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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04605	Londons looking backe to Ierusalem, or, Gods iudgements vpon others, are to be obserued by vs	Jones, John, minister at St. Michael Basenshaw, London.	1633 (1633)	STC 14722; ESTC S119135	33,692	66

LONDONS LOOKING BACKE TO IERVSALEM OR GODS IVDGEMENTS VPON OTHERS ARE TO BE OBSERVED BY VS Jeremiah 44.2.3 vers 1. Thus saith the Lord of Hostes the God of Israël Yee have seene all the evill that I have brought upon Ierusalem and upon all the Cities of Iudah and behold this day they are desolate and no man dwelleth therein 2. Because of the wickednes which they have committed to provoke me to anger c. August 7. 1630. Preached at Pauls Crosse by IOHN IONES Mr. of Arts Curate and Lecturer at S. Michaels Basenshaw LONDON Printed by WILLIAM IONES dwelling in Red-crosse-streete 1633. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR NICOLAS RAYNTON KNIGHT LORD MAIOR of the Citie of LONDON Together with the Right Worshipfull his brethren the Sheriffes and Aldermen of the same Citty W. I. desireth all blessings spirituall and temporall to be powred upon you in this life and eternall blessednesse in the life to come RIGHT Honorable And Right worshipfull I am bould to present unto you this Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse because the Authour had so intended after that the importunity of some Christian friends had prevailed with him to have it published which Sermon is intituled Londons looking back to Ierusalem according as God send Ierusalē to looke to Shilo what he did unto it for the wickednes that was in it which was his text handled And what the sinnes of Ierusalem were this sermon doth plainely discover as pride fulnes of bread idlnes contempt of Gods Ordinances and ministery And hereby we may be admonished of that generall outward formality in Religion but where is the life and power in a holy walking with God where is the earnest contending for the faith once given unto the Saints God hath advanced your Honour to this place of dignity stand fast to that charge which God and his Maiestie hath put into your hands to cut off the cords of all prophanesses and Sabbath breaking c. And the Lord make you zealous for his glory to stand fast in that liberty wherein Christ hath sett you free Receive this Right Honorable and Right Worshipfull as a testimony of his for your loues to Gods Church in maintaining so many Preachers at home and abroad which drawes the great blessing of God upon you and the Cittie for the same as it was his speech on his death bed receive it Right Honorable and Right worshipfull Company of Haberdashers from whom he received some yearely stipend while he lived his Lectureship being but smale Reade it Right Honorable and Right worshipfull and the Lord writ it in the tables of every one of your hearts that you may avoid the iudgements of the wicked and inioy the blessings prepared for the righteous that for the Lord Iesus Christ his sake to whom be given all honor and glory now and for evermore Amen Your Honours and Worships daily Orator WILL. IONES This Psalme CXiX The sixt part he gave to be sung before his Sermon 41 THy mercyes great and manifolde let me obtaine O Lord Thy saving health let me enioy according to thy word So shall I stop the slanderous mouthes of lewd men and uniust For in thy faithfull promises standes my comfort and trust The word of truth within my mouth let ever still be prest For in thy judgementes wonderfull my hope doth stand and rest And whilst that breath within my breast doth naturall life preserue Yea till this world shall be dessolude thy lawes will I obserue So walke will I as set at large and made free from all dread Because I sought how for to keepe thy preceptes and thy reede Thy noble acts I will describe as things of most great fame Even before Kings I will them blase and shrinke no whit for shame I will reioyce then to obey thy worthy hestes and will Which evermore I have loved best and so will love them still My hands will I lift to thy lawes which I have dearely sought And practise thy commandements in will in deed and thought Master Iones his Prayer before his Sermon MOst great and glorious Lord God who by thy Almighty power hast created the Heaven and the Earth and by thy unsearchable wisdome governest and guidest the same we vile and base wretches that have defiled the Heavens by our sinnes and cursed the earth by our transgressions doe prostrate our selves in all humility before the throne of thy Divine Majesty beseeching thee to looke upon us not in justice but in mercy not as we are in our selves but in the face and coūtenance of thy Sonne Iesus Christ In our selves we are altogether unworthy to come into thy holy presence to tread upon holy ground or to meddle with holy things This day is holy set apart by thine owne selfe for thine owne holy worship this place is holy it is thy owne sanctuary thy ordinances are holy the service in which we are imployed is a holy service But we are most vnholy impure in our very beginnings impure in our proceedings all over polluted with sinne in all the faculties of our soules in all the members of our bodies in the notions imaginations of our minds in the motions inclinations of our wils in the affectiōs and desires of our hearts in the words of our mouthes in the workes of our handes wee are poore and wretched and blinde and naked high-minded vaine-minded worldly-minded false-hearted full of hypocrisie full of security full of infidelity wanting in charity wanting in knowledge in zeale intemperance in patience deficient in all grace abundant in all sinne wee have sinned against all the meanes of grace thy word thy Sacraments thy Sabbaths thy Christ thy Spirit we have sinned against all the times of grace we have sinned in the times of our childhood in the times of our youth and our riper yeares not onely in the times of ignorance but since wee have knowne thy will not onely through infirmity but presumptuously we have sinned against all thy attributes we have abused thy patience provoked thy anger we have sinned against thy Iudgements which should have enforced us to obedience against thy mercies which should haue allured us and led us to repentance wee haue sinned against all thy creatures against heaven and against earth against all thy workes against the worke of creation by defacing thy Image against the worke of thy preseruation by distrusting thy prouidence against the worke of redemption by our infidelity against thy law which is the rule of righteousnes against the Gospell of grace and saluation against our vow made unto thee in our baptisme we haue broken the first vow that ever we made and never since haue beene faithfull in our promises unto thee against our owne purposes and promises made unto thee in our prayers and that before our calling and since our calling in our generall calling and in our particuler callings we haue failed and sinned since it hath pleased thee of thy free mercy to translate us out of

if hee would doe his best many disorders might be repressed The unhappy Cynicke Diogenes when he saw the boy play the idle packe went and beat his master So when we see the forenamed sinnes fly about as fiery serpents we must blame the Magistrate and say with the Prophet Psal 58.1 Is it true do yee judge the thing that is right and execute with an upright hart Do not our lawes strike at many disorders that are common amōgst us Have we no law against rash swearing God bee thanked we have but wher 's the execution Have we no law against Sabbath breaking yes against that too Yet is it openly prophaned The reformation of these two to omit many others I would commend to this Honorable Bench but that mee thinkes I heare my friends telling me what Sadolet said to Erasmus Erasmus would proove that worshipping of images might well be abolished I grant quoth Sadolet thy opinion is good but this should not be handled because it will not bee granted Sir Francis Bacon Apotheg 29. When Lycurgus was to reforme and alter the state of Sparta in the consultation one advised that it should be reduced to an absolute popular equality But Lycurgus said to him Sir begin it in your owne house If the Magistrate would begin to reforme things amisse in his owne house there were hope of amendement It is not my practise to scan Magistrates nor to rake into their actions but this I have heard from some of your owne Bench that by reason of your solemne meetings and feastings this day at the house of the Magistrate the day is scarcely so well sanctified there as it ought to be I know not whether it be so or not let them looke to it whom it doth concerne Howsoever the counsell of a reverend Bishop of our Church Babington on exod c. 1● in such a case is not to be misliked So ought we to dresse meate upon holy dayes that ever we have a care of the salvation of them that dresse it who being created and redeemed as we our selves be ought not so evermore to be kept at this service as that never they may heare the word receive the Sacrament and praise God in the cōgregation with his people For that should bee to eate the flesh of them and to drinke the blood of them most cruelly yea to bury them in our bellies 2 Sam. 23.16 and for our bodies to destroy their souls for ever Rather remember Davids refusall to drinke the water that was bought so deare and provide so that the one being done the other may not be left undone I know well that Magistrats are called Gods because they represent his Majesty and magnificence on earth in which respect much is to be granted them but yet by your leave such should remember that the neerer they are to heaven in greatnesse the neerer they should be unto it in goodnesse that as God hath honored them so they should honor him I take not upon me to prescribe in this case yet me thinkes some other day as well as this might serve the turne for solemne feasts if custome were not more prevalent than conscience * Magis nos docere debet judicium veritatis quā prae ● iudicium consuetudinis Aug. in psal 105 Therefore among your manifold consultations I beseech you to thinke upon the redresse of this and withall of the publicque and grosse prophanation of this day But I must crave pardon for I feare that through prolixity I have transgressed whilst the zeale of Gods glory hath inlarged my discourse against the transgressions of the time Yet may I with leave straine my discourse one pegge higher and I will promise not to be over-bold with your patience There is a sinne too much practised in this City Deut. 25.15 Pro. 11.1 which the Scripture saith is an abomination to the Lord and it should be so to his Vicegerent the Magistrate I meane fraud in selling by false balance unjusts weights and measures and in cunning conveyances in weighing or meating such as cheat the buyer They say there are som who in stead of Troy weights use Venice weights which are very deceitful not warranted by law Silk-men they say that amongst * Grocers Bakers Colemeaters Victuallers and divers others there is much fraud used in this kind and to the great detriment of his majesties subjects I am not a shamed to name these things in this place when they require reformation There are laws no doubt enacted against this injustice but these laws without execution are but a dead letter It is in you Right Honorable to put life into these laws as Elisha did into the Shunamites sonne and to set them upon their feet it is in you to take away these exactions from Gods people and to maintaine the true weight and balance There is another disorder which had almost slipt my memory they say that the provision which the Country brings in to serve the City cannot be bought by housholders but at a deere rate and at the second hand the hands I meane of regrators and hucksters that forestall the market Shall these things passe uncontrolled unpunished unreformed God forbid The mentioning of these particulars some may thinke not so fit in a sermon But the care is taken let them thinke what they please I am sure this exaction and injustice doth displease God The poore people already smart for it and if it be not punished the whole land may smart for it No question you know many other particulars in this and other kinds which require speedy reformation therefore set your selves to the worke Let it be your care Right Honorable to punish these and all others sinnes doe something this yeere that may cause you to be had in remembrance hereafter Be not unmercifull to your Country whilst you are over-mercifull to offenders but punish offenders and strike at the root of sin for sinne striketh at the root shaketh the foundation of our land In briefe let inferiours as well as superiours every one in his severall place put his hand to this worke Every one that loves his nation that favours religion that wisheth the continuance of the Gospell desires speace and prosperity unto our kingdom let him cōsecrat his hāds to pull down the kingdome of sin Downe wih it downe with it even to the ground So long as sinne reigneth our kingdome cannot flourish but the sinewes of our state will shrinke our policy will be no better than lunacy and our glory bee turned into ignominy It is not our profession of the Gospel nor any other prerogative that can in this case defend us Did not God punish Shiloh his owne place and Israel his owne people Did hee not permit the Chaldeans to destroy the Temple built by Salomon the Romans to overthrow the second Temple the Turks to overthrow the Christian Churches in Asia and Europe Sir Walter Raleigh Hist of the world l. 2. c. 15 § 1. when the people became wicked The Trojans beleeved that while their Palladium or the Image of Minerva was kept in Troy the City should never bee overturned the Christians in the last fatall battell against Saladine did carry into the field as they were made beleeve the very crosse wheron Christ died and yet they lost the battell their bodies and the wood as the Israelites did the Arke when they fetched it into the camp from Shiloh Therfore trust not to the signe but to the substance of Gods worship it is not the professiō but the practise of religion Eccl. 7.10 that can gard us Look we therfore to that and this wee cannot doe except we abandon our sinnes Therefore abandon your sinnes cast away from you all your transgressions whereby yee have transgressed pull those Scorpions out of your bosomes weed these nettles out of the garden of your hearts spue out this gall of bitternesse break off these bonds of iniquity Say not thou if thou wouldest chop Logicke with God what is the cause that the former dayes were better than these Theophrastus makes it the character of a pratler * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theophrast Charact. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to find fault with the present times and to say men are now worse than before We all cry out the dayes are evill while wee helpe to make them worse All complaine all censure none amend The Scribe points to the Publican the proud gallant points to the miserable churle the well conceited hypocrite blames the dissolute the dissolute layes the fault on the hypocrite that the dayes are evill But if every one would mend one the times would then be better Therefore let every one begin at home It was the proud Pharisee that broke his neighbours head the poore Publican smote his owne bosome Luk. 18.11 To conclude all God hath highly advanced us into his favour he hath honored this nation of ours above all the nations in the world for shame let not us out-sinne all the nations in the world for if we out-act them in sinne we must out-suffer them in punishment For our sins past let us seriously humble our selves and by faith lay hold on Christ that they may be pardoned and for time to come let vs implore the assistance of Gods Spirit that we may be able by his power to mortifie our sinnes So shall that cloud of judgement be dissolved which hangs over our heads so shall that fire of wrath bee quenched which is already kindled so shall that sword of vengeance be put againe into his sheath which is already drawne out but hath not striken home so shall Gods blessings fall downe upon us like gracious showers spirituall temporall eternall blessings personall and nationall blessings whole miriads of blessings Happy ô happy are the people that are in such a case blessed ò blessed is that people that have the Lord for their God This blessednesse we begge at thy hands ô blessed Father and that for the sake of our blessed Saviour Iesus Christ to whō with thine owne Majesty and blessed Spirit bee ascribed all honor and glory now and evermore FJNJS