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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

in the same body God doth then expresly require this part of brotherly love The Doctrine is cleare enough It is the part of true friends Prov. 17.17 c. A friend loveth at all times and a brother is borne for adversitie Reasons Because they are members of the same body the Reason intimated by the Apostle Remember them that are in adversitie as being your selves also in the same body Now it is the part of one member to fellow-feele with another When the Shunamites sonne was sick especially in one part his whole body complained saying My head 2 King 4.19 my head This made David to say for my brethren and Companions sake I will say Psal 1 22 8. Peace be within thee He desired the peace of Jerusalem because of his brethren and companions there who were as it were bone of his bone It is a great lightning of the afflictions of brethren to be bemoaned by brethren and friends in time of affliction Solamem miseris socios c. sociall sorrowes doe somewhat solace the miserable Which wee see in Jerusalems Complaint for want of pity from her Lovers and Jobs at last from his friends Now it is the part of friends and fellowes to beare one anothers burdens Yea it is of the Law of Christ Gal. 6.2 which is the Law of Love And surely if a man doth but see his horse over-burdened he will run presently and lighten the loade that is upon him Againe Consider that it may be the case of friends themselves who then would be glad to be sympathized with A man that hath friends Prov. 18. last saith Salomon must carry himselfe friendly He may soone els loose his friends when he expects to be dealt with friendly by them One reason why mercy rejoyceth against judgement Iam. 2.13 is because as it hath yeelded mercy to others in time of Judgement so now it expects the same from them in like case Lastly It is an easie service of Love It cost Jobs friends but little to come and bestow their teares and their sorrowes upon him What can a friend doe lesse true friendship and brotherhood goes further it will nay it must if need be lay downe its life for the brethren 1 Ioh. 3.16 Vse Before I come to the maine use which I ayme at I will speake a few words by way of Information to shew how farre they are from being friends or brethren who are ready to rejoyce at the afflictions and miseries of others A right Edomitish quality Obad. vers 12. for Edom rejoyced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction and spake proudly in the day of their distresse and these were a cursed generation And indeed the Psalmist implyes it to be a property of abjects thus to doe In mine adversity they rejoyced Psal 35.15 and gathered themselves together yea the abjects i.e. the cast-awayes gathered themselves together And it is commonly observed that men and women who have turned Witches and been in league with the devill thereby to doe mischiefe are never given over so to doe till they begin to have an evill eye which grieveth at the Prosperity and rejoyceth at the misery of others Hence Witchcrast is described by an evill eye I know not what eye hath bewitched my young Lambes And when any are bewitched Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascina● agnos it is a phrase of speech among many to say they are overseene i.e. lookt upon with a malicious eye Nay it is the property of the devill to be thus affected Mans prosperity is his p●ine and mans adversity his rejoyeing as wee see in Iob neither is there scarce any thing that doth more import the seed of the Serpent in a man then this same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rejoycing in the evill and misery of another It is then the property of Edomites abjects witches and devils to rejoyce in the misery that befalleth others And though I am not able to charge any of you with this cursed affection yet I doe wish you to looke into your owne hearts for this I am sure here are strong temptations sometimes leading towards it in this Land which when they meet with an heart voyd of grace must needs stirre up the disposition in it and not onely emulations and envyings but witchcraft it selfe is a worke of the flesh Gal. 5.19 20. But the use that I doe principally intend is of Exhortation to you all as you desire to approveyour selves the true friends and brethren of your deare Countrey-men in old England to condole with them this day in their afflictions Jobs friends you see did it for him seven dayes and seven nights i.e. many dayes oh let us doe it then this one day at least for these Indeed when we looke upon our selves at this time in this Land the Lord hath given us great cause of rejoycing both in respect of civill and spirituall peace God hath at once subdued the proud Pequats and the proud opinions that rose up in this Land and for plenty never had the Land the like Yea which is much better the Word of God growes and multiplyeth Act. 12. the Churches have rest throughout the whole land and are edified Act. 9.31 and walking in the feare of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost are multiplyed This is much and more it would be if the edge of these and other our comforts were not this day turned by the feare of civill strifes and combustions in the Land of our Nativitie which doe not a little abate the sweetnesse of all other our happinesse to us and call for Lamentation and sack cloth at our hands When Artaxerxes said unto Nehemiah Neh. 2.3 Why is thy countenance sad seeing thou art not sicke Have you not read the answer Why should not my countenance be sad when the City the place of my Fathers sepulchres lyes wast and the gates thereof are consumed with fire Why Nehemiah was well enough at ease he had honour and power and favour and pleasure enough and being the Kings Cup-bearer he had Wine enough of all sorts at his command which maketh glad the heart of man But what is all this not to cloud his countenance and to overcast it with griefe and sorrow when the City of his Fathers was layd wast and the gates thereof consumed with fire Thus Beloved if our comforts were treble to what they are this day yet could it not but much abate the sweetnesse of them to consider what distresses may lie at this time upon ●ur native Countrey for ought wee know a●● have too just cause to feare When the Arke and Israel and Judah abode in tents and Joab and his men were encamped in the open fields 2 Sam. 12.11 Vrijah tooke no comfort in his beautifull wise nor in his house nor in his meate and drinke Let us therefore I beseech you lay aside the though●s of

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

all our comforts this day and let us f●sten our eyes upon the calamities of our brethren in old England calamities at least imminent calamities dropping swords that have hung along time over their heads by a twine thread judgements long since threatned as foreseene by many of Gods Messengers in the causes though not foretold by a Spirit prophetically guided heavy judgements in all probability when they fall if they are not fallen already And not to looke upon the occasions given on the one side or the other betweene the two Sister Nations Sister Nations ah the word woundeth let us looke this day simply on the event a sad event in all likelihood the dividing of a King from his Subjects and him from them their mutuall taking up of Armes in opposition and desence the consequences even the gloomy and darke consequences thereof are killing and slaying and sacking and burning and robbing and rifting cursing and blaspheming c. If you should but see Warre described to you in a Map especially in a Countrey well knowne to you nay dearely beloved of you where you drew your first breath where once yea where lately you dwelt where you have received ten thousand mercies and have many a deare friend and Countrey-man and kinsman abiding how could you but lament and mourne Warre is the conflict of enemies enraged with bloody revenge wherein the parties opposite carry their lives in their hands every man turning prodigall of his very heart blood and willing to be killed to kill The instruments are clashing swords ratling speares skul-dividing Holbeards murthering pieces and thundering Cannons from whose mouths proceed the fire and smell and smoake and terrour and death as it were of the very bottomlesse pit Wee wonder now and then at the sudden death of a man alas you might there see a thousand men not onely healthy but stout and strong struck dead in the twinckling of an eye their breath exhales without so much as Lord have mercy upon us Death heweth its way thorow a wood of men in a minute of time from the mouth of a murderer turning a forrest into a champion suddenly and when it hath used these to slay their opposites they are recompenced with the like death themselves O the shrill care-piercing clangs of the trumpets noise of drums the animating voices of Horse Captains and Commanders learned and learning to destroy Iob 39.19 20 c. There is the undaunted horse whose neck is clothed with thunder and the glory of whose nostrills is terrible how doth he lye pawing and praunsing in the valley going forth to meet the armed men he mocks at feare swallowing the ground with fiercenes and rage and saying among the trumpets Ha Ha he smels the battell a far off the thunder of the Captaines and the shouting Here ride some dead men swagging in their deep saddles there fall others alive upon their dead horses death sends a message to those from the mouth of the Muskets these it talkes with face to face and stabbs them in the fist rib In yonder file there is a man hath his arme struck off from his shoulder another by him hath lost his leg here stands a Souldier with halfe a face there fights another upon his strumps and at once both kils and is killed not far off lyes a company wallowing in their sweat and goare such a man whilest he chargeth his Musket is discharg'd of his life and falls upon his dead fellow Isa 9.6 Every battell of the warriour is with confused noise and garments rouled in blood Death reignes in the field and is sure to have the day which side soever falls In the meane while ô formidable the infernall fiends follow the Campe to catch after the soules of rude nefarious souldiers such as are commonly men of that calling who fight themselves fearelesly into the mouth of hell for revenge a booty or a little revenue How thick and threefold doe they speed one another to destruction A day of battell is a day of harvest for the devill All this while the poore wife and tender children sit weeping together at home having taken their late farewell of the harnessed husband and father ô it was a sad parting if you had seene it never looking to see his face againe as indeed many and the most of them never doe for anon comes Ely's messenger from the Camp saying 1 Sam. 4.17 There is a great slanghter among the people and your husband is dead your father is dead he was slaine in an hot fight he was shot dead in the place and never spake a word more Then the poore widow who fed yet upon a crumb of hope teares her haire from her head rends her cloths wrings her hands lifts up her voice to heaven and weeps like Rachell that would not be comforted her children hang about her crying and saying O my father is slaine my father is dead I shall never see my father more and so they cry and sob and sight out their afflicted soules and breake their hearts together Alas Alas this is yet but Warre thorow a Crevise Beloved doe but consider There is many times fire without warre and famine and pestilence without warre but warre is never without them and there are many times robberies without warre and murthering of passengers ravishing of matrones deflouring of virgins cruelties and torments and sometimes barbarous and inhumane practices without warre but warre goes seldome or never without them Warre it is malum complexum a compound of Judgements Psal 75.8 amixt misery the cup in the hand of the Lord the wine whereof is red and it is full of mixture The wine is indeed as red as blood and the ingredients are fire famine pestilence murthers robberies rapes deflourings cruelties torments with many other miseries The voice of melody ceaseth relations that were lately the comfort are now become the griefe of the life of men the high wayes are unoccupyed Iudges 5.6 7 11. the travellers walke thorow by wayes the Inhabitants of the villages cease and the noise of the Archers is heard in the places of drawing water Warre it is the immediate hand of such whose tenderest mercies are cruelties 2 Sam. 24.14 commonly therefore the last of Gods stroakes upon them that will take no warning But yet there is difference in warres a warre in the borders of an enemy is held better then a warre in ones native Countrey for commonly the land that is as the garden of Eden before an enemy Joel 2.3 behind them is like a desolate Wildernesse and it is very wofull when people and land shall be wasted together Or if it be warre in our owne and yet a warre against a forreigne enemy invading is far better then a civill warre It is grievous but not admirable to see an Egyptian and an Hebrew contending but to see as the Prophet sayth Egyptians against Egyptians Isa 19.2 and every one fighting against his brother and

cry and melt away into teares of sorrow To this adde the Consideration of the many mercies heapes of rich and precious mercies twenty yea thirty and forty yeares mercies and to some more which wee have there received especially soule mercies There the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ Jesus first shined forth unto thee there first thou heardst his pleasant voice there did his good Spirit first breathe upon thine heart there didst thou first beleeve and repent and amend thy lewd wayes And never was there a Land I thinke since Christ and his Apostles left the world so richly blest in converts or that ever brought forth such and so many worthies into the world Yet there now alas indeed where sooner when sinne aboundeth doth Judgement begin to reigne as we may greatly feare Or is it not meet that we should beare a partwith them in their sorrowes who have borne a part with them in their sinnes Have we conferred so many sinnes as we have done to speed on their confusion and shall we bestow no sorrow on them Shall we not help to quench the fire with our teares that we have kindled with our sinnes O cruell How know wee but that the Lord is at this instant visiting our transgressions there acted which polluted the Land Beloved did wee not commit there ten thousand millions of sinnes and more amongst us during our aboad there There O there we played the ungodly Atheists there it was we halted betweene God and Baal sware by the Lord and by Malchom were neither hot nor cold there some of us blasphemed the dreadfull name of the ever blessed God polluted his Sabbaths despised his messengers contemned his holy wayes prophaned and abused his mercies and his good creatures ran with others to the same excesse of riot c. And how ever some may say they have repented hereof yet little doe they know what evill examples they have left there behind to fill up the measure both of sinne and wrath If thy sinnes committed there be pardoned yet thy sins sins may be punished like as a Father may be spared and yet his children executed Thy sinnes ôman have begotten many sins there there is many a formalist and many a conformitant the more for thee as indeed I feare there is for me Alas how have they kept on sinning upon our examples Anothers drunkennesses have begotten many a drunkard there as anothers spirituall cowardize many a Nicodemite and anothers Lukewarmenesse many a Laodicean Now doe we feare that the Lord is gone forth this day to call that Land to an account and to visite for these and the like abominations and is this nothing unto us Shall men be slaine for our sinnes and we afford them no sorrow What shall the old Prophet in Bethel rise up in judgement against us for when he had slaine the man of God by his lying and dissembling to him he yet mourned and lamented over him 1 King 13.30 saying Alas my Brother Ah my friends and brethren let us doe the like our sinnes have slaine perhaps by this time a little Army of men what can wee lesse then lament over them saying Alas Alas our Brethren Surely wee in this Land have great cause to doe as wee doe this day if for no other respect yet for this for wee have done enough and enough to overwhelme old England with the wrath of God that our hearts at this time could be but over-shadowed with a cloud of sorrow Againe let us suppose that things were even now turned end for end and that wee were this day in distresse and those our brethren in peace I am confident that they would condole with us yea and powre out many a prayer for us for they did as much I know when this Land lay sometimes under dearth another time when the Indians rebelled a third when the monstrous opinions prevailed And how have they alwayes lissened after our wellfare ebbing and flowing in their affections with us How doe they I meane all this while multitudes of well affected persons there talke of New-England with delight How much nearer heaven doe some of their charities account this Land then any other place they heare of in the world Such is their good opinion of us How have some among them desired to dye if they might not be vouchsafed to live in this Land And when sometimes a New-England man returnes thither how is he lookt upon lookt after received entertained the ground he walks upon beloved for his sake and the house held the better where he is how are his words lissened to laid up and related frequently when he is gone neither is any love or kindnesse held too much for such a man Neither let this be forgotten that of all theChristian people this day in the world wee in this Land enjoy the greatest measure of peace and tranquilitie Wee have beaten our swords into plough-shares and our speares into pruning hookes when others have beaten their pruning hookes into speares and their plough-shares into sword And now as Moses sayd to the Reubenites and the Gadites Numb 32.6 Shall your brethren goe to warre and shall yee sit still So shall our brethren goe to warre and we sit still and not so much as grieve with them shall they be wounded with the sword and speare and not we pierced so much as with brotherly sorrow Surely then if ever the LORD should bring the like houre of temptation upon us as his people here have not been long hitherto without exercise he might justly shut us out of the hearts of all our brethren in the world And whereas too perhaps here and there one in our native Land especially in their passions may have had some transient thoughts touching it may be some of us as if the exorbitant spirit of John and James were in us desirous that fire from heaven should fall upon them as if I meane we would be glad to heare of Judgements upon our native Countrey ô cruell and unnaturall our fellow-feelings this day I hope shall wipe away all such prejudices And truly if Gods Justice might be satisfied with that Lands amendment without one drop of blood though we should shed store both of teares and blood to effect it wee would greatly rejoyce and soone turne this day of Humiliation into a day of gratulation graise and thankesgiving What shall I say If there should be any one heart here digd out of a Marpelian rock let such an one remember Iere. 29.7 lastly that in the peace of that Land we shall have peace and therefore in the misery of that Land we shall never be happie You know that God hath hitherto made that Land a blessing unto this If Christ hath a Vine here that Land hath as yet been the Elme that hath susteined it Thence hath the Lord thus stockt this American part with such Worthies there were they bred and nurst thence hitherto have been our yearely supplies of men and of many an usefull commoditie If then they suffer we may easily smart if they sink wee are not likely to rise And this at least may be a perswasive to a sordide minde that will not be wrought upon by more ingenuous Arguments The mercifull God stirre up all our affections and give us that godly sympathy which that Land deserveth at our hands and teach us to expresse it upon all occasions of ill tydings comming to our eares from thence Yea let us sit at this time like old Ely upon the wayes side 1 Sam. 4. watching as he did for the Arke of the Lord with a trembling hand and heart And let us be every day confessing of our old England sinnes of its high pride Idolatry superstition blasphemies blood cruelties Atheismes c. and let us never goe to our secrets without our Censors in our hands for old England deare England still in diverse respects left indeed by us in our persons but never yet forsaken in our affections The good God of Heaven have mercy upon it and upon all his deare people and servants in it for Christ his sake Amen FINIS