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A72538	The drumme of deuotion striking out an allarum to prayer, by signes in heauen, and prodigies on earth. Together with the perfume of prayer. In tvvo sermons, preached by William Leigh, Bachilor in Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish in Lancashire.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423.7; ESTC S103218	38,386	111

in his death the Lord would tempt vs with a prodigious birth for so vnualuable a losse nor is it strange a sinfull people should be so threatned because it is vsuall with God to punish our pleasures by contrarie passions as he did the daughters of Sion when in steed of sweet sauour hee threatned a stinke and in steed ●f a girdle a rent in steed of brothered haire baldnes in steed of a stomacher a girding of sacke and sunburning for beautie why not England in steed of a Royal religious issue whereof we are vnworthie with a monsterous birth and mishapen broode of that whore of Babel whose Romish faith and faction the Lord he knoweth doth daily breed euen in the bowels of the kingdom wherin there are but to many doublefaced double harted and double handed fawning stil vpon vs and yet threatning our destruction both with eie heart and hand could they but gaine the opportunitie I speake not this to dismay any but to charge vs of vnthankefulnes for yet we are blessed with the hopefull issue of moe Princes and with many drops of much royall blood and by the grace of God this strong gable of so many cords wil neuer be broken if our sinnes burst it not yet with this caution that we repaire the ruines of this our late losse with speedie repentance and pray withall that God would establish the remaine of our religious hope for his sonnes sake and Syons safetie O but he hath left a desolate court I answere as Ambrose did of Theodotius Non sunt destituti quos pietatis sua reliquit haeredes they are not forsaken or left desolate whom he hath left heires and successors of his princely vertues Religion puissance pietie and clemencie the brightnes whereof will shine to Gods glory and Englands honour so long as Chronicles can speake and bookes be opened I might here obserue as many moe haue done what presages fell out vpon the fall of this faire flower and peerelesse Prince how the two glorious creatures of God both Sunne and Monne were troubled the Sunne scarce seene of twentie daies before his death the Moone opposed with a mightie Rainbowe in the dead and and darkenes of the night bended ouer that house of mourning where he died I might tell how the ayre earth and clouds seemed to be sensible of his fall and to condole his death whiles strange windes storms and tempests with continually shewers raignes and floods Many darke daies Clouds and foggie mists were vpon vs to warne vs of our woe as formerly hath beene obserued of Theodotius and Queene Elizabeth before their deaths Nor can I passe without passion what fell out in the sommer before Prince Henry died at Chattam Where and when a swarme of Bees knit vpon the maine mast of that Royall ship he had made for Englands defence tellng vs that ere long Angels foode from heauen more sweet then Hony or the hony Combe should fill the soule of this Saint to glory and Immortalie yea and swarmes of Gods holy Angels should come downe to fetch him from the maine mast of this earthly kingdome aboue the heauen of heauens there to raigne with God and his Christ for euer A blessed Bee dedeliuered from the sting of sinne and death to the endlesse glorie of life and immortalitie neuer to sin or die any more Nay more then all I haue yet said to make good that there is not an euill in the Citie which the Lord will not reuale to some of his Prophets that Prophet who preached in the morning of his sicknes pointed from aboue at the period of his life when he vttered that text and truth Man that is borne of a woman hath but a short time to liue and is full of miserie It was powerfull in the preacher and passionate in the Prince to bring him to the thoughts of his mortalitie And so my deare brethren to conclude and make vse of all these fearefull signes and prodigies let all these together strike out an allarum to praier and repentance yea and to godly sorrow neuer to be repented of by the sweet perfume and priuiledge whereof soules are saued and bodies deliuered from threatned dangers And not bodies onely that is to say particular persons but states and kingdomes are preserued from all malice of the creatures be they neuer so implacable Are there monstrous and vntimely birthes pray to be regenerate and borne a new not of mortall seede but immortall by the word of God that liueth and endureth for euer Are there fearefull thunderclaps making thy wild heart to shake like the wildernes of Cades stand in awe and sinne not common with thine owne heart in thy chamber and be still say withall it is thou Lord onely that makest me dwell in safetie Are the Sonne and Moone eclipsed deficient in their light darke and bloodie The foole chaungeth like the Moone So saith Siracides and thou art changeable ô Christian when by the motion of Gods spirit thou begins to be religious and by and by falles to be sacriligious Sacriligium creatori committitur dum imbecillitas ascribitur creaturae And therefore it s not the Moone that laboureth for her light but it s thou that labourest in thy sinnes it s thou that chaungest like the Moone O if I might say we fooles chaunge like the Moone for shee shortly returnes to her fulnes we fooles linger our conuersation Illa velociter colligit quod amiserat lumen tu nec tarde fidem recipis quam negasti The Moone doth speedily gaine againe her light that she hath lost we fooles doe hardly in any time recouer the faith we haue denied What should I say more Luna defectum luminis patitur tu salutis The Moone suffereth but the losse of her light thou of thy saluation Grauior ergo tua quam lunae mutatio More dangerous therefore by much is the eclipse of thy soule than is the eclipse either of Sunne or Moone But it may be some man will say doth neither Sunne nor Moone labour in the eclipse doubtles they doe and that continually For we cannot denie but they labour with other creatures as the Apostle saith and grone with vs also trauelling in paine together vnto this present desiring the day of their deliuerance out of the vanitie of corruption wherein they are Leaue off therefore to looke vpon the defects of those glorious lights vnles thou looke vpon the staines and blemishes of thy wicked life For how is it possible for the drunkard in his wine the wanton in his lust or the couetous man in his wealth to looke vpon the Moone and see the things that are in heauen when he knoweth not rightly how to vse or discerne of things that are on earth Are there new Stars vncoth and vnknowne Doe they blaze in the heauens and moue thee to wonder what may be the effect Say with the Sages and then art thou wise vidimus stellam eius in oriente

nethermost hell to the highest heavēs The crie of our sins reacheth the heavens and euen there worketh our woe by turning them this yeare into brasse to make the land barren and the next yeere dissoluing them into teares and showers dropping downe for fatnesse death and dearth Quicquid id est timeo whatsoeuer it is I feare our rebellions against God will make a commotion of all his Creatures against vs both great and small Elements and all never so much distempered as of late yeeres that a man would thinke but that God hath promised That Summer and Winter and the seasons shall uot cease so long as the earth remaineth the very foundations of the earth to be out of course and which is more and worse then all I haue said the armie of our sinnes may bring vpon vs an host of men from a far country of a fierce countenance to tyrannize ouer vs as it fell out oftē with the Iewes as may be obserued in all the course of the scriptures still as they sinned God raised vp euer anon one forraigne power or other to chastise them till at lēgth the whole armie of their sins ioyned in one that is to say come to the height of all impietie called frō a far country an other armie euen the fierce Romanes who brought vpon them a final desolation And haue we no reason to feare the Romanists hauing so many of them alreadie in our bosomes swarming in all places of the land neuer more bold cōfidēt then at this day As I said before so I say againe quicquid id est timeo I say no more And so much out of my loue and loyaltie to God my Prince and countrey as a watchman and by vertue of my calling I may be bold to say for Res est solliciti plena timoris amor Loue is full of fearefulnes Nor is it least in obseruance though last in succession which fell out in the Northerne parts of this kingdome in Aprill last and in the parish where I dwell and haue my pasteral charge witnes fiue hundreth more besides my selfe who beheld with astonishment that fearefull spectacle To wit a dead childe base borne of lewd parents hauing foure leggs and foure armes all out of the bulke of one bodie with fingers and toes proportionable which bodie had two bellies and two nauels forward with one plaine backe without seame or diuision it had but one head and that of a reasonable proportion with two faces the one looking forward and the other backward either face had two eyes two eares a nose a mouth perfect nor was there in the seueral members thereof any blemish or disproportion saue in the moulding the sexe was female and the mother was deliuered but halfe an houre before this strange birth of a perfect womā childe which was baptized at our Church and yet liueth To presage what may follow I cannot neithere dare I lest I seeme disasterous onely let it tax our mishapen liues so farre degenerate from the simplicitie of the old world wherein both virginall and coniugall chastitie were prized with honour where now with many it is almost dishonourable to be honest Iudah with Thamar left his claoke to verifie his lust but Ioseph with Potiphers wife lost his cloke to vilifie his lust Many Iudaes fewe Iosephs in these adulterous daies wherein men doe rather solace themselues then sorrow for that sinne of which I may say Lex Iulia dormis Nay Lex Iehoua dormis O thou law of God why sleepest thou The many legges and armes may tax our vntollerable pride and auerise reaching heere and treading there yea in robbing well nere all Gods creatures to fil the belly cloath the backe with costly and garish sutes madding the minde and making bodies monstrous might Iacob and Rahel rise out of their graues to behold their children that tread vpon them they could not but deeme them of a monstrous birth Two mouthes taking in two bellies casting out taxe our insatiable desire of belly cheere drunkennes exoticall sins and neuer but of late a staine to this English Nation In philtris philistinorū Sampson fell Et Ebrietas decepit quē Sodoma non decepit Wine made him sinfull whom Sodome could not deceiue Lastly two faces may taxe the world of palpable hypocrisie diuellish deceit damned equiuocation First in vs Protestants whiles we say we beleeue and yet do not liue the life of the Gospel we professe wherein we doe but Sophisticate with the Lord equivocate with his Saints for what auayleth it a tōgue to speake well with a mentall reseruation to do euill Next it may seeme to taxe the damnable doctrine of our Romish equiuocators who are double faced to deface all truth and to destroy all commerse both with God and man whiles they say Dafallere da Iustum sanctumque videri Lord giue me to deceiue and yet that I may seeme a Saint Pyrrus Vlisses as you may read in Sophocles being sent to Lemno● to take from Philoctetes Hercules his arrowes The two Legats aduised by what meanes they might best wrest them out of his hands Vlisses affirmed it was best to doe it by lying and deceit Pyrrus answered no I like not of that because I neuer vsed it but alwaies loued the truth as my father and Ancestors haue euer done Wherunto Vlisses replyed y e when he was a yoūg man he was of that mind but now being old he had learned by long experience dearely bought that the surest way best art in mans life is Fallere mentiri Many of this age are of Vlisses minde especially the Iesuited crue of damned equiuocators but true borne Israelites are of Pyrrus spirit great is the truth preuayleth is the sweete poesie of their profession both in themselues friēds families yea they resolue vpon the doctrine of their maister Christ that the truth shal make them free As also Quod non patitur ludum fama fides occulus that eyes honours and othes will not be ie sted withall But to proceed yet further and make vse of the prodigie it is respectiue how when the Prince was dead this birth was borne It was in the Autum of the yeare when Prince Henry that sweet blossome was blasted with the dampe of our sinnes and so as with this faire flower fell all the flowers of the field leaues of trees and Roses in our garden they would not flourish while Henry was a falling but fel with him Woe vnto vs that euer we sinned so faire a Prince so pious and so puisāt to fal in a day was such a stroke as shooke the Cedars with the shrubs and might yet well beseeme our sacke cloth and ashes but this base birth was borne in the spring following to tax vs as with the growth of our monstrous sinnes so to teach vs withall that sithence the faire feature of a Prince so well fashioned in his life was so soone forgotten