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A87874	A sermon preached at the publique fast the ninth of Feb. in St Maries Oxford, before the great assembly of the members of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled: and published by their speciall command.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1167; Thomason E36_4; ESTC R12873	25,682	45

and the Lord God of Recompences by our Prophet cap. 51.56 and Nahum 1.2 he is called a jealous furious and revenging God If God be an avenger then let us remember what the Apostle saith It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10 31. His wrath is a consuming fire before which when it is kindled the wicked shall be consumed as stubble before the fire when God commeth to revenge they shall cry unto the Mountaines to fall upon them and cover them from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne We shall therefore doe well to advise with Our selves now how we shall doe to beare that wrath we should now pose our selves with that question of the Prophet who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire who among us shall dwell with the everlasting burnings If Gods wrath be in supportable then should we labour in time to prevent it And the only way to prevent it is now to revenge upon our selves for the sinnes we have committed for revenge is a part of Repentance as is excellently expressed by the Apostle 2 Corin 7.11 Behold the selfe same thing that yee sorrowed after a godly sort what carefulnesse it wrought in you yea what clearing of your selves yea what indignation yea what feare yea what vehement desire yea what zeale yea what revenge But how shall we revenge upon our selves even by mortifying our sinfull lusts and corruptions beating downe this body of sin afflicting our soules by fasting and abstinence we must not onely take from our flesh all sinfull pleasures and delights but also restraine our selves of the use of lawfull pleasures of meat and drinke Et abstine at à licitis quia illicita concupivit This is that worke where unto we are now called and whereof this day we make a profession If we doe truly humble our selves and afflict our soules we shall not be judged of the Lord otherwise Gods vengeance is neer at hand So it followeth in the fift place That grievous sins procure a speedy vengeance such as God in his will doth earnestly affect and in his worke doth readily effect for his soule is set upon revenge shall not my soule be avenged God is not as man consisting of soule and body yet the Scripture speaking of God after the manner of man ascribes unto him not only bodily members as eyes eares hands but even a soule also Gods Soule is here mentioned to expresse the earnestnesse of his desire As in other places when God is brought in saying My soule hateth this my soule abhorreth that it is to expresse a great and a vehement detestation so here when God saith my soule shall be avenged he will expresse a vehement desire He will have his people to conceive that by their sinnes they had grieved him as we say at the very heart that is offended him exceedingly and that he will ease his heart by executing vengeance upon them as he threatneth Isa 1.24 Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries I will avenge me of mine enemies Therefore let us take heed of grieving Gods soule if his soule be grieved his soule will be avenged It is a dangerous thing to grieve men especially if they be powerfull how much more dangerous is it to grieve the great God of heaven and earth as is expressed Isa 7.13 It is small thing for you to weary men but will you weary my God also Remember therefore the Apostles admonition Ephes 4.30 Grieve not the holy spirit of God whereby you are sealed Or if we have grieved him by our sinnes the next best is that we be grieved with our selves for all our abominations That is the only way to keepe back Gods vengeance both from our selves and from the Nation For that is the sixt conclusion arising from this Text Grievous sins bring a vengeance not only upon particular persons but also upon the whole Nation Shall not my soule be avenged on such a Nation As God in Scripture accuseth particular persons for sinne so he chargeth whole Nations Kingdomes and Cities Iudah is a sinfull Nation a people laden with iniquity Isa 1.4 Gilead is a City of them that worke iniquity and is polluted with bloud Hos 6.8 and in the fourth Chapter of that Prophecy at the first verse the Lord takes up a complaint against the whole Land The Lord hath a controversie with the inhabitants of the Land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the Land c. The Apostle Peter taxeth the age with corruption Acts 2.40 Save your selves from this untoward generation And Saint Iohn saith The whole World lyeth in wickednesse 1. Joh. 5.19 And as the Nation is defiled with sinne so we finde that Gods judgements are generall upon the whole Nation when the Earth was filled with cruelty and all flesh corrupted his way then God sent the floud upon the old World the whole Cities of Sodome were overthrowen God ten plagues were upon the Land of Aegypt so that from Pharaoh that sate upon the Throne unto the She pheards that followed the Ewes there were none free from the annoyance of those plagues the seven Nations of the Canaanites were cast out when their iniquities were full Gods wrath was upon all the Camp of Israel in the wildernesse In the Prophets you will often finde Judgements threatned against the whole Nation Jsa 1.7 Your Countrey is desolate your Cities are burnt with fire your Land strangers devoure in your presence Isai 60.12 The Nation and Kingdome that will not serve thee shall perish Hos 4.3 Therefore shall the Land mourne and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the foules of Heaven yea the fishes of the Sea also shall be taken away Hos 13.16 Samaria shall become desolate for she hath Rebelled against her God they shall fall by the sword their Infants shall be dashed in pieces and their women with child shall be ript up And as he threatned so he executed his judgements upon the Nation First the Kingdome of Samaria was so utterly destroyed that it ceased to be a Nation any more a little after the Kingdome of Judah was carried away captive unto Babel and albeit God was pleased to bring back againe their captivity yet it was a very small remnant as saith the Prophet Isai 1.9 Except the Lord of Hosts had left unto us a very small remnant wee should have beene as Sodome and wee should have beene like unto Gomorrah So God dealt with other Nations Zeph. 3.6 J have cut off the Nations their Townes are desolate I made their Streets waste that none passeth by their Cities are destroyed so that there is no man that there is none inhabitant Even Babylon the hammer of the Earth became heapes Jerem. 51.37 An habitation of Owles Satyres dancing and Dragons crying within her palaces Isa 13.21 So we know God will doe unto mysticall Babylon when her sins have