thee whence shall I help thee intimating that it was out of his Power and God only could supply her so when the great God declares by his Judgments I even I am against thee then it is the Language of all created Beings If God do not help we cannot it is natural and common for Persons in extream danger to seek out for help some way or other but when God sets himself against a People their Fingers are rapt off from Creatural helps see what God speaks by the Prophet Zeph. 1.17 18. I will bring distress upon men that they shall walk like Blind men because they have sinned against the Lord and their Blood shall be poured out as Dust and their Flesh as Dung. V. 18. Neither their Silver nor their Gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lords wrath c. You see hence that vain is the help of any Creature when God is against a People Power Policy Wealth will avail nothing for Safety when God declares by his Judgment I even I am against thee Therefore it is the worst of Judgments Thus you have the Reasons which evince the Truth of this awful Doctrine I now come to make some brief Application of the whole The Application of the Doctrine is this If this be so as you hear it is Of all Judgments for the great God to manifest or declare himself against a People or a Nation is the worst and forest then 1. From hence we may plainly see the evil and Mischievous Nature and Consequence of Sin wheresoever and by whomsoever it is committed and continued in without Repentance and Reformation it sets the great God and his Creatures at variance one with another Therefore saith the Lord God I even I am against thee as in the Text And wherefore Because ye have multiplied more than the Nations that are round about you and ye have committed greater Abominations in my sight than the very Heathens you have been in your Morals more defective than they neither have done according to the Judgments of the Nations that are round about you You have been more false to Me the true God than they have been to their false gods you have excell'd them in Wickedness Therefore behold I even I am against you c. So as you may plainly see what was the cause of the great Controversie God had with them even their great Abominations and so if we ask Wherefore is Wrath gone out from the Lord against these Kingdoms why doth the Lord contend with us by the wasting Sword and impoverishing Judgments it is because of the Iniquities that are in our Skirts as Israels ways and doings procured to them destroying Judgments so have ours in England pull'd down desolating Calamities upon us may it not too truly be said of us in England as the Prophet speaks in Jerusalems Caralogue of Sins Ezek. 22.7 8 9 10 11 12. In thee have they set light by Father and Mother in the midst of thee have they dealt by Oppression with the Stranger in thee have they vexed the Fatherless and the Widow thou hast despised mine holy things and hast prophaned my Sabbaths And scarce one mentioned but the like horrid Abominations are to be found in the midst of us and when the Lord did for these things manifest himself against them yet that which was worst of all is this Ver. 30. I sought for a Man among them that should make up the Hedge and stand in the gap before me for the Land that I should not destroy it but I found none How was not Jeremiah with them and Ezekiel it 's concluded was in Babylon and Jeremiah they would not hearken unto but it was among them that the Lord lookt for one to stand up and reform and amongst them there was none therefore was Indignation poured out upon them would to God this were not too much our present Case Well if of all Judgments for the great God to manifest himself against a People or a Nation be the worst and forest then see what our Sins have done now in the midst of us the Lord help us to confider before it be too late 2. If this be so then we have just Cause to condole the general Supineness Stupidity and Carelesness that Reigns amongst all forts at this day altho it 's most evident that God hath a controversie with us Ah alas where is the Person who hath a becoming Sense of the Judgments of God in the midst of us how few now God is gone from the Cherub to the Threshold do sigh and cry for all the Abominations done in the midst of us Ezek. 9.4 There 's little hope of the Patients recovery when he is insensible of his Disease and Danger so there is little hope of better times while there is such a general Lethargy hath seized the Spirits of most in this Land That 's our present Case which the Prophet complains of Isa 26.11 Lord when thy hand is listed up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed c. Well if it be as you hear we have great Reason to lament the general Stupidity that abounds in the midst of us at this day when God is executing his Judgments in the midst of us 3. If it be so that of all Judgments this is the forest for God to declare himself against a People or a Nation then what cause have we to stand and admire yea and adore the Infinite Patience of God towards us That notwithstanding he is executing Judgments in the midst of us yet he hath not made a full End of us nor overthrown us quite for our Abominations as he did Sodom and Gomorrah At this day is fulfilled and made good that Word by the Prophet Isa 55.8 My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways saith the Lord. When Advantage is given we are for taking it one of another this is the way of Men too often one with another but God doth not deal thus with us after the manner of Men for in the midst of Judgments he remembers Mercy Although God by terrible things in Righteousness answers us yet we must own here is great Mercy commixt with Judgment for he that hath with his immediate hand upon the Fleet swept away so many precious Souls and overturnd so much of our Wealth might with the same stroak have spared none to give us a report of what God hath done against us in the sight of the Nations Well as it 's less than deserved so it 's enough to make us fear and tremble before Him and since he hath manifestly a controversie with us we should admire Divine Goodness in giving warning and adore Infinite Patience that all was not consumed in Wrath and that we are yet a People and not destroyed I come to a Word of Exhortation for I shall hasten to conclude not delighting to insist upon such Tragical Subjects but the hand of God hath ingaged
the Gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath-Sabbath-day Then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof and it shall devour the Palaces of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched Hear O England if you will not hallow my Sabbaths saith the Lord then I even I am against thee and will execute Judgments in the midst of thee as I have done upon my own Day by Fire and Water to shew my Controversie with you is very great and I am against you 5. Another Sin which sets God against a People or a Nation is Stupidity and incorrigibleness under present Mercies and Judgments Beloved what Nation under the Copes of Heaven have enjoyed greater Mercies than we have formerly and of late by a merciful Deliverance from Tyranny and Popery it was but the other day when we were laying our Hands upon our Loins and our Faces gather'd paleness and we perceiv'd all that is valueable to us upon the Block and the hands lifted up to give the fatal blow to all and yet then did their bloody Inventions meet with a happy Prevention through Gods raising up for us a Deliverer but ah how have we forget our Vows and the generality live as tho' they were deliver'd to commit greater Abominations than before And because Mercies have not melted us to Repentance therefore Judgments follow one upon the Neck of another and Gods immediate hand is obviously stretched out against us Consider what God said of old to Israel and is it not his Voice to us now Ezekiel 20. 7 8. Then said I unto them Cast ye away every man the Abominations of his Eyes and defile not your selves with the Idols of Egypt I am the Lord your God But they rebelled against me and would not hearken unto me they did not every Man cast away the Abominations of their Eyes neither did they forsake the Idols of Egypt then I said I will pour out my fury upon them to accomplish mine anger against them in the midst of the Land of Egypt I think that 's applicable to us also Jer. 2.30 In vain have I smitten your Children they will receive no Correction 6. The manifest grieving of Gods Holy Spirit is another great Abomination which provokes God to declare I even I am against thee The Holy Spirit of God is griev'd many ways when the loud Voice of Providences are not regarded when Ministers that speak to you with Bowels in his Name are sleighted and their Message not received when the Spirit comes with Light and you shut your Eyes and will not see when he comes with powerful Convictions and you stifle them when you are call'd to believe and repent without delay you will rather hearken to the Devils Verb mane delay than Gods Adverb mane early or comply with speed when Gods Comminations on the one hand and his woes on the other as by the Prophet have not their due effect upon us Jer. 13. last Woe unto thee O Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be or after when yet as tho God had said I have staid long and sent time after time waiting and wooing I am now as it Were tired out if you will comply well if not I must tho with reluctancy fall on but O When once shall it be But as it was with them so is it not with us now Isa 63.9 10. In all their Affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old But they rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them Beloved if we in this Nation go on thus to rebell against Gods Holy Spirit if we fight against him and he against us it 's no hard matter to tell who will have the worst for if he fights we must needs fall Who hath harden'd himself against him and prosper'd Job 9.4 Thus Beloved I have shewn what are some of those crying Sins that provoke God against a People or a Nation I might add many more as Lying Swearing Drunkenness Oppression Violence Ingratitude for National Mercies non-improvement of signal Deliverances from Tyranny and Popery to a thorough Reformation which God expected as we in Adversity promis'd the Lord these and the like Abominations have stirr'd up his Wrath against us who saith as in Hosea 5.15 I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my Face in their Affliction they will seek me early But I shall not enlarge 3. General What are the black Tokens and evident Signs of Gods being against a People or a Nation I even I am against thee and will execute Judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the Nations 1. When Men of Piety Prudence and Conduct are dispirited in the midst of us and have not that regular zeal for God Godliness and the Publick Interest as formerly it was a sad Omen to the Egyptians of what God was about to do with them when he took off their Chariot-Wheels that they drave them heavily Exod. 14.24 25. Men of Piety Prudence and Conduct are as the Chariot-Wheels of the Nation and if these abate their Spirit and Zeal for Godliness and the Publick good our Wheels are off and we are like to be over-flowed with destructive Judgments I remember what God complains of Ephraim Hosea 7.11 That he was as a silly Dove without a Heart and is it not applicable to us What is become of our late Zeal for Godliness amongst Men of Piety Prudence and Conduct when Popery was coming in by Policy and Power some had a Heart to venture for the publick good in the Face of threatning Dangers but now when God threatens for want of Reformation we are sitting still and grudge at the necessary Charges of defensive War and are ready to impute our present Misery to our invaluable Mercy and suffer our cruel Vipers unnaturally to eat out our own Bowels before our Faces well it s an Argument of Gods being against a People when such Men have lost their Heart Spirit and Zeal for Religion the Publick Good and Safety This speaks to us I even I am against you c. 2. Another Sign of Gods being against a People or a Nation is his permitting Men to be exalted to places of Dignity and Trust who are not rightly principl'd for Gods Glory and the publick's Interest Beloved I bless God day and night heartily for the signal favour shew'd to these Kingdoms in the happy Accession of the present King and Queen to the Throne what two Protestants at once such a Mercy as hath not been granted to England for many Years past and not only so but I bless God Publickly and Privately that by their Royal Proclamations they have signified their Pleasure to have Prophaneness and Debauchery discouraged and trampled under foot but yet where the governing Wheels move
and defensive Wars with other Nations but now when an incensed God by his over-ruling Providence frowns upon any or all of these as of late it surely indicates he hath a controversie with us was it not the accursed thing in the Camp that occasioned that sad disappointment to Israel before Ai as Joshua 7.1 4. And were they not compell'd to reform according to Gods command before they could prosper against their Enemies and was it not the disobedience of Jonah to Gods Precepts that caused a Storm to arise that impeded their Passage until he was thrown over-board And what may we imagine hath been the occasion of our late Disappointments by Sea and Land but our great Provocations here and there For can a Bulrush grow without Mire as in Job 8.11 or will a Lyon roar in the Forrest when he hath no Prey as in Amos 3.4 Neither would God thus blast ordinary endeavours for our Honour Safety and Wealth if we had not by our Sins set him against us I must confess tho' we have looked for much and it 's come to little yea tho' our Trading is Dead in the midst of us tho' our Merchants wax Poor and much of their Wealth is swallow'd up in the merciless Waves tho' we have many Widows Fatherless and Orphans by the late desolating blow from Gods immediate Hand upon the Fleet yet he that hath done all this might justly have swallow'd up all and have spared none to inform us of so great a Judgment commixt with tender and sparing Mercy to others by this repeated Judgment the incensed God hath evidently fulfill'd that Commination upon us Ezek. 13.13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God I will even Rent it with a stormy Wind in my Fury and there shall be an over-flowing shower in my anger and great Hail-stones in my Fury to consume it Thus I have given you the Signs of a Black day wherein it may be said as in the Text I even I am against thee c. 3. General Is to Evince and Demonstrate that of all Judgments for the great God manifestly to declare himself against a People or a Nation is the worst and sorest and the Reasons are these following 1. Reason It 's so because if God be against a People or a Nation then all he is in himself is against that People as when a Sinner is brought in to Covenant with God then all in God is his and for his good even every Attribute of God his Wisdom Mercy Goodness Faithfulness and the like so when God sets himself against a People or a Nation then every Attribute of God is set against that People and Nation And therefore it must necessarily be the greatest and worst of Judgments for God to declare Himself against a People or a Nation Beloved there is infinitely more in the One great God's manifesting Himself against us than if all the World besides him should do it sad was the Case of Israel when God pronounced by the Prophet Jer. 18.11 Behold I frame evil against you and devise a device against you c. When the great Jehovah sets his Wisdom on Work to frame Evil and devise Judgments it must needs be sad for not only one but all the Attributes of God are against that People 2. Reason Of all Judgments for the great God to manifest and declare himself against a People or a Nation is the worst because then all the Creatures of God are against that People the Lord of Heaven and Earth hath all his Creatures at his beck and command they do and must fulfil whatsoever his Pleasure is as a great General once said If he did but nod with his Head or stamp with his Foot he could make his Souldiers encounter the greatest difficulties so if the Lord of Heaven and Earth doth but look out of Heaven and say as Jehu did to them with proud painted Jezebel 2 Kings 9.32 Who it on my side who Then all the Creatures in Heaven and upon Earth in the Sea also and Winds shall be ready to look out and obey his Commands and fulfil his Will Psal 148.8 Fire and Hail Snow and Vapour Stormy Wind fulfilling his Word Did not he cause the Stars to fight against Sisera Judg. 5.20 and did not he send an Angel to discomfit the Camp of the Assyrians who blasphem'd against the Lord and many more such Instances we have wherein the great God as well as of late upon the Straits Fleet hath shew'd that it 's the worst of Judgments for God to declare himself to be against a People because if he be against them all his Creatures shall be against them also 3. It is so because if God be against a People or a Nation his Opposition renders all other Means ineffectual for our Preservation as the Psalmist speaks Psal 127.1 2. Except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it except the Lord keep the City the Watchmen watch in vain 2. It 's in vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of Sorrows So if the Lord doth not bless our Merchandizing our Trade and Callings our Forces by Sea and Land all our Care and Cost will be in vain It was a dismal time with Saul when he cry'd out to him the Witch rais'd 1 Sam. 28.15 I am sore distressed and the Philistines make War against me and the Lord God hath departed from me So if God forsake us in this time of War sore Distress must necessarily follow I pray God deliver us from that woful Commination mentioned by the Prophet against Egypt Isa 19.3 I will destroy the Council of Egypt Isa 7.7 Thus saith the Lord God it shall not stand neither shall it come to pass As with good Advice War is to be made and in multitude of Counsel is Safety under God so for God to set himself against a People is the worst and forest of Judgments because his Opposition renders all means for our welfare ineffectual 4. It 's the worst of Judgments for God to set himself against a People or a Nation because then there is no Safety but the greatest Peril as it is written concerning the Children of the Wicked Job 5.4 They are far from Safety So it may truly be said of that People whom God is against They are far from Safety that is they are in eminent danger incompass'd with hazards on every side as helpless as a naked man is against an incensed Army that resolves to put all to the Sword and spare none when God by Judgments declares as in the Text I even I am against thee it may truly be said to such as Psal 142.4 Refuge fails and which way soever we betake our selves there will be no Exemption from the Judgments of an incensed God I remember what the King said to the Woman in the Famine of Samaria to this effect 2 Kings 6.27 When she cry'd out Help O King help if the Lord do not help
the Duty of a faithful Watchman and not fearing to give them Disturbance in their sleepy secure State he lets them understand what eminent Dangers their great Abominations had brought them into for as much as now God did manifestly declare himself to be against them In the preceding Verse I find the Prophet in the Name of God charges them with their Wickedness thus because ye multiplyed more than the Nations that are round about you some by this understand the 〈…〉 manifold Blessings and signal Favours which God gave them and should have been improved to thankfulness and Obedience to God but were not but I humbly conceive it rather relates to their Sins because ye multiplied more than the Nations that are round about you in Sin thy Transgressions have been more and of a deeper Dye than theirs thou hast more grievously offended than the very Heathens that know not God and the following Words explain it And have not walked in my Statutes neither have kept my Judgments neither have done according to the Judgments of the Nations that are round about you i. e. The Heathens have been more saithful to their false Gods than you have been to Me the only True God they have by the Light of Nature been more stedfast to their cruel Injunctions than you have been to my Holy and Divine Institutions they have been stedfast to their Gods but you have been given to change and not only to comply with them but you have exceeded them in Sin and Guilt Therefore thus saith the Lord God I even I c. In the Words you have these things considerable 1. An Argumentative awful Preface Therefore thus saith the Lord God Wherefore Because ye multipti'd more than the Nations that are round about you You excell'd them in Sin and Wickedness 2. You have a necessary Duty call'd for and required from them Behold the Word imports the Clearness Certainty and Awfulness of the things he is about to Denounce and Declare as being somewhat extraordinary which duely weighed by them might make their Ears Tingle to hear it and cause their Hearts to tremble to Meditate upon it for it 's the worst and severest of Judgements Thus saith the Lord God I even I am against thee c. 3. You have the Subject matter it self which I can scarce without Horror and Trepidation mention I even I am against thee mark the Congemmination I even I not once I but twice I even I that it might make the greater Impression upon them I that formerly set my Heart upon you am now wean'd from you I that chose you before other Nations not because you were more than others but only because I had a Favour for you I even I that took you into special Covenant with my self do now declare against you I that have Graciously superintended you do now take my Heart off from you I that have wrought wonders for you in the sight of the Nations I that have preserved you alive in Famine I that deliver'd you out of the Hands of the Cruel Tyrant Pharaoh I that divided the Red-Sea that fed you in the Wilderness I that have carried you as upon Eagles Wings all your days I that have been a Father and a Friend to you I even I am against you my Heart can't be toward you nor can I bear with you any longer 4. You have the plain Evidence and full Confirmation of this his being turn'd to be their Enemy And will execute Judgments in the midst of thee I will not only shake the Rod over you but I will lay it heavy upon you and you shall smart and groan under it sensibly What I will do in my fury shall not be done in a Corner or upon a part of you but in the midst of you I will strike at the very Heart you shall feel it for I will execute Judgments one upon another in the midst of you you shall be sick of my Smiting and groan under my heavy Judgments in the midst of you my Heart shall not Pity my Hand shall not help you but I will with my immediate Hand afflict you with Judgments one on the Neck of another in the midst of you 5. You have the fore Aggravation of it and that in the sight of the Nations round about as your Sins have been so shall your Sufferings be you dishonour'd me with your Abominations before the Heathens and I will execute my Judgments before the Nations You have not ceas'd to prophane my Name before them and in their sight will I vindicate my great Name and shew that I am of Purer Eyes than to behold Iniquity they that beheld your Sins shall be Spectators of my Judgments in the midst of you Therefore thus c. From the Words I shall Collect and Depose several Doctrines but shall speak more fully to the last of them Doct. 1. That Ministers of the Gospel like faithful Watchmen must give their People warning of apprehended present and approaching Judgments So did the Prophet and so must all others if they will be faithful to Christ and the precious Souls they are to watch over We must declare what of the Night and like Paul keep back nothing that we might have their Record that we are clear from the Blood of all men Acts 20.27 Isa 58.1 There faith God to the Prophet Cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a Trumpet and shew my People their Transgressions and the House of Jacob their Sins Doct. 2. That whatsoever Personal Family or National Judgments befall a People it is certain that Sin is the meritorious procuring cause of them It 's Sin that is the Teeming Mother of all Mischief the procuring cause of all Calamities whatsoever Its that which lets in all Misery and causeth Destruction to come in upon a People like an armed Man or an overflowing Flood Therefore thus saith the Lord God c because ye multipli'd more than c. It was Jerusalems Abominations which inevitably brought their Desolations and it 's Englands Sins that cause God to execute Judgments in the midst of us at this day If Sin abounds without controul Judgments will follow Ezek. 14.23 for he doth nothing without a cause and it 's not difficult to relate what is the Cause of great Anger being gone out from the Lord against this Land not the late Deliverance which God graciously wrought for us as some little better than Papists dream but our not improving so unspeakable a Mercy to an obliged Reformation Doct. 3. In all the Judgments which are executed upon a People God himself hath a Hand in it and sometimes more visibly than at other times Amos 3.6 Isai â—2 24 25. Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the Robbers did not the Lord he against whom we have sinned For they would not walk in his ways neither were they obedient unto his Law Therefore he hath poured upon him the Fury of his Anger and the strength of
me in it beyond my Intention a few days past Therefore By way of Exhortation Is this so that of all Judgments for the great God to declare himself against a People or a Nation is the worst and forest that can befall us then what shall I press upon you sure I need not exhort you to Credit the Truth of this It will be easily granted by all that have their Senses exercised to discern Divine Truth therefore I address my self to exhort you to these following things 1. Place Be perswaded and conclude that the great God hath a Controversie with these sinful Kingdoms it 's not hard to prove it God doth by his Frowning Dispensations evidently declare it by what he hath formerly and of late done in the midst of us he now as in the Text loudly cries in our Ears I even I am against thee Beloved so long as we Fancy it is otherwise we shall not set our selves in good earnest to the Work of Reformation which we are obliged unto and God calls for by his Judgments and saith to us as by the Prophet Jer. 13. last O Jerusalem Jerusalem when wilt thou be made clean when shall it once be When when after all that I have done in the midst of you 2. Be exhorted to Fear and Tremble before this great God who now by his frowning Providences declares he hath a controversie with us O that all the Inhabitants of these Nations would stand in awe of him who hath made himself known to be a Just and Holy God by his Judgments executed upon us We may evidently see that our Abominations have provoked him to Wrath and if we will not after all this be prevailed upon to make him our dread what can we expect but that he should proceed to visit us with greater Calamities than have yet befallen us 3. Be exhorted to Reform what in you lies and lament before the Lord what you can't obtain from others I earnestly intreat every Soul of you in the Name of the Lord to begin with his own Heart and House and cast away the detestable things which God pleads against us for as good House-wises are most at home minding their own concerns so the best and most upright-hearted Christians are most Conversant with their own Hearts and more concern'd to east the beam out of their own Eyes than to complain of the Mote in anothers therefore set to the Work of Reformation thy self and when you have stoned the Achan in your own Camp expect to prosper and not before and then lay before the Lord the neglect of Reformation by others go to the Throne of Grace and weep over those Sins which are abounding in the midst of us and that there is so little done to reform under so great Obligations to it by what National Mercies we yet enjoy upon Trial. 4. Be exhorted to secure your Interest in Christ the anointed of God to save lost Sinners above all things look to this in times of Distress wise men endeavour to secure their best things their Jewels Gold c. Beloved in this dark and calamitous day now God is contending by his Judgments look to your Souls above all things every one get Arkt in Christ for as every Soul out of the Ark perisht in the Deluge so every Soul that dies out of Christ must perish Eternally as Rom. 8.1 There is no Condemnation to them that be in Christ Jesus so there is nothing but Condemnation to them that dye out of him if the avenger of Blood under the Law laid hold of the Man-slayer before he got into the City of Resuge there 's no relief for him so if you dye out of Christ you can't escape the Wrath of God O then flee to Christ cast Anchor within the Vail upon him in this stormy Season that if you are not deliverd from Temporal Calamities you may be freed Him Eternal study Christ his Name Nature and Fulness even that too much eclipsed Name of his Jer. 23.6 Toe Lord our Righteousness and submit to it that thou be not found naked of that which only can skreen the Wrath of God off you Psal 9.10 They that know thy Name will put their trust in thee O that the Tokens of Gods Wrath might in this day move all to prepare an Ark for the saving their Souls I mean to secure their Interest in Christ 1 Cor. 1.30 Who of God is made to us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption In him there is enough for your supply Sinners therefore hasten by Faith grapple upon him who rejects none that come to him Joh. 6.37 therefore take him at his Word he is faithful and can't deny himself 5. Lift up a Cry and pour out your Souls to God in Prayer for these sinful and threatned Kingdoms although Wrath is gone out from the Lord who knows but he will yet be intreated for us yea if we hear the Rod and him that hath appointed it he will remember his former Loving Kindnesses for he delights not in the Destruction of his Creatures but upon honourable terms to him and easie to us if complied with he will shew Mercy therefore set your selves to seek the Lord it may be he hath not said tho' Noah Daniel and Job pray he will not be intreated for us he formerly hath shewed himself slow to anger of great kindness and tender Mercy therefore go home and plead with him that felt Judgments may be sanctified and remov'd and feard Judgments may be prevented and it may be God will yet dwell in our Land Thus I have given you my short Meditations upon what the Lord hath done upon our Fleet by his immediate hand apparently to all I pray God we may see hear learn and do no more so wickedly lest worse befall us from the Lord than yet hath happen'd FINIS Advertisement THe Reader is desired to amend the Errata's that have escaped the Press