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A44327	New-Englands sence, of Old-England and Jrelands sorrowes a sermon preached upon a day of generall humiliation in the churches of New-England : in the behalfe of Old-England and Jrelands sad condition / by William Hooke ...	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2623; ESTC R10758	17,779	37

tents and the people of God are encamped in the open fields what comfort can we have in our houses food or wives What though we are so farre from them in place The needle in the Compasse is never quiet till it pointeth to the North at a thousand times greater distance Affections touched with grace stand firme from one end of the World to the other Nehemiah's heart stood right towards Jerusalem when he was in Persia and though hee was not in an humbling Wildernesse but an alluring Pallace even in Shushan yet Jerusalem came into his minde For when Hanani and certaine men of Iudah came thither to him he asked them concerning his brethren that were left of the Captivity and concerning Ierusalem And when they told him of the great affliction and reproach he sate downe and wept and mourned many daies and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven Neh. 1.1 2 3 c. Wherefore let that Word of the Lord sound often in our eares Ye that have escaped the Sword go away stand not still remember the Lord a farre off and let Ierusalem come into your minds Ier. 50.51 And though we have but a day or two wherein to joyne all our Forces in the Land together and to give the Adversaries a broad side Yet let us now and then make excursions by our selves in private now that the Lord cals for help against the Mighty Are we not all the Voluntarie of IESUS whose People shall be willing in the day of his power neither is there any restraint unto the Lord to save by many or by few by whole Churches or by single persons Let us therefore be often adventuring by our selves like Ionathan and his Armour-bearer against the Philistims If ever we afflicted our soules let it be in these daies for we may partly understand by Bookes the number of the yeares which God will accomplish in the desolations of Ierusalem So that we set our faces unto the Lord God to seek by Prayer and Supplications with Fasting Sack cloth and Ashes There is at this time a great battell between Michael and the Dragon and the Angels The Beast and the Kings of the earth and their Armies have gathered themselves together to make warre with the Lambe All the Principalities and Powers and Rulers of the Darknesse of the World and Spirituall wickednesses in High places are up in Armes this day and there is scarce a Devill left behind in Hell If ever therefore now Let us quit our selves like men the weapons of our Warre-fare are not Carnall but mighty through God Let us pray against them as Moses against Amalek and Preach against them as the Priests under the Law when the Host went out against the Enemy and sing against them as Iehosophat and the men of Iudah did against Moah Ammon and Edom and live against them as it is written When the Host goeth forth against the Enemy then keepe thee from every wicked thing Deut. 23.9 Every Ordinance of God is a deadly murtherer O let us walke and sleep in our Armour and never be unfurnished of promises touching the confusion of Babel and her builders Let the cause of God affect us deeply and the people and Cities of our God be alwaies in our eyes And let the desolations of Christendome awaken us to frequent Prayers and constant sympathy and the bloud of Gods people particularly in Ireland be to us as the bloud of Grapes and Mulberies are to Elephants to provoke them to fight Oh those incarnate Irish Devils let them be often in our sight Their blasphemies their burnings their robberies their rapes their rostings their strippings rippings hangings drownings dis-membrings butcheries the very shambles of the Devil erected in Ireland would be alwaies in our eyes and eares And yet when we have done all let us referre the issue to the Almighty saying Let the Lord do what seemeth him good The last thing is their resigning up their wills into the hands of GOD whereof a few words and I end Ioab is not wanting in the use of all meanes to obtaine victory yet lookes above them and refers the issue to the Lord of Hosts teaching us Doctrine To neglect no meanes of Victorie yet to depend upon the Lord onely for a gracious issue For there is no trusting in our bows or swords it is the Lord that saveth us from our enemies It is not the race to the swift for then Ioab knew that his brother Asael had not dyed by the hand of Abner Neither is it the battel to the strong for then he knew that Goliah should never have fallen by the hand of David The Horse is prepared against the day of Battell but victory is of the Lord. Vsc First Let this teach us to seeke the Lord that none of this may ever rest upon the arme of flesh nor number the people as once David did Hee had a Catalogue of all the mighty men 2 Sam. 23. and now too he will have a list of all the Souldiers in his Kingdome 2 Sam. 24. He Idolized the carnall strength of Israel and remembred not the Word of the Lord which said When thou takest the summe of the children of Israel after their number then they shall give every man a ransome for his soule unto the Lord that there bee no plague among them when thou numbrest them Exod. 30.12 Let us remember England in this particular It lyeth under great temptations to this kind of Idolatry The Union of the two Nations two Houses all or most of the Shires by Petitioning for Reformation the setling of the Warrefare of the Kingdome at Sea and Land the mervellous wisdome and undaunted resolution of Parliament their successe in many matters the eyes of many on them and the applause that is given them besides whatsoever other temptations and armes of flesh may soone solicite the hearts even of the godly much more of others to carnall confidence that they may never lift up their eyes unto the hilles from whence commeth their helpe Sisera Midian Goliah Senacherib Zerah fall by their carnall props when Barak Gedeon David Jonathan and Asa resting upon the Lord in the use of small meanes returne victorious Two dayes weeping fasting was little enough for the eleven Tribes to gaine the day of Benjamin O let not Gods people rest in Councell Number Courage Ammunition but in the Lord of Hosts Secondly Let not us then place any affiance in our Fasting daies but refer al to God when we have ended them If the Devill cannot make us convert our Prayers unto Idols he will see whether hee cannot convert them into Idols Lastly Let us lay our hearts this day in the Lords hand as once Eli Hezekiah being threatned as here Ioab ready for the onset did The People of God both in old England and new have waited on his providence both by earthly and heavenly meanes Now let the Lord doe what seemeth him good If it shall seem good to him that England Ireland or Scotland shall suffer yet further the will of the Lord be done What remaineth but for us to magnifie Gods justice and to put our mouthes into the dust Especially as for England considering how long the Prelacie hath fought against Christ and kept him out of his Kingdome What bloody brazen-faced Idolatries have bin committed there What Atheismes Blasphemies Adulterie Prodigies of pride grinding of faces selling of the Poore countenanced Sabbath breakers derision of holinesse shedding the blood of the Saints have been common in that Land and in a speciall manner considering the sinnes of Gods deare people there particularly of his Messengers in their lon● continued subjection unto the power of Antichrist in the Prelacy the warpings and shrinkings of some the fearefulnes and cowardize of many for which for mine own particular I desire to be humbled while I live the reading of that abominable Booke of cursed liberty contributing to the Superstitious Pompousnesse of Paules and to the raising of Forces against the Scots a dreadfull bloody sin reading or permitting to be read Proclamations and Prayers in the Churches against them I say considering all this to mention no more though we have used what meanes we can and though they should doe the like yet let our expectations of successe be low let us humbly submit our selves to the will of the Lord saying Let him doe what seemeth him good If it seem good to him to pardon the Land O blessed be such gentlenesse If otherwise it seem good to him to correct it blessed bee his justice What soever he doth is good therefore let him doe it And any mercy at any time is enough for great transgressors FINIS