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heart_n	ear_n	eye_n	fat_a	2,377	5	10.2276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29454	A Brief historical account of several of the most remarkable years of war, drought, famine, and pestilence in England, and the time when they happened together with an additional discourse of God's judgments, and the procuring cause of them : as also of the prediction of the late excellent mathematician and modest astrologer Mr. Vincent Wing, as to the present year 1699 / by a gent.	Gent.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4596; ESTC R37469	8,648	16

sight to behold the Spirit of Blindness and Giddiness of Faction and Rebellion that hath seized on a great part of the Nation our sensless Contentions and Oppositions the wide Breaches and Divisions for which we can see no healing And saith he it may justly challenge if there were nothing else to trouble us great thoughts and searchings of heart more especially if we consider not only how insensible most People are of all such matters which in bodily Distempers is accounted the worst symptom in the whole World For how few have been amended by the publick Judgments which have either threatned us or fallen upon us for which stubborn Impiety and impudent Wickedness which every where hath too much abounded among us every good Man ought to be very much afflicted and not only content himself with this that he doth not follow them in their ungodly Practices but to bewail also as many as have sinned and have not repented as the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 12. last of the uncleanness and other abominable Sins which they have committed For this is really saith he the saddest spectacle of all others to behold such numbers a have not been at all touched with any remors● for their own Sins nor any grief for publick Calamities nor any fear of future danger but have encouraged one another to think only of eating and drinking and rising up to play which all sober Men cannot but look upon to be as unseemly a sight as if Men should go dance about their Parents or nearest Relations when they saw them a dying and here by the by may 〈◊〉 not omit to inform you what a monstrous piece of Hypocrisie I once saw viz. a Gent. in a Scarlet Cloak as I esteem'd him to be set in the Stocks 〈◊〉 the Old Jury London for some immorality by order of 〈◊〉 Pennington then L. Mayor as I remember who before 〈◊〉 headed the Rabble and presented a Petition to the Parliament against Bishops and afterwards was one of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of King Charles I. Now besides our former Guilt in our Hypocrisie Rebellion and abominable Sacrilege when ●e not only overturned the Government of the Church and alienated and sold the Church lands altering the fundamental Constitution of the Civil Government and selling all the Crown lands and after turning our selves into a Com●onwealth Dethroning and Murthering our lawful Prince and he one of the best Princes 〈◊〉 the World in his time c. How vastly have 〈◊〉 improved in our horrid guilt of Perjury is ●o evident to be denyed Also may we not 〈◊〉 thought to be fallen into the Times that 〈◊〉 Prophet Jer. complains of Chap. 9. ver 4. 〈◊〉 5. Take ye heed every one of his Neighbour ●●ed trust ye not in any Brother for every Brother 〈◊〉 utterly supplant c. And they will every one ●●ceive his Neighbour and will not speak the truth 〈◊〉 8.9 Their Tongue is as an Arrow shot out it speaketh deceit one speaketh peaceably to his Neighbour with his Mouth but in heart he layeth his wait All which being seriously considered may it not be truly said was ever this Nation or any other Nation in the World so horridly Wicked before so that we may justly expect that God should expostulate with us and say as once he did to the People of Israel Jerm 5.9 before mentioned shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord and shall not my Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this And what was this for even because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased v. 6. And may we not expect that dismal Doom pronounced by God by his Prophet Isaiah Chap. 6.9.10.11.12 And he said Go tell this People hear ye indeed but understand not and see indeed but perceive not make the Heart of this People Fat and make their Ears heavy and shut their Eyes lest they see with their Eyes and hear with their Ears and understand with their Hearts and convert and be healed Then said I Lord how long and he answered until the Citys be wasted without inhabitants and the Houses without Man and the Land be utterly desolate c. For we should wisely consider that there are in this World certain Periods of Gods Patience and Forbearance of Nations and Kingdoms in their Wickedness As the Scriptures inform us when God Visits their Iniquities and pours down Vengeance upon them as upon the old World Gen. 6.5 And God saw that the Wickedness of Man was great in the Earth and that every Imagination of the thought of his heart was Evil continually v. 7. I will destroy Man whom I have created from the face of the Earth whereupon God brought upon them that great desolation of the universal Deluge And again Gen. 18.20 The Lord said because the Cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their Sin is very grievous Therefore the Lord ●hought speedily upon them desolation and destruction and by fire from Heaven totally destroyed them Further as to the Rebellion of Korah and ●is Companions Gen. 16.32 And whereupon God brought that amazing Desolation and Ruin upon them the Earth opening her Mouth and swallowing them up and all that belonged to them they went down alive into the Pit and the Earth closed upon them and they perished from ●mong the Congregation Afterward great was the divine Vengeance poured down upon the Rebellion of the ten Tribes and their defection from their lawful Prince Rehoboam and the House of David God severely plagued them by degrees First by their ●oss of the true Religion and Worship of God ●gain by their wicked Kings and Governours ●aving not one good King ever after and after Gods long Patience during it is said of ●bout 250 Years they were at last carried way Captive and were wholy extirpated from 〈◊〉 the face of the Earth none knowing to this ●ay what became of them so that they paid dear 〈◊〉 the long forbearance of the Divine Vengeance in the Conclusion And how transcendently great and terrible was the Divine Vengeance upon Jerusalem greater than the World ever saw before within about 40 Years after our blessed Saviour had given them warning saying Luke 17.26 And as it was written in the Days of Noah so shall it be also in the days of the son of Man v. 27. they did eat they drank they married wives they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entred into the Ark And the flood came and destroyed them all v. 28. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot they did eat they drank they bought they sold they planted they builded ver 19. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all ver 30. even thus shall it be in the day when the son of Man is revealed Luke 21.22 for these be the days of vengeance ver 23.24 for there shall be great distress in the