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A00286 Certaine aduertisements for the good of the church and common-wealth well worthy the serious consideration of the most honourable High Court of Parliament late assembled, and hereafter to be assembled againe. 1624 (1624) STC 10404; ESTC S101634 62,874 84

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curse of the Angel of the Lord against Meroz and the inhabitants thereof for the very like cause To omit I say all the former things Oh that your most Honorable and Christian Senat would be pleased to remember and consider the manifolde iudgements of God already executed since the restreint of the Word the arming of all the foure elements against vs of the fire not only often on some few houses but also on many great townes to almost the vtter consuming of them of the aier by great death of manie thousands almost in all parts of the Kingdome through the contagious pestilence from the infection therof of the water by many inundations to the drowning of many whole Parishes especially in the West country of the winds being of a fierie and aierie complexion and efficacie and exercising their force as before so in this by many late tempests both vpon the land and also vpon the seas to the breaking downe of come the scorching and casting downe of trees the ouerthrowing of buildings the losse of many great shipps to the great hindrance if not vndoing of many marchants and other and that according to the Lords like displeasure against most worthy King Iehoshaphat for his too much communion with Ahaziah king of Israel 1 Kings 22 48. 2 Chron. 20.37 Zeph. 1.3 lastly of the earth with the waters by extreame frosts and snow to the destruction as of some men so also of many beasts and foules of heauen and fish of the sea and other waters with all which may be considered many vnseasonable tymes in other respects and the extreame heat of some summers such as in some countries men haue fallen downe starke dead as they haue followed their cattell and as they haue laboured in hay time and haruest Oh will some man say these are old things now past and gone yea and forgotten also as though they neuer had been But alas should they so be Wherefore then doth the Holy Ghost remember vs of the drowning of the whole world of Sodom and Gomorrha consumed by fire from heauen and many other the like Yea of the Lords not sparing the Angels that kept not their standing but casting them downe to hell and binding them there with chaines which was a thing much more ancient then all the former And for reuiuing the memorie of those iudgements aboue mentioned Hath not the Lord this present yeare and these last yeares 1621 and 1622 done great things vpon the seas and vpon the Land by the seas and other waters Oh how many marchants ships haue beene taken by the Turkish pyrats and otherwise lost vpon the seas to the vndoing of many thousands and the great impouerishing of the whole Land How much cattell also hath been lost in diuers quarters by great and extraordinarie tydes of the seas and like floods of other waters Finally how many houses also haue by the same meanes been cleane caried away But are the premises all Not so For hath not the Lord in the tyme of pestilence come neere to the Court it selfe in taking away some therewith that belonged thereunto Hath he not cut of some great counsellers of state extraordinarily when neyther themselues nor any other any whit looked for any such sodayne hand of God vpon them Hath not the Lord euer since the restreynt of the Word whereby his owne Royall seed vpon earth should haue beene dayly propagated restreyned his blessing from our Kings most excellent Maiestie for farther increase of his Royall posteritie Hath he not taken away his Royall issue borne a little before and some since his comming hither What cause also hath the Land to mourne for the death of most Noble Prince Henrie Much more much more then Dauid all Israel had so to mourne for the death of Abner as they did 2 Sam. 3 3● yea many may say Prince Henrie Prince Henrie would God wee had dyed for thee Prince Henrie Prince Henrie Had not the Lord remembred mercie in iudgement by leauing vs most hopefull Prince Charles we might yet mourne for the death of Prince Henrie The greater the graces were of the late yong Lord Harrington as Master Stock hath noted them in his Sermon at his Funerall and as many other could and can yet testifie the greater was the losse of the whole Kingdome by his death also yet this was nothing to the former May not also the death of our late Queene be reckoned amongst other iudgements The greater Gods mercie hath beene to his Maiestie and to the whole Land in giuing and yet leauing such a remnant of Royall seed by her Prince Charles at home and most vertuous Princesse Elizabeth abroad in many things resembling our late most blessed Queene Elizabeth whose renowne will neuer die as also in giuing so gracious and rich a seed vnto her the greater iudgement doubtlesse wee may account the death of Queene Anne her selfe to haue beene Neither are we here altogether to forget the deadnesse of all Trades and also the great pouertie of most sorts of People daily encreasing thereby In respect whereof though there haue beene such a glut and plentie of Corne as hath not been knowne this many yeeres yet the same is not to be accounted so great a mercie because it hath beene more hard for most House-keepers to maintaine their charges then when Wheat was at a Noble a Bushell and all other Graine of price according The former iudgements to be principally imputed to the restraint of the Gospel As the former Iudgements cannot be denied to be for many great sinnes euerie where abounding so also the restraint of the Word and the hard vsage of the Ministers thereof whereby themselues and their Doctrine are in the more contempt and disgrace with all sorts of men being a principall and maine cause of all other sins must be acknowledged to haue had a great attractiue vertue in drawing down the said Iudgements vpon vs. In all former Ages vpon which the Lord inflicted his Iudgements there were many other sinnes prouoking the same yet were such Iudgements chiefly ascribed 2 Chr. 36.16 Mat. 23.37 to the mocking of his Ministers despising of his Word and misusing his Prophets and to the killing his Prophets and stoning them that were sent vnto them There alwaies also haue been many great and heinous sinnes in the Land but there were neuer so vnknowne and new sinnes and so outragious abominations before as haue beene since this master and capitall sinne of suppressing the Word and contempt of the Ministers thereof Moreouer though other sins were also before yet who can shew so many Iudgements to haue beene in so short a time as haue beene since this mother sinne of the restraint of the Word A mother sinne also it may well be called in respect of many great Errours hatched thereby that either were not broached before or that by all sound Diuines Bishops publique Diuinitie Readers in the Vniuersitie and other were condemned These new Errours