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A04379	Newcastles call, to her neighbour and sister townes and cities throughout the land, to take warning by her sins and sorrowes Lest this overflowing scourge of pestilence reach even unto them also. As also a direction, how to discover such sins as are the procurers of Gods judgments by divers methods. By R. Jenison, Dr. of D. Whereunto is added, the number of them that dyed weekely in Newcastle and Garth-side, from May 6. to December 31. 1636.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1637 (1637)	STC 14492; ESTC S107703	57,340	278

219 Newcastles Call To her Neighbor and Sister Towns and Cities throughout the Land to take warning by her Sins and Sorrowes NVMB. 16.46 For there is wrath gone out from the Lord the Plague is begun CHAP. I. An Introduction to the maine Observation I Need not tell you why at this time I make choyse of these words to treat on This Argument had not bin out of season The occasion of this Argument if wee had handled it before euer this plague of pestilence arrived our coasts and when we only heard how it raged in Holland and in other parts beyond the Seas They there of the reformed Churches especially are our brethren wee members with them of the same body mystical And as we shold have sympathized more with them than we did We should have taken warning by others and our selves formerly so wee should have taken warning by Gods heavy hand upon them when first the plague began with them and wrath was gone out frō the Lord. For this judgement of plague as an Overflowing scourge of the Lord as other like judgments are ends not commonly where it begins neither should wee have made a covenāt with death as if we had bin at agreement with hell to say in our security and it skils not whether wee say it in word or in deed Esay 28 15-18 When the overflowing scourge shall passe through it shall not come unto us At the first going out of wrath it concerned us to haue bin warned and to have prepared to meete our God by true repentance Amos 4.12 and intreaties of peace and when his judgements once began to bee in the earth ●say 26.8 9 to haue learned righteousnesse How much more now when Gods bow is further bent and his arrowe of Pestilence hath reached even unto us shall I say of this nation only nay to us of this sinfull place and Towne where we liue and where after a pretty warning and summons given us a few moneths agoe when it arrived our a At the North Shields in Octob. 1635. Port and made its abode there a while chiefly yet so as that it sent up the river to us some few messengers of death where I say after some few moneths intermission it hath broken out fearefully May 6. 1636. and begins to spread like wildfire mo perishing by it this first fortnight since it began or was discovered amōgst us Namely 114 persons then either formerly with us or yet with the great and mother-citie of London in the first three moneths after it began with them some 11. yeres agoe though for number of parishes the disproportion bee thirtie to one When God makes such speed at the first going out of his wrath here amongst us 〈◊〉 others us now will it not concerne us also to make speed and to hasten our repentance yea not us only but our neighbouring towns and cities yea generally all townes and cities in these his Majesties kingdomes Who must ●ot be se●ure For if yet we wil be secure that will concerne us which long since was spoken to Ierusalem Ephraim and to the scornefull men who ruled that people Esay 28.1.3 4. first woe to the crowne of pride to the drunkards of Ephraim The crowne of pride the drunkards of Epharim shal be troden under feet Verse 14. And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall bee a fading flower Then for their securitie thus they are threatned and why not we now of this place especially being as proud sensual scornfull and secure as they your covenant with death shal be disanulled 18. and your agreement with hell shall not stand when the overflowing scourge shall passe through then ye shal be troden downe by it 19. From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you for morning by morning shall it passe over wherupon the Lord shewing himselfe strong on the behalfe of his servants was ready to have consumed the whole congregation all at once as in a moment but that they who were injuried interceded for them the effect of whose intercession was a Direction from God to the Meanes by which he would be pacified which Moses receiving from God gives in charge to Aaron herein a type of Christ that he would take a censer 1 Thess 1 10. and go quickly to the Congregation and make an atonement for them and why And the meanes used to stay it was it not high time Yes assuredly for there was wrath already gone out from the Lord the plague was begun and ere hee could get into the middest of them and performe his office there died of the Plague fourteen thousand and seven hundred Vers 49. which meanes if it had not bin used in time the whole Congregation had bin consumed CHAP. II. The maine Doctrine propounded The particulars of the Text laid open Gods wrath against sinners shewed Mens sencelessenesse thereof bewayled THese words are for our present use at this time and chiefly teach us this maine Lesson Doctr. When God manifests his displeasure against us for our sinnes whether it bee by plague and pestilence or otherwise we are spedily to use the meanes which hee hath appointed to stay and pacifie his wrath So it was here Wrath is gone out How it is raysed therefore run in or goe quickely to the Congregation and make an attonement for them for wrath is gone out c. Which duty though it then properly belonged to Aaron a type as is said of Christ who onely turnes away wrath 1 Thes 1.10 and delivers us from wrath as present so to come and now in great part to the Ministers of the new Testament who especially at such times as these must weepe betweene the porch and the Altar ●oel 2.16 ●7 say Spare thy people o● Lord c. Yet it belongs to others also as to Christian Magistrates and generally to all and every one who in CHRIST professeth himselfe to be a Spirituall Priest This point I shall presse and vrge by arguments fetched especially from the Text Therefore as Preparatorie thereunto let us first but very briefly no●e and lay open some particulars of the Text. The parts of the text In which wee haue both a Maledy and a Remedie Fire and Water a Plague and a Plaister 1. Malady a Lumpe boyle rising and swelling of the Plague and a lumpe of Figgs as a plaister for the same 2. Remedy The former expressed by wrath and plague is an effect both of their sin as the cause and of Gods justice as the Author and inflicter of the same it being said wrath is gone out frō the Lord the latter is implied in the first word For for wrath is gone out therefore take a censer and use the meanes to quench it So that now wee have here 1. a Doctrine concerning the just wrath of God against sinners 2. Causes reasons and

us in mercie as the same Red Sea which swallowed up the Aegyptians And also 2 Living afforded a safe passage to the Israelites towards the land of Canaan Yea for the present Gods people find themselves more safe under his mercifull hand than they can well hope to be under mans hand when Gods hand shall be whollie removed CHAP. V. Pestilence is yet the fruit of Mans Sin The Sin of these Israelites here All evill being for Sin wee are to justifie God his truth and people and to take all blame to our selves Quest BVt is not God a God of mercie grace and goodnes Our sinne the cause of our sorrow Whence then is it that wrath hot anger is said to goe out from the Lord and particularlie this of Plague or Pestilence We must therefore conceive and may easilie imagine that in case of gods wrath and of the breaking out of Pestilence there is some great cause provoking him thereunto seeing he doth not afflict willingly or frō his heart Lament 3.33 nor grieue the children of men The great God herein is like the litle Bee which yeelds hony of its selfe but stings not till it be angred or provoked The first in this Text provoking the Lord to this great wrath was the peoples murmuring against Moses and Aaron Psal 41.42 charging them with the death of those rebels whom God destroyed justly for their sinnes and their rising accordingly against them which as it is in its owne nature highly displeasing to God who cannot indure his officers and faithfull servants should either bee envied and maligned as these two were by Corah c. or repined at when for their sake the Lord doth punish such as wrōg them So for the Circumstances of it it became exceeding great for it is said But on the morrow after Corah was swallowed up and they were spared and escaped all the Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses The sin of these Israelites here aggravated against Aaron c. Where 1. for time it was on the morrow immediatly after their 1. former sinne 2. God wrath executed on others 3. their owne sparing 4 their former and but yesterdayes shew of repentāce or forsaking the tents of the wicked 2. For the persons who sinned they were 1. for qualitie the children of Israel from whō God had cause to have expected better things 2. For number All the congregation of them it was a generall sin and conspiracie 3. For persons agains● whom it was against Mos●● and Aaron against Moses a Prophet Prince against Aaron the Priest of the Lord both which had lately yea and now made intercession for them they were neither afrayde to meddle with such deare servants of the Lord who prooved edge-tooles to them nor ashamed so ill to requite them for their love This was their sin Our like Sins causes of our Iudgments now And when our sins become like either for nature or for circumstances we have great cause to looke for like wrath nay if such sins as envying hating and rising against Gods Ministers and faithfull servants and if such circumstances of sin 2 4● as to sinn upon sin and to multiply transgressions to sin after examples of Gods wrath on others after our ovvne sparing and deliverances and after former shewes of repentance If for men in covenant with God to sin against him and to sin as it were by conspiracie and consent and if unthankfulnesse against God and his Messengers and Servants deserve wrath and be followed with Pestilence then no marvell if wrath be gone out from the Lord against us of this place yea and Nation and if the Plague be alreadie begun amongst us and so far proceeded as it is But of the Sins more particularly for which wrath goeth out from God and for which Pestilence is sent I shall speake hereafter on some other Grounds of Scripture Here wee may observe in the generall Sin procures wrath That mans Sin is the cause of his Sorrow Love to Sin procures Gods anger against the Sinner And as here The Plague of the heart and soule brings Gods Plague upon the bodie 1 Kings 8.38 Remarkable examples hereof we have in the Angels cast 2 Pet. 2 4● out of heaven for ever because of their Pride in Adam cast out of Paradise and with him all Mankind for disobedience Gen. 3.17 in a whole world of men Gen. 6. for violence sensualitie and securitie Math. 24.38 39. in Sodom and other Cities destroied suddenlie for Pride Ezek. 16.49 50. abuse of Gods good creatures Idlenesse and abominable Lusts Lamen 1.5 in the Iewes both in their first Captivitie when the Lord so grievouslie afflicted them for the multitude of their Transgressions 2 Chro. 36.14 15 16 with 17 c. and in this their so fearfull dispersion and scattering whereby they are broken off Isa 50.1 Rom. 11.20 because of unbeliefe But leaving other evils Specially Pestilence which is both threatned consider wee that God doth 1 Threaten pestilence for Sin as Levit. 26.14 15 16-24 25. Deut. 28 15-21 22. Ezek. 6.11 12. Alas for all the evill abominations of the house of Israel for they shall fall by the Sword by the Famine and by Pestilence So heere these Murmurers were first threatned with Pestilence for their unbeliefe Numb 14.11 12. and here in my Text it was inflicted for their Sin which is already mentioned So then 2 God doth also send And inflicted for sin● and Inflict Pestilence for Sin as see Exod. 12.29 Psal 78.50 51. Amos 4.10 So David was met with for his pride 2 Sam. 24.10 And so now must wee take this Pestilence and other like Sicknesses to be justly sent for our Sins and why not the same or like to the Sin of Irreverence among the Corinthians who because they came to the Lords Table and returned also from it in their Sins in their contentions contempt one of another dis-respect of their Teacher Saint Paul their ignorance and other Sins it is said 1 Cor. 11.30 For this cause many among you are sicke and weake and many sleepe Now this Sicknesse and death among them is not improbably by some thought to bee that of Pestilence Whence is this 1. This is frō Such is the nature of Sin The natur● of Sin as that it being evill Gen. 4.13 can bring forth nothing but evill therfore doth one and the same word in the originall include in the signification of it both Sin and Punishment So that he that will sinne doth but hatch the cockatrice egge nourish a viper in his own bosom which will be his destruction 2. From God holinesse Such againe is the Holiness and Iustice of God that hee cannot spare obstinate Sinners without impeachment to his Iustice Man himselfe being the Iudge to whom God seemes to appeale saying How shall I pardon thee for this

grounds of it and 3. The use of all by way of Inference which we must chiefly insist upon though the former haue their speciall reasons and uses also 1 The Malady The evill is here called with respect to God Wrath or hot anger with respect to man a Plague 1 Wrath. First by wrath here we understand some judgement and effect of such anger and displeasure as is in God himselfe What is meant by wrath wherby being truely and inwardly displeased within himselfe with sinners and alienated in his loue from them for their sinn hee manifests so much by some reall tokens of the same Quest 1 Quest 1. How is wrath in God How is wrath in God Answ Answ Not properly as an affection though even so it was in Christ God Man yet without sinne or perturbation and as pure water put into a pure and cleane glasse which being jogged and moved retaines its clearenesse still and not as commonly it is with us who sin in our anger through the muddinesse which i● in us through natural corruption It is said to be i● God in regard of that tru● displeasure and dislike o● our sin whereby he truly hates it and is contrary to it and to sinners ready to extirpate both sin and sinners yet without any perturbation griefe or disquiet within himselfe howsoever what God speaks after the maner of men we must understand so as becomes the high holy majestie of God Quest 2 Quest 2. How goes wrath out from God Answ Ans How goes wrath forth from God When hee manifests this his inward dislike of sin and contrariety against sinners by some outward token of his wrath wherby he would be knowen to be displeased as on the other hand Luk. 8.46 vertue was said to be gone out of Christ when his power and mercy was manifested in healing the woman which had the bloody issue of her plague Mar. 5.30 33. which thing immediately upon her touching of him was made known unto her So here therfore as men being angry shew their anger by some evill lookes words or blows deed● so God is said to bee ●●gry and wrath to goe o● from him when especialy he inflicts some punishment or calamity wher●by he shews his dislike our sinne So Math. 3. Rom. 3.5 4.15 5. ● Doctr. God is truly displeased with sin and sinners why Now this may teacht● that sin is truly displeasi●● unto God hee neither approoves of it nor of us 〈◊〉 our sinne The Reason is 1. sin is impuritie and uncleanness and therfore 〈◊〉 that regard both sinn and sinners are most contrar● to his most holy nature● immaculate essence 2. S● 〈◊〉 disobedience and so op●●seth and withstandeth his holy will which is Soveraign no marvell then if God oppose and resist such proud sinners and walke contrarie to them that walke contrary to him 〈◊〉 Sin especially in these daies of grace is unthankfulnes and therefore justly hated of him 4. In a word it is dishonor to him especially such sinnes as now are sinned when all our sins are in a manner against all his attributes of goodnes mercy grace justice and against his works and manifestation of his attributes as also again the light of his Gospel● of our consciences c. 〈◊〉 regard whereof no m●●●vell if hee both threa●●● sin in his Law Gal. 3.10 annexin● curse to the breach of 〈◊〉 and daily even in this li●●● plague and punish sin a●● sinners Vse 1 To see what wee get by sin Vse See then what 〈◊〉 doe when we sinn again God see what wee gai●● by doing our owne wi●● and following our ow● counsels contrary to God wee being our selves u●der his displeasure we●● provoke a gracious Go● yea the great and drea●full Majestie of Heaven and that to the confusion of our own faces At this time hee manifests much wrath against us of this p●ace as also in part the whole kingdom for wrath is gon out from him against as the plague is begun and renued Ann. 1625. after such havock as it hath formerly not many yeares ago made amongst us especially in the Mother citie but never the like with us to that it is like to doe now But oh the stupidity grosness 2. To bewaile mens senselesnes under wrath and senselesnesse of our hearts here I may take up Moses his complaint in like case Who knoweth th● power of thine anger Psal 90.11 eve●● according to thy feare so●● thy wrath Whose heart●● smitten with feare answerable to the terriblenes 〈◊〉 thy wrath by occasion of thy feareful judgment as yet they should bee who so feares thee fo●● this thy wrath Deut. 13.11 Psal 119.120 Ion. 1.16 Prov. 16.6 as by it 〈◊〉 depart from evill for 〈◊〉 the feare of the Lord wher● it is indeed men depart 〈◊〉 evill oh that this terro● of the Lord wherby 〈◊〉 are even at this time some regard made to appeare before the judgement of the Lord 3. To learn true wisedom the feare of God frō it wh● now sets our iniquities before him Psalm 90.7.8 2. Cor. 5.10.11 our secret sinnes in the light of his countenance who are now consumed by his anger and troubled by his wrath oh I say that this terrour of the Lord could drive every one of us to our dutie as the terrour of the last judgement did Paul and could bring us in time to true repentance and humiliation of soule And here let us take up Moses his Prayer also oh that wee did it with like heart and true desire Psalm 90.12 So teach us to number our dayes that wee may apply our hearts unto wisedome For indeed it is God only who by his Spirit accompaniing his Word and Iudgements can free us from this stupiditie and bring us to a due consideration of our wayes and repentance for the same then and not till then Vers 8. may wee with comfort hope and good confidence make that his next petition Vers 13. Returne O Lord his long and let it repe●● thee concerning thy servants and so on as the●● it followeth CHAP. 3. That this Wrath was Pestilence That Pestilence is an effect of Gods wrath and therefore not to be dallied withall yet Gods displeasure more to be looked unto and prayed against then the Pestilence it selfe NOw this Wrath in particular 2. It is a Plague which generally is a stroke and with respect to man is here called a Plague or a Stroke from a word which signifieth to smite and that to death and so it signifieth generally any judgement of God which is to death as a slaughter by the sword and by hanging Iosh 22.17 with Numb 25.3.4.5 And generally of Aegypts plagues it is said Exod. 9.14 I will send all my Plagues upon thine heart or Origen turnes the word Confraction or breaking Confraction and so the Greeke here hee hath begun to breake that is