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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25382	A golden trumpet sounding an alarum to judgement the sound whereof was never more needfull though evermore profitable : dedicated and directed unto all the elect children of God which truly repent / newly published by Iohn Andrewes.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1648 (1648)	Wing A3123A; ESTC R27886	10,009	25

A Golden Trumpet Sounding an Alarum to Judgement the sound whereof was never more needfull though evermore profitable Dedicated and directed unto all the Elect Children of God which truly repent Newly published by Iohn Andrewes Minister and Preacher of Gods Word The nine and twentieth Impression LONDON Printed for Edward Wright and are to be sold at his shop in gilt-spur-street without Newgate at the signe of the Bible 1648. The Author to the Reader SOund to Judgment this Golden Trumpet Into the eares of every one Early be ringing here thine owne knell Or sound t' alarum for time will be gone Weep for thy sins and watch for the day Here of the coming of Christ our Judge Each day and houre slips quickly away No time is set therefore doe not grudge Make this Trumpet to sound in thine eare A day of Judgement is almost come Delay no time we all must appeare Now still prepare for the day of doome A Golden Trumpet CHAP. I. The first Chapter treateth of the sound of the Trumpet AS Adam sléeping securely in his transgression had great néed of that Trumpet from GOD to rowze him from the sléep of sin Adam ubi es Adam where art thou So necessary for every sinfull Adamite to raise him up from the sléep of sin is this notable memento this worthy sound of the Golden Trumpet Wherefore if ever there were a time for Gods Ministers to have their hearts like the Lions their face of brasse and their voice of stéele to sound this Golden Trumpet that they might boldly in the face of the Congregation cry and lift up their voice like a Trumpet with the Prophet Esay to shew the people their transgressions If ever there were a time for Ieremiah to cry in the eares of Hierusalm to declare amongst the Nations and to set up a standard to proclaim the fall of Babylon If ever there were time for Lot To reprove the Sodomites for Elias to reprove Achab Nathan to reprove David Ionah to cry to the Ninivites or Ieremiah to wish his head to be full of water and his eyes to be a fountaine of teares Yea David Esay Ieremiah Paul to wéep for the sins of the people then sure the time is now Yet nothwithstanding the Gospell hath béen long taught amongst us the sound thereof hath filled our eares but whose heart hath it pierced Whose life hath it bettered Sin is sharply reproved but iniquity still aboundeth To the briefe I néed not complaine with the Prophet of those gréedy dumbe Curres which feacute ed themselves and starve the soules of their flocke but onely recite Gods threatnings against them in a few proofes of Scripture and so I leave them for the Lord to require their bloud at their hands For I may boldly say the Lord be praised for it that we had never more preaching though never lesse following than we have now There were never more crafty worldlings and gréedy Nabals that love an ounce of Give me more than a pound of Heare me than be now O I feare that there were never more that have sold themselves and their very Soules for lucre sake than be now Wherefore I doubt not but the very iniquitie of the whole world is come to maturitie Therefore it is now high time to sound the Golden Trumpet and ring it with alarum that if ever they will be rouzed from the deadly sléep of sin to awake and repent now for Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit He that is not ready to repent to day will be lesse ready to morrow Oh now therefore while the Gospell soundeth now while Christ calleth now while he knocketh let us now repent let us take this present time while we have it time and tide staieth for no man the time past is irrevocable which cannot be recalled the time to come is full of uncertainty for it may be it never shall come Only the present time is ours but it is momentarie O therefore let us take and make good use of it To morrow some wil say I will a Convert be O when tell me I pray shall I this morrow see Let never wise man say to morrow mend I will Who is not fit to day is l●sse l●sse fit still Wherefore holy men of God urge still the time present Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found Turne ye now from your evill wayes Doe good while ye have time To day if ye will heare his voice hearden not your hearts Thus the converted heart séeketh the present time be cause it is a bléeding and a tender heart It trembleth at the word it is pricked when it is rebuked and inflamed with burning zeale when it is instructed O then take hold of this present opportunity so friendly smiling on thée and repent presently Let the sound of this Golden Trumpet be ever in thy eares For as our Saviour Christ said of Iohn Baptist This is Eliah if ye will receive him So say I this instant this moment is the time of repentance this is the day of salvation this is the time of grace this is the acceptable houre O therefore embrace it We read that the Ninivites were coverted at these words of Ionahs preaching Yet forty dayes and Niniveth shall be destroyed The sound thereof caused not onely the Subjects but the very King of that City to come from his Throne of Monarchie to cast off his Robes to put on sackcloth and sit in ashes with fasting wéeping and great mourning S. Peter at one Sermon converted thrée thousand soules unto Christ insomuch as they were so pricked in their hearts at his Doctrine that they came crying Men and brethren what shall we doe to be saved In another Sermon he converted Cornelius the Captain with a great multitude S. Iohn Baptist at one Sermon converted both Scribes Pharises Publicans Souldiers and Sinners insomuch as all that heard him preach Mused in their hearts whether he were not very Christ Paul converted many in Asia and also in Europe yea in all parts and quarters of the world Christ himself converted so many that it caused the Iewes to cry out Behold the whole world goeth after him O where is any such Conversion in these our dayes What drowsinesse is in us What carelesnesse Nay what madnesse is in us that we cannot be converted with all the preaching that is so often and continually preached amongst us Can we not remember Is our memory so short or have we drunke so much of the River of forgetfulnesse That wée remember not what our Saviour saith plainly Except ye repent ye shall all be damned Let us consider with our selves and descend into our owne Conscience and sée whether there be any Reason why God should spare us and deale so severely with others Saba the Queene of the South came from the furthermost parts of the world to