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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86519	Nevv Englands teares, for old Englands feares. Preached in a sermon on July 23. 1640. being a day of publike humiliation, appointed by the churches in behalfe of our native countrey in time of feared dangers. / By William Hooke, minister of Gods Word; sometime of Axmouth in Devonshire, now of Taunton in New England. Sent over to a worthy member of the honourable House of Commons, who desires it may be for publick good.	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2625; Thomason E208_5; ESTC R17543	12,760	27

NEVV ENGLANDS TEARES FOR OLD ENGLANDS FEARES Preached in a Sermon on July 23. 1640. being a day of Publike Humiliation appointed by the Churches in behalfe of our Native Countrey in time of feared dangers By WILLIAM HOOKE Minister of GODS Word Sometime of Axmouth in Devonshire now of Taunton in New England Sent over to a worthy Member of the honourable House of Commons who desires it may be for publick good LONDON Printed by T. P. for Iohn Rothwell and Henry Overton and are to be sould at the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard and in Popes-head Alley 1641. TO THE READER COURTEOUS READER THou hast here presented to thy view a Sermon preached to some in New-England for Old Englands sake wherein is expressed much love to a Countrey left It was once imputed to Anaxagoras that he cared not for his Countrey because he seemed to be little moved with the ruines thereof This cannot be imputed to our brethren of New-England for they not seeing nor hearing of onely fearing the ruines of this our Countrey were deeply affected with it a signe they love us Some have applyed that of the Apostle to them 1 John 2.19 They went out from us because they were not of us for if they had beene of us they would no doubt have continued with us but how falsely it is applyed this Sermon doth discover for certainly they are of us though they be gone from us for if they were not of us their affections would not have so continued to us as to fast and pray for us Amor poscit amorem Let our affections be endeared to them As for this Sermon expect not care-pleasing but heart-affecting phrases in it the Author sought not so much to please as to profit nor to informe the iudgement as to worke upon the affections If thou bring thy heart with thee to the Reading of it thou mayst find thy heart melting by Reading of it and then thou shalt have cause to blesse GOD for it Vale. NEVV ENGLANDS TEARES FOR OLD ENGLANDS FEARES JOB 2.13 So they sate downe with him upon the ground seven dayes and seven nights and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his griefe was very great THE words are spoken of Jobs three friends who were now come to visite him and sympathize with him in the time of his distresse They had made an appointment thus to doe vers 11. viz. to come to mourne with him and to comfort him For thus the godly should send to one another in like case and acquaint one another with the sorrowes and calamities of their friends and brethren and agree to contribute and cast in their sorrowes and sympathize when their friends are afflicted A godly practice and which the Churches in this Land doe well this day to imitate Now then are Jobs friends comming towards him and when they lift up their eyes a far off they knew him not c. Affliction may so alter the outward face of things and friends that ancient acquaintance may not know them Upon this they sate downe with him upon the ground c. The summe of what is now read unto you is the sympathy of Iobs friends in the time of his calamity and from it we may observe this point That it is the part of true friends and brethren Obser to sympathize and fellow-feele with their brethren and friends when the hand of God is upon them For thus you see did Iobs three friends here doe and they performed a very brotherly office of love in so doing When therefore afterwards their hearts grew more hard towards him he cals upon them for the same compassions Iob 19.21 Have pity upon me have pity upon me O yee my friends for the hand of the Lord hath touched mee From whence wee may likewise collect that when the hand of God hath touched a friend all his friends should have tender pity upon him And such affections have the godly shewen forth as we finde in Scripture Who is weake saith Paul and I am not weake 2 Cor. 11.29 Who is offended and I burne not When David was in great heavinesse as being under a great affliction by the rebellious insurrection of the sonne of his owne loynes against him Mephibosheth the sonne of Jonathan Davids deare friend did neither dresse his feete 2 Sam. 19.24 nor trimme his beard nor wash his clothes untill the day that the King returned in peace And Jeremy writes a booke of Lamentations for Judahs misery though himselfe had then his life given him for a prey When the naturall body of Christ was to suffer he said to his friends Weepe not for me but weepe for your selves but when his mysticall body suffers he expects that we should not weepe so much for our selves as for him Nay David sympathizeth with his very enemies As for me when they were sick my clothing was Sack-cloth and I humbled my soule by fasting I behaved my selfe as though he had been my friend or brother I bowed downe heavily as one that mourneth for his Mother Psal 35.13 14. Whence wee gather what our affections and behaviours ought to be for our friends brethren and mother in their distresse Yea which is yet more wee finde one wicked man fellow feeling with another Ahaziah a wicked King went downe to visite wicked Joram the son of Ahab because he was sick 2 King 8.27 29. And both God and his Church and Children will complaine in the want of this brotherly affection Among all her Lovers saith Jeremy shee hath none to comfort her Lam. 1.2 It was indeed Jerusalems misery not to be pitied but withall it was her Lovers sinne Therefore shee complaines vers 12. Is it nothing unto you all ye that passe by Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow c. Againe I called for my Lovers but they deceived me Vers 19. And Obadiah prophecieth against Edom for their cruelty and want of compassion with their brethren of Judah in the day of their distresse When Christ is any way afflicted he expecteth to be pittied Matth. 25. and will openly condemn them before all the world that omit this dutie And that parabolicall speech of Christ to the Jewes of children sitting in the Market place and calling one to another Luk. 7.32 and saying Wee have mourned to you and yee have not wept is taken from this ground that it is matter of just complaint if when friends doe mourne their fellows doe not weepe But the Scriptures are expresse in the command of this sympathy Rom. 12.15 16. Rejoyce with them that rejoyce and weepe with them that weepe be of the same minde one towards another When the Apostle had said Let brotherly love continue in the verses following he instanceth in two duties thereof Heb. 13.1 2 3 first In enterteining strangers secondly In remembring them that are in bonds as bound with them and them that suffer adversitie as being our selves also