nothing can stay sinne once committed from ascending up before the face of the Eternall God An arrow is swift the Sun is swifter but sinne is swiftest of all for in a moment it is committed on earth comes before God and is condemned to hell For though Nimrod could not climbe to Heaven yet his sinnes flew up When wee sinne wee are like the shell-fish which the Eagle carries into the ayre le ts fall upon the rockes dasheth in peeces and so devours it So the wrath of God throwes us low upon the rockes of shame and contempt and terror of conscience and then the grave and hell that double death devoures us Is come before me By sinnes comming before God is meant Gods beholding and seeing it Wee fast as before him we pray as before him and doe every good duty as before him because wee doe it freely not caring who lookes upon us but we sinne as behind him as loath to bee seene and we suppose we sinne behind him as if he saw us not saying as Eliphaz accused Iob to have said Iob 2. 12 13 14. Is not God in the height of the heavens and see the highnesse of the Starres how high they are therefore how could God know it c. but then chiefly wee thinke God beholds us not when men cannot see us but be not deceived God seeth not as man seeth Man sees onely the outward act but God seeth the secretest imaginations of the heart Againe Man seeth but one thing at once and cannot see before and behind him with one looke but God seeth all things at all times for when wee speake evill hee is all eares to heare us when wee doe evill he is all eyes to see us Ananias might have gained by his craft if God had not seene his heart Acts 5. Gehezi might have profited by his lye and gained a bribe for his labour if God had not seene his fetches and turned his bribe into a Leprosie 2 King 5. The man that bad his soule bee merry might have injoyed his pleasure many yeares had not God espied his security Luke 12. Achan might have kept his gold had not God seene him Achan would never have stollen nor Gehezi taken bribes had they thought God beheld them will any steale the owner looking on will any speake treason the King hearing it Therefore marke but this part of my Sermon Say when thy hand is at a sinne I will not doe it because the Lord sees me And as hee is all eyes to see sinne and all hands to punish it so if wee repent hee is all mercy to forgive it Now therefore repent of thy sinne hye thee fast to the throne of Grace and try if thy repentance will not as powerfully cry for pardon as thy sinnes did vehemently cry for punishment The Angell cryed not so loud Babylon is fallen Revel 18. 2. as the Spirit of truth shall assure thee thy sinnes are forgiven thee Rom. 6. 14. Psal. 91. 10. 34. 10. 84. 11. Rom. 8. 28. Repent therefore and truly repent by flying all sinne with the occasion and appearances and love the truth and as much as is in you have peace with all men that the God of peace may give you peace in Christ All this is grounded on this that God seeth whatsoever we doe So Rev. 2. 2-9-13 and 3-1-8 I know thy workes is spoken to incourage the Sardians and Laod ceans to repentance knowing that God is a liberall rewarder of them that seeke him Heb. 11. 6. Is come before me Sinne once committed comes presently before God but the carnall hearted man like the faint Spies of Canaan thinkes the way to Heaven hard and the journey further then hee is able to goe all his life but when you send Faith Hope and Love those messengers of truth and peace they will tell you that your fashions pride love of the world and other sins must be put off as unbeseeming the fashion of that countrey so that ere we come thither wee must leave them like the shadow when we goe into the doore wee must shake hands with them and bid them farrewell THE REBELLION OF IONAH VER 3. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord and went downe to Joppa and he found a ship going to Tarshish So hee payed the fare thereof and went downe into it to goe with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. IT followes now to shew how Ionah discharged the charge given unto him First he neglected it afterwards being chastised and so repenting he faithfully discharged it First of his Rebellion First Ionah was sent to Nineveh to preach against their ungodlinesse to reclaime them that they might repent so the wrath of God be turned away how happy a message should this have beene that brought such blessed effects but still one flie or other spoyles the boxe of ointment Eccles 10. 1. Satan stands up and sends him instead of Nineveh to Tarshish meaning thereby First to put him out of Gods favour to bring upon him torment of conscience decay of gifts and disreputation among the people Secondly to harden the people in their sinnes and against Gods Prophets Thirdly that the most populous and wealthy Citty in Assyria might be destroyed all dying unrepentant

have pronounced this turne from their wickednesse I will repent of the plague that I thought to bring upō them Let us then O beloved of the Lord whosoever love the Lord Iesus be carefull to fulfill the condition and then confident not doubting of the performance of the promise by so much the more by how much the fewer we be and by how much the longer and clearer the Lord hath threatned most terrible judgements Now for the terror of the ungodly as many of them as repent onely when Gods hand is upon them and then humble themselves outwardly onely and that but onely when the fiercenesse of his wrath appeareth or else after they have escaped the feared judgement fall to their wonted wickednesse againe let them bee sure the strong and just God that consumed Nineveh slidden backe will overtake them also in wrath and for ever turne them over to ceaselesse woe For the greatnesse the beauty the strength and riches of Nineveh could not withstand the hand of God or keepe it from destruction but rather furthered and hastened it For with the more excellent ornaments that it was adorned by the Lord the more hainous and grievous in his sight was the abuse of them Therfore the hugenesse or the strength of this or any other Cittie cannot save it from the judgement of God being sinnefull in his sight Great Sodome is destroyed Gen. 19. great Iericho is destroyed Iosh 6. great Nineveh is destroyed great Ierusalem is destroyed 1 King 24. 25. and great Rome Rev. 18. 2. the roome of all uncleane spirits stayeth for her destruction like a whore that stayeth for her punishment till shee bee delivered and these were and shall bee punished for unthankfullnesse and contempt of the Word of God Yet Nineveh Iericho Sodome nor Rome have had halfe the Preaching that we have had yet we are unthankfull too then what have wee to looke for but when Sodome was burned Zoar stood safe Gen. 19. 21. when Ierusalem was destroyed Bethlehem stood still Ier. 41. 17. So the Lord doth alwaies provide for his people though he make never so great a slaughter and destruction amongst his enemies For the Lord because of his covenant doth alwaies provide for his chosen although they be but a remnant like the gleaning after harvest or like a cluster of Grapes on the top of the vine after the vintage and though there be never so great calamity or ttouble as wee see in the Booke of Gen. 45. Chap. when there was a great time of dearth and scarcity to come upon the land where Iacob was the Lord had sent Ioseph to provide for his Father Iacob lest hee should want bread hee or any of his sonnes and folkes and so ordered the matter that Ioseph was Treasurer over all the Corne in Aegypt And so among the Turkes and Spaniards and Infidels the Lord will finde meanes to do them good which unfainedly love him and in the dungeon in prison and in bonds yea and in death the godly shall finde GOD. FINIS Morning Prayer O Eternall God and mercifull Father which art the light that no man can attaine unto and yet by thy marvailous lightnesse drivest away the darknesse of the night and shaddow of death and by thy grace enlightnest all those that being in darknesse come unto thee I thy unworthy servant doe blesse and praise thy most holy Name for all the mercies and gracious benefits that from time to time I have received from thee and most humbly thanke thee that thou hast vouchsafed me this favour to passe this night in so quiet and comfortable rest and hast brought me againe to see and enjoy the light of the Morning And now I beseech thee O Lord of thy infinite goodnesse and mercy by the merits of my blessed Saviour that thy mercifull compassion may this day be extended to me that being enlightened with thy grace I may not be carried away by the power of darkenesse to spend this day after the lust and pleasures of my owne corrupt mind but that I may with all care and conscience follow thy Fatherly will which thou hast revealed unto me in thy holy Word Increase in me O Lord all spirituall gifts and graces and beat downe in mee all carnall and corrupt affections enable me by thy blessed Spirit in some measure both to withstand that which is evill and to performe what is good and pleasing unto thee and that neither by my owne negligence nor the power of any temptation which either the World the Flesh or the Divell shall present unto mee I bee driven away from a true faith but may lay hold of those gracious promises that thou hast made unto mee in Jesus Christ my Saviour Disperse O Lord the thicke mists and clouds of my sinnes which corrupt my soule and darken my understanding and wash them away I most humbly beseech thee in the precious bloud of thy Sonnes Passion that so I may be acknowledged for one of thine Elect when I shall appeare before thy Iudgement seate Give mee a will carefully to follow my vocation and let thy blessing bee upon me in the same blesse me in my body in my soule and in whatsoever belongs unto mee lighten my minde and inflame my heart with a love of those things that are good and as my body by thy power is risen from sleepe so my soule may daily be raised from the slumber of sinne and the darknesse of this world and so both together may enjoy that everlasting light which thou hast provided for thy Saints and purchased with the bloud of thy deare Sonne our Saviour Iesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the blessed Spirit be all honour and glory for evermore Amen Evening Prayer O Almighty and everlasting God the Father of mercy and God of all consolation that by thy mercifull Providence defendest all those that walke before thee and put their trust in thee I poore and miserable sinner unworthy of the least of thy favours doe yet presume in the name and mediation of Iesus Christ to present my selfe before thee and to offer up this poore sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving unto thee that thou hast nourished and preserved me by thy power and hast guided and governed me by thy Word and Spirit and as for all other thy blessings so for that mercy that hath this day accompanied me whereby I have both beene preserved from many sinnes that the wickednesse of my nature was inclined unto and also delivered from many punishments that the sinnes that I have committed have deserved I most humbly beseech thee in the merits of Christ Iesus to pardon and forgive mee all my sinnes which eith●● in thought word or deed I have this day or any time heretofore committed against thee whether they be the sins of my youth or of my age the sinnes of omission or commission whether wittingly or ignorantly committed good Lord pardon them unto me and let them not cause thee this night as justly thou maist doe to take vengeance of me but bee mercifull unto mee O Lord in forgiving the evill I have committed in supplying the good that I have omitted in restoring mee to that which I have lost in healing my sores in lightning my blindnesse in clensing my filthinesse and in altering the whole course of my corrupt minde that I may bee delivered from that which is evill and enabled to performe that which is agreeable to thy blessed Will and Word And Lord as thou hast this day preserved and kept mee in safety so I most humbly beseech thee to protect mee this night from all danger both bodily and ghostly and to give mee such quiet and comfortable rest as may enable mee to walke on in that vocation wherein thou hast placed me and that I may both bee delivered from the darkenesse of this present night and may also escape that everlasting darkenesse which thou hast provided for those that without Repentance continue in their sinnes from which good Lord deliver me and all those that belong unto thee and that for the merits of the death and passion of my blessed Saviour Iesus Christ in whose Name I continue my prayers for my selfe and thy whole Church saying as he hath taught us Our Father c. O Lord prepare our hearts to Prayer O Lord God our heavenly Father wee thy poore and wretched creatures give thee most humble and hearty thankes for our quiet and safe sleepe and for raising us up from the same We beseech thee for Jesus Christs sake to prosper us this day in our labour and travell that it may be to the discharging of our duty in our vocations principally to thy glory next to the profit of this Church and Common-weale and last of all to the benefit and content of our Masters Grant deare Father that wee may cheerefully and conscionably doe our businesse and labours not as men-pleasers but as serving thee our God knowing thee to bee the chiefe Master of us and that thou seest and beholdest us with thy Fatherly eyes who hast promised reward to them that faithfully and truely walke in their vocation and threatned everlasting death and damnation to them that deceitfully and wickedly doe their workes and labours Wee beseech thee O heavenly Father to give us the strength of thy Spirit that godly and gladly wee may overcome our labours and that the tediousnesse of that irkesome labour which thou for our sinnes hast powred upon all mankinde may seeme to us more delectable and sweet Fulfill now O Lord these our requests for thy Sonne our Saviours sake in whose Name wee pray as he himselfe hath taught us Our Father which art in Heaven c. FINIS Obs Obs Obs Obs Obs Obs Jonah 4. 1 Obs Mat. 7 3. Obs Obs