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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

to destroy whence Orige● notes that the wicked a●● as earthen vessels of dishonour to bee broken An● doubtlesse the Lord by his judgements breakes i● upon his people like th● sea and makes a brea●● among them as now by Pestilence by which he● scatters us one from another c. But especially here Pestilence And of this Plague by Pestilence wee understand the word here This same word is used also by Moses when hee speakes of the last Plague of Aegypt Exod. 12.23.27 the death of the first borne wherewith God is said by his Angell to smite them And that Angell is called a Destroyer For as God by an Angell delivered his people out of Aegypt Numb 20.16 so by an Angell hee destroyed their enemies Hebr. 11.28 So that it is very likely that those first borne were destroyed by Pestilence to which I I conceive the Lord in Amos hath reference when hee saith I have sent among you the Pestilence after the manner of Aegypt Amos 4.10 Even so in the Pestilence which was in King Davids time hee is called the Angell that destroyed the people 2. Sam. 24.16 Moreover these Murmurers were threatned to bee smitten with the Pestilence Numb 14.12 I will smite them saith the Lord with the Pestilence now when after this threatning were they so smitten unlesse at this time It is not much materiall to our maine scope whether this Plague here were the Pestilence or no yet so we now take it Doctr. and doe observe that the Pestilence is Wrath Pestilence is an effect and signe of wrath in God or a signe and effect of Wrath and of Gods displeasure Here wee see the one is explanied and expressed by the other and this is the Observation hence to be made yet it is not so much a signe of Gods wrathfull displeasure to each and every particular person smitten by it seeing a child of God may both be smitten and die of it as to the Communaltie to the Kingdome Citie To whom Towne or place where it is in which a breach is made as in Davids case Yet here in my text they were all guilty and for the most part the Pestilence as well as the Sword comming to avenge the quarrell of Gods covenant ●ev 26.25 and to punish the disobedient and obstinate its maine busines is with those against whom God hath the greatest quarrell It is no ordinary death The Plague then is and must be taken to be a fearfull signe of Gods displeasure and wrath as it was said of the Aegyptians H●● that is God cast upō them the fiercenesse of his anger Psal 78.49 ●0 51 wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evill angels among them Hee gave their life over to the Pestilence and smote all the first-borne in Aegypt c. So Numb 25.3 4 -8. This is not an ordinarie death or death barelie VVhy or a debt we owe to God and Nature as an effect of originall Sin or of Sin generallie but this as the like deaths by Sword and Famine is an effect of some great speciall spreading and raigning Sins In it is wrath and the face of an angrie God may ought be seen in it For 1. 1. Gods hand is specially in it Gods hand is more seen or to be seen in it God is said To fall upon or to meet men with Pestilence ●xod 5.3 ●am 24. And it s A falling into the hands of the Lord. In the place Exodus 5.3 as elsewhere I know the Greeke and Chaldee translate the word there used Deber Death yet that death is Pestilence for so the Holy Ghost puts it for Pestilence in Revel 6.8 from Ezek. 14.21 So the Murraine or Pestilence on the cattel is said to be from the hand of the Lord. Exod. 9.3 2. It s full of wofull evill Psal ●1 3 2. Commonlie it is a grievous death as that a grievous Murraine Exod. 9.3 And the Psalmist cals it noysome or rather wofull Pestilence or Pest of wofull miseries or evils Now what these evils are who knows not Through the noysomnesse and contagion of it it makes a man a strāger to his own house to his dearest friends yea as it were an enemie to them and an instrument of death to wife children friends and it deprives a man of comforters in his greatest agonie and need and at length of life and of an Honorable buriall It s an enemie of trading and civill commerce it s commonlie accompanied with Famine and followed where it workes not reformation with 〈◊〉 stung by Gods wise providence with this deadlie disease so the whole point it selfe affords unto us a double instruction Vse 1 Not to bee secure in time of pestilence 1. Not to dallie with God at such times especiallie as these God is in good earnest with us truly displeased with us with our waies and would have us know so much whilest hee manifests his wrath from heaven against us by Plague and Pestilence which is one of his foure sore Iudgements Ezek. 14.21 whereby hee powres out his furie upon us in blood to cut off man and beast as wee have great cause to feare Verse 29. and which he would have us take not for an ordinarie death but for a true signe of his Wrath which hee would have us see in it and accordinglie feare and tremble and so worke out our Salvation breaking off our Sins by Repentance and amendment of life not making light thereof when his hand is so heavie upon us for the same When Pestilence finds us in our Sin it is a fearfull signe of heavie wrath from God but if it leave us in our Sin then is it yet a more fearfull signe of Gods hot displeasure for so it leaves us either to the Sword of mercilesse and everlasting destruction of soule body as the just and full desert and reward of our sinnes Alas what is the plague or any bodily evill to this that we should be so much troubled with it and use such meanes and care to prevent or fly from it and yet the mean while be no whit at all or very little touched with a sense or feare of the other And to seek Gods favour more then health or life wheras a man may escape the danger of the Pestilence and be free from it and other bodily evills and yet be and remaine under Gods heavie and sore displeasure and so be liable to all plagues and punishments which his sinns deserve to be inflicted on him in this life and in hell for ever as on the contrary one may bee smitten in body by plague and pestilence as wee conceive King Hezekiah was or by some sore Isay 34 1-21 Psal 6.1 1 3. 9. 38 1 2 deadly or dangerous disease and sicknes as David was and yet be in happie and blessed estate and condition as being in love and favour with God though it

Now this is 1. It is frō his 1. Iustice from his Iustice who as hee punisheth all sinne even originall alone with Death so some sinnes with more grievous and remarkeable death and with exemplary judgements Howsoever God doth not inflict either this or any of those other his sore judgements without cause and so hee would be acknowledged whilst hee concludes the mention of these inevitable sentences Ezek. 14.21 23. saying And yee shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done Of which cause in us more in the next point 2 Wisedome 2. This is also from his wisedome punishing sinne with sutable punishments wee infect one an other by evill example Retaliating sinnes with semblable punishments communication Company-keeping though we call it good fellowship by tempting and inticing one another to sinne by unprofitablenesse in company whereby wee edifie not one an other in the best things so by excesse and abuse of Gods good creatures by Pride in apparell and garishnesse whereby we insnare and tempt others to sinne so by covetousnesse and abuse of trading and such like How wisely then as well as justly doth God meet with us by such a judgement as whereby wee infect one another in body by our breathing touching and accompanying with them and whereby hee breaketh those cursed knots of good fellowes so whereby our very clothes in which we pride our selves doe infect our selves and others to the apparant danger of life it selfe and whereby through famine and poverty which commonly accompany the Plague our excesse and abuse both of Gods good creatures and of trading by oaths cousenage false wares at least covetousnesse and our pride and confidence in regard of our wealth are justly met withall This consideration concerning Vse 1 the Authour of Pestilence To looke chiefly to God is of Vse to us 1. to acknowledge Gods hand providence in it and not to ascribe it either to Chance as the Philistines were ready to have ascribed the disease of Emerods 1. Sam. 6.9 and that great death that did befall them or to second causes or instruments so as to rest in them or to expect helpe from them these are but instrumēts in Gods hand And not 〈◊〉 the Instr●ment whether they be Angels by whom God often smites with Pestilence Or occasion as in the first borne of Egypt and in Davids people or whether it be the Ayre which is infected or any other Person or thing which wee occasionally received infected or by whom or who it at first was brought to our Towne or place or whether the unseasonablenesse of the weather helpe to continue or increase it In all these and the like wee are chiefly to looke to God and not either to complaine or cry out on and curse such as by whom it might seeme first to bee brought unto us though wilfull or rash spreaders of this infection It is his hand which both wounds and must heale should and ought both be inquired after and severely punished or much to hope that when the dog-dayes end or cold weather or winter approacheth then wee shall heare no more of it or at least have it to abate no no wee must both looke higher and expect helpe from an higher hand then all these It is Gods hand that smites whosoever or whatsoever be the rod as Exod. 7.17 compared with 19. and Esay 10.5.6.7 unto this hand wee must chiefly looke This is the hand which is now stretched out against us and which will be stretched out still whilst wee turne not to him that smiteth Isay 9.12.13 neither seeke the Lord of hosts Vse 2 2. This consideration that this wrath and plague is gone out from the Lord Comfort to Gods people in covenant with God and is sent by him as the Author of it may bee for the Comfort of all such as whose God is the Lord and generally of all such as by true sorrow and penitencie by faith by hearty confession of sinne prayer and sacrifice shall seeke unto him as did David this being even in this respect one of Gods gentlest judgements such as holy David did chuse before sword and famine 2 Sam. 24.14 saying Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord for his mercies are great and let me not fall into the hand of man Oh beloved wee have yet to deale with God and not with mercilesse men who have so long waited their time and sought what by open violence as in their Spanish Navie and Forces in Ireland what by secret underminings Pestilence is often a mercy to them as in their Popish Powder-plot and secret workings to bring us under their tyrannie and to judge us with their judgements Great are the mercies of the Lord that we are not as yet given into their hands as too justly we deserve Dying by it as freeing them from greater evils Now if God have a purpose to bring this extreamest of evils upon us of this place or nation and why should wee secure our selves in these our defections from him will it not then bee a mercie to such as are in Christ to bee taken away by this more gentle correction and hand of a mercifull God from greater wrath to come The Lord in mercie took away good King Iosiah even by the sword which he made use of to remove him from those greater and more spreading evils which by the sword also were to befall his people and posterity for no sooner was hee so taken away by the sword of Pharao Necho but his successours and sons and Judah after some bondage under Necho were destroyed many of them by the bands of the Chaldees of the Syrians 2 King 24.2 Moabites and Ammonites but the land was wholly overrun destroyed captived by King Nebuchadnezzar How much rather may he remove his chosen from the raging evills of the sword and fury of the oppressour by withdrawing them with his owne hand and fetching them home to himselfe by this messenger of Death the plague 2 Chron. 7.13 for what is pestilence else but a messenger of Gods sending now if God please to call home any of his children by it why should they be afraid or too much dismayed true it is a messenger of a grim countenance and knocks at the doore somewhat fiercely and so before it bee acknowledged or well considered of it may terrifie a beloved heire but when hee shall perceive it is no other but his fathers servant to fetch him home and that from greater dangers where he is the feare abates and he goes with him cheerfully In this case our chiefe businesse will be to see that God be ours in Christ and to make our peace with him This once done we need not fear what kind of death we die seeing it befals us by the providence appointment yea hand of our mercifull father That which is sent in wrath to others shall befall

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