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A77004	Occasus occidentalis: or, Job in the VVest. As it was laid forth in two severall sermons, at two publike fasts, for the five associated westerne counties. By Iohn Bond B.L. late lecturer in the City of Exon, now minister at the Savoy, London. A member of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572; Thomason E25_22; ESTC R4274	79,184	92

feare not Thus dealt Satan with Jobs Children that hee might kill soule and body together Therefore the Time is remarkable so also is the Manner and Ordering of this stroke very observable The businesse is so contrived that there are severall Armies of Enemies levied as Sabeans and Caldeans and those Armies doe afflict Job by severall parties too the Caldeans doe divide themselves into three Bands besides there was fire from heaven and a wind from the wildernesse And all this variety was thus marshalled by Satan for the greater aggravation of Jobs afflictions Oh! Westerne Parallel how easily might all these Instruments Objects Order and Measure of holy Jobs Calamities be amply parallel'd by our Westerne sufferings With what facility could I here expatiate Take but some few hints and sips 1. Plundering by Neighbours Psal 55.12 13 14. 1. Was Job strip'd by Sabeans who were his Plundering Neighbours Alas this is the common lot of all Gods people in these warres but especially in the poore West There almost every Saint may cry out in the words of the oppressed Psalmist For it was not mine enemy that reproached mee then I could have borne it neither was it hee that hated mee that did magnifie himselfe against me then I would have hid my selfe from him But it was thou a man mine equall my guide and mine acquaintance Wee took sweet counsell together and walked to the house of God in company Surely many thousands of titular Christians in this Land were in times of peace but as Wolves in a Cage but as Lyons tamed by art they wanted nothing but liberty and opportunity to shew their wolvish and worrying natures which now these present commotions have discovered Who could have imagined foure yeares agoe when the people of this Kingdome walked talked visited and dwelt peaceably and merrily together as neighbours and friends nay as brethren and sisters that they had carried such tongues in their heads or such hearts in their brests as doe now appeare Such tongues I say as could have cryed Round-heads Rebells Dogs Devils to their owne Protestant neighbours friends familiars brethren Such hearts as could close and joyn with armed Papists and proclaimed Irish Rebels against their owne chosen Protestant Parliament established by Act of Parliament Surely if a man could have prophesied these things but for foure or five yeares since none would have beleeved his report but men would rather have questioned the crazinesse of his braines Nay if a Propheticall Minister should have setled his countenance stedfastly seven years since upon such or such a Gentleman his neighbour or perhaps Parishioner 2 Kin. 8.11 12. and should have wept over him as Elisha did sometime over Hazael and being asked as hee Why weepest thou should have answered Because I know the evill that thou wilt doe to the children of England their strong holds wilt thou set on fire and their yong men wilt thou slay with the sword and wilt dash their children and rip up their women with child that is thou shalt joyn with Papists and Irish Rebels after they have massacred above an hundred thousand Protestants in Ireland and shalt with them take up Armes against the English Protestant Parliament Nay thou shalt plunder and imprison thine owne neighbours and friends besiege their townes fire their houses starve slay and hang up their sons abuse their daughters and all this with sport and rejoycing Would not such a man have replyed in Hazaels words But what Is thy servant a dog Verse 13. that hee should doe this great thing What would you make mee no Protestant no Christian no Man but a Papist a Heathen a Monster nay worse than a * Saevis inter se convenit ursis Beare or a Tyger that loveth and preserveth his owne kindred Thus doubtlesse men would then have answered to such a Propheticall Elisha Nay they would have added that loud voyce of Festus unto Paul Acts 26.24 Thou art beside thy selfe Preacher much learning hath made thee mad the man hath lost his charity and his wits together away with him to the Prison to the Bedlam for his sedition and distraction Nay did not some men charge Gods Ministers almost so high when they did but fore-tell us of this very sword which now wee feele Let this bee the first Parallel 2. Againe was Job plundered by Caldeans which were mercilesse Strangers Alas 2. By Strangers Hab. 1.6 7 8. what a valley of Jehoshaphat is England now made to which all the strange fowles of the aire are come together to devoure Yea doe not in Habakkuks words the bitter and hasty nations march through the breadth of the Land to possesse the dwelling places that are not theirs Are they not terrible and dreadfull and their horses swifter than the Leopards and more fierce than the evening Wolves Are not their horsemen come from farre doe they not fly as the Eagle that hasteth to eat Doe they not come all for violence Yea Vers 9,10 they will I feare scoffe at the Kings in the end and the Princes shall be a scorne unto them c. But these fierce Strangers have especially abounded in the West whose shores doe day and night lie open upon both sides South and North to receive both French and Irish who together with High and Low-Germans are let-in at those Posterne doores to the funerals of Great Britaine by her owne sonnes Nay and the Enemy tells us that Moors and Turks shall bee called in too rather than the Round-heads shall prevaile Ah miserable England the common Mother of us all and are thy Children now come to that Principle of professed selfe-destruction It is recorded in our * Bakers Chroni●le al. i. Chronicles as an inexpiable horrid impiety in King John that hee is said to have sent to Mirammumalim King of Africk and Morocco with offer of his Kingdome to him upon condition that hee would come and aide him with his Barbarians against his owne people And is it now growne lawfull yea warrantable and necessary not onely to arme our owne Papists but to call in proscribed Irish Rebels yea Turks and Infidels to kill and slay Christians Protestants Parliaments The good Lord shake up the British Nation out of their spirituall sleeping sicknesse Hos 7.8 9. and cause our England to see how shee hath mixed her selfe among the people and is a Cake not turned How strangers have devoured her strength and shee knoweth it not yea gray haires are here and there upon her yet shee knoweth it not 3. Firings I am perswaded that the Histories of these times will be so strange to after Ages that though Truth herselfe be the Compiler yet there will need the Sanction of some publike Act or Statute to command incredulous posterity to beleeve them That 's a second Parallel 3. Againe did the Enemy consume Jobs substance with fire Alas poore West thou maist compare heaps of ashes with most parts of the Land