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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14442	The lamentations of Germany Wherein, as in a glasse, we may behold her miserable condition, and reade the woefull effects of sinne. Composed by Dr Vincent Theol. an eye-witnesse thereof; and illustrated by pictures, the more to affect the reader. Hereunto are added three letters, one whereof was sent to the Dutch consistory in London, under the hand and seales of 14. distressed ministers of Swyburggen in Germany.	Vincent, Philip, b. 1600.	1638 (1638)	STC 24760.7; ESTC S121128	25,071	81

Gods indignation Isay 10. 5. There is no evill in a City but he doth it Behold saith the Psalmist what desolations the Lord hath made in the earth Psal. 46. 8. If a Sparrow fall not to the ground but according to the will of our heavenly Father much lesse are millions of men mowed downe with the sword but according to his righteousnesse in Iudgement It is also cleare out of Scripture that wee ought to lay to heart those Iudgements of God which wee are acquainted with and especially his greater Iudgements God sends one place to consider of another Goe yee now unto my place which was in Shilo where I set my name at the beginning and see what I did to it for the wickednesse of my people Israel 7. 12. saith God to the men of Ierusalem And who makes question but that those Churches Nations Persons and Places which have speciall relation one unto another sacred or civill in the bonds of Religion neighbourhood or commerce are more especially bound mutually to consider and bemoane one anothers conditions This likewise is evident that our Church and State and every member of the same ought upon speciall consideration to be cordially affected with the miseries of Germany They are of the same Religion with us Christians as wee are our peace is the weaker for want of theirs many of our owne have suffered with them but above all is the affliction of that Royall Lady our Gracious Soveraignes onely sister who hath suffered already in her Royall Person and may suffer yet more in her posterity but God forbid But what is it that wee must doe or learne from the state of things in Germany The particulars are severall in severall regards In relation to God to them and to our selves In regard of God Wee must acknowledge the infinitenesse of his Wisdome and unsearchablenesse of his Iudgements and take heede of rash assigning the cause Some lay all the blame upon the Protestants as if their division among themselves and unnecessary separation in their phrase from the Church of Rome were the roote of all But is it not more likely that Germany drinkes now of the cup of wrath because shee hath long drunke of the cup of sundry great abominations The generall cause which is sinne wee all acknowledge It were a happinesse to know the speciall according unto that Foelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas But such a spirit of discerning God gives not unto all They themselves best know their owne waies case and state and therefore wee may leave it unto them to consider of the speciall causes whom it most concernes But who will not feare the Lord and glorifie his Name who onely is holy and whose judgements are made manifest Rev. 15. 4. In respect of them first let us sympathize grieve with them that grieve Rom. 12. 15. and weepe with them that weepe We are all members of one and the same mysticall body whereof Christ is head Our peace and security is in a great measure bound up in theirs their troubles may increase ours as they have already occasioned many feares cares and expences Witnesse the great levie of souldiers at some times and not a little chargeable Embassages from our King and State Next of all we are to pray for them that God would restore peace and make up all breaches Giving the Lord no rest untill hee make Ierusalem the praise of the earth Abraham interceded long for Sodome how much more ought we to do the like for them And yet further as we have ability and opportunity we ought to help and succour them ministring to their necessities receiving of their profugates and intertaining them into our bosomes when they fly from their owne to us Many of ours found among them a shelter from the storme in our Marian daies and doe still no doubt blesse God for our peace notwithstanding their owne warres In respect of our selves there be many instructions which we may learne from the Lecture of their calamities No privileges can finally secure a sinfull people for what have we to glory in that they had not The seedes of all their evills are sowne in our fields There be likewise divers duties that wee should abound in the more In repentance lest we bring upon our selves the like In prayer that God would blesse our state and government that by the wisedome thereof we may be led along in such waies as may propagate our peace unto posterity In patience under those chastisements which we suffer Though the hand of God hath long beene upon many Cities and Townes and his Arme be stretched out still upon some of them yet is our misery happinesse in comparison of theirs If a gentle plague alone have affrighted us all What would Sword and Famine with it doe But what doe wee Wee put farre away the evill day and cause the seat of violence to come neere Wee drinke wine in bowles and anoint our selves with the chiefe ointments but are not grieved for the afflictions of Ioseph Amos 6. 3. 6. This is no small sinne and if once the day of our visitation come a small chastisement on Gods part will not be all Oh that wee would consider the Vials of Gods wrath are pouring forth as well on his owne Churches for correction as on their adversaries unto destructino Who knowes how fast the cup may passe round Gods arrowes are all fleete The curse of God goeth forth over the face of the whole earth Zach. 5. 3. If the sinnes of Sodome be found in Samaria and the sinnes of Samaria in Ierusalem they shall all pledge each other for God is no respecter of persons Are there no drunkards but in Germany Or doth God hate sinne in them alone What are wee that God should alwaies spare us Many cry Peace Peace and I with the Prophet Ieremy say Amen The Lord doe so the Lord performe the words of them which prophesie of nothing but good Iere. 28. 6. But it s good to remember that of the Apostle when they cry Peace Peace c. Gloss. ordin in Ierem. 7. 12. Quicquid illo populo fecit Deus timeamus cum nos similia faciamus Yet no such clouds blessed bee God arise over our heads as those wherewith her horizon is darkned But stormes arise suddenly God creates good and evill brings both when there is no appearance or cause of suspicion Not to feare is cause enough to bee affraid if we could so reflect upon our selves As God brings light out of darknesse so darknesse out of light How faire rose the Sunne upon Sodome that day it rained fire and brimstone How poore a thing was a cloud like a mans hand to prognosticate abundance of raine by But I must manum de tabula Well then reade on reade and spare not reade and consider reade and weepe imagine the Booke to be Germany it selfe their case ours and our soules in their soules stead Do as Nehemiah did when he