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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

such as are left in this citie from the pestilence from the sword that is some lesser hurt by it from the king of Aegypt and from the famine into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seeke their life and hee shall smite them with the edge of the sword hee shall not spare them neither have pitie nor have mercy Pestilence is the last of Gods mercifull rods And thus I may call Pestilence the last of Gods mercifull rods which if it be neglected it serves for our further conviction to make way for mercilesse judgements and for the justification of his severitie in them seeing wee take no warning by this his last triall of us Which neglected is for conviction For vvhat may vve expect if vvhen God himselfe comes apparantly against us and stands in our vvay vvee submit not to him by humbling our selves but vvill on as it vvere in despite of him as vvee resist him he vvill resist us and become a consuming fire unto us as hee saith Esa 27.4 who would set the briars and thornes against mee in battle I would goe through them I would burn them together but of this more in the last motive Only novv consider And foreruns greater evils vvee that vvhere beginnings of vvrath as of fire and former and lesser strokes and judgements are neglected there at length a heavier vveight of vvrath follovves yea utter destruction lesser judgements neglected are but threatnings and fore runners of greater as the laying of the Axe to the root of the trees or as the lopping of them and digging at the roots of them after vvhich if they continue still barren and unfruitfull then follovves that irrevocable sentence Luke 13.7 cut it downe Whatsoever judgements haue gone before they are all as nothing and make vvay for greater to follovv as the lesser vvedge for the greater Thus said the Lord to Israel of old Isa 9.12 13 14. The Syrians before and tho Philistines behind and they shall devoure Israel with open mouth for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still for the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them neither doe they seeke the Lord of hosts Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and tayle branch and rush in one day So hee had almost done with us as is said in the Powder Furnace And so calls on us in time to turne to the Lord. yet hath beene graciously pleased both to respite us then and since to come towards us leisurely by slow paces and approaches Now seeing wee will not seeke to pacifie him at the first going out of wrath when the Plague is as yet but only begun what may we expect but that having already sent the Pestilence into the land Ezek. 14.19 20. hee poure out his fury upon it in blood to cut off from it man and beast as hee threatned his people and when no Intercessor should be accepted for them Let us of this place especially thinke of this now On us especially of this place when God at the first going out of his wrath among us makes greater speed then ordinarily hee hath done here yea or else where in our land formerly in any one place Anno 1624. 1625. so that in the mother citie eleven yeares agoe there died not so many of the Pestilence in their 120. parishes within and without the liberties for the first 3. moneths though before all was done it became the greatest that any man living could remember and greater I take then their generall bill for the yeare would make it unlesse you will allow above eighteene thousand to die in plague-time of ordinary diseases in one year I say there died then not so many there in the first three moneths by their bils as with us in our foure parishes within the space of fourteene or fifteene dayes S. 114. and that only within liberties And considering how since it increaseth rageth rather runs spreads like wild-fire will ●it not concerne us then to use speed which if Aaron had not done here who being commanded to goe quickly unto the Congregation did run into it what had become of the whole Congregation consisting of divers hundred thousands which God threatned to consume as in a moment when for all his haste running in at the first going out of wrath and at the very beginning of the Plague before he got to doe his office and make the atonement there were dead fourteene thousand and seven hundred how soone yea how justly might God make a speedy riddance of us all by this or some other worse plague if his patience were not much yea infinitly more then our haste Let us therefore take that or the like in effect spoken to us which was spoken by the Lord to his people of old when for their sinne hee justly plagued them Exod. 32.35 Yee are a stiffe-necked people I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that is betake thy ●elfe to fasting and to ●rayer that I may know ●hat to doe unto thee This vvas accordingly and ●orthvvith done by them Novv for us I advise that vvhat vve doe it bee done ●peedily yea and diligently Ezra 7 2●-23 as King Artaxerxes decreed in a like case for why saith hee though an heathen should there bee wrath against the Realme of the King and his Sons Doubtlesse this motion and pace of Gods justice being naturall to him as well as that of mercy is swifter at the later end thā at the beginning and I am afraid wee shall so find it 〈◊〉 we take not our time out 〈◊〉 hand for prevention Nearer sudden destruction w● of this nation cannot be to escape then we were Novem. 5.160 5. suffer we once his long patience to turne into fury and then expect wee no after-warnings some one blas● of hellish popish sulphurous malice or some one stroke of divine justice some other way shall doe the deed and dispatch us all at once But of this point of doctrine of the proceeding of Gods wrath against obstinate obdurate and impenitent sinners even till he utterly destroy and consume them I have selfwhere treated largely * Prognosticks Divine or Treat on Esay 9.12.13 My conclusion here shal be ●y wish The Lord in mer●ie avert and turne such ●eavie vvrath from us by converting and turning us by the power of his grace unto himselfe Amen CHAP. IX This wrath and pestilence is from the Lord and therfore howsoever his Prophets may be despised yet God himselfe is not to bee dallyed withall whose greatnes terror should cause us seeke peace wit● him in time A fourth Motive to speedy repentance is to consider God the Author of this plague THe fourth and last Motive from

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

of ●orldliness covetousness ●nd abuse of trading de●arring us of free and safe ●●ading or commerce one with another and so in ●he way of our other Sins And will wee yet Goe on ●owardly every one of us in ●he way of his owne heart Will it not now concerne ●s to consider every one ●is owne Sin seeing wee ●annot goe on therein but wee must meet with the Destroyer It will concerne us to meet him in time as the forenamed did and hee with ●s and so Wee perish in the way one of his Pride another of his Vncleannesse a third of his Prophanenesse Superstition Disobedience Perjurie or other S●n. Were it not better for us with Balaam to say b●● with better sinceritie If 〈◊〉 my way displease thee Balaam will get mee backe againe with Ionah Ionah to set ou● selves to our charge with out feare of man Moses or lo● of ease with Moses to obey Gods command and ordinance not caring whom we displease whilst wee please him and to Circumcise as he his Son so wee our hearts The Israelites with the Israelites to say I wil● goe and returne to my firs● Husband for then was a better for mee than now 〈◊〉 will goe no more a who●ng after the world no ●ot for a world c. And ●●stly with Paul trem●ling and astonied to say ●ord what wilt thou have ●ee doe and accordingly ●esolve to do it Or should ●ot wee so many of us ●s seeme as yet furthest ●rom danger while this ●reat King is gone forth ●o make wa● against us ●eeing wee are not able to ●eet him in our Sins that ●ommeth against us And ●hile hee is yet a great ●ay off send an Embas●age and desire Conditions ●f Peace of him as the ●ounsell is given in another case This Embassage is our Prayers and Teares Luke 14.31 32. and the Sacrifice of a broken contrite an● also new heart herein also imitating the wisedom● of Iacob And as Iacob who knowing h● Brother was offended 〈◊〉 him as hee was on h●● way Gen. 32 3-6-9-13 c. sent Messengers t● Esau and also presents 〈◊〉 soone as ever hee hear● that his Brother was comming against him to mee● him and foure hundre● men with him but firs● he earnestly prayeth un●● God for his deliverance all which was done with good successe And Abigail Even 〈◊〉 wise Abigail no soone ●nderstood that evill was ●etermined by David a●ainst her Husband Nabal ●nd all his houshold 1 Sam. 26.17 18 19-23 24 c. but hee made haste and tooke 〈◊〉 present and sent it away ●efore her and when she ●aw David Shee hasted ●nd lighted off the Asse ●nd fell before him on her ●ace and bowed her selfe to ●he ground and by good words and intreaties shee ●acified his wrath for the present and found that favour with him that not ●ong after hee made her his wife Oh happy wee Prov. 22.3 if wee could be so wise as fore-seeing the evill to hide our selves in time to acknowledge Gods mercie in giving us such fair warning a far off and t● make use of it But which is the second consideration where th●● mercy is neglected Otherwise fear wrath tha● no man speakes aright saying Ier. 8.6 What have I done 〈◊〉 man repents him of hi● wickednesse This plague is but begun but every ●n turnes to his course as the barr'd horse rusheth without all fear into the battell where men go on frowardly in the way of their owne hearts Esa 57.17 there they run upon their owne ruine as it is said the simple passe on and are punished Prov. 22.3 In this case then of our impenitencie and obstinacy in sinne we must know againe And will prove but a begining harbinger to greater evils That wrath is but gone out the plague is but begun that is what we suffer now is but the least part of that which wee may and must expect as elswhere it is said Math. 24.7 8. There shal be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places all these are but the beginning of sorrowes Esay 28 15-18 This overflowing scourge will not here stay 〈◊〉 shall passe through and ●ome even unto us and we shall bee troden downe by it ●hough we secure ourselvs ●ever so much and make ●ur covenant with death ●ake lies our refuge under falshood hide our selves that is though we trust to our vaine confidences and secure our selves frō such things as our wit wealth friends confederates places of refuge c. vvhich wil all faile us in our greatest need and proove rods of reed unto us the plague is yet but begun and gone out especially in regard of the vvhole nation and vve who will not now be warned when we heare of it a farr off shall have this arrovv of God to reach even to us and to smite us thorovv the liver there shall be yet greater vvrath and the later the greater whe● repētance intercedes not as vvee are told of seven Angels having the seven last plagues Revel 15.1 in which is filled up the wrath of God Where vve take no vvarning by beginnings there the lesser judgment is but a presage of much greater As to Famine vvhether in the same kind or some other Famine commonly accompanieth the Pestilence Anno 1630. as it did but of late yeares most grievously in Cambridge and as it should much more have prevailed with multitudes of the poorer sort among * Of Newcastle 1636 us were it not ●hat by Gods blessing and ●he care of our Magistrats in disposing the revenues of our Chamber vveekly in great summes for their reliefe as also by their and other Inhabitants free loanes some good help and assistance made freely by kind neighbours they were competently provided for not the sick or infected only but such as are impoverished throgh want of imployment in their manuall Crafts and Calings yea after pestilence where it doth no good neither workes any reformation there follovve● commonly some greate● judgment and destruction● As wee see in Pharoah an● his people against whom God came as by divers lesser plagues so at length by the death of the First-borne But especially to the Sword which wee shewed probably at least to have beene by Pestilence but when after that stroake Pharoah still hardned his heart and pursued Gods people the Lord met with him in the Sea which swallowed him and his whole armie up all at once most fearfully So it was with Ierusalem of old as God did fore-tell and threaten them by Ieremie and it is good for us to observe Gods method in his dealing with others and to take warning therby Ier. 21.6 7. I will smite the inhabitants of this city both man and beast they shall dye of a great pestilence And afterwards saith the Lord I will deliver Zedekiah King of Iudah and his servants and his people