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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

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