A
SERMON
PREACHED
at
Pauls
Crosse
Iun.
20.
An.
1602
The
Text.
Ionah
3.4
,
5.
Yet
40.
daies
and
Niniveh
shall
be
destroved
.
So
the
people
of
Niniveh
beleeved
God
,
and
proclaimed
a
fast
,
and
put
on
sack-cloath
,
from
the
greatest
of
them
even
to
the
least
of
them
.
When
Ionas
the
Prophet
of
the
Lorde
(
Right
Honorable
,
The
occasion
&
argument
of
this
Prophecie
.
Right
worshipful
,
&
wel-beloued
in
the
best
beloued
Christ
Iesus
)
had
a
long
time
in
vaine
preached
and
prophecied
in
Jsraells
hee
had
an
expresse
charge
giuen
him
from
the
highest
,
to
goe
and
cry
againg
Niniveh
the
theife
city
of
the
Assirians
:
that
provoking
them
the
gentiles
to
repentance
,
he
might
the
rather
leane
the
obstinate
Israelits
inexcusable
.
But
such
was
,
either
his
wilful
obstinacy
that
he
would
not
,
or
his
fraile
imbecility
that
he
did
not
regard
his
Lordes
designement
:
thinking
with
him selfe
that
his
labour
shoulde
take
little
effect
among
strangers
to
God
and
himselfe
,
seeing
it
had
done
so
small
good
on
Jsraell
his
owne
people
.
And
therfore
,
in
steed
of
going
to
Niniueh
whither
he
was
bound
,
he
shippeth
himselfe
for
Tarshish
,
&
committeth
himselfe
vnto
the
sea
,
thinking
thereby
to
fly
from
the
presence
of
the
Lord
.
But
behold
he
that
is
the
God
as
well
of
the
sea
as
of
the
dry
sand
,
sendes
out
his
heraulds
after
him
,
a
great
wind
,
&
a
mighty
tempest
:
who
raised
the
sea
,
and
rowled
the
waues
,
and
rocked
the
ship
,
and
so
rowsed
vp
sleepy
Ionas
,
that
he
finds
no
rest
in
the
ship
,
the
ship
no
safty
in
the
waues
,
the
waues
no
quiet
in
the
sea
the
sea
no
calme
in
it selfe
,
vntill
the
marriners
had
throwne
out
Ionas
to
appease
it
.
And
yet
see
the
providence
of
a
good
God
to
a
disobediēnt
Prophet
:
though
he
is
cast
out
,
yet
the
Lord
doth
not
cast
him
of
:
though
the
mariners
by
his
owne
appointment
takes
him
vp
,
&
throws
him
into
the
sea
:
yet
a
great
fish
by
the
Lordes
appointment
swallowes
him
vp
,
and
castes
him
on
the
dry
land
.
Beeing
thus
delivered
out
of
the
deepe
by
the
mighty
hand
of
God
,
he
had
the
second
time
the
same
charge
laid
vpon
him
,
b
Arise
&
goe
preach
to
Niniveh
the
great
city
.
Ion.
32.
Which
the
Prophet
had
no
sooner
hard
,
but
behold
his
obedience
to
the
Lords
call
.
c
He
arose
,
saith
the
text
,
and
went
to
Niniveh
,
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord
.
Yea
to
Niniveh
as
great
and
excellent
city
of
3.
daies
iourney
,
as
the
Prophet
cals
it
.
Yea
he
cryed
against
it
,
and
said
as
before
J
read
vnto
you
.
Yet
forty
daies
&
Niniveh
shall
be
destroyed
.
So
the
people
of
Niniveh
beleeved
God
,
&
proclaimed
a
fast
,
and
put
on
sackcloth
,
from
the
greatest
of
them
vnto
the
least
.
In
which
two
verses
,
for
my
easier
proceeding
,
and
your
better
vnderstanding
,
may
it
please
you
to
obserue
,
and
consider
with
mee
these
two
general
partes
.
2.
The
generall
division
.
two
parts
generall
partes
.
-
-
1.
Ionas
sermon
to
the
Ninivites
in
these
wordes
,
Yet
forty
daies
&
Niniveh
shall
be
destroied
.
-
2.
The
Ninivites
repentance
in
the
next
wordes
,
So
the
people
of
Niniveh
beleeued
God
,
and
proclaimed
a
fast
,
&c.
The
1.
setteth
downe
a
message
from
the
Lord
to
a
great
Citie
.
The
2.
declareth
the
conversion
of
a
great
city
vnto
the
Lord
.
In
the
1.
mercy
&
iudgment
are
preached
by
one
,
and
that
is
Ionas
.
Jn
the
2.
faith
&
good
works
are
practised
by
many
,
&
they
are
Ninivites
.
Behold
in
the
one
,
the
duty
of
all
true
Prophets
,
to
declare
with
boldnesse
the
Lordes
wil
vnto
his
people
.
Behold
in
the
other
,
the
duty
of
al
faithful
people
,
to
obey
with
alacritie
the
voice
of
the
Lordes
Prophets
.
The
1.
general
part
containeth
in
it
these
.
2.
particular
braunches
.
-
-
1.
The
patience
and
long
suffering
of
the
Lord
,
in
that
hee
did
not
presently
destioy
these
Ninivites
,
The
subdivision
of
the
1.
into
2.
mebers
.
but
gaue
them
a
good
space
to
repent
.
Yet
40.
daies
.
-
2.
The
iudgement
and
iustice
of
the
Lord
denouncing
destruction
against
them
,
if
in
the
time
allotted
they
would
not
amendt
And
Niniveh
shall
be
destroied
.
So
that
I
may
wel
compare
this
sermon
of
Ionahs
to
Davids
song
Psal.
101.1
.
My
song
,
saith
David
,
shall
bee
of
mercy
and
iudgement
.
For
lo
while
he
sayeth
Yet
40.
daies
,
there
is
a
song
of
mercie
.
And
Niniueh
shal
be
destroted
,
there
is
a
song
of
iudgement
.
Or
to
that
[
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f
Himera
.
river
in
Sicily
,
that
parteth
it selfe
into
two
channels
the
one
yeelding
fresh
water
the
other
salt
:
for
behold
while
he
saith
.
Yet
40.
daies
,
there
is
a
streame
of
sweet
water
issuing
from
the
fountaine
of
Gods
exceeding
favour
.
And
Niniveh
shall
be
destroyed
,
there
is
an
Ocean
of
bitter
water
running
from
the
spring
of
Gods
heauie
displeasure
.
The
1.
is
a
word
of
comfort
to
al
dispaiting
soules
,
Yet
40.
daies
.
The
2.
is
a
rod
of
correction
to
al
presuming
sinners
,
and
Niniveh
shall
be
destroyed
.
The
one
declareth
vnto
vs
that
God
is
a
God
of
compassion
,
if
wee
wil
repent
,
Yet
40.
daies
.
The
other
that
he
is
a
God
of
iustice
and
severitie
,
if
we
stil
provoke
him
,
and
Niniveh
shall
bee
destroied
.
Yet
40.
daies
,
&
Niniveh
shal
be
destroied
.
The
2.
general
part
declareth
the
effecte
,
The
subdivision
of
the
2.
into
4.
circumstances
.
which
this
Sermon
wrought
in
the
Ninivits
,
or
their
repentance
,
which
is
described
by
4.
circumstances
.
by
4.
circumstances
.
-
-
1.
By
their
faith
which
was
not
fruitlesse
.
So
the
people
of
Niniveh
beleeved
God
.
-
2.
By
their
fasting
which
was
not
private
,
and
proclaimed
a
fast
.
-
3.
By
their
attire
which
was
not
costlie
,
and
put
on
sackcloath
.
-
4.
By
their
number
which
were
not
few
,
from
the
greatest
vnto
the
least
.
1.
They
beleeved
God
.
There
is
faith
the
true
cause
of
good
works
described
.
2.
They
proclamed
a
fast
.
There
is
a
good
worke
the
effecte
of
a
liuelie
faith
deciphered
.
3.
They
put
on
sackcloath
.
There
is
the
garment
of
humility
expressed
.
4.
From
the
greatest
to
the
least
.
There
is
a
mutual
conversion
of
al
declared
.
1.
They
beleeved
God
.
Behold
their
heathenish
infidelity
is
turned
into
religious
pietie
.
2.
They
proclaimed
a
fast
.
Behold
their
luxurious
feasting
is
changed
into
moderate
fasting
.
3.
They
put
on
sackcloath
.
Behold
their
royal
robes
are
cast
away
for
simple
rags
.
4.
From
the
greatest
of
them
vnto
the
least
.
Behold
the
consideration
of
the
sinnes
of
all
hath
wrought
repentance
in
all
.
So
the
people
of
Niniveh
beleeved
God
and
proclaimed
a
fast
,
and
put
on
sackcloth
,
from
the
greatest
of
them
to
the
least
of
them
.
Thus
you
see
(
most
deare
&
Christian
brethren
)
the
summe
&
substance
of
that
wherof
at
this
time
,
by
the
assistance
of
the
Almighty
,
and
your
accustomed
patience
,
I
purpose
to
intreate
even
the
tenour
of
Ionas
sermon
to
the
Ninivits
,
and
of
the
Ninivites
repentance
at
Ionas
sermon
.
God
grant
J
may
speake
of
them
with
the
same
spirit
as
Ionas
did
,
&
that
all
this
great
&
Honorable
assemblie
may
heare
and
receiue
them
with
the
like
fruite
as
did
these
Ninivits
.
And
so
J
come
to
the
particular
handling
of
the
words
themselves
.
Yet
40.
daies
.
Partis
.
1
As
Noahs
doue
came
from
the
waters
of
the
floud
,
with
an
oliue
braunch
in
her
mouth
.
Gen.
8.11
.
Obser
.
1
Even
so
this
he
avenly
doue
(
for
so
the
name
of
Ionah
in
the
Hebrew
importeth
,
&
St.
Ierome
on
the
1
of
this
prophecy
&
else-where
so
interpreteth
it
)
commeth
vnto
these
Ninivets
,
from
the
waters
of
the
sea
,
wherin
a
little
before
hee
had
beene
almost
drowned
with
an
oliue
braunch
in
his
mouth
,
preaching
mercy
and
peace
vnto
them
if
they
would
repent
,
and
turne
from
their
wicked
wayes
.
A
singular
argument
of
Gods
exceeding
loue
&
favour
vnto
this
city
Niniveh
.
For
hee
might
presently
haue
sent
his
Angel
from
heaven
to
haue
destroyed
it
,
as
hee
did
the
host
of
Senacharib
.
2.
Reg.
19.35
.
He
might
haue
consumed
it
with
fire
and
brimstone
,
as
he
did
Sodome
and
Gomer
.
Gen.
19.24
.
He
might
haue
spoiled
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword
,
as
he
did
Iericho
Ios.
6.21
.
Hee
might
haue
laid
it
in
the
dust
in
the
twinkling
of
an
eie
,
as
he
hath
done
many
,
and
as
he
is
able
to
doe
al
the
cities
in
the
world
.
But
behold
the
Lord
is
a
pittifull
God
Psal.
86.15
.
He
taketh
a
milder
course
with
Niniveh
.
He
sendeth
his
Prophet
to
her
,
and
giueth
her
a
day
,
and
a
day
yea
even
forty
daies
togither
,
before
he
will
powre
downe
the
violl
of
his
wrath
,
before
he
will
execute
his
iudgments
on
her
.
And
as
a
noble
and
worthy
Emperour
laying
his
sieg
,
and
levying
his
army
against
some
famous
&
renowned
city
:
beholding
in
it
the
goodly
buildings
,
the
statly
walls
,
the
high
ascending
towers
,
the
multitude
of
people
,
the
numberlesse
number
of
babes
and
sucklings
;
of
infants
&
innocent
persons
:
from
a
noble
and
heroïcal
disposition
is
moved
with
the
bowels
of
compassion
towards
it
&
therfore
in
regard
hereof
doth
not
presently
batter
it
downe
&
overthrow
it
,
but
first
sends
his
herauld
at
armes
to
proclame
a
parly
for
certaine
daies
,
and
to
offer
peace
vnto
the
same
:
right
so
doth
the
Lord
of
heaven
&
earth
deale
with
Niniveh
that
famous
and
renowned
citty
.
He
saw
the
statelines
of
her
buildings
,
her
thousand
&
fiue
hundred
towers
,
Munster
,
Cosmograph
.
l.
5.
cap.
61.
Ion.
4.
vers.
vlt.
her
high
&
spatious
walls
,
her
multitude
of
citizens
,
her
sixscore
thousand
infants
and
innocent
persons
,
her
head
of
cattell
almost
innumerable
:
all
which
did
make
the
bowels
of
compassion
to
yerne
within
him
,
&
,
before
he
would
overthrow
,
it
to
send
his
Prophet
as
an
herauld
at
armes
,
to
proclame
a
parly
of
forty
daies
and
to
offer
her
peace
if
shee
would
receiue
it
.
Famous
is
that
of
Scipio
Africanus
,
that
al
things
in
warres
ought
to
be
assayed
,
before
the
sword
be
drawen
.
And
as
famous
that
of
the
good
Emperour
Theodosius
,
who
,
vntil
tenne
daies
were
past
after
he
had
besieged
any
citty
,
never
offered
violence
to
the
inhabitants
:
saying
and
proclaiming
every
day
,
that
those
tenne
daies
he
gaue
them
,
to
the
end
they
should
profit
themselus
by
his
clemency
,
before
they
should
make
proofe
of
his
power
.
But
as
far
as
light
excelleth
darkenes
,
truth
error
,
heaven
earth
:
so
farre
,
in
pitty
,
mercy
,
and
compassion
,
doth
the
Creator
of
all
excell
the
best
of
all
his
creatures
.
Never
was
there
any
so
pittifull
,
as
he
the
God
of
pitty
.
Never
any
so
merciful
,
as
he
the
God
of
mercy
.
Never
any
so
compassionate
,
as
he
the
God
of
al
compassion
.
O
how
often
doth
he
perswade
by
promises
,
how
often
doth
he
allure
by
rewards
how
often
doth
he
intreate
by
favours
how
often
doth
he
assay
al
faire
meanes
to
convert
a
sinful
soule
,
before
he
drawe
out
his
sword
of
vengance
against
him
?
O
when
did
hee
spoile
any
country
once
,
before
he
had
spared
it
often
?
When
did
he
overthrow
any
nation
in
one
day
,
which
he
had
not
most
louingly
wooed
before
many
a
day
?
When
did
yet
any
place
feele
the
iudgments
of
his
fury
,
that
had
not
long
before
tasted
the
sweetnesse
of
his
mercy
?
For
this
was
the
rule
of
Gods
owne
law
,
this
was
the
decree
of
his
heavenly
will
,
that
no
citie
should
be
destroyed
,
before
peace
were
offered
vnto
the
same
.
as
we
read
Deut.
20.10
.
And
in
the
Gospel
it
was
our
Saviours
commandement
to
his
disciples
,
that
into
what
house
soever
they
did
enter
:
they
should
begin
the
exordium
of
their
message
with
a
pax
vobis
saying
peace
be
vnto
this
house
Luk.
10.5
,
and
it
is
wel
worth
our
observing
,
that
vertues
and
miracles
were
first
wrought
in
Corazin
,
and
Beth
saida
,
before
their
woe
was
pronounced
against
them
.
Matth.
11.20
.
Yea
the
fig
tree
in
the
Gospell
,
although
the
Lord
when
he
came
and
sought
it
,
found
no
fruit
theron
,
shall
not
be
presently
cut
downe
,
but
shall
hane
a
yeare
,
&
a
yeare
,
&
a
yeare
,
to
that
,
&
shal
be
digged
,
&
dunged
,
before
it
be
destroyed
Luk.
13.7.8
.
This
also
did
the
Lord
of
mercy
do
in
the
time
of
olde
.
He
sent
Noah
to
the
men
of
the
olde
world
a
preacher
of
righteousnes
.
2.
Pet.
2.5
.
We
sent
Lot
to
those
wicked
Sodomites
in
the
spirit
of
meekenes
to
beseech
them
not
to
do
so
wickedly
.
Gen.
19.7
.
He
sent
Moses
&
Aaron
to
the
Aegyptian
Exod.
5.1
.
He
sent
Prophets
from
time
to
time
to
the
children
of
Jsrael
.
He
sent
Iohn
Baptist
,
and
our
blessed
Saviour
,
&
the
holy
Apostles
,
besides
signes
in
the
host
of
heaven
,
&
tokens
in
the
elements
,
to
the
people
of
Ierusalem
,
before
they
were
destroied
.
And
although
that
citty
were
growen
to
a
full
measure
of
iniquity
,
&
to
the
very
height
of
al
manner
of
impiety
,
so
that
both
the
servants
&
sonne
of
God
were
slaine
by
them
,
the
Sabaoth
of
the
Lord
polluted
,
the
sanctuary
of
the
Lord
prophaned
,
the
lawe
of
the
Lorde
despised
,
the
testimony
of
the
Lord
neglected
;
yet
see
the
infinite
mercy
&
patience
of
a
louing
Lord
behold
,
for
a
warning
,
ful
forty
yeares
were
allotted
vnto
her
,
before
God
sent
vp
Vespasian
&
Titus
to
sack-it
.
As
Eusebius
in
the
3.
lib.
&
8
cap.
of
his
Ecclesiastical
history
reporteth
.
Before
which
time
,
how
did
the
Saviour
of
the
world
call
on
her
to
repent
,
how
did
he
weepe
for
her
,
how
did
he
wooe
her
as
the
brid
grome
his
spouse
to
turne
vnto
him
,
&
to
forsake
her
evil
waies
,
how
did
he
manifest
his
loue
&
affection
towards
her
?
O
Ierusalem
Ierusalem
thou
that
killest
the
Prophets
and
stonest
them
that
are
sent
vnto
thee
,
how
often
would
I
haue
gathered
thee
togither
,
as
the
hengathereth
her
chikens
vnder
her
winges
,
&
thou
wouldest
not
.
Mat.
23.37
.
J
will
not
trouble
you
with
many
testimonies
,
and
examples
out
of
the
word
of
God
,
to
confirme
the
truth
of
this
doctrine
,
being
a
point
so
manifest
.
Looke
but
into
the
9.
chap.
of
the
booke
of
Nehemiah
,
and
the
most
obstinate
shall
be
constrained
,
wil
he
nil
he
,
to
confesse
,
that
God
is
a
God
of
much
patience
,
and
long
suffering
.
The
whole
chapter
is
spent
in
this
argument
,
setting
downe
in
order
,
the
great
benefits
and
blessings
which
the
Lord
in
his
mercy
had
bestowed
vpon
the
children
of
Israel
in
times
past
,
their
vnthankfulnes
vnto
the
Lord
for
the
same
,
and
yet
the
exceeding
patience
&
mercy
of
the
Almighty
extended
towards
them
.
For
first
,
as
we
there
may
reade
,
Vid
Nehem
9.
reade
the
whole
chapter
.
he
considered
their
aflictions
in
Aegypt
,
and
hard
their
crie
by
the
red
sea
,
he
saved
them
in
the
deepe
,
and
drowned
their
enemies
in
the
mighty
waters
.
He
ledde
them
in
the
day
with
the
pillar
of
a
cloud
,
and
in
the
night
with
a
pillar
of
fire
to
giue
them
light
.
He
came
downe
vpon
mount
Sinai
,
&
spake
vnto
them
from
heaven
,
&
gaue
them
right
iudgments
,
true
lawes
,
&
good
commaundements
.
He
gaue
them
bread
from
heaven
for
their
hunger
,
and
water
out
of
the
rock
for
their
thirst
;
he
fed
them
forty
yeares
in
the
wildernesse
,
they
lacked
nothing
,
their
clothes
waxed
not
olde
,
and
their
feete
swelled
not
.
He
gaue
them
kingdomes
and
people
,
hee
multiplied
their
children
as
the
starres
of
heauen
,
and
brought
them
into
a
good
land
:
where
they
possessed
houses
ful
of
goods
,
and
did
eare
,
and
were
filled
,
&
became
fat
,
and
lived
in
pleasure
through
the
Lords
goodnes
.
But
behold
this
people
,
whom
the
Lord
had
thus
extraordinarily
blessed
aboue
al
the
nation
in
the
world
became
rebellious
,
&
behaued
themselues
prowdly
,
and
hardned
their
neckes
,
so
that
they
harkened
not
to
his
commandements
,
nor
remembred
the
marvelous
workes
which
he
had
done
for
them
:
&
yet
for
al
this
the
Lorde
forsooke
them
not
.
They
made
them
a
molten
calfe
,
&
said
,
this
is
thy
God
,
that
brought
thee
out
of
the
land
of
Aegypt
,
and
committed
great
blasphemies
;
&
yet
for
al
this
the
Lord
forsooke
them
not
.
They
were
disobedient
and
rebelled
against
him
,
and
cast
his
law
behind
their
backes
,
&
slue
his
Prophets
sent
to
convert
them
:
and
yet
for
al
this
the
Lord
forsooke
them
not
.
They
did
evil
before
him
,
&
sinned
against
his
iudgments
,
and
pulled
away
their
shoulders
,
and
were
stiffnecked
,
&
would
not
heare
and
yet
for
al
this
the
Lord
forsooke
them
not
,
&
yet
for
all
this
did
he
not
consume
them
,
but
forbare
them
many
yeares
togither
.
O
what
a
God
of
pittie
,
O
what
a
Lord
of
mercy
is
this
!
abundant
in
goodnes
,
gracious
,
&
full
of
compassion
,
of
long
suffering
,
slow
to
anger
,
and
of
great
kindnes
.
Ioel.
2.13
.
Reserving
mercy
for
thousands
,
forgiuing
iniquity
,
transgression
,
and
sin
Exod.
34.7
.
How
truly
might
he
say
of
this
people
,
All
the
day
long
haue
I
stretched
forth
my
hīd
to
a
rebellious
people
,
to
a
disobedient
gaine
saying
&
vnbeleening
people
!
Rom
10.21
.
How
truly
might
he
say
that
they
had
a
long
time
grieued
him
,
&
yet
he
had
waited
that
he
might
haue
mercy
on
them
!
Es.
30.18
.
How
truly
might
be
professe
of
himselfe
,
I
desire
not
the
death
of
a
sinner
,
but
that
the
wicked
turne
from
his
way
and
liue
.
turne
you
,
turne
you
from
your
evill
waies
,
for
why
will
yee
die
ô
yee
house
of
Israell
?
Ezech.
33
.
1●
.
What
should
I
say
more
(
beloved
in
Christ
Jesus
)
God
is
the
same
God
vnto
vs
al
,
as
he
was
vnto
them
:
&
there
is
not
one
to
be
found
in
this
great
Congregation
,
from
the
most
auncient
father
to
the
youngest
child
,
but
in
some
measure
hath
had
experience
of
these
things
.
Every
one
hath
felt
in
himself
God
to
be
a
God
of
much
mercy
&
expectation
.
For
when
his
Angell
had
offended
he
stayed
not
at
all
for
him
,
but
threw
him
downe
to
hel
.
When
Adam
had
transgressed
he
deferred
not
his
punishment
,
but
draue
him
straight
way
out
of
Paradise
.
But
if
we
examine
our selues
we
shal
finde
that
he
waiteth
for
every
one
of
vs
indeede
,
and
forbeareth
vs
some
ten
yeares
,
some
twenty
;
some
to
30.
some
to
40.
some
to
olde
age
,
some
to
dotage
.
Yea
hee
spareth
vs
al
because
he
is
the
lover
of
soules
as
the
Wiseman
cals
him
.
He
is
patient
towards
vs
and
would
haue
none
to
perish
but
al
of
vs
to
come
to
repentance
.
2.
Pet.
3.9
.
Hee
maketh
as
though
hee
saw
not
our
sinnes
,
because
we
should
amend
.
Wisd.
11.20
.
He
prolongeth
our
daies
,
although
we
doevil
against
him
an
hundred
times
.
Eccles.
8.12
.
Let
vs
then
be
ware
(
beloved
in
the
Lord
)
that
we
abuse
not
the
patience
and
long
suffering
of
so
good
a
God
,
lest
after
so
many
sweet
shewers
of
mercie
,
&
pleasant
calmes
of
confort
,
hee
powre
downe
vpon
vs
the
bitter
stormes
,
and
hote
thunderbolts
of
his
iudgement
&
indignation
.
And
as
the
Prophet
telleth
Niniveh
in
this
place
:
Yet
forty
daies
&
Niniveh
shal
be
destroied
:
So
yet
a
little
while
,
&
if
we
will
not
repent
and
turne
vnto
him
,
behold
a
final
destruction
and
overthrow
shal
over
take
vs
.
And
so
from
my
first
observation
,
the
patience
&
long
suffering
of
God
,
in
that
he
did
not
presently
destroit
Niniveh
,
but
gaue
it
a
good
space
to
repent
,
Yet
40.
daies
.
I
now
come
to
the
second
note
of
my
first
general
parte
,
which
was
the
iustice
and
iudgment
of
the
lord
,
denouncing
destruction
against
it
,
if
in
the
time
allotted
it
did
not
amend
,
and
Nintveh
shall
be
destroyed
.
And
Niniveh
shal
be
destroied
.
Our
Prophet
doth
not
come
onely
with
a
song
of
Gods
mercy
to
Niniveh
,
but
also
with
a
song
of
iudgment
;
intimating
that
if
they
will
not
imbrace
the
one
,
they
shal
vndoubtedly
feele
the
other
.
For
albeit
,
being
a
stranger
to
that
place
,
a
man
of
another
country
&
kindred
,
&
Niniveh
large
and
spatious
,
and
full
no
doubt
of
many
barbarous
&
cruel
people
,
he
might
in
some
sort
(
because
hee
was
flesh
and
bloud
)
be
discouraged
to
deale
so
roundly
&
plainely
with
them
,
as
to
denounce
so
heavy
a
iudgment
on
them
,
for
feare
least
they
should
haue
killed
him
:
yet
behold
the
courage
&
audacity
of
a
faithful
Prophet
,
He
preferreth
the
discharge
of
his
duty
before
the
safety
of
his
life
:
and
,
hauing
receiued
this
message
from
the
Lord
,
he
is
not
afraid
(
although
he
were
but
one
&
that
a
stranger
)
to
pronounce
it
in
the
midst
of
Niniveh
,
yea
peradventure
before
the
king
and
nobles
of
Niniveh
(
for
so
it
is
probable
)
although
it
declare
nolesse
then
Ninivehs
over-throw
&
destruction
.
Out
of
whose
bold
and
faithfull
course
of
proceeding
,
let
mee
,
by
your
Honorable
&
Christian
patience
(
most
deare
&
blessed
brethren
)
giue
this
one
note
to
my
brethren
and
fellow-laborers
in
the
ministry
:
that
,
when
they
are
to
deliver
their
message
from
the
Lord
vnto
his
people
,
out
of
these
and
the
like
places
,
they
be
careful
,
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*
A
note
for
Ministers
,
from
Ionas
his
bouldnes
.
by
our
Prophets
example
,
to
lift
vp
their
voices
like
trumpets
,
bouldly
to
reproue
sinne
&
sinners
,
to
tell
the
house
of
Iacob
his
iniquities
,
&
Israell
his
transgressions
.
Let
them
not
be
terrified
to
declare
Gods
iudgments
against
the
greatest
,
let
them
not
be
a
fraid
of
the
faces
of
men
,
for
the
Lord
is
with
them
.
Ier.
1.8
.
They
must
with
Amos
preach
the
death
of
Ieroboam
and
captiuity
of
Israel
even
at
Bethel
in
the
kings
chappel
and
in
the
kings
court
although
with
Amos
they
be
banished
for
it
.
Amos
7.12
.
They
must
with
Michaiah
prophecy
the
truth
to
Ahab
,
although
with
him
they
be
hated
for
it
.
1.
Reg.
22.8
.
They
must
with
Zachary
tell
the
people
of
Israel
,
that
because
they
haue
for
saken
the
Lord
,
the
Lord
also
hath
for
saken
them
,
although
by
the
commandement
of
the
king
with
Zachary
they
be
stoned
for
it
2.
Chron.
24.21
.
They
must
with
Iohn
Baptist
tell
Herode
that
it
is
not
lawfull
for
him
to
have
his
brother
Philips
wife
,
though
with
him
they
be
beheaded
for
it
.
Mat.
14.10
.
They
must
with
Nathan
tel
David
thou
art
the
man
2.
Sam.
12.7
.
They
must
with
Eliah
tel
Ahab
,
it
is
thou
and
thy
fathers
house
that
trouble
Israell
.
1.
Reg.
18.18
.
They
must
with
Iehu
tel
Iehoshaphat
,
that
for
his
wickednes
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
is
vpon
him
2.
Chron.
19.2
.
They
must
with
the
Prophet
tel
Amasiah
the
king
of
Iuda
,
that
for
his
sin
God
hath
determined
to
destroye
him
.
2.
Chron.
25.16
.
They
must
with
Azariah
the
priest
tel
Vzziah
the
king
,
that
for
his
transgression
he
shall
haue
none
honour
of
the
Lord
.
2.
Chron.
26.18
.
They
must
with
Nehemiah
rebuke
the
Princes
and
Rulers
of
Israel
,
for
laying
such
heavy
burthens
vpon
their
brethren
,
Nehem.
5.7
.
Finally
they
must
with
Ionas
in
my
text
tel
Niniveh
,
yea
glorious
&
goodly
Niniveh
,
yea
stout
and
stately
Niniveh
,
yea
proud
and
populous
Niniveh
,
that
for
her
sinnes
it
shall
be
quite
defaced
and
overthrowen
.
Thus
must
the
Minister
of
God
be
bould
to
reproue
sinne
in
the
mightiest
ones
in
the
world
,
&
with
the
spirit
of
courage
and
audacity
beate
downe
whatsoever
lifteth
vp
it selfe
against
God
.
Ispeake
not
this
(
beloued
in
Christ
Iesus
)
to
condemne
al
kind
of
milde
and
gentle
persuasion
:
and
to
vphold
the
hotte
and
indiscreete
reproovers
of
our
time
,
Indiscreete
reproovers
not
allowed
.
who
are
so
fervent
&
forward
in
denouncing
iudgment
against
the
least
offenders
,
that
with
Iames
and
Iohn
nothing
wil
content
them
,
but
only
fire
from
heauen
to
consume
them
Luk.
9.54
.
They
are
the
of
spring
of
cursed
Cham
,
delighting
in
nothing
so
much
,
as
to
vncover
the
nakednes
of
their
fathers
.
They
are
,
as
Saint
Bernard
speaketh
of
such
in
his
78.
Epistle
,
non
correpteres
sed
corrosores
,
not
reproovers
but
gnawers
.
Not
vnlike
the
Cynicke
Philosopher
,
who
for
his
impudent
taunts
against
all
,
was
commonly
called
of
all
Convitiorum
canis
,
the
dog
of
reproches
.
For
as
those
Indians
headed
like
dogs
,
in
lieu
of
speech
,
vse
to
barke
,
as
Pliny
in
his
7.
lib.
and
2.
chap.
writeth
of
them
:
so
these
,
in
steed
of
speaking
to
their
brethren
after
the
manner
of
men
,
vse
to
barke
at
them
,
after
the
fashion
of
dogs
.
My
speech
doth
not
apologize
or
countenance
any
such
,
either
dogged
and
in
discreete
raylers
,
or
rude
intemperate
reproovers
.
J
rather
aime
at
those
in
another
extreame
,
who
are
so
farre
from
being
to
forward
in
reproving
of
sinne
,
that
they
dare
not
take
in
their
mouths
but
that
cold
rehrehension
of
olde
Ely
vnto
his
sonns
,
Do
so
no
more
my
sons
,
do
no
more
so
.
1.
Sam.
2.24
.
But
as
deceiptfull
Embassadours
,
either
for
feare
of
punishment
,
or
for
hope
of
gaine
,
they
forbeare
to
deliver
the
Lords
Embassage
vnto
his
people
:
Soothing
them
in
their
sins
and
flattering
them
in
their
follies
,
and
furthering
them
in
their
iniquities
.
Those
are
our
temporizing
preachers
,
our
time
seruing
Prophets
,
our
trencher
Chaplaines
who
,
either
to
satisfy
the
lust
of
their
humorous
Lord
,
or
to
delight
the
itching
eares
of
their
vaine
auditors
,
speake
nothing
but
placentia
,
court
phrases
,
sweet
and
pleasing
words
:
that
sow
pillowes
vnder
mens
elbowes
,
and
build
vp
their
sinnes
as
a
wall
,
and
daub
vp
their
filthy
corruptions
with
the
vntempered
morter
of
palpable
adulation
.
Whom
I
may
iustly
brand
with
the
same
name
as
Crates
the
Thebane
did
those
parasites
,
of
his
time
whom
hee
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
because
,
sitting
at
great
mens
tables
,
they
were
ready
with
that
cunning
dissembler
in
the
comody
to
say
,
Ais
,
aio
?
negas
?
nego
.
Whatsoever
they
affirmed
they
would
affirme
the
same
,
and
whatsoever
they
denyed
they
would
bee
as
ready
to
deny
though
never
so
vntruly
.
right
so
,
beloved
,
I
am
afraid
our
church
hath
to
many
such
fawning
and
flattering
Ministers
:
who
sitting
at
noble
mens
tables
(
if
happely
they
be
thervnto
admitted
)
for
feare
of
displeasing
,
will
say
as
they
say
:
although
their
owne
conscience
I
doubt
not
many
times
tels
them
they
haue
said
amisse
.
Speaking
good
of
evill
,
and
evil
of
good
,
putting
darkenesse
for
light
,
and
light
for
darkenesse
,
bitter
for
sweet
,
and
sweet
for
sower
to
vse
the
words
of
the
Prophet
Esa.
5.20
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Making
marchandise
of
the
word
of
God
,
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
2.
Cor.
2.
vlt.
and
selling
the
cause
of
the
Lord
for
a
meales
meat
,
or
as
the
Prophet
tels
vs
for
handfulls
of
barly
and
peeces
of
bread
.
Ezech.
13.19
.
J
cannot
more
fitly
resemble
such
false
Prophets
to
any
,
then
to
that
flattering
and
dissembling
Priest
of
Iuppiter
:
who
when
Alexander
the
great
(
as
Plutarch
in
his
life
testifieth
)
came
to
the
oracle
,
saluted
him
by
the
name
of
Iuppiters
sonne
,
&
all
to
get
some
great
present
&
large-reward
from
him
:
so
they
,
to
procure
the
sooner
vnto
themselues
some
promotion
Ecclesiastical
,
wil
make
the
Alexanders
of
the
world
beleeue
,
that
they
are
Demy
Gods
or
at
the
lestwise
a
degree
aboue
the
natural
condition
of
the
sonnes
of
men
.
They
are
fit
chaplaines
for
such
radies
as
the
mother
of
Cyrus
was
,
who
,
as
Plutarch
reporteth
,
commanded
,
that
whosoever
spake
to
the
king
,
he
should
vse
soft
&
silken
words
:
for
surely
in
their
preaching
and
reaching
before
such
great
ons
of
the
world
,
they
vse
noe
other
but
such
soft
phrases
&
silken
speeches
as
shal
befit
their
humours
.
And
as
the
natural
bistorian
in
his
2.
lib.
&
41.
ca.
of
his
history
reporteth
of
the
hearb
called
Heliotropium
,
that
it
regardeth
&
looketh
towards
the
sunne
:
ever
as
hee
goeth
turning
with
him
at
all
howers
.
yea
even
also
when
he
is
shadowed
vnder
a
cloude
:
so
doe
they
,
in
the
whole
course
of
their
ministery
,
regard
&
consider
their
Lords
and
Ladies
humours
,
and
thervnto
do
they
apply
themselves
at
all
times
,
yea
even
then
also
when
they
are
covered
with
the
cloudes
of
many
grosse
and
crying
sinnes
.
So
that
I
may
truly
say
of
such
,
as
the
Philosopher
did
of
the
like
,
who
,
as
Nicephorus
reporteth
in
the
10.
lib.
&
42.
cap.
of
his
Ecclesiastical
historie
,
comming
into
an
Emperours
court
,
&
there
seeing
many
sooth
vp
great
men
in
their
sins
,
said
of
them
,
purpuram
ipsos
magis
quam
Deum
colere
,
that
they
did
more
reverence
purple
robes
then
God
himselfe
and
J
am
perswaded
(
beloved
in
Christ
Jesus
)
that
they
who
thus
sooth
vp
the
mighty
potentants
of
the
world
in
their
transgressions
,
quod
purpuram
ipsimagis
quam
deum
colant
,
that
they
more
respecte
the
countenan e
of
man
,
then
the
favour
of
the
everliving
God
.
For
otherwise
they
would
never
,
as
many
times
they
doe
,
conceale
the
councel
&
wil
of
God
,
to
gaine
a
little
commodity
&
preferment
at
the
hands
of
a
mortal
man
.
And
if
it
happen
,
(
beloued
)
that
these
men
come
abroad
at
any
time
,
to
preach
amonge
the
vulgar
sorte
in
meaner
places
,
they
haue
so
vsed
themselves
to
a
smooth
&
pleasing
vaine
,
that
even
then
J
may
say
of
them
,
as
Diogenes
the
Cynicke
said
of
orators
,
as
it
is
in
the
9.
lib.
and
19.
cap.
Elian.
de
varia
histor
.
that
they
are
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
the
very
slaues
&
vassals
of
the
common
people
.
For
to
win
their
least
favours
,
they
wil
be
favourable
to
their
greatest
sins
.
And
as
Pliny
in
his
5.
lib.
&
15.
chap.
saith
that
the
river
Iordan
is
a
pleasant
river
,
winding
&
turning
in
&
out
,
seeking
as
it
were
for
loue
&
favour
,
and
applying
it selfe
to
please
the
neighbour
countries
.
So
do
these
time-serving
preachers
turne
&
winde
themselves
in
their
sermons
to
the
multitude
:
seeking
rather
to
win
their
favours
by
flatering
them
in
their
sinnes
,
then
to
discharge
their
owne
duties
to
God
by
revealing
his
wil
vnto
them
.
But
let
these
men
consider
howe
much
the
Lorde
is
offended
with
such
deceitful
handling
of
his
word
.
Let
them
consider
the
grievous
complaint
of
the
Lord
against
such
false
Prophets
,
who
healed
the
hurt
of
the
daughter
of
his
people
with
sweete
wordes
,
saying
peace
,
where
there
was
no
peace
.
Jer.
6.13
.
Let
them
consider
how
much
he
was
moued
with
them
that
taught
vanities
,
&
spake
the
vision
of
their
owne
hearts
,
&
not
out
of
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
.
Saying
to
every
one
that
walked
after
the
stubbornes
of
his
owne
hart
,
no
evil
shal
come
vpon
you
,
prophecying
false
dreames
&
causing
the
people
of
the
Lord
to
erre
by
their
lies
and
by
their
flatteries
.
Ier.
23.
Finally
let
them
consider
the
severe
iudgment
of
the
Lord
pronounced
against
such
faithlesse
messengers
in
the
same
Prophet
.
Behold
they
that
flatter
the
people
in
their
sinnes
,
&
sar
that
the
sword
&
famine
shal
not
bee
in
the
land
,
by
sword
&
famine
shal
these
Prophets
be
consumed
.
Jer.
14.15
.
Wherfore
to
conclude
this
point
,
let
vs
(
beloved
)
I
speake
this
to
al
my
brethren
and
fellow-labourers
in
this
holie
busines
,
let
vs
I
say
,
as
trustie
Embasadours
,
boldly
deliuer
our
Lordes
Embassage
:
not
fearing
him
that
can
kill
the
body
only
,
but
him
that
can
cast
both
body
and
soule
into
hell
fire
.
Matt.
10.28
.
And
yet
let
vs
not
seeke
to
gal
&
greeue
the
wounded
conscience
of
our
weake
auditors
,
by
to
rash
&
indiscreete
doubling
&
redoubling
woes
vpon
them
,
alwaies
killing
them
with
the
killing
letter
of
the
law
.
Let
vs
take
heede
least
if
we
thus
alwaies
preach
to
others
iudgment
without
mercy
,
wee
our selues
bee
iudged
of
the
Lord
without
mercy
.
Let
vs
rather
by
our
Prophets
example
,
keeping
the
golden
meane
,
temper
them
both
togither
.
Let
vs
sometimes
with
the
sweete
balme
of
the
Gospel
bind
vp
the
broken
harted
:
and
yet
sometimes
also
with
the
hard
hammer
of
the
law
bruze
and
breake
downe
the
strength
of
impietie
.
Let
vs
sometimes
as
good
chirurgions
applie
pleasant
lenitines
to
supple
:
&
yet
sometimes
also
sharpe
corasines
to
exasperate
the
festered
wounds
of
our
sicke
patients
.
Let
vs
somtimes
like
skilful
Physitions
minister
comfortable
refections
to
cherish
;
&
yet
somtimes
also
sharpe
and
bitter
potions
to
offend
their
distempered
stomacks
.
Let
vs
somtimes
with
that
good
Samaritane
Luk.
10
,
with
the
oile
of
mercy
cheere
vp
the
fainting
conscience
of
a
poenitent
Christian
:
&
yet
sometimes
also
with
the
wine
of
reprehension
rub
vp
the
contagious
maladies
of
hard
harted
worldlings
.
Let
vs
sometimes
with
the
sons
of
Iacob
stand
vpon
the
mount
Gerizzim
to
blesse
,
&
yet
sontimes
also
vpon
the
mount
Eball
to
curse
the
Lords
enemies
Deut.
27.13
.
Let
vs
sometimes
with
St.
Paul
Come
in
the
spirit
of
meekenes
to
comfort
:
and
yet
sometims
also
with
the
same
Apostle
with
the
rod
of
correction
to
controule
1.
Cor.
4.
21.
Let
vs
sometimes
say
with
our
maister
pax
vobis
,
peace
be
vnto
you
Luk.
24.36
.
&
yet
sometimes
also
vae
vobis
,
woe
be
vnto
you
.
Matt.
23.13
.
Let
vs
sometimes
be
like
that
soft
voice
wherin
God
came
1.
Reg.
19.12
.
and
yet
sometimes
also
like
Iohn
Baptist
the
voices
of
criers
or
crying
voices
in
the
wildernes
of
this
world
Math.
3.3
.
Let
vs
sometimes
bee
like
Barnabas
sons
of
Consolation
.
Act.
4.36
.
and
yet
sometimes
also
like
Iames
&
Iohn
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
the
sons
of
thunder
Mark
.
3.17
.
Lastly
let
vs
sometimes
come
with
Ionas
in
my
text
with
a
songe
of
mercy
as
in
the
first
part
of
his
sermon
yet
40.
daies
:
and
yet
sometimes
also
with
a
songe
of
iudgment
as
it
followeth
in
the
second
and
Niniveh
shal
be
destroied
.
And
Niniveh
shal
be
destroyed
.
And
heerein
a
word
before
I
proceede
further
:
Let
me
remoue
a
stumbling
blocke
of
offence
,
which
may
arise
to
the
weake
out
of
these
words
:
For
wheras
our
Prophet
here
setteth
downe
,
that
after
the
space
of
40.
daies
,
Niniveh
shoulde
bee
destroied
,
it
is
manifest
in
the
last
verse
of
this
3.
chapter
that
God
repented
of
this
evil
which
he
had
purposed
to
do
vnto
it
,
&
he
did
it
not
.
Quaestion
Howe
then
is
the
councel
of
the
Lord
infallible
,
howe
is
the
verity
of
his
word
immutable
,
howe
are
his
decrees
vnresistable
,
how
is
his
iudgment
here
denounced
by
Ionas
inevitable
?
and
Niniveh
shal
be
destroyed
.
Opinion
1
For
answere
where
vnto
we
must
observe
,
that
some
of
the
auncient
fathers
in
the
primitiue
church
haue
bin
of
this
opinion
,
that
by
Niniveh
here
is
vnderstood
,
the
sin
&
iniquity
of
the
people
of
Niniveh
.
As
if
the
Prophet
had
said
,
Yet
forty
daies
&
Niniveh
shal
be
destroied
,
that
is
,
not
the
men
,
the
wals
,
&
the
buildings
of
Niniveh
,
but
the
sins
&
transgressions
of
Niniveh
;
the
sinful
city
shal
become
an
holy
city
,
the
idolatrous
people
a
sanctified
people
,
the
height
of
their
impietie
shal
be
destroied
by
the
teares
of
their
penitency
.
Thus
shal
sinful
Niniveh
be
quite
defaced
,
thus
shall
vngodly
Niniveh
be
overthrowne
.
Of
this
opinion
was
Sr.
Austen
in
his
21
,
lib.
&
24.
chapter
de
civitate
dei
.
Where
he
saith
thus
.
That
God
vseth
to
ouerthrow
sinners
two
manner
of
waies
.
Either
when
he
punisheth
the
men
for
sins
committed
,
as
he
did
the
Sodomites
Gen.
19.25
.
or
when
he
destroyeth
the
sins
of
men
through
their
vnfeined
repentance
,
as
in
these
Ninivits
.
And
in
this
sence
,
saith
Sr.
Austen
,
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
true
,
that
Niniveh
in
her
people
&
buildings
stood
stil
,
but
in
her
wicked
waies
and
transgressions
she
was
overthrowne
.
But
saving
the
iudgment
of
so
learned
a
father
(
whom
notwithstanding
of
alother
of
the
fathers
generally
for
his
interpretations
of
the
Scripture
I
hould
to
bee
most
worthy
of
reverence
)
I
rather
fasten
vppon
another
interpretation
of
these
wordes
.
2.
Opinion
And
that
is
that
they
are
spoken
by
our
Prophet
with
a
condition
implied
in
them
,
as
if
hee
had
saide
:
the
Lord
your
God
is
a
patient
God
,
he
will
not
wound
you
before
he
warne
you
.
Loe
he
giveth
you
yet
40
daies
more
to
bethink
your selues
,
if
in
this
space
you
wil
not
turne
vnto
him
,
then
assuredly
you
shal
be
destroyed
.
And
this
I
rather
take
to
bee
the
Prophets
meaning
in
this
place
:
not
onely
for
that
the
whole
current
of
our
latter
&
sounder
interpreters
doe
agree
here
vnto
,
but
also
,
because
I
know
this
manner
of
denouncing
iudgment
,
is
verie
vsual
with
the
spirite
of
God
in
holy
scripture
.
Witnes
that
one
place
insteede
of
all
,
in
the
prophecie
of
Ieremy
,
I
will
speake
(
saith
the
Lord
)
suddenly
against
a
nation
,
against
a
kingdom
,
to
plucke
it
vp
and
to
roote
it
out
,
and
to
destroy
it
.
But
if
this
nation
against
whom
I
haue
pronounced
,
turne
from
their
wickednes
:
I
will
repent
of
the
plague
that
I
thought
to
bring
vpon
them
.
Ier.
18.7.8
.
There
you
see
,
the
condition
is
set
down
in
expresse
words
.
If
they
turne
from
their
wickednes
I
will
repent
.
But
elsewhere
it
is
necessarily
implyed
and
vnderstood
as
for
example
.
When
Abimelech
the
king
of
Gerar
,
had
tooke
vnto
him
Sara
,
the
wife
of
Abraham
:
God
said
vnto
him
,
thou
art
but
a
dead
man
because
of
the
woman
which
thou
haste
taken
.
Genes.
20.3
.
Here
the
iudgement
seemeth
absolute
.
But
this
condition
must
needes
bee
vnderstood
,
that
he
was
but
a
dead
man
,
if
hee
did
not
restore
the
woman
without
touching
her
bodie
.
For
when
he
had
purged
himselfe
with
an
vpright
minde
,
and
innocent
hand
haue
I
done
this
:
the
Lorde
forbare
to
execute
this
sentence
on
him
.
So
likewise
the
Prophet
Esaie
biddeth
Ezechiah
from
the
Lorde
.
to
set
his
house
in
order
,
for
hee
should
die
&
not
liue
,
Es.
38.1
.
What
speech
can
be
more
absolute
than
this
?
And
yet
we
must
needs
confesse
,
that
this
condition
is
therein
contained
:
thou
shalt
die
,
if
thou
appease
not
the
wrath
of
God
by
thy
tears
and
vnfained
repentance
.
For
when
he
had
once
so
done
,
the
Lord
removed
away
this
iudgement
,
and
added
vnto
his
daies
fifteene
yeares
,
as
it
is
in
the
same
chapt
.
Agreeable
to
this
is
that
of
David
,
who
when
he
had
killed
Vriah
the
Hittite
,
and
taken
his
wife
vnto
himself
:
the
Lord
tolde
him
,
that
for
this
,
the
sword
should
neuer
depart
from
his
house
2.
Sam.
12.10
.
A
sentence
without
exception
:
and
yet
when
he
confessed
,
that
in
this
he
had
sinned
against
the
Lorde
(
a
condition
no
doubt
in
the
former
iudgment
implyed
)
it
was
tould
him
by
Nathan
,
that
the
Lord
had
put
away
his
sin
and
he
should
not
die
:
vers
.
13.
So
in
the
words
of
my
text
,
here
is
destruction
denounced
by
Ionas
against
Niniveh
,
yet
40
daies
and
Niniveh
shall
be
destroyed
.
And
yet
,
Niniveh
repenting
,
the
Lord
withholdeth
his
iudgements
from
it
:
&
therefore
we
must
needes
vnderstand
a
condition
in
the
words
:
yet
40.
daies
and
if
Niniveh
go
on
stil
in
her
wickednes
,
doubtlesse
Niniveh
for
her
wickednesse
shal
be
destroyed
.
Having
thus
cleared
this
doubt
,
and
made
manifest
the
meaning
of
our
Prophet
:
let
vs
now
come
to
the
next
observation
,
which
in
the
beginning
was
proposed
out
of
these
words
and
Niniveh
shal
be
destroied
.
Observat
.
2
Jt
is
reported
of
Tamberlaine
that
mighty
conqueror
of
his
time
,
that
when
he
laid
siege
to
any
city
:
he
displaied
the
first
day
his
white
flag
before
the
same
,
as
a
token
of
his
clemencie
if
they
would
yeeld
vnto
him
:
Which
if
they
then
refused
,
the
next
day
he
set
vp
his
red
flag
,
as
threatning
the
shedding
of
their
bloud
,
if
they
remained
obstinat
:
wherat
if
they
were
not
moved
,
the
third
day
he
advanced
his
blacke
flag
,
to
signifie
,
that
the
dore
of
all
pittie
&
compassion
was
now
shut
vp
,
and
that
nothing
was
to
be
expected
,
but
vtter
ruine
and
desolation
.
The
like
course
,
in
some
proportion
,
doeth
the
Lorde
of
heaven
and
earth
take
with
his
citty
Niniveh
:
he
first
displaieth
his
white
flag
of
mercie
,
not
for
a
day
with
Tamberlaine
,
but
even
for
40
,
daies
togither
:
whereat
if
they
wil
not
yeeld
,
they
shall
beholde
the
red
flag
of
his
severity
,
nay
the
blacke
flag
of
his
irrevocable
iudgement
,
denouncing
their
vtter
overthrowe
and
destruction
.
For
the
saying
is
most
true
,
Laesa
patientia
fit
furor
,
the
patience
of
the
Lord
too
sarre
provoked
,
is
turned
into
fury
.
Seravenit
,
sed
certa
venit
vindicta
:
it
is
long
ere
hee
revenge
himselfe
on
sinners
,
but
hee
paies
then
with
a
witnes
at
the
last
.
And
howsoever
the
punishment
of
malefactors
come
ate
,
yet
in
never
misseth
in
the
end
.
As
the
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*
Plin.
lib.
2.
c.
7.
heathen
man
by
the
light
of
nature
could
tell
vs
.
Lento
graduad
vindictam
divina
procedit
ira
.
Tarditatemque
iudicij
gravitate
pensat
saith
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Valerius
Maximns
lib.
1.
another
.
God
is
said
to
haue
leaden
seete
because
hee
commeth
slowly
to
execute
vengance
;
but
hands
of
iron
because
when
he
commeth
he
stricketh
home
.
And
by
how
much
the
longer
he
expecteth
our
amendment
,
so
much
the
more
strictly
hee
will
iudge
vs
if
we
do
neglect
.
Experience
teacheth
vs
that
the
axe
the
higher
it
is
lifted
,
the
heavier
it
falleth
.
A
stone
the
further
it
is
cast
vp
into
the
aier
falleth
with
greater
force
vpon
the
earth
.
Awater
course
the
more
it
is
stopped
,
when
it
breaketh
forth
,
runneth
with
greater
violence
:
even
so
the
longer
the
Lorde
heareth
&
forbeareth
to
punish
the
sins
of
men
,
the
heavier
wil
his
punishment
be
in
the
end
.
And
howsoever
hee
can
bee
content
along
season
to
haue
patience
with
them
:
yet
at
the
last
,
as
hee
speaketh
by
the
Prophet
,
he
will
overturne
,
overturne
,
overturne
,
Ezech.
21.27
.
Where
,
by
thrice
repeating
of
the
word
,
is
vnderstood
an
absolute
destruction
and
desolation
indeed
.
Pliny
in
his
8.
lib.
and
7.
cap.
and
Aristotle
in
9.
lib.
&
46.
cap.
de
natura
animalium
doe
write
of
the
elephant
,
that
by
nature
he
is
very
milde
and
gentle
;
and
others
say
,
that
he
suffereth
many
wrongs
of
inferior
beasts
but
beeing
still
provoked
by
them
to
wrath
his
fury
is
not
pacified
,
vntil
hee
hath
revenged
himselfe
to
the
ful
.
That
which
is
said
to
be
true
of
the
creature
,
is
in
this
sense
most
true
of
the
creator
of
al
things
God
himselfe
.
His
very
nature
and
essence
is
,
to
bee
A
God
ful
of
compassion
and
mercy
,
flow
to
anger
,
and
of
great
kindnes
.
Psal.
103.8
.
Hee
susteineth
many
wrongs
of
the
sons
of
men
:
being
crushed
with
their
sins
,
as
a
cart
is
laden
with
sheaues
,
to
vse
the
words
of
the
Prophet
:
wherwith
if
they
stil
continue
to
load
him
,
he
wil
ease
himselfe
of
his
burden
,
and
cast
it
on
the
ground
of
confusion
.
And
albeit
,
as
the
Psalmist
speaketh
,
he
be
patient
,
and
is
prouoked
every
day
:
yet
if
a
man
will
not
turne
,
hee
will
whet
his
sword
,
he
will
bend
his
bow
,
&
make
it
ready
.
Psa.
7.12
.
For
it
is
most
true
which
Gregory
saith
in
his
33.
book
of
morals
and
15.
chapter
.
Vt
pius
,
ita
iustus
est
conditor
.
As
our
maker
is
merciful
,
so
is
he
likewise
iust
.
Gracious
and
righteous
is
the
Lord
,
Psal.
25.8
.
gracious
in
the
multitude
of
his
mercies
,
&
righteous
in
the
severitie
of
his
iudgements
.
Gracious
to
them
that
turne
vnto
him
,
righteous
to
them
that
cast
him
from
them
.
The
Lord
is
slow
to
anger
,
there
is
his
patience
to
penitent
sinners
:
but
he
is
great
in
power
,
&
wil
not
surely
cleere
the
wicked
.
Nahum
.
1.3
.
there
is
his
iudgement
to
impenitent
reprobates
.
I
haue
a
longe
time
holden
my
peace
at
your
sins
,
I
haue
beene
still
,
&
restrained
my selfe
,
there
is
his
long
suffering
declared
:
but
now
will
I
cry
like
a
traveiling
woman
,
I
wil
destroy
&
devour
at
once
.
Es.
42.14
.
there
is
his
heavy
wrath
described
.
The
Almighty
is
a
patient
rewarder
,
there
is
mercy
offered
to
him
that
wil
receiue
it
:
but
he
will
not
leaue
the
wicked
vnpunished
.
Eccles.
5.4
.
there
is
iustice
pronounced
to
him
that
wil
neglect
it
.
Thus
you
see
(
most
deare
and
Christian
brethren
)
that
loue
&
wrath
,
pitty
,
and
revenge
,
patience
and
iudgment
,
as
the
2.
daughters
of
the
great
king
,
goe
hand
in
hand
:
his
mercy
&
truth
do
meete
togither
,
his
righteousnes
and
peace
doe
kisse
each
other
.
Mercy
going
before
with
a
pax
vobis
,
peace
vnto
them
that
accept
it
:
iudgement
following
after
with
a
vae
vobis
woe
vnto
them
that
refuse
it
,
the
one
comming
with
an
open
bosome
to
receiue
the
penitent
:
the
other
following
with
a
drawn
sword
to
devour
the
hard-harted
.
Mercy
is
first
offered
to
leaue
the
wicked
inexcusable
:
iudgment
is
last
executed
to
destroy
the
wicked
that
are
culpable
.
For
this
is
the
vsual
course
which
God
taketh
with
the
sons
of
men
:
first
to
try
them
a
good
space
by
gentle
forbearing
,
which
if
it
draw
them
not
vnto
repentance
,
then
his
arrowes
of
vengeance
are
readie
prepared
for
destruction
.
So
did
he
deale
with
the
old
world
:
hee
spared
it
an
hundred
&
twentie
yeares
,
but
when
hee
saw
that
the
wickednes
of
man
was
great
in
the
earth
,
&
that
al
the
imaginations
of
the
thoughts
of
his
hart
were
onely
evill
continually
.
Gen.
6.5
.
Hee
did
by
a
mightie
flowd
destroy
everie
thing
that
was
on
the
earth
from
man
to
beast
.
Gen.
7.23
.
So
did
hee
deale
with
the
fig.
tree
in
the
Gospel
,
he
spared
it
3.
whole
years
togither
,
and
suffered
it
to
be
digged
&
dunged
carefully
:
but
continuing
it selfe
barren
,
&
making
also
the
ground
barren
round
about
it
,
the
Lorde
wil
no
longer
beare
with
it
,
it
must
be
destroied
,
it
must
be
cut
downe
.
Luk.
13.7
.
So
did
he
deale
with
those
Aegyptians
of
old
,
he
sent
Moses
&
Aaron
to
instruct
them
,
who
wrought
diverse
signes
and
miracles
among
them
to
win
them
to
repentance
:
whereof
when
none
could
moue
them
,
or
pierce
their
hardned
heartes
,
they
were
quite
over-whelmed
in
the
midst
of
the
sea
,
Exod.
14.27
.
So
did
he
deale
with
his
owne
cittie
,
hee
sent
Prophets
&
teachers
early
&
late
,
to
wooe
her
to
Christ
as
the
spouse
to
her
bridegrome
,
he
sent
his
owne
sonne
to
winne
her
from
her
sin
:
but
when
shee
woulde
bee
gathered
by
none
of
these
,
beholde
her
house
was
lefte
vnto
her
desolate
.
Luk.
13.35
.
Finally
so
doeth
hee
deale
with
Niniveh
in
my
text
,
he
giveth
her
ful
40.
daies
for
her
probation
and
triall
:
wherein
if
shee
forsake
not
her
sinnefull
waies
,
and
turne
vnto
the
Lord
,
there
shal
not
a
day
or
houre
be
further
spent
,
vntill
the
iudgement
of
her
overthrow
be
pronounced
,
and
Niniveh
shal
be
destroyed
.
Now
the
greatnes
of
this
iudgment
,
is
here
further
amplified
,
from
the
place
against
which
it
is
denounced
,
beeing
Niniveh
,
no
petty
towne
of
the
nations
,
no
obscure
place
of
the
worlde
,
no
little
village
or
hamlet
of
the
East
,
no
smal
citty
in
Assyria
,
as
Bethlem
was
in
Iuda
:
but
a
greate
and
excellent
city
of
three
daies
iourney
,
even
then
one
of
the
greatest
citties
in
the
world
.
For
as
Diodorus
Siculus
in
his
3.
lib.
and
1.
cap.
Herodotus
in
his
Clio
and
Strabo
in
the
16.
of
his
Geography
haue
at
large
described
,
thi
Niniveh
was
400.
and
80.
furlongs
in
circuit
.
wheras
Babylon
,
which
Aristotle
in
his
politicks
calleth
rather
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
a
country
then
a
city
,
had
almost
fewer
by
one
hundred
.
And
some
haue
beene
of
opinion
that
afterwardes
as
it
grew
in
wealth
,
so
it
was
much
more
inlarged
.
Her
wals
were
in
height
an
hundred
feete
,
in
breadth
sufficiently
capeable
to
receaue
three
carts
on
a
row
,
in
compasse
400.
miles
,
adorned
with
a
thousand
&
fiue
hundred
towers
,
wherof
the
height
of
every
on
was
two
hundred
feete
a
peece
.
The
buildings
of
it
very
faire
,
beeing
(
as
some
haue
noted
)
eight
whole
yeares
a
raysing
vp
,
&
not
by
fewer
at
once
then
tenne
thousande
workemen
.
The
state
of
it
very
commendable
,
beeing
ruled
by
a
king
and
his
nobles
,
Ion.
3.7
.
The
people
of
it
almost
innumerable
,
seeing
there
were
six
score
thousand
infants
,
that
could
not
discerne
betweene
their
right
hand
and
their
left
.
Ion.
4.11
.
In
a
word
if
J
name
but
Niniveh
I
then
name
al
,
a
beautiful
&
pleasant
city
,
as
the
Hebrew
word
whence
it
is
deriued
importeth
.
Not
only
a
great
citty
as
Moses
calleth
it
,
Gen.
10.12
.
but
a
great
&
excellent
city
,
or
a
citty
great
vnto
God
,
as
our
Prophet
calleth
it
,
ô
herein
is
the
iudgement
aggravated
!
This
excellent
and
famous
and
renowned
Niniveh
,
this
large
and
spacious
&
populous
Niniveh
,
this
faire
and
glorious
&
goodly
Niniveh
shal
be
destroyed
.
Niniveh
that
imperial
commaunder
of
all
the
Easterne
partes
,
that
lifted
her
head
aboue
the
nations
,
that
dwelt
in
confidence
and
said
,
I
am
and
there
is
none
besides
me
,
Niniveh
shal
be
destroied
.
Niniveh
in
times
past
highly
renowned
,
prowde
of
her
wals
and
bul-warks
,
puft
vp
in
the
wealthines
of
her
inhabitants
,
&
the
goodlines
of
her
buildings
,
Niniveh
shal
be
destroyed
.
Niniveh
the
mother
city
of
Assyria
,
the
Metropolis
of
the
Country
,
the
golden
heade
of
the
picture
,
the
glory
of
the
earth
,
the
seat
of
the
Empire
,
the
Lady
of
the
East
,
the
Queene
of
nations
,
the
riches
of
the
world
,
Niniueh
shal
be
destroied
.
Obiection
.
But
some
man
peradventure
wil
say
,
what
sinnes
hath
Niniueh
committed
;
how
hath
shee
offended
God
:
that
shee
so
great
and
excellent
,
so
famous
&
renowed
citty
,
should
haue
so
severe
a
iudgment
,
denounced
against
her
from
the
Lord
?
Answere
.
For
answere
whervnto
J
must
confesse
that
the
sinnes
,
for
which
Niniveh
is
here
so
threatned
,
are
not
expressed
in
my
text
,
but
else
where
set
downe
by
the
spirit
of
God
.
That
this
city
was
given
to
idolatry
,
it
appeareth
in
the
second
booke
of
Kings
where
it
is
said
that
Senacherib
was
worshipping
his
false
God
,
in
the
temple
of
Niniveh
,
when
his
two
sonnes
slew
him
.
2.
King
.
19.37
,
And
if
yee
looke
but
into
the
third
chap.
of
the
Prophecy
of
Nahum
;
you
shall
finde
other
sins
of
this
cittie
there
reckoned
vp
by
the
prophet
.
For
he
calleth
it
a
mistresse
of
witchcrafts
,
a
bloudy
citty
,
full
of
lies
&
robbery
,
from
whence
the
pray
departeth
not
.
Vnto
which
sinnes
,
J
may
also
adde
the
sinnes
of
infidelity
,
&
gluttonie
,
and
pride
,
which
I
doe
the
rather
iudge
to
be
general
faultes
among
them
:
because
in
their
repentance
(
as
anone
by
Gods
grace
ye
shall
hear
)
mention
is
made
of
suppressing
these
sinnes
,
of
suppressing
their
infidelitie
,
by
beleeving
in
God
,
of
suppressing
their
gluttony
by
proclaiming
a
fast
,
of
suppressing
their
pride
by
putting
on
sack-cloath
from
the
greatest
vnto
the
least
.
But
that
one
place
is
insteede
of
al
the
rest
,
to
declare
the
sinne
of
Niniveh
,
it
is
in
the
beginning
of
this
prophecie
of
Ionas
:
where
it
is
said
that
the
wickednes
of
this
people
was
come
vppe
before
the
Lorde
,
where
the
name
of
Wickednes
in
the
original
(
as
the
learned
note
)
signifieth
the
greatest
extremity
that
can
be
,
and
is
not
restrained
to
this
or
that
sin
one
of
a
thousand
,
but
is
a
most
absolute
,
&
all
sufficient
terme
,
to
al
manner
of
impietie
.
Thus
then
you
see
(
most
deare
and
blessed
brethren
,
beloued
in
the
Lorde
Iesus
)
that
it
is
not
for
a
smale
thing
,
or
matter
of
light
moment
:
but
for
many
&
most
grievous
sins
,
even
the
height
of
al
impietie
,
for
which
Niniveh
this
notable
citty
must
be
destroyed
.
For
howsoever
her
state
was
most
powerfull
,
her
gouernment
most
excellent
,
her
wals
most
statelie
,
her
towers
most
high
,
her
citizens
most
wealthy
,
her
name
most
renowned
,
her
people
almost
innumerable
:
yet
nether
the
mightines
of
her
state
nor
the
excellencie
of
her
gouernment
,
nor
the
climing
of
her
wals
,
nor
the
aspiring
of
her
towers
,
nor
the
riches
of
her
citizens
,
nor
the
honor
of
her
name
,
nor
the
multitude
of
her
people
,
if
shee
once
giue
over
her selfe
to
sin
;
can
make
her
secure
from
the
wrath
of
God
.
For
greatnes
of
sins
wil
shake
the
foundation
of
the
greatest
citties
,
and
multitude
of
offences
wil
diminish
and
consume
whole
multituds
of
men
.
Iericho
the
city
of
palme-trees
as
she
is
called
.
Deut.
34.3
.
beeing
withal
a
wicked
and
vncircumcised
citty
,
idolatrous
in
the
worship
of
God
,
and
hostile
to
his
people
,
had
a
lamentable
ende
.
For
loe
the
men
of
armes
,
at
the
Lords
appointment
,
vtterly
destroied
al
that
was
in
it
,
both
man
&
woman
,
young
and
olde
,
beasts
and
cattel
,
oxen
&
asses
,
with
the
edge
of
the
sword
,
Ios.
6.21
.
Tyrus
was
rich
with
the
seed
of
Nilus
that
brought
her
abundance
,
the
haruest
of
the
rivers
were
her
revenews
,
and
shee
a
mart
of
the
nations
,
it
was
a
glorious
city
,
and
her
antiquity
of
ancient
daies
:
shee
crowned
men
and
her
marchants
were
Princes
,
&
her
chapmen
the
nobles
of
the
world
.
Es.
23.
Yet
beholde
the
iudgments
of
the
Lord
,
against
that
city
for
her
sins
,
as
it
is
in
the
same
chapter
:
it
was
tould
her
,
that
her
owne
feete
should
lead
her
a
far
of
to
be
a
soiourner
:
for
the
Lorde
of
hostes
had
decreed
it
,
to
staine
the
pride
of
all
glory
,
and
to
bring
to
contempt
al
the
honorable
in
the
earth
.
Nô
was
full
of
people
,
and
lay
in
the
rivers
,
and
had
the
waters
rounde
about
it
:
whose
ditch
was
the
sea
,
&
her
wall
was
from
the
sea
yet
,
for
her
sins
,
was
shee
caried
away
,
and
went
into
captivity
:
her
young
children
were
dashed
in
peeces
at
the
head
of
the
streets
,
and
they
cast
lots
for
her
noble
men
,
and
al
her
mighty
men
were
bound
in
chaines
,
Nahum
.
3.10
.
Yea
Babylon
called
a
great
citty
as
wel
as
Niniveh
,
that
said
in
her
hart
,
I
sit
as
Queene
,
I
am
no
widdow
,
&
shall
see
no
mourning
:
by
reason
of
her
iniquities
hath
her
iudgment
pronouned
by
the
angel
:
It
is
fallen
,
it
is
fallen
,
&
is
become
the
habitation
of
Divels
and
the
hole
of
all
foule
spirites
,
and
the
cage
of
every
vncleane
and
hateful
bird
.
Revel.
18.2
.
Nay
Ierusaleus
though
the
perfection
of
beauty
,
and
ioye
of
the
whole
earth
,
Lament
.
2.15
.
Though
shee
were
as
deare
vnto
the
LORDE
as
the
signet
on
his
right
hand
,
and
the
onely
spowse
of
the
greate
king
of
heaven
:
yet
because
shee
became
wanton
,
and
played
the
harlot
,
and
would
not
be
reclaimed
:
shee
was
made
a
spectacle
of
vengance
&
iudgment
to
all
the
coasts
of
the
earth
&
nations
of
the
world
.
That
sanctified
city
that
chosen
citty
of
the
Lord
,
that
citty
built
in
vnity
,
the
Queene
&
Empresse
of
the
Provinces
,
was
so
defaced
,
and
leveled
with
the
ground
,
that
not
one
stone
was
left
standing
vpon
an
other
,
neither
in
their
houses
,
wals
,
bulwarkes
,
turrets
,
nor
in
the
altars
,
sanctuary
,
or
temple
,
the
old
,
the
young
,
the
matrones
,
the
virgins
,
the
infantes
,
the
princes
,
the
priests
,
the
Prophets
,
&
the
Nazerites
were
al
slaine
,
famished
,
fettered
,
scattered
abroad
,
&
vtterly
consumed
.
For
further
knowledge
of
all
which
,
J
referre
you
to
Iosephus
de
bello
Iudaico
where
these
things
are
largely
set
downe
;
and
he
that
readeth
that
story
with
dry
eies
,
I
wil
say
that
his
hart
is
harder
then
the
hardest
adamant
,
and
himselfe
lesse
compassionate
then
the
most
barbarous
Scythian
in
the
world
.
Si
sit
in
viridi
quid
fiet
in
arido
?
If
this
be
done
in
the
greene
tree
,
what
shal
be
done
in
the
dry
?
Luk.
23.31
.
If
the
Lord
dealt
so
severelye
with
the
Iewes
that
were
the
natural
branches
:
what
will
he
doe
vnto
them
that
are
but
the
wilde
branches
?
Rom.
11.21
.
And
if
he
brought
so
heavy
a
destruction
vpon
his
own
city
for
sin
:
then
let
not
this
famous
citty
of
London
flatter
her selfe
in
her
security
:
but
let
her
,
and
all
the
citties
of
the
world
feare
and
tremble
,
least
committing
the
like
sinnes
,
the
Lord
bring
vpon
them
the
like
iudgments
.
For
as
his
mercy
is
comfortable
:
so
is
his
iudgment
inevitable
,
and
they
that
wil
not
with
Niniveh
imbrace
him
in
the
on
,
in
accepting
the
time
of
40
daies
,
to
their
conversion
;
shal
vndoubtedly
feele
him
in
the
other
,
in
receiuing
a
perpetual
iudgment
to
their
confusion
.
And
so
much
be
spoken
concerning
this
second
circumstaunce
,
of
the
first
general
parte
.
which
was
Gods
iudgment
,
denouncing
destruction
against
Niniveh
,
if
in
the
time
allotted
,
she
would
not
amend
.
And
Niniveh
shal
be
destroyed
.
Now
lett
vs
see
,
what
further
vse
&
application
we
may
make
of
these
things
vnto
our selves
.
Jhad
thought
(
Right
Honorable
,
Application
of
the
former
doctrines
.
right
worshipfull
&
dearly
beloued
in
Christ
Iesus
)
when
I
first
made
choice
of
this
text
to
haue
applied
this
sermon
of
Ionas
to
this
renowned
city
of
London
being
the
Metropolu
of
al
England
as
Niniveh
was
of
Assyria
,
because
in
my
simple
iudgment
this
argument
heere
handled
may
very
wel
befit
this
place
&
these
times
.
But
considering
with
my selfe
that
many
of
this
greate
assembly
are
inhabitants
of
other
places
of
this
land
,
I
doe
rather
thinke
it
best
to
apply
it
to
the
people
of
England
in
general
;
that
what
is
spoken
of
them
,
every
man
in
particular
may
accompt
as
spoken
vnto
himselfe
.
And
here
,
beloued
,
to
proceede
according
to
our
Prophets
method
.
If
ever
there
were
nation
or
kingdome
vnder
the
cope
of
heauen
,
to
whom
the
Lord
hath
manifested
himselfe
to
be
a
God
of
much
patience
&
long
suffering
:
surely
ours
is
that
nation
,
ours
is
that
kingdome
.
How
hath
hee
desired
Englands
salvation
,
Gods
mercies
to
England
.
how
hath
he
waited
for
her
conversion
,
how
hath
he
sought
to
win
and
wooe
her
to
contrition
?
He
hath
sent
her
not
one
Ionas
,
one
time
,
but
many
hundred
Prophets
and
teachers
,
daily
and
howrely
to
call
her
to
repentance
.
He
hath
giuen
her
not
40.
daies
as
he
did
Niniveh
,
but
full
forty
yeares
and
more
to
bethinke
her selfe
:
vnder
the
peaceable
governement
of
a
most
gracious
soveraigne
.
Neuer
did
any
father
so
long
indure
,
the
vntowardlinesse
of
a
wicked
sonne
,
neuer
did
anie
Prince
so
long
suffer
,
the
rebellions
of
a
disloyall
subiect
,
neuer
did
any
Lorde
so
long
forbear
,
the
punishment
of
a
negligent
servant
,
never
did
any
husband
so
long
sustaine
the
iniuries
of
a
lewde-living
wise
,
as
hee
our
gracious
father
,
hath
done
vs
prodigal
sonnes
,
as
he
our
heauenly
king
,
hath
done
vs
vnnarural
subiects
,
as
he
our
mightie
Lorde
,
hath
done
vs
carelesse
servants
,
as
he
our
loving
husbande
,
hath
done
vs
faithlesse
wines
.
His
mercie
&
forbearance
to
the
Israclits
,
was
nothing
,
in
respect
of
that
he
hath
shewed
to
vs
the
people
of
England
.
He
hath
delivered
vs
from
the
spiritual
darknesse
of
Aegypt
,
the
palpable
obscuritie
of
ignorance
and
superstition
.
He
hath
appointed
vs
his
laws
and
ordinances
,
his
statutes
and
his
commandements
.
He
hath
given
vs
Manna
from
heaues
,
angels
foode
,
the
bread
of
our
souls
,
the
word
of
life
,
wher
with
he
hath
fed
vs
these
manie
yeares
.
But
as
the
young
hinds
in
Iob
,
beeing
once
growne
sat
with
corne
goe
from
their
dams
,
and
returne
not
to
them
againe
.
Iob.
39.7
.
So
wee
being
fatted
and
replenished
with
these
and
a
thousand
the
like
vnspeakeable
benefites
and
blessings
forget
and
forsake
the
Lord
of
heauen
.
Witnes
our
vnthankefulnesse
and
disobedience
,
our
grudging
and
murmuring
against
our
maker
.
Witnes
our
cold
zeale
and
luke-warmenes
in
our
profession
,
witnes
our
backsliding
from
the
truth
,
our
neglect
&
contempt
of
the
word
of
God
.
Witnes
the
burden
of
innumerable
sins
,
vnder
which
our
land
groaneth
:
enmity
&
dissention
,
fraud
and
dissimulation
,
covetousnes
and
oppression
,
pride
&
ambition
,
adusterie
and
fornication
,
swearing
and
forswearing
,
lying
and
stealing
&
the
like
,
al
which
had
long
since
pulled
downe
the
heavy
wrath
of
God
and
his
iust
iudgements
vpon
vs
:
had
not
his
mercy
and
loving
kindnesse
hindred
the
same
.
Let
vs
not
(
my
deare
brethren
)
to
farre
provoke
this
gracious
and
loving
God
,
whom
wee
haue
already
grieued
more
then
40.
yeares
by
our
iniquities
.
You
know
that
pride
,
&
fulnes
of
bread
,
aboundance
of
idlenes
,
and
no
stretching
forth
of
handes
vnto
the
poore
,
were
the
very
capital
and
head
sinnes
,
which
did
even
wrest
and
wring
from
the
Lorde
,
his
heavie
and
fearefull
iudgment
on
Sodome
and
Gomor
.
Ezech.
16.49
.
And
yet
who
doeth
not
know
,
that
all
these
sinnes
,
and
infinite
other
,
doe
in
as
bad
manner
,
and
no
lesse
measure
,
reigne
&
revel
in
England
what
other
sequele
than
is
to
be
feared
,
than
that
the
Lord
should
shower
downe
his
plagues
and
iudgements
vpon
vs
,
in
as
great
measure
as
ever
he
did
vpon
them
?
For
he
is
the
same
God
now
,
as
he
was
then
,
and
his
harted
ro
sin
is
stil
the
same
.
We
read
of
three
greivous
punishments
,
which
the
Lord
threatneth
to
bring
vpon
his
people
for
their
sinnes
I
wall
consume
them
,
saith
he
,
by
pestilence
,
by
famine
,
and
by
the
sword
ser.
14
:
12.
Beloued
in
Christ
Iesus
,
Gods
iudgments
rustly
to
be
expected
on
England
,
if
it
doe
not
speedily
repent
.
let
not
England
slatter
her selfe
any
longer
with
the
Lords
patience
,
for
shee
hath
provoked
him
to
long
.
Beholdnow
the
axe
of
this
anger
is
put
to
the
root
of
the
tree
,
his
fan
is
in
his
land
to
purge
his
flore
,
his
fire
is
kindled
,
his
bow
is
ready
bent
,
the
arrows
of
his
vengance
are
ready
drawn
to
the
head
,
&
the
ful
viols
of
his
displeasure
hangs
over
our
heades
ready
,
to
power
downe
the
like
or
greater
iudgments
vpon
vs
:
if
wee
speedely
turn
not
vnto
him
,
by
a
true
&
vnfained
repenrance
.
The
great
plague
in
England
1593.
See
Stowes
Cronicle
.
The
yeares
are
not
yet
many
,
nor
the
time
long
,
since
the
inscriptions
on
your
dores
without
,
were
as
evident
testimonies
of
the
destroying
Angel
of
the
Lord
within
:
since
the
arrow
that
flieth
by
day
,
the
pestilence
that
walketh
in
the
darknesse
&
the
plague
that
destroyeth
at
noone
day
,
devoured
many
thousands
in
this
citty
,
&
other
places
of
this
land
.
And
had
not
Gods
mercy
bin
the
greater
,
in
saying
then
to
his
Angel
,
as
in
like
case
we
read
he
did
:
it
is
sufficient
hould
new
thy
hand
2.
Sam.
24.16
.
A
man
might
haue
wandred
about
our
conntry
,
as
Diogenes
sometimes
did
about
Athens
,
with
a
candle
and
lanterne
in
his
hand
at
noone-day
:
to
seeke
,
I
do
not
say
,
a
good
man
,
but
any
man
at
al
,
&
not
haue
found
him
.
The
great
dearth
.
1597
The
yeares
are
not
yet
many
,
nor
the
time
longe
,
since
the
husbandman
,
as
the
prophet
spekaeth
sowed
much
and
brought
in
little
,
since
the
heavens
over
vs
stayed
themselves
from
dew
,
&
the
earth
vnder
vs
brought
not
forth
her
fruites
,
since
the
staffe
of
our
bread
was
broken
.
&
cleanes
of
teeth
foundin
alour
villages
,
&
want
of
victuals
in
alour
citties
.
And
had
not
Gods
mercy
bin
the
greater
then
vnto
vs
in
sending
a
plentiful
increase
:
our
skin
had
cleaved
to
our
bones
,
&
withered
like
a
stock
Lament.
The
Spanish
fleete
1588.
4.8
.
Finally
the
yeares
are
not
yet
many
,
nor
the
time
longe
,
since
the
sword
of
a
forraine
foe
,
hath
bin
shaken
at
our
land
,
threatning
an
overthrowe
of
the
same
:
since
tidings
of
warres
,
&
rumors
of
manifold
troubls
,
haue
bin
sounded
in
our
eares
:
to
say
nothing
of
our
wicked
attempts
&
divelish
conspiracies
of
many
of
our
vnnatural
countri-men
at
home
.
But
ô
Lord
as
thou
hast
given
but
a
bad
successe
to
such
evil
interprizes
:
so
wee
beseech
thee
stil
to
bring
to
nought
the
proiects
&
purposes
of
al
such
either
forraine
adversaries
that
seeke
our
realmes
destruction
,
or
trecherous
Absolons
that
lift
vp
their
handes
,
against
their
dread
soveraigne
,
&
thine
anointed
.
Let
vs
not
thinke
(
my
deare
brethren
)
that
these
iudgments
of
pestilence
,
of
famine
,
&
the
sword
,
haue
come
vnto
vs
by
chaunce
,
&
so
gon
away
againe
:
There
is
a
God
above
,
that
in
some
measure
hath
made
vs
tast
of
them
for
our
sins
:
whom
if
we
stil
provoke
,
by
heaping
sin
vpon
sin
,
assuredly
he
hath
these
,
&
greater
plagues
in
store
,
to
power
down
vpon
vs
.
For
the
arme
of
the
Lorde
is
not
shortened
:
hee
that
hath
striken
vs
once
,
can
,
&
wil
,
for
our
sins
,
strike
the
second
time
.
He
that
hath
smot
some
few
of
our
nation
with
the
sword
,
can
,
&
wil
,
for
our
disobedience
,
if
we
repent
not
in
time
,
with
the
sword
againe
,
destroy
many
thousands
and
millions
more
.
Hee
that
,
with
the
plague
of
pestilence
,
hath
taken
away
here
&
there
on
,
can
,
&
wil
,
for
our
vnthankfulnes
,
if
wee
repent
not
in
time
,
with
the
same
,
or
a
greater
disease
take
away
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The
lamentable
experience
of
this
wee
feele
in
this
yeare
2603.
whole
multituds
togither
,
nay
devour
whole
citties
,
and
towns
,
and
leave
our
land
as
desolate
as
a
wildernes
.
He
that
hath
punished
our
bodis
in
the
time
of
dearth
for
want
of
bread
,
can
,
&
wil
for
our
rebellion
,
if
we
repent
not
in
time
,
suffer
our
soules
to
perish
for
want
of
spiritual
comfort
:
yea
he
will
bring
on
our
land
,
as
the
Prophet
speaketh
,
not
a
famine
of
bread
,
but
of
hearing
the
word
of
the
Lord
,
And
wee
shal
wander
from
sea
to
sea
,
and
from
the
North
even
vnto
the
East
shal
wee
runne
to
&
fro
,
to
seeke
the
word
of
the
Lord
,
and
shal
not
finde
it
.
Amos
8.11
12.
A
heavy
iudgment
of
al
other
(
my
deare
brethren
)
&
yet
most
vsual
,
where
Gods
word
is
contemned
&
set
at
naught
.
Great
was
the
glory
,
&
glorious
the
light
,
which
the
Church
of
God
sometimes
had
in
Asia
the
lesse
,
at
what
time
the
blessed
Evangelist
St.
Iohn
&
Policarpus
,
&
many
other
schollers
of
the
Apostles
floorished
there
.
How
famous
for
the
word
preached
were
those
citties
of
Graecia
,
florishing
Churches
of
Corinth
,
Galatia
,
Ephesus
,
Philippi
,
Colosse
,
and
Thessalonica
,
wherin
St.
Paule
preached
,
&
planted
so
many
holesome
doctrines
of
the
Christian
faith
:
and
to
whom
he
wrote
so
many
divine
Epistles
extant
in
our
church
to
this
day
!
But
for
the
sinnes
&
iniquities
,
of
the
inhabitāta
of
those
places
,
were
not
the
bright
shining
lamps
of
religion
quite
extinguished
among
them
,
was
not
the
light
of
the
Gospell
quite
taken
from
them
and
since
removed
into
the
West
?
Nay
the
citty
Rome
was
once
the
mirrour
of
nations
,
the
glory
of
the
world
,
the
wonder
of
the
West
,
the
sanctuary
of
religion
,
the
very
habitation
of
true
piety
,
when
her
faith
was
published
throughout
the
whole
worlde
,
Rom.
1.8
.
But
when
religious
Rome
once
proved
beastly
Babylon
,
the
holy
cittie
an
harlot
,
when
idolatrie
and
superstition
began
once
to
rule
&
raign
in
her
:
beholde
her
candlesticke
was
removed
into
the
northerne
parts
,
and
among
the
rest
to
vs
of
this
land
:
where
if
wee
giue
it
no
better
welcome
&
entertainment
than
they
did
,
how
may
we
not
iustly
feare
the
like
iudgement
:
least
the
Lord
deprive
vs
of
so
great
a
blessing
,
&
giue
it
to
Tartarians
and
Moores
wilde
and
savage
people
,
that
wil
with
greater
alacrity
receive
it
,
&
peradventure
with
greater
fruit
entertaine
it
,
then
we
haue
done
.
Wherefore
(
my
deare
brethren
)
yet
the
word
of
the
Lord
is
amongst
vs
,
yet
the
Prophets
are
in
Israel
,
yet
the
pearle
is
in
our
field
,
yet
the
sound
of
the
Gospel
is
heard
throughout
our
land
:
O
then
let
vs
make
more
reckoning
&
account
of
it
,
then
heretofore
we
haue
done
:
lest
this
sunne
be
defaced
,
lest
this
light
bee
put
out
,
least
it
be
told
vs
,
as
it
was
tolde
the
Angell
of
the
Church
of
Ephesus
,
that
our
candle
sticke
shal
be
removed
,
Revel.
2.5
.
Least
the
Arke
of
God
bee
taken
from
vs
,
as
it
was
from
the
Israelits
,
1.
Sam.
4.12
.
Least
as
Paule
and
Barnabas
saide
to
the
Iewes
:
to
you
is
the
worde
of
this
salvation
sent
,
but
seeing
yee
put
it
from
you
,
loe
wee
turne
vnto
the
Gentiles
,
Act.
13.46
.
So
the
Lord
say
vnto
England
to
thee
ô
England
haue
J
given
my
worde
but
because
thou
hast
cast
it
away
from
thee
,
&
iudgest
thy selfe
vnworthy
of
everlasting
life
,
loe
J
will
take
it
away
,
and
giue
it
to
a
barbarous
nation
,
that
shal
bring
forth
the
frūits
therof
,
Math.
21.43
.
Yet
the
Lord
offereth
his
grace
vnto
vs
:
O
then
let
vs
according
to
St.
Augustines
Councel
in
tract.
33.
in
Iohan.
Vse
it
now
if
we
wil
vse
it
at
all
:
Least
the
gate
of
mercy
,
which
to
day
is
open
,
to
morrow
be
shut
,
and
never
opened
againe
vnto
vs
!
Yet
the
messengers
&
Ministers
of
God
doe
beseech
vs
for
Christ
his
sake
to
be
reconciled
to
him
:
O
then
let
vs
now
become
newe
men
in
the
Lord
,
least
a
heavier
iudgement
light
vpon
vs
!
Yet
the
daies
of
plenty
are
amongst
vs
:
O
then
let
vs
nowe
with
Ioseph
lay
vp
in
store
,
least
wee
die
in
the
famine
!
Yet
the
season
is
calme
&
the
weather
faire
:
O
then
let
vs
nowe
with
Noah
build
vp
an
arke
,
least
with
the
rest
we
perish
in
the
flowde
!
Gen.
7.21
.
Yet
the
Angell
tarieth
at
the
gates
of
Sodome
:
O
then
let
vs
now
with
Lot
departe
thence
,
and
hast
away
with
the
Angell
,
least
with
that
wicked
people
wee
be
destroyed
!
Gen.
19.24
.
Yet
the
bridgroome
taryeth
and
waiteth
for
vs
O
then
let
vs
make
hast
to
enter
in
with
him
to
mariages
solennity
:
least
with
the
foolish
Virgins
,
we
be
repelled
,
with
a
non
novi
vos
,
I
know
you
not
!
Mat.
25.12
.
Yet
wisdome
crieth
in
our
streeres
vsque
quo
?
O
how
long
wil
yea
love
vanity
?
O
then
let
vs
nowe
seeke
vnto
her
,
least
,
seeking
hereafter
,
we
seek
in
vain
,
and
shee
laugh
at
our
destruction
!
Prou.
1.26
.
Yet
the
Lord
setteth
open
his
store-house
of
mercy
:
O
then
let
vs
now
run
to
him
for
a
blessing
,
least
,
comming
too
late
with
Esau
,
we
finde
none
though
we
seeke
it
with
teares
!
Heb.
12.17
.
Yet
the
Lord
knocketh
at
the
dore
of
our
harts
:
O
then
let
vs
now
open
vnto
him
:
least
hee
saie
to
vs
as
he
did
to
Ierusalem
,
O
that
thou
hadst
knowne
at
the
lest
in
this
thy
day
the
things
that
belonge
vnto
thy
peace
,
but
now
they
are
hid
from
thee
!
Luk.
19
42
,
Yet
the
Lord
cryeth
vnto
vs
to
a
mend
:
O
then
let
vs
,
in
this
acceptable
time
of
grace
,
harken
vnto
him
,
least
he
say
of
vs
,
as
he
did
of
a
hard
harted
people
:
as
I
haue
cryed
to
you
,
and
you
woulde
not
heare
me
,
so
a
time
shal
come
when
ye
shal
cry
vnto
me
,
and
I
wil
not
he
are
you
.
Zach.
7.13
.
Yet
the
Lord
calleth
vs
vnto
him
:
O
then
let
vs
nowe
come
,
least
,
if
we
come
hereafter
,
it
be
too
late
:
as
Ioab
came
to
Absolon
,
when
his
barly
fields
were
burnt
.
2.
Sam.
14.31
.
Yet
the
Lord
waiteth
for
our
returne
from
Babylon
:
O
then
let
vs
now
returne
vnto
him
,
while
wee
haue
time
,
least
hereafter
he
say
to
vs
as
the
Angel
sware
there
shal
be
no
more
time
Revel.
10.6
.
Yet
the
Lord
wooeth
England
&
London
,
as
he
did
Ephraim
and
Iuda
:
O
England
what
shal
I
do
vnto
thee
,
O
London
how
shal
I
intreate
thee
?
O
then
let
vs
imbrace
the
riches
of
his
bountifullnesse
,
&
his
exceeding
patience
:
least
wee
heape
vnto
our selues
wrath
against
the
day
of
wrath
,
&
of
the
declaration
of
the
iust
iudgment
of
God
Rom.
2.5
.
Finally
yet
the
Lord
,
by
Ionas
,
cryeth
in
the
streets
of
Niniveh
,
&
many
hundred
Ionasses
in
the
Citties
and
townes
of
England
,
yet
40.
daies
,
and
,
if
yee
wil
not
repent
,
not
only
Niniveh
but
the
rest
of
the
land
also
shal
be
quite
defaced
:
O
then
let
vs
al
,
with
Niniveh
in
my
text
,
repent
vs
of
our
sinnes
,
beleeue
in
God
.
proclaime
a
fast
,
and
put
on
sackcloth
,
least
this
heavy
iudgment
denounced
by
our
Prophet
against
Niniveh
iustly
fal
on
vs
for
our
transgressions
.
And
so
much
concerning
my
first
general
part
which
was
Ionas
Sermon
to
the
Ninivits
with
the
application
therof
vnto
our selues
.
Now
followeth
the
consideration
of
the
second
parte
in
the
next
words
,
to
wit
the
Ninivites
repentaunce
;
wherof
a
word
or
two
and
so
I
will
commit
you
to
God
:
So
the
people
of
Niniveh
beleeued
God
,
proclaimed
〈◊〉
fast
.
&c:
Heere
is
the
fruite
and
effect
which
this
Sermon
wrought
in
the
Ninivites
,
described
as
I
toulde
you
before
in
these
4.
circumstances
,
1.
By
their
faith
,
which
was
not
fruitlesse
soe
the
people
of
Niniveh
beleeued
God
2.
By
their
fasting
,
which
was
not
private
,
and
proclaimed
a
fast
,
3
,
By
their
attire
,
which
was
not
costly
,
and
put
on
sackcloth
,
4.
By
their
number
,
which
were
not
few
,
from
the
greatest
to
the
least
.
The
least
of
which
4
circumstances
,
if
I
might
dwel
vpon
them
,
would
require
a
longer
time
,
then
is
allotted
mee
for
the
handling
of
them
all
.
And
J
must
confesse
that
my
meditations
haue
beene
so
farre
inlarged
in
this
second
point
,
that
(
the
time
beeing
almost
past
and
the
weather
so
sodainely
vnseasonable
)
I
shall
not
now
deliver
,
without
offending
your
patience
,
the
on
quarter
of
that
which
I
had
purposed
.
How
be
it
because
I
perceiue
no
man
desirous
to
depart
,
but
everie
one
willing
to
stay
,
and
so
settle
himself
vnto
attention
:
J
wil
be
bold
to
point
at
those
foure
observations
,
which
are
included
in
this
second
part
:
breifly
running
them
al
over
,
tanquam
Canis
in
Nilo
lambens
,
picking
here
and
there
a
litle
,
as
may
most
befit
this
auditory
and
these
times
,
leaving
the
consideration
of
the
rest
to
every
mans
private
meditation
.
Obser.
1.
So
the
people
of
Niniveh
beleeued
God
.
That
is
,
they
did
beleeue
Ionas
sermon
to
be
as
true
,
and
the
iudgment
therein
denounced
to
be
as
certaine
,
if
they
did
not
repent
,
as
if
God
himselfe
had
spoken
it
vnto
them
.
Thus
faith
commeth
,
by
hearing
,
&
hearing
by
the
word
of
God
,
Rom.
10.17
.
A
notable
ground-worke
&
sure
foundation
of
their
repentaunce
,
quo
sublato
,
omne
quod
super
struitur
destruitur
adificium
.
Which
being
taken
away
and
remoued
,
in
vaine
and
to
no
purpose
do
we
build
vp
our
selus
in
sanctity
of
life
,
and
sinceritie
of
conversation
.
For
as
the
blessed
Apostle
speaketh
,
Hee
that
commeth
to
God
must
first
beleeue
that
God
is
,
Heb
,
11.6
.
Without
this
faith
it
is
vnpossible
to
please
God
,
&
what
soever
is
not
of
this
faith
is
sin
.
Rom.
14.23
.
By
how
much
the
more
it
augmenteth
the
commendation
of
these
Ninivites
whose
faith
was
the
first
stone
in
their
spiritual
building
,
their
first
step
in
their
Christian
race
,
their
first
link
in
their
golden
chaine
of
Christianity
,
the
first
signe
of
their
new
conversion
,
the
first
degree
in
their
holy
conversation
,
the
first
ron̄d
in
their
Iacobs
ladder
,
wher
by
they
ascended
vp
into
the
presence
of
the
Lorde
a
strange
&
a
wonderful
matter
,
that
is
here
said
of
this
heathnish
&
idolatrous
people
of
Niniveh
,
that
they
beleeved
God
.
Where
some
thing
was
expected
,
there
nothing
is
to
be
found
,
&
where
nothing
was
looked
for
,
behold
great
aboundance
:
the
fatted
soile
is
become
barren
,
and
the
barten
ground
beareth
much
encrease
,
the
natural
oliue
is
withered
away
&
the
wild
oliue
is
become
fruitfull
:
the
natural
vine
hath
no
grapes
,
&
the
bastarde
vine
beareth
many
clusters
.
Credidit
Ni
niveh
,
&
I
sraell
incredulus
perseverat
,
credidit
praputium
,
et
circumcisio
manet
infidelis
,
saith
S.
Ierome
vpon
this
place
.
Ionas
had
a
long
time
preached
to
the
Israelits
,
&
loe
Israel
was
not
Israel
but
a
disobedient
nation
.
He
preacheth
but
one
sermon
among
these
Ninivits
,
&
he
findeth
more
true
Israelites
among
them
than
in
his
own
countrey
:
the
circumcision
skorneth
,
and
the
vncircumcision
are
made
heires
of
the
promises
,
the
children
prooue
rebels
,
and
the
rebels
are
chaunged
into
children
,
the
Iewes
contemne
the
worde
,
and
the
Gentiles
embrace
it
.
The
Israelits
that
were
the
elect
of
God
,
the
sonnes
of
Abraham
,
the
heires
of
the
covenant
remaine
vnfaithful
:
and
the
Ninivites
that
were
Gentiles
in
the
flesh
,
that
were
called
the
vncircumcision
,
alients
from
the
common
wealth
of
Israell
,
strangers
from
the
covenant
of
promise
,
they
are
found
faithful
.
So
the
people
of
Niniveh
beiceved
God
.
Observ
.
2
Nowe
because
Faith
without
good
workes
is
but
a
dead
faith
,
and
the
Devils
faith
,
as
St.
Iames
calleth
it
.
Jac.
2.
Faith
in
them
(
which
if
it
be
a
true
faith
is
never
solitary
in
any
)
bringeth
foorth
the
good
worke
of
fasting
.
They
proclaimed
a
fast
.
Faith
leadeth
the
way
as
the
mistresie
,
fasting
a
good
worke
is
readie
at
hand
,
as
the
hand-maide
.
Faith
as
the
foundation
is
first
laide
,
fasting
as
the
building
is
raised
on
it
.
Faith
as
the
tree
is
first
planted
,
fasting
as
the
fruite
groweth
theron
,
faith
goeth
before
as
a
cause
of
fasting
,
fasting
followeth
after
as
an
effect
of
faith
.
And
they
proclaimed
a
fast
.
Not
a
contentious
fast
,
as
their
was
,
who
fasted
to
strife
and
debate
Esa.
58.4
.
Not
an
Hypocriticall
fast
,
as
their
was
who
disfigured
their
faces
,
that
they
might
be
seene
of
men
to
fast
Mat.
6.16
.
Not
a
meritorious
fast
,
as
their
was
,
who
had
thought
,
by
this
meanes
to
haue
merited
something
at
the
hands
of
God
Zach.
7.5
.
Not
a
superstitious
fast
,
as
the
fast
of
the
Papists
is
,
who
hold
it
noe
lesse
then
damnation
,
on
certaine
daies
to
eate
the
least
bit
of
flesh
:
and
yet
at
the
same
times
they
can
be
content
,
to
epicurize
it
with
the
sweetest
wines
,
hottest
spices
,
daintest
fruits
,
that
forraine
countries
,
and
most
delicious
fish
,
thet
the
farthest
seas
can
afford-But
the
Fast
of
Niniveh
was
an
orderly
fast
,
it
was
a
publike
fast
,
it
was
an
absolute
fast
,
it
was
a
religious
fast
.
Orderly
,
because
not
seditiously
vnder
taken
by
the
multitude
,
but
designed
and
appointed
by
the
King
and
his
Nobles
.
Publike
,
because
proclaimed
to
be
kept
,
not
of
this
or
that
family
,
but
of
everie
thing
that
breatheth
among
them
both
man
and
beast
.
Absolute
,
because
they
did
not
,
with
the
Carthusian
monkes
&
others
of
the
like
sort
,
for
beare
flesh
,
&
feede
on
dainty
fish
,
and
swill
in
their
booles
of
wine
:
but
as
it
is
in
the
7.
verse
of
this
chapter
,
they
were
forbid
to
taste
anie
thing
at
all
.
Religious
,
because
they
were
commanded
in
this
their
fast
,
to
turne
from
their
evill
wares
&
from
the
wickednes
of
their
hands
.
O
what
a
worthy
fast
was
this
,
O
what
a
singular
meanes
to
appease
the
wrath
of
God
?
Pliny
in
his
7.
lib.
and
2.
chap.
saith
that
fasting
spittle
is
present
death
to
serpents
.
How
true
that
is
J
know
not
.
But
of
this
I
am
sure
and
certaine
,
that
such
a
faste
as
this
,
(
so
solemnely
vndertaken
,
so
sincerely
performed
,
)
cannot
chuse
but
be
a
great
meanes
,
to
weaken
the
power
of
the
great
Dragon
the
olde
Serpent
,
and
quench
al
the
fierie
dartes
of
the
Devill
as
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a
Ardertes
Diaboli
fagictae
ieiuniotum
fri●ore
restringendae
sunt
.
St.
Ierome
speaketh
.
This
is
the
foundation
of
alother
vertues
as
the
same
father
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b
Ad
Deme
triadem
virginem
calleth
it
.
This
is
the
destroyer
of
sinnes
,
as
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c
De
Elia
&
ieiunio
.
Ambrose
nameth
it
.
This
is
the
token
of
humility
,
and
extinguisher
of
lusts
,
as
[
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d
Epist.
121.
&
ser.
de
ieiuni●
.
Avgustine
tearmeth
it
.
This
is
the
rooter
out
of
all
transgressions
,
as
St.
Bernard
vsually
defineth
it
.
This
is
the
tamer
of
the
flesh
,
as
Gregory
in
many
places
describeth
it
.
This
is
the
expeller
of
temptations
,
as
Tertullian
commonly
speaketh
of
it
.
This
was
the
means
which
the
Israelits
vsed
,
when
they
were
distresled
for
the
slaughter
of
their
men
by
the
Beniamites
:
they
wept
and
fasted
al
the
day
vnto
the
evening
Iudg.
20.26
.
this
was
the
meanes
which
Iehoshophat
vsed
,
when
his
enimies
came
against
him
to
battell
:
He
proclaimed
a
fast
throughout
all
Iudah
2.
Chro.
20.3
.
This
was
the
means
which
David
vsed
,
when
his
child
was
sicke
,
he
fasted
and
lay
al
night
vpon
the
earth
.
2.
Sam
,
12.16
.
Finally
this
was
the
meanes
which
the
Ninivites
vsed
in
my
text
being
terrified
with
the
iudgment
denounced
by
the
Prophet
they
beleeued
God
,
and
proclaimed
a
fast
.
Obser
.
3
Now
the
3
circumstance
,
that
setteth
down
what
effect
this
sermon
wrought
in
them
,
was
their
attire
,
which
was
not
costly
,
they
put
on
sackcloth
.
Ahabit
very
fit
to
expresle
the
humility
of
the
mind
,
and
well
ioyned
in
this
place
to
fasting
.
For
these
2.
are
the
weapons
of
repentanc
as
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e
Saecus
&
ieiunium
at
ma
sunt
paenueti●●
auxilae
peccatorum
Hierom.
St.
Ierome
calleth
them
,
And
therfore
the
same
father
saith
:
consequenter
ad
ieiunium
saccam
copulant
,
vt
inanis
venter
,
&
habitus
luctuosus
,
ambitiosiùs
dominum
deprecentur
.
They
adde
vnto
fasting
homely
attire
,
therby
to
further
their
praiers
,
and
to
make
themselues
more
fit
,
to
apply
their
suite
vnto
God
.
And
wheras
no
doubte
they
had
offended
God
,
both
inwardly
and
outwardly
:
they
doe
herein
shew
the
signes
of
their
griefe
,
both
within
&
without
.
Within
,
by
debarring
their
belly
,
&
stomackes
,
of
their
vsual
substance
,
as
they
did
by
their
absolute
abstinence
in
their
fast
.
Without
,
by
making
that
fleshe
which
had
taken
delight
before
in
bewty
and
bravery
to
be
now
basely
,
and
vgly
clothed
,
with
no
better
a
garment
than
simple
sackcloth
,
wherin
as
Gregory
in
his
35.
●●●moral
noteth
,
is
shewed
a
roughnes
&
a
pricking
,
even
the
compunction
of
our
sins
:
And
Tertullian
calleth
it
maroris
insigne
the
very
ensigne
and
badge
of
sorrow
:
because
heretofore
,
in
ancient
time
,
they
did
vse
to
weare
it
vppon
such
occasions
.
Witnesle
the
Patriarke
Iacob
,
who
,
vpon
the
newes
of
his
sonne
Iosephes
death
,
is
said
to
rent
his
clothes
,
to
put
sackcloth
about
his
loines
,
&
to
sorrow
for
his
sonne
a
long
season
.
Gen.
37.34
.
Witnes
Mordechai
,
who
,
when
the
King
had
yeelded
to
the
bloody
request
of
Haman
,
for
murdering
all
the
Iewes
,
put
on
sackcloth
&
ashes
,
&
cryed
a
great
cry
and
a
bitter
,
in
the
midst
of
the
citty
.
Hest.
4.1
.
Witnes
David
,
who
,
in
sign
of
his
sorrow
for
Abner
,
commaunded
the
people
to
rent
their
clothes
,
&
to
put
on
sackcloth
.
2.
Sam.
3.31
.
Witnes
,
in
steed
〈…〉
wherof
J
speake
,
whose
king
rose
vp
from
his
throne
,
and
laid
his
robe
from
him
,
&
covered
himselfe
with
sackcloth
,
&
sat
in
dust
&
ashes
,
whose
nobles
followed
him
,
whose
Commons
imitated
them
;
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
,
from
the
eldest
to
the
youngest
:
from
the
richest
to
the
poorest
,
all
were
clade
in
sackcloth
&
base
aray
,
as
it
followeth
in
the
text
,
from
the
greatest
to
the
least
.
Obser
.
4
The
last
circumstance
(
for
I
cannot
stand
to
amplifie
any
)
wherin
these
Ninivets
repentance
is
discribed
,
is
taken
from
their
number
,
which
were
not
fewe
,
from
the
greatest
vnto
the
least
.
For
it
is
not
one
of
a
house
,
or
some
few
of
a
family
,
or
some
of
the
better
sorte
of
the
people
,
that
thus
were
ready
to
humble
themselves
before
the
Lord
:
but
all
in
general
,
&
every
on
in
particular
,
from
the
eldest
father
,
to
the
youngest
suckling
,
from
the
greatest
potentate
to
the
meanest
peysant
,
of
what
sex
,
estate
,
or
condition
soever
they
be
,
al
are
ready
to
further
this
holy
duty
.
I
might
here
iustly
take
occasion
to
speake
of
the
duty
of
superiour
magistrats
,
who
may
be
here
vnderstood
by
the
greatest
,
as
also
of
inferiour
subiectes
,
who
are
specified
by
the
least
:
how
they
should
,
as
at
al
times
so
especially
in
the
times
of
common
calamities
,
with
a
mutual
consent
,
cast
down
themselues
in
a
generall
humiliation
before
the
highest
.
But
I
can
but
point
at
this
doctrine
.
Let
it
be
sufficient
for
our
instruction
,
that
seeing
these
Ninivits
did
so
vniversally
performe
this
,
that
without
doubt
,
they
shall
rise
vp
in
iudgment
against
vs
at
the
last
day
,
if
we
be
defectiue
heere
in
having
the
like
occasion
.
For
in
their
holy
exercises
,
behold
a
pleasant
harmony
&
agreement
,
maior
aetas
incipit
,
&
vsque
ad
minorem
pervenit
,
saith
a
good
father
.
The
elder
fort
begin
,
and
the
younger
they
followe
after
;
the
superiours
say
to
the
inferiours
,
looke
on
mee
and
doe
yee
likewise
.
Iud.
7.17
.
And
the
inferiors
answere
the
superiors
,
as
the
people
did
Ioshua
,
al
that
yee
commaund
vs
wee
will
doe
Ios.
1.16
.
In
a
worde
,
as
according
to
Philosophie
in
the
natural
bodie
,
the
heart
alone
is
not
warme
,
but
the
heat
thereof
is
a
propagating
heate
,
diffusing
it selfe
in
an
orderly
sort
to
the
rest
of
the
members
,
even
the
hands
and
feet
the
most
remote
parts
of
the
whole
:
so
in
the
common-wealth
of
Niniveh
,
which
was
a
bodie
politicke
,
the
Magistrates
and
governers
themselues
were
not
only
throughly
warmed
with
the
heate
of
devotion
:
but
the
common
people
also
,
and
vulgar
sorte
did
participate
of
that
quality
:
and
as
the
precious
ointment
vpon
Arons
head
ran
downe
by
his
bearde
,
to
the
skirts
of
his
cloathing
,
Psal.
133.2
.
So
these
notable
effectes
of
beleeving
God
,
and
fasting
,
and
putting
on
sackcloath
,
were
deriued
from
the
king
to
his
councell
,
and
nobilitie
,
and
from
them
to
the
meanest
subiect
.
And
as
we
read
of
the
multitude
of
beleevers
,
that
they
were
of
one
heart
,
and
of
one
soule
,
Act.
4.32
.
So
here
was
a
general
consent
,
amonge
a
greater
number
of
new
converts
:
there
was
but
one
heart
,
and
one
soule
,
one
minde
,
and
one
meaning
,
one
faith
and
one
fast
,
one
desire
,
and
on
attire
,
among
them
al
from
the
greatest
to
the
least
.
O
what
a
goodly
sight
was
this
?
O
howe
was
it
possible
but
that
such
a
general
cry
and
consent
as
this
soe
vniversal
a
humiliation
,
should
be
acceptable
vnto
the
Lord
?
For
if
he
hath
promised
,
that
were
two
or
three
are
gathered
togither
in
his
name
,
he
wil
be
in
the
midst
of
them
,
Math.
18.20
.
How
much
more
the
,
when
so
many
thousands
of
al
estats
conditions
,
assemble
themselves
in
sasting
,
sackcloth
,
and
praier
,
before
their
God
in
the
great
Congregation
?
Thus
you
see
(
Right
Honorable
,
Right
worshipfull
most
deare
and
blessed
brethren
)
what
a
plentiful
harvest
,
commeth
af
a
little
seed
sowen
,
what
goodly
rivers
ishue
from
a
little
fountaine
,
what
rare
&
singular
effects
,
are
wrought
in
these
Ninivits
,
by
a
few
words
spoken
by
the
Prophet
Ionas
.
Shall
I
here
commende
the
Prophets
eloquence
,
who
,
like
a
good
oratour
,
did
so
rule
and
raigne
in
their
minds
,
that
as
it
was
said
of
Hercules
Celticus
,
the
eares
of
his
auditors
,
were
tied
with
a
chaine
,
to
the
tip
of
his
tongue
?
Or
shall
I
attribute
it
to
the
soft
,
&
gentle
disposition
of
these
Ninivites
,
who
so
easily
yeelded
at
the
sound
of
the
Prophets
voice
?
I
his
one
general
doctrine
ishueth
from
al
the
4.
particulars
of
this
part
.
Or
rather
shal
I
not
here
admire
,
at
the
powerfull
operation
of
the
word
of
God
,
that
beeing
delivered
by
the
voice
of
on
man
,
and
that
a
straunger
,
it
should
make
so
great
a
king
,
soe
stately
nobles
,
so
rich
citizens
,
so
many
thousand
of
barbarous
&
heathen
people
,
to
vaile
bonnet
,
and
to
descende
from
the
throne
of
their
pride
,
and
to
cast
downe
themselues
,
in
fasting
and
sackcloth
before
the
Lord
?
Surely
this
is
that
word
,
which
,
like
the
snow
&
rayn
never
returneth
voide
,
but
prospereth
in
the
thing
wher
vnto
it
is
sent
.
Es.
55.11
.
This
is
that
word
,
which
is
the
power
of
God
vnto
salvation
.
Rom.
1.16
.
This
is
that
word
,
that
is
like
a
fire
&
a
hammer
that
breaketh
the
stone
.
Ier.
23
29.
This
is
that
word
which
is
liuely
and
mighty
in
operation
,
sharper
then
any
two
edged
sword
,
and
entring
thorough
,
even
to
the
dividing
a
sunder
of
the
soule
&
the
spirite
,
and
of
the
ioints
,
and
of
the
marrow
,
and
is
a
discerner
of
the
thoughts
and
intents
of
the
hart
Heb.
4.12
.
This
is
that
worde
,
that
is
mightly
through
God
,
to
cast
downe
houldes
and
to
overthrow
everie
high
thing
,
that
is
exalted
against
the
knowledg
of
God
,
and
to
bring
into
captivity
every
thought
,
to
the
obedience
of
Christ
2.
Cor:
10.5
.
Finally
this
is
that
worde
,
which
made
the
disciples
harts
to
burne
within
them
,
while
they
talked
with
Christ
.
Luk.
24.32
.
Which
made
Felix
tremble
,
Act.
24.26
.
Which
made
the
Iewes
to
be
pricked
in
their
hartes
,
Act.
2.37
.
Which
made
David
confesse
,
he
had
sinned
against
the
Lord
,
2.
Sam
,
12.13
.
Which
made
the
people
publicans
,
and
souldiers
,
aske
Iohn
Baptist
,
what
they
should
doe
.
Luk.
3.14
.
Which
made
Ionas
denounce
destruction
to
Niniveh
,
and
Niniveh
to
repent
,
for
feare
of
the
destruction
denounced
so
the
message
of
their
overthrow
,
overthrew
the
message
,
the
prophecy
fell
,
and
the
citty
fel
not
,
be
cause
her
fal
was
prophecied
.
O
newe
and
admirable
thinge
,
(
saith
St.
Chrysostome
in
his
5.
Hom.
ad
populum
Antiochenum
)
the
denunciation
of
death
,
hath
brought
forth
life
,
the
sentence
of
the
destruction
,
hath
made
a
nullity
in
the
sentence
:
such
is
the
vertue
of
Gods
word
,
such
is
the
authority
of
his
everlasting
truth
.
And
is
this
even
so
?
Jsthe
word
of
the
spirite
so
mightye
in
operation
,
hath
it
wrought
so
strange
effects
,
and
brought
forth
such
wonderful
fruites
,
in
ignorant
people
,
to
whom
the
Lord
sent
but
one
Prophet
,
and
that
in
so
shorte
a
space
?
How
great
then
shal
our
iudgment
be
of
this
land
,
to
whome
the
Lord
in
mercy
hath
sent
so
many
Prophets
,
&
teachers
,
these
foure
and
forty
yeares
togither
,
to
instruct
vs
,
and
to
cal
vs
to
repentance
:
and
yet
we
lie
stil
frozen
in
the
dregges
of
our
iniquities
?
For
if
we
doe
but
examine
our selues
by
these
Ninivits
,
we
shall
finde
that
our
repentance
commeth
farre
short
of
theirs
.
Doe
we
,
in
the
first
place
,
imitate
the
Ninivits
faith
in
beleeving
of
God
?
I
know
that
many
doe
,
&
God
forbid
there
shoulde
bee
anye
in
a
Christian
common-wealth
,
either
so
wilfully
ignorant
,
as
not
to
beleeue
,
or
so
maliciously
obstinate
,
as
not
to
confesse
this
truth
:
and
yet
there
are
not
wanting
amongst
vs
,
and
they
of
great
place
also
it
is
to
bee
feared
,
that
saie
with
the
foole
in
the
Psalme
,
There
is
no
God
at
all
.
Thou
damned
Atheist
,
whosoever
thou
art
,
lifte
vp
thine
eies
vnto
the
heavens
,
&
behold
therein
,
the
sun
,
the
moone
,
and
the
stars
,
the
wonderful
works
of
God
.
Cast
down
thine
eies
vpon
the
earth
,
and
behold
therein
,
trees
,
plants
,
hearbs
,
flowers
,
beasts
,
&
cattel
:
&
in
them
consider
not
the
power
of
nature
as
thou
foolishlie
callest
it
,
but
of
the
God
of
nature
,
which
framed
&
fashioned
all
.
Consider
the
ebbing
&
flowing
of
the
sea
,
and
the
wonderfull
workes
of
the
highest
in
the
deepe
.
Looke
into
thy selfe
a
little
worlde
,
how
art
thou
fashioned
behinde
and
before
,
within
&
withe
out
,
how
wonderfully
art
thou
made
with
varietie
of
faculties
,
distinction
of
members
,
proportion
of
body
,
to
saie
nothing
of
thy
soule
a
heavenlie
creature
?
And
if
al
this
,
will
not
make
thee
confesse
there
is
a
God
:
yet
knowe
this
,
that
the
horrour
of
thy
conscience
,
for
this
thy
so
greate
blasphemie
,
shall
make
thee
,
whether
thou
wilt
or
no
,
acknowledge
this
truth
.
Or
if
thy
conscience
,
bee
seared
with
an
hot
yron
in
this
world
yet
be
thou
well
assured
,
that
the
worme
of
conscience
,
that
never
dyeth
,
in
the
worlde
to
come
shal
torment
thee
,
in
the
lake
that
ever
burneth
,
and
in
the
fire
that
neuer
goeth
out
.
Do
we
in
the
second
place
with
these
Ninivites
betake
our selues
to
fasting
for
our
sinnes
?
What
then
is
the
cause
,
that
there
are
so
many
amongst
vs
,
who
like
those
voluptuous
Princes
of
Israell
,
doe
stretch
themselues
vpon
their
beds
of
ivory
,
and
eate
the
lambes
of
the
flocke
,
&
the
calues
out
of
the
stal
,
delighting
them selues
in
the
sound
of
the
violl
,
and
other
instruments
of
musicke
that
drinke
wine
in
boles
,
and
annoint
themselves
with
sweet
ointments
,
not
remembring
the
affliction
of
poore
Ioseph
.
Amos
6.6
.
These
are
the
Epicures
of
the
world
,
who
wil
rather
feasT
luxuriouslie
with
drunken
Holofernes
then
fast
religiously
with
these
godly
Ninivites
.
These
are
they
,
whose
God
is
their
bellie
,
whose
glory
is
their
shame
,
whose
only
felicitie
consisteth
in
delicate
fare
:
being
of
his
minde
in
the
history
[
](A14642-e18280-b)*
*
Philoxenus
apud
A●●●ianum
de
vatia
hist.
lib.
10.
cap
9.
who
said
of
his
meate
:
that
that
was
the
sweetest
which
was
the
deerest
.
But
as
the
historian
there
very
wel
councelleth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
These
examples
must
be
remembred
,
not
that
any
should
follow
&
imitate
them
,
but
that
every
one
shoulde
abhorre
and
detest
them
.
Thirdly
do
we
imitate
the
Ninivites
attire
,
in
clothing
our selues
in
sackcloth
and
course
garments
?
Howe
then
commeth
it
to
passe
,
that
the
vgly
and
detestable
monster
pride
,
hath
so
over-run
our
land
:
that
al
estates
,
and
degrees
amongst
vs
,
are
so
tainted
&
infected
with
this
blemish
?
Noble-men
in
the
courte
,
Gentlemen
in
the
country
,
serving
men
every
where
,
vpstart
Swaggerers
&
cutting
Caveliers
,
who
,
when
they
haue
no
inward
qualities
to
commend
them
,
they
must
haue
the
ivy
bush
of
long
haire
to
hang
over
their
shoulders
;
not
regarding
St.
Paules
reproofe
.
1.
Cor.
11.14
.
nor
Absolons
iudgement
.
2.
Sam.
18.9
.
These
are
our
inventors
of
newe
fashioned
garments
,
our
French
,
our
Turkish
,
our
Spanish
,
our
Italian
English-men
.
For
a
man
may
see
a
liuely
resemblance
of
al
these
in
their
apparel
:
as
if
the
vanities
of
al
nations
,
were
little
enough
,
to
make
vp
the
measure
of
an
Englishmans
pride
.
Let
them
not
thinke
,
that
want
of
other
matter
,
hath
driven
vs
to
tax
these
follies
in
them
.
It
is
rather
want
of
grace
in
them
,
that
they
will
not
amend
.
For
if
we
should
not
cry
out
against
these
their
foul
,
&
filthy
sins
they
would
,
on
day
,
cry
out
before
the
tribunal
seate
of
God
,
against
them
and
vs
.
Good
God
,
that
the
sonns
of
Adam
,
should
so
farre
degenerate
from
their
father
Adam
!
He
good
man
wos
content
,
with
a
garment
of
figg-tree
leaues
to
hid
bunakednes
.
Gen.
3●
.
But
we
wil
scarce
be
pleased
with
the
ratest
,
and
richest
workmanhip
,
that
art
or
nature
can
affoord
,
to
cover
our
sinful
bodies
.
Nay
as
Plinie
in
his
5.
lib.
&
first
chapter
noted
the
riott
and
excelle
of
his
time
:
so
may
we
iustly
do
the
like
of
outs
.
Because
forrests
are
sought
out
,
farre
and
neere
,
for
iuory
and
citron
trees
,
and
all
the
rocks
of
Gerulia
are
searched
for
sheifishes
,
that
yeeld
the
purple
crimson
colour
,
to
make
our
apparell
shew
glorious
.
But
ô
folly
and
vanity
of
advanities
saith
the
same
another
,
euer
to
think
,
onsidering
our
simple
beginning
,
that
we
were
sent
into
the
world
,
to
line
in
pride
,
&
to
adorne
&
decke
our
carkesses
in
braverie
,
that
are
nought
but
clay
&
put
refaction
.
Finally
do
we
with
these
Ninivites
,
in
the
last
circumstance
,
generally
turne
vnto
the
Lord
,
&
humble
our selues
before
him
,
from
the
greatest
vnto
the
least
?
what
then
is
the
cause
,
that
all
of
vs
yong
and
old
,
high
and
low
,
haue
so
erred
in
our
waies
:
everyone
,
turning
into
his
own
race
,
as
the
horse
rusheth
into
the
battle
,
to
speake
with
the
Prophet
?
Ier.
8.6
.
What
is
the
cause
,
that
,
in
this
bright
sunnshine
of
the
Gospel
,
such
palpable
darkenesse
of
errour
&
ignorance
,
such
reliques
of
superstition
&
idolatry
,
should
remaine
amongst
vs
?
What
is
the
cause
that
so
many
of
vs
,
are
meere
temporizing
newters
,
luke warme
professors
,
neither
hote
nor
colde
like
them
.
Revel.
3.15
.
halting
betweene
two
opinions
,
coldlie
professing
the
Religion
established
,
but
in
hart
imbracing
Papistical
false-hood
?
What
is
the
cause
,
that
the
Iesūites
and
Seminaries
,
finde
such
secret
favour
amongst
vs
:
who
,
like
subtil
deceavers
,
are
at
open
warre
on
with
another
,
but
yet
tyed
to gither
by
the
tasse
like
Sampsons
Foxes
with
fire
brandes
to
destroy
our
Church
?
What
is
the
cause
that
,
after
the
Gospel
so
long
preached
,
holines
of
life
is
so
little
practised
:
that
many
come
not
at
all
to
heare
the
worde
of
God
or
comming
,
with
the
dease
adder
they
stop
their
eares
at
the
sound
therof
or
hearing
it
,
bring
not
forth
the
fruits
of
repentance
:
or
repenting
for
a
time
,
returne
at
lenght
with
the
dog
to
his
vomit
,
&
the
swine
vnto
her
filth
?
Lastly
what
is
the
cause
that
our
land
is
ful
of
adulterers
,
and
because
of
othes
the
land
mourneth
,
to
vse
the
Prophets
words
Ier.
23.10
.
that
vsurye
hath
corrupted
the
rich
cormorant
,
ambition
the
proud
Prelate
,
covetousnes
the
greedy
lawyer
,
disdaine
the
scornful
courtier
,
deceit
the
cunning
artificer
,
&
the
like
.
that
all
estates
and
degrees
,
are
knowen
by
their
several
sinnes
,
as
every
gentleman
by
his
several
cognisance
?
Is
this
our
vniversall
conversion
vnto
the
Lord
?
is
this
the
fruite
of
the
Gospel
?
are
these
the
badges
of
our
repentance
?
Are
these
the
effects
,
I
say
not
of
one
sermon
as
Ionas
his
was
to
Niniveh
,
but
of
so
many
thousand
sermons
,
delivered
from
time
to
time
vnto
vs
?
Never
more
preaching
never
lesse
pra●●●ing
.
Beloved
in
Christ
Iesus
,
I
am
verely
perswaded
,
that
the
immortal
seede
of
Gods
word
,
was
never
more
plentiful
sowen
since
the
Apostles
time
,
then
it
hath
bin
amongest
vs
,
these
many
yeares
togitherithe
Lord
make
vs
thankfull
for
so
great
a
blessing
.
And
yet
as
Lictantius
said
,
there
was
never
lesse
wisdome
in
Greece
,
then
in
the
time
of
the
7.
wise
men
:
so
I
seare
me
it
may
be
to
truly
said
,
there
was
never
lesse
piety
in
England
,
then
in
this
long
eontinuance
of
so
many
godly
and
zelous
Pastors
.
Sodome
&
Gomer
,
Tire
&
Sidon
,
shal
rise
vp
at
the
last
day
and
condemn
vs
:
for
if
halfe
so
many
lecturs
,
and
sermons
,
&
exhortations
,
&
instructions
,
had
bin
preached
among
them
,
as
haue
bin
amonst
vs
,
They
had
surely
repented
in
sackcloth
&
ashes
.
The
Queene
of
the
South
,
shall
rise
vp
in
iudgment
,
against
vs
at
the
last
day
for
she
came
from
the
vttermost
part
of
the
earth
to
heare
the
wisdome
of
Salomon
Mat.
12.42
.
But
many
of
vs
,
refuse
to
step
out
of
our
dores
,
to
heare
the
heauenvly
wisdome
of
the
true
Salomon
Christ
Iesus
,
revealed
in
his
heavenly
word
.
The
Publicans
and
souldiers
,
shal
rise
vp
at
the
last
day
&
condemn
vs
:
for
at
the
preaching
of
on
Iohn
Baptist
,
they
were
moued
in
their
minds
Luk.
3.14
But
let
al
the
Ministers
&
messengers
of
God
,
cry
out
til
they
be
hoarce
against
our
sins
,
&
yet
our
harts
ar
nothing
pricked
,
&
yet
our
affections
are
nothing
stirred
vp
.
Those
wicked
Iewes
,
that
crucified
the
Lord
of
life
,
shal
rise
vp
at
the
last
day
&
condemn
vs
;
for
they
,
at
on
sermon
of
St.
Peter
,
were
converted
to
the
number
of
three
thousand
.
Act.
2.41
.
But
how
many
fermous
shal
a
man
make
amongst
vs
,
before
he
convert
on
sinfull
soule
,
before
hee
bring
home
one
stray
sheep
to
the
sheepfold
of
Christ
Iesus
?
The
Ninivits
as
you
haue
hard
,
at
one
little
sermon
of
a
few
words
,
delivered
by
one
Ionas
,
repented
in
sackcloth
&
ashes
,
from
the
greatest
to
the
least
,
but
wee
haue
hard
,
not
in
this
place
only
,
but
in
al
the
corners
,
&
quarters
of
our
land
,
many
hundred
Ionasses
,
yea
many
thousand
pastors
&
prophets
,
&
preachers
of
the
word
:
&
yet
for
al
this
,
where
is
our
faith
in
beleeving
God
?
wher
are
the
fasts
we
haue
proclaimed
?
wher
is
the
sackcloth
we
haue
put
on
?
wher
are
the
superiors
to
designe
?
where
ar
the
inferiors
to
put
in
practise
these
holy
exercises
?
Lastly
al
the
creaturs
of
God
,
shal
rise
vp
at
the
last
day
&
condemne
vs
:
for
they
,
in
their
several
places
,
do
in
their
kind
,
perform
their
duty
to
their
creator
,
&
are
obedient
to
his
word
:
but
we
only
,
as
the
most
vnreasonable
,
&
insensible
of
al
other
,
continue
obstinat
&
rebellious
stil
.
The
heavens
declare
the
glory
of
God
,
the
lights
obey
him
with
fear
,
the
stars
shin
in
their
watch
,
the
moone
keeps
her
appointed
season
,
the
sum
knows
his
going
down
,
the
waters
fly
at
hi
rebuke
:
the
earth
trembleth
&
the
mountains
shak.
The
stork
in
the
aier
knoweth
her
appointed
time
,
&
the
turtle
,
and
the
crane
,
and
the
swallowe
obserue
the
time
of
their
comming
:
the
oxe
knoweth
his
owner
,
and
the
asse
his
maisters
cribb
:
but
wee
onely
,
as
the
most
vnreasonable
,
and
insensible
of
al
creatures
continue
obstinate
&
rebellious
stil
.
What
should
I
saie
more
(
beloved
in
Christ
lesus
)
senselesse
stones
are
more
obedient
to
Gods
voice
than
we
are
.
Beholde
Moses
with
his
rod
stroke
the
rocke
but
twice
,
and
the
waters
gushed
out
abundantly
.
Num.
20.11
.
but
though
the
God
of
Moses
,
strik
our
stony
hatts
,
twice
twenty
times
,
with
the
hammer
of
his
word
:
yet
,
where
is
that
penitent
Peter
amongst
vs
,
J
say
not
,
that
weopeth
bitterly
,
but
that
sheddeth
one
teare
,
in
remembrance
of
his
transgressions
?
Behold
the
stony
wals
of
Iericho
,
after
God
had
summoned
them
by
his
Priests
,
sounding
their
trumpets
thrice
,
at
the
third
found
,
fell
flatte
vpon
the
ground
.
Ios.
6.20
.
But
we
haue
resisted
,
not
the
third
,
or
the
fourth
,
or
the
sift
onely
,
but
more
the
fiue
hundred
solemne
summons
,
&
several
sounds
:
none
of
them
could
ever
moue
vs
,
none
of
them
coulde
once
awake
vs
.
Isidore
in
his
12.
lib.
and
2.
cap.
de
brutis
animalibus
,
reporteth
of
the
yong
Lions
,
that
,
after
3.
daies
,
they
are
raised
and
rowsed
,
by
the
roaring
of
the
olde
:
but
the
Lion
of
the
tribe
of
Iudah
Christ
Iesus
,
by
preaching
of
his
word
,
hath
roared
,
not
3.
daies
alone
but
more
than
43.
yeares
togither
amongst
vs
,
&
yet
for
al
this
we
are
not
roused
,
and
yet
for
al
this
we
are
not
awaked
.
what
?
is
not
Christ
the
same
Christ
still
?
is
not
his
Gospel
as
fruitful
,
is
not
his
doctrine
as
effectual
,
is
not
his
word
as
powerful
now
as
ever
it
was
?
yes
my
deare
brethren
.
But
the
fault
is
in
vs
.
Our
marble
&
flinty
harts
will
not
be
softened
,
with
the
sweete
shewers
of
Gods
heavenlie
word
,
confortably
falling
down
vpon
them
:
our
stiffe
&
yronsinewed
necks
,
wil
not
bow
with
any
yoke
,
either
the
sweete
&
easie
voke
of
the
Gospel
.
Mat.
11.30
.
or
the
heavy
&
vnsupportable
yoke
of
the
law
.
Act.
15.10
.
our
faces
are
like
whores
forheads
,
that
wil
not
blush
Ier.
3.3
.
our
ears
are
so
deafe
,
our
eies
so
dry
,
our
senses
so
dul
,
our
wils
so
obstinat
,
our
affections
so
barren
,
our
desires
so
cold
:
that
neither
the
infamy
and
shame
of
the
world
can
moue
vs
,
nor
al
gentle
admonitions
allure
vs
,
nor
the
terrible
threatnings
of
Gods
iudgments
feare
vs
,
nor
the
continuall
preaching
of
al
the
creatures
of
God
vnder
heaven
perswade
vs
vnto
repentice
.
Nay
we
are
so
soundly
rocked
and
lulled
a
sleepe
in
the
carelesse
cradell
of
security
,
that
neither
the
goulden
bells
of
Aaron
,
nor
the
thundering
trump
of
Esay
,
nor
the
well
tuned
cymballs
of
Dauid
,
nor
the
shril
sound
of
Gods
word
,
continually
ringing
in
our
cares
,
can
once
awake
vs
.
Being
herein
like
to
those
beares
,
of
whom
Selinus
writeth
,
in
his
39.
chap.
qui
tam
gravi
semno
premuntur
,
vt
ne
vulneribus
quidem
excitariqucant
.
who
are
so
farre
opprest
with
a
heavy
sleepe
,
that
though
they
bee
wounded
,
yet
can
they
not
be
wakened
.
Or
like
those
fishes
of
whom
Aristotle
in
his
4.
l.
&
10.
c.
de
hist.
animalium
writeth
:
that
they
sleep
so
soundly
that
,
though
they
haue
speares
thrust
into
their
sides
,
yet
they
stir
not
at
all
:
so
sense-lesse
also
are
we
in
this
our
carnal
security
,
that
though
the
Embassadours
of
the
King
of
heaven
,
as
so
many
sons
of
thunder
,
with
Ionas
in
my
text
denounce
iudgment
against
vs
,
out
of
that
word
,
which
is
sharper
than
any
two
edged
sword
:
yet
for
al
this
,
we
do
not
with
these
Ninivits
yeeld
&
cast
down
our selves
before
the
Lord
:
but
rather
like
to
the
drunkard
sleeping
in
the
top
of
the
mast
Pro
23.
when
we
are
thus
striken
we
feel
it
not
,
when
we
are
thus
beaten
we
awake
not
,
when
we
are
thus
admonished
we
amend
not
.
Wherfore
(
most
deare
&
blessed
brethren
beloued
in
the
bowels
of
Christ
lesus
)
to
conclud
al
in
a
word
,
〈…〉
as
he
said
to
the
Angel
of
the
church
that
is
at
Sardis
:
so
giue
me
leave
,
I
beseech
yov
,
to
say
the
same
to
every
on
of
you
,
that
heareth
me
this
day
.
Remember
how
you
haue
receaved
&c.
Rev.
33.
Remember
that
this
day
you
haue
hard
of
a
message
from
the
Lord
to
a
great
citty
,
&
of
the
conversion
of
a
great
citty
vnto
the
Lord
.
Remember
in
the
one
Gods
patience
to
Niniveh
,
in
sparing
it
long
Yet
40.
daies
:
And
yet
his
severe
iudgment
of
destruction
,
if
she
would
not
amend
,
and
Niniveh
shal
be
destroyed
:
Remember
in
the
other
the
Nini
vits
turning
vnto
the
Lord
,
begun
with
faith
,
continued
with
fasting
,
declared
in
sackcloth
,
performed
of
al
,
from
the
greatest
vnto
the
least
.
And
remember
that
the
Lord
hath
sent
,
the
same
messag
this
day
to
England
,
to
London
,
nay
to
vs
all
,
as
he
did
to
Niniveh
:
giving
vs
yet
time
to
repent
,
if
we
wil
accept
him
.
O
then
let
vs
loue
him
in
his
mercy
:
threatning
our
o
verthrow
,
if
we
do
neglect
him
,
ô
them
let
vs
feare
him
in
his
iudgments
,
let
vs
now
repent
,
while
we
haue
time
,
least
hereafter
we
would
repent
,
when
we
shal
haue
no
time
.
Let
vs
now
turn
vnto
the
Lord
,
in
beleeving
on
him
,
in
pinching
our
bellies
with
fasting
,
in
clothing
our
backes
with
sackcloth
,
and
in
a
general
humiliation
of
our selves
before
him
,
that
so
he
may
turne
away
his
wrath
,
and
heavie
iudgmentes
,
from
vs
&
from
our
lande
.
Let
vs
now
open
our
eares
,
at
the
sound
of
his
word
preached
.
That
being
opened
,
we
may
heare
it
carefully
,
&
,
carefully
hearing
it
,
wee
may
conceiue
it
rightly
,
and
,
rightly
conceiving
it
,
wee
may
beleeue
it
faithfully
,
and
,
faithfully
beleeving
it
,
we
may
discerne
it
fruitfully
,
and
,
fruitfully
discerning
it
,
we
may
practise
it
effectually
,
&
bring
forth
the
fruits
therof
accordingly
,
therby
growing
from
strength
to
strength
,
from
vertue
to
vertue
,
vntill
at
the
last
we
become
perfect
men
in
Christ
Iesus
.
That
so
being
nowe
accepted
as
sonnes
,
into
the
kingdome
of
grace
in
this
world
,
wee
may
heerafter
bee
receaved
as
heires
,
into
the
kingdome
of
glory
,
in
the
world
to
come
.
Which
the
Lord
of
his
infinit
mercy
graunt
vnto
vs
all
,
for
his
Deare
Sonns
sake
Iesus
Christ
,
to
whom
with
the
Father
,
and
the
Holy
Ghost
,
three
Persons
,
one
eternall
,
everliving
,
and
onely
wise
God
,
bee
rendered
and
ascribed
all
Honour
,
and
Glorie
,
Power
and
Praise
,
Might
and
Maiestie
,
Dignitie
and
Dominion
,
now
and
for
evermore
.
Amen
.
FJNIS
.